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Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1945-03-20

jala pa je:
''Kaki cudni pokloni so v vasih
besedah! Pa ne, da je to spet
sama ironija
''Sami veste, kako je," je od-
vrnil temno Pirc in Sc zagledal
v morje.
''Izginiti ne morem," je dejala
Tina in sc poredno nasmehnila.
''saj tudi ne smete.'
'Kdo mi brani?"
"Jaz." Pirc Sc je vzravnal in
jo temno pogledal.
''Kdo ste vi gospod? Dovolite,
dovolite . :"
"Vas clovek-Tina, tvoj clo-
vek sem, pa konec - in to ze
zdavnaj ves." Potem Sc je okre-
nil in Sc pridruzil ostalim. Tina
je obstala kakor vkovana, burno
il je utripalo srce in tudi njej sc
je zdelo, da sc bo zdrobila ma
kosce. Tedaj jo je nalahno pri-
jela Melanija "a roke in dejela
"Tina, pazi SCI"
"Kako? Ne morem vec," je
odvrnila Tina in sc sele zdaj "a
vedla, da Sc je izdala Melaniji, in
je koj vedela, da Melanija vse
We in ju je opazovala YES dan.
"Zapri Sc vase, zapri dom,
ne glej okrog, Gornika ne zali.
sebe ne vleci v pogubo! Tina, kaj
ne YES? Mlakar, Gornik, zdaj ia
kan hoces"'
"Jaz nicesar nocem, to je ia.
koi n je tako-a tt, Melanija
kako bi ii vse to razumela! Nj.
kar 81 ne prizadevaj, vse mic ne
pomaga in ne pomaga in ne po.
maga."
INA Vando pomisli!'
"Sploh nimam misli. To je
ogenj."
Melanija Sc je zalostno ma
smehnila.
"Ne vidis konca?"
"Nocem."
Melanija nj odgovorila nice
sar, pocasi sc je odstranila ir
dejala Riznarju:
"Da hi bila ze skoraj donna" "
"Kaj nj bilo prijetno?" jo j
vprasal Riznar.
"Grdo je in nikamor vec NJ
pojdem. Tako do dna vem, kaj j
dom-hvala Bogu-in vse dru
go je umazano."
Riznar Sc je zacudeno ozrl
Memo lice in lepo mu je bilo, ds
ina cloveka, XII hodi res po ME
govi poti.
Poldi pa je v istem casu deja
la Pircu:
"Zakaj me mucis %
Pirc sc je zdrznil in jo po
gledal v razorani obraz.
me mislim ma nikake nuke
A midva sva koncala."
"Nisva. I'll 81 moi"
"Vsaka beseda je odvec."
"Tina ii nj odvec?"
xvi ste gospa Bizjakova in ia,
sem doktor Pirc. Klanjam SCI"
20, tt puhli, prevzetni clovek
Nikdar ne pozabim tega dneva
PRAY, da sem te spoznala do dna
A tt me Sc ne poznas. In tudi jaz
-klanjam SCI"
Ponosno sc je vzravnala in sls
k Nett, XII Sc je pogovarjala ,
Gornikom, in tudi Tina je bils
pocasi prisla k NINA. VISA je Ia
rela in je bila resnicno lepa. Me
ia il je skrivaj sepnila:
"Pircu nisi kar tako. Nevarer
clovek je."
'In tudi JAZZ sem nevarna," j
dejala Tina.
"Kaj, tako?" Sc je zacudils
Meta.
| "Tako" 10 deia1a Tina in Me
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MocMiIIon Forum Guest Sunday Night
 Arctic Explorer
 Will Show Movies
 Al Second Church

