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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

drawn up in 1941 and the plane actually was on paper before the United States got into the It takes that long to develop new plane.
 few basic comparisons will indicate how much bigger than the B-29 is the new B-36:
 The B-29 is powered by four 2,2OO horsepower engines, total of $500 hp.
 The B-36 will have six 5000 hp. engines, total Of 18000 hp. For the first time in multi-aircraft all of the engines will be "pushers," mounted in the trailing edge of the wing three on each side. More about these engines later.
 The B-29 weighed 105,O 900 pounds B-36 will weigh 278,000 pounds Fifty-two tons against 139 tons.
 Wing span of the B-29 is Al feet On the B-36 it is 23O feet
 What the B-36 will do range and speed can't be determined because the plane has not been flown. The B-29 has maximum speed of about 400 miles hour at 5000 feet On the record breaking non- stop flight from Guam to Washington. carrying only gasoline and no bombs, B-29 made 8198 miles An average flight for B-29 5000 miles carrying
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

he could unload He did, and, Ill part III the 1ollo"- ing text:
 :" we came up here shortly after picking up the survivors of the Indianapolis north of Peleliu That too was great Navy disaster not because it was announced on V-J Day it could be hidden beneath the headlines, but because those boys could have been saved and the ship might not even have gone down if the Navy had used the common sense it seems so much to be lacking.
 "The Indianapolis left Guam without escort, dur ing the war when there were submarine reports ln the area she to travel There were many destroy CT escorts tied up with nothing to do, and from ex- perence escort should always be sent with another ship which is without sound gear when there is any hazard of submarine activity at all.
 But even with the submarine reports, the skipper of the Indianapolis increased speed only from Is to r knots at night, which is nothing. And then, when she did not rendezvous with DE off the Philippines, or show up to meet an ant-aircraft plane the ap pointed morning it evidently was dismissed by the naval with an, oh, well, large ships often get re- routed in transit. So what? Why doesn't the Navy keep track of them even then?
 By the time we got to the scene, the boys had been the water for four days In another "A hours, there would have been but handful If wee got there 24 hours sooner, we might have saved from 500 to 600 (300 were saved from personnel of 1,196-Ed. Note).
 Tt was really sheer luck that any were picked up at all The plane that had been out on patrol with US just happened to circle back to base way in- looked like some in the water. guess you know the rest. :"
 | didn't know the rest because was in Europe on v-J Day but went down and took look at the files and there surely enough. buried down in a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
Appointment of Thomas F. Nolan

The appointment of Thomas F. Nolan assistant super intenden of schools in Waterbury meets with general prova With splendid record in the teaching and admin istratve field Mr. Nolan receives this honor in natural sequence of events
 MT, Nolan has carried his duties conscentousy and with alertness but with seeffacement that has marked him upright honest person in his particular profession Beginning his in education high school teacher he adhered closely to the principles of his profession Later he carried his princpashp duties with the earnestness.
 The appointment to assistant superintendency is de- served reward for services we'll done graduate of of the leading Catholic colleges in the East Mr. Nolan has carried the tradition of broad educational background
 Michael F. WaIaces and John T. Derwins appointments to Webster School prncpashp teacher of physical edu cation respectively, also have the general approval.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

