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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

topsoil, the crocus has poked
through its inquiring head, and for
sythia, its myriad tiny golden bios
SONS already luxuriatIng on count
less bushes, seems almost to naunt
that 1t con get along, sun or no sun.
Buds on maple and elm are filled to
bursting point, requiring only one
slight hint Of q solar smile as the
signal to fling off their winter cas-
ingS.
with studied indifference, too, the
birds have for weeks been percl1ing
on tOpmost branches, chirping.
whiStling and singing their heads
off. Despite wind and rain, and
sometimes SIeet, many are already
shutting back and forth across field
and lawn, their beaIS bearing dim
inutive burdens Of string, twigs or
straw. Some Of the more intrepid
and hardly must have made even
greater progress to Judge BY the
number Of worms detected on their
unwilling sky-rides, headed for the
countless Unsuitable maws that await
in nests overhead.
Only man seems to be greatly dis
concerted by the gray and gloomy
skies. He fumes and fuses, ta1zD
hopefully betimes, repeats Old saws
and maxims about the New Eng
land weather, or even Just to get It
off his chest, sits down and writes
about IL.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29
Views Of The Press

ley Association Of Conversations
churches. Registration at 2:45, with
the first session at $3.50. The evening
session at z o'clock centers about the
problems Of race prejudice, with
movies on Negro culture and an adj
dress by Miss Hiromi Matsumoto on
her life at relocation camp in Ari-
iona. Box lunch at $3.50. Rev. Alan
Fairbank is the adviser Of this
group.
Notices For The Week
The First Church Mems League
VIII have its annual Ladies Night
on Monday, with supper at $50.
The speaker will be Rev. Rockwell
Harmon Potter, honorary minister
Of Center Church in Hartford.
Wednesday, 10 q. m. Thee will be
q meeting for working for the Red
Cross, Bundles for America and the
hospital in the church parlors. Cof-
fee will be served; workers take
their sandwiches.
1880 p. m. Meeting Of the Ad-
visory Committee in the church
parlors.
Thursday, $50 p. m. Supper and
meeting Of the church school teach
erS and staff. Plans for the spring
and Childrenis Day will be discuss
ed.
Next Sunday, evening the union
service Of the First Methodist
church, First Baptist, st. Johns and
the First will be held in the First
Church. The preacher win be Rev.
Silas Whitman Anthony Of the Con-
gregati0na1 Church in Brighton,
Mass, father Of Rev. B. Kenneth
Anthony.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

only displace small amount Of
gasoline and probably don't
cut the planes range more
than . very small margin. They
also argue that there lrae am
pie facilities 10 England for
installing the tanks, and that
they were already being de-
Iivered before Generals Giles
and Spattz cOuntermanded the
order.
They also point out that Air
Force generals think primarily in
terms Of fighting planes and
fighting pilots, that they view
paratroop transports as mere car
60 planes taken from commercial
channels (Which, In fact, they
are), and view the paratroopers
they carry as infantrymen, not
members Of the Air Forces.
So, despite the losses over ST.
oily, the debate still goes ON i'm
side the Army, nine months la
ter, Is to taking protective
measures.
MERRY.Go.ROUND
Busy as he Is, President Roose-
welt will soon be called upon to
settle the problem Of whether q
rail workers vacation week Is six
days or seven. Railroad work.
erS were granted o weeks vaca-
ton as part Of the wage compro-
mise last year, butt he railroad
executives now contend that FDR
meant the vacation should be six
days, not seven. II the railroad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

workers get seven days, they can
holiday anyway, plus Monday, or
stay away Sunday, which is a
an actual total Of eight days. So
the President will have to step
In again and recide what's what
90. A "plot" to blow up the Pan
anna Canal recently was discovered
by the Army. 1t was Hollywood
movie plot concocted by Columbia
Pictures and submitted to the
Army for Its approval before
shooting the picture. The plot was
so good that he Army grilled
the author to sc If anything else
was behind 1t, finally was salts
fled thaht 1t was pure Hollywood.
However, in order to prevent sug-
gestive ideas, the picture was
banned OF 100 applications
for new broadcasting stations filed
with the Federal Communications
Commission this year, SO were
for frequency meditation stations,
IS for commercial television sta
tons, and only 10 for new stand
ard broadcasting stations. The in
dustry has no doubt but that the
broadcasting stations which most
Of us hear today will be q COM
paratively unirnportant factor In
postwar broadcasting. Their
function will be mainly to service
rural listeners, with the city dwell
ers tuning In frequency modula-
ton and television broadcasts.
Copyright, 1914, by United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

realize that in the more than $50
years Of our history, we have never
had a President c0nspicuOusly Lack
ing in moral character. Yet It Is
also true that the greatest men in
our national life have not always
occupied that high position.
Why Is this? The clue Is prob
ably TO be found In the story Of
AristideS. the Greek statesman. who
was regarded by his generation as
q man Of conspicously distinguished
character, But his popularity be-
came . cause q 06ense. and he was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

