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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
RERRENC TT IN ON VETERAN

Waltham. MaSs.-CUPl-Told 70 pick out an apartment from a vet- erans housing project. ex-service- man William Ryan blniked his eyes. but decided it must be true. The first building he surveyed was the barracks in which he had lived during his six months of oaslc training
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
NAVY TO THE RESCuE

Seattle, Wash. CUPl-MosquitOes in two Seattie-area swampS are be- in. fought 6y modern warfare tac- tics After e continuous land borne mopping-up assault on the pests
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
''lt'S MY
 OPINION"

Question: What profession or vocation do you intend Co follow when you leave school and whys Asked high school students.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
US. Drafting Strong Disarmament Plan
OHicials Hope EconOmy-minded
 Solons Will Not Undermine Posiei

New York, Nov. l9-(UP) - American officials ore drafting U. S. disarmament proposal which they believe can set the world on the road to demitarzacn but which win preserve this nations security every step of the way
 The pr0posa it was learned today will De presented
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19

When I get out oG Shcok I want to serve in the Navy. Then ! want to so n;o window designing an c sdvert3sln ng. l knew a woman who vas aSSo- c.ated with a New York store and she made 2so week
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
Chamber of Commerce
 Report ShOWs Increases

shown throughout the Waterbury according the the Chamber Notable shown bank ceangs deb savings and in freight 
 The following comparative October and a compiled by Mir. Green:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19

nae to ee tough. DraftSsnea make ecnG Gvirr. way above the aver age. Arc head craftsmen GO still better. ! am eoiue Co tr' tc Siucy st MT
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
GEORGE L-AwLoR. S& Chase Parkway

SsoreS are gcing 10 greatly change their appearance inside anc out IT. the future ThereS eoine to be oif- ferert methods O. display. So ! figure this IS 6 good field
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
CAMPAIGN COSTS SIX CENTS

Jefferson City. MO,-(UPl-Rep Clarence Cannon Of Missouri $ ninth district believes in sound economy. He informed the see tary of state he spent six cents in the recent primary campaign In which he was un0pposed for Dem oeTatic denomination, The ''expen- diture" was for two postage stamps
 Girls in Australia are 10 make dresses from old paTaahutes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19

eot to se 5 feet s inches or under. But l geeSS I'm definitely set this time oa the career oi telephone oNerAsor
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
JACK MAHONEY, 1908 Bank Street:

week ard chance to travel That's what Te Ake-to go to a foreign country"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19
BARBARA SHRICA. ss Knoll Street:

T want fo be an interior Cec- orator. There s going 10 be a radical change in house ceSign and furnishing. Eyerything VIII be or the mod ernisac trend. So it seems 70 me there's a good future 1 it. But I would want 10 have my .EI.S~se f-sa .lsss- HHsaaassl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19

Raised prints for the blind may now enter Austria by mail
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-11-19


 Kaytonas zilionis. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery with Father val- antiejus officiating at the committal services.
 The funeral of Joseph Longo, Jr., of IT Burton Street was held this morning at g o'clock from the Maio- rano Funeral Home. 95 Willow Street to Our Lady of LOurdes Church where a solemn high Mas Of requiem was celebrated at 9:45 by the Rev. Edward J. Farrell. as-. sisted bye the Rev. Italo Calcagni. deacon and Brother Vincent De- Lilo sub-deaeon. Gaetano Gia- quinto was organist and Mrs. Rose Petrillo. soloist. Bearers were Bur- ton Hemingway, Joseph Pralakas, Frank Rosa, Daniel Capobiano. Will liam Verrastro and Joseph Reno. Burial was in Calvary cemetery with committal services conducted by Father Calcagni.
 The funeral of SebastiAno J. AL berone of H Sparks Street was held this morning at 8 o'clock from the LaPorta Funeral Home, 67 Holmes Avenue to Our Lady of Lourdes Church where a high Mass of requiem was celebrated at g O. clock by the Rev. Italo Calcagni Mrs, Anthony Petrillo was SolOist. and Gaetano Giaquinto was organ ist. Bearers were Peter and Daniel Coradazzi, Anthony Calca and Clay ton Briotti. Burial was in Caleary Cemetery with Father Nadile offici- ating at the committal services.
 The funeral of Mrs. Angela Maria (FigmellD Travisano of 29 Warner SKeet was held this mOrning at a:l5 from the LaPOrta Funeral Home, 67 Holmes Avenue tO St, LucyNS Church where a solemn high Mass of requiem was celebrated at 9:l5 by the Rev. Alex Riccio, as- sisted by the Rev, Michael Me- VerTy, deacon and the Rev. Felix Scoglio. suh-deaeon, Mrs, Jerry Mascoh, was organist and Mrs. Louis Russo was soloist, Bearers. all nephews of the deceased, in- cluded Albert. Philip, Henry and Vito Travisano. Anthony Vuolo and Carmine Fiori, Burial was in cal- vary Cemetery with eommittal ser vices conducted by Father Rieei0,
Evening star., 1946-07-15

