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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02
RAILWAY STRIKE THREAT
(The Springfield Union)

What would prove to be a tragic blow to the national economy dur ing the process of reconVersion is set for May IS in the form of a railway strike. The Presidents fact finding board has recommended a wage increase of 16 cents an hour, together with certain other inn provements in working conditions. In case either party rejects the boards recommendations, there will be strike, which is the unions privilege.
 It is sincerely hoped, however, that such disaster will be avoided through some form of compromise. In other days such settlement might have been taken for granted. But today, labor politics enter so prominently into the equation that strikes are called and are continued as certain labor leaders hope to profit thereby. Thus labor politics bedevils the present railway Situa- tion.
 The two brotherhoods of en- gineers and trainmen involved in the dispute must compete with John L. Lewis, union and the Brother hood of Locomotive Enginemen and Bremen. Lewis has been active in trying to win over the railway op- eratives as well as the firemen who are inclined, on promotion. to retain membership in their old union. A compromise is to be hoped for so that the country can be saved this further blow to reconversion and full production and employ ment. But this may be wishful thinking in view of the fact that major strikes today are more likely to involve labor leader politics than wages and working conditions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02
Tuskegee Choir at Constitution Hall

The Daughters of American Revolution have for ward with truly American gesture in opening Constitution Hall in Washington for concert by the Tuskegee Institute Choir free of charge The Choir and other Negro groups rank among finest musical organizations, and it is valuable asset to any community to have the advantage of by these groups Among those anxious that the should available for the Representative Claire Boothe Luce.
 Constitution all by virtue of it's size to be the only suitable auditorium Washington for concerts There fore it should be available with such negotiations necessary for high standard concerts Because of certain Technical restrictions some artists have been denied the f the Ha but apparently these will gradually be adjusted that artists will have the opportunity to appear there he Tskegee Choir proceeds go to the United Negro Col aege ENAd
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02


 British sIowness, however is considered no ex- e,lse for American failure to meet commitments so U S. officials will continue their all-out efforts However, here is what we are up agamst: Whea1 S on hand in this country of January totalled 669 100000 bushels Of this, the January-June use or wheat will be 70000OOO bushels for feed, 2S SOOOOOO for seed, 150OO0O00 bushels for carry-oVer leaving almost 45OOOOOOO bushels for human consumption and export
 Agriculture Secretary Clinton Andersons recent flour clrtaiment order will probably reduce human consumption in this country to about zSVvOOVOO VO export
 Against that we have commitment of 225,- OOO 900 bushels to shipped before the end of June In other words unless there is great mdavidual saw irg there just won't be enough wheat to go round
 
 The same thing is also true of fats and oils We just won't have them on hand for export unless every housewife is more frugal than ever Here IS the line-up On April l, stocks of butter totaiieo only 14964OOO lbs. against 29yS33O00 last year
 Cottonseed oil toalled 492 900 lbs. against 1756- 400 last year.
 Lard totalled a1 ,435OOO lbs. agaist 40,728.OOO lbs. last year and 4O3, ,151 600 two years ago.
 Actually the fact picture is worse than most people realize and the Russians faced with such serious shortage that they have gone to the Argen- tine and bidding against us for linseed oil Or dinarily buy the Argentine linseed crop for paint The Russians will use it for human consumption, however, and willing to bid high.
 U S. Agricultural officials don't say much about it. but they have been grped at the British. Secre- tary Anderson held up his four-milling cut for about three weeks waiting for the British to agree to ship of their 100000 wheat surplus to the famine stricken Continent. Normally 100000 tons is not large surplus for the British but U S. off cals argued that in the present emergency this could be sent to Europe, with saving of valuable time and shipping while we got wheat to the Att lantic Seaboard.
 Then with the new Summer wheat crop coming in, we would replenish British reserves.
 Finally London through with an offer of only 100000 tons, providing the United States and Canada replaced it without too much delay.
 Secretary Anderson also was disappointed when the Canadians matched our 25 percent cut with
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02
A FORGOTTEN HOLIDAY
(The Bridgeport Telegram)


