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chairman of the Senate District
Committee, and now chairman of
the Senate Judiciary Committee, had
not yet studied the report, but he
said: "I can indorse it in principle;
the plan is similar to that sponsored
several years ago by Senator Over
ton. I supported the Overton plan
and I have found no reason to de-
part from it's general principles"
Representative Stefan, Republican,
of Nebraska, ranking minority mem
Der of the District Subcommittee of
the House Appropriations Commit
tee, said he could not comment on
details of the plan, but he reafIirmed
his belief there should be an in
creased Federal payment, in view Of
the increased services rendered by
the District to the Federal Gov
ernment and the fact that the $6,-
$1,000 lump sum payment has be-
come a dwindling percentage of
total District budgets and District
outlays have risen.
Early consideration will be given
to the proposed legislation, under
plans announced by Senator O'Ma-
honey. He said he hoped to sched-
ule sessions of his group early in
the new year.
Sees Unfair Burden.
In giving a concise outline Of the
formula as proposed by the sub
committees trio of staff experts,
Senator O,Mahoney declared:
"It is my belief there should be
q substantial increase in the Fed
eral contribution because the ex-
pansion of the Federal activities
has tremendously increased the cost
of local government, burden which
in all fairness should not be thrown
on the local taxpayers, particularly
when it is known that the Federal
Government pays no assessment for
street paving and no part of the
Federal payment goes to the water
fund.
TN other words, the United States
receives free water and free streets,
a steadily increasing gratuity for
which the present lump sum pay
ment is no compensation at all"
In the last reference, he was not
ing that the Federal payment goes
into the general fund which does
not bear the costs of the mainte-
nance and development of the high
way and water systems.
Describing the plan submitted by
John F. Feeney of the General Ac-
counting ONCE and Harold E. Mer-
rick and Thomas j. Scott OF the
Appropriations Committee stan,
formerly with the GAO and the
Federal Bureau of Investigation,
Senator O'Mahoney said:
1.-TWO bills have been suggested
to the subcommittee proposing a.
definite formula by which the Fed
eral contribution to the support of
the District government would be
fixed.
Under the first bill the Federal
payment would bear the same ratio
to the total revenues of the Dis
trict, as the land in the District
owned by the United States bears
to the total land area Of the Dis
trict.
Under the second the Federal
contribution would be measured by
the same ratio as applied to the
general fund revenues only, instead
of the total revenues.
I'm determining land ownership
the water area would first be de-
Evening star., 1945-12-19
United Converting IA C-54s

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 (P.-United
Airlines has received IA four -engined
220-mile-an-hour Douglas C-54
planes which are being converted
for passenger-cargo service early
next year. J. A. Herliny, vice presi-
dent In charge of operations, said
yesterday.
Evening star., 1945-12-19
School Party Postponed

A scheduled Christmas party for
children, teachers and parents at
the John Eaton School, Thirty
fourth and Lowell streets NV, has
been postponed from tonight until
II am. Friday, the Parent-Teacher
Association announced today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07

having themselves a field day. One widely reprinted sketch shows Eis- enhower and Montgomery slightly bewildered, as captives in a Russian prisoner of war enclosure. Another depicts Red Army tankster asking directions to Berlin. Tn the back ground is sign locating the scene of this action as Aachen. Stars and Stripes recently pictured combat infantryman with short range portable Walkie-talkie radio. He has obviously contacted a unit nearby. He turns to his comrades and ask plaintively Do any of you guys understand Russian?"
 Almost none of the gags are bitter Whatever anti-RuSsianism there is on the continent - four years of German anti-Soviet hysteria has undoubtedly left it's mark here-is temporarily underground. The bit- terest remark I have heard to date is that supreme headquarters in Berlin will be called "SHAEF-ski"
 Ones closenesS to the front has nothing to do with the degree of buoyancy one feels toward the Red drive. It is widely reported that FFI forces facing Germans in St. Ma zaire believe that Berlin is merely cover plan and that the Russian objective is really the wiping out f this German port salient in the far west.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
Glare Backs
 Thomos Hort

