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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29
Selected Poem
WINTER EVENING

)ger Challis in the Christian Science Monitor
= All day long
The snow has been scattering
Out of the dim air;
The sky is hardly overcast,
But pearly gray
Except for bank of clouds
In the far distance
Lighted by stray
Shaft Of sunlight.
No breath of wind
Stirs even the slenderest branch;
Long delicate twigs
Are utterly motionless;
Only brisk robin
Dances and chitters
On tree
Celebrating Joy
Known only to itself.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Poll Taken
On Car Troubles
Shows Trouble Ahead
First Of two articles ON the
civilian outlook for 1944.)
BY PETER EDISON

By PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
The shortage of spare parts and
the difficulty of obtaining repairs on
civilian passenger automobiles are
getting seriouser and seriouser, but
civilian auto transportation isn't at
the breakdown point yet.
This is the conclusion obtained
from a nationwide consumer re
quirementS survey just completed
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
BY EARL L. DOUGLASS. d. d.

WHERE DO YOU LIVE?
In the end, mans life always
is the result of his thoughts. AS
we think In our hearts, so do we
hec0ma
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29

with reference to ourselves we will
always think in terms Of humility,
and If with reference to others we
will think in terms of generosity, we
will do much to make our own
hearts happy and the world In
which we live a more pleasant
dwelling place for the sons of men.
Heaven and he'll both begin here
on earth, and the kind of thoughts
we cherish determine to a great ex-
tent In which of these two spheres
we live.
(All Rights Reserved Babson
Newspaper Syudicate)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-29

Copyright, 1913, by United
Feature Syndicate, Inc)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Communist Body
will Dissolve

Continued from Page y
and economic conditions in various
countries and because of varying
degrees of social consciousness
among workers in various countries.
The Third Internationale. tech
nically, has not yet been dissolved
since the presidlum merely publish
ed its resolution providing for dis
solution, but approval is merely 4
formality.
IN RESOLUTION
The action was embodied in a
resolution adopted by the comm
tern executive committee which
stated simply:
In countries against the Hitler
ite coalition, the sacred duty Of all
the masses and primarily that of
the vanguard of workers consists
in all-out support Of their govern
ments' war efforts in order to rout
the Hitlerites as quickly as possible
and secure friendly cooperation OF
nations on a basis of equality"
The dissolution was announced
by the official Communist party
newspaper Prayda.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Congressman Ask
Conference Probe
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Continued from Page i
a congressional investigation of this
conference.
The Congressman said Jones had
taken full responsibility for barring
them from executive committee ses-
sions. Jones told them, Bradley
said. that he based his ruling on
the parliamentary rules of proce-
dure OF the House of Representa-
tives, which state that at executive
sessions only committee members
and those specifically invited shall
be admitted.
And we are not invited here,
Bradley commented.
The congressman last night had
given Jones until am. today 10
change the rules, and he refused.
THE American people don't have
to submit TO anything like this. Eli
ther Congress and the press ought
TO be permitted to see what's going
on or the conference ought to be
called off-and called off imme-
diately. Those are strong words but
I mean every one of them. This
is still our country and I hope to
keep it So"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Union President
Pleads With Men
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Continued from Page u
Motto. Chrysler division director OF
the UAW-CIO.
Walter Reuther and his people
certainly are not responsible for
this strike" he said. He will be at
all of these Cunion) meetings tomor-
row and I think that demonstrates
his opposition
The UAW president agreed with
the company that the series OF
stoppageS, Detroit'S worst since Pearl
Harbor, was violation of the un-
ions contract with Chrysler. Never
theless, he blamed the Chrysler
management and the War Labor
Board for fomenting what he called
the rank-and-file revolt
He charged that Chrysler's re-
fuSal TO set up arbitration machin-
cry as provided in the unions con-
tract with General Motors and Ford
prompted the Walkouts.
The stoppages already had affect
ed about 28,000 workers.
A Chrysler spokesman said about
1900 employees, tWo-thirds OF the
first shift, reported at the DeSoto
bomber plant at 7 am. today, en-
abling resumption Of fair produc-
ton An additional 700 returned
at the jefferson -Kercheval plants
employing about 1000.
However, at the Dodge main plant
employing $500, only about 200
workers filtered through the gates.
The spokesman said sound truck
is going up and down the street"
urging members of the United Auto
mobile Workers (CIO) to meet to-
morrow to decide whether or not
to go to work"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Island Village
Complete Ruin

