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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

There are 57,0OO beds still left on scheduled trains. But on any given night it will be found that from 50 to 30 per cent of these are used by military personnel or by civilians travelling on military business, whose reservations have been made by a special government agency for that purpose.
 At times 1t is necessary to hold troop trains while regular trains get right, of way. That is because the equipment shortage makes 1t impossible to substitute when trains arrive too late to make scheduled turn-arounds, and so many essential travellers use regular trains that the schedules must not be permitted to break down. This reasoning does not appear to explain the long layover of which wrote in a previous ar- ticle.
 The veterans resent, in a mild way, the old, uncomfortable coaches with inadequate toilet-wash room facilities that appear to be flea tured in troop trains. Explanations offer ed for this do not seem to cover more than part of the situation. The incest modern coaches can not be used because they are built for stream-lined, articulated trains, and railroad men say that they can not be operated in conjunction with the older types. Some better coaches are not suitable because their dim- ensions forbid their use on some roads, and for the troop train pool coaches must be capable of going anywhere. Some of the men still feel that they get less than their share of better coaches that are in every way suitable for troop train use.
 In general the soldiers with whom I have talked, and to whose conversations I have listened. con- cede that the railroads are up against tough problem, and that there may be valid explanations in answer to many criticisms. But at. tempts of Pennsylvania employees to prevent news and pictures reporting of astual conditions under which troops ride brought the reaction anybody familiar with public re- lations might expect:
 Do they think" asked one CT, that they can keep such things secret? If they were smart they would cooperate in explaining in- stead of talking about smashing cameras and breaking plates"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

mileS-and if there were equipment to handle 1t, travel would go right through the ceiling,
 The War Department originally scheduled the return of three mill lion veterans from the European theater in the II months beginning in June. Thus far returnees appear to have run about B per cent ahead of schedule. These men, returning faster than anticipated have to be moved at once by the railroads SEVEN TRIPS
 Most men brought back for re- deployment must be handled seven times, usually by rail. The standard moves are: CD from port to staging area; CD from staging area, on the coast, to whichever of the 9 per- sonnel. centers is nearest the mans home; (3) from personnel center home, on furlough; (4) from home back to personnel center, 30 days later: (5) from personnel center tc assembly, for further training and equipment, anywhere from Missis- sippi to Texas; (6) from assembly center to staging area on the Paci- fic Coast; CD the relatively short hop from staging area to port oi authorization for Japan.
 Each move, except those to and from home on furlough, is on g troop train. So the roads must de- tach from normal use enough cars to provide the required troop trains Then, out of what remains, they must figure that more than half the seats will be used by men in uni- form travelling as individuals or, un- der orders, in groups of less than 15 Both the Army and the rail- roads would like to provide a bed for each service man travelling at night. But that is impossible, even after stripping scheduled trains to the bones
 Right now the armed forces have exclusive use of 151, ,000 of the train beds, counting both Pullman owned and troop sleepers. In these they assign two men to each lower and one to each upper, to get maximum use. Nevertheless, the available beds have been found sufficient only for servicemen who must travel two ol more nights. Orders have been is- sued that sleeping cars shall be as- signed to men on one-night hops only if there are sleepers nearby that otherwise would be deadhead empty in the general direction the troops are moving.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
By RALPH HEINZEN limited Press War Analyst)


