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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
Trio oHeIPs Kee Order In Athens
 Complete CoIm
 Settles on City
 In Tennessee

Athens. Tenn, Aug. 3-(UP)-A minister, a merchant and an oil dealer took over today as an emerg- ency council named at a citizens mass meeting to keep order in riot scared Athens.
 The three, the Rev. Bernie Hamp- ton, Methodist minister; J. P. Cart wright, oil distributor; and c. A.. Anderson, a grocery wholesaler, will govern McMinn County until the CT Non-Partisdn League candidates, declared victorious in Thursdays bloody election, take office On Sept. l.
 An atmosphere of complete calm settled over the town today as both businessmen and veterans who un- seated the Democratic machine with barrage of ballots and bullets, threw their support behind the emergency council.
 City Officials Stay Away
 City officials made no attempt to return to their jobs. Police Chief Herbert Walker and former Police Commissioner Hugh Riggs were working with volunteer law enforce ment officers.
 Businessmen worked in shifts as policemen. to keep order n the town of 10000, tucked in the mountains 125 miles southeast of Nashville, the state capital
 Their work was routine. Only two or three arrests had been made, and those were for drunkenness.
 Confers With Marshal
 Anderson is commander of the local company of the State Militia but the town indicated that 1t could sake care of itself without calling on any state agency.
 The emergency council conferred yesterday with U s. Marshal Henry R. Bell of Knoxville, who came here as a representative of the Fed eral Government The council promised to cooperate fully with Tennessee Gov. Jim McCord. How ever, they refused his offer of four state policemen as aides.
 (The Justice Department said
 in Washington that it was in-
 vestigating the rioting during
 the Thursday election which
 was climaxed by a six-hour gun
 battle between the supporters
 of the victorious veterans and
 25 special deputy sheriffs who
 had taken the ballot boxes to
 the county jail0
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
City Bread
 UpOneCent

Waterburians will pay penny more for a loaf of bread starting Monday, in accordance with a price increase approved yesterday by the OPA. Selling for II cents now, a regular size loaf of bread will retail for 12 cents next week.
 The temporary price increases were approved to take effect imme- diately, but indications were that the changes would not be made generally in this city until next week.
 A spokesman for one large bak- irlg concern said bread would be de- livered today at it's old price, and the company will decide next week what action to take on the OPA an- nouncement.
 Also on the price increase list are most cereals, with the boost rang ing from one to three cents. Ex- cepted are corn flakes, puffed whea, and puffed rice.
 One large local retailer com plained recently that he was selling cereal without any profit and ir some instances at loss. He saio the OPA classified his store in the category with large super-markets but that since his firm had nc wholesale house here, it had to pay wholesale prices at level for small stores. He said the OPA classiflca- ton, however. precented him from marking the cereal in line with the prices at small stores.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
Mead Group CoIms Labor, Industry
 Decribes Efforts
 During Wartime
 Excellent on Whole

Washington. Aug. 3-CUP)-The Mead Committee today patted American labor and industry on the back for wartime performance it described as eXcellent-"on the whole
 The committee expressed fear that the putlic might have gotten the idea from it's war profits investiga- tions that the whole war effort has been corrupt and inept."
 This was not so, the committee said
 We are well aware that, on the whole. the war record of American industry and American labor was excellent it said in a statement. The committee has frequently said so.n
 Furthermore matters investigat- ed by the committee do not neces- sarily involve violations of the crim- inal laws. The committee :. is as much. possibly even more. interested in acts which, although perfectly legal, are opposed to the public in- terest."
 The committee annuonced that it expects to recess it's public hearings until Sept. l.
 During the remainder of the month, however, the committees staff will be put to work unearthing evidence on:
 l. The Armys use of defec-
 tive 42 inch mortar shells which,
 former G.I.'S charge, literally
 murdered" American boys fir
 ing them against the enemy
 2 Conniving and graft alleg-
 edly involved in construction of
 the inter American highway.
 3. Activities of Col Theodore
 Wyman, Army engineers who
 was in charge of Hawaiian de-
 fenSe construction prior to Dec.
 :, l941.
 4 Possible war-profiteering in
 the Big 4" industries -alumi-
 mum, automotive, aircraft and
 Shipbuilding. .... ..s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
Can t Meet Costs
BoWIes Back
 From Vacation

