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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
WISCONSIN'S PROGRESSIvES
 GO OUT OF BUSINESS
(New York Sun)

NANCW AOAA AOA4A
 The decision of the delegates of the Progressive party in Wisconsin to return tV the Republican fold might be called the acceptance of fact. This fact is that ever since PHIL LA TOILETTE tried to ex- tend the power of the Progressives beyond that States borders Wiscon- sin voters have been leaving the party. The vote in tae State conven- tion was merely belated recogni- tion by a small rearguard that they had long ago been left alone, that by the process of attrition they had become an ineffective third party in a State in which they once held full political sway. Senator ROBERT M. LA TOILETTE JR., who must seek reelection this year, obviously influenced the decision of the con- vention, but the decision may have been taken too late to serve his pol itical fortunes.
 The passing of the Progressives is in line with the traditional fate of other third parties. The Wisconsin party started business in Wisconsin with a great advantage because its fortunes were linked with the magic name of La Toilette and for time it promised to do more than a local business. But nothing about the pol itical climate of other States was ever so favorable to its growth as the brisk political air of it's native State. The vote in the final conven- tion is binding on no Wisconsin voter, but the overwhelming major ity in favor of a return to the Re- publican party is in itself an accur- ate reflection of where Progressive voters went in recent years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20

homie stability of Great Britain, the Irish leaders argued and this in turn would aid Ireland wnlcn IS dependent on Britain for most of its trade
 NoTE-Ireand ships large quantities of butter, eggs, ham and other farm products to the British market; also linen.
 Some Democratic bigwigs in Washington are hot under the collar about having to pay what they con- sider double price for the $1OO Jackson Day Dinner to be held next Saturday.
 Last year. the Jackson Day Dinner in washing ton was cancelled because of Roosevelts death-but after great many of the $1OO subscriptions to the banquet were already in Some members Of congress had purchased as many as 10 seats for the banquet meaning that they shelled out $1000.
 Since they didn't get their money back, some of these polticoes think that the tickets they O0ugnt for last years cancelled dinner should be gooo TOT this years affair.
 However the Democratic National Committee has replied mo soap" It is telling the disgruntled polti- coes that the tickets they bought for the lS4o onner were technically subscriptions to '"The $l0O Club, and they will have to dig down again if they want to attend this years dinner.
 Last week Jimmy Byrnes and Secretary Of War Patterson spoke to the House Military Affairs Com mttee on the troubled international situation. HOW ever both Byrnes and Patterson were not as franK' as they might have been. If the crisis deepens and they tell Congress the truth, peacetme military con scription legislation will be reported out ana passed in week General Jacob DeverS, head Of the Army ground forces plans to move lot ot desK OH cers back to active field duty in the next few weeks to provide the nucleus of large field force-Just in case President Truman decides to recall several million discharged combat veterans for snow o1 strength against Russia French Foreign Min- ister Bidault is putting pressure on the State Depart ment for still stronger stand on Franco Whne tne State Department is moderately willing. the Labor Government in England balks. The Laborttes are getting more like the Tories every day.
 Csanglng, Kentucky bred Paul Porter expected no he'd of roses when he became boss of the Office of Price Administration He hasn't been disiLusloneo However he didn't bargain for some verbal Dricknat he received the other day from group oI nperal coneressnen who he thought were his supporters
 The skirmish occurred at closed-door meeting
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
Money in Politics

There not anything in accusing Edwin w. Pauey
 with having asked the heads of large corporations contrib ute to Democratic party campaign funds The inmation by Harold Ickes that Pauey offered the oil tycoons any political advantages and increased power with the Admins tration resembles mud-slngng Anyhow, it is slim ex- cuse upon which to either approve reject the Presidents nominee.
 The two old political parties have always been financed in their campaigns by rich and women. Mark Hanna praised to the high heavens when he down into Wall Street and raised five million dollars in day for the Republican campaign There wasn't any investigation n Congress any revolt among the voters The people elected Republican candidate William Mckinley President Mark Hanna sent to the Senate a reward for eeptional political conduct
 The late President Roosevelt made suggestion while he in the Presidency that the Government should a prcate large of money to help the National campaign committees, in order to take corruption out of politics.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
Miss Boardman of the Red Cross

