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The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-26
FREE WHITE YOUTH IN
ATTACK ON NEGRO GIRL

DECATUR, Ca, Mar. 26
(ANP) = A Dekalb county jury
took less than six minutes Friday
to acquit Howard Lamar Morgan,
a white sailor, of charges that he
with two other white youths had
criminally assaulted a comely IT.
year-old school girl on Christmas
eve last year.
Morgan was indicted in two
counties on two counts Of rape as
we'll as assault with intent to muir
der. The state charged that Nor
gan, Ralph Now and Ralph GOA
after severly beating the young
girls companion, Walter Berry,
Jr., attacked the girl in DeKalb
county, then taking Berry's car
forced the girl to accompany them
to a lonely, deserted cabin in the
woods of neighboring Gwinnett
county, where they took turns IN
attacking her.
The defendants were to be given
several trials, Morgan's being
scheduled first. Trials of the other
two are scheduled for the next
term of court in June, the same
month all three must face trial in
the Gwinnett superior court be-
fore Judge Clifford Windor.
The youthful victim of the at
tack identified Morgan as one OF
her assailants and described how
she was forced to get in the back
seat of the car while the other two
youths threatened her life with
knives. Berry, she told the jury
had been thrown unconscious in /:
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-26

police brought Smith to trial from
Birmingham where he had been
held in the jefferson county Jail.
Guards armed with sub-machine
guns stood watch during the two
day trial.
An appeal to the state supreme
court under Alabama law is auto
matte where the death sentence is
imposed.
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-26
GETS DEATH Sentence
IN ATTACK CASE

TUSCALOOSA, Ala, Mar. 26
(ANP)-An all-white jury gave
23-year-old Johnny B. Smith of
Abernant, Ala, a death sentence
on charges that he criminally at
tackled a Tuscaloosa county white
woman.
A 24-man state police guard
escorted the doomed man to the
death cell in Kilby Prison, Mont
gomery. A like number of state
The daily bulletin. [volume] (Dayton, Ohio) 1942-1946, 1945-03-26

ditch.
Judge James C. Davis, who pre-
sided over the trial, refused to per-
nit newspapermen in the court
room during the hearing, although
consenting to let Is representa-
tive" whites and Is Negroes to
hear the evidence. The jury, in the
face Of Morgan's admission of
guilt, as related by arresting Of
ficers, quickly returned the acquit-
tai verdict.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

come into the world to express for the Chinese the new efforts being made in San Francisco. To them these thousand characters will henceforth be associated with the troubled but courageous begin nings of an international force to insure peace on earth.
 It seems a pity that the rest of the United Nations could rot have been so fortunate as to enrich their everyday speech with thousand bright symbols of peace, each carrying clear meaning never before expressed.
 Instead they have had to translate common general ideas into 40 or more languages. And that has been the root of trouble and misunderstanding, as it was at Yalta.
 So the other nations will probably con- tinue to haggle over the conflicting con- notations of one translation against an other Meanwhile the Chinese will have erected to the epochal work at San Fran cisco the. living and enduring monument of new words.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Truman and Hoover

One of the rare instances in American history was the ostracizing of Herbert Hoover from the White House during the tenure of his successor in office. When President Hoover was defeated, he promptly invited President-elect Roose- welt to the White House, and it is public history that he proposed to carry out the views of MT. Roosevelt through the remaining weeks of his term of office. But during all of MT. Roosevelt's admin istrations, Herbert Hoover never received any recognition due to former head of the American government.
 There was no criticism of MT. Truman in Washington when he invited Herbert Hoover to the White House to discuss the question of feeding the children and people in the countries that have been freed by the Allied forces In fact, there was practically unanimous approval voiced by all the political leaders in the Nations Capital.
 No matter what the results may be from that first visit of Mr. Hoover to his old dwelling in twelve years, it is agreed that everyone is pleased to realize that the only ex-President and the only liv- ing President have shown proper respect for the office of President
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Of-Key Censorship