Essex. Aug. 3. (UP)-Former Economic Stabilizer Chester Bowles was back from his Maine vacation today, still claiming no plans in connection with Con necticut politics.
 Bowles explained that he re- turned a week ahead of sched- ule because of the death in New Haven Thursday of his brother, Charles. He said he would not attend the Holland County outing this afternoon at Columbia.
 It. Gov. Wilbert Snow was slated to be the principle speak CT at the outing, the first major pre-convention meeting held by Democrats. It was reported that Sen. Brien McMahon, also scheduled to speak, might be detained in Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03

vary from one week to one year, are now available for placement in tem- porary foster homes.
 Miss Theresa McGrath, who is working temporarily as finder for the Bureau, pointed out that placement of the young children into boarding homes will speed up eventual adoption.
 She pointed out that although the children receive excellent psysi- cal care in institutions they are not able to develop as rapidly emo- tionally as in private home She said that before the agency can consider possible adoption careful psychological studies must be made and these are more successful if the children have had chance to develop in normal home surround ingS.
 Some of the children will never
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
Cont Meet Costs
 City Restaurants Lift Food Prices

Restaurant patrons in Waterbury have been hit by price markups, but restauranteurs complain that the boosts they can make are insuffi- cient to meet their increasing costs
 Facing price boosts on wholesale purchases Of meat, fish, poultry, eggs and dairy products, restaurant teurs throughout the city have be- gun to change their menu listings. The average increases range from five to Is cents an order.
 One small restaurant owner said today, What does five or 10 cents more mean when We have to pay double for meat. Yet if we doubled the price we wouldn't have any customers. If the current wholesale prices don't change, the small res taurants will be driven out of bus mess"
 O.PA. Grants Increases
 The OPA. has notified all res taurant owners that they may in- crease prices on items which are selling higher at wholesale. Most of these items consist Of the decon- trolled foods.
 Stanley Crute. State OP.A. direc- tor, said in a statement today that higher restaurant prices have been necessitated by the removal of price controls from certain foods. He said restauranteurs may legally boost prices for meals containing any Of the decontrolled items.
 Increased costs in meats and but ter have resulted already in a boost of about five cents on sandwiches here. The bread-price increase, ap- proved yesterday by the O.P.A. will add further to the restauranteur' s cost on that item.
 New Posters Out Although some restaurants were sill holding down prices on meat meals, most of those in the city had raised them 10 or Is cents, sur vey showed.
 Ttaking cognizance of the neces- sity of increasing prices, the OP.A has sent restaurants here new price posters. The State OF A. headquar- ters pointed out that each res taurant will be required to post a | list Of ceiling prices on 40 items of food offered for sale. Restaurants which have increased prices on meals composed mainly ot decontrolled foods have been notl- fled to file the new prices with their local O.P.A. boards immediately.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
N.J.Wreck
 Blame Put On Engineer

Bayonne, N. J., Aug. 3-(UP)- Engineer William O'Neill, Il, was blamed in a management statement today for the crash of two Central Railroad of New Jersey commuter trains which killed one person and injured 83 others.
 E. T. Moore, general manager of the railroad, said an investigation indicated that ONeiIl failed to con- trol the speed of his train in accord ance with signal indications"
 The automatic signal system was working perfectly, Moore said.
 The wreck occurred at the height of the afternoon rush hour yester- day when O'Neilrs train, the Free hold Express, ploWed into the rear end of the Barnegat Express which had made an unscheduled stop at the Bayonne station.
 ONeill, whose home is in Port Monmouth, N. J., escaped injury by leaping from the locomotive a few seconds before it crashed into the crowded club car of the Barnegat Express. His fireman, Robert Hen dershot, 25, Bear Greek, Pa, was killed.
 The two trains, packed with reg ular commuters and scores of per- sons enroute for a weekend at New Jersey beaches, were operating a minute apart.
 The lead train, the Barnegat Ex- press, was Jagged down at Bayonne to pick up passengers. It had just pulled out of the station when the Freehold Express rounded a curve and crashed into the club car.
 Steam and hot water poured from the broken valves of the locomotive, spraying passengers and coaches.
 All of the seriously injured were riding in the club car which. was crumpled by the impact and tossed on its side, partially hanging over the edge of a viaduct spanning a highway. The engine rolled over on its side, pinning the fireman be- heath the wreckage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
Bridges to Ask
 Probe ofKaiser

