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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02
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Enthusiastic approval will meet the affirmation by Supt of Police William Roach that the cys speed limits be rRidly enforced This is late but nonetheess praise worthy attempt control the mounting dgracefu record of highway fatalities in Waterbury
 The speed limit of 25 miles per hour will be consistent
 y and strictly" enforced according the superintendent In those two words"consistently and sricty-es the success or failure of the entire effort If the word goes out that there's be fixing of speeding raps and that the rule is to be enforced all drivers without discrimination the battle half If at the time, strict enforce men of the speed limit is effected we'll have busy day with voators and perhaps three days but the end result will almost be certainly be essenng of the appalling toll taken thus far in 1946 city's streets.
 And while the mnions of the law at it, let them cast at least an occasional glance in the direction of speeding axcabs whose record of fatalities may be clear but only because of the skill of the cab drivers the rec ord of frightened pedestrians were kept the taxi record would be far envab for Uums, 45 miles hour drv- ing complete unwgness to stop at pedestrian crossovers and eageness to either side of cars going m the same direction practise with taxi drivers
 Sup Roach is assured the support of aroused pubic indignation the twelve pedestrian deaths Waterbury streets His paromen should enthusiastically with his orders to all volators and stop the slaughter
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02

WARRINGTON Dec h-@lnere h Q hloRfahy~b1eW picture el Asw seAn k lswi eas been .rsnslsaly che coal strike.
 noah Government and industry ere aplM wide open on how Co handle Lewis, John t4 helne union dictator hes been able Co play olvlde-ano-oonQuef al over the lok Ills steady war ok nerves egaanst both the adminstrNslon and the operators A now beginning lo bear fruit
 Immediately after le became certain the strike was coming on, John l.. called Cyrus Baton Cleveland banker and asked him to come to Washington to help end the strike.
 Lewis next contacted Harry Moses head Of the Henry c. Prick Goal Company and boss of u B steels coal operations. Moses drove an night from Pittshureh in order Co be on deck in Washington next day for a four-hour session with Lewis.
 Lewis complained to Eaton at their first secret meeting that he was unable to contact anybody inside Che Government to negotiate deal, 60 Eaton became his liaison man Eaton whese Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad has Q vital Interest In coal and who has successfully influenced power politics immediate y got busy, Lewis told Eaton he was willing Co make deal but that he wanted to force the Government to postpone It's legal injunction and contempt pro- ceedings against him.
 Lewis also held two secret meetings with Q. g. steels Moses who operates more captive coal mines than anyone else in the world. At the first he pro posed that the captive mines sign an agreement with UNIV. which would keep the steel mills going This would have provided an open wedge for further negotiations with the entire coal industry Big Steel traditionaly sets the wage and price pattern for a coal
 Moses took this up with top .. s. Steel officials in New York and, two days later, again met with Lewis secretly The answer was that both O. s. Steel and Wall Street were split wide open on any possible deal Benjamin Hairless the corporations president, was in favor of the Lewis proposal but Irving olds chairman of U. g. Steel, opposed and separate deal with the miners.
 Meanwhile, ,Lews kept contracting other big op- orators Some of his contacts through his UNIV. subordinates-Tom Kennedy, Percy Tetlow and John T. Jones.
 Simultaneously, Cyrus Eaton, working from suite si6 of the Carlton Hotel here (Cordell Huls old apartment). talked to Reconversion Director John Steelnan via the White House private phone line to Florida Eaton also called White House Court Jester George Allen, a director of Republic Steel who was in New York He made the same proposition to each of them-namely, that Lewis would settle with the operators if the Government would quash it's legal proceedings.
 Steeman and Allen consulted privately by phone, then called Eaton back, told him they thought they could sell this line to President Truman provided Lewis signed contract guaranteeing uninterrupted coal production until the Spring of i948 Truman wanted guarantee of IS uninterrupted months of coal production, but Lewis flatH turned thumbs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02
Builders Challenged
by Thomas Stokes

