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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
l474 Manuscript, Bought For $50, Found Rarity

Pittsburgh CUp)-When Thomas Mellon bought a 470-year-old man. uscript for $50 several years ago, he didn't realize that his chance pur- chase would turn out to be the only book of its kind in the world.
 The manuscript, an abridgement of Duns Scotus' writing on philoS- ophy, is written on fine vellum m two columns on so leaves, signed by the scribe, Paulus Parianus, in l474, and is described as "a fine perfect copy"
 T bought the manuscript from a man named Voinich in New YorK about % years ago" said Mellon nephew of the late financier, An drew Mellon, after he presented 1t to the University of Pittsburgh Li- brary. T didn't know that 1t was valuable, but I thought Pitts would like to have 1t"
 University officials were greatly surprised recently to get a letter from the Society of St, Anthony in Rome requesting a photostat ot the manuscropt, which was sent to them immediately. The request was made by the committee of Editors of Duns Scotus works, through the Cosmopolitan Science and Art Serv- ice in New York,
 Johannes Duns Scotus was one of the great thinkers of the Middle Ages. He was a professor of theo-- logy at oxford, later moving to Paris and then to Cologne, where he died in 1908. The abridgement of Scotus writings, entitled Opinions, is attributed to many English scholars, to Roger Bacon and Rog- CTS Angelicus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
BRETON PREDICTS
 TELEVISION SET IN EVERY HOME

London, March ' = (U.P0 = The day will come when 1t will be as unthinkable to have home with out television set as it now is to have a home without window.
 That is the opinion of F. B. Dun- can, chairman of Britains newly formed radio industry council, who announced that the council had petitioned the television committee for permission to restart broadcasts as soon as war with Germany ends.
 "The industry aims to provide good television sets for the largest possible public" Duncan said. The joy and pleasure that will be brought into millions of homes by television is so great that 1t would be difficult to overestimate.
 T am not going to suggest a price at which the first sets may be sold. The public must not expect the price of postwar television will be any lower than 1889 in the early stages"
 Duncan asserted that the radio industry virtually won the Battle of Britain by enabling the few" to know where to go to meet the masses of German bombers.
 Sir Robert Renwick. controller Of communications of the Air Min istry, said that the story of radio location will prove to be fantastic one"
 Hundreds and thousands of lives have been saved by radio-location. Hundreds and thousands of Ger mans and Japanese could be killed by it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
|FISK SINGERS HERE TONIGHT
Famous Negro Group to Present Concert at SeC-
 Ond Church

The story of the Fisk Jubilee Singers who will appear in a concert at the Second Congregational church Wednesday evening, Mach ' at 8 o'clock is one of the most dramatic tales in the history of music. When the Union army left their barracks in Nashville, Tenn, shortly after the end of the war between the states. General Clinton B. Fisk met with representative of the American Missionary Associa- ton of the Congregational Churches to establish a liberal arts college for Negroes and took over the hos pital barracks for schoolrooms. Among the teachers who came to Nashville to work under the aus piceS of the American Missionary association was a young man by the name of George L. White. He picked out the more promising voices among the students at this new school which came to be called Fisk university and 1t was not long before Mir White was taking his singers on tour to nearby cities in
 
 the south.
 In October 1871, MT. White planned a short tour through the north. At Columbus, Ohio, after an anxious and sleepless night, Mir. White decided to call his chorus the Fisk Jubilee Singers from the Bib- Heal reference in Leviticus ito the year of Jubilee, a phrase which appears again and again in the spirituals Shortly after the new name was adopted Henry Ward Beecher of Plymouth church, Brooklyn, then the most popular minister in the country invited the Fisk Jubilee Singers to his church and publicly sponsored their work.
 During the next few months and years the Fisk Jubilee Singers gained first a national and then a worldwide reputation. They sang at the World Peace Jubilee in Boston and John Wanamaker and other prominent citizens invited them to Philadelphia where they packed the Academy of Music. The governors of various northern states welcomed them in public ceremonies and be- fore very long they were singing in the White House in Washington. The first trip abroad was made un- der the patronage of the Earl of Shaftsbury. His private concert brought out members of parliament and the diplomatic corps as well as praise from the music critics of the Invitations came to sing before the London Times, News and Telegraph. Gladstone, then prime minister of queen the Prince of Wales and Britain.
 The modern Fisk Jubilee Singers have kept up the splendid traditions of the past. In America they were the first group of Negro singers to appear at the Hollywood Bowl. They have sung with the great Symphonic Orchestras of New York, Los An geles and Detroit. The present group consists of six musicians-five sing CTS under the direction of Mrs. James A. Myers. and an accompan- iSt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
BY JOSEPH NOLAN


