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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-08
FiscalSchool Repairs Greatest m 25 Years
Extensive Remove lions, Ground
 improvements, Etc.
(RY ANN ZEMAITISl


 More repairing has been done tc local public school buildings thii year than in the past % years, John Medough, school building inspector declared today, as workmen cons tlnu0d to put finishing touches te extenSlve work started during the vacation months.
 The summer repair program GOV. cred virtually everything from plant- ing Of new lawns In school yards and setting In of new windows to installation of new boilers and pointing of brickwork.
 Approximately ei07000 has been made available to the Board of Edu- cation for contract work 60 far thlS year. Other funds pFevloualy had been provided tn the budget for ordinary repair work performed by regular members of the building in- spectoF's stan.
 Depression Years
 The depression and then the out. break of war were chiefly responsl. ble for haltlng heavy repair pro- grams In the past two decades, MT. Me0ough commented. Now that materials will again be available, and the education commissioners favor extensive reeonditioning Of school property, afi even broader repair program may result. 1t was indicated. 0,'
 one Of the chief setbacks in the repair work came in recent weeks when ration authorities denied per.
 
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BY DEAN W. DITTAIER
United Press Staff Correspondent

Unlteu ETeSS CbaIk COrrcSp0u0ent
 Washington, Sept. 8-(UP)-Con- gressional sources predicted today that the expected Senate-House in- vestigation of the Pearl Harbor disaster will become one of the big issues of the l046 political cam paign.
 If the Senate-approved Barkley resolution for an Investigating com mittee of six Democrats and four Republicans gets House approval, the Republicans will charge that the Democrats stacked" the com mittee to whitewash the adminis- tration.
 Smear Charges
 If House Republicans win their demand for politically equal group of l2 members, six from each party, the Democrats will charge that the COP sought control of the com mitteeto''amear" the late President Roosevelt and his administration. Either way t win probably be-
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1916 Political Issue Bor7, or Pearl Harbor Affairs

come political issue. But Congres. Sional sources gave House Repub- licans little hope of amending the Barkley resolution.
 Speaker Sam Rayburn said that the Republican proposal was tout of the question" and that House Democrats would vote for Barkley's resolution.
 There are 24l Democrats and l9O Republicans in the House.
 Barkley offered his resolution with the approval of President Tru. man after Republicans demanded full dress Congressional inquiry They were not satisfied with fecen reports on the disaster made b, Army and Navy boards.
 Army Report
 The reports found five public ol ficials at the time of Pearl Harhol responsible in varying degrees for the natlon's unpreparedaeGs for the Japanese surprise attack. including
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-08
To Swe0r-in Judge McEvoy's Successor

Hartford, Conn.. Sept. S.-(UP)- Orig. Gen. Thomas E. Troland, New London, recently resigned from the Army. will take the oath as a su- perior court judge Monday at the office of Gov. Baldwin
 Gen. Troland fills the vacancy caused by the death of Frank P, McEvoy,. Waterbury, and will serve until June 30. l047.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-08
GIPrisoners Seek Touqh Jap Peace
By STEWART HENsLEY United Press stafR Correspondent

Aboard C.47 Transport Enroute to Calcutta, Sept 7-(Delayed) )--(UP) Ten BronSed American prisoneri Of war, on their way to Calcutta af. tor being liberated from c Saigon prison camp, told me today that they hoped the Allies give the Jap. aneSe c tough peace because that's the only way they will learn any. thing"
 All 20 Of tho men were counting the hours until they reached the United States, and tho strain os it showed ln their faces, but they tried Co Do fair when they talked about their jailers.
 "Ths Japanese are brutal mostly because they're stupld." one said. . "The higher officers kick the lower boys around. and they think that's the way the whole world B run. They just don't know any better"
 sadists
 But they said their Korean guards were c different dish-the Koreans were Sadists who liked to see men 6uffer, They did their torturing for the fVn of 1t,
 Seven of the men aboard this plane are from the famous cruiser HouSton, that went down after the Battle of the Java Sea, and the other three are field artillerymen Of the 3ist Battalion which was cap- turod on Java.
 one seaman said Boy, do I want to get to America. I can't exactly say it, but just being on American has meant c lot during tthese past three years, I guess Q lot of us wouldn't have pulled through # 1t hadn't been for the wonderful fu- tuFe that America offered--we just had to hold out"
 Brutality
 Although scared by the brutal treatment they had received from Korean guards while working on the MoulFnein. Bangkok railway in Burma, most of the yien-who re- ceived much better treatment when they were transferred to Saigon were in pretty good physical con- ditlon.
 They were oil amazed at tho ex- tent of preparations which had been made for them. Each man got new clothes and c Red Gross kit with many articles that he had ceased to believe existed.
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UNKNOWN VICTIM

South Thomaston, Me, sept. g. (UP) The body of an unidentified man about 55 years old was found on mud flats at the edge of the WeSsaweskeag river here yesterday.
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Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

IN Jne protected area, II VIII De
reasonable 10 assume that flies are responsible
for some OF the spread of infantile paralysis al
though they may not be the only guilty parties
II has been found that only one out of every
five persons who carry the polio virus their sys
TENS are afflicted with the dreaded paTaytic
symptoms. The fortunate other four have only
mild digestive upsetS or other comparatively trivial
symptoms which often undetected and unSus-
pected. yet these polio carriers can excrete the
virus from their bodies and if flies-or any other
vcctors-cOme in contact with the virus il can be
passed on 10 the next victim.
The newest studies indicate that more than
hall OF the patients who come down with the
paralyuc symptoms recover full of their
muscles spontaneously and need only TO receive
modern aftcrcare methods like those OF Sister
Kenny 10 make fun recoveries.
However in the remaining cases there is per-
manent damage TO the nerve cells of the spinal
cord and the end result is lifelong crippling i'm
varying degrees. In a tiny fraction of the cases
death may result.
Many doctors believe that the final conquest
OF polio will not come until after some vaccine or
serum has been developed to ward off attacks.
Work on such substances has been under way for
long time, but 50 far all efforts have been
Intellectual In the interim, il seems the logical
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

over the city, and in a comparatively short time
two and quarter million people were busted with
tale containing 10 per cent of DDT. The cpl.
demic stopped Immediately
But il is in the fever-rdden islands Of the
Pacific that DDT has made its greatest contribu-
ton. Sprayed from planes flying at dangerous
treetop heights. it has killed every form Of insect
life before our troops have attempted TO establish
beachhea in the lush junges where ordinarily
malarIacarTyng MOSQUITOES and other vicious
bugs would take as many lives as Jap bullets
THE first hint that medical science was preparing
to attack infantile paralysis with the nykiller
appeared in editorial in a recent issue Of the
Journal Of the American Medical Association. The
concluding sentence OF the editorial said: 1T may
be- found desirable 10 some such agent as DDT
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

When used a spray for mosquito-infested
vegetation, or for walls in the home 10 kill flies
DDT is applied in five per cent concentration in
a deodoriZed kerosene. No attempt is made to hit
the insects directly for DDT will work for weeks
as the pests walk upon 1t.
Oil sprays of DOT are also used on ponds and
other water where mosquitoes breed Here the
experts must be careful 10 use exactly the right
concentration, for too much will Kill the fish.
HOWEVER, as commonly used at preSent-and
particularly by such wetrained teams as will
be employed in the experiment - there seems
to be a more than adequate margin of safety.
Recently Algonquin Park in Toronto which
was heavily infested with budworm moths was
sprayed from the air by an autogyro. The moths
the cTayfish and also some trout that ate poisoned
insects Half the snakes and frogs were killed
too, but birds, chipmunks, mice, beaver, deer and
other warm blooded animals were unharmed
If the city-wide experiment with polio proves
that flies carry the disease officials of many
cities likely TO agtate for the creation of wide
protective around their communities pro
duced by spraying DDT from the air. This has
entomologists worried. 1t is true, they point out
that such a step might eliminate flies, as well as
potato beetles cabbage worms apple codlng
moths, japanese beetles, aphids, fruit worms and
corn borers, which sounds like a very attractive
prospect indeed.
But at the same time it would Kill bees and
butterflies and many crops might fail because
OF lack of pollenzatiOn.
That's worry for the future and scientists
are confident they overcome the difficulties
The important thing is TO find out whether
polio flies in with the fly.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

approach to eventual elimination of in
fantile paralysis is through the possible
carriers of the disease
That's why this seasons big expert
ment is being undertaken. But because
so large proportion of the public is un-
enlightened about either polio or DDT,
the scientists decided not to reveal the
name of the city until the last minute.
They feared two possible reactions-that
parents living in the control section of the
town might demand the same protection
for their children that others were get.
ting, or that residents of the section which
was TO be sprayed might become upset
about the possibility of being poisoned.
1t is true that DDT-which, by the
way, stands for dichlOro-diphenyl-t
roethane-is poisonous TO man and the
warm -blooded animals generally if Swal-
lowed in sufficient quantity or absorbed
through oil on the skin.
AS used on animals and chickens, DDT
is applied as a dry powder which is not
absorbed by the skin. That was the way
the Army doctors applied it when they
wiped out the Naples tVDhuS endemic
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

conducted. Polio cases in this
area viii be disregarded, on the
ground that infected flies might
have invaded the territory.
The important comparison will
be between the number of cases
in the inner zone and the number
in the half of the city which was
not protected II there is any
marked decrease in polio victims
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

ice, the lilcquotcd Office Of Scientific Research
and Development many Army doctors and some
city health departments.
Shortly after the editorial was printed some
information about the proposed antipolio expert
mcnt became available although the detailed plans
were not disclosed Most zeaously guarded secret
OF all was the name Of the city in which the OK.
pertinent would be conducted, since a great many
problems were involved in its selection
Whichever city il would be, the indications
were that the procedure would be about the same.
II would be community in which poliomyelitis
was already approaching epidemic proportions.
Half OF the city would be marked off for the fly
killing experiment and the other half would be
the control area, where conditions then prevailing
would remain as they were
Teams of DDT experts would go through the
test section, spraying and busting every conceiv.
able site in which flies might breed such as
garbage cans city dumps, manure piles compost
heaps, sewage disposal systems, barns, stables
and chicken houses.
Under ordinary circumstances, flies travel
comparatively short distance from the spot where
they are born To be the safe side, however
those in charge Of the test undoubtedly viii mark
off border several blocks wide all around the
part of town in which the experiment is being
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

Apl lttb'lilE lllc I'D IlDph-
latiOn IN areas where an
epidemic threatens
Because the research
agencies behind the prof.
cct were unwilling 10 have
their plans disclosed pre-
matuTcly those few words
almost resulted In the
Withholding of the entire
issue OF 10000 copies. ii.
nally. however. II was DC.
cided that the single sen.
tencc would not be- too
offensive 10 the various
organizations and institu-
tions involved. They in.
clude The Yale University
School OF Medicine, the
National Foundation for
Infantilp Paralysis, the
L. S. Public Health Serv-
ice, the littlc-quotcd Office
and Development, many a
CITY health dCDartr1pptC
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

SpOuting BIIle-LOns Clouds OF
DDT, the Deadly F1y-KiIler, Planes
VIII Cover Vast Areas I'm the Hope
of Stamping Out Polio and Isolate
Areas in Which IL Rages.
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

was safe from injury or even insult from lumber
Jacks. It was our code and we held il highly.
But to Averill this particular spring came
husky lumberjack who had said that man could
make his code for him. He made his code
This fellow the feared and celebrated Joe
Fournier, tacSt and biggest logger in all Mich
gan. Joe was feet inches. and he weighed
around $50 pounds. He bully too.
Well, one morning. right after the gang arrived
in Avcrill Helen Hall, pretty picture and twice
as real, left her fathers store to 70 10 the post
office. Fourncr saw her pass the saloon where
ne was drinking. He stepped into the street and
called after her She hcStatcd a moment, then
continued on her way.
Come ere, l tell you" Founer roarcd in his
bull voice. With three long strides ne was beside
the trembling girl Il want a KEGS
- He grabbed her by the coat she turned TO
and in the struggle tore the coat and her
shirtwaist from her body The poor girl to
the post office, screaming. Big Fouwicr laughed
and returned to the saloon. He didn't know what
coming
From the post office Helen made her way
home. She was a small woman, but very de-
termined Getting into one of her younger brothers
coats, she walked straight down TO of the
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

o'clock tonight and / want TO see him.
Jack returned TO the rollways and all after
noon the logs heaved and Numbered as they hit
the icy water. Five o'clock found Jack eating sup
per. and hour later found the Red Kcg filled
with lumberjacks. The news had got around.
At six o'clock sharp Silver Jack walked into
the bar. He had hardly ordered a drink when in
Strode the huge FouTnicr. The message had
reached him. all right. But neither said
word Fournier rushed at Jack. Jack him
coming in the bar mirror He turned bit late.
With a leap like a catamOunt FOuTnier reached
Jack and grabbed him by the throat.
II wasn't long before Silver Jacks eyes began
10 bulge The choking almost more than ne
could stand. Now his tongue started TO stick out.
Yes, sir il looked like the end of things.
But Founier made a fatal mistake. He put
one foot on the brass rail in front of the bar In
flash Jack drove the heel OF his boot with its long
steel calkS pointed icepiCks, into FournerS
foot The giant let out a bclcr and for split
second he loosed the hold on Jacks throat Ii
was enough. Jack broke clear.
The men now faced each other for an instant,
then Fourner lowered his head and rushed 1t
was to be the headbutting tactics for which the
big Frenchman was notorious. Jack sidesteppcd
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AS for Jack, it was pity he did not marry
Helen Hall and settle down. Next day after the
fight Jack and Helen were seen together in a
tender parting, as Jack got into a bateau and
started on the long drive down 10 the sawrnills.
He promised to return but he never did. And
year later Helen disappeared
Silver Jack had started his career Of brawling
and he roamed all over Somewhere he met
Pigiron Jack who had some big ideas about easy
money. And in 1880 he and Pigiron taken
IN hod-up at Saginaw and sent TO the Michigan
pen for ID years. Even in prison Silver Jack added
TO his reputation, this time the side of law.
1t happened this way One day in 1888, group
OF the more desperate Convicts staged carefully
planned break. They stole guns shot guards, and
were just ready to break out the main gate when
Silver Jack took hand. Armed only with the
club Of felled guard, Jack ran across the prison
yard with bullets whizZing all sides.
The veteran logger went headon into the gang
OF conyicts who were struggling to open the big
gate Whaling about him with the club, Jack felled
five cons then had to defend himself two more
grappled with him. They just getting him
down when guards beat them off.
G liver JACK had been struck twice by bullets
- and also badly used up by knives and clubs.
Not a con escaped. Silver Jack had stopped a
break. The prison warden commended John Drscoll
and later the Governor gave Jack a pardon.
Little is known of Silver Jacks life during the
next four years. / saw him once in Seney, in
Michigans Upper Peninsula, but only briefly. /
think he was then working in a logging camp In
1895 he turned up at LAnse Mich, where he
was living in a loggers boarding house kept by a
Mrs Bellanger whose son recalls him well. He
SdSS uldl JACK years Oh last uNln nau begun
to tell on him. In March of 1895 he took sick with
d cold and Mrs. Bellanger called doctor.
One morning Jack did not answer her call so
Mrs Belanger went into his room He was dead
Such was the end of the boldest daringest
lumberjack of all time. He died in bed with his
calked boots off and standing in corner beside
his singlebitted ak, which had begun to rust.
Next week Mr.. Mahoney will tell Of the
adventures of the Queen of Lady BOuncers.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY ~
Detroit evening times., 1945-09-09

The street and tore my coat and waist OF
He did" said Jack. his steel eyes
glinting. He asked her a few questions
and took her home
LIE next made the rounds Of Averills
saloons, looking for Fournier, That
plug.u ugly was not 10 be found. so Jack
left a message for him at each saloon.
Tell that big French-," he said,
mlhal LII he In the Ped Enn aalnnrl ~ siA
Evening star., 1945-09-12
FOUND

COCKER SPANIEL, male dog, in Hyatts-
vile. Call PRINCE GEORGES COUNTY
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE, UN. l241.
FOR LOST AND WANTED DOGS, phone
Sligo 51S3, MONTGOMERY COUNTY
ANIMAL SHELTER.
OFFICERS SUMMER UNIFORM, initials
"WP.S apparently en- route to cleaner.
Call Republic 600, Extension 5732
Evening star., 1945-09-12
Acid Indigestion
Relieved in 5 minutes or
double your money back

When excess stomach acid causes painful, su6oeAt-
Ing xas, stomach and heartburn doctors usually
prescribe the fastest acting medicines known fos
symptomatic reief-medcines like those in Bell ans
Tablets. No laxative. Bell brings comfort IN
1ffy double your money back On return of bo<tls
70 us. 25c 1t sn drugsists
Evening star., 1945-09-12
Streeter's Parents Admit
Son Made Broodcosts

OGDEN, Utah. Sept. II lP1.-The
parents Of Mark Lewis Streeter,
civilian electrical engineer on Wake
Island prior to his capture by the
Japanese in February. 1912, ack-
nowledged today that their son had
made several broadcasts to the
United States.
Most Of his broadcasts were per-
sonal messages to the family" said
Mrs. George C. Streeter. mother of
the civilian who is accused of max
ing propaganda broadcasts from
prison camps for the Japanese.
George c. Streeter. father of the
former Wake Island prisoner, re-
fused to accept the Associated Press
report of the general headquarters
announcement that his son had
been picked up for questioning We
have better word than that from
the provost marshal" he said.
Evening star., 1945-09-12

Gen. MacArthur's list already held
are Jorge Vargas, puppet Philippine
Ambassador to Japan; Mark Lewis
Streeter. American. captured at
Wake Island by the Japanese and
charged with later making propa-
ganda broadcaStS for them from q
prison camp, and Col. Josef Alfred
Meisinger. police attache at the
German Embassy.
Vargas was taken in Tokyo along
with his two sons. Streeter was
found aboard the American hos
pital ship Marigold. where he had
been sent with other liberated pris-
oners of war. Meisinger has been
held for several days
Masses CIamored for Death.
AS the 61-year-old TOTO lived on.
the Tokyo newspaper Mainichi said
bluntly:
The general masses clamored
for his DEATH
Twenty thousand units of peni
cillin were injected at three-hour
intervals. Besides the whole blood
he was given more plaSma today.
His temperature was above 100 and
his pulse was l22 compared with a
normal 72.
Three guards stood watch through
out last night at his bedside on the
third floor of what once was an ele-
mentary school. They we're Staff
Sergt. Harry D. Hemingway, AM
sterdam, N. Y; Pfc. Tom Federbar.
Fair Oaks, Pa, and Pfc. George
Cafensky, South st. Paul, MINI.
Today TOTO, who had been quoted
as saying Il will shoulder the whole
responsibility" for the war but in
sisted he wanted to die, was suffi-
GENTLY conscious to humble thank
you" in English for glass of water
and to spurn an offer of breakfast
with coffee.
1t. Col. James Peery, Tazewell,
Va. chief Army surgeon at the hos
pital. said there remained the pos
sibility of pus forming in the pune
tured left lung. Col. Peery is a
nephew of former Gov. Peery of
Virginia.
More than a patient, TOTO is de-
tained officially on instructions of
Gen. Macarthur, who pointed out
in an interview that the stolen en-
pire TOTO helped build already has
been cut down to a fourth-rate ma
ton with little hope of ever again
becoming a world power.
Contrast With Europe.
Gen. Macarthur, obviously pleased
with the progress of the occupation
directed any skeptics to contrast
the situation with that in Europe
The supreme commander of the
Allied powers made these points:
l. In Europe the only Axis lead
ers the people ever followed were Of
necessity placed in jails, If still alive;
in Japan Emperor Hirohito has
obeyed every order issued unde,
Gen. MacArthurs name since thu
occupation and has made no re-
quests on his own behalf.
| 2. In Europe it already has become
necessary for the Allies to provide
coal and they are faced with thu
prospect of supplying other necessi.
ties; in Japan, despite the inevitabl.
hard times ahead, the people mus
rehabilitate themselves without hop,
of assistance.
Gen. Macarthur said the defeat
OF Japan's Army was the mos
Evening star., 1945-09-12
Storm in Curribeon
Forming; Another Dying

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla, Sept. 12.-Tropical
disturbance No. IL was forming in
the Atlantic about 800 miles east of
the Island of Antigua today as the
10th ocean storm of the hurricane
season blew itself out in the vicinity
of Bermuda.
A preliminary hurricane alert was
posted from the Leeward Islands
northward to st. Martin.
A storm in the same general area.
which travelled northwestward for
three days recurved to the North,
spread out and today was dying out
in the vicinity of Bermuda.
Evening star., 1945-09-12

have been freed or are in the process
of being rescued from camps in the
Japanese home islands.