Washington, Aug. 3-UP)-Sen. Styles Bridges, (R.-N. H., said to- day he intends to ask the Senates Mead Committee to investigate the wartime enterprises of Henry j.. Kaiser.
 Bridges, who has described the West Coast industrialist as the cod dled darling of the New Deal" said he expected to make his request be- fore the next session of Congress convenes.
 He said he was postponing his re- quest because of hte heavy backlog of work facing the Senate War In- vestigating Committee which recent ly concluded hearings on the Erie Basin Metals Products Co.,, the corporate parent of so-called H. linois paper empire"
 In revealing his intention to seek an investigation of Kaiser's enter prises, Bridbes said he had no evidence to offer the committee other than the subject matter of a Senate speech he made complaining about "the application of taxpayers millions to the private schemes of one man"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
24 Families Answer Plea for Home Bureau Places Six Youngsters in Waterbury

Twenty-four Waterbury families have answered an appeal made re- gently by the Diocesan Bureau of Social Service for boarding homes for young children, and six young sters already have been placed, Miss Agnes Fitzpatrick, executive secretary of the Bureau, said to- day.
 Studies of the homes of the ap- plicants are continuing, and The Bureaus social workers are hope ful of approving several more of these homes for the temporary care of children.
 The Rev. Eugene P. Cryne, direc- tor of the Bureau, said he was gra- tified att he response, and he ex- pressed the hope that additional families will answer the appeal made in behalf of the children
 Meanwhile, it was reported by Miss Edna Maloney, child. welfare worker, that 10 infants, whose ages
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
Fuessenich Park Clubhouse Robbed

Torrington, Aug. 3-Capt. 3 Frank Sherlock and It. Edmond Wall of the police department are inves- tigating the theft of s44 from the Fuessenich Park fieldhouse. The money is believed to have been stol- en during the night baseball game Saturday. It represents receipts from block dances, shower and ten- his fees.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
5.985 LEAVE FORCES

MiddletoWn, Aug. 3. (UP)-The State Selective Service Headouar- ters today announced there were 5'9o5 separations from the armed forces last month. The total num- per of Connecticut men separated slpce inception of Selective Service III October, 1940, now stands at l96,1 ,109.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
BABY FAILS

South Coventry, Aug. 3. (UP)- The battle to save the life of Irving S. Harrington, 2d, 22-month-old baby who was flown to Boston for treatment, was lost yesterday. The youngster at first was believed to have leukemia, but it later was de- termined he suffered from a throat tumor which finally took his life.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-08-03
MAYOR GIVES CAMP ENGINE

New Britain, Aug. 2UP)- Mayor Henry J. Gwiazda bought a fire engine which today he was to present to Camp Pioneer at New Hartford The mayor purchased the obsolete equipment after fire destroyed the camps messhall He planned to drive it there himself.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08
Hell Drivers In
Exhibition Here On
Afternoon June y

All Veteran He'll Drivers will
present an exhibition in daring
driving IN Henderson Wednesday
afternoon, June II, at three o'clock
al the fair grounds, it was an
nounced today.
"Thunderbolt' Jimmy Curry, star
OF the late "Lucky" Teeter's show
and featured performer with the
Jimmy Lynch 1889 Chicago World 5
Far show. has been recently dis
charged from the navy and will be
presented IN a spectacular perform
dnCe.
Sandy Walker and Jerry Crutch-
filed, the other two eX-naVy men in
the show are seasoned performers
and specialists in thrills.
Bob Jobe, Eddie Halik and Dean
Earl are former army men IN the
shows personnel, and Ray Melton,
another member. Is an eX-marine.
The drivers will thrill spectators
with the leap of death, head-on
crashes roll overs. wall crashes. the
roll of death and many other stunts,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08
Drunk Horse Rider
Found Guilty Only
For Drunkenness