Commander Donald B. MacAIillan, veteran Arctic Explorer, will be the speaker at the Forum of the Sec- ond Church on Sunday evening, Dec. 9 at T o'clock. Commander MacNillan will present his new and timely lecture, with natural color movies, Greenland. Worlds Larg- est Island" World War II has brought Greenland very close to the United States. Our Forces have lived there, gotten to know this vast island continent and its peo- pie.
 Commander MacMillan, who knows Greenland because of a life time of experience, brings great picture lecture that shows us our little known northern neighbor as it is. He has covered it from top to bottom by ship, dog-team and plane, and has very recently flown over 1t several times. In the past 37 years out of his 25 Arctic trips, 12 of them have been solely to Green land. He once stayed there four years! In this lecture he shows that Greenland is no bleak land of dag zling white. It is 8 region bathed in color, new Empire to the north awaiting an awakening touch.
 Commander MacMillan, after val uablX serving his country during the war crisis, both in the Hydro graphic office in Washington and north in the Arctic, has been re- turned to civilian life and to the lecture platform. Which is indeed fortunate for the lecture audiences of America, for Commander Mac Milan is as great 8 speaker as he is explorer And he is one of our foremost living explorers. For 37 years he has been in command of northern expeditions that have added infinitely to our knowledge of a vast previously unknown part Of the globe. His first great ex- perience was with Admiral Peary in 1909.
 His latest expedition to the north was in the summer of 1944. He has been north every year except 1918- 19 and 1885. He was in the Navy in World War I, preferring the
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the following being elected: Mrs. Harry Stride, president; Mrs. Harry Lattimer, vice-president; Mrs. J. M. E Johnson, secretary; and Miss Ruth Norton, treasurer. Mrs. Lillian Bronson was elected recording sec- retary, new office.
 Plans were completed for their annual Christmas party, Monday evening, Dec. IT in the church par lors. A pot-luck supper will be Ser- ved at 6:30 followed by a grab-bag and social. Each member is sup posed to bring a 50 cent gift for the grab-bag. Gifts will be ex- changed between the capsule sis- ters. A wSite gift basket will be made up to give to some needy family for the holiday. Lunch was served. Hostesses were Mrs. Douglas Estelle and Mrs. Desauliers. Mrs. Joseph Caron served.
 Those attending were: Mrs. Doug las Stephens, Mrs. J. M. E. Johnson, Mrs. Harry Stride, Mrs. Richard Mutt, Miss Ruth Norton, Mrs. Eva Kott, Mrs. Dorothy Leonard, Mrs Evelyn Niven, Mrs. Edwin Wight man, Mrs. John w. Platt, ST.. Mrs. Harry Lattimer, Mrs. William Westwood, Mrs. Arthur Twelyes, Mrs. James Brodie, Mrs. Frank Wilson, Mrs. Frederick zaugg, Mrs. George Hornbecker, Mrs. Lillian Bronson, Mrs. Ralph Lane. Mrs. Charles Greene, Mrs. Desau- Hers, Mrs. Joseph Caron, Mrs. Douglas Estelle, Mrs. William Lam- bert, Sr., Mrs. Emily Berger, Mrs. Thomas Fahy, Mrs. William Brandt, and Mrs. Stanley Stephens, who was admitted as new member.
 The Swedish weaving Club will
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tain will give this country $31 ,823, : 900 each year for each billion drawn from the credit. If she pays all the interest, Britain's total payments to us will be $5,962, 900, 900 for the $3,- 750, ,000, 900 plus $650, 900 in goods she got.
 Points Favor U. s.
 British agreements in return for the loan include:
 1. Abolition of Britain's war; time sterling area dollar pool. Under this device Britain required all countries on the pound sterling base to pool their U. $. dollars for purchases in this country at Bri- tish direction.
 2. Removal of controls on American imports into the United Kingdom and the lifting of res- trictions on sterling balances used by American residents.
 3. Release of Commonwealth Nations blocked sterling indebt- edness to Britain so they can con- vert 1t immediately into any cur- IeIlCy they cnOOSe.
 To Aid UNO Charter
 Britain also agreed to join the United States in seeking an inter national trade charter at a United Nations Conference next summer to promote freer world commerce. This charter would:
 1. Give imports no less favor able treatment than domestic pro- ducts in internal taxation and trade regulation.
 2. Lift customs, transit duties and discriminatory treatment for goods moving through any coun- try to outside markets.
 3. Provide general definition of anti-dumping duties.
 4. Make effective as soon as pos sible agreed principles of tariff.
 5. Simplify unnecessary tariff requirements which afford indi- rect production to domestic pro- ducts.
 6. Eliminate excessive require ments regarding marks of origin.
 T. End government-flnanced or organized boycotts or campaigns to discourage import or consump- tion of foreign goods.
 8. Establish and maintain na- tional courts to review and cor rect administrative customs ac- tion.
 g. Call for appropriate trade information and statistics for in- ternational trade organizations.
 1. Provide for cooperation with UNO in enforcing these prin- o1ples.
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.kopplenaar,r, Presides
 At Confab Sunday

