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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Trumon Pins Hopes on GM . Panel Report
 FormuIc Asks l9H
 Cents Hour Increase
 For Auto Workers

Washington, Jan. H. CUP) = President Truman pinned his hope for industrial peace today on a formula calling for wage increases of l7 to 1s per cent over basic war; time rates.
 Wage adjustments in that pattern were recommended by the Presi- dents fact-flnding board for 175,000 striking United Automobile Work CTS (CIO) employed in General Motors plants. The board proposed raises of l9 l-2 cents an hour and called on the union to end it's seven week strike ct all GM plants in the country.
 While Government officials were confld ent the recommendation would be accepted, there was no definite indication from either the company or the union. The com- pany withheld comment pending study of the reSort.
 To Decide Sunday
 In New York, JAW vice-Presi- dent Walter Reuther, in charge of the General Motors division, said a decision on acceptance or rejec- tion of the panels finding would be taken in Detroit Sunday by repre- centatives from more than 100 GM plants.
 Reuther did not indicate defin- itely what his recommendation would be. He said the wage pro- poSal was a flair finding" on basis of l941 production but was "inade- quate" in that it did not take into account anticipated higher output in postwar years. He suggested that GM use the boards proposal as a base for future raises at output rises over 1941 levels.
 Confronted by strikes and threats of strikes in mass production in- dustries, Mir. Truman gave the fact finders recommendation his full support. Asking both the company and the union to accept, he made 1t plain that he hoped the proposal would clear the way for settlement of many disputes.
 Would Be Accepted
 While the panel emphasized that 1t had not developed a new wage formula" the belief prevailed in informed government quarters that the General Motors proposal would be accepted and that similar set- dement's would be reached in the pending steel negotiations and other disputes.
 High administration advisers hoped for settlement of the steel case before Monday and believed 1t would break down any potential resistance to acceptance of the General Motors decision. The ad- ministration was counting on pub lie opinion to compel acceptance by both parties. It also knew that delay on the part of General Mo- tors would give competitive advan-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11

niQue, speaking before the Con- necticut Federation of Labor con- vention at The Elton this morning, vigorously urged working people to render their support to the fact finding bill now before Congress.
 Labor leaders are opposing the bill. 1t is reported because 1t pro- poses Q '30-day cooling of pertod'' which 1t is feared may stretch into long periods of lay-offs.
 Congressman James P. Geelan, speaking before the convention yes- terday, also urged the labor dele gates to study the bill, but em- phasized he was not advocating its support.
 Supports Collins
 Senator McNdahon was. termed "a friend of labor and man the people can rely on 100 percent, by Timothy M. Collins. president, who introduced the speaker. The husky Norwalk Senator; who holds the most outstanding labor record of any Connecticut Congressman, in troduced the fact-flnding technique III LLlC GC1tdlC AdSb OuAyg bCS6AoSp @AS said, Hong study of industrial con- ditions made. me realize the post war program would produce many difficulties, and a better method of conciliation must be found"
 His proposal. he explained, was based on the theory that no strike succeeds without public support, all the facts of both parties must be placed on the table, and when the facts are known to the public, labor has much better opportunity of support.
 Pointing to the fact that labor has sought for 8 presentation O. facts in labor difficulties for almost a decade, the Senator issued as- surances that strikes would be se:- tied much quicker if the bill were passed.
 Birth Pains Follow
 Believe me-" he declared, "this bill comes from the friends of labor
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
CITY EAPL0YES ATTENTION!

The Waterbury Democrat is offering free copies of Water bury'e Pension and Retirement Act to all city employees and officials. The wOrd-by-word and complete text of the Act has been compiled in pamphlet form by this newspaper. They will be available early next week.
 The Democrat has had these pamphlets printed for free dis trihution to city employees in the belief they will prove Of value to you employees in deter mining the various phases of the Pension Act which SO closely affect your welfare. So few authentic copies Of the oTi- ginal Act are now available that the management Of The Democrat felt this newspaper viii De serving the public by giving free authentic copies tO those Co whom this act applies. City pensioners, now retired, may also apply for copies.
 Theso pnEnphists win be ready next week. Announce mant win bo made through this neWEraneF and radio foeIlitIe0 aa fo how they naev Do ob. tainad. watch xhe DansocEat pa9e1 for this aappraceueusl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
KeyCenters Of44 States Picketed
New EnsI0nd Area Is Not Affected By Curtoilraent