New York, Feb. T. (UP) Rep. Clare Boothe Luce. R.. Conn, said today that she had urged the ap- pointment of Admiral Thomas C.. Hart to fill Connecticut's vacancy in the U. s. Senate, but denied published reports that she had made a deal" with Hart to with draw in 1946 so that she might run for the post.
 T had no senatorial ambitions and I have none now" Mrs. Luce said at LaChlardia Field, where she boarded a plane for Washington.
 T think it's grand that Admiral Hart may be named" Mrs. Luce said. There is no man available to the senate who knows more about American postwar needs in both the Atlantic and Pacific. He is a man of considerable vision, to. He told me in the Pacific a year before Pearl Harbor that war with Japan was inevitable if we put an embargo on oil and scrap iron
 Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin Of Connecticut has announced that Hart will be named to the senate seat of the late Sen. Francis Ma lOney, D.. Conn. If power to make the appointment Is given the Sover-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
Legacy Lists First Ladies

Philadelphia, Feb. 7.-OUP)- Wives of future presidents of the United States may become the re- cipients of an annual income of $12,00O if the validity of trust fund of Henry G. Freeman, Jr., Philadelphia lawyer who died in 1917, is sustained by the orphans court.
 The legacy, to be paid In monthly installments, was designated in Freeman's will which established the fund in 1912 because I feel the President of the United States re- ceives such miserable pittance for man holding the greatest position on earth"
 An interim accounting yesterday by the Fidelity-Philadelphia Trust Co.,, estate trustees, revealed that he estate which includes the Henry G. Freeman, Jr., pin money fund" IS valued at $1,70O,000
 Freeman ordered in his will that after the death of all persons he named as beneflciaries, the estate shall be kept intact by the trustee and the $12.OOO be paid annually to the Presidents wife "or anyone representing the President as such should he not be married"
 The fund. barring legal entan- elements, will be directed to the first ladies uses upon the death of Mrs. Mary c. Freeman, daugh- ter-in-law now residing in Paris and approximately 12 other benefi- ciaries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
SOCIAL HYGIENE
 EVENTS ARRANGED
Radio Broadcast Chief Fea. ture Today; Series of
 Lectures Arranged

Dr. E. J. Godfrey city health of- iicer has appealed to the people of Waterbury to take cognizance of the fact that today, Feb. 2, Is Social Hygiene Day as decreed by the American Social Hygiene Association to aid in the combat of veneral di- SeaSes.
 Tie rest of the month of February will mark the advancement of an educational program pro Jected against social diseases whereby law enforcement agencies, educational groups, clergy and church aSsociA- tons management and labor and all civic groups will aid in the disse- mentation of information and edu- cation.
 At 4:15 today Dr. H. J. Stettbacher chief of the veneral disease clinic here will speak over station WATR on y'D education. Tonight members of the Waterbury Druggist associa- ton will meet at the Medical Bldg, to discuss their part in the intended program.
 The formal program for the month as devised by the city health department consists of today's ac- tivities and an address by D-. Rich ard Hinchey before the Rotary club on Feb. 13. Also, on Feb. 26 pr. Tal- lot of the Connecticut State Depart nlent of Health will discuss his de- partment's participation in the cam- paiRn as well as show movies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
YouthAdmits Staying Girl

Brunswick, Ga, Feb. 7--(UP)-- Richard B. Bailey, 25, Brunswick shipyard worker, was held at the Rei6sville state prison today after he allegedly confessed the Saturday staying of two-and-a-half year old Be lie Lou Frazier.
 The child's partially-clad body was found in swamp about two miles from her home Monday, ard Glynn County Coroner J. D. Bald win told newspapermen "an autopsy showed "an unsuccessful effort at criminal assault"
 Police said Bailey, who lived near the Frazier home was arrested Sum- day for questioning, confessed and was taken to the state prison for safe keeping. Murder charges will be filed here.
 Oficers said Bailey admitted car rying the girl into the woods and suffocating her, but denied he at tempted to attack her.
 He was arrested after two women had informed police that they had seen the youth coming from the woods near the spot where the child's body was found. A sweat shirt, found near the scene was identified as belonging to Bailey.
 The child lived with her mother, Mrs. Woodrow w. Frazier. Her father, an Army sergeant IS sta tioned in Louisiana.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07

