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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
By BIRT DARLING Central Press Correspondent

Central Press Correspondent
 THEY'RE stepping up the sting in the stinger of the Flying Fort and that isn't all.
 The research artists-the tech nicians who think up ways and means of making the B-17 more effective against our enemies have hit upon a couple of other methods of making the Flying Fortress less vulnerable, in addi- ton to putting more sting in the stinger.
 The newer model of the B-17 bomber, now rolling off the lines at the Lockheed Aircraft corpora tion, Burbank, Cal, will boast greater visibility for the gunners, more armor-plating around the gun positions and staggered" waist gun ports at the newly cov- ered-in waist positions so that the gunners won't get in each others way.
 The Flying Fortress tail-gunner VII henceforth operate from a
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
EASTERN SQUAD READY
 FOR NEW YEARS GAME

NEW YORK, Dec. Civilian M. Coffman, General Manager of the East West football game to be play cd in San Francisco on January l, said the eastern squad will meet Northwestern University at Evans ton, III, on December F, then leave that night for the west coast.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09

doubt that it will have to be regulated. I think that will not cnly be bad for the AP but for the country as we'll"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-12-09
VISITING JUNEAU

Mrs. Daniels. and Mrs A. Snow are visiting in Juneau, and are staying at the Gastineau Hotel
Evening star., 1944-03-02

NOrth-South were using the
Blackwood slam convention, which
accounts for the five-heart and six
diamond bids by North South re-
strained himself from bidding a
grand slam only by remembering
that North liked to make highly
questionable jump responses to
opening bids. Few, II any, experts
would bid two hearts on North's
hand in response to one diamond.
1t was lucky that South did re-
strain himself, for he had his work
cut out for him at even six no-trump,
and If he had been unwise enough
to settle for six hearts, East's hold
ing in that suit would have been
very annoying to North.
Against the actual contract West
opened the club queen. South won
and laid down the heart king, pre-
paratory to setting up the heart
suit. When West showed out de-
clarer gave up that idea in a hurry!
After careful consideration he led
his low club. West jumped on this
with the nine and returned the
club jack. Declarer won and cashed
the ace and king of spades, then
cashed his three top diamonds and
finally his two other spade tricks
The last spade proved to be East's
undoing. Declarer was down to the
heart five and diamond five in his
own hand and dummy to the A-10
Of hearts. East could not stop both
suits with only two cards.
Strangely enough, II West had let
East win the club trick with the
eight spot, the squeeze could have
been destroyed by the return Of the
heart queen.
Yesterday you were Oswald ia
coby's partner and. with both sides
vulnerable, you held:
4 K Qo7
N6
0 KQ77
49,
The bidding:
Schenken Jacoby Lightner You
l y Pass ~ 2 4
~ - 50 (Y
| Answer-Pass. The fact that your
partner gave you q double raise
Evening star., 1944-03-02

wedding could take place, however.
Julia was given in marriage to POM
pey, making Caesar the father-in-
law of a man six years older than
himself!
While Caesar was in Gaul, he
learned that Julia had died at Rome.
This event took place five years be-
fore the crossing of the Rubicon.
AS he moved south through Italy,
Caesar gained strength. Many more
soldiers joined the army which he
was leading from Gaul to Rome.
Pompey received reports of Cae-
sar's approach and believed he could
not raise large enough army to
fight successful battle. So he took
the men who were loyal to him and
left Rome to cross the Adriatic Sea
and enter Greece. There he was
able to muster thousands of addi.
tional troops.
Caesar started in pursuit of POM
pey. Crossing the Adriatic, he fought
and lost a battle with his foe.
The lost battle did not make Cae-
sar give up. He carried out a re-
treat in good order, then took into
his army several thousand more
men who were led to the scene by
one of his friends. Soon he ordered
an attack on Pompey near Pharsa-
lus, town in Northern Greece.
In the battle of Pharsalus, Cae-
sar defeated an army of $1,000 foot
soldiers and 1000 calvary, his own
army being less than half as large.
Twenty-four thousand of Pompey's
men were captured.
Pompey escaped to Egypt with q
few of his soldiers. but was murdered
when he landed there.
Among those who had fought for
Pompey was Caesars one time
friend, Marcus Brutus. Brutus was
pardoned, but it may be that he still
held a grudge against Caesar over
the broken promise about Julia.
Evening star., 1944-03-02

