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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
By Bill Cunningham

Homburg the fanfare was sounded and the ceremony began, Somebody. however had decided to frame the gentleman from Massachusetts, and all the young ladies were in on the deal.
 When the French pin a medal on somebody, even hero of the battlefield the decorator, of course. concludes the ceremony by gravely kissing the decora tee on each cheek whiskers and sideburns included. These effervescent mamsees, decided that since an American doing the decorating they'd switch 1t around the other way just for fun But no one told the distinguished commissioner. likewise evidently just for fun.
 So with requisite dignity at the proper moment. he stepped forward to the first young lady, giving slight bow and smiling his Sunday smile. and he slic- ceeded in pinning the pretty Red Cross emblem to her blue uniform with efficiency and likewise with eclat He had barely dropped his hands and prepared to step clear however when the young lady upped and bussed him with resounding smack on the left side of his countenance and then on the right. The same thing happened 1900 more times.
 The Red Gross is really a tremendous operation over here. The work with the CTS Is only part of 1t. In western Europe alone, meaning France, Bel relief supplies have been distributed since troopa able to crack the continent of this. more than si05ooOoo has been given to French civilians
 Statistics are dull put these have saved lives The Red Gross has distributed. through the French Red Gross and other agencies, two and half million garments produced by ABC chapters in the United States It's passed out 22 million units of insulin, N tons of badly needed drugs 10000 nipples and sealing caps 2s tons of toilet articles and comforts for the French soldiers, and SO on. The same proportions hold for the smaller nations of Belgium and ths Netheriands
 The other day here the American Red cross turned over 20 fully equipped disaster units mean- ing special trucks like cubmobiles 70 the French Red ofoss. explaining that the French could do whatever they wished with them, taking of the bodies and converting them to trucks to help the transportation problems, sor example.
 tts big Job The handling of t eeQulrss DIG man. He's such quet gentleman [ e come of h!a friends may never have thought nhosli g bat thil Qafreli i9 an executive of stature. uE n'rt De ~ l'fht ior ei h4 stffI seems lo i.ke hln AHa htf hitting powerful H<k GOT NANNni'z'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

to determine the salary and rank of the bureaucrats around them by their office furnishings. Gov- ernment employees don't have uni- forms, with insignia to mark a first assistant from a second as- sistant, so a mans office must be his badge of rank. In the course of years. this means of signifying importance has become as rigid as any set of military regulations governing uniforms.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

Let's have Q quick look at the national political scene as Amer tea goes forward to win the peace; and see why this prediction makes sense.
 Republican governors now di- rect the governments of B states, containing 56 per cent of the total population of the United States. Those same states con- tribute 67 per cent of the internal revenue to support the Federal Government. In other words, those g states. where Republican gov.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
Views Of The Press

day the Japanese suicide plane crashed the deck, bringing fire and
 flame and watery death. Jeannie and her puppies, gallant dogs of war
 that they were, stayed with the sink ing destroyer and her crew until the end.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
lMerry-GO Round

(EDTTOR's NOTE-In Drew Pearsons ab- serce HERBERT CROMWELL. JR- chairman of the Republican National Committee, writes guest column on COP plans for 1946).
 WASHINGTON Aug. 2s-The inside story from Republican leaders is that the Republican Party will one of this columns predictions of things to come
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

before a large and deIlghted throng, and between his bushes and the lipstick, he was finally so red all north of the neck that a jocund CT in back shouted Let him up, folks. he's all covered with blood"
 You see, Your Honor. it hap pened like this. Fred A. Carroll. of Massachusetts in general, is doing a truly magnificent job here as commissioner of the American Red Cross for Great Britain and ~x,a~k.~x. Ts.swr,>a ro kt%ak nax1
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Peter Edson is vacation, during which time, Douglas Larsen, NEA Washington correspondent will write his column
 WASHINGTON, Aug. 23-Many new men are ar irving in town to take jobs of varying importance in the government result of recent cabinet changes
 One of the first things they must learn is how
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
Waterbury Of The Past
25.Years Ago

