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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
Views of the Press

feel they can be sure of with MT BoWles.
 Common belief is that he would be a strong candidate with the electorate. Certainly he has become well known and he has a large fol- lowing among at least a part of the population. The group within which his strength lies is the one where the masses of the voters are.
 Apparently MT BoWles does not mean to make the mistake of being oVer-eager. He is going to Maine for a three weeks vacation In the meantime, the idea of his candidacy can simmer in the party cauldron. When he returns he doubtless will be ready for discussions in which his positions will be made clear.
 In the meantime the people can probably take it for granted that in one category or another MT BoWles will be a candidate for their suf- frage this fall. Even his opponents do not expect him to be a weak one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
By Peter Edson

period of uncertainty and that they'll apply their squeeze later.
 9 If Congress gets the idea that price controls are now unnecessary and goes home without pro- vldlng for economic brakes of any kind. it will be flirting with the undertaken When Congress adior1ns back until they're over. special session could be called to deal with imitation, if it go bad But any possibility of reconvenng Congress within several months and trying to roll prices back to present levels is cellar out of the question
 When an economic bomb such as sudden re- moval of price controls is dropped, there is no way to suck it back after the bombs away That's the danger Of this present horrible mess.
 In trying to fix the blame for this snarled state of affairs everybody is accusing everybody else and they're all probably right.
 Congressmen going home to face their voters have handy alib. They say: "The President killed OPA by his veto. Congress passed the best prce-contro extension bill it could agree on but the President killed it."
 That's a cheap argument. If Congress was SC convinced of it's wisdom, it should have passed the bill the Presidents veto to clear it's own record
 Many of the people who did not want price con. tros continued in any form will argue that OPl committed suicide They will argue that the people hired to administer OPA not qualified ana that they went beyond the will of Congress.
 There is further feeling that majority of the people throughout the country did not want OPA and that Congress correctly interpreted the will of the majority by letting it die on June 30.
 In both charges there may be some truth Price control is like prohibton-noble in purpose but unpopular just the
 Admitting this much, you must also be prepared Go face the alternatives: which is worSe-OPA with all its faults, higher prices and higher wage de- mands leading strikes and imitation and ther depression?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
FOLLOW THRU!
Denver PoSt)

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 The revelation by Juvenile Court Judge Gillian that Denver now is having it's first major decrease in juvenile delinquency in the past five years is heartening. Gillian declares that despite the rising crime wave now afflicting many American cities. this community during the past five months has experienced reduction of approxi- mately 32 per cent in juvenile de- linquency in comparison with the similar period last year.
 Denver, he relates. now has one of the lowest juvenile delinquency rates per capita in the United States. He gives five reasons for this reduction. These include the courts drive against erring parents, effective police work, the commun- ity's group character building agen- cies, the many recreational pro- grams in Denver, and the court $ own educational program.
 But more is needed. The pre- delinquents and delinquents, as well as the overwhelming number of other youngsters for whom those classifications never apply. will be the citizens of tomorrow. For them, Gillian says this community needs more social and athletic recrea- tional facilities. He calls for more coordination in recreational plan ming by city officials and by others And he calls for home for girls.
 The underlying motive behind these added requirements, Gillian explains, is to keep youngsters busy, for it is when they are idle and have nothing to do that they are liable to get into trouble.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
by DrezU Pearson
an excellent production ID.

