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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21

bless mankind, to lead America is leading the peoples toward free dom, neighborliness, elementary se- curity.
 He seems convinced that the main factors in the carrying out of his mission are moral forces. But he also sees the imperative need of armies, navies, a powerful industry, sound economy. And he knows that tone of these moral and mate rial forces is of much value unless springing from and backed by united nation. He sees more clear ly than most that all of us-Anglo- SaXons, Italians. Irish, Poles. Ger mans, Greeks, HungarianS, French must become first of all Amer jeans. Also workers, farmers, indus trialistS, bankers, "IntellectuaIS'' must subordinate every group loy- ally to the supreme American Ioy- alty. am sure he deeply feels that he can count only on those Amer jeans who make their group in tereStS serve America in it's world mission.
 AS MT. Truman understands America and its destiny, he seems also to have an accurate knoWl- edge of the British Empire, the Russian Empire. Fascism, Commu- nism, Capitalism. the Church, and to realize what these mean or may mean for common men and women everywhere. He appears in under stand what America should do and can do to aid the good forces and deter detrimental forces, and l have the impression that he is try ing to get his government to do that just as rapidly as the Amer ican people enable him to. He has pride in job well done and a high sense of duty, but I think he is free from obnoxious personal am- bitions.
 Of course, I am not intimating that all of MT TrumanS appoint mentS or acts have been wise, nor can I hide my regret at his appar- ent connection with some political machines But as I look at him through the eyes of the Europeans with whom I have been in inti- mate contact, feel sure that the common people of the world will call the common people of Amer ica blessed if we enable the com mon man whom history at a critical moment placed at our head to lead America toward the fulfillment of it's world mission.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
7 by DYezy Pearson

Russians didn't want war and he certainly knew the American people didn't. However, it was most in porant, he emphasized, that we take firm attitude with Russia and show them we will not stand for any aggressive tactics. Ii the Russians find out mean business, Truman added, they will come around to our way of thinking.
 The President said he thought Jimmie Byrnes is doing fine job in Paris and indicated that he backed him to the limit He also said it is important that we operate fair and square with the Russians order to dSpel the suspicion which has existed both sides He felt this eventually could be broker down, and no matter how long it took, Truman salt, 1t must be broken down.
 The President also took little poke at some of the in the State Department, remarkiag that they didn't fool him.
 The conversation drifted around to Palestine and the President appeared rather bitter at the way the British have handled things there He complained that they did not understand the political problem involved in the United States, also that the British destroying the moral position of the Western powers in relation to Russia.
 Others at the table understood him to mean by this that British highhandedness in Palestine made it more difficult for to protest Russian highhand edneSs elsewhere
 Secretary Wallace heartily agreed with this and told Truman that the British were following the same unwke and immoral policy in Indonesa.
 The President explained that he concentrat- ing the question of getting 100000 Jewish refugees into Palestine. These people have done nothing wrong, he said, other than to be born of certain religion. They deserved chance and he going to see that they got it.
 We better remarked New Yorks Paul Fitz- patrick, Tor else might just well forget about holding elections in 46 or AS"
 The conversation then drifted round to Senator Bob Li Toilette, just defeated in the Wisconsin pri- mary. Truman expressed himself deeply disturbed over Ls Follettes loss to the Senate, adding that he did not think Bob made wise choice by joining the Republican Party.
 "Thts what happens" he said, ito anybody who joins up with Bob Taft
 Truman revealed that he had pleaded with La Toilette to join the Democratic Party and had tod him tha while the Democratic Party might not always ke on the right side, nevertheless it had a pretty god record and deserved the support of all progresSi1es
 The President also paid tribute to former Secre- tary of labor Fanny Perkins.
 T would like to that lady get the recognition she deseres," he observed.
 NOTE Arkansans take issue with Alabamans that War Reconverter John Steelman is bona fide Alabaman. They say he born in Arkansas. Bob Hannegan, who wants belnisheS Missouri, also emphasizes that John Snyder is from Arkansas and only to St. Louis recently
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
Soviet Confession

