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Evening star., 1942-12-09
Regeneration Must Go
After War, Richberq Saws
By the Associated Press.

of tHc hSSOClaIed Press.
CINCINNATI. Dec. 9.-Post-war
leaders must continue "regimented
operation" Of industry only long
enough to permit a safe transition
to competitive enterprise. Donald
Rlchberg, former NRA chairman,
said last night.
The task of reordering the coun-
try,s economy will be "supremely
dlfncult," he told the Cincinnati
Bar Association, because Americans
nave become Sharply divided into
economic classes, each determined
TO advance its special interests with
OUT regard to the general welfare"
Mr. Rlchberg contended.
Liberal leaders of America must
make 1t clear before the end of the
war Mr.. Richberg asserted, that
either political control of private
enterprise or irresponsible private
control will bring about the eventual
destruction of self-government and
individual liberty.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Maryland voids Gas Book
OF State WPA Official
1y the Associated Press.

6y the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. '9.-Cornelius
p. Mundy, State Office of Price Ad-
ministration enforcement attorney,
has announced the first revocation
of consumers gasoline ration in
Maryland for violation of rationing
regulations.
Leo E. Simonton of Riva, Anne
Arundel County, chief investigator
for the Work Projects Administra-
tton, was denied the right to receive
q B" or "C' ration book until July
Fl, 1943, and ordered to surrender
eight Of his "A" coupons to the
Anne Arundel County local board.
The revocation was ordered by the
regional OPA Office after consulta-
ton with national executives in
public hearing in Baltimore Octo-
Der 20.
At the hearing it was charged
that Mr.. Simonton had acquired
and used gasoline without giving
valid coupons"
Evening star., 1942-12-09
2y the Associated Press

Ry the Associated Press
Appointment of four administra-
tive officials was announced today
by three war agencies. They were:
Ralph j. Cordiner, president of
Schick, Inc, Stamford, Conn, to be
director general for war production
scheduling of the War Production
Board.
Bernard Knollenberg, Yale Uni
versity librarian, to be senior deputy
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Maj. I. B. Maury III Held
Prisoner by Japanese

Relatives Of Mai. Thomson
Brooke Maury III, previously re-
ported missing on Bataan. last night
received word that he is in a jan
anese prison camp. The inforrna-
tion came in a telegram from the
War Department to his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Magruder Gordon
Maury, 5031 v street NV.
The last word received from him
directly was on Christmas eve last
year. when a cablegram came to his
wife in Los Angeles. He had been a
staff officer under Gen. Douglas
Macarthur.
Maj. Maury is a graduate of the
University Of Virginia and of West
Point. He served for time at Fort
Myer and is widely known here.
Maj. Maury is a member of
well-known old Virginia family and
Is great-grandnephew of Matthew
Fontaine Maury, who was a lieu
tenant in the United States Navy,
commodore in the Confederate
Navy and founder of the Naval OBJ
servatory here.
Evening star., 1942-12-09

Three War Units Announce
Selection of 4 Officials

administrator for the Lease-Lend
Administration.
Laurence S. Knappen, formerly of
the Rutgers University faculty, to
head the economic analysis section
Of the Office of Price Administration.
Leonard w. Katz, formerly assist
ant to the president of the Crown
Luggage Co.. Baltimore, named a
business specialist in OPA's personal
and household accessories section.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
Family Of Six in Choir

Blk members Of one family have
been singing in a cathedral choir
in Belfast.
Evening star., 1942-12-09
RALEIGH HABERDAsHER

Shown left to right:
I. Merry-Meker Dress wears
seouns etched over q posteI
loce collar. Black royon
crepe in 9 to l5----sl4.95
Daring NeekIine Dress, out
lined with gold seouins and
beods on black royon crepe.
In sizes II to 2O---$17.95
Dramo Dress in Block and
White! Black royon crepe
with white bodice etched in
broid and choIk-white Sc
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

used to shoot gruose with him in Scotland, and Morgan was much with the royal family. He used to dandle the current Queen of Eng land on his knee when she was a girl in Scotland.
 Morgan's affection for the Royal Family did not extend to Edward Prince of Wales. J. P. didn't cotton to the frivouols young prince, prob ably regarding him as too fiighty for his position.
 DELAYED TRIP ABROAD
 TO SEE ROSES BLOOM
 Although not so preoccupied with the Episcopal Church as his father Morgan is steady churchgoer, and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