 Cambridge, Mass, March '. (UP) A common language will be an economic necessity after the war, and English is the most practical international tongue, pr. l. A. Rich ards of Harvard university, pioneer in basic English, said today.
 Development of air transporta- tion and the resultant needs for worldwide controls of all kinds will call for an immediately available universal language said Dr. Rich ards who had just finished Supervis- ing She first sound motion picture ever produced to aid in English language teaching. The film is to work along with the first comic strip introduction to English which he also has just completed.
 The English language would be best suited to the function of the common tongue, he told the United Press in an interview, for these four reasons:
 1. It can be made easiest for learn- CTS and lends itself best to the new means of instruction.
 2. It is already used to some ex- tent by the largest number of people
 3. It contains the most universally useful literature.
 4 It is likely to serve best as a bridge among nations.
 Attempts to simplify most mod ern languages often destroy their usefulness, Dr. Richards said. This is not so in English because there is nothing to unlearn in passing from simple English to the full use of the language. Basic English is just English made simple by limit ing the number of words to 850 and by cutting down rules for using them"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
By FRERERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, March T. CUP) - With huffing and a pufflng, plus a clattehing and a banging against the white marble walls. little man with a bald noggin hauled part of a 1922 two-door sedan into the senate caucus room.
 He spread this machinery, and a couple of doors off his motor car, on the tables and then the floor, lit small bonfire in an ash tray, and proceeded to knock the props out from under me. Out from under some senators, too.
 The senators and had been listening for days to the aluminium and magnesium magnateS tell about tomorrow's brave new world. We had seen an evening gown of woven aluminium thread, a dish washer of magnesium, a wheel barrow you could hold in one hand, and a metallic wrapper guaranteed to make a grapefruit last forever, or almost.
 The last of the light metal boys was Henry J. Kaiser who told in booming voice (that sounded like cabinet radio with the bass key turned on full force) about alumi- mum warships and magnesium rol- Ter skates. Both, he said, were the fastest of their kind.
 All this sounded wonderful and the senators and l were sitting there in a rosy haze, pondering the great day to come, when we heard the first ominous crash.
 In came w. S. James, chief en- gineer of the Studebaker Corp, with his arms full of pistons, crank shafts and pinion gears. Behind him struggled his assistants. with those doors, chunks of steel and aluminium, springs, brake blocks an dother viscera from motor car. James lit his fire (and burned his finger) to prove that alumi- mum is an elegant heat conductor. Good for automobile piStons.
 But if you make other parts of automobiles out of aluminium, he continued. you discoverd that the stuff stretches, breaks, springs ledkS, anu COSUo dDOuI GWlCC IOo much. It isn't much good for auto mobiles he said. James turns out a 3,200 pound automobile, which he said contain exactly six pounds of aluminium.
 Consider those two doors, he said.
 One was steel, weighed 45 pounds. and used $245 cents worth of metal. The other was aluminium. weighed g pounds. and cost $4.94. You can't double the cost of auto mobiles just to make 'em light, he said.
 One of his machinery haulers added for my special benefit-the senators didn't hear him-that the aluminium door was junk. Slam it shut, he said, and you smash the window glasses. Nudge it gently, he added, and it crumples. Tch-tch.
 Sen. James E. Murray of Mon- tana, & Co.,, who are trying to stimulate business after the war seemed to feel tch-tchish. too. They got James to admit that if the price of aluminium were cut in half, he would consider it.
 He said he would consider it, anyhow. He recalled, however, that he once made an aluminium head for an automobile engine. (That's the part in which the sparkplugs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
Last Visit in 1937

