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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

Sheppard asserted that the best way to make sure the public did not believe the lies of Axis propa- gandists was for the government to give them more facts about combat developments. The Amer ican public can take it, Sheppard said the bad news with the good. He also sharply criticized the withholding of stories from the battle fronts for long periods be- fore their release is officially ap- proved by Navy censors. It was brought out that some news dis patches had been held up for six months and more before being re- leased.
 ''The public is entitled to know what's going on, both on the battle and the production front" said Sheppard. 'For that mat ter, the Navy itself stands to
 benefit by a more liberal and
 intelligent public-relations pol icy. have no doubt that
 many stories have been censored
 which would reflect great credit
 on the splendid job the Navy is doing in this war;" KNOX DISLIKES CENSORSHIP
 Knox didn't attempt to defend Navy censorship. He readily ad- mitted that there was plenty of room for improvement" but said he had argued with Navy brass hats. until he was blue in the face about the suppression of war news with little success.
 T'm newspaperman," he said, land therefore am a firm believer in giving the public the facts"
 He also agreed that the Navy would profit by a more above board news policy, citing as an example the insignificant notices the Navy had received in reports of the fighting on New Guinea. Admiral Halsey had shone bril- liantly in these operations, Knox declared, but was barely mentioned in Army dispatches from General Douglas Macarthur headquar- ters.
 The Navy secretary didn't di- rectly charge that Macarthur was trying to hog the credit for vic- tories in the South Pacific, but he left little doubt in the minds of the committee that this was what he meant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

of staff, before his speech, and Marshall had warned that we could not keep Siberian bases two weeks even if Russia gave them to us, because of Japans proXim- ity. Also, Marshall asked Lodge not to mention the matter because of certain delicate questions then under discussion.
 However, Lodge went ahead, anyway. Senatorial colleagues are now wondering whether Lodge and Macarthur worked out a deal on politics while to- gether i'm Australia, and if the Siberian base s0uOnd-Off was part of their strategy.
 OPERATING WITHOUT ROOSEVELT
 The difficulty of carrying on ex- ecutive functions while the Presi- dent is out of the United States was illustrated vividly during the Cairo conference.
 Assistant President Jimmy Byrnes and other White House advisers felt 1t was necessary for the Army to take over certain leather factories working on gov ernment orders, but under the law they had to have 8 Presi- dential order. So they cabled the President.
 FDR cabled back promptly, giving them the order. How ever, Maurice Latta, executive clerk of the White House, re- fused to accept it. He declared that, under the law he had to have the Presidents signature. A cabled order was no good. Anyone might be able to forge a cablegram. Latta said, but mo- body could successfully forge the Presidents signature. So seizure of the leather factories was held up until a written or der was rushed by plane from Cairo.
 NOTE: On the whole it is re- markable how efficiently most ex- ecutive matters are handled even when the public has no idea the President is out of the country.
 .(Copyright, 1943, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
SACRIFICING CHILDREN
(Hartford Courant)

For parents to leave small chil- dren alone in the house at any time involves risks tnaS may eliminate in tragedy. To do so at this season of the year when the hazard of fire is increased by the necessity of heating the home is inexcusable and indefensible. All too frequently the news services carry the most heart rending accounts of children burned to death while their parents were away. Such 8 report recently came from North Tarrytown, N. Y. The mother was working in a defense plant and the father, having done the housework, left about g o'clock in the evening to purchase gro- ceries. Three house later neighbors discovered the house in flames. Two children. aged three and two years, were burned to death. An electric
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

heater placed in their room had ignited papers.
 Of this tragedy Dr. Amos o. Squire, Medical Examiner for West chester Country, commented: "It's fine business, leaving little chill dren alone and unprotected while parents work in defense plants. This is called patriotism. But I believe in many cases, it's nothing more than money mania"
 And still more culpable are those afflicted with the entertainment mania. Sacrificing innocent and helpless children on the false altars of money or good times is too high 2 price to pay. Not few parents, including those In the North Tarry- town incident, have learned that fact too late. Never can the respons- Utilities of parenthood be neglected without penalizing the children. Yet ill many homes small children are being victimized because first things are not placed first.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
IS THE ExPECTANT FATHER
 MAN OR MOUSE?