makes it probable that you will not
go down many at five spades, II you
bid 1t to prevent the opponents
from winning the rubber: but how
do you know they will make five
hearts II you pass?
Score 100 per cent for pass, 30
per cent for five spades, 0 for double.
Question No. 1884.
Today you are Howard Schenken's
partner. With each side 90 on score
and not vulnerable, you deal and
hold:
4 A
20 ] 10 o7S
o653
. j 102
What do you bid? (Answer 70
morrow
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Evening star., 1944-03-02
Uncle Roy's Corner

Caesars act in crossing the Rubi-
con River was the same as declaring
war against Pompey.
Pompey was more than an old
friend. He also was Caesars SON.
in-law He had married Caesars
daughter, Julia.
The marriage of Julia had broken
a friendly tie between Caesar and
Marcus Brutus.
Brutus, a Roman Is years younger
than Caesar, had wanted to marry
Julia, and 1t seems that a promise
had been made to him, Before the
Evening star., 1944-03-02
AUTOMOBILES WANTED.

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try to meet it. Flood Pontiac. 1921 Con-
CADILLAC needed for executive in highly
essential war work. Bendall Pontiac, TIE.
CAD1LLAc wanted; nam. your price. will
necticut. WO. s40O.
CHEyRoLET or light 5-passenser late
model car with low mileage: cash. Union
CHEVROLET wanted for war worker;
premium poal;. cash prize psyed for clean car
CHEVROLET wanted: name your price, will
try to meet It. Flood Pontiac. 42a1 Con-
bsSi'eHt DoDsn AS6 %S ehsYs1rR sfSe wanted; name
ia; 1921 connectisut. Wo. s4oo 'A
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ssd;; extra high prices for extra good cars.
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yill try to meet 1T, Flood Pontiac 422,
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used car: prefer late model, but will con.
PKIyATE PARTY has spot cash for good
Ext: 60lS. 9:15 am. to pm.
WANTED 1q41 -42 automobile, must be in
good condition and priced right. No dealers.
MA. 9220, Rm. 7I6. 81 pm.
sTUpEBAKERs WANTED, 10, AT ONCE,
ANY MODEL. 1885 TO 1941. SPOT CASH.
ROPER MOTOR CO., 1880 r. l. AVE. N. E.
W.AlMTED, LARGE sEDANs-cApILAc
PACkARDS, BUCKS, PASSENGER, 1888
T9 l94a s4ao S sPPT .SA SAsa ROPER MoToR
CHRYsLER 1871. 1870 any model. We
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PONTIAC 194O-We are Pontiac head
quarters and viii pay top dollars for any
Pontiac, 407 Florida ave. ne.
WANT BEST PRICE for your carp See
cash price Loving Motors. 1919 N st y :.
ANY MODEL CAR. trucks OF station
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to your home or once any time.
MCMAHON CHEVROLET CO.,
6323 Ga Ave NV GE 01OO
Evening star., 1944-03-02

Answer-Pass. The fact that your
partner gave you a double raise
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
PENSION GROUP IN
 INITIAL MEETING
Commission Named to Sur. vey Pension System; In-
 justices Claimed

