davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-16

VAN 0NoI Ava yOu 1ONCICN Dbl
The touch Of hands across
the perfuIned night The hun
dred breathless memories that
bring a soSsamer enchantment
and delight .. And as for me
be certain that your lure-is stead
fast as the beating of my heart
80. You are legend that will long
endure. You are dream that
time has set apart Know that
I wish for any day or year - only
the best for you-nly very dear.
The Orchid Garden: Speaker
Sam Rayburns greatest speech urg-
ing the Congress to fight for our
nation, instead of for pressure
groups, etc. We are pasting it on
our heart The film, Voice in
the Wind Esquire's 1914 Varga |
calendar plus the epics of Philip +,
Stack The new Latin Quarter |
show (via Our Girl Fridays en-
dorsement. Peter Donald'S Mu- |
tual program nostalgia nonsense |
The movie, WAR Dept Re- |
port" The ditty that concludes: |
4AACy NO4A IILCtblL w Nc SAAld1 1
If they only knew. They're stepping |
on my heart when they ask |
about you'll"
New York Novelette,: The current |
song hit, Paper Dol", was written |
in 1922 by Johnny Black. He first
played it for a publisher as his pet
canary chirped along, perched on
Johnny,s shoulder . E. B. Marks |
was 50 impressed he bought the
ditty. ANY tune so simple" he said,
that a bird can whistle should be
sensation" But for some rea-
son or other Mr.. Marks never really
plugged 1t and it persisted i
Johnny Back died soon after.
The Mills Bros. heard Sman-time
cafe singer offer it this year Il
But the Marks firm had run out OF
copies and none could be found.
Until Tommy Lyman located an old
copy in his trunk The Mills
freres then made a Decca recording
of 1t, and Paper Doll' was re-
born Over million platters
have been peddled to date plus
700, 900 or more song sopies >. Mr..
Marks then had to search for the
authors survivors to pay the roy
alties He finally located
Johnny's father living on an old
Tobacco Road farm . The 81
year old father OF Johnny Black
who died young and penniless, will
realize $4,000 in royalties from
Paper Doll" which his boy wrote
81 years ago.
| B'way Small Talk: George Seldes,
the I'm Fact" publisher, hasn't sent
his latest book, Facts and Fascism"
to reviewers, as 295 out of 300 re-
fused even to list his last two
tones Thunbnail of Argen-
tineans by a returned reporter:
'They like to dress like English
men. but like to think like Ger
mans Damon Runyon has had
all the palm trees removed from
near his Florida mansion - the,
rustling of the palm fronds dis
turbed his dreams.
| Sounds In the Night: AT PARIS
Out Chante: "She didn't add any
weight, she multiplied It'll" At
Jimmy Dryers: "He has a face
only a love could mother" =. Al
the Yacht Club: II neTer feel my
first dive frinks" In Duffy's
Tavern: aren't you too old to be-
lieye in Sinatra CLAUSE" :. At jim
my Kelly's: weak? He wears sus-
penders to hold his shoulders on"
In Rogers Corner: you'd bet.
ter say yes. I always kill myself
when girls say moi" In the
Little Palm: "He,s nice guy. But
when he's stewed he's just another
drunk" In the Hurricane: Pail
ing in love is like falling down.
stairs"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-16
BEANS ARE PUT TO BED

Vanilla beans, while being cured
are set out in the sun all day. but
have to be put to bed each night
and covered to keep them warm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-12-16

Britain Is asking children to col
lect and sell acorns for pigs and
poultry food.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14

