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GASOLINE, SWEET
GASOLINE!

With Washington deciding to- let
autoists have more gasoline,, mil
lions Of Americans are beginning to
dream of the day when the country
can return to its peacetime slogan
"Fil1 'er up!"
This may be long distance away,
but 1t no longer seems something
for the next generation to- worry
about.
Hope springs eternal In the hui
man breast and in the tourists 81
heart. As goes the garage so gpes
the nation.
Secretary Ickes will raise the gas
ante from four gallons per A coupon
to six. That won't bring back the
weekend traffic tie-ups but'it will re.
vive those pleasant memories of the
days when the gas station attendants
rushed out, wiped your windshield,
gave you a road map and asked.
'How many can you take?"
And when he frequently let quart
overflow from the tank to the ground
with Damp, amt it?"
-
Oh, for those hot dog-eating, way
side-lunch storming, detour crashing
beach blitzing, dhst-swallowing era
when the answer to- "Shall we motor
over to Aunt Minnie's?" was never
How" and always "When?"
-
Oh, for the days when you didn't
have to hammer on the windows to
find out if the gas station was openl
-
All, the good old times when there
was two-pump gas station in every
block and nozzle in every tank!
-
It Is just as well that the return
to full tanks Is going to be gradual.
A sudden restoration of open gas sta
tions openly arrived at would be too
much for normal emotions to en-
dure.
Four years of regarding the pump
Ing station as an arid retreat for
the over-optimistic have done things
TO the American character.
=
If fellow got over four gallons
at crack he thought he had struck
oil.
And II the gas station proprietor
threw in a smile and five drops ex-
ira he knew he had hit gusher terri
tory.
No wonder Ickes survived that re-
cent cabinet shake-up. He announced
the new gas ration at the hour the
President was making the changes.
And Harry Truman Is n0b0dy's fool.
He knew the public would never
stand for changing fuel administra-
tors In mid-stream.
ALL DONE BY MIRRORS
WQuisling Trial Postponed Until
august. -f1edQ1ne.I
Oh, don't be hasty with this man
This kind and gentle soul!
There Is such heavy doubt that
he
Essayed the traitors role.
Oh, do not rush proceedings
when
II comes his time to 60:
Delay them until autumn for
He loves the summer so!
Oh, let his trial be deferred
Go slowly, II you please,
For Vidkum wants to play q
while
Among the birds and bees.
Love Is Like That
(From q Canadian Newspaper)
NOTICE Whereas my wife,
Ponana Gertie Grouse, has left my
bed and board, I give notice that !
viii not be responsible for any debts
she may contract in my name. VIM.
AoEPAA (ACdoGg GoSS OAAAOA0-NAdy -
2ic.
NOTICE!-TO all Persons Whom
Il May Concern: I wish to say that
I did not leave my husbands bed
and board as he did not own the bed
I slept In. I bought Il and when
left VIM. A. Grouse Of East Clifford,
Lunen Co., N. s., I took my bed with
me. (SgdJ Ponana Gertie Grouse.
HOPE
We ended some Of our trouble,
And burst the loony German
bubble.
Now may ask of our noble ma
ton:
Take white pennies out Of circu-
lation.
H. N. MORSE
The midland journal., 1945-07-06
Condition Critical

Myron Visiting friend in hospitaD
Say. that's swell-looking nurse
you've got.
Byron-I haven't even noticed her.
Myron-Heavens, man, ] had no
idea you were that sickl
The midland journal., 1945-07-06

The sale Of sulfa drugs has been
stopped except By prescription. Il
having been found that people were
rushing into drugstores 10 get sulfa
for everything from dandruf and
Germs 10 q broken rib and gas pains.
A druggist tells us that q customer
asked for sulfa drugs the other day
10 get rid Of pains caused By taking
sulfa drugs.
Add SMILES: As confused by the
laws Of the country as . member
Of the Supreme court
The midland journal., 1945-07-06

NOTICE!-T0 all Persons Whom
II May Concern: I wish to say that
I did not leave my husbands bed
and board as he did not own the bed
I slept In. I bought Il and when
left VIM. A. Grouse Of East Clifford,
Lunen Co., N. s., I took my bed with
me. (Sgd.) Ponana Gertie Grouse.
The midland journal., 1945-07-06
How 1t Works

Customer = How much is that
beef?
Butcher-That's our best 65-cent
cut.
Customer-Did you raise it your
self?
Butcher-Yes, it was 55 cents
yesterday.
The midland journal., 1945-07-06
Love Is Like That
(From a Canadian Newspaper

