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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
2 Die, 3 Hurt In Bristol BIost

Bristol, Conn.,, May 17-(UP)- Two men were asphyxiated today and three others overcome at the Wallace Barnes Company rolling mill while trying to replace a rub Der gasket which had been blown off gas line safety valve.
 Harold Pryor, an employe, and Ernest Schilke, a city policeman, died from the effects of escaping gas.
 Hospitalized, but no in a critical condition, were Deputy Fire Chief Orin Porter; fireman Peter De- Voti, and city policeman Joseph L,oZinSki.
 A company spokesman said a minor explosion blew off the gas- ket and one of the workers was overcome by gas. The department foreman summoned the fire de- partment, and several policemen al- so responded to the call.
 The spokesman said that such explosions were mot uncommon, !" and that the five men dropped as they worked to fit the gasket on the valve to check the flow of gas.
 The explosion was explained as a mild" one which could not be heard outside the rambling plant, and was not followed by fire.
 The company, working on war contracts, manufactures heavy springs and rolled steel and is an affiliate of the Associated Springs Corporation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
ABC CONFERENCE. RESUMED TODAY.
UO Secretary DriscOIl At.
 tends Session at Hotel E Elton

Representatives of labor and management of the c. I. O. and American Brass O., were in con- ference this morning with James E. Healey of the New England regional War Labor Board at a meeting held ht The Elton.
 This meeting is a continuance of similar meetings conducted both here and in Boston previously which were adjourned at the time because of the illness of John J. Driscoll executive. secreatry of the c. I. O.. Mir. Driscoll who has been discharg- ed from the hospital was in attend ance at this mornings neetin.
 Others present included John J Mankowski committee member of the Q. I. O. and labor representa- tive of. the VILE and J. Harold Madden pardonal relations director of the American Brass Go.
 The conferences are being con- ducted for the purpose of clarifying the more than 35 issues involved in the wage-contract dispute. It has been stated that the result of this meeting should be of vast import ance to all concerned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
Baldwin Is 

Montpelier, Vt., May 17. CUP)- Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin of Con- necticut told the Vermont Republi- can State convention here today that in the November election the American people must choose mot merely the party that will govern them, but the direction in which they will go in the dangerous period that lies ahead"
 This is not a contest merely be- tween Republicans and Democrats; 1t is contest between two different ways of life, two fundamentally dif- ferent philosposhies of government" !" Baldwin said in his prepared key- note address. Unto such a struggle, the Republican party enters with confidence. The American people know what kind of world they want to see whne this war is victoriously ended"
 The Connecticut governor cited speedy victory, jobs for all, and per- manent peace as the principal ob- jectives of the Republican party.
 At the state convention, nine delegates to the Republican National convention will be chosen. Vermont delegates traditionally are un- pledged.
 Attacking the political theory that criticism of an administration breeds disunity, Baldwin declared that "our kind of government lives by criticism because in no other way can the thoughts and the opin- ions of all our people be made voca. and be translated into action" He promised that Republican victory would lift the peace above parti- sanship."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
EXPECT ASPHALT
 HERE
Street Department Hopes to Make Few Needed
 Repairs Shortly

The first supply of asphalt re- ceived by the city almost since Pearl Harbor will arrive here with in a week it was stated today by Street Superintendent Herbert Scott-SLlith. These first shipments, the superintendent stated, will be used to repair main streets and sidewalks on those streets.
 Since the outbreak of the war asphalt of this kind among other critically needed materials was frozen by the War Production Board except for vital war needs. As a result Waterbury like many other cities have been curtailed in repair work of this ind. Recently however, the WIPE has released certain quantities of this asphalt for use by cities and Waterbury has ben assured of an allotment which is now said to be on the way from the southwest. Just what quantity will be shipped here now it was not known today.
 Although it is not expected that this material will be of the high grade obtainable previous to the war its texture will be of sufflcienty high standard to suit the purposes and immediate needs of the city. At present patchwork jobs have been undertaken to offset the my demands for repairs. However, due to the low grade of materials u-:l in these patching jobs there have been instances, part cularly on heavy traff1cked streets where such work Las had to be done over four times in one month. It is expected that the new asphalt will do away with this need.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17

routine training flight with a stu dent crew, according to an official announcement.
 The student pilots, the Navy said brought the ship down to a land- ing mat on the airfield for what was described as a short wheel run" This, officers said, consists of roll- ing the airship along the ground on its one wheel, without the aid of a ground crew and then taking off again.
 The pilot failed to clear the west end of the hangar by 10 feet.
 Names of the dead were withheld pending notification of next to kin. 
 A Scottish Board of Trade off, cial reports that thousands of peo- pie in Scotland have developed "blackout" eyes and given up fash
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
10000 War WorkersOu