the existing media of public in.
formation such as newspapers
trade journals. magazines, radio
and the motion pictures.
IS. Owl can perform a highly
useful and necessary function in
gathing and co-ordinating the news
of the vastly complicated and far
flung activities Of the Government
but in this process it should not in
any wise shut off the press and
other media of information from
direct access to the sources of news
or in any way. circumscribe the
right of inquiry which is the very
essence of free reporting.
a. The committee suggested that
the Owl call into conference rep
resentatives of the corps of Wash
ington correspondent. both press
and radio, in order to further CO.
operation in the collection of news
and to keep open the primary chan
nels of information as far as is con-
sistent with national security.
IS. The committee believes that
the American public is entitled to
all military and naval information
which will not aid the enemy
IS. The committee received con-
fiicting reports as to the effect OF
the abolition of the field service.
The committee will request Owl to
poll newspapers and radio stations
as to their desire for the recreation
of field service operating under
the same principles that govern
Owls Washington activity. The
committee feels that a streamlined
effectively conducted field service
might be more economical to the
Government in both money and
manpower, than for the separate
agencies to employ information men
of their own.
-. In conclusion the committee
feels that the maintenance of civil
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Finish Fight Promised
On Truman Charges
By Wright Official
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PATERSON. N. j., July A.
Myron B. Gordon, vice president
and general manager of the Wright
Aeranoutical Corp, declared yester-
day the aviation firm was prepared
to fight Ito the finish" the Truman
Committee report alleging defec-
tive and substandard materials were
used in engines turned out at the
Cincinnati plant.
In full-page advertisements in
Passaic County newspapers ad-
dressed to employees of the corpora
ton, Mr.. Gordon said:
Il, as general manager, assure
you that this corporation has been
unjustly accused" and I'VE are pre-
pared to fight these unjust charges
to the finish"
Asserting. "As patriotic citizens
and loyal employees of this corpora
ton, you should know certain facts
in, connection with this matter" the
Wright general manager said, I'VE
never have and never will sacrice
quality in our products.
The statement continued:
I'VE have categorically denied the
specified allegations and insist on
our right now and at all times to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Admiral Stirling Sued
For A|imony by Wife
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July IA. - Rear
Admiral Yates Stirling, 71-year old
retired naval officer, was given pub
lished notice yesterday that he must
show cause by August q why his
wife should not be granted per-
manent alimony.
Mrs. Adelaide Stirling, through
her attorney, Isaac Lobe Straus, filed
suit in Circuit Court asking at least
$3.50 monAlly alimony. and Judge
Eli Frank signed a show cause order
Of publication.
The order of publication quoted
Mrs. Strings petition as saying her
husband abandoned her early In
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14

ian morale is fundamental to the
winning of the war and that full
sharing with the people by Govern
ment of what is going on is the only
certain guarantee of this morale"
The advisory committee consists
of Mr.. Roberts, L. L. Winship. man
aging editor. Boston Globe; Geo sc
w. Healy. jr, managing editor, New
Orleans Times Picayune: Paul Bel
lamy, editor. Cleveland Plain Dealer;
Mark Ethridee, publisher, Louisville
Courier journal: Gardner CoWles,
jr, editor and publisher, Des Moinea
Register and Tribune. whom Mr.
Hoyt succeeded as domestic director
Fred Gaertner, jr.. managing editor,
Detroit News; Wilbur Forrest, as
sistant editor, New York Herald
Tribune; H. D. Paulson, editor,
Fargo Forum.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Eden Outlines Policy
Toward French Group

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. July 14-Foreign Sec
rotary Anthony Eden said today
that Great Britain has not yet de-
termined the precise degree" of
formal recognition to be accorded
the French National Committee of
Liberation, but that in practice the
government already is treating with
the committee on all matters of
common interest relating to French
territory which recognizes the COM
mittee's authority.
Questioned in Commons Mr.
Eden referred to Prime Minister
Churchill's statements on June 8
and July l. in which Mr.. Churchill
welcomed the committees establish
ment as the sole authority for all
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14

repudiate as false and unwarr7nted
any such charges"
Regardless of obstacles beyond
our control. we, as patriotic and
loyal employees. will continue 10 do
cur part to supply the material so
urgently needed to win the war"
The Truman report charged the
Curtiss- Wright Corp. with RESPONSE
bility, as the parent company for
not ascertaining and correcting"
the situation attributed to the sub
sidiary Wright firm.
The Wright Co. and eight of its
officers were named in a suit filed
Saturday in Trenton by the Federal
Government citing defective and
substandard materials were used in
engines made at the company's plant
in Cincinnati.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
owl Advisers Declare
Free Flow Of News
Is Vital 10 Morale
BY the Associated Press.

Roy Roberts, managing editor Of
the Kansas City Star, has beer
elected chairman OF the new Advis.
DRY Committee set up by the domes.
tic branch of the Once of War In.
formation.
The group, appointed Immediately
after Palmer Hoyt, publisher of the
portland Oregonian, took over as
director Of the domestic branch, ex-
PRESSED its conviction that "OW1
Goes have a real function in the
prosecution of the war"
1t set up as its primary premise
the declaration that the American
people are entitled as a right = .
TO full and purely factual informa-
tion concerning public events and
the acts of public officials"
1t asserted that dissemination of
such information should be through
regular media, such as newspa pers,
trade Journals, magazines and the
motion pictures, and that there
should be no shutting off of access
to original sources of news.
The committee was formed while
Congress was making a drastic cut
IN funds for Owls domestic opera
tons, and after the House had voted
for complete elimination Of the
funds earmarked for operations
within the United States. A part of
the fund subsequently was restored
with close limitations on the pur-
poses for which it could be used.
Holds First Meeting.
The advisory group held it's first
meeting here yesterday. considering
what course it should take and
hearing from members of the owl
staff. At the close OF the meeting
it issued the following statement of
preliminary findings:
owl was called into existence
largely AS a result of the insistence
OF newspapers and other media OF
information that the American peo-
pie should be assured in war. as
never before, Of full and. untram-
meled flow of news as to the civil
and military activity of the United
States.
The committee is convinced that
owl does have real function in
the prosecution of the war and that
1t has eliminated a great deal of
the overlapping in the old setup.
"Obviously in one day the COM
mittee could reach no definitive
conclusions concerning many of the
problems presented to it. 1t does
feel, however. that there are Ger
tain definite principles which should
govern the domestic branch of OWL
and it is for the advance of those
principles that the committee has
accepted its assignment.
These principles are:
~ The American people are en-
titled as a right-and as a neces-
sary condition of the maintenance
of fee government and winning
the war-to full and purely fac
tual information concerning public
events and the acts of public Of
flcials, entirely free of propaganda
owl Called Useful.
q II is vital that such informa-
ton be disseminated only through
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
1885 without just cause or provoca-

