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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
Othman Finds LawIess Lond
By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN limited Press Staff COrresnOndentl

By FREDERICK c. OTHMAN United Press Stan CorrespOndent)
 Washington, Sept. 20.-(UP)-In case you didn't know 1t, that King George III of England was a trou- blemaker. Or maybe just plain care- less.
 What he did three centuries ago was grant the colony of Maryland all the territory to the far shore of the Potomac river. A couple of years later he granted Virginia all the territory to the far shore of this same river.
 Possibly George III didn't have @ map (Tim giving him the breaks). when he handed the same chunk of river to two states. Maryland ceded its segment of river in 1791 to make the District of Columbia and Vir- ginia said Maryland did not, either.
 Whose What?
 Virginia said this piece or flyer was its river. The boys have been fighting about 1t ever since, some of the river was drained and now. be- cause of that king, we've not a mo- mans land where the odds are you could murder your wife and never even be questioned by e cop.
 That isn't all.
 We have the Congress of the U. S., which Is supposed to be worrying about the state of the nation, try
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
Assistant Dean

eficienctly." ''Post-war readjust- ment, continued MT. Post, in the curriculum of the larger business schools, should specialize in industry aviation, foreign trade, ct cetera."
 In commenting on the general trends and requirements that the employers are expecting, MT. Post said that in his section of New Eng land, employers are already expect ing more of their employees. They have already been able to dispose of some of the people who slowed down work and caused unrest" When they are back in competition, he continued, and not on the govern ment payroll, this will be greatly multiplied - subject of course, said MT. Post, to union restrictions"
 Salary trends will be down, &C., cording to MT. Post, unless imitation comes along at rapid pace; shorter hours will do away with time-and-a half and double pay"
 The above opinions were express ed by MT. Post, in 8 recent survey conducted by the New England Bus tness College Association. The mem- bership of the Association is com- posed of selected group of insti- tutionS whose standards meet the requirements of the Association. The members are located in all parts of New England, and 1t their policy to recommend that students in- terested in business training attend business or secretarial schools in their respective communities, as these schools offer standard courses and maintain excellent relations with local employers, thereby mak- ing 1t possible for students to ob- tain their first business experience near home.
 Oficers of the Association include, President Clark P. Murdough, Edge wood Secretarial school, Edgewood, R. T.; vice-president, Mrs. Dorothy L. Salter. The Satler Secretariai school, Worcester, Mass; secretary Donald J. Post, Post Junior College, Waterbury. Conn; treasurer, J. F. Flower, Bristol County Business College, Taunton, Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

ing today to decide where Virginia begins and the capital ends. If you have any murdering, mayhem, stage coach robbery. or jewel thieving to do, there's still plenty of time. I can point out the place to do it.
 The House of Representatives. has adopted a bill which says that any- body who walks along the eastern shore of the Potomac and keeps his feet dry is in Virginia; if his Bro- gan's get wet, he's in the District. That sounds simple enough, but, the Senate is just getting around to the problem.
 What makes 1t worse is that the Federal Government has built : a $17, ,0OO,0O0 airport. partly in sVir- ginia and partly on; the flats which. don't seem to belong to anybody. So
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
IE WKTEBlY DENOuAT WATERY CONN., TasDAY sEPTEER zO q

''What mean," he testified, '1s that one of our clerks last year eEn- bezzled 42,OOO. We called the Dis of their jurisdiction. The City of Alexandria said our District of Columbia troubles were none of its business. So did the City of Arling- ton. We called the 2. B. T., and the G-Men said they couldn't handle crimes in Virginia"
 Thomas s. Settle of the National Parks and Planning Commission said murder was worse than embez- clement, even, except in the cap ital's land of Oz. He recalled the murder of Mary Baker few years ago near Arlington cemetery; the cops finally found 8 suspect. 2 And for a solid year." Settle testified, '.he jumped from court to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

movie greats and studio wCrkers-- watched inside the church which wa decorated with 500 pink roses and daisies dyed pink to match the color scheme.
 : Outside thousands of Shirley Temple fans stopped Wiltshire boulevard traflc for four blocks. Police were hard put to keep them from tanning into the church.
 Only one thing went wrong. Both California Gov. Earl Warren, an honored' guest, and Producer David Selznick, who did up the wedding traditional movieland style, were late. '- ,H
 The organist stalled for time and everybody eyed the door. Finally Selmick dashed in--out of breath.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
Post Fovors Restriction On Tr0ining
 Army Should Leove
 Youths Education
 TO4Institutions