New York, Jan. 11-(UF1 Long distance telephona service across the nation waa paralyzed and local service curtatled at many points today, and there was no immediate prospect of a8 end of picketing of telephone ex- changes in key cities of A states Preparing to leave for Waskings ton to attend a conciliation meet~ ing called for { p. m. by Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach, Ernest Weaver, president Of tl19 striking Association of Conmunicae tionS Equipment Workers (1nd)s said:
 'Picketing was begun and Min continue until this thing is settAed.S A
 Amazed at Report
 Weaver expressed auaazeznent e4 report that Schwellenbach had said in Washington that Weage4 had promised another attempt fH withdraw the picket lines.
 T don't know where he got tlaAe idea" Weaver said. q made 0no attempt to stop 1t. That's the laae until this thing is over. Its under way now, and I couldn't stop it T I wanted to-and I don't want to.
 we are going to the WashinBtun conference at the Secretary's re~ quest"
 Tickets Respected
 Schwellenbact's meeting was so bring together ACEW leaders, and officials of Western Electric CuEl1~ pany, against which the union struck Wednesday in demand for
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Areo Strike Ranks Mount
 4S, 900 from GE
 Plants 10 WoIkout

Boston, Jan. il. (UP)-ApproXi- mately 2l 900 workers were idle in New England today as result of labor disputes while future strife threatens to swell their ranks to at least l35, 900.
 The most critical threatened walk out appeared to be that scheduled for Tuesday at various General Electric plants in the area which employ a total of 48, 900 workers.
 Plants affected would include those at Lynn, Pittsf1eld, Fitchburg, Taunton, Everett, East Boston. Bridgeport and Meriden Conn, and Providence, R. I.
 The largest of those was to Lynn where 10000 are employed. There the CIO has made ready to eStab- fish soup kitchens to feed strikers and pickets.
 Other threatened walkouts in New England include:
 Monday. United Steel Workers (CIO) at IS plants in Boston, Ply mouth, Lynn, North Andover, Law. renee, Norwood, Worcester Spring field, Billerica and Nashua, N. H. Nearly 5000 workers would be in volved.
 Tuesday, CIO United Electrical Workers at the Westinghouse Com- panies plants in Springfield and Bridgeport, Conn. which employ a total of 4.458 workers.
 Wednesday, United Packing House Workers of America (CIO) in l6 greater Boston plants which employ about 5000 persons.
 Granite Cutters International Union IndO in and around Barre, Vt, about 1000 employees affected. No strike date set.
 United Mine, Mill & Shelter Workers (CIO) at the Scoviil Man ufacturing Company, the American Brass Company and Chase Brass Company at Waterbury. Conn, and the Bridgeport, Conn, Brass Com- pany. About 65O00 workers would be involved.
 Connecticut appeared to be the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Panel Asked In Stamford
 Baldwin Asked
 To NoEme BooFd

Stamford, Jan. 1l.-(UP)-Jerome Y. Sturm, counsel for the Inter national Association of Machinists, AFL. appealed today to Gov. R. E.. Baldwin to immediately appoint a fact-finding committee to Sift the issues in the Yale & Towne Manu- featuring company strike.
 A third attempt to settle the strike which has idled 5000 work CTS since Nov. 1 blew up late yeS- terday after a IS minute union- management conference. SturIn walked out of the meeting declaring it was "a waste of time" to talk union shop and pay increases with management.
 The blowup came only a few hours after Governor Baldwin. at the State convention of the Con- necticut Federation of Labor at Waterbury, declared that labor and management jointly were responsi- ble for peaceful relations and called for "a fair spirit of compromise all around"
 Sturm said the union wont meet again until company chang es its position. The next move is up to the company.
 State Mediator Perley Hovey did not have an opportunity yesterday to present his plan for settlement of the strike which was based on insertion of a maintance of menl- hership clause as a compromise of union demands for a closed shop and company insistenee on an open shop.
 Hoyey said that previously, the company had been "non-eommittal' about his proposed maintenance oi membership clause and the union had shown no reaction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11

