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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16

how both joggled elbows with John Snyder, the St. Louis banker who is supposed to be the war re- converter.
 At that particular moment the two men who had been at the opposite ends of the argument for weeks seemed closer together personally than the three Truman negotiators-though actually the days dckerings had not budsed them by many fractions of an inch.
 Here is the pay-by-play account of what hap pened.
 When Hairless and Murray were first invited to the White House, they expected to see the Pres ident himself However, Saturday morning, both received orders to report to John Snyders office. When they arrived, they found the three "S" men Snyder Steelman and Schweenbach-waiting for them. Snyder informed them that the President would not see them at once, but would be available if he needed Gle had spent an hour that morn ing posing for @ family photography short time later, the entire conference moved from Snyder's wing of the White House to the cabinet room
 Snyder began by asking the two men if either had changed his position since their conference broke up the day before in New York. Both Murray and Hairless said there was no change FairesS said US. Steel had gone high as 1t could go by offering an increase of IS cents an hour.
 Murray pointed out that he had cut his de- mand from 25 cents an hour to 19h cents He also pointed out that the steel workers still engaged before the War Labor Board in @ year-long argu- ment over five cent an hour increase still unde- cided but certain to go to the unon He urged Fair less to throw that increase into the current negoti atonS to stave off the strike. Murray said he was willing to yield two cents or the i've que to the union in the War Labor Board litigation if Hairless were willing to yield on his present proposal of 15-cent increase.
 Hairless, however, did not yield He replied that his company had a rough time getting the other steel companies to go along with 15cent increase and that several had done so under considerable pressure' Both Bethlehem Steel and Tom 0irdler's Republic Steel among those who bucked D. s. Steel hardest this.
 Meanwhile, Snyder, SchweLenbach and Steelman sat together pleading for someone to yield. Several times Snyder tried to put the heat on Murray to cave in. Steeman and Schwelenbach failed to join the reconverter on this They sat silent.
 Finally, after more than two hours of argument, the three s" men dropped out of the cabinet room and into Truman's office. Ten minutes later, they came back and escorted Hairless in to the Pres- dent
 Truman then gave Hairless straght-from-the- shoulder lecture He pointed out that the national n terest was at stake that the administration be- ing generous to the steel corporations by offering
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16

Cunningham upon his top Spromotion m the Red Sox organization but if that's to mean that Philip no longer will preside in the suite at the Sarasota Terrace. a lot of the alumni of the corner suite at the Sarasota Terrace will feel that something lhas happened to that old gang of mine Those were days, come to think them over, with such characters as MT. Al Schacht, MT. Moe Berg, MT James E. FOzU and assorted others, with gags ram- pant and a good song-usually MT. Troyis fav0rlte hymn If Had My Way"-Eingng clear. Even the the elderly guests of that towering boarding house used to wrap themselves in their tppets and troop below just to sit around and get their batteries re- charged from he excess atoms cracking in the air.
 
 Keep your fingers crossed the weather this week. That's when the uNO site-selection ccfnmit- tee comes to examine the Boston area, Things are looking pretty good for the Hub of the Universe up to here but terrible blizzard might kill our chances
 . There ought to be some sort of law to protect man such as that elderly Ianitor seized by baffed police in that fendsh child murder in Chi- cago. grilled to the point of physical and mental collapse. and then turned loose without sYen pub
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
Rise of Labor Dictator By Peter EdsOn

