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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-18
Y-I DAY VICTIM

Worcester Mass. Aug. ie-tUPl-- Believed the first New England vice tim of Q surrender.day celebration, Raymond Novak. i7. of Worcester died at c hospital early today or burns sustained while pouring gas- ollne into his automobile that was being used by celehrants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-18
Pops Concert Sunday Night
 Early Ticket
 Purchase Urged

What promises to be the finest concert of the Civic Orchestra Pops concert season under the direction of Mario Di Cecco will be held at the Hamilton Park Pavilion Sunday evening. The park department is operating with the orchestra. An excellent selection of numbers will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-18
FINANCE MEETING

Tho Beard ,of Finance TIleollne, scheduled for yesterday afternoon, has been postponed to Monday at [ D, n.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-18
THE CI0 PROGRAM FOR FULL EMPLOYMENT
 A CALL TO ACTION!

The wor is over. Already thousands of Connecticut workers have been told their services longer quired Suddenly drosticoIIy their income has been eliminated.
 This calls for action! The cIo Program for Full Employment must be given united and determined back ing by everyone If unemployment is lasting, peace could hold dangers grover thon the wor itseif Under the cIo program the first thing for you to do # you have been laid off is 10 without delay to the you % should file for UNEMPLoYMENT coMPENsA- TON USES. oIso will take your application for new job.
 The next immediate step to take is 10 notify your union that you have been laid off, being to give the union YOUR LATEST ADDRESS. Keep in touch with your uion at least every 30 days while your unempoy the e"' vnon % office monthly. RESPOND TO EVERY CALL MADE BY YOUR UNION FOR SPECIAL ACTION AND ATTEND ALL MEETINGS. For All CIO Members Whether
 Working or Idle
 Write to your Congressman and U. s. senotors. Tell them you wont NOW the legislation CIO-PAC has been urging for months This legislation is:
 l. The Federal Unemployment Insurance Low
 providing compensation of $z5 week for
 26 weeks.
 z The Full Employment Bill of lo45 mokins
 industry and government jointly respon-
 sibIe for furnishing jobs.
 B. The Wosner-M Murray -DinseI Social Security
 Bill
 A. The 65c-onhour Minimum Wage Bill. Also, members of Congress should be asked to- Q Moke drive for elimination of inc Little Steel
 Formula SO unions can borgon for toke-homs
 poy of 48 hours for 40-hour week.
 . Insist on continuance of Price Control until
 essentioI goods which are now seoree become
 adequate in supply. The CIO Is Working For You You Must Work With the CIO Connecticut State Industrial Union Council International Union of Mne Mill Shelter Worker Distict
 e5 North Main St.. Waterbury Don't Sell War Bonds Unless Absolutely NecessaEy
 You Have a Right e Job for Incomel
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06

Senator Barley Ueft) greets Admiral
Richardson at Pearl Harbor probe.
large ships: surface and air space
was congested and restricted, and
full rehabilitation could only be &C.
complished on the west coast.
Relating a. conversation with Mr..
Roosevelt, Richardson said that the
President told him that though he
doubted that the U. S. would enter
the war If the Japanese attacked
Thailand, the Dutch East Indies,
Malaga or even the Philippines, he
expected that sooner or later they
would make a fatal mistake open
ing hostilities.
In October, 1941, Richardson said,
Secretary of the Navy Knox sum-
moned him to an important confer
ence at which he outlined President
Roosevelt's plan for a shipping
blockade of the Japanese in case
they reacted to the reopening of the
Burma road supply line to China.
According to Richardson, the opera
ton called for posting a Gordon Of
u. S. warships from Hawaii to the
Philippines and thence from Samoa
to the Dutch East Indies. Since the
Japs took no belligerent action,
however, the plan was dropped.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
AIR ACCIDENTS:
Dangerous Trend

