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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
SNOWY PEAKS

The Cascade range. running through Washington and Oregon from the Canadian border to Cali- fornia, has ie major snow.oF glae' ieT.elad peaks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
YARI.cOLORED ROADR

Although white is very visible. it Is too dazzling in sunshine. For that reason. authorities in the south of France once considered having all the main roads eelored red. R1th secondary roads green or yeilow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21

Legal Notices ,
NOTICE

DISTRICT of WATERBURY, ss.
 PROBATE COURT, March 20th,
 A. D. 1946. ESTATE of LUIGI
 D'ANDREA, late of Waterbury in
 said District, deceased,
 The Administratrix, having ex- hibited her account with said estate to this Court for allowance, and made application for an order of distribution of said estate, it is
 ORDERED, That the 2Sth day of March, A. D. 194G, at 9:30 o'clock, In the forenoon, (Standard Tlme), at the Probate office in Waterbury, be and the same is, assigned for a hearing on the allowance of said account, and application and the Court directs the Administratrix, 10 give notice thereof, by publish- ing this order in some newspaper having a circulation in said Dis trlct, and by leaving with, or by mailing in registered letters ad- dressed to ANTONETTA DAN DREA as she Is Guardian ad -litem for FLORA and LEWIS D'ANDREA. Minors, copy of this order, all at least three days before said day of hearing.
 MARGuER1TE NJ. FAHY,. B-21-1t Asst. Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-21
NOTICE

DISTRICT of WATERBURY, ss
 PROBATE COURT, March goth, A. D. 1946. ESTATE of OLIVE
 Nj. MARSHALL, late of Water
 bury in said District, deceased.
 The Administrator, having ex- hibited his account with said estate to this Court for allowance. and made application for an order of distribution of said estate, it Is
 ORDERED, That the 25th day of March, A. D. 1946, at 9:30 o'clock, in the forenoon, (Standard Time), at the Probate office in Waterbury, be and the same is, assigned for a hearing on the allowance of said account, and application and the Court directs the Administrator, to give netice thereof, by publish ing this order in some newspaper having q circulation in raid Dis trlct, at least three days before said day of hearing.
 Attest:
 MARGUERITE M. FAHY. R-2i.it Asst. Clerk.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
He's Mr. Atom Bomb
BY Brack Curry
q Assoeioted Press Stoff Writer

They call him "Mr. Atom Bomb"
around the Federal Communications
Commission.
Charles R. Denny, "a, FCC's new act
ing chairman, is the youngest man now
heading any Federal agency and the
youngest chairman in the commissions
history He skyrocketed from assistant
general counsel to chairman in Just four
years.
A close friend says of Mr.. Denny:
Hes the fastest moving person I've
ever known. He doesn't reach for a
book or document. He pounces on it.
And he talks about as fast as a machine
gun fires bullets. When debating he
constantly outdistances his secretary"
On week ends you may find Mr. Denny
tipping along some of Maryland's coun-
try roads astride a bicycle Another
diversion is grooming ditties he learned
at Amherst College in the early '3os.
His wife accompanies him on the piano,
AS regularly as Saturday afternoon
comes around, he goes to the Zoo with
his two small daughters.
Mrs. Denny is the former Elizabeth
Woolsey of New York, Smith College
graduate. Besides their two daughters,
Alison, S. and Christine, 21ls, they have
a son, Charles Denny III, months.
He is an Episcopalian and Demo-
crat. Friends say he is not a politician.
He has lived most of his life in the vote
less District of Columbia.
He doesn't smoke but he will take
social drink.
AS assistant general counsel and later
general counsel Of the FEC, Mr.. Denny
pedaled to and from work daily on his
bicycle
"The wire basket attached to the bike
was always piled high with bulging brief
cases. an intimate recalls when he
had work left over at the end of day,
he took it home with him. And the next
morning he had finished it,
This friend says Mr. Denny still
would be cycling to work except that
there are just too many mean hills out
near his new home"
MIR. Denny dresses nattily, stands 5
feet g. His hair is retreating across the
top of his skull and his face is lean.
The FEC, among other things, grants
licenses for new radio stations and un-
der certain circumstances can withdraw
them. 1t regulates such industrial behe-
moths as the American Telephone g.
Telegraph Co. and Western Union.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