men will be brought home from the Pacific before May 1.
 Patterson told press conference that more than half the S0T,O00 service men in the Pacific on Jan. 1 would be relieved within four months. No replacement will be sent for them. He said he found troop morale in the Pacific good.
 Three thousand soldiers in Hawaii presented demands to Washington today for "a clear foreign policy" and faster demohllization.
 Marines Forbidden Meetings
 At the same time, Lt.-0en. Roy s. delgeF, commander of the Fleet Marine forces in the Pacific, Issued orders forbidding Marines in his command from holding mass meet. ings. He told them to submit thelr complaints through normal eom- Inand channels.
 4 fiVe-point demobilization plan was adopted in sehoefield Barracks Bowl. Hawai-. last night by 5000 soldiers and sent to Lt.-0en. Robert c. Rlchardson, Jr.. mid.Paclfic Army commander. tor relay to Washing- ton. The American veterans com. mittee sponsored the rally.
 The soldierg' plan proposed auto- matlc release Of two-yearsmen on March 20. 6 monthly drop of 10 points in discharge requirements point credit for service since V-J
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Mother, Sons Die in flames
 z0 Others Safe
 In MeIrose, Moss.

Melrose, Mass, Jan. II - (UP) - A mother and her two young sons were burned to death, her husband and two other children were Seri- ously scared and about 25 other per- sons escaped today when Q three alarm fire swept a tenement house near the Wyoming station of the Boston and Main Railroad.
 The victims were:
 Mrs. Carl Lapnam, 28.
 Delbert Lapham, 3.
 Carl Jr., 6-month-old.
 Hospitalized with critical burns were Carl Lapham, 50, a daughter Linda, {, and step-daughter, Helen Jones, l2.
 Two youth aided in rescuing Lap ham, his daughter and step-daugh- ter. However, they were unable to reach the rest of the family on their second trip into the burning structure.
 The pair, Norman o'Brien, 2S. and Raymond Harrington, 22, a dis charged Navy veteran, fought their way to the Lapham's second floor suite even as other tenants were fleeing.
 Linda was found crawling on the floor, pitifully burned. Helen Jones was taken from rear porch while Lapham was found frantically searching for his wife.
 Tn the confusion it was believed that one of the youths had saved Delbert so they searched only for Mrs. Lapham and her infant son.
 The blaze Eas believed to have started in the second-fioor suite oc- cupied by the Laphams. Firemen said it apparently was caused by an oil heater that overdowed.
 Flames spread rapidly through the ancient structure and the neigh borhood was showered with sparks. Commuter service on trains was de- layed more than an hour as fire- men alid hoselines across tracks. Damage to the Berwick-Street structure was expected to total about $lO.000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
MArthur;s Protest Note NeUer Seen

Tokyo. Jan. li-lUP)-Secretary of War, Robert P. Patterson said today that he had never seen 8 message whicE Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur said ne sent to Washing ton on Oct. 3i objecting to the four-power control council plan for Japan.
 MacArthur Issued q formal state- ment on Dec 90 stating that his final disagreement with the pro. posed plan was sent by radio to the Army Chief of stan for Secretary of States James Y. Byrnes. The plan was adopted by the Big Three Foreign Ministers Conference ln Moscow without further consult tatl0n with MacArthur.
 Patterson told a press conference today. ''if he (AzacArthur) sent any such messase I did not know about lt."
 Praises AincArihur
 Fl@efs9n raid that se would
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Taps GiUen By Student ForKennedy

Members of the faculty and stu dent body of the Wilby High School participated today in an impressive tribute to their former associate and principal, the late Joseph P. Ken- nedy.
 As the funeral cortege proceeded down Willow street and onto Grove street en route to the cemetery, hundreds of school students stood with heads barred and their right hands over their hearts. Taps" were blown by Wallace Inglis, Jr., as the funeral passed the Grove street entrance to Wilby School. Both sides of the street were flank ed by students, all class sessions be- ing suspended during the hour scheduled for obSequieS.
 The funeral of Wilby's first prin- cipal was held at 9:30 o'clock this morning from his residence at S5 Crescent street, to St. Margaret's Church, where a solemn high Mass of requiem was celebrated at 10 o'clock. The edffice was crowded with delegation of teachers, prin- cipals and friends of the deceased.
 The Rev. J. Oliver Cronan, aS- sistant pastor, offlciated as cele- brant of the Mass, assisted by the Rev. Francis Mclaughlin as dea- con; Capt. James T. Kilbride, O.. c. of Bangor, Maine, as Sub-deacon. the Rev. Arthur L. McMahon, O.. F., of New Haven and the Rev. John A. Conlon, pastor of St. Mar garet's, occupied seats within the sanctuary railing. The musical pro- gram was directed by Prof. John L. Bonn, with Mrs. Robert Mc- Kiernan as soloiSt.
 Delegations in attendance at the services were headed by Superin- tendent of Schools John G. Gil- martin and Assistant Superintend-
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Bulletin