A heavy fog of censorship seems to have closed in on Europe in the wake Of the war clouds. Russia's rigid policy of press control has been extended west ward to the Elbe. A partial news black out in Italy is apparent in the incom- plete story of the British arrest of So- cialist Pietro Nenni for speaking to an audience of workers It is gratifying to see that SHEAF has removed all censor ship restrictions in the European theater except those concerned with actual mill- tary movements. It was a most disturb ing thing to have the United States Army contribute to that fog of censorship, which it seemed to do according to com plaints of various American correSpon- dents in Germany
 There was, of course no earthly excuse for that sort of censorship. The enemy in Europe is defeated and largely demo- bilized. The Allies are in control. Yet one correspondent said that American writers were denied access to any Nazi papers and documents. Another told Of photographers being barred from Berch- tesgaden after an American general had been pictured cOnversing with Nazi Field Marshal KesselTing over bottle of wine.
 A third complained that cOrreSpon- dents had to present questions to Julius Streicher, the JeW-baiter, through an American officer, and that they were eX- pressly forbidden to question Strelcher on the persecution of Jews. Still another stated that they had not been allowed to interview prominent political refugees such as Kurt Schuschnigg of Austria This was censorship for reasons of policy, not security. One purpose would seem to be display of officer personnel in the most favorable light. Other purposes were entirely unclear, though it may be that the military's necessary wartime business of ordering people about and telling them what to do becomes a habit, reasonably pleasant and hard to break The result of such censorship however, is clear, even if it's motives are not. It tends to put Army policy and practices beyond the range of public responsibility. And since the Army in Germany is now chiefly concerned with civil administra- ton, it should be as accountable as any other civil administration operating with public funds.
 But it is not accountable because 1t makes it's own rules And some of those rules, right and proper in time of war, should have been altered to meet cldnpGQ CO1lQlIIOllS. O1lG was lI1C ltAC that representatives of public informa- tion outlets can remain and operate in Army-occupied territory only on the con- dition that they write what the Army says they may write, even though, the subjects may have nothing to do with the Army per SC. This sort of censorship is despised practice of the dictator gov ernments which the Army itself, with such strength and courage and suffering, has only just overthroWn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Views Of The Press
BLOOPER
(New Haven Journal Courier)

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 The latest arrival in baseball is the blooper or balloon bal, answer to a pitchers prayer and possible savior of aging hurlers The bloop- CT is the invention of Rip SeWell, the 36-year-oId pitching star of the Pittsburgh Pirates. It has gained him 42 victories in two years, per haps had kept him in the big leagues.
 The blooper, as Sewell throws it, consists of an all-out arm move ment, in which the ball slips off the extended three fingers with an eX- treme back spin. From a height of 20 feet it drifts down at an angle over the plate, and no batter can get a really good cut at it. It is the most effective addition to a pitchers repertoire since Carl Hub bels screw ball.
 Baseball, like war. is a constant see-saw between the offensive and the defensive. Ever since Babe Ruth the batters have had it all their own way, just when the spit ball, emery ball and other freak de- liveries were banned. If other pitchers can copy the blooper, to- days sluggers may see their aver ages shrink.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

tyranny. But this was not Purltan- ism this was the decay of Puri- tanism. It was this later degenera- ton of something fine which caused a certain writer to say: At the bottom of all Puritansim one can find a disturbed bile duet
 Puritanism in the beginning was an attempt to purify religion and life. It produced host of beneficial results The stability of British and American character can be largely attributed to the influence of the early PuIitans. Because weak and foolish men later brought about the decline of this noble system is no criticism of the system as whole. We are the beneficiaries today ot the purification of beliefs and man. ners which resulted from the spirit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
MOMENTOUS MOMENT
(HartfOrd COurant)

