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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
WaIter Wi1cIleII
 M NezQ, YOrk

1 can clear 1t now just like skipping the gutter.
 What will make the race really hilarious is that there are more risky limbs for the Spellbinders to get out on. The war upsets things overnight. What looks like Q nice safe perch one day will have Tojo and Hitler on it the next and some of our officials have got them selves pretty tuckered scrambling off limb after limb People don't even scare like they used to. An ear-bender will drop around to scare a peasant with the news that the Moscow-wows are roxning to snatch his dough and his splnster aunt (who can hardly wait), only to find the wage-earner getting woofled to celebrate the Russian capture of Smolensk x. Even his wall of the threat to free enterprise gets 6 jolt when the slnallie quotes c. B. Shaw that there's more private enterprise and more personal property in Rus- sia now than there was under the czars This is going to be a campaign which finds the candi- dates more baffled than the voters.
 Take an incident of a week ago, when the public detected some of the statesmen Gertrude Steining their position. It happened, when they opposed the drafting of fath. CTS .. Fathers, they argued, weren't needed Gin spite of the armys chal- lenge of facts) because Hitler was on the lam, ready to toss in the towel For the purpose of this particular legislation, they con- veniently forgot Japan Yet these same statesmen were the loudest uproarers a few months ago in Q move to make Japan menace No. 1. Hitler was England's pigeon, they claimed, and RuSsia's. Our first task was to ruin the Japs and dis pose of Hitler some free Monday. /. .. All of sudden Japan became 6 breeze But Secretary Knox caught them with their mouths wide open. He scolded the British press for brushing off the Pacific peril. The good manners of the London editors prevented them from point ing a finger at Washington and saying: Look who's talltngl"
 It took more than radio en- gineers to put your radio in front of you. It took the Go influential Army to win what cOilll be said on it-and 1t is taking the AEF to keep 1t that way That's be- cause this Constitution believes that the people are the sole and final judge. That means that they are entitled to all of the facts all of the time not some of the facts all of the time The right to twist that dial a quarter of an inch was won by barefooted men in the Valley Forge snow and 1t Is too precious to be lost in any office-however elegant.
 Hitler believes that GoebbelS Is 6 better judge of what the German people should hear than the Ger man people. That's easy for the Nazi broadcaSters. They don't have to make their ideas stand up. There is no other side .. In America, we believe that the people are the best and only judge of the facts and the men who state them The AIner1. can way is better. The Nazis who use firing squads will live to face ] them. In America, the open court
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28

of public opinion can pass death sentence on @ silly idea = or a silly manr-not by pulling Q trigger, but by merely turning Q dial.
 Tint from . Blue Serge Suit: Now that Stettinius Is in Sumner Welles' job, there are many lifted eye brOws about the international air policy. He is brother-in-law of Juan Trippe, the Pam American top man Billy Rose ls having labor troubles at the Diamond Horseshoe =. Moro Morales delightful rhum- band starts ct the Stork Oct. 2nd. AmgOt, to hear the soldiers de. scribe it, means: "Amaateur Mili- tary Gentlemen on Tour" The Foreign Press lads new president win be A. Faulkner, U. 8. corres- pOndent for the London Daily Telly Col Ed Donovan's ex-wlfe Grace (she's of the Buffalo Courier Express famlly), married Roger Me. DeFmott Of Conn. over the week. end. Her wealth's In the MeighbOr. hood of % million dollars. Nlce neighbOrhood Ray Bourbon starts ct the Blue Angel Thurs. deeve. His swish routines pam lcked Hollywood's sinful set. .. The Sunday Times radio page ran the newest Hooper survey. showing only one news commentator (WJZ) in the list of First Fifteen" Ex-Congressman Elmer J. Holland, who made more sense down there than most of them, will soon be a Major in AMG Have some irony: Republicans call FDR dlc- tator - and Muss0lini has just been proclaimed 8 president Some people in Washington are fighting the Draft Fathers plan be- cause they never had any.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
MoDERN WAR

Some idea of ho wthinea haFe been stepped up since the last e is shown in the 100 per cent lll crease in the range of American anti-aircraft artillery, the 2sD per cent increase in individual firepoW the 300 per cent increase In bonh sizes, and the TOO per cent iicrease in tank speed,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28

A meeting of the Waterbury Bus iness and Professional Women's club will be held Monday evening. Miss Beatrice M. Faivre, new wo- mems secretary of the Y. M. o. A., will deliver a discourse on The Role Of The Volunteer in Creating Q Home Away From Home in the .. S. O."
 A state board meeting and cov-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
Footlighters Choose
 "Pettitcoot FeUer''