Nuremberg, Ian. 11-UP)- The Army newspaper Stars and Stripes reported today that the blackened bodies of three mili- tary government officers were found in their burned house at Passau, near Regensburg, on Monday.
 The dispatch said there were indications that the three men had been beaten tO death, their house soaked with gasoline and set abIaxe.
 All three, . major, . captain and a~lleutenant, apparently had be0Dn murdered by repeated axe blows while they slept in sep- arate rooms on the second and third floors of the house.
 The bodies were removed to the 25Oth General Hospital at Regensburg for autopsles.
 A major who was sleeping In . ground floor bedroom when the murders occurred managed to escape, but Stars and Stripes said military investigators swore him to secrecy and refused tO make his story public.
 Off-limits signs were posted In the vicinity of the murder house to ward off unofficial investiga- tors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Eight Local
 WE Pickets Are Veterans

Twelve striking Western NAeotxIN Company installation workers azn1 Of whom are QEereeAs Hetezana e turns in picketing in front oz kEAg Southern New England Telq Company building on Grand slk4e4 today, as the WEC naticn-Hf4 strike went into it's third day and disrupted telephone and telegraph service in many parts of the couzE~ try.
 Robert Pratt. manager Of the Wos terbury district telephone ogkiS@ said today that only eraerseuzJ calls were accepted by the local ex~ change to New York City, Nswnxl Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Wnaae ington. The service disruption wha caused by picketing in those cities
 Picketing in Waterbury and N4 of New England however had ID effect on service here, since Ccnnsr% ticut and other New England tele. phone unions did not recognize tza& picket lines. Calls went through to- day on schedule to all points in WAr terbury, in Connecticut, in NEH England, and also in WestclanSleK County, it was reported.
 Regulars Continue WoEk
 Regular telephone company izzN stallation workers, meanwhile coz1~ tinued their work at local hoEues Mir. Pratt said they have plenty ~ work to do as yet, and the strike qx the l2 VEG installers has not uAs= Tupted their schedules.
 Waterbury's first pickets arrived on Grand street at 6:30 a. Kn.s nNz no difficulty was encountered nv the regular telephone company ena% ployes who began to arrive for tnesk Jobs shortly thereafter.
 Instead of trying to prevent ealzZ to the building the piekets ggeefsa the workers pleasantly. The Strikers and telephone staff have been closely associated for some kinles aAR though working for different firms
 Displeased With Outlook
 The youthful pickets, some 1< whom hold outstanding service xeg= orations, were jovial about their task. but displeased with the labor outlook.
 Former Staff-Sergeant MaFshaII Steele of ii6 Cherry street, Watez= bury's most decorated Army e.z Force gunner, was philosophical guess I changed my gun Tor Hlae card, he said as he paced expun1 the building carrying slrlks pa4l&k. (Cnntinned on Pare al
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11

&eSAA o SSNASNJe
 Legal opinions and official deci- sions, pinning down certain debat- able points of issue, having been handed down tend to deadlock the issues on all sides.
 Refuses to Call Meeting
 Some of these moves and events are:
 1. The informal opinion of City Corporation Counsel Maurice T. Healey (reported on in last nights Democrat advising that the Board of Alderman has no authority to void the entire revaluation program.
 2. The decision of Aldermanic President Patrick Shea (now act- ing Mayor in the absence of Mayor John s. Monagan) that no special meeting of the Board of Aldermen will be called for purposes of with holding any more activities of the city's 1946 budget, tax rate or Grand List. This had been requested by the semi-organized' Council of Com munity Clubs.
 3. The opinion of many legal authorities in Waterbury that no mass" entrance suits can be brought into higher courts relative to property on a mass" basis; each piece of property and its valuation being contested must be brought into the higher courts individually, it is reasoned.
 5. The statements by some Re- ntlhlican aldermen this morning saying, in effect, that their minority leader. Richard D. Bensen is not speaking for them when he states that the minority will present a resolution before the board to set aside the revaluation."
 State Law Forbids Action
 The presumably reliable legal opinions, that under State law, 1t will not avail the property owners to seek court action on a mass scale, tends to disrupt tentative plans of some of these organiza- tions, it would appear today.
 ''The properties are not vested in any Community Club and, there fore, the latter cannot represent the property owners in this type case, " it was generally stated.
 Legal authorities have stated that only individual eases can be brought into court on matters of assess ment. It follows also, these authori- ties state, that no one individual case can be made representative of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
|GIs Nap as
 German
 |NdziSr11 