an excellent production J0b
 However, on Feb l. 1914 Gen. English was sud- denly transferred Asked why he was transferred the General said he did know He said he had wanted to go overseas. Instead however, he was sent to Omaha Neb, to relatively unimportant job as Chief of Staff of the 7th Service Command.
 Shortly before his transfer, Gen. English had suddenly discovered an 18-month-old letter in Army files which, if he had it earlier might have prevented the war-contract award to Erie Basin New York office of Chemical Warfare, quoting Louis Segal of the Segal Lock Company saying the Erie Basin Company was not subsidiary of Segal Earlier, when the Carson brothers first contacted the War Department they claimed to be subsidiary of Segal Lock Company.
 This letter was dated Feb g, 1922, but General English did not discover it until the end of 1943 Shortly after discovering it, he was transferred to Omaha.
 How the chairman of the Military Affairs Com mtee happened to tie up with these contractors is his secret. However, his ties with them went into many ramfications
 The Congressman for instance, received "ex- penSe money from the Garssons in connection with lumber mill they purchased in Kentucky The Garssons gave their friend check for $28,000 for the purchase of the Cumberland Lumber Company in Pikeville, Ky.
 checks for about $240 000 These cancelled checks ind cate that he turned that amount of money over to the original owners of the lumber company.
 The remaining $4,000 he kept This, he informed investigators. was to reimburse him for travel and ether expense.
 Just how the Congressman from Kentucky could spend $40OO for travel and expenses in helping to buy lumber mill for his contractor friends is another of MT Mays secrets. Presumably he didn't have far to travel since the lumber company and MT. May both located in Kentucky.
 The Garssons, in buying the Cumberland Lnn Der Company borrowed the money from the Erie Basin Metal Products Company which Mir May had helped to enrich by using his influence with the War Department. Thus, indirectly the Congressman's S4000 of expense and travel money" came from Government contracts
 It is against the law and criminal offense for member of Congress to receive fee for using his influence in connection with Government con- tract or any other type of lobbying Congressman Gene Cox of Georgia got caught taking S2,500 lobby ing fee in connection with radio station and it quired all the influence of Speaker Sam Rayburn and Cox's other friends Capitol Hill to keep the Justice Department from prosecuting.
 The Kentucky Congressmans lobbying may may not be in different category. Certainly it would oe interesting-and important-to know what the Justice Department thinks of Congressman who helped company with contracts and then re- ceived S4,000 in expense money for arranging the purchase of a lumber company.
 Whatever the law "Yiechel" May is a very versa tile
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
Merry-G Round.

WASHINGTON, July 6-It may be news to the Congressional colleagues of the Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, but to certain war contractors who made millions from the Army pious Rep. Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky was known as "Yiechel."
 "Yieche" is Yiddish and it means anybody" This undignifed name happened to be the code name which executives of the Erie Basin Metal Products Company used in referring to their chief Congress sonal friend in, Washington. Without him. it is be- lieved the Erie Basin Company never could have made it's lush war profits.
 AS head of. the powerful Military Affairs Com mittee, "Yiechef May was in a position to be ex- Army officers. He could have certain officers kept in the US.A. instead of being sent overseas. And he could have officers transferred who did not cooper ate with Erie Basin.
 At one time, Erie Basin executives had
 list prepared of different officers they had promoted or kept in the LISA. result Of "Yiechel" Mays
 influence It totaled about fifty The Erie Basin Metal Products Company, de- spite it's imposing name, sprang up from nowhere It didn't exist before the war It hadn't even ln- corporated at the time 1t got its big war contract Yet it was given $30000O0 order to manufacture Az mortar shells for the Army. Organizers of this amazing baby two almost unheard-of brothers: Murray Carson and Henry Carson. Murray Carson first became faint y known in Washington when he served in the Labor Department under Hoovers Secretary of Labor Will liam Nuekes Doak. He had an F.B.I. record a former associate of gangsters Dutch Schultz and OWney Madden, while his brother, Henry, was once charged by the Treasury with accepting S5000 brbe while serving revenue agent. Although acquitted by jury, Carson discharged from the Treasury
 Working with the Carson brothers Joseph Freeman. who operated the Washington office of the Erie Basin Company. It his job to take the generals and the colones of the War Department out to dinner, and to dance with their wives He did both to perfection. One dinner commemorating E-award to Erie cost $160O0-all paid for by the taxpayer.
 Strangely enough, some Of Freeman's checks, to the tune of S46,0O0, caShed by Sam Beard, famous Washington gambler. Some people Won dering whether letting a win in a gambling game way the Erie Company helped out its friends in high places.
 Another member of the companys staff Louis Sarelas, whose real name was Sarelachous and who served in the Army only six weeks, after which Congressman "Yieche" May got him out or. medical discharge
 One of the officers whom Congressman May hao
 transferred out of Washington, according to former employe of the Erie Basin Company, was General Paul X English Procurement Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service. Gen. English originally awarded the nortar-shel contract to Erie and, in testimony before the Mead Committee claimed they had done
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
Waterbury or the Past
25 Years Ago