What do you do to keep from catching cold?"-New York Post. NOT THE WAY YOU HEARD IT I fortify with vitamins
 keep my rubbers on,
 I'm seeming daft to dodge draft; My cotton socks are gone.
 I have a healthful regimen
 Of diet, drink and sport;
 My threats sluice for orange juice, I take it by the quart. I shun my boon companions When snee8es shake their frames, And I eschew relations, too, Both gentlemen and danes. wear my winter woolenS, I button up my coat,
 I have spray l use all day To inSulate my throat.
 What happens? Can you guess 1t? It's not the yarn that's told I do not shirk these things; they
 work:
 I never" have cold.
 "Well, almost never.
 That strange animal recently bagged up in Huntington has been identified as cOypu. We don't know what to do about it, except to see that it shall not ring tonight. .. -,
 New Orleans. Virginia Beach and Valley Forge, Pa have joined the ranks of American cities that would like to be chosen as site for the permanent home of the UNO. The most obvious spot is still being over looked, however: Lost Nation, New Hampshire.
 President Truman has ordered the Office of Defense Transportation to take over end operate the Great Lakes Towing Company of Cleve- land, Ohio. So don't be confused II, some day soon, you see passing reference in this department to USAODTGLTCCOs difficulties.
 General Hurley has returned from his post in China in Grade A huff. The powers that be in Wash ington thought they had a carefully worked out a policy in respect to China, but they couldn't get 1t down Pat.
 King Peter of YugOslavia is out 0l a job. busted and deprived of "all his vested right" by the new Yugo- slav republic. We hope everything works out all right. In these days some people who discard a king catch the deuce.
 The seasons first snow storm caught us unaware. We had thought up no adequate substitute for the war as a reason. for not getting snow shovel.
 Eva Braun's diary reveals that Hitler was not any great snakes as a boy friend. Apparently when she dropped subtle hints about go-- ing into the living room,' Adolf thought she meant Sudentland or Poland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
State Socialist Labor Party Thinks It High Time American Workers Ceased Being Goose That Lays
 Golden Egg" For Capital

Golden Egg" For Capital 1 South Norwalk Dec. 3, 1945 Editor of The Democrat: President Truman, in explaining his new policy on wages and prices i sad that excessive wage demands by 1 workers would deny to industry reasonable profits to which it is entitled and which are necessary to stimulate expansion of production" n." He continued. We must not kill the goose which lays the golden egg"
 The Presidents metaphor is mis- placed. Industry, by which the President means the class which owns and controls the instruments Of labor, is far from being a goose, let alone a golden-egg-laying goose. The goose that lays the golden egg is labor
 Itis the, contention of the Social I ist Labor Party that labor, and labor alone, produces all social values. The capitalist and his pol itical camp follower and apolog:s St dispute this, arguing that in making available to labor the in- struments of production and the raw materials capital performs an econ- omic function. Let me cite three facts that confute this contention of the capitalist.
 First, without labor, industry could produce nothing. If, for ex- ample, Ford could not entice single worker to pass through the gate to his River Rouge plant. that plant would De a total loss. It would not even be useful as junk, because it takes human labor to junk a thing.
 Second, the instruments of labor and raw materials which the cap italist makes available to the wor- kers are, themselves, the products of previously expended human labor.
 Third, were the workers to dis possess the parasitic" capitalistic class and make the industries their own collective property, as the Soc ialist Labor Party urges, production and all other social functions would continue. The removal of the cap- italists-as capitalists-would in- jure social production no more than the removal of potato bugs injures the growth of potato plants; in fact, the effect would be equally beneficial.
 The capitalists themselves are compelled tacitly to admit that the working class is economic-as, for example, in the advertisement re- gently published by large auto mobile-manufacturing corporation urging a 45-hour week. Produce More and Have More," said the ad-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
In Today's Mail

vertisements. They fail to add that it was the. workers who were ex- pected to produce more in order that the capitalists might have more"
 It is high time that the American workers ceased being the goose that lays the golden egg" for the capitalist class. It is high time the American workers ceased being the goose" As the sole producers of all social values, and the only econ omic class, they should organize to demand the full product of their labor, thereby abolishing profit and the parasitic class which lives on profit
 Very truly yours,
 Joseph Mackay
 Connecticut State Secretary
 Socialist Labor Party of America
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

FIylng F'OrtreSS ObS0Iete. The B-36 will make the B-29 obsolete. The B-36 is not, however, brand new, postwar development.
 Drawings and general descrip- ton of the plane were shown tC a group of newspaper correspond ents at Wright Field, Ohio, in December, 1942 Mock-up and first articles were shown to corre- spondents at the Consolidated Vultee plant in Fort Worth a year ago. Characteristics and specifi- catiOnS of the neu nlane Mere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
Views of the Press
REMEMBER THE WOODsHED?
(Christian Science Monitor)

