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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
T/sGT. MICHAEL LoNGo

T/sgt. Michael Longo, son of Mrs Carmeila Longo, 9e6 North Main street, Is now in the Philippines serving with the 42nd Engineers Construction Battalion. He wears Che AsiatIc-Pacific theater ribbon with one campaign star, Philippine Liberation ribbon, and Good Con- duct ribbon,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12

First got of to an early start in thS war at Oran on D.Day in the North African invasion, Nov 6, le42.
 Then came Sicily, and the First was there on D.Day. In 37 days, the division took IS cities, ineh- Ing up cliffs and along tortuouS mountain trails, and distinguish ing itself by smashing the crack Hermann doerIng Division.
 The lighting First spearheaded the D-Day landing at Normandy hitting the French coast at Omaha Beach, strongest German point
 Tn the breakthrough out of Nor- mandy ct St. Lo, the First swung to the west, took Marigny and then trapped 30,000 Germans near CoutanceS. In August 1t overran SoissonS, where in the last war tho First suffered 5000 casualties in four days, and continued to Aachen, fighting through the city street by street. The First fought In the Huertgen Forest; attacked In the Battle Of the Bulge; and swept into Germany across the Remagen Bridge.
 vE.Day found the First dough- boys still ct their faVorite task killing the "SupeTmen."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
NANFFD TO VETERANS' POST

Joseph 0. KoiinSky, Middletown, . former sergeant with Go. c, l02nd Infantry Regiment, National Guards, has been named to the post Of as- siStant director of the Veterans Ad- ylsory Post He will assist Director Edward Kelley. Another new assist ant will be named Monday to act as training ofiicer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
Marriage Intentions

Marriage intentions have been filed by the following persons at the bureau of vital statistics:
 John Royal Holmes, 7l Chestnut avenue, and Hazel Olivette Potter. Denver, Colo.
 Edward Victor Wortel, 4l Sun. crest avenue, and Josephine Joan Wicket, 2l Third street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
WALLACE F. CLAPP

Wallace r. Clapp, std, 20. who has been stationed at his naval post at Corpus Christi, Texas, is Spend- ing Q leave with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Thomas Clapp, 69 Abbott avenue. He Is c former employe of the chase Rolling Mills.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
No Task Too Tough For Fighting First By NEA Service

No mission too difficult; no sacri- flee too great"
 This Is the motto of the Fight ing First, oldest and probably the best known Of all American Tn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
PYT. JOSEPH J. TULACRo

An anniV:rsary memorial Mass was celebrated this morning ct 7:30 Q, m. ct the church of our Lady Of Lourdes. for Pvt. Joseph Tulacro, killed in action in France September l2, lo44. His widow Is Ida Tuiacro, 23 Camp street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
REPORT TO MEMPHIs

Two Waterbury Navy men have reported to the Naval Air Technical Training center, Memphis Tenn They are:
 Louis E. SchIavone, AvRM 3c, who served s;Ven months as crew nienn- Der of g Navy search plane in the Pacific. He will study advance radio instruction at the training center He holds the Distinguished Flying Gross, the Airi Medal and PreSi- dental Unit citation. Ills mother Mrs. Anna Schiavone, resides At 70 Englewood avenue.
 Joseph Franklyn Hackett. i7, who was sworn into the Navy last July following his graduation from Cros' by High School as an honor stu dent. He Is the son of MT. and Mrs. Joseph A. Hackett, 70 Linden street
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
Fighting DiUiSionS '

Today The Democrat begins the story of AmeFica'S fighting di" visions in series of pen sketches that follows their paths through World War IT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
ARRIVED IN BOSTON

Pvt. Joseph 8. Ricciardi, le Win- chester street, Cpl. George n. Nel' son, Terryville, and Martin P. Mil- koYic, IT,, 10 Anderson street, Nau- gatuck, were among the arrivals yes- terday of the USS Charles Ayeoek which docked in Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
CPL. FRED FEOLA

CFB FNEU FEULA
 Cpl. Fred Feola, 24, son of Mir. and Mrs. Daniel Feola, ie2 Atwood avenue, Is spending 10 day fur- tough here with his parents. He has been in service since February, l94l with a National Guard unit and has been overseas 3i months. He Is now stationed at Mason Gen. eral hospital, Brentwood, L. I.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
CPL. ERNEST BERNIER