A statewide conference, sponsor ed jointly by the conservative syna- gog of Connecticut and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Hotel Taft, New Haven.
 Congressman-at-large Herman O. Kopplemann, Hartford, will preside at the meeting. Rabbi Harry Kat chen, member of the field staff of the seminary, will be the consult and at the conference and Rabbi William F. Greenfield, Waterbury will summerize the discussion.
 Speakers at the conference will be Rabbi Myer Kripke, New Lon- don, Dr. Louis M. Levitsky, Newark, and Chaplain Jacob Rochman, re- gently returned from Europe.
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Solons Loud
 Loan Factors

(Continued from Page D
 sisted that Britain could not meet her agreements and maintain the stability of the pound sterling for less than $6,000, DOG, 900. He said she probably would need $8,O00, ,0OO 900" to do it. To advance her only $3,- 75O, ,0O00O0 now, knowing that in two years she would have to come back for more, he said, would be like pouring good money down a drain
 Meanwhile, administration leaders i'll both Houses were studying the best means of steering loan legisla- ton through Congress. The $3,750,- 100000 in cash has to be appropri- ated by Congress. The $65O, 900 900 Lend-Lease settlement becomes final by action of the President under provisions of the Lend-Lease Act.
 House and Senate leaders were uncertain whether the enabling leg iSlation would be bill, a joint res- olution, or concurrent resolution. Likewise they were uncertain which committees would handle the legis- lation.
 The loan was not expected to be put before Congress before another week Leaders counted on regular Administration supporters and Re- publicans who favor strong interna- tional cooperation to push the measure through.
 Hart Back Loan
 Sen. Warren R. Austin, R., vt.) member of the Senate Foreign Re- lations Committee, said he would support the loan. He said it seems necessary to promote the expansion of economic progress we must have to pay our debts" More production and more consumption are neces- sary to this end, he said and Bri- tains concessions let the world Hook forward with encouragement to the future"
 Sen. Thomas c. Hart, (R.,
 COnn.) said that while the S650,- 100000 Lend-Lease section of the
 loan might appear generous" 1t
 was mot at all out of line with
 the necessity of helping Britain"
 President Truman and British Prime Minister Clement R. Atlee announced the agreement simultan- eously yesterday in London and Washington. They said it would put an end to the fear of an economically divided worlf' and would result in the creation of 8 world code of equitable rules for conduct of in- ternational trade policies and rela- tionS."
 Under the plan, Britain would draw on the loan from the day she was informed of the appropriation until Dec. 31, 1851. She would pay two per cent interest on it over a 50-year period beginning on the 1851 date. The interest would be waived in years Britain has un- favorable trade balance.
 To Close Wartime Books
 The $650,000,O00 Lend-Lease por- tion of the loan would close the books on wartime Lend-Lease op- erations that sent $29, ,000, 900 in goods and services from this nation to Britain. A balance of about $5,- 000, 100000 remains, mostly in mili- tary equipment which would cost more than it's worth to ship back to the United States. Some $20,000,- COG, 900 of the original Lend-Lease material was consumed in the war and we got $4,000,0OO in reverse Lend-Lease.
 The 50,000,O00 of goods which Britain receives includes about SIS, 100000 of material on order or being shipped when Lend-Lease ended and about $532,000,00 in goods already delivered.
 Once payments start in 1851, Bri-
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Medical Detachment Arrdnqinq Party

The Medical Detachment Third Battalion, State Guard, will hold their annual Christmas party next Wednesday at 8 p. m. at the Chase Country Club. Pvt. Howard Hem- inway and Sgt. Lyle Wright are in charge of the program. A dinner, grab bag, movies and dancing have been planned. All guardsmen will attend in uniform.
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Girl Scouts of Troop 9 To Get Merif Bddpes

The Girl Scouts of Troop g will be awarde forty-two merit badges Tuesday at 7:15 at the First Metho- dist Church. Miss atricia Malone is troop leader.
 A special feature will be the pre- sentation of an American flag to the troop by Mrs. Helen Brophy, VFW, assisted by a special color guard. A ninvitation has been ex- tended to the Girl Scout Council to attend. Joan Asel, Shirley Bel- anger and Doris Mattson will be made first class scouts.
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Walter WincheII
 On RrO0dway
Fssas Nara RsTissrsa, copyrisst lssi. DaaT MsT.r.

