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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
Woman Reporter
 Meets SeOernI Obstacles Ln Dash to Crash Scene

utes of leisure. She looked up and was startled to note a flaming air- plane was fallig to earth just a few yards away. Then she heard a terrific explosion which she dee scribed as completely deafening," [" and a crash so loud, she asserted, 1t must have been heard for miles around. Mrs. Ash, Richard and James immediately ran in the dlrec. ton of the crash. but could not get through to the smoking debris because they were 0bstructed by . deep brook.
 Mrs. Ash then immediately dis- patched the boys to the home of Mrs. Lux, the nearest neighbor who had a phone.
 Peter Passmer, i6 of 0ervais street. Cheshire. was hunting in the vicinity of the refOElnatoFy as the plane approached the sector. and he observed that the left wing was afire. The plane continued to lower, he said, turned over and over as 1t neared the earth, moving steadily eastward Then he heard a terrific explosion and observed clouds of smoke following akyward. kContinned on Page a
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Woman Reporter
BY BETTY BLANCHARD Democrat Stan RenOFteF

Two brothers, Richard and James Ash, the first eyewitnesses to the scene of the plane crash, ran one and Q half miles without coats or sweaters through woods and heavy brush in IS minutes yesterday morn ing to report a burning plane had fallen a few yards from their home in Cheshire.
 The leet.footed youngsters, ten and eight years respectively, burst through the door of the home Of Mrs. Otto Lux, on the College Highway, yelling breathlessly. "A plane has crashed near our house, and there were people in t. Get somebody quick" Mrs. Lux said the pop-eyed, frightened boys appeared ct her door not later than ll:20. The crash was believed to have Oc- cured at six minutes passed Ii o'clock.
 Mrs. Lux immediately put in q cell to the Cheshire fire department, and advised the boys to rest for they were completely exhausted. Prior to the crash. the boys mother, was sitting by a window cf her home enloging Q few min-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
France May ReLinquish Mandates

London. Jan. l9-(UPl-F Foreign Minister Georges Bidault announced today that France was willing to study plans for placing her African mandates under uNO trlsteeship, but failed to make an outright of- fer of trusteeship.
 Bidanlt gave the United Nations Assembly only qualified French ac- ceptance of the proposals that na- tons holding old League of Nations mandates should turn them over to UNO trusteeship. Britain, New zea- land and Australia have already of- fered to surrender their mandates.
 French mandates in Africa are French Cameron and French Togo land. both former German colonies on the West African coast which were handed to France as Glass B. mandates in 1922.
 France took a position similar to that of South Africa, which has inc dicated that 1t wishes to incorp0rate its Southwest Africa mandate Into the Union of South Africa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
|HoHyUood
 | BrauL Out

Hollywood. Jan. le-(UP)-A free. Ior-ail fight before the home oi artist John Decker was described to. day as "just a Misunderstanding by the movie stars who battled it out at Deckeris all-night party.
 AS usual in HollywOod's one- punch fights, nobody wanted te prosecute.
 Movie villain. Lawrence Tierney, apparently the center of the battle yesterday, said he hadn't struck a blow. But the half-dozen other guests who stayed until the pres dawn combat began told other stories. One described Tierney as fighting all corners while stripped to the waist a Ia Tarzan.
 The battle which broke up Deck CTS party for some of the biggest stars in Hollywood, including acL0r- boxer Err0l Flynn, was described in a 6heFiff's report as a "seuefIe".
 Those who saw it said it was more like a brawl and gave this hl0w-bysbl0W account:
 Screen heavy Jack La Rue, at- tempting to arhitrate, was cut on the back of the head. his nose and lower lip, when Tlerney, the movie Dlllingeg, hit him and knocked him down.
 TIerney socksd Sammy Colt, son of Ethel Barrymore. Diana Barry more, Colts cousin, slapped Tier ney's face eight times-in retaiia- ton.
 The witnesses had it that at one time at least aix different fisi Gcontlnusd en Rass sl
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BitterLobor, Management War Storted
 Strike Scheduled.
 Midnight Sunday
 m Most Factories