the strong man. Only Peron was little slicker about 1t. Wanting power, not pomp, Peron became the mere Uce-president and from this office he bosSed the young colones' "junta" than ran things. This was June, l943
 At this point there enters the picture one Jose Fguerola He had been a labor adviser to dictator Primo Rivera of Spain, and was smart Driven out of Spain and becoming Argentine citizen, he also became labor adviser to Peron. His advice to the colonel that he could not consolidate his position braintrsted the effort and wrote the necessary lawS and decreeS.
 First step was to destroy the existing Argentine labor organizations They were simply declared n- legal In their place government controlled general federation of workers formed. Peron, or Fguero la, got three strong socialist labor leaders to run it.
 They were smart in their strategy Instead of trying to control all labor they concentrated the key in transportation, public utilities and meat packing industries Controlling these three, Peron could tie up the whole country though membership of the Peron unions may be only from 10 to 2S per- cent of the workers
 But to conciate and get ct least the paSstte sup port of all other abor Peron put through ETee laws to freeze rents, put ceilings on priceS-and raise all wages.
 Peron then called historic conference of leaders in industry, management real estate, banks and bus ness. The idea to sell them on his plan to bring said, two "seguros-two guarantees-of safety First he had an army of 100000 men, all of whom he said adored him. That assured safety Second he had sup port from the laboring classes whose wages he had decreed and who could sbe counted to resist ag- tators that might be detrimental to management.
 Management, however. wasn't having any of this program. They broke with Peron and joined forces with what left of the old organized labor move ment and political parties which saw that the Peron program was leading only to ruinous inflation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
Overdue, But Welcome

Shortly before Congress took its yearend recess Rep Herman Eberharer of Pennsylvania told his colleagues that he would have income tax bill ready and waiting for them when they returned.
 "It is my considered opinion" said Mir. Eberharter, hat country needs reformation of the federal tax system. We must stop writing amendments top of amendments Our people back home. want single and sensible tax program program they understand They Will applaud Congress that enacts tax law that is just md equitable"
 We should like to start the applause for Mr. Eber arter suggestion which is 15 20 years overdue The income tax law model of clarity equity has not een improved by the various amendments and revsos that have been piled through the years like mustard pasters the poor taxpayers aching back
 These minstrations have burned without curing But M Eberharter seems be the first of the lawmakers who ns boldly come out in favor of trying remedy in- eaa eff moro uasters We hope that his colleagues in the aase win give his sensible proposal earnest consid
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
A NOTABLE YEAR OF LITERARY
 PRODUCTIVITY
(New York Sun)

(New York Sum
 Several centennials in American and English letters will occur this year. It was in 1e46 that Haw- thorne's Moses From an Old Manse" was published. A few months earlier the author, who was 42, had moved his household from the old Manse in Concord to Salem. Herman Melville, only 27 and not long returned from Tahiti, saw 'Typee," his first book, come from the press. On September l2 of that year Robert Browning and Eliza beth Barrett were married, and in October the first of the monthly parts of "Dombey and Son" was is- sued. Thackeray's "Snobs of Eng land" began appearing in Punch, and a landscape painter, Edward Lear, who had composed and illus trated limericks to amuse the chil- dren of the Earl of Derby. collected them for the first Book of Nom sense" What Bernard De Voto has called "The Year of Decision" in United States history provided some uncommon productions for readers on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
JANUARY THAW
(New York Times


 It comes like friend long remem- bered, the January thaw. like a warm greeting in a crowd of strangers. It lifts the heart and strengthens faith. and it breaks the winter of cold discontent.
 No one can predict the January thaw, nor even say for sure that it will come. That is a part of its de- light. the sweet happiness of sur prise. Cold congeals the world. The wind has the sharp fang of the wolf and winter seems to stretch interminably ahead. And then, over night, change comes. The skies clear to crystalline brilliance. The sun beams with benevolence. The wind itself is friendly, and the air has a palpable warmth. The thaw is here. Whether it lasts for a day or a week, it is as though doors were opened suddenly and there was spring on the next hilltop. Spring, and crocuses and the red horets on the swamp naples. and there is al- most the breath of violets in the breeze. One listens, unconsicously, for the hum of bees, and one looks for the flash of bluebird the strut ting of a robin just returned from his winter vacation.
 There is the sensation of sap
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
By Bill Cunningham

