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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

Washington prepared for its
first snowfall of the season as
the Weather Bureau predicted a
to 6 inch snowfall by this after
noon. BY early morning, how
ever, only intermittent flurries
had occurred.
At that time, Norfolk, Va, was
covered with a three-inch snow and
the fall was continuing. Snow also
had covered Southern Maryland and
parts of the Eastern Shore.
The Southwestern plains cattle
country was paralyzed yesterday by
the worst winter storm in years, the
Associated Press reported. Okla
aona and the Texas Panhandle were
buried under snow blankets ranging
up to IA inches on the level and
more than eight feet in drifts.
It was the Panhandle's worst
storm in So years and Oklahoma S
biggest in IA years. The blizzard
was accompanied by temperatures
which ranged to four below zero.
Workers Ready Here. ns
A total of LOO men was modified
here last night under direction OF
William A. Xanten, director of city
refuse, and 100 plows1 % sand
ing trucks stood ready to go to work.
Earlier in the day the Weather
Bureau had predicted 3-inch fall,
but at pm. the following storm
advisory was sisued:
Snow, which began in South
western Virginia this morning, is
spreading eastward and northward
and will become general over the
District of Columbia and Maryland
tonight, ending last Sunday. Total
snowfall is expected to be to 6
inches, with some localities getting
greater amounts. In Southeastern
Virginia, the snow will be mixed
with sleet and freezing rain. This
storm will be accompanied by strong
WINGS along the coast from Cape
Hatteras to Delaware Breakwater. ~
The bureau also warned the storm
would be followed by temperatures
as low as Is degrees by tomorrow
morning and that period of below
normal readings would continue for
several days. The thermometer re-
manned more or less steady at %
degrees last night.
Winds here were not expected to
exceed 20 miles, the forecaster said.
Washington's last big snow was
on March %, 1912, when 111a inches
blanketed the city. The following
December 20 fall of 81 inches was
recorded. In January % of last year,
the city suffered through 81 inches
of snow and slush which later froze
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Ho|douf Rail Unions
Receive Presidential
Offer Of Equal Raise
BY the Associated Press.


President Roosevelt announced
yesterday the railway conductors
f1remen and switchmen may have
the same terms he awarded to
the trainmen and engineers
without loss Of penny, provided
only that their strike order Is
Cancelled and not merely post
poned.
The terms Of the award are cents
an hour and weeks paid vacation
a year, effective as of December q
ls43. (They previously had been
awarded separate 4-cents-an-hour
raise which also would stand.)
While the flremen, conductors ano
switchmen called off the scheduled
December 80 strike, they said the
strike order had not been Cancelled
but merely postponed for the dura-
ton of Government control of the
railroads.
Chiefs of the three operating
unions were not available for COM
ment Immediately. A subcommittee
of their general chairmen is writ
ing a report which may be made
available today.
No Direct Offer.
1t is understood that the three
unions do not expect to get more
than was given to the other two, but
as far as could be learned they have
received no such offer directly.
The Presidents views yesterday
were stated in a letter to the War
Department. Similar letters have
been written by the carriers and
chiefs of the two unions who al
ready are receiving the benefits of
the Presidents award, but the fire.
men, conductors and switchmen say
none Of these letters has been adj
dressed to them directly.
One union official remarked that
apparently they were expected to
approach the Government with hat
in hand, head bowed low, and knee
bent"
They have been reluctant to dc
this, partly because of facesavina
and partly because of apprehension
that acceptance of the arbitration
award voluntarily would mean a
freeze of their wages for the dura-
ton OF the war. If the terms are
imposed on them, they feel they
would not be bound for the duration
OF the war if, before then, the Gov
eminent changed its wage policy.
Charge Contradiction.
Letters OF assurance that the wage
award is not a freeze have been
written by James F. Byrnes and by
the carriers, but the three unions
most vitaly concerned say they have
nothing but contradictions; the let
ters were not addressed to them and
the information arrived indirectly
They question it because they say
Mr.. Byrnes had previously told them
in his Office that the award was a
wage freeze.
The War Department more than
a week ago made the point that the
strike had only been postponed, not
Brotherhood chiefs re-
Piled that a settlement of the issue
would automatically cancel the
strike. They say they are powerless
otherwise to cancel something
which has been voted by the rank
and file.
Mr.. Roosevelt said in his letter
70 secretary of War Stimson:
Il ask that if and when YOU are
advised that the firemen. conduc-
tors and switchmen have signed an
agreement on the same terms and
conditions as the engineers and the
trainmen that you modify your Or
der OF December q (Which froze
railway wages at the time the Gov
eminent took controD so as to per-
nit the compensation agreed upon
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Churchill Candidate Loses

LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 9 (R.-
A Churchill-indorsed candidate lost
the Skipton parliamentary by-elec-
ton, recount showed today. H
Riddiough, a Conservative, polleo
12,001 votes in the balloting Friday
to 1922 for Hugh Lawson, the
Commonwealth Party candidate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

ticipate in one of the broadcasts.
The January Is broadcast will be
a description Of the structure and
administration Of the department
and the foreign service. Ambassador
Winant will speak from London on
the program with Undersecretary
Stettinius, Assistant Secretary Shaw
and Robert Murphy, American
agent in North Africa.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09

All airgraphs mailed in India are
now forwarded to Bombay, where
1000 are processed in an hour.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-22
NOTICE,

Pursuant 10 an Order OF the Clerk
Of the Superior Court Of Vance
County. North Carolina dated April
IL. 1914, IN that causc entitled
David {. Loughlin and wife. Pearl
H. Luurhlin: George O'Lary and
wifc. Edith c. OLary: Edward &.
LUughlin and wife. Katherine II.
Loughlin: Nicholas JcffrCvs and wife.
Ruth l.. I%cffrcys, Plaintiffs, VS..
Charles {. LOuEhlin and wife. Matte
V. L)ughlin. Defendants. tic under
signed Commissioners will offer Tor
sale and sell 10 the highest bidders
for cash. at the courthouse door In
Henderson. North Carolina at ~
o'clock midday. on Monday. May Is.
1914. the following described real
estate:
FIRST. a certain tract or parcel of
land situate. lying and being at the
South corner made by the intersection
Of Garnet Street and Montgomery
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-22
UNIT G!' TIMING VITAL

WHENEVER You see a long
suit In the dummy. you @r. spw.-
thing which should br cpus.G,.
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suits. which may BE- required -
rid In establishment 81 the long
one. or C. got al II after i, O.. ,.
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tive. begin whacking at 'hns" 81 -
entries its soon as you can
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-22

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hcfh at the corner of ,,it
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the edge oi Garnet. Sir, '"Ag
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more al less. tu the purb,,, "'',
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Inc OF SAID RAILROAD % feet Il ,"e
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thence along said ($uu,h) rI'''"':
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less. 10 the beginning. SYr decd VI
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recorded IN l"uk 9 at pa., -
\allc" County Registry. '"'
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-22
Your Week End Lesson

what is the true purpose Of
j7Isc.cardinE by n dcclarcr? How
cen IT help him 10 mako . con.
tract
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-22

tamc could be mata on ihiq
deal at No Trumps. whereas -s.-
feet defei15c would beat :~.i1.ar,=.
but the defenders did not do a pcf-
iect JOB. East started by laying
Distributed by King I
Henderson daily dispatch., 1944-04-22

UI5'Fbuted by King Featlres synsiea,e, Inc.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22

Go time, ask ourselves - ''are we worthy of these returning men?" We are not worthy unless these men are assured, upon return, of finding this community one fully organized and prepared with every means of handling intelligently and force fully the problems of these men. Already the discharged are among us and the task is here
 We must repeatedly ask ourselves if we are doing all that is possible as com. munity. Such an attitude must prevail during the days following war, after the noise and clamor of battle have been Stilled and we have returned to the unSpectacu- lar days of peace. For many of these mer there will be no peace for long period.
 The best of our community are now in the armed forces. Among those who return we must make full use of their revitalizing energy, which now is being utilized so successfully in the full prescott tion of the war. Let us not lose sight of the true objective, for gestures are but adding insult to injury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
The Army Rides Again

An Army press release has introduced an old-faShioned note into the frightful, mechanized efficiency Of modern war. It reveals that in the midst of bazookas, rocket guns, precision bombers radar and robot tanks, horse cavalry is still operat- ing in Italy.
 Horse troops have carried out night re- connaisSance, found unmapped roads, re- moved human and natural obstacles for tanks and trucks, and once wiped out an enemy position.
 Shades of Jeb Stuart and Phil Sheri- dan-to say nothing of Hannibal and GenphiS Kahn!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Our Changing Country