Japanese base in the Aleutians,
but bad weather prevented obserVa-
ton of results.
KiSka logically would be the next
stop on the schedule of American
reconoueSt in the Aleutians. The
reconauest of Attu leaves the enc
mv'S garrison on KiSka without an
advance supply base.
The enemy on Attu. dug in on
high ground just east of Attu VII
laee. indicated its determination To
contest the last Is square miles still
under its control.
1t is only a question of time
when they will be liquidated or will
have to surrender said Secretary
of the Navy Frank Knox. who re-
CARDS the Attu campaign as practi-
cally over.
Its a successful operation, he
declared The mopping up process
Is all that's left
ESCAPE IMPOSSIBLE
Escape by sea was impossible.
Knox said that the nav controlled
all sea approaches TO the island,
That was interpreted to mean also
that the navy was ready TO deal
with any efforts of the Japanese
fleet to evacua;e the garrison or
to send aid.
Knox likened the enemy's hope
less position to that of the Axis
forces in Tunisia after they had
taken short-liyed refuge on Cap
Bon.
Attu is the first Japanese-sei2ed
American territory to be retaken by
the United States. When the mop
ping up is completed, American en-
gineers are expected 10 undertake
completion of the air base the Jap
anese started there.
The Attu campaign was begun u
days ago. Determined japanese re-
sistance prevented the American
troops from enlarging their beach
heads for nearly week. But after
that, one after another OF the major
! japanese defense positions fell. The
uncom pleted plane runway in the
Holtz bay area was captured and
the japanese forced to flee into the
Cul De Sac of the Chichagof har-
Dor area.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Tiny House Burns
Near EI Centre

A tiny, one room frame house,
located several miles southeast of
FL Centro, was destroyed by fire
Saturday morning.
Ell Centro's rural fire fighting
equipment was sent TO the scene
after the blaze had been reported
by tele phone but firemen said the
structure was practically destroyed
when they arrived. Firemen could
not determine who owned the build
ing.
They were successful in keeping
the blaze from spreading to near
by grain storage bin.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Speculation on
Adm. Death Arises
Ry LIMITED PRESS

Conflicting Tokyo radio reports
left in doubt Saturday the manner
in which the Japanese navy COM
mander-in-chief, Admiral Isoroku
Yamamoto, died.
The original broadcasts said he
was killed in a south Pacific aerial
combat in mid April but later
Tokyo indicated he was alive but in
grave condition" as late as
April 20.
The office of war information
speculated that he may have suf-
fered fatal injuries in a passenger
plane crash between Singapore and
Bangkog April 7.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Thousands Leave
Homes in Floods
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Continued from Page u
mented further b" the waters Of
the Arkansas, swollen by the bur
den of Oklahoma's worst flood The
G.and and Verdigris, running wild
over the Oklahoma loWlands, joined
the Arkansas at Muskogee, Okla.
The army sent more than 10000
troops to join thousands of civilians
battling the floods in a six state
area, where an estimated 100000
persons already were homeless.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
U.S.. Reserves
judgement of Russ
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CONTINUED from Page y
Nations unity and to clear up mis-
understandings among the Allies.
A large part of anticommunist
feeling in the United States in the
past has been a result of the aver
age Americans distaste for the
Communist internationally basic
principle of fomenting world reVo-
luton. The comparatively high
standard of living of workers and
the large middle class made this
country a relatively unfertile field
for proletarian revolution propa-
ganda.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23

X. X. SHARP
HUGH OSBORNE
LES BLACKMAN. PLUMBING
ROY BREEDLOyE
AUX AMBORT
JOLLY ROGERS
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
iron" Pave i

Continued from Page i
ming and bombing enemy positions
from low attitudes.
An enemy fuel depot was set
ablaze and other fires started. It
was during these sweeps that Attu
village was destroyed except for
the two structures.
The same day. the nav" said.
army Liberator heavy bombers car
ried out an attack on Kiska. main
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Reporter
CONTINUED from Page I

CONTINUED from Page i
ney made the statements and the
men and women present were to
say whether the statements he
made were true or false
The Diet of Worms was six
teenth century slenderizing meal.
he directed TO Paul jenkins
True. doomed Paul.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
A Prophet At Home