A sudden cold snap dropped the temperature dowV 10 degrees
 / youth. shooting a p caliber rife in woods near the Chase Metal Works in Waterville. was wounded in the right arm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.
LETTER TO ADVERTISERS


 I couldn't seem to work my guile To get them with toothpaste
 smile; They could have got me (there's no
 doubt) With toothpaste smiles, or eke with
 out.
 I'm always nervous and I cough; Some cigaret will take me off But none my tickle taste ehdureS: It will be yours-and yoMs-and
 yours. There is a certain gasoline That gets me there and back,
 mean It is the one they always dump Into my tank from any pump. I've climbed no Alp and caught no
 fish,
 The Jungle never was my dish; I'm glad your rye, though I don t
 roam, Is also potable at home. I've bought it and bought it And bought it and bought it-- Whatever it is But We ain't got it"
 A law making it a criminal of fenSe to pay man to become a candidate or withdraw as a candi- date in elections will be sought from matter of fact, it's crime that some who don't get paid at all run. Fifty male students will be admit ted to Smith College next fall. They'll be lucky if they don't lose their shirts.
 Harvard is thinking of removing the Latin and Greek requirements for a Bachelor of Arts degree. Pretty soon the only classic left will be the one in November with Yale,
 The Scottish National Party has decided to ask the United Nations to support it's demands for Self-goy- ernment for Scotland The story We saw didn't say whether the demands include repatriation of that eel ebrated displaced person, Queen Eli zabeth
 Admittedly we don't know how in tarnation they're butchering beef critters in these days of bewildering cuts. But of one thing we're certain they're putting the moo in the ham burger.
 Tn the Middle Ages a stray note says, beer was the chief breakfast drink" And they probably didn't have to move seven milk bottles, a cream bottle. the mayonnaise jar and the rest of the lamb to get at it, either.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
15 Years Apo

An East End youth. swimming in ThomaSton. fractured his neck when he dove in shallow water
  Miss Mary Fully of Vermont Street vacationed in the state of Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
5 Years Aeo

Howard Daniels and sheila For tier of New Haven filed their mar riage intentions with the Waterbury Town Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05

Two persons were on the danger list at St. Mary's Hospital after they sustained injuries in falls from horses. Hospital authorities sad the two were thrown from their mounts when youngsters tossed fireworks near the animals feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05
MECHANICAL NOTE

The evening gown Split fore and aft Requires a certain Kind of shaft.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05

Tn the Middle Ages, stray note says, beer was the chief breakfast drink" And they probably didn't have to move seven milk bottles, a cream bottle, the mayonnaise jar and the rest of the lamb to get at it, either.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05

Admittedly we don't know how in tarnation they're butchering beef critters in these days of bewildering cuts. But of one thing we're certain; they're putting the moo in the ham, burger.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05

One of the officers whom Congressman May hao
 transferred out of Washington according to former employe of the Erie Basin Company, General Paul X. English, Procurement Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service Gen. English originally awarded the mortarshen contract to Erie and, in testimony before the Mead Committee claimed they had done
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05

WASHINGTON, July Cit may be news to the Congressional colleagues of the Chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee but to certain war contractors who made millions from the Army pious Rep Andrew Jackson May of Kentucky was known as "Yiechel"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-05

