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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-13

LONDON-INS--B ritain's chiefs
OF staff for the Navy, Army and
Air Force returned TO England to-
day from the Big Three conference
at Yalta in the Crimea. The Off
GERS were Admiral Sir Andrew Gun
ningham, Field Marshal Sir Alan
Brooke and Air Marshal Sir
Charles Portal.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-13

WASHINGTON ms 80 Rep
Mansfield (D) Mont, predicted in
Congress today that American sup
plies TO China will more than dou
BILE this year as a result of the
completion Of the Ledo-Burma road
and construction of a parallel pipe.
line.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-13

PARIS AP- Members of the
French government reserved spe-
cific comment on the decisions OF
the Big Three conference. They
reiterated Gen. de Gaulle's position
that France would not be bound by
any decision affecting her interest
that was taken without her con-
sultation. Disappointment vas ex.
pressed that the decisions were
made in Frances absence.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-13

CANBERRA, Australia AP -
Prime Minister John Curtin OF
Australia said today that he regards
the selection of San Francisco by
the Big Three as the April - con.
ference site for world security as
politically significant as It is geo.
graphically accessible" 4 minister
will represent Australia at the
United Nations Peace Conference.
II was authoritatively stated.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-13

The Big Three are capable OF
enforcing any program matter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Four State Bremen To Go To Jail

Berlin, Conn, April 18-(UP)- Four of 19 volunteer firemen, charged with robbing truck which caught fire on the Berlin Turnpike March 8, went to jail today for carrying terms after pleading guilty before town court Judge Charles F. Lewis.
 Eighht others were given suspen- ded sentences, five were fined $10 each and judgment was suspended in the case of 16-year-old Roman Baldyga.
 Sent to jail were William L. Cole, who also is 8 constable, who received term of six months, with four suspended; Julius F. Naldi, six months, three suspended; John Pedmonti, six months, five suspen- ded, and Thomas Mccormack, six months, five suspended.
 Suspended sentences of six months each were given Arthur Corner, John Welz, Walter BorloW- ski, Joseph Wilk, Fred Ferrero, Paul Giannotti, Charles Messario and William Rizzi. Fines of $1O each were imposed on Stephen Garboski, George Skene, Bruno Miglioli, Ray mond Warren, and Valmore Labbe
 The truck, loaded with bolts of cloth, pocketbooks and other arti- cles, was owned by the Highway Express Co.,, Dorchester, Mass, and caught fire enroute from New York to Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Ernie Pyle Killed
 ByJaps At Okina1va

Washington, April 18-CUP)- Ernie Pyle, well-known war corre- Spondent, has been killed in action.
 The little Scripps Howard war correspondent-beloved of U. s. fighting men the world over-was killed by Japanese machine gun bullet on a little island off Okinawa.
 He had come close to death countless times before-in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France.
 It was on the little island of Ie, near Okinawa, that Pyle was killed.
 He started covering the war in England and North Africa He stayed with it, except for a brief furlough home, until the Americans were sweeping the Germans out of France.
 Then he came home again leav- ing the front, he explained, simply because he couldn't stand the sight and smell of death any longer.
 He didn't want to go to war again, but he felt he owed it to Americas soldiers and sailors and marines to report what they were doing in the Pacific.
 He landed on Okinawa on what they called Love Day"-the day of the first assault.
 The news of Pyle's death sad dened an already bereaved White House. A few moments after the report got out, President Truman said:
 "The nation is quickly saddened again by the death of Ernie Pyle. No man in this war has so we'll told the story of the American fighting man as. American fighting men wanted it told. More than any other man he became the spokes- man of the ordinary American in arms doing so many extraordinary things. It was his genius that the mass and power of our military and naval forces never obscured the men who made them.
 He wrote about a people in arms as people still but 8 people moving in a determination which did not need pretensions as a part of power.
 Nobody knows how many indi-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Deems Taylor, 59, Weeds Designer, 20