Mr.. Denny's bug on radio. When
he leaves work he goes home to more
radio. He has five sets in his home
a short-wave set, television receiver.
high-frequency receiver, combination
radio-phonograph and frequency mod
ulation (FM) set.
just mentioned radio to him and he
ranged practically the entire field from
FM to how he learned the Morse code.
While he talked, he pulled one leg
under him and sat on it, like school,
boy in a classroom.
He said 100 television stations prob
ably will be on the air by the end Of
1947 and that in three years 1000 FM
stations likely will be constructed.
Its up to the commission" he
stressed, Ito get out television permits
so stations can be built. The public will
buy television receivers as fast as they
are built-if there is some prospect OF
immediate service"
His interest hasn't always centered on
radio or law. Born in Baltimore March
II, 1912, he attended public schools there
ana IN washington.
After high school he entered Amherst,
became fascinated with geology. His
faculty adviser advised him, Take up
the law, son, you'll have a brilliant
career if you do"
He graduated from Amherst in 1888
and from Harvard Law School in 1886.
Until 1888 he was member of WASH
ington law firm. Then he joined the
Justice Department. He became a spe-
cial assistant to the Attorney General
and Joined the FEC in February, 1943.
Former Chairman Paul Porter was so
impressed with Mr.. Denny that he rec
commended his appointment to the COM
mission in March, 1945.
Radio engineers appearing before the
commission are impressed, too, at Mr..
Denny's amazing grasp of the technical
complexities of radio.
At a recent hearing he fired this
question at an engineer:
Suppose we have a field intensity Of
10 microvolts per meter and we have
a collector. Let's assume that the field
intensity in the first case is produced
by 45-megacycle transmitter and that
we have a resonant dipole at As mega
cycles.
What voltage would that put on the
terminals of the receivers, assuming
any fixed line loss from the coaxial lead
that you want to assume?"
What did the engineer do7 He gaped.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Pennsy Served L. S.
Through Five Wars

Firemen Strevig pulled on his pipe,
smilng-a trim figure of perhaps 100
pounds. his movements as rhythmic as
pugilist's.
AN interesting historical fact" you
could learn, If you cared to, "is that the
steel industry grew out of the iron rail
The Pennsylvania Railroad was the first
to supplant iron rail with steel, and thus
create market for Steel"
The Pennsy, it might also be cleaned,
if you were going in for such things,
served its country through five wars. 1t
was built in the midst of the Mexican
War.
Where do you live, Mr. Ayer?" After
all, an engineer must have home. He
can't live en- route.
1t developed that his home was in
Wilmington. He'd drive another train
back to Washington tonight, arriving at
Union Station at 11:15.
IF I'm a little tired" he explained,
"Ill go to the YMCA and catch a sleep,
and when I wake up, catch a train
hong"
He'd be off then for three days. When
we went back to work, he'd have to hop
train for Washington just to start in.
But he thinks nothing of that. Mr..
Strevig lives in Baltimore
There there was identification. Back
in 1901, when such an experiment was
daring indeed, the system started elec-
trifying. First, the tunnel between New
Jersey and Manhattan, then the sub
urban lines on Long Island Today, the
226 miles between Washington and New
York and 1874 miles between New York
and Harrisburg, Pa, are electrified. The
policy has been to electrify where it
seemed economical and feasible and to
use coal where that seemed best.
But Mr.. Aver was pulling at his lever
with loving care and the articulate
monster was slowing down. 1t glided
to stop with the cushioned ease of a
cat Thirtieth Street.
Good by! A fine ride. Happy, BIRTH
day, Pensy, many happy returns!'
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Danzig Stables House
Farm Horses Now

