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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

service" would not be transferred back to the USA. for several days due to the northbound backlog of air traffic. He explained that Miami had been able to send only additional C54 to carry personnel, and that for safety reasons men could not return home on combat planes
 The men who had been waiting hopefully to go home took this announcement philosophically and settled down to wait for the transportation jam to get unjammed
 But three days later, Col Ferguson sent C-47, No. 9898 from Natal to Bahia on most essential" mission He could not spare plane to carry enlisted men back to their homes in the U.SA. But he could spare de luxe passenger plane to fly a group of women to Bahia to attend an officers dance They flew down and back in the plush job" and good time had by al-except by the who were waiting in Natal because there weren't enough planes to take them home.
 When most people pick up the Congressional Record, they think that they are reading what Con- gressmen actually say during official debates. But they're not, actually they read what the Congress men want folks to think they've said
 In other words the text of the Congressional Record is altered before it gets into print There plause" after their remarks if there had been loud gufaws boos after their speeches This prac- tice was stopped by honest Speaker Sam Rayburn but other censorship continues probably without Ray burns knowledge.
 Last week, for instance, the censoring of Con- gress1onal speeches reached new low, when dic- tatorial Cong. Clarence Cannon of Missouri struck out two statements by other Congressman because he didn't like what they said about his appropriation bill Furthermore, Cannon did this editing without even having the courtesy to consult his two col leagues When they picked up the record next morn ing they merely found that there remarks weren't published.
 Martinet Cannon completely impartial. He drew no party lines. He censored Democratic Rep. Eddie Hebert of New Orleans just as rutllessly as he did Republican Rep George Bender of Cleveland, Ohio
 Hebert, conscientious Congressman who works hard the District of Columbia Committee, objected fhp 6Af If problems. Cannons reply during the debate showed that he didn't understand the subject at all. Where upon the Louisiana Congressman told him:
 If what the gentleman has said indicates his Knowledge of the items in this appropriation bill, then it's no wonder he Is having so much trouble
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
WATERBURY ALSO HAS A PLAN
(Hartford Times)

(HarttOrd TlmeS) In 8 handsomely illustrated, nift- fly bound, de luxe brochure, the City of Waterbury has set forth its "Six Year Plan of Improvements" It is the work of the City Plan Commission. In its own words, the Commission "appraises the ur- gency of the popular needs which nave been reported by the various city departments; calculates their cost; sets down a workable plan whereby they can be satisfied gradu- ally, but promptly. without creating an overwhelming financial burden for the taxpayer"
 The Brass City's present tax rate is 80 mills. It has come down from A mills since 1880. The prospects, listed in the six-year plan would cost an estimated total of S13,043,0 900. Of this sum, $7,000,000 would be borrowed and serially paid off by 1871. Some $5, 000-plus would be derived from "other gov ernments" and he raised out of an- nual tax revenue for the reserve fund"
 The projects would spread over the period of six years in a manner that is designed not to jolt the tax rate. The net effect of the ex- penditures on the tax rate would, of course, depend great deal on gen. eral economic conditions.
 The debt service-interest charges and amortization of principal-has been scheduled to result in a debt free city in 30 years. It is laudable goal but will require persistent de- termination to achieve.
 AS for the projects themselves, it is proposed to spend $3,500,000 on a municipal airport; $1,330,000 on schools; $800,000 on Mad River in- terceptor; $750000 on a sewage treatment plant; other sizable sums on public buildings, storm water drainage, bridges, parks and re- creation, public health, incinerator, street paving and new streets. The signs.
 smallest item, $3o,OO0, is for street
 It is 8 constructive program. If carried out it will make the Brass City, now passing it's 100,000-popu- iation figure, a progressive city in all major material respects. All it will need in addition is sound po- litical management to make the plan a complete success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
Views of the Press