Washinkton, Jan. 10 = (UP) = President Truman's hope of preventing a bitter labor-manngsinent va. was fading fest today
 A nationwide strike of 750.OOO CIo steelulorkets was scheduled of- nciaIly for midnight Sunday.
 At pittshursh Jones & Laughlin. giant independent producer, was hit by Q wildcat strike that was ex- pected tn Affect some 0.O00 workers and shut down all operations by today.
 U. 6. steel Has Solution
 Approximately 3.boO C1o workers ct the Pittsbure, Gal, plant of the Columbia Steel Company walked off their jobs at il ?. m. EST last night.
 what hope remained of avoiding c nationwide strike was tied to the possibility that the United states Steel Corporation would reconAder and accept Mr. Truman's proposal for an iek cent hourly wage in- crease. His advisers admitted they did not expect this to happen.
 Philip Murray, president of the United SteelworkerS (C1O), said after the company,s rejection that the strike s'must take place" at 12.0i a, m. Monday. The union had accepted the Presidents wage pro- posal shortly before yesterdays
 Ta nank RmEmacss-
 Government ofsaeialh believed al eleel coGnpautss Nosld seaTt hank
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z4Te ke5T0I0ng , '
 Washingtonians Found SnarLing

they do SO at their oWn peril.
 It is pleasant to listen to the silence while they say nothing whatever; everybody else Is yelpang. Take strikes. The sgoFefnmental brass hats are talking about little else by day and by night. Many of these gentlemen live in Chevy Chase, Nd, where they even crate They should know better.
 I've sf6hertH Epeeehes
 The eighth grade pupils of the Chevy Chase School, having learned about the facts Of economic lie from their fathers, went on strike for a so percent increase in their noon recess. Working conditions otherwise. they told the school pFin- eipal, were oagay.
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nght to remove Col. Elmer s. Wat. son, whom the Governor appointed last June.
 Mccarthy, appointed nearly five years ago. and whose term expired July l, l0l5, challenged the legality of the Governors appointment in view of the Legislatures failure to ratlfy watson as commissioner.
 Mccarthy claimed. that the law provided that he was to remain in office until his successor shall be appointed and shall have qualified. |" Failing to receive approval of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
Five Bodies Unidentified; Names Given
 PIone Caught Fire
 In Air. Eovliest
 Reports Indicose
BY JOSEPH CALLAN Democrat Staff Reporter

County Coroner Frank n Healey of Waterbury is in- cluded in the six-way investi- gation launched today into Che Cheshire. plane crash in which l7 persons met death at l1:0s a. nas yesterday.
 Officials of the Eastern Airllnes. The Civil Aeronautics Administra@ tion, State Aviation Commission. State Police and the F. B. |, joined in an investigation of the disaster
 Twelve of the remains of the vic- tims were removed yesterday to local undertaking parlors where they were retained until identifleaA ton had been made. The other i've bodies, all unidentified until a late hour last night, were removed to the Mooney Funeral Home in Cheshire.
 At Mulville Funeral home were.
 Pilot Raymond Kuser, as, 41o Bellevue Avenue, Trenton, N. J.. an employe of the Eastern Airlines for le years and member of prominent New York and New Jersey families. The body has been removed to st.
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lations board. Fuller is already serving Q flve-year term ip Atlanta penatentiary for sending bad checks through the mall. He faces a fur ther maximum sentence of 67 years h. prison, a fine of 5000, or both.
 smith was convicted on, four counts Of mail fraund besides the eonspiracy charge. The maximum penalty pcaaEble for him sM zssyeAz prison term, a line of el4JOOO, eE both.
 The verdict was delivered at lO:06 o'clock last night after Q day and Q half of tense waiting by attorneys and defendants. The jury took the case at i2:30 ?. m. Thursday.
 Room Almost FilIed
 The court room was filled almost to capacity as the jurors filed in and lined up in a double row in front of the jury box. The gray haired Curley, who was Ti the week before his trial opened, was flushed but composed. He sat in the first of several rows of seats along the side of the courtroom opposite the jury. His son, Leo. who has been with his father throughout the trial. sat beside him. They were surrounded by friends from Boston.
 In the tense silence that pre- ceded the verdict, Proctor admon- ished everyone to preserve the "or- der and decorum' of the court.
 No matter what your feelings may be, I should appreciate it if you would not express them in any outward way" he said.
 He then asked the foreman of the jury if a verdict had been reached. The foreman replied in the afiima- tive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
Small Nations Mop Strategy On BombUnit
 To Fight MOndCy
 For Moving Control
 To UNo Assembly