In Offering civilian aviation inter-
ests the full cooperation of the
army air forces for promoting safer
operations, Col. George c. Price,
chief of the Office Of flying safety for
the AAF, predicted heavy future
accident toll unless current trends
were reversed.
Declaring that civil air accidents
since VI Day to October 81 were 10
per cent greater than in the same
period last year, Price said that
with 300, 600 planes in the air in the
next five years there might be 48, 900
serious crashes and 5000 fatalities
annually in the early 1950s.
Though flying mishaps in the
army took $4,000 lives and destroyed
$4,000 planes during the war, the ac-
cident rate was lower than it had
been during peacetime, Price
averred. Army safety experience
would be gladly offered to civilian
agencies to minimize flying hazards,
he said.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
Warn Against Postwar Credit Boom

in the fall of 194l. of which approx
imately billions was installment
credit.
Wartime credit regulations and
the practical disappearance of new
automobiles, refrigerators and other
goods largely purchased on install
ments, reduced total consumer cred
it by nearly one-half and installment
debt by over two-thirds by the end
of l943. Both totals have since
shown some increase, although war;
time credit regulations are still IN
force. Should such restrictions be
removed, business itself should VOL
unfairly enforce equal or more Sc
we're restrictions. the report coun-
sells; otherwise tho stage will DO got
ses q peak inaas!ea,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
MASS TRANSFER:
Move Germans

Because Of agitation within the
countries governing their areas Of
residence, millions of Germans will
be shifted to the amputated reich
this winter despite a lack of fuel
and rolling stock needed to trans
port them.
In all. some 6,0OO.OOO Germans are
to be moved from Poland, Czecho-
slovakia, Austria and Hungary by
next summer, with the U. S. occu-
patton zone receiving 100000; the
Russian, 2,750,0O0; the British.
100000, and the French. 10000.
Allied determination to resettle
millions of Germans in nidwinter
followed previous denunciations Of
forced mass migration from many
quarters, Winston Churchill, for one,
rising in commons to protest against
such action because of the tremsn-
dous dispossession Of property. pri.
walton and suffering !uva!vsd.
Nsiesssa bv Western NsWsbsgsF Uaiss.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06

Dangers of postwar ''boom and
bust" will be much increased if in
stallnent credit is opened up to ex-
cessive expansion, warns a report
from the family economics bureau
Of Northwestern National Life In
surance company.
With an enormous backed-up de-
mand for goods and services, and
over 100 billion dollars in consumer
cash savings overhanging the mar
ket, the additional stimulus of over
liberal installment credits can be.
very dangerous, the report says,
adding that excuses of consumer
credit have pulled up previous
booyas.
Total consumer credit reached
record height Of on billion dollars
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
Increase Production

Agriculture, manufacturing and
public utilities reduced manpow-
er by so per cent per unit Of
product during the 40-year period
ending in 1899, the National Blu
reau of Economic Research re-
veaIed after a comprehensive
study. During the same time,
total output of all industry was
increased by 200 per cent, with
only rs per cent more workers
employed. In declaring that the
figures did not indicate the real
decline, the bureau said that they
failed to reflect the improvement
in the quality of the product.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
STRIKE:
Showdown

The CLOS demands for a 80 per
cent postwar wage increase to
maintain high wartime take-home"
pay came to a showdown when
175,C00 members of the United Auto
mobile Workers struck against Cen
eral Motors corporation, No. pro-
Queer in the industry.
With labor's biggest union locked
against the nations greatest operat-
ing company, observers looked for
a long-drawn battle between the two
participants, with federal concilia-
tor John W. Gibson expecting a set
tlement by January Is or probably
before. Against GINS huge re-
sources. the UAW reported possess
sion of $4,000 600 strike fund, with
runors that the union was prepar-
ing for a winter-long siege.
Though original UAW plans called
for walkout only at GIN. plants
under a new strategy which would
hit at one company at time and
permit free operation of their COM
petitors, the reliance of all other
manufacturers except Ford upon
GIN. for parts threatened to cripple
the whole industry when supplies
ran out or new sources could not
be found. Meantime, JAW held ne
gotiations with Chrysler and Ford
over the pay issue.
JAWS decision to strike at GIN.
followed the collapse of bargaining
between the two parties, during
which the union turned down the
company's offer for 10 per cent
raise predicated upon the POSSIBLE
,ity Of price increases for new cars.
Under new OPA regulations, costs
of new G. M. vehicles will be about
2 per cent below prewar figures.
Countering the JAWS demand for
30 per cent wage increase, GIN.
declared that production workers
are earning from SIP to $1.15 per
hour, with the overall plant average
at $1.18 per hour. If JAW demands
were met, the union asserts, the pro-.
duction wage would be boosted to
ST. 6 per hour, with an overall aver
age of S1.53 per hour.
AS the strike began, GIN. con-.
tinued to pay it's 1880 office and
administrative personnel.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
PEARL HARBOR:
Star Witness