 Now and again I have pumped for the presence of the expectant father in the delivery-room at the great moment. This, on the as- sumption that he is a man, not mouse. But 1t seems l assume too much. have received great many letters from expectant fathers who complain, mouse-like, that the hospitals will not permit the hus- band to enter the delivery room or remain with his wife during de- liverey.
 Oh, dear, isn't that just too bad! The mean hospitals!
 Well, my poor little mice, I'm afraid there isn't much more I can do about it than give the question an airing here. If only you en- gagged doctor, rather than a hos pital, to attend the patients, then the solution would be simple enough for the doctors request or order would of course superSede any rule or regulation the hospital might at tempt to impose.
 Allegedly the reason for exclud- ing the expectant father from the delivery room is to maintain as nearly as possible the aseptic (germ free) environment.
 The other reason for excluding the expectant father need not be discuSed here. From what l have observed I can understand why many hospitals are so keen about 1t.
 If man is responsible for the expenses of delivery, it is surely for him to stipulate that he shall re- main with his wife during delivery.
 If a doctor is anybody at all 1t is for him to say, regardless of any rules" the hospital may wish to impose, whether the husband shall be permitted to attend the great event.
 But there is still one whose wish in the matter is supreme and over- rides all others, and that is the little woman herself. It would be 8 dubious doctor and a most inhos- pitable hospital that would deny the patients request to have her husband at her side.
 Mind, now, I am for obstetric asepsis just as I am for surgical asepsis and Gin the care of patients with communicable disease) medi- cal asepsis, and I abhor the obste- trician, surgeon, physician or nurse who commits the slightest infrac- tion of aseptic technique. But nev- ertheless I believe real man should be in there with his wife at this miracle. At any rate. if she wants him there, he should not let any hospital 'rules" or medical bubbles deprive her of the com- fort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

More food than you could eat; more food and more kinds of food than they ever saw before, were some of the statements from army and navy homecoIners since Thanksgiving. Many spent their first Thanks giving away from home, and ex- perienced plentiful repast on that day of feasting. No doubt this will also be the Christmas story of those who are at camp on that holiday
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
Selected Poem
ONE FLAMING JUDGMENT Max Ehrmann in The New York Times)

All things are changed. Time -honored sanctions fai No longer anywhere is happiness
 The distances on earth grow less and less, Till now all nations struggle in the gale. These are transition years in foresight frail. Wars agonies, corroding fear distress, All leaden weights that on the spirit press, AS in the storm Man takes an unknown trail.
 World peace will come by unity alone. One flaming judgment stanos out clear today: World unity, or endless lives to pay Within the storm there is an undertone- United Nations marching the way To something better than the world has known,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

Hartford is having little fight all it's own. A fight against starlings who are proving quite a problem up there. We have had our own difficulties in Water bury with starlings and can sympathize with our neighbor. The firing squad in Hartford is composed of firemen armed with hose. It remains to be seen how much success they have.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
Views Of The Press

Der of civilians who will be trav- cling.
 If that number is 8 fraction of normal times. 1t may we'll mean that many a boy will stand up in train aisle when he comes home to see his folks. If it isn't absolutely nec- essary. the really patriotic civilian will not travel during the holiday period ahead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
DON'T TRAVEL
(Boston Post)

Army and navy officials are at tempting to stagger Christmas New Year holiday furloughs in such a manner that the tre- mendous burden that will be placed on the nations traffic facilities will not reach the breaking point. The railroads and long-distance bus lines right now have a fair idea of the number of men and women in uniform they will be called upon to carry home and back to camp during the holiday period. What they cannot anticipate is the num-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

T h ere is no moral force in m o d Tn life which can com- pare with the influence these readers eXerted over the minds of boys and girls 8 few genera tionS ago.
 The story is told that when NHcGuRo1y IrJoc O
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
Daily Almanac

Moon sets at 5:47 a. m. (war time)
 Sun rises at 8:04 a. m, sets at SPA D. m. (war time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset
 Twilight which is the shortest this month of any time during thC year begins or ends when stars of the 6tlI magnitude disappear or appear at the Zenlsh. or the sun is ap- proximately IS degrees below the horizon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

- v A greSsional com lnittee for the Prot e c tion of Consumers.
 Oh air man of the group is Rep. Thomas E. Scan lon, a Pittsburgh pr i n t r. Other leaders in the nov e m e mt are c o ngre s smen Chet Holaheld, a K e Il t u cky-born mems To t hing m a n u f a cturer from Montebello, Tnc Av1noIn. n1-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS, D. D.