light of quick-gathering dusk he puts his axe in the woodshed and goes to the kitchen to get the lant- ern that sits on the oilcloth-cover- ed shelf above the sink.
 There are those who like to chore by lantern light. There's something about warm barn that appeals to a man. After the raw wind of a brown November day it's comfort able and pleasant in the barn. The COWS rattle their stanchions, impa- tient for their feeding of alfalfa or timothy and clover. The horses stamp and toss their heads, Whin- nying for attention.
 The lantern hangs from big spikes, driven firmly into beams here and there about the barn. A man has to be careful of his light when he climbs the scaffold to pitch down the hay. There's a spike in the grain room, one by the calf pen, and another behind the COWS where the lantern is hung during milking. After the COWS and horses are fed, milking done, and the warm skim milk fed to the calves and pigs, comes the bedding down. Shovel fuls of sawdust are spread under the COWS and in the horse stalls, or perhaps a man uses the crisp yell low oatstraw if the threshing's been done. And finally when chores are completed and all is ready for the night the countryman likes to stand a minute at the end of the tie-up and let the light of the lantern shine on his stock, sleek and com fortable. There is something peculi- arly satisfying and good about chor- ing by lantern light when days are growing shorter and the edge of winter is thickening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

The newly forming nations, al- most without exception, are veering toward the Red instead of the Red, White and Blue. They still look to- ward this country for the dough, even though they are little left of Santa
 Anticipating his return to private life on January l, Mayor LaGuartiia of New York has purchased sev- enteen room house in the Bronx. He is one man who probably will be able to say something new about a mortgage.
 They're beginning to advertise mems shirts with shirtails of pre- war length. We've been wearing them all along-with the exception of little snip taken off the tail here and there to compensae for indecent exposure of the elbow.
 Someone has figured the value of victory garden crops during the four war years at $3,300, ,00o, ,000. We don't want to quibble so We won't put in our ten cents worth.
 lowing a policy of Iaissez-faire in regard to fraternization between American Soldiers and Japanese girls. Apparently he won't raise finger to stop tiff the eyebrow doesn't work.
 After reading the Boston and New York papers, it's comforting to know that the fleets in for Navy Day, but bothersome to wonder whether it won't be all in.
 And now Bulgaria has announced that she is in the market for loan from the United States. That's another market in which the de- mand far outstrips the supply.
 Yale is about to award 8 degree to 8 student who is only fourteen years old. Along about his fifteenth reunion, when his classmates are beginning to take stock of each others thin, graying hair and mid- dle-age bulge, they probably won't see much change in him-eXcept for the long pants.
 The United States is ready to rec- ognize the provisional government in Austria. That again brings up the perplexing question of what a provisional government really is. A provisional government, class, is just government that Is trying to get head.
 Two new "strong men" have talk en charge of things in Argentina. What the Argentines most need right now is a Latin-American equivalent of Victor Moore.
 A wing of about 180 B-29s will be stationed in Japan permanently, according to General Barney Giles, new head of the U. s. Strategic Air Forces. The Japs can't miss the implications there, especially if an atomic bomb is included as stand ard equipment for each.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
LANTERN LIGHT
(NeW York Times)

Days are growing shorter now and in the countryside man ex- poets to do the chores by lantern light. Along in the late afternoon, after a day in the woodlot, the countryman likes to see the lights in kitchen windows up and down the road anc across the valley as he comes down the pasture lane with hi axe on his shoulder. In the half
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
PLENTY OF LAND
(Boston Post)

The report of the Regional Plan Association of New York is amaz- ing. After a survey, the association reports that there is sufficient u1l- developed land in the New York metropolitan area to permit an in- crease in the population of 16,50o, 900. And to cap it, they could live in single-family houses, not skyscraper apartments. Those of us who make a quick trip to New York and home again only see the crowded sections of the great city. There is room in the metropolitan area as there is in the metropolitan area of all cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

skipper of the secret sub-fighter, The Big Horn. The letter revealed that Capt. Joe had entrusted the glasses to this man, when the ship was decommissioned and the crew broken up, had told him to keep them and use them while he was in the fighting, but to return them to me when he re- turned to civilian life.
 Modestly, too modestly, he then told where the glasses had been with him, and that included ,,,,,nl, nf fha tnilnhact nntihra in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

resent their continued presence now that the war Is over. Also they are largely doing Q conn mercial transport job which ought to be taken over soon by Pan American Airways and other commercial companies. Neverthe- less their return home has been all too slow.
 The other day, Col. Thomas D. Ferguson, then commander of Natal, issued an order that "en- listed men with more than 60 points and more than two years
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