Senate banking committee inves- tigation. Senator Carter Glass of Virginia said that only peanuts and pink lemonade were needed to convert the proceedings into a circus" and Press Agent Charles Leef of Ringing Bros. Circus had an idea.
 MIDGET SHATTERED
 MORGAN LEGEND
 He took @ female midget, one Lya Graf, and plopped her onto Morgans knees. Thinking she was child, Morgan grinned and asked her where she lived. Said Midget Graf: T live in tent" Flashbulbs popped, and every paper in the na- ton played the picture.
 Morgan was horrified He was actually sick about the business for days, but some of his associates privately rejoiced. The occurrence took a lot of heat of the Pecora probe.
 Morgan's attitude toward the press softened somewhat thereafter, so far as his public life was con- cerned.
 When he is with his few close friends, Morgan shelves his shy brusuueness for an air of near heartiness. He is free talker on those occasions, smokes big cigars and pipe. He enjoys good wines and whiskey and gin. Tn May, 1883, Morfgan registered to vote in Glen Cove for the first time in 15 years. The main purpose was to vote wet on the probition issue.
 HE LIKES YACHTS
 AND ROYAL FAMILY
 Morgan is a light eater for big man (six feet tail, 195 pounds) but his appetite improves per- ceptibly when he is at sea. He is always first at table-not, as an associate points out, because he is a glutton, but because he is "a very punctual person"
 Morgan is one rich man who seems to have gotten a pretty good run for his money. He used 1t not so much for power as to buy the things he enjoyed, and he has always taken plenty of time to enjoy them. His yachts, for in- stance the famous Corsairs. The last Corsair cost $2,500,000, was 343 feet overall, and was the third largest in the world. The Kings of Thailand and Italy were the only yacht-owners to outstrip him.
 For many years now Morgan has been closely bound to the English. He had country place in Hert- fordshrie named Wall Hall, house in Grosvenor Square in London, and shooting box at Gannochy Lodge, Scotland The late King George V
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

whereas the House of Morgan pretty well carried World War I )n its back, in the current conflict @t is just another bank and not 'iueh' a huge one, either and not Morgan, ct 75, is just another banker, with a passion for privacy md tulips. The privacy is as strict IS ever, but he has new variety of tulip Co play with on his estate at Glen Cove, L. I. For the first irne in the flowers history, MT. Morgan's tulips have definite, pleasant odor.
 Despite ruE1ors that he is folding his financial wings preparatory to retirement, Morgan still comes to work every day, arriving about II, leaving at 5. This is routine he has followed for years, since he succeeded his father in 1913. He spends an average hour at the Morgan Library at 36th Street be- tween Madison and Park Avenues. His evenings are diveded between few choice friends and his books. He sometimes gets up very early to work on his flowers. He is deeply interested in war news, and hangs on. the radio for latest bull letins.
 ILLS OF WORLD WERE
 BLAMED ON MORGAN
 It has taken Morgan a long time to drop the guise of a financial Hreebooter who could be blamed for everything from Japanese earthquakes to the depression.
 A midget helped humaniZe him. The Pecora investigation failed to discredit him. The terrific spend- ing of the New Deal dwarfed him as an ikon of capitalism, and new banking legislation finally deprived the House of Morgan of some of its lowering mysticism by forcing its transformation into a corporation.
 That was the end of an era.
 The common apology for almost anyone is that he was "misunder- stood" Tn Morgan's case the term is somewhat justifiable. Proud as Lucifer, personally shy, Morgan never bothered to explain his &C., tions. He knew nothing whatsoever about the common folk, and never cared to improve his knowledge. Called by press and left wing, he flguratively told the whole world to go jump in the creek,
 He insisted on unbroken privacy in his personal life, and truculent- ly enforced 1t. Tn the public eye, this aloofness, coupled with his tre- mendous financial transactions-the half billion dollar Anglo French loan in 1915, for instance-made him Into legendary figure.
 The public got its first informal peek at Morgan in 1883, during a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

an amateur of ecclesiastical law and church history. Tn 1929 Morgan in- vited the Archbishop of Canterbury to 90 with him on his yacht to Palestine, and the Archbishop ac- cepted the invitation. He also corre- sponded quite regularly with Pope Plus XI.
 At Matinicock Point, his Glen Cove estate, Morgan maintains immense gardens. He is so fond of his roses that he once delayed a trip to Europe two weeks in order to see them bloom.
 Mrs. Morgan, the former Jane Grew, died of sleeping sickness in 1925. Morgan. who adored her was shattered for weeks after
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04
Mrs. seery Feted