There has been so much speculation about One World that it is time to exam inc affairs of our changing country. Within the period of half month fol- lowing the "blow-off" by Senator Barkley, the President and his Administration have been put on the defensive. Democrats and Republicans apparently have Suc- ceeded in becoming independent. If that determination lasts Congr.Ss will fulfill its responsibilities to the people as the legislative branch of the Government.
 The Republicans have made great gains in the past two years and have captured most of the GovernorShipS in the North ern States, and there is every reason to believe that the next lower House of Con- gress will be Republicans, with the possi- bility that the Senate will also be anti Roosevelt. There has been more open opposition against the fourth term since the first of the present month than in any previous period of time. The theory that one should "never swap horses cross ing stream" has been attacked in the Senate.
 The Republican leaders have fresh hopes that they will be able to "Stop Roosevelt" But those same leaders are not agreed upon candidate to lead their political procession this fall. With so many great questions involved in the af- fairs of our changing country 1t is certain that the coming campaign will be very bitter battle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Will We Prove Worthy?

With this weeks opening of the city'S reemployment and rehabilitation bureau for aiding returning Servicemen, there is initiated the course to be taken on broad task which will present problems to all residents of Waterbury and which must be assumed as our own.
 We are off on the right foot with the establishment of this bureau, but as cltl- gems we must practice vigilance which will not permit ourselves or anyone to sit back and allow this program to be- come a routine, proSaic branch of our civic endeavor; which is just what will happen if we fail to asquaint ourselves with the task confronting every one of us.
 This is the hometown" of thousands of Waterbury boys now on the many bat tle-fieldS of this war. It is "hiS" town and your town toward which "he" will look as source of welcome as well as aid ir the difficult task of readjusting to civilian life We all can extend warm and sincere welcomes, embellished by paradeS, speeches and honors; but in most instances such things should be sec ondary to our real duty. There is no comfort to the sick in parades and honors; there is no real promise of secur- ky in words, and none of these things hIn be eaten.
 To aid, advise and give direction to Many of these returning veterans IS a community problem. We must, from tune
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22

selves that we are underlings." The impeachment is not in our environ ment but in ourselves. We have been looking out over the horizon for someone to blame. We are ad- monished to peer into the looking glass, if We would see the true cul- prit.
 There is an element of chance in everything we do. and some people do seem to have better fortune than others. But 1t is obvious even to us that our qualities of heart are de- cisive factors indeed in the outcome of every enterprise. If we could see things with the perfect discernment of God Himself, we should probably find without exception that the inc pediment to our success lies In our own heart and mind. We need to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
SPRING CAN BE FAR BEHIND
(New York Times)

All of us have forgiven the obli- quity of the ecliptic and as friends of equality look kindly on the cqui- noxes, and especially on the vernal equinox. Yet the descriptive adjec- tive may be deceptive and the al- formative name for the spring cross ing, First Point of Aries, is grossly false. The vernal equinox has seced- cd from the Ram and is now swim ming among the Fishes. That al- legged spring crossing has just double-crossed us groundlings.
 Our date with the V. E. has lls- ually been March 21. This year 1t turned up and spring should have begun at l2:49 of yesterday. That intruder and butter-in. leap year, is to blame. By showing the days along he manages to push the date back. But let's not be fooled by the calendar. Spring, old-fashioned frosty-faced spring. made it's first appearance on Sunday night. We looked out of the window and saw whitening graund, and those pertid- ious small flakes falling as if they went out to look on American spring scenery. Snow, ice, slush, the world slipping along in sneakers. Sniffle, snuffle. Trains slowed. Cars stalled. Cough and sneeze. Shake and shiver, chill and freeze.
 Cheer up. The hounds of spring are of an available force of many times their number has been used.
 Many white officers questioned about this failure to use the Fijians, and other Pacific natives, as com- bat troops have offered the excuse only that they doubted whether the black or brown man would stand up to modern weapons. It is an un- proved and apparently unwarranted condescension. It is not a view held by commanding officers who have seen them in action.
 The Fijian is a black man who appears willing to assume his share of the so-called white mans bur- den-if the whit eman will allow him to.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Views Of The Press

