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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24

Lick the Waste Paper Crisis" has become the campaign motto of the nations 1,S66,356 Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts as they swing into WIPES urgently-re- requested waste paper salvage drive during the rest of the To every Cub Scout and Boy Scout collecting 900 pounds of paper will go a bronze medal The Boy Scout General Eisen- hover Waste Paper Campaign award pictured abOve-attached to a red and white service bar.
 Mattatuck Council Boy Scouts are very busy in this Campaign and it is expected that several hundred of them will qualify for the Eisenhower Medal, Scout Ex- ecutive David F. BabsOn stated. Among the Troops that have re- ported doing 8 good job to date ace Troop of Washington Park, Troop 29 of the Hebrew Institute, Troop 8 sponsored by the s. E. R. A., Troop 26 of Our Lady of LOurdes. A great many other Troops are working, but have not yet filed their reports which are not due until the end of the month.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-24
By MARSHAL DEN LAHEY

William J. Henderson of 1O04 West Main street, city fireman, died last week.
 Now, when a fireman dies. of course, there is no more to it than there is in the death of any other citizen, except that we who were associated with him, met him daily, and knew what he had done in the way of the duties as- signed him, get together now and then and talk of the days of his activities in life, and the part he played in the calls he answered for the public welfare of safety, and the good of the city which employed him. We know there are many misinformed people, who make fun of our occupation by observing us probably sitting under a tree in the hot summer days, and feeling in their own minds that there is nothing to fireman's life except to do that very thing. But they do not see us sitting under trees in the win ter season, and few are aware of the many alarms that take place after they have retired for the night. After all, if we do sit under 8 shady tree, we are nevertheless on duty, and cannot go beyond point of hearing the bell when it does sound.
 Modest Type
 Bill Henderson was just one of our lot. He was not a showy fel- low and few even knew his name. But he was of the reliable kind; he never missed and was in the midst of it all. Smoky cellar fires are bad for the heart; they poison the body and weaken the breathing facilities of man. Our firemen inhale not only the smoke of fire. but the strong and pun- gent gases of the burning mater ials. In many instances this sit- uation cannot be observed, be- cause the fire is at point inside and unseen by the many who look on. We could mention many like this, such as the fire in the Rocco Diorio restaurant, the one in the apartment block on Center street not long ago, the fire in the Cas- Sidy building on Leavenworth street. the inside fire of the build ing of the old Merchants Trust Co. on Bank street, and the one in the Mullings building also on Bank street, a few months back. These were what we called stub born fires, but our fellows held on for dear life, and knocked them down so quickly that insurance adjuSters assured us of their sur prise at the fine work accom- plished.
 Now Private Bill Henderson didn't do all of this at the re- spective fires mentioned. But we'll take you back to the cold and windy night of Dec. 16, 1924, at the Walton apartment block fire at 282 North Main street, in which Miss Nellie Lacey was burned to death. If you will re- member, number of our firemen were trapped in the upper floor Of this large building, and among the number was Private Bill Hen derSon. He was there with Truck Co. No. 2, of the Burton street
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Architects and sculptors have planned a beautiful, yet practical headquarters, with everything from a modernistic bar to delousing room.
 Some 12,OO0 prisoners, liberated by the Americans and Russians, have already given the authorities an idea of the problems to come. For the moment they must all con- verge on Paris, because the mili- tary are using the trains in which it was hoped to send them to the various sections of France where they live.
 Parisians, who have seen neither meat nor cheese for weeks, are tightening their belts further so that the prisoners may have good hot mean on arrival and take away with them a box of timed meat mad sardines. Most of the men who have returned are in good physical condition, because they were aS- signed to work on farms in the Rhineland Or East Prussia. They and some 100000 other French workers were well fed and well treated.
 At that, their homecoming is often tragic. One man learned his entire family had perished at Ora dour, where the Germans herded the women and children into a church and burned it down. Others find their families have died or disappeared in the Allied advance. Most do not know what to expect because they have been without news since the invasion.
 One million Frenchmen is stall ags and offlags will arrive in a far worse state. For three years of occupation they virtually lived off food packages sent from France. Before the invsaion delivery became irregular and with the entry of the Allies into Germany practically ceased. Reports from Germany say these men are so exhausted that they do not bother to get out of. bed anymore.
 Gravest fears of all are felt for the 570,000 Jews and political de- POA AAdAAJ Ol W4IOII WILL 1IcVcI return. They have been brutally treated, and even tortured and mur- dered..
 The return of these men, SO long and eagerly awaited, copfronts the French government and people, however, with grave problems.
 ''The problem of the returning prisoner is the same problem all France faces" an official of the Repatriation Committee told the United Press. Just as the cities are starving and stripped, so are the resources on which we must draw for our starving men.
 Many of the centers we had carefully established at the border have been taken over by the Allied armies. Tn one town we have been obliged to set up our office in the municipal swimming pool
 Desperate for Clothes
 'sEhe prisoners need clothes des- perately. One man arrived wearing q dusty silk opera hat with his ragged uniform. You cannot buy a suit today outside the black mar hDpt, and then 1t costs $500. We
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have only 100000 suits for 2,72o,ooo returning men.
 Tt is impossible to find blankets in France. Thirty thousand for tunately arrived in the first Li- berty ship to come from America. We are expecting 30O,000 more.
 We have drafted doctors be- cause we want every prisoner to have medical examination
 He predicted that it would take six months to bring all the prison CTS home and that 1t would be another six months before they were able to resume normal life. Those who have lost their families in France will be sent immediately to rest homes. It's ironic that these rest homes should include the lav- ish estates of several notorious col laborators.
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Late Fireman VieuOed As
 Symbol or Little People
Performed Duties as Public Servant COnscienti- Ou:ly, Always Dependable, Sought No FavOrs, Summed, Publicity and Generally For
 goten by Powers That Be-.

