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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-31

Pearl Harbor not put on the same preparedness basis as Gen. Douglas Macarthur was in the Philippines?
 2. Did then Secretary of State Cordell Hull send a draft of his TO- point 'ultimatum" to Gen. George c. Marshal and Adm. Ernest J. King and. if so. when the what was their report to Hull and the late President Roosevelt on that memo randum?
 8. Were Marshal and King shown the final draft of the memo- dunn. and if so, when and what was their report to President Roose- welt?
 g. Why was the "ultimatum' which was presented to the Japan ese-since 1t amounted to an invi- tation to war-not followed by in- stant warning to field commanders throughout the Pacific, particular ly in Pearl Harbor?
 10. Why have neither the Army nor Navy suggested court martial for those in authority, since Ameri- can justice is based on the princi- pie of every accused mans right to his day in court?
 Il. Who was the commander-in- chief of the American Army and Navy at the time of Pearl Harbor?
 12. Who was responsible for de- veloping the American policy to- wards Japan? Was this entirely HuIs or was not President Roose- welt equally if not entirely respon- sible for the negotiations?
 13. What reassuring information did Marshal receive from tiie White House or State Department in the 24 hours before Pearl Har- bor which made him feel safe to absent himself from contact with his ofilce and so horseback riding the morning of Dec. 2, 194l?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-31
will cost billions of dollars.
 Other Estimates

Estimates for non-war spending this year are $6.3o0. 100000 above those of last year. They win total sl5. 900. .o0o. 900. Spending in the aftermath of war" category was revised upward from the so,600.- 0o0.0oo estimate of Aug. 1 to sl0. 0.e00.- 0O0.000.
 of the si,ooo,0oo,ooo increase te0o .000. 900 Is due to larger tax re- funds, arising mainly from termina- ton of amortization of emergency facilities. Carryback refunds also will be larger.
 Veterans pensions and benefits will cost an additional $500 900 600 because Of the speed.up In demobll- ixation. Due to the lower public debt estimate (e272,s00 0Oo,00o es compared with the previous estimate oi e2es 200 .000.000 at the end Of the ysarl interest ehargos vill be ioNeFs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-31
By Jack Lait

who was undefeated as profitable wrestler in IA bouts as Joe Atlas's is the head of four candy manufac- turing companies, a number of wo- mems health and beauty publica- tions, 8 mail order success course, an exercise apparatus factory and and phot studio which engages in physical culture The man more models than any other in the world $. He manufactures toys, games, cosmetics and soft drinks, and is director in IT corporations, still in his early forties Bo- homo the Phenomena!
 An unusual degree of interest ap- pears to have been aroused by our several discourseS on New York "SteakeaSies". Not only are big towners who patronize them in the great American game of beef-hunt- ing keenly moved, but readers from afar have written in = indignant, curious, often plaintive The big packers may have suspected 1t all the time, but 1t was a revelation to us that as many are so passion ate about red meat A typi- cal letter, from a housewife in a small town down South. gives you an idea:
 Dear MT. Jack Lait--I read your paragraph about the black market beef chiselers and have been dream ing ever since = dreaming of steaks, rare, thick, juicy, sizzling Where I live, no one is enterprising enough to bootleg beef There's plenty of money around, but the best we can buy with it is sOggy hot dogs .. What a wonderful place New York must be! I have never been there, but I'm coming just as soon as the warplant here shuts down, and I'll phone you from the depot i've don't call them that here, lady!) and you must give me the address of a steakeasy .. To me that would be a terrific thrill!"
 'Enterprising" she calls it And she is far from alone said some writers were indignant; some were, but mostly because they couldn't bet a chance to pay $3.5C for a slab of COW One man wrote that such law-breakers should be arrested-and that he would have one arrested if he caught him selling beef without points-AFTER he'd finished good old-fashioned nrewar steak We fear olir tex posures" did little except whip ur lot of avid appetites And we thought our beef about beef would arouse the patriots !. . Instead, il aroused only the carnivorous water ing of many mouths An, mel As 8 crusader I'm washout I'll go out and wrap myself around a T-bone.
 Well, it's been fun, kind of
 Lait signing off Take il away, walter!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-31

tions. The VILE, he charged. is try- ing to put 1t back in the field Of collective bargaining, while the company takes the attitude where it hardly wants to diseues the mat ter. The men who walked tout, he stated, did SO in rpsentmeut over the boards decision % well co the compan1's attitude
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-31
1s4o MANSION DESTROYED