THE McGUFFEY READERS
 Everyone knows the influence the McGuffey Readers had on a whole generation of boys and girls now grown to maturity and beyond. influence tETAOI SHRD .?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
Current Comment

Cuts in government spending, cancellation of war contracts, de- mobilization of armed men and plant workers, no matter how grad ual and humane, are bound to produce the most serious unem- ployment problems of our history.
 Robert Moses, New York City
 park commissioner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
Washington Merry-Go-Round
Knox Agrees With Congresmens Criticism of Navy Censorship; Bomes Brass Hats Suppression of News Promises Reforms;
 Indications MoeArhulodee TeUp Was Started in AustroIio
BY DREW PEARSON

 closedor with the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Consumers
 Lobby Picks Up Cudgels
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrrespOndent

A second attempt to organize a consumers lobby that will be pow erful enough to lick the farm or ganization lobby on the food sub- sidy issue is now being made through an outfit that has dubbed itself The Fighting 40'-a self
 nr,,noinknd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
Your Health
 By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining tO per sonaI health and hygiene, not t0 disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady if stamped self-addressed envelOpe is enclosed. Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address pr. william Brady, National News paper Service, 320 West Madison Street, Chicago, ILL
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09
A Thought for Today

The righteous also snail hold on his way and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and strOnger-JOb 17:9. ss Certainly this is duty, not sin. Clean Illness is indeed next to godliness Wesley
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

Those who talk in favor of world cooperation and also of an alli- ance that excludes two-thirds of the worlds population are either deceiving themselves or deceiving others.
 Alfred M. Landon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

We can only preserve our civili- ration if the people of the world have a determining voice in our policies.
 Sir Stafford Cripps, British air
 minister.
 It is now crystal clear that we will win the war, but 1t is not yet clear just when 1t will end. I am realistic enough to believe it will be hard, tough going-but opti- mistic enough to believe it will be over long before the gloomy predic- ton of 1949. --Adml. Chester w. Nimitz.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-09

Copyright, 1943. by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
Evening star., 1943-07-07
British Find Bombinqs
Cut German Output
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, July IA Ministry OF
Economic Warfare spokesman said
today that German production IN
the first six months of 1943 had been
cut by Allied bombings and diff
Guilty Of obtaining raw materials and
labor, but that the output Of war
goods had been fairly we'll MAIN
tanned.
He said the flow of war goods, par
ticularly defensive weapons such as
fighter planes. anti-aircraft guns
and anti-tank guns, had been
maintained by drawing on reserves
concentrating on few basic types
of weapons and sacrificing consumer
goods.
The spokesman refused to estimate
the percentage of the overall pro-
duction decline until full reports
on the damage to the Ruhr have
been received. These intelligence
reports come by devious routes and
frequently are two months late, 1t
was stated.
ouIllllllIle up SCiAlhii LlddoeA "a l
activity for the first half of l943,
the spokesman said the Germans
had succeeded in hardening the
crust" of their defensive strength,
but only at the expense Of their In
terror resources.
The Nazi armament industry has
been under heavy strain in trying
to replace equipment lost at Stalin-
grad and in North Africa. he added,
and probably is not keeping up
with It's losses in locomotives"
Some parts of the Ruhr are be-
ginning to suffer from a water
shortage as a result of the RATS
preaching Of the Moehne Dam. ac-
cording to reports reaching the
Ministry of Economic Warfare.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Budget Baby Is Less
Of Luxury in 4th Year
Despite Price Rises
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, July although liv-
ing costs in general are higher this
year. Chicago's budget baby cele-
brated her fourth anniversary today
less luxury than she was last year
Blond, blue-eyed Sharon Derer
cost her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jo-
seph Derer, just $1026 less in her
fourth year than in her third. They
know precisely how much because
they have kept careful records since
her birth.
"Of course" said Mrs. Derer,
there are a lot of things she Is
eating which are the same as ours,
and I haven't been able to keep &C.
count of those Items on her budget
are things purchased especially for
her"
Fathers Income Mounts.
When Sharon was born on July
s, 1899, her father, now IS, was
earning 81 900 a year as a refrigera-
tor car icer Last year he became
milling machine operator at a
yearly average of $1,000, and is now
foreman of his department, earning
more than $4,000.
Sharon's mother. Louise, 20, said
that this years clothing expense had
Evening star., 1943-07-07
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c, WEDNESDAY,