Miss Ellen McMahon and Miss Christine Dadario were hostesses at a miscellaneous shower for Mrs. Jack Seery last evening at St. Miehael's hall. The tables were pret- tily decorated in pink and blue with a large wedding cake. Mrs. Seery was the former Peggy Heaney.
 Present were: Mrs. Marion Relser. Mrs. William Heaney, Mrs, William Clark, Mrs. John Corbett, Mrs. Ed- ward LaChance, Mrs. John MeMa- hon. Mrs. Dorothy O'Donneli. Mrs. Kay Johnson, Mrs. Leona Stephens, Mrs. Marion Stevens, Mrs. Doyle. Mrs. Evelyn Nolan, Mrs, Prank seery, Mrs. Carl Dillon, Mrs. Ed ward Johnson, Miss Doris Hughes, Miss Eleanor Eeldel, Miss Eleanor Heethke, Miss Eleanor 0arrity. Miss Mary darTlty. Miss Mary doggin, Miss Vera Whelan, Miss Mary cal- Ian. Miss Kay LeaTy, Miss Lorraine caghin, Miss Maureen Sullivan Miss Ruth Martin. and Miss Grace Maher.
 The fifth annual flower show given by the Sergeant Casper Davis Post. American Legion. will be held at SpTague school gymnasium, Wa teryille next Wednesday and Thurs day. Entries are open to all who care to exhibit and may be made at any time before noon Wednesday
 Ribbcns will be awarded for first second and third place in all classes and in addition special and sweep , stake prizes Wili be given,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04
BY ROBERT RUARK NEA Service stan Correspondent

 NEW YORK; Sept perpont achieves his 75th b day Sept with fair that nobody blame him Tor getting America into It fairly comfortable feel Ing for the old gentleman spent the better part of 20 denying Tn tha ArsEE
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04
VANDALS DAMAGE
 GIRL SCOUT CAMP
Raft Destroyed Before Youngsters Flee; Several
 Leave Shoes Behind
WATE ERVILLE
Correspondent: Mrs. William E. Rooney, 19O Dwight St.
 Telephone 3-S475

Waterville, Sept. 4-Considerable damage was caused by youthful vandals at the Girl Scout camp, Wequapauset, in Waterville yester- day, according to report by Mrs. Carl Weyand, camp committee chairlady at Desk Lieut.. Bernard Burnes.
 After destroying wood for raft and trying to break into the camp house the youths fled in haste, some leaving their shoes behind. The camp is protected by the Litch- field County Farm Bureau whose men patrol the property twice a day, Mrs. Weyand said.
 Motor Patrolman John Walsh was assigned to investigate.
 St. Michael's c. Y. o. baseball team will meet St. Joseph's in a league game Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at Waterville park. This game viii decide the fourth team to take part in the playotfs. Tomorrow evening St. Michael's players will hold an important practice session in preparation for Sundays game
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04
j.. P. MORGAN AT 75: Just Another Banker