A breath-taking thing has hap pened in Washington. It was moment worthy of remembrance. It was 12:4O noon and Majority Leader Barkley was presiding. Came a lull in the proceedings and Mir
 Barkley pointed out that there was twenty-minute period before the Senators were due in the House Chamber to meet with President Truman. If any Senator has any thing on his chest, this might be a god time to get it off," he comment ed. Shades of Clay and Webster, what was this? Not man stirred. Not silver tongue was unleashed. Nothing but ponderous silence! Who said it scouldn't happen here? Finally it was too much. Senator Tobey could listen to the ticking clock no longer. He sprang to his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
New Words

Chinese is reputed to be cumbersome, difficult language. As spoken, 1t depends in many instances on infection rather sean sound, with a rising or falling of Che voice giving different meaning to what we should call the same word. In its written form, however, it is consider ably less flexible The Chinese, of course, do not have an alphabet. Each written character in their language represents a whole word, and Chinese scholarship is measured to a considerable extent by the number of characters that person knows. Chinese scholarship therefore becomes quite job. And in consequence, Chinese has never been one of the world languages like French or English or German. Few citizens have bothered to learn it unless they meant to live in China.
 Chinese had never been a diplomatic language, either until few weeks ago, when it was made one of the official UNCIO languages at San Francisco This presented the Chinese delegation with new problems and, it seems to us, an enviable opportunity.
 For centuries Cnina's millions found that their language served their purposes even though it did not contain the pro- feSsional vocabulary of international diplomacy. When such a vocabulary was needed to conduct China's business, her statesmen expressed themselves in a foreign tongue. But now China's dele gates have found it necessary to create a thousand new words so that the UNCIO documents may be printed in Chinese They have had to devise new word char acters and cast new type for them.
 Thus something tangibly new has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
NO TAKERS QUALIFIED

Two or three months ago l offer~ cd S1OO, to any charitable orgam- zation the winner indicated, tor menus. bills of fare, lists o1 spec~ cifc foods giving the quantltles of all items. for three meals, Whlcn an ordinary person could eat, thaI would supply not only the amounts of protein, fat and caroonyolaIe required to give the calorles all average adult must have oaliy, pus also all of the minerals ana Vlta, mins required to maintain goou nutrition.
 At the same time I expressed tne opinion that it is today practlcally impossible for one to get such diet even if he is better informed than the average citizen is in re- gard to the essentials ot '-ltrltloh. I cited nutrition authorities WhoSe teachings, I believe, support my contention-I mean l believe my authorities, to date, outweigh or a1 least balance the weight of the au- thorities some of my readers nave cited las not supporting my con tention. These readers more or less indignantly insist that my conten- tion about this is subversive ln el- feet and one health officer proteSI- ed that my teachings do mucn to undermine sound health teachings in the field of nutrition" That ne didn't know what he was talking about he berayed in his closing re- mark: "Fads come and go, and syn. thetic vitamin are the current fad. What, I wonder, have synthetic vitamins to do with the subject?
 The question is how to get enough vitamins (nautraD in ones every day food.
 Various other readers have sIml- larly disposed of the question to their own satisfaction and some or them have instructed me where Io send the $100.
 To date, however, no one has sub- mitted a speciment diet for day. 8 list of foods for three meals men us or bills of fare specifying now much of what food will supply how much of what vitamin or vitamins.
 That's what I challenged the so- called experts in nutrition to glVe ne.
 To near-experts may I say am fed up with schoolboy recitations of the recommended daily allow ance made by the Food and Nutri- ton Board of the National Re- search Council' and all that hack lneyed stuff. I have already bought that information for dollar, more or less. I'll pay of cheerfully Ii any one submits a specimen three meal diet list of undoctored foods that will supply such recommend ed daily allowances of the vitamins. Of course the diet must be a prac-
 tical one - quantities of foods an ordinary person can consume.
 To the first person who submits
 such a diet list goes $l00 for him i self or herself plus a check for $lOo 1 to the Red Cross chapter or other
 charity he or she designates.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
The Bill for War