Grenada, Miss. (UP)-The Glen wild plantation mansion, widely known ante-bellum home and show place, was destroyed recently by fire. The mansion was located three miles south of here and contained 20 rooms. It was built with slave labor in 184O. Loss was estimated at $150,O0O.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-31

off Tyuk Isla.id, was overdue ana presumed lost. O'Kane's wife. Jn- durham, H., said the news Of his rescue was the best that she nad ever heard)
 O'Kane said that the rest of his crew was trapped when the torpedo struck, while he and the others were thrown nee. After drifEng nelriessly for a few hours, the nine men were r;cNed up by Q Japanese destroyer escort and landed on For znosa.
 ..We were helc there and ctles. sIoued necessarily under the cCn- ssans threat of death." the 34 year old skipper said.
 tiThen we were transferred to xyushu and kept in solitary con- fInement until April, when they moved us to Omori. It was worse khan anything we had seen before"
 s'speciaI Prisoners"
 The Japanese classified American submarine crewmen as special orisoners." They were deprived of every privilege of international law and forced to exist on only half the f1tions allotted regular prisoners.
 One surviving member of the crew found in a pitiful condition on {he hospital ship Benevolence was Motor Machinst's Mate SIC Jesse B, rssflva. 20. of Los Angeles. He had -.-- I4-fE en,, a flYsan in the faeafby 3|uaa camp and asserted ne vas *.nf Id solitary confinement con- <@11II1 while thsFe.
 <11f half fraction of rice and sHin HHxiey sour was very weaken .@1 E1 said. i've lost 70 pounds
 M4a thinner yet until few days .. .4.E tHe heaien Jnp1 supplied -ts1 |111 zn1 nevaI pI1r<1 efoppsd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-31

Mrs. worthey. The two women be- came involved in aSl argument over the girls conduct, wherein Mrs. Worthey admonished Mrs. Ingram with the words. -mind your own huslness.'
 Eracas @sngls
 Out on the sIdeWalk a ehort time Iatsr. the Ingram .cmaI1 continued the ezehanae of NQt4A' enc Nof0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-31
WaNer WIncheII
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During this month whne Walter winchen vacation. t celmn win Dc conducted by guest columnss and Jack xatss column Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
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yoe Bcnomo, who won . "beauty"
 prize . score of years ago for the finest masculine form and features, hecarne a silent picture star and efslnt man. has turned out to have nIenty between his ears. too .. He has become millionaire, conduct ing no less than eight profitable bllsiness enterprises, half of which in no way stem from his interest
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

Cabin Ranch School. Il n q chance
to be judged for something be.
sides academic accomplishments
in which the boy may have no
interest and for which he may
have no m ntal equipment; a
chance to shine before his fellows
by handling a plow, raising
pure. bred calf, building an artis.
tic wall of masonry. or cooking
a meal; a chance to use his tai.
ents, to acquire and perfect skills.
TO live a healthy, balanced life;
a chance to develop into a useful
citizen.
Ask Ososke II the boys are EN-.
bracing those chances and he will
drown you with statistics which
show that San Francisco, since
the inception of Log Cabin Ranch,
sent fewer boys to state reforma-
tories In a whole year than il
used to send In single month.
He will tell you that last year 1913
boys rode from San Francisco
down picturesque Skyline High
way to Log Cabin Ranch. and
that only Ia failed to remain.
He will add that only two Of
the 104 boys graduated from the
school last year have gotten into
trouble, and the rest tmany OF
them in the armed forces, many
of them holding good jobs. some
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

gave another IN q n ce and new
hope TO boys who had been hailed
before the Juvenile court. had
been conditioned 10 regard them.
selves as outcasts and criminals,
expected to be packed off to re.
form school and confinement and
what too often II an intensive
course In how to 60 TO prison.
AZ Log Cabin Ranch y h Ol
there are no cells, no barred win.
dows, no locked doors; solitary
confinement, or any other con.
finement is unknown; no fence
surrounds the dormitory or the
acreage. Every boy who enters
Log Cabin Ranch learns at once
that he In receiving q privilege;
staff members tell him he II free
TO run away, or 10 request return
TO San Francisco.
Some few do run way--or
rather, are carrie I'd away by
homesickness. But they return,
and weather the adjustment
period, and like the huge major
ity of Log Cabin Ranch boys,
blossom and expand under a sys
tenn designed to find and develop
their capabilities.
Every boy, regardless Of his
Offense," says George OsOske.
chief probation officer, '1s- en-
titled to q chance"
A chance for what? At Log
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

