davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

The Paraboic Mike caught few reverberatlonS within the to the effect that Christmas carols Will be the order of the day from now till Christmas The bells of St. Johns, the word will tell the story or Christs coming. Nearby Church of the Immaculate Conception will be visited by many who VIII atteno services and others who will visit the church to see the crb There goes Father OShea now, across the Green busy from morn till night, and Father" Anderson, too from nearby Trinity church stops every foot or so to oo good-day to the acquantances Busy days, these pre- Christmas oneS especially for the guardians m the var ous houses of prayer Mrs Winfred Beecher is busy tending to affairs of city and state; state being her duties president of the Connecticut Federation ot Music Clubs and she says, one day finds her n toWn one out She had of her biggest pleasures recently the mike reports presenting good fat check to the Serv ice Committee of the local Mattatuck Musical Art Society which is achieving quite rep for good deeds
 . Mrs. Mary Klmartin, gracious and pleasant Town Clerk pauses to chat and few words caught by the fabulous mike. Mrs. Kilmartin has a good word for everyone and her passing by leaves the day brighter for few well chosen words. Here comes punch or that there's school till tomorrow. Most of them are headed the stores and today they only give us few words which add up to Christmas is coming and already catch sight of those disappearing from sight turning in to nearby stores gazing in at store windows Now what? Oh nothing at all. We thought 1t was another prospective broadcaster but it's just the rac cop at the four corners trying his best to untangle another pedestrian and traffic Snarl.
 Taps The GAR. ranks decreasing in New England The deaths in the past weeks of Civil War veter- leaves just eleven Thomas A. CorSon age 103 yearS died at the U s. Veterans Hospital in Chelsea last Saturday. He was from Salem Mass And George A. Gay, 96, of Nashua, N H. former national commander, died Thursday An interesting anecdote is told of CorSon who was doing sentry duty and challenged tall
 figure that loomed before him in the dark of the night The challenged figure Abraham Lincoln. With the passing of such as these from midst goes much of importance It is up to the descendants to treasure their memories and the stories told to them of another day and age.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

The Town Crier Tells Fewer city folks drive through the country these days but the infrequent trips please one with the sight of white houses wncn and the bronzes and reds of Autumn have gone happy sight along the way the preparatory scnoo campus such as you in our nelghoorng WaterGown and Cheshire boys out at their games or poddng along the pathways books under arms The only motlon picture theater in Mars Hill, Maine in the HuSsey pock owned by of Aroostook Countys leadng ouslneSS- men burned for the second time within year last week.
 Nearby towns do good job of sanding their streets and the highways between towns are well taken, care of when the first rain and seet storms come
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

Fifth Air Force, Philippine Islands = Father Ut: Coll Thomas F. Shea, son of Mrs Elizabeth Shea OI 100 Fairmomt Street Waterbury Conn.,, landed in the Philippines under fire with the advance echeon ot the Fifth Air Force on Plus Two. Father Shea chaplain of the Fifth Air Force was in group that was pnne9 to a beach for more than week by Jap bOmbers and srafers The first tropical typhoon to harrass General Douglas MacArthur's Liberation forces struck shorty atfer the chaplain landed to the accompaniment oi GU m ph winds and torrentia rains Overseas B months Father Shea was assigned to heavy bombardment group before becoming director of all chaplans in the Fifth Air Force. He went on active duty with the of Ansona Conn. The chaplain is graduate of Holy Cross College, Worcester, Mass, and St. Mary's Seml. nary, Baltimore. He plans to return to the Unlteo States soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19
DECEMBER NIGHTS

- -@--
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-19

Good Night.
Evening star., 1944-08-02
u. 5. Donates S13,715,OO0
10 Russian War Relief

The American people have con-
tributed $l3,715, 900 to the Russian
War Relief during the first six
months Of 1874, Bruce Baird, treas
urer of the District Russian War
Relief Committee, announced to-
day.
The total contributions were more
than double the amount received
during the same period last year.
Cash contributions totaling s4,O91, :
l53 were received through the Ma
tional War Fund. and contributions
OF clothing, household kits, watches,
seeds and miscellaneous relief items,
valued at s9,623,917 were made di-
rect to Russian War Relief. THE
Districts share of the contributions
OF clothing and household kits was
valued at $40,855.
At the same time Edward C.
Carter, the agency's national pres
ident. predicated that the goal of
$21 900 900 for the year will be ex-
ceeded.
Evening star., 1944-08-02
Eden Threatens to Halt
Greek Groups Supplies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 2.-Foreign Secre-
tary Anthony Eden threatened to-
day to withdraw supplies from the
E. A. NJ resistance movement in
Greece if this Communicated guer-
rilla faction persists in refusal to
reach an agreement with the present
Greek government in-exile.
In reply to a question Mr.. Eden
said in the House of Commons that
if these guerrillas continued "in their
provocative attitude our policy to-
ward them, including such questions
as the provision of supplies" would
have to be reconsidered. /.
Evening star., 1944-08-02

