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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

Mrs. Lillian Martin, of Manches-
ter, and Mrs. William Warner, of
Westminster, were callers at the
home of Miss Mary Poe on Thurs
day evening.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

Mrs. Russell Berger and her son
David have returned home from
Baltimore, where David has been
attending a three-week course in
speech correction.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

Guy Haines, USN, has returned to
Norfolk, Va, after spending ten
day leave with his mother, Mrs. Ruth
Haines.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

The Leitersburg Grange has plan
ned to enlarge and renovate the
store room in the Grange building.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Beckley
have moved to a farm near st.
James. The farm was recently pur-
chased by Mr.. Beckley.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

Miss Dorothy Jean Toston, of Lam
caster, Pa, spent last week end at
the home of her mother, Mrs. Mil
brey Toston.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

Max Barnett, Boonsboro, recently
visited at the home of his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Barnett.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

The Belts family have moved to
the farm near Jacobs Church, re-
Gently vacated by the Marshall Dur
boraw family.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1946-04-11

The First and Second grades pre-
sented the program at the school
Assembly on Friday morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17

Australia plans to plant l5,500, 900 acres to wheat next season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17
Uncle Sam in Market For Spacious Garage
 Government Needs Parking Place for
 Fleet of Trucks; Will Consider New
 Structure Under Contract Terms

Bids are now being accepted for the leasing of garage to the Post Office Department to handle Wa terbury vehicles for period of five or ten years, c. $. Wibel, post of- flee inspector from Boston, an- nounced this morning.
 The least on the present quarters at the rear of 236 Baldwin Street will expire on April 30, 1947 he said, and the Post Office wishes to make arrangements for new lease to go into effect at that time.
 Wibel disclosed that the present fleet of IT trucks in Waterbury will be increased in the near future to 23 trucks. The addition of these new vehicles will require garage space of approximately $500 square feet of floor space.
 Bids to be Competitive
 All bids will be competitive but the lowest bidder will not neces- sarily get the contract, Wibel said. One of the major considerations in the issuance Of the contract will be obtaining a garaga as close to the Post Office building as possible. This will eliminate unnecessary dead head travel, he explained, which greatly increases the expense in operating the fleet of trucks. An- other factor to be considered is a garage with the maximum amount of clear space. Wibel said that a garage with a great many obstruct- ing pillars would not be satiSfac- tory.
 The Post Office wishes to obtain a garage all on one floor. However, a garage on a second floor of a building will be satisfactory if there is a ramp for entrance.
 Wibel stated that he will remain in Waterbury for several days to examine property and assist in making out the bid forms. Specifi- cations and sample forms are in the hands of Postmaster Charles A. Babin and may also be obtained from him
 New Garage Possibility
 In addition to accepting bids for the lease of garage, the Post Office will consider bids involving the erection of a new garage to be used for Postal vehicles.
 Specifications for the garage in- clude office and toilet space, 150 square feet; swing and locker and toilet rooms, 200 square feet; stock room, 400 square feet; basement boiler room. 400 square feet; park ing, 5000 square feet, and work bench, gasoline pump and wash rack, 35o square feet. These figures are all approximate, Wibel added Proper heating and lighting facili-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17

21, he backed his first film venture into Sl00,000 profit. His first full fledged venture, a comedy called Two Arabian Nights" was worth s30o,000 to him.
 Next he starred Thomas. Meighan in a brutal portrayal of big-city political racketeering called The Racket" Big city censors didn't like it, but Hughes fought them in court, finally got the show into the aters and cleaned up again.
 More than two decades later, he was still having the same trouble with censors-and reaping profits out of 1t. He made The Outlaw" !" and in the ensuing publicity made top personality out of it's star, Jane Russell even though few peo- pie have seen her yet except in pub licity shots. Where The Outlaw has played, it has set new box-of- flee records
 Drew second Highest
 In between. he sank Sl.500000 in- to "Helfs Angels as silent movie Before he released it, along came sound. He threw the silent version away. got a new star who could talk Ia gal named Jean Harlow who up to then had been a cust- ard-pie target. and wound up with talkIe that cost s30o0,000 l. drew more customers than any oth- CT film except Birth Of Nation !"
 But carving a movie career was just another sideline to Hughes. al- though he flourished in the bright ness of HollyWood's glitter and once got together with William Randolph Hearst and several others in an at- tempt to buy MGM. The deal fell through
 He has been just as eager and successful in aYiation-not alone as a magnate but as a man right up in the front seat. Hughes started fly ing when he was IA once went to work for American AirWays at S250 a month to learn about the busi- ness. He learned. He owns several airplane and parts plants and is controlling stockholder in IVA air lines. which he moved into in 1889.
 He built, designed and flew a plane in 1885 to set worlds land
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17
Appeals 
 Urges Immediate
 Rent Control Action