Detroit, May 17.-(UP)-Three new Industrial shutdowns further crippled invasion arms production in Michigan today.
 Twenty-four plants were affected Ten of them were closed and pro- duction curtailed in IA others.
 The new shutdowns brought the number of workers made idle by strikes to more than 10000.
 Owners of the closed plants and number of employees affected were Packard Motor Car Co.,, 35,000; Briggs Manufacturing Co.,, two plants 14,700; Chrysler Corp, six plants, $500; Graham-Paige Motor Car Co.,, $500.
 Briggs spokesmen said they had been notified by the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics that 1t cannot ac- cept any more parts or assemblies because of the lack of company su- pervision and inspection"
 Work at the Briggs plant halted last night.
 Robert H. Keys. president of the Independent Foremen's Organiza- ton, and 10 members of his execu- tive board were enroute to Wash ington where they were to appear before the War Labor Board at 10 a. m. today. They must show cause why the union should not be penal ized under the War Labor Disputes Act for failure, at the demands of War and Navy Departments. to halt their strikes at six vital arma- ment producing corporations.
 The Washington hearings fol- lowed defiance of WLB Chairman William H. Davis order which set Monday as the deadline for term ination of the walkouts.
 Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Acting Secretary of Navy James V. Forrestal in Wash ington yesterday reiterated that the foremen's strike was holding up delivery of guns and planes and endangering the lives of soldiers and sailors.
 The WLB twice has ordered the foremen back to work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17

-doeS not that imply the surrender of the universities in Germany?
 Such questions confuse the util- ization of trained technicians with the intellectual leadership that springs wholeheartedly from the breasts of unfettered men of learn- ing. Of course our enemies have their experts men whose hearts are darkened and whose minds are warped by the memorable pressure of regimentation. But note this none of the German universities was prepared to sponsor the doc- urine of Nazism until its free schol- ars had been destroyed and 1t had been reduced to utter servility. No great university figure in all of Ger many has emerged under Hitler as an inspiring leader of his country.
 Consider in contrast the historic example of an eminent university scholar and priest who once stood embattled for freedom. Thirty years ago Cardinal Mercier was indeed the Voice of Belgium Consider how he led his countrymen in their hour of need. Writing from ruined Louvain on Christmas 1914 he pointed to the destruction of that center of learn- ing by the invaders and said, all this accumulation of intellectual, of historic and of artistic riches, the fruit of the labours of five centuries all is reduced to dust
 "As our men gaze across the Eng fish Channel at the Fields of Elan ders today I am sure they are forti- fled by the eternal blessings of the valiant soul of Cardinal Mercier. The spirit of Cardinal Mercier lives in Belgium today and it lives among us. We, too, have our great patriots among men of learning. Our uni versailles are not silenced-nor are they withdrawn from the fight. They fortify us not only by the pre- cision of scientific method, but also by the intellectual leadership that comes from the reasoned conviction that our cause is just and our des- tiny noble."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
WOMAN DEAD IS DAYS

Lynn. Mass. May IT. - (UP) - The body of Miss Elizabeth M. Daley, 69, was found in her locked apartment early today after police forced the door, and Medical Examiner Laurence P. Cusick said that she had been dead for about IS days.
 Police investigated at the request O ia sister, Mrs. Nellie Flames of Brockton, who became worried when she received no reply to a letter she wrote to Miss Daley two weeks ago. Dr. Cusick said death resulted from a cerebral hemor- rhage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
Sen. MalOney Speaks At .C.U.A. Commencement
Destruction of Academic Freedom Marked First Step
 in Nazis' Bid for Worldwide Dominance,

