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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16

Teacher didn't harumph, hook a cane over the desk or stroke goat ee. Teacher slipped into the instruc- tors seat, crossed pair of shape ly legs and smiled charmingly at the amazed students.
 For probably the first time in the history of education in the United tSates, 8 woman was teach ing college engineering class.
 Gets Job Before Degree
 The phenomenal gal is 22-year- old Virginia Platt. Ten years ago, she began to tinker with the in- nards of the family automobile in Seattle. Not finding any spare parts left over, she decided to be- come mechanical engineer.
 Miss Platt lasted two years at Vassar college, where she acquired bit of Eastern accent and back ground in physics and art. Then she returned to Seattle and held down a drafting board at 8 steel company for year.
 Entering the University of Wash ington as sophomore, she plunged into the stiff college of engineering course. Her professors were so inn pressed with her ease for designing Diesel engines and mastering brain busting eqations that recently they signed her up for an instruc- ting post before she even finished her own classes. Her Bachelor of Science degree comes in June.
 Believed Only One
 Engineering Dean E. A. Lowe said he believed Miss Platt to be the only woman instructor in an engineering college in the country.
 off campus, the brown haired teacher is an amateur architect, ardent gardener and chicken rais- CT and "passable" pianist.
 Only knot is convincing her stu dents that good engineers can wear skirts.
 When I was given the job," she said, "the profs told me to just be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
CLOTHING NEEDS OF FRENCH PW'S
 POSES PROBLEM
By ROBERT AHIER Limited Press Stan Correspondent

NOUltCu HGn0 0N9h NVhNCoRVAaNChkI
 Paris, March l6- CUP) How to clothe nearly three million French prisoners of war and deportees when they are liberated from Nazi Germany is the major problem confronting Minister of Prisoners and Deportees, Henri Frenzy, the minister told the United Press.
 Frenzy said these men would come back dressed like "Bohem- ians." They have been wearing cast of clothing taken from various European armies which Germany defeated at the beginning of the war, Frenzy stated. Political de- portees in concentration camps are dressed like criminal prisoners, while French workers who were forced to go to Germany have worn out most of their clothes and cannot buy new ones. We must have clothing, blankets and good shoes to give these people when they return" said Frenzy. Most of them are wearing old Russian boots with the tops cut off"
 There are about 2,875,000 French men in Germany according to the best available figures. Of this total 300, ,0O0 are war prisoners, 225,000 are war prisoners who have been forced to work for the Germans, 6O0,O00 political deportees, 100000 workers and 450,000 French citizens from Alsace-Lorraine who either have been forced into the German army or sent to concentration camps.
 Efforts to assist returning pris- oners in the matter of clothing have been centralized, Frenzy stat ed, but the resources at the govern ment's disposal are poor. Most French industries are closed due to lack of raw materials while the remainder send their output to the army. Frenzy revealed that the Ministry of Prisoners and Deportees had al- ready sent clothing to some 80000 French and Allied soldiers freed by the Russian advance, as well as to many who managed to escape from Germany into France.
 We have already distributed 130,OOO suits of clothing, 100000 rabbit-skin vests, 67,700 suits Of underwear, 22,O00 pairs of socks, 1000 pairs of gloves, 26,O0O beerts, 122,000 pairs of shoes and ration coupons enough for 165,0OO com- plete outfits of clothes. We also have helped the families of men who are prisoners in Germany with 34,0OO dresses, 52,O0O feminine un- dergarments, 75,0OO children's out fits, 47,OOO suits of children's un- derwear and 35,000 shoes-mostly with wooden soles-for women and children" the Minister said.
 "The Ministry of Prisoners and Deportees is helping prisoners who have escaped from Nazi camps to rebuild their homes if damaged by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
Borough Bill 

