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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09
Gamblers
 M Morooned OnCosino

Long Beach, Cal, Aug. eCUPD- Fifteen hundred gamblers were ma- rooned today aboard Admiral" Tony Cornero Stralla's gambling ship Lux, apparently pawns in a battle over its operation.
 STalla, arrested yesterday just 49 hours after the ships fabulous opening, refused to allow use of his Water-taxis or taxi crews to remove the patrons from his floating ca sino.
 You impounded the boats; you get them off he told officials.
 Long Beach police last night stop ped service to the ship, anchored five miles offshore, by arresting the taxi crews, but offered immunity for removing the patrons. Stralla and the water taxi operators re- fused the offer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09
State Officials
 Ordered to Shave 'SwindIe Sheets

Hartford, Aug. 9-OP)-Travel- ing state officials were warned to- day they'd better go easy on their so-called "swindle sheets
 State Finance Commissioner James B. Lowell estimated that bills for travel and hotel accommoda- tions run more than s200,000 a year. This is too much" he said, we're going to cut it down"
 Lowell said he was going to eye with scepticism requests for travel authoriza tions-es especially seasonal ones. Tt seems that in the Sum- mer there are many conferences and conventions which must be at tended in various shore Localities and resort spots" commented the com- missioner, while in the Winter business calls from Florida and Cal ifornia."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09
Current Films
 Time Schedule

LOEWss sTRAND-"Smoky": Zoo, $50, 6:35, 9:3OP. M. Tt Shouldn't Happen to a Dog: 2;S5, 5:25, 8:10 P. M.
 LOEW'S POLI--"Centennial sum mer": 2:3O, $50, 9:15 P. T. "Deadline for Murder: 1:10. 4:30, ::50 P. M.
 WARMERS STATE - Night and Day-.: 1:3O, 4:OO, 6:3O, 9:1O P. M.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09
Hospital Bulletins

Ten-year- Barbara GOthburg of 164 Plaza Avenue was dis charged after treatment at Wa terbury Hospital shortly before II A. M. today for deep laceration of the left forearm sustained In a fall on barbed wire fence near her home
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09
FUNERALS

The funeral of William DreScher, 39 Edgewood Avenue was held yes terday from the Clark Funeral Home. the Rev. Robert A. Heyden- reich officiating. Burial was in new Pine Grove cemetery. Bearers were Herman Strumpf, John Yost, Hans Wilhaus and James Polanis.
 The funeral of Rocco Capobianco (also known as Bianco) IS Sims bury Street will be held tomorrow morning at from the Colasanto Funeral Home. 923 Bank Street to St. Lucy's Church at 10. Burial Will bein Calvary cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today from to 10 P. M.
 The funeral of will be held Sat urday morning at g o'clock from the Convent of the Holy Ghost, 579 South Main Street, to Our Lady Of Mt Carmel Church for a solemn high Mass at 10. Burial will be ln St. Marys cemetery, Putnam.
 Sister Isabelle of Jesus CLlnford1 died yesterday at St. Mary's Hospl- tai.
 The funeral of Giovanni Battista Craft. 261 Willow Street. one of the original members of the Fulton Am erican Band. will be held tomorrow at from the Maiorano Funeral Home. 95 Willow Street, to our Lady of Lourdes Church for holemn high Mass at 10. Burial will be in Cal vary cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home today from 10 10.
 Members of Court Verdi Forest CTS of American, will meet in front of the funeral home at o'clock tonight.
 The funeral of Clarence Carr Quinn, 225 Colonial Avenue, took place yesterday at the Alderson Funeral Home, TO Central Avenue. Burial was in Hillside cemetery Torrington Bearers were Stanley Hopkins, Chris Harmon, Eugene
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09

Sweeney, John Burns, Edward Red den and James Curran.
 The funeral of Dr. Arthur F Mcdonald, 138 East Main Street will be held from the Bergin Flu neral Home, 290 East Main Street tomorrow at 8:30 A. M. to the I'm maculate Conception Church at for a solemn high Mass of requiem Burial will be in old St. Joseph's cemetery Friends may call at the funeral home this afternoon and evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-09