Washington, D. O., May 1T = Spe- cial = The initial step in the evil strategy of aggression of the Nazs was the destruction of academic freedom, Sen. Francis T. Maloney of Connecticut, declared in address, ing the graduates of the Catholic University of America at the fifty fifth annual Commencement Day exercises May 17th in Washington.
 More than 600 students of the nine schools of Catholic University and the Catholic Sisters College were presented with degrees by the Most Rev. Michael J. Curley, arch- bishop of Baltimore and Washing ton and Chancellor of Catholic Uni- versity, who presided at the cere- monies which were preceded by the usual procession of students and faculties.
 Tn this country" Senator Ma loney said, academic freedom has always been an essential ingredient of the liberty we cherish. We have been proud of our University schol- ars because they have been the pro- ducts of unregimented thought. We have been confident of their leader ship in an hour of national danger, because they have equipped them selves with the unerring instincts of intellectual honesty.
 Freedom is cherished in the heart, but it thrives in a mans mind. A free nation is strong na- ton because its people give intel lectual assent to the principles of freedom. That is why in every great fight for freedom the scholars of the nation are among the staunchest of its warriors.
 Tt is to be remembered that the first attack of Nazism was aimed at the universities of Germany. The destruction of academic freedom; indeed, the liquidation of scholars who would not surrender their in- tellectual integrity, was considered
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17

by those who had seized the Reich as an initial step in their evil strat- egy of aggression. If they could throttle truth in their own country, so they thought, they would pre- sent the world an overwhelming spectacle of unity by force.
 Were they not also fearful lest, if a spark of liberty remain unex- tinquished in Germany, 1t might one day burst forth into consuming fire of revolution? Did they not des- troy the freedom of their univer- sitieS because they dared not risk the resentment that might shoulder within those free precincts, as the mad rush of Nazism gained momen- .tum?
 Tt will be said that German sci- ence still needs the command of Hitler; that we fight an enemy who still relies upon the potent resources of trained minds. We may be asked
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
News Of Connecticut

Winsted. Conn, May I7.-(UP)- War gardening proved more danger ous than war itself today to Mrs. Jules A. Bunel.
 Mrs. Bunel, living in France dur ing the German invasion, came through i4 months of Nazi rule un- scathed. Yesterday she broke her wrist while working in her garden.
 East Granby. Conn, May IT, (UP)-Conyicted in justice court of having unlawfully shot 6 dog, State Police Commissioner Edward J. Hickey said Laumark told investiga- tors that he had shot at several dogs because they had been annoy ing his dog. In court, Laumark was fined siOO.
 New Haven, Conn. May i7.-(UP) Arthur S. smead, 4e, Vlneland. N. J., who ieaped from the third floor window Of a noted Saturday, died at hospital late yesterday from a broken neck. 4 guest in an ad- joining room told police he heard Smead yell Look out below" a few minutes before he was found uneon- selous in q parking lot.
 Boston. May iT. (UP)-The Bos- ton auaTteFmasteFs depot today awarded an Army contract for e0I000 pairs of hospital slippers to Frederick. .speief Footwear, Inc, N0rwalk, Conn.
 Hartford, Conn. May iT-fup)- Released today from Cheshire rec forms tory after serving . term for violating the Federal Dyer Act, George Harold FaFnkoff. r.. 70. (et West Eagle street.. Boston. was presented before . u. 6. commis. SioneF today on a similar charge and ordered removed to Boston for trial,
 FarnkoI vas charged with trans porting . stolen automobile from Dover. V. H., Co Everett. Maes. NC had completed q sentence for trans- porting a stolen car from NeW Haven to Pelham Manor. W. <.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
10 Dead In
 BIimp Crash

Lyndhurst, N. J., May l7-(UP)-- The Navy announced today that a board of inquiry will investigate the crash of training blimp yesterday in which six Navy officers and four enlisted men were killed.
 A fifth enlisted man was injured critically.
 First reports indicated that an er- TOT of judgment on the part of stu dent pilots caused the airship to crash into the upper edge of a large hangar and plummet more than POO feet to a concrete runway below.
 Navy authorities said the wreck age will be examined for mechanical defects.
 The blimp, 250 feet long and con- taining 4l6,000 cubic feet of non- inflammable helium cas, was on a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
Two Men Injured As School Wall .Collapses. Here