The first fall play production has been chosen by the F'ootlighters, dramatic society of the YMCA. The club will present, "Petticoat Fever" |" by Mark Reed on Oct. Is at 8:30 p. m. at the Waterbury Women's s club.
 Included in cast are Dan Haw- kins, Henry Coutukenis, John Hovey, John Bell, William Linhard, Eileen Whelan and Betty Lawlor. Charles Goodell of Newton is director of the play.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
HsH WTcEIEs BAIT

Ridesway, 6. c. fUpD -- Charlie AaoeFe of Ridgaway, c. C.. while fah. inR accidentally knn0kea . small haIlla 0f aKean-fFng hali Into the river. nIaEt Aay he hooke6 an eslhi pound haas. Ynglae tlle flsh he found hle beltie ~ eE@n fFeeA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
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Contract Bridge
CORNELL CLUE

CORNELL CLUB
 winners in the Monday afternoon tournament held under the direc- ton of Mrs. John Moriarty includ- ed:
 North and South: Mrs. Charles Audet and Mrs. John Bronsky, l07 l-2; Mrs George Roland and MrE. Patrick Wallace, S7.
 East and West: Mrs. William Meyers and Mrs. F. J. Nelson, 90; Mrs. Eric Caul and Mrs. L. M. Mitchell, o6 1-2.
 Onicial standing: Mrs. Meyers and Mrs. Nelson, 190 1-2; Mrs. Audet and Mrs. BronslSy, 7e5; Mrs. Ryand and Mrs. Collins, 182 1-2: Mrs. Moffatt and Mrs. Largay, 170 Ia.
 Top scorers Monday evening were:
 North and South: Mrs. s. Coc- chiola and Miss Elisa Lanaro, l0i 1-2: Misses Helen and Frances Lacone, o7 1-2.
 East and West: Mrs. Carlton Stevens and Mrs. Henry Lang, 94; Mrs. Clayton winters and Mrs. Raymond Crane, tied with Miss Helen Gaunt and Miss Florence Nala, S8.
 Ofacial standing: Mrs. Cocchiola and Miss Lanaro, 280 l-2: Mrs. Stevens and Mrs. Lang, 27l; Mrs. Yoos and Mrs. Sullivan, 267; Mrs. Drummond and Mrs. Laudemar1n, 2e4,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
Social Notes

Miss Harriet Walton, daughter of MT. and Mrs. William Walton of Watertown has entered Edgewood Park College, Briarclif Manor, N. Y.
 Mrs. Frank Perkins of Maynard avenue is visiting with her daughter Mrs. Clarence Nightingale in New ington,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
ELTON CLuR

ELTON CLUB
 Winners in the Monday afternoon tournament held under the direc- ton of Mrs. William Sherman Smith were:
 North and south: Mrs. R. D. Schroeder and Mrs. Robert Stro- hacker, I22; Mrs. Edmund Spicer and Mrs Henry Prusser, 121.
 East and West: Mrs. M. A. Barry and Mrs. Harry Bronson, 119; Mrs. William Andres and Mrs William Furst, ll8
 Ofncial standing: Mrs. Homer Bernier and Mrs. Philip Smaller, 240h; Mrs. Schroeder and Mrs. strohecker, 237; Mrs. William Dun phy and Mrs. Joseph Stevens, 2S6.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28

mittee of arrangements. The events have provided opportunities for pleasant get-togethers for members and friends.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28

cred dlsh supper is being pIarn for Oct. is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
ABOUND AND AROUND

Rllshts made hy lhe Army Ar FnFees within continental United states ln fnf2 eqnniled ei.iT0 trips around the earth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
RAILAD FoR ANaERICANs

 If you could buy Q spot where you could see How Nature had been lavish in its art, If you could buy Q place where Liberty Is ever dearest to the human heart ... If you could buy the road to hap piness With little homes that hordereo on the lane, It would not take a fool a second guess To know that you would buy and buy again; If you could buy contentment through the years And love that grows from fine and descent things, If you could buy an arrnistice from tears And all the grief and woe that battle brings Oh, if you could, how quickly you'd respond, And yet, what else is bought with every bond?
 DON wAHN.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28