 The coal crisis in Europe poses big national problem for Great Bri- tain. The results of the recent Bri- tish election announced today will help shape the policy that is to set- tie it.
 Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes proposal to send 6,000,000 tons of coal from the United States to Europe in the next six months was prompted not merely by humanitar- ian reasons, but because America, like Britain, knows that unless Eu- rope has coal this winter there is grave danger of revolution and so- cial disorders.
 6O-MiIlion Tons Needed
 Western Europe's coal needs for the "coal year" ending next April have been set at 60,000,000 tons Against that need, the best that can be expected from Europe's own pro- duction is 40,000,000 tons. Unless Britain and America make up the difference, Russia will have to give it from the Silesian and Polish Teschen mines in the zone of Rus sian influence.
 German mines are now producing barely 15 per cent of their capacity Belgian and Dutch mines are still well below half of their capacity pro duction. French mines are slowly being built up but even when France produced her capacity ot A ,000, 900 tons of coal a year she still imported 22,0oO,000 tons - much of it from as far away as ndo-China.
 Production Figures
 French miners are notoriously non-productive. In modern British mines production is said to attain an average of 1.10 tons per man. shift. In France it takes one miner IT days work to produce one ton Most French miners are obliged to divide their time-three days below ground in the mines and three days week working their gardens or securing the countryside.
 The big three studied in Potsdanl a plan to revive the Ruhr, start the mine pumps, rebuild the power houses and bring back the miners from prisoner of war camps. Once the Ruhr gets production back nearer normal the immediate coal problems of Europe will be solved because the big three has, reported ly. approved schedule for distribu- tion of Ruhr coal. France would get the greater share but Belgium, Hol- land and Italy would all get their parts.
 That contains a menace to Brit ain which wants the Ruhr coal pro- gram definitely limited to a few
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
BUDGET DIRECTOR
 l EXPLAINS PLANS
Budget Director Furlong Outlines City's Future
 Program

Budget Director Arnold Fnurlong pointed out in talk to the Ki- wanis club yesterday noon in the Elton that Waterbury's six-year- plan for capital improvement drawn up by the City Plan commission is based on modified form of pay as-you-go.
 He said that the pay-as-you-go feature was expressed in terms of a reserve fund that had a cash balance of $702,O00 as of June 30. He. anticipated that quarter of a million dollars will be added this year from unappropriated surplus.
 He said the plan is based on the assumptions that no large relief bond issues will be necessary for approximately seven years, federal government assistance will beforth- coming on certain of the projects, the grand list of the city of Water bury will remain at least at its present figure, a segregation of a part of each years tax levy, by ap- propriation, will be made for ad- dition to the reserve fund, the city,s water fund will be able to finance its own debt service, the bonds issued by the city will bear an interest rate of. not more than 3 per cent a year, the second year of the plan will be the calendar year 1947.
 Funds earmarked by the City Plan Commission totaling $9,918,530. were summarized as follows:
 Streets, roadways and bridges, $2,134,130; storm water drainage $454, 300; Mad river interceptor. $1.000O00; parks and recreation, $491 900; school buildings, $300, 900; public health, $305 900; incinerator, $275 900; automobile parking, $780, 900.
 Buildings, streets and water, $67,- 500; public buildings, $S5o, 900; sewer disposal, $750000: water sys- tenn, $250, 900; sanitary sewers, $295,- 900; sidewalk fund, 266, 900, and airport, $2,200,O0o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
Coal For Europe;
 An Allied Problem

years, because for decades Britain has been the principal dealer in hard coal for the continent and without those markets the British coal industry-the backbone of Britt ish labor and income suf- fer a terrible loss.
 Before this war there were 781, 900 miners employed in British coal mines and they produced about 200.- 900, 600 tons of coal a year. At the peak of its coal trade. Britain, be- fore World War I, exported 78,000,- 900 tons annually. By 1888, this ex- port trade had been cut by German interference to 35,000.000 tons a year. There was much unemploy- ment in the British mines and the political implications were many.
 Resume Work
 Now there are more than FOG, 900 miners back in Britain's mines. By the winter of 1946, British produc- ton is expected to be back at the 200 million tons-a-year normal. Right now Britain has no coal-piles and coal is consumed as fast as 1t is mined. The British railways have only 7-days reserve stocks.
 But the day is coming when Brit aims home needs will be satisfied and the exportable surplus will &C., cumulate: Britain needs foreign ex- change. That always has been the source of British wealth. And when that time of a coal surplus comes, Britain does not want to find all her continental markets filled by Ruhr coal mined as German repa- rations under United Nations con trol and distributed by the same body to all of Britain's former customers,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
Glare Luce Storts
 "Condido" Rehearsal