25.Years Ago
 William Russell was playing In "A Live Wire, Hick" at the Garden. Open trolley cars were advertis- ing excursions to Savin Rock.
 15.Years Ago
 The Foresters of America were planning their annual outing to be held at Dunlavey's farm. Lupe veles was playing in ''rhe storm" at the strand. 5.Years Ago
 Waterbury delegates were attend- ine the Democratic convention in New Haven.
 W. Harry ayfnes was telling the Lions club tilat the city needed more itnnsirirs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
A Thought for Today

Ana when ye spread hands, will hide mine from yCu yea ye will not hears your hands are full of blOOd-Isaah 1:15.
 M To murder thousands takes spacious name,
 glorious art, and gives immortal fame Young
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

A lot of people will be out of work in the immediate future. but Tel them not repine. Whoever heard oi the atom before it was broke?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
The Firing Line
 By D. N. I.

Captain Lidell Hart, British mili- tary critic, says that the postwar style of women's clothes may spell the fate of this and every other civ- ilized nation. ."-News item.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
Kissing In Paris
PARIS, Aug.

PARIS, Aug. 2s-This is largely to inform a vassar freshman named Weezie Carroll that she'd better write rather firmly to her Old Man. saw 20 pretty French girls kiss him in succession here
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

Tn one stroke, the government has wiped out 210 wartime controls Tn order to speed the process Of re- conversion. The man in the street will hail this action as boon to industry, but he won't really throw his hat in the air until they put the collars back on pajamas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

We aren's quite sure about the principle of the atomic bomb, 1T spite of innumerable and intermin- able descriptions we have read. How ever, we have managed to get down to the equation governing its ef' fectiveness: equals Vel.
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SGylG OI WOI1lGl1 ClOI11ES Illdy opCAA the fate of this and every other civ- ilized nation. News item.
 POSTWAR STYLE AND
 DESTINY Whenas in silks my Julia goes. (She's sweet in silks, my baby) { She helps the Japs-I so suppose And buys them sandals, maybe. Whenas that precious whim of hers, Unchartable as Prussians, Induces her to go for furs, She'll subsidize the Russians. And when ersatz is her delight To cling to with defiance, Synthetics make her underwrite The surge of German science. It's lost on Julia, I am sure; She takes her fashions rations Without 8 thought she may secure Or else imperil nations.
 O, Julia, I foresee distress For you I'm wont to coddle, For peace. at last. may bid you dress With Mother Eve the model. Unoficially London proposes to scale British debts to the United States by half, pay fifty cents on the re- maining dollar, and give us I.O.U.s for the rest. Is sounds as though Elliott Roosevelt had got himself a new job in England.
 Keep Eyes on Diplomacy of Chi nese Communists" ts"-headline. We get 1t: Lamps for the oil of China.
 Western Union says that the sing ing telegram will not be re-estab- lished now. in spite of the fact that it is legal again. because of the shortage of messengers who can sing. That never stopped Western Union before.
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It's-an-i -ill-wind- -etc. Note: It took a war to make both ends of the pig meat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

The WIPE sounds the gloomy note that the short shirt tail will still be with us for while. Or almost with us, that is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23
PosT-RATIONING NOTE

I, too. would sing Of the open road. If my left front
 Would not explode.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

William Russell was playing in "A Live Wire, lick" at the Garden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-23

Keep Eyes on Diplomacy of Chi nese Communist" We get it: Lamps for the oil of China.
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Open trolley cars were advertis- ing excursions to Savin Rock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-19
Big-Three To Decide Jap Fate
BY RALPH HEINZEN United Press War Analyst