New York, April IS - (UP) - Deems Taylor, 59-year-old compos- CT, and Lucille Watson-Little, 20, costume designer, met at the cir GUS and were married yesterday in Arlington, Va, Mrs Taylor's moth- CT, Mrs. George Watson-Little, said today.
 The twice-divorced Taylor ana the convent-educated young de- signer met several months ago at the Sarasota, Fla, headquarters of Ringing Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Combined Shows, Inc, where they were both working, Mrs. Watson-Little said. Taylor's Alice in Wonderland music is feature of this seasons circus per- formance; his bride helped design costumes for the show.
 Taylor, president of the Amer ican society of composers, authors and pull fishers, was divorced from his second wife in 1884. They had one daughter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Nozi Youths Defend City
By ROBERT BERMILLION

Magdcburg, Germany. April 18- (U.P) American troops today clueared Magdeburg up to the Elbe river line in bitter battle fought mostly against Nazi youngsters whom the CTS first took to be Ger man Boy Scouts.
 It was a battle of men against boys and the veteran troops of the Second Armored Division and the Thirteenth Infantry Division suf- fered casualties before they had knocked out the youthful Nazi fam atics.
 When the American drove up to the Elbe river they found that the Nazis had blown up the bridges earlier today.
 Tn the early stages of the bat tie the Americans treated the Hitler Jugend (youth) forces as smart alecky kids trying to muscle into mans war.
 One American tank commander captured several of the youngsters, gave them a kick in the pants and told them to run along home. When superior officer asked him what he was doing, he said he thought the boys were German Boy Scouts"
 But the American quickly found out that was the wrong view to take.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Truman Sets Pattern For
 First Weeks
(NEA Telephoto),
JOHN w. SNYDER By LYLE c. WILSON

Washington, April 18 = (UP) - President Truman's reports to con- gross and the armed services out lined a cautious pattern today for the crucial first 100 days of an ad- ministration he pyeMised to conduct in "the American tradition"
 Plans were being made as he broadcast last night for a meeting of the Big Three foreign ministers here preliminary to the San Fran cisco conference. China and France also may be represented.
 In his broadcast to the millions of uniformed Americans, the new President told of his shock at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's death.
 "He never faltered," he said, nor shall we"
 MT. Truman spoke to the troops as veteran who knows the mud, muck and danger of battle.
 T have done as you do in the field, when commander falls" he said. My duties and responsibilities are clear. have assumed them These duties will be carried on in Keeping with the American tradi- tion.
 T know the strain, the mud, the misery, the utter weariness of the soldier in the field. And I know, too, his courage, his stamina and his faith in his comrades, his country and himself.
 We are depending on every one of you"
 The five minute broadcast was beamed from 32 short wave stations in this country. It was re-broadcast
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
&1,418 Withheld From
 City Help h1 3 Months

Five industrialists representing a cross-section of the nations busi- ness said today that the approach of VIE Day was spllrring workers to buy more War Bonds.
 In an unusual long-distance tele- phone press conference. the business men reported that wage-earners in their plants were participating fully in the Seventh War Loan Drive.
 The advance payroll savings drive opened April g. The main drive, designed to raise $7.00O,00O,00O in individual bonds sales and $14,000,- : 900, 900 altogether, opens for the nation May IA.
 Bonds purchased through weekly paycheck deducticns in factories and business organizations will be credited to the Seventh War Loan from April g until July T.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Jops' Plane
 Bases Raked
By FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, April 18-(UP) - More than 100 Superfortresses ripped Ja- pans six main suicide-plane bases in southern Kyushu before dawn today for the second time in less than 12 hours.
 The SuperforesseS' fastest one-two punch yet against Japan was de- signed to knock out airfields from which enemy suicide pilots have been taking off to crash their ex- plosive-laden planes against Amer ican warships off Okinawa.
 Today's raid marked the Third anniversary of It. Gen. James H. Doolittle'S historic carrier based raid on Tokyo, now nearly one-tenth destroyed as result of BPS fire raids in the past six weeks.
 Menna Isle Landing
 A Japanese broadcast said Amer ican troops have landed on tiny Menna Island, just south of nearly conquered Ie Island and three miles of Okinawa's embattled Motobu Peninsula.
 The invasion, like that of Ie, was designed to gain additional airflelds for the Americans, the broadcast said. It indicated the landing occur red simultaneously with that on Ie Monday.
 Pacific Fleet Headquarters was silent on the purported landing, but announced that two-third of Ie already had been cleared against moderate resistance.
 On Okinawa, Marines battled l. 300 to 2,20O Japanese entrenched in the hills of Motobu Peninsula in the northern sector. The Japanese counter attacked four times yester- day and an important hill changed hands twice in the vicious fighting. Three hundred enemy dead were found when the Marines finally won 8 firm hold on the hill.
 The 24th Army Corps front above Naha. capital of Okinawa, was quiet.
 Superfortresses which roared out from the Marianas to bomb Kyu shu, Japan's southernmoSt home island, early today passed in flight some of the last squadrons home ward bound from yesterdays after noon raid.
 Both forces sowed their explos- ives on Tachiari. Kanoya, East Kanoya, Izumi. Kokumbu and Nit taghara airf1elds. Tokyo said the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18