1885 without just cause or provoca-
ton"
The petition, as quoted in the Or
der, alleged that since October of
last year, the defendant committed
adultery in the city and State of
New York with a woman whose
name is known to the plaintiff and
whose name will be disclosed at the
hearing of this cause"
The Strings have five children,
all over 81. Mrs. Stirling lives in
Baltimore.
Admiral Stirling retired in 1896.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14

Frenchmen seeking to free their
country from the Axis.
The Foreign Secretary emphasized
that all dealings are conducted with
the committee as a whole.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14

EDITORS MEET WITH FEDERAL Observation-Disclosures OF the
Newspaper Advisory Committee of the Office OF War Information
shown meeting with Army Navy and Owl officials Left
right D. Paulson editor of Fargo IN Dak Forum Basil
Walters Minneapolis executive editor Col F. "
Fitzgerald acting deputy director of the War Department
Public Relations Capt Leland P Lovette director
Navy Public Reations Paul Belamy Cleveland Plain
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16
More News Of Ploesti

Additional facts have come to light regard
ing the American bombing raid in the Ploesti
oil fields of Rumania. They bring comfort
not only because of the damage done to this
source of Nazi oil but because of the small
losses sustained by the attacking fliers
Most gratifying of all is the information that
although the German government demanded
all American prisoners including the wounded
the Rumanian government has asserted it's
right to them and is providing disqualification
for them at Bucharest.
Immediately after the raid Berlin is said to
have made its claim and even seized some of
the wounded fliers, moving them to Berlin. A
Berne dispatch takes up the story at this point
saying: "A stern note from Bucharest to Ber-
lin recalling facts of national sovereignty soon
clarified the matter and the men were re-
turned to Bucharest where they are at present.
undergoing treatment in the best hospitals An
International Red Cross official in Geneva con-
firmed that the Rumanian treatment of the
Americans was exemplary
Concerning destruction to Rumanian oil pro.
duction it is said that the refineries hit and
set afire during the raid had capacity of
from six million to seven million tons year,
and that large stocks of oil were stored in the
vicinity of the refneries. The Rumanian
output was reduced by more than 40 per cent,
according to the estimate of an international
oil expert.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16

tories do not shut down on (emobilization)
day and stay shut down; of assuring to the
men now in uniform not, primarily, a lot of
handouts, however richly deserved, but rather
an opportunity to get back promptly into civil
ian harness and to begin building for their
civilian futures.
The President sees the need for this He has
pointed out the need, eloquently, time and
again. But still there is ample evidence that
Washington is falling down on that job.
For many reasons, some of them theological,
economically when the war ends. There need
not be one Here is great opportunity for
either the President or his opponents, which
ever grabs it first.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16
BY JOHN SELBY
"INDIA'S PROBLEM CAN BE
SOLVED" by Dewitt MacKen-
zie doubleday, Doran: S3).

What the enormous and growing
Indian literature has needed for a
long spell has been a knife-keen
book which would cut through to
the heart. Obviously such a book
would let some blood in the pro.
cess, particularly in the camp of
the very local liberal minority
which has been tub humping for
India independence since Gandhi
ordered his non-violent anti-Brit-
lsh campaign which cost some 500
lves-non.violently, of course.
The needed book seems to have
arrived with the publication of
Dewitt Mackenzie's "India's Prob
lem Can Be Solved" Mr.. Macken-
zle mas for generation been one
OF the sanest and most earnest of
Inc Associated Press" CORES
pondents. For a generation he has
Oeen dealing with the important
men OF the world without making
personal capital of the fact, and
wnat his book points out cannot
Oe ignored. And will not be.
MS thesis is simple. He believes
tne negotiations which ended in
Gandhi's curious non-violence
couio have arrived at some (at
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16
AS To Living Costs