On Dec. 2. after the snake ranch had been hit, Mac ran across the
 parade grounds. under fire, ran into the snake ranch, and came out carrying two cases of beer. He sat down in the middle of the parade grounds and started to drink it,
 using his finger in a child-like gesture to shoot down enemy planes. Between gulps of beer, he shouted, Bang, bang. bang, you're dead" In the middle of all this hell he did not get a scratch on him.
 There were many deeds of hero ism performed that day which will go unheralded. During the attack l saw boys, who were no longer boys but men, performing feats which ordinarily they would never dream of attempting. There was one boy who had just come from the States, who was so inexperienced. with guns that he could not even assem- ble a thirty calibre machine gun which he was using. Somebody had set this gun up in one of the bomb craters and had been killed. This young. lad ran out and manned that gun and commenced firing. Just as he shot down 8 Jap plane, another plane dropped a bomb right on him. There wasn't enough left of him to bury in 8 match box.
 A milk truck which had driven in, supposedly to deliver milk, be- fore the attack dropped the side of the truck down and there were three Japanese with tommy guns who opened fire on us. They did not last very long but neither did the kid they cut in two. At the height of the attack, it was re- ported later, several cars contain ing JapS attempted to break through the gate but were heroic ally repulsed by the MP'c on duty.
 Several of the Jap planes that were shot down were found to con- tain excellent maps showing the positions of every target. One building which was destroyed was the building used as the combina- tion church and recreation hall but which had previously been an i'm portant Storehouse.
 l managed to make my way to the hanger in which my squadron's planes were quartered, The hanger right next to us had been hit by several heavy bombs right at the start of the attack. and I helped carry out some of the fellows who were hit. While I was there, the other hanger was hit again and the screams of the men who were caught in there are printed indeli- ply on my mind.
 One of our planes was parked on the apron right outside the hangar and many of the bops were inside the guns-when the plane was hit in the gas tank with in- cenuiary bullets. All the boys but one managed to get out. That one was trapped in the nose of the B. l8, and he was burned alive. That was the first time I ever saw grown men cry. We cried at our helpless ness and our inibility to defend ourselves from the Japs.
 Up until that day I was an agnos- tic saying: Prove to me that there is 8 God" Well 1t was proven to me that day. T was carrying some ammunition to one of the guns when Q bomb exploded about 15O
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I WAS THERE ON DEC. 7th!
 (The author is Paul Alberts of rrhe Rugged Path" show
 enlisted May 9th, i94l. The reason I enlisted was because saw that We were going to get into the war sooner or later and I wanted 10 be in the branch of service that l. liked. I also wanted to have some military training under my belt before the big blow-off. So I enlisted .n the U. s. Air Corps to serve in Hawaii at the ripe old age Of 18 l-2.. Army life in Hawaii had its good and bad points, .... Life flowed smoothly and we were content I will skip to the events that proceeded the infamous day of December 7th There had been much agitation amongst the mili- tary heads from the President try ing to awaken sleeping America, but an isolationist faction ham, pered our efforts to prepare Ameri- ca. The President tried to arm and fortify our Pacific bases but @ hostile Congress prevented It.. Consequently we were under manned and underarmed.
 ; We were put on an alert for about week proceeding December 7th. At noon, Saturday, December 9th, the alert was called off and 50 per cent of our personnel were permitted to go on pass I went downtown to spend the day with a girl knew who was part Japanese .. I left her about four o'clock in the morning after she tried every feminine vile to keep me from re- turning to Hickam Field where I was stationed. . was sleeping in the big barracks when the first Japanese planes appeared - at 7:55 a. m, that fateful Sunday morning Some of the boys yelled that it was the JapS, but the rest of us laughed. We thought it was the Navy practicing dive-bombing, which they occasionally did.
 Right after that bomb hit the mess hall, which was the exact center of the barracks, and we knew then that 1t wasn't maneu- vers. We tried to scatter and a lot of us were cut down. . We tried to set up guns, but they were locked up We finally managed to set up some guns on the parade grounds and as fast as men took their places at the guns they were cut down A corporal in my out it saw these kids getting shot and Inuttered something about crazy kids getting themselves shot up. They don't know how to handle the guns" And before any, one could stop him, ran out to man one of the guns He got out about one hundred feet and was killed. . Just about this time, the snake rance (the snake ranch was our name for the beer garden) was hit. When our first sergeant saw that, he ran out, shook his fist at the sky, cried out vehemently, Why you dirty-@, I'll get you if it's the last thing I do. ="
 There was little old man In one of the squadrons whom we all called Mac. He was in the last war, where one day in the trenches he underwent a terrific gas attack. Standing next to him was a major who had lost or forgotten his gas mask. Mac took off his and gave it to the major. For this he received the Congressional Medal of Honor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
WATERVlLLE Correspondent: Mrs. Gertrude Lane: Telephone 3-65ll
Mrs. Stride HeadsChurch Service Unit
 Grace Methodist
 Women Plan Christmas
 Party, Pot Luck Supper