Hartford, Conn, March 16.-(UP) Late in getting under way because of prolonged caucuses over a com- promise state labor relations act the general assembly devoted most of it's sessions yesterday to clearing the calendars of relatively routine bills.
 Those approved by the house pro. vided:
 Establishing April IA as Pan American day.
 Creating tax of one and three quarter per cent on life insurance premiums of foreign companies, and two per cent on all other forms ol insurance. Exempting insurance company officials from personal lia. bility concerning tax payments in other states.
 Extending from six months to one year the time limit for paroling in sane patients before permanent re- lease from an institution would be allowed.
 Establishing joint committee of state mental hospitals to integrate programs and consider common problems
 Authorizing the state welfare com- missioner to be named conservator for persons supported by the state, in cases where the estate is less than $500 and no other conservator has been provided.
 An unfavorable report was re- ceived from the cities and boroughs committee on bill to increase from two or three the number of asses sorS at Naugatuck
 Among the senate bills approved were those providing:
 Exempting servicemen from pay ment of motor vehicle operators fees, and granting a one-year ex- emption of fee payments to those honorably discharged from the serv- ice.
 Permitting regional high schools to borrow up to $5O,0OO on notes.
 Allowing taxes coming due on Sundays or holidays to be paid the following day without penalty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16

the war, and to furnish them if necessary. We have distributed furniture running to thousands Of pieces. We have built nearly 2.00o barracks. heated by 5,750 stoves We have given returned prisoners more than 800 tons Of hardware, some 4S0 tons of china and crockery."
 Allies Give Help
 Frenzy said that the French Army turned over about 100000 suits of clothes to the Ministry - suits the Vichy government had prepared for prisoners who were supposed to return according to an agreement made by Vichy with the Germans but who never left Ger many. The Allies, too, have helped with 1,500 tons of clothing 150,00o pairs of shoes and 100000 blankets
 The future. Frenzy thought, was not bright since French clothing manufacturers lack raw materials and since over BOG, 900 foreign re- fugees must be cared for as well as the three million Frenchmen The maximum number we can provide for at present is 100000" Frenzy stated. we hope the Allies will help us provide for some of the rest. We are not begging but consider it part of our job to en- able those who have suffered men, tally and physically to look for- ward, with some hope, to the future"
 Frenchmen have contributed enough money to the Prisoners fund, Frenzy said, to provide each returning prisoner with at least a 20 dollar saving bank account. This money will be available to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
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be unruffled by so much as a play full breath: the fronds of the palms in tropical atolls would hang un- fretted;. the smoke from steamers would lie level on the air, and everywhere, throug.lout the world, the flags of all nations would for get to wave"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
FAT PROPELLANT

Waste fats from the kitchens Of American housewives has found a wartime use as an ingredient in the propellant used to fire Ameri- can rockets. The waste fats are used in the making of nitroglycer- inc which constitutes 50 per cent Of the propellant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
BY UNITED PREen

Tn Italy, Allied foroes MolA slow progress, hlndered by es6gi1 of their own bombs and GhensI continue to pound ak the AbboJ on Mount Casino.
 Russians continue oAnapaagn o encirclement and annihilat10n o4 Germans in the Ukraine; SOvie1 unit crosses the Bug Rivers out1 off the last major rail escape EfnG to Odessa as other units elOSe in on NikOlayev.
 Allied troops on Les Negro4 Island, in the Admlralties, Gpan$ ned a narrow channel to the iDs land of Manus on March 14s @ was revealed.
 U. 5. Army NOW-mOeOreu bombers attack Truk for the flrSe time.
 President Roosevelt and K1ne Gustav, of Sweden, both counsel the Films to withdraw from their hateful partnership with Ger" many.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16

There Is . cOffee-pOt owner in town who has this sort of sensa- yuma At 11:45 nightly he raises . photo of Jimmy Byrnes. The pro- ceeding is done in a solemn manner :. Very curfunereal, too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16

After plane from which he had alighted had continued its journey, Wellington, New Zealand, business man found he had left $4, 300 aboard, so a radio message was sent to the pilot and the money was returned by another plane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16

a teacher and forget I was wom- an"
 She said she's forgotten. But what about those navy students? Therell be pienty of apples or teachers desk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16

prisoners as soon as they arrtvq home. Some prisoners, especially those who come from the country, have as much as 500 dollars in thl bank for the neighbors have been saving money for them for several years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
INSULT TO INJURY