FrOm Cana0ian newspaper
NOTICE - Whereas my wife,
Ponana Gertie Grouse, has left my
bed and board, I give notice that ]
viii not be responsible for any debts
she may contract in my name. VIM.
Aseph Grouse, East Clifford-May s.
2ic.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11
A Commission To Study
Whites Needed Say Writer

Wilberforce, Ohio Giving u word
pictufes Or the normal growth Of a
white child in Georgia and how seq
regation hurts not only the Negro
but also the white, Miss Lillian
Smith, author of Strange Fruit"
and progressive editor Of the dy-
manic quarterly called the South
Today; addressed a fully-packed
audience of 1000 at recent chapel
exercise here.
Unwilling to abandon either
Christianity or slavery, the white
man everywhere has chosen segre-
,ation as way Of life for over 800
Gears. As a result, I'VE breed. right
IN our midst. little nazis who are
aught to feel superior and to look
lown upon Negroes, The labor or
sanizations are gradually. though
lowly, succeeding in breaking down
his vicious comylex, but we still
ave long way to CO."
Commissions after commissions
re appointed and huge studies
made about the Negro and yet we
0 not seem to go anywhere with the
o-called Negro problem. Can it be,
Miss Lillian Smith naivaly asked
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11

III her pleasant and sweet voice and
wTfffsa chsarful ssn1ilc, that the sii4
rection Of our studies Is wrong ard
that we need to study the whites
rather. than the Negroes ?" 1T will
be the happiest day in my life, when
some city manager. governor, or
the President appoints commis-
sion for the purpose of studying the
whites and their need to feel super
ior.n
Admitting that commissions on
race relations. laws against discrim-
ination, and other similar attempts
form good yet temporary bridges
to cross the chasm which exists be-
tween the whites and Negroesin this
country The lecturer felt that there
was only one easy. yet hard way to
solve our social problem and that
was to fill In the chasm In which
the whites will dump their conccp-
tion of white supremacy and their
need to hate and the colored their
need to feel prosecuted and also
their need to hate. This Is an easy
way because 1t lies within us and
yet 1t is hard way because we
seem to be unwilling to destroy the
prejudices which satisfy our ego
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11
" ears Good
Conduct
Medal


Headquarters. 18th AAF. Philip
pines. Corporal Charles ID Hem
derson, son or Mr.. and Mrs. Hug
Henderson, 402 Fisher Madium
Avenue, has been on foreign service
IL months as electrician with an
Aviation Chemical Depot Company
Of the 18th AAF Service Command
in the Dutch East Indies.
Corporal Henderson attended the
high school at Springfield, O. lie
formerly was employed by the Law
renee Electric Company. GAINESVILLE,
O., before his induction In the army
In November, 1912
He served at Fort Thomas, Ky,
Camp Rucker, Ala, selfridge Field,
Mich, Camp Sibert, Ala, and Her.
bert Smart Airport, Macon, Ca,
wears a Good Conduct Medal and a
Battle Star for participation in the
New Guinea Campaign with the
veteran jungle air force.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11
Birth Control Would
Mean Race Suicide
For Negroes

Chicago Negroes cannot aiIota
10 practice birth control, lest they
commit racial suicide, z declares DR.
Julian II. Lewis, noted University
Of Chicago Pathologist and author
of THE Biology OF the Negro" writ
ing In d controversial article Ii the
May Issue Of Negro Digest. pr.
Lewis maintains
Until the present high Negro
death rate Is lowered to Ill least
that Of the general population Me-
groes cannot afford birth control. 1t
would be race suicide for Negroes
TO adopt It's extensive practice,
Dr. Lewis points out census fig-
ure9 TO show that 139 Negroes out
of every 10000 die annually COM
pared to lo4 out OF every 10000
whites. Despite the high death rate,
the Negro population has tripled
since emancipation due to the high
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11
Negro Press Man Entertains
CTS In Burma Jungle

Myitlsylna, Burma. April 10 De-
tor Brooks Of the Chicago Defender
and the Negro Press Of America
WIS one Of four american waf cor-
respondents participating III a Be
hind the News program recently
in tho American Fed Cross club
house, Ace of clubs" hidden deep
IN the Btuma Jungle
Soldiers packed The hasha build
ing, filled the crude jungle lumber
| benches, and literally clung to the
roof when they climbed to the cross,
beams supporting the club 70 heal
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11

birth rate. The noted pathologist
further points out that there were
III. births for every 10000 Negroes
compared To only It's for every To-
100 whites. The high birth rate Is
explained by the fact that there are
more Negro women than Negro
pen. that the women give birth Ut
earlier ages than whites and that
the 1anlber Of Negro twins and trip
iats Is higher than whites.
Or. Lewis concludes stating that
tho Integrity Of the present pro-
portion Of Negroes in the general
population depends on the mainte-
nance Of their high birth rate. While
there II room for Improvement In
the quality of the Negro race, which
is also true Of every other race,
methods must be sought To accomp-
lish this without involving the risk
Of its greatest factor OF safety It's
high birth rate. ].
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11