Compulsory Military Training, if confined to basic military training and armies of occupation, would be 9 good thing, stated Harold B. Post, Assistant Dean of Post Junior Col- lege, Waterbury, Conn, member of the New England Business Col- lege Association. Tt would act as a double duty of keeping some of our youth t1p-to-date in training and show them more of the world and how other peoples live"
 However, Mir. Post said. the mili- eary should leave education to the public and private institutions al- ready set up to do the job more
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

Agar. Jr, whom she married last night.
 Agar, 24-year-old. Army Air Forces physical training instructor and son of the late Chicago packer, must report to a Utah camp for overseas assignment in just one week. His 1T-year-old bride will go back to her parents and to work on a new picture, Suddenly It's Spring"
 |. %t 's FriIIs
 Their wedding was one of the fanciest Hollywood ever has turned out. It was an Episcopalian cere- mony but 1t was held in the swank Wiltshire Methodist church because that's the biggest church in town.
 A thousand guests = including
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
Murder } He sayg

ss Murder He Says
 < The Senators gathered to ponder the kings mistake, under. leader ship of the Venerable \ Clyde R. Hoey of N. 70, who looked like a Senator ought to look in a gray claw-hatnmer coat, gates ajar col- lar, and a red carnation in his but ,tonhole. Sympathetic the law makers considered the plea of Fred erick J. Ball, vice-president of the firm which runs the restaurants, barber shops and hot dog stands at the airport'
 Ball said he didn't much like pay- ing taxes to the District and. to Vir- ginia, too, but that since he did. he thought maybe somebody ought to provide him a policeman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
BETTER TRUoKs F0aEo

New Orleans CUP) Many provements for postwar trucks culding tWo-way radio and drive, were forecast recently New Orleans by Ted V. HoHs, president of the American Xt| Assn, Washington, D. c.
 He said the trucking irdp will spend nearly $3,OOO. 900 900 Hf new equipment as soon as l available.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

Rlgf1t behind him caliis Gov ren and his family. They
 into their pewg seconds 1' the dimtning of the lights s organist' S Here Cones the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20
GoIuWedding
 For Shirley Temple

Hollywood, Sept. 20-(UP) -Shir- ley Temple, the worlds favorite baby star, knew what it meant to- day to be war bride-even though the war was over. She had only seven days to be with Sgt John court to court without trial, because the judges couldn't decide where this poor woman was slain"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-09-20

Heres of the greatest buys in this Greater Hadey Days Sale! Luxurious modern with FULL SPRING CON- SEDUCTION! Here is Lifetime" furniture that you'll
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
The Newman Centenary