Attention is brought at this particular time with the Boardman organizer leader of the American Red Cross for more than forty years President Truman other Wash ingon officials and leaders in civic affairs all over the cou
 try have acknowledged her oss and her service to worthy '.
 When she first became affiliated with the Red Cross It is said that presented herself less casual helper one willing however to do the tasks assigned er in conscientious But from that time on in ne with previous charitable work among children she served the Red Cross unstintngy in administrative capacity
 Forty-sx years when Miss Boardman made Kea G;a Cross of her principal duties in life the organzaon o she fitted herself to take each additional task The extent of her importance n and service to the Red Cros is testified in the universal expressions of sorrow at her passing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
STUDENT HOUSING
(Hartford Times)

There is a general acute housing shortage but there is also specific housing famine on university and college campuses as result of the in- Aux of married war veterans. The liberal financial terms of the G. I. Bill of Rights has led scores of thousands of returning servicemen to seek an education.
 Connecticut institutions are strug- gling with this problem, but so also are those in other states. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technol- ogy, President Karl T. Compton and his wife have taken into their home a graduate student, his wife and their 5-monthS-old baby, as their contribution to relieving the stu dent housing shortage. This example might suggest to other faculty mem berS as well as to Boston residents generally who have spacious homes to go and do likewise. It is a gen. erous act, eloquent with practicality.
 In New York State the heads of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

Color bright, color right. the frou-frou flush of pretty ribbon topping a little felt hat."-From a department store ad.
 I CHATEAU so Milady's hat is bright and gay To top her comedy features And adds the touch that makes me
 say:
 You loveliest of creatures"
 The handsome, light and dainty
 thing,
 The while she mods her yesses, Is the affirmative of Spring Upon her raven treSseS. It takes the eye and takes the heart Upon the first inspection; It holds each artifice and art Of capital perfection. She wears it with that certain :.
 flair,
 That je ne Sais Quoi manner, That any time and anywhere Denotes the careful planner. Yet I must say about this hat, This halo-on-a-viSit, This magic wisp of nothing, that The frou-frou ribbon IS 1t.
 Cuba's ambassador to the United States, GuillermO Belt, has present ed two hundred of Cuba'S finest cigars to Winston Churchill. Some how or other man always gets cigars of that quality long after his friends have stopped asking him how much it weighed and was it a boy OF a girl.
 From Dartmouth College comes a report that married veterans en- rolled at the institution are ob- taining exceptionally high schol- astic averages. They probably fig ure they might as well burn the midnight oil after boiling the Il o'clock formula.
 Ernest Hemingway has taken his fourth bride. We understand he is working on his autobiography, "For Whom the Bells Peal"
 The Kurds are having their trou- bles in Iran and we had our trou- bles yesterday when three differ ent people called up and said they hoped they'd get their whey.
 A Louisiana entOmOIOgist has fig ured out that if mans whole ex- istence were condensed into twenty minutes, cOckrOacheS on the same time scale would have been in ex- istence 100000 years. That's hard to believe. What did they use for restaurants in the first 999, 9,999 years, 364 days, 2S hours and forty minutes?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20

day-"Bring the boys back home The politicians-not all of them, but plenty-echoed it in Congress, yelling frantically from foxholes in stacks of plaintive mail. From where they stood they could see the ring around election day on their calendars.
 Quite a few peoyple pointed out at that time that this would become the symbol of the new isolationism, the new nationalism. They warned that, if yielded to, ,,,n r,,niild null ourselves back
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20

officially goes out or buSineSS, aI the end of 1946 in Europe and in the Spring of 1947 in China. U.N.R.R.A. itself will not be con- tinued, no matter what the need. Whatever relief work remains to be done will then become the re- sponsibility of the United Nations Organization.
 Careful appraisals of the world food situation today indicate no alternative to United Nations handling of food distribution in Ln-- .-...L.... ...lan..n Alnonsn sr,ill ha
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20

Glennon Of St. LOUIS, ne hAu several discussions with Prime Minister Ramon De Valera and Sean O'Kelly, President of the Irish Free State. He especially talked about the proposed $4, ,4OO,- 100000 U. s. loan to Great Brit ain.
 Much to Casey's surprise, both De Valera and O'Kelly told him that they strongly favored the British loan and sincerely hoped Congress would approve 1t. The loay vuniild greatly helD the eco-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
I6 Years Ago

