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Continued from Page One) increase for postal workers to meet the rising cost of living.
 Those eligible for the raises after 10 and IS years service ac. cOrding to the present bill are as. sistant postmasters, supervisory employees, special clerks, clerks. messengers, laborers in
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-03

In dry season when baths are no,
avaliblc. some birds take showers
in fugdrcnchcd bushes.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-03
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1912

nn Il gale-likc wind out OF the north
that blew most oI the day WrCnr,-
day and increased in intensity about
nightfall, but abatcd somewhat
around midnight. The temperature
resulted in Il hard freeze. and ice
was everywhere evident. Some
frozen water pipes were also report
I'd
The weather observer reported:
that the mercury rose slowly during
the day. and at 10 Il. III. had climbed
three degrees Ia "a. The official GOV
rrnmCnt forecast WAS for warmer Ia.
aight.
No damage WAS reported from tine
high wind. although pedestrian;
found difficulty III getting about. and
many had 10 chase hats or other an
'iclCS blown from them ON the streets
and sidewalks. The icy wind Was al
most brcath-taking nj times.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-03
FIVE SAILORS DIE
AS SHIP CAPSIZES

Newport Il. |. Dec. SAP
Five sailors were known dead. ten
others were missing and '&o were
safe today after their 2&.'uo' liberty
boat capSilcd in rough water in Mar
raganSctt Bay carly yesterday wn.lC
returning the men from shore leave.
f'ircmCn found ifs" victims ,trcwu
along tho shore v' C0uHuicG island
near rocks whcr" the liberty craft.
a whalCboat design va, discovered
with both end stoke in.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1942-12-03
Paul GREEN ELECTED

Raleigh. Dec. 3..-;iL'J State
Literary and Historical Association
elected Paul Green of Chapel Hill it.
president today and passed rc,olu-
lions honoring the memory of dc
ceased members.
Evening star., 1942-06-14
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., JUNE A. 1912

with people who had never seen .
radio and were too poor to buy a
newspaper even II they could read.
She told them about the war, some
thing Of which they had been
vaguely conscious, and about the
good neighbor policy. Of which they
had never heard. Miss Lewis says
she doesn't quite agree with the
way the United States is spending
its good neighbor policy money,
but says the policy 'is swell"
When Miss Lewis leaves Caracas
she will be on the last leg of her
trip. with stops planned at Cuba,
Puerto Rico and Santo Domingo.
But she will certainly not be on
her last legs. The girl, who was
born near Barneyville, Wis, has
great plans for the future. First
she wants to see the United States
again because "it must have changed
such a great deal in the last five
years."
Il know the folks back home
will say that I oughtnt to be gala
wanting about so" she admits
I'm just at the right age. though;
old enough to know better and
young enough to disregard what I
know"
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Governments Assist
Plan to Stagger
War Vacations.

LOS ANGELES June 13.-state
and municipal governments are CO.
operating readily with the plan to
"stagger" vacations as a wartime
measure. according to their reac-
tions to a campaign waged by
Southern California's All-Year Club
The plan is to spread out vaca-
tions over more months of the
year instead of punching them in
July and August. This relieves
public transportation of a mid
summer overload at a time when
1t already is carrying q heavy war
burden, plus that shifted from rub
Der tires. 1t also tightens the va
cation replacement problem in in
dustry.
Governors Of some 20 States, as
we'll as Mayors of larger cities
throughout the United States, have
been contacted by Don Thomas,
managing director of the veteran
Southern California travel promo
tion organization, in behalf Of the
program.
Evening star., 1942-06-14

ut is costing me more than I can
afford here. but I'm glad I came"
Met Intelligent People.
Restless as a rumor, Miss Lewis
stayed in Caracas only long enough
to start for San Cristobal, high in
the Andes. She could have made
it in four hours by plane. Instead,
she spent four days on bus. Re
turning to Caracas, she took that
little launch with the 13 huge pigs
down the river and across huge
Lake Maracaibo, with its forests of
oil derricks rising out of the water.
Though the cost of living in
Venezuela is eating into her re-
serves. the people make up for it,
she says. While most of the poor
people in all of the Latin Ameri-
can countries are hospitable, the
half-Indian. half-Spanish poems in
Venezuela are the incest. Despite
the abject poverty and complete
illiteracy in their sun-baked ham,
lets, she's met lust scads of intelli-
gent people everywhere. And would
you believe it, these Venezuelan ma
tives know all about the war and
what it means to them. I was in
tiny pulpera, sort of store on the
road where nobody but cowboys
ever come There was a big picture
of Franklin D. Roosevelt on the
wall I reckoned that it was being
used just for decoration. so I asked
the proprietor if he knew who it
was.
Why that's President Roosevelt.
He's the boss of this house. he
said"
Listened to News
Somebody in the neighborhood
had an ancient battery radio and
at night all the people for miles
around would glue their ears to it
for the B. B. C. and Schenectady
news in Spanish.
In the interior Of Ecuador and
Peru, however, Miss Lewis chatted
Evening star., 1942-06-14