The prose style of John Henry Cardinal Newman, gardesS of the particular doctrine to which one S deVote IS universally regarded classic and unique This week roted authorities the e preachngS and writings of Newman observing the occasion of his conversion to the Church of Rome October S. 1845 hundred years ago.
 Cardinal Newman has been the subject of deep study since that day. The important step he took at that time was the talk of that day as it is today
 It would not be possible in few paragraphs to evau- ate the writings justice to the noble character of ths of great learning One of the great minds of his day he was simple and unassumng and gentle His writings before and after his conversion have furnished material for many of the finest works in literature Authorities on New have not felt capable of expressing all of his greatness
 Many of the profound thinkers writing today about Newman bring out important point that IS having con- siderable attention at the present time that being acce- tuated by leading universities and colleges not enrey Catholic universities This point taken up by writer in an issue of America" is expressed in the words hs sharp conception of the necessity of religious coordinan knowledge" The writer also draws attention to his
 ewman awareness of the destiny and the vocation ot an educated laity within the modern world"
 These few words tend to show that Newman was one hundred years in advance of the time in which he veo and that Is perhaps why many nteectuals of that day could not see eye to eye with him.
 Today with the "dea of university" the subject of SO
 much general discussion the writings of Cardinal Newman might well prove stimulus in the revsons in the courses of study planned by certain universities
 His important position in the Catholic church In which he rose to the rank of Cardinal in his later years was not his greatest achievement though it was one justly de- served Oxford University the Roman Catholic cnurcn and the vast world of literature will ever be indebted 10 Newman whose Second Spring produced some of the fi- est writing and thinking within this hundred years span
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
HAYWOOD
(New Britain Hearld)

(NeW Britain HearIO
 The field meeting of the Connec. ticut Forest and Park associates will be held tomorrow at Penwood. the new state park on Talcott mountain that was bequeathed to the people of the state by the late Curtis II. Veeder of Hartford. Only God can make a tree, but man has done his level best by inprovtdence to destroy the natural beauty of our forests. One provision MT. Veeder insisted on was the maintenance of Penwood as wild area and sanc- tuary for wild life. Tn this wish. all men who are sensitive to the beauty of nature unadorned will be in accord. '"t
 The public is invited to attend this seini-annual meeting of the association. Hot coffee will be pro- vided, but guests will be required to bring their own lunch = and sugar. The morning will be. devoted to explorations, on foot, and follow ing the luncheon e tribute will be paid to MT. Veeder by Austin F. Hawes, state forester. Few people have had the pleasure of walking through this newest state park on Talcott mountain. Those who have strolled along It's wooded walks and enjoyed It's plendid views consider 1t an excellent addition to the Sys- tenn of state parks and forests that has already given so much health- full pleasure to the citizens of the state,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
Fire Prevention Week

Fire Prevention Week comes just once year But the necessity safeguarding against fire is or should be daily habit During the week set aside to consider new and better ways to extnguish if not crcumvent the poSsio- ties of fire the matter given particular regard by na tonal state and local fire organizations
 Here in Waterbury it is felt we have pretty depend able department Our record is good It is not possible to eliminate fires but much be done to avoid the occa- sons of fire.
 Looking at the record before it gives start to read that 100 burned to death during the period from 1885 to 1914 About TO- 00 have been dis figured Six million fires have occurred during the same period In fires pretty prevalent things Fire is great agency destruction in the process of war It IS an appalling thing consider but has become the necessary evil accompanying war
 But fires taking an toll of lives and property on the home front something again They are not the logical result of existing situations But they do happen How to safeguard against fires is something to consider during Fire Prevention Week. which has been proclaimed by the President and state Governors
 Statistics show that 65oooo building fires occur every year these dwellings churches schools hospitals thea terS hotels and Each year brings at least one pig tragedy in fire.
 First on the list as cause of fire are smok- irg and matches which that fires resulting from these agents might not have happened Defective heat ing apparatus and children playing with matches are also cited as common causes of fire.
 clean house. store or factory it pointed out seldom burn So it might not be ais to start Fire PreVentlon Week right by cleaning up house and property
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
NEW CARS AMI PROSPERITY
(New Rritain Heraldl


 With s0,00o auto workers not at work in Detroit, we shall not see the new cars produced as soon as we had hop:d. The schedule of pro- duction will be upset.
 It's more than new cars that are at stake. The postwar economic picture may brighten or darken ac- cording to the results of the auto controversies. For the auto industry employed more than 500,000 persons directly and more than 100000 in- directly. Today there are affected by delay in auto reconversion all the dealers, Salesmen and other employees engaged in selling, re-selling. and insuring cars (353,000); filling sta- ton owners and employees (536, ,000) l service and repair shop employees (255, ,000); and employees in access sorry stores, chauffeurs, trucks, taxi- cab and bus drivers, delivery men, highway construction workers, oper. ators of tourist camps and homes, and of roadside eating and anuse- ment places.
 This totals, in fact, a siSeable croSs-section of the American pub- lie. And all these, in greater or less degree, are being held up by the trend of events in Detroit and other automobile making ceflterS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
THE SMOKES OF AUTUMN