Cpl. Ernest [. Bern9ler, serving with the l2iSt Field Artillery Bat talon, 32d Infantry Division, has been promoted to the rank of cor poral. His wife, Helen, lives at Sei Congress avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
NEWS OF MEN nv THE SERVICE
DYsCHARGED

UISCHAHUEU
 Two Waterbury soldiers left Vest over Field today for the Fort Dev- ems, Mass, Separation Center to be discharged from tne Army under the age limit system They are:
 Cpl John D. Donahue, i24 Park road and Cpl John w. Woisman. q Prospect street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
ENLIsT IN NAYY

ENLIST IN NAVY
 Enlisting in the regular Navy here this week were five more Water~ bury Area young men:
 Charles Brasche, i27 Main street, Oakville; Stephen Ennis lo0 Col" onial avenue; James Courtot, Beth elem; James E. Hanley, 470 Rubber avenue, Naugatuck, and Richard Holbrook. 2 Manhan street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
Atomic Economic
 Powers OversoId

Cambridge, Mass, Sept. 12-(UP) Prof. Wendell Furry, Harvard university physicist, said today that the economic possibilities of atomic power have been oversold to the American people"
 ''In my belief, atomic power never will be able to complete economic ally with other sources of power" l" he added. "The American people have been given a fantastic concep- tion of the changes in their lives that will result from the splitting of the uranium atom"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
.%re4Ms7rA>DE
 ESTABLISHED 1883
ESTABLISHED 1883

Don't trifIe with September sve- ming chiII-hove your toPeOot ready at the drop of the hot to take its place as q prime necessity in the wardrobe of men who are obliged 10 toke New EnsIond weather changes and like them. Most of OUT topeoots are .all weather, hail rain or shine coats, thot thrive on changes and help you ride the gale high wide and hondsoms feeling as comfortable as a bug in rus-topeoots begin at $40 up to $s5.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12
pyT, MICHAEL DEsOCIO

Pvt. Michael Desocio is at preS- ent ct Camp Shelby, Miss, await ing further assignment. The infan" tryman was wounded In action last November 2S in France, He return. ed to this country last spring after serving for l3 months in France, Central Europe, and the Rhineland He is a former employe Of the Bris. tol Company and the son of MT and Mrs. Alexandra DeSocio, 66 Tracy avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12

Eighty-eight thousand children now in Yugoslavia lost both parents in the war, and 485.000 lost one parent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12

fantry Divisions and the dough- boys of the First more than lived up to 1t in three years Of fighting against the Ger. mans,
 Hylan EANhklAa
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-12

WATERVILIE Correspondent, Mrs. Gertrude Lane: Telephone 3.6Sll
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
TAE RrcoNvERsIoN GANTLET

After reading much of the available
data on he bin in the last Congress to
establish a rural telephone administration
lh an annual fund of SlOO,OOO,0OO to
beam t1 persons, corporations. states ter
r.mies. and subdivisions and agencies
gaereol, municipalities, peoples utility dis
nigis and cooperatyes. non-profit or limit
sa dividend associations OF mutuals or
anlEed under the laws OF any state or ter
Cos and the Rural Electrification
EamiBls tration', one wonders if any
hounhi Al an Is being given to economy in
saeral spending in the postwar years.
There certainly is no crying demand
- nubiit agencies 10 acquire telephone
ahmpanies. The radio. the automobile and
H.ri-sariaeed roads have made farmers
less dependent on telephones than ever
before.
There Is every indication that this tele-
sbone bill D. being promoted from sources
sore Interested in getting the government
nio business than in perpetuating private
asiteFprise. Government owned projects
aFe tax exempt ard cut the tax revenues of
ever Ystaie.
The farmer is being used as the eX-
gise to extend the soCializing process in
30 United States from the electric industry
CD telephones. In a nation with more tele-
shores than all the rest of the world put
@sReiher. there is no excuse for taking
sl0H 600, coo year of taxpayers funds for
@olitical loan,ng TO. or building of public
~ private telephone properties. This is a
sample OF the left-handed encouragement
hat the political planners are giving pri-
safe enterprise all along the line-as it
suns Doe gauntlet of reconversion, they raise
- eiab of public competition at every turn
o block e. progress.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
BoILs DOWN TO THE SAME POINT