Waterbury Chapter, American Veterans Committee, urges a spe- cial session of the State Legisla- ture be called at once to consider rent control legislation. This tele- gram is being sent to Governor Baldwin, Arthur Greenblatt, in- terim chairman, announced this morning.
 A resolution authorizing the tele- gram was passed last night at meeting of the chapter at the Y.MC.A. Following the organiza- tion's aim to partake in the inter eSts of Democratic Government in full measure, Greenblatt added that rent control legislation and the alleyiation of the housing shortage are currently on the AVG. agenda.
 With the organizational drive continuing, Greenblatt said that the chapter expects to admit many new members at the next meeting Mon day, July 29. Information concern ing the American Veterans Com mittee may be obtained at the Y.M.C.A. or by contracting Chair man Greenblatt or any other AVG. member
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17

speed record of 1852 miles per hour, then set a transcontinental record from Los Angeles to New York in seven hours and 23 minutes. When Russia tried to buy that plane two years later, he said no sale.
 Got Many Ideas
 In 1888, he took off from New York, flew around the world in three days and 19 hours, cutting the previous record in half. His plane was fixed up as flying laboratory, and out of his flight came many of the ideas he translated into war production in the years that fol- lowed.
 His almost-magic touch is mixed up in the Constellation, super air. liner which his VIVA got the first chance at, and which its manufac- turer ballyhooed in a style some what akin to the three-sheets an- nouncing The Outlaw
 But crashes are haunting the Constellation just as they are haunting the man who conceived the plane and backed it With a S20,000000 note
 During the war his companies did a total of S200, 100000 worth of work for the government, made no ex- cess profits and when the contract tS were negotiated. the government found no refunds were required.
 No Shrinking Violet
 With this whirlWind life of films and flying, 1t is not surprising that Hughes has been a bachelor, except for one, three-year marriage ven- ture with Ella Rice, daughter of the founder of Rice Institute in Houston, Tex, which ended in di- vorce in 1928.
 Hughes is no shrinking violet. Hes been seen among the glamour ous. Faith Dorn, a movie actress, announced in 1941 she and Hughes were engaged. Others have hope fully hinted the same thing Noth- ing ever came of it..
 Once he decided to try yacht ing. He bought the Southern Cross in 1885 for paltry three million -..-.
 And he owns the biggest brewery in Texas. It helps pay for his champagne, when he drinks it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17
BelieUes It Near Utopia Russian Writer Amazed At What America Offers

London, July IT - CUP1 - llyd Ehrenbourg, writing his first inn pressions of America in the goy- ernment newspaper Izyestia. today said that he thought he had lost his capacity for being amazed until he saw America, Radio Moscow re- ported.
 Ehrenbourg spent nearly three months in the United States as a guest of the State DepN He spent considerable time in New York and toured the South.
 There is much that is childish in Americans" he wrote. An Ameri- can likes everything new. He respects old stones but likes new ties with very loud patterns He likes noise.
 Epoch Passes In Day
 Between the morning and the evening papers an entire epoch has passed for the average American and he does not always remember at night what stirred him in the morning"
 Ehrenbourg described his travels in America at great length.
 Tn Mississippi" he said, T saw the house of a planter. It had re- frigeratorS, a washing machine, an excellent radio set and wonderful ventilators. The planter calmly be- gan explaining to me that people with black skins were not really people"
 Ehrenbourg said that school teachers in Tennessee told him they could not teach evolution.
 Notes Cult of Dollar
 Apart from many hundreds of registered churches and sects," he wrote, there is yet another cult the cult of the dollar.
 T have been to dinners and meetings. First everybody hurried ly chews chicken, then orators make long speeches, then singers sing sentimental songs, then a min ister collects money for some ben evolent fund"
 Ehrenbourg told of a converSa- ton with Albert Einstein in which he discussed "the campaign which IS being waged against the Soviet Union by certain large newspapers.
 Given Easy Lesson
 T pointed to an article in which the restoration of Stalingrad was presented almost m the light of Soviet imperialism DO Professor Einstein replied: Such articles are meant for readers who have ai- ready forgotten Stalingrad
 And the professor told me of an African tribe in which people are given the names of objects of mani
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17
Fire Officials
 ToCheck Circus

