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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
$55,467,264 Value Set On Property
 Big Increase
 Made by Assessor
 Aldo Jenks

The ie46 Grand List valuation on personal property has been deter mined ct 9B6, ,4e7, ,20l Chief Assessor Aldro Jenlss said today. This is on increase of .S3 ,222,B37 over the 1884 valuation.
 All personal property tax notices have already been prepared and fore warded by Tax Collector Humhert Mangini as based on the overall val- lation set by MT. JenkS.
 At present the assesosr's office has hired two crews of clerical workers who are engaged in deter mining the final valuation on real property. Working from ! .. m. to 3 ?. m. and 3 ?. m. to ii D. m. daily, Mfr. JenkS said he would have this valuation determined by the end of March. The combination of this and the personal property will comprise the final io46 Grand Ldst abstract.
 The real property tax computation is being done in an alphabetical or- der and forwarded to the tax cole lector as the names in each letter are completed.
 Changes in assessments effected by the Board of Tax Review are still being submitted to the chief asses- sor by board members who are now completing the results of the % day hearing session, The total of these changes has not yet been officially determined, Victor Marlbruno chair man of the board declared.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09

compelled to announce that Sgt. Kelly must be presumed dead and his name and record have been 50 recorded in the department.
 The sympathy of the government was expressed to Mr. and Mrs. Kelly and members of the family in a formal communication from Major General Edward P. Witsell.
 Crosby Graduate
 Sgt. Kelly was a native of Water bury and a graduate Of St. Mary's Parochial School and Crosby High School. He was in his freshman year at the University of Connecti- cut when he answered the call to the eolors For a brief time after graduating from high school he was employed at the U. s. Time Corporation.
 He obtained his preliminary training starting in March. i0l3 at Keesler Field. Miss. Massachusetts State College, Scott Field, Mass,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
US. Policies In BuIgari0 
 Russio choFses
 Moscow Agreement
 Beinq Violated
BY BRUCE ". MUNN

London, March 9-(UP)-Soviet- American disputes, spanning half the globe from the Balkans to China, took a new twist today with a Russian denunciation of Ameri- can diplomatic policies and prac- tices in Bulgaria.
 Without replying to the Ameri- can note requesting withdrawal of Soviet troops from Iran, Russia took the counter offensive with charges that the United States is violating the agreement reached by the big three foreign ministers in Moscow about Bulgaria.
 The Russian note, delivered in Washington on Thursday and broad cast by radio Moscow during the night, was a sharply worded re- buke for what the Russians said was American support of Bulgarian opposition leaders in defiance of the Moscow decisions about recon struction of the Bulgarian govern ment.
 The Russian statement criticized the United States for unilateral inc tervention into the Bulgarian situ- ation because of an American mem orandufn to Bulgaria on Feb. p.
 Three Controversies
 This made three outstanding public controversies between the two great Russian action in maintaining troops in Iran, her policy in Manchuria, and Ameri- can policy in Bulgaria.
 Russia centered her anger on Maynard B. Barnes, the U. S. poe litical representative in Sofia, who was accused of systematically in- citing" the Bulgarian opposition leaders to demand conditions for their participation in the govern ment which weren't included in the Moscow agreement.
 Barnes is a career diplomat who was first. secretary of the Paris embassy when the war began, stayed on in Paris after the Ger mans came, and later was consul in Iceland when the American oc- cupation Army arrived late in l0al.
 The new Soyiet-American dispute centered around the role to be played by two opposition leaders who. according to the Moscow an- nounceinent, would be added to the Bulgarian government controlled by the ieft-Wing fatheriand front.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
Goerins Request
 Being COnsid dered

Nuremberg. March Q. (UP)-The War Crimes Tribunal met ln closed session today to consider Hermann d0ering's request for defense wit- nesses, including a German oGIlcer to testify about the Katyn Forest massacre of i5.O00 Polish officers and men.
 doering's attorney. Otto 6tahmer, sought permission to call a lleu- tenant, Arnes, to offer testimony seeking 10 prove that the Germans were not responsible for the c0ld- bIooded death Of the soldiers. The prosecutions were expected to dis pute oosring's right to call the witness.
 The defense will resume lts ease in open court on Monday. If was believed that 0oering's defense will require six to ten days, including eEoss examination of witnesses. Jus tlce Robert 2. Jackson. chief Amer lean prosecutor, yesterday made an inkensive cEoas examination ok unering's first witness. Lieutenant General Hoaen1ohaik
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09