on the job of building housing. Yet I don't fine any housing within range of our budget which private builders offering These things disturb me"
 She said she saw a statement by Rep. wocot CR. Mich) who says the Wagner Ellender-Taft Bill isn't the answer. but why didn't Mir. Wolcott think up an answer when the men were overseas and ex- pected to find a home when they got back2 The American Legion has voted to recommend that aH the emergency housing be liQuidated, which means those vetearns families living there and the college students would have to be evicted presume mem bers of the American Legion have their own homes now.
 We much better off than others for we have an apartment in one of the emergency projects others. is finishing his education in-Canother big city some distance away) and hold job here bee cause my mother can take of baby. Because We had a child, we were turned down at SO many to school that gave up trying If We had dog and not child we could have rented some nice places
 to force this sort of existence upon young people? You can't have family life without a home 1t is getting lot Of fine young people down and it is the easiest way b wreck young families"
 She spoke of the campaign against the reconvert- sd emergency housing such as that in which she and her husband have an apartment.
 "rt is two bedrooms living room bath ana Kitchen It was converted by the Government, so I was told by my husband from Army barracks which he lived in before he went overseas It is swell job Yet they say it Is waste of public moneys If these old barracks were expendable what better use could have been made of them than to house young fam ilies?"
 The young woman raises some interesting ques- tions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02
by DrssU PsarSOn

down on this proposal ne hoomed enc answeg over (he teleDhone iIoWeveH Ealcn made toW4 essee thes thls was Q wedee n the oosegnnlente hinkins ana the basA for hegotiAtoa
 MeamwhnA eAe Government eveA gAve Eawn AA unnollcsa ep.ofl that N might he wiling Co com. nFomlse lha court proeeedlhes when Aewb shewed uD belore Judge uoldsborough last Monday Asslst. ana Attorney uenerAl John sonneta henollng tne aoyNFnments case, told the court the Government Wolla not object to a poStponement Of the legal cases against Lewis f the miners went beck to woEk Tns was Lewis cue to SO back Into frantic private negotiations with the operators to swng a>new com tract
 Thls fnaelmR was done largely behind the back of Secretary of the Interior Krus, the man who H
 supposed to be In charge of coal for the uovsrnment This hlehghes ehe secret backing snc nne u.a % cs coal strike even threatened At one time, Attorney oenral Tom Clark refused to prosecute Lewis ae Krugs request and for some days bitter argument ragged between the Justice and Interior Deparments over legal proceedings
 On one occasion, a three-hour argument raged hack and forth between the Attorney General and warner Gardner Assistant Secretary of the Interior, over legal strategy with all kinds of names turning the atmosphere of Clarks office blue.
 Interior Department officials privately charge Attorney General Clark with being too much i'm. pressed with the legal ability of Lewis chief lawyer welly K. Hopkins, who went to school with Clark ln the Justice Department They also say Hopkins for time had hypnotlsed Clark, and that was why the Attorney General was loath to prosecute.
 However, President Truman has been strongly behind Secretary Krtg and believes that there must be showdown with John l.. Lewis. At one Cabinet conference both ReconverSion Director Steeiman and the Attorney General took position against Krug, but Truman emphatically supported the latter
 Krug has also had some fiery sessions with Lewis personally which haven't leaked out to the press.
 His last session was shortly before the strike. at which the Secretary of the Interior tried Co persuade the beetle -hrowed boss of the miners to agree to a 60-day strike truce, while the miners negotiated direct with the operators. Lewis however, refused. Blowing his top in rage he charged Krug with hold ing secret meetings with the operators without his knowledge
 Today, of course Lewis is doing just exactly what he then refused to do-namely, holding frantic, back stage talks with the operators whom he previously spurned. At this earlier conference however, Krue handed Lewis Q written memorandum for 6 proposed strike truce, whereupon the miners boss angrily stalked out of the meeting.
 Krug had earlier persuaded Charles 0Tseill, head of the Northern coal operators to agree to negotiate direct with Lewis, upon which the Government would turn back the mines to private operation. Tn the last week. Lewis has had his eisSares get in touch with oNeill and now, with a possible fine and iai sentence over his head Lewis finally talking thine over backstaRe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02

aoun an .Ala nropoeAl. me hoomed Che anuweg over lhe 1eleghona HoNegeH Raaon made toWa aHgee thAt shla wAs A wedee m the oovemnlente Minklns Nnd lha hnnln for neNnllAilon,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02
Curbing the Propaganists