Tuskegee Institute, Ala. The
Tuskcgee Institute Choir, William
i. Dawson conducting will give a
series Of four broadeasts over the
Columbia Rroadoasting system dur
ing the month of May, Dr Is p. Pat
terson, President. announced today.
The Choir viii sing on The Wings
over Jordan" program and VIII be
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11
Tuskegee Institute Choir
Singing On wings Over
Jordan Program
During Month Of May

heard each Sunday during May at
9..3o o'clock tCWTl. These broad
casts will originate in The beauti-
fully built Chapel on the campus of
Tuskegee Institute and will have as
Il listening audience. students, fac
ulty md toWnspeopie In addition to
the constantly increasing number
who listen regularly to the Wings
over Jordan program The Chapel
seats 1000 people.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11

the rotlnd-tnble discussion of tho
waf M the China and Burma the
nters.
Brooks was invited to take part
al the request OF Janet Schwertman.
of Newton Highlands, Mass, Red
Cross program director Of the jun-
SIC clubhouse. who heard that the
correspondents were in the vicinity.
| Others Who participated were
/ Frank Martin Of the Associated
Press, Hugh crumpler of the United
/ Press. and Graham Peck Of the q. s,
OfIlce Of War Information.
The Dayton forum. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1913-1949, 1945-05-11

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21
Y MORE YOUTHS
 ENROLL IN NAVY
Local Recruiting Officer Announces Latest List
 of Volunteers

Seventeen youths enlisted in the Navy during the past week at the Navy recruiting station at the post office, it was announced yesterday by Charles Brougham, esp, re- cruiter.
 The recruits are: Roger Rousseau, 645 Meriden Road. Norman Hamm, l6 North Riverside
 street. James White, "A Frost Road. John Watterwo worth, 28 LeMay street. Joseph Vitone, 2 Huntingdon Place. Mario Cardillo, 872 North Main
 street. Stephen Ferrucci, 188 Macauley
 avenue. Frederick Duphiney, 637 Watertown
 avenue. Andrew Hamel, AT East Main street. Emilio Spatafore, 72 Oak street. Reed Smith, 138 FairlaWn avenue, Charles Smith, TIP East Main street. Frederick Radcliffe, 20 Hotchklss
 street, Naugatuck. Horace Baker, Platts Mills, Nauga-
 tuck. Joseph Feduzi, 82 Coen street. Nau-
 gatuck. Leo Charbonneau, Franklin avenue
 Oakville. John Gage, Washington Depot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21
By Robert Duncan
Booth Tarkington Creates An Unlovable Lady THE SALINAS ADDED TO RIVERS OF AMERICA SERIES

for its achievement. Among the subjects that will be treated are the cost of unemployment; sixty million customers for the business man, farmer, and the worker; the veterans interest in sixty million jobs; health, homes, education and social security for the common man, and the means of achieving full employment.
 Contracts for the translation of Lion Feuchtwanger's "Simone" (pub- lished by Viking into more than a dozen languages have been signed: one of them for Icelandic. There will be a separate English Language edition for India.
 NEW RIVER BOOK
 A New and fascinating addition to the Rivers of America series is Anne B. Fishers "The Salinas (Farrar & Rinehart: $2.5O). The 150-mile river flows through a val ley between the Calihan and Santa Lucia ranges in California and was first settled by the Spaniards, who held sway and made history for half century. Then came Fremont, 1846, and year following California be- came part of the United States.
 The author gives glowing pie ture of the Spanish padres, nu- merous characters such as the In- dian, Old Gabriel, who buried seven wives and lives to ze 7$7, and the story of the Salinas and its people is continued up though the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Lovers of history will not want to miss it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21