London, Jan. 19-The small na- tions were set today to begin a battle Monday 10 switch contrnl q the proposed Atomic Bomb Com mission from the Security Council to the United Nations General As- semhly.
 The UNO general committee made a provisional decision to open the debate Monday on the Moscow Resolution to establish an atomic energy commission.
 The resolution, drawn by the Big Three and supported by France, Canada and China, was certain to draw strong opposition from a group of nations led by Australia and New Zealand.
 Chairman HI
 The atomic energy issue was originally scheduled to come up to- day before the political security committee. The committee session was postponed by the illness of Chairman Dmitri Manuilski of the Soviet Ukraine. Manuilski also postponed his address before. the Assembly.
 Andrei A. Gromyko. temporary head of the Soviet delegation, made it clear yesterday that Russia will resist all efforts to take control of the atomic bomb commission from the Security Council.
 There was a possibility that Bye lorussia would submit formal re- quest for addition to the Assembly agenda of a resolution calling for extradttlon of war criminal sus- poets sheltered by neutral countries.
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 Englneers' Group mall fraud case until he had considered . motion for a new trial
 The three were convicted on mail fraud and conspiracy changes by Q District Court jury here last night. The jsiry deliherated Q day and Q hnlf before rendering Q verdict.
 T2ae defendants were found to have iiIeealiy repres&nted theul- selves as engineer -hrckeks with 6pe~ cIu means of obtaining war cun- tracts for their clients. All were oflcers of the now-defE1nct Engi- reerss Group. Cazriey wnssp president. The gUvgEnment -claimed that about e0O ,OOO had been paid in to the or. eanization by businessmen on the promise of contracts that never ma- terialised. Only about ei0,OO0 of the money was ever refunded, 1t was al- legged.
 Faces A7 Years in Prison
 Cirieys attorneys said motion for a new trial probably would be filed Monday or Tuesday.
 wen carry right on," said vii. liam E. Leahy. chief defense attor- ney, in the case. If the new trial motion is denied, he added, an ap- peal win be taken to the Q. 6. Court of Appeals for the District of Col- umhia.
 Curley, who became mayor of Bos- tor for the fourth time on Jan. 2. faces a maximum sentence of n years in prison, q fine of el0.OO0. or both. He was convicted of mail fraud on nine separate counts as well as of conspfring to commit mail fraud.
 Fuller Already Serving His co-defendants were James c. Fuller. formerly of Washington, and Donald Wakefield Smith. former member of the National Labor Re-
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back to work after a weeks strike go they could get ready for tue nae tlonAl strike coming up. The meat, steel and motor people argued at hoth ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, The alrplane pilots demanded eI8.- 300 . year for living aiFplanes across oceans.
 i. It even looked like the Senate had an involuntary strike on it's hands, though southern Senators insisted they were not fiiibusteFing against the Presidents Fair Employment Practices Bill. Sen. Theodore 0. Bilho, of Mississippi, for instance, said he had only two speeches tO make on the subject. Each one, he added as a kind of afterthought, would last 0 days. That's whal fContlnnad nn naaa aA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
Hershey Asks Extension Of DroftAct
 Requests lnduetees
 Serve l8 Months;
 Reject Aqe Increase