The last congressional visit to the islands was undertaken in 1887 by a joint committee of the senate and house under the chairmanship of former Senator William D. King, D., Utah. The group of 12 senators and twelve representatives plus the ten-delegate from Hawaii, Samuel W. King, was authorized to conduct comprehensive in- vestigation" into the question of statehood and other matters re- lating to the territory's welfare.
 After intensive hearings in the islands of Oahu, Hawaii and Molo- kai and visits by committeeman to the other two major islands-Maui and Kauai-the joint committee recommended in it's official report to congress that action on the statehood question he deferred until the Hawaiians had an .oppor- tunity to express their sentiments.
 Tn l940 plebiscite on state- hood was conducted in the terri tory. Out of a total of 68552 votes cast. 46124 voted in favor of state- hood and 22,428 against
 War Record Cited
 The joint committee in it's re- port stated that "unmistakable evidence that substantial major ity desire statehood should precede favorable action by congress- Many HaWaiians feel that this nearly 70 per cent favorable vote in the plebis- cite constitutes "unmistakable evil dence' of the wishes of the majority
 Since Pearl Harbor, the ques- tion of status has been placed behind the job of wining the war HaWai's delegate in Congress Jo- seph R. Harrington, introduced a statehood resolution in the last ses- sion but made 1t clear that the acted mainly to keep record clear on Hawaii's aspirations.
 Advocates of statehood say Ha- waii's war record has strengthened her claim to admission into the Union. Among other things, they point to the islands continued high production of war-essential sugar III lace O1 SuDSldnClal Oe- crease in plantation manpower and Hawaii's increasingly heavy tax contributions to the Federal Treasury. Statistics show that Hawaii's tax load for the fiscal year 1942 exceeded that of many of the states.
 1914 Platforms in Favor
 Hawail's legislature meets in the early part of this year and it is almost certain that the island lawmakers will reafIirm their often expressed desire for equal political footing with the other states Their action will find support in the Demo- cratic and Republican party plat forms adopted in 1944.
 The Democratic platform fa- vored enactment of legislation granting the fullest measure of self-government" for the three major territories and eventually statehood for Alaska and Hawaii"
 The Republican convention de- clared that Hawaii, which shares the nations obligations equally with the several states. is entitled to the fullest measure of home rule looking toward statehood. ,"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
(By United Press)

(By UnlLeO freSSD
 U. s. Marines land near Tala- sea on Willaumez Peninsula, New Britain, about 160 miles sOuth- west of Rabaul and no miles northeast of their base at Cape Gloucester.
 On Russian front. Soviet troops drive ahead on 2OO-mile front toward TarnOpOl and PrOskurov.
 The Mediterranean Air Force raids the former French naval base on TOulOn.
 Finland reported to have asked for a clarificati0n of MOscOw's terms for peace negotiations.
 British Admiralty announces loss of the cruiser. Penelope.
 In London, A. V. Alexander, First Sea Lord, tells the House of Commons that ship losses to sub marines in the Atlantic during the last half of 1943 were fewer than one in 1000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07

The visit, which will be under taken by a House Naval Affairs subcommittee under the chairman ship of Rep Ed V. Izac, D., Cal, will officially investigate the crit ical housing condition brought on by the influx of many thousands of servicemen and war workers into the territory and particularly Honolulu, the capital.
 It is probable that the inquiry will bring to the fore the question of Hawaiis future political status.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
BAGLEss PANTS, MAYBE

Cambridge, Mass. CUP)-There's a good possibility that postwar pants won't bag. The Monsalto antislip process to make fibers stay Chemical Co. is working on an put. The process is called "syton, . the Industrial Bulletin reports. and is dispersion of minute parts of silica in water. The mixture is sprayed on the fabric and prevents loosening of fibers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
Aluminium No Good
 For Post-War Cars

are screwed.) The results were't good.
 The durn thing buckled when 1t got hot and all the water leaked out. He uses plain, old-fashioned iron now and seldom gets com- plaint.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
TYRO LANDS BIG ONE