ward. They had two sons, Junius and Henry, both of whom are now lieutenant commanders in the Naval Reserve, and two daughters, Jane (Mrs. George Nichols) and Frances (Afrs. Paul Pennoyer) Morgan built a park at Glen Grove to his wife's memory, and often drives there, sitting in the front seat with his chauffeur.
 Morgan's position as capitalist supreme nearly cost him his life on two occasions. Once, in 1915 when Morgan was being assailed for trying to draw the United States into war, a man named Eric Meunter broke into his house and shot Morgan twice, before the burly banker succeeded in disarm- ing him.
 In 1880 somebody chucked a bomb into the Morgan offices at 23 Wall street.
 Despite the danger of stopping some crackpots bullet, Morgan all ways tried to shrug off the body guards his partners insisted should accompany him. Once, in the depth of the depression, the Cor ner" was being picketed by a mass of Communists. Morgan's partners tried to persuade him to stay inside the building, but the old boy wouldn't be intimidated. He pulled his square hat down over his ears, stuck out his chin and surged right through the middle of the demon- strators.
 RELATIVELY SPEAKING
 MORGAN IS POOR
 Strangely, although Morgan was regarded as the symbol of fat-cat finance, he was relatively a poor man compared to the other tycoons of his time-the Rockefellers and Jay Goulds. As residuary heir to his fathers estate, he received $77,- 465,975.38, but much of the money was vested in art objects. Morgan had to sell some $8,000,000 worth of bric-a-brac to meet death du- ties, bequests and immediate .capi- tai necessities.
 During the Pecora witch-hunt in 1883, the public was somewhat startled when an investigation showed the firm to be considerably less rich than anyone suspected. Figures showed that Morgan and Co had dropped from net worth of $l18,604,l ,l84 in 1929 to $53, ,194 orr in '33. Contrasted to the big Eng fish houses, and even New York's Chase, National City and Guaranty Trust banks, it was fairly small po- tatoes. Morgans huge loans had been negotiated on the strength of his reputation than on the actual strength of his counting -house. UPS SUCCESSOR
 IS ANYONE'S GUESS
 Morgan's own explanation of his success is that "the private banker must be ready and willing to give distinterested advice to his clients to the best of his ability. The be- lief in the integrity of his advice is a great part of the credit which I have referred to as the best pos session of any firm"
 Since the House of Morgan no longer is a partnership, but a straight corporation, there is much con- lecture as to who eventually will succeed J. P. as chairman of the board. His sons are counted as logi- cal successors, but the question hasn't been circulated widely.
 For Morgan, at 75, gives no indi- cation of willingness to retire. His bald head can be seen behind his old roll-top desk every day, anc as one member of the firm said MT. Morgan never worked harder or longer in his life than he's do- | inp ripht rown
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04
Please don't make LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE CALLS during the Labor Day Weekend ...unless uitally necessary

For time have been asking make telephone has the ihboard and also be- military calls and other calls vital to the wal effort
 Labor weekend This that wartime travel resic will particularly large volume calls especially Friday Thus ask that coming weekend particularly tonight make distance calls unless they However make long distance caI will likely find possibility day. when nreduce rates sapuIva ald dav
The Keesler field news., 1942-02-25

He was Assistant Commandant
Ii. Col. William P. Sloan's right
hand man when the Colonel was
directing Chanute's Department Of
Mechanics IS FIRST Lieutenant.
Sergeant Major Of Keesles's
Academic Department, NJ. Sgt.
Verba r. Botkin is the key enlisted
man Of the A. NJ. School here.
He's the funnel through which all
correspondence, requests for In
formation and paper work flows.
HERE AUGUST 3
One OF the first five enlisted
men assigned TO this Air Corps
Technical School, Sergeant Botkir
came to Keesier on August 8,
l941. after three and half years
at chsnute Field and was inmed-
lately named to a post similar TO
that he had occupied there---5erg-
cant Major OF the Academic De-
partment
A native OF Winfield, Kan. the
Sergeant is strictly an Army ca
reer man. At the age OF s3. he
has already put In more than 10
years Of service. including almost
The Keesler field news., 1942-02-25

four years in the Infantry at Fort
Smelling. MINI
Though most OF his Army work
has been clerical, he gets . big
kick out OF remembering his days
as cook at Fort Leavenworth,
Kan.
Keesler Field--one of the few
Army posts with lis own SWIM
ming, boating and fishing facili-
ties inside the reservation Is
right down the Sergcant's alley
because, next TO reading about
current events. sea food and
swimming are mis- loud note.
NEWLY WE'D - PRACTICALLY
Hes practically newlywed,
TOO having married the former
Opal Pilon Of Champaign. Ill. in
June wedding at Chanute last
year.
Shortly sfterward, there was
another big cause for celebration
IN TIE Botkin family when the
Sarge was promoted from Techni-
cal Sergeant to Master Sergeant
in September.
What's his funniest experience
since he's been at Reesler2 A
recruit once came complaining 70
the Sergeant that he had been in
the Army dor three fun months
and hadn't been promoted to the
grade Of Corporal yet The Seyg-
cant got Laugh out of that one.
Why Ia the old Army & took
good man five or six yearK %
make Corporal
He's one OF the few men who
have seen the Air Corps Technical
School program expand from 40
Students 70 tens OF thousands
The Keesler field news., 1942-02-25

