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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29
Meat RdtioninQ
ChdngesAug. B

The consumer got a break and
the War Food Administration
came out second best in its first
tilt with the OPA in a decision
on meat rationlng announced IN
Washington today.
Previously the WA directed
the OPA 10 restore hams and
pork lolnS 10 the rationlng list
and 10 remove commercial util-
lily grades Of beef steaks and
roaSts from rationing by Aug. /.
Today the OPA announced that
the July point chart for meat will
remain in effect until Aug. Is.
The order on l6 points a pound
for butter continues. Three more
ration stamps, AS. B-5 and C-5
for buying meats and fats. Will
become valid on July 30
Blue stamps BIS, C-5. DIS. F-5
and F-5w will be disable beginning
next Tuesday
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29
Refute Pe||ey
Story on Ford

WASHINGTON, July % CUP)
"A fiat denial that Henry Ford
Rad ever seen either William Dud-
ley Pelley, ex-Silver Shirt leader
or Mai Gen. George Van Horn
Moseley, went into the record to-
day at the mass Seditlon trial of
Pelley and others.
A spokesman for the Ford COM
pany declared that Pcllcy was
thrown out OF the Office building
at Dearborn when he attempted
To obtain funds for his nefarious
organization.
Earlier tho government had in
PRODUCED a letter from Pelley TO
MoSeley in which the former de-
ciarcd he could absolutely alter
the course Of American history in
the next TWO 20 four years if he
could obtain the wealth of Ford
The "glamor' of Charles A. Lind
berg the prestige" of Senat tor
Wheeler and the interest" of
MoScley.
Pelley said he was seeking
MOselcyS aid Ito convince the
army personnel of the integrity of
cur Intentions
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29

II WAS about ilNC years AGO tha'
Don nrcd Of catching nice turned
20 bigger game.
IN those FIVE years ne has elmr
mated about 500 rats AZ a rate %
eight or nInc night
I've cot 80 good at IT, NJ
SAID, IL can set trap with my
eyes shut. The big traps with
double springs with good pull,
are the best.
The bait il very important.
too. Hot dogs fried in bacon
grease, really get en- Any kind
Of fried meat ar buttcrcd bread
il good. When It's raining use
bacon grease"
The S.B student AZ barbour In.
fnunCQla'c believes II the CITY
would pat a bounty on rats. thC
condition would be cleaned Up
III they had that" nc SAID u
could make more money than In
a factory
NcIchhdrS for blocks around
call IN the champion when rho
situation gets out Of control and
within a fcw days conditions i'm.
prove.
ON IN a while he makes
enoI - 10 buy the three new trap,
necessary each week.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29
Bank Puts on
$500 Grin

When Morris Stanley, a live
stock operator at 4lSa W. Jeffer-
son, unfolded his Detroit Times
early edition today he saw on the
front page a story about a man
receiving a $4,000 cashiers check
from the Lincoln Park State Bank
in return for $500 cash.
Lucky fellow" Stanley re-
Elected 10 himself.
Then he had a horrible thought
He reached his hand into his
pocket. lie gingerly extracted a
check and in a sort of swirl of
conflicting emotions saw his name
on a cashiers check on that bank
made out for $4,000.
Getting into his automobile he
sped 10 the bank. where he was
received with open arms by bank
officials, after the typographical
error
1t developed that Stanley had
gone 10 the bank Yesterday after
noon handed $500 10 teller Pa.
tricia Pretty and asked tor the
cashiers check. After receiving
the check, Stanley placed it in his
pocfst, where 1t remained until he
read the 1ry today
MISTAKE last night when an audit
showed Miss Pretty, who lives at
1854 McLaiR Allan Park, SIS, 200
short in her accounts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29
Id Took Time
Laundry Delivers Collars
After 6H7 Years