the rear in France and the United Kingdom has his own favorite story. And 99 per cent of them are simply variations of the cur retn favorite in Paris: That military police on the outskirts of Paris are being given intensive training in recognition of Russian tanks.
 Most popular foxhole version of this theme is that patrols have been sent out to get each evenings password from the Russians. In artillery units, it's being said that standing orders have been given limiting the angle of elevation of heavy guns lest long shots cause casualties among Red soldiers. Back at division level 1t is reported that all 72-hour passes are being printed in Russian.
 PRACTICAL JOKES
 Browning these combat-level tsories is one actually perpetrated by a frontline joker who dressed himself up in his idea of Rus sian uniform and turned up at his advance command post. Not only did he succeed in making some wishfully thinking officers and men believe he was the real Mccoy but they liked the gag so much that they sent him back to higher command post to duplicate his act. It went over like wildfire there, too.
 Allied cartoonists are of course
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
Government Has No
 Efficiency Surplus

G. I. might applaud" he said. Tt is cathartic."
 Surgical gloves are hard to buy, he said, yet the government has 1l,000 pairs for sale. Hospital mattresses are on the scarce list, too, but the treasury now is trying to sell l75,000 Of them.
 What gets me- he said, lis that one drug company has produced an 18-month supply of it's particular pill, yet 1t is being urged to work night and day producing more"
 He said he could mention hun dreds of medical items, on the sur plus list, still being manufactured on 24-hour schedule. He said he thought the committee should figure out some kind of central purchasing and disposal agency to stop suck waste.
 Nobody disagreed Rep. Miller thanked the committee and Strolled hack to the House of Representatives The case of auctioneer Goldberg. who sold some plumbing supplies for the government, resumed.
 Everybody began yelling, some guyG called other guys liars in lan- guage nearly as blunt, Goldberg took notes furiously. chairman James M. Mead tried at intervals to calm down the battlers, and me, I sat there, trying to figure out what the shoot ing was about.
 I'm not very smart. (not very Ed I always get stung at auctions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
SHORTAGE OF HELP DELAYS OPENING
Need Experienced Workers to Complete Staff; Bud-.
 get Items Approved

Difficulties are still being chs countered in engaging personnel for the St. Johns Child Care Centers 1t was stated yesterday at the monthly meeting of the committee. presided over by Miss Marion Huntsi chairman.
 Once the personnel is obtained the center will be opened to accommo- date some 25 school-age children. A budget of $20, 0,651 had been adopt ed for operations when needed.
 eLtters were sent to parents aN the Long Hill housing project to suggest that they send their chdl- dren to the Long Hill Child Care center. Budget figures for Long HnI have also been approved recently.
 Enrolment Is over the top for the training course: "The Young Child; His Growth and Guidance, which is being taught at the Kingsbury center by Sister Mary de Lourdes of St. JoSeph's College, West Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
Waterburians Attend
 Red Cross Gathering
Basil OCOnnOr, National Chairman, Chief Speaker at
 Regional Meeting in New Haven Yesterday

American Red Cross. speaking in conjunction with the War Fund drive opening throughout the na- ton Feb. 28, asserted Army CO., ordination and control is absolute ly necessary to insure anything like an adequate handling of the prob lens involved in postwar civilian relief. He added that the ob of rehabilitation in Europe is so vast 1t cannot be done by agencies alone.
 MT. O'Connor declared the load will be heavier than previously on Red Cross recreation and hospital work in the overseas theater. "Vic- tory and demobilization will bring increasing responsibility to our per- sonnel overseas, he said. Tn the restlessness and anxiety to get home the need for diversion and entertainment will increase.
 J. Harrison Hickman, executive director of the New York chapter, who recently returned from the South Pacific, also addressed the group on activities of the Red Cross in that theater. MT. Hickman was awarded the Marine insignia since he participated in as many beach, head landings as the Marines on a certain group of islands.
 Lieut.. Col. James T. McGibony, U. s. Army Service Forces, attached to the office of surgeon general. Washington, D. C., reviewed the work of the Red Cross in hospitals. With casualties mounting weekly, he said, the service hospitals are becoming more dependent on the work of the Red Cross.
 Other speakers were Robert E. Bondy, administrator of services to the armed forces, who is attached to National Red Cross headquarters; Dean Chas. R. Brown of Yale uni- versity; Livingston L. Blair, direc- tor of the American Junior Red Cross; and Mrs. William Barclay Parson, Jr., administrator on VOL unteer special services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
RY RIJDOLFO NAZARINO