Next years Presidential campaign ought to be Q dilly. Right down deep 1t will be the same old bill tf goods-the Outs wanting in, and the Ins wanting inner The lSsues, as always, will be cloudier than Pittsburgh, but they'll take m more territory. That's the big shange Next year the stump
 ITS will make the eagle scream from Russia to Australia, instead of from Maine to California--which has be- come Q trolley hop. That repre- Eents Q turnover from the outfit Ehat called themselves "non-inter- ventionist" in lo40 The reason for that is that next year there won't be anything for them to non.intervench in and how can you get Q vote without an angler It's funny how educational a lacing at the polls can be. This crowd, which campaigned in 1940 on the scheech that we mustn't mix into foreign brawls, now know from the whole world. They figure they're just the parties to put the Old Country on a paying basis. i. The Atlantic, which they called our protection from foreign entangle- ments, has certainly shrunk. They
Evening star., 1943-12-26
| I'd Anniversary
Finds 1Seubees'
Hardened Corps
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The "can do, will do-did" branch
Of the Navy will celebrate its second
anniversary Tuesday.
Two years ago the "Seabees" were
organized. Today that organization
has grown to 100000 men highly
skilled in construction work, and
trained to fight as well.
The Construction Battalion has
participated in conquest Of enemy
bases throughout the world. At
Tarawa, only four days after bloody
fighting which drove the Japanese
from that base, the Seabees had an
airfield there in operating condition
They moved in to begin the work
with the first wave of invading
troops.
They Joined in the consolidation of
American positions in North Africa,
in Tunisia, in Italy, at Attu and
Kiska in the North Pacific, on
Guadalcanal and at Munda on New
Georgia Island in the South Pacific
and at other bases throughout the
world.
Already" says the Navy, ''in this
STRIPPING - but stalwart - organiza-
ton, there has grown up a glowing
tradition. Little wonder-for the
crucible of war has tested well under
extraordinary conditions the mettle
of these erstwhile lads from the
farms, the factories, the arts, the
sciences and the broad expanse of
all America"
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Judge 7. Scott 0ffutt.
On Bench 70 Years.
Dead Of Pneumonia
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 25.-Judge T.
Scott Offutt, II, member of the
Maryland Court Of Appeals and
chief judge of the Third Judicial
Circuit for more than 20 years, died
yesterday at the Johns Hopkins
Hospital.
The veteran jurist had been in
active since he suffered stroke
which left him partially paralyzed
3l2 years ago.
approximately six weeks ago he
developed pneumonia and suffered
from a recurrence four weeks later
and was taken to the Baltimore
hospital from his home at Towson.
The stroke had followed the
death of his son, John I. Yellott
Offutt, who was drowned at Ocean
City, Md. He is survived by his
widow, the former Lydia Trail Yel-
lott; one son, Thiemann Scott
Offutt, jr., and a daughter, Mrs.
Louis de Roode.
Judge Offutt was a member of an
old Montgomery County family and
was born on his fathers farm in
that county in 1872. He studied for
two years at the University of Vir-
ginia and then came to Towson to
read law in the office of cousin
Milton w. Offutt.
He was admitted to the Baltimore
County bar in 1898. Later he served
as counsel to the Board of County
Commissioners for seven years, re-
signing in 1920 when Gov. Ritchie
appointed him chief judge of the
circuit and member of the Court of
Appeals. He was reappointed to the
bench in 1885.
In legal circles, he was noted for
his thorough knowledge of cases.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Teen-Age Club Plans
Dance Tuesday Niqht

Plans for their Christmas dance
Tuesday hight at Grace Church
parish hall, DOT Patrick street, have
been completed by the Alexandria
Teen-Age Club Committee.
The group, now numbering over
300, has held three dances during
the month, and plans to continue
activities throughout next year.
Under sponsorship of the city
recreation department, the club was
organized from a nucleus of bows
and girls representing schools and
church groups. Membership in the
club is open to any teen-ager in the
city who registers with the COM
mittee, and attends one of the regu-
lar dances, held every Saturday
night.
In place of the juke box which has
served at previous dances, music
Will be provided by a teen-age or
chestra led by Billy Sellers, a George
Washington High School student.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Draft Evasion Tactics
Laid 10 Patent Office
In Newspaper Story
Hy the Associated Press.

