davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
Monsignor Traynor

Waterburians we'll remember the days when Msgr Mat thew Traynof who died this week in New Britain pas tor at St. Michaes Church in Watervie Father Traynor he in those days the early 1900s, frequent visitor at The Democrat office great friend of the editors and reporters Stories of his fendness and charm of man. have down to those who carry but not so much in the tradition of those days when Watervle reached by trolley horse and buggy, then gradually by the first Fords and other gas buggies
 Father Traynor man of splendid bearing and fine carriage with clear ruddy complexion which perhaps part of his Irish heritage He had pleasing accent and was an excellent conversatonast And like many profes sona and clerical gentlemen of that day carried cane which was his habit through life.
 Of rather recent years recall Father" Traynor in the late seventies and at eighty with the fine carriage hair turned white and the fine complexion; splendid figure immediately dressed in the sober black of his calling and carrying always. Father Traynor im- mensey proud of the enovaons he superntnded in New Britain and visit to the church years ago he showed with pride the fine interior which made St. Marys in New Britain of the finest churches in the state and Hartford diocese.
 When at St. Michae's in Watervle, Father Traynor was very fond church benefit entertainments and many friends from lower Waterbury oeyed up when there "show on at St. Mchaels. Father Traynor in the audience and usually got many laughs out of the entertainment he himself planned did the audience
 Monsgnor Traynors passing removes one of the oldest and distinguished priests of the diocese God rest his soul!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25

The President sends his greetings 10 the new Congress and says imitation is our worst enemy in which respect it has replaced the mean old Axis of Japan and Gemany.
 MT. Truman would please like to have the Price Control Law extended, and he would also like to have the Second War Powers Act amended
 So that ceiling prices could be put On old and new housing This is just one of the 57 other things he thinks needs oelousing.
 On Social Security and Health matters he sug- eess a number Of reforms that extensive and you guess it. Brother they going to be plenty ex- pensive.
 He wants Federal grants and loans for construc- ton of hospitals health centers and sanitation facilities sharing the expenses for these things with State and local governments according to their abii ties.
 He wants Social Security benefits for the self employed, the veterans. farm and domestic workers He's still trying to get that S25 for 26 weeks unem ployment compensation because he denies it will make shirkers.
 Mir. T. also thinks he should get what he asked for in the way of bill to provide full employment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25


 testimony of what he gave for his country
 He is back from his most costly battle-though life for Bob has been long series of never-endng battles. The first time I ever met Bob, he was battling It was at a press conference in the State Department and Bob Allen, red-headed, young, pep- pery, was shooting questions at Frank Kellogg regarding the Marines in Nicaragua. It was bap- tsm of sarcasm such as have not heard poured on any other Secretary of State
 Bobs battles were always for the underdog- Nicaragua, the little countries little business, the unemployed, the public which sometimes gets it in the neck No cause was too hopeless for Bob to champon--if it was just. He fought the battle for the Tennessee Valley project back in the Coolidge days when the power trust was omnpotent and no one ever dreamed IVA had a chance He fought terrific and continual battles against the big lobby ists and against graft and nefficency wherever it reared its head.
 Bob was always putting burrs under sleepy Sen- ators. He would walk into their offices pound their desks, and demand that they get out on the senate floor and fight. have seen him call the late Senator Borah of Idaho more names-half-seri- ouS f-n-jest-untl he had prodded Borah into going down to the White House to tell Roosevelt off regarding the aid his State Department was giving Fascist Spain.
 There was no battle. no matter how big or how tough, that ever faxed Bob Allen.
 But his first battle-and his latest-were with Hitler. The first occurred when Bob was young newspaperman in Munich, when Hitler, then a laughed-at agitator staged his 1923 putsch It didn't succeed and filed dispatches telling his papers of the implications behind this so-called crack-pot in the Brown House in Munich.
 And having been in on the first brief curtain raiser to this war, Bob was tching-even before Pearl Harbor-to get in on the real show Finally he wangled a promise out of the boys in the Pentagon Building that he would not be kept in swivel chair in Washington. but could get into combat.
 At first, Bob had hard luck. He spent more than year ill grueng military maneuvers in the swamps of Louisiana and the hot plains of Texas He helped train unit after unit only to them shipped over seas while he stayed home.
 At time he scheduled to go with Gen. Walter Kreuger to the Southwest Pacific. But General
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
THAT CHICAGO CASE
(Danbury News-Times)

