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Evening star., 1945-09-30

100 for colored as well as la dormitory
units already have been built outside
the base and are now occupied.
A Complete City
1t is contemplated to build TOO more
homes Immediately in the proposed
Lexington Park community. with an
additional 1000 to be erected within q
year and half. "Our ultimate plans
are for community of 25,00o," the
housing of1icer at the base said. I'VE
hope that many of those coming here
will build their own homes"
The development also will have a
complete and up to date shopping CEN
ter with theater, bowling alleys and
hotel, as we'll as sites for schools and
for two or three churches.
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a soil conservation unit busily at work
leveling slight hillock.
Six Test Divisions
I did learn, however, that there are
six test divisions at the center They
are divided into flight, electronics, arm
ament, service and tactical tests and
test facilities.
Together, these divisions form a
rugged obstacle course designed to ferret
out the bugs" in every Navy airplane
and piece of aviation equipment before
1t is certified for feet use.
Pilots and engineering specialists
work together as team on every testing
project. More than half million pho
tographs a year, according to center
officials. go into reports to provide a
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thing that talked the loudest was the
number of accidents" said Col. w. l..
Tubbs, AAF ground safety boss.
The logic Of safety education was un-
beatable: Japs and Nazis could strike
only in combat areas; accidents struck
everywhere. When accident rates fell
as the safety program marched ahead,
even the most skeptical commanding
officer became enthusiastic. I'm war or
peace, the man who does the best job
Is the one who does it safest" said Capt.
SINNERS, Navy safety chief.
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It. Comdr NJ F. Hummer, U. s. N. r.
Despite my inability to get into the
hangers and buildings in which the
various test divisions carry on their
work, was able to get a rough idea of
what each does through talks with
center officials and workers.
Flight Tests
Flight Test, for example, is to expert
mental and service type aircraft what
the check pilot is to an aviation cadet.
A down from flight test has saved the
Navy from buying more than one air
plane that looked pretty but would not
have delivered the goods in combat.
Aircraft in the flight test hangers
range from propellerless jet models to
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Aboue-Plans are underway
to erect a model community
just outside the gates of the
ndDal airbase, to be kno1on
as Lexington Park. The archi-
tect's drawing of the proposed
municipal center 1Dhich in
cludes shopping facilities and
a hotel, is Sh0Un here.
At right-Rockets attached
to the Wing Of q Many plane
ready for rocket-fring tests in
the armament test diUiSiOn.
At 1ett-A Curtiss Scout
plane about to be launched
from q catapult in the test
facilities diuision.
-Ofncial U. S. Navy Photographs.
graphic record of all tests performed.
The test center is under the command
of Capt. James D. Barner, U. S. N,
whose quarters are in Colonial house
in which Lord Baltimore lived 300 years
ago. Capt. E. A. Hannegan, U. S. NJ,
native Washingtonian, is skipper OF
the Naval Air Station, which maintains
the base facilities in support OF the
center.
The six test divisions are headed by
the following officers Flight Test, Capt.
C. E. Giese, U. S. N; Electronics Test.
Capt. D. E. Wait, U. S. N; Armament
Test, Comdr A. r. Matter, U. s. NJ;
Service Test, Comdr. M. w. White,
U. S. N; Tactical Test Comdr. M.
Tuttle, U. S. N, and Test Facilities,
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ton guns and cannon are mounted
at the end OF 10-foot rotating arm
that turns at speeds sufficient to pro-
vide forces Of acceleration up to a Ger
tain figure while guns fire. The exact
figure could not be disclosed.
A ground firing range adjacent to
the test hangar covers portion of the
bay with water targets at 500, 1000 and
$500 yards, as we'll as concrete butt
land targets set at 250-yard intervals
Rocket-firing tests form an integral
part of Armament Test and have aided
in developing the Nays fighter-borne
rocket techniques in use during the
war;
Most pilots at Armament Test are
veterans qualified to measure good and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17