tramp steamer to Europe and spent
two years poking into corners, car
rying her own luggage. doing her
own washing and having a swell
time.
Until few years before she re-
tired. Mary Lewis had had to care
for her invalid mother. and since
person cannot live like a teacher
on teachers salary. she had moth
ing to travel on except the SOFA
week pension money. But at the
end of two years abroad, Miss Lewis
had saved enough to book tourist
passage back home. She tramped
around the United States for a
couple of years, spent six months
in Mexico. Late in 1887 she started
on the rest of Latin America.
Spent Month in Ruins.
Until two months ago travelling
was pretty cheap. In Peru she rode
the front seat of truck "a hours
across the desert for one American
dollar At 3 am, speeding along
what the map says is a road, the
truck hit spot of soft sane. spun
around. toppled back and forth and
landed in a ditch. The truck
righted she went on to Cuzco, an
cient capital Of the 1ncas She
spent whole month poking into
the ruins of the past and the novels
of the present Except for narrowly
escaping landslide. the trip out Of
Peru was uneventful.
Miss Lewis left Venezuela until
the last because she had heard the
cost of living here was so high. She
found herself in British Guiana in
early April, stranded because the
Nazis had sunk ships in that part
of the Caribbean and all sailings
had been Cancelled.
Il had saved some money from
my pension in the last four years,
so I took plane to Trinidad and
another one to Venezuela" she said
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Former Teacher
Begins to Live
AS Traveller
Latin American
Tour Provides
Rich Experiences
By STANLEY ROSS

Correspondent Of The Star and NORTH
American Newspaper Alliance.
CARACAS, Venezuela, (By Air
MaiD Miss Mary Lewis, her silver
bobbed hair combed over to one side
In the manner of 1925, her devilish
eyes twinklng merrily, is settled IN
Caracas for the next month on one
,f the last legs of her five-year good
will tour of Latin America.
Miss Lewis didn't arrive in sill
yer airplane met at the field by the
foreign minister. She tossed two
days in a tiny launch filled with 10
men, four women, three children
and l3 huge pigs. with torrentiai
rains drenching her for hours. She
bumped and jolted three days from
Maracaibo to Caracas. 1t would have
been two days, but the road was
washed out and she spent the night
in the rickety old bus; at dawn she
hiked through the mud, Juggling her
baggage, to get another one.
Parts of it weren't fun, but Miss
Lewis is learning all about Vene-
zuela, as she learned all about every
other country south OF the Rio
Grande. Her laughing eyes and
tinkling laugh gave Latin Americans
in obscure corners homemade,
backward chunk of friendship they
can't get from all Nelson Rookie
feller's nickel-plated personality
kids.
Was Teacher for 40 Years.
Miss Lewis is 50 years old and she
doesn't care who knows it. II she
didn't have the very devil IN her
grin you'd think she was typical
Grand Rapids, Mich, schoolmarm,
which she was for 40 years. One
day, IL years ago, just like the man
in You can't Take 1t With You
Mary Lewis said ITO He'll With It,"
She told the school board she wanted
to retire. got $1,000 year pension,
and began to live.
Mary Lewis didn't tell many peo-
pie in Grand Rapids what she was
going to do, because she had a
reputation for three decades of bor-
ing sanity. Up to then a dinner
party was about the extent to which
she had experienced violent life.
She knew some people would con-
slider her little wacky and others
would be hurt with envy. So she
packed her moldy old suitcase. got
to New York. booked passage on a
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Slogan Sums Up
Wartime Travel

QUEBEC. Province Of Quebec,
june 13.-"Reculez pour mieux
sapter" is the motto Of French
Canadians In wartime In the
Province Of Quebec. The motto
is in tune with the statement Of
President Roosevelt that recrea-
ton Is vital to sustained war
effort.
The ancient French proverb
means literally, Step back to
leap further" Being interpret
ed, it is advice to friends at home
and abroad to enjoy refreshing
vacations in wartime, in order
to return to work healthy and
wise.
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Thousand Islands
To Hold Tourney

ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y. June
l3-Sportsmen who go after small
mouth black bass in the Thousand
Islands region can have their sport
and win a prize, if they're lucky.
The Alexandria Bay Rod and Gun
Club is sponsoring a tournament
starting Tuesday with sporting
equipment as the prizes for the best
catches.
All sportsmen must register their
catch at the Rod and Gun Club
headquarters here to be eligible.
There will be other prizes for record
catches of wall-eyed pike, pickerel,
muskellunge and other species as
we'll
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Black Hills Roundup
Set for july "a

RAPID CITY, June 13.-The
Black Hills and Badlands Of South
Dakota, historical frontier country
Of the great mountain" plains area,
will feature among its attractions
this summer In South Dakota the
Black Hills Roundup at Belle
Fourche. July 2. and 4; the Days
of '76 celebration at Deadwood, Aug
ust 6. 7, 8 and 9. and the Black Hills
Passion Play presented at Spearf1sh
each Sunday. Tuesday and Thurs
day. June 81 through September 8.
Rapid City, s. OAK. is the gate
way to the Black Hills area which
covers approximately 5000 square
miles.
Colorados first name was S1nto
Domingo,
Evening star., 1942-06-14
TRAVEL.

Colorado's first name was S1nto
Domingo.
Evening star., 1942-06-14
Not the Highest

Although Pixies Peak is one Of
Americas best-known mountains, q
couple of dozen other Colorado peaks
surpass it in height. Little-pub-
licized Mount Ebert, 14,43l feet, is
Colorado's highest. Pixies Peak is
14,110 feet.
Evening star., 1942-06-14

Yellowstone National Park con-
tains not less than 10000 thermal
features-geysers, hot springs, mud
pots, boiling pools, fumeroles, etc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28
Leopold, Torkomian
 Before Pardon Board
Four Others Convicted Here Among Petitioners to Be
 Heard at Wet1ersfieId November 2

Six men who were convicted in superior court are scheduled to ap- pear before the board of pardon in Wethersfield State prison Nov. 2, according to an announcement made at the states attorneys office today. Also announced today was a decision of Judge Patrick B. O'Sullivan dismissing habeas corpus proceedings of another prisoner who claimed he is illegally confined. Petitioners who will appear before the board of pardons and their con- victions are as follows:
 Philip Rousch. sentenced Sept. 20, 1928, for life on a second degree murder charge.
 Louis Leopold, sentenced to life Nov 2l, 1928. on charges of arson and second degree murder.
 Baron J. Torkomian, sentenced to 20-50 years on April IA, 1881, on charges of rape and administering a drug for the purpose of commit ting crime.
 Dennis Mccarthy, sentenced to 20 to 30 years on April l2, l932, on charges Of burglary as a third of- fender.
 James Babulas, sentenced June I8, l940, to IS to IS years for rape.
 Whitney Price, sentenced Oct. 2, l940, to 10 to l5 years for rape,
 James Sullivan, former Water bIlFiff1 mhn Wag sentenced h 0n tO 30 years on 0larges of rape and ad-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28
Six Divorce Suits
 Filed Here Today
Three Charge Cruelty, Others DesertOn, Misconduct
 and Intemperance; SlatOr Action Withdrawn

Six new divorce actions were filed in superior court this morning and one other was withdrawn from the court docket. Three of the new suits are based on charges of cruelty, while the others are based on desertion, intemperanee, and misconduct.
 Lucy .Guidetta Russo of Water bury has filed an action against Ralph Russ of Watertown, claim ing her husband has been cruel since the date of marriage, July IL, 1885, The petitioner seeks custody of two children, an allowance for their support, and allmOny,
 Albert Q, Taylor of Waterbury seeks a divorce from Mabel Rarto Taylor of Mantle, charging mis- conduct, The couple married April 2l, l940,
 Claiming her husband has been cruel since Oct, Sl, 1898, Maria RodeTiques Torres of Naugatuek has filed complaint against Fran cisco Torres, also of Naugatuck, lNe HhFFlhke was peF4oFNneu JQly IT, 1928 at Plymouth, Mass, The plaintiff seeks custody of a minor child, allmony and support allow anees, and states her husband has real estate valued at sl2,000,
 Eric R, Anderson of Waterbury has instituted a divorce action against Margaret E, Anderson, also of this city, charging hahitual in- temperance, The marriage took place June IT, 1915,
 Desertion since July 22, 1887 is claimed in a suit brought by Paul. inc Trenka Harrison of Waterbury against George J, Harrison, former " of Waterbury and now of parts unknown, The date of marriage Is given as Nov, 10, 1882, The petitions CT seeks permission to resume use Of her maiden name,
 Grille Massa Patrick 0f Water bury seeks a divorce from willis Patrick, also of Waterbury, claim Ing her husband has been intOl- ably cruel, The comnlaint gives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28
HOSPITAL INMATE
 SUES WIFE, SONS
Leon Tarby Charges Mate Illegally Had Him COn-
 fined to Insane Asylum