It's elaborate recfeational faeiii-
Ties. bu. each squadron a.ea Is
hrisu.nE with ennis, basketball
vollcyball and hadmilton courts.
horseshoe stakes and bali dla-
monds.
or course the long arm OF the
Law has ils fingers here, too. Ev-
cry accident involving an army
vehicle is investigated by trained
men; courts meet to try army per-
sonnet accused of violations OF the
Articles OF War, their statutes
NECESSITIES. TOO
The necessities Of lIfe-and
many OF the convenlences--.ar
provided by the painters, plumb
ers. ambulance drivers. dentists.
doctors, taliort, cooks and neehan-
ics on this field.
The army as a whole has 3g7
types Of skilled workers In It's
ranks. ranging from dental TECH
nician 10 crane operator. from
harness maker TO airplane me-
chanic, from accountant to stone
mason. from butcher 10 plumber.
And many Of these are represent
ed in the complement that makes
the life OF the Keesler Field SOL
der complete and clty-like.
The Keesler field news., 1942-02-25

Gently when the school went on a
three-shift day. operating - hours
day. Class schedules were ar
ranged 10 care for the A shift from
8 am. 10 I.45 pm. B sniff from
: pm. 10 s.45 pm and { shift
from 10 pm. to 5;45 am.
Colonel Sloan. in describing the
change. said Il would give indiyid-
ualized attention 10 the prospec-
tive nechanie--would ermi.
more use Of the Fields inssrue-
tonAl equipment and would en-
able instructors 10 handle smaller
classes. He also predicted an in
crease in class standards and his
words were proven accurate when
figures showed a marked decrease
in the percentage OF men who
failed.
During the last several weeks,
class rooms have been full. Lights
have burned throughout the night
IN all sections of the school, Air
plane motors, at least one each for
every type of motor used by
Anerican-built warplanes, have
roared untiringly night and day as
students studied them, and COR
rected their faults.
ENTER As RECRUITS
Thousands Of mechanics will be
turned out annually by the KEGS
Ter Field school Through the
six school buildings and -four giant
double hangers included in the
school will pass these many men
supplied by the Replacement
Training Center at this Field and
at ouner similar ones.
Entering as recruits who have
completed their period of basic
military training, they viii COM
plete Ii phases Of general course
in aviation mechanics within rec
ord time. After that, they will
take their places on the line" as
mechanics servicing m litary
planes at American bases.
These meehanics-to-be begin
their courses with basic instruc-
ton phase in which particular
stress is placed upon the Air Corps
maintenance system. The second
course, in airplane structures, be-
gins 10 days later. Next, the me-
chanics study airplane hydraulic
systems and miscellaneous equip
ment. The fourth course is In air.
plane propellors.
Others, in the order in which
they are taken up, include air.
craft instruments, aircraft engines,
aircraft electrical systems, engine
induction, fuel and oil systems,
engine operation and test, .inspec-
ton and maintenance OF single
engine craft and inspection and
maintenance Of multi engined
planes.
The final phase Is the course
to be concluded by the first class
tomorrow night. Under the stag
gered scale of operations now in
force, the school will graduate
subsequent classes each 10 days.
The Keesler field news., 1942-02-25
Rites Set
ThreeHours
After Class
Shifts, Work Days
Boosted During
Their Schooling

Hundreds OF veteran" Air Me
ehanics. this group only the first
in an endless series OF classes 10
De graduated from the. Air Corps
Technical School which is the pur-
pose OF Keesler Field, will con-
clude their work in the final phase
of instruction tomorrow night. A
few hours later, in simple eere-
nony, they win receive their di-
plomas.
Their work, since the first class
on Sept. 20, continued while
school directors revamped the
schedule several times On De-
eember Is the school went on q
six-day week, replacing the five
day week that had been in effect.
Still later, all limits as to size of
classes were removed.
Lit. Col. William p. Sloan, as
sstant comInandant OF the ACTS,
stated at that time that the school
would care for all students phy-
seal accommodations would per-
nit Only the size OF school
rooms, the size OF hangers and the
availability OF working equip
ment would limit sizes OF Keesler
classes in the future. he said.
And still Glass worked steadily
on toward Keesler Fields first
graduation day.
THREE SHIFTS A DAY
The two-shift, six-days-a-week
schedule was revamped again re-