seas movements of troops and sup
plies, Rear Admiral Young displayed
remarkable ability and foresight in
the overall planning of the logis-
tic phases of the Atlantic operations.
Due to his comprehensive knowl-
edge. initiative and tireless efforts.
the supply problems in this theater
were successfully solved during his
tour of duty as feet supply officer"
A native of Washington, Admiral
Young lives at los Hesketh street,
Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1944-08-02

artillery from landing barges to
themselves and fought 1t out with
enemy planes.
Comdr. Hariee already has re-
ceived the Silver Star Medal, the
Asiatic-P Pacific Campaign Medal and
the American Defense Medal with
Fleet Clasp. His father, Brig. Gen.
William c. Harlee, U. S. M. c. re-
tired. lives at 1883 Lamont
street NV.
Rear Admiral William Brent
Young, chief of the Bureau of Sup
plies and Accounts, was awarded
the Legion OF Merit for his services
Evening star., 1944-08-02
Womon's Death by Cos
Certified as Suicide

A certificate of suicide was issued
today by Dr. A. Magruder Mac
Donald. District coroner. in the
death last night of Mrs. Ethel E
Fogarty, 81, of 2O07 r street NV.
Mrs. Fogarty was found in the
gas-filled kitchen OF her home by
her daughter, Miss Edelen Fogarty
with whom she lived She was pro-
nounced dead by a private physician
Evening star., 1944-08-02

hLtCIiUcu WSts
ern High School
n e r e, was the
commander Of q
m O tor torpedo
squadron award
ed the Presiden-
tial U n | t Cita-
tion-for activi-
ties against the
Japanese.
The Navy said
t h e So uadron
"relentleSSly at
t a c k e d more
heavily ar m e d
shipping, divert
od 6ra Af chano
Evening star., 1944-08-02

as supply omcer
of the Atlantic
Fleet during the
eri iod ON
April, 1941. to
May, 1942, when
he held the rank
of commander.
During this
period of intense
activity in the
A t lantic." his
citation reads,
"the establish
ment of numer-
GUS new bases
and the ever
increa sing nuer-
Evening star., 1944-08-02
z D. c. Naval Officers
Awarded Honors for
Meriiorious Service

Two Washington naval ofncers
were honored yesterday for meri-
torious service, the Navy announced.
1t. Comdr. John Harllee, 80, who
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Refugees
Continued From First Page J

that he must use his own Judgment
in evaluating the new committee
and its policies. The author de-
cided to remain aloof.
Efforts to organize Free Ger
many" committee in the United
States recalls this Governments at
titude toward similars group which
was set up last year in Moscow. 1t
was composed of such diversified
elements as Otto Pieck, former
member of the Reichstag and also a
former member of the Executive
Committee of the Comintern, and
1t. Gen. Werner Won Seidlitz, pris-
oner of war. This committee was
broadcasting to Germany propa-
ganda which was completely at
variance with the war aims of the
United Nations.
The chief objective of the Free
Germany" Committee in Russia.
aside from the American point of
view, was the defense of the Reich
from political and economic dis
memberment.
Upon his return from Moscow
last winter, Secretary of State Hull
announced emphatically that since
the signing of the Moscow agree
ments the Free Germany" Com
mittee had been recognized as
superfluous by Foreign Commissar
v. M. Molotov and that the Russian
government had decided to abolish
it. However, it appears that the
committee is still very much alive
and Is continuing its broadcasts.
Evening star., 1944-04-24