lie apology. And this despite spotless record as citizen and established record of being "the friend of every kid in the block"
 Years ago. in the notorious Loeb-I.eopoId murder out there teacher in the slain boys school was first grabbed a suspect. He was grilled, beaten with rubber hose, and, in fact, almost killed in an effort to make him confess a crime of which he was I talked with him later. He felt ct that time that his name had been sneared, his health hurt. pos sibly his life ruined by the bundering of a police force trying to clear it's name in crime that had shocked the nation The young teacher, at that point didn't know whether to press for redress whether the smart thing to do let 1t all die don't know what he ever did. but here K s again.
 There was dumb handling in that case. and like wise in the local Carlan case. It preordained cinch that any appeals to the kdnapper" made over the radio would bring nut responses and attempts of morons. worse to wiring money from the dls- tracted parents. As one who saw the Hndbergh murder trial. never was convinced and am not now convinced that Richard Bruno Hauptmann actually kidnapped and murdered the IAndbergh child. do believe, however that he tried to blackma the Lnd- bergh family with the claim that he was the kid- napper. in order to steal the ransom money, and that even for that, he should have been executed which he was.
 It's to be noted or is it7 that MT. MoIOtov Is not representing Russia at the UNO meeting in London
 . :: Among the most admirable, and perhaps dull- est, people on earth are the top flight professional golfers They don't drink. Many Of them don't smoke. They eat carefully, SO to bed carly arise with the bids and concentrate everasngly upon the baffling mechanics Of thelr intricate profession Maybe that life has It's compensations but t has, so has that Of an adding machine. 6tius of course. thege was waiter Hneen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
TO BE SCOTCHED AT THE START
(New Haven Journal-Courier)

(New Haven Journal-Courler)
 Kidnapping has been so rare a crime in recent years that its re- currence is bound to make the police of Chicago move heaven and earth to apprchend whoever is re- sponsible for the murder of the Degnan child. It is equally certain to put both the Federal and local authorities on guard against re- vival of belief among professional or amateur criminals that kid- nap;ng is the road to easy money. After enactment of the So-called Lindbergh Jaw, professional crim- inals quickly learned that kidnap- ping was at the top of the list of crimes that did not pay. The best way to demonstrate that again will be for the Chicago police to bring to justice the person or persons responsible in this instance. The horror and tragedy that one family have suffered will be duplicated elsewhere unless a plain lesson is provided for the cririnally minded.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
Views of the Press

moving upward, of buds about to burst, of catkins on the birches and mouse-ear leaflets on the lilacs there beside the gate. Life, for a brief interlude, is stirring in all the roots and along the branches --or so it seems. Life is good, and life is young, and happiness bursts into song. Winter, we know again, never lasts forever, foi here is a ull-favored taste of spring in Jan- uary, and the wind is a wind of change, eternal change.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16

creases plus a months extra pay as Christmas bonus. Argentine employers have refused to pay the increases, preferring to take fines and force the issue to the Argentine Supreme Court which reconvenes later this month.
 Reports to Washington give no indication how this case might be decided. A few of the justices are Peron men, but the Supreme Court is about the last remnant of Argentine democracy. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16

SIIlCt LIIty WeIE IuIIIeu UuI " oS' Petersburg some 10 years ago. 1t seemed a pretty cruel perform ance at the time, and yet the Braves of that era were scarcely a cultural asset. They were un- doubtedly the Sad Sacks of base- ball, and were practically exist ing on the cuff. Better heeled now and probably better inten- toned. they should rate as ac- ceptable guests anywhere. |.
 Congratulations to Phil Troy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago

Said Superintendent of Police George M. Beach:
 "Policemen engaged to perform duties at dance halls and on other occasions. should remember that they are not paid. to act as wall flowers or corner warmers
 ". but where are they now?' Reid & Hughes, Daley's Dancing Academy, The Rialto, the Galley Jewelry, The Waterbury Gas Light Company and The Boston Butter House.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16

"a very poor oplnl0n or HA2Ey rruman's three ''S" men Snyder, Schwellenbach and steeiman.
 When Falrless and Murray left the White House after their long wage battle last Saturday, the steel executive invited the labor chief to get into his llmou- sine. Then the two men rode around the block a couple of times chuckling over the way Secretary of Labor schwellenbach seemed jealous of John Steelman, Tru-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
.Merry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON, Jan. le-when Phil Murray and O. g. Steel President Ben Fairies sit down at the White House today In another effort to head off . steK strike they'll at least have thing ln common
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16