After receiving ruling from Attor-
ney General Harry Mcmillan that
horse is not a vehicle Mayor Henry
7. Powell in police court today, ad-
judged James Re- n. white, charged
with riding horse While under
the influence guilty OF public
drunkenness only and fined him
SO and costs.
Rem was arrested on May 25 for
being drunk on horseback and whe',
Rem protested that a horse is not
a vehicle, Mayor Powell sent an in
quiry on the statute to the attor-
ney general. Renn's protest was sus-
tanned and in police court today he
was adjudged guilty orly OF public
w. H. Walker, Jr., white, tried for
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08
WILLIS HENDERSON
FUNERAL is HELD

Funeral services for Willis Hen
derson, cOlOred laborer for the Sea-
board Railroad and Harriet Cotton
mills for number of years, We're
held Sunday, June 2, at the New
Bethel Baptist church, where he
was a deacon for 35 years. Hender-
son was 76 years old and had lived
here for As years.
Funeral services were conducted
by Rev. Olandis Hicks and Rev
Frank Carter. He is survived by his
wife, four daughters, eight brothers
and five sisters.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08
CHAPTER ELEVEN

THE, LASHES OF the young
woman next to MN. sweeping pur-
pie holloWs under her eyes. were
long and the slateg gray eyes large,
vet With a curious glaze. Her face
might nave been handsome x I
weren't so hagSard. so gray IN
spite of Its tan. With 10 extra
pounds on her bones. with llpStlck
and rouge and a wave IN her nan
she had posslblities-of being a
babe-not quite a dish. He Won
dered idly why she mad let her
self go. She looked like the type
who was used to nice things. Her
black dress seemed expensive, out
was spotted and mussed. You
could see where a sleeve sea IN had
ripped at the armpit. The brown
hands in her lap, mangling hand-
kerchief, wore diamond band and
a big topaz ring. Their nail polish
was ragged and chlpped.
The young womans eyes nad
stopped at his ribbons. stayed
there til she asked: You were
overseas
He nodded
In Europe ?"
He detected note Of excite
ment. He nodded again.
The hand with the diamond pand
went up to her mouth to smother
an oh" After a moments pause,
sne SAID duIly: NV husband vas
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08

| In mustv furnished room. open
ing a telegram His body felt
sticky with sweat.
The young woman was talking
in a low. colorless voice. but the
mind with which he Was listening
to her was so ClOuded with
thoughts OF It's own that It took a
while before ne heard what she
SAID. They write such nice let
trrs Tell such beautiful lies. How
he died hero" She seemed to
be yankinS her words out CT a
nightmare. They mean somebcdy
else. Not Max Weston"
That was a new one. belttllnS
her husband. even IN death. He
welcomed his surge OF resentment.
1t transferred to her a part of
the anger ne felt with himself.
You see her voice scratched,
the way worn phonograpa needle
does on an old record, Max
wasn't the type. Not the type tor
a hero"
This was the place for her to
start crying and he was surprised
that she didn't. The emotion
drained voice went on without
changing tlmbre. "A sweet, gentle
person. Live and let live They
made him machine gunner A
killer! Oh. how could they do
things like that to people like
Max 2" Her eyes were fixed on
his face. without expectation, as
though she knew, already and
hopclessly, that there wasn't an
answer TO what she was asking.
He ran a finger around the in
side of his collar. Look mere.
Mrs What did you say your
name was?"
ELAINE Weston"
well, Mrs Weston, you must
understand. you must make your
self see. that ITS a Job that mas
to be done. BY guys like your
husband. It's win or lose, We
darent lose" He looked at ncr
features ntcutly and thought: If
she's whay think. she should
know"
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hc vas ,rv,no 10 sav Max never
l.ilioa non,,a -" usr heaa n,,,ar
.,,or, e,au,I,, a.,,,,e ,,e ,honoh.
sbalkinq y of "le couIan,, nave
rb,,oel Ho. tbat much NOT t.,ot
,,,ay" Sho naused tv,st,no ncr
ga ch ,,n,, sno
s,tonn,l vo,, oot a toatioo of nam
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~. w. ~ NO nnr,e a,4 absorbed
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- 40 no,,Ia. "If vo,,a ,atber No,
,o,},
cha e,,.o,aa ,.i,, of,e,ea "Do
,.a,I ,,,,a ,oIl,1,e ,o mo ."
10 roaao,oa 1urlea at tha vnot
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08
I [WeNhAIMeXtA6Me
@ ss::==a:- e: 1.sz1.aGIS ZELDA Popk'N