Washington's model railroad hob
byists, depite the wartime shortages
LOT manpower and materials, have
expanded their railway systems dur
ing the past year, adding the latest
type streamlined locomotives, new
freight and passenger cars and vir-
tually every other type of rolling
stock"
More than 100 exhibits of model
railway equipment-all built since
last April by the approximately SIS
members of the Metropolitan So
ciety of Model Engineers, Inc.-went
on display last week in the Arts and
Industries Building of the Smith
sonian Institution. 1t is the So
ciety's eleventh annual;. and per-
haps its best, model railroad exhibit.
There Is little motorized equip
ment in this years show, because
midget motors have become almost
impossible to obtain. But, accord
ing to Chester Tyne, city passenger
agent for the Seaboard Railway and
vice president Of the club, model
builders here have had no difficulty
finding materials for construction
Of railway cars and motorless loco
motives.
Building Materials in Stock.
Several model dealers here, hav-
ing stocked up before the war, still
can offer kits of train building ma
terials. For most model construc-
ton, wood and cardboard are the
principal materials needed. Metal
for locomotives can be obtained
from salvaged tin cans.
While some members of the club
have gone to war, Mr.. Tyne said
the quality Of new equipment has
not noticeably declined. The hobby
lists who remain, he explained, are
mostly mature men, who take
great pains in building their model
railway systems.
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Henry D. Byers Funeral
To Be Held Tomorrow

Henry D. Byers, A, for many
years a resident of the District,
who died Friday at Norfolk, Va,
after three-day illness, will be
buried in Arlington Cemetery after
funeral services at 2 pm. tomor-
row at the Ives funeral home, 2847
Wilson boulevard, Arlington, Va.
A native of Alexandria, Va, Mr.
Byers attended school In Washing
ton and lived at 17i8 Newton street
for many years. He was an employe
Of the Railway Express Co. here
before entering the Army in No.
vember, 1912. He received medica.
discharge last May and had livee
in Norfolk since and was employed
there by the railway company.
He was member of Centennia
Masonic Lodge and belonged to tn.
Calvary Baptist Church where he
was member of the Vaughn Bible
Glass.
Surviving are his mother, Mrs
Elizabeth M. Byers of Arlington
thre brothers, Pfc. Charles M. BY.
ers, with the Army overseas: Corpl
Merritt Byers, with the Marines il
the Pacific, and Pvt. Meredith BY
ers, with the Army in the Pacific
and three sisters. Mrs. r. C. Du
drow OF Hyattsville, Md; Mrs. A. F
owens Of Arlington, and Mrs. Franz
MeSSerSmith of Washington.
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Bishop Dun Confirms
66 al Two Churches

The Right Rev. Angus Dun, new
Bishop of Washington, yesterday
administered confirmation to e6
persons at st. Paul's Episcopal
Church, Rock Creek road and
Webster street NV, and st. Pat
rick's Chapel, Foxhall road and
Greenwich Parkway.
A record crowd of approximately
500 worshippers crowded the church
and overflowed into the streets ad-
joining st. Paul's Church, where
the outsiders heard services by
means Of loudspeakers connected
with the auditorium, to witness the
laying on of hands" by Bishop Dun.
Twenty lone children and IL adults
were confirmed.
The Rev. Charles w. Wood, rector
|of the church, presented the can
didates for confirmation.
Bishop Dun confirmed 20 chill
dren and 13 adults at the 8 pm.
service yesterday at st. Patrick's
Chapel. The group was presented
by the Rev. F. E. Warren, vicar of
the chapel. After the ceremony, a
reception was given in honor of
Bishop and Mrs. Dun In the parish
hall.
Evening star., 1944-04-24