subscribe 20 q theory that most
delinquent boys merely are the
sons Of delinquent parents, that
most problem children are prob
lens only In relation TO their en-.
vironment. that most bad" boys,
lifted out Of surroundings TO
which they are unable to con.
form, win turn out TO be normal,
good" boys.
In accordance with that theory,
they set up the Log Cabin Ranch
School to provide an environment
so attractive that Il would pull
80. called delinquent" boys off
the downhill road that leads TO
crime and prison.
They acquired a square mile Of
ranch land In the redwoods of the
La Honda dlstrict---a district
whose beauty has made IL a ia.
vorite of San Francisco's vaca.
tIonists and week enders.
They offered woods and open
fields and streams and lakes TO
boys who knew only narrow,
paved streets and crowded alleys.
They gave bountiful, whole
some meals, outdoor and indoor
recreation facilities, and pleasant
dormitory facilities to boys reared
in want. squalor and domestic
discord.
Most important Of all, they
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13
By ALVIN D. HYMAN

Fifty miles outside of the
city limits. on $40 pleasant
acres Of wooded hills and
broad meadows. the city OF San
Francisco is conducting quietly
an experimental farm Of supreme
national Importance.
IT'S fat acres yield hay and
grain, fruit and vegetables; on
them, cattle. hogs and poultry
thrive. But these are not the
crop San Francisco Is making.
The city Is planting care. intelli.
gence and hope and Is harvest.
ing-reclaimed boys.
Unique among cities In that 10
accepts Its Juvenile delinquency
as Its own problem, and does not
saive It's conscience by passing it
over TO the overburdened state.
San Francisco IL attacking that
problem with unusual wisdom.
The city's Juvenile authorities
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-13

back In city schools) are showing
continued interest In the school
by visiting Il, by writing 20 staff
members, by visiting the Juvenile
court to talk over the ranch and
it's achievements and its needs.
The boys are milking cows do.
mated by farmers of the vicinity
and hopes that Log Cabin
Ranch entries soon will be win
ming All prizes were born this
year when William Ran d o ph
Hearst shipped a pure bred Here
ford bull and nine heiferS to the
ranch.
This year, Ososke In asking the
city to provide fireproof, perma-
nent dormitory, a modern milk
ing barn, and equipment, barns.
corrals and houses for livestock
and poultry, and other improve
ments to put the ranch on a
permanent basis.
we have passed the expert
mental stage" he says. We
are reclaiming and rehabilitat.
ing boys through y IN hOd
which may reyolutiOnize the
handling Of this growing prob.
lem. Nothing is more impor.
tant and nothing deserves
budget help more than Log
Cabin Ranch"
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
STATE CIO MEETS
MAY 7 and 8

The Annual Convention of the Mon
tana State Industrial Union council will
be held at the Northern hotel in Billings
May 7th and 9th. It will open at $50
A. M Monday
There is much of Importance to come
before the convention but owing to gov
eminent regulations attendance must be
limited to so delegates or no convention
may be held. For this reason all affili-
ated unions are sending less than their
usual number of delegates The Butte
Miners union is sending 10. They are
as follows.
oliver Atkins, Archie Coutts, oscar
Hills, Tally Johns, John Mcleod, John
Magill. Lincoln Vaughn, Joe Mason,
James Harrington, Sam Orlich.
E. C. Vawter, member Of the Clerks
union, will represent the Silver Bow
Trades and Labor Council; John Cava-
naugh, president of the Engineers Union
No. 83 will represent his local, and Mrs.
Catherine Penney will be a delegate from
the Butte Miners Union Ladies Auxili-
ary
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
German Navy a
Thing of the Past

The British and Russian announce
ments that Germanys last two battle
ships had been neutralized sounded the
death knoll of the Nazi army. only five
cruisers remain Of the once proud Ger
man fleet, which began the war with a
strength of seven battleships and pocket
battleships and nine cruisers; and the
fate of these is still in doubt since three
out of the five are probably badly dam
aged British warships and naval air
craft destroyed the battleships Bismarck
and Scharnhorst, the pocket battleship
Graf Spec, and the cruisers karlsruhe
and Konigsberg The RAF with its
l2-OOO-lb. bombs sunk the battleship Tir-
pitt and the pocket battleships Won
scheer and Lutzow. The UsAAF recent
ly accounted for the cruiser Koln; and
the Russians reports the capture Of the
battleship Gneisenau and the cruiser
seydlitz During the German invasion
Of Norway the cruiser Blucher perished
! under the guns of the oslo forts
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
Burma Airfields
Important to British