An organizational meeting of the City Pension Commission will be held Thursday afternoon at { p. m. in city court chambers, it was an- nounced today by State Senator Francis Summa, member of the commission. This will be the first meeting of the group since it was appointed by Governor Baldwin last year.
 The commission was inaugurated following a recommendation born in the last regular session of the state legislature when it was pro- posed that a revision of Waterbury'S retirement and pension system be made. The commission will make study of the present system being used here and will make recom- mendations as to improvements or alterations.
 It has been claimed by proponents of the revision that great many inequities exist within the city'S present system of retirement and pension schedule. The present ad- ministration bitterly opposed many proposals for individual pensions which were presented at Water bury's day" at the last March ses- sion of the legislature. The admin istration was successful in its oppo- sition to the majority of the pro- posed bills.
 Members of the local commission besides Senator Sumrna are State Sen. John F. Tobin; City Controller Neil F. Maloney; c. Arthur Dubois; Arthur Tanner and Kenneth Rob- inSon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
~ By CHARLES ROBERTS
 NEA COrreSpOndent

Ottawa, Feb. 1.-Organized labor fin the United States may fear that President RooSevelt's proposed Ma tional Service law will deprive 1t of its most potent weapon in wartime industry-the strike. But in Canada, in her fifth year of war, strikes have jncreased almost in direct propor- ton to the making of new regula- tions for civilian mobilization.
 In l94O, for instance, the Domin- ion had only 168 strikes, involving 6o,6l9 workmen, for loss of 266,3l8 nian-days. Each year since then, the flsures have jumped. For the first II months of 1943-the latest period covered by Department of Labor tatistics-Canada had 448 strikes III which POI, ,O36 quit their jobs for 962, 400 man-days. This was more than double the time lost in 1942.
 ENFORCEMENT LAX
 Serving more or less as model for U. S. National Service plans is the Dominion's Selective Service program, under which the Labor Department may direct man into any job in which he may be needed. Ir theory, the authority is Sword of Damocles over any striker. But it never has fallen during the year it has been operative, although thousands have been transferred.
 No one ever has seriously chal- lenged the patriotism of Canada's working men. But labor knows that the national income is at any all-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
CHARLES BUCK, ;
 TWISTED, DIES

Winsted, Feb. 1.-Charles E. Buck, 70, of 135 Meadow street, died Mon- day at the Veterans Hospital, New ington, following a lingering ill., ness. Born May 5. 1872, at Water bury he served in Company M, Third Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, in the Spanish American War under the late Captain George Crossman and the late Charles P. Kirkland. MT. Buck was a member and a past commander of Charles P. Kirkland Post, United Spanish War Veterans. In civilian life he was employed for many years at the plant of the Gill bert Clock Company. He leaves no near relatives.
 The funeral will be held Wednes- day at 2:30 p. m. at the Beecher Funeral Home with the Charles P. Kirkland Post in charge. The body will be placed in the vault at Forest View Cemetery for burial there in the spring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
MONTHLY REPORTS ON CITY BUSINESS
Parking Meter Receipts Total $1,666; Selectmen
 Meeting Tomorrow

General business, closing out the end of January and beginning the new month reveal various activities in different municipal departments. A total of $1 ,666.98 in parking meter receipts was realized by the city during January, it has been re- vealed. The city has estimated that $27,500 will be realized from this source during 1944.
 The city will pay out $3,50O this week to the Platt Bros. & Go. for the latter'S claim in consequence
 - of sewage by the city into the Naugatuck river. This amount is set up annually in the budget of the legal department and is payable on or shortly after Feb. 1.
 Mrs. Mary c. Kilmartin and the town selectmen will hold electors session in the city aldermanic cham bers tomorrow afternoon for the purpose of making new voters. Ten tative preparations have been set for the handling of a large crowd, anticipated because of the total of 583 new citizens who were sworn in last week. Although many of the latter may live outside the Water bury voting district, the majority reside here. Any of this latter group who has resided in Connecticut one year and day and in Waterbury for 6 months is eligible to be made 8 new voter. Tomorrow's session will likewise provide for anyone reaching the age of q.
 Supt. of Parks James J. Curtin in his regular report to the Park Board yesterday reveals that Water bury has enjoyed more skating days this year than ill many previous years. A total of 37 days of skating have been enjoyed at Washington park so far this winter, 34 at Ham ilton park, 31 at the new rink at Watertown avenue and 29 days at Fulton park. The reason for the latter being opened on fewer days is because of the necessity of closing the pond for a week while park workers scraped the ponds surface as result of children walking through a slush covering that had formed on the top during a warm spell and which froze immediately with a sudden sold snap leaving hardened and frozen shoe imprints.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
LOWELL PROTESTS
 LABOR DIRECTIVE
Call for Volunteers to Work in Connecticut
 Plants Starts Argument