1 negotiating committee of the shoe Hardware unit, Local 16i, Cf.o International union of Mine, Mill & Shelter Workers. International Representative Ovide Garceau said if no satisfactory offer was forth coming from the company today the union would ask It's inteTnation- al executive board to approve a strike.
 C.I.O.-organized employees, in a union strike vote which ended last night, balloted 62 to s to authorize Q walkout. The S0-day cooling-off period required before a strike has already expired.
 Last offer Rejected
 The company's last previous offer, made Thursday night, provided for @ wage increase of l8 l-2 cents an hour. This was unacceptable to the union because, unlike the parent firm, the division did not propose to make l2 cents of the increase retroactive to last November. The union also attacked a company pro- vision making the increase subject to approval by the Wage Stabiliza- tion Board.
 Also at issue are union demands for pro-rated vacations, overtime, and the status of workers over 65.
 The management has contended that Shoe Hardware is 8 metal working firm, and is not governed by any rubber industry settlement.
 "The strike vote," said MT. Gar ceau," is definite answer to the companys offers
 Yesterday the union representa- tive charged the company with ate tempting to create confusion in union ranks by the pre-strike vote offer. Previous to Thursday, the highest management offer called for an increase of 10 cents an hour.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
New Catholic CoFdinoI Dies AtAseo ofS3
IFeIond Plons
 Public FuneroI For Native Son
By DOUGLAS LA CHANGE United rress staH Correspondent

NOMAVcW EHe8B StAm CVrEeApoM4emJ
 Dublin, March Q -- (Up) = John Joseph Cardinal 0lennon of St, Louis, e5, died At the home of Pres- ident Sean O'Keily today, just 10 days after Pope Plus XII gave him the ceremonial red hat as a Prince of the Roman Catholic Church.
 Cardinal Qlennon succumbed peacefully at 8:6i c. m. (2:6i Q. m. E.S.T) after farewell visit with his Irish relatives last night. He was ennointed and given Q Papal Bene- diction, received by cable from Rome, . few hours before his death.
 He was the oldest of the 32 new Cardinals elevated at the recent consistory in Rome, and the first to die.
 Msgr. John Cody of st. Louis, his personal secretary, announced that the Cardinal had spent quiet night despite the complications of lung congestion and uremIa in his aged body. At 8 Q. m. his breathing be- came difficult, and he died quietly less than an hour later.
 Stricken With Cold
 Wearied by the strenuous religious pageantry ct the Vatican and the effects of his long flight from the United States, the Cardinal was stricken with c cold when he stop. ped of in Dublin on Monday for Q two-day visit er route home.
 The Cardinals body will be re- turned to the United States. It was understood that 1t will be inferred In Q special crypt which had been constructed in St. Louis Cathedral
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
More Shirts Due Shortly, Price Upped
 Increase Follows
 Ceiling Rise
 On All Coftnns
On AIL.. .Coftnna
" GIANT UlLLNEAlN

Unlteu Press Stan Correspondent
 Washington, Marsh e-(UP)- Clothes-needy Americans were told today that more mems shirts and shorts and women's and child ren's cotton dresses should be on the market soon but that prices would be somewhat higher.
 The increase was expected to fol. low O.P.A.'s action in raising ceil- ing prices on nearly all cotton tex tiles and yarns by five to 10 per cent and granting a five per cent Incentive" price to increase manu- facturers of scarce cotton clothing,
 A large part of the increase will be passed on to the consumer but O.P.A. said 1t should mean more shirts, shorts, pajamas, dresses, work clothing and other hard-to.get ape parel within three to four months.
 The action was designed to carry out the program disclosed to Con- gross two weeks ago by former O.P.A.. chief Chester Bowles who said it involved "sweetening up" tex- tile mills. He said production of scarce clothing items should be boosted 70 to 50 per cent.
 O.P.A. said much of the increases had to be passed on to the consum- CT because previous textile price hikes had used up the ability of manufacturers and distributors to absorb further increases.
 IS Gents on Dresses
 The actual additional cost to the purchaser probably will be about 10 cents for an inexpensive shirt and 10 or IS cents on dress. The or- der also was expected to increase the supply of medium priced shirts and loW-priced house dresses.
 Officials said the increases coup led with the return of cotton looms to civilian production should en- able the mills to produce more than 10000, 900, 900 (B) yards of broad woven fabrics this year compared with $500. 900 GOO yards In i045.
 The increase was based on a rise in cotton parity prices from 24.i4 to 24.09 cents pound since last August, a rise in raw cotton prices from 22.5s to 2656 a pound, and wage hikes which have brought some mills up to 65 cents an hour.
 The program was expected to answer some of the complaints of producers that they have been un- able to meet production costs. Dis- tributors likewise have sought high eF ceiling prices to increase their profits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
.PouIeyNot
 To Withdrew
By JOHN .. CUTTER