During the defense drill Friday
night, all human beings and all
equipment were moved out Of the
El Centro fire han because a gas
bomb was supposed to have fallen
on the vacant lot next door.
Dexter Babcock, Jr.. 10, was post
ed US a guard in front of the
building to prevent anyone enter
ing.
Along came Fire Chief Corn
Reed. He attempted to pass DeX-
ter
Halt" said Dexter. "YoG can't
go in there" Chief Reed looked at
Dexter speculatively. Dexter waved
his club and glared.
The chief did not attempt to en-
ter.
And a good thing. too. Dexter
would have smacked him, sure as
fate.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
RECEIVES DEGREE

BRUNSWICK, Me, May % up
Jean Hersholt, movie and radio
star, was one of six men awarded
honorary degrees at Boudoin COL
lege'S 18th commencement today.
He was made a honorary master
OF arts
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
Scanning Y.
News Horizon
DIVORCE GRANTED

A final divorce was granted in
Imperial county superior court Fri
DAY TO Vireie l. Price in her suit
against c. S. Price.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-05-23
LICENSE ISSUED

County Clerk w. J. McClelland
Saturday issued a marriage license
10 Edward Sidney Harris, %, mar
inc stationed at the FL Centre mar
me air training station. and Dolores
Anne Gashan, q. of st. Paul, MINI.
Evening star., 1943-09-28

r. Coggs, executive secretary Wash
ington Urban League; legislation,
Leon A. Ransom, acting dean of
Howard University Law School; rep
resentation in Government. Will
liam H. Hastie, member of the board
of directors National Association for
Advancement of Colored People.
Five incorporators were appointed,
as follows: Col. Campbell C. john
son, U. S. A.: Daniel Schwartz, CTO;
Miss Dorothy Detzer, executive Sec
retary of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom
Mrs. Mary Mcleod Bethune, presi-
dent emeritus of Bethune- Goodman
College, Daytona Beach, Fla, and
DR.. Mordecai Johnson, president of
Howard University.
Speakers Include Chapman.
Those who spoke at the meeting
included Oscar Chapman, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior: Albert w.
Atwood, Mr.. Wender, Dean Ransom,
DR.. Frederick A. Reissig, executive
secretary of the Washington Fedora
ton of Churches, and Charles H.
Houston, attorney, member of the
Legal Committee of the National
Association for Advancement of
Colored People.
DR.. William Alexander of the War
Manpower Commission, who is
chairman of the recently-appointed
Commission on the Church and
Minority People of the Federal
Council of Churches in America, will
be the principal speaker at the next
meeting of the committee to be held
at the YWCA October %, Mr.. La
Roe announced.
Evening star., 1943-09-28
Brown Ready 70 Quit
.0PA Administration,
Associates Say .
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Prentiss M. Brown Is giving Sc
rious thought to stepping aside as
price administrator.
The only question now, associates
said today, is when.
The former Michigan Senator has
confided to erstwhile associates on
Capitol Hill and OPA officials that
he is ready to give up the hot seat
he took over when Leon Henderson
resigned last winter.
Pleased With Bowles.
Mr.. Brown made it plain from
the start, these confidants said, that
he would withdraw from OPA as
soon as he felt his program was in
effect and that he no longer was
needed. just how close this OBJ
jective is to achievement is, there
fore, in Browns opinion, the key to
when he will leave. And on this
score he is keeping his own counsel.
What set him thinking seriously
of resigning was HIS satisfaction
over OPA operations under General
Manager Chester Bowles while Mr..
Brown took recent month vaca-
ton. On his return, the day before
Congress reconvened, Mr.. Brown
said he was very much pleased
with Mr.. Bowles' work.
Throughout his conversations
with friends Mr.. Brown has made it
clear that his services will be avail
able as long as they are needed in
charting the OPA program through
Congress, where vigorous criticism is
still to be heard.
Mr.. Brown, accepting the job un-
Evening star., 1943-09-28

These two pictures show years usy growth.
Above of the Douglas Cruisers that few round the
world in 1924.
Below: Douglas Skymaster used by the Air Transport
Command today.
BACK THE ATTAcK-WITH WAR BoNDsI
Evening star., 1943-09-28
Two Top Officials Quit
Positions With VINO

Two high-ranking officials Of the
War Manpower Commission have
resigned, one to return to private
business and the other to go to an
other Government agency, It was
learned today
They are Albert L. Nickerson,
chief of the Bureau of Placement,
and Leonard w. AHearn, director
of budget and administrative PLAN
ming at VINO.
Mr.. Nickerson, who has been on
loan from Socony- Vacuum Co. OF
New York, was in charge Of the
United States Employment Service
and all other placement activities.
His assistant, Glenn E. Brockway
has been named director.
Mr.. A'Hearn has become admins
trative assistant to Leo T. Crowley
in the Once of Economic Warfare
Evening star., 1943-09-28
It happened just 10 years ago..

