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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26

It was a sober and quiet Christ mas generally yesterday punctuated but occasionally by reVelers; the majority of Waterbury residents conscious of the somber tones of the war on the western front carried their Christmas spirit with 8 heav- mess of heart, but hghtnesS of display.
 Yet the spirit was there kept alive in memory of the thousands of Wa terbury men now fighting on all fronts of the war, whose gallant ac- tions meant more toward sustaining the real Christmas than the actions of any others.
 Church services in all the glory of the full liturgical music and service were observed here yester- day with all churches crowded.
 It wasn't a white Christmas with yesterday marked by a steady soak ing drizzle which turned Sundays snow and ice into a much of slip pery walking made more difficult by the wispy fog.
 All local war industries today re- stunned production on a full scale to assure the support of supplies so critically needed by the men over seas. Local banks, federal offices, city hall and others also reopened to handle the routine of normal business.
 Servicemen who managed to get home on weekend or overnight passes were forced to leave loved ones in the midst of Christmas day celebrations and reunions. Trains and busses to and. from the city were crowded over the weekend with last nights exodus normally heavy.
 The sick and the indigent shared a part of Christmas with full course dinners of Turkey and all the fix ins' topped off with the traditional mince pie. St. Mary's and Water bury Hospitals, served such meals as
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avenue. Miss Lucille Miller, stu. dent nurse, at St. Francis flospi- tai Training School for Nurses Hartford arrived Christmas nigh for brief visit with his parents.
 Robert Hallock, s 2/c, U.S.N.R. son of Mrs. Christine Hallock o1 Waterbury, formerly of North street is now stationed in the Philippines
 Miss Mary Holleran of Bridgeport and Clifford Holleran of Ridgefield are spending the Christmas vaca tion with their mother, Mrs. Johr Holleran of Woodruff avenue.
 Miss Ruth Skilton of Scott ave. nue, spent Christmas day as tht guest of MT. and Mrs. George Pel. ger of Bethlehem.
 Miss Barbara Butterfield, cade nurse at St. Vincent's hospital Bridgeport, has been visiting he parents, MT. and Mrs. c. Edward Butterield of Prospect street.
 Miss Jeanne Flynn, member O. the faculty at the Memorial higl school, Manchester, is spending tht holidays with her parents, MT. ana Mrs. Francis P. Flynn of Middle bury road.
 MT. and Mrs. J. Paul Whitehead of Litchf1eld road, had as their 1loli day guests. Mrs. Whitehead's par ents, MT. and Mrs. H. w. Ehrlen O Pittsburgh, Pa.
 Truman s. Dayton, AIS. U.S.N.B. stationed at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, Mass, i spending a leave with his parents MT. and Mrs. Herbert s. Dayton O Wilder street.
 Mrs. H. Raymond Sjostedt ant her daughters, Peggy-Roe and Beth who have been visiting Mr. Sjostedt' parents, MT. and Mrs. Henry Sjo' stedt of Worcester, Mass, have re- turned to their home on Clear view Heights.
 Books recently added to tht shelves in the children's room havt been announced as follows:
 What Miranda Knew, by Ads head; Lullaby, by Bernhard; Caro- On Broadway, by Boylston; Rider of the Gabilans, by Dean; No Room by Dobbs; Bicycle Commandos, b! Farmer; Uncle Sam's Story Book by Harpers, comp; Lizzie, by Justus Rabbit Hill, by Lawson; Flicka Ricka, Dicka and the Kittens, b! Lindman; Snipp, Snapp, Snurr, anc the Big Surprise, by Lindman.
 Also: Wilderness Champion, b. Lippincott; Wonderful Locomotive by Meigs; Decky's Secret, by Moi Joy; All Aboard We Are Of, b, Nura; Mystery at ths Old Place, b, Orton; Girl Without Country, b. Pastors; Taller of Gloucester, b, Potter; Magic Michael, by Slobod kin; New Worlds for Josie, b, Worth; Golden Almanac, by Ben nett; How to Fly, by Sorenson ant Better; First Flying Book, b, Tatham; Home Handicraft fo Girls. by Hall; Fun With Wood, b. Leeming; Raymond L. Ditmars, b, Wood.
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out that in those muddled days when Hitler was preparing his hosts for the conquest of Europe, "only the churches stood squarely across his path" as Albert Einstein has testified. There as reason why there is a growing conviction that the older kind of peace treaty which was simply a disposition of the spells of war would be crime against God and man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26