RICHMOND, Dec. 25.-The Times
Dispatch yesterday quoted two Pat
ent Office examiners, whose names
were not revealed, as saying that
draft eligible patent examiners are
assigned secret cases in order to
keep them from being drafted.
The paper said the reported prac-
tice-revealed by the two examiners
because they said it grated on their
sense OF patriotism - involves the
assignment Of draft-eligible exam
liners one or two secret cases, which
may or may not consist of some
invention of military value.
w. M. Adams, supervisory ex-
aminer here, when asked concern
ing the report, said such cases are
not assigned "indiscriminately."
Might Be Selected.
Consideration is given, he said, to
the possibilities Of the drafting of a
man when a selection is made to fill
q vacancy in one division with an
employe of another division. The
draft eligible man, he explained,
might be selected for a secret case
rather than a man too old for the
draft.
Mr.. Adams said the Patent Office
has appealed draft cases to con-
serve its manpower and that the
agency has lost plenty of men,"
The Patent Office was moved to
Richmond some months ago because
of the Office space shortage in
Washington.
The paper said the two examiners
explained that the secret case as
signments gave the impression to
draft boards that the Patent Office
employe was handling some vital
matters connected with the war,
whereas in most cases nothing is to
be done with the secret cases. The
purpose in making them secret is
to prevent final action being taken
and patent issued, thus being
made public.
d. c. Man Quoted.
The Times Dispatch quoted Con-
der c. Henry, Washington, third
assistant commissioner of patents,
as saying all Patent Office examiners
are in war manpower Glass 2 and
that this classification provides the
sole basis for deferring them. He
was quoted further to the effect that
Patent Office examiners are con-
sidered vital to the war effort be-
cause this is IAN inventive-type war
fare"
Exactly what is the Glass 2 that
Mr.. Henry referred to could not be
ascertained," the paper added
Frank A. Cavedo. Virginia State
VINO director, said he had never
heard of such system of classifying
workers as far as the VINO is con-
cerned. And in Washington, selec-
tive service officials, said there is no
such thing as a blanket classifica-
ton of all workers in any one
agency. He said each case is ham
died on its own merits and no
blanket deferments are given work.
ers in any Government organiza-
ton"
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Lorton Woman Chosen
To Chrisfen DESTROYER

Mrs. Judith Bundick Gardner
Lorton, Va, has been selected by
Secretary of the Navy Knox to
christen the destroyer Watts. The
ship. now under construction at
Seattle, will be ready soon.
The Watts is being named for Mrs.
Gardner's great-grandfather, Capt.
John Watts, of the Eastern Shore
of Virginia. Capt. Watts was the
skipper of the American privateer
Planter, of Richmond, which on
July 10, 1899, was attacked by a
French privateer in the vicinity of
the Canary Islands. The battle con-
tinued for one afternoon and into
the night, during which the French
man disappeared in the dark, badly
damaged, according to naval records.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Official HoIdinq
1850 Cases of
Unclaimed Liouor

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 25.-In
the midst of a Nationwide
liquor shortage, George Sutter
district liquor supervisor, shows
up with 1850 cases of 2-year-old
Kentucky bourbon which no one
will claim.
Mr.. Sutter said the liquor ar
rived in a freight car December
IA, addressed to a Sunset Dis
titled Products Co., Kansas City.
Mo, but, he added, no such firm
is listed in his records.
The supervisor said he had
placed a hold order on the
whisky, now stored in a ware
house, until he can determine
If 1t was a misdirected shipment
or an attempt to evade the
liquor laws.
Evening star., 1943-12-26
Steel
Continued From First Page.)

olil IL % a6S.'
and the Wheeling Steel Corp. In
West Virginia and Ohio. but spokes-
men for these and other companies
said this was due to the Christmas
week end.
A showdown was expected Monday
when all mills would resume regular
schedules. Mills also operate on
Sunday, but the number of men
then is perhaps less than so per
cent of that on regular weekdays, in
the opinion of some steel men.
There was no strike call, but men
in both the ranks of the union and
the companies feared that a show
down involving 100000 steel workers
could not be headed off. In addition
to the 2l4 companies whose con-
tracts expired, 268 companies in
which the union claims $50 1000 men,
bers have contracts expiring later,
most of them January 3 and A. In
the latter group are plants of the
United States Steel Corp.
Frank Burke, a district officer of
the Steelworkers' Union in Pitts
burgh, said:
Its my understanding the men
In this district are not going to
work without an agreement" About
5000 men work at mills of four
companies in the district to which
he referred. The biggest plant is
that of Oliver Iron and Steel Corp
Men Appear Determined.
Mr.. Burke and other union Off
GERS said they did not know of
actual strike votes having been
taken by any locals. Mr.. Burke
added:
We'll be able to tell by Monday
what's going to happen"
Joseph A. Goney, official of a
union district with $4,000 members
in 81 plants in Western Pennsyl-
vania, said that he was trying to
hold the men in line but that he
feared work stoppage unless some
action is taken by the War Labor
Board different from what it has
done"
The board on Wednesday by an
S-to-4 vote rejected the steelwork-
ers' petition asking that current
contracts be kept in force during
negotiations and that any pay raise
be made retroactive. Philip Murray,
president of both CIO and the
steelWorkers' union, Immediately de-
clared the action created "a grave
situation"
Headquarters of the union had
no comment to make on the Ohio
walkouts.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-24
Job Preference
Asked for Vets
OF World War H