Stamford, Conn, July 26 - (UP) Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce, U. s. Congresswoman from the fourth district. will begin rehearsals Mon- day for her title role in Candida, the George Bernard Shaw play in which she will appear here the week of August 6.
 Producer Gus Schirmer, Jr., of the summer stock theater here, said Mrs. Luce had accepted the role as a real change from the long grind or congress weeks vacation that would be different"
 Mrs. Luce, author of the plays, 'The Women," and Margin For Error" never had appeared on the stage before.
 Increased gold and silver mining is forecast in Honduras.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

ing European veterans. They have been working under an almost in- supportable burden, and they feel that their side of the story has not been adequately presented to the public.
 Some of the criticism is justi- liable. Some is borderline. Much is unsound, and rests upon ignorance of the scope of the railroads job and the inadequacy of their eqiup-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
WATERVlLLE Correspondent: Mrs. Gertrude Lane; Telephone 3-6511
DRUM CORPS ARE
 MAKING PLANS
Observing 10th Anniver. sary of Casper s. Davis
 Organization

Waterville, July 26-The Casper S. Davis Drum corps met Tuesday eve ming at 8 o'clock in the gym of Sprague school. Plans were dis cussed for a fife, drum and bugle corps meet to be held in Waterville next month to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the corps. A raf- file is also being sponsored and the drawing will be held at the meet. A rehearsal was held following the business meeting.
 The weekly Bible meeting will be held tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at Gospel hall on Thomaston ave- nue.
 George Wright is visiting his par ents, MT. and Mrs. George Wright of Thomaston avenue.
 Raymond J. German, SF3c, U. s. Navy, son of MT. and Mrs. James F. German of 1855 Homer street has been given an honorable discharge from the Navy after 32 months in the Seabees. Ray trained at Camp Peary. Va, Fleet Marine Force, New River, N. O., Naval Air Station, Nor folk, Va, and Camp Endicott, R. I. His wife, the former Josephine Stokna, lives at 183 Homer street. His brother, George SF2c, is vet eran of Guadalcanal and is now at Endicott.
 Miss Jeanne Soden, daughter of MT. and Mrs. William Soden of Thoms street became the bride of Robert ODonnell, SEC, USNR, son of MT. and Mrs. Qlin ODonnell of Welch street yesterday morning at 10 o'clock at St. Michael's church. Bob has just returned home after IS months in South America. Mrs. O'Donnell will live at the home of Roberts parents when he returns to duty.
 S.-Sgt. William Taylor is spend- ing 30-day furlough with his wife and parents. He is the son of MT. and Mrs. Herbert Taylor of Oak vile, formerly of Suffolk street. Bill is veteran of the c. B. I. campaign and was attached to the Second Air Cominandos, division of the Troop Carrier Command. He holds the Good Conduct Medal, the Distin- guished Flying Cross with two clus- ters, the Air Medal with three clus- ters and two battle stars.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
Rail Detectives Heckle Newsmen Who Seek Story Of Troop Train Conditions

This is the second of two stories by s. Burton Heath, who boarded . troop train at Camp Kilmer to obtain personal experience view of conditions under which CTS travel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

ment and manpower.
 In 1941, with 20,329 coaches and 7,378 chair and sleeper cars, the American railroads handled g, ,350,- COG, ,000 passenger miles of businessl In 1914, with only 195 more coaches and 758 more Pullmans, the roads handled 95,375, 100000 passenger miles. It is estimated that business this year, with redeployment will run above 105 ,000, ,000, 900 passenger
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
PENCILS TO BOMB PARTS

Bomb parts and precision items for aircraft are being made by one Of the largest manufacturers of me- chanical pencils In the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26

The Dominican Republic is meet ing its $350,000 UNRRA contribu- tion by taxing all exports three eighths of l per cent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-26
THREE LITTLE PIECES
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
Good Evening.

THREE LITTLE PIECES
 In Mother Goose Tempo) Gay go up, gay go down, The lights are on in London town The gentry go out again at nights, Just to roam meath the electric lights. Gay go down, gay go up, Look about for place to Sup Dickory, dckory dock, Fix the hands of the clock By way of no harm Set the alarm, You won't need to wait for a knock Taffy was Welshman, Taffy a thief, Taffy came to my house But didn't steal piece of beef. I went to Taffy's house, Taffy had just gone out I ransacked the pantry shelf And stole pint of stout!
 EN6 ENE
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
CHARLES NORDLING
 IS COMMISSIONED
 As1ND LIEUTENANT

