The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-28

Memo for Congressman Joseph E. Talbot-the L. s. S General J. H. McTae pulled into New York harbor on Christmas with about 5000 veterans of the China Burmalnda sector aboard The boys gave statements to the They didn't mind the fact apparently that they had arrived too late reach home for Christmas with their families they just burned up with stories of deliberate wanon destruction of American supplies by American officers and American crewsunde1 orders The New York Tribune quoted one peeved soldier fol- lows: Spanking GAG transport planes being de- Stroyed today in India, said Technical Sergeant J. H. Christopher of Caldwell, Ohio. "Od planes are being blown to bits with 500-pound bombs. They were good enough fly the hump and they could have gotten many of us home in time for Christmas" The soldiers crowded around reporters and demanded that something be sad about the situation in India They asserted that American servcemens watches being crushed under steam rollers that costly instruments arriving by red ball air express crushed by hammer and that eeps being crushed and others sunk lakes while servceabe planes blown to bits with bombs. So there you Joe add this information to the open letter. addressed to you through the Towers the other evening You have
 chance to speak up in the interest of Mr. and Mrs. John O. Public who being taxed to for all these articles being destroyed Apparently the War Department try ing to oudo the old Pow Under campaign of years ago. It's about time checked the Brass Hats who believe in destruction on big scale-at our expense In hghhat actions of the Brass Hats make the old Prussian big-wigs look like tenderfoot Scouts ..
 En Passant In the passing of Arthur Train the
 public has lost distinguished writer They have also
 lost Mr. Tut lawyer, his brain child, of the most
 popular current ictOnal characters. Men especially
 enjoyed the legal machinations of Mir. Tut who was
 presented in so natural fashion many believed him
 real person. According to HOyle. is saying that
 it's in the cards if you play them right. The
 pression derives from Edmond Hoyle 18th century card
 expert who is said to have written the first book of rules
 card playing. The great authority modern Hoyle,
 Robert Frederick Foster 92 died this week, world
 hority games who invented the rule of eleven and
 wrote all of fifty books cards. Every important par
 Tor game known, discussed and analysed by Mr. Eos
 er poker auction bridge chess cinch hearts dcc Rus
 sian Bank, doninoes and five hundred He conceived
 the idea of the rule of eleven when he first started teach
 whist to society ladies. This week also noted
 the passing of Mrs. Ethel V. Mars racing stable
 er and president of Mars Candy Company in New York;
 She owned Milky Way Farm near Pulaski, Tenn.
 1946 Contemplatons. Pass the old telescope, son, and let's take peep into the future and do little wish futhnkng Here's hoping that the steel strike avert ed and the automechancs return to work soon, for longing to busses on the FairmountSouth Leon ard street ne The Mattatuck Historical Society will gladly accept of those "leapng Lenas' which have been doing wartime duty under compulsion. Will so cey pages ot the future year continue to show top geants and seagoing gobs in angelic poses with that peculiar look their maps? Verify, Sister they just don't belong on that page with brides! Transfer them to the department where "caufowers bloom" Where next years Christmas spending money will from, that the payroll deduction plan has been put away with the moth balls? :. Will we have another coal miners strike next summer so John Lewis pad my coal bl The one got the other day looked like New Deal loan to King George. It that bg Will the cloth ing manufacturers unlock the door next week and circulate real worthwhile clothing, white shirts, underwear aust to mention few of the things that have been missed .. Will the income tax get me before the new guy in the City Hall saps of those recordbreakng ments my stopped shoulders? Will the politicians (hose with state and congressional ambitions start speaking to again after New Year's? There's an election, you know, next November. Will my landlord praying for the end of OPA restrictions and stop speaking to me like intruder his mother-n-law the of his gout? Yea, 1946 has many possbi- ties of bringing worries Brother, dig in. They will come rolling with the Christmas bills or New Years "Never Again" resolution.
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 i Good Night.