1HS"S AAASSF
 Police in Chicago are completely baffled" as this is written as to the identity of the kidnap-killer of the little six-year old girl who was so brutally murdered there a few days ago. All the supposed clues the po- lice had gathered. the suspects against whom the police had air tight-cases" have been found to have nothing to do with the case. Hence the prosecutors, Sleuths and ordinary police are now engaged in "a thorough examination of large number of known sex offenders who have ever been accused of. or have been convicted of, offenses against children"
 This paragraph from a recent Chicago news story is in itself cause for much uneasineSs, for the aver age person. that is, who is unaware of the fact that men who are al- ways on the prowl for child victims are far more numerous than is real ized
 It is routine procedure after a child has been harmed for police to take in, for questioning. those who are known to be degenerates with a predilection for little children. Tn this Chicago case, from the very first, those familiar with criminal matters were convinced that the murderer was a degenerate, prob ably with a police record of offenses against girls and women. There are, unfortunately, as this Chicago news dispatch proves all too well, large numbers" of those whose records prove beyond a doubt that they should under no circumstances be allowed to roam the streets. They should be behind bars and walls where they could not imperil the safety of innocent children and de- cent women.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
The Children

The misery and want of tenement children brought ko the public attention December 14 1925 when Edward Martin Kingsbury wrote for the New York Times appeal ing and splendid editorial often quoted The House of a Hundred Sorrows" Mr. Kingsbury died at the age of nnetone years this week. It is significant that what he wrote twenty years ago might apply today The children today the subject of constant appeals. There is ing need to come to their assistance especially Europe and those countries ravaged by the
 It in their behalf that Pope Plus XII issued his special Epiphany encycica calling for help for the children Failure of response in their behalf would be serious mat ter, the Pope said.
 Mir. Kngsbury himself the youngest of ten chil- Aren. He editorial writer for sxtywo years for just two papers the New York Times and The Sun, and during those years in 1926 he Pulitzer prize win merng the award for the editorial mentioned above
 The death of Mir. Kngsbury coming at this particular time accentuates the fact of needest We have them in the home territory and daily the plight of the chi dren in warravaged countries is brought to attention Pope Plus has spoken strongly the subject encyca well worth reading. By all means let remember the children in want and misery
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25

action recently taken and the official craek-down on any more mass demonstrations
 The overseas CT now has the official word Of the Army. spoken on a eoast-to-eoast network by Gen. Eisenhower, that all men Of 45 points or with 30 months of service "w be discharged or on board returning ship by April 3O' and that all men Of 70 points, or two years of service will be out, or on the high seas. homeward bound. by June 3O
 The General by thus giving the ArTny's pledged word, passed a very hot potato to Congress. The Army says We need a million and a half men to hold uD our end in the zones of occupation. There are 2O00 miles of Germany and Austria to police. all of Japan and most Of the Pacific. he said. The territory must be patroed constantly. The shaFpest vigilance must be exercised against reaFming. sabo- lage. revolt We have billions of dollars worth of property that has to be carefully guarded.
 The best guessing is that we'll have to keep an array of occupation in Japan for at least genera ton. It may be as long, or longer, in Germany. The job according to the most careful official estimates calls for million and half men, as stated above, and, from current evidence and on the Eisenhower announced deniobxati0n scnedule we're going to bc far short of that number in a matter Of Weeks-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
By Peter EdSOn