 Years ago many of the states celebrated a day at this time of year as Arbor Day. Children in the schools gave dramatic presentations and municipalities and civic groups planted trees. It was a grand cus- tom. Life has moved so rapidly in recent years this delightful old holiday has been almost forgotten. The time has come for wide spread revival of the old custom. We have days dedicated to fathers, mothers, babies, dumb animals, and what not. Every week in the year has a particular designation for some cause or other. Perhaps there have been so many that we have forgotten about the trees.
 Our ancestors needed no prodding, no proclamations, no high-powered advertising campaign to make them conscious of the need for planting trees. They lined the village streets,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

nations arc tO alleVfate WoFId- wide starvation.
 I. Only by careful skimping on the part of housewives, hotels and restaurants, can the United States fulfil it's food promises. There just isn't enough grain and oil to go round--unless we pull kn our belts.
 2. U. s. officials aren't saying much. but they weren't happy over English and Canadian CO., operation-or lack of co-opera- tion-in allocating their grain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

Iarltf Act a Dan on ulueCeIlI IUT- eign literature, with customs of- ficerS to be censors. The late Senator Reed Smoot (R., Utah) led that crusade.
 Thereby he inspired poem by ogden Nash, including the line when smut is to be smitten, Smoot will smite". He also tickled his colleagues when he solemnly informed the Senate, with wan and pained face, how he had to sit up until 3 o'clock the night before to finish Lady Chatterly'S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02
The Firing Line By D. N. T.
HI, MAY

By custom I'm constrained to say The words that bards, or small or
 great, Must polish for the month of May Or always do, at any rate. I hail the flower and the bird, The thrusting throngS of eager
 grass, The lovers, handsome and absurd, Who through enchanted Maytlme
 pass. I greet the gay and toddling tot Divested of his woody suit And other things that are forgot When sunbeams really start to
 shoot. I like, and say I like, the streets That wear their tender hats oi
 leaves, The buds in which their greer repeats AS though the vines it interWeaveS Let loud the welcome be, and clear As Mays most gentle wine
 decanted, Spills on the blossom of the year. q got to get the garden plantedo
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

Ford Motor Company.
 This marks the end of what looked like a pretty good thing in the Department of Commerce the presence of practical busi- nessman who knew both govern- ment and industry inside and out, serving as Director of Domestic Commerce and really trying to do something for business besides issuing a lot of not-too-useful statistical handouts.
 As General Browning goes
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02
Note on AntinOiSe Week There is no din
 In a dropping pin.

To hear one side of the story. American manufacturers cannot wait for OPA ceilings to be abolished before they put sky high prices on their products in order to spoil all that darn old good will they've spent hundreds of millions to build up among the people.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

The. Massachusetts Senate has voted against a resolve to clear the names of the Salem witches who were indicted back in 1892. It's a wonder that the conservative solons didn't ask for a second indictment on charges of flying too low.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

Joe Louis looks something like a biblical character with that new beard be has grown. Probably the first time anyone ever connected Joe with minor prophets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

We liked the way a man in Mt. Vernon, N. Y, greeted Noise Abate- ment Week Sunday morning. He fired off a 20-pound cannon twice to wake his wife up, thus proving that he was a nonconformist. His rugged individualism further was attested by the obvious fact that he must have arisen before his wife on Sunday morning, an almost n- heard of departure in itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

WASHINGTON, May 2-FIere are two unpleasant but unacceptable facts regarding the food shortage They must be kept in mind if the Anglo-American
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

Every so often somebody or other in Congress sets himself up as censor of books.
 There was, several years ago, the famous and amusing battle over 8 proposal to write into the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

The Weather Bureau announces after careful study, that we're now in cold cycle that will last for fifty years. We're going to take it phiIOsOphically; we would have had to order another ton anyway, probably.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago


 A COW, which strolled onto rail- road tracks in Cheshire was killed outright when struck by train. A Central Avenue man was bllnd- ed in one eye when stone kicked up from the street by a passing vehicle.
 15 Years Ago Plans were made by local checker players to hold a statewide contest at the Central Y.M.C.A. Cigarettes sold for less than q 90 per carton.
 5 Years Ago Fifty inductees left the city Tor Camp Devens.
 A sudden cold snap killed early buds on dOwerE and plantA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

WASHINGTON, May 2-(NEA)-Brig Gen AL bert J. Browning is leaving his $l0,OOO-a-year gov ernment post on May l, to take job paying l2 times that much as director of purchases TOT the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02
15 Years Ago
5 Years Ago

Fifty inductees left the city for Camp Devens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-05-02

A sudden cold snap killed safl! buds on hO~'eeE and plantA
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Gen. Grant Asks j. ).
To Pay All Costs on
Potomac Parkways

Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant III, chair
man of the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, has
proposed to Congress that the en-
tire costs of developing Federal
parkways along the Potomac River
from the District to Great Falls and
from Washington to Fort Meade,
Md, be paid by the United States.
Such legislation, he said in COM
munication yesterday to the House
and in one to be forwarded today to
the Senate, is needed to eliminate a
very unfortunate and unjust dis
elimination" against Maryland.
Points to Act of 1890.
He brought out that under an act
OF 1880 Virginia has not been re-
quired to share in the costs of the
George Washington Memorial Park
way along the Potomac, but that
such work on the Maryland side
must be done under the Federal
aid road highway program, with
Maryland putting up SO per cent of
the costs.
The same situation, he added, ap-
plies to the proposed development of
parkway from Washington to the
far side of Fort Meade, to connect
with parkway from Baltimore
This is outlined as one of the prin-
clpal postwar construction projects
Of the United States.
The 1880 law authorizing parkway
| developments near the National
Capital, Gen. Grant recalled, au-
thorized land acquisition in this
area, including the Valley of the
AnacoStla River and its tributaries
by cooperation between the Ma
tional Capital and the MARYLAND
Park and Planning Commissions
But any roads built in this Mary
land area, he added, would have to
be under the Federal aid highway
program.
Virginia Shore Project.
AS to the George Washington
Memorial Parkway on the Virginia
shore of the Potomac. including
the Mount Vernon Memorial Park
way. Gen. Grant said appropria-
tions of more than $1,000, 900 had
been made to extend the parkway
from Columbia Island to Key Bridge
which was given an added span for
the purpose.
On the other hand, the right of
way which is being acquired on
the Maryland side of the Potomac
from the District to Great Falls has
cost to date about S679,0O0, of which
half has been met by Maryland
and private contributors, he added.
Development of 1887 acres on the
Maryland shore, he said also is
considered available as an early
postwar project.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Amvets 10 Get Place
On War Assets Group

Decision of tine war Assets Ad-
ministration to enlarge its Veterans
Policy Committee and include two
additional veterans organiza tions
brought promise today that the
American Veterans of World War
II (Amvets) would withdraw a suit
recently filed against the WAA in
Michigan.
In filing the suit in the Federal
Court for the Eastern District of
Michigan, Amvets had charged
WAA with mishandling veterans
priorities in the Detroit area. 1t
had sought to enjoin further dis
posal of surplus property by the
WAA Office there.
After two-day conference with
Amvets and WAA representatives,
the Justice Department announced
today an agreement had been
reached by which the WAA Veter-
ans Advisory Committee would be
enlarged and other steps taken to
expedite the handling of veterans
priorities.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Mrs. Sarah N. Farr,
Teacher, Dies al 81

Mrs. Sarah M. Farr, 80, a Wash
ington school teacher for so years
died yesterday at her home, 3002
Thirty-second street NV, after q
long illness.
Although born in Montgomery
County, Md, Mrs. Farr lived vir-
tually her entire life in the Capital
She graduated from the old Wash
ington High School and began her
teaching career shortly afterWard
Most of her long service in the pub
lie school system was spent at Gen.
trail High School, where she taught
several generations OF Washing
tonians. Mrs. Farr retired about IL
years ago.
For a number of years she served
as a director of the Teachers Aio
and Annuity Association.
She is survived by a daughter
Mrs. L. Bert Nye, and two grand
children, all of Washington.
Funeral services will be held al
l pm. tomorrow in the Hines fu-
neral home, 2901 Fourteenth street
NV. Burial will be in Gaithersburg
Md.
Evening star., 1946-05-08

He entered the Agriculture De.
partment's Bureau of Statistics ano
in 1907 became a member of the
Crop Reporting Board, a position
he held until his retirement in
1914. DR.. Jones was a pioneer in
the establishment and improvement
of the field service in agricultural
statistics.
He was a member of the Mount
Taber Methodist Church and for
many years was president of its
Board of Elders and president of
the adult Bible class.
DR.. Jones is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Ada Yost Jones; three daugh-
ters, Mrs. Albert T. King of the
Bethesda address, Mrs. Louis o.
Cleveland, Gulfport. Miss, and Mrs.
Charles L. Kopp, Orlando, Fla; a
son, Maj. Lincoln S. Jones, Rich
mond; two sisters, Mrs. Archie r.
French of California and Mrs. Ruth
Astell, Chevy Chase, Md; brother,
Leo Jones of California, and 13
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at
pm. Saturday at William Reuben
Pumphrey funeral home, Bethesda,
Burial will be in Mount Zion Church
Cemetery, Old Georgetown road
Bethesda.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Rear Admiral Tow|e, 81,
To Be Buried in ARLINGTON