tHe 1dleS SCHOOL. Sariotta II. muir.
Active in musical circles as a
singer and composer, Mrs. Muir at
the time Of her death was chairman
of the music section of the District
chapter of the League of American
Pen Women. Formerly she sang
contralto in the quartet of the Chevy
Chase Baptist Church, of which she
was a charter member. She was q
member Of the music section OF the
Chevy Chase Women's Club.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Muir
is survived by five sons, DR.. C. Mar
shall Muir, pastor of the First Pres
byterian Church, East Orange, N. j.;
j. Johnstone Muir, local attorney:
1t. Comdr. Brockett Muir, WASH
ington; Wallace Muir of the Poto-
mac Electric Power Co. and Petty
Oficer Bluford Muir, stationed at
Crosse lie, Mich: a brother, Paul
Brockett, secretary of the National
Academy Of Science, five grandsons
and three granddaughters.
Funeral services will be held at
3 pm. tomorrow at the Chevy Chase
Baptist Church, with the Rev. Ed
ward o. Clark, pastor, officiating.
Her sons will act as pallbearers.
Burial will be in Rock Creek Gene
tery.
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Chicago Tribune Says
WLB Favors Friends
In Granting Newsprint
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, April 24.-"The ad.
ministration denies newsprint to one
Of its critics, but finds loopholes to
grant 1t TO one of its supporters, y
the Chicago Tribune said in an edi-
torial today commenting on the
War Production Board denial of an
application for paper to start a
Tribune-owned daily in Milwaukee,
| Wis.
The Tribune applied for 22,872
tons of paper on April ii to be used
in the publication of a paper in the
Wisconsin city 1t said at the time
that the Wisconsin primary, in
which Wendell L. Willkie was de-
feated, was fought on the issue of
Tribune policies against Willkie
policies" and added the result in
dicated Wisconsin voters dissatis-
faction with the services they are
receiving from Wisconsin news
papers"
Freedom of Press.
On April 20, the WPB denied the
application on grounds ANY deter
mination based upon any appraisal
of the relative merit of one publi-
cation as against another F" would
abridge freedom of the press which
| Is guaranteed by the Constitution. y
Today, in commenting on this de-
cision, forwarded in letter from
Arthur Treanor, director of the
lWPB printing and publishing divi-
sion, the Tribune said:
"The WPB is now entertaining a
petition by an anti-American news
paper published in Chicago for ad-
dition newsprint, based principally
on the plea that that newspaper
renders service to newspaper read
ers opposed to the policy of the
Tribune, and needs more paper to
extend that service.
Cites San Diego Newspaper.
"In its application the Tribune
also made reference to pro-admin-
istration newspaper which recently
has been started in San Diego,
Calf. This publication did not get
| a newsprint allowance from the
WPB but instead went to COM
mercial printer with whom 1t con-
tracted to have its paper printed,
and the printer presumably applied
to the WPB and was given quota
of newsprint for that purpose.
g" The trick here depends
upon the definition of a newspaper
adopted by the WPB, which provides
that newspaper is a publication
that has been granted Second-class
mailing privileges. All that the San
Diego New Dealer had to do to get
his commercial newsprint was to
neglect to apply for second-class
privileges.
"* That is the record. The
administration denies newsprint to
one of its critics but finds sloop-
holes to grant it to one of its sup
Iporters and to receive. an applica-
ton from another supporter, based
on the same plea that it denied in
the case of the Tribune"
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Raids
Continued From First Page

Continued From First Pageo
and shooting down 54 German fight
ers. The Americans lost Is heavy
bonbers and 13 fighters.
2. The RAF sent a force of more
than 1000 aircraft, mostly heavy
bombers, into Germany and France
Saturday night, hitting the Ger
man rail and industrial cities OF
Dusseldorf and Brunswick, the
German industrial city of Mann
helm and the French rail center
of Laon, 80 miles northeast of Paris
The RAF lost AZ bombers,
8. From Italy, between 500 and
750 American Liberators and Flying
Fortresses skinned the Alps into
Austria Sunday, pounding the air
craft production centers at Wei
enr-Neustadt and Schwechat and
the Bad Voslau airfield, all near
Vienna. Losses were not immedi-
atedy announced.
Costal Defenses Blasted.
4. Virtually unending streams of
Allied medium, light and fighter
bombers passed back and forth from
Britain to Europes western fringe
yesterday, blasting coastal anti
invasion defenses, at least seven
widely separated airbases in France
and Belgium, the Belgium rail
center of Namur, and many targets
of opportunity.
Resistance was negligible during
the Sunday daylight operations from
Britain. 9th Air Force Mustangs and
Thunderbolts ranged from the Dutch
Coast to Bremen and the Ruhr VAL
ley for four hours without finding a
single German fighter aloft. FLAX
bruoght down one of the American
fighters. Seven others failed to re-
turn from the attacks on the French
and Belgian airfields.
A Budapest broadcast said that
city and Bekes, town in Eastern
Hungary, were attacked from the
air yesterday, but Allied sources did
not Immediately confirm the report.
German planes showered in
cendiaries on an unidentified town
along England's SOL shwestern coast
last night and early today, setting
fire to a number of houses but the
damage was officially described as
slight. Five Of the raiders were shot
down.
The Berlin radio said the target
of the German night raiders was
Bristol and declared that large fires
had been started.
Evening star., 1944-04-24