The farmers admired the bulls but
they were entirely distrustful Of the
new science being expounded to them.
Some shook their heads while others
voiced misgivings.
The whole project probably would
have gotten off to a very bad start had
not Bishop Pandelmion of the Greek
Orthodox Church been present. Finally
he stepped forward and raising his
hands blessed the animals and asked
divine help in furthering the work of
science.
Now the Greek farmers are bringing
their cows without hesitation to the
various agricultural centers.
Poland, country famous for horses
and cavalrymen, is beginning to get
horses again, but not the sleek type of
racers it used to know. Outside of Dan
zig is a huge estate with stables for
more than 1900 horses. There the
American horses are brought for re-
distribution after being landed.
Mostly young mares, the horses We
are sending Poland are the type known
as farm chunks" A humorous picture
is often presented by the sight of one
of these chunks" plowing side by side
Evening star., 1946-04-21

long voyage to European ports are min
listers, many Of them from the Church
Of the Brethren, and farm boys from
their parishes. One Of them, Charles c.
Rohrer of Manchester, Ind, made a
brief tour of Poland after his cargo had
been delivered. Here is part of his re-
port:
ION this tour we had witnessed
misery and had some most touching
experiences. One farm we visited, the
home of an elderly widow, one of thou
sands who had lost livestock during the
Evening star., 1946-04-21
American Livestock for Europe

cattle population of this section had
been reduced by the war from COL, 900
to 10000.
Village girls appeared in picturesque
costumes and wreathed the necks of the
cattle with garlands of flowers while
UNRRA officials spoke briefly. Later,
other ceremonies were held in the TOO
year-old town hall at Olomouc, the an
cient capital of Moravia.
Shepherding the animals on their
Evening star., 1946-04-21

on this side of the Atlantic, or their
brothers or cousins.
Now in high gear In its program to
replenish the depleted animal popula-
ton of Europe, the United Nations Re-
lief and Rehabilitation Administration
has sent abroad to date 1880 cattle.
1881 horses, 1926 mules and 1879
donkeys, while upward of 10000 cat
tie, horses and mules are en- route. Add
to these figures $4,000 fertile eggs and
more than 1000 chickens.
There is double significance in this
wholesale migration of American live
stock to Europe. We are populating
foreign lands with our animals, but the
ancestors of most of these animals hap
pened to be Europeans themselves.
In the countries receiving full scale
UNRRA aid-Albania, Czechoslovakia,
Greece, Italy, Poland and Yugoslavia-
one out of every three or four animals
were destroyed by war or as a result of
occupation.
Large numbers were killed by shellfire
and others were carried off by the
enemy. During periods of excessive
want, more were slaughtered for their
meat. Survivors are fanished. In one
heavily hit region, the Athens dairy
belt, out of every 10 COWS were de-
Stroyed.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
BY A. A. Hoehling

CHOULD you happen to be in Eu-
rope this summer and notice
~ a horse in Poland which looks
like one you've seen in Maryland,
or discover a mule in Greece which
neighs with Kansas accent, or
bessie in Czechoslovakia whose brown
eyes remind you of another bessie in
Wisconsin-don't be surprised at all
You have seen them all most likely,
Evening star., 1946-04-21

war, showed evidence of the battle that
had ragged all around her house.
80 = She had received her cow from
a previous shipment. So proud was she
of this fine Holstein heifer and fearing
that it would be stolen or killed like her
preWar livestock that she had stabbed
it in her living room where she slept
with her invalid daughter.
THE Polish officials had subsequently
persuaded her to keep the COW in the
other room of her house and that is
where she is determined to keep it
permanently. The woman said that
this COW is all that keeps her family
from starvation
The first shipment of six purebred
brown Swiss bulls to Greece were met
with mixed reactions. They were placed
in an agricultural school outside Of
Athens and farmers were invited to see
them and hear lecture by veterinarians
on artificial breeding
Evening star., 1946-04-21

to a cry for a railroad line across the
State to connect with other railroads
which were opening in the West"
Mr.. Aver nudged his guest. tits
things like this" he said, that break
an engineers heart"
He was inching the lever toward him,
Evening star., 1946-04-21