Before the war Burma was the biggest
producing country in the British En-
pire In 1912, when the British forces
withdrew an expert demolition job was
done to prevent the use of refineres,
storage tanks and other equipment by
the onrushing japanese. When the
enemy began restoration work, the East
ern Air Command, by effective raids.
kept production down to about 5000 tons
of oil a month which is only fraction
of the pre-war production The import
ance of the Burma oil fields to the Japa-
nese is evidenced by the strong defense
works that they have installed to pro-
tect the fields, but they are now fight
ing a hopeless battle against the evei
tightening grip Of the British Fourteenth
army
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
What s Happening
in Norway
N1GJSR

Ever since the Germans first con
quered Norway in 194O the Raj has
kept up an almost nonstop patrol along
its rugged coast and if Nazi fanatics
continue to hold out in Norway after
the Allies have over-run Germany the
RAF will continue to play a major part
in starving them into submission. When
Germany falls, the garrisons in Norway
will receive no more outside aid; and if
they decide to fight on, they will be
more than ever vulnerable to air attacks.
Lack of oil will render the remnants OF
the Luftwaffe in Norway as impotent
as they now are over the battlefields OF
Germany. 1t is considered unlikely that
in the present circumstances the Ger
mans can hold out very long in Norway
except in small isolated groups.
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
HOLD PRICE CEILINGS
MURRAY WARNS

WASHINGTON -tFP) Clio President
Philip Murray, in a letter to all members
of Congress April 27, said the CIO is
convinced price ceilings are not the
cause of the meat shortage and that re-
taxation of price ceilings will not pro
duce more meat"
Urging that price control be continued
and fortified Murray said that what
we need is stimulation of all possible
production, accompanied by adequate
control of supply from the slaughter
house right down to the retail counter
where families buy their meat.
publicity emerging from the hearings
conducted by the subcommittee seems
to point more toward relaxation of price
control than to strong action against
black markets. One senator is quoted
as eondoning the purchase OF meats on
black markets in the absence of meat
available through lawful channels -
After criticizng this proposal, Muir
ray declared there is enough food over
and above military requirements for all
of us in this country, provided it be
properly shared and strictly rationed
To perform only a part of our vitally
important obligation to the hungry peo-
pie of Europe we shall have to maintain
strict rationing. We are fully prepared
to do what is necessary to make gooc
the liberation of subjec. peoples fol
which our fighting men have given thei
lives"
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
HIGH COURT UPHOLDS
UNIONS RIGHT TO
SOLICIT MEMBERS

WASHINGTON.- N.-tFP)- In two major
labor decisions, the U. S. Supreme court
has upheld the right of labor unions to
solicit members on company property on
the time of the individual solicitors. The
twin decisions were handed down April
% and upheld the long practice OF the
NLRB that such activity was proper
In one case the Republic Aviation
Corporation Of Suffolk County N y
was involved with general plant RUE
against Hsohel1ihg Oh any 1ype' Al
employe VINO passed oul aiiiei ept'i-e"
tioh cares on ms own luiioil 'i'is "'''
hted Iof VioiasIoll OF gA5 run.
Later Republic discharged three work
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
WLB Chairman Favors
Boost for U. S. Workers

WASHINGTON ~ CFP) - Chairman
George w. Taylor of the National war
Labor Board told the Senate civil sery-
ice committee April 27 that he believed
u. S. government workers were entitled
to a general pay increase because they
have not received the boost allowed by
the Little Steel formula.
Speaking for a bill to increase salaries
Of federal workers, Taylor said the
granting of more money to government
employees will not result in the starting
Of any new cycle of wage increases
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
Ladies Auxiliary Weekly
Social Friday Evening

Ladies Auxiliary NO. 2, l. .. NJ. NJ. q
s. w.. will holds it's regular meeting
Friday evening May a, l945, in Miners
Union hau at 8 o'clock. After the ousi-
nees session the weekly card social will
be held beginning at 9 O'Clock. All
friends are invited
These weekly socials are promoted by
the ways and means committee OF which
Ruth Garwood is chairman. subcom-
mittee is appointed to arrange each
weekly social. This week members OF
the committee are Elsie Kangas Maine
Immomen. Stella Zprn Mary Check and
Catherine Penney
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
Connecticut Brass Workers
Get $4,000 Back Pay