he tried to think O. ade-r,..
words. words that would carry
some comfort or common sense
chaplain might speak about Cod,
VIII and purpose, a divine 3ra,
and an ultimate good Walk
through the valley OF the sha3.,v
of death Walk. Not unger for
ever
He was about to try those word,
on her but she cut him off "What
| | can't understand is where Max
got his courage. Where does a
pian. simple man get courage for
that?"
He cleared his throat, certain he
| had the answer tins time. "You
don't really have It." he SAID.
The slate eyes opened wider.
"You mean"-Hor voice cracked
as though 1t was at last getting
TO be more than she could endure
he was frightened. too"
He shifted his gaze. over ner
head, beyond. through the WIN
dow, toward the sun-drenched
Florida green. We all are. Ills
thumb started to rub.
THIS time. she had no reply.
but merely sat, lips parted, star.
ing at him, her eyes narrowing,
finally focusing on the thumb nov
ing steadily against Its tWin. After
moment she moancd: Why did
|
it happen TO u.s."
The small part Of his mind that
was listening to her heard only
the us" He was shocked to near
her cry out. why do You do
that"
DO What?"
She touched his hands. That.
Rubbing your thumb As If it
was dirty"
HIS face flooded with heat He
jerked his hands apart, thrust
them into his pockets. For a half
minute he didn't reply. fhen.
when he was finally ready and
able, he SAID: "Maybe 1t IS.
"Oh, That's what 1t was Ike"
Pam wrenched her features She
swung around to the window Her
handkerchief Went 10 her eyes. he
saw the shtdderIns throb Of her
back. heard the long slups Of her
tears. Yet now that she Went. he
nc longer felt sorry tor her, but
rather agSrleved.
She had slammed the door IN
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08
SYNOPSIS

Don CORBkrT. young AAF bonbar-
dier. JUS! oark in Miami from s!tnt
in Europe. suffers Il rude awakening
as he takes a journey to his Brook. II
home on , .l-dly leave.
YtSTEkCAY: Corbett takes leave of
Nina in her compartment aboard the
New York bound Palm Queen. after
she accepts his oner to share pint OF
liauor he intends to buy from his coach
porter ON his way back to his seat
the bombardier spots his s"atmate.
Benny kaichi>, and oversees the horse
player steal purse from a passenger.
torbcu o,erlooks the incident and sits
down in the only vacant scat-nc>t to
q "salIow young woman in bIach.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08
Library Adopts
Summer Closings

Henderson's H. Leslie Perry
Memorial library will operate on its
summer schedule beginning Mon
day, June 10, it was announced to-
day.
Under the summer schedule, the
library will be open Monday thro-
ugh Friday a. m. to | p. m. and
7:30 p. m. until 8 p. m. On Saturday,
the library will be open from 8 a.
m. until 9 p. m.
The only exception to this rule,
it was said, will be Thursday, June
l3, which is being observed as Vet
erans Homecoming Day. The library
will remain open from 8 a. m. until
9 p. m, with no afternoon closing
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08
REV. RAY HOLDER TO
LECTURE IN FLORIDA


Rev. Ray Holder, rector Of Holy
Innocents Episcopal church, Wlll de-
liver a series Of five lectures at /"
conference OF clergy and la'tH IN ,ne
Diocese of South Florida. June IV-
IA.
General subject of his lectures
viii be "Christlan Education al NE
Cross Roads The conference VIII
be held at Avon Park. QtNerS VINO
VIII speak viii be the Rt, Rev fieN-
ry |. Louttlt. d. d., suitra-an QiShop
of South Florida, Rev. Harold Hoas'
rector of SAINT Andrew 5 ch,'tt"7
Tampa. Fla. . 4 Dr Waiter = Al
len, of Huachung unlNerstt}' Oi'I'i''
Moose have bcul cIoeAed al j.
miles per hour
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08

Puppies should DC fed four or
five times day until they are six
months old
Henderson daily dispatch., 1946-06-08

Mallard ducks average 10 to II
eggs clutch.