The American citizen is almost without the right to make his own contract, which is the right to make living, until he first subordinates himself to some so-called labor leader.
 Il. R. Clausen, president, J. I.
 Case Company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

It has up on CapltoI HlII. For the executive end of the administra- tion may have to do some tall hustling to carry out its pro- visions. And the bill may reveal that, far from having 8 sound, economic program for the nation al economy, the Democratic ad- ministration has only a lot of scattered odds and ends or recon version reforms which don't fit together to make anything.
 Original sponsors of the full
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago

John Ericson, Columbia Blvd, was held up and robbed of $50 as he stoods on the grounds at City Hall.
 The Democrat ran an article that announced: Lifetime positions as mailcarrier for Uncle Sam" It urg- ed young persons who were unem- ployed to seek additional informa- tion at the Post Office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Dee. S-Down in Natal Brazil, large number of high-point D. s. troops have been sweating 1t out, hoping to get back to the U.SA. They are intruders on foreign soil and the Brazlians
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
5 Years Ago

Several traffic accidents, were re- ported as & result of bad snow storm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

from ex-bos'n of the U. s. Navy Bob Ganley, saying that he had the binoculars the famed Capt. Joseph A. Gainard had personally used when he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
It Is Getting Late

Winter has to Europe, and with it suffering to degree unknown in centuries Reports from there n dcae that deaths due to inadequate food clothing and she ter have reached 10000 month in Poland and 5000 month in the city of Vienna.
 Meanwhile the appropriation for additional American funds UNRRA kicking around in the halls of Congress- it has been for nearly two months During that time the House tackled two provisions the bill having to do with freedom of the press and UNRRAs obligation to buy much food possible in the United States at parity prices Fortunately the Senate removed these provisions But there still dsagreements to be roned out be- fore the funds can be voted.
 Congress has complained that UNRRA has been nef- hcient. UNRRA Director Herbert Lehman has admitted early mistakes and explained early difficulties He has
 red Congress that the international relief organization is now functonng efficiently But the lawmakers still to contemplate relief for the suffering through political haze.
 This government has contractua1 and humanitarian ob hgations to millions of cold hungry miserable people, Their need does not abate while Congress daes and debates s getting ate We trust that the ladies and gentlemen in the Capitol will soon come to realize that fact.
 Gen. MacArthur has banned a tear-jerkng Japanese popular song called Moonlight the Ruined Castle be- cause the references to the ruined castle too feuda 1stc If the Japs nostalgia for ruined feudal castles s anything like Tin Pin Alleys nostalgia for tumbe-d0wn Dixie cabins we can't say that blame the general.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
Full Employment Bill
WASHINGTON, Dec.

WASHINGTON Dec. 5-Passage of any kind of full employment bll-now rechristened the Thigh level" employment bnl-1nay cause more embarrass-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

The local "" Chess team defeat ed Bristol in a Connecticut loop meet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
15 Years Ago

The Board of Finance halted a proposed allotment of funds for a new grammar school at Fairlawn Manor pending further investgia- ton.
 Cpl. Coyle Post, Amercian Le- zion, opened bureau at it's central office for the purpose of registering unemployed veterans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

A wing of about 180 B-29s will be stationed in Japan permanently, according to General Barney Giles, new head of the U s. Strategic Air Forces. The Japs can't miss the implications there, especially If an atomic bomb is included as stand- ard equipment for each.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

Two new "strong men" have talk en charge of things in Argentina. What the Argentines most need right now is a American equivalent of Victor Moore.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05
The Firing Line By D. N. T.