A total of $41,418 in payroll de- ductions for bond buying was with held from city employees checks during the first three months of this year, 1t has been reported by Frank Sullivan. city paymaster.
 A total of $l26,925 was withheld during the same period for with holding tax purposes. MT. Sullivan said.
 During January 1,435 of the city'S 1,490 employees voluntarily had with held for bond purchases the sum of $10,883 out of a total city payroll of $399, 694 while during March $15,- OO1 was withheld from total pay roll of $365,417.
 For the three month period a total of SAT. .406 in war bond value was issued.
 Washington, April IS. = (UPl =
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18

A German DNB dispatch said the offensive had reached its "climactic phase" with nine attacking Soviet armies scoring new pentrations west of KueStrin on the WarSaw-Berlin Superhighway and north of Wrie- zen, g miles northeast of the capi- tai.
 The German high command re- ported defensive battle of utmost ferocity" in the Oder valley before Berlin, where the Russians were att tacking with "far superior array of men and material" It acknowl- edged Soviet penetrations south of Frankfurt, on either side of Seelow. 26 miles east of Berlin, and south of Wriezen.
 A Nazi communique claimed that the Red Army's offensive in the NeiSSe valley southeast of Berlin had begged down in the German de- lenses between CottbuS and Goer- litz. A supplementary Nazi broad cast reported violent ta11k battles southeast of Cottbus, and said the Russians were moving heavy armor into their two Neisse bridgeheads south of Forst and at Rothenburg.
 Berlin earlier revealed that the Red army also had linked up all its Oder river bridgeheads to form a solid 45-mile front east of Ber- lin and had all but isolated Frank furt, the capitals main outer de- fense bastion.
 Junction 65 Miles Off
 To the south, the Germans said, other Russian forces stormed nine miles beyond the Neisse River, a tributary of the Oder, to the Mes ky area, 45 miles northeast of DreS- den and possibly 65 miles from . junction with the American Third Army. .---.s'
 The Russians threw operational reserves into battle beyond the Neisse in an attempt to force & quick decision, the DNB Agency said.
 Altogether, perhaps 100000 So-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Crematoriun, Can't Cope With Dying m Maxi Camp

The civilian internees were of all nationalities, Germans among them, and French and Belgians more of- ten than not interned because they helped war prisoners escape.
 The medical officer said: 'The dead lay in piles and in the gut ters and inside huts. We have taken pictures to keep record of 1t.
 Tn the women's camp were 1,704 acute of typhus, typhoid and tu- berculosis. It had bunk accommo- dations for only 474. There were 18,60O who should have been hoSpi- talized. The mems camp contained 2,242 acute cases, with 1900 hunks and 1000 needing disqualification" !"
 There was no semblance of priv acy. Women. stood naked in the open or sprawled in heaps amount ing to thousands, some dead, many dying.
 There was 8 crematorium," the medical officer said, "but 1t could not keep up with the dying. I saw enormous pits full of blackened bones."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Pope Backs 
By HERBERT KING

Rome, April 18-CUP)-Pope Plus XII today placed the spiritual weight of the Vatican behind the San Francisco conference with a special encyclical epistle warning that both victors and vanquished will face new war unless a fair and just peace organization is es- abolished.
 The Pope addressed his message to the episcopacy throughout the world, inviting all to increase their prayers in order that God may grant peace land not only peace but a peace organization based on justice and fairness"
 Otherwise" said the message, some day both the vanquished and the conquerorS will bear the griev- ous consequences of a new war"
 The Pope's 1,300-word epistle car- ried an urgent appeal in behalf of prisoners of war and internees. It asked that prayers be offered in their behalf and that all cooperate in every possible way in order that they soon may return to their homes.
 The epistle was dated April 15- the Sunday of the Good Shepherd and was to be published today by the Osservatore Romano, organ of the Vatican. It was to be broadcast
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Serious Jam Faces State Leg gisIators