So you thought that Russia didn't have free press and that the Russians didn't dare criticize their national stitutions We Iya Ehrenberg writing about his trip to America in zvesta has charged both and pie with serious faults His indictment has been printed and apparently Mr Ehrenburg is still alive.
 The faults? Oh yes-bureaucracy, occasional rudeness, technical baekwardness and bad telephone service.
 So there have Russian admission of the evils and defects of Communism It would probably be too much to hope that this mild criticism is start toward the healthy sef-examlnatlon that prevails here. Still should be membered that confession, like weghfng is something that you have to start slowly and work up gradually
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
Bad Means to a Good End

meeting of Tennessee veterans advocates formation of national veterans political organization to wipe out chine politics. That's noble intent boys But why not call in non-veterans They suffer the consequences of machine politics. too And why not put away guns
 It is easy to appreciate and sympatiZe with the disl usionment of many former Gs who have returned from fighting conditions which mock their suffering and sacrifice But is time that the armed eXtraegal veteran political action in the South brought to a stop
 Guns win wars but they don't injustce perma nenty That is task for peaceful courage and determined nonvoent action Promoting the public good by force of arms belongs to the days of Robin Hood, And gangs of gunmen eventual menace, however noble their purpose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
The Firing Line By D. N. T.
SONGS FOR VACATIONS END

SONGS FOR VACATIONS END My fortnight always seems to end In August's always sultry middle; 'Tis then I wish, my foe and friend, I were a Vanderbilt or Riddle. I'd gladly take another two, Nor ever would my conscience rue it. The same applies to you and you, Had you the WhereWithal to do it. Vacations are such lovely things! Go, Labor, get, and get thee hence, O. I do not trust the bard who sings He does not like them in eXtenSe. O, happy time! o. lazy daysl O, hours allied to hours in heaven! I sadly sit to sing your praise, Then bury same till AT. Vacation club money, throughout
 the Nation, Goes for something but not vaca-
 tion. How quaint the town that hugs the
 shore, Replete with color, wharf to Steeple; It neither knows the plumber nor The Beautyrest or Hoover people. (And that is why slept, but good, The bed at home I should have stood in9 Holidays are less than bright. If you come back and still are white, But if you've duly tanned your hide, It is a matter, then for pride, A pride that falleth, I may say, And here's the sad and yearly rub, When colleagues up and ask you:
 Hey, When is it that you're going, bub?" When you get back and hie you to
 your plot, A gardens an unlovely thing, God
 Wot; I am inclined to think I have not
 seen A has-been till I've seen a has-been bean. 6. Sing song of siX-pence, A bucketful of rye Make the neighbors gather; Do not ask me why. Strangers come in also; Friends they have to bring! When the rye is opened, They all begin to sing. Re, mi, ia, sol, la, ii No
 Do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21

Omaha, Neb. (UP)-Nebraska had no official weather forecast for 20 minutes recently The Omaha weather bureau employe explained that the loss was caused by high wind" that whipped through the office and blew the forecast behind a filling cabinet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
Today in Europe
Guest writer for Thomas Stokes while on vaca

Guest writer for Thomas Stokes while vacation)
 BRUSSELS = The proposed economic union of Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg is not new idea. Holland and Belgium were united under the Duke of Burgundy until the death of the last duke, Charles the Bold in ATT. And under the Hapsburg Emperor Charles V early in the 18th century, they united again. This union lasted until 1878.
 Nearly 25o years later at the Congress of Vienna in 1915, 1t decided to incorporate the two coun tries once more into what was termed the Kingdom of the Netherlands. But this last attempt at union broke down in 1880 when the Belgians rose against the Dutch after the July Revolution in Paris. On that oeeasion the religious differences between the Catholic Belgians and the Calvn:st Dutch preeIuded a satisfactory merger of the two countries
 The last difficulty may crop up again now. but to lesser degree. Today nearly 40 percent of the population of Holland is Catholic, and the percentage is increasing Some Dutch Protestants fear that economic union with Belgium might be followed by political union and that they then would be sWamped by overwhelming Catholic majority Against this, 1t is argued that, anyway within the 20 years there will be such 3 majority in Hol land alone, for the Catholic birth rate is much high CT than the Protestant. In any event, in what we hope to be age of increasing religious tolerance. the problem ought not to be msoluble
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21