Another member of the companys staff was Louis Sarelas whose real name was Sarelachous and who served in the Army only six weeks, after which Congressman "Yiechel" May got him out on. a medical discharge.
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acting as career. The last line of
this advice about the Raft play
reads: ut willsbe the first time the
actor has attempted a legitimate
venture"
Walter Kerr's "Sing Out. Sweet
Land" did not fare as we'll as It's
admirers had hoped in its Theater
Guild production, but it might easily
be that it was the inspiration for
musical Paramount has in the
planning. Then again, the inspira-
ton might have had some other
source. At any rate the film planned
is one which offers every opportun-
ity in the world for freshness and
avoidance of the cliches of cinema
musicals. This one is to be based
on the autobiography of John A.
Lomax, to be published under the
title, Adventures of a Ballad Hunt
er." Mr.. Lomax, 1t should be gen.
orally known by now, is the man
who has spent IS years travelling
up and down the land seeking out
its folk music. He is the discoyerer
of such now well-known songs as
Home on the Range" and Mother
less Child" and more than 10000
songs of the people" discovered
and recorded by Mr.. Lomax and his
son, Alan, are filed away at the Lii
brary Of Congress. No matter what
comes Of 1t later. the picture GER
tainly has a musical score to start
with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13

Graham's daughter, Wendy, are the
newest romantic twosome.
y u X
Jane Bryan and husband justin
Dart have house in our town. II
you remember, Jane gave up one OF
the most promising careers in pic
lures when she married Dart. They
keep trying to lure her back to work
but the answer Is always mo.
The Darts have two children and
are very wealthy. The Ingrid
Bergman-Cary Grant picture, NO
torious," will be premiered for 1.-THE
Commanders Appeal Committee. y
The idea is to raise some Of the
$400l 900 required to help dependents
OF Commando casualties.
So many people were tested for
Life With Father"-Bette Davis,
Mary Pickford, Dorothy Stickney
and Irene Dunno for mother, and
Ronald Colman, william Powell and
Frederic March among the fathers
that some one had the bright idea
of making a short of all the tests
That's a feature I'm going to see
Bette Davis ages to rs in "The Life
OF Sarah Bernhart"-but she won't
look hideous, as she did as an ole
woman in 'Mr. Skeffington" Or a.
Queen Elizabeth in the picture she
made with Enrol Flynn. In that one
she shaved of her hair and eye
brows! That was being too realistic
Released by the North American Newspaper
Alliance,
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Commando Training Helps

have a Rembrandt--and q cook
says Jeanne. At the moment the
cook Is more appreciated. The
Brinkmans own three acres on tor
OF q Hollywood hill-but are start
ing small, with one bedroom, q
Kitchen and q dining room. The
kitchen will be an electrical dream
like the advertisements that have
not yet come true.
r X
Talking of servants, Myrna Loy
and Gene Markey have none. But
when she works, Jack Skirball
Frank Ryan and Bruce Manning
executives on her 80 Goes MY
Love" each lend her their domestic
for one day. week. =. When you
ask Dorothy Mcclure about her
home or her husband, she replies
That's my private life and I'm not
talking" Her Johnny Swope is in
Washington-still lieutenant in
the Navy. Had dinner with
Peter Lawford and I ask him why
he was not in New York with Van
johnson, as planned a few weeks
ago. It seems he thought twice
about the matter. IT wouldn't be
in New York at the same time as
Van Johnson" says Pete. He can
follow me; I won't follow him.
Peter Is being too modest. The
bobby-soxers 60 for him, almost as
much as for Van. Every time he
left his New York hotel, the police
had to accompany him-for protec-
ton.
Richard Greene and his wife, Pa
tricia Medina, at Ramonoffs. Pats
pretty. with huge black eyes. I I'M
derstand that Metro signed her
without bothering to test her first.
I. Geraldine Fitzgerald telling of
when she went back recently to
Ireland and how she was thrilled to
find her old home town station
master on the platform. HE
stretched his hand toward me and
shook it.. / thought he was con-
graduating me on my Hollywood
success" But it wasn't that at all.
The man did not recognize her--"He
just wanted my ticket" giggles
Geraldine. Jon Hall-a lucky
guy--he's married to one of the
incest females in town, Frances
Langford, is putting his wife's war;
time experiences into book called,
MY Wife's Diary" Claire
Trevor's son, Charlie, and Sheilah
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13
How Rains Became
Films Highest Paid