Oaklin also leaves his grand daughter an inheritance of mtel, lectual snobbery. When the glri is rebuffed by her playmates, he oe- livers himself of this poisonous seed: You'll have to learn that people, especially our contemporaries, are Mldom generous enough to warm up 10 us when we're shown to be thelr- well, let's frankly say their superiors. If they suspect anyone of be- ing intellectually, artistically, or even morally, of higher type than they are they turn churl :, such people as you and I have to learn to seal our hearts so that they cant injure us.'
 KNOWS, ART, BUT =.
 The little girl, who at IA knows almost as much about are as does her grandfather, an df1nds her friends intellectually just the mere young of the animal kingdom" is receptive ground for the seed. The plant hourishes, she becomes ruthless dictator, meddling in the affairs of the orchestra as well as the museum, and 1t is not until the arrival of her second cousin, Bailey Fount, that she is taken down few pegs.
 A lieutenant back from the Pacific, with wounded leg and shattered nerves, he goes to work at the museum His reaction to her psoiled, vicious temperament proves to be the tonic neded for self-restoration. He changes Josephine, too, in an almost unbelievable way The transi- tion isn't easy to accept, and the reader will find it harder to love her than Bailey Fount does, but it's a good story, and better still are MT. Tarkington's stormy discussions of art.
 BOOK NEWS
 A new book by Henry A. Wallace, SO timely and so important that two publishers have joined forces to issue 1t, is announced jointly by Reynal & Hitchcock and Simon and Schuster. It will be called Sixty Million Jobs." Following intensive research. MT. Wallace expects to finish the manuscript before the end of March. Reynal & Hitchcock and Simon and SchuSter will jointly publish the cloth-bound $2.00 edt- tion. and Simon and Schuster will publish the paper-bound $1.00 edi- tion simultaneously, following the publishing plan used on "One world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21
JURY'S VERDICT
 FOR DEFENDANT
Mrs. Frechette Loses $25,OOO Action Against
 Local Bank

After deliberating for about half hour yesterday afternoon, superior court jury of five women and seven men returned a defendants verdict in the $25,00O civil action brought by Mrs. Marie Ange Frechette of Waterbury against the Citizens & Manufacturers National bank as ex- ecutor under the will of the late Mrs. Anna G. Leahy.
 The litigation was based on in- juries sustained by the plaintiff in fall Jan. 24, 1943 on driveway at 9941a South Main street. The plaintiff claimed she fell when she stepped on a large cinder on the passway, while the defense claimed the accident resulted from the plaintiffs own negligence. In de- fense testimony efforts were made to show the plaintiff had slipped on ice, and that there was no de- fects in the driveway.
 T'Ae plaintiff has 24 hours in which to file a motion asking the court to set aside the verdict.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21
Bristol
Stockholders Elect
 Three New Directors
Lewis A. Dibbe of Naugatuck One of Three Added to
 C.L. P. COmpany's Board at Annual Meeting

Lewis A. Dibble of Naugatuck, was one of the three new mem- bers elected today at the annual meeting of common stockholders to the Board of Directors of the Con- necticut Light & Power company. Peter M. Fraser of Hartford, and Fuller F. Barnes of Bristol, were also elected directors of the power company, bringing the total mem- bership of. the Board to fifteen.
 MT. Dibble is president and di- rector of both the Risdon Manufac- turing company and the Eastern Malleable Iron Co.,, in Naugatuck, and is director of the Naugatuck National bank; the Naugatuck Sav- Chamber of Commerce. He is also a director of the National ASso- ciation of Manufacturers; the Mall leable Founders Society; the Bridgeport Brass company; c Cowles & Co.,, of New Haven; the Torrington company; the Jewel Belt Hook company in Naugatuck; and Frazer and Jones of Syracuse.
 Fuller F. Barnes is president anc a director of the Associated Spring
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21

Corporation in Bristol president, a director and corporator of the Brls- tol hospital; director of the Bris- tol Brass corporation; and di- rector of the Bristol Bank and Trust company. MT. Barnes is vice president and director of btoh the North Side Bank and Trust Co.,, and the Washburn Wire Go. He is also a director of the Connec- ticut Plan for Hospital Care, Inc, the Southern New England Tele- phone Co.,; and of Veeder-Root, Inc.
 MT. Fraser is president and a di- rector of the Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company of Hart ford and is president of the New ington Home for Crippled Children. He is director of: the Connecticut | Fire Insurance Company; the Phoenix Insurance Company; and the Dime Savings Bank of Hartford. MT. Fraser is: member of the United States Board of the Meth erlands Insurance Company; trus- tee of the Hartford Connecticut l 1ruSC company, uu ueCLO1 o1fu member of the executive commit tee of the United Aircraft Corpora tion; member of the Connecticut Public Expenditure Council; a member of the Finance Committee, Staee of Connecticut; and chairman of the Hartford Chapter of the Bri- tiSh Relief Society.
 Other directors of The Connecti- cut Light and Power Company, all relected at today's meeting. are: John B. Byrne, Hartford; c. L. Campbell, Hartford; Irwin w. Day, Waterbury; w. E. s. Griswold, Old Lyme; George T. Kimball, New Bri- tain; R. H. Knowlton, Hartford; Richard E. Pritchard, New Britain; R. H. Knowlton, Hartford; Richard E. Pritchard, New Britain; George L. Shearer, New York; George s Stevenson, New Haven; Laurence G. Tighe, New Haven; Henry A Tirrell, Norwich; John H. Trumbull Plainville.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21
SUPREME COURT
 RULES ON COSTS
Technical Legal Point In- vOIved in Appeal in
 Minor Case