STURGIS. July % GNS)-A
package OF shirt collars which
Jesse Winer local barber. sent 10
the Coldwater Steam Laundry in
January, 1888. was returned to
him today with bill for % cents.
The collars apparently disap-
peared from the laundry but we're
recovered yesterday when an en-
ploye was cleaning the back of
the radiators. The package had
fallen between the wall and radi-
atOr.
Winer paid the deliveryman but
instructed him TO take the collars
back and laundcr them again and
IN less time than siX and a half
wears
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29
Paper Dealer Denied
Petition 10 Alter Plea

= pira of stfiity -vrftIng waste
paper above the ceiling price
offered by Peter : GOldStein. 80
Of 1896 RoSclaWn Will stand and
he Will face sentence without a
trial
Federal Judge Erner 4
OBrlcn Yesterday denied pcti-
ton that Gold>teir ne allow cd n
change his plea
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29

The Reno bill charges only men
tai cruelty whereas the one filed
some time ago with the New York
supreme court charged infidelIties
IN New York Washington, Detroit
and London. extreme cruelty and
chronic alcoholism. That suit was
withdrawn.
Martin Seaman an attorney for
Mrs Dodge sand the new suit was
filed upon completion of a prop
crty settlement. possibly a cash
deal CLOSE 10 100000 His
present marriage is Dodge'S third.
While living in Reno awaiting
her divorce Mrs Dodge has been
entertaining lav1shly, 1t was re-
Vealed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29
Express Driver Held
For Altering Receipts

C.c'4, a Slur~lcy 20 Of 1917
J fifteenth w.l face examination
Al- 3 on charge Of altering hIl
g. aiding receipts Of the Railway
] NpicSs Co. where he was en-
pioVod as driver
Sbur>loy pleaded not guilty yes
tefaay when arrWEnfd lu federal
court The FIJI charges that
Se4r-icy fixed bll, for custom.
g and altered the receipts 70
conform 10 the original bin, Of
laf.ug.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-07-29
Woman War Worker
Attacked in Park

A 33-year-old woman war
worker was attacked in the River
Rouge golf course early today by
a lone aSSailant who threatened
her with aaknife
She told police that man
about "a years old, ) feet inches
tall and wearing a white sport
shirt, leaped al her from the shad-
ows on Burt road between Plym-
outh and Capitol and forced her
10 accompany him
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18

remained at or near the prewar level. Moreover, it will reduce the total volume of merchandise available to the public and thus at least indirectly invite runs on scarce goods. That is playing with dynamite.
 Take the present shortage of under wear, for instance. Since the underwear price ceilings were fixed, yarn prices that the mills must pay have increased some 20 per cent and their labor costs S8 per cent. Overhead expenditures are much higher, too. About half of the yarn price increase happened at one stroke recently when Congress passed the Stabilization Extension Act guaranteeing cotton farm- CTS full parity prices for their product. Naturally, cotton yarn prices rose sharply, and thus increased the cost of all cotton textile mills.
 In some cases OPA has recognized the need for raising the ceiling prices of tex tile products. In others it has refused to do SO. Thus, it is now permitting man. ufacturers of heavyweight fall and winter underwear to raise their ceiling prices to compensate for the latest increase in yarn costs, but for some obscure reason mills making lightweight underwear are forced to absorb these higher costs.
 The underwear industry, through it's spokesmen, has told OPA repeatedly what will happen if OPA continues to refuse relief for underwear mills. Underwear shortages will become even more acute than they are now Many more medium and low-priced merchandise lines will be driven off the mraket. When this hap pens the public will place the blame where it properly belongs-on the doorstep of OPA, not of the mills, which are strain every effort to supply the military services and the civilian population with essential underwear.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
Tonsorial Topics

A lot of preconceived notions must have gone by the boards with the news from Washington that War Manpower off cial there arranged for barbers to tell their customers about the need for help in nearby war plants, and that the scheme worked so successfully it may be tried elsewhere.
 We had always supposed that the aver age man considered talkative barber one of the inevitable burdens to be borne for the sake of neat appearance. None of our asquaintances has ever confessed to paying any attention to these loqua- cious artisans, let alone enjoying them:
 Now it appears that, given proper sub- ject matter, they can be great force for the public good.
 So it may be that we shall soon see the first-chair man studying little booklet of constructive topics with suggested out lines of discourse, between customers. And soon the whole tribe of tonsor1al operators may become white-jacketed SocrateseS, or the SavonarolaS of the swivel chair.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
Will Government Break Faith