Funeral services for Rear Admiral
William Francis Towle, Coast Guard,
will be held at pm. Friday at Fort
Myer Chapel. Burial will be in
Arlington Cemetery. Admiral Towle
who was 62, died May 3 at his home
in Berkeley, Calf, while on terminal
leave pending retirement from active
duty.
A veteran of 40 years service in
the Coast Guard, his last assign
ment, which he held during the war
years, was as commander of the 11th
Coast Guard District, Long Beach,
Calf. During World War I, he was
assigned to patrol force duty at
Liverpool, England. Before being
transferred to the Pacific Coast in
1881, Admiral Towle was stationed in
New York and aboard cutters on
duty in Atlantic and Gulf waters.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Olive c.. ToWle.
Evening star., 1946-05-08

into various phases of political and
potential military activity in Spain.
All 81 United Nations were asked
to contribute any evidence in their
files.
Working against a May 81 dead
line, the subcommittee will dig into
the charges laid by Poland in sup
port of her demand for a collective
U. N diplomatic break with Spain.
One phase of the inquiry will look
into any production of uranium
and war materials; military, naval
and aeronautic installations; re-
search on methods of war and mass
destruction; atomic research, forti-
fications erected by the Franco re-
gime and the strategic disposition OF
its armed forces
It also was announced that the
12-nation U. N. Committee for the
Control of Atomic Energy would
hold its first meeting at Hunter Col
lege May % and that it would be
open to the public
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Rites 10 Be Held Friday
For John Tonkin, 79

Funeral services for John Tonkin
70, who died yesterday after short
illness, will be held in Hines funeral
parlor at pm. Friday. The Rev
DR.. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor
of Foundry Methodist Church, will
ofhciate.
Mr.. Tonkin, who died at his resi-
dence, 2l21 Fifteenth street NV.
was a practicing masseur in Wash
ington for nearly 40 years up to his
retirement four years ago.
Mr.. Tonkin is survived by his
widow, daughter, Mrs. Burton
Burnett, of 2408 Thirty ninth street
NV; two sons, William Tonkin, OF
Terre Haute, Ind, and Maurice
Tonkin of Hilton Village, Va; a
sister, Mrs. Hugh Atkinson, of Car
bondale, Pa, and two brothers, Will
liam Tonkin of Carbondale and
Isaac Tonkin of Miami, Fla.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
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not complied with tie council re-
quest for a report by May 6.
Mr.. Alas Monday night statement
said his government had ascer-
tanned that all Russian troops had
been withdrawn from four provinces
in Northern Iran but that it could
not verify the situation in Azerbai-
jan Province-where a self-pro-
claimed autonomous government was
set up during the Russian occupa-
ton.
Hope was expressed by some Coun-
Gil sources that additional informa-
ton concerning the situation in AZ
erbaijan might be Forthcoming from
Mr.. Ala before the Council meets
this afternoon.
Travel Reported Cancelled.
Private advices to U. N.Ssources
said Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan,
had been evacuated by the Russians
as reported in a Tabriz broadcast
Monday.
News dispatches from Teheran
yesterday, however. said the Soviet
government still controlled travel to
Northern Iran and that American
correspondents had not been able
to visit Azerbaijan Province. The
manager of 1ntourist, Russian
owned airline in Tabriz, was quoted
as saying that a permit no longer
was necessary to visit the region,
but that passage must be booked
through the Soviet consulate.
The same advices said that, while
the road from Teheran to Tabriz had
been cleared of Russian check posts
official travellers to Tabriz had been
stopped for as long as eight hours
at each partisan-held town along
the route.
Spanish Inquiry Program.
While the attention of the Council
itself was focused on Iran, a special
subcommittee investigating the re-
gime Of Generalissimo Francisco
Franco disclosed it had formulated
a nine-point program of inquiry
Evening star., 1946-05-08
mrs. Carrie T. Miles
Rites to Be Held Today

HYATTSTOWN, Md, May B.
The funeral of Mrs. Carrie Thomas
Miles, 76, whose death after an
illness of several weeks occurred
Sunday at her home near here, will
take place this afternoon in the
Hyattstown Methodist Church
Burial will be in the church ceme-
terry.
Besides her husband, Samuel p
Miles, Mrs. Miles is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. Luther Thompson
Gaithersburg, and Mrs. Philip Lin
thicum, Hyattstown; two sons, Ed
ward H. Miles, Hyattstown, and
Charles w. Miles, Forest Glen; a
sister, Mrs. Mary Nicholson, Comus
Md; two brothers, James McDon-
ough, Darnestown, Md, and Bud
McDonough, Mounty Airy, Md; Is
grandchildren and four great grand
children. She was lifelong resi-.
dent of the Hyattstown and Comus
neighborhoods.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
Cadets Of Miomi School
To Parade on EIIipse