reared the children several years
ago. He quoted the daughter as
saying her mother was prostra ted
by the news and could not talk to
the detective
Capt. Jones also disclosed police
found a sealed and airmail stamped
envelope in the Arlington nome ad-
dressed 10 a woman in Miami. Fla
Declining to identify the addressee,
they said two checks, each for
81 1000 were found in the letter pay
able to the Miami woman and
drawn on the Riggs Bank. Washing
ton, and on a Miami bank.
Address Unavailable.
Police did not determine Miss
Papsts address. They said she was
employed by the Julius Garfinckel
d. Co. store. whose personnel de-
partment refused TO comment. The
Chilean Embassy was asked to check
the womans identity.
Capt. Jones said the bodies were
discovered by Harry Engle, a neigh
Dor living at 1921 North Twenty
seventh road. Arlington. Mrs. Sylvia
Kristall, l243 Shepherd street NV
who said she was "Tinas best
friend said she was under the i'm
preston the dead woman was mar
ried to Mr.. Atwood
Mrs. Kristall said she saw Miss
Papst Friday at the Arlington home
and found her in wonderful spir-
CSee ATWOOD, Page A-l2.)
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Security Council Vet(
Attacked by Evatt as
Unjust Procedure
AustroIion Minister
Says System Must Be
Borred at Peace PorIey
BY II. AssocIo.ed Press

NEW YORK, July 15.-Dr. Her
bert V. Evatt. Australian For
eign Minister. today attacked
the veto procedure in the United
Nations Security Council as "un-
democratic and unjust and de-
clared there must be no veto"
in the Paris peace conference.
DR.. Evatt, who is retiring as chair
man OF the United Nations Atomic
Energy Commission. said in a
broadcast heard here and in Austria
liza that the illogical system of
voting in the Security Council" is
the most serious disability under
which the United Nations is now
working"
DR.. Evatt. who sat in the Security
Council and watched the Russian
delegate invoke the veto power three
times in one session on the Spanish
issue, said:
1T is a traveSty of democratic
procedure when any one nation
can block the unanimous opinion
of the remainder of a council of
IL when it is endeavoring solely
to conciliate and adjust interna-
tional disputes and situations.
Formal Notice Given.
Australia has, therefore given
formal notice that the General AS
(See U. N, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1946-07-15
.Gen.Mihai|ovich
And 10AidesGet
Death Sentences
Fotitch, Ex-Envoy,
And Attoche Get 20
Years in Absentiu
By the Associcted Press

BELGRADE, July IS. Gen.
Draja Mihailovich, former Chet-
nix leader, and 10 Of his % CO.
defendants were convicted today
by a Yugoslav military court on
charges of collaborating with the
Germans and were sentenced to
die before firing squads,
The bushy- bearded defendant,
the first underground leader to
attract WiGe attention during the
war, was given eight and a half
hours to appeal for leniency from
the presidium of the Yugoslav Par
lament. The deadline is pm.
q pm. Eastern Standard Time.
Unconhrmed reports said the ex-
ecutions would be private, provided
the sentences were upheld. and that
the penalties would be exacted
swiftly.
Some Convicted in Absentia.
Prison sentences ranging down.
! ward to l8 months were imposed
on the remaining defendants.
Among those receiving prison
sentences were Constantin Fotitch,
former Yugoslav Ambassador TO the
United States. and Zhivan Knee
vlch, former military attache there,
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Byrnes Drafts Report
For Radio Address
At 9 O'Clock Tonight
May Offer New Estimate
Of Relations Between
U. S. and Russio
BY tho Asxoeioted Pres.