Guns pointed electrically. Because the B-29 gunner has such a computer he doesn't have to guess about ife-or-death ques- hons like these: How much ahead of the Jap plane shall he aim? How much shall he elevate his gun to allow for gravity? How much for windage? For altitude? Distance? All these things affect the ac- curacy of his fire On the B-29 answers to IT questions like this are fed electrically to the guns, from mechanical and cleo tronic marvel in box no bigger than a suitcase.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
MICE BLAMED FOR SHORTAGE

Topeka, Kan. (UP) - No, mice didn't drink the gasoline, but they did chek up 1,200 gallons of gaso- line stamps. B. J. Hopkins told an OPA commissioner here recently in explaining his inability to ac- count for shortage. But Hopkins, not the guilty mice, got the sus- pension order from Commissioner J. Donald Gum, ordering him to suspend gasoline sales for 60 days, and staying all but IA days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26

Java's 500,000 acres of sugar cane producer nearly 5000 900 metric tons of sugar annually, and it is second only to Cuba in world sugar produc- tion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26

covery.
 Pfc. Towards mother. Mrs. Mary Osborn, is at present living with his sister, Mrs. Kenneth Patterson, of Jupiter, Florida.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
P-47s THEIR JOB

Evansville, Ind. (UP)-The four members of the Compton family are all connected with keeping P-47s going. Sgt. Virgil B. Compton is member of repair crew for the planes in the Dutch East h. dies, while his wife inspects the planes wings in war plant at home. His two brothers-in-law help produce the planes at the same plant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26

London has just learned that there are at least 10 Londons in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
My gun turret is several yards away. What
 change in airn7

It's no accident that U. S. airplane armaSnent is deadly. We'll before the war the Army Air Forces and General Electric were developing new ideas in fire-power accuracy and control.
 Pearl Harbor made every problem a thou sand times more urgent. G-E engineers com muted to Wright Field, burned midnight oil at Schenectady, conferred with engineers of Boe- ing, makers of the B-29, and with other air. plane manufacturers.
 On the Gunsight Computer alone, one part of the G-E Central Fire Control System, 70 G-E engineers have worked steadily for nearly three years. 10000 G-E employees, and l7 sub-contractors helped turn out the intricate mechanism-now in mass production for B-29s and other planes.
 But the job is not done. For every U. S. weapon, the enemy seeks a countersWeA G-E scientists and engineers c0ntinue 6heir work. GneT0l Electric O., Schenectddy, ~. F.
 Hsor Gss C-E radio prasvams: "TAs C-E Al g5 OFssa
 he." Sunday 10 I. M. EWT. NRC-~1Ae World Tod1y
 nesOs, Monday thrOEsa Friday, s:<g P.A. EWTs cBS FOR VICTORY - BUY AND HOLD WAR nossDe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26

Birmingham, England, will build ] $60,000,000 inner ring road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
Dance WednesdaY

Shirley Rice is chairman of the arrangements for the holiday dance to be given by the Pilgrim Fellowship in the Congregational church house, Wednesday evening. Many of the young people are planning to att tend the dance which will be held from until 11:30 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-26
Watertown Cub Pack
 Party Friday Night
Several Boys Received Awards, Group Carol Singing
 Feature on Program

W ~ E v W "
 stephen Cany Correspondent a Scott Avsnua Telephone lSa
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Christmas Party

CnflStmaS Party
 Watertown chapter, Order of the Eastern Star, will meet in Masonic Temple Wednesday night at 7:3O o'clock. The degree of the order will be conferred upon a class of candidates, and following the busi- ness meeting Christmas party will be held. Each member is asked to bring a 2S cent gift.
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Personals

Pvt. Wilfred D. Miller AUS, who is stationed with military acad- emy preparatory unit at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y, is spend- ing a furlough with his parents, MT. and Mrs. John T. Miller of Scott
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
Jewish Job Service Asks
Children Return To School