Girls of the Miami (Fla.) Edison
High School Cadet Corps will pa
rade at lis tomorrow on the Ellipse.
The cadets, who visited this area
annually before the Gar, were to pa
rade at the Naval Academy at An
napolis at 2 pm. today, and after
their visit here tomorrow will 60 to
West Point. All are honor student.
of Edison High School. There are
so girls in the group.
Evening star., 1946-05-08
lit Mrn1nriunt
CAMPHOR, SARAH.

Of my dear mother. SARAH cAMPHoR
MaS Nao sasIsd g. isas away three years ago today
Three sad and lonely years have passee
Since my great sorrow fell;
The shock received that day
! will always remember we'll.
DEVo@IED OF DAUGHTER. MRS. ANNIE
ERICKSON, EVA x: In memory of oul
Nay 1876 S At 1914 oksUsi ksSrenee wnG st. as aise
Washington. D. c..
HER DAuoHFsRs, HsFs in Anies pssss. AND Rrrry
ERICKSON.
HAMILTON, RICHARD H. We pause t.
and grandfather, RICHARD II. HAMII
M9H MoN' Wh9 f9a left us two years ago today
In my lonely hours of thinking.
Thoughts Of you are very near;
At the end Of two i long ''s years. spa
TON JONES.
The tn month Of May once more is here.
For two years ago today
LoSiNS ,c RAHNPSHiIDREsS j sSss aEATkIcz
Rick MARR1Tk WAyHA HARRIS DOROTHY WAR
HINES. OCTAvIA. v. AND THOMAS M
ocTASEA v HMEs fIsion who 'de depafaee as@
s Ma SIX n SeaTi E Ma MAY 81 Sassed aed
THE FAMILY.
JACKSON. EMMA S. In sad but lovins
Ea s. Who daESea asd res mGa
ago today, May 8, 1913
No No one knows knows the tears we she'd
You left a vacant place in our home
MER Mesh LoVINa osHfE cae GHpRES q lsS AND GRAND
CHILDREN.
MARCY, CLARA. In sad but lovini
Mremem5yance MnsTtv G Of % our dear r.. mother. CLARA
ago oday "hG Mas g. fs44 this life two
here,
The midnight stars shine on 18th the - grave
HER DAUGHTERs, MARIE. lar iSDa Ellen, LEN EDNA
ery Of my dear wife. ANNA PAGE. who
May s, 1882.
Beyond the river cur loved one slipped
To find peace and rest,
And there is comfort in the thought
HER That GcS knsX M What Vas
SMITH, MINNIE. In loving memory OF
our wife and mother, MINNIE SMITH
VIII. Who departsd this life ten years ago today
Precious memories unseen angels,
Sent from somewhere to our souls.
In the stiffness Of the midnight
Echoes from the past we hear;
From that lovely land somewhere.
HER DEVOTED HUSBAND AND DAUGH.
THOMPSON. JESSIE M. In loving mem.
ory of my wife and our beloved mother
JESSIE M THOMPSON who departed thi,
life two years ago today, May 8, 1914.
I am home in Heaven. dear ones,
10 ND
In this everlasting light.
All the pain and grief is over,
Every restless tossing past;
I am now at peace forever,
Safely home in Heaven at last.
Did you wonder SO calmly
Trod the valley of the shade'
Oh. but Jesus love illumined
Every dark and fearful glade.
And He came Himself to meet me
In that way SO hard to tread;
And with Jesus arm to lean on,
Could I have one doubt or dread?
Then you must not grieve SO sorely,
TRY to ook beyond deaIy eaTths fs Shadows
Pray to trust our Fathers will.
There is work. still waiting for you,
So you must not idly stand;
Do it now, while life remaineth-
You shall rest in Jesus land.
When that work is all completed
He will gently call you home;
Oh; the rapture of that meeting;
Oh H6sBSkp rs isS to Asb nj 'ea eHff5sEN fGBsi
WHITE. CONDELLA. In memory of my
grandmother, CONDELLA WHITE, who
passed IasS away two years ago today May 8
Let me think of her today,
Resting, sleeping, Just away;
Resting where no shadows fall,
nr,,d In perfeet peace she awaits us all