Washington, Jan. 10-(UP)-Se- lectlve Service pirector. Lewis B. Hershey aa1yed Cpnareas vasferaaY tn extend Eke draft act in1inedi leIy and amend ig to provide that every lnductee serve specific term. pref erably 1S months.
 Hershey flatly rejected, however, proposal that the present draft age, IS through 25, be raised to speed the flow of replacementS to occupation theaters. Instead, he recommended that the Army and Navy lower their physical qualifi- cations to make more men in the present age group eligible for inc duction.
 Hershey was called before Sem ate Military Affairs Subcommittee on demobilization in answer to War Department complaints that seelctive service is supplying only about 35y0O0 of the 5000 men a month requested by the Army.
 Lacks Replacements
 The War Department has attrib- u1Cu bAAC ICCC14b INSTRUMENTATION showdown to lack of replacements. Hershey told the subcommittee that 5000 to 5000 temporarily deferred high school students would become available for drafting in June and July If there still is a selective service law" then. The law is scheduled to expire May IS unless Congress extends it.
 In asking extension and amend ment of the 6elective Service law, Hershey recommended that men who have been discharged after serving fewer than six months be reinducted to serve out an iS-month hitch.
 Recruits Not Voluntary
 Hershey emphasized the desirabil- Ity of action now to extend the draft act. Advance notice Is necessary. he said, if the public and the draft boards are to know what to expect.
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KinameL to Tell :SrieGrCa Campaign

Washington, Jan. ie - (UP)- Rear Admiral Husband E. Kim mel may be asked today whether he still believes he and Gen. Wal ter c. short were victims Of c 'dellberate smear campaign"
 Rep. John W. Murphy, lD.. Pal. i. had the question ready for the former Pacific fleet commander as he was recalled to the stand for the iifth day at Congress Pearl HarboE inquiry.
 TT there are any smear cala- paigus' Murphy said s.they ought 70 be exposed z
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
TIOo Are Refraining
Bg FRRDERlCK Q. OTHATAN

Washington. Jan. le-fuP)-Afy speclal survey department indicates today that in all Washington only two men gre retraining from snaFl- iEg about something.
 The silent ones are the Senate end House reading clerks, but don't get taesadea they're happy. They're keeping their mouths closed (except when spraying same with soothing ungneiits) 60 their tonails will be rested for Mondays ordeal,
 That's when they must read aloud history's first combined bud- get and etate-of -the- union message. Ths document by President Tfu- man is expected to run about 2ss00O w'0rds 0g half the length og a novel and E tlIe oIeFks 1kiD any os it
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and Tn Ny Opinion E abEached 70 the 'new." These two articles have taken the fancy of The Democrat readers.
 Established 2i years ago by E. Christy Erk, then an employe of The Democrat, Tall Tower Topics holds a warm place among the readers. As on the date of It's birth. the Tower is 8 column dedicated to local hlllnor and interest. Con- tributors include the staff of The Democrat and it's readers.
 One entrant in the contest, who resides in a rural area, finds the Tower interesting because she sen- joys reading the poems by Em Elm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19

General Assembly, watson did not qualify for the office, Mccarthy contended.
 Mccarthy further claimed that inasmuch as 8 successor was not ap- pointed in accordance with statute provisions, there was no vacancy in the Motor Vehicles Commissio onship and that he was entitled to con- tinue in office until such legisla- tive action was taken.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
Run-away Has Purple Heart

Boston, Jan. l0.-(UP)-6ought by the police missing persons bu- reau for a year, James J. Logile was back home with his parents today-proudiy wearing a Purple Heart he won in the Pacific after running away to join the Army.
 Only l5 when he disappeared frOm st. Gebastian's Country Day school in Newton, the lad falsified his age to enter the service. Jin- my's whereabouts was discovered Q month ago when .e friend of the family wrote his mother saying he had seen her son on an island in the Pacific.
 AGrs. Loguc wrote the War De- partment end obtained his release.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
Probe Made of Cheshire Crash
Rescue Workers Cool Hot Debris of Plane

While one rescue worker lifts the hot steel Fibs, another ls send
 ing a stream of water through the sCOrChing
 debris Of the Eastern Alrllnes passenger plane which crashed In the forenoon
 yesterday in Cheshire. Seven- teen, including a crew of three, lost their lives.
 The liner was bound from New York tO Boston. Photo by Coviello.
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 Strained At Sights
By JAMES MOORE Democrat Stan Reporter