(New York ald-Tribune)
 "Light-winged smoke, Icarian bird" was Thoreau's invoking of that incense of hickory beech and maple which arose from local hearths and pancake altars when the ambulant chronicler of the Con- cord landscape was early abroad with notebook and mittenS. In both country and city. the first frosty days of this week brought that smoke to the sky which is the signal of mans ways of obtaining more heat than a reluctant sun of- fers, when autumn curls the leaf and coaxes the overcoat out Of stor- age. Country smoke, 1t must be confessed, is not the same fragrant, woodburnlng variety 1t was in the days of Emerson's woodlot and AL cott'S ax. For In many farm and village homes the white split hick- ory in the woodshel has been con- verted to the more tenebrous coal bin and fuel-oil tank in the cellar. The sawbuck and the bucksaw have become more the objects of genial exercise than of ilectssitouS use.
 But the country, although 1t now often joins with urban chimneys in giving flight to melting pinions darker than Thoreau's Icarian ones, still fosters other smokes which a city may not hope to reproduce. One is that of burning leaves, with their slow, never to. be -forgotton scent. The other Is the haze which, on days often tagged aS Indian
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
The 5000 Jap prisoners of war

prSonefS of war now held III the United States will be shipped back where they came from in the near future. Gen. MacArthur has ad. vsed Washington the POWs can be absorbed without difficulty and Maj-0en Lerch, the provost marshai general has flown to Japan to complete arrange ments for the transfer. Most of the Jap prisoners in the U s. were captured in earlier Pacific cam- paigns and remained obstinately irreconcilable Up to the day the Emperor threw in the sponge, towel glove and works. A few days before than, one small group at Camp Mccoy, Wis., did send in petition signed in blood. swearing that on return to Japan they would work for democracy
 Eric A, Johnston, new head of the motion pic. ture producers and successor to "Czar" win Hayes, recently installed profit-Sharing plan for employees in his electrical concerns in the northwest Briefly the plan called for setting aside 2S per cent of the net profits after taxes for division among employees on the basis of their seniority in service and salary scales. After the plan was put in effect group of the employees protested It wasn't fair, they Said to the stability of the company the stockholders To
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
Washington Notebook By Peter Edson

Johnstons surprise, what they proposed was that 6 per cent net profits be set aside for the stockholders first before any aocation was made for proflt-Sar- ing among the employees.
 So many drafts of plans for the government of Germany have been made that t iS almost inpossi. ble to keep up with them That fact led former eocs retary Of Treasury Henry W. Morgenthau astray the other day when he criticized the government because t had not made public It's plan known as JC.i007- made this criticism of his former pals while putting in plug for his own forthcoming book, Germany Is Our Problem" in which he finally reveals--with President Roosevelts deathbed permission - the famous Morgenthau plan of 1914 for governing Ger. many.
 MorgenthauS criticism of the Truman admins. traton for not making public l007 doesn't add tip because he had 1t in his hands when he was Secres tary Of Treasury, he was asked to make 1t public and didn't
 Pointing up mistakes to De avoided in disposal of surplus war plants, Labor Department researchers have just Issued report on the 2o.year record of blunderS in dSposing Of a World War powder plant at Nitro, near Charleston, w. Va.
 The plant was built in 1917 at cost of 00 million dollars Its junk value was considered i7 n1illion but 1: was sold in 1919 at contract price of eight mile and walked out on the deal What was left was resod ct auction in 1887 for only S23S00o The government over the 20year period collected total of five million doars but spent more than that n foreclosures and lawsuits
 Moral drawn from the case s that the govern. ment would have been better off if it had given the plant free to someone to operate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
By DresU PsdysOn