Tie Old Time Baseball Piayers'
Association today asked the conf
mon council 10 amend the pres
ent Veterans Preference Act 50
that, when The war i, over.
returning t7ctr0rtrry writ rot
have 10 wait for new legislation
before obtaining Jobs with the
CITY government
The petition upon which coun-
ell wiii hold hearing tomorrow
night asks that the act be
amended so that maximum age
limits would be waived. except
f. application for police. fire or
DSR Jobs with returning veter-
ans having deducting from their
-actuaAase period eE armed
service
The petition also asks that VET
Grams not be barred from eXami-
nation or appointment because Of
service disabilities which are not
disabling for the position sought.
Veterans would be given 5 per
cent credit for every part Of the
examination and veterans with 25
per cent or more disability would
be given an additional ; per cent
credit.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-24
Chang S Envoy
Would Pattern
China TO Detroit

Dr Yu Lin HSI member Of the
Peoples National Political Council
Of Chungking, China, is in Detroit
today on the last leg Of a nation
wide tour in which he is studying
-paEieHs- feFms-ef- -leeaI-sepeFH-
ment
a direct delegate Of Generals
sino Chang Kai-Shek, DR.. Yu is
most pleased with Detroit'S home
rule form of government and will
recommend that China use this as
a pattern for postwar govern
mental plans.
II have covered fve-siNths of
your country, visiting the large
Cities DR. Yu said II have a
few places yet 10 visit but I like
DetrOit'S form Of government
heSt-Your- -city-S seems Ia have
greater power I'm its home rule
charter than other cities"
As another part Of his Job DR.
Yu will study housing conditions
here as a possible basis for China s
rehabilitation.
Dr. Yu has been in this country
since January He will return 70
China in October by way OF
Canada and England.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-24
MUST SLAUGHTER

FTrZpd dTTICK TITSr NdZaTQed :
guess that. n the pig were Of
average size. Picard could have II
by producing 200 red ratior
points. Like every one else, the
nudge gets is points weekly and
he rapidly calculated the pig
would be very elderly by the time
that many could be produced.
Looking into the law today
Fitzpatrick. in the traditional
method Of lawyers, found loop
hole
Being a pig-raiser, YOU are 8
producer" the attorney told
Picard A producer can eat his
meat n II IL slaughtered on his
own property.
Take the pig from the farm
In your back yard, where you
have that outdoor barbecue
stove. Kill IL there and YOU can
eat it."
But what about Dr. Good
sell. who owns the other hahe"
Being lsyman, he's not en-
titled TO free government legal
advice" said Fitzpatrick. Let
DR.. GoOdsell hire a lawyer
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-24
Argentine
RadiOMan
Visits City

Or Sergio Bagu. -, chief Of
The information division of Radio
SplendIde OF Argentina. arrived IN
Detroit last night on 2 tour Spon-
Sored by the inter American com
mittee 10 promote understanding
b weeu North and South
America.
Past president Of the Argentine
University Federation. Or. Bagu
has lectured at the Universities
Of BuenoS Ares and La Plata. He
IS the general secretary Of the or
canizing committee for the forth
coming American : Congress Of
Writers az Buenos Aires
Or. BaCu and his wife visited
Detroit housing projects He said
he was particularly interested IN
North American plans for post
war employment and housing.
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-24
Hope for Engineer
Pinned 0nHenieiiIifs

Doctors battled with renewed
hope today 10 save the life Of
Edward Vail, Detroit engineering
executive of the Northrup-LeedS
Corp. using the second Of a
four-day supply Of the new Won
der drug. FeUIC1ftTT1, IN an effort
to stem a blood stream infection.
Wahl IS IN 81 Vincent Hospital.
Toledo, with complications result
ing from an automobile accident
month ago near Monroe. in
which he suffered a crushed chest.
l3 fractures Of the arms and legs
and finally developed double pneu-
Detroit evening times., 1943-08-24
Lift Wafer Curb,
lenhdrdt Asks

The cityvide han sprinkling Of
lawns and flower gardens from 4
TO Q p m will be lifted. If Laurence
G. Lenhardt. water board super
intondent has his way.
Lenhardt was 10 appear before
the common council today 10 ask
that the han be lifted Lenhardi
pointed out that DetplterS had
followed the regulations 80 closely
that the city. with itS peak load
station on Modern avenue now lr
fun operation. could supply the
water needed for all growing pur.
poses