Elaborate precautions against fire will be taken by the Sparks Circus and local fire officials when the show makes a stop here July 27, Ere Marshal Eugene A. Legge said today.
 The marshal said circus officials visited him yesterday and revealed that they have compiled with state and local ordinances pertaining to the fireproofing of tents, etc He said the local department will have men posted at the grounds all dur ing the time the circus is in town
 Even before the disastrous Hart ford circus fire two years ago. the marshal said, Waterbury had always taken special precautions against such an occurrence. He said there has always been men posted on the grounds during the show
 Finland is to have a pavilion at the European Exposition in Mos COW this summer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17

Los Angeles, July r = (NEA = Howard Hughes, the millionaire playboy who plays for profit on the land in the air, and in the movies, Is a smooth young man who has been experimenting with new things all his life and up to now has met with nothing but success.
 Even his crash while testing the fast new plane he built for the Army was nothing new under the bright and nearly always shining Hughes sun. Hughes, now 4l, crashed before in one of his own planes, too. But that time he got up and walked away.
 He started with 65O,00O oil drill ling tool business, inherited from his family, and ran it into jack pot worth between l50 and 200 mill lion dollars. At various times dur ing this build-up, his personal, non- losing slot machine has paused to pay off in worlds records in every thing from airplanes to movies.
 Hughes was only Is when his fother died in 1923, leaving him the small, conservative Hughes Tool Company in Texas. The company built rock bits for deep well drill ing. Hughes had to get court per- mission to run the company be- cause he was under age. but once he got his hands on it. he lifted 1t into the biggest of it's kind in the country Last year 1t did a s30 0,oOO,o 900 business-not. counting war contracts.
 Laughter Hollow
 Once he had imbued the tool company with the Hughes spirit. he looked around for something else to play with. He tried movies as an independent, and the industry laughed. It's still laughing, but the laughter is hollow. Before he was
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17

teStatlonS mountain, D m, dawn, or hawk When the person dies his name becomes forbidden taboo, and the natives have to in vent new nouns. for the mountain, dawn, the palm, and the hawk.
 Of course such tribe has nei- ther legends nor traditions
 Tn America everything is differ ent-towns, trees, and customs.
 Country Varied ... ...-.-
 It IS impossible to understand the pr es e n without understanding America. But it is a varied country, difficult to understand. Under law CTS of skillful technique is hidden at times simplicity of heart and behind this simplicity are unexpect- ed complications
 Tn America a great deal is being done to promote knowledge. I have seen excellent libraries, laboratories and scientists surrounded by their work.
 T place American literature very Algh. It IS not easy to find now in western Europe writers the equal of HemlnWay, Faulkner, Steinbeck and Caldwell. l could probably add two or three more names. After them void.
 New York's skyScrapers are jus tlfled by the geography. It is an en- ofmous town built on small island
 Affirms Americas Culture
 Yes, America has a culture. There are In America people who deny themselves pair of shoes or a visit 10 the cinema in order to send shoes to the Yugoslav children"
 Describing the contrasts of Amer lea, he cited the old and new parts of New Orleans. The old city. he said, is something in the nature of Pompeii."
 He said that 'it is less well known that there are in America besides spirited business men very many dreamers and noble idealists. have met prominent inventor who re- fused large sums of money, fearing that this invention would deprive hundreds of thousands of laborers of their daily bread.
 T spoke with provincial utopians who go short of food and sleep giv- ing their money and strength to the fantastic project of creating a world government. There is in America league for defending the rights of Negroes. Every year an innocent Negro is electrocuted and every year the best elements protest against racial discrimination.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17
Settlement Made In Unpaid Note Suit