None of us can appreciate the actuality of trillion dollars, which American Uni versity researchers estimate is the cost Of the war to date. But the least imagina- tive of us can take that inconceivable figure, add the destruction of public and private property which the estimate does not include, and add to that the yet uncounted millions of lives lost since Sept. l, 1889.
 The result will not give us an accurate total, but it will give us an unacceptable conclusion: Civilization cannot again in- dulge in such staggering, insane extrava- gance and survive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

The houses of the postwar period will be the most compact and efficient ever built, it is thought. This will come as a consequence of several things, princlp- ally because it will be difficult to get ser wants to do the necessary work in large house of elaborate details. Most any house today that has over eight rooms seems cumbersome. The cupulo-ed and turreted house that is a familiar sight in our average-sized cities looks dated from the outside; the inside presents too many corners, niches and so forth for todays housekeeper who finds it difficult to get "helD"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Selected Poem
A MAN IS NEVER HOMELESS IN THE SRING

George Abbe in The Christian Science Montor) A man is never homeless in the spring; The Towering world sings Of all things he loved, returned to, Or cannot forget, Or may come home to yet. ShadbloW, light, feathery, and far In the bud-misty wood, Hangs like the white curtains Where long years ago he stood In Garkened boyhood bedroom And watched a star Through the high gloom And felt his fingers in the fragile lace Like clouds caught, like mist Before the moons face. And Quaker Ladies, white and scattered Like fiStfuls of wild Over the meadow hill Are blossoms fallen in another place, Sunt and still, Where pear tree loomed too high to know Above grown-up fencetop and familiar windoW-sill, Tumbling down it's foam on wondering face.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Claucoma

Is glaucoma infectious? Two chil- dren who sometimes play with our children have it. They wear a ban dage on one eye and dark glasses and there eyes seem to discharge pus. They are excluded from school.
 (Mrs. s. J.
 Answer-Glaucoma is not contag- ious, but the condition you describe suggests rather some contagious form of conjunctiVitiS (eye-lid lin ing inflammation or possibly even trachoma red sore eyes, grant, lated lids) which is very contagious. Better ask the physician in charge of the children about t.
 Poison Ivy
 Being a great victim of poison ivy I wonder if it is generally known how comforting hot applications are. Wiring out a cloth in water as hot as your hands can bear and apply it to the affected area. It brings great relief from the lntol- erable itching. Follow the hot appli- cations by dabbing on calamine lotion. (Mrs B. T. F)
 Answer-Thank you. It will prob- ably be timely hint to many sufferers. On request l am glad to send a monograph on Poison Ivy to any reader who provides a stamped envelope bearing his address.
 Breathing and Congestion
 Would it be safe for one subject to hemorrhoids to practice belly breathing? (C. F. M, DD.So
 Answer-In fact it would be bene- fcial. Send stamped envelope bear ing your address, and ask for mono graphs Belly Breathing and Tt Is Stupid to Suffer from Piles" Copyright 1945, John F. Dille Co)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Local Option On Citizenship
By PETER EDISON Waterbury DemOcrat-NEA Wash ington CorreSpOndent

San Francisco, June - With some 10000 to 45,000 native-born Americans of Japanese extraction still to be released from War Relo- cation Authority centers in the west the problem of re-fitting these citi- zens into civilian life is being looked on with growing concern. They have perfectly good legal and constitution
 al rights. Yet, because the United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

Christian Shuts seldom speaks but when he does, every one lis tens. Wives os some conference delegates are having a field day buying clothes One woman marched into the hat section of a department store, grabbed up 20 chapeaux without even try ing them all on President Truman will give party for all the foreign delegates and another for the American Delegations when he comes to San Francisco. The Navy Department has done @ bang up job convincing delegates of Americas military might The Navy takes dele gates on blimp rides. boat rides. and airplane tours of West Coast Navy installations showing them Americas striking power first hand.
 Copyright, 1945, by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