tacular after the rioto,is displays of human pyrotechnicS or the battle- field. Perhaps he thinks. half con- temptuously. of the destruction of PompeN and Herculaneum in the light of the fury which man has visited upon his own creations from the sky.
 And yet those signal smokes from Vesuvius, those inrocent-Appearing trails of distant fire, might well awaken other thoughts even in a soldier fresh from the concentrated fiendishness of modern battle. This earth on which man kills his fellow is. after all, but a thin skin over elemental wrath. The uneasy sub- terranean forces, obeyjng the ob- scure laws of their being, need but gasp a little and an island is blown out of the sea, while the great waves sweep about the earth and the skies are dnrkened over distant continents. A brief shudder, the mercst incident in the timeleSs ad- justnent of the earthly structure, will level cities. How many bomb CTS. flying how many Sorties against Japan, would be required to cause the havoc that one earthquake brought ill 1923? What Maginot line, what armies or fleet, could hold against a lava strea nor tidal wave? What lair umbrella could stave off the ruin that & volcano rains down?
 Man lives on this world by the sufferance of powers which do not consult his will or pleasure; often he cuts his time short by his own folly. To stand by the picked ske- teton of Pompeii and the ugly ruins of Casino might teach lesson in the mutability of human affairs, but it would be more valuable if
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
Local G. o. P. Disunion

Local COP leaders are bound to lose ground in the present inter-party fight despite the evidence that they have won out on the dispute fostered by the recently formed Reorganization group. On the other hand, even though no material gains are achieved by this latter group, they will have undoubtedly, to an effective extent, attained the greater part of their objective-to publicize the entrenched control held by the few at the top of the main body of the local Republican party
 Just how much and how effective patch work can be done by these few to heal what damage has been and will be done, cannot now be known. But cer- tainly thess leaders must realize as did Lord Burgundy in Shakespeare's King Lear - Pardon me, royal sir; election makes not up on such conditions".
 It seems reasonable to expect tl.at for reasons of personal pride and self-preser- vation to some extent the majority of the recalcitrant. Reorganization group will never again work in full party harmony with present leaders, particularly as the latter will undoubtedly inflict broad pen alties such as ostracism upon some, while upon others will be fostered sub tie political sterilization. Such does not make for happy cooperation in any family.
 It has been stated that the present Reorganization group is made up princi- pally of camp followers of a still more powerful group whose original plans called for heavily financed and strongly organized movement centered upon the enforcement of complete shake-up in af q N D party. The camp followers began to out number the main army, 1t is said, with the latter deciding to withdraw entirely because of what they termed was strong flavor of "radicalism" entering into the Scene. If all this be true then still wider breach exists within the party than heretofore was estimated. For apparently, despite the divergence in the means of the two latter groups their objectives are as one and this can spell eventual disaster for the present town committee and its whip leaders.
 All this is not the usual inter-party split such as has been seen among the Democrats, at times The latter despite their occasional disunion have always had common objective, sight of which never was lost while a dispute ragged, namely, the party's strength. This the local Republicans do not have. Their party has lacked unified strength for years and any schism within it's ranks is more than likely to produce irrepar- able cracks in the bodys structure.
 It is doubtful if the coming Fall elec- tions, state or federal, will produce much evidence of the desultory effects of this discontent, as other influences beyond the sphere of the local group, will far outweigh local factors. However, it is inevitable that time will reveal the weaknesses.
 Perhaps such crumbling from beneath that is now causing the party to look like one of the lop-sided, partially crowned Roman pillars of antiquity, will make for a healthier structure when new founda- ton may be built and the old side walls repaired. Certainly the constructionists will insist that none of the fallen masonry be used in the mixing of the fresh in- gredientS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22
VIEWS 0N RED ARMY

During the earlier Finnish cam paign, every Russian general had a political commissar beside him, RIckenbacker said, with the rec suit that military discipline suf- fered. However, since the with drawal of the political commits sars, there has been Q marked im- provement in the efficiency ant morale of the Army.
 Russian soldiers accept the promotion system as In any Army and they have the same respect for the authority of their officers" Rlckenbackcr remarked.
 On the subject of General Pat ton, Rickenbacker declared that Patton's slapping of Q sick soldier was "inexcusable," but he urged his listeners to remember that the flighty- -temperoi General had just been through the "stresS and strain" of the tough African cam. pai.Sa, the success of which was duo in large part to Patton'S "dar- ing Ieadership".
 It required little coaxing by his COP listeners to elicit Ricken- packers views on the New Deal, Rickenbacker, Q rock-ribbed con- servative frequently criticized for his anti-labor uttcrances, also declared that American business itself was partly responsible for "alI this rcgimentatiOn" by Wash ington.
 American business men should come out of their fOxhOlcS, STd fight for their rights" he Ce. clared hotly, amid loud applause from his epublican audience.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-22

stop blaming others and to begin to put the blam where it belongs.
 The important thing in life is not what happens to us, but what we do about life as a whole, be its clr- cumstances pleasant or grievous.
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