Withdrawal papers were filed in Comrhon Pleas Court today in the foreclosure action, involving proper ty on Hewey Street, brought by Yer onica Develeskis of Waterbury, as eXecutrix of the estate of Veronica Grigonis, against Della Rabuska of Waterbury. A note for S2,0O0 execut- ed in 1929 and secured by a mort gage on the property was the basis of the litigation. Settlement terms were not disclosed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17
PITCHER VS. BATTER

Rube Waddell, of the Philadel- phia Athletics, pitched four-hit game, while playing against the New York team on Aug. l, 1903, and one man, Norman "Kid' Fiber field, made all four hits
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-07-17

ties must be available as well as gasoline storage tanks. hot water and showers for employees
 Bids will be accepted until August
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-03
Foreign Service Pay
Cincinnati Enuuirer)

 In time of wage increases the revised pay sched- ules of the United States Foreign Service will attract little attention. But matter of fact the sub Santal changes in pay of Ambassadors and Ministers and subordinate foreign service officers not in the same category with wage and salary changes so general in the United States.
 It is not the increased cost of living foreign station which is the main reason. Rather, it is the determination of Congress to recruit the abest possible for the consular and diplomatic service and to assure them of appropriate to their re- responsibilities.
 Even after the basic reorganization of the Foreign Service in 1924, which put the service genuine basis for the first time it remained profession in which without private incomes were somewhat handicapped. It became possible for man to live on his State Department pay but it remained difficult, at some posts and in pay brackets.
 Under the new law, it should be possible for a man to enter the foreign service and go high as his abilities warrant, without having to decline any assignment because it calls for expenditure than the salary and allowances going with it. In the long run this will bring into the foreign service the best possible talent And it will insure the availability of men for every post.
 That this will work to the advantage of American foreign policy may take for granted But nobody should expect any startling changes. For our diff cultes tie field of foreign policy have not arisen largely from the caiber of foreign representatives or the nadequacy of their pay. In general, our diplomatic and consular personnel have measured up the best standards of other countries for quite years
 The real difficulties lie in the fact that the Am erican people and government have quite made up thir minds what foreign policy they want, have never reached any settled notions of their overall purposes in world affairs Our foreign policy is too often at the mercy of purely sectional interests which in reflects the failure of Congress and especially the Senate, to think in terms of the paramount national interest.
 Until we somehow manage to give them coherent, stable foreign policy to execute, foreign service officers going to labor under handicaps which pay schedules can remedy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-03

permit the atomic bomb to be used as a force for evil
 It is almost impossible for one who has visited 9 countries, cov- ering such a wide area, and not ing so much tragedy on every hand, to transmit the strong hopes and aspirations which the peoples of the world have placed in our hands.
 From Kwajalein to Karachi, from Cairo to Copenhagen, I found the people interested in union for humanity, rather than in an alli- ance for greed or profit, or in a real-estate cartel to bring poverty to the masses and profit to the in- ternational buccaneers.
 The craving for peace has no spiritual boundaries no racial shores-no moral longitude or lati- tude.
 Roosevelt faced that challenge -and met it. The world hopes Truman accepts it as compul- sion.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-03
CRIME ON INCREASE

J. Edgar Hoover, Director. Federal Bureau of Investigation announced today that crime increased 13 per cent in the first six months of this year as against the period last year according to sur vey made by the FBI This is the highest rate of increase of crime in the United States since 1880 when national figures on the extent of crime were first compiled
 The survey reflects increases in robberieS of SIS per cent murders 285 per cent manslaugher by negl gence 1922 per cent, burglary IT cent auto theft 155 per cent aggravated assault 10 per cent larceny 98 per cent and rape 16 per cent.
 While a l3 per cent increase in crime was recorded on nationwide basis crime in rural areas increased 196 per cent Rural crime increased ASA per cent robbery 33 per cent for auto theft 238 per cent for aggravated assault 229 per cent for negligent mansaughter 209 per cent for murder, 179 per cent for burglary 3 per cent for larceny and 83 cent for rape.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-03
PUBLIC HEARING E
 SCHEDULED FOR kAKE
 ON NAVIGATION WORK