Berlin, Jan. 1i--(UP)--The Ger man underground is beginning to strike back.
 The United Press learned today that dynamite-laden pamphlets pro- claiming that National Socialism Is not dead'' are being found in in- creasing numbers throughout Ber- lin. So far no one has been able to trace them to their source.
 The disclosure of these inflamma- tory proclamations coincided with Q bitter statement issued by a respon- sible German police official who warned bluntly [ hat the present American Intelligence service in Ber-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Chick Howard End 2 Life in East Haven

East Haven, Jan. 1s-{Uz 1s- Nathan '. HorWits, 6s, better k'sa as ''Chick" Howard, former H* weight boxer and restaurant Q#EHF. gas found dead at his home Iszz night and the medical examiner N4Ea he committed suicide hY InhsI'Hz Illuminating gas from the jeta 9l q kitchen range.
 He left several notes aaying f he was Respondent oyer ka6 health.
 Howard had bene 0eaa Azs Tuesday. Hts tlzo pet dogn alae H culnbed to the Gas. but & survived.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Long Distance Phone Service ParaIyzed
Addresses AFL Delegates

Sen. Brien McMahon, Nor- walk, urged labor to support the fact-find- ing bill now before Congress at the conven- ton of the
 Connecticut
 Federation of
 Labor here
 JnH morning. The Senator, who originated the fact-finding technique, as- serted the pub- lie would be more in sympa- thy with strikes if the facts
 were known. The husky US. Senator was
 termed Q friend of labor and a man who is 100 per cent with the people" by Timothy
 M. Collins,
 president of the Federation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Patterson Promises
Patterson Promises 400! 900 Pacific GIs Return Before May1
By United Press)

Secretary of War Robert Patterson seeking to calm worldwide demands by American soldiers for faster demo- bzaon announced in Tokyo today that than 4OOOOO
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
ALUMINIUM WORKERS STRIKE

New Kensingt0n Pa, Jan ll--(UP)-A strike of 4.5O0 members of Che United Steel Workers Union (C0) closed the Aluminium Company Of America Works here today 60 hours before the unions scheduled nationwide waout against tao Alael nnd aluminnm industries.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Bulletins
WAINWRIGHT SUCCEEDS PATCH

Washington. Jan ll--(UP)-GeR. Jonathan M. Vain. wright has been designated commanding general of the 4th Army with headquarters at Fort San Houston Tex. Che War Department announced today He succeeds the late Lt..Gen. Alexander M. Patch.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11

lin is inadequate to cope with what he called an active and growing un- derground movement.
 Corps Staifed by Kids The police official, who was thrown into G concentration camp by the Nazi regime, said the American Counter Intelligence Corps is staffed by "kids" who are too begged down
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Senator McM0hon
Urges AH to Back Fact-fnding BiH

Emphasizing that Government cannot do for labor than to force industry to present the fact Se Ben McMahOn DConn) originator of the fact-fnding tech
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-11
Jurisdiction Denied
Jurisdiction Denied Assessments Protests DeadIocked ir City

Waterburys highly controversial property revauation program appeared to have reached semated state of a
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Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-07-04
BY LYNN NISBET.

AShcville. July 4-Taking advan-
taSc OF another opportunity for Il
irrc ride on a quick trip TO Ashc-
NiI!e your reporter persuaded the
most drlNcr to stop nj several points
Tor check up on reaction to OPA'S
demise. There was little evidence of
any effect around Winston SALEM.
none at StatcSvillc except in meats:
very little at Hickory and practically
none around ASheville except in
meats and rents. One automobile
dealer AT Statesville with several
cars on hand or in transit said he
would not deliver them until he
found out about prices. \ used car