New York City ULNS).-Th Fed
GRAFTON Employment Service Il non
profit placement service supported by
the Federation of Jew h Philan-
thropies, Is urging 100 boys and
girls between the ages of 10 and Is,
registered there for employment dur
ing the summer. ITO help themselves
and their country" by returning 10
high school or college In September.
In Il letter to these young persons,
the service said:
THE men and women of the armed
forces, the chairman of the War Man
power Commission, the Commissioners
of Education. all state that you can
help yourself and your country by re-
turning To school.
IF work Is essential to your per-
sonal or family income, our guidance
division staff will be happy to con
fer with you to help find suitable part
time employment. You are planning for
tomorrow by returning to school in
September"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
ELMER HARTZEL FREED
OF SEDITION CHARGE

Washington, ID. c. ULNS).-A fed
eral Judge In Chicago has dismissed
the Indictment against Elmer Hartzel
who was charged with seditiOn because
of pamphlets he had written and cir
culated.
In 1042 IlartZel was convicted of
sedition and sentenced to > years In
Jail for the publication of 3 pamphlets,
THE British: An Inferior Breed,
"rhe jew Makes A Sacrifice" and
THE Diseased Spinal Cord" The case
then came before the L. :. Supreme
Court, the first sedition case decided
by this court during the war, and the
conviction was reversed. The ma jority
opinion held that while Hartzel's ideas
We're "odious," an American citizen
has the right of discussion and that
there was not sufficient evidence to
show that Harzel intended by the
pamphlets to bring about disturbances
in the military services
The u. $. Supreme Court ordered Il
new trial, and the dismissal at Chicago
brings the case to Il close.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
Dewey Hollis Ldbor's S Record;
Urues End To Restrictions
Governor Voices Apprecid-
tion Of Workers
Patriotism

The stirring news of victory after
victory on the fighting fronts Is cause
for pride not only in the theater Of
war but on the home front. Without
the superb cooperation of working men
and women here at home ii would have
been impossible to send out our mag
nificently equipped armies to attack
the enemies of freedom. In this all
Americans may rejoice and take pride,
but particularly the working men and
women of America who are making
for our fighting men the weapons with
which they are giving us victories.
In New York we take special pride
I'm the patriotism of labor. Since Pearl
Harbor there has not been single
ma jOr strike i'm New York, not one
serious interruption in production. The
fruits OF this peace on the home front
are being harvested on the plains Of
Tuscany, Normandy, Brittany and
Provence, as well as on the far-fiung
islands of the Pacific.
There is, therefore, an extraordinary
pleasure in greeting the men and
women who have contributed so mucn
on the occasion of this years celebra-
tion of the day dedicated to labor by
time-honored custom and by right.
Let us make surely not pausing
for moment in our efforts to provide
the fighting fronts with all they need
and mOre-that by next Labor Day
there will be an end to the wartime
restrictions which have been imposed
upon labor These restrictions If left
I'm the hands of government, could de-
can labor movement and totally end
the wight Of collective bargaining.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
Kaiser ShipYdrds
Go On 7-DoY Week
Sunday Program Goes Into
Effect In Response
To FDR Plea

Portland, Ore. (FP). - Sixty thou
sand employees of Henry J. Kaiser's
Oregon Shipbuilding Corp. and Van
couver shipyards went on 7-day
work schedule following a direct ap
peal by President Roosevelt for speedy
delivery of the Attack Transporl
vessels under construction in the two
plants
The Sunday work program went into
effect August ~ and will continue until
October 20, according to announced
plans. Since the first of the year the
three maritime commission yards in
this area have operated on 6-day week
schedules. Z
The appeal, addressed to Albert
Bauer, manager of Oregon Ship, and
Mike Miller, Vancouver yard head, re-
ferred to the Presidents recent tour
Of Pacific military bases during which
he conferred with General Douglas
Macarthur and Admiral Chester
Nimitz.
Naturally | cannot diyulge any de-
tailed plans relating to the all-out
drive against the japanese" the chief
executive wrote. II can say to you,
with all sincerity, that the combat
loaded transports now being construct
ed at your shipyard will play highly
important part in the amphibious CAM
paign of the Pacific.
LAS commanderin-chief of the army
and navy may l personally urge that
every man and woman engaged in the
construction of these special type
vessels be informed of the Importance
of delivering them at the earliest pos
sible moment. The past performance
of shipbuilders on the west coast
makes me feel confident that every
possible effort will be made to meet,
if not surpass, the schedule set for
you"
The Presidents message was CON
unprecedented in that it was
believed to be the first production plea
issued directly to workers of an in
dustry The Kaiser shipyards are or
ganiZed by AFL metal trades unions.
Allied chiefs of staff have been
promised that the transports under
contract to four Pacific coast yards
will be completed by December 81.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
Abolition or Poverty Is Aim
WOMEN'S BUREAU HEAD
HITS EQUAL RIGHTS BILL