His reasoning to be that this is the only way the country can have full enjoyment.
 The President does say that for the time being We can go a little slow on public works so as not to upset the reconversion economy by too many up- ward jerks.
 Another thing the President repeats is his de- sire for bill to determine if he should die, who when the line is established he take the next guy around by the hand and lead him.
 The Man from Missouri is still hot after having something done about our valleys-and it's a lead pipe cinch that if MV.A. ever does get fixed up lot Of guys he brought here go back there instead o. cluttertng up our Washington alleys.
 For the Pacific paradiseS of Hawaii and Alaska he recommends the 49th and 5Oth statehood, while for remote territories like Puerto Rico the Virgin Islands and Washington, D. C.. he says little more selfgov- ernment might do some good
 There is another appeal in the message for Army-Navy unification, continued Seective Service drafts. then universal training. But if Congress go for that load, when they get home next summer they'll have to do considerable explaining.
 The White House is pretty generous about want ing to everybody including Federal Workers, get a raise in pay. The minimum, the man says. should be 65 cents hour which is $5 plus 20 cents carfare for an eight-hour day.
 Oh. there just isn't anything you won't find in the Presidents latest State of the Union and Greater Combined Four-Ring Budget Message for the next fiscal year A permanent FEPC, repeal of the Johnson Act the St Lawrence waterway, loan to Britain and other atomic bombs-if there was any thing else he could have thought of, he'd have put it in, never fear.
 Tn spite of all that there is good news of a four billion start reducing the PTS billion national debt But as for balancing the budget, ehums not for other fiscal year or more yet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
Best Dressed Woman?

The New York Dress Institute recently announced the Eegue of it's annual poll to settle question which is no doubt Considered important in quarters lady in New York
 City has been selected by discerning observers as the best
 essed in the world and the decision has been given Widespread publicity.
 This Is no doubt distinction of sorts And perhaps preoccupaton of many persons with of this kind as place in the scheme of things in world heavily bur- dened with many weghty problems It provides an element q the trivial and thus supplements the abors of Donald Duck and Frankie Snatra to eaven the spirit of the popuace
 Otherwise this might become excessively depressed by anxiety arising from such living costs strikes he suherngs of millions, mans inhumanity to man and nt great imponderabIethe poenaliy of good of evil ..ahxaced in two fateful words-atomic energy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25

report, this correspondent gives lp.
 What this country needs isn't more and longer government re- ports, but shorter and funnier ones, set to music if necessary. If Sam RoSenman ghosted these, he ought to go home and in his place they should hire somebody like Ogden Nash. With apologies to Nash, the annual budget message might easily be condensed to pat ter with ukulele accompaniment, something like this:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

When my radio starts giving me advice I have a fine. clean impulse to bash in it's tubes" s"-Harriet Van Horne in the New York World Telegram.
 When the didactic. silken voice,
 Infallible and certain. Rides on the station of my choice,
 swear and hellow "Curtain!" Rather than do what it says to do,
 Never to error bending. I would prefer to CATCH the flu
 Or shatter the chair I'm mending. I am a stone to aired advice;
 am a dolt and know it: I am enraged when phrases nice
 Come from a seeming poet. Dealing with ills and children's ways
 Stains on the rug and scorches, How to arrange my nights and days
 Fixing my loves and porcheS. I am enraged and I know why;
 Using the ether's highway. They never face my wrath when l
 Brace for defending my way.
 Vermont granite cutters have agreed to a new wage scale after
 a strike that lasted only six days. The striking Green MOuntaineers, no doubt. were mortified when they looked around and found that they were in step with the rest of the country.
 A word of advice to the veteran who can't find a place to live for love or. money: Just drop a hint that what you're really looking for is site for UNO headquarters.
 Secretary of War Patterson has arrived in Germany from the Pa cific. That should still the ug'y rumor that he was being kept in the East until his replacement showed up.
 Premier Hakimi of Iran has re- signed. Are We to suppose that one of the signs of the times soon will be: "Hakimi and DeGaulle, Rugs"
 A tourist from Mdiania arrived in West Palm Beach, Florida, the other day in hearse, which he in- tends to live in while he is in tnA sunny south. Don't laugh at him: millions are dying to try one.
 Reconyersion Director John Sny Ter insists that price controls mus be maintained. That's impossible ml-s5 they find some way of sat
 7 C-0 with an IOU.
 It's funny that none Of these lists of ten best-dTessed men never carries the Little WOman'S" No. 1 choice: almost anyone ELSE who lives in the neighb0r hood.
 President Truman's combined message on the budget and the state of the Union was as large as a big city telephone directory. And it'll probably look like the one n the phone booth at the station by the time Congress gets through with it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
HOW WILL IT END?
CN. Y. World-Telegram)