Problem No. 1 of American di- plomacy: What to do with Japan after our inevitable victory, is no longer a problem which we Amer jeans, alone, can solve.
 In today's conversations at Pots dam, Generalissimo Stalin is pre- pared to make it clear that Russia is just as directly concerned in the peace we make with Japan as If Russia too were engaged in the fight. The participation by the Brit ish fleet under Vice-Admr. Sir Ber- nard Rawlings in the naval smelling of the Tokyo area proves that Brit ain, too, will have a word to say about peace with Japan. And who could deny China's right? And France and Holland, as eastern CO., lonial powers, are directly concerned.
 The defeat Of Japan will be more than 90 per cent our doing and yet four or six powers must share in the peace we impose.
 Yet neither Chungking nor Mos COW, no more than Washington or London, or Paris or the Hague has gone beyond the peace demand we have voiced of unconditional sur render" to give the world hint of what is in store for the Japanese.
 Total Victory
 Of two things we are certain: Inevitable victory for our arms and that the Japanese war of aggres- sion has been supported by the whole Japanese nation-the Jap anese man in the street, as well as his emperor and the imperial court the Gumbatsu or military clique, all Nippon's industry, its bureaucracy its political fraternities pledged tc world domination. Nothing would be more difficult than to try to make a distinction between the emperor and the Gum batsu, or between the military clique and the industrialists, or be- tween the industrialists and the workers and common people. There is not 8 single group or strata in- side Japan today which has dared raise it's voice against the war of aggression or against the penalty we are exacting today from the Japanese homeland.
 For the time being there seems absolutely no doubt that an inva- sion of Japan is coming, and htat the operation will be virtually all- American.
 There have been many, in this country, in politics and editorially who have argued that by refusing to define unconditional surrender , (Continued on Page Al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-19
Coroner koy
 Disappointed For Interim
BY ANNE ZEMAITTS

A deputy coroner, who k ex- pected to be named within a few days to succeed Carmine Cipriano, will step into the post of coroner in an acting capacity upon the resignation of Coroner Stephen A. Homick, it was indicated today.
 The jump of the new appointee from deputy coroner to acting cor oner is expected to result from the unusual situation created by ap- pointment of the two coroners to other city posts. Cipriano, who was named city court clerk, has already resigned as deputy coroner, while Honnick, now city court pros ecutor, must continue with his old post until someone is named to take over the duties.
 Named By Judges
 Under state statute provisions, the coroner is named by the state superior court judges on a recom- mendation from the states attor- ney. The coroner then names his deputy. In the event the coroner resigns, the deputy then steps into the post in an acting capacity until the state judges can make a regular appointment.
 Since the superior court judges, who held meeting last week, will not meet again until September, the alternative procedure on the appointment will be for Homick to name deputy, then to resign im- mediately and be succeeded by the deputy in an acting capacity.
 Homick New Prosecutor
 Homick, who must resign from the coroner's post because of his new appointment, will continue his investigation of the recent stabbing death. In the event any other homicide results before deputy is named, Homick also will have to step in to make an inquest and issue a finding. His service, however, is now of temporary nature.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-19
Preparations
 By Defense On Murder

Preparations for defense against a possible first degree murder in- dictment charge against Nicholas Lucarelli, 38, of 48 Central avenue, were underway today as plans were completed for the committal serv- ices for the victim of a stabbing affray, Mrs. Mary Hatch, 37, of 257 North Main street.
 The funeral will be held tomor- row morning at Il o'clock from the Mulville Funeral Home, 270 West Main street. Burial will be in old St. Joseph's cemetery.
 Stab Wounds
 Mrs. Hatch died in St. Mary's hos pital Tuesday evening as a result of being stabbed in the chest Saturday night while a patron in Bruno's restaurant on Savings street. A pocket-knife, which inflicted the fa- tai wound is being held as evidence by the police. Shortly after the at tack Lucarelli surrendered himself to the police with the statement that he had stabbed a woman friend. Lucarelli was taken to police headquarters and held for Coroner Stephen Homick, while Mrs. Hatch was rushed to the hospital for treat ment.
 In city court Tuesday morning, Lucarelli was charged with assault with intent to commit murder and in default of bonds of $20,000 was removed to the New Haven County jail to await trial. The death of Mrs. Hatch wednesday evening im- mediately effected a change in the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-19
.Whiskey Will
 Be CurtoiIed