One Of the star witnesses at the
early congressional hearings in the
Pearl Harbor catastrophe, big,
bluff Adm. James o. Richardson,
who commanded the u. S. navy up
to February, 1941, revealed that the
late President Roosevelt favored the
anchorage of the Pacific fleet at Ha-
wall over his objections in the hope
of restraining further Jap agrees
sion.
II stated that in my opinion the
presence of the fleet in Hawaii
might influence a civilian political
government" Richardson said, ''but
that Japan had military govern
ment which knew that the fleet was
undermined, unprepared for war,
and had no i. supply force S.
without which it could not under
take active operations. -"
Listing his objections to stationing
the fleet at Pearl Harbor, Richard
son said there would be difficulty
Transporting supplies to the base:
the site lacked security: operations
were handicapped by problems of
entry, berthing and departure Of
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
PEACE PATTERN:
Bishops Report

Following closely upon their quail
fled endorsation of compulsory
peacetime training, the Catholic
hierarchy of the u. S. called for the
realistic adjustment of fundamental
differences between the democ-
racies and Russia through recogni-
ton of fair play so that an atomic
World War III might be avoided.
Demanding a realization of the
ideals for which Americans fought in
World War II, the bishops deplored
the trend of European affairs fol-
lowing the Moscow conference of
1943, claiming Russia since had
adopted an independent course on
many matters and sought to impose
its domination over helpless neigh
boring states.
Besides calling upon the u S. to
provide full support for overseas re-
lief, the bishops also assaulted mass
vengeance upon the defeated ma
tons, large-scale transfer of popu-
lations, systematized use of slave
labor and cruel treatment of pris-
oners of war. Instead, we should join
with the Allies in every effort to re-
store the vanquished to a rightful
place in the family of nations, they
declared,
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
WAR CRIMES:
Trace Maxi Rise

Declaring that high Nazis' own
written records would furnish suf-
f1cient evidence to condemn them,
U. S. Prosecutor Robert H. jackson
developed the first count in the AL
lied case against the 20 surviving
members Of Hitler's hierarchy,
charging that the party's seizure Of
control in Germany constituted the
first step in its plan Of world con-
quest.
Addressing the four-power U. S.,
British, Russian and French court,
Jackson declared: 1--WE will not ask
you to convict these men on the tes-
tinony of their foes. There is no
count in the indictment that cannot
be proved by books and records.
These defendants had their
share of the Teutonic passion for
thoroughness in putting things on
paper"
In tracing the evolution of the
Nazi rise in Germany, the U. S.
prosecution recounted the notorious
blood purge of 1884 repeatedly insti-
gated by Reich Marshal Goering to
crush opposition within the party;
the elimination Of all political groups
and confinement of opponents in
concentration camps; the gradual
suppression of labor unions with
the industrialists' connivance, and
finally the control of business itself.
The trial got underway as the AL
lied court turned down the defense
attorneys protest against the valid.
lily OF tAs proceedings, ASKING that
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06

an impartial opinion concerning the
legality Of the court be solicited
from authorities on international
law, the Nazi counsel asserted that
the U. S. had always insisted that
in cases of international arbitration
Or jurisdiction, the bench be filed
by neutra1s or representatives of the
interested countries.
Most aggressive of the defend
ants, Goering was gavelled down as
the trial opened and he attempted to
deny the authority of the court, as
sorting that he was responsible only
to the German people.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
AMERICAN LEGION:
Take Stand