Governments-in-Exil are doing good
work In Washington and London, and
supported by their military leaders they
have been pleading effectively for food
for the children Of their countries. In
their crusades they have gained the sup
Dort Of churches, organized labor. the
bublic, leading daily newspapers, and
periodicals. Our distinguished DR.. Gal
1up he's shown FL q recent nationwide poll
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29
Selected Poem
ARBUTUS

(Sara King Carleton in The Christian Science
Monitor)
Now when the brook spills through the lower field
Into wide pools that hold blue intent,
And frozen springs are suddenly unseaIed'
Loosing a music low and eloquent,
And in the shadowy pine growth, blacklist mould
Shimmers with delicate hint Of moss and fern
Under its close green leaves, released from cold
The Shell-pale petals OF promise burn
Here is the confirmation Of q thing
Beyond irnmMmeent, Of that reaching out
Toward sun and sky, luminous answering
To winter darkness which has walled about
Our days with night, until this radiant hour
when earth Is lighted by . single flower.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

aUQlI1Ou u I AC ~
burr In his speech
and he can drive
over bits Of sar-
casm with o u I
making people
mad something
l. g W is n Q v e r
learned.
Murray's full
speech on the
average s t e 9 l.
workers income
and expense, as
delivered b ef ore
the War Labor
Board p a n Q ]
hearing the Uni
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

banished from Athens for ten years.
A shepherd who voted for this BAN
ishment because he was tired of
hearing Aristides called The Just. I"
reflected what many modeEns think
about public figures.
Some devilish impulse within
leads most Of US to entertain a secret
or open dislike for our superiors. 1t
Is hard for Us to endure the glaring
difference between their attain
menks and ours.
An Rights Reserved Bahson News
payer Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

people WantY
There Is one
thing Of " hich
we can be sure,
namely, that the
people Of this
country at least
are never parti-
cuIarIy attracted
by q man too far
above them In
intellect and at
tainments. It Il
gratifying To
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29
Your Health
By Dr.. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per
sonal health and hygiene. mot TO
disease. diagnosis Of treatment
WSll be- answered by DR.. Brady u
. stamped self-adiressed envelope
d enclosed. Letters should be brief
and written In ink No reply can
o. made to queries mot conform.
ing 70 Instructions. Address Nr.
william Brady, National News
paper Service, 800 West Madison
Street, Chicago, Ill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29
FIRST CHURCH
Sunday Services

0UIluBy SERVICES
Church School at 0:46 and during
the church hour.
Morning service at II. Sermon
by Rev. Kenneth Anthony on Erwin
Cobb's Religion" or, A Greed for the
Average Man. This is first Of series
Of postmaster sermons chosen by
the congregation.
In the afternoon and evening the
First Church young people wiz be
hosts TO the spring rally az the
youth section Of TIE 1saueatuck val
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