Secretary of State Byrnes
drafted reports today for Presi-
dent Truman and the Nation on
the halting progress toward re-
establishing peace in Europe.
The cabinet officer, just returned
from the four-power Foreign Minis
ters' Conference at Paris, plans to
address the Nation by radio at 9
O'Clock tonight over the Mutual and
ABC networks
Diplomatic authorities looked to
that speech for new estimate by
MIR. Byrnes on whether the West
ern powers and Russia are devel-
oping greater or less cooperation.
Also the Secretary may emphasize
his intention to press for another
foreign ministers meeting later
this summer to tackle anew the
problems of German and Austrian
peacemaking.
Progress Made Toward Peace.
Landing at National Airport yes
terday to receive warm greeting
from President Truman, Mr.. Byrnes
summed up the 28-day Paris meet
ing this way for himself and his
colleagues. Senators Connally. Dem
ocrat. of Texas and randenberg,
Republican. of Michiga
I'm very happy to be home and
I know I speak for our delegation
when 1 say we made some progress
on the road back to peace"
In few minutes chatting with the
President he arranged to make his
first personal report at the White
House today and told newsmen he
would talk on the radio tonight
Ahead are two busy weeks of work
for the Secretary, who expects to
return to Paris by July 20 for the
opening of the 2l-nation conference
on peace treaties for Italy, Finland
and the Balkan states.
After that conference, lasting sew
eral weeks, the United Nations As
sembly is scheduled to meet in New
York September 23 Mr.. Byrnes
wants the foreign ministers to meet
again between the peace and U. N.
sessions to try to come to some
agreements on Germany and Austria
peace terms
New Problems Claim Attention.
Even as he stepped from the plane
yesterday morning new problems
demanded Mr.. Byrnes' attention.
Among them were the political up
heavals anticipated from the anti
Jewish violence in Poland, border
clashes between American and Yu-
goslav troops at Trieste and the
question Of obtaining money from
(see BYRNEs, Page A-50
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Painter, Father Of Five,
Dies in Seven-Story Fall

Marion G. Davis, Al, father of five
children, was killed early today
when he fell from a seventh floor
window of the Argonne Apartments
1929 Columbia road, where he was
employed as painter, police re-
ported.
Mr.. Davis fatal fall apparently
was not witnessed, police said, but
passersby said he was found on
lawn on the Columbia road side of
the building. He was rushed to
Emergency Hospital, where he. died
at 9:35 am, two minutes after ar
rival. police said
His wife. Mrs. Bessie Louise Davis,
and the five children, ranging in age
from IL years to Is. live at 82l
Quackenbos street NV. The fam
lily is from Culpeper, Va, police said.
and they have lived here for five
months. Mr.. Davis has been en-
ployed at the Argonne for two
months.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
RFC Official and Woman Found
Asphyxioted in Arlington Home
Franklin B. Atwood Formerly in Consular
Service; Dead Woman Native of Chile

Discovery of the bodies OF an
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Grafton official and a woman of
Chilean descent in gas-fllled
home at 1924 North Twenty
eighth, Arlington, today provided
police with a puzzling suicide
mystery.
Police identified the man a Frank
lin B. Atwood. As veteran of the
South American consular service,
and said the woman was Albertna
+. Papst. about 36. a Washington
department store employe and a ma
tive Of Pillaco. Chile
They were found dead in Mr.. At
woods home after neighbors made
curious by the closed windows,
peered in and saw the bodies in the
dining room. Police, breaking into
the home. found Mr.. Atwood's body
slumped in chair and the woman
lying on the floor The jets of the
kitchen stove, in the room adjoin-
ing, were open. police said.
DR.. w. c. Welburn. county coroner
issued certificates of suicide
Detective Capt. Hugh Jones of
Arlington police said Mr. Atwood
has wife and three children living
in Nantucket, Mass.
Capt. Jones said he was informed
by a 22year-old daughter of Mr..
Atwood in Nantucket that Miss
Papst was family maid who had
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Monchurion Fighting
Flares, Peace Talks Loo

NANKING, July Is (P,.-Fightine
nared in Manchuria and North
China again today as the nation S
sporadic peace negotiations were
stlf1ed by summer heat.
Peiping dispatches also said that
communist troops had struck at a
railroad station south of Tientsin
In Hopei Province, and launched new
attacks in the vicinity of Tsingtao
and Tslnan, at the base Of the
Shangtung Peninsula. There are
American Marine bases at Tientsin
and Tsingtao.
The reports were carried in the
independent Peiping press, which
late last week reported 10000 Red
troops had opened attacks on ma
tlonallst outer defenses at Tientsin
Other Chinese press reports said
that 10000 Communists had assault
ed Chlenchang in Manchuria and
repeatedly had completed encircle-
ment of the city while others cap
tured Hungfantzu, a bridgehead on
the north bank of Manchuria's s
Cungari River.
Twenty thousand other Reds
were reported attacking Chino. Is
miles north of Tsingtao. while a
similar number repeatedly fought
across Shengyang in an engage
ment in the Chiaohsien area 10
miles north Of Tsingtao.
Generalissimo Chang Kai-shek
(See MARINES, Page A-2J
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Consumer Resistance
To High Quotations
Credited for Drop