A soIufe 10 skill and eouraae
Without the SKILL courage and hard work of the men who
made the first world fight entirely possible that Amer
ican aviation might not lead the world today.
Evening star., 1943-09-28
Racial Bias in Use
OF Cabs al Railway
Station Charged

Complaints of discrimination
against colored people in the use of
taxicabs at Union Station were re-
ferred to the Subcommittee on
Transportation of the Citizens
Committee on Race Relations at a
meeting last night at the YWCA.
Wilbur La Roe, jr., temporary
chairman of the Citizens Commit
tee. said complaints had been
made to the committee that colored
people frequently were forbidden to
enter taxicabs at that point"
The Subcommittee on Transporta-
ton is headed by William j. Mile
ham, president of the Federation of
Businessmen's Associations.
The Subcommittee on Employ
ment, headed by A. F.. E. Horn, was
asked to report on a Public Utility
Commission hearing october S on
the application of Capital Transit
Co. to convert So cars from two
man cars to one-man cars. THE
issue as I understand it." Mr.. La
Roe explained, "is whether there
would be labor shortage if avail
ability of colored and female help
were fully explored"
Other subcommittee Named.
Several other subcommittee were
appointed, including the following
and their chairmen: Finance, Harry
S. Wender; education, DR.. Garnet C.
Wilkinson, assistant superintendent
of schools; public accommodations
William Stuart Nelson dean of the
school of religion, Howard Univer-
sity; community protection, the Rev.
Francis w. McPeep, director of the
department of social welfare, District
of Columbia Federation of Churches:
housing, Mrs. Gregory Hankin.
Davidsonville, Md, president of the
District of Columbia Legislative
Council; health, DR.. Paul B. Cornely.
head of the department of public
health, Howard University School of
Medicine; recreation, E. B. Hender-
son, supervisor of recreation, public
schools; membership, Mrs. Pauline
Evening star., 1943-09-28

World fers wait for good weather the beach
laska Alaska Waits like this frequent to lack of
instruments for "blind flying
japanese Kure Islands, being the first cross the Pacific
by air. Then the China coast over the steam
ing Jungles of Burma india and, finally to Europe
where they were greeted by cheering hrongs in Berlin
Paris, and London.
Lieut. Lowell B. Smith, in command after Major Mar
tins mishap, and Lieuts Erik H. Nelson, Leslie Arnold
Jack Harding Leigh Wade, and Staff Sergeant Henry
Ogden then tried the perou North Atlantic crossing
The Boston, with Wade and Ogden aboard was forced to
land the ocean, and finally sank when crane broke
while trying to lift the plane ship deck for repairs
Evening star., 1943-09-28

der pressure rom administration as
sociates, who argued that his con-
gressional connections would be ex-
tremely helpful, has not been entire
ly successful in avoiding congress
sional fire, but at the same time he
probably has had less trouble, his
former associates declare, than he
would have had If he did not enjoy
the confidence of the legislators.
What Mr.. Brown will turn to
when he leaves OPA is a subject of
wide conjecture, with most specu-
lation centefing on another Gov
ernment assignment or possibly a
place on the Federal Reserve Board
Evening star., 1943-09-28

President Coolidge con9ratuates the ers Boiling Field
Washington He and his Cabinet waited three hours
rain O welcome them.
What their flight foreshadowed
Without the impetus which that flight gave to American
aviation plane design, safety and speed to plane
manufacture instrument development, airport build
ng-who that would have grown as has
in the past 19 years?
And, without this growth of aviation, it is highly
possible that President Roosevelt and Prime
Minister Churchill might never have met at Cas-.
ablanca. Australia might be Jap colony.
Montgomery might still be battling Rommel in
Africa.
For both the President and the Prime Minister went to
Casablanca in modern, ong-range planes. The battle of
the Coral Sea will down historic episode in the
trbuon OF and power the salvation of Australia
American bombers were practically of action
crucial point in the African campaign. Grounded by sand
trouble, they needed help To what could be DONE an
American engineer flew Africa from Nashville Tenn Two
weeks later American "hyng freight cars landed in the
desert with 1000 sand shields made to this engineers
specifications after hs reuned to Nasce The American
bombers flew again
General H. H. Arnold Chief of our Army Air Forces,
promises bombers the future that will carry half
carload of bombs Europe, and fly back again without
refueling.
Evening star., 1943-09-28
Two Lions Clubs to Meet