Claude Rains, who plays lead
ing role in Charles B. Rogers Angel
On My Shoulder" has learned some
thing staggering about income taxes
in England, especially as they apply
to the earnings of outsiders.
When Arthur Rank asked Rains
to go to England to act in his
Caesar and Cleopatra" Rains re-
piled that he couldn't unless his net
salary was $4,000. which, he said
was what he would make in this
country. Rank guaranteed that he
would net that much and in order
to make good is said to have had to
pay Rains $l.280,000.
OF course, the United States in.
come tax will further diminish that
but the experience gives Rains fans
4 chance to make the proudest boast
Hollywood fans can make-that
Rains has received the highest sal
airy ever paid an actor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13
By SheIioh Grohom
HOLLYWOOD.

Douglas Fairbanks, IT,, tells me
that he worked month to get in
shape for his leaps and swings In
"Sinbad the Sailor" MY training
with the Commands helped" says
Doug, who is also getting ready for
his first independent picture. II
have three lined up" he says. "All
of them in costume" The periods
range from the 10th to the 18th
century. I still wish the boy would
make some Of his pops popular pic
lures.
Maureen O'Hara had herself a
breakdown at Christmas, learn at
lunch in the RKO commissary. II
always thought those things were
exaggerated" says Maureen. But
three pictures in a row did it,
Jeanne Grain and husband Paul
Brinkman have been loaned the
luxurious Huntington Hartford
house until their own is built. I'VE
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Chester to Show
How It's Done
HOLLYWOOD,

I HOLLYWOOD.
The American Society of Magi.
clans has selected one of its owr
members, Chester Morris, to do 9
motion picture short illustrating
startling feats of legerdemain.
The footage will be used for in
struction purposes for embryonic
magicians and will not be shown to
the public, since members Of the
society attempt to guard the secrecy
of their feats.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13
Hitler Lives
In All Languages
HOLLYWOOD.

Warner Bros semidocumentary
Aim, Hitler Lives?" has been pre-
pared for distribution in China, with
the narration in Mandarin dialect
by Warner Cameraman James
Wong Howe.
Hitler Lives?" which also has
been prepared with commentaries
in Spanish. Portuguese and Ger
man, will shortly be prepared in
all languages to take care of the
world wide demand.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-03-13
Now Voyager'
Trio Reunited

Claude Rains has drawn a leading
role with Bette Davis and Paul Hen
reid in Warner Bros new psyche
logical drama, Deception"
Rains, who last played at Warmers
with Bette Davis in Mr.. Skeffing-
ton" will report for his role to Henry
Blanke, who will produce the film
for the Warner studio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-05-18
By w. Wordsworth Wood

The housing spotlight today is on
the returned veteran, and justly so.
Several millions of our young men
have come home to find that locat-
ing a job is only the beginning of
their readjustment to civilian life.
The greatest problem is finding a
place to live. The veteran is the
chief victim of the current housing
shortage, and the united efforts of
the Government and the entire
home building industry are centered
on the task of providing him with
shelter.
The home building industry has
made great progress since the close
of the war in reconverting to peace
time production, but residential
building is still insufficient to keep
pace with swollen demands. The
chief difficulty is the shortage of
materials. The squeeze between OPP
Grating costs and ceiling prices has
hampered industrial production, and
work stoppages have also enor-
mously cut back supplies.
In order to channel the essential
materials into the 100000 homes
for veterans scheduled for 1867,
the Civilian Production Administra-
ton has issued an order known as
VHP-1. This directive prohibits all
new construction or repairs to ex-
listing structures, except for low-cost
homes built for veterans and hard
ship cases." and certain necessary
commercial, industrial and farm
work.
Second Order Helpful.
Construction of veterans homes
and a limited amount of other
building is further stimulated by
another CPA order, PR-33, which