The first major break in the
upward swing of food prices since
the July l termination of OPA
occurred today when the whole
sale price of butter dropped
cents pound. The quoted price
in New York was 70 to 70 cents
The wholesale price may not be
reflected Immediately in all retail
stores. The Great Atlantic & Paci-
fic Tea Co. here continued to sci
butter at 79 cents a pound and has
received no instructions concerning
possible change.
The same price prevailed in the
companys stores in the New York
metropolitan area because present
supplies were bought at a different
price, spokesman announced in
New York.
consumer resistance to the retail
price of butter was one cause of to-
days decline in the wholesale price
IN the opinion of a leading produce
merchant. On the mercantile ex-
change large offerings of butter
went unsold because dealers con-
sidered the asking price too high, it
was reported.
Meanwhile, higher prices con-
tinued IN the Chicago livestock
market. The highest price since
1919 was quoted today on live hogs
Good and choice kinds were selling
at SIG a hundred pounds. rs cents
above the July l quotation and
highest since the $3.50 record OF
1919.
Higher trading in hogs at the Chi
caeo stockyards resulted from lower
receipts this week. Sales pens re-
celved 10000 head of hogs today
and 1000 went direct to packers
Last Monday the receipts were 49,
900 and $500 respectively, the
Associated Press reported.
Choice steers set a new price rec
ord OF SIS hundred pounds. This
was sl.75 over Fridays previous all
time high.
Cattle receipts also were sliehtl,,
lower than week ago. but still
second highest in numbers since
last October. There were 10000
head received for sale and 500 came
direct to packers. As compared
with $1,000 total last week.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Steelmon Announces
New PIun to Speed
Peocetime Goods
b. the Associoted Press

Reconversion Director John R.
Steelman today announced a 10
point emergency program aimed
at speeding the flow of scrap
metal to steel mills.
He acted after receiving a repor,
that steel mills had less than two
weeks supply of scrap on hand anc
that urgently needed steel produc.
ton might soon have to be curtailed
The Steelman statement said sur.
plus ships, guns, tanks and am.
munltion would be broken up anc
made available to the steel mills for
ultimate production of peacetimt
goods.
The report of the steel emergency
came from the Civilian Production
Administration, Mr.. Steelman said
adding that the program to meet i
was formulated at an inter agenc,
meeting at the White House.
Ship Yard Leasing Planned.
!. The CPA will authorize the
War Assets administration to lease
surplus Navy and maritime shit
yards and other ship scrapping ia.
cilltles to private operators.
2. The Navy and Maritime Com.
mission will Immediately list al
facilities suitable for ship scrappine
operations, including those being
retained in standby condition
which can be turned over to the
WAA on "a hours notice for tenn
porary release"
3. The Navy and Maritime Com
mission will make several hundred
surplus ships Immediately availa bic
for scrap salvage.
4. The Army will notify overseas
commanders of the urgent need
for scrap on this country and in
struct them to speed up the return
of military scrap wherever this is
possible"
Navy to Sell Scrap.
5. The Navy Department has di-
rected navy yard and other installa :
ton commanders ito place all avail
able scrap on sale Immediately, >
500 CTEEI Dooo A oI
Evening star., 1946-07-15

sentenced in absentia TO 20 years
Both now live IN Washington. They
were accused of organizing a cam
paign of false propaganda against
the Partisan National Liberation
Movement.
/ Two Of those sentenced to die
were tried and convicted in absentia.
/ Sentenced to be shot with Mihail-
ovich were:
Redoslav Rade Radlch, 56-year-
old former commander of the Bratis-
Law Chetnik unit
Milos Glisch. 36-vear-old Chetnik
leader.
Oskar Pavlovich, 54, former Ia
breb police chief.
Dragi Yovanovich. A.. former Bel
grade police chief
Tanasje- Dinich. 55. former
minister of the interior in the pup
pet government of Milan Medic, who
told the court: L don't want to live
after the crimes l have committed.
Fellbor Yonich. 54. minister OF
education in the Medic government.
4 WI ANhCNiNLI, IOl IlltI uSO-
slav general, sentenced in absentla.
Djuro Dokich. 70 former COM
merce minister accused of conspir-
ing for forced shipment Of workers
into Germany.
Kosta Musicki. 40 former aide de
camp to King Peter and Queen
Mary.
MAIDEN Zujeich. 81. former Chet-
mix commander believed to be in
Paris and sentenced in absentia.
Crowd Cheers Verdict.
The crowd cheered when the ver-
dict was announced against Mihailo-
vlch, who took the decision with out
ward calm.
The verdict climaxed a trial which
began June 10, Mihailovich main
tanned stoutly throughout the pro-
ceedlngS that he was innocent OF
collaboration with the Nazis and
that he had fought TO drive them
from the country.
The verdict was announced short
lv after 8 m. 2 a m. EST by the
president of the military court,
which had concluded hearing of tes-
timony last week
Sentencing was DELAYED under
Yugoslav court procedure which re-
quired a full explanation of why the
defendants were found guilty
The trial was marked by the re-
fusal Of the Yugoslav government to
permit the testimony OF United
States flyers who were forced down
in Yugoslavia during the war and
who were ready to swear that they
owed their lives to his men.
Mihailovich was sentenced in a
courtroom crowded with spectators,
CSee MIHAILOVICH Page A-l2.)
Evening star., 1946-07-15
House Unit Approves
Teachers Pay Bill