station. And as a truck member. it was his duty and order to sec to it that all tenants of the build ing were properly evacuated. Bill did his assignment well, even if the railways were filled with smoke, and fire was raging in all parts of the structure. He went from floor to floor, knocking at doors and arousing many of the tenants, who had to flee in their night clothing, being led to the street by this very same fireman, who is now dead.
 Little People"
 We have so pictured Bill Hen- derson to the reading public of Waterbury because he was only g. fireman just like the rest of US, a common ordinary individual, as we of the department admit we only are, and just the kind and type of which the late President Roosevelt meant when he so often referred to the Little people" of our country, so often forgotten and forsaken by the so-called monetary interests of the country.
 Bill Henderson served 25 years in the fire service. Some people like the Legislative pension com- mittee frown on recognition of merit after such a number of years. They would do away with it. But inwardly we feel and know that some of the harm to Bill Henderson's health was brought about by what he had to endure as a fireman.
 And even if the Special Legis- lative committee would, if pos- sible, hold him for further service, hand higher than theirs has stepped in, and practically said enough, and this has been the Death Hand"
 The Fire Department never for gets its dead. Its delegated mem- bers accompanied the body to Norwich, his native home, and he sleeps now. Sometimes we think he laughs, to himself, at being able to step out of service, just after his 25 years of duty had ended.
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I Belgium the RexistS served as col 1aborators.
 However they had long since in- cured the diSpleasure of the church During the years of occupation priests refused to give Holy Com- munion to known members of the organization. So bitter became the RexistS that priests were attacked and beaten even during the Sac- rifice of the Mass. Many priests were deported and some were ex- ecuted.
 Now the report has been made public that DeGrelle not long ago made an issue of the matter. He at- tended Mass in his home city of Bouillon and went to the Commun- lon rail. The priest passed him by without giving him Communion. De- Grelle remained at the rail. Again the priest passed him by. Whereup- on the Rexists leader go up and ar- rested the priest at the steps of the altar. Because of the public scandal DeGrelle was officially excommun- icated.
 CATHOLIC POLITICIANS
 Discussing the incident of DeGrel- le the Providence Visitor editorially carries couple of paragraph which state an attitude which should be the thinking not only of Catholic but of all people. It runs thus:
 There Is an inclination among Catholics to accept Catholic politi- cians on the ground that they are Catholics. There are to many Catho- lie people who hesitate to speak against Catholic politicians, and the result is that Catholic politicians in Catholic community feel Secur- ity they do not deserve. Catholic politicians should be judged strictly as public figures, completely inde- pendent of their religious connec- tions. Indeed they should reflect credit on their Church or be pre- vented from having the opportunity of reflecting discredit.
 What is said about the attitude of many Catholics toward Catholic politicians can just as well be said about the attituce of non-Catholics toward non-Catholic politicians. The result is that it is virtually impos- slble for Catholic to be elected president of this country, which so boasts of its democracy and toler- ance."
 REPORT ON THE RUSSIANS
 William L. Whites book "Report
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PREDICTS WIDE POSTWAR FIELD
 IN EL.ECTONICS
By JOHN ". DUNLAP fHfu1kAI Rraur RkaR Carrazn0u.ile