Nova Scotia recently, to tell her for the first time where he had been posted.
 She is proud of the early help she has been to her husband. "He became an MP in the first year of our marriage, g years ago." she told me. But nursing has always been her main interest outside her home, husband and politics.
 She doesn't know when she will move into 10 Downing Street, where she'll have retinue of servants in- cluding buffers, footmen, and at least one secretary. She will also have a country mansion at Chequ- CTS, Buckinghamshire. She is a simple woman accustomed to simple life. It is more important for her at the moment to add up the shillings and pence the village people have saved for the national savings cam paign.
 Recently she acted . as chauf- feur to her husband. driving him to Buckingham Palace to see the King. The sentries stood at at- tention when the small car drove through the imposing entrance She accompanies her husband tc many meetings. Now that the chil- dren are growing up. she is freer tc move.
 Nevertheless, she has little time f or relaxation. H husband rarely leaves the office before 10:45 o'clock at night. Only on weekends
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
.Othman Plans Unrdti0ned I IUnhanapered Vacation

(we haven't quite decided which way to head) I will expect to have had snappy service in 50 filling stations. Understand, fellows? Free air, free water, an oil check, windshield wipe, the lenders dusted and my face washed with a germ-free cloth. That comes first. Then you may ask me how many gallons want. Or I'll take my business across the street.
 Nirvana! {!
 Since I'll be gone for 30 days, I'll be sleeping in 30 hotels. Mine hosts, There'd better be a doorman to take my suitcase. don't intend to lug it into your hotels, myself. I'll be coming in at night, dirty, dusty, and baggy- -kneed, but the clerk should greet me like the Duke of Windsor.
 He should avoid asking whether I have a reservation; am through answering that question except with cast iron jack handle, which I shall carry for the purpose. If the lobby needs paint, I'll skip that be- cause the war hasn't been over long enough. I'm reasonable man, but if you gents try to palm off a room in which the bed hasn't yet been made, or a bath where towels still are wet from the last fellow, woe is yours.
 Thirty days means 90 meals, with some midnight snacks in addition. won't go into what will happen to the waitress who forgets my water with ice in it.
 Four Freedoms Plus
 Chester. Bowles still has his OPA and if there's no beefsteak, I'll un- derstand. But restauranteurs, l have eaten my last side dish of cold string beans.
 I do not intend to stand in line not even to pay my bill. The cashier who neglects to thank me when she takes my dough is going to wish more than ever she'd decided to be movie star. Get that, ladies! Thank you, sir" with a big tootny smile.
 My shirts will need washing and any laundry with one-day ser- vice sign should be prepared to de- liver. When I drive I like to gnaw on candy bars; there'd better be candy in candy stores and l don't mean pre-war licorice drops.
 It's going to be wonderful peace time vacation. I'm going to enjoy It. So are you; just contemplate It; Thirty days without one word from Cthman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
BY FREDERICK c. OTHMAN V7.uska1 prarS Staff COrresnOnfient

OMA0G4 kECoo 0tSSAA OOAACokVAAWCA4S
 Washington, Aug. IT. UP) - Friends, you're in luck; you need suffer no more agonies with me. I don't know whether it's the end of the war or the persistence of my bride. but after eight months of sleeping under a Potomac park bench we have found a place to live.
 It is marble palace on 40-acre lawn tor so it seems to us as 1t con- sists of five rooms, bath, a patch of grass, and a landlady who appreci- ates our trade). Washingtonl never seem the same to me, after I've had so many doors slammed on my nose by so many prospective landladies you'd think I had pet elephant named Josie.
 No More Illustration
 That isn't all, gentle reader. Your auck's still holding; this is the last Othman item you'll be forced to read for a month. My bride and I are starting tomorrow on postwar va cation and anybody who says it's unpatriotic to drive more than 35 miles an hour will be squashed by me in my speeding motor car.
 For the first few days I'm going to run the wheels off it and by the time we get to Maine or New Mexico
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
 No Mystery To Roberts
 LocoI Missionary
 And Higohi-Kuni
 We'll Acquainted

To Rev. Floyd Roberts, former as- sistant pastor of First Congrega- tional church, Waterbury. the new prime minister of Japan is no man of mystery.
 Newspaperman James R. Young, guest last night on the Lowell Thomas program, said MT. Roberts knew prime minister General Prince Naruhiko Higashi-Kuni, when the church man was doing missionary work in Japan.
 His mission work was conducted near the Imperial Palace at Ma goya.
 MT. Roberts remained in Japan until just before the sneak attack at Pearl Harbor. He said the mili- tary party which was in power then in Japan, committed suicide rather than Hose face" He believed the action of the military party was due to orders from Berlin as many Ger man agents were entering Japan during those months just prior to Pearl Harbor.
 Rev. Roberts is now pastor of South Church, Pittsfield, Mass.
 He has lectured throughout the United States, appearing at the Will by High school auditorium in 1941 and is author of many books deal ing with Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
Torrington Poir |Nobbed in Lowell