Washington, ID. C.-Frieda :. Miller,
new director of the Women's Bureau
of the Department of Labor, scored
the equal rights amendment as IA "bill
that women have worked long and
hard To build"
II am against the equal rights
amendment proposed by various groups
In the country" she said, because IL
Is based on unrealistic thinking. IL
would alter, To the disadvantage of
women In industry, specific wage and
hour gains that are the result of years
of experience and work. We need
rather specific pills for specific Ills"
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
AFL Local Protests
LdYoH Of Workers

Oakland, Calf. (FP). Protests
were made August % to the army,
navy and maritime commission by
Shipwrights Local 1149 (AFL) over
a shutdown scheduled to begin in three
weeks at Pacific Bridge Co. because
no new government war contracts have
been received to supplement present
contracts.
About 1,5O0 workers would be laid
off because of the shutdown, Local
President Pat Fogerty said. A com
pany official insisted he had no infor-
nation on an impending shutdown but
remarked We'll, we can't afford to
keep 1000 men idle There is no re-
pair work ut the present time" The
union was just "riled up because some
Of the men will be laid Off" he said.
The local passed resolution to in
form the thre government agencies of
its protest against the shutdown and
"Our desire To see these yards proper
ly utilized to the end that the war
may be speedily concluded"
1t pointed out that the government
spent considerable money I'm the con
struction Of the yards and that "the
army, navy and maritime commission
have publicly proclaimed their inten-
tion to maintain the shipbuilding pro-
gram throughout the year" The union
is concerned because the available
services Of manpower and equipment
are not being used and the company
has not indicated they will be, Fogarty
said
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
DISTRICT ATTORNEY
ASSAILED FOR SILENCE
ON TRESCA MURDER

New York City 0LNS). - District
Attorney Frank $. Hogan of New Yorl;
County was sharply criticized, in an
open letter from the Rev. Aron s. Gil
martin, national, chairman of the
Workers Defense League, for failing
to mention the unsOlved Carlo Tresca
murder case in his recent 1943 report.
Tresca, editor of the Italian-language
paper III Martello and wOrld-famOus
anti-Fascist leader, was shot down in
the dim-out here in January, 1943
The prosecutors report cited wira-
tapping in "an unrelated case" which
revealed the close connection between
Frank Costello, slot-machine king, and
Magistrate Thomas Aurelio, candidate
for the Supreme Court.
I'VE think il strange" Gilmartin
wrote, that you made no mention of
that unrelated case, which we under
stand was the Tresca murder. A great
many people like ourselves are won
dering why, after II months, no ap-
parent progress has been made toward
apprehending TreScas slayer and those
who instigated that killing.
Isn't the public entitled, by this
time, to some report from you on what
has been done in the Tresca situation?
What for instance, did your office
discover about the different suspects
connected with foreign political groups
who were named as having possible
motives for eliminating Carlo Tresca ?
I'll your staff examined the files Of
ii Martello carefully 1t must have
found evidence of long and bitter con
fict between Tresea and certain totali-
tarians, both Fascist and Communist.
"A great deal of effort was put
forth by You and your aides in the
Aurelio case. Surely you owe ii to the
community to exert just as much
energy toward clearing the Tresca
mystery. So long as that killing re-
mains unsolyet, it stands as great
dark blot on the record of law en-
forcement In this city and state -
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
DEFERMENT EXTENDED
FOR COAL MINERS