Brunswick and Newark, the engineer
can't waste much time.
Dickens Made Trip
And Wrote About 1t
Back in 1886" said an attractive
pamphlet which the Pennsylvania off,
cial had produced, "public-spirited citi-
zens of Pennsylvania, foreseeing the vast
westward expansion of the Nation, rallied
Evening star., 1946-04-21

switch. 1t was automatic, but you
couldn't make it at 80 or at co.
The spring countryside fragrance
floated in as we whipped along. A
plowing farmer looked up from his
horses.
Charles Dickens thus described his
trip in 1842 over the old Portage Rail-
road in Pennsylvania-now a part of
the Pennsylvania Railroad:
"It was very pretty, travelling thus at
Evening star., 1946-04-21
120 Miles an Hour
Made on Test Run

Mr.. Aver pulled in his clutch. Thirty
miles an hour is the limit in the tunnels,
with Is miles in the stretch between
tunnels.
But soon we were out of Baltimore,
and the speedometer back at 80. This
is the speed limit allowed, but the
engine can do far better. An electric
locomotive of this type was tested re-
Gently and made 12o m.p.h. with ease.
Mr.. Aver was at the controls.
That 8O-mile limit must be main
tanned pretty steadily when there's a
D clear track to make the schedules of
those trains between Washington and
New York. Our train, known as the
Legislator, makes the 226 miles in 240
minutes or hours nat. To do this
and make scheduled stops at Balti-
more, Perryville, Philadelphia.
Trenton, New
Evening star., 1946-04-21
BY Carter Brooke Jones

E WAS thick-set, middle
X aged man, with sudden way
IL of smiling. His discerning
hands lifted from a mysterious
array of mechanistns and he looked
around at his guest.
This engine" he remarked, will
almost talk to you. AL you have to do
is watch it."
We are hurtling along at 80 miles an
hour and behind us ranged II PASSENGER
cars, carrying between TOO and 800 per-
sons.
You could see what he meant. This
electric locomotive could almost speak.
OF course, you had to know its language.
Certainly, S. c. Aver did, after his 80
years on the Pennsylvania Railroad.
1t seemed almost, as he touched this
gadget and that as deftly as an artist
might point up a spot in a canvas, that
he could talk back to this huge, articu-
late piece of machinery. It wasn't hard
to Imagine that they could, in their
own way carry on conversation.
This was one of the latest stream
lined electric engines, known as GG-1s,
srS 1t was merely going on routine
trip from Washington to New York
one of Is similar trips which "Pennsy"
trains make from the Capital to Man
haitian every "a hours.
But no trip is routine to an engineer.
He may know the temperaments of
engines and the peculiarities of the
roadbed, the route and the intervening
towns as well as Mr.. Aver knows them.
Yet there are a hundred details every
trip that call for special study and
a spot decision.
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Isolation Brought On
By Loss of Animals

Not only are the animals being sent
for breeding purposes but to help solve
the gasoline engine was stranger even
before the war. Not in three centuries,
according to one observer, have rural
areas been SO completely isolated as now.
When people harvest grain in one
community, others so miles away may
go hungry because there is no way to
cover the distance except by walking.
In some villages there is only one
draft animal alive. A man who had
been badly burned in an accident in
Yugoslavia had to be transported 40
miles by OK cart to the nearest hospital.
There was no blowing in his village until
the OK returned several days later.
With every one crying for animals,
there had to be some basis for distribu-
ton. So the following pattern was
established which still seems to be work
ing to the satisfaction of the majority:
Colleges and government agricultural
schools get the breeding animals, or
phanages are allocated dairy cows and
individual farmers have an opportunity
to buy an animal, COW, mule or
horse, but never more than one, as they
become available.
Some of the animals handled by
UNRRA are gifts from various Ameri-
can religious groups or in some cases
from individuals. Over 300 cattle, for
example, are en- route to Greece, a direct
gift from Greeks living in this country
Czech People Welcome
Animal Gifts From u. S.
Just what it means to the war-ravaged
peoples of Europe to receive livestock
is eloquently illustrated in number of
reports which have come back to head
quarters in Washington.
A few weeks ago, in the Northern
Moravia section of Czechoslovakia, 1854
heifers, one bull and 81 calves were
presented to the citizenry as a gift from
the people of the United States. The
Evening star., 1946-04-21
Engine Has System
Of Warning Devices