wv
After calling attention to the
fact that Allied naval gunners
shot down our own paratrooper
transport planes over Sicily, sena-
tor Kilgore inquired of Stimson
as to what had been done to equip
this type Of plane with self-seal-
ing tanks and that. as a result,
some Of them burst into flame
almost Immediately. giving no
chance to the paratroopers to bail
out.
The West Virginia senator also
asked the Secretary Of War what
steps had been taken to put ar.
NOR around the pilots seat In
these transport planes.
Kilgore said that he appreci-
ated the arguments against SELF
sealing gasoline tangs and armor
namely, that they may increase
the planes weight and lessen Its
range Of maneuverability, also
that when q plane Is shot down
at low altitude, the paratroopers
inside have little chance to bail
out.
However, Kilgore also touched
on an amazing situation inside
the Army wherein many officers
have done their best to improve
the safety Of troop-carrying trans.
ports, only to be thwarted.
The argument inside the
Army began shortly after the
two tragic incidents over Sicily
when, ON two separate nights,
q. 8. and British paratrooperS
were shot down by Allied naval
guns. immediately afterward,
. committee Of inquiry was ap-
pointed I'm North Africa to as.
certain the causes Of the trag-
edy. One recommendation In.
serted I'm the report was that
self-seaIing tanks be installed
in troop-carrying transports.
Since that time, Maj. Gen. P.
l.. Williams has recommended
self-sealing tanks. SO also have
Col. Ralph Bagby, chief Of staff
for airborne infantry In the North
African theater, and Brig. Gen.
Mike Dunn, who participated in
the Sicilian campaign but has
since been transferred.
However, nine months have
passed and nothing has hap
pened.
ORDER FOR TANKS
COUNTERMANDED
Finally, a member Of the Du.
Pont family, 1t. Col. Felix Du-
Pont, assisted by 1t. Col. David
Laux, had the nerve to go over
the heads Of their immediate SUI
periorS and take the matter de
rectly to General HAP" Arnold,
commander Of the Air Forces.
Arnold sputtered about the d.
vision Of opinion inside the troop
carrier command, but finally
agreed that self-sealing tanks
should be installed inside troop
carrying transports. In fact, he
wrote out an order to General
Benny Meyers to this effect.
But before more than about rs
self sealing tanks could be de-
hVered, the order was counter
manded. It was blocked primar-
lily by General Barney Giles, chief
Of staff to General Arnold, who
sent q carefully worded telegram
to General "Toughy' epaatE in
England indicating that Gelf-seal-
ing tanks could not be produced
fast enough, that there was no
adequate means Of installing
them, and that they would cur
tail the range Of the plane. He
asked General Gpaatz what be
though. and spaatz wired back
that he agreed.
Concurring with them Is Gen.
eral H. A. Craig, Of the Air Forces
office Of Operations, Commitments
and Requirements, despite the fact
that he sat on the Sicilian i'm
vestigation board and Is familiar
with that boards recommendation
for Self-SeaIing tanks.
Many officers u the air car.
rIer command disagree and
mO1nak amt that elf aealfm1 Aamka
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29
MEN FUA1E, BIRDS SING

Despite the continued lack Of CO.
operation by the sun, which has for
days been lying down ON the job.
many. Of earth's creatures have been
going undismayed about their usual
spring business. Braving the chill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29
. NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Phil Murray.
But Softly
BY PETER EDISON

BY PETER EDISON
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
One Of the best acts In Washing
ton Is q soundtrack Of President
Murray Of the Steelworkers and the
@. !. O., reciting from memory the
budgetary life and times Of an aver
age worker in q steel mill. Murray
Is easily one Of the more eloquent
spellbinders in Washington. He has
learned all the tricks Of the slow
speech from his old master John L,
Lewis. He knows the value of DRAM
attic pause, and emphasis. He has in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY
FACING SUPERIORITY IN
OTHERS

We are in a presidential election
year, and people are thinking a
great deal about the type Of man
who should occupy the White House
in the years which lie Immediately
ahead. What kind Of man do the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

received letter
Military
1t TO
operations
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29
Washington Merry-G o-Round DREW PEARSON

Sem Kgoe Sson Making Porotroop Planes Sofer
Lack SeISeons Cos Tanks Added Loss Of Life Over Sicily
Yet Dispute Army Hos Prevented Protective Measures Since Then;
Younger Attempts Get New Equipment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-04-29

Copyright, 1914. by United
Feature Syndicate, 1nc.)
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Making up your service sensbe sFor instance
you're bride stor with for and then your
family grows and your entertaining becomes elaborate you
odd pieces you need them Thots why I'm getting
beautiful American Dinnerwore at Lonsbuehs where
different suggested services for all needs Because it's
stock there's worry about beokoge either!"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-06