The Citizen has learned that there is
considerable opposition on the upper keys
to the proposal to have candidates for
county commissioners run at large in pri-
mares, instead of by districts, as is the
case at present.
Some of the keys folks, we were in
formed, are under the impression that that
part of the county would not be repre-
scented on the board of county commissions
ers if candidates run at large, because Key
West can and probably would outvote the
upper keys.
Of course, that is mistaken idea. If
the voters in Key West outnumbered those
on the keys 900 to one, the keys will still
have a representative on the board, be-
cause, in primary, only residents of dis
rict are eligible to be candidates from
hat district
The two or more men who will run
rom the keys, under the proposed law,
musS be residents of that part of the county.
That tact is known to some keys candidates
who are against the proposed change, and
we are informed that their opposition is
based on one man, on the keys being more
popular, in Key West than another candi-
ate, on the keys, who is more popular in
thot section
sosl Weaview that objection as childish,
sieeapse it will apply to each of the other
sOur districts in the county. A man from
he first or any other Of the three districts
i'm Key West may be more popular in his
district than an opponent elsewhere in the
city, but not as popular in the other three
districts in the city or the district or the
keys. Indeed, the vote on the keys has de-
cided good many elections in the county.
If a man is popular, that is his good
fortune, particularly if he is a candidate
For political office. To hold that against
him is ridiculous.
Another thing the people on the upper
keys should bear in mind: representative
from that section of the county, though the
total of qualified voters there is fewer than
in any district in Key West, has just as
much power on the board of county COM
missioners as any other man on the board.
Finally, the entire matter boils down
to this point: the commissioners represent
the entire county, and the entire county
should vote for them in primaries, as is
done in the case Of all other candidates
who represent the county as whole.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
TO-DAY IN HISTORY

l812-The. Army's Quartermas-
ter's Department created by Con-
gress.
1846 - Gen. Zachary Taylor,
heading an army of 1000, crosses
the Rio Grande, thus beginning
war with Mexico.
1858 - Nicaragua puts herself
under the protection of the
United States,
1869 - Mrs. Myra Bradwell Of
Chicago establishes first weekly
legal paper in West.
1884---Rioting in Cincinnati
some 40 die and 100 injured
court house burned down.
1918 - Government announces
deficit of over s2,OO0,0O0 on
Eastern railroad lines taken over
as compared with 81 million dol
lars earnings under private own
ership previous year
19f9-U. S. calls for $4,000 vol
unteers to replace troops in
France.
1928 - Amos and Andy first
heard over the air, from Chicago'
1884 - Nazis take over the
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
clio CLOTHES CAN SAVE LIVES

a national drive for 150.000,O0O
.ssaea ~ used clothing will get under way.
: y WoIth and the clothes collected will
4 bssgcd 90 war victims as a free will gift
1nm the American people
Officials who know their facts tell us
nat many war victims have died from
~ sure ard lack Of adequate clothing as
fom Starvation. Clothing relief. they say,
rHEs hlgh In urgency.
Henry J. Kaiser. industrialist, has ac-
-rptod Che Craftsmanship Of the nationwide
81 r and key men are berg asked to CO.
er'Htg 40 over the nation. Back of the
afIF0 > fhc idea that many Americans will
sal. neu0ous effort TO provide clothing
ar ,ha hildren. the aged and the home
he hclpless victims OF the great war.
While the drive is not to collect scraps
IS based upon the conviction that many
OF us have old clothes which we do not need
aut which we, tor many reasons. have kept.
The articles of clothing can be of great
ea'"o 90 those who have none as good and
~aur Ti.t OF surplus clothing NAV save q
Sic -umpWhere.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
A PRACTICAL ARRANGEMENT

In the discussions about the develop
ment OF the Dumbarton Oaks program for
world peace, there has been considerable
emphasis upon the veto power given the
larger natiors. They can prevent action on
dispute to which they are parties and
they can also veto activities that affect dis
putes.in which the yare not mvoNed
This apparently means that the larger
nations can prevent action by the assembly
or security council upon issues, which, in
their individual opinion. might lead to
friction between other nations. Casual
study seems to indicate that without the
concurrence Of the larger nations the
power Of the organization to make invcsti-
cation or take positive action Is somewhat
limited.
The arrangement which will call
forth outcries from pcrfectionists. seems
immincntly practical Everybody knows
that the peace of the world will depend
upon the attitude ol the United States
Great Britain, Russia and. eventually
France and China. This being the fact. the
organization set up To safeguard the peace
should take cogniZance Of It.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
by AeGY GA1ozs