Christian Science Monitor)
 A professor, talking recently to a group of parents, deplored the fact that architects have overlooked the importance of the woodshed in their house designs. Of course, the pro- lessor was looking, for a laugh-and he got it.
 The woodshed was more than a storehouse for the winters supply of fireWood. It was the place for putting things you were going to throw away or had planned to take to the barn when you had the time. Of course, you never did either. That's why the old lantern still hung on the side of the wall, nicely coated with cobwebs, and why a pair of sleigh bells dangled from ar overhead beam, and bits of leather, wire, tin, and lumber roasted here and there. The fellow with the woodshed always had what he wanted when he needed it!
 The woodshel had it's unforget- table odor. Its earthly floor, season. ed with chips of pine and maple and the dry bark of oak and beech, gave of rich, nostril-tingling aroma. While some took pride in long, neat rows of wood, more often the wood sprawled over the floor in an arc around the chopping block.
 Summer or winter, the woodShed was haven from sudden storms, It was the place you knocked the mud or snow from your boots be- fore entering the house. It was the place you hung your overalls and fishing tackle.
 The problem is, We suppose, to adapt the woodshed. and its pur- poses to the age of apartments and city dwellings. And we aren't thinking solely of the purpose to which the professor referred.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
Snow in New England

The old folks used to tell that winter set in early in New England Bng Crosby in those days would have been singing about white Thanksgvings Great tales have been handed down about snowdrfs in November not only in upper Maine but also down here in Connecticut
 Most of us had idea that this lot of hooey. Thanksgiving and the end of November often brought small snowstorms but often seet and rain both at this tme and of late years open weather socaed seemed the order of the day.
 With the arrival of major snowsorm last week. which tied up traffic considerably and piled snowdrifts in such Goshen, Norfolk and Thomaston out skirts realize that the old folks knew what they talking about
 Certainly the November 29 and 30 snowstorm of the year 1945 is something to remember The street blows, the scrapers and the buldozers working overtime Folks living the rural roads had difficulty getting home and once there had difficulty getting out again.
 Are we in for winter of snowstorms that will mea- up to the predictions of Mr. Weaherman Tyler of Mid debury? Or will this first storm be the worst with not many to follow? All signs and predictions will prevail noth ing Most seasons, winter especially, unpredctabe. Not much more than week ago it sad-how green the grass keeps Now covering of encompasses all and the first sleigh around town
 The darkest days of the year hand, pretty well expressed by of the finest New Enganders of them a Longfelow Oh the long and dreary Winter Oh the cold and cruel WnterI
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

LIllIlg III COulllOll Hi4CI lb NOhASS to helping solve the tangled labor situation.
 At any rate, Symington tele- phoned Sen. Knowland the other day to congratulate him on his recently announced plan for labor to share in company profits.
 Its a great idea" the Surplus Property administrator told the Senator from California. T know. tried it in St. Louis and it worked"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

second being grades of thinly ham, mered brass, who'd just rather the public didn't hear about it either for obvious reasons.
 What good does it doa' both ask.
 Below is at least one, but by no means, the only, answer:
 Much earlier, there was print ed here the gist of letter from a young man serving with the crew of vessel docked, at the time of writing, in a Japanese port. Gen. sorship restrictions were off, and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

The American Government isn't trying to starve any part of Europe and the attacks upon Congress because
 doesn't keep sending shpoad after shpoad of food to the starving people, of Europe all The Sen- ate Appropriations Committee has just approved $50 mill ion dollar appropriation and House Foreign Affairs Con- nittee has approved $1,35000000O for UNRRA. Shere has been lot of criticism of the Administration and Congress So these the facts which prove that Uncle Sam is sympathetic and just soft and generous
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
15 Years Ago

The Industrial Foremen'S club planned to observe ladies night" at the Central Y, December II.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
B-36 Super-B0mber

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-The curtain can be lifted a little now or the Army Air Forces super bomber, the B-36.
 Just as the B-29 Surerfortress made the B-l7
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
, Years Ago

An expert on lighting agreed to make a survey of the city's street lighting a la gratis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
|Merry-GO-ROu