 Portland. Ore. April 24-(UP)- Radio waves mean little to the lay man. except for operating his re- ceiving set.
 But to an engineer like Vice President Walter Evans of the Westinghouse Electric and Manu- featuring Co.'s radio division, radio waves are just in the infancy Of potential production.
 Evans has seen the tremendous strides in electronics, radio and science as a result of the war. Many peacetime manufacturers hestitated to be guinea pigs" in this rapidly expanding phase of science. But the war forced research and experiment tation, giving industry a know how" which will revolutionize post war methods, Evans believes.
 He cited the prewar use of elec- tronicS chiefly for baking ham, kiln drying lumber, curing plaStics, dry ing movie film and dehydrating to- bacco for export.
 Many Uses Seen Radio waves can be economically sound for many more proven uses, he said, including molding of plas- tics, annealing of electrical steel, bending of plywood, brazing and soldering, hardening and temper ing of metals, production of alloy steels. inspecting for porosity on metal sheets and castings. dynamic balancing, vibration fatigue of me- tals and materials, remote power line operation and metering, and high-speed X-ray inspection of castings and forgings.
 The one process of relieving tin by electronics saves about 65 per cent of the tin formerly necessary for making tin plate, the 46-year- old engineer said.
 We will end up this war;" Evans added, with a simply terrific amount of technique know how and facilities. All that's needed to start few new industries is to know what service-as yet unborn-what facility yet unknown, would be use- full in the American home, in in- dustry, transportation or in the amusement field"
 Ready for Television
 He said all the technical answers are on hand for 8 usable and &C., ceptable television system, includ- ing the probability of a reasonably priced receiver.
 Asked about manufacture of home receiving sets after the war, Evans said there will be a race for a slice of the largest replacement market with sets similar to those last built. Improvements and new departures will come as rapidly as possible.
 Making his first visit to the Pacific Northwest, Evans said he was aStounded at the vast cheap power pool. natural resources, and industrial opportunity on the West Coast, coupled with trade oppor- tunities in the Pacific Basin.
 Westinghouse recently purchased Radio Station KEX of Portland.
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CASPER DAVIS UNIT
 TO MEET TONIGHT
Drum Corps to Hold Month= ly Marching Rehearsal
 at Sprague Gym
WATERVILLE Correspondents Phone-3-6Sll