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Evening star., 1946-11-01
Leonard P. Ayres

1t is fitting that Leonard P. Ayres
should be buried in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery. He served his
country we'll in two periods of crisis.
In the First World War, with a
coloneps rank, he was Chief Statis-
tical Officer of the Army, and in the
last he was brigadier general op-
Grating in much the same capacity
until his retirement in 1914. But
this service-though highly impor-
tant-represented only part OF the
career that made him stand out
among Americans for useful and
constructive citizenship. AS a young
man, he devoted himself to teaching,
but later moved into railroad and
banking circles, rapidly winning a
reputation for his uncanny ability to
forecast economic trends. A vice
President of the Cleveland Trust
Company, he will be remembered
particularly as editor of the COM
pany's celebrated Monthly Business
Bulletin" and as author OF numer-
Gus books and pamphlets that
stamped him as an economist OF the
first rank. Few men did more to
translate economies into language
that could be understood by the
general public. Learned himself, a
master of charts, graphs and figures,
he placed his specially within the
Evening star., 1946-11-01

To pursue the previous argument re-
garding the difference between what Is
sinful" and what is unlawful:
We start with the proposition: war
is sinful" We then modify 1t with
qualifying adjective: Aggressive war is
sinful"
I worry about that qualifying adjec-
tive. For to translate the simple propo-
sition. war is sinful into war is ur-
lawful" is much simpler.
Regarding Germany and Italy, we
have said, aggressive war is sinful, ana
In the Judgment of the tribunal OF those
aggressed against. is unlawful therefore
we shall hang your national Leaders ana
disarm you both forever"
: Thus, in the case Of the Axis powers,
all war has become unlawful, whether
of defense or aggression. since hence-
forward these nations shall not possess
means for waging any war.
II we wanted to generaliZe that judg-
ment, we would therefore propose: War
being sinful it shall be made unlawful
and no sovereign state may hereafter
possess the means of waging war, name
Iy armies, navies, armed airplanes, "
bombs, or any weapons, except such as
are in common use for protecting the
law within states.
We should then create some supra
national (not internationally instrument,
not to enforce peace, but to enforce dis
armament. This. of course, would de-
fine aggression. The aggressor would be
any one who re-armed or started to re-
arm. Since there would obviously have
to be a supranational police force, no
state would have chance to commit
aggression. This Is the implication in
the Baruch report. although the Baruch
report leaves many loopholes.
do not see how aggressive" war can
be defined or controlled apart from all
war. It has always been easy to stir up
border incidents as an excuse for quell-
ing nonexistent or provoked aggres-
sions. In contemporary times, states
have stirred up internal dissensions
within other states to capture their
governments by organizing political fac
tions and, having overthrown the gov
ernment in favor of a Trojan horse
cabinet, have annexed the state and oc-
cupied it with armies, as the result OF
an invitation
To my mind, the most dangerous judg-
ment in the Nuremberg trial was the
acquittal of Won Papen. the engineer Of
the Austrian coup d'etat, and on the
ground that his sort of conquest is not
a crime under the Nuremberg indict-
ments. On that argument, had the
Austrians resisted, they would have been
the aggressors!
Now being unable or unwilling to de-
fine what is sinful act and thereby to
translate what Is sinful into what. is un-
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Letters to The Star
Sees USO Activities Declining
Toward Eventual Close

TO the Editor Of The star:
Within the past few weeks you have
published two letters regarding the
USO, one asking why continue this
wartime agency now that peace has
come. and questioning Its inclusion in
the Community Chest; the other detail
ing and praising the services which the
UsO still performs for the boys in
uniform.
In this connection the Washington
public SHOULD realize that the USO
is being closed out as rapidly as condi-
tions permit. At its wartime peak there
were more than 5000 UsO centers, or
operations, in existence; the total is now
under 600 and will be down to $50 within
a comparatively short time. AL opera
tions will be closed by the end of 1947.
There will still be 100000 GIs to
serve in 1947, and it is impossible to
liquidate this service all at once. The
number Of operations in and around
Washington, D. c., is much less than at
the peak. In addition the committee Of
which am chairman after a study Of
more than six months, has recommended
that several other operations be closed
within the near future, and this recon-
mendation, favorably passed upon by the
USO Council Of Washington, is now
being studied by the regional office.
ALBERT w. ATWOOD,
Chairman, Demobilization and Adjust
ment Committee, USO Council Of
Washington.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson

lawful. we are creating a category OF So
called crimes which do not consist IN
what any one or any state has COM
mitted, but in being what they are.
Spain, under Franco, is accused OF
menacing the peace, not because Franco
Spain has waged international war, but
because it was friendly to the enemy,
within acknowledgement limits, during the
late war. and is Fascist state. Its crime
is to be Fascist.
When we move into such an area OF
Judgment, we are moving away from
any possible agreement in definition OF
international crimes.
A Russian writer recently defined as
Fascist every one who is opposed to the
Soviet Union" An American or British
definition of fascism would include dc
tatorship-but not Russian definition,
which would include any dictatorship ex-
cept of the proletariat. In Russian def
nitions, there is whole range of fas-
cisms: "Social-fascism," ''crypto-fas-
cism," "neo-fascism," clerical fascism. ''
And under one or another head come
the social democratic parties, all parties
that refuse fusion with Communists. all
capitalists and monarchists, the Vatican
and the Catholic church, the zionists.
and the British Empire. 1t seems that
peace, in the Soviet and Communist
view, is to achieve the liquidation of all
these manifestations of "fascism," with
the political and armed support of the
U. S. S. r.
Citizens of western powers are in
danger of following the Soviet lead,
and of defining as aggressive" and
''menacing to the peace" any Commu
mist state. This is partly a natural
reaction Of alarm caused by specific
acts. But do not see how commu-
nism as such can be defined as crime
any more than fascism or any of its
hyphenates can be.
Law must be specific; any law that
attempts to Judge and condemn peo.
pie for what they are, not for what
they have done. is lynch law, that is
to say no law, and ends up by justify
ing the most atrocious deeds on the
grounds that the victim is ipso facto
an enemy of the people.
Communist practices can be prohib-
tied within the domestic jurisdiction
of States, but no law can prosecute a
belief as such. Specific international
practices can be forbidden by Fascist,
democratic and Communist states,
equally, but you cannot prosecute a
person for believing in anything, be-
cause to prosecute a thought and not
a deed is not prosecution but persecu-
ton.
If we don't set our minds straight on
a few matters of this sort, we shall be
in for a most horrible age when every
body will be numbering every one else,
all in the name of Tasting peace"
tReleased by The Bell Syndicate, Inc)
Evening star., 1946-11-01

situation which, In default OF defin-
tive treaty settlements, permits
Russia to keep Its occupation forces
and intensity the political and eco
nomic pressure that integrates its
satellites with the Soviet Union.
From this aspect, rupture of rela-
tions might be playing Moscow's
game.
Yet, acquiescence in satellite de-
linquencies would involve such grave
surrenders of principle as would deal
a body blow to American and British
prestige and influence, not only in
Eastern Europe and the Balkans but
in the rest of Europe and the Orient
as we'll.
In a sense, 1t is thus a choice Of
evils with which Washington and
London are confronted.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Hotel Settlement