WASHINGTON, Dec. 4-New Sen. William Will liam Knowland of California is staunch Republican Stuart Symington. Surplus War Property admins trator is Democrat. But they seem to have some
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

Bremen extinguiShed blaze in the Police Department garage in which Patrolman Walter Overton was burned
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

James R. Sheridan, 48 Washing ton street, enlisted in the Navy for Ia six year hitch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

The occasional airing of GI gripes in this column hasn't been done without percentage of protests, These fall exactly into two categories the first being Polyannas who'd just rather not hear about it. the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

Rachmannoff's appearance at Buckingham hall the previous even- ing was still a large item of conver- sation for those who had seen and heard the man perform.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04
Waterbury of the Past
g Years Ago

The Board of Health requested new car and raise of $1 per day for one of it's employees. It was eX- pected that the car would be had without a fight, but the raise caused bit of doubt in the minds of all concerned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-04

Eva Braun's diary reveals that Hitler was not any great shakes as a boy friend. Apparently when she dropped subtle hints about goo-- ing into the living room, Adol1 thought she meant Sudentland or Do1and
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

writing expert who had forged
checks with a big fountain pen and
deserted another wife.
SO the manhunt for Johann Hoch
began. Or. rather, il was woman
hunt. for Hoch's trail from Chicago
led back through such a maze OF
marriage license bureaus, matrimon-
ial bureaus and missing persons bu-
reauS as baffled the memory OF man.
There was the wife he'd brought
over from Germany -in-lSSl--AIA5t
had become of her? The two women
he'd married in Pittsburgh in 1882?
In "a. he had married again tof this
wife no trace. Three more wives in
1890. Mrs G. a. Mayer, married 10
Hoch in 80, had died three weeks
after the wedding a month later he
had married Harriet Trick in Chicago.
She had disappeared in the Windy
City; he had reappeared in Peoria 10
marry a widow named Hauck. De
serting this bride within a week tabe
h a d married Martha Steinbrecker,
who died four months after the cere-
mony. In November, '95, he had mar.
ried and deserted a girl named Mary
Rankin. Popping up again on the
west coast, he had left another string
of brides, many of whom died. Other
wives in the East were looking for
him. A number who weren't looking
any more were dead.
AS this story now developed in the
press, serial fashion, thrill of horror
not unmiXed with awe crossed the
country. Every state in the Union
-seCUpd 10 be looking Tor Hoch.
When the total had reached 40
brides, the police, stumbling through
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

maze of license bureaus and GENE
teries, lost count Where was this
bigamous Casanova?
Where? On the night Of Jan. 80
1905. ne was on his knees proposing
10 Mrs Katherine Kummerle, a widow
who owned a boarding house at $40
w 47th St, in New York. Detectives
inteTTupting the scene took him down
10 the TOmbS 10 meet three Mrs.
Hochs just in from Brooklyn and an;
-etAeEfFeF44-P III tfiiatleittifiSt- fft-fott1-
identified him promptly.
That's my husband -
Hoch, faced with all these wives,
remained calm, but he began 10 sweat.
however, when the officers taking
him by train TO Chicago frisked him
of his fountain pen. Examining this
forgers instrument, they were as
founded TO find its upper cap filled
with white powder. Hoch swore II
was tooth powder" but a police
chemist swore il was arsenic. When
Julia Walcker'S body exhumed, was
also found TO contain arsenic, the
charge against him went from bigamy
TO murder.
His trial opened in April, 1905. On
May 10 the bigamist was condemned
to hang. Wolf that he was, he died
bowling on the gallows on Feb.
1906. One of his wives claimed IT,
body, but a dozen Chicago cemeteries
refused it-like a werewolf, it could
not find rest.
When at last he was buried, many
women must have seen Hoch,S smil-
ing eyes in their dreams.
The better to flatter you with,
my dear"
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

cold in the grave" she upbraided
Hoch, and you marry our sister,
Hoch was philosophical. "The
dead are dead. Live and let live En-
cuse me now" he turned to Amelia,
Il haff business downtown"
This business consisted of drawing
his big fountain pen 10 sign bill of
sale and two bank drafts. The sale
was Julia's candy store tfor $75) and
the bank drafts were her savings ac-
count tS300N.. He also took $3.50 from
a new joint account with Amelia.
All that day Amelia waited his re-
turn, and when he failed to reappear
that night she appealed in tears to
Sister Bertha. The following day,
they went TO the police.
"A blunt-headed German with hyp-
motto blue eyes"
The police seemed TO have heard
this description before Ten years
ago it had applied To a carnival mes.
meriSt named Schmidt -Mhe -had-n4aF-
ried and deserted two women in Pitts
burgh. Then it had been a hand
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

