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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06
Walter WlneheII On BrO0dSU0y

fers 1t we get the siggles and have to print 1t again. It's about MT. Mefoofsky and his four-year old son, Itxic They were stroll- ing in the park, and the boy kept asking all sorts of questions. It was getting on Mefoof's ''noyfs".
 "Poppa," persisted Itzic, ''wot kind flowers is doze?"
 How should I know?" explod- ed Mefoofsky. Am I.in the mil linery bizniz?"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06
BENEFIT PROGRAM
 FOR RELIEF DRIVE

A performance for the benefit of the Italian food drive will be staged at the Capitol Theatre tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. 1t was an- nounced today. Admission to the special motion picture show will one or more cans of soup.
 Contributions made at the theatre will be tul'aed over to the Waterbury committee of American Relief for Italy, Inc. and the food will later be sent for use of civilians in Italy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06

togy b Q non conlormins facility under the building code and that the evidence failed to shoW that lack of the extra aocommoda. tons would cause unnecessary hardship to the corporation. c ms- jor war material producer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06

Dear Walter" writes M. P. Haas of New York City, You may want to check a report which was pub- lished in the London Daily Mail that the Nazis have established foodless days in Allied prisoner of war camps"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06

A prominent scientist says that trip to the moon would cost only two hundred million dollars.
 It'd be worth 1t if we could get Gerald L. K. Smith to take it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06

We've only used 1t twice before, but every time some contributor of-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06

James Gordon Bennett (Wllo used to own the N. r. Herald) had a list of don't" for reporters that was as long as the memory of a ra- dio comedian Every once in while, though, the boys made him take one back. Don't use patron or guest in referring to paying customer at a hotel" one rule went, because you are using the word in- correctly"
 The rule was changed when thS boys on the rewrite desk (search- ing for other words) started to re. fer to persons who registered at hotels as inmates.
 The English are giggling over the cooks dog at an RAFiying field. The canine dashed down the run- way in pursuit of a plane taking off Does your dog always dc that2' 8 new officer asked The cook said yep Why" tn; officer wanted to know
 T don't know, sir" replied the dogs owner. But what worries me is what he's going to do with it when he catches a plane"
 Ivor Newton, the London pianist heard Cockney give this explana- tion of his own courage regarding the robot bombings: T see 1t like this. It must take the Germans a lot of trouble to make the bloody things, and then they have to get them into those pits and up in the air, and it is quite long way from France to London, and if they 6o get to London, they still have to find LimehouSe, and even then, it isn't everyone who can find 37 Bull strode road where live, and if they do, it's ten to one that I would be down the corner in the Pub" after the funeral of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Winston Churchill who was touched by the prelates passing, said: "Once again, the na tion has lost a great churchman and a great Englishman" Then, in an aside, MT. Churchill, who credits his 70 years to having a drink now and then, added: And once again one of my good friends has met the untimely end of a complete teetotaler!"
 Arthur Godfrey has been doing a wonderful job of blood-getting for the Red Cross Recently he received a nasty letter Apparently from 8 pro-NastD. in which the twerp said: T am anaemic, but even if I had blood to throw away, I wouldn't give 1t to your
 blood bank"
 Godfrey replied: My secretary be- ing a lady-cannot take what I think of you. I, being a gentleman, cannot say it. You, being what you are. will understand what I should like to say"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-06

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The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
N. {. NAVAL HERO
TO SPEAK AT UNC

CHAPEL HILL, Feb. 17,-tR-
Rear Admiral Osborne Bennett
Hardison who command the
carrier USS Enterprise in Pacific
sea battles, will be the principal
speaker at the University OF
North Carolina winter graduation
exercises February "a at 350
O'Clock.
More than 100 seniors will re-
ceive diplomas, to be awarded BY
Gov. R. Gregg Cherry.
Adm. Hardison, native Of WadeS'
boro and a graduate of the Uni
versity of North Carolina in l9ll,
commanded the carrier IN the
battles Of Midway, Gilbert, Mar
shall, Weke, Stewart and Marcus
Islands, at Santa Cruz IN 'As
Solobons and in the Occupation
of Guadalcanal in 1912,
He now is chief of naval ar
primary training command a'
Glenview, III.
The Enterprise, under his com
mand, won Presidential cIia'
ton. and he has won the Navy
Cross and the Victory Medal.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
Message to Remember