Lowell, Mass, Feb. 1-(UP)-A War Production Board suggestion that 500 Lowell patriots" transfer to Connecticut ball-bearing plants was answered today by city officials who assailed the implication of labor -hoarding and asserted that workers were free to take jobs any, where.
 City Councillor Bart J. Gallery, Jr., said the city was at patriotic as any city in the United States. No attempt has been made. he said, to hoard" laborers recently unem- ployed because of the Lowell ord- nance plant shutdown.
 New England WIPE Administrator Walter H. Wheeler. Jr., 8 former Connecticut industrialist, declared in a prepared statement last night that surplus labor should volunteer for work in Connecticut plants Ito help break the greatest single bot tleneck that has developed in all of war production"
 Tt is unfortunate indeed that in our most urgent need to accelerate war production" Wheeler said, "a situation has developed through various statements and press ar- ticles which appears to reflect upon the patriotism of the citizens of Lowell.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
First Year Of National Service Law Shows Strikes On Increase In Canada
ENFORCEMENT MAKE ARBITRATION INEFFECTIVE TEETH NOW ARE BEING PLANNED FOR LABOR CODE

time high and, despite warnings of imitation, it sees no reason why 1t should not have slice. Money still is the basis for most industrial dis puteS in this country, but demands for union recognition through new organization and inter- union strike have also been a factor.
 There has been no membership truce between the Canadian Con- gress of Labor, parent organization in Canada of all CIO unions, and the Trades and Labor Congress, which looks after affairs of Amer ican Federation of Labor units.
 MANY VIOLATIONS
 For years it has been illegal, under federal legislation, for 8 mining or public utilities union to call strike, or for industry in such fields to create lockout, without first calling for arbitration of the dispute. Since the war began, the Federal Industrial Disputes InveSti- gation Act has been broadened to include any industry or service deemed essential to war production. Stiff penalties for failure to adhere to the regulation are in the statute, which also provides fines for "in- citing to strike" But violations are numerous, and action is seldom taken.
 The joker in the act is that while arbitration is compulsory in strategic fields, findings of the conciliation boards are not binding unless the disputants agree in advance. in writ ing, to regard them so. And there
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
CITY EXECUTIVES
 TO CONFER AGAIN

A meeting of all city departmental heads has been called for tomorrob afternoon 1t has been announced by the office of the Mayor. This is the second of similar meetings called this year.
 General purpose of the meeting is the reading of the individual de- partmental reports as to bond buy ing activities by the employees. It has been stated that a sharp increase has been noted in this latter activ- ity during the past few weeks. Re- ports state that except for one de- partment the city may be over the 90 per cent participation mark en- titling them to receipts of a treas ury pennant.
 Other general business relating to individual departments will also be discussed at the meeting which will be held in the Mayors executive chambers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
Arrival Of Women Or Liquor Makes Headline News In Aloha Land
 There's Also POI Shortage Writer Fid OPA Has Frozen Skirts