Vancouver Wash.-(UP)-For a beginner, David Bennett is doing okay as a fisherman. His first att tempt to catch a steelhead resulted in his landing just about the biggest specimen ever hooked in this area. It measeured Il inches and weighed % pounds. Most anglers are lucky to get To- or 15- pounder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07
Congress Investigation In Hawaii
 Seen Bringing Statehood To Fore
By CHARLES R. McCABE limited Press Staff COrresnOndent

WASHINGTON Congressional will marking the first investigation the islands Hawaans pebscie voted for admission u Al IIi Aln
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07

Depletion of herds by two wars and reduced slaughter for meat be- cause of high prices has cut the Ethiopian export of hides and skins,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-07

Private A. T. Horne of Redlett, England spent most of his leave at his preWar iob--carting coal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21
WITH THE AEF:
Another Yank Refitted For Duty

pened to him complicated his
combat shock because it worried
him. When the youngster came
out of the narcotic sleep, Stone
filled him in on the missing de-
tails, then told him to go to a
ward where he would get COM
plete rest cure.
Captain, I can't stay in hos
pital,' he protested. They need
me up on the line. That's where
I belong. That's where my bud
dies are. '''
Stone led MIN off still protest
ing.
I'VE won't send him back to the
line," MCGEE said. This is the
second time he has been in, so
we'll send him to a job in the
rear"
Maj. Harold Golden of Herki-
mer, N. Y, head of this base
hospital, said the front line men
thus transferred do excellent work.
"They are motivated by loyalty
to the men up front. They work
their heads off in supply jobs, for
instance. to make sure their pals
aren't let down. They know how
it was" he said.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21
SPECULATION TAX
IS RECOMMENDED

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. - up -
A wartime excess profits tax on
gains from speculation in stocks
and real estate was recommended
today by Mariner S. Eccles, chair
man of the board of the Federal
Reserve System.
In general discussion before
the Senate Banking Committee,
Eccles said initiation is the real
danger in the first two years at
ter the war and outlined as meas
ures he said might be adopted to
combat this threat:
l. A balanced federal budget i'm
mediately after the war and meas
ures for full employment.
2. Continuation of price controls
and materials ALLEGATIONS.
8. The gains tax which he said
should be aimed to eliminate the
Spectator. Wting that these fields
are not now reached by price con-
troll, Eccles said prices of farms
had gone up go per cent during the
war, urban homes 40 to so per cent
and stocks 80 per cent.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21

, of various soldiers on the patrol,
Stone slowly drew from the deep
recesses of his memory all the
pertinent incidents that the young
soldier had been unable to re-
member.
You could see the patrol trying
to get from foxholes to the cover
of the woods, then being forced
to dig a hasty ditch for shelter and
finally making their way back to
an air station.
Each time Stones whistle
sounded the youth shouted, Look
out, Captain. Get down, Sir" or,
Are you all right Captain?'
You got the idea that he was
a pretty good captain, but you
got the idea also that here was a
pretty good soldier.
''It looks like they got us zeroed
in here" he went on. mo, sir,
captain, I'm all right. l want to
stay here and fight. All my
friends are out here. They're de-
pending on me. Why don't you
go back, sir? I'll hold them off
until you get OUT
The fact that the soldier was
unable to remember what had hap
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21
BY A. I. GOLDBERG