 The steel strike looks like a tough one-a case of the irresistible force meeting the immovable object.
 People are asking, How will i. end?"
 We don't know.
 But we'll make a prediction:
 Eventually the union will get l8ls cents-the figure Mir. Truman pro- posed.
 The companies will get higher prices-thus clearing the way for them to pay the wage increase.
 The public will pay more for steel and for everything in which steel is used.
 The increased prices will materi- ally reduce the gains of those who
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25

the world knows by now. In fact, for trying to take a stance in the gath of the big black roller. I was duly bashed and banged about in the flying debris.
 Correspondence from the browned-off. many of the letters written with admirable restraint. some blazing with profanity and childish charges. continue to ar- rive faster than directiyes used to roll m from Washington. Most of them. at this point. however. srsa.sn atsrsffkaaa ..ssfl.s AA Ns.A AHffafal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25

toned 10 tho column, end nc was right. ft pointed the finger of suspicion at him as a possible news source for things I pub- .ished, which he certainly was not.
 But now that the war is over. 1 hope he won't get too lrked if nc is given a ride on the Merry 9o-Round.
 Bob Allen is back now, e little older, little thinner, a full- fledged colonel, several rows of battle ribbons across his chest,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
Views of the Press

get higher wages. They will cut more deeply into the incomes Of those who don't get higher wages.
 The settlement wont settle any, thing in the labor management dis pute.
 The union will win. The compan- ies will win. The public will lose.
 Watch to see if this doesn't hap Den.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago

The most amount of baby delly- cries made by one doctor in the city during the past year was rec ported at 245. The runner up figure was le9.
 Fifteen barrels of beer, eonfiseat. ed in a police raid, were poured in- to the sewer near Headquarters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
Message

WASHINGTON Jan. 25-After trying to stay awake till l a. two nights in to read President Trumans State of the Union Message and Director John Snyder'S accompanying
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
l6 Years Ago

That's That" musical comedy. was presented at Temple Hall by Chase Brass & Copper Company employes.
 Miss Margaret Degnan. was elect cd president Of St Mary's Hospital Alumnae Association.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25

WASHINGTON, Jan. as--Thls R a column have been wanting to write for a long tme Tts about my old partner, BOB ALLEN,
 During the war, Bob didn't want his name men-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
The $64 Question

My little attempt to puncture the gathering cy- clone by printing CT gripes in this pillar, reg ular schedule may have dune some good, but 1t didn't stop what the Indians call the Dancing Devil all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25
6 Years Ago

"Gone With The Wind" started Us long run engagement as Loew's Poll Theater.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25

Jacques chorus girls collected 6 lor the MRrch of Dimes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-25

President Truman's combined message on the budget and the state of the Union was as large as big city telephone directory. And it'll probably look like the one n the phone booth at the station by the time Congress gets through with it.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-06-28
HOME

Mrs. Harry Dirks, and infant son. Jerry William, were discharged from Bishop Rowe hospital Monday and returned home. Jerry William was born June 14, and weighed eight pounds. Mrs. Dirks is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Jerry Neilsen, and was raised in Wrangell. Besides the grandparents who are enjoying the little newcomers arrival are an un- cle and aunt, MT and Mrs. Howard Benjamin, visiting here from Anr chorage and, of course, the proud father, Harry Dirks, bartender at Moore's Cocktail Bar.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-06-28
s. ARMY LAUNCHES
NEW ORDER" Fl

NEW ORDER FOR CTS
 @AsEINGT0N - The U. s. Army .ea.s..ed military new order" ex- .l-euz this week narrowing social an8 other distinction between of- fieers and enlisted men. the seven points of the new order are.
 l. Abolition of saluting except on military posts, in overseas occupied areas and on certain ceremonial oc- casions
 9 Elimination of an existing re- quirement that officers wear dis tinctive uniforms, live apart from their men in garrison, and confine their social contacts to other off .cers.
 8. Granting enlisted men h e same privilege as officers. effective July l, in accommodating unused leave time, currently 30 days a year.
 f. Studies looking to a possible upward revision of pay schedules a. long with allowances for food, quar- ters and travel
 3. Measures to train officers get ter for leadership, assign them ''ia the best interests of the service, !" and ovrhaul the present system of promotions.
 6. Rewriting of regulations to de- fine essential privileges of officers and prohibit or minimize possible abuses of authority and restige."
 T. Efforts to improve the social facilities available to enlisted men.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-06-28
BAD NEWS FOR MOORE AND NELSON:
 TR0TTT TTNTT NTT