A public hearing will be held at Rake on or about October l pur- suant to a resolution adopted Oc- tober 30 1945 by the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives. directing a re- view of previous reports on Rake Harbor, with a view to determining if improvement is advisable at the present time.
 The purpose of the hearing is to determine what improvements for navigation local interests desire, and to obtain the views of all in- terested parties concerning the de- sired improvements and the justifi- cation therefor. The forthcoming hearing is in lieu of that previous ly scheduled for June 27 public notice dated May 3D which was postponed by request.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-03
PEOPLE WANT PROGRESS

The peoples of other nations know what has happened in their own countries. They know you cannot have a government that will go back to the 1920's in it's domestic policies and forward to lasting peace in it's foreign poli- cies And they hear a minority demand in America to go back to 1920.
 These people of the world hear the demand from that Me -FirSt!" minority to strike out the gains which the people of America have made under Roosevelt. They hear the cry to put labor back where it was a quarter of a century ago. They hear the gripings by that minority for a return to laissez faire, for profits before people, for the jungle code of the 1920's. They hear the rumblings of reaction at home. and they wonder whether these counsels of despair fore shadow a trend toward reaction abroad.
 And yet, they seem to know that 1 in America, behind the exaggerated clamor of these few, there is the will for peace-for progress-in the hearts of the many. And these peoples of the world know we are a democracy and that here the will of the many must prevail.
 They will not give up their faith. Let us not give up ours.
 ,CoPYRIGHT, BELL SYNDICATE. INC. 1946)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-09-03
AIeutian in
 Westbound

Alaska Lines AleHtian, Capt. Burns, arrived northbound at 1 am. Sunday
 Purser Hickman reported the fol- lowing passengers for Juneau: John Anderson, Freda Becktold, Georgia Bednar, Julia Bednar, Mrs. E. w. Bellinger, Siegfried Berge, Beatrice Bothwell, Cherie Bowman, Mrs. H. Bronson, Wm. E. Dodd and Mrs. Dodd, Mrs. B. Durie, Hell en Ewart and MT and Mrs. P. J. Fails and child.
 Mrs. Robert Garrison and Rich ard Garrison, w. A. Grien, Mrs. J. Hermle, Jack Hermle, Mrs. Matt Holm, MT. and Mrs D. w. Lucas, Mrs. Vera Maier and child, Paul Moreland.
 Mrs. Clifford Mason, son Charles and daughter Charlotte; Mrs. Lee Mason, E. C. Murphy, Mrs. E. Nor ton and child, Katherine Proback, MT. and Mrs. Robert Rich, Mar jorie Erb, Barbara Rudrick, Helen Schaefer, Mrs. H. Seaberg, Rather inc Seaberg, Mrs. James Shoulders and son Claude, MT. and Mrs. Walt CT Smith, Donna Stephenson, A.. H. Swanson, Edna Venishmick, Sig rid Von Hellon, Mrs. Wickersshorn, James Xidas, Bert Adow, Joe Bach let.
 George Bednar, Jessie Bednar, J. Blackwell, J. Brown, John Clausen, H. C. Dunray, Rex Hankins, B. Holk, J. Iauaka, Thomas Knudsen, John Makela N. J. Murray, Elmer Norton, Alvin Scott, Jess Shoulders, C. L. Tambke, Jack Wiley, and Jack Zavadsky.
 Leaving for Seward were: MT and Mrs. J. P. Jeffery T. E. Hook CT, Albert Mainoes, Mrs. F. F. Pow ell, Gale Page, MT. and Mrs Eske Eskesen, Bodile Eskesen, Annie Cook, R. H. Koch, Brig. c. O. Taylor and Mrs. Taylor, MT and Mrs. A. J. Osman, Evert A. Visa nen, Clair A. Watne, MT and Mrs. c. B. Finnegan.
 Virgil Baker, Mrs. Beatrice Cole man, Janet Glave, H. B. CreWson, V. c. Bingham, Josephine Banks ton, Everett R. Erickson, Mrs. A. c. Kuehl, Wilmer Bradshaw, Louise Jones. Will Page, c. Johnson and Comdr. F. w. Richardson.
 For Valdez: R. E. Coble, Clar- ence L. Mehornay, Clifford Gill bert and Allie B. Young.