Government loans toaling S1 4430SO have been made to borrowers in Arkansas Indiana Kentucky Michigan Mis- sssippi and Oklahoma These funds will be used finance construction of 886 miles of distribution lines 36 farms and other rural establishments Get your coops ing and construct your rural identification needs That's one ef the best things the Government is dong-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
He's All Set

The keeper of general store in Japan to be pero account of ancestor being wrongfuy kicked off the throne 600 years ago.
 To him would offer this gratuitious advice: Curb your vaulting ambition Divine imperialism in Japan never at lower ebb Furthermore general storekeep you bothered neither with strike with the OPA. So stick where you bub you don't know when you're well off.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
15 Years Ago
5 Years Ago

A wallet, found in a lot off Wa tertown Avenue, was identified as the property of a New York man who said he dropped it accidentally from an airplane.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
Waterbury or the Past
25 Years Ago

Miss Margaret Curtiss of South Street spent week at Highland Lake in Winsted.
 Mrs. Florence Nichols of Burr Street spent month at Lake George.
 15 Years Ago
 Crime in 1880, according to a United Press report, cost the City of Waterbury, $426,377.
 Six local men were apprehended for a series of thefts, robberies and burglaries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21
The exclusion of Germany from the economic world is already having serious effects Dutch and

The exclusion of Germany from the economic world already having serious effects Dutch and Belgian trade. Dr. Hendrix VoS, Dutch Minister Of Transport, said in a speech last month: "The dis appearance of Germany in international trade hits the Netherlands severely. The existence of country with low standard of living just frontiers must have extremely detrimental influence on our economic life" The great port of Rotterdam, for in stance which flourished entrepot trade with Germany, is now at a StandStn. The British and Americans using Hamburg and Bremen.
 It is encouraging however, to find the govern mentS of Holland and Belgium getting down to the problem and thraShng out an answer. Too often statesmen prone to wiring their hands and beWai their lot without taking any intelligent practical steps to solve problem. An economic merger would do something to offset the loss of the German market
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21

Ralph Costigan of New Milford and Edward Kellar of this city were motoring to the West Coast for 8 months stay,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-21

Asked about the with Russia Truman said he did not believe there would any. He said there was lot of talk about it, but good reason why should fight. He convinced, he said, that the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16

Navy whatever his attributes of character, intelli- gence and ability would have been political incubus He could have done nothing that would not have been suspect His nomination for the post, in view of the part he had played in connection with the tideland oil issue was a political mistake by MT. Truman Senator Tobey saved the President from the more serious consequences of this mistake by blocking confirmation.
 It is unreasonable, of course to expect President Truman be grateful yet for the favor or to forgive Senator Tobey for having been right The Presidents loyalty to MT Pauley friend IS altogether re- spectacle; and his indignation the painful wounds suffered by his nominee is an expression of the confidence reposed in him Moreover the President in recent months has had enough harassment to feel that he is wearing hair shirt. At the time the letter he has written to the Senator and into which he irrelevanty injected the antique Pauley incl dent appears to have been nothing better than expression of pique As such particularly in view of Senator Tobey's high-minded nonpartisanship so many vital international issues it was as impolitic as it was ungenerouS
 The letter asserted that the harshnesS of the hearings to which MT. Pauey subjected by the Senate Naval Affairs Committee had made it difficult to persuade of high caliber to accept Federal appointments This is view which, in one form or another, has often been attributed to MT. Truman that think it merits comment. Men whom the President would like to nominate for important offices could be fearful of committee grlings only if they suffered from the sort of vulnerability as MT Pauley. It may be-and it is a possibility which the President ought not to ignore-that of high caliber whom he invites to join his Administration are sometimes reluctant to do not because they fear senatorial inqusition but because they do not relish Identification with some of the Administrator members already selected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16