Joseph J. Daganais, 33. and Juli-
 cite Fortin Adam, 29, both of Tor- rington, were bound over to the Su'
 perior Court in Litchfield, when ar-
 raigned before Torrington City Court Judge John J. Casale yester-
 day. Daganais is charged with breaking and entering, theft. and a statutory count, while Mrs. Adam faces a statutory count and a charge of receiving stolen goods.
 The two accused were apprehend- ed by police in Lowell. Mass, Tues
 day night. Daganais is charged with breaking into AIS restaurant In Tor. rington Aug. and taking about sl 900 In cash.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
Introducing Dick Turner Who Draws Corniv0I, Democrat s New Laugh Comic

During the frs: World war, when he was lliilS years old George Richard Turner (known to his friends as Dick, pas making his fellow grade-schc- pupils (and even his teacher) laugh at the funny drawings he made i n his school books and on his writ- ten lessons. Today he still is nlak- ing. people laugh, and still doing E f. with funny sketches-those .n CARNIVAL. the new daily comic feature which appears every day on the editorial page of The Waterbury Democrat.
 Lived in Hartford
 To meet Dick Turner, a quiet, genial, unassuning fellow, you'd guess that his thoughts were all on the serious side. Born in In- cianapolis, he attended grade school there and then high school in Chicago. Next the family moved to Hartford, Conn, and at the same time Dick hieds to Green castle, Pa, to enter De Pauw Uni- versity. He took with him a col- lection of comic sketches and they landed him on the art staff of the schools humorous magazine.
 Upon graduation in 1882, Dick tried to follow in his fathers foot steps in the insurance business. At the end of two years he was making $17.50 g. week which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17

full summer spent all his spare time making comic sketches. Some of these were sold to yvarious ad- vertising agencies.
 Next came an offer of an ar, job that looked mighty good but Dick felt he wasn't quite ready to handle it = needed more experi- ence.. While his wife waited at her parents homer in Newcastle, Ind, Dick attended the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts to get that experience.
 NEA Contributor
 On numerous occasions he had submitted comic sketches to NEA, worlds greatest newspaper fea- tllre service, of which The Democrat is client. In his fourth month st the academy, NESA offered him q position in the comic. art depart Inent. Dick grabbed it and a short time later was drawing a parade of squips and gags and laughs in a Sunday comic called CARNIVAL. The popularity of this feature led to the current daily version.
 The Turner's now live, iri Cleye- land and have 8 three-year old daughter. Dicks hobbies, besides drawing, are model ship building, golf and bowling - but he finds little time for them, His comic and his young daughter keep him plenty busy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
Auto Overturns, Fronce Injured

Luther M. France. 46, i033 west Main street, was admitted to Water bury hospital last night when he re- ceived severe lacerations of the face and chest when the car he was driv- ing on Charcoal road. near Sandy Beach in Mlddlebury, struck the shoulder of the road and turned over on It's side.
 Mlddlebury police reported that France was returning to Waterbury after yislting his nephew, Luther France on the Watertown road when the accident, which threw the driver clear of the vehicle. occurred.
 The car was damaged consider. ably. the roof being crushed, and traiIic was detoured until the mas chine could De tcwed away.
 France was reported to be in good condition last night by hospital au- thorisles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17