Not many weeks ago Americans were pre-
pairing to celebrate the defeat of Germany.
The celebration threatened to become dis
ruptive orgy. Concern over the situation
caused employees of the Boston and Maine Rail-
road to pledge support of the war effort after
V-Day in message that should not be forgot
ten, although at present victory in Europe
seems farther away than it did last summer
The message says:
Eve don't know when V-Day over Germany
will be -. but when it does come, We
know how we're going to celebrate
ION V-Day we'll be working-full time, full
speed There aren't going to be any parties.
Our men aren't going to spike the switches
and get together for any whoopee! There
won't be any empty desks in our office, or
freight trains standing idle in our yards We
ask you not to ride our trains that day to 90
celebrating
''Most of us will 60 to church. We shall
thank God, and pray for speedy victory over
Japan. We urge you to do the same
Probably it isn't any Of our business what
you do on V-Day. But complete victory is
everybody's business The time YOU might be
tempted to take off from your JOB puts every
one of us that many hours farther away from
the victorious end. The uproarious spirits
you might bring to partying would fall pretty
flat when you bumped into Bob Jones, or
Mrs. Smith, or any one of million other
Americans with boys in the Pacific
1--WE .. make this plea now. so you'll have
plenty of time to think it over. And we make
it in the sober conviction that only on the day
Of total victory, and not before can any of us
afford to let down.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
Splintered 'Yardstick'

The Tennessee Valley Authority recently
issued a press release, according to which
IVA paid six states and 1928 counties Sin lieu
of taxes total of $780, 1924 for 1914 the
fiscal year ending in 1914
The statement indicated that this amount
agreatly exceeded former taxes paid by prl-
yately.owned utilities. The report did not say
it was comparing TWAS last years payment
SIN lieu of taxes with the taxes paid by
private ownership nine years ago. Nor did it
mention the fact that if IVA had not mono
polized electric power development in its terri
tory, the private companies would have con-
tinued to expand and pay increasing taxes.
But the principal fact which it failed to men
ton was that, compared with some per cent
of its gross income which IVA pays in taxes,
privately-owned power utilities in l943 paid
approximately 245 per cent OF thefr gross reve-
nue. in fall forms of taxes, according to the
Federal Power Commission So figure Tor
yourself how many millions in taxes IVA fails
to pay which private companies are forced to
pay. In other words, IVA and all similar
aforementioned power plants, are not bound
by the tax laws which apply to every private
industry and private citizen in the land.
No matter how they try to dress the picture,
as government acquires more ana more prop
erty and eliminates private business, with tax
exempt government competition, the tax drain
on the private citizen will get heavier, until the
laws are changed so that government business
ventures are taxed the same as private bust
ness with which thew conpete
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consumer. It shows the oil being pumped 10
the surface of the earth. 1t follows it through
scores of machines and chemical processes
that break crude petroleum into countless
derivatives forming bases for everything from
cosmetics to asphalt. In its simplest form the
process of petroleum refining consists OF neat
ing the crude oil in still to its boiling point,
passing the vapors from the boiling oil through
condensing pipes, and condensing the vapors
into liquids. Every 100 gallons Of crude Oil
yields approximately A gallons Of gasoline, 81
gallons of fuel oils, gallons OF miscellaneous
products, gallons of kerosene, and gallons
OF lubricants. The remaining gallons is loss
One of the most dramatic tales of this tragic
era OF war will be the story of the production
ana transportation of oil to our fighting forces,
to say nothing of the home front. 1t will be
story OF hundreds of ships, endless miles OF
pipeline, thousands of railroad tank cars rum
nlng night and day. 1t will be story OF
sweating, worried men laboring in desert sands
and teeming Offices It will be story in
which the word defeat is unknown. It will be
a story toward which this country will always
be able to point with pride. 1t win be the story
OF American enterprise.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
Craving Security