Federal WoIss Agency, Public Buildings Administration, Washing ton, D, C., July 5, 1946.-Sealed bids in duplicate will be publicly opened in this office at P M, Aug. 9, 1946, for furnishing all labor and mater ials and performing all work for planting at the United States P. o. and Court House at Anchorage, AL aska Drawings and specifications may be obtained from the Custodian of the building or at this office and must be returned. The furnishing of more than on set will be in the dis erection of the Commissioner of Pub lie Buildings. W. E. Reynolds, Com missioner of Public Buildings, Fed eral Works Agency.
 First publication, July 15, 1946.
 Last publication, July F, 1946.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
WE'RE TAGGING

Alaskans gave Uncle Sam only $549s84Ol5 in income taxes for the fiscal year just ending according to the Internal Revenue Department, and this was a drop of 13 per cent the S638,54789 collected the year before
 So we seem to be slipping little in payments to the Federal Government. However, back in 1883 Alaska paid only $545 900 in internal colec- tions so look what we've accomplished in about 10 years
 The Federal Government takes $549,984,015 out of Alaska in year while the Territory struggles to collect S6 900 GOO in two years That's great deal of what's wrong with the tax picture in Alaska By the time the Federal Government gets through there isn't much left fol the Territory
 And it's like pulling teeth to get Congress to appropriate few millions for Alaska for Deparament of Interior and other functions carried with Federal money.
 From where we sit it looks like we're getting the short end of the deal.
 The Territory Of Puerto Rico has its Federal income tax collections refunded by the Federal Gov ernment for territorial purposes Just give that and there won't be any taxation problem in Alaska
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
Cost of Living
(NeW York TineS)


 The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics re- ports that the rise in living costs in the month ended May Is 06 point The aggregate rise in the index since last September has been 26 points. In light of the recent increases in prices of dairy products and numerous other products, the index has risen to new high levels since May 15 Most of the rise ill living costs has taken place since February. It re- fleets the inflationary wage-prce policy which has been in effect well the pressures food prices which have attended efforts to meet the large food needs of Eurcoe.
 It is interesting to note that this steady increase in living costs has taken place while OPA had all of it's wartime powers and before allowing for any modification of the price control legislation. More over the increases in living costs resulting from national wage policy have not yet been fully reflected in consumers prices. Some time must eapse, neces- sarily before the increases graned in the prices of final consumer In addition have had and will continue to have steady pressure prices because of the output lost result of the recent strikes Under these circumstances it will not be appropriate blame increases in living costs during the next few months entirely upon the liberalization of price control provided in the new bill
 Average living costs about 35 per cent higher than they January, 194l, which is the base date used for most wartime wage-price com- parisons During the same period, hourly earnings have risen than 55 per cent, while weekly earn igs have risen than 50 per cent for workers in ma nj ia ctu industries
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
COURT RECORD

Before Secretary Patterson en- tered the War Department, he was a very able judge on the 2nd Cir cult Court of Appeals. Had he bothered to do a little checking on the Chairman of the Military Af- fairs Committee with whom he had to do so much business, he would have found revealing record in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
 The record would have shown that Mays brother-in-law and cousin were sent to jail for relief frauds back in the old Civil Works Administration days, and that Mays political machine burned down the county courthouse in Mays home town in order to de- stroy the relief records and pre- vent the conviction. Patterson also would have discovered that IA of Mays friends and political sup porters Welt to jail for relief frauds, and that May appeared as their attolrey.
 4 CUngie5snu,n = not supposed to take case against the Federal Government He is paid by the Federal Government and is suppos- cd to be the servant of the Federal Government. Therefore, it is a pen itentiary oifenSe to profit from handling case against the Feder al Government. Perhaps the ebul- lient Andrew Jackson May got around this on the technicality that he did not profit. Anyway, he ap- peared in court shamelessly and praZenly to defend one of the worst relief frauds in U. s. history
 Furthermore, if the Mead Com mittee would dig into the files of the Post Office Department, they would fine that May exerted all sorts of pressure to have the case dropped. He used his influence as a Congressman in exactly the same way he did On behalf of the Erie Basin war profiteers.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16