The newly forming nations, al- most without exception, are veering toward the Red, instead of the Red, White and Blue. They still look to- ward this country for the dough, even though they are a little left of Santa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-05

Anticipating his return to private life on January l, Mayor LaGuardia of New York has purchased sev- enteen room house in the Bronx. He is one man who probably will be able to say something new about mortgage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-15
Brosscos Vs. Meriden ConteIcos Tonight
A "natural" baseball rivalry that

A natural" baseball rivalry that has existed all season, will break out in full bloom tonight, when the Meriden Contelcos take the field at Municipal Stadium, under the lights to oppose the Fred Davi BrasscoS' Both teams will be ready" for each other, and with the National League Phillies coming to Waterbury later this month, there .s nothing Man. ager, Silent John Pullie of Meriden would rather do tonight than knock off" the Fred Davi Brasscos by a substantial margin.
 Classy
 To that end, the fire-eating Mer- iden manager has signed Gus Du- gas, a hard-hitting outfielder and former Brassco, Bob Sperry of Scranton's FL team, Hartford's Jimmy Francolini Lefty Adams of the Savitt Gems and Jim McKenna of New London Electric Boats, and the latter two pitchers of more than ordinary ability. "Whitey" Piurek and Mickey DeLucia will also show with the Contelecos against the BraSScoS.
 Tonight's BraSscos will include Al Cucinello, Jimmy Griffin, Sig Gris- ka, Eddie Strubel, Johnny DeVito and others capable to providing the best of opposition for the greatly strengthened Meriden club.
 Umps will cry Play Balp at 8 p. m.
 Reserved tickets for the phillies- Brasscos. game September 20 at 5 D. m. will be on sale at tonight's game,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-15
ATLANTA, Sept. IA.

DOUG MARTUR at 1t he should do something about @ an the reeducaton of the little brown dastards.
 Japanese pitcher knocked out of the box doesn't and plays fiery game of catch with G the 5 guy @ O the Fm'aSr rem @ Of @ n srandstand.
 idea here that he s walked of 5 to his hi S G6s % Ss 9a @ inning into extra innings he still stands out there
 front the fans and throws his fool arm off proving ing that G S6 And that he still has a lot of fight in his arm
 Jimmy Young, 1Ns correspondent who was tossed in Jap went ball in Japan where every man in the Kanoye attended the game formal Can imagine the customers at Ebbe Field dreS"S
 forgot but Jap Davis Cup player committed o jumping off ship which was taking him home @ @ % se tS assehes ssaaa '''H'A'''' "'''' IN '''N ' ' ~
 former old embassy in wasAns. Was ing significance didn't hit in the k until Pearl Hr- Dor. Here is what he said:
 % opsn mportan wS to our instance s never any of (wresng) or fencing matches is true of our Jiu-JitSu
 These matches are put instruct the audiences In such matches prove that small opponent properly % can surprise artist for instance can be brought STtfuily dodges any and strikes again.
 be that tier .Hr was ES9no TGn on ass n pyns ss. to have bred on the playing fields of all Japan
 saw some Jap athletes prison outside of prison which the Chinese whc1y named Liberty M two oasKetDa Innd gave the Japs instructions the American game
 The basketball while at the prison put in conentedy playing at kind Of Jap dooge bali and some engaged in primary form Of sumo
 The dode-ban grim about the rOlckng game their escape pehg ht with the The throwers sweat man fully fenng that with the ball before letting ny
 Tn the sumo ring pairs of Japs squatted face to fac almost touching The point of the game off balance muSced out or the nOO circle which enclosed the competitors
 Action skipping of faces much hunchd foot work pushing putting Chinese guards seemed to Se IA any of the prepOsterOus performances
 no secret the American character comes rom o sports mental approach to sports Along With pns U youngsters sense noedre that luck for hard york; determlna t,on ef-denial ability without beyaching" Gen Mac Arur the author college inramura sports programs haVng saled the total ideas at West Point the academy similar speed the day when Japs can be accepted W civilized human society.
 Distributed by International News Service) w ran Parker resumes Monday with little Of
 dissa and data his Broadway Bugle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-15
Evans Speaks, Then Gets K. o.