Royal Oak, Mich. (UP) - The manager of lumber company here wasn't taking any chances with his liquor. He left 8 half qupart of scotch in the company safe, re- gently. During the night two ol three men entered the office, sub dued the watchman. Helping them selves to tools from the company's hardware stock, they then cracked the safe and finished the bottle They also took $5,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16
)22-Year-Old Girl Teaches
 Engineering To Trainees
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By ALTNE MOSBY United Press Staff Correspondent

Navy rainee membership of Elementary Me- chancs at the University Washington did double their new instructor into the class the other day
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16

get to wave"
 General De Gaulle's starchy de- meanor has distressed many of his advisors. The General seems to lack sensayuma .. He is in sharp contrast to another great French war leader-Marshal Foch. Among the many anecdotes Foch in- Spired, the best concerns the time he visited the Grand Canyon. AS he stood looking down into the depths of the amazing natural winder, re- porters all around him waited breathlessly for any comment which would go down in history. After few minutes of dramatic silence. the Marshal observed: What a beautiful place to drop ones moth- er-in-law!"
 Newspaperman Stuff: Editor James Gordon Bennett offered this advice to newspapermen: Don't wait to be invited into the Hall of Fame enter it by breaking down the door with your bare fiSts!"
 United Nations. statesmen will gather in San Francisco to make Hateful decisions for the future of the world. We hope they have learned that tyrants grow strong enough to incite wars by feeding on the intellectual hypocrisy and apathy of loving nations The following story is an example of the type of sordid thinking which could be fatal to plans for global peace: When Stanley Baldwin was the British Prime Minister, he in- formed reporter: T want 1t to be said of me that I never sent a single Englishman to die on a foreign battlefield" The re- porter then reminded Baldwin. Don't you see you are piling up trouble that will kill a million Eng lishmen in the next war?" .. The Prime Minister calmly replied: That is problem for my suc- cesSor."
 Gertie Stein's autObiog (just pub lished) is being saluted as a work of art by many critics. One New York book reviewer points out that the tome is filled with gossip . . In other words, when you put gos- sip In a book-you are a great wri- ter. But when you put gossip in a colyum = some people call you a baaaaaaaad poy. Ho, hum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-16

New Zealand farmers may re- vive flax and are studying north ern Ireland methods.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-17

Houaea For sale
{. Peet

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EAST SIDE bungalow, rooms ana
utility room, complete bath, inlaid
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Hardwood floors. Nice built-in
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Plastered walls. Garage with GEM
ent floor. Picket fence around lot,
S4.i5o. Terms $1,000 down. t'5
month.
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downstairs living room, library,
dining room, Kitchen, breakfast
room, refrigerator room. lAvatory,
sun porch. Vestibule and two clos
cts, hardwood floors, upstairs has
sly bedrooms. complete bath with
tile floor. linen closet, full attic,
with stairs, II ~. 25s n. with
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terms
NEAR BOMBER PLANT on Devon
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inlAid linoleum in bathroom near
ly new garage price $3.50. Terms.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-17

Gard Of Thanks

OVER 100 cHRIsTMAs BoxEscwsrss
sent 10 overseas men by Local SAG
TAW-cIO Generator Plant. fpsl-
lanti. Boxes contained COOKIES
crackers, peanut-butter. cheese
lunch meat. cigarettes, hool-Ade'
stationery, candy. Christmas CARDS,
We wish 10 thank the following
stores for their cooperation: A II
Packers Outlet, G y. smith, hroE-
ers. KresEes, McLellans, Dixie
Market, Cunninghams and the Post
office workers.
Local sac, UAW-CIO,
Service Mems Committee.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-17
Wings

Lester A. Johnson Is a new stu
dent a. McEnnan Airport.
Ii. and Mrs. william l.. Van Me-
ter, Sumter, s. C.. are announcing
the birth OF a son on October 5.
weight nine pounds seven ounces.
He has been named William Ian
mas Van Meter. Jr. 1t. Van Meter
was a former student here.
Word has been received that Jer-
ry Sutliff has pet!tioned .he city OF
Flint to start a new airport there.
Mr.. Sutliff flew bombers at the
bomber plant and instructed at Nc
Ennan Airport.
Everett Esch flew In from Ann
Arbor in his newly purchased Mon
ocoupe Wednesday. Charles Gault
checked the :wo way radio in 1t
for him.
Tom Holiday flew back from
Indianapolis Friday.
Mr.. and Mrs. L. L. Wilson flew In
from Champaign, H., Saturday and
left Monday.
1t. Arthur Williams has received
his discharge from the Army Air
Corps.
DIN Ring is recovering nicely
from his recent appendicitis opera
ton. Mr.. Ring is in Boyer Hos
pital.
Arthur Nelson flew back from
North Platte, Nebraska, Friday.
r. l. Botsford and B. II. Buckler
CA.A. inspectors from Ford Air
port, Dearborn. opened the hunt
ing season Monday at McEnnsn
Airport. They look home four
birds.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-17