who ran the Kreuger Baker and Grocery Company. Both went to jail Mrs. Mayo, wife of Mays brother-in-laM. was in the County Relief Committee, while niece also was employed there.
 This was how the racket operat- ed.
 The County Relief Committee gave a relief certificate to an al- legged needy person, who then took the certificate entitling him to $40 worth of groceries. The grocer gave him perhaps $5 in groceries and certified that he had received $40 Then the certificate was sent to CWA headquarters in Louisville at a net profit of S35, which was usually split between the grocer and the pelSon on relief.
 The situation was so scandalous that the Government discovered 2I sacks of mail sent to Louisville containing unnandled relief orders In other words, they had merely been filled out and certified by grocers-incluGing Mays cousin and brother-in-law without even both ering to put the certificates in the hands of alleged relief recipients.
 Since some of the alleged relief recipients were in the cemetery, this would have been difficult. Others were mountain families who could Bot read and write and had to depend on the County Re- lief Committees to fill in the cer- tificates.
 After the FBI got into the case, the local relief crowd burned down the county courthouse to destroy the evidence, not realizing that suf- flcient records remained in LouiS- vile to convict them In the end, the Government had to resort to a mail fraud case, since the bogus relief certificates were sent through the mails. TWenty-seven May henchmen and relatives were in- dicted, with 16 finally going to jail, including the head of Mays ma chine, Judge Stumbo.
 'Note-Reao0l Secretary of War Patterson and Undersecretary Ken meth Royal were so obsequious to May was that he was scratching their back wiiile they were scratch ing his. Late in the war, Patterson moved heaven and earth to pass a compulsory labor bill conscripting all labor May introduced this for him and pushed it through the House. It Was killed in the Senate
 Royall also has favored more military control of the atom and May has carried the ball for him on this. He introduced the May Bill giving major atom control to the military and, more recently, has gleefu!ly acquiesced in the sa- hotage of the Senate's Civilian Control Bill oy the House Military Affairs Committee.
 (CoPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE, INC. 1946)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
British Loan BilI
 Signed by TYuErlan

WASHINGTON, July 16.-Presi- dent Truman has signed the s. 750,000,00 British loan agreement, terming it a major step to carry out a program flor reviving and expanding international trade"
 The loan, MT. Truman said in a statement, served the immSiate as well as long time interests of the United States, by helping to re- store world trade"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
PADDED RELiZF ROLLS

What happened was that, back in 1884, Harry Hopkins and his CWA staff found that in Mays home town of PreStonburg and the surrounding county, l12 percent of the people were on relief-in other words, moic people than were in the county. Mays industrious ma chine, led by his henchman, Judge Walt SturnbC, had even dug up hundreds Of names of people later identified az buried in the ceme- tery.
 Mays brother-in-law, J. D. Mayo, a grocer, Was m on the racket. So was his cousin, Curtis w. May.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-07-16
20 YEARS AGO {yfT {fHE EMPIRE
JULY 16. 1926

JULY In ball. the the a of 9 blows which with walks wild throws passed balls aided the Eks 0
 Shreve Pennsylvania Commissioner of Fisheries the Chamber of Commerce nee this day ma the spirit of optimism prevails throughout the Territory
 Steamers Prince with round trippers
 Weather report: High, "A; clear.