that though he might look for
ward to many years OF active and
useful life, he was no longer in fit
condition for combat service.
River Gap forgot everything
else, in preparing to welcome
home its cherished hero. Isabel
Lacey. Jerry's sweetheart. walked
ON air, her shining black curls, in
a shoulder-length bob, seeming
almost to bounce with the vigor
of her happiness, her eyes. SO dark
a brown that they seemed black,
shining like captured stars. She
laughed d lot. and the very hap
piness = he. heart rang in her
lauElt N-
Dan Lacey, her father, who
owned the big feed and fertilizer
store, watched her with more
warmth in his cold, wary gray
eyes than anyone in River Gap had
seen there since the death of his
wife, Elizabeth, when Isabel was
nine. Dan was not especially pop
ular in River Gap, and that seemed
TO be quite satisfactory to Dan. His
whole life seemed centered in Isa-
bel. She had the prettieSt clothes
of any girl in town: she went
down to Atlanta once a month to
shop; she was the first girl in
River Gap to have her own smart
sports coupe, the first girl in town
to have a fur coat.
When gas restrictions had come
along, Dan had bought a pretty
chestnut mare, ard a buggy that
was the envy of every boy and
girl in River Gap.
1t was n this turnout that Tsa-
bel had driven to the station to
meet Jerry's train. In the very
front of the crowd was Lucy But
Ter. wearing her shabby. three
vear-old coat and her discouraged
looking hat with an air that would
have become a duchess in saoles.
JERRY stepped very carefully
- down from the train. He was
very thin and his tropical bronze
had faded in the months of hos
pita1ization. There was the look
about him of a man whose stunned,
sick ewes had looked into the very
pit of he'll itself and who can
never. no matter how long he
lives. forget one small. hideous
tom Of what he had seen there.
The sight of the crowd. stil1ed
for a moment by the shock of see
ing this tired. raggard man. when
thew had sent awav CAV laugh
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
Chapter 8
"XIJE'VE got to get our hands on
w the higher-up," said Hugh.

IA L We got TO GET our HdIlQS Oh
w the higher-up," said Hugh.
"If River Gap had an adequate
police force -" Meredith was
thinking aloud.
Hugh looked at her, wry smile
touching his mouth.
(Which means if we could in
corporate River Gap. and elect a
mayor and a city council, and a
police force. That means taxes
would have to go up to pay for
the city government. Do you think
we could persuade River Gaps
taxpaying citizens it would be a
good thing?"
She smiled at him and said, her
voice warm and soft, But we
don't have to settle it this very
minute. do we. darling? After all,
we so seldom get an evening to
ourselves like this"
And then River Gap had, for a
little while, something else to
think about Out in the Pacific, a
flyer who had distinguished him
self for courage and daring and
skill, had been shot down and re-
ported missing IN action" River
Gap had grieved with all its heart,
and there had been memorial SER
vices IN the Baptist Church, IN
which the members and ministers
of the other churches in River
Gap took an active and sincere
part. For Jerry Butler was a
River Gap boy.
But three weeks later, the news
was flashed around the world that
Lieutenant Jerry Butler had been
found alive. Not until the news
reached her did his mother, Lucy
Butler, break down and weep; and
then they were the tears of a Joy
so great as to collapse the shell of
pride and courage in which she
had encased her heart since she
had received that telegram from
the War Department.
THE news that he was at a Pa
l cific Coast base hospital had
reached River Gap the day after
Meredith and Hugh had been mar
ried. And now, few weeks later.
River Gap rejoiced to the news
that Jerry was coming home.
Coming home with his country's
thanks and praise still ringing in
his ears, bearing proudly his Dis
tinguished Flying Cross, bearing.
too, a medical discharge that said
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

writer on the Indians, born Al
bany, N. Y. Died Dec. 10, 1864.
1818-Wade Hampton, Confed-
crate general, cotton planter,
South Carolina senator-governor,
born Columbia, S. c. Died April
II, 1902.
1868-Norman Hapgood, noted
editor, author and diplomat, born
in Chicago. Died New York,
April 90, 1887.
1897 - Frank Hawks, noted
pioneer aviator, born Marshall
town, Iowa. Died in air crash,
Aug. %, 1888.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
TODAY'S
ANNIVERSARIES