Leon Tarby of Seymour, con- fined at the Newtown State hos pital, has instituted a civil action in superior court against his wife, Anna Tarby, of Seymour, and five sons and two daughters, claiming his wife illegally had him confined to institutions for the insane and conveyed title to property and money held in trust for him to the children.
 The complaint states the man Is 63 years old and as the result of family difficulties the wife on July 20, l940, placed a complaint against him and caused him to be incar- cerated as insane and confined at the Middletown State hospital. On June 1, 194l, he was transferred to the Newtown hospital. the com- plaint states.
 The plaintiff claims title to prop erty in Oxford. Seymour and Shell ton has been transferred since his confinement. He alleges the prop erty represented his savings. al- though the title rested in his wife as trustee, and that a conservator- ship over the estate was obtained by fraud and deceit. Money was ale legedly taken from banks in Sey- mour and Ansonia that was his, the plaintiff further claims.
 The children named in the suit are Peter, John. Walter, George and Louis, all of Seymour. Mary Dzubina of Jersey City, N, J., and Elizabeth T. Brennan of New York city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28
WASHINGTON HILL

chairman of the committee. A meeting of the Washington Park Community Club was held last evening at the Community House with President John B. Cuddy pre- siding. Report of Thomas Brophy, treasurer of Boy Scout Troop com mittee, was read, showing the Scout treasury to be in very good financial condition.
 A special meeting of the troop committee. Troop 9, will be held at the Community House at 1030 o'clock next Sunday morning.
 The next regular business meet ing of the Community Club will be held Nov. 10. A social hour will be held after the meeting with George Lynch as chairman assisted by Mrs. Eugene Johns, Mrs. Al Linden, Mrs. Ellen Scadden, Mrs. John Cronley and Mrs. George Lynch.
 A report was read from the com- mittee working on the Halloween party Saturday night, Oct. 31 and final arrangements were completed. A large crowd is expected to be in costume. Prizes will be awarded to the best dressed and funniest dress cd couple on the floor. Judges will be picked from the floor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28
It Is Not A New Deal War
From November Literary Digest

consult with ron-Democratic members; he does not take the political opposition into his confl- dence and he has not even brok- en down the divisions within his own party which prevailed before the war. MT. High cites examples to support his statement that Washington takes time of from the war to further its own pri- vate feuds and ambitions.
 That's" he states, Sis why Washington's words to the coun- try get something less than an all-out. all-American response"
 Mir. High believes that the req son the people remain uncertain as to the real issues involved in the war is that Washington has failed to share with Americans its actual blueprint of what our postwar world will be like. In- stead, it broadcastS every day it's promises for the future over short wave radio to foreign countries. Such generalizations as the Att lantic Charter and the Four Freedoms fail to quiet the uneasi- ness and suspicious aroused in the minds of the American people by the administrations policy of con- cealment.
 Washington. MT. High con- cludes, has counseled the country to be tough. But to give Amer ica a real fighting faith requires a leadership "as non-partisan, as single-minded, and as tough as the administration wants the country to be-"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28

Committeeman John I)wyer is calling a meeting Of the Demo cratic workers in District 5-3 for Thursday evening at the Washing ton Park Community House at o'clock. All members of thsi dis trict are asked to be on hand to receive final instruction for election day.
 The Democratic Town Committee Is planning a state ticket rally at Washington Park Community House Friday night. From all indications the auditorium of the Community House will be filled to overflowipg. Governor Robert A. Hurley will be In the hall about g o'clock.
 An entertainment will also be featured, with James Fitzgerald, forrnc- committeeman from District 5-2 and Mrs. Dorothy Dunn in charge of the music and entertain ment which will open with the singing of the National Anthem.
 The entire state ticket will be on hand and Mrs. Hurley will also be with the party which will be en- tertained at a dinner at the Hotel Elton before the start Of the rally.
 St. Francis Xaviers Ladies Guild held a meeting last evening. Plans were made to hold Bingo party Nov, i9 in conjunction with the Holy Name society. Tickets will be distributed early next week. Tickets for the raffle to be held the same evening won't be ready until the latter part of the coming week Rev. David O'Keefe is general
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28