Polish leaders keep harping on the idea
of security. They want it They can hardly be
blamed; they have rarely had it. Living be-
tween two big, tough neighbors is no fun
and security comes in very small doses.
Poland as nation had long ceased to exist
until Woodrow Wilson recreated it after the
First World war Its people kept dreaming
year after year of becoming a national entity.
Droves of them emigrated The steel and coal
regions of Pennsylvania and Ohio drew them
by the thousands. Remaining were the decay
ing aristocracy, peasants and the miserable
inhabitants of crowded cities
Even if a free Poland, another nation, is
created after this war it will have to be sup
ported by the Big Fellows. Poland's geogra-
phical position will remain as it is. An I'M
fettered Germany would control it in few
years. The Poles know that; hence the cry
for security, which simply means protection
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
Remarkable Progress

In the confusion of political proposals to
bring medical and hospital service to all the
people, progress that has been made along
those lines is. apt to be overlooked. At the
present time, one out of every eight Ameri-
cans pays his hospital bill in advance through
non-profit plans serving the populations OF AZ
states, Canadian provinces, and Puerto Rico
This number is increasing rapidly, as the
public becomes aware of the faculties that are
available
The hospital bill which one person out OF
every ten in America has each year, averages
SIS. And another SIS is the usual cost OF
physician, surgeon, and special nurse. Many
OF the plans which provide for prepayment OF
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
People Of Yugoslauia Held Closing
Ranks To Rally Benin d New Regime

government of surrender which
signed the Tri-Partite Pact.
The cce pt tan C e of Simovic
speaks volumes for the strength
of the new regime. For Simovic
not only is. an extremely promi-
nent Serb. He also is something
of a national hero, in view of his
part in the coup d'etat of March,
1941, which was in effect an open
challenge to the Axis, and which
certainly precipitated the treach-
erous German attack. The fact
that Simovic is acceptable to both
Tito and the Serbian public is the
best possible answer to allegations
abroad. In any case, it is hoped
in Belgrade that an early settle
ment of the regency problem will
hasten the formation of a single
government in the Yugoslav capt.
tai. AS minister remarked, lit
would be ludicrous if one man
could disrupt the business OF an
entire nation
It is difficult to assess the feel
ing towards King Peter, whose in
transigeance has so often threat
ened the prospects of settlement.
An old propaganda poser is still
in evidence-it shows the Fuehrer
bestowing his blessing on the
young King.
Also going the rounds is the
story OF Alexander and the Parlia-
ment house. 1t is said that for
years the superstitious King re-
fused to courtenance work on the
building. The legend runs that
Gypsy woman once warned the
monarch that when Skupshtina
should come to completion, the
house of Karageorgevich would
reach its appointed end.
Today the Parliament house is
finished. So, perhaps, is Peter, but
on that question Parliament will
decide.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
WCTU Chapters To Probe
Juveniles In Local Jalls

EVANSTON, H., Feb II. -,P.
Local chapters of the Woin0"
Christian Temperance Union !"
10000 communities will inYeSusdN
treatment in local jails OF 'e'D
age juvenile delinquents, MIS' a
Leigh Colvin, WCTU preSlaen'' saw
today. lin,
we are facing conditions when
unless checked soon will cause @H
appalling increase in emu ~
minality growing out Of war [g+
ditions," she said in q Sta'e"'o'.,
land the committing Of tnouSa''4 =.
of boys and girls Of teen az ,..,, 70
local jails for more or less Se.- ,,It
nfractions Of the law, as leo tas
of which these under-age Ey'. .|
are being thrown into harn'luI1 ' s,,d
corrupting proximity to haro7'''
adult criminals.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
CAA WILL SERVE
JAPS WITH BOMBS

WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.-RE
Japan soon will get regular air
ways service from the Civil Ae-
ronautics Administration.
Tokyo won't like it, despite that
it is the best in the world and
free of charge. 1t will furnish
B-29 Superfortresses, and any
other bombers which may haul ex-
plosives and incendiaries to Japan,
with the same air traffic control
service used on airways in the
United States.
The CAA disclosed this today
in an announcement that control
centers are being set UP on four
island in the Western Pacific
Guam, Kwajalein, Johnston and
another point to be selected. The
centers will be manned by CAA
employees under Army direction.
The agency already operates
such services over much of the
world for the military services
Extension of the plan to the
Western Pacific would indicate
operations.
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interpreting
The War
BY KIRKE L, sJNpSo,,
Associated Press Va s s