Local police in connection with State Troopers, conducted a series of raids in Waterbury in which 43 persons were arrested on morals charges arising from the operation of several houses of Ill fame.
 A pallbearer, lowering a casket into a grave in an East End ceme- tery, dropped dead.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
LMerry-GO-ROund

WASHINGTON, March 20-When Former Con- gressman Joseph E. Casey of Massachusetts, now VIVA executive was in Ireland recently to attend the memorial services for the late Cardinal John
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago

20 XearS Ago
 Orchids were in line for MT. and Mrs. Martin Kelley of Waterville who celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary.
 Several hundred chickens on Bucks Hill farm were killed when a fire broke out in the coop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20

Perhaps it's bit late to talk about all tnis now except that it may be some help in the future m showing the sequence of cause and effect.
 You recall the cry that went up soon after VJ-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
1947 Relief Needs

WASHINGTON, March 2O-Signs point to the need for continued relief to the war-ravaged parts of the world even after UNR.R.A.-The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
5 Years Ago

Two Waterville youngsters were bitten by a dog as they walked home from school.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20

A man was arrested on a breach of the peace charge after he de- iibertiy smashed a counter full of glasses in a downtown department store. Tn Court the man told the judge: i've always had the desire to do it--so ! just did."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20

Color bright, color right. the frou-frou flush of pretty ribbon topping little felt hat."-From department store ad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-20
I CHATEAU so

Milady's hat is bright and gay To top her comedy features And adds the touch that makes me
 say: You loYeliest of creatures.
Evening star., 1946-09-14
Navy Officer Found Dead

PARRIS ISLAND, S. c., Sept. ID
R).-A Marine search patrol found
the body of Navy Comdr. Carl Gar
yer of Atlanta who disappeared
from his private boat in Port Royal
Sound Tuesday
Evening star., 1946-09-14
Gen. RoweII 10 End
40 Years in Marines

Maj. Gen. Ross E. Rowell, u. S.
M. c., 81, who, with more than 40
years in the Marines has more serv-
ice than any other officer or enlisted
man now on active duty, will retire
Evening star., 1946-09-14
MacD Donald, PRA Head,
Awarded Merit Medal

Thomas H. Macdonald, commits
sioner of the Public Roads Admins
tration, Federal Works Agency, yes
terday was awarded the Medal of
Merit in recognition of outstanding
public service during the war.
Maj. Gen Philip B. Fleming
Federal works administrator, pre-
sented the decoration in ceremonies
at his office yesterday attended by
officials and friends of Mr.. Mac
Donald. The award was authorized
by President Truman.
The citation accompanying the
award states that Mr.. Macdonald
had envisioned, even before the
war. the Importance of highways to
military operations, and under his
energetic leadership 78,800 miles of
strategic highways were created and
maintained. Under his vigorous
leadership civilian forces co-operated
in the construction of the Alaskan
Highway. Under his direction flight
strips for the use of military air
craft were built, as well as the
Evening star., 1946-09-14
Legion Faces Legal Action
In New York Post Custer
BY the A,soeioied Press

NEW YORK, Sept. 1.-THE
American Legion today faced the
possibility of a court suit against
lit by the organizations Duncan
Paris Post in Manhattan, which says
its charter was Illegally suspended
because its membership allegedly
contained a number of Communists
and Communist sympathizers.
Marion Hargrove. author Of See
Here. Private Hargrove, COM
mander of the post, denied yesterday
that the organization was Com
munist dominated" and said an
appeal would be taken to the Le-
gion's highest levels "aRd, If neces-
Sary. into the courts"
Maurice Stember, adjutant of the
Legions New York State depart
ment, announced Thursday the de-
partment's Executive Committee
had voted to refuse Duncan-Paris
Post a permanent charter, in effect
suspending it. because Of Communist
activity within its membership.
Mr.. Hargrove termed the action
IAN illegal basis of expulsion" and
said: I'VE do not respect the ma
chine which runs the American
Legion and we are determined to do
whatever we can to keep those
machine politicians from Indian
apolis from throttling the World
War II veterans in the organiza-
ton"
Evening star., 1946-09-14
"A OF 48 Consultations
Flying Again, Survey Shows