Waterville. April A-The Casper s. Davis Drum Corp will meet this evening at the Sprague School gym for their monthly marching re- hearsal at o'clock. Miss Alice MacMullen represented the group at the Connecticut State Drummers Associations annual meeting in New Britain Sunday afternoon. She was accompanied by Lillian MacMullen, Bella and Charles Brickett. The group announces that the estimated profit on the show presented at the gym on April 7th, was $75, bring ing the total of the uniform fund to $500. The corp expected to be equipped with their new uniforms by June of this year.
 The Viewers Club of St. Paul's Episcopal church will meet tomor- row evening at 8 o'clock in the parish house.
 Troop Is, Girl Scouts of America will meet this evening with their leader. Mrs. Frank Carney of Chapel street.
 William Clark of Boyden street, is surgical patient at St. Mary'S hospital. His condition is reported as fair.
 Mrs. Robert Taylor of 1929 Thom- aston avenue, is i'll at her home and under the care of a physician.
 MT. and Mrs. Edward Seery and daughter, Marguerite of Sampson street, spend the weekend with MT. and Mrs. Edward Cahill of Litchfield.
 Pvt. Donald Dubay stationed at Camp Edwards, Falmouth, Cape Cod, Mass, spent the weekend with his parents, MT. and Mrs. William Dubay of 55 Downes street.
 Mrs. Mabel Ottinger spent the weekend in New York city.
 MT. and Mrs. Leo Dubay of Sampson street, are parents of a daughter born April 9 at the Wa terbury hospital. Mrs. Dubay is the former Bertha Vadnais of Oakville.
 Carole Ellen Grady, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Grady of Thomaston avenue, who has been ill at her home, has fully recovered.
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counted on to employ tactics which brought him at the age of 45 to the top in France. During most of the proceedings he will listen silently, missing nothing. At an appropriate point, he will make a short speech, and in that speech will thresh out of the chaff of confusion of proposals and counter proposals the kernels of sound &C., ton.
 Bidault has been astounding people with the speed and depth of his mind as long as any one can remember him. His brothers recall him in boyhood primar- lily as a prodigious reader and excellent fisherman. His mother died in his early youth and there after he sought solitude-a fact which may explain how SO attrac- tive man has remained a bach elor.
 A few years after completing 8 normal university curriculum,
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Catholic Thought And Opinion
By REV. JOSEPH E. DONNELLY

I on the Russians published in digest in Readers Digest and now a best seller has provoked a storm of criti- cism. some of it from the Right, much more from the Left. and long vail from IzveStia in Moscow.
 But Editor and Publisher" the newspapermsn,s weekly. disagrees with the criticism and states that its basis is wholly unsound. It should be judged thus:
 Were Whites observations ac- curate or inaccurate? Were his conclusions justified or unjustifled? Is his book contribution to truth and public knowledge. or is it not? These are the questions which should concern book reviewer writ ing for an American newspaper. Not how will another country re- act to the book.
 "It has been said that White has betrayed the hospitality of the Rus sians.' Since when does the in- vitation to cover any kind of func- tion or institution obligate a re- porter to write favorably of it?' STRIKES
 I do not think that we can ex- cuse any of them in wartime but nonetheless we should have the facts straight.
 Although the time lost in strikes is regretable, in all fairness it should he said that if every man engaged in war work were given thirty sec- onds day to blow his nose, more time would be lost to the war ef- fort in one year that has been lost through strikes in any war year" !"
 The words are those of Judge Charles M. Hay of the War Man. power Commission.
 SOVIET ACTIVITY IN CUBA
 We missed 1t in the N. Y. Times but we were glad to have found the surprising story in the Catholic News of New York. It is a dispatch to the Times from R. Hart Phillips, special Times correspondent in Havana, and it gives most amaz- ing picture of the advance of Con- munist influence and activity in Cuba, MT. Phillips writes:
 While it is conceded that Mex ico is the No. l center of Soviet activities Gin Latin A1nerica) Cuba is running that country 8 close race. In no other nation of the Americas has the Communist party received the government support given it in Cuba, both by the Batista regime and the present Grau ad- ministration. In no other country do the Communists exercise such complete control over labor, or have at their disposal such excellent pro- paganda media as in Cuba.
 These media include a powerful radio station with the only inter- national channel assigned to the island, an excellent newspaper, daily direct cable service that fur nishes news hot from the Moscow press, not only to the Communist organ but to many other news papers-free of charge; an organi- zation which extends down into the smallest village on the island; pub fishing facilities for books; as well as training schools"
 Yet, according to MT. Phillips, Cuba established diplomatic rela- tions with Russia only in 1942. And though there is a Soviet lega- ton with some 50 staff members, Cuba is doing no business with Russia!
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BEGNAL DISCUSSES
 JUVENILE OFFENSES