Rep John Taber of New York has let loose some rather exravagant charges his declaration of against gov ernent press agentry He is off base when he says that propaganda sas tell the truth they help It, and he betrays sad ignorance of Washington newspaper he thinks that he suggests correspondents m the capital do nothing but rewrite handouts.
 At the same time he has sound complaint against some o the overlapping contradiction and deliberate unnten tona distortions that has been issued by the various govern
 mont departments However inclined to doubt that aboishing all most of the government information ana publicity departments would be the most effective remedy
 # seems to us that truly cabinet type of execu Apo administration with better defined and integrat sd policy amanatng from the top would abolish many or Eke information and propaganda excesses of which Mr. Yahor complains
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02
by Peter EdSOsr

be made public. But when the C. l. c. wants to do special study some particular subject or indus try and asks for these data in the other government agencies it runs up against stone wall covered with the poison ivy of red tape.
 U. s. Chamber of Commerce headquarters is find ing that many business men coming to Washington have been registering their fear that the new Repub can Congress-sore at John L. Lewis in particular and all organized labor in general-win pass anti labor legislation extreme it will do more harm than good.
 Labor isn't the only target for sharpshooters in the new Republican Congress. Democratic admins trations vigorous enforcement of antitrust laws is also likely to be attacked.
 Buyers strike against high Iiqmor prices being charged for the holiday trade Is the make to follow the same lines used by housewives to force down meat prices After oPA price controls went of and meat prices scared shoppers decided 50 cents pound is enough" and refused to pay more. Prices quickly dropped to 5s cents and even lower.
 similar concerted drive built around the idea of five dollars fifth is enough" is expected to get the same results Lifting of price controls on liquor all it took to put plenty of bonded goods on the shelves. That showed that hoarding wholesalers and/or dealers had plenty of good stun in stock and SIS a bottle A buyers strike. forcing prices down to more reasonable levels. would teach em lesson
 
 Postcard received from reader probably says a nouthful of what is on many peoples minds:
 President Truman has riled me repeatedly. Tn fact nearly every blamed thing he has done has made me mad. And yet you said what was in my mind when you wrote There probably never was man in the White House who wanted to do the right thing more than Truman Had been saying 1t. would have said that he has too wide a streak ok honesty successfully to play the New Deal brand of politics I'll probably be mad at him again, but like him.e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02
Capital Notebook

WASHINGTON, Dec 2-(NEAD-secretary of War Robert F. Patterson says current sentiment for reducing the military budget from $25 billion to slO SIP billion is merely another argument in favor of the merger of the armed services into department of national defense.
 When economy is the basis of military policy. the decision must be made by someone whether battle ships or bombers must be cut. No one in the armed services can now make such a decision
 So the matter is left to separate congressional appropriation sub-committees not qualified mili- tary experts to decide what the nation needs for ba anced national defense Under merged administra- tions, says Paterson. that would not happen.
 Army Air Force brass is now making big off the-record talk that if balancing and economy have to come they should be achieved tat the ex- pense of oldfashioned naval and ground forces eav ing everything fin the air"
 Sea forces would be limited to aircraft carriers, tenders and their protection.
 Ground forces would be all made airborne. Main reliance would be placed striking force of long range bomber. fighter. patrol and transport planes and service units
 New Deal Democrats-whats left of them-are now wing with Republicans to see who can hate MissssippIs Theodore G. BiIbo the most. Reason the Democrats are sore is that they figure Bbo cost them over a million and half votes in northern Congres- sonal districts where there were many Negro voters and where Republican candidates won those votes defeating Democrats on "the Bilbo issue"
 One of the big dfhculties of the governments new hush-hush, super-duper central intelligence group is trying to get information out of other gov- ernment agencies. Nearly all government agencies get a lot of information on confidential basis Treasury gets income tax returns. for instance.
 Commerce. labor, agriculture. interior and all the civilian agencies get trade secrets and business statistics in the sae way, on condition they will not
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02