glAs11 EEeAs 8S&kA Correspondent
 Washington, March 0-(UP)-T4,e blueprint which would permit oll- man Edwin ". Pauley to withdraw his bid to be UndersecretarV of Navy was laid aside tenlporarifv today while he added up the score
 Pauley has made it clear that he isn't interested in withdrawing from the nomination braWl until his per- sonal reputation has been cleared Of every charge hurled at him dur- ing the last five weeks Of hearinns.
 After that. he is expected tc sfan aside quietly-if a majority of fhe Senate Naval Affairs Commitfae VII agree that all the charges were without foundation and that Fauleys business and political f.s- tegrity is above repg0ach.
 Meanwhile. Rauley obtained a Re- cess In committee hearings unfiI next Tuesday to check over fIe score to date. He said that next week he may want to add to fiae lighting statement with which aa opened his defense yesterday. T won't even eQneider wifhdfsw- Ing until al the evidence ls I'd and an inventory is taken. Rauiey sa.e. This matter transoends Whether Edwin W, pauley ever becomes un. eeEsecEetafy ef the Navy. 1rv nez. senal reputation IS at sfake."
 Reuiey chiefly was Mserasfed in refniing:
 i. The chaFes " ass taTy of Interior HaIIoH x. zes |.sI RaulaP made him lhs faNtI nSsts nallion" cf pRumlGina Eal|lefN zI men would contribute ea0G A the Io1f peuepTailc ca4ann'4n fsH E the government dropped 'Is z|6z lands on 4uIi.
 Tho dkaRNe hQ 1Hlfn Los Au&eie2 W man. NA once r4If f'ne e M M EzeTIIA E1E s,s1I M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09

1 Company and failure to arrange c union encouragement meeting in the American Brass Company dispute Observers believed today the scoviIl offer, though rejected, indicates . breaking of the ice and may be fol- lowed by steps toward ending the strikes at A.B.C. and the Chase Brass 6c Copper Company.
 Much significance was attached Co conference being held today be- tween the management of the Bris- told Brass Go. and the Bristol Local of the CLIO. Mine, Mill and Shelter Workers, the union which also rep- resents workers now on strike against the Big 3". Union leaders have hinted they expect . promis- ing offer from the Bristol concern. President Of Bristol Brass is Roger s. Gay, Q key figure in the Brass Mill Products Industry AdvisoEy Committee.
 Nesting Monday
 The OPA will meet the industry committee in Washington Monday to consider management apnllca- tlons for higher ceilings on brass. Optimism as to the outcome has been expressed.
 The brass strike will spread into new areas next week, as employees og the Revere Brass 6 Copper co. be- gin Q progressive walkout. Revere workers, represented by tho Inter- state Brass and Copper Workers Union, an independent organization. will 60 on strike Monday at the New Bedford plant. They will walk out Tuesday at Chicago, Wednesday ct, Rome, N. F., and Detroit later in the week.
 The negotiating committee of the scovill Local late yesterday after- noon rejected Q company offer. which called if Q ie per cent in- crease for male employees in the top nine labor grades. and q l7 per cent increase for men in the other two grades and for women in all four labor grades. Alan c. Curtias, vice. e-president and director of em- ploye relations, sald that the ie ner cent boost, affecting aIi skilled. semi-skilled and min omnloves would amount to leM cents n hour on tne average; Ilae l7 per cent Increase, he said would mean l7 cents or more an hour for those
 Union stanas Firm
 John J. MankowslEl. member of the M. M. s. w. international ex- ecutive board, said the union stood firm for a flat increase of f0M cents an hour for all. The company proposal, he said, would bring ereaf- CT benefits to higher-paid en1nioVes and penali1e those receiving less. Under the management plan. the bulk of employees would receive Al increase of only from nine to ii cents an hour, said Mfr. MankoW- ski.
 Said Mfr. Curtiss:
 The company feels an increase on percentage is necessary for ne benefit of employees and the cofn- munity because an 105k cents an hour increase in the lower .urades would upset the competitive nosi- tion of the company
 MT. Mankowsd disclosed that when the first nanagement-union meeting was held Thursday ths company offered a general iB uer cent increase for all workers. when tnis was unanimously rejected by the negotiating committee he said, the company offered a stralzhf 70 per cent boost. This was also re- Jecteo, and was followed by yestsr. days offer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09