WASHINGTON, Jan 1e-Col Juan D. Peron, the Argentine dictator is having labor troubles too only his are different Threats of general strike in the Argentine come from Peron laws granting all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
Bits and SnatcheS

Those Orphans of AIlstOn, the Boston Braves, are at least getting themselves into better addresses
 Ft Lauderdale ought to be nice place to train. The Braves have been practically homeless in the south
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.
THF TAXEn MISE

 What times the sweated hours fec And there's no metric light to show 'em Who, willy-nilly, look to me For Stanzas (they must think l grow 'em), And I am flat in A. of G In jingles I design to throw 'em- I may be that diurnally Who plant the lines, but may not hoe 'em- With all the world I disagree; The world is wrong, and that's my proem: I think that l shall never see A tree as lovely as a poem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
15 Years Ago

McCoy's the house of music, talk ing advantage of the fact that busses had replaced trolleys on Baldwin street, advertised to the effect that residents of that sec- ton, TO longer bothered with elec- trical disturbances on their radios as a result of the trolleys, should buy radios.
 The Democrat ran this headline Influenza and Pneumonia Case' Growing Dangerious" as several new cases were reported in the city
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
Nuremberg Note Who said they forgacht Hjalmar Schacht?

"GIs in Frankfurt Boo Gen. Me- Narney, Chant We Want Ike '"- headline. Nothing succeeds; like successors.
 The basic price of Lincolns will be about per cent higher than it was in October, 194l. That cerI tainly is great news; go right ahead with our order for a half-dozen, Henry.
 Members of the Port of Boston Maritime Day committee have re- quested President Truman to name a New Englander to one of the va cancies on the United States Mari time commission. Maybe there's a chance, too; the number of old salts in Missouri MUST be neg ligible.
 There's movement afoot to re- duce the number of grounds for divorce in Massachusetts. Perhaps they'd better just eliminate the basic ground: marriage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16

General George C. Marshall, American mediator, is given credit for effecting the truce between the warning factions in the Chinese civil war. Without detracting from the credit at all, if you give the Chinese time enough they'll get over any thing-including Henry Wallace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16
5 Years Ago

Early morning citizens who had to venture out into the atmosphere took all kinds of guesses as to how many degrees the mercury haC dropped during the night. Most o the guesses were much exaggerated but the fact remained that waiting for bus was not the most welcome thing in the world.
 A man was treated at St. Mary'i Hospital when he took a deep gull from a can Of what he thought wa beer-it turned out to be red ho clam chowder which sc0rched tn inside of hls mouth and didn't dk his unhappy stomach any good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-16

Maybe the nursing situation would improve If some selfish peo- pie got over the idea that they need two nurses, one to depress the tongue and one to say Say An"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-24
Stafford Is Scene Of
Gas And Oil Boom

The little town of Stafford located
in Monroe county near the Noble
county line is being turned into a
gas and oil field. A gas well, the
largest one, was drilled in on We'd
nesday by Hayes Brothers, drilling
contractors, with gas being struck
at a depth of 951 feet in the Ger
mantown sand.
1t is a two million cubic foot pro-
ducer. This is the first we'll of pas
struck in this sand, and was drilled
in on the Ernest Curtis lot in Stat
ford.
Another we'll was drilled in by
Hayes Brothers about two months
ago on the Dean Prince property in
Stafford and is producing Is to IS
barrels of oil per day. This well was
drilled to the Engine sand at 1880
feet.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-24
Pfc. Elvin c. Brown
Studies jap History

Pfc. Elvln {. Brown, who is sta
toned with the 25th Division MP
platoon at Nagova Honshu, Japan,
has been delving into japanese his
tory and comes up with this one. 1t
was taken from a japanese Eng
lish book, equivalent to a third grade
reader in our schools and is as fol-
lows:
"Isoroku Yamamoto was one of
the greatest admirals the world has
ever seen. Under his command our
navy won great victories at Pearl
Harbor, off Malay - off the Solo
mons and at many other places.
He will always be remembered.
Altho he was a man of high position,
he lived in rather small house for
he loved simple life.
One day, one of the Admiral's
friends said, 4 am afraid your house
is too small for you. What do you
say to moving to a larger one?
The Admiral answered, with a
smile, this house is indeed a small
one, but l have another one large
enough for me it is the Pacific
Ocean,"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-24
Surplus AutOmOtive
Vehicles To Be Sold