something or an expert. It IS not unusual 10 read that such a gentleman heartily endorses "whiff Cigarettes" His opinion will be sought out on the UN marriage. the future of democracy and tooth- paste. Millions may promptly take up the smoking of "Whin Cigarettes" assail the UN laugh at the comments on marriage. cheer for democracy, and may even go so far as to resolve to brush their teeth with the recommended toothpaste.
 We are terribly impressed by experts. The advertisement men, who shrewd in their know ledge Of human foibles make the most of this. People with a cause quick to grab for endorse.
 ments. And the dear public have their intelligence
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02
Copyright lO4s by John F. bile Cd

Too much attention has been given to the need for laws to regulate this or that practice of labor or management and not enough to requirements for the survival of our form of economy and society which test whether laws are in the public interest.
 -Dr. F. Wight Bakke. Vale U.
 econonist.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02

WASHINGTON, nec. A-laere h Q hlsW-hy.blew picture ef how 1ohn k EeWB hes been lFentlcaily working behind she scenes 0 effect settlement oi the coal strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02

WASHINGTON. Dec. a-The controversy that goes at the top here policy major pressing matters often obscures the plain and simple problem that directly involved for millions of people down below.
 It is so with veterans housing, now uppermost.
 It is easy to lose sight of the individual really attracted It is helpful and timely to get his view point For that there reprinted here excerpts from a most Illuminating letter written by the wife of veteran in a big city. It can be taken to speak for many who are plagued with the same problem
 why" she asks, lis there such a campaign of propaganda under way in the newspapers on the radio and in Congress against the Governments build ing homes for folks whose income is so very low?
 My husband is a veteran We kept spirits up for nearly four long years through the grace of God and the thoughts of home Not a swanky one which they clutter up Florida with Only a small apart ment or flat they called here up North.
 Until he came back kept him posted on what Congress was doing toward making homes possible. I read and re-read bill called the Wagner -Elender- Taft measure. It sounded good to both of us. didn't know how these homes would be built but had worked in aircraft plant and shpyard during the and the Government build houses and barracks overnight almost So, didn't why the Government couldn't do the job over again.
 'when I go to real estate offices where they have only old houses at prices not out of 500 veterans could afford and ask them when this building of apartments will start they laugh and say When the Government gets out of the building game an6 lets us do it.
 If mention that housing is being built in Eng land they get quite excited and ask me: Do you want Communism here?' Which doesn't make sense because England isn't Communist. They they hand me a pamphlet called 'Hghlights' which blasts the Government for wasting taxpayers money by taking
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-12-02
Catholic Thought and Opinion
Experts and Mysteries By REV. JAMES ,. SULLIVAN
THE EXPERTS

You still shallow The haneer-on at the tracks all the horses that the field he position the finish of the the his weight His knowledge of
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-07-12

er, John D. New. named in honor
of the hero who died in action
with tie US Marines during the
Invasion of the Palau Islands.
was made the occasion for a two
day celebration, one of which was
John New Day as proclaimed
by Mayor Ernest M. Megginson.
Pc. New was the son of ] J.
New of Mobile who IS a brother
Of Mrs. Krebs and an uncle of
Mrs. Butler. He was awarded
the Congressional Medal posthu
mously and this was received for
him by his father at Pensacola,
Fla, June %, 1945. Pfc. New was
the first Mobiban 10 enlist in the
Marines following the Jap at
tack on Pearl Harbor. His death
occurred in 1914 when he DELHI
erately hurled himself upon a gre
made in order 20 save the lives
of his comrades.
The John D. New was re-
Gently commissioned at Orange,
Texas, and open house was kept
on it during its two day stay q
Mobile.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-07-12
Develop Horn Island