444s 1ayS 11Qd6Su lllS SQCSI anu
pointed to the instruments at his left.
The engine was complaining about
something. A sign flashed over a glass
oval, "Oil on Wheels
The engineer touched something that
SELL sand sitting over the wheels. The
sign vanished. Apparently the engine
was satisfied. But it was ready to tell
us if anything else went wrong.
The engine has its own radarlike
warning system. When the track is
clear and full speed is indicated, the
three horizontal lights appearing on
the block signal along the right of way
are reproduced inside the cabin. If, on
the other hand, something is ahead
and reduced sspeed and caution are re-
quired, two lights in different positions
appear at glass panel below. Other
conditions are reflected in other signals.
Thus, at night and in thick weather
the engineer does not have to strain
out the window to catch the signal
ahead. He can look at his own "radar"
boards inside the cabin and read
exactly what is happening ahead.
The engine not only can flash warn
ings, but also has voice. If the SLOW
down signal or more urgent command
to stop is ignored by the engine crew, in
a matter of seconds peculiarly raucous
whistle sounds that would wake any
one still a part of this world.
Smooth Riding Train
Takes Curves at 90
Riding in the cabin was smooth. You I
were 3ss conscious of speed than in one
of the coaches behind. But you were
more aware of curves. Often the track
would coil ahead and then straighten out
as the train reached these irregular
patches. Some curves were so gradual
Mr.. Aver didn't have to slow up. Others
called for reduced speed. So with
bridges.
There was one bridge, beyond Balti-
more, that we took at 80. Yet the long
bridge between Havre de Grace and
Perryville, Md, across the Susquehanna,
is not to be crossed at a speed higher
than 40 miles an hour.
Mr. Aver turned to the fireman, H r.
Strevig There was no reason why this
bridge couldn't be taken at so. Even at
As :. we'll, he calculated exactly how
much time it would cut off.
1t requires special order from an
important official in the main Offices of
the Pennsy to ride in an engine. This
trip was by way of birthday party,
with the railroad as host at its own
anniversary For the Pennsylvania is
100 years old.
Here" said the company's public re-
Iations man, 'is some interesting mate
rial about what we've accomplished in
the last century"
These tunnels" said Mr.. Aver, as we
entered Baltimore, used to be some
thing before we electrified. The smoke
would just about stifle you"
Mr.. Strevig agreed. The fireman,'a a
veteran of a mere 20 years, was check
ing the instruments, watching the track
and the train and making himself gen.
orally useful. Mr.. Strevig is qualified as
an engineer and has piloted many a
train.
Evening star., 1946-04-21

a rapid rate along the heights of the
mountain in keen wind, to look down
into the valley full of light and softness;
catching glimpses through the tree tops
of scattered cabins; children running to
the doors. dogs bursting out to bark,
whom we could see without hearing;
terrified pigs scampering homeward;
families sitting out in their rustic gar
dens; COWS gazing upward with stupid
Indifference; men in their shirtsleeves
looking on at their unfinished houses,
planning out tomorrow's work, and we
riding onward high above them like a
WhirlWind"
See that house nesting up among the
trees?" Mr.. Aver made gesture to his
left. The owner, he explained, was
president of the company that ran that
big industry shaped in the buildings
that sprawled along the tracks for half
a nile-all of 20 seconds, perhaps.
Two Cars Ordered
For First Run in '49
The Pennsy, the booklet cited has
evolved from a company chartered to
build a railroad 249 miles long to a
system embracing 1858 miles of first
track and 15,413 miles of second, third
and fourth track and sidings Thus has
the system grown. Once numbering 600
constituents railroad, bridge, ferry and
water supply, warehouse and electric
railway companies, the company today
is one compact, cohesive transportation
system"
So it seemed.
my son. Mr.. Aver confided, "is just
out of the Marines, and he wants to
study journalism. Would you recon-
mend -"
That he stick to railroading, of course.