The House District Committee in
executive session today approved the
Senate-passed teachers pay bill
without amendments.
The measure provides a fat raise
of $3.50 annually for each educa-
tional employe in the public schools
system. 1t authorizes the school
officials to study the classification
rates to iron out inequities in the
pay system and report within a.
year the results of their study.
The committee also adopted
measure which would make the two
military instructors in the public
schools system department heads,
and raise their pay substantially
Meantime. Congress and the Dis
trict Commissioners were awaiting
action by President Truman today
on bill passed by both the Senate
and House, which would authorize
an appropria ton for day-care GEN.
ters for the children of working
mothers. the District Commission
ers are urging the President to veto
the measure.
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Late News
Bulletins
Reds Accused of Spyjno

>FJ"9
OTTAWA P'.-The Royal
Commission on Espionage
charged today that "there ex-
lists in Canada a fifth column
organized and directed by
Russian agents in Canada and
in Russia" and that in it
there are several spy rings" 2"
The commission said Soviet
operators sought and obtained
top secret political informa =
tion relating to policies of the
United States and British
governments, as we'll as
Canada.
British Loan Signed
President Truman today
signed the $3.50, 100000 Brit
ish loan agreement, terming
1t a major step to carry out
program "for reviving and
expan ding international
trade"
Earlier Story on Page A-2)
u. S. Couple to Be Freed
BERLIN lP'. - Maj. Gen.
Frank A. Keating, American
commander in Berlin, said to-
day he had received a definite
promise from Russian Gen.
Alexander Kotikov that an
American couple missing since
they entered the Soviet zone
July l would be released with
in a few hours. They are War
rant Officer and Mrs. Samuel
L. Harrison.
Earlier Story on Page A-2.)
Evening star., 1946-07-15
Foreign Food Relief
May Continue Years,
Truman Indicates
War; orn Countries
Need Time to Stort
Production, He Saws

President Truman told a youth
food conference today that the
United States may have to help
prevent starvation in War-torn
areas for another three years.
1T is going TO take another year
or tW0-mavbe three-before those
countries can get back on a produc-
ton basis so that they could even
contribute to their own support, -
the President declared
We are going to help them all We
can with machinery and tools and
the whereWithal to raise food but
it will be some time before those
destroyed countries can get back on
a basis where they can feed them
selves"
Opening the meeting of the Ma
tlonal Youth Conference on Food in
the White House east wing. the
President told the delegates the
United States had furnished to date
AT 900. 900 bushels of food grains
as compared with commitments last
November for 225oOO 900 bushels.
Nothing to Brag About"
But that is nothing for us to brag
about, he said. We furnished those
food grains because we happened to
be the country that hao them. That
doesn't mean that everybody, while
he didn't starve. received enough
TO eat
He told the young people he
wished they could see the situation
as 1t really is" in Poland. Greece
Hungary, Austria. Germany and
China.
You would understand then lust
exactly what it means. and what
war and pestilence really mean
You would know what the Four
Horsemen look like"
President Truman asked the Youth
leaders to help him publicize
throughout the Nation the plight of
starving European countries in need
OF American food.
Youth can keep the fires burn
ing, Mr.. Truman said.
Four Represent d. c.
Four Washington boys and girls
attended the conference called to
get the cooperation of youth in
the world famine problem. They
were Sherwood TAYLOR, l3. of the
Washington Boys Club; Edwin
tSee YOUTH CONFERENCE. A-4)