WATERBURY, Conn (FP) Approx
imately 1000 workers in three American
Brass co. plants in Torrington, Ansonia
and Waterbury will divide approximately
$4,000 in back pay as a result of de-
cision Of the regional War Labor Board
in Boston. The workers are members
Of international Union Of Mine, Mil
and smelter Workers (cIO).
The wLB approved am hourly increase
in the third shift premium Of 2ia cents
retroactive TO Dec. 81, 1913
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
HITLER, MUSSOLINI
PASS FROM PICTURE

The death Of Hitler, Mussolini Goeh-
bels and many more Of their ilk; the
surrender Of all German force in Italy
and Austria; the capture Of Berlin by
the Russians is news which in import
ance to the world will seldom be dupn-
Gated
All nations look forward to a time Of
peace, prosperity and the blackout OF
mans inhumanity to man" -
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03

While at the Hollywood Canteen the
other night, Mary Livingstone, heard on
the Jack Benny show listened to a young
thing chatting with a paratrooper just
returned from overseas. "Oh, it must
be Just wonderful to be a parachute
Jumper" said the girl Il suppose you've
had some awful experiences
eyes. miss, terrible. Why, once I came
down where there was a sign that said
Keep off the Grass
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
CHICAGO COLLEGE
HEAD 0USTED FOR
BACKING LABOR

CHICAGO GO-FP)-Because he is pro
labor, has opposed interference with aea-
demic freedom and mas loughI eeii-
dency on the part OF sehool auyIloilyles
to foster racial discrimination III hu-
ward J. SparHng has neen removed az
president OF the central NJ. =. A.
college here.
These charges, made by Sparllng'
were denied by the board of directors
but the same charges have been leYieu
by Vice Pres. MOTIFS bans li1eiiiaVio'i-
al Ladies. Garments WORKERS oiiioii
gAFL), manager OF l1s Oii'easo Joi'i'
beard.
The unions charges are direc-ea
against the Y. M. C. A. recreational pro
gram. which the board OF directors con-
trolls and from which the hGWU re-
Gently withdrew Members Oh Ule uiiioli
began participating III llle siA-iiiuii'-'
women's reereadohal plosiaiil 9'iiie '-'-i'
ago when appiiea-ioiis " Nesio -
= bers OF the union were paiIeo pei'l'iiis
policy charges Oy Y M - a. 40'ii0' ''-''
one of the main Issues was use o.
the swimming pool When The union
suggested that this could be solved 10y
giving all the participants medical eX-
animation none is reuired at the pres
en5 time-aud admitting all who pas
regardless of race, creed or nationality
The Y simply dropped the entire Wom'
ems recreationai program
The union charged that this was al
attempt to evade the issue and to pre-
vent participation of the community a
whole in the Y M c As brotherhoo'
program. They are protesting to tn
Community Fund, which gave $4,000
last year to the Y NJ. c. A., pointn
out that union members of all racial AM
religious groups contributed generousl
to the fund.
Answering the Y. boards denial of hi
charges. sparling pointed out that h
had taken a pro-labor stand in tn
Nfon4oornerv Ward & Co. strike. He wa
rebuked at the time by Vice Presider
FRANCIS M. Knight of the Continents
Illinois Bank A Trust Co, then chairma
Of the Y board. for speaking as a privat
citizen before Ward strikers and fc
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
Gerald Smith Sets Up
Vets First Group

CHICAGO.-FP) P)-The American
Firsters are readying a new battle cry,
Veterans First. Gerald L. K Smith
America First leader, announced the forl
nation here Of his own veterans organi-
zation, which will attempt to whip up
differences between returning service
men and organized labor.
The order of loyalty" Of the new or
ganization, according to Smith, is:
Armed forces first, civilians second,
Allies third, rest Of the world last,
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03
WORLD LOOKS TO FRISCO NEE TING
RESPONSIBILITY FOR FUTURE WELFARE OF
HUMANITY HANGS ON HISTORIC CONFERENCE

SAN FRANCISCO-(FP)- Gums were still firing IN
Berlin and in the Pacific April % when spokesmen for 40
countries met here for the first time at the United Nations
Conference on International Organization to open globa
campaign for peace
Montana labor news., 1945-05-03

Lady Astor, American-born British
aristoorat wants to Join the House Of
Lords and give that body something Of
what I've got"
We've sudied her photographs care
fully and can't make out, for the life OF
us, what it could be.