There was little senblance of al airplane- to the broken. Shattered giant Eastern airliner when aukhorN ities arrived yesterday at the scene of the tragic crash in the Quiet. rustic town of Cheshire, which tock the lives of IS adults and baby.
 There was maeabre unreaiify t0 the charred, torn and broken ne- mains of the victims which vera dug out of the twisted. white hot ruins by state troopers and lad out in a grim little circle nearly.
 It was the first accident of iin kind in this area and thus the flrsa time that veteran police and mede ical authorities had seen such a Ereckage. No one on the scene NaE unaffected.
 Veteran Commissioner Of @fafA Police Edward Hickey, who has seen all kinds of tragic death. just shock his head and said: sIt's h0rrihln thing"
 Accounts Varied
 The eyewitness accounts varied but all agreed on one point: tkn plane caught. fire in mid~air, then burst into flames. it's wings colIaEe- ing and the entire ship pluminetnd to the earth straight d0NnWard ls&N a dead bird. There vas evidence that this was true in the condition of the trees in the Immediate 4Ia cinity of the accident Little daln& age was done to these trees. A fsH were eheared of where the plane dropped in but there was no e11~ denee of its having EWoppnd iNs ward through the woods. One Iazz tree had crashed and as1 across the main part of the fuse .s into the horribly punched un bod A
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think your item, Remember the Birds. which I have just read proves the interest value"
 Honey Chatter Appealing
 Another contestant writes her preference for "the old faithful Tall Tower Topics because of it's honey chatter, it's praises and tributes to local people: the help 1t affords to locate someone or something, and the little life stories that would go on unnoticed but for the way the Tower prints it."
 In My Opinion was originated on New Years Day. In its short exist. (cOntinued on Page D
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Residents in the vicinity phOnes pOrteEs at their doors throughout the day. College Highway resident told The Democrat that newspapermen making regular calls from her reimbursement reaching
 feverish pitch phones the people thought the of toll caIls
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Fred Hech recently said he of the first flame the debris still smoking. were buried deep beneath the ebers and black brother James Hecht Navy by arIineI from Santiago Wednesday declared would be police to identify of the bodies.
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SoLon May Be Re-tried
Curley Co-defendants Guilty q, Fraud Case

Washington Jan. 19-(UP)-Federal District Judge James M Proctor said today he would not sentence Rep James M Curley (DMassl and his codefendants in the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
Disaster Sidelights

The quiet peaceful town of Cheshire experienced the exciting day in it's history yesterday when the giant Boston plane crashed in the woods about mile OatOr Roads leading the College Highway. Not the State Police established throughout
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Steelworkers Begin 'Walkouts in Nation
Unaninsos1s Decision
Carthy Retains Motor Vehicle J0b

Hartford, Jan. 19-(UP)-A unanimous decision of the Supreme Court today declared John Mccarthy State Motor Vehicle Commissioner and ended six-month legal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-19
Democrat Fe0ture
Tall To1Oer Topics, In My Opinion Lead

Contestants in the Help to Edit Your Newspaper yey showing personal preference for something old and something Tall Tower Topics features the od
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Hundreds of people the vicinity of the reported the crippled plane with dropped to the earth Though flying directly the gImpsed giant liner carried crashed . rayine
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The plane fell yards pasture Though believed all killed exploded the air prior to the opinion few lives might have been saved the plane little further eastward and landed the pasture.
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Weary FubbeneckeFs disappointed to arn arrival the crash police lines would permit closer However the crowds orderly and opposition police observed.
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Everywhere within radius of miles, the meadows and through the heavy woods rubbenekers running to the No know the exact location People is the est about zlse just ' half rnn E actually about mile from the College Highway road led to 300 yards of the crash scene
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Veteran assigned long walks reminded them of the old before when legged it" miles woman reporter Tapng through thick brush catapued
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Trees of all sizes radius fifty yards been snapped off like t0othpicks the terrific One maple tree at least two feet in diameter.
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Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1946-02-08
Canadian Indians
Get $25O,OO0
Treaty Money
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year ammunition for hunting,
clothing, medals, flags, cattle and
implements in specified quantities
and are supplied with school
teachers. The payments go on
forever. for the treaties were
made for "as long as the grass
grows and the rivers rum"
While for all Canadian Indians
treaty payment day is the big
holiday Of the yesr, the sum rep.
resented by the treaty payment
as only q token. Many western
Canadian Indians are rich from
the sale of their reserve lands for
numbering and mining operations,
and the northern Indians make
q living from the hunt and help
ling at the mining camps which
are growing in Canada's North
land.