Manila, Feb. 6.-CUP) Wide spread fires touched off by the cor nered Japanese in a final orgy of destruction left thousands homeless G Manila today.
 The joy of liberation for Filipinos ajter three years under the Japan Aae. remained undimmed by this YEnal catastrophe, however. Even as refugees left their burnnig homes with bundles and domestic animals they cheered advancing American troops.
 Cries of burn Tokyo" were rais- cd.
 The largest fire started in the Es- colta business district and swept northward, occasionally branching out to the east and west as the wind changed.
 Stores, offices and residences on more than 20 streets were destroyed. Frequent explosions were heard as .be flames reached dynamite or time bombs planted by the Jap anese.
 Few persons were believed in- 4ared, however, because the fire be- gan in daylight.
 Refugees crowded into the Amer &an-held northern part of Manila, creating a major relief problem Food was scarce and many Filipinos had only worthless Japanese occu- patton money.
 Reliable reports said the Japanese arrested officers of the Manila fire departmen. to prevent them from putting out the fires. The Japanese were said to have threatened to execute one fireman who sought to respond to an alarm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
First Policemen s BaU Held Friday, Fed. 3, 1911
Out Easter' Recalls Success Which Climaxed Aid Associations First Social Function Recalls Some of the Gallants to
 Participate in Festivities.
(NEA Telephoto)

olive, and carried themselves with the dignity and awe of the aristo- crat. But inwardly they are great men, great individuals, and as good as gold to the men who serve un- der them"
 The police ended up the ball with high and gay time at the old Con- necticut Hotel on Center street, in the present building of the Metro politan Furniture company What night of gaiety and good fun.
 And the best of it was, not a cop missed roll-call the next morning. So, on with the dance, and let the cops make merry, for the time be- ing.
 They are the same good lot we like to know and speak to when we meet them. They are entitled to the best, just as the old time cop was, who preceded the present force in it's travel of the city's streets.
 Good health and good luck to all of them
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
By THE OUT EASTER

The police ball at the State Ar mory on Friday of this week inter- eSts us!
 It interests us for the reason that we can look back to the first ball of it's kind held here, namely Fri day, February 3, 1911, at Bucking- ham hall.
 Efforts before th1s time to hold such an affair were always unsuc- cessful. The fremen's of course, is an old institution, and yet it is that the present aid association has not been holding dances of this kind any too long. In the days of old, however, when volunteer companies were a part of the organization, and this lasted until 1913, the fire men had an annual affair, bringing in outside musical organizations to provide the concert, and also the dance music. Expense to the fire men of old was secondary; they spent hundreds of dollars in decora- tions, and more hundreds for brass bands and round dance music. They wore red shirts and blue shirts, danced the greater part of the night, and wound up with q turkey supper in the selected hotel for the occa- sion.
 But thre police ball of 34 years ago was a corker for a beginner. Young John Bergin, in brand new uniform, was the chairman, assisted by Tom Grady, Joe Bagley, John Mates, Dick Leroy, Tom Colasanto, and Jimmy Madden; others who worked with them are now dead. George M. Beach was then head of the Dept. Bill Hotchkiss was the mayor; Charley Templeton, Ed Hart and John M. Burrall made up the maority of the board of public safe ty. Each commissioner wore his $55 badge of honor, gold affair, with name inscribed thereon, and lit tie bit of q sparkling diamond not iceable in the sly eye Of the Nation al eagle, adorning the costly insig- mia, denoting great powers as the constituted authority of both police and fire depts. The two Demo- crats on the board hid their badges most of the time, fearful of their constituency Of Out East and the Abrigador. where both lived, and upon whose shoulders rested the re- sponsibility of getting good and true Democrats on the rolls of the police and fire dept. It was saying of the time, though that all they got from the Republican majority was cheese" Anyway, the Democrats survived, and later were sitting in as majority members, with the election of a Democrat for Mayor. They may talk about politics, but ginger how the game was played in those days.
 We wrote something about the ball we have mentioned, And the files show 1t went something like this:--
 "Supt. Beach's new uniform was dazzling to the eye, but not any more so than some Of the other of- ficers.
 And those young policemen, young 'coppers', how nice and good they looked. noticeably groomed. and full of the snap and vigor that goes with young life. The gold braid officers wore each and every thing entitled to their respective
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
New Sergeont's Rank Proposed