canned vegetables, $3.50: fresh vege-
tables, $20.74; soup, canned and
packed, 1919; cereals, $4.35; noodles
and macaroni, $1.86; cookies, pref
zels, potato chips, 1892; pudding and
peanut butter, $2.11: cheese, $040:
entertainment, Kiddie Park, $3.50:
bowling at the bowling alley, $l42;
circus and refreshments, $1.54; sub
scription to children's magazine,
So; ice cream, $l3.35; candy and gum,
$803: doctor, $3.50; drugs dncluding
codliver oiD, $7.81. toys, $8.16; cloth
ing. 1924: insurance. $l0.40; tooth
paste, $0.40; shoe polish, $3.50; bud
get book, $0.36; pictures for her room.
$148; Halloween costume, $3.50;
Easter candy and bunny, $2.29 ,
Evening star., 1943-07-07

bowling ball, $3.50; valentines, s0.46;
Christmas gifts (to sharon), to.75;
Christmas cards and stamps Nrom
Sharon, $1.20; set Of nursery rec
ords, 81. l.07; hair trim, $0.35; birthday
party, $7.85.
Not included in expenses were four
$25 denomination Defense bonds.
Evening star., 1943-07-07
Throne Circles Horn

SALT LAKE CITY R.-The
handcarved bishops throne in st.
Marks Episcopal Church was
shipped around Cape Horn in 1870
by New York parishioners Of Bishop
Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, Utah's first
Episcopal bisl10D.
Evening star., 1943-07-07

been low because the budget baby"
had received dresses from her cous-
ins and had had several garments
made for her by her grandmother
However" she added, "our' food
costs have risen almost As per cent,
and I figure about IS per cent OF
that is due to Sharon.
The Derer budget shows that
Sharon cost them $273.68 in her
fourth year. compared with $283.94
in her third. $225.05 the second and
$270.l7 the first, or total Of ST.
05284.
Breakdown Of Costs.
The fourth-year breakdown:
Milk, $38.72; eggs, $11.72: canned
fruit, Sits; fresh fruit, $25.76;
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

GIRL WANTED-Room, board and
salary in exchange for house
work and care of two children.
Service mans wife acceptable
Call between 5 pm. and 7:30 pm.
Phone 935W or l04l Vine ST. 3-24
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

SIS REWARD-Tiny white and black
female fox terrier dog named Toy
Phone 1906. 3-22
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21
Nazi Women Won't
Take War Jobs
BY UNITED PRESS

A Geman underground radio sta
ton said Saturday that 40 to ~
per cent of German women caliea
up for war industry were refusing
TO report TO mobilization authorities
In Duisburg, Essen and Hamburg
three of Germany's principal indus
trial centers, the broadcast said, 81
per cent of the women failed TO an
SWer.
Evasion Of the work decree wa
said 10 be facilitated by the fael
That hundreds of thousands oil Wom-
en- in cities bombed by the Royal all
force have no permanent address.
Groups of women staged demon
strations in Kiel and Dresden, the
broadcast reported.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21
Nazis Threaten to
Kill 10 French for
Each German Slain