Buildings and improvements on Horn Is
land, built by the u. S. Army during war
time experiments there, will soon be declared
surplus, we understand, and put up for sale.
This offers a fine opportunity for Pasca-
goula, we believe, and certainly one that the
city, in cooperation with citizens and civic
groups, should take advantage OF. This is po-
t~entially one of the finest recreation areas on
the Gulf Coast with its fine beaches, pound
ing surf, and unexcelled fishing.
Already one club, we understand, the XII
wants, is laying plans to secure a part of the
facilities for a proposed boys camp. This is
an excellent idea, but the opportunities be-
yond this are limitless.
Properly developed the island and Pasca-
goulal could become one of the tourist mec-
cas- of the South. The city and island to-
gether offer everything and more Except
q hoteD than any resort we know of has to
offer. The islands beaches have to be seen
to be appreciated but for those who have
not seen them the writer can assure you that
there are none finer. On the Gulf side of the
island is surf bathing, on the sound side
equally fine beaches with clear, sparkling
still water for those who do not care for the
more trenuou surf bathing. Year-round ex-
cellent fishing, duck hunting in the islands
lagoons what more natural assets could
1t have?
We believe that the city and Chamber of
Commerce should Immediately appoint a
committee to investigate the feasibility of
such q development.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-07-12
Senate Investigation

Evidence before the Senate war investi-
cations committee at Washington continues
to link the name of Representative Andrew
May of Kentucky. chairman of the House
military affairs committee, with the activi-
ties of the Batavia Metal Products Company,
whose wartime operations, to put it mildly,
stink"
Payments by the war profiteering combine
to a Kentucky lumber company for lumber
not delivered, with cancelled checks cover
ing the payments containing the endorse
ment of Representative May; reports of con-
versations in which Representative May put
pressure" on the Army's ordnance division
for munitions contracts for the Batavia con-
Germ, and unmerited award of the Army "E"
to the concern at the behest of Representa-
tive May, are a few of the links in the chain
of evidence that has been uncovered so far.
Representative May has defended himself
on the floor of the House with such plati-
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-07-12
Meeting of Tigop0
Class At Home Of
Mrs. !. a. Browne

The Tigapa Grass OF the Cal
vary BAPTIST church held its
monthly meeting with Mrs. j. A.
Browne, 7l2 Roosevelt street,
Pascagoula, Tuesday evening.
July 9.
A nominating committee COM
posed of Mesdames J. A. Browne,
j. B. Mccullough and H. c. Max
well submitted its report which
was accepted.
The following were then elect
ed to office: Mrs. M. S. Varnado,
teacher; Mrs. r. c. Kemp, presi-
dent; Mrs. j. A. Browne, mem
bership vice president: Mrs. J..
b. Mccullough, class ministries
vice president, Mrs. C. L. Biee,
stewardship vice president; Mrs.
Harvey Ladnier, secretary; Mes
DANES II. c. Maxwell, r. B.
Knight and Johnnie Green, group
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-07-12
Mt. Pleasant WSCS
Continues Study Of
Africa In Meeting

Tl,a Mt. pheasant Methodist
Women's Society of Christian
Service met on Monday with Mrs.
r. NJ. Roberts with IA members
present for further study of the
continent of Africa.
Mrs. Q. C. Roberts gave some
interesting information to the
group which she had obtained
from her sons, the Rev. @. c. Rob
erts. Jr., who is a missionary
to the Belgium Congo. Mrs. Lloyd
Golf and Mrs. Maurice Taylor
also contributed to the discussion
from information they had obtain
ed by a study of the continent.
AT the business session, it was
voted to send a gift to Miss
Maude Roberts, member of the
society who is i'll, and a card to
Mrs. c. M. Taylor and Mrs. Den
yer LYONS, who remain unable to
attend the meetings because of
illness. A report was also given
on local work done since the last
meeting.
Mrs. Roberts served iced
drinks to the assembled group
and tho next meeting will be held
with Mrs. Norris Roberts, il was
announced.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-07-12

then estimated that if only 10
percent of these were delinquerts
they would reach the amazing
sum of 400 children.
According to him. the police
force is inadequate to cope with
the situation; and their job
should better be to prevent than
to punish.
What is needed in Pascagoula
is to set aside enough money to
pay a trained worker to take the
problem in hand, according 20 the
speaker who concluded his talk
with the statement that both
adults and children are to blame
for the situation.
The hostesses, Mrs. N. c. Re
Were and Mrs. r. E. Stacks served
a refreshment course.