Boston, Sept. IS. (UP)-ExaSper- ated by the clever, clowning antics of ancient but ring-wiSe "Popeye" Woods of Astoria, L. l., Middle. weight Reedy Evans of Hackensack, N. J., dropped his hands slightly and pleaded:
 "Why don't you stand still, man, and fight"
 Seconds later Woods thrilled e crowd of $500 fans at Boston Gar. den last night by snapping c smart right hook to Evans jaw, batter. ing him groggy on the ropes and finally knocking him out with Q punch behind the ear in the eighth round of their scheduled l0-round bout.
 It wasn't surprising. Though out weighed two-and-a-half pounds, Woods made the rugged Evans ap- pear like c novice from the open- ing bell. Evans was game but Woods was Smart-as he should be after fully ib years iSi the ring.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-15
Nine College Grid Games TodoY

New York, Sept. l5-(UPl-In a final preview before next weeks big blow-of, college football teams play nine games over the country today with Michigan's reinforced Wolverines meeting the Great Lakes Sailors in the first major contest of the season.
 Michigan is reported loaded for an excellent season in the Big 10 Conference while the Sailors, one of the outstanding service elevens last fall, may have been weakened drastically by personnel revisions brought on by the end of the war.
 Local or sectional rivalries fea- ture the rest of the card which in- cludes Cornell College vs. St. Olaf, Denison vs. Ohio Wesleyan, Du- buque vs. St. Mary's (Minn), Mid- dlebury, Vs. R. P. l., Norman Naval vs. Ft. Worth Marines, Rochester vs. Oberlin, swarthmore vs. Ursinus and Tufts vs. U. s. Coast Guard Academy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-15
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By CORNELIUS RYAN fIvlted prNsa Staff COrreSDOndenO

Limited HreSS SLhH NOTEeSPVWS"p
 New York Sept. l5-Major league baseball attendance stimulated by close races and the end of the war, was near the 10 l-2 million marx today-a million and Q half marx than total 1914 attendance-ariG two all-time park records already were set.
 Including Sundays games, the big leagues had played before approxi- mately i0,375,6 ,63l paid admissions with 2l days of the season remain ing. Because some teams refused to reveal figures, attendance at those parks was estimated. Detroit. tilo American League leader, has drawn l,le6,677 for Q new record with four home games still scheduled. The New York Giants have drawn a record l,o0s, ,750 and still have five games to go.
 Brooklyn, too, has passed the mil- lion mark-with 1,035 ,000-and has three more home games. Ncw Yorks Yankees hampered by baa weather early in the season, has drawn 922, ,47s, with almost 20 games yet to play. Last year the Yank' drew 7s9, ,995
 The National League drew 4,l7S,- TIA ih l944; so far this year 1t has played before 4.79l ,865. The Amer icar1 league drew 4,798,l6s last sea- son and thus far in l94S has st' | tracted b,583, ,766.
 The ie44 total was S796, ,902 Largest total of recent years wa the i0,29i 900 in io40.
 Reds Slacken
 CincinnatIs Reds were the only team to show a serious drop from 1924, with 22l ,96o paid admission this year to 43i, ,297 last year. Tat Reds, sunk in seventh place, played before 346 paid admissions las Thursday and e76 Friday for games with the Phils.
 The Phils-with 27s,ooo now tt 3e96s6 for last year-joined tht Reds as the only National Leagu' teams with small chance of bea3int 1914 figures.
 In the American league the Phil adelphia Athletics-firmly in las place seemed alone in having Q lo45 attendance lower than 1924 They have drawn 46S,0o0 to sos, ,27! last year. The St. Louis Browns present figure was below their l94' total, but they have six more game in which to draw the needed 1900 fans.
 Indicative of the trend was tl total crowd of 72,151, at the CleVe land-at-New York Yankee gam Sunday, the largest baseball crow since Pearl Harbor.