Bad news was received here for Charles "Minnow" Moore and pr. A. T. "Guppy'' Nelson, alleged trout catching champs of Wrangell. The news did not disturb Bud Jenkins and Lew Williams, Jr, who, as they explained, never got the limit any way.
 Word was received that a change in game fish bag limits goes into effect all over Southeastern Alaska at midnight June 30. The recent limit. 20 trout per day, is cut in half beginning July 1. Possession limit will be two daily bags, as now, but the total then will be only 20 fish.
 Jack o'Conner, Fish and Wildlife Game Management Supervisor. fs- sued a reminder that sorts fisher mems game licenses must be re- newed. The old license expires June 30 at midnight and those out fish ing after then must have the 1s46- 47 license ip their pockets. ., -.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-06-28
OPA GETS INJUNCTI0Ns
 AGAINST KETCHIKAN SHOPS

JUNEAU-Permanen injunctions against four Ketchikan shops deal ing in ladies aparel were issued on June IT during the U. s. District Court session in Ketchikan, En- forcement officials of Alaska OPA reported this week.
 Iniunctions restraining sale of goods at over ceiling prices were granted against Eden Abererombie, doing business as the Abercrombie ShoD. Herb Coleman. doing business ss Coleman's and Margaret E. Col lins' Maritime Goldsmith. operator II Marines: and Elsie O. Robinson. operator of the Style Shop.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-06-28
CATHOLIC DEVOTIONs The Rev. Fr. Goudie, S. J.

June 23, Second Sunday after Pentecost.
 Holy Masses on Sunday at 7:OO and 9;15 a. m.
 Holy Masses daily at 7:3O a. m.
 Servers for the week are Freddie Cunningham and William Wonders. Religious instruction for the child ren during the week Monday through Friday at 11:00 a. m.
 Mrs. Emma Case will decorate the altar for next Sunday.
 Benediction after the 9:15 Mass each Sunday.
 Friday is the Feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.
 Saturday is the Feast of the holy
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-06-28
PATRIOTIC SERVICE

The Presbyterian church, the Rev. J. L. Webster, pastor, will hold a special patriotic program at the regular service hour of Il o'clock Sunday in observance of Memorial Day. Subject of the Rev. Webster s sermon will be Does America Need A King?".
 Colors will be carried by Warren Simmons and Neil French, Jr. ana Mrs. E. R. Sharnbroich, organlst, has arranged a number of patriotic hymns for the occasion.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-06-28
MRS. GRANT A GRANDMOTHER

Word was received here that Mrs. Mary I. Grant, proprietor rof the Wrangell Hotel, is again grand mother to son born to her daugh- ter, Mrs Harold c. Thomas, on May 15. at Maynard Hospital in Seattle.
 The baby was named Robert Grant Thomas and weighed seven pounds 12 ounces at birth.
 Little Robert Grant joins an old CT brother, John Williams, in the family and the Thomas family Is at present making their home with Mrs. Thomas sister in Seattle, Mrs. A. R. Bruger.
 Congratulations all around to MT. and Mrs. Thomas and Grandmother Grant from The Sentinel.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1946-06-28
SCOUTS PROVE SELVES
 REAL FIRE FIGHTERS

The local Boy Scout troop, under leadership of George Lempke, proved their Scout training this week when they assisted in putting ont a bad brush fire on Mount Dewey. Re cent dry weather made the blaze a threat and the Scout troop used their Scout training in successfully putting out the blaze.
 Young Scout ''fire-eaters' who did the fine work are: Billy Churchill, Alfred Ogland. Ali Nore, Olaf Han sen, Fernando Yillarma, Freddie Angerman, Steele Ferguson, Kenny Mason. Danny Bigelow, Marion and Martin Newman. Don Clyper and AL len Ritchie.