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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

This is not a local murder story, but being an intentional assassination of the King English for patriotic cause, we think Waterburans will be inter- ested in how of their favorte radio comedians puts "punch" for a worthy across with decided bang It's Archie (Ed Gardner) of "Duffy's Taverns fame speaking in the interest of the current war loan drive His picturesque appeal may register with some who have tired of the ordinary speeches: So heres Archie under the title Leave Us Pitch In and Chair man "Jim' Moran of the local committee can list him as one of his guest speakers We present him as one of the Towers guest writer's O. k Arcme star'
 'pitching': "Now aint of them typhoons of in dustry, like Carnegies Hall old man Rockefeller After a what Duffy kicks in with every Saturday don't exactly make guy as rich as Crocus. Ana "ouan' refer to mesef financial expert neither. mean a guy like Dumb Broadstreet with statistics at me
 finger tips But like the rest of slaveys been doin little figurin and here's what come LID with Practically all us futurity right? Now what are doin' about it? Lots Of us ain't doin nohin'. The gang down at Duffys is diff ferent They've been listenin to expand the Pay roll Savings Plan to them and you can betcha sweet life they're solid behind the idea And they're buy ing EXTRA in this Seventh War Loan, too You see, it's all so ailmentary I'm savin' more than ever thought possible and I'm positively feeling no pam Whats more, I'm hepin' the boys in the front lines and Pm buyin stake in my country's future Now make the Seventh War Loan the most cOlosca of al We gotta BOOST out payroll savings sos can BASTE enemies. With mighty maybe we won't need no 11!'
 going have about forty street signs thirty already finished Our towns and little towns scribes were interested III the NeW Times OIlel day titled Spring House. in which the old time method of keeping things fresh and cold They had no modern refrigeration in those days when butter buttermllk
 milk meat and were kept fine in the spring house built over stream of cold running water. The spring house pretty good and no more food was spoiled in those days they tell than today with all the lat est in modern refrigeration. Gardens in suburban and rural Connecticut feature of the finest flowers of late May and early June the Irs to wit There is no flower says Woodbury resident that lends itself so gracefully to garden decoration Just set it against any background and the Iris holds it's own; and this opinion is backed up by the best horcutursts of any of several counties And speaking of Iris this year marks the quarter century observance of the founding of the American Iris society," If you travel north along the side roads of Thomason, Morris and Ltchfeld you will the Iris in it's wild state, growing in the sWampy marshy sections We call this feurdelys, and it's right pretty. Tent caterpillars much in evidence in the trees along any of the neighborng highways and advised by authorities to destroy them they feed on the young buds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-29

Good Night.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
N0RTHSE:AIn
 FROM SOUTH

Eteamer North Sea arrived in port
 this foranoon, from the south, en- route to Sitka, bringing the follow ing pass sngers here: {. From Seattle Harold Lee, Mrs Legia. Olson, Mrs. Wilma L. Ham
 zen, Mrs. Daisy Mayson, E. B. On soien, Mrs. E. B. Onsoien, Dave
 Carlson, Mrs. Dave Carlson. ! Mrs Ruth Rock, s. E. Hiilman
 Ernest R. Smith, Ivan Larson, | Henry Gsaherg. Mrs. Henry Seaberg Miss Kariene Seaberg, Mrs Anna
 Berg, Mrs. Ann Dornan. t Mrs Bernalda Dias, Rudolph Not
 ssr, Mrs. Rudolph. Notay. 'Sherman aLoy, Mrs. Sherman Loy, Thomass K. BF.olid, 'Gaerge D. Weods Mrs. George ID. Wood s
 Eli Fest, G1orge Johnson, Martin ,Riafa. Mrs. Martin Rian, Mrs, Ros-
 ettsa Thonpson, Mrs. Lillian Frost
 E. w Knight
 1 Brian McDavitt, Peter Oliver
 James Hurlock. Herbert Thomas 1 George Livingston, Robert Swen- sen.
 From Ketchikan-Roy Peratro- vich, William C. Byrd, Mrs Lillian Denny, Miss Cora Denny From Wrangell-Mrs. George
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
ENTERTAINMENT,
 FEED GIVEN HERE
 70 SERVIgEH E x

A crowd of approximately TO Lcglonnaires and service men en- jcyed an evening of real entertain ment at the Legion Dugout last night Lillian Uggsn, the ever popular entertainer. was the hit of the evening with the service men, as sbe responded t9 their requests for various songs. Harry Sperlin3 and Jack O'Connor showed three reels of film of Alaska wild life and scenery.
 Scrvice men home on furlough were guests of honor of the Legion last night, and other guests includ- ed Gov Ernest Gruening, Repre- sentative Walter E. Huntlay of Palmer and Frank Metcalf from Sitka.
 A big feed ia the traditional Legion style followed the featured entertainment.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
AZ Ne1psfeatures

SEATTLE Married couples are sought by the Alaskan Indian Ser vice for teaching posts in commun- ities and villages throughout the territory-duties including not only classroom work but such extra eur riculars as community welfare work. first a.d, care and mainten- ance. of the government buildings and equipment, and in a few places, assisting in managing the reindeer h-1ds or the native-owned coopera- tive stores. eI
 Teachers receive a Base salary of S1,62O a year plus 8 25 per cent oversees differntial, plIis overtime, cquallying @ gross salary Of g 463 .72
 Appointments ale subject to War Nanpower Commission regulations, and applications for these novel as- signrnents are made to the regional director of the federal civil service commission here
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
GRANsTON HERE

W, R. Granston, registering from Seattle, Is guest at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
SIlarpe Snow Held Over
 Second Day

There were repercussions today in the House of Representatives from yesterdays mud-slinging party to which Commissioner of Labor Walter Sharpe was the uninvited guest.
 In response to complaints from the floor of the House that mo report" had been received from Sharpe, and cry of sabotage when one member could not find the report he knew he had" a sworn statement was read toa the House declaring the reports had been delivered early in the session.
 The statement, sworn to by Gene Kristen, recently Chief Clerk in Sharpe's office, said in effect the reports had been delivered to House Chief Clerk Ben McManus fin person" few days after the session was convened.
 McManus disclaimed any knowl- cage or the reports ana the matter came no nearer a conclusion. A letter of transnittal was read from Commissioner Sharpe again trans hitting report copies to the House. Senators declared themselves un- concerned with the search and said the Upper House had gotten it's labor reports long ago."
 Sharpe himself answered another bone of contention that arose in yesterdays session complaint from Representative Huntley that the case of one Jack Olson at Palmer, Alaska. had received no attention"- from Sharpe and that the Labor Commissioner had failed to answer letters pertinent to the case
 ! Submitted this morning by Sharpe was case history of the Olson matter, complete with seven letters received and answered.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27

wood, will put~cils The Male. Aai-. nal" for local serviceme,l.
 The show boasts 'maly 3ell known theatre and radio Eanles, including: Brian O'Hara of 'Laii- isiana Hayride," with Judy Canova, and 'The Great John L." with Linda Darnell; Rose Hobart who, though not related to George Ho- bart, plays his wife in "Conflict" ;; Ray Walker, now appearing on the local screen in the Man From Frisco; John Good, who played in "Madamoiselle" and "Ti Fi" with Simone Simon; Mary Scott, a conner under goth Century contract, Ellen CoIby,s of Our Gang fame, 'Margayet Wells, prominent opera and concert singer; Peter Virgo of tie New York Stage Guild Theatre, Sam Herrick. prominent actor-di- eetor from the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse, and Robin Short, company manager from Yankee Network in Boston and KFI, Los Angeles.
 The Male Animal" by Thurber and Nugent, played Is weeks on the Broadway scene and was rated one of the top plays of the year. CT scribes out the chain where the show has been playing, re- ported it "so darn good it couldn't be USO."
 The troupe flew into Juneau yesterday and will go to Sitka on the North Sea after this evenings performance before heading south to wind up a tour that has kept them in Alaska since November l. hitting everything from Attu back .
 Legislators who enjoy the Duffy's Tavern" label some legis- lative followers have hung on the current House, have announced their intention to reciprocate by inviting the Army's actors up to the Legislative Chambers to see the thespiens of the Seventeenth Legislative show.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
KErCHIkAN GETS FpC AUTHORITY
 FOR NEW PROJECT

NWA cTITNTCtTfNN LF~i1 oT I'M q Federal Power Commission has iss- -A d oU-y ear A-S,I-0 .v u44e OiCy vI Ketchikan for construction and op- eration of a power project at Beaver Falls Greek near Ketchikan, it is an- ',cunced today.
 The project calls for the construc- tion of diversion dam to provide water for a power house and sub- station to be built near the mouth cf the creek offshore in George h.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
ALLIES PUSH DEEpER INTO GEpMANRUHR
Forces Of American First Army Are Ten Miles
 from Cologne
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American will be standing watch on the Rhine wall within a, Efortnigllt. Half the distnce from the pulverized Rosr River line to the mighty river was covered in the first five days of the onslaught.
 The Canadians. B miles north of the Cologne Plain battle, advanced five miles overnight and captured Uedsm and brcke into Calcar They reached within 1000 yards of the Fcehwald, where the Third last fixed line of defensse that guards the northwest cornsr of the Ruhr
 The U. s. Third Army, fighting n the center, by-passed Bitburg nd advanced three miles to high round overlooking the Kyll River the south barrier before the middle Rhiue.
 The Seventh Army tough doggedly in sight of Saarbrueoken.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27

let. The ultimate capacity will be $500 horsepower.
 a The project was made necessary by increased Government and civil- ian power demands. The City appli- cation said construction, subject to changing war conditions, is sche- duled to begin with the year.
 The project is to be constructed by a private contractor and initial cost is estimated at $500000.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
WILLIAM oADY RETURNS

william cady, co-ewnsr of the Royal Blue Cab, Company and manager Of the Cowling-Davlin Garage, returned to Juneau today by plane after a several weeks trip to the States.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27

Sumption, Mrs. J. Brouillette.
 From Petersburg A. MacEach- ren, William Wilson, Mrs. Hannah Porter Hugh A. Harris. Kenneth M. Meier, Paul E. Alexander, Eugene E. Ravens.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
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 Being Given.

4 cordial inyitation is extended to the public by Ms. Ernest Gruaning. to bid farewell. to Ms E I Bartlatt and Mrs Gspgtad at tea at tae Gov~rror's HoYse tFis afsernoonl from 4 o'clock to ' o'clock. s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
WHITES PURCHASE RAY
 C. DAY HOME ON FILL

Margaret E. White, Republican National Committeewoman for AL aska, and her husband, Albert White. Juneau attorney, have pur- chased the eight-room furnished rome of MT. and Mrs. Ray Day at 126 West Seventh Street, in the residential marine view section of Juneau. ~
 They expect to occupy their new home in the near future s,.,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-02-27
LEGISLATURE INVITED TO
 REAL SHOW
Hollywood Troupe Puts On The Male AnimaI" :"
 for Services

Legislative actors in what many observers are calling the best show in town will pause in their de- Alterations this afternoon to see professionals act.
 Both House and Senate have been invited to be guests of the armed services at the Coliseum Theatre this afternoon when @ Camp Show" troupe, many of them big-name actors from Holly
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11

tion created by the movement toward reconversion. He argues that the objec- tive must be expansion, not contraction, of purchasing power," that take-home pay must be at least as high at is is now to sustain national income, and that wage rates must rise to offset the re- duced work week, downgrading, and the shift to lower-paid occupations
 Heads of government agencies that must deal with the demands of labor have already shown considerable sym pathy with this point of view. But it is hard to see how prices are to be kept in line pending return to normal conditions if industry must meet such demands. Take-home pay today not only repre- sents increases in basic rates since the prewar period but -and-a-half for overtime and also important fringe" adjustments.
 MT. Murray rests his case partly on advances in living costs. He talks about restoring prewar relationships between wage rates, prices and productivity per man-hour. But these relationships have been disturbed largely because organized labor insisted on pay increases during the war. His program may maintain the unbalance rather than remove 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
Sea and Air Dilemma

A good many people seem to be indulg- ing in the pleasant postwar dream of combined sea and airborne vacation-a leisurely cruise with all the pleasures of shipboard life, and then several extra days in Havana or Honolulu or wherever, because they're going to wind up the vacation with swift flight back home all that would be mighty nice, and quite possible. Presumably it wouldn't make any difference to the postwar vacationer whether the same company operated both ship and plane, beyond the con- venience of buying all the tickets in one office. But it makes considerable difference to eight American steamship lines who have sought permission of the Civil Aeronautics Board to use airplanes over their prewar routes. The CAB ap- parently hasn't warmed up to the sub- ject. Its objection seems to be that it might be inviting monopoly to grant the request, and that the ship lines might conspire to stifle the newer, faster means of travel.
 The steamship companies, while con- tending that there is no law which for- bids them to use steam and air-or steam and sail, if they want to-concede that there isn't much they can do if the CAB turns them down. The companies side of the case was recently presented by Almon E. Roth, president of the National Federation of American Shipping. MT. Roth says the eight lines don't ask to buy out existing airlines, or to invade new territories or seek exclusive rights in their present areas. He says they would purchase their own equipment and gladly enter into competition with for eign and domestic companies over their old routes. MT. Roth also points out that foreign competitors such as Britain and Sweden, are planning combined ship and air operations. And he quotes the British White Paper on postwar avia- tion to show that that government con- siders it's ship lines foreign connections, organization and good will as assets ln the development of British air trade.
 Most important, perhaps, is MT. Roth's statement that American passenger lines will be at a considerable disadvantage in immediate postwar operations. This, he says, is because most of their liners were converted more drastically for war use than were their competitors, and that reconversion will be long and expen- sive process. We shall come out of the war, Mr. Roth says, with surplus of 25 million tons of the wrong kind of hipping"-meaning the slow Liberty ship. So perhaps the situation needs some good hard thinking by the CAB be- fore the final yes or no.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
Mapping Germany's Future

The question of hard or soft peace for Germany is already agitating the British public, according to reports from London, just as it will eventually engage the serious attention of the American people, It is a question which must be decided on the basis of whether the Ger mans, given bad deal in the last peace, turned to leader who eventually vlc- tinized them, or whether Hitler simply epitomized a bigotry brutality and in- sufferable racial egoism which has char acterized the German national tempera- ment for generations, if not for centur- ieS.' The outcome of that decision will have incalculable results, and it is un- fortunate that the decision must be reached by nebulous routes. But there is nothing to go on except an interpre- tation of past history ana prediction of Germanys political, economic and ethical influence on the future, offered by the proponents of hard or soft peace on the basis of theology and purely per- sonal bias.
 One thing, however, would probably be admitted by both camps: A hard peace would raise more difficulties than one of milder terms. It would mean long occu- patton and constant vigilance. It would mean readjusting Europe to new econ- onnic scheme in which Germany, once the continents industrial and scientific leader, would be minor, decentralized country It would be easier to argue that there could be no prosperous Europe without a prosperous Germany, to main tain that Allied bombs and shells had removed the threat of German menace, to blame all Germany's sins on her de- parted Nazi leaders, and to help Ger many to regain her former dominant po- sition. This, it seems to us, would be not only an easier, but an infinitely more dangerous course. But the decision is not our or any newspapers or citizens. It is necessarily decision for the heads of the occupying governments, which ought to be settled at an early meeting.
 The policy of German peace terms, like the policy of the United Nations organi- zation rests on agreement of the big powers This must come through argu- nent and compromise, and it would be well if those processes were started soon. The formal peace conference may be long delayed. Meanwhile Europe seethes with trouble and confusion It might ease the situation if Messrs. Truman, Church ill, Stalin and De Gaulle could decide down which road Germanys way lies, and start her travelling it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
MT Editor: VIEWS ON RECIPROCAL TRADE AGREEMENT ACT SHOW RE- ACTIONARY POLICIES OF DEMOCRATS WRITES F. B.
 PARSONS
MT. Editor:

The New England tSates and the Middle tSates area, are manufactur- ing divisions, of our U. S., and we have been particular in the past, especially in political campaign years, to select Congressman and Senators who were ready to repre- sent, and fight for protection tariffs, and ad-valorem duties to be placed on foreign mfg goods at the seat of manufacturing, that would come in competition with Mfg. articles, made by American Workmen in American industrial plants. Tariffs have pro- tected us from cheap foreign made goods that were exported from Bal tic states.
 Czechoslovakia, Poland, Japan and Germany were the largest inn porters of cheap made articles to U. S., their workmen were paid from soc to SIPS per day, while Amer ican workmen were allowed 250 to 400 per day. Our industrial centers thrivcd and manufacturers enlarged their plants. AS a result of the pro- tective tariffs imposed, foreign made goods, came into the country but could not flood us with their cheap am edarticles, as they otherwise would do without tariff of protec- ton. Our domestic market was al- ways large, and some goods were exported, some goods were admitted free, with vice versa for ours.
 Now the good neighbor policy of the New Dealers, under request from the chief executive, to show that we are willing to share world market, are endeavoring to tear down our protective tariff walls, and substitute a reciprocal trade doc Urine, that we would gain through a domestic economy. That reasoning is dangerous to any economic policy, and should be defeated, to give the chief executive authority to cut rates up to 50 per cent of the Haw- ley-Smoot tariff act of 1880, is an ugly attack on the wages of Amer ican workmen.
 Rep. -Doughton, Dem. of N. c. is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
In Today's Mail

the author of the legislation in fa- vor of you must admit fere trade the territory below Mason-Dixon line has always been the champion of free trade os as they called 1t tariff for revenue only. They would strangle the manufacturing inter ests and lower Workman's wages, to please the old world good neigh bor, do good to others that mis- trust you, live and let live Wallace methods, be your brothers keeper, the trouble with Wallace is he dis trusts our American industrialists and carries his ideas to the point where he is willing to destroy Amer can wage system.
 How does Wallace coincide his live and let live, with low wage competition of foreign made goods with, the prosperity brought Amer ican wage workers on American goods. Idealism never made our country prosperous, world competi- tion is our privilege but we do not want to give up our birthright, to attain a world trade and loose our economic policy that protective tar ifs under the Hawley & Shoot act have gained for U. s. courage, youth, and vitality are not nour- ished by any Free Trade act.
 The Democrat reciprocal trade policy is designed to open our mar kets to chetp made labor goods and to break down our protective policy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
Footnote on the Battle of the Bulge

First newspaper accounts of the Ger man breakthrough in Belgium last De- cember were serious and concerned. But soon we civilians were given to under stand that the whole operation had been calculated risk" that the attack had been expected, and that the trap which the Allies eventually sprang on the Nazis had been deliberately set Now we learn that the attack really was stunning surprise. General Hodges and his staff narrowly escaped both capture in Spa and death on the bomb-blaSted road to Liege. The Germans came within 500 yards of 5000, gallon gasoline dump which, if taken, might have made the counterattack's eventual outcome diff ferent story.
 The discrepancy between the two ac- counts is past history, of course, and perhaps not worth worrying about. But it does seem that the Army might have believed that the civilian public, told the real story within bounds of security, would not have thought the less of our generals because on one occasion they didn't behave like omniscient heroes of fiction.
 However, it does seem proper, before dismissing the subject, to pay belated tribute to the soldier cooks and bakers and the military censors who dropped their Skillets and blue pencils to take up rifles and stem the German tank at- tack. Their noW-it-can-be- told exploits make better reading, it seems to us, than the earlier version of the same story