LONDON, March 20.-UP)-The
Na2is were reported today to have
announced they would shoot ten
hostages for every German soldier
killed in the French province of
AlSace and Lorraine, where sabo-
tage and acts of violence against
occupation forces were on the rise.
Swiss reports said military
court in Strasbourg had sentenced
13 Alsatians to death and Ia to
prison for maintaining United Ma
tionS connection and plotting to
overthrow the new order.
A Strousbourg newspaper reach
ing Borne, Switzerland, said all the
plotters had German names. They
were said to include prominent
district court counselor, Nazi gov
ernment counselor, police secre-
tary and prominent members of
other influential professions
INFILTER RANKS
Radio Dakar broadcast a report
that the Germans have modified
$4,000 Frenchmen from Alsace and
Lorraine and scattered t h e m
through several German regiments
on the Russian front. Other Alsa-
tians were said to have been forced
into war industries in the Ruhr.
Radio Morocco, reporting from
Berne, said the patriots entrenched
in the Savoy Alps still have not ac-
ceded to Vichy's demands that they
lay down their arms. A great many
youths, according to Morocco ra-
dio, have been arrested while at
tempting to join the patriots.
RETURN TO HOMES
Some patriots were said to be
returning singly and in small
groups to their homes in Haute Sa-
vote. The only new development
reported in the Swiss press was
the posting of German announce
ments in Haute Savoie towns de-
claring that in case of an Allied
landing in Europe all able-bodied
men would be placed in concen-
tratiOn camps.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21
Americans Destroy
Jap Cargo Sub

GEN. MACARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia, March 2o.
GUP1-Allied planes, smashing at
the Japanese invasion base at Lac
on the northeast New Guinea coast
yesterday destroyed a submarine
with four direct hits as it unloaded
cargo. Gen. MacArthur's communl-
que announced today.
Military observers believed the
use of a submarine as a cargo car
rier in this area indicated that
japanese shipping is being sharply
pinched by the Allied aerial block
ade, and by heavy losses in the re-
cent Bismarck sea battle.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

WANTED-Pin boys, 18 years or
older for Bowling Alley, 576 Main
Steady work. As
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21
Shelter Deaths Due
To Asphyxiation

LONDON, March 20. = tUP)-
coroner's jury ruled today that the
deaths of 173 men, women and
children in the London air raid
shelter tragedy March 2, were caus-
ed by accidental asphyXiation and
suffocation.
There is nothing in the evidence
to suggest that there was any stam-
peding or panic" the coroner said.
Witnesses said scores of persons
who had no idea of what was hap
pening suddenly became interlock-
ed in n piled-up mass Of human
ity on a blocked stairway leading 10
subway air raid shelter.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

HELP WANTED at The Valley
Steam Laundry, 331 Commercial.
3-22
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

SERVICE STATION attendant and
car washer. See Imperial Valley
Motors. 759 Main. 3-23
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21
PHONE 300

LOST-Small bay mare. Small l. S
on left thigh. Call 976-W, Ell Cen
tro. Mr.. Diemoz. 3-24
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21
LOST. FOUND, ESTKAY
POST-PRESS LOST
& EOIIND SERNICE

& FOUND SERVICE
If you have found lost pet or
article phone Miss Catherine
at the PoSt-Fress Lost and
Found" Department She keeps
an accurate and complete rec
ord of lost and found articles
and will gladly check her files,
without charge or obligation,
to assist you in finding the
rightful owner. For direct SER
vice or to order your Lost and
Found" ad
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

ARE YOU INTERESTED in a
steady position in an essential
industry in San Diego at top
salary as milk professor, garage
mechanic, stockroom helper or
as night loader? Give age, cX-
perience and draft classification,
Write Box 900 Ell Centre. 3-26
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

WANTED-W oman for general
houseWork for two. No laundry.
227 So. 5th. 3-22
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

WANTED IMMEDIATELY waitress
and bus boys White or colored,
male or female Barbara Worth
Hotel. 3-2z
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21
PHOTOGRAPHERS
6-HElP WANTED

EXPERIENCED waitress wanted.
Good pay. Valley Drug Co. 3-22
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

AVAILABLE AT ONCE. Rawleigh
Route of 300 families. Only reli-
able men need apply. Good prof
it's to willing workers. No expert
encc required to start. Write to-
day. RaWleigh's, Dept. CAC-583-H,
Oakland Calf. 3-22
Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-21

.LOST-Gold Gruen watch. Small
diamond ON each side Return
Taxi Stan0, 472 Main. Reward
3-22