THEY'RE soMErHINo-mors LnsA
fancies and fAds. these powerful
little Classified AIS.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-10-17

GRAPES Sc LIB. pick them Your
self. Everett Wizard, Eawson-
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
OLDER OFFICERS, MEN OF NAVY TO
 APPLY, DISCHARGE
Thai Is, They May Do So If They Have Required
 Number of Points

WASHINGTON, July 25.-Older Navy officers and men now may apply for discharge-if they have the points.
 The Navy's previously announced point system was placed in operation yesterday, but some releases may be months coming through. The plan provides one credit for each year of age at the nearest birthday, plus an- other for each four months of active duty since September 1, 1889.
 Requirements are 53 points for Reserve line officers, enlisted Re- servists, inductees and enlisted reg ulars serving under expired enlist ments; 55 points for Reserve offi- cers of the Supply Corps and 57 for Reserve officers of the Civil Engin- eers Corps.
 The Navy said commanding offi- cers in this country are given three months to act upon release applica- ticns and those afloat or abroad six months, in order to prevent impair ment of efficiency.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25

to move his arms or legs since birth, is being educated by the ski.-s. of his teeth. He's so engrossed in the job of learning to write with his mouth that he ignores vacation and is keeping school right through the summer.
 Marvin, the son of MT. and Mrs. M. w. Kessinger, is one of four children, two of whom are in the armed forces. He enrolled last Jan uary as a first-grader in the state education departments program for confined children
 His teacher, Edith Tuggle, who visits thirteen other handicapped children weekly, says Marvins mouth writing is legible. He is talk ing up water colors, holding the brush between his teeth, and also mastering a primer.
 Marvin insists on schoolroom atmosphere in the room at home where he works at his lessons. Every time Miss Tuggle comes, she finds a bright red apple on his desk.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
 CONFIRMATION
 LAW WARNING

There seems to be some confuS- ion regarding the Unemployment compensation Law of Alaska, espec- ially as to the amendments made by the last Territorial Legislature, says R. E. Sheldon, Executive Dir ector of the Unemployment Con- pensation Commission.
 "As result of these amendments, the Public is reminded that effec- tive July of this year every en- ployer in Alaska who hires any per son for any time Cthis means day or any part of day) must report the wages paid the employee or employees for unemployment com- pensation purposes" says Sheldon.
 On May 10, 1945, a form was mailed out to employers, with re- quest that same be completed and returned to the Alaska Unemploy- ment Compensation Office in Ju- neau by July 1, so that a determin- ation of liability could be made.
 Some employers have not return cd this international form and should realize that it is necessary that they do so at once. Any em- ployers who have not received this form (UCA-D or who may have mis- laid it should write the Unemploy- ment Compensation, Box 2661, Juneau, Alaska, at once and request a copy. When these determinations of liability are completed, quarterly reporting forms will be sent out and account numbers set up.
 An employer should not assume that he is exempt from coverage, as the Unemployment Compensation Commission must make that deter imitation under the law. There arg very few exemptions and it should be clear that part time or temper. ary workers are also covered under the Act.
 Generally speaking, the coopera- tion of employers has been good ir regard to the new one or more amendment and, after every em- ployer has full knowledge of the pro- visions, little administrative trouble is anticipated"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
CHINESE ARMY IN MINOR CLASH WITH
 COMMUNIST UNITS