The first spot sale of automotive
vehicles, recently declared surplus
by the Government, to be held in
this area since the New Year, was
announced today by Rowland D.
Schell, Director, Region ", Surplus
Property Division Consumer Goods,
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
The sale, which is being held for
regular licensed dealers of new and
used automotive vehicles is schedul-
ed for Tuesday. January %, at 1000
a. M, in Tent City, Building No.
2186, Fl. Knox Avenue, Ft. Knox,
Kentucky.
Among the vehicles included in
the sale are: one l 1-2 ton truck
equipped with complete fourth eche-
Ion welding shop; one II ton
truck equipped with complete fourth
echelon machine shop; one 10 ton
diesel cargo; one IL ton van trailer;
tractor trucks; to ton prime
movers; l 1-2 ton to 8 ton small
arms repair trucks; 1-2 ton radio
command cars; 1-2 ton connmad and
reconnaissance cars; ga ton tele-
phone repair trucks; 1-2 ton pole
semi-trailers; 8 ton semi-pole type
trailers; ton cargo trucks; also
2 1-2 ton 6x4 and exc cargoes.
While the actual sale will be held
at Fort knox, KY, the vehicles will
be sold f. o. b. location. They are
located at the following points: Pat
terson Field, Fairfield, Ohio; Colum-
bus ASF Depot, Columbus, Ohio;
Casad Ordnance Depot, New Haven,
Indiana; Indiana Ordnance Works,
Plant No. 2, Charlestown, Indiana;
Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Lexington
Signal Depot, Lexington, KY, Camp
Breckenridge, KY, Camp Campbell,
KY, and Tent City, Ft. Knox, Ky.
Schell stated that dealers are
urged to inspect the vehicles prior
to bidding, as all sales are made on
an "as is" and "where is" basis.
Full information in regard to the
sale may be secured from the Fourth
Regional Office, Surplus Propert
Division, Consumer Goods, Recon-
struction Finance Corporation, 704
Race Street, Cincinnati /, Ohio.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-24

Of the strips in controlling erosion
depended great deal upon the quail
ity of the meadow between the strips
of cultivated crops. These farmers
had been applying about a ton Of
lime per acre and used about 200
pounds per acre of 2-12-6 on corn.
A series of soil tests showed the
land really needed from three to four
tons of lime per acre and that 400 to
500 pounds per acre of 3-12-12 or
3-18-9 could be profitably used to
boost crop yields.
Mr.. Spencer says the results of
these practises are plainly apparent.
Corn and wheat yields are steadily
increasing, and the meadows produce
fine hay crops, One 7-acre pasture
seeded with three pounds alfalfa,
three pounds timothy one pound, Of
Lad.no clover, and little red clover
carried 10 cows 10 weeks in 1945
and is in excellent condition for 1916
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-24
ALFRED CANT INJURED

Alfred Cant, we'll known farmer
of the Sharon community sustained
fracture of the left shoulder and
other body injuries Tuesday evening
while unloading corn at his home.
He was standing between the wagon
load of corn and the corn crib, when
in some manner the horses started
and he was thrown under the wagon
the wheels passing over his shoul-
der, left arm and left leg. DR.. w. E.
Radcliffe was called and Mr.. Cant
was removed to Memorial hospital,
Marietta.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-01-24
Farmer Lists Benefits
Of Soil Conservation

Better crops, better pastures, re-
duction of soil erosion, and steady
Improvement of soil fertility are ad-
vantages obtained from a county
soil conversation district as listed by
Donald Spencer, the youngest men,
Der of a father ard son farm part
nership in Guernsey county.
Mr.. Spencer says he and his
father worked to get the district
started in their county and they be-
lieved it was good sense to use the
district after it was organised.
They had been trying previously to
stop loss Of top soil by blowing
across slops instead of up and down
but the contour strips laid but by
Soil Conversation Servicemen did
much better job of stopping erosion.
The Spencers found that the value