/ Of the most excellent reputation
here, received me cordially in his
office.
quite frankly" he said, "the
whole subject has apparently
grown totally out OF hand
abroad. But certainly any dark
suspicious that others abroad
may hold regarding the matter
of civil rights here cannot help
our relations with anyone over
seas. For a long time we here
have felt that the true picture
has been as distorted as though
we in Spain were to regard news
about ku klux Khan activities,
for example, as typical of Amer
iea,s attitude toward civil liber-
ties-and then make broad gen.
Civilizations from that false pre-
mise.
The President of the CorteZ-
through which every prison sem
tence must pass-called for the
record of every prisoner in con-
finement-a record that is avail
able only to him and to a few
others.
AT the close of the civil war,
he said, this record contained
the names of more than 100000
men and women. II was a docu-
ment of tragedy and horror.
FEW EXECUTIONS
You must remember that
while we Spaniards are great
fighters, we are also great hat
ers. In our civil war, much of
the fighting and disorder We're on
the part of civilians, so that put
ting person in Jail was often
the equivalent of military cap
ture. In any case, the total num-
Der of persons confined reached
its peak at 100000.
Il have heard it stated re-
peatedly abroad That thcre are
several hundred thousand Span
ish political prisoners still in
jail. The usual figure seems to
be around 100000.
I'm contradiction Of this, may
I testify as resident of the Cortez
of Spain that the total number of
prisoners in Spanish jails, in
Guiding persons for every degree
of malpractice or crime, is now
10000?
The executions in Spain in
the past II months have num-
bered six. The year before there
were ID.
1--WE have always felt here
that there was certain insol-
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-06

ence in the sharp demands in
the foreign press asking our
Spanish government how many
Spanish people it was holding in
Jail. A Spaniard would be
astounded at the idea Of asking
other countries TO recite statis-
tics about their prisons. AS
Spaniards, we are not given
much to explanations, anyway,
and a question which reflects on
the sense of honor and stability
of our state, as this one does, we
have preferred MOTTO dignity
with an answer.
But it is evident that this
story Of wholesale impriSon-
ments in Spain will not die down
abroad. ! trust that this official
figure will be Of some assistance
10 any who wish to use it in good
faith. You have asked me for
information. ! can only tell you
the truth
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-06
II Accepted
for Service
Droft Board No. z
Lists Lotest Levy

A list of % South Macomb
County men. accepted for serv-
ice in the u. S. Army, Navy,
and Air Corps. was released to-
day by Local Draft Board No. 2,
in East Detroit.
Of these, 13 left for the Army
on Tuesday. while eight enter
ed active service in the Navy on
Dec. 81. One Roseville m; Will
liam l.. Fraser, has been accept
ed fly the Army Air Corps, and
will leave for active duty when
called.
ARMY
Willard o. Craul, Claude c.
krisel, Ronald d. Parsells, By
ron w. King. James A. Atchi-
son, Edward c. Desloover, Bry-
an j. England, John l.. Boomer,
Raymond Burtle, Arthur j.
Benedict, William l.. Fraser,
Clarence A. Spear, Lorimer Nc
Callister and James j. Mcneil.
NAVY
Edward Gordon Booth, Rob-
ert Z. Brown. Michael o. Cor
nellie. Edmond A. Musgrave,
Irwin p. Page. Raymond j Clan
cey, Kelly p. Walquist an, Char
les II. HasSkeW.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-06
. BARBS

Many heart catches fire
from the flicker of an eyclash!
Doubtless the Japs are ready
TO admit that one American was
absolutely right-Sherman.
Nowadays he's a lucky man
who has what il takes to find
out If he can take il or leave
it alone.
ALI people are ahead with
their work and behind with
their worrying-or Just the re-
verse.
A tip from the hard working,
successful man-perspire to be
great!
Rationing is making people
buy shoes 10 fit the feet instead
of the occasion.
You have TO wait long time
TO get legal liquor and at least
a few minutes TO get bootleg -
while il ages.
The speed of a snail, foot in
four seconds, really is slow-not
even as fast as a street car.
A Kansas woman asked for a
divorce because her husband fed
her peanuts Tired of such mon
key business.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-06
BY HENRY j. TAYLOR
NEA Correspondent

MADRID - BY Wireless)' -
Esteban Bilbao, longtime Span
ish Minister of Justice and now
president of the Cortez-Spain's
National acknowledgement to-
day to make, through the news
papers l represent, the first Of
fetal statement regarding the
number of Spanish prisoners still
in Spanish prisons. This has
been a government secret hereto
fore
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-01-06

Senior Bilbao, a non-party man
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
New Jap Cabinet
Aides Appointed