A number of bills have been introduced in Congress lately pertaining to disposal of surplus war goods. In many instances, their framers have written into them all- out attempts to divert huge reservoir of Federally owned materials, lands and plants to the promotion of public owner ship of industry, and specifically the cleo trio power industry, by proposing sales at reduced prices to favored public agen- cieS such as IVA, which are in business in competition with private industry, while restricting sale to private industry itself. These schemes have received the praise of the Secretary of the Interior.
 What irony! Public taxes and the proceeds of war bond drives have gone into the construction and production ot billions of dollars worth of everything from radio tubes to super factories, to be used in the war against Hitler and so- cialism. And now as the need for these facilities taperS off, the promoters of socialism right here in our own country seek by legal artifice to lay hold of ssbooty' so vast that it staggers the inn agination. According to one authority, there is an estimated more than $103,- O0O0OO,O00 of surplus Federal war prop critics here and abroad, and some $l6,- OOO,000,O00 of government-owned war plants.
 sThere are and will be-" this authority continues, surplus metals, tungsten, zinc, lead, quicksilver, copper, and fabri- cated products of these metals = wire, apparatus, fastenings, also mica, quartz, and numerous minerals. There will be trucks, industrial automotive equipment for all purposes, and nobody yet knows what else.
 's .. Thus, made to order for public ownership advocates, here are raw mater ials in fabulous lots, fabricated articles in surplus stocks, government plants to make war materials that can easily be converted .. to making other things from the surplus materials. =. Finally, there are the REA cooperatives to use these products, made in govern ment plants. There are huge acreages of land, frequently in isolated areas of the country, just right for power or water project. ="
 All of this wealth was made available to government by private citizens acting in good faith and at great sacrifice. If a dollar of it is used to restrict the rights or undermine the enterprise of the pri- vate citizen, the government has broken that faith.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
The Public Pays

The price stabilization laws have been made to protect the purchasing power of the public. On the while, the Office of Price Administration, in administer ing price control, has done highly SatiS- factory job. The price level has been held remarkably steady since the start of the war.
 From time to time, however, the Office of Price Administration, in carrying out its war job, has become victim of it's own ambition. In it's attempt to hold prices down, it has been so inflexible that it has driven many merchandise lines from the market because manufacturers are no longer able to make them. When the cost of labor and materials keep going up, the manufacturer eventually goes into the red and is forced to abandon Production of certain lines.
 To OPA the operation has been suc- cess, but the patient is dying. What good is 1t when OPA successfully blocks price adiustments in medium and low-priced merc11andise if, by Scing so, it merely arives these prodGc.s rom the market md forces the public to buy higher priced merchandise? Such policy is bound fo hurt most those who can least afford lo be hurt because their incomes hayb
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
A GOOD APPOINTMENT
(Hartford Tirnes)

John J. Egan who has been ap- pointed Labor Commissioner to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna- tion of Commissioner Cornelius J. Danaher, is well known to the peo- pie of Connecticut. It might be said that he also is favorably known to them. Governor Baldwin chose well in selecting the Bridgeport man for the appointment which will run until 1947.
 The impressive thing about the career of John Egan as labor rep resentative has been his good tenn per as well as his earnestness. He has frequently advocated well-nigh hopeless causes before legislative committees without arousing an- tagoniSm. Sometimes he would make little progress but whether he did or not when the contest was over he and the legislators were as good friends as they had been before 1t began. That may have been due partly to the fact that he has ale ways been a Republican but for the most part it was due to his na- tive good humor and common sense.
 The office of Labor Commissioner is of less importance during the war emergency than it will be once the fighting stops. At present it is hard- ly more than a o-ordinating ofice as the federal government has taken over for the duration con- trol over employment and also over settlement of disputes. Connecticut has had but few of the latter, But once the war is over and the federal government relinquishes some of its interferences with states rights, the labor coInmissio onership will become one of the ofilces of major import ance. John Egan is admirably equipped for the place by virtue of being a worker, a labor union official for many years. and because of his long experience in dealing with. unions, representatives of em- ployers, the Legislature and the public. His appointment no doubt will meet with approval through out the State.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
Boake Carter, Commentator