The war in Europe saar
set for climactic hs3penin fti'S all
Massive Russian armis,
striking distance of the are ,Ie, N
reaches of the Elbe river in upper a.a,
central Germany as well az AZ. cas- east
lin, and expanding Allied te ~ Der
are fastened securely on a % n,Ss
span OF the lower Rhine in '' NE
west. III me
Less than six weeks awsv y.
seasonal thaws on wbir, Ne y me
hopes of warding off jmmad NsA
complete military disaster i hs..s
been based ever since the ian. lave
the RussianAllied winter N ofs, VI
slve began to clamp down. Had ~
Red Army Juggernaut bo nis
brought to stand in POLAND se o
Eastern silesia until the sn M VI
floods broke loose and the s pIs
taneous Allied advance 70 '' MI
leil1i1e oeen baked behind the Roer
and the Mas, a brief breatbinr
space might have been won hv rs
Germans. Almost certainly W. e
9anlzed resistance could have hosn
prolonged for months. perbans
until another winter set in
That time pattern definitely rn
derscored the desperate and futiIo
Nazi gamble that carved the now
vanished Belgian bulge into Amer.
lean lines in December at terri.
BILE cost to the Nazi attackers 4
was evident, too, in the equally
futile Nazi effort to relieve Bu5a.
pest that only further weakened
German defense lines in Poland at
the very moment Moscow was
waiting to launch its major opera.
ton of the war from the Vistula
AS the war map stands this week
end in the East, however, spring
thaWs should have little effect on
Russian campaigning. Huge Red
armies are deployed within Ger.
many itself along or beyond the
Oder all the way from the Sudeten
mountains to Baltic estuaries. They
have gained access to the vast, in.
terlocking network of German
highways and railroads which
make communications Wheel-hub
of every city and town of con.
sequence. They are using effec-
lively the system of Nazi military
super roads intended TO make the
Reich invulnerable in defense and
invincible on the offense.
The problem of maintaining sup.
ply lines across the Polish plans
when they become water-logged in
early spring still confronts the
Russians; but they will have to
deal only with nature. Their rear
communications are beyond Nazi
reach and the Nazi air force has
been reduced to virtual impotency
inadequate even for effective OBJ
servation of enemy movements.
Once the Western Allies reach and
cross the Rhine, much the same
situation would present itself.
Whether in the Ruhr area or be-
yond the Rhine east of the Saar
Basin, EisenhoWer's troops will
find hard surfaced roads available
to move in any direction. That is
the irony of the situation for the
foe. A road plan geared strictly
to military considerations, as is
the Nazi network, can be just as
useful in reverse to an invading
foe.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
From the Earth to You

How gasoline and lubricating oil come from
the product petroleum, has never ceased
to be cause of wonderment to the motorist.
Since the war. discussion of oil has increased
and the curiosity of most of us is even greater.
In response to this rising interest, the Petro-
1eum Industry War Council has published what
1t calls FLOW chart which traces oil from
the time it leaves the well until it reaches the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18

hospital bills are coordinated with medically
sponsored plans which pay doctor bills Tor
hospital cases.
American initiative is meeting the health
problems of the nation on practical, mex
pensive, and voluntary basis. That is the
American way and is preferable to the idea Of
compulsion under socialized medical plans
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
By MAURICE WESTERN
Sifton Newspapers War
CORRESPONDENT