Washington, July 19-(UP)-Take it easy on that bourbon, brother. The government says no more can be manufactured after July 31.
 Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson said that all corn the raw material of bourbon-is needed for food and livestock feed. Distillers will not be permitted to use any for either beverage or in- dustrial alcohol after this month.
 And the production of other whis- kies will be cut down to trickle. Anderson allocated only enough wheat, rye and malt for distillers' use in August to maintain bever- age alcohol production for six days.
 The wartime whiskey drouth has bene broken only three times in the last three and a half years by War Production Board-approved holidays-last August, January and this month.
 The distilled spirits institute es- timated that whiskey stocks in stor- age now amount to 235 900, 600 gall Ions. Americans consume spirits at the rate of s5,000,000 gallons a year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-19
Frog Chorus Returns For Ansonio Concert

Ansonia, Conn, July 19- (UP)-The spadefoot chorus has returned to Ansonia.
 For the first time since 1888, the rare frogs, whose com- bined voices resemble . loco- motive going up hill. came back in force Wednesday.
 To naturalists, the spadefoot is a curiosity and 3 matter of scientific interest, but to the neighbors it Is the blues in the night.
 After the 1883 outbursts, city officials were prevailed upon to drain the two ponds the frogs lived in and they dis appeared. But recent heavy rains have brought them out of their underground burrows.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-19
Changes On Ceilings

United Press Staff COrrespondent)
 Washington, July 19 (UP) - The government soon will an- nounce broad change in price con- trol policy which will lift or sus- pend price ceilings on 50 to 100 items, including jewelry and many types of fur coats, authoritative sources revealed today.
 This action Is being taken, it was said, to "streamline the Office of Price Administration so that it can spend more of its budget and man. power on basic reconversion pric- ing"
 Deputy Price Chief James F. Brownlee was scheduled to hold a press conference on reconversion pricing late today. It was doubted, however, that he would announce the new exemption policy since 1t has not yet reached the directive stage"
 The specific purpose of the new policy will be to remove or suspend controls on '1ess important items" to free OPA's energies and man. power for must" programs.
 Broad Effects
 The exemption policy will affect two classes of items. Here is how it will work:
 l. Ceilings will be suspended = rather than removed - in cases where supply meets demand and
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BY GEORGE V. FRASER United Press Staff Correspondent

Halifax. July 19. = (UP) - Fire spreading uncontrolled through the nearby Royal Canadian Naval Arsenal set oil a continuous drum fire of heavy ammunition today, driving thousands from their homes in Halifax and Dartmouth and pin ming them against the sea.
 No trains were leaving or arriv- ing and all boats had fied the har- bor.
 Wild rSlrnorS began sweeping the city at dawn as residents ventllred into the glass-strewn streets after a sleepless night during which six heavy explosions shattered windows throughout the area.
 There were only IA persons ofii- cially reported injured. But there were numerous rumors that at least six persons were killed. Conamuni- cations were damned and there was no way to check the flying r,lznoFs.
 The city was panic stricken. The |WQzst vas waiting for tne uazt ex-
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WLB Policy On Strikes

Chicago, July 19- (UP) - The War Labor Boards newspaper com- mission expects that its pending opinion on the legality of automatic inclusion of International Typo graphical union laws in contracts with four newspaper publishers will form the basis for decisions in similar cases. The union, how ever, maintained that any action taken by the board will be mean ingless.
 Dr. F. s. Deibler, chairman of the commission, said today the de- cision, expected to be reached soon, will decide the issue "once and for all" But I.T.U. Pres. Woodruff Randolph said the VILE has no jurisdiction over newspapers.
 The conflict prevailed at com mission hearings this week on con- tract disputes between the I.T.U. an AFL. union, and The Balti- more Sun papers, The Baltimore News-Post, The San Antonio, Texas, Express Publishing Co.,, and The San Antonio Light Publishing Go. the hearing ended last night.
 Heated Arguments
 It grew out of the unions pres entation of fringe" contract de- mands that the publishers had re- fused to grant. In the course of the hearings, the 1945 general laws of the I.T.U. were brought up for scrutiny and heated arguments enSued.
 The I.T.U. laws, governing union activities and relations with em- ployers, long have been part of contracts with many publishers. In the past they have been considered non-arbitrable. The matter was brought up at the hearings, how ever, because of 8 change in the laws adopted at the unions last annual convention.
 The new law provides that if 6 local union finds arbitration pro- ceedings are holding up settlement
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ryAcquits
 PooEiIIo