NEW YORK. Oct. % QNS)-
Hachiro Arita, three times foreign
minister OF Japan, and Adm. No
bumasa Suetsugu, former COM
mander in chief OF the combined
Jap feet, were drafted today as
members of the new powerful
Nipponese cabinet advisory group
established because "the war sit
uation has grown more pressing
than ever"
The naming of Arita and Suet-
sugu among a dozen prominent
Japanese chosen 10 serve by Pre-
mier Gen. Kuniaki Koiso was an
nounced by the Jap Domei agency
in a wireless dispatch recorded
by the FEC.
In announcing yesterday that
the cabinet would choose a new
group of advisers, Domei stated
that those chosen would be ac-
corded the privilege of directly
participating in the council of
state instead Of merely giving adj
vice on only limited subjects.
Others selected for the new
body included Toyotaro Yuki,
president of the Bank of Japan;
Adm. Teijiro Toyoda, president Of
the Japan Iron Works and former
foreign minister; Matsutaro Shor-
Xxi, president of the Tokyo news
paper Yomiuri Shimbun, an d
Kamesaburo Yamashita. head Of
numerous large corporations.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
MaquiUnitsE
Drive in Spain
II Villages Reported
Under Their Control

LONDON. Oct. % (UP)-Spsn-
ish Maqui units have frustrated
attempts Of Gen. Frances troops
10 recspture the village Of Canejan
on the Franco-Spanish border and
have extended their control 10 II
villages in the Aran Valley on the
northern slopes of the Pyrenees,
dispatches from Spain said today.
The German radio today re-
ported that Spanish guerillas
occupied the republic OF An
DORA and assumed power there"
According 10 Madrid reports,
observers believed the Maqui ac-
Invites were on a small scale in
the Aran Valley and that Franco
probably would depend on border
troops TO cope with them rather
than send a slIeable force across
the Pyrenees.
Border guards were reported 10
have driven the Maqui from Ca
bescan.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
Yanks in Italy Stopped
By TOrrentiaI Rains

ROME. Oct. % tUP)-Torren-
tial rains to6ay begged down all
operations on the Italian front,
hating both the Fifth and Eighth
army drive from the south and
east against Bologna.
American forces OF the Fifth
Army, under heavy pressure from
German troops. were stalled in
the mountains about eight miles
south OF Bologna, while the Eighth
Army troops were at the out
skirts of Forli, 81 miles east of
Bologna.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
j. :. Warned
Of Jap0ffer
Grew Tells Nippon
Terms Wont Change

WASHINGTON, Oct. % (UP)
Japan received an advance
American warning today that any
compromise peace offer, however
Sugar-c dated or attractively
painted, will be rejected because
the terms for ending the war in
the Pacific are still the same
unconditional surrender.
The warning 10 be on the look
out soon Tor Jap peace offer,
and an appeal TO intelligent Japs
TO avoid devastation at home by
surrendering now, were sounded
in a Navy Day address by Joseph
c. Grew. ambassador TO Tokyo
from 1881 10 1871 and now chief
of the state departments Far
Eastern affairs office.
Grew discussed the current war
situation and outlined what is
likely 10 happen in event of a pro-
longed war, as well as how the
Jap industrialists, who have ex-
pensiVe factories and property at
stake, will try TO avoid uncQndi-
uonal surrender.
IAN enticing peace offer may
come from Japan at any time"
he said, because the facts are
beginning TO seep into the con-
seriousness OF some of the Japa-
nese people"
Those facts are:
. They face inevitable defeat.
. Their merchant marine is be-
ing whitfield down to nothing.
o Their war plants gradually
are being blotted out.
. Their gangster loot will
eventually be taken away.
. Their military machine and
cult will be "liquidated,"
. Japan will be reduced to a
third-class power.
Grew said the pattern for a
Jap compromise peace offer may
begin by appointment of an os-
tensibly liberal premier and a
cabinet. Then, he said, Japan may
offer 10 withdraw troops from the
occupied areas. return them 10
their former status, and possibly
TO give up the Jap puppet state
in Manchuria.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-29
Clio Asks Shops
To Aid VotinQ

Arrangements OF more than
1.400 plants which have contracts
with the UAW-CIO have been
asked by the union TO cooperate
in arrangements which will facili-
tate voting on election day by
100000 JAW members.
r. J. Thomas. president, and
George F. Adde's, secretary-treas-
urer Of the international union,
requested that the arrangements
confer with the respective locals
involved and work out satisfac-
tory arrangements by which every
worker will have an ample OPP
portunity 10 vote"
They referred 10 the WLB rul-
ing that payment of wages 10
workers for time of during voting
will not be construed as a wage
increase.