Two men working for The Thomas Moran and Son con- tracting firm were admitted to Waterbury hospital at 1:30 this afternoon after wall on which they were working at the Barnard School in Brooklyn collapsed, 1t was reported.
 The men are Lewis Hanchette, H, 136 Bristol street, New Haven, who suffered compound fracture of the right leg; and Vito PalIat- to, 47, 169 Butler street, New Hav- en, who suffered . back injury and possible internal injuries.
 The men were driven to the hospital in the police ambulance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
Crime Wave Prophesied

Boston, May 17. - (UP) -- Some of the war workers of today may become the leaders of tomorrow in the greatest crime wave the nation has ever seen," according Co Austin H. Mace Cormick, director of the Cs~ borne Association of New York.
 Speaking last night at the fourth annual banquet of the United Prison Association here, MacCormick said:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-17
Boys Now Con Join Merehont Marine

Washington, May 17.-(UP)- Youths between 16 and 17h years old became eligible for service with the Merchant Marine today.
 VISA announced it would enlist for training those who obtain parental consent. Applicants must enroll at VISA enrolling offices, or write to the U. s. Maritime Service.
Evening star., 1944-10-21
Double Talk

The phrase double talk" is COM
mon in modern use, but there does
not seem to be any general agree
ment about what is intended by it.
Some authorities on slang seem to
believe that it relates to a curious
trick of speech-something like the
"hog Latin" of half century ago.
A proficient double talker," &C
cording to this conception, can
manipulate words in such wise as
to convey two distinct meanings at
once-a meaning for those in the
know" and meaning for those who
are not admitted to the inner circle
to which the speaker and his in
itiated audience belong.
But the idea of double talk as
synonym for deception" or deceit"
is ancient and abundantly authen-
ticated. 1t takes many forms and
has many applications. President
Roosevelt, for example, said in the
course of his first political utterance
Of the present campaign: There
is one thing I am too old for-I
cannot talk out of both sides of my
mouth at the same time" Perhaps
he was thinking of Saint Paul's
stipulation, in First Timothy, iii.8,
to the effect that: Likewise must
the deacons be grave, not double
tongued.' Or possibly he was re-
membering the Psalmist who wrote:
They speak vanity every one with
his neighbor; with flattering lips
and a double heart do they speak,"
and Saint James, "a servant OF
God" who declared: "A double
minded man is unstable in all his
ways" and called on sinners to:
Purify your hearts. ye double
minded"
The parson in Chaucer's "Canter-
bury Pilgrims" was familiar with
the aforementioned vice as well as
with that to which he more directly
referred when he announced: "Now
comith the slime of double tongue,
swiche as speke faire biforn folk
and wikkedly bihynde." Shakespeare
similarly employs several terms
tracing back to the same or a
nearly allied scriptural source. He
has the phrase double dealer" in
Twelfth Night" and in Much Ado
About Nothing" and "a double
meaning prophesier" in "All's Well
That Ends Well" John Milton in
Samson Agonistes' penned COM
plant against insecure celebrity in
the sentence: Fame. II not double
Evening star., 1944-10-21

State and senatorial ticket. Against
them the Democrats have named two
popular political fgures-Gov. Henry
F. Schricker for the Senate, and Senator
Samuel D. Jackson for Governor Mr..
jackson now is serving in the Senate
under appointment by the Governor, to
NIL vacancy caused by the death of
the late Senator Van Nuys, Democrat.
\ \
1t is commonly predicted here that
Gov. Schricker will run far ahead of
the rest Of the Democratic ticket-even
$4,000 or more ahead of Mr.. Roosevelt.
Gov Schricker is the homespun Demo-
cratic statesman who carried the State
in 1910 by 1868 votes while Mr.. Willkie
was winning over the President. He
has increased his popularity with In
diana voters both Republican and
Democratic, during the four years since
then. His opponent, Mr.. Capehart is
millionaire manufacturer who won
the Republican senatorial nomination
after bitter fight in the party. Mr..
Capehart Is an extreme opponent of the
New Deal. The Democrats. however,
have dug up letter which Mr.. Cape
hart in March, 1888, wrote to prospec-
tive Democratic county highway COM
missioner in which Mr. Capehart said:
AL the Capeharts are good Demo-
Gratis His letter was an appeal for a
job for his nephew, Harry Haskins,
under the highway commissioner. Mr..
Capehart said in his letter that he him.
self could not give him job since busi-
ness was so bad. Since then the Demo-
Gratis say, Mr.. Capehart, under a Demo-
cratic administration. has become tre-
mendously wealthy and has changed
his tune.
Ralph Gates, the Republican candi-
date for Governor, was formerly Re-
publican State chairman, a run-of-the-
mine politician. Senator jackson, who
served as permanent chairman of the
Democratic National Convention last
July, Is good speaker and campaigner.
1t Is estimated that about $50 1000
workers moved into Indiana to take war
jobs, and many thousand of them from
Kentucky, Tennessee and other South
ern States. Tn, Democrats are counting
on these people and their families to
support the Roosevelt ticket.
Nevertheless, 1t is an uphill fight for
the Democrats, and today Indiana
should be placed in the Republican
column SO far as Dewey is concerned.
and If Dewey wins by a considerable
margin, he will carry the rest of the
candidates along with him.
Evening star., 1944-10-21