Waterville, Dec. 7-The Women's Society for Christian Service of the Grace Methodist Church held their monthly bus ness meeting Wednes- day evening at the church. Mrs. Iattimer led the devotional in the absence of Mrs. Mary Lowell, i'll at her home on Thomaston Avenue Mrs. Twelves sang a solo accom- panied on the piano by Mrs. Rich ard Mutt.
 Election of officers was held with
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rank of Chief Quartermaster to a Major in the Army. Each summer in peace times he and Mrs. Mac Milan and the staunch Bowdoin" go north to make scientific studies, new movies and to carry supplies to school for Eskimo children at Main, Labrador, which the Mac Williams maintain. The achieve ments of this great explorer have been recognized by leading geo. graphical and scientific societies in this country and abroad. He is the author of -Four Years in the White North,'' ''Etah and Beyond" "Kahda," How Peary Reached the Pole" "Peary as a Leader" and, as part of the war effort, Eskimo Place Names and Aid to Conversa- tion." (1943)
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hold their annual Christmas party Dec. IS at the home of Mrs. Bertha Platt on Parker Street.
 MT. and Mrs. Arthur Twelves, MT and Mrs. Frank Wilson and MT. and Mrs. Thomas Fahy have re- ceived word that their sons are ex- pecting to be home possibly for Christmas.
 Mrs. Allan Fairhurst is confined to her home on Homer Street by illness. Her condition is good.
 MT. and Mrs. Wesley Rood, Jr., of Chester Avenue are entertaining Miss Emma Lentz who has just been discharged from the WAVES. Mrs. Rood and Miss Lentz were room-mates at the WAVE barracks in Green Cove, Florida.
 Pfc. Angelo P. Rosato of 4G Sheffield Street and Cpl. Peter A. Ciaccio of 136 Sheffield Street have received honorable discharges from the Army at Fort Devens. Mass.
 MT. and Mrs. Jerome Welch have returned from their wedding trip
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Official Visit to Be
 Made by High Priest

Charles W. Hennion, Jr., high priest of the Eureka Chapter an- nounced yesterday that Walter Ber- ger, Bridgeport, most excellent grand high priest, will make his official visit to Eureka Chapter of Royal Arch Masons at Masonic Temple, Dec. 15 at 8 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-07
 ESTABLISHED 1883 T
ESTABLISHED 1883

Tomorrow Saturday, December S-Open Until 9 O'clock.
 Original And StortIingIy New God- gets For The Mon Of The House. And Hartmann Luggage For The Woman On The Go.
 One hundred and one items from
 the famous LektroIite lighter thot
 doesn't hide its light under a
 busheI-$1.8O tax ineluded-to
 G.I. discharge papers woIIets-
 and everything else a man might
 crave to add to gracious living.
 Women's overnight special
 poudre kits with washable, de-
 toehobIe Things and comport-
 ments for lotions and cosmetics as
 we'll all other needfIls for short
 trip-$2l .o0, tax iEeludsd.
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to Lake Placid, N. Y, and are now residing in Middlehury. They were married Nov. A.
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yards from me. The concuss!on picked me up, ammunition and all, and flung me fifty feet through the air against a concrete hanger wall with such force that several days later was able to see the impress sion my body made on the wall. I hit the wall spread eagled and fell unconscious.
 Several days later, when things had quieted down bit, I examined the wall where I hit and found 8 mass of shrapnel imbedded around the impresston-and yet not one piece touched me.
 It was the concensus of opinion that if we had been properly armed, and if we had had sufficient trained men, Pearl Harbor would have been a day of glory instead of shame. Don't let 1t happen again cry the souls of those who died in defeat that day. Be Prepared, keep America strong, so that those who don't respest us will at least fear us.
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hold their annual Christmas party Dec. 18 at the home of Mrs. Bertha Platt on Parker Street.
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The Swedish weaving Club will