president considered t his job to run the Navy. Fore rostal was almost helpless.
 With Truman, however, 1t was different Truman not only believes in each cabinet member being re sponsible for his own department but he also knew nothing about the way Admiral King mad ridden rough-shod over the civilian secretaries of the Navy So the first move made by Secretary Fcrrestal was to remove Admiral Jacobs, the man with the key to pros motions transfers and discharges. Jacobs never wanted to ro He had fine house at the Naval Hos- pital supplied him by the government together with couple of Filipino servants. However he had no choice in the matter.
 At first special job was created for Jacobs. He was to be full admiral with the magnncent ttle or Inspector General of the Pacific"
 By this time, however. FCrrestal was really be- the Navy himself And public criticism against Jacobs slow discharge system strengthened Forrest ss hand Hs took aSy m ss ,. sss1g 0D cor. n ss running the Brernerton Naval Base near Seattle, Washington. As,t
 Furthermore. Forrestal brought into the Navy c man who does not play on Admiral Kings team, Adm. kicked like Missouri mule, but Forrestal overrode him.
 Then to make matters worse, Forrestal brought in as Denfelds assistant, Capt John oingrich, ail- other man who does not play oti Kings team
 dingrichs career. in way, might be compared to that of General Eisenhower Born in Dodge City, Kan, he graduated from Annapolis and did great job in the war as commander of the cruiser Pitts. burgh It was oingrich who largely towed the flaming carrier Franklin out of danger incidentally covering up some glaring mistakes by other commanders which never leaked out et"
 It was dInbrich who nursed the Pittsburgh all the way across the Pacific when 100 feet of her bow was torn of by typhoon-once again covering up some faulty construction which the Navy didn't want advertised.
 But, somewhat like Eisenhower, who was fired by General MacArthur when they served together in Manila in 1888, Gingrich was fired" by Admiral King As reward for his heTosn, he was relegated to the sdelnes. removed from command of the Pittsburgh. and given the innocuous job of chief of personnel at Miami, Fla. Qingrlch had been offered several inn- portant jobs by admirals in the Pacific but King sent him to Liberia" instead. .
 At this point, however, Secretary Torrestal stepped in He ordered young Captain dingrich back to Washington as deputy chief of the powerful Bureau of Personnel
 The mothers, wives and swectheaTts of Navy men have Q lot to be thankful for as Q result of this transfer. Both Denfeld and oingrch, though Anna. polls graduates, believe in recognizing the reserves believe in speeding discharges, and understand the problems of Navy men, There should be c new hurrysup Of Navy discharges as result.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
LATIN AMERICAN INDUSTRY

(New Haven Journal Courier)
 Within a few months, ships head ed for Latin America will be heavily laden with capital machinery, Press Association, Inc. tells us. Latin America is restless to get started on Q billion-dollar program of indus trializatio1.
 Some North Americans take 0 gloomy view of this. They fear Latin American competition in finished goods in world markets. Others de- clare that industrialized countries make our best customers. In 1888, United States exports to industrial ized Canada were S424 million. Mex leo in that year had nearly twice Canada's population, but was chief ly agriculturai--ard our exports to Mexico in 1888 were only $63 million.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-10-08
Waterbury of The Past

25 Years Ago
 Firemen were having diff. cuity battling Q huge wind driven blaze that threatened to level several blocks of an East End sec- ton.
 A horse was being killed in Vol colt when 1t stumbled on rough road and broke It's leg.
 IS Years Ago
 There was some talk in the city of e New York narcotic ring operat- ing here. Residents of the North End sec. ton were planning e protest over tho alleged dumping of garbage in the gutters.
 s Years Ago
 Local draft boards were being kept busy with hundreds of registrants An East Main street barber was refusing to dissuss the War on tlnfe grounds that The wax sick of lk"