has 1t been possible occasionally to relax. Then MT. Attlee, "Clem" to his friends and colleagues, might potter about the garden in a peaked farmers cap and plus fours, puffing his pipe as he bends to pull weeds.
 Since the war, there have been fewer flowerbeds and more vege- tables in the garden. In the early part of the war Clem was presi- dent of the local Allotment Asso- citation, though he never rated high ly his abilities as gardener in the Dig for Victory campaign. He soon turned over part of his garden to the association. It is an attractive garden, with fruit and vegetables and 8 small lawn surrounded by lavender bushes and flower beds.
 Clement R. Attlee is 8 man of modest tastes. He enjoys an oc- casional glass of sherry or claret. He reads voraciously-his favor ties being Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice" and Pepy's Diary. Occa- sionally he helps in household du- ties, such as feeding the chickens He is slight in build, has a soft voice, and smokes 8 long straight pipe which he continually lights with matches. He is shy man, re- tiring, efficient, businesslike, and thoughtful. What he says will bear the keenest logical analysis.
 COZY HOME
 He is one of four sons and not "of the people" He was born in Putney, London, 62 years ago, son of solicitor who was president of the Law Society. He was educated in Haileybury, one of England's best known public schools, and the Uni versity College at Oxford, where he took honors degree in history. Later he became lawyer, but he took lit- tie interest in law. preferring to work in the east end of London where his sympathies with the la bor movement developed and grew.
 Inside their home are cozy, un- pretentious furnishings, with many books and bookcases Tn the drawing room a signed photograph of the present king has the place of honor. An airdale dog, an old friend of the family, blind in one eye. sleeps in a basket in the front hall. He usually accompanies Mrs. Attlec or a mem- Der of the family on shopping ex- petitions in the village.
 From this warm, modest. homely house, MT. and Mrs. Clement Attlee will move into 10 Downing Street to entertain cabinet ministers and their wives, ambassadors and state men of other countries. Mrs. Attlee will have to be friendlier to them than she was to me and other news- paper folk. Her parting words to me spoken without a smile, were, T hope you won't bother me any more"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
Wild Animals Perform Here
 Church Circus
 Storfs Monday

Performing trained wild animals are always outstanding circus favor ties with young and old circus fans. The big 1945 Circus Revue and i Country Fair being presented by the church of St. John of the Cross Middlebury, at Municipal Stadium &H next week starting Monday has two such acts and they are both outstanding.
 Number l is "Sharkey", the seal who performs on a huge stage and ln a giant all glass tank. "Sharkey' is as small as seals go but he makes ID in humor what he lacks in weight. After two years of train- ing by his mentor, Mark Huling and exhibitions on the smaller circuits eSharkey" wsa ready for the big tIlne. At the ge of four he rolled audiences in the aisles of the Shu. bert theater in New York city by chasing Jack Haley around the stage zn Higher and Higher" Only 6 year later "Sharkey" was appear Ing in e glass tank at Atlantic City when Abbott and Costello saw Him and signed him up for part in their picture Pardon My Sa. x1ng." He has whole bag of new z1ufines and tricks including ar >,aItation of Hitler making ra. 1|o speech. -"Sharkey" Is wholt &noW in himself.
 The ether animal act is Fallen. &Gr1's performing Russian bearl Hho perform on roller skates ant 1o other clever routines ciimaxed Hv riding real motorcycles around <I>n stage. A full compliment oi 6nmndv is also associated with tht I3fforInanco Of these huge heari |N1 they always provide . treat foI &|F1IIs fans of ail ages.
 fhe show also includes aerlalista 4|s8NirFs balanceTs and . congrehi *f h|iafielis clowns.
 There viii be three performances .I||V e 2i3o. . and p;ib Monda,
 IfI'leh Saturday. The big CountI, #3'f mldWay VIII be open and Co ||I|| 5HIn4 from tho time the bth' ||'||H lfIfI co swung open % seer |'|0l|. f411 entertained before e.ll -|||| fzzX circus neEl0IM1N11. In' z'NM E rfGf&NIga lll |A4 4EeH snf
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
Police, Fire Boards Meet

The police board will meet this afternoon at 4 o'clock and the fire board will hold a session at 4:45 at the City Hall. The meetings were originally scheduled for Wednes- day afternoon, but were postponed because of the Victory celebration.
 A meeting of the board of works will take place Tuesday night. Bids for construction of fire escape at Brookside Home will be opened at that time. At a brief meeting last Tuesday night the board voted to request the board of aldermen for authorization to lay sewers on Madi- son street. and also approved plans for erecting building to store tools and machinery at the city yards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
 Finest Kid BoII Prosron In Country 5SS Youngsters To Toke Port in Wisconsin Annual Affoir