Hartford, Conn, July l9-(UP) Anthony Paoillo. former New Haven Draft Board chairman. to- day was freed of government charz- eS that he disclosed "confidentialn information from draft files to . newspaper reporter.
 A federal district court jury de- liberated nearly an hour late yes- terday before returning the unanirn- ous verdict which ended the seven day trial before Judge J. Joseph Smith.
 In asking the jury to return the not guilty verdict, Defense Council Joseph Koletsky charged Paolillo was the victim of a '.scandal-mong- ering'' reporter of the New Haven register who wrote a story quoting State Selective Service Director John F. Robinson as saying PaolilIo exerted "all kinds of influences to keep registrant Genaro D,Amato. i9. from being drafted.
 Sues Newspapers
 Paolillo testified he gave the inc formation on the draft status pf D,Amato to Mrs. Florence Johnson, of the New Haven Journal Courier to counteract the "libelouSs charges in the Register story.
 He claimed he revealed nothing that was confidential" however, and that the information was al- ready a matter of court record since DAmato had described his depen- dency status in city court.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-19
Ticonderogo; Plane Victim 
BY COURTENAY MOORE
Limited Press Staff Correspondent)

tOtAAsOu 1ICso 0Ca6A OOfEcSpOU0cuSD Washington, July 1s.-(UP)- Three hundred and thirty-seven American fighting men were lost or injured when two Japanese sui- eide planes crashed into the air. craft carrier Ticonderoga near For mosa early this year and left the ship in flames, the Navy revealed today.
 Of the casualties, IA are dead or missing, the Navy said in an- rouncing that the 27,000 ton Es- sex class carrier already has been repaired and is back in the Pa- cific.
 The story of the Ticonderoga was a saga of heroic crew and their skipper, Commodore Dixie Kiefer of Kansas City, who kept fighting for 12 hours despite 65 body wounds.
 Seen Much Action
 The Ticonderoga joined the fast carrier task force in November, 1914. Tn that first short tour of duty, her planes sank one heavy cruiser, one light cruiser, two destroyers, four destroyer escorts, and 3 oilers, freighters and miscellaneous craft and destroyed or damaged POT en- enay planes.
 On the morning of January 21, near Formosa the Ticonderoga was launching planes when single en- zine Jap plane came out of the sun through a cloud bank and crashed through the flight deck. The bomb exploded betweent he gallery deck and hangar deck, which was packed with aircraft being refueled and rearmed.
 Cirders in the vicinity of the ex- ploding bomb were twisted and fire, fed by gasoline, spread swiftly to the wardroom passage and the state rooms.
 The executive officer, Cmdr. Will liam O. Burch of Norfolk, Va,
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SENATE SET FOR APPROVAL
 OF POLICY
BY ANN HICKS United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, July 19 - (UP) = Senate Democratic Leader Alben w. Barkley predicted today that the Breton Woods monetary proposals would be ratified by the Senate before it ad- journs for the day. {.
 He was confident of an ad- ministration victory despite promises of a last-ditch fight by Sen. Robert A. Taft, R., O., and other opponents of the global money plan.
 The Breton Woods proposals pro- vide for United States participation in a $9,100,000,O00 world bank which would make and guarantee loans for reconstruction and develop ment, and an 5000, 900, 900 interna- tional monetary fund to stabilize the worlds currencies. U. s. parti- cipation in both would cost $6,000,- O,000.
 Taft told reporters before the senate met that he would seek elim- ination of. the bank. He said 1t won't be necessary" because con- gress is enlarging the export-import bank ito do the same job.''
 Increase Bank Fund
 Legislation increasing the Export Import banks lending power from $700, ,000, 900 to $3y500,000,000 will come before the senate after Bret ton Woods has been dispensed with The Export bank bill was approved yesterday by the Banking Committee.
 Taft lost by 21 votes yesterday his proposal to delay decision on Bret ton Woods until November 15, But he swung with him two of the sen- ate's foremost Republican Inter nationalists Joseph H. Ball, Minn., and Harold Burton, O.
 Both Ball and Burton are "for'' Breton Woods but they believed Taft had won 8 case for delay, and they voted with him.