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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
21,000 Auto Workers Idle
 Disputes Force
 EmpIoyes Out

Detroit, Sept. Il -- (UP)-More than 21 ,0O0 workers were idle today as the result of disputes at three Detroit auto plants.
 Hudson Motor Car Company an- nounced that it had laid of 12,OOO employees because of wildcat strike of 37 inspectors in the body build ing division.
 At the Dodge Truck plant of Chrysler Corporation some 4,2OO workers were refused entrance by picket lines set up to protest a one day layoff of TOO second shift em- ployes.
 Five thousand workers at the Timken- Detroit Axle Company were idle in a dispute over the discharge of about 30 ex-servicemen employed on an assembly job.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11


 He told Prime Minister Clement Attlee that worse trouble was brew ing unless the British government could control the violence of Jewish extremists.
 Self -arming by the Zionists," Khouri said, "and the ugly terror practiced by their gangs is exposing the lives of inhabitants and their security to perpetual danger. Ii Great Britain, the mandatory pow CT, fails to perform it's duty in this respect with necessary speed and resolution it is gravely to be feared that the situation will deteriorate still further sand we feel this will compel the people to resort to their own means to defend themselves"
 Share Attlee's Regrets
 eve share the regret voiced by the Prime Minister at the extremes which the Palestine situation has
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
Baby Strangles

Bristol, Sept. 11-(UP)-While his mother was speaking on the telephone, one-year-old Clifton F. Hyde strangled on the safety belt of his high chair today. The child was having his breakfast when Mrs. Hyde was called to the phone. when she returned she found him unconscious. Rushed to Bristol hos pital, he was pronounced dead from strangulation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11

Hartford, Sept. 11-(UP)-The for nal announcement of former Economic Stabilizer Director Chester Bowles that he was a candidate for governor, drew favorable responses today from many Democratic sectional Party leaders who reportedly were prepared to give him enough support to assure his nomination at next weeks State convention here.
 Some sources were so confident of his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
Cummings Gets Democrat Chair

Hartford, Sept. 11-(UP)-Foraner U. S. Attorney General Homer s. Cummings, Stamford, will be tenn porary chairman of the Democrats State convention which opens here Monday night, it was announced to- day. Et was considered probable that Cummings also would be named as permanent chairman.
 It also was announced at Demo- cratic State headquarters that a Statewide rally would be held SsIn- day at Lake Compounce, Bristol, aS which Rep. John J. Sparkman, Ala. bama, would be the principal speak CT. Sparkman is head of the Dem- ocratic Speakers Bureau at Wash- ington.
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Thomas J. Dodd, also in the guberna- torial race, showed poor third at the moment, but was being considered for the senatorial post.
 Snow reiterated his determine tion to remain in the gubernatorial contest and to bring his fight to the convention floor next Tuesday. Meantime he declared yesterdays Republican nominating convention
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
Hartford Official
 Given Experience

Hartford, Sept. Il -(UP)- While preparing plans for the Mayors Fire Prevention Com mittee, Thomas J. Marks, Jr., the mayors executive secretary noticed smoke issuing from ms waste basket at City Hall.
 He grabbed towel and beat out the flames.
 Marks blamed the fire on a visitor who tossed 8 lighted cigaret into the refuse con- tainer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11

nomination that there were predictions he would go into the convention with an overwhelming majority of the 1,24o delegate votes, and possibly with the en- dorsement of State Chairman John A. Mcclure who was being persuaded to come out openly for the one-time head of the OPA.
 The fact that Bowles announced
 his candidacy several days after he
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11

about the worst exhibition of die tatorship have seen since the death of Hitler. It out rorabacked Rora- back. The 600 delegates might just as well have been 600 wooden h. dians for all they had to do with the decision of the convention. It shows that they don't know what the American way of life really is. The under-side of the Democratic
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11

was understood to have had show down with organization forces, was taken