Madison, Wis, Aug. 17.-(UP)- One of the finest kid baseball plans in the natoin is claimed for Madi- sons junior baseball leagues, now in their fifth-and most successful year.
 Three leagues, comprising 588 players and ,49 teams, form the Madison setup. The kids range in age from 13 to IT years.
 The boys under 13 play in the Midget" league, those under IS in the Junior" and the big kids under 17-in the Senior league.
 The diamond is scaled down for the, little fellows. The "Midgets" use diamonds with 60-foot bases; the Juniors" 82-foot bases, and the Seniors" use the regulation 90- foot bases.
 Headed by Coach
 Midget" and Junior" pitchers hurl the ball 50 feet, while the Seniors" stick to the regular SO feet, 6 inches.
 Tn charge of the program this year is Arthur Dynamite) Mans field, University of Wisconsin baseball coach and former profes- sional player.
 An innovation this season are the jerseys and caps with which the kids have been outfitted. In almost any part of the city on any day you can see a youngsteI proudly wearing the colored jersey and cap of his team, with its name emblazoned across the front.
 ''It's rumored that some of the boys wear their jerseys to bed, Mansfield says.
 Started in 1941
 The Madison Junior baseball setup originated in 1941, when Howard G. Danford, director o1 recreation for Madison, recom- mended plan worked out by the division of recreation and the Madison Blues baseball club to en- courage junior players.
 In that first year 54 teams start ed and 32 finished the season During the next two years the ex. perience gained in 1941 was put into good practice and junior base Dall III Mdu1SOu Wao oAA (" ooAAN basis. Last year 28 teams started ant 28 teams finished. This years group is the strongest yet and st far there have been no casualties
 Mansfield emphasized that thls is no "sandlot" baseball. A series of clinics teach fundamentals o. batting, bunting, fielding, throw ing, catching, pitching, running and other phases of the game.
 The boys also have been SnowI a movie of the 1944 world serles and sound film on the funda' mentals of baseball. Each boy has been given rule book.
 Better Citizens
 .sBut our chief concern is moi the building of outstanding bal players" Mansfield said.
 we want to give all boys g chance to participate in the great American game" he said, where thev can develop sound health some skill and agility, and some o' the qualities of the good citizen 1T a democracy, such as cooperation | fair play, and obedience to rules. He summed it up succinctly: l believe these boys are in better company on the baseball diamonc than on a street corner"
 'Theres feature of the program that mothers like, too.
 Mansfield tolerates no profane languager fom his nearly 600 play CTS.
 q won't stand for that from my varsity players" he said, "and you can be sure I won't allow these kids to do it. After all, we owe something to the parents who al. low their youngsters to take par, in this program"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-17
lkrs. Attlee Has Some MisgiDings About Life At 10 DoUning Street
First Lady Faces Major Chonge from Plain Country Life
BY ELLESIvA SAVERS NEA Staff Correspondent

London, Aug. 17-Britain's First Mady,'' Violet Helen Attlee, is a small town mother and housewife, Mrs. Attlee, her husband and four children, have lived in an old-fash- aoned redbrick villa at Stanmore, for the past 13 yeasr. Stanmore is a quiet Middlesex village not far from London.
 Shopping list in hand, she waits Hn queues at the stores, chatting with other women of the commun- aty about the everyday problems Of raising a family. She carries her groceries home in a little wheeled basket, or sometimes she rides to the stores on her bicycle. She has only recently started to use the small Hillman Mink automobile, which had been laid up in the fam lily garage since the beginning Of the war.
 When I visited her, daughter Felicity, who is 20 and studying nursing, answered the door. There is no maid, only a housekeeper. Mrs. Attlee came down from the upstairs drawing room, where she had been working on the figures of her local savings committee, of which she is the organizer. She has collected about $20.0O0 since the beginning of the war.
 Shes a slim, gray-haired young looking woman in the middle fortieS. She has a pretty smile, but neither a colorful nor a warm personality, dutiful, and can be quiet brusque in manner.
 FEW INITIATES
 Although she has worked con- eistently in the village, few people know her intimately. Mrs. Attlee is Commandant of the Red Cross. Once week she drives YMCA re- freshment van from which she serves tea to hundreds. mostly air. men. During the blitzeS she took charge of billeting arrangements for evacuees and worked in a rest cen- ter. But all her outside interests are executed in purely formal, almost tIncommunicative, aloff manner
 In addition to her many war related duties, she has run her H. room home single-handed. She &C., uuired the services of house-keep- CT only recently. An odd job man also comes once weekly for garden ing.
 Mrs. Attlee is wrapped up in her home and husband. Her face lit up when she spoke to me of her family. The eldest daughter, Janet, p, is a section officer in the WAAF. Felici- ty, 20, helps her busy mother in many ways. Martin, IS, recently quit school to join the merchant navy, where he's midshipman. Alison, IS, is at school. Martin cabled from