The satisfaction with which both
parties to the hotel strike have vel
coined the settlement Of that dispute
will be shared generally by the
members of this community. It Is
hardly possible, however, to look at
the terms Of settlement without COM
ing to the conclusion that this strike,
as is the case with so many strikes,
was both wasteful and unnecessary.
To achieve the settlement, conces-
sions were made by both the man
agement and the union. It is clearer
now than ever that the major issue
at stake was that of wages, and the
figures finally agreed on with respect
to wage rates fall between the man.
agement offer and the proposal made
by Conciliator Clyde Mills. In addi-
ton there were compromises on two
fringe issues which will have some
effect on operation costs, and which
will be equivalent therefore to a
further wage increase for some of
the employees. The remaining issues
within the area of compromise will
not add to operating costs, the union
having abandoned other demands
which would have increased the
hotels overhead. In all probability
the sum Of the added costs will not
exceed the amount which the hotels
had claimed was the most that they
could pay.
There are perhaps two lessons to
be drawn from this experience. One
is that, in a more reasonable atmos-
phere, 1t should have been possible
to settle this controversy by nego-
tiation without strike. The second
has to do with the need for stand
ards which would encourage resort
to arbitration once a deadlock has
developed. In this instance the
hotels resisted arbitration, except on
limited basis, for fear Of incurring
liabilities that they could not afford
to pay. Assuming the correctness of
the claim with respect to their ability
to pay, the position taken was not
unreasonable. Had it originally been
given the weight which the union
seems to have given 1t in the final
settlement, there should have been
no serious difficulty in coming to
agreement on the conditions of
arbitration.
In the heat Of controversy 1t will
never be easy to achieve the reason
ableness of attitude on both sides
which is essential to rational adjust
ment Of labor disputes. Nevertheless,
1t is an end which Is becoming ever
more desirable and toward the at
tainment Of which every effort
should be exerted.
Evening star., 1946-11-01
Battle for Congress
Bv Ray,n ond Moiev

At this writing, the contest for Sem
ate control Is so close that John l..
Lewis negotiations with the Government
may decide 1t. Harley M. Kilgore's seat
in West Virginia may tip the balance.
Thirty-five Senate seats are to be
decided in the forthcoming election.
This eliminates the complimentary"
terms to run between election and Janu-
ary 20, 1947.
Six of the IS contests are in the South.
where election is automatic. Eleven are
in Tennessee Arizona, Rhode Island,
Utah. Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
Nebraska, Vermont, North Dakota and
Connecticut, where the outcome is cer-
tain and where the results Will not
change the party proportions IN the
Senate. Almost the same certainty Is
present in Nevada, Maryland and 'NeW
Jersey. In these States, also, no change
in party is involved.
This leaves Is seats where changes
in party affiliation are probable or pos
sible. Of these Is, two Republican and
13 Democratic seats are at stake.
The present Senate alignment Is 56
Democrats, 80 Republicans and one Fro
gressive. Republicans must hold their
present seats and gain 10. 1t is not
certain that they will retain two OF their
present seats, and SO in our calculation
we must start at rock bottom, with 81
virtually certain seats. To these we
can, with practical certainty, add those
in wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Delaware. That brings us to Al.
\ X
Beyond that, considerable doubt sur
rounds the remaining II contests-in
California, Kentucky, Missouri, New
York. Massachusetts, Idaho, Wyoming,
washington, Montana, New Mexico and
west Virginia. Reliable and impartial
observers in these States have told this
reporter within the past two days that
Republicans have the edge in Kentucky,
Missouri, New York. Massachusetts,,
Idaho and washington and that the
outcome is extremely close in California,
wyoming, Montana, New Mexico and
West Virginia.
since Republicans must win In eight
Of these States, 1t is only fair TO point
Evening star., 1946-11-01
A Gracious Turnubout

A lot of groups are assuming dog
matte positions on lot of questions
these days. The Executive Com
mittee for the District plebiscite
November might in good conscience
have done the same thing, sticking
to its guns on the question of desig-
mating race in registering amateur
Washington voters next Tuesday.
The only purpose of the proposed
breakdown into categories OF race
and sex was to answer the inevitable
questions by members Of Congress
when they get back here is Janu-
ary and begin looking into the
plebiscite.
In The Stars opinion, however,
the Executive Committee was wise
In its decision to drop the question.
It was gracious and dignified in the
manner of it's reversal. Those whose
hard work has made them most
familiar with the work of arranging
local plebiscite and who anticipated
the value of compiling basic statistics
on the voters, after hearing the
objections, were the ones who moved
that the turnabout be unanimous
and their good grace was indicative
of the spirit of unity with which all
preparations for the plebiscite are
being carried out. The plebiscite
is not worth injuring the sensibilities
of thousands of good citizens who
are working for its success.
The purpose of the plebiscite is a
dramatic demonstration of the dis
graceful anomaly of denying, to this
community Of intelligent, self
respecting Americans, all rights OF
representation in their own Govern
ment. 1t is being held to give
washingtonians chance to speak
for themselves on whether or not
they want to vote. All other issues
are incidental.
We are depending on makeshift
voting machinery, manned by mex
perienced but willing volunteers.
There are no funds, beyond those
which the Board of Trade may be
able to solicit from contributors, to
meet expenses. There are no elec-
ton laws. Everything being done is
the result of somebody's willingness
to help. And If the plebiscite can
register a substantial turnout of
voters, if we can make demonstra-
ton of good d-natured unity in march
ing to the polls on Tuesday, burying
our many differences of opinion in
the meantime, the plebiscite will
have been a success-and helpful
Evening star., 1946-11-01
This Changing World
By Constantine Brovn