The American people have not responded wholeheartedly to the governments pleas for a united war effort because the govern ment has thus far failed to set them an example. This is the con- clusion of Stanley High in an arti- cle in the November issue of the Readers Digest.
 Mir. High quotes the results of the governments own recent sur veys to show the present attitude of the people: almost a third would be prepared for a negotiat- ed peace; nearly half are not clear as to what the war is all about; and most of them do not realize what would happen if we lost the war.
 This situation is due, not to the country's ignorance of the facts and the enemy, according to MT. High, but to the conduct of Wash ington itself, which has not been up to the requirements it makes of the citizen. "The extent to which the government, in the sight of all men, measures up to those requirements" says MT. High, makes the difference be- tween a people who are uneasy, hesitant, and uncertain, and a militant people who march united ly with banners"
 Congress, Mir. High points out, usually gives nonpartisan support to the Presidents measures, be- cause 1t wants to win the war. Is partisan: he does not seriously
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28
EIGHT OF CREW
 ONLY ARE SAVED

An East Coast Port, Oct. 28 - (UP)-Only eight of a crew of 23 were saved when a small Norwegian merchant vessel was torpedoed and sunk off the northern coast of South America in the latter part of Sep- tember. The eight survivors have arrived at an east coast port.
 A torpedo struck the ship just aft of midships on the starboard side exploding with such force that the boilers burst. The ship sank in less than one minute, The attack came shortly after midnight.
 The captain of the vessel and one seaman craWled onto a raft while the others clung to bits of wreck age. The submarine surfaced and took the merchant captain aboard. After brief questioning he was re- leased and the submarine sub- merged.
 The survivors drifted for ls hours before they were picked up by a United Nations vessel and taken to port,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28
OBITUARY

CLAPS-Mrg. Anna Maria Claps, 70, wife of Thomas Claps of lsO Oak street, died this noon hour at St. Marys Hospital, following a brief Illness. 4 native of Italy, she had been Q resident of this city for 33 years.
 Mrs. Claps was a communicant of St. Lucy's Church, and a mem Der Of it's Sacred Heart League.
 Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, IL. Louis Claps of U. S. Army, California, who flew to his mothers bedside this week; and Mario Claps of this city; six daughters, Mrs. Joseph Cipriano, Mrs. Carmen Cipriano. Mrs. Clayton Briotti. all Of Waterbury; Mrs. Jo- seph Panetta, Miss Anna Claps Of Brooklyn. N. F.; and Mrs. Domenic Ferraro of New Rochelle, N. r.; ten grandchildren and one great grandchild.
 The funeral will be held on Sat- urday morning at eight o'clock from her home, ls0 Oak street to St. Lucy's church at 9 o'clock. Burial will be in the family plot at Call vary cemetery
 Friends may call at the home to- morrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28

ministering a drug to commit a crime, in the same case as Tor komian, appeared before Judge O. Sullivan in the states prison last Friday claiming he was illegally confined on charges of violating parole. He was sentenced on April IA, 1881 but his sentence later was reduced to 10 years and he was dis missed on parole.
 On July l2, l940 the prisoner en- tered into an agreement that when paroled he would not leave the state without written permission, but the judge found that he was in New York and New Jersey without per- mission last March 24, thereby Vio- lating the condition of his parole. His habeas corpus proceedings were dismissed and his confinement will continue at the discretion of the parole authorities.
 The prisoner claimed he should have been given a hearing before the board before he was returned to jail.
 States Atty. William B. Fitzgerald appeared for the state in the Sul- liyan case and also will represent the state at the pardon hearings
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-28
OFFICIALS MAY
 FILEEXCEPTIONS

Cambridge, Mass, Oct, 28.-(UP) Mayor George T. Ashe Of Lowell and three co-defendapts today con- s.deEed filing exceptions to evidence which led to their conviction in supGrior court on charges of con- spiraey in connection with the pur- chase of supplies for the city of Lowell,
 4 jury returned a guilty verdict last night against Ashe, City Pur- chasing Agent Wslter Connor, his brother John, and John F, Me- KeoWn, Worcester salesman, nearly 10 hours after t had been given the case.
 Judge Vincent Brogna set Nov, 5 for disposition unless the defend- ants file appeals.
 The defendants were charged with setting up a dummy" business to sell heavy hardware to the city and from which they were to share in the profits,