Ending it's 9th annual convention
ir Chicago, Ill, with all of the char
acteristic hi-jinks, the American
Legion took it's stand on the leading
controversial national questions of
the day, demanding:
One year of compulsory military
training for all youths, with ade-
quate basic training and either adj
vanced technical or scientific in
struction, when qualified, or further
schooling in ROTC units.
o Retention of the secret of the
atom bomb and the establishment
of civilian board for scientific re-
search in military material.
. Financial assistance to friendly
foreign countries not imposing trade
restrictions and then for construc-
tive purposes only.
Unification of the army, navy
and air forces into a single COM
mand.
Following election Of former Gov.
John STEELE of Illinois as national
commander, the Legion honored two
World War II vets as vice-command-
ers, Fred LaBoon Of Chickasha,
Okla, and Dudley Swim of Twin
Falls, Idaho. Other vice-commanders
named included jeremiah Twoomey
of Lawrence, Mass; R. Graham
E,Yp+;p o+ov, ~ MopJouyooJ nj r opd
Sam Latimer of Columbia, S. C.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
Science .7oda4

New fabrics from chemistry, even
to a cloth from grass and possibly
a rayon from seaweed, strongly sug-
gest that we are witnessing large
scale revolution in textiles, the
American Chemical society journal
declared.
The host of new synthetic materi-
ais includes new satins and silk-like
fabrics for evening gowns and lin
gerie, soft nylon threads for wool
like socks and sweaters, Vinyon
with 100 per cent recovery after
stretching, and finer, softer stain-re-
sistant materials for automobile up
holstery.
New exploratory work has been
resumed in textile materials. with
some significant results. the Journal
said. British research conducted in
rayon from alginic acid, a product
of dry seaweed, may provide us
with another fiber of long-chain
molecules. Three mills in China are
manufacturing a cloth from grass
with greater tensile strength and
resiliency than cotton.
But what may prove the greatest
textile development since the power
loom is taking place in plant IN
Midtown, N. j., the journal report
ed. There, textile technicians have
succeeded in turning raw cotton into
fabric cotton without spinning or
weaving. 1t is not done with mir
rors, but with resin binder. The
resin holds the fbers in place in
stead of friction"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
UNEMPLOYMENT:
Hit Loafers

Indicative Of the quest for high
postwar wages, thousands Of jobs
have gone begging as discharged
war workers continue to draw un-
employment compensation in prefer
ence to accepting other lower paid
positions.
In attempting to fill jobs and at
the same time decrease the expense
Of supporting many remaining idle
and receiving aid, the u. S. en-
ployment service has served notice
that only limited time would be
permitted for postwar readjustment
after which payments might be
stopped if positions are turned down.
Types of workers idle and the
kinds of businesses asking for help
indicate the gradual return of the
u. S. economy to a normal pattern.
While industry generally has re-
duced it's payrolls and put in the few
est calls for help, trade and service
activities, like hotels and stores,
which lost many employees to the
higher paying wartime factories,
have requested the largest number
of workers.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
Income Remains High

For the year 1915, national in
come should remain at high War.
time, levels. During the first nine
months it to,aled $ll2.O58. 900, 900 this
year as against sll8.655, 900. 900 last
year. reduction of only SIS per
cer. This years annual income
should come close to equalling that
of l043 wlsen it amounted to $l48..
000. 100000 and s0as the largest on
record, with the exception of the I044
Iueorss of nearly sl1l.00o.o00.000.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-12-06
Auto Industry Faces Tep in CLIO Demand for Pay Increase

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those OF Western Newspaper Union
news analysts. and not necessarily of
this newspaper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-23
Our New Judges

We congratulate Judges John L. Calf ney CD and Charles Summa (R) on their recent appointment to the city court bench by Governor Baldwin. Both these men have served other terms and in each instance have proven themselves to be of exemplary judicial calibre.
 There should be no reflection cast upon either man resulting from the regrettable and unsavory conduct of the General As sembly in the matter of failure to agree upon court appointments for Connecti- cuts cities and towns. That there will be a tendency to associate such appoin- tees with the atmosphere surrounding the legislative procedure is expected. For both men, as well as numerous others of the same position throughout the state, it was merely the result of being caught in the middle of wild-swinging gang fight instigated by and participated in, by others.
 Both these men are capable of disprov- ing any such onuS which now might be unfairly attached to them, by continual ton of their previously displayed exem- plary judicial character. We wish them success.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-23
IN TRANSPORTATION
(Hartford Courant)