Many will miss the clipped accent of their favorite radio news commentator, Boake Carter. Styles in speech of radio speakers are many and varied. Without seeing the person at the mike" one forms a sort of mental picture of the speaker, which, perhaps, does not fit the person at all, which was the case with MT. Carter, whom we saw as wirey, alert, vigorous individual.
 MT. Carter was launched into suc- cessful radio career right after the Lind berg Kidnapping story. Before that he was just another newspaperman. His death came Thursday not many hours after his final signing off"
 His daily broadcasts from Hollywood will be missed by radio fans. As nara tor of the news he has his own matter of-fact way of presenting the news. He ranked with some of our best speakers of-the-air, and his death is loss to radio.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
The Double Standard

Years ago the city of San Francisco built an electric street railway system. Since that day, constant political cam paigrf has been waged for the city to acquire the competing private street railway system. In spite of increased cost of operation, the private street rail- way, which is subject to public regula- tion, has not been allowed to raise it's fare above five cents.
 At last, the San Francisco municipal railway has taken over the private com pany. And now, mark this: on the day the change occurred, the city started col lecting a seven cents fare, which had al- ways been denied the private company!
 Political pressure has long been put on the people of San Francisco to force them to buy the electric distributing Sys- tenn of the private electric company. Some six or eight times, they have voted it down. The experience of the recent rate boost the moment the municipal railway became monopoly, should be a pretty good warning of what might happen under municipal monopoly of the city's electric system It would be free from state regulation of rates. It would immediately claim millions of dol lars of tax exemptions, which would have to be made up by remaining taxpayers.
 Private business can be regulated ana taxed, whereas government business IS not required to abide by the laws, regula- ton, and taxation that apply to private citizens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
Views Of The Press

claustrophobia more bearable. And maybe it was absolutely necessary in the modern scheme of things. And yet, as matter of long range, irn- mutable policy, and that goes for the postwar world as well, as we are all on the side of the big, old-fash- toned kitchen. A vast lot of pro paganda has ben put out in recent years against the big kitchen-how it was in efficient, how it wasted millions of steps in the course of lifetime, and so on. Most of this stuff has left us skeptical; it sounded too much like the feeble de- fense of some one with a guilty con- science. We desire to take nothing away from MT. Kerwin, whose in- novation ranks with the zjpper, the one-way street, the two-way stretch
 and hundred other devices. Let him have the glory, if that's what it is. We still like the big kitchen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
ANOTHER NOVEMBER GARDEN
(New York Tines)

Frost has forced no armistice on the Victory Garden. The ranks, of tomatoes and beans have striveled before the blast. but row after row of harder stuff stands firm in a green parade that offers the mEk- ings of many 8 crisp salad. Now the cabbage family has come into its own-tight smooth heads or sprawl ing crinkly Savoy: tall broccoli erupting into edible. flower clusters;
 erect, celery-like Chinese cabbage (Pe-Tsai or Wong Bok)-these all like the fall. Lettuce and parsley still flourish. Feathery- topped car- rots of late planting. pulled from the cool earth ar crunchy and more nutty in flavor. Beets, parsnips and leeks provide good solid fare. Good crops, despite the summer drought.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS ~YsEz sElf -tl