Harrisburg Pa. ULNS).-To avert
"A critical shortage of fuel, Pennsyl-
vania Selective Service Headquarters
announced that the most serious con
sideration will be given to the defer
ment OF bona fide coal miners between
the ages OF % and %, inclusive, at
least until Nov. l.
Under present policy, no coal miner
under 22 may be deferred. Virtually
all coal miners between 20 and 3S are
deferred.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
Two Britishers Coming
To AFL Convention

Chicago-AFL President William
Green announced that the British
Trades Union Congress will send
two fraternal delegates to the forth
coming convention of the Fedora
tion November 20 in New Orleans
They are John Brown, Of the Iron
and Steel Trades Confederation and
Arthur Horner, of the South Wales
Mine Workers Federation.
In turn, the AFL Executive C0un-
ell will select two representatives
to attend the British Trades Union
Congress Convention to be held
October 16 at BlackpOOl, England,
and another representative to visit
the convention of the Canadian
Trades and Labor Congress In Mon
treal next month, Mr.. Green said.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
AFL TROUNCES CIO
IN STEEL ELECTION

Madison, Ill.-The International Asso-
citation OF Machinists, ably assisted by
AFL organizers, won an important
election against the CIO among EN-
ployees OF the Standard Steel Spring
Company here.
The vote in the NLRB poll showed
314 for the AFL union and PAL for the
Go. Organizers Fred Olds and Ralph
Schmidt led the organizing campaign
for the AFL.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07

war production program.
Opposition to reconversion plans be
fore the wars end because it might
hurt war production" was branded
ridiculous by the council.
Voluntary Action Urged
1.-THE shortages and lags in produc-
tiOn are demonstrably not the fault or
labor or management" the council
said, but must be attributed largely
to the impossibility of planning in ad-
vance for every contingency that de-
velops in Worldwide military move
ments.
"The AFL pledges its full coopera-
ton in wiping ont the few remaining
shortages promptly, But this must be
done on the same voluntary basis of
mobilization that has raised
war production in America to the high
est levels ever attained in history.
America must prepare for peace
while it continues to wage total war.
The executive council holds that the
future economic stability of our coun-
try depends upon the resourcefulness,
vision and ability of American labor,
and government in sOlv
ing the problem of meeting the chal-
lenge of peace while we are cOntem
plating the job of winning the war
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
Executive Council Pledges
Help To End Shortages; Hits
Further Mdnpower Controls
PREPARE FOR PEACE NOW. COUNCIL ASKS

Chicago LNS)The American Federation of Labor
tive in midsummer here pledged full support
federaons nearly 100000 members toward wpng short
ages in production that still exist.
tme the council reiterated protests against
unnecessary governmental manpower controls again
opposition speedy of industry peace
time production
The council served notice it would oppose attempt delay
preparation trouble spots in the
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
JOB RIGHTS FOR SEAMEN

Washington, ID. G. ILNS). = The
War Labor Board has ruled that EN-
ployees of the Crucible Steel Co., Pitts
burgh, who join the Merchant Marine
are not entitled to the same reemploy-
ment preference as men who served in
the armed forces.
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
Notions To Outflow Wdr In
Unexdmpled Period Of World
Cooperation. AFL Head Says
GREAT PROMISE OF FUTURE

Washington d. c. QLNS)-A period of "unexamped inter-
national cooperation keep world forecast by William
president of the American Federation of Labor speaking
nationwide NBC network of celebrating
the 10th anniversary of this countr participation in the Inter-
national Organization.
emphasized that poverty anywhere const
threat and said that American labor and the
International Labor Organization dedicated to the aboshmen
The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-09-07
Kilnrnen S Outing
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cluded slight-of-hand tricks by Brady
Sewers, and lesson in table tech
nique by Carl Parsons who proudly
boasted to his audience that he con-
srmed only one sandwich during his
exhibition.
Winners in the horseshoe pitching
contest will be announced later, due
to the fact that the judges will have
to scan the rule book before making
their decision.
Judging from the comments. heard
throughout the day the outing will be
an annual affair.-O.C. 9.