Chinese troops pushed into stiff ar
tillery and machine gun fire to a
point one mile northwest of Warong,
only 26 airline miles north of
Mogaung, important station on the
Mandalay railway to Myitkyina.
Ten miles to the northwest they
were approaching Manao Gahtawng
along the banks of the Mogaung
River, and on the western side of
the valley they were within a mile
of Ngan Gahtawng, only 5 miles
northeast of Lonkin in the rich jade
mine fields.
On the Arakan front, where the
japanese claim to have started a
general offensive, the communique
said the enemy suffered heavy cas-
ualties and repulse.
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Thomas F. Mcmahon, Is,
Union Pioneer, Dies
ny the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CRANSTON, r. T., April a.
Thomas F. Mcmahon, rs, Rhode
Island State labor director from
1887 to 1899 and a pioneer in the
trade union labor movement In the
United States. died at his home here
Saturday.
Mr.. Mcmahon was one of the
founders of the United Textile
Workers of America in 1901, was
international president from 1921 to
1887, and had served on many ma
tional labor committees. His advice
on stabiliZation of the textile in
dustry was sought by President
Roosevelt in 1886. He was labor
board member under MIRA In 1884
and was an intimate of the late
Samuel Gompers, William Green,
John L. Lewis and Daniel j. Tobin.
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Mrs. Mary Mccormack
To Be Buried in Kentucky

Funeral services and burial of Mrs.
Mary Tyler Mccormack, who died at
the home of her daughter. Mrs Will
liam Nelson Wilbur, in Warrenton,
Va. Saturday after a short illness,
will be held Wednesday in Hopkins
vile, Ky.
A native Of Hopkinsville, and
daughter of the late Judge and Mrs.
John Tyler Mccormack. Mrs. Nc
Cormack came to Washington about
seven years ago. She lived at the
Wardman Park Hotel for five years,
then moved to Carter Hall in War
renton. Her husband was the late
DR.. Arthur Mccormack of Ken
lucky.
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Mrs. John Burch Dies
After Lonq Illness

Mrs. Hanora Elizabeth Burch. 10,
District native and widow of John
Earl Burch, died yesterday at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Will
liam H. Rehmann, IL Forest Grove
drive, Silver Spring, Md, after a
long illness.
Mrs. Burch was a graduate of
Notre Dame Academy here. For
many years she was member of
st. Aloysius parish. She later
moved to Silver Spring and became
a parishioner of st. Johns Church,
Forest Glen, Md. Her husband, a
Forest Service employe, died about
a year and half ago.
She is survived in addition to
Mrs. Redmann, by a sister.
Requiem mass will be sung at
$50 am. Wednesday at St. Johns
Church, with burial in the church
cemetery.
Evening star., 1944-04-24

The exhibit, which covers six dis
play cases at the Smithsonian In
stitution. includes everything from
new diner for the Dream City
and Washington Railroad to a
pickle tank car built by Alma Bloss
for the Sequatchie Pickle Co. A
few scenic displays represent vary
ing types OF railroad bridges and
a section of typical model rail-
road. Most models are built to
a scale Of either 3h nm. or u
of an inch to the foot.
Bond Purchases Urged.
One innovation this year is the
inclusion of red-white-and- blue
cars painted with slogans urging
the purchase Of War Bonds. In
this, the model builders are only
following the lead of some Amer
lean railroads, Mr.. Tyne explained.
Since the opening of the exhibit,
which will continue through May
ID, the Smithsonian Institution has
been invaded by steady trickle of
curious youngsters. Joseph Bart
kowski, guard at the institution, has
noted that most of the juvenile
visitors have brought their parents,
and that good many of the grown
ups are more than just politely in
terested. 4
Mr.. Bartkowski himself doesn't
have any interest in railroading,
and his years as q Smithsonian
guard have made him rather in
different toward most museum ex-
fhibits. As he was explaining this,
he passed one Of the display cases
"But, now you take this model
here he said, pointing to a small
scale Pullman of the Dream City
and washington Railway. Every
thing inside is built to scale, too
You can see the seats In there.
They're pretty nice"
Evening star., 1944-04-24
Tennessee Storm Kills
Man, Levels Five Homes

By the Associated Press.
R1DGELY, Tenn, April 24.-A Sc
we're windstorm which struck the
outskirts of Ridgely early yesterday
left one person dead, several others
injured and property damage esti-
mated at around $4,000.
E. j: Bender, SO, was found dead
beneath the wreckage of his house
and his wife, 81, was taken to a
memphis hospital with serious
injuries. The other injured did not
require disqualification.