Vinegar Delusion :. Friend declares she was once too fat but began drinking vinegar and lost weight. She now has lovely figure. Is vinegar slenderizing? Is any food especially slimming?
 Dolores H.
 Answer-Neither vinegar nor any food is slenderizing. That is a silly notion. If you are eighteen or over, send stamped envelope bear- ing your address, ask for pamphlet How to Lose Weight" Do not send a clipping.
 B as Good for Muscles as for Nerves Is it not an advantage to me, engaged in sedentary occupation, to take vitamin B-complex daily? T. am of nervous disposition and T. believe they help me quite lotse
 co. D. J)
 Answer-As I have tried to ex-.> plain in several current articles, most Americans get insufficient D and B-Complex. But Vitamin B or B-complex is as beneficial to the muscles Cncluding the eating muscle and the heart muscle) of those whose daily intake of it is deficient, as it is for the nerves. If you will send stamped en- velope bearing your address, and ask for it (aclipping will not sufa fice) I'll mail you the pamphlet Young Folks and Old Folks, D. which explains all this in detail. Copyright 1914, John F. Dille Co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18

tryside as he rode up to what is now
 the campus, diSmounted at the top of the hill, and reverently kneeling upon the ground, prayed that God would establish on that spot, which seemed so advantageous, a Christian college. A few years later 1t was es- abolished. Thousands of alumni, some of them winners of worldwide acclaim, have gone out from that campus. One simple Christian soul saw in his minds eye college rise ing on those wooded hills. He con- secrated the spot to God and conl- mitted the issue of a1kairs to HlB
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18

Whereupon the President him self spoiled the good story. He arrived to vote, and the Chicago Suns Tom Reynolds, alias "Col- onel Mccormick" greeter him most cordially.
 CIO DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Alleged" Democratic Congress man Gathings of Arkansas re- ceived the shock of his life when questioning George Mitchell, Att lanta regional director of the CTO Political Action Committee, during hearings of the House campaign Investigating commit tee. He discovered that pr. Mit- chell had degrees from Richmond University, Johns Hopkins, and Oxford University, England.
 How does a man with all your degrees come to be tied up with the CIO?" Gathings demanded of the PAC Atlanta chief.
 Because the CTO is an Or- ganixatiOn fighting for a pro- gram of full employment, world peace and overall education of the American people to the re- responsibilities and benefits of democracy" replied pr. Mitch ell.
 Gathings then asked if Mitchell believed in price control, extension nf conio1 Sncilrifv and 1InPmDl0V- ment compensation. When Mitch ell replied that he did, the Ar- kansas Congressman shook his head dolefully.
 with all the degrees you hOld," he mOaned, "that is how you are educating the peOple!"
 Copyright, 1914, by United
 Feature Syndicate. Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18

During the past four years there has been 4,748,0OO drop in the farm popu- lation. Half of this decrease took place in 1922, when farm people moved away to war industries and joined the armed forces During the calendar year of 194S the farm population decreased 1,138, 900. So there are few million reasons why farm foods are scarce in the home grocery
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-18

among seasoned White House cor respondents who have been cov- ering the President for years.
 Apparently their professor had told them that names make news, for the embryo lady journalists asked for the name of each White House newSman.
 "And who is the big man standing over there?" One of them pointed to Tom Reynolds of the Chicago Sun, whose pub- fisher, Marshall Field, is prob ably ROoseveIt's most ardent newspaper admirer.
 That" whispered Fred Pas ley of the New York Daily News, 'tis Colonel Mccormick of the Chicago Tribune.
 The lady journalist, though green, did not need to be told that Co1onel Mccormick is rated as Roosevelt'S bitterest newspaper critic.
 You want to be a little careful" 1" EaSley CO1lLlnuec, SCarlng nara aG Reynolds. He's got knife and he's planning to attack the Presi- dent"
 "Oh, my goodness!" exclaimed the Vassar girl. Isn't the Secret Service going to do something about it?"
 You don't know Colonel, Mo- Cormick," explained Paisley, not mentioning the fact that he works for the Colonel's cousin, Pulp fisher Joe Patterson. ''McCor- mick's got lots of money. He's taken care of the Secret Service" |"
 'But can't you do something about it?" The Vassar lady was almost hysterical.
 What, me? You want me to spoil good Story?"