BELGRADE, Feb. 17.-(P)-The
peoples of Yugoslavia are closing
their ranks, rallying behind the
national government and tackline
the problems of war and recon
struction with spirit, energy, and
faith. AS result of the Big Three
conference, an early solution Of
the regency question is jubilantly
anticipated, paving the way for the
return of Subasic and the London
ministers.
1t is nearly three months since
I first flew by night into this
gaunt, grey, shell-torn capital be.
hind the ancient Turkish fortress
of Kalemag dan. On the second Wis.
it we flew by daylight over a re-
gion now cleared of the enemy
a tortuous tangle of snowswept
Montenegran hills and gorges,
wild unconquerable country which
seems to have left an indelible
imprint On the minds and char
acter of the Serbs.
The capital of Yugoslavia still
is gaunt and grey and lined by
tragedy, but the atmosphere has
changed beyond belief. You sense
it in the faces of the people, in
the brighter streets, and above all
in the relations of men with their
neighbors. n the past few days
in, al or,G
heard much which modifies my
earlier impression of the Balkan
things to come.
AS minor punishment for the
German people after this war, l
suggest an early curfew in every
city, enforced by street patrols.
Much of the forlorn atmosphere
of Belgrade last November was,
I think, directly attributable to the
fact that life was hushed at eight
o'clock. For this the Germans
were d i r e c y responsible, for
many stragglers, some armed
with machine guns, were at large
in the capital. The result was that
by night the city seemed black,
empty, and threatening. By seven
most of the people were scurry-
ing to get home before curfew,
and many dared not risk attend
ing the few places of amusement
whose doors had opened.
Today all this is changed. The
curfew hour has been set back to
10, leaving a good margin for cine
ma-seeking crowds. On the Serbi-
an New Years eve, the curfew
was lifted altogether. Judging
from street talk in Belgrade, it
may soon be thing of the past.
Moreover some of the better
theatres are open. Noel Coward's
'In Which We Serve'' drew ap-
preciative audiences, and yester-
day Marshall Tito attended a first
night presentation of semi-classi-
cal music and ballet by COM
pany of Russian players from
Moscow's famous Bolshoi theater.
For anyone interested in a bit
of shooting by night, Rome. with
it's gangster problem, is far bet
ter bet than this once turbulent
but now quiet capital of Yugo-
slavia.
The problem of reckless driving
never arises in Belgrade owing to
the serious shortage of petrol and
transport. But Serbs living in the
shattered Danubian city point with
pride to their tramway system,
"n 3,s trolleys are rafting again.
.Mhe~e for, nrI-. e.i.. =.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-18
VISITORS

CHERRY POINT, Feb. l r.
Mai. Gen. James T. Moore O2 80
was recently the guest OF D a,os
Gen. L. G. Merritt, conllnal'0li;7
general of the Marine Corps a.
bases. He was formerly e ,5n
manding general of the First c Ma
rine Aircraft Wing in the 49, r.
Pacific, and is one of the 2ioNs'
in Nh,ri,oo ov,i ~4i~.-
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Editors note: The follow
ing story is by Maurice West
ern, war correspondent FOR the
Sifton newspapers of Canada,
of which the Winnipeg Free
Press if the largest. Western
is one of a small group OF
Allied war correspondents re-
Gently admitted into Yugoslav-
la by Marshal Tito)
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ENVOY TRANSFERRED

WASHINGTON, Feb. II. -P)-
The State Department announced
today that Benjamin H. Hulley Of
Deland, Fla, American consul at
Reykjavik, Iceland, will be secre-
tary of the American political mis-
sion at Helsinki, Finland.
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CHIEF OF STAFF

CHERRY POINT, Feb. 17.Co1.
Marion L. Dawson, USING, has
been named as chief of staff to
Brig. Gen. L. G. Merritt, COM
mander Of air bases, succeeding
Col. D. F. O'Neill, who mas been
orr1aroS ove~eeas
Kodiak mirror., 1945-06-16
Military Asks City Aid0n Prostitution

1 A discussion of prostitution was held at the city council meeting Monday evening and four representatives, of the Mill tary, including Comdr. Lowry and Dr. H. D. Patterson of the Navy and Capt. Carey, provost marshal and bis assistant, It.. Seminlck, of the Army, met with the council to ask for coopera- tion in suppression of prostitu- tion in Kodiak.
 Pointing out that controlled prostitution increased venereal disease rate the military repre- sentatives said they were going to continue to post of limits" signs on all houses which they had reason to believe were such health hazard, until the occu- pants would be forced to leave town.
 The measure has already caus- ed 2 of 20 of the known prosti- tutes to leave, one of the mlli- tary spokesmen said.
 The off limits signs are posted in certain areas of Mission road and Shelikof highway and a number have been torn down and had to be replaced, the off cials explained. They also warL- ed that destruction of the signs is federal offense as the signs are government property, and anyone caught removing them will be prosecuted, they said.
 The council promised full CO., operation in any steps the mill tary officials took toward solving the prostitution problem.