Hartford, Conn, April 18-(UP)- Despite urgent pleas of Gov. Bald win to speed up the session, the general assembly showed no inclin- ation today to delve into a heavy schedule of major bills until some agreement had been reached on minor court judgeShips.
 The court patronage problem, in turn, waited on the governors de- cision as to who he would nomin- ate for the several state commission erships. Inasmuch as these nomina- tionS do not have to be submitted until May l, there appeared little likelihood the legislators would buckle down to serious work before another two weeks.
 So far in its 23-weeks session which must adjourn Sine Die June 6, the general assembly has passed one bill of major proportions-the state labor relations act, which the governor signed late yesterday with pen borrowed from Connecticut Federation of Labor Secretary Har- old V. Feinmark. The law became effective with his signature and calls for appointment of three. member administrative board before June
 With only seven weeks remaining until adjournment, leaders freely predicted serious jam once the ses- sion rolled into high gear. Almost score Administrations approved bills, all considered important by the governor, awaited consideration. Additionally there were hundreds of other less imperative measures, still before committees or ready to be reported out.
 Senate and House, now meeting four days a week, may soon stretch it to five days to handle the heavy backlog of bills. Possible night ses- sions also were forecast. One leader said there's at least 150 solid hours of debate ahead of us"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
COP Senators truman

Washington, April 18.-CUP)- Eight Republican senators called on President Truman today to ex- press their good wishes and offer to confer with him at any time as his loyal opposition.
 The delegation was headed by Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O. He said the Republicans offered President Truman the opportunity to deal with them directly through their Senate leadership as means Q. avoiding as many legislative battles between the two parties as possible.
 Taft said it was the first time he had been in the office of a Presi- dent since the days of former President Hoover.
 Others in the group were Wal lace H. White, Me-; Kenneth s. Wherry, Neb.; Warren R. Austin, Vt.; Harlan J. Bushfield, S. D.; Eugene D. Millikin, Colo; Styles Bridges, N. H.; and c. Wayland Brooks, III.
 Sen. Arthur E. Vandenberg, R., Mich, was to have been 8 member Of the group, but could not at tend because of his preparations as a delegate to the United Nations Conference in San Francisco next week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
1850 Planes Shell German Rail Targets

London, April 18.-(UP)-More than 2,350 American and RAF bomb. CTS and fighters attacked rail tar- gets and German air fields through. out the Reich today, continuing their reduction of the Luftwaffe's waning air strength.
 The Eighth Air Force sent out 1850 bombers and fighters to hit rail targets and air fields in south- ern Germany and western Czecho- Slovakia.
 RAF targets were the Helgoland naval base and the airfield on the island of Dune nearby. More than 1000 bombers, escorted by an un- announced number of fighters, con- centrated their attack in good weather
 An announcement that some 600 mustangs and thunderbolts were shooting up German air fields again indicated they were out to strike the final blows against the Nazi air force, which had lost l. 447 planes in the previous 48 hours. It was the third straight day the Eighth Air Force had hit the tar get area.
 More than 750 flying fortresses and liberators bombed rail lines in the corridor between the Allied Ar mics. The persistent bombing of transport facilities in that area was aimed at disrupting the flight of the Nazis into the Bavarian Alps.
 RAF LancaSters attacked railway yards at Cham, 72 miles southeast of Nuremberg a--d 10 miles from the Czechoslovak border, before dawn in direct support of the American Seventh Army.
 British mosquitoes attacked an airfield at Ingolstadt, south of Nuremberg, and objectives in Berlin during the night.
 Allied planes destroyed 401 Ger man aircraft on the ground and 30 in the air yesterday. A total of 1,016 was destroyed Monday. Since April l, the Allies have destroyed 4,100 German planes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
By RICHARD D. MCMILLAN