A simple little woman in Sunday
dress, stout with middle age, her hair
in Katzenjdmmer knot, she saw
before her d stocky, scrubby-mous-
tached Bavarian who bowed gallantly,
derby at bosom, and smiled at her
with bright, blue eyes.
Mrs. Bertha Sohn and A m g a
Fischer, Julia's sisters on hand to
chaperon this meeting, later de
scribed those eyes as hypnotic" The
man had some kind of charm. De.
scribing himself as a lonely bachelor,
a retired meat-cutter who wanted
home and a wife who could bake goot
kuchen Hoch wasted no time. The
marriage was five days later, and in
five more days Julia was seriously i'll.
DR.. John Reese, summoned by
Amelia on the Doth, diagnosed Julia's
condition as Brights disease.
But Julia was not too sick to
notice how her husbands eyes bright
ened whenever Amelia entered the
room. She told her sister, Bertha,
"All the time he flatters Amelia.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

Himmel, l wish !
were dead"
Poor Julia, She
did die, on the
night of Jan u,
1905. -Four days
later II o c h mar
ried Amelia.
This W a S too
much for Bertha
Sohn, who refused
to attend we'd
ding breakfast.
"Julia N ardlV
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

=
Most wolves have
ia n gs, b Ut tn e
venom of Johann
IIoch dripped from
both ends Of the
big fouptain-Pen
that he always car
ried with him. With
that pen in hand,
he wrote a brief adj
Vcrtisement which,
on Deccm Der 3,
1904, appeared in
Chicago S A bend
Post. 1t said:
MATRIMO-
NAL - Ger
man, wit h his
own in co m e,
wishes acquain-
tance of widow
with ut chill
d r n - object
matrimOny.
~ Brief as was this
proposal, it was
promptly answered
by Juli a NJ arie
Valcker, who stated
that she ran a candy
store at y Willow
St, and invited the
advertiser TO call.
Therefore on Dec. z
Hoch appeared at
the deer of the VIII.
Detroit evening times., 1945-06-24

professional fascinators who leer at
strange girls TO the horrible crea-
lures of medieval superstition who
are known as WerewolVeS.
But if there was ever man who
deserved to be known as a wolf
from every angle, it was Johann
Hoch of Chicago. That's what the
newspapers called him shortly after
the turn of the century, when only
4 few of the 40 women he married
could be found alive to testify to
the lethal horror that lay behind
Evening star., 1945-04-26
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which makes the real decisions on
war and peace. The chief issue has
arisen over whether 1t would violate
the principle Of sovereign equality"
and it was on that point that some
delegates had expected to argue
against the proposition.
Nor was it linked, SO far as could
be determined, with the Big Three
split over Poland. The chief con-
test there is over reorganization of
the Polish Warsaw government to
include, according to the Yalta
agreement, democratic elements"
not in the present Russian-spon-
sored regime
Reply Eagerly Awaited.
Moscow has been unwilling to in
clude as many of these outside
parties as Washington and London
desired. A deadlock arose which
the Eden -Molotov- -Stettinius talks
in Washington last week end failed
to shake Mr.. Molotov reported to
Premier Stain and his reply has
been awaited here with utmost
eagerness.
This issue is connected with the
conference by Russias proposal that
regardless of reorganization. the
Warsaw government should be in
vited to send delegation Up to
today Mr.. Molotov had not forced
this request to a showdown.
Most delegations have indicated
clearly that they don't like the idea
of three votes for Russia in the as
sembly. But they would prefer that
she get them rather than to invite
a breakdown of the conference.