Fourteen Of the 48 Lockheed Con-
stellations, grounded by the Civil
Aeronautics Administration July IL,
following fatal accident near
Reading, Pa, now are back in serv-
ice, equipped with new reducing
equipment, survey disclosed today.
The remainder, plus 20 new planes
of this type, soon will be operating
on international air routes.
CAA officials decided, after in
vestigation, that the Constellation
is structurally sound, but directed
that so small changes be made to
reduce fire hazards.
The 48 planes were grounded July
II, following the killing of five per-
sons near Reading during a train
ing flight. The CAA investigation
showed that a fire started in the
electrical system, causing smoke that
blinded the pilots.
Pan American Airways, which had
% Consultations flying in July. has
six back on Atlantic runs and three
in the Pacific. British Overseas
Airways has four Consultations in
service, and the fifth is being used
for training and flight tests. Trans
World Airlines has 16 Consultations
planned Tor service by October l and
expects 13 new planes soon. Amer
lcan Overseas Airlines plans to have
its five Consultations in service
around October l., with two new
ones to be delivered shortly. kim,
the Dutch airline, has received it's
third Constellation, and should be
flying all three soon on regular
schedules.
Evening star., 1946-09-14
lidice Is Re-creuted
By Czech Parliament
BY the Associoted Press

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Sept.
1.-THE village of Lidice, wiped out
by the NaziS, was reborn as a cor
poration yesterday by action of
Parliament.
Lidice has been meadow since
the Germans razed the town. exc
cuted its men and deported its wom-
en- and children in June, 1912, in
reprisal for the assassination of
Reinhard Heydrich, the "hangman. -
The corporation will administer
funds donated in many lands for
reconstruction near the original site
Members of Parliament spoke in
appreciation of donations from Illi-
nois, where an American community
took the name of Lidice after the
destruction.
Evening star., 1946-09-14
BY the Assoeioted Press

DUBLIN. Sept. 14.-Fashion shops
all over Fire showed keen interest
today in SGT pairs of nylon stockings
which customs officials reported
they had confiscated from the
baggage of Miss Kathleen ODwyer
on her return from a visit to her
brother, Mayor William O'Dwyer of
New York.
One shop said it would pay $4,000
for the stockings. Fire has seen few
nylons except for a few dozen pair
imported early in the war.
Customs officials said the stockings
were confiscated because they were
in Miss ODwyer's private baggage
and not declared as merchandise
They would not say whether she
could recover the stockings by pay
ing the regular 37la per cent duty
Evening star., 1946-09-14
Mrs. Whipp|e Clarifies
Wedding Gift Statement
BY the Assoeioied Press

Mrs. Cristina Michels Whipple
said in a statement today that she
had been misinterpreted in what
she said regarding gifts sent by
friends when she and her estranged
husband, Harold Whipple, jr., were
married here in 1945.
Called to testify recently in a
Miami court as result of her hus-
bands charge that she had retained
all their expensive gifts when they
separated last November, Mrs.
Whipple said she "endeavored to ex-
plain that the gifts had not been as
expensive as my husband declared" :"
rather than being critical of their
friends.
Mrs. Whipple said most OF their
wedding gifts were modest and in
keeping with the simple tastes and
requirements of young couple
just married"
The couple have cross suits pend
ing here and in Miami
Evening star., 1946-09-14

Trans -Isthmian Highway" Com
missioner Macdonald has headed
PRA since 1919.
Evening star., 1946-09-14