With British Second Army, Ger many, April 18-(UP)-They called it the "Black Hole of Belsen" this notorious typhus camp near Ham, mover where 25, 1000 of 5000 inmates required disqualification.
 A senior medical officer who in- spected the camp after the British Second Army overran it said he had had heard of cases of cannibalism.
 Tn the women's section, in full view of the children's compound, was 8 pile of women'S bodies 60 to 80 qards long," a medical officer re- lated. 'They were piled to the height of a table. I saw four girls carrying 8 body which was thrown on the pile And I saw woman carry her dead baby to it."
 At one time the camp supposedly contained 6O.0O0 persons. Now there were 28,000 women. about 10000 men, and 500 children. Daily births averaged five to seven, buo most of the babies died.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
1000 Saved From Baguio
Ry DON CASWELL

Manila, April 18 = (U.P0 - U. s. troops today stormed the outskirts of Baguio. Japanese citadel from which Filipino guerrillas have res cued more than 1000 civilians in the last three weeks.
 The civilians, who were brought to the American lines, included a number of U. s. citizens, President Sergio Osmena's daughter, Milagros, and Brigadier General Manuel RoXas, former speaker of the Philip pines assembly.
 Four members of the Filipino col laborationist government also were captured by the daring Igorot na- tives who stole into Gaguio at night and brought out the civilians in groups ranging from two to 1900 persons.
 General Douglas MacArthur said the four collaborationists would be held for the duration of the war and then turned over to. the Philippines government flor trial and judg- ment."
 The men and their positions in Ehe JapaneSe-contro puppet re- gime were: Jose Yulo, chief justice of the supreme court; Antonio De Las Alas, minister of finance: Teo- nlo Sison, minister of interior, and Quinton Paredes, minister of jus &ice.
 MaoArthur also announced that troops of the 33rd Division had reached the northwestern outskirts of Baguio, former Japanese head quarters in the Philippines and one- time summer capital for the islands. Two other American columns at the same time reached points less than ehree miles from the southwestern and southeastern limits of the northern Luzon city.
 Phillppines-based bombers con- einued the firm blockade of China Sea shipping and sank or destroy
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
9th 10 Miles From Bologna
By J, EDWARD MURRAY

Rome, April 18.-(UP)-Eighth Army forces drove within ten miles of Bologna from the southeast today and another column outflanked the city from the northeast.
 American Fifth Army units pre- viously had driven within eight miles of Bologna, due south of the city. In new gains they cleared the rug ged peaks of Mt. Moscoso and Mt. Davigo, 2 miles southeast of the city.
 The best new gain was by Polish units of the Eighth Army which smashed forward two miles along the superhighway running into Bo- logna from the southeast, putting ten miles from the city.
 Meanwhile, British troops sur rounded Argenta, "A miles to the northeast, creating 8 new threat to the Bologna defenders, alre ady fac- ing drives from south, southeast and southwest.
 Allied airforces, pacing the ground assault, yesterday dropped 1900 tons of explosives on the German rosl- tions fronting Bologna. Fortresses and Liberators led the show.
 Allied forces were pushing slowly toward Bologna, gaining painfully across the terrible terrain against a foe fighting fanatical!y. 4 front dispatch reported one American division had taken only eleven pri- soners in two days, testifying to the stuobornness of the enemy defense
 Prisoners taken on the Bologna front were young fighters, we'll clothed and fit. The Americans were using staggering amount of artil- lery trying to blast a path through the mountains. Yesterday afternoon. for example, they threw 300 rounds
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-18
Mrs. Winons Beqins Penitentiory Term

New Yorok, April 18.-CUPj-M-r. Elizabeth c. Winans, 39, divorced wife of three army officers and daughter of Maj. Gen. Edwin B. Winans, retired, began a three-year penitenLiary sentence today for de- frauding hotal of $536.
 Mrs. Winans, who assumed her maiden surname after her last di- vorce, pleaded guilt to beating" the Waldorf-Astoria while posing as Elizabeth Wilson, the wife of a naval officer. Police charged that most of the bill was for food and liquor served in Mrs. Winans' room.
 Mrs. Winans, who served seven and half months in Washington, D. C., last year on bad check con- viction. faces bad check charges in Boston, Pittsburgh, Washington and Spokane, Wash.