City court costs of $12.50 assessed against Thomas F. Moran, Jr.. In his suit against Frank Lewis were proper, according to unanimous decision handed down today by the State Supreme Court of Errors.
 The city court had returned judgment of $111.75 and costs Tor the plaintiff and judgment or $1050 and costs for the defendant on his counter -claim against the plaintiff. The city court taxed the costs on the defendants Judgment in the amount of $12.50, and the plaintiff then raised the issue Of whether the court had power to levy any costs against him. No question was involved on the amount of the costs.
 The plaintiffs case was based on money loans or account advance ments to the defendant. The de- fendant. was sustained on 8 coun- ter-claim in which he asked for $10.50 for one days labor for the plaintiff.
 According to a statute provisions costs go to the prevailing party. The high court ruled the defend- ants counter claim was in effect an action against the plaintiff and since he pravailed the costs on that phase of the case go to him.
 In the memorandum the Sup reme Court refers to a section in the Practice book which states that when several issues are joined in an action and part of them are found for the defendant and the remain der for the plaintiff then the de- fendant shall recover such costs as were incurred by him upon the 1s- sues in his favor, including fees o1 witnesses and the expense of sum- moning them.
 The plaintiff first appealed from the taxation to the city court anc when the appeal was overruled il brought a writ of error to the higt court. It was on this writ of errol that the Hartford court ruled today
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21
SUN-UPS:

"GENERALS in the White House." by Dorothy B. GOebel and Julius GOebel, Jr. Doubleday DOran: $2.75). Careers of the nine high rank ing military men who became president of a traditionally anti-militaristic America.
 England in the Eighteen Eighties" by Helen Merrell Lynd Oxford: $4.50). Authent- tic sociological history of Eng fish life of 60 years ago, by the co-author of "Middletown."
 
 Blood on the Cat" by Nancy Rutledge (Farrar & Rinehart: $2.0O). When old Bonnet Farr was stabbed to death, there were more suspects than clues, among them Killian Bean, who clears himself and nabs the killer with the help of a cat. Good puzzler.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21
Local Red Cross Aiding
 Servicemen, Ex-Servicemen

To assist the home service branch of the Red Cross with the diSsem- ination of information concerning the status of servicemen or their relatives, the Waterbury Democrat is publishing answers to the most frequent questions received by that branch of the local chapter of The American Red Cross. This is the seventh installment.
 o. have two sons in service. My husband recently had serious op- eration and will be unable to work any longer. May have one of my boys discharged to support me, their father, and a younger brother?
 A. Application for discharge from service must be made by the serv- iceman to his commanding officer The officer will inform him of the procedure and will arrange for the necessary investigation which would determine if the servicemanS pres ence at home is absolutely neces- sary.
 e. My son came home from the South Pacific and was placed in g hospital in the midwest which makes it impossible for us to visit him. How can we arrange to have him transferred to hospital neal home?
 A. Such a transfer is decided by the military medical authorities only. There are certain hospital! throughout the country that Spe. cialize in certain types of treat ment. It is probably to the advan. tage of your son to remain where ht is. If a man can be treated at general hospital the soldier is us ually transferred to the hoSpita nearest his home.
 Q. expect to be confined soor and I have no one to take care o! my four-year old child. Can l ar range to have my husband com' home on an emergency furlougf while I. am in the hospitalp A. Your husband should talk ovel your problem with his commandini
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21

If you have any problems or ques- tions regarding servicemen. contact the Home Service Ofilce, American Red Cross at 35 Field street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-21

by Wendell Willkie. April 30 has been tentatively set as joint pub lication date.
 The book will discuss the need for full employment within the framework of the American way of life and plans and possibilities