Benjamin Bland, Portsmouth, dis
trict governor of the Lions Club
will be the principal speaker at a
joint meeting tonight of the Lions
Club of Falls Church and Vienna
The meeting will be held at the
Vienna Episcopal Church,
Evening star., 1943-09-28
Surgical Unit to Meet

The Westover surgical dressing
unit in Arlington will meet Thurs
day and every Thursday thereafter
instead of Wednesdays in the West
over Baptist Church, Patrick Henry
drive. and Washington boulevard,
from 10 am. to 3 pm.
Evening star., 1943-09-28

At last with the Atlantic and the width of the American
continent behind, Smith, Nelson Arnold and Harding in
two of the original planes and Wade and Ogden re-
placement, down safely Seattle They had covered
2645 miles in the then incredible flying time of IS days.
hours and minutes-an average speed of TN miles
an hour
Evening star., 1943-09-28
Route of the epoch-makine flight.

So, this 10Th anniversary of their history making
flight, let's give the first world Aiers tribute
that something Let who make Americas planes
and the instruments that guide and control them pledge
ourselves harder work and production until this
war is won.
We of Sperry-nventors and makers of precision flight
instruments for peace and are proud to make that
pledge salute to skill and courage.
Evening star., 1943-09-28

SEPTEMBER 2s, 1924. six weary US. Army 1iers
ianded In Seattle to complete fne first reund-ths-
world flight In history.
ERoM THE TIME they landed in Boston till their arrival
= j. In Seattle America wild with excitement.
President Coolidge received their report Boiling Field
Washington, after waiting three hours in the Babies
being named for them Congress later voted them
the Distinguished Service Medal (never before awarded
except for service).
Eight men, with Major Frederick L. Martin in COM
mand, had risen from the Seattle airport l72 days before
lin four specially built Douglas planes (he Seattle the
Chicago, the Boston, and the New Oreans)
And now what story there tell! Crouched be-
hind windshieds in open cockpts the mercy of fog,
snow, and rain they had often groped their way on u
chared routes with little than SKILL prayer and horse
sense to guide them For almost their only instruments
were compass, sextant and Sperrydeveoped turn
andbank indicator.
Early in the flight, Major Martin and Sergeant Ava
Harvey the Seattle crashed into in the thick
Alaskan fog The others flew the Aeutan route to the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-17
MAY CUT sENSITIVITY

"The drugs" Or. Koppa said,
SHOULD he used only when adj
vised by-a physician. Their use
may result in complications Of
sensitivity which will destroy
their future effect in event Of
illness"
DR.. Douglas said new cases are
being reported daily in war plants
but more employees were return
ing than those leaving because OF
illness.
Health officers in Warren Town
snip regarded the situation there
as serious and ordered schools
closed until Monday at - least
Theaters were also closed Tho
only exception 10 the order was in
the Warren consolidated district
school where there is little alb
SentepISm.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-17
Keen Gift.
but Costly
Times Photo

When Mayne Cnunty,s chair.
man Of the board of supervisors
Fred J. Gaertner marches away
TO the wars Jan. II. a shiny new
sword will. hguratively speaking
swing from his side.
It's the gift OF the people Of the
county but one Of dubious value
since swords are no longer regu-
lation in Uncle Sans navy.
Gaertner enters the navy as a
lieutenant. No other enlStees
from county government person
mel have received going-away
gifts paid for out OF the county
treasury
But Gaertner's 10 fellow
supervisors voted an appropriation
OF S4S.60 for the sword yesterday
and the board of auditors ap-
proved il. which elected from
Auditor Otis Walker the observa-
ton:
1T would he cheaper on the
taxpayers II all county employees
would 20 in as buck privates
or ordinary seamen-Or better
still, II the supervisors would
chip in a half-dollar apiece to
pay for swords and such"