1en. n w IL oeh' hoWeH
was commissioned a second lieuten-
ant in the Marine Corps in August,
1906. During World War II he
served as commanding general of
Marine aircraft wings in the Pacific
from the opening of the Gaudalcanal
campaign in 1912 until Japanese air
power was driven from the Solo
ns-Bismarck area in 1914. He
later served as chief of the United
States Naval Mission to Peru.
An aviator since 1923, Gen. Rowell
has also served in the Philippines,
Nicaragua, France, Haiti, the Do
minican Republic, Puerto Rico,
Cairo, Egypt, and London, England.
His decorations include the Dis
tinguished Service Medal, Distin-
guished Flying Cross, Legion of
Merit, Nicaraguan Medal of Distinc-
ton and the Cuban Order of Naval
Merit, First Glass.
Gen. RoWell and his wife will live
at Coronado, Calf, after his re-
tirement.
Evening star., 1946-09-14
Fire Shops Seeking to Buy
Miss ODwyer's 527 NyIons

but normally such seizures are dis
posed of at auction.
Miss O'Dwyer was not available
for comment, with her County Mayo
home reporting she had cleft for an
unknown destination
In New York. Paul ODwyer, a
lawyer and brother of Miss O'Dwyer,
said she took the stockings to Fire
in behalf of a Kilkenny dry goods
merchant. Mr.. ODwyer said he be-
lieved his sister had an export license
from he Commerce Department,
Evening star., 1946-09-14

soon, M a r ! II e
Corps H e a d
q u r t ers an
nounced today.
Gen Rowell, a
native of Ruth
ven, Iowa, is a
patient at the
Naval Medical
Center at Be-
thesda at present
and will be re-
tired for physi-
cal reasons on
h is discharge
from the hos
pital.
Evening star., 1946-12-29
1048 Star Calendar Art Contest
To Sturt With School, Reopening

submit their entries before gradua-
ton.
The contest is open to students in
public, parochial, and private junior
and senior high schools who have
not graduated from the twelfth
grade or have not reached the age
of 10 before completion of the
work. The Board of Education and
DR.. Hobart M. Coming, superin-
tendent of schools, have approved
the contest.
A public exhibition of the en-
tries is planned about May l. A
convenient auditorium will be
chosen later to house the exhibit.
Copies of entry blanks, registra-
ton cards and pamphlets contain
ing the rules of the contest will be
sent promptly to schools requesting
them. communications should be
addressed to the Art Contest Editor,
The Evening Star.
Four schools already have ap-
piled for registration material and
have been supplied. They are st.
Stephens School of Alexandria,
Sidwell Friends School, Industrial
Home School and Jefferson Junior
High School.
Evening star., 1946-12-29
Police, With Plenty Of Corfore.
Continue Search for Shipper

With five cases of hair-snipping
already reported, special squad OF
plain clothes detectives is continuing
its efforts to find the "nice-looking
young man" who is shearing young
women of their tresses as they ride
streetcars or stand on the street.
The detectives, with pockets full
of tokens and transfers, had been
riding the streetcars for several
hours when the fourth and fifth
cases were reported yesterday to
Mai. Harvey G. Callahan, superin-
tendent of police.
Called to police headquarters, the
girls identified the man as nice
looking. unobtrusive, neatly dressed
and having curly hair. Detectives
examined the hair of the victims
in an effort to learn what sort Of
instrument was used to cut it.
Missed Hair While Combing.
Miss Joan Reid, 81, of 4307 Eastern
avenue, haywood Gardens, Md, a
State Department employe and fifth
victim of the shears, said a swath
Of her wavy chestnut-brown hair
three inches long and four inches
wide was clipped, but she doesn't
know How or when.
Miss Reid said she thought she
probably would have learned of her
loss Friday if she had put up her
hair, her general practice before
retiring. She discovered the haiI
was missing when she combed II
Yesterday morning.
Evening star., 1946-12-29
Firemen Called Out Twice
For ARLINGTON Brush Blaze

Arlington County firemen were
called out twice yesterday afternoon
to put out brush fires which threat
ened the old Lacey estate and sew
eral homes, near Washington boule-
ward and Edison street.
Three companies-Ballston, Clar-
endon and Cherrydale-worked for
more than an hour to extinguish the
first fire, shortly after o'clock.
After returning to their station,
members of the Ballston Fire De-
partment were ordered back when
the flames fared up again.
Firemen said the flames were
started by neighborhood schoolboys
who we're refused permission to use
the area as playground site.
Residents burning dead leaves
and grass in Montgomery and
Prince Georges gCounties set nu-
merous brush fires, firemen reported.
Most serious was a field fire on
the Perry Farms near Kensington,
Md, which burned 10 acres of brush.
The Silver Spring department was
called to assist the volunteer Ken
Si1gton firemer1.