States is still at W ar with Japan, there a re S 0 m e elements of t h e population W h o seem to believe t h a t anyone of Japanese ancestry must be kicked around.
 In the first five months of 1914 5, there have been TO incidents of threats or terror ism against Jap anese = A m e I l. cans who h aN c
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

When summer comes, if the present temperature continues, we will have skip ped spring with the exception of the short period of warm weather in March which had us all fooled about an ad- vanced season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Your Health By Dr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining to per- sonaI health and hygiene, not to disease, diagnosis of treatment, will be answered by pr. Brady h a stamped self-addressed envelope is enclose, Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform ing to instructions. Address UT. William Brady. National News paper Service. S2O West Madison Street, Chicago, HI.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

Puritanism at it's best both was and
 is very admirable. No finer people ever lived t h a n
 the Puri | a Il S. After some gener- ations, Puritan ism degenerated into a system of repression, a s e t of empty creeds, a system of moral and litic a ]
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS. D.D

A WORD ABOUT PURITANISM
 Many people take great delight in blasting Puritanism. They regard it as fanaticism untouched by any noble motive.
 The truth of the matter is that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Daily Almanac

Moon rises at 2:4O a. m twar time)
 Sun rises at 5:21 a. m, sets at 8:2O p. m. CWar time)
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
 The cold weather which is keeping gardens back and summer clothes in the closet IS said to have been sweeping down from Hudson Bay The far west is even colder than the eastern and New England area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
A Thought for Today

The graven images of their gods shall ye burn with fire thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is on them nor take it unto thee, lest thou be shared therein; for it is an abOminati0n to the Lord thy God.-Deuteronomy S:25.
 You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thornS-you shall not cruelty mankind upon a cross of gOld!-William Jen- nings Bryan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Current Comment

We cannot support the thesis that because German leaders acted il- legally, therefore they should be treated illegally.
 President Robert M. Hutchins,
 University of Chicago.
 New Englanders are by nature conservative. We don't wear our hearts upon our sleeves and we are aware there is still much to be done Dean Edwin J. Van Etten, St.
 Pauls Cathedral, Boston.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

The tin output Saturday was not so good. Put it down to poor weather. Many who ordinarily have fair load did not flatten their usual supply. The trucks had an easy job of collecting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

ual revolution which the Puritans of old England precipitated.
 We could well stand a revival of Puritanism in this country - that is, of Puritanism at best. Many of our manners need to be reformed and many Of our beliefs need to be revitalized.
 All Rights Reserved
 Babson Newspaper Syndicate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

If all Americans are as interested III the outcome of the 7th War Loan Drive as the Japs must be, it will go over the top without any trouble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

feet and said, MT. President, I think it should be recorded for pos terity that there was a moment, even though a brief one, when no United States Senator had anything on his chest"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05
Washington Merry -Go-Round DREW PEARSON P
Soys Coop Bomb Increases Hopes of Ea End Jap War; America Paying Heavy Suez Tolls Allies Use Free stondords Patent Manufacturers Edse

the Army and Navy are burning revealed least III
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-05

Copyright, 1945, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-10-24
Decision On
Wagc-Pricc
Policy Near

Washington. oct. 24.-(AP)-The
government moved today toward a
decision of national wage I'd price
policy, Spurred by the start of strike
voting among 100000 auto workers.
President Truman arranged TO
confer With members Of the recon-
version advisory board, whose mem
bcrShip takes in top flight spokes-
men for management, and organizes
labor.
The board was called into special
session at the White House this
mQring to debate a revision to the
~recorNcrSion Wage-price program.
RecdnVersion Chief Snyder mas
supplied the board with figures on
the peacetime drop in worker m
come and its relation to the cost OF
living.
The White House said today that
DIR. George w. Tavlor. former ch6ir-
man of the WLB has accepted an m
Vltation to serve as secretary OF the
Labor management conference start
Ng November ).