war. Neither did he mention. except IN
casual and very general manner,
that together with the abolition of the
atom bomb there should also be a
drastic reduction of all other arma-
ments.
On the other hand, Mr.. Austin en-
phasized that disarmament, to be really
effective. must be general. This means
that all the nations should agree to re-
duce to strict minimum their technical
research. their producing plants
and their manpower under arms. AL
though the U. S. S. r. does not yet
nave the know-how Of the atom bomb,
1t Is believed in responsible quarters in
Washington that the work of their
scientists in other fields such as bac-
THEOLOGICAL warfare is more advanced
than ours.
The United States and the other nom
totalitarian countries have no such re-
striction. In the event a disarmament
agreement were reached, this country
would be only too glad to open all its
factories and laboratories for the in
spection of the representatives OF the
u. N, although there are few military
secrets in this country which are not
already known to the rest of the world
and particularly to the u. S. S. R.
It is hoped in responsible Government
quarters here that tine representatives
il. of the 81 nations gathered in New York
now will appreciate the overwhelming
importance CT the question OF arms
limitations and will decide to make it
the main issue of the General Assembly.
This would give the Soviet government
a chance to show whether 1t is using
the fine words of Prime Minister Stain
and Foreign Minister Molotov as mere
propaganda to obtain certain obJectlyes,
such as the ban on atom bomb manu-
facture, of whether the Russian leaders
really mean to organize lasting peace
by having U. N. drastically reduce and
control the military forces of the world
If Russia accepts the proposals OF the
United States chief delegate at the
U. N, there is no question that the
present meeting in New York will be-
come milestone In world history.
If, on the other hand, Moscow at
tempts to dodge the issue, the meeting
will become another international pa
laver similar to those we witnessed at
Geneva for so many years.
Evening star., 1946-11-01

There is a hope--and possibility
that the debates of the U. N. General
Assembly will place primary emphasis
on the question of disarmament rather
than matters which fundamentally are
of secondary Importance.
The giving of much time to diplo-
matte formulas, or matters such as
Spain or the merits Of the veto. is put
ting the cart before the horse. This
will not cure the worlds ills. AS In the
past, they are today the direct result
of the existence of strong and sggres-
sive military nation. or group of ma
tions, at time when others have re-
turned to peacetime military normalcy.
In the past international agreements
and treaties have crumbled under the
impact Of bayonets, and there is no rea-
son to think that this will not happen
again.
The only real cure for the worlds
troubles is a drastic and genuine re-
duction of all military forces and war
potentials by all nations, regardless OF
size.
The u. N. Charter provides for the
creation of an international police force
to be rushed to any troubled area.
II X
In his reply to Foreign Minister Molo-
toy's so-called disarmament proposal,
American Delegate Warren Austin
pointed out that the work of the U. N.
Military Staff Committee had been
stymied for the last six months by the
Russians. He said the Soviet members
of the committee had showed lack
of cooperation toward the committee
which was provided for in the U. N.
Charter to deal with aggressions in an
international manner. The American,
British, French and Chinese members
of the staff committee had hoped to
have some concrete results in time for
the present meetings in New York. AS
it is. because of the difficulties raised
by the Russian officers, they are in no
position to present even the draft OF
a plan.
Mr.. Molotov has stressed the impor-
tance of the abolition Of atomic energy
for war purposes. But he did not men,
ton, even by implication, the main
principle for universal reduction OF
armaments-the right of the new inter-
national organization to inspect the
military establishments and the heavy
industries which produce weapons OF