FORT BENNING, Ga.-Charles R. Nordling, of Juneau, Alaska, has been commissioned Second Lieu tenant in the Army of the United States upon successful completion of the Officer Candidate Course at the Infantry School here. It. Nordling is the son of MT. and
 Mrs. H. c. Nordling of Juneau.
 The new lieutenant enlisted in the Army Nov. 8, 1914 and served with the IRTC, Camp Roberts, Califor- mia, before taking the Officer Can- didate Court four months ago. He held the rank of Private before being commissioned.
 The new officer is a graduate of Juneau High School, where he was prominent as a member of the school basketball team.
 At The Infantry School, worlds largest institution of it's kind, the local officer took four month course to fit him for his new re- responsibilities. The course covers the technique of handling all the var jed moden infantry weapons and the tactics of leading small infantry units in combat. At the same time he is taught such diverse, yet nec- essary, subjects as military law, mess management, and administration. He is constantly impressed with the enormous responsibility of an off cer in time of war.
 The men who attend the Officer Candidate Course include the best privates, corporals and sergeants from army units, selected by their superiors for outstanding intelli- gence and qualities of leadership. During the course even the mildly in- capable are weeded out, so that the men who graduate with commits sions are Americas finest soldiers, fully qualified to be the leaders in the army.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
FROM CALIFORNIA

Mildred Roberts, of North Sacra- mento, California, is guest at the Hotel Juneau.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
RUMMAGE SALE

Odd Fellows Hall, Tuesday, Oct. 16. Q0,03,9-t3)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-10-13
SAN PEDRO WOMEN HERE

Beverly Teague and Nellie La theirvia, of San Pedro, Calif., have arrived here and are registered at the Gastineau Hotel.
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MARY OHARA
VIM. FEATURES-~.

near the corrals where FIcka
should have been and could hardly
believe that it was empty, for more
than once day all through this
last month since he had stopped rid
ing her he had been out to see
whether she had foaled, and she had
never been far from her feed box.
This afternoon she had been near
the spill Of fresh water that ran out
OF the corral trough, but now there
was no sign of her.
This meant, Ken knew, that her
time had come, and his heart beat
a little faster. She had hidden her.
self away, as all animals will If they
are free, to give birth to her foal
with no one to witness her labor
and pain and victory.
As the boy hesitated there, his
eyes scanning the pine woods that
edged the pasture, his wits were at
work. If he had been Ficka and
had wanted to hide, where would he
have gone? And Immediately he
turned to the woods. Those woods
sparse and free Of underbrush, COW
cred the rocky shoulder of the
stable pasture where it sloped
away, north, to the little stream
called Deercreek which bounded it.
The hill was so precipitous in places
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G. !. Bill Of Rights
Puts Two Soldiers
Thru Mines School
Resume Pre-war Teaching
Schedules Sept. "a with
Normal School Year for
Ex.Seryicemen. Civilians