It is not the laymans privilege to argue
with the statisticians. They have way of
manipulating figures entirely beyond the ca
pability of ordinary folk to understand.
So, when they declare the cost of living in
Wilmington has dropped 2 per cent, and prices
are mostly in line with the rest of the coun-
try, the people here who do the buying have
little chance to controvert their assertion.
But it would be hard to persuade house
wives their estimate is accurate. They know
that it requires more money now to keep the
family table going than a few months ago
They know there is not 2 per cent more cash
in their pocketbooks after replenishing neces
sary stores of household necessities.
However, there is grain Of hope in the
statisticians' statement even though the ev
dence is not apparent in the family Golfers
that perhaps the peak in prices has beer
reached and that there will be no advance te
higher cost levels.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16
Find A Better Way

In principle, nobody should disagree with the
program that President Roosevelt has pro-
claimed for the protection of our service men
when they shall be den1obilized. Mr.. Roose-
welt has a right to expect that Congress will
cooperate in carrying out his assurance that
the United States will not let down our fighting
men.
gram at this moment should have drawn
charges that the President was playing poll
tics. But If he was, then the best way of tax
ing the wind out of his sails is not by refusing
to plan ahead against the day of demobiliza-
ton; it is by doing better job of planning
than he has done.
That does not require entering into a battle
of promises. If the Presidents 5-point pro-
gram has any basic fault it is that it may sug-
gest more than he means-nore than he, or
any informed person. believes can actually be
done in the way of direct benefits.
| But there is another field which the Presl-
dent has left open for somebody to take over.
There is greater responsibility which we owe
to the soldiers sailors, marines, Wacs, Waves,
SparS, nurses and war workers than program
of personal benefits. 1t is, in the Pesident's
own words:
'They must not be demobilized into an en-
vironment of initiation and unemployment. to
a place on the bread1ine or on corner sell
ing apples"
II we were trying to keep the President from
rounding up service votes in advance We
should try to find a way of curbing and even
rolling back initiation; of seeing that our fac
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16
Passing The Chop

There will be general sympathy with the
Buffalo man who sent a pork chop to the
OPA recently. The chop, according to news
accounts, weighed slightly under two ounces
and was the larger of two which, with half
potato, the man got for 80 cents in a res
taurant
The OPA whose staff eats in Washington
restaurants, was not amazed apparently, and
forwarded the chop to the Buffalo regional
office At the same time the OPA pubhcized
a request to restaurant patrons not to for
ward specimens Of food to Washington. This
request will meet with approval Of the Office
of Defense Transportation, which would find
itself in trouble if everybody who is over
charged in restaurant were to send the
offending tidbit by public carrier.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16
The Literary Guidepost

least temporary adjustment had
more tact been used and had not
the Allied situation been so bad al
the time. He is convinced that now
most Indian leaders would wei.
come a quick solution. And ne be.
ileVes that solution may be found
by Britain's immediate establish.
ment OF provisional government
with which the Indian factions may
cooperate for the duration. Certain
functions of government would be
reserved for the British common
wealth, especially defense. After
the war;, dominion status or a va
rant would be established. And
should any Indian faction choose
not TO cooperate with the provi-
sional government it could cutie
simply stay out; if all should elect
10 stay out, Britain would be iusti
lied i'm ruling as she cheese until
the end of the war.
Mr. Mackenzie's ideas are based
on long acquaintance with In.
dlans and India, and a full appre-
citation OF such things as the Mos
lem-Hlndu quarrel. He at no time
pretends omniscience, he is not
influenced by unreaistic demands.
and his attitude toward both India
and Britain is wholly friendly. Few
books on foreign affairs are as eff
fective.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16
Rome's Only Hope

It is to be hoped that any effort to have
Rome declared an open city will fail unless
at the same time Rome is taken completely
out of the war and all troops, supplies, muni-
tions, equipment, spies are removed and all
communication with the Axis stopped. And the
lob must be done so thoroughly that neutral
nation could honestly assure the Allies that
Rome is not and will not further lend aid
TO the Germans.
London has hinted that this Is the Aiheo
viewpoint by declaring that the Itahan uh-
lateral declaration cannot "af1ect the 1ull I'D
erty'' Of General Eisenhower, commander IN
chief in the Mediterranean area unless ne
can be given definite proof that Rome mas
been closed to the Germans, without single
loophole, we may believe he will order more
bombing raids against the city. Rome can
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-16

not continue to be hideout either for Naz
troops or German intrigue, and escape further
destruction
It is important that Badogio's decision be
made quickly, His procrastination has been
too costly to the Allies heretofore. At what
ever sacrifice of Rone's historic and reli-
gious monuments, no more time must be lost
in getting the Germans out, even though no
stone is left standing upon another. No senti-
mental consideration ought to stand in the
way.