ity based upon real cooperation. 1t
takes much less blood, sweat and
tears to insure peace than to night
third world war for another lost
peace"
These are Mr.. Baruch's principal
recommendations to the country
that he has helped to lead through
two successful wars and one peace
that failed. They are in substantial
agreement with the recommended
tions of all forward looking Ameri-
cans. But the real question before us
is not whether we know what needs
to be done, but whether we will do
what we know must be done If the
United States Is not to make a third
round trip into war, peace and
the aftermath.
Evening star., 1944-10-21
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 20.-Indiana,
with its great war plants and influx of
war workers from other States, has be-
come the political guinea pig of the
CIO and its Political Action Committee
The Democratic organization here has
fallen in with the idea Today its only
hope of carrying the State for President
Roosevelt hinges on the ability of the
PAC-and their own workers-to get
industrial workers to the polls.
Here Is the way one OF the principal
Democratic leaders analyzed it for me-
The State, he said, has 90 counties. In
IS Of these counties the registration has
been large and these are industrial
counties. In the other more rural coun-
ties the registration has not kept up and,
indeed, has fallen of. In Lake County
alone, he estimated, the Democrats
might roll up lead of $4,000.
Even SO. he did not claim the State
for Mr.. Roosevelt, but contented himself
with saying it was an even bet and
might 60 either way He admitted that
the great farm population is distinctly
hostile to Mr.. Roosevelt.
DcSplle lie lACL tuAJ many voters are
reported as saying nothing about the
way they will vote on November 7, this
Hoosier State is boiling over with in
terest in this coming election. The
people here have always taken their
politics for breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The Republican side of the picture
differs widely from these Democratic
claims In the flrst place, polls both
national and local, give the Republicans
a big edge in the State, indicating a
Dewey victory by anywhere from 10O, 900
to 10000. The late Wendell L. Willkie,
native Hoosier. carried the State four
years ago with a lead of 5,403 votes.
He won in Marion County. which is
indianapolis, by nearly 5000, but lost
In Lake County, Gary, by about 26, 900.
The indianapolis Times poll with
daily returns. shows Mr.. Dewey with 81
per cent of the vote in this county to 80
per cent for Mr.. Roosevelt. The Times
figures that Al per cent should be de-
Quoted from the Republican showing
This would still leave Dewey with more
than IS per cent of the vote.
Mr.. Dewey is running well ahead of
the Republican candidate for Governor,
Ralph l.. Gates, and far ahead of the
COP candidate for Senator, Homer E.
Capehart. This would seem to bear out
the assertion frequently made here,
that the Republicans picked a weak
Evening star., 1944-10-21
In Sight of Victory

Last year I ,oould hare had to turn mn
To look at you, and then the turnino
meant
MY task nntended for space. Instead.
held my place and fought ahead, intent
On Dork alone. / feared you lost some-
hotD-
! did not knoD the poice that spoks
your mind,
Nor guess the strength OF maritime lope,
nor hoD
A heart ,oiH deepen to the need it finds.
The last frontier is still ahead, but no,p
Our grim lines march, and cdn breathe
again
And dream once more OF home and you,
as UheT
The toiler in the fields WiH check his
ploD
And look to see his home, his heart, his
seed,
And know their looe deserving OF his
Decd
sEFGT. HAROLD APPLEBAUM. UsA.