Substituting for Kenneth L. Dixon
WITH THE U. S. SEVENTH
ARMY IN ALSACE.-4REThere
was the whistle Of German 49,
millimeter shell. A slim Arkan-
sas youth cringed IN shallow
ditch at the edge of the woods and
shouted warning to his captain
to duck. The shell exploded.
TWenty-four hours later the sol
der was in hospital behind the
lines, shaking and twitching, I'M
able to remember what had hap
pened.
He was fairly typical case OF
combat shock and battle exnaus.
ton.
In less than a half-hour a doc
tor using a combination of psy-
chiatry and narco-therapy had
dug into the youths sub-conscious
and cajoled out of him the tale
stored in the recesses of his mind.
The twitching is gone and his
exhaustion is being remedied. An
other man has been salvaged for
Army duty by neuro-psychatric
doctors who accomplish similar
feats dozens of times daily.
The figures of the number Of
men thus reclaimed are necessari-
ly secret but the doctors say
amazing success is being attained
in refitting men for front line
duty.
In two recent weeks 40 per cent
of the patients who reached one
hospital were returned to duty.
And this was after screening
through two forward field stations.
AS the boy from Arkansas re-
lived his hours of terror and his
mind yielded to the doctors coax
ing questions, he unwittingly dis
closed his own story of devotion
to duty and to his fellow soldiers.
The doctor was Capt. Bartlett
Stone, of White River Junction,
Vt, and West Roxbury, Mass.
The head Of the department is
Capt. William Magee Of Grant
wood, N. j.
The patient was given an intra-
venous injection of sodium pento-
thol, which relaxed MIN into a
dream world while the doctor
searched for facts.
Lying on cot the youth stirred
uneasily as Captain Stone initial
er the whistle Of shell and then
banged the wall near the soldiers
head. t--
Get down! Watch out, Cap
tain.' the youth muttered.
Alternately by whistlying and
slapping the cot to simulate
shells, then re-enacting the roles
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21
STASSEN PERILS
POLITICAL HOPE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. - R -
Comdr. Harold E. Stassen said to-
day he is putting world peace
ahead of his political future to
serve as delegate to the United
Nations conference.
His selection by President Roos-
evelt is a political liability the
former Minnesota Republican gov
ernor told a news conference. But,
he added, it is his patriotic duty
to help work for strong post
war league of peace-loving nations.
Stassen, flag officer with Admir-
al William F. Halsey' is here with
his chief for strategy talks with
Admiral of the Fleet Ernest j.
King.
He said he would dof his uni
form temporarily for the world
conference so that, in civilian sta
tus, he can speak, act and think
as he pleases.
President Roosevelt included
Stassen and two Republican lesis.
lators in the seven-man delegation
which will represent the United
States at San Francisco starting
April Is.
Stassen said he had no hesita-
ton accepting the assignment,
even. though his description of 1t
was a broad hint that he thought
it could conceivably hurt his poll
teal chances in some way or 9TH
er.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21

One teacher in five in the
United States is paid less thar
200 per year.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21
llPERS0NS HURT
IN BUS ACCIDENT

WILSON. Feb. 2O.-R-Eleven
persons were injured in an early
morning collision between a Caro-
lima railways bus and an auto
mobile at street intersection
here.
Pfc. Victor FELTON,, of Fort Jack
son, S. c., was taken to a hos
pital where attendants said he had
brain conclusion.
Others hospitalized were: Susan
Pridgen, Wilson, broken ribs
lacerated leg, and Pfc. Madelin
Haley, Camp Lejeune, severe cuts
and bruises.
Others with minor injuries were
listed as: Pfc. Jane Ocnmanek,
Sgt. Milton Poponaich, 1t. John
B. Franklin, Pfc. John Robinson,
Sgt. Huef Keith, Sgt. E. A. Jones,
pvt. Thomas Harrison, and Sgt.
John Thomas, all of Camp Lejeune.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21
MANY NEVER
SUSPECT CAUSE
OF BACkACHES
This Old Treatment Often
Brings Happy Relief

Many sufferers relieve nagging backachs
quickly. once they discover that the real cause
Of their trouble may be tired kidneys.
The kidneys are Natures chief way of tax
Ing the excess acids and waste out of the blood.
When disorder Of kidney function permits
poisonous matter to remain in your blood, it
may cause nagging backache, rheumatic
pains. leg pains, loss of pep and energy, get
ting up nights, swelling. pufiness under tho
eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or
scanty passages with smarting and burning
sometimes shows there is something wrong
with your kidneys or bladder.
. Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's
Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40
years: They give happy relief and will help tho
Is miles of kidney tubes flush out poisonous
waste from ''our blood. Get Doans Pills.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-21
RATION ROUNDUP

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