Butte.-Alfred Saterdal of Sharon,
Mass, and Jack Warren Nordquist of
Anaconda are believed to be two of the
first ex-servicemen in the United
States, and the first in Montana, to
have completed their formal educa-
ton under the G. l. Bill of Rights.
Both of these young men were stu
dents at Montana School of Mines,
left the school to enter the army, both
were holorably discharged, returned
to the Mines and were graduated in a
formal commencement Tuesday, June
26.
Both of these young men received
degrees of bachelor of science in geo.
logical engineering, at formal exer-
cises held in the Library Museum
building.
The commencement address was de-
livered to the two former soldiers by
Lieutenant Walter Welt, command
iEg officer of the Navy Viz unit at
the Mines. DR.. Francis A. Thomson,
president, was in charge of the cere-
mony and conferred the degrees.
In Keeping. with long-established
policy of the School of Mines, both Of
the seniors who are leaving school are
already placed. Both Saterdal and
Nordquist will join the United States
Geological Survey.
The commencement is also a time
for recognition of four apprentice
seamen who have completed their Viz
work at the Mines and leave for Mid
shipments school. These are Arden
F. Blair, Richey, Montana; Harry NJ.
Hunter, Jr., Albany, N Y, son of an
Army officer wounded in Europe;
John P. Leeds of Havre, and Robert
]. Scruton of Butte.
In February one student completed
his studies and was graduated, Civ
ing the Mines three graduates this
year and the smallest formal COM
mncement in the schools history, due
to the changes to aid the war effort.
Now Montana School of Mines is max
ing every effort to extend the oppor-
tunities offered under the G. I. Bill
of Rights to many other returning
veterans.
The present Viz Navy unit which
has taken practically all of the School
of Mines facilities since 1912 will be
closed in November and a new formal
year for returning veterans and civ
ilian students will start on Sept. "a.
Within a few days all of the sail
ors now stationed at the Mines will
leave and new group will arrive
about July 1. The new students will
be here until November when the
Navy Viz unit will be ended.
To give every possible aid to re-
turning veterans, DR.. Thomson is con-
sidering giving sub-freshman work to
those veterans who have not COM
pleted their high school work, in Or
der that they may pick up their edu-
cation where military service inter-
ruptd it, and, at the same time give
these young men a college environ
ment.
The regular course of study will be
resumed on September "a with civ
ilian and ex-servicemen coming back
to school from all parts of the world.
Many former students now in, far
flung war zones have written Of their
desire to return and complete their
courses and are being given every
possible aid by Montana's mining in
stitution.
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Bombs Felt by Reich
Total 2.453.595 Tons

LONDON, ENGLAND. - Ameri-
can and British planes have dropped
2,453 ,595 tons of bombs on Germany
since the start of the war-more
than 3l5 tons for each ton of ex-
plosives loosed on Britain by Ger
man bombers or v weapons, it was
disclosed.
Allied airmen destroyed 40,822
German planes for a loss of PITTS.
The Allies lost 1852 bombers, 8,00l
of them American, and 10, 1853 fight
ers, of which 7,165 were American.
The German, air force lost 20,574
planes in combat to American fight
er pilots, and 1887 more were shot
up on the ground. Nearly 5000
parked German planes were wrecked
in April alone, the greatest single
blow of the war against German
air strength.
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food. They were an ecstasy.
that it formed low cliffs overhung
with twisted pines. At the base Of
them were caverns. Ken and How
ard knew every foot Of these ter
raced cliffs. They had been there
and HighboyAtheir saddle horses
knew them too, and had become
accustomed to the steep paths down
which they must slide on their
launches with the boys clinging to
their backs like monkeys; or the
scramble up, during which the boys
kept from sliding off backwards only
by tangling their fists in the horses
names.
Flicka might be on any one of
those narrow shelves or pockets, or
hidden in one of the little dells at
the base of cliff. She knew them
all.
Ken darted toward the woods. 1t
had just begun to rain. The boy
cast careless glance at the sky,
refused to accept the warning of
what he saw there, telling himself
that it would be just shower from
which the trees would shelter him,
and began his search.
Occasionally he stopped and
called her, "Flicka! Flicka!" and
then stood listening in that peculiar
state of tension which everyone feels
when they call and are not an
swered.
The daylight on those September
evenings held until after eight
o'clock, but this evening there was
a murky gloom, and under some of
the trees there were already pock-
cts of darkness into which Ken
stared for minutes before being sure
that no living thing was there.
The rain battered like shot on the
ground, and presently Ken heard the
long familiar roll of drums in the
sky. Suddenly wind was roaring.
The mass Of dark clouds sank
toward the earth, then opened and
poured out torrents of rain. Light
ming blazed and thunder crashed.
The boy, crossing an open dell,
caught the full brunt of it and dove
under a projecting, shef-like rock,
which had left shallow cave be-
meath. A small cottontail was sit
ting prinly there for shelter. AS
Ken shot in, the cottontail shot out,
and the boy, painting, drew up his
knees and clasped them and sat
looking at the spectacle of the storm
with an expression of exultation on
his thin eager face.
Such torrents of water were COM
ing down that presently the earth
was covered. Running streams tore
between the trees and shot off the
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For three years Metro has been
grooming Jacqueline White for big
things; she was signed up right out
Of college, and has had just one pic
ture role, in "Song Of Russia" She
gets her first big role in 1.-THE Year
ling" playing opposite Gregory
Peck.