Henry Begnal, probation officer of the juvenile court, discussed causes of juvenile crime for s meeting of the Democratic Women S Booster club at the Elton last night.
 Town CerK Mary Kilmartin also addressed the group, urging that they try to assist in making ss many new voters as possible.
 The group will hold a spring party next month at the Chase Country club. A forum on postwar plan- hing will be held in June. PreEln mary plans were discussed for as- sisting the Democratic party ip tie fall campaign.
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Bidault took an exam for the
 highest scholastic degree. The
 final exam involved being given an entirely new subject, then told
 to do research on it for five hours in a library. Then he had to take two-hour oral exam on the sub-
 ject.
 NO IDLE BOAST
 The examiner saw Bidault enter
 and told him, They say you're pretty bright, young man. I am going to give you 8 very hard sub-
 ject."
 My professor" said Bidault,
 mo subject is difficult after i've hours in library"
 This wasn't idle boasting. Bi- dault got the highest grade of anyone taking the test that year.
 In 1918, when Bidault was 1o, he both graduated from college and went to war. He was a cor poral and was made instrucotr in history at St. Cyr, Frances West Point. It was his service in the last war which made him eligible for release as "ancien combat tant" after his capture by the Germans in 1940. He was at that time serving as a line sergeant of infantry. Between wars, Bi- dault was professor of history at several of Frances top universi- ties and at the same time a lead- ing political writer for L'Aube, the political organ of the Chris tian Democrats, most liberal of Frances Catholic parties.
 Bidault almost never exercises. Aside from stamp collecting, his only hobby is hunting wild mush- rooms. He finds this very relax ing. When the heat was on dur ing the resistance, he would sometimes take day of and go into the forest of Fontainebleau to look for mushrooms. Released by the Germans in July, 1941, Bidault got the history professorship at Lyon in the free zone. There he joined a Resistance group publishing the underground newspaper Com bat" Among them were de Men thon, now Minister of Justice, Cap- itant, now minister of Education, Frenzy, now Minister of Prisoners and Deportees.
 When, in July, 1oA3, the Ger mans caught Max" the univers- ally loved, admired, and respected head of the National Resistance Council, Bidault was elected through series of meetings, since more than two or three people never met at one time-to replace him.
 ESCAPED GESTAPO
 At that time Bida.lt moved to Paris. He shaved off his mus tache, threw away his glasses, and adopted variety of names, of which the best known were Vivian and Xavier. By con- stantly moving his place of resi- dence and work. BidaMt never came close to being caught by the Gestapo, though the Ger mans knew his real identity by spring of 1914.
 He gets quite kick out of the contrast between Resistance liv- ing and his sumptuous office and living quarters in the Foreign Office on Quai dOrasy. However, his new prestige has not gone to his head and he remains incred- lbly direct and simple.
 Always hard worker, Bidault still works l2 or IA hours a day. He has little entertaining to do, but when necessary, his sister acts as his hostess.
 It is unlikely that he will do much sightseeing in the United States. His brother says he just sn't curious about sightseeing. When, after Bidault returned rom Moscow last fall. his brother asked him how he liked the kremlin. Bidault replied: You znow, was so busy I didn't get } chance to see it."
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By TOM WOLF MA StaR Correspondent

Paris, April 24-When de Gaulle arrived in Paris last August his first omcial speech after liberation oi the capital was made to a meet ing of the National Resistance Council - CLIO of the French un- derground. He was introduced by the Council President-a small handsome, and dapper young man who spoke briefly, quietly, and mov- ingly. When the introduction was over and the Council President sat down all foreign guests in the audience looked at each other and whispered: There's a man to watch"
 "The man to watch" was Georges Bidault. who was soon to become de Gaulle's Foreign Min ister and now heads the French delegation at San Francisco.
 At San Francisco Bidault can be
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catholic in a Catholic country, c on in u a ] ly throughout the 193 0's, however. DeGrelle's RexiSts defied the eStab- lished Govern . ment. alw ay S looking to the day
 when he would be installed as dic- tatOr. The rise of Hitler a nd his early military suc- ceSseS strengthen ed his ambitions and when the
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o. E, S. To Meet

A regular meeting of Watertown chapter. Order of Eastern Star will be held at Masonic Temple, We'd nesday at 7:45 o'clock Following the business meeting a social hour will follow and refreshments will be served by Mrs. Stanley Barlow. Miss Gerda Anderson, Mrs. George Adams and Mrs. Alex Agnew.
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Hospital Patient

Miss Marion Gillette is a patient at Waterbury hospital where she underwent an operation for appen- dicitis Monday morning.