The Litchfield County Farm Bureau News is justly critical of the Office of Defense Transporta- tion, through whose efforts the an- nual Farm and Home Week at the University of Connecticut has again been cancelled. It and the farmers cannot reconcile this saving in transportation with the use of auto- mobiles and other facilities to pack the horse-racing tracks and parks.
 Along this same line we might mention an article in the last issue of Congregational Connecticut wherein was explained the unsuc- cessful effort to secure approval of ODT for holding the usual young peoples conference. In place of the statewide meeting. small regional groups are to meet. The ODT Is instrumental in compelling this al- teration in planning for religious and instructional gatherings. The same line has been drawn between local or county agricultural fairs and the larger state fairs or re- gional expositions.
 Frankly this policy of circumscrib- ing religious and agricultural gath erings with transportation ban, while the race-track touts may as- senble in throngs limited only by the capacity of the tracks, just does not add up. Such . paradox ical policy defies explanation, un- less it lies in politics. However, tine members of th1se organizations that do comply with the requests of ODT have the satisfaction de- rived from contribution to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-23

took the unusual step of sending MacArthur an official inquiry as to why he barred the Surgeon General of the Army from Luzon. Macarthur sent back the rather lame explanation that he had not understood the nature of General Kirk's mission.
 In view of all this, anyone discouraged from remaining in Manila should not feel too up- set about it-not even a Sem ator.
 THE LIE COURTHOUSE
 However, since Senator Tydings does seem upset over this columns suggestion that perhaps General Macarthur didn't want him to stay more than five days in the Philippines, and since the Sena- tor seems to want circulation, we are happy to tell the world what he thinks of this columnist.
 'They call him Pew Smear son." Tydings shouted to his colleagues, interrupting debate on the Trade Agreements Act. "This scoundrel! In the last war the only powder he ever smelled was in the presence of ladies on the windward side of the parade ground would call him a perpetual, chronic, revolving liar, and 8 few other things that I cannot add in the presence of this distinguished company This man has engaged in the gentle art of blackmail. He has been guilty of attempting to buy public in- fluence. He has been affiliated with one of the great gambling rackets of America. He kept a safe-deposit box containing thousands of dollars until the recent Treasury drive against income tax evaders He is a worm masquerading in the physique and clothing of man. I should describe him as lower than the lowest form of animal life in the world.
 And so on-for nearly two pages in the Congressional Record, all printed at the taxpayers expense. NOTE-Next time Senator Tyd. ings wants to hurl the lie court eous," he can send me copy and, if it's as juicy as the above, I'll give him space without wasting the taxpawers' money.
 Copyright, 1945, by The Bell
 Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-23

Though the Here's Your Infantry" show in this city was more or less at tended by wet blanket accompaniment in the heavy rains, large crowds were out to see the performance. The outfit trav- cling through the streets Thursday ere ated no little interest. There were many shudders as the barrage of fire was let loose. It was brought home to many of unsteady nerves what it must be like, what it has been like all these war years where the noise is thunderous and con- tinuous. As a nation we are accustomed to din and noise of all kinds, but when it comes to war noise we haven't any idea of what noise can really me.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-23

A super-highway between New Britain and Hartford has been proposed by Royal w. Thompson, superintendent of streets, of Hartford. The plan would direct it through Newington and West Hartford following the railroad tracks into the cen ter of the Capitol City. Other super-high- ways have also been proposed by state officials acquainted with the terrain and authorities on highway construction Many such super-highways will be, we ex- pect, postwar projects. Easier ways in and out of our principal cities and highways cutting off cities and towns will predom- mate future road building. No doubt even shorter routes to Hartford from Waterbury will be planned in an effort to cut off the miles and relieve the conges- ton on the present ones which will be considerable once people begin to buy new cars.