1874 - William Byrd, Virginia
planter, official, author, patron
of the arts, son OF famed colonials
of same name, born Westever,
Va. Died Aug. rs, 1744.
1787-Theodore Frelinghuysen,
New jersey senator, lawyer, Rut-
gers president, born Somerset
County, ~ J. Died April u, 1862.
1898 - Henry f. Schoolcraft,
famed cthnoloG st, explorer and
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

/ With the progress of civilization there
comes along progressive limitations of lib
erty. # seerns impossible to get anything
Tor nothing. We like to enjoy our civiliza-
Son an eSalse our liberty, but we can't have
cur cake and eat it, too it is either less
civilization and more liberty, or less lib
erty and more civilization. We can have
them both, but with limitations.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
q AP Newsfecsvres

ing boy, almost appalled, nm.
Then he braced himself, and his
eyes saw that for which they had
hungered. He took a step towards
Lucy and his voice was barely
above a whisper, yet sharp with
delight and the loneliness of a
dream recaptured, as he said.
Hello. Momp' a
Lucy stood smiling, the tears
running unnoticed down her
cheeks, and her own voice rang
with warm pride. as she said.
Hello, son--ifs good to see YOU.
For just moment her arms.
that had ached with emptiness.
held him close and hard as his
lips brushed her cheek.
Isabel had hung back. Some
body thrust her forward now. so
that she and Jerry stood face 70
face. Isabel was flushed like a
peony one moment, white as her
handkerchief the next She looked
at him with something almost like
fear in her eyes, as though he had
been stranger whose return
scared her a little. There was
naked hunger in his blue eyes as
he looked down at her. that made
those who looked on feel like in
truders.
But all he said was. Hello. Isa-
bel"
And Isabel said softly. her voice
shaken. Hello. Jerry"
A newspaper cameraman said.
Kiss her, boy"
Jerry turned on him savagey,
his Jaw set.
GO to hen!" he invited suc-
entity.
WHEN Dan Lacey announccd a
W few days later that he .ad
given jerry a Job in the sore.
there was universal Satisfac..C1
Obviously Jerry was not strong
enough to work the farm: an1
anyway, except for the cows md
chickens and pigs. there was ii..,e
farm work to be done in the w'a.
tertime. And the townspeo0.c
knew Lucy and Jerry wol n
glad of the money Jerry WoU,5
earn in Dams store.
Jerry and Isabel were to ~
married in the spring. With ever
body's curiosity on that point Sc.
tied. River Gap settled back ir'
its old routine In few da";
Jerry ce?rod to be a curiosity.
To be continued
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

Ottmar Mergenthaler, the inventor of
the linotype, was not printer yet he revo-
lutionized the typesetting process of the
printers trade by inventing a machine that
cast with each revolution a line of type
from which the machine derives its name,
instead Of the singular setting by hand of
each letter in composing the words
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

Today The Citizen says in an
dltoriaI paragraph:
Key West will be remarkably
progressive when its citizens de-
eide to be remarkably progress
sIvc."
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28
Ulcer Stomach Pains

GAS, INDIGESTION, BURNING
Due to Excess Stomach Acid
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The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

Mitchell Mountjoy, editor with
the Associated Press in New
York, Mrs. Mounjoy and son ar
rived here this morning for a
short visit
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

Today shows an incllnation g.
ward high ideals. wilb . spniml
nature; but underneath there
a willy personality that may shoa
as diplomacy. or. la cruises
natures. a. cunning and csmsi
This produces shTewd tasinraa
men who make their ~ ~ iasa
avoidance Of d. lf.rs .iher ln
by combating TEN
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

There will always be paper, for much
pHper IS made from grass of which there
s always a plentiful supply. and it NAV
O. added that some of the best kinds Of
paper gre made of grass; furthermore
A7iu species OF the worlds grasses arr
khoWu.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

The peace OF the world, in the future,
is no stronger than the friendship that ex-
lists between the United States, Great Brit
ain and Russia.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

Melvin f. Russell was elected
president of the Key West
Rotary Club at its luncheon to-
day.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1945-03-28

Protestant Church in Germang
l94l - English defeat halsam
fleet in the Mediterranean
l944-U. 5. planes bomb gaga
in Indo-China. Allies battle yss
al midas border.