ism assures each of them that he eventually will be the one to wind up with a feminine companion.
 Or maybe they're already crazy. Right in the face of this woman shortage 8 very serious article appeared in one of Honolulu's two great daily newspapers under the headline: WHEN YOU ARE WITHOUT A MAN." Purpose of this enlightening article was to help the local women get along while all the men are gone to wer GAS if there were even one wall flower left in the Islands,. LIGHTS ON AGAIN
 That's Hawaii. The place is as unreasonable as Hollywood and current conditions explain the malady known as rock fever" i" which seems to have reached the epidemic state on the tiny lava formations protruding in the Mid Pacific.
 The No. 1 sport is night win dow shopping, now that controlled lighting has supplemented total blackout. People are amazed at the brilliance of department store win dows that are illuminated for the first time since the blitz. But the lights. go of at 10 p. m., and everybody is of the street at the same time-both by order of the Military Governor.
 Fifteen additional verified facts (not supplied by the Tourist Bu- reau) would include:
 1. There is 8 poi shortage, be- cause so many persons from the mainland are trying to get the Hawaiian spirit by eating the tra- ditlnnAl nAk1va akasniA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01

mendation, an A. F. of L. union was busted and replaced by CCL or ganization. Technically, the strike was illegal, since the drivers and conductors were called out without prior submission to an arbitration board. But labor was not penalized. NEW LABOR CODE DUE
 Labor leaders are uneasy about the future, however. During re- cent weeks federal and provincial authorities have been working on a new labor code to regularize leg islation. No hint of the proposed new measures has leaked out, but union organizers feel that legislation which has depended for effectiveness on the goodwill of disputants may re- emerge with teeth that make con- ciliation board findings binding; or that all labor disputes will be made subject to some new court evolved from the present National War Labor Board and its subsidiary Re- gional War Labor Boards, whose chief assignment has been to hold the line in the battle against inf1a- tion.
 Two years ago, wages and prices were frozen. Cost-of living bonuses were provided as a measure of relief, adjustable acES&ding to fluctuation, generally upward, of the Department of Trade and Commerce index. It was then that the War Labor Boards were established, primarily to deal with any claims of inequities in existing pay scales.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01

labor has the upper hand. If 1t is not satisfied with the recommenda- tions, 1t is free to strike. If industry is not satisfied, and refuses to accept recommendations, labor is still free to strike.
 Outstanding example of what can happen in such a situation was offered during dispute between the Steel Workers Organizing Com mittee and the powerful National Steel Car Corporation at its Hamil- ton, Ont, plant.
 The company refused to reinState discharged employe, as recom- mended by 8 federal board, and the union called out its men. To break the lmpasse at the vital war plant, the Government stepped in after three days and took over operations. The discharged man was reinStated and the strike ended
 FEDERAL ACTION RARE
 There is no unified labor code in Canada. Constitutionally, labor is provincial affair, except where the general public interest is con- cerned.
 In the epidemic of strikes which has hit Montreal services during the past eight or nine months, Federal authority has been brought to bear just once. That was when street-car transportation was stopped during an inter-union fight for recognition. Because the strike was considered a blow to war pro- duction, a special commissioner was sent to the scene. On his recom-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-01
KERWlN FINED ON
 LIQUOR COMPLAINT
One-Man Raid on Bishop Street Store Results in
 Two Arrests

Joshua Kerwin. 27, 885 West Main street, was fined $50 on a charge of keeping liquor with intent to sell after trial before Judge Charles R. Summa in City Court this morning. Discharges were granted on charges of selling liquor without 8 permit, and keeping disorderly house. A suspended sentence was imposed on a breach of the peace count. and charge of adultery was nolled.
 In companion cases, Lucius Brown Al, 885 West Main street, received suspended sentences on two counts of violating the liquor law.
 Prosecuting Attorney Albert w. Hummel called to the stand Patrol man Michael Karpelman, who said he found eight men, a case of beer, and several bottles of whiskey in a store front converted to living quarters at 50 Bishop street, while Investigating a complaint on Jan. 16.
 Other cases: Arthur Illicuci, A, 885 North Main street; Media Gable. 45. Southbury; John E. Lan- en, g, 99 Cherry street; and Stan ley Johnson, 26, 147 Prospect street; parking within 25 feet of an inter section, $6 bonds called.