S/Sgt. Francis Kelly, Jr., must be officially recorded as dead. From oil data obtained from fellow lnem- bers Of . bombing crew the govern ment now presunaes that the young
 man met his death when two Q. 6. B-A Iiberatofs on c bombing mis- sion over Madeburg. Germany, on
 March 8. lel6 collided in the air. two of Kelly's pals descending to safety in chutes were positive that he had successfully climbed out of the plane beforie 1t crashed. They were under the impression for months that he had either been taken prisoner or had managed to return to the American lines.
 The War Department having exc hausted every means within its powers to obtain data concerning the young fiier expressed itself as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
BobyGirI Abandoned

Lawrence, Mass, March 0-(UP) Scores of adoption offers. includ- ing one from a South Boston couple, have been made to police for a three-day-old baby girl found aban- Goned in a basket on 6 Lawrence undertaker's doorstep yesterday.
 Mfr. and Mrs. Patrick P. Sheehan of South Boston who have Q daugh- ter, Eleanor Frances, 9, said they would take immediate steps to adopt the baby. However. police said the child would not be turned over to the state division of child guardianship until their investiga- ton was completed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
COnciiatOrs Resume Efforts to Settle Brass Strike
Comm nunists B0rred From 
 New War Policy
 Announced Under
 Inquiry Pressure

Washington, March D. (UP) -- American Communists were barred ooay by the War Department iron aolding commissions or undertakinf any of the Arniy's "sentitive" re.
 ponslbilities.
 Radar and atomic energy, espec- ally, will be out of bounds.
 The new policy was announced last llght under pressure of inquiry, The departments re-examination of IS policy relating to disaffected oI unversive soldiers apparently coln- ided with discovery in Canada oi Soviet Union espionage operations,
 Duties in connection with secret r confidential codes also were peclfically barred to coldaers either Unaffected or subyersive,
 The department defined subver- i've personnel as any engaged in activities of any sort directed eainst the nations military secur- ". Disaffected soldiers are those vho lack loyalty to the government md constitution of the United States.
 The departments announcement Id not mention Communists. A de- partment spokesman said, however, hat membership in the Communist party would be considered as Q dls- qualification for the sensitive duties overed by the new policy. It is possible, also, that former party membership would be construed as isqualifying Army personnel.
 The new policy has been trans nitted to all interior and overseas omfnanders. They will be respon- ible for making 1t work. Disqual- Jed soldiers will not be permitted b attend Officer Candidate schools lot to take aviation training. They vili be barred all duties in connec- ion with information, education or brtentation of troops.
 Waterburlan Involved
 Belief that the War Department has been forced to adopt Q new policy rapidly here after two mem bers of the staff of the Tokyo edi- lion Of the Stars and Stripes were |elieved after a negative" loyalty heck. They were ITS Kenneth |. Pettua, chicago, managing editor If the paper, and ITS Bernard Ru- bin, Waterbury, Conn, Q reporter. Four other staff members subse- Huently were relieved.
 The Communist press In the United States has been notably Inery in it's denunciati0ns of the transfer of Pettus and Rubin.
 There has been more than a year f wrangiing between the War De- bartment and various members of he House of Representatives on he subject of Communists in the ;ervice. Members of the House on Un-AmeE1can Activt- lies have protested the commits ,Ioning of Communists.
 Twenty four hours before the new departmental policy was revealed, members claimed they lad discovered Russian spy plot n the United States and that
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
Rus!siu-U.S. Showdown Neor
 Relations Between
 Both Stroined
 As Never Before
By R. n. SHACKFORD

United Press Stan COrreBpOn
 Washington, March e-(UP)-A g week of blunt diplomatic talking has convinced even the most op- timistic observers that Secretary of State James F. Byrnes was right when he warned that world con- ditions were far from sound or reassuring."
 The postwar pains that beset a war weary world are sparing no corners of the world. There are no Shangri-La'S for refuge from the worlds troubles.
 A roll call of the trouble spots sounds like the index of Q world atlas -Manchuria, Indonesia, Indo- china, India, Iran, Soviet Russia, the Balkans, all of Europe, Argen- tina, etc.
 On the last day of February Byrnes warned the American people that all was not well with world filled with suspicion and distrust- some unfounded, some unreason- able, some justified. He proposed to begin speaking frankly about these troubles. Three days later he began.
 Pitiless Publicity
 The mast spectacular and ser- ious- problems involve the worlds two greatest powers: the United States and the Soviet Union. The ending of the war and lifting of secrecy has plunged all of the AEn-. erican-Soviet problems into the pit- Hess light of publicity.
 Three conclusions stand out in American-S0viet relations as re- suit of this weeks events:
 1. Relations between the two powers are strained as never be- fore since they became war allies.
 2. The Soviet Union has held its tongue while Byrnes has ''laid his cards on the table"
 8. The two nations appear to be sQuaring off for a showdown at the forthcoming U.N.o Security coun- ell meeting.
 As 2 result of Byrneg first week of speaking firmly and boldly about the worlds troubles, the fol- lowing summary can be made.
 Iran-The United States now awaits Russia,s reply to the Ameri- can demand that Soviet forces be removed from Tran immediately and to the American charge that rec tentiOn Of them there after March 2 constitutes a violation of the Big Three Tcisran declaration.
 GeFgnany-EEance and the United States are at losgerheads over ad- minisiFative policy for Germany. The French want the biz powers fo agree to permanently detachlng the German Rhiniand. Rufr and the 6anr from Germany before acqul- escing to central administrative de- partments for Germany. The latter is needed to coordinate policies of the four occupation zones The Q. g. is now preparing Q reply to Erances augEesllon for an immed- late four power conference on these
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
Provdo FIoys Spain Set-up
 More Effective
 Measures Asked

Moscow. March 9 --(UP)-- The newspaper Pravda said today that khe Anglo American-French state ment on Spain was quite made uuate". since it leaves open the 1uestion of liquidation of the Fas- cist regime"
 Russia proposed at the Potsdam Aconferenee last, summer that the Pig Three recommend that the united aNtIons break of relations with the Franco regime and help the Spanish people establish a Democratic government. Pravda dislosed.
 The Communist party organ found the recent three-power state ment on spain Q certain step for ward from the standpoint of con- demnation Of the Franco regime, !" but still not going far enough.
 Pravda said the Soviet delega- tion's proposal at Potsdam was based on three arguments - that the Franco regime seized power as result of Axis intervention; that the spanish people had demOn- atrated their opposition to Franco and their desire for restoration of democracy; and that the Franco regime threatened the peace of Europe and Latin America.
 Proposals Rejected
 There Is hardly a doubt" Pravda said edltoFialiy, "that acceptance of tl.n anrsiak lana.aaaal aa.1lA laaua aided greatly the liquidation Of the t0ttering Franco regime. but these proposals were not accepted,
 "condemnatoFy declarations have not brought a change in spain. The new thFee-poWeF declaration like- wise cannot solve the question.
 Clearly the declaration cannot
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
ny FRRDRRICK Q. OTEIAlAN

Washington, March e- kUP) -1 have some problems today involv- ing a atqaIn-healed razor blade. underpanfS with r0sphuds on 'en. beef from tho bakers. the bleaching og oieomaFgaFine, sensitive lann- dgyman. and odogleas perfume for gents.
 Every time ' write a yarn ! seem lo set in a jam and ! don't mean maFmalade. Take that one a while back about the peculiar snlailH the perfumaFg want to pour on tno mnAa sex z soid dlanf want lo auanll llhe llesh-cui lumber. neW mpun
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
By REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Staff C0Fresponden

Changchun. March e- CUP)- Russai appears to want Manchurla, once a great Industrial center and arsenal reduced to a weak state which cannot be a threat to Siberia.
 The Russians are letting the giant industrial machine built by the Japanese during their i4 years Of control fall to bits like a piece Of Wornny wood.
 This seems 10 he a Sulnllment Of the Russian desire not to have a highly developed induGtriai state on the southern borders og G,beria,
 During the months 2 have been