Long Beach, Cal, Feb. 7.-(UP) -S/Sgt. Horace o. Boren, former Dallas, Tex, newspaperman, await ed official reaction today to his proposal that an additional ser- geant's rank be created as the en- listed mans answer to the new f1ve- star general.
 Boren's "chief- sergeant" would wear four rockers and have a base pay of $168 monthly. The uniform, he said, would compare with that of chief petty officers in the Navy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN

Washington, Feb. 7-UP)-Rep. Arthur L. Miller is a good, solid citizen in gold-rimmed eyeglasses, with some good, solid facts.
 He saved the day for Othman
 The senatorial war Surpluses in- vestigating committee was trying to find out what Auctioneer Jake Goldberg sold to who, for how much. It was getting no place, fast. I never did hear so much fiscal mumbo- jumbo as when some un- derlings of the defense plant corp. tried to explain Jake's operations.
 It sounded like double-talk to me, with figures added to make 1t har- der. Senators were barking at the witnesses, and vice-verSa, and in side my head was pandemonium, when in walked Rep. Miller of Kim ball, Neb.
 He identified himself not only as a congressman, but also as one of Nebraskas leading physicians. He said he was worried, like everybody else, about the billions of dollars worth of army and navy goods be- ginning to go on the market. He said the things he knew best were pills, and he'd stick to them.
 Said the government now has for sale as surplus 53l 900 test tubes, 5 5,400,00O stopper corkS, 470,000 emp ty medicine bottles, and 5000 B. gallon drums of soap.
 T might add he reported. that even while one arm of the govern ment is trying to get rid of 31,000,- GOO sterilized surgical dressings, an- other arm is trying to buy 47,00O, 900 new dressings.
 "The government now has for sale 12,272 bottles of Adrenalin. This is enough for 2.000, 900 doses of drug that's very seldom used. It has 29,000 bottles of 1000 tablets each of Sul- familanide, which the public has found very hard to get. though the army seems to have it as a surplus supply
 Rep. Miller Toned back and cliuckled as he read off the next item: 34,498, 900 tablets Of Aloin.
 This is one item of surplus the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-07
Jury Gets
 Male Case

F'airmont, w. Va, Feb. 7-CUP)- A jury was expected today to get the case of Benjamin Franklin Male, "A, who returned voluntarily to face a 40-year old murder charge.
 Judge Charles E. Miller expected to hear final arguments, deliver his charge and send the case to the jury this afternoon.
 The defense rested yesterday after Male pleaded self-defense and recon structd the staying of w. o. Smith, a crippled school teacher on the afternoon of Nov. 16, 1905. Smith taught in a one-room schoolhouse where Cecil Male, then nine, was pupil. Cecil is the defendants 5 SOD.
 Male said his boy came home compaining that Smith had almost beat me to death" The father, 8 husky construction worker in those days, went to Smiths boarding house in Hoult, W. Va, ard asked for an explanation.
 Male testified that Smith said he had punished Cecil because the boy Wdo LClIulB CiIdI Wno hAb6AA6 "AA0 kissing little girls
 We had a nice little fight down there" Male testified. "The reason l hit him with mattock was be- cause I beat him to 1t. SAW him looking around in back of me and when turned and saw the :nattuck l saw he was reaching for 1t, 10 l grabbed it.
 T grabbed 1t and hit him over the left ear. didn't mean 1t to be fa- tal," Male testified.
 The white-haired, bent defendant said he changed clothes after the battle and fled across the country to oregon, where he was a lumber worker until his ailing wife told au- thorities there he was wanted for murder.
 Male told the court he had never forgot a single detail of the fight with the crippled Smith. He seemed eager to tell his story.
 The prosecution asked verdict of first degree murder and the gallowS for Male although Marian county never has hanged . man.