CHUNGhli;G, July 25.-Chinese Government troops and Commun- ists forces have clashed in the bor- der region of Shensi Province in North China, but the Army spokes- man said today the incident was not serious.
 The Army spokesman, Maj. Gen. Kuo Chi-Chih, charged Commun- ist forces had attacked and tempor- arily occupied the Ghunyao district in Shensi Province, about 70 miles north of Sian, which he said was definitely outside the Communist border region"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
New Senator
 Goes 10 Job

RENO, Nev., July 25.-E. F. Car vile, who resigned the Nevada gov- ernorship yesterday to accept ap- pointment as United States Sena- tor, will fly to Washington today to vote for the United Nations char ter.
 Vail M. Pittman, who became act ing Governor upon Carville's resig- nation, appointel the ex-Governor to fill the unexpired term of the late Senator James G. Scrugham.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
BUTTER PROBLEM
 IN SEATTLE NOW
 WORST IN NATION
Trouble Is Due 10 Govern ment's Cut, Addition
 of Alaska Market

SEATTLE, July 25-A Seattle dairyman said today this city's but ter problem lis the worst in the nation," although the War Food Administrations (nationaD supply of butter now exceeds it's commit ments and allocations by 10,000,000 pounds"
 R. s. Waltz, local representative of the United Dairymen's Associa- tion, so advised Sen. Mitchell (D- Wash in a telegram.
 Waltz and other dairymen said the chief reasons for the looming short age was the governments announ-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
COSTLY SMACK

BATAVIA, 1.-Two young wo- men appeared before Justice of the Peace Arthur Hoover in Batavia and told how one of them was kissed by a motorist who had given them 1itch-hike ride.
 They said that after Clifford As selborn, 28, had given them a ride to their destination, he asked. Don't you think the ride was worth a kiss?" He didn't wait for an ans wer, the girls testified, grabbing the one nearest him and kissing her.
 Justice Hoover fined Asselborn $213
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
THREE BUILDING
 PERMITS ISSUED

Three building permits were is sued during the past week by the City of Juneau, Engineer J. L. Mo Namara filling in blanks for.
 Sam Shabaldak, for repairs to the marquee on the Triplex Cleaners building, S200 estimated cost, Walter Stutte contractor; w. D. Gross. for marquee at l39 South Franklin, $500. Walter Stutte contractor and to Mary Joyce, for erection of a Quonset Hut at Fourth and East streets, $100.
 MRS. EMERSON IN TOWN
 Mrs. J. A. EverSon, of SkagWay, is a guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
FORGOTTEN
 WAR FRONT
 NOT FAMED
Trapped Jdps Put Up Saw. age Resistance in Bly,
 passed Zone

MANILA. July 25-On an al- most forgotten battlefront far tc the south of Okinawa and the Philippines, Australian troops are waging savage warfare against a Japanese enemy trapped. but sur prisingly well fed and full of fight.
 Men are still dying on dark breeding Bougainyille Island in the Solomons and in the untamed Sago swamps of the Sepik River in British New Guinea, just north of Australia
 The war has swept north, and the world waits impatiently for the invasion of Japan itself, but the by-passed Nipponese garrisons on Bougainville and New Guinea fight on. The Australians have killed 12,000. of them in the last eight months.
 Tn the same period, United States Marine and New Zealand Dauntless divebombers and Corsair fighters, together with Australian Kitty hawks, Beaufighters and Liberators have flown 27,00O sorties against Japanese concentrations in the area.
 An estimated 17000 Japanese re- main under willy It. Gen. Kanda, commanding the remnants of the Seventeenth Japanese Army They still have heavy .155 artillery, four inch defense guns and an abund- ance of IS millimeter anti-aircraft dual-purpose guns that can be turned against tanks with devas- tating effect.
 (An Australian Army broadcast heard today by the Federal Com munications Commission, said Aus tralian troops have invaded and completely liberated Choiseul, by passed Solomon Island, across narrow Bougainville Strait from Bougainville Island).
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25

ced plan to take 30 per cent of the areas production during August, and the addition of Alaska to the Washington market. Until July 1 Alaska's butter was supplied from the Federal "set-aside' purchases.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-07-25
MRS. w. c. JENSEN HOME

Mrs. w. c. Jensen, of the Ju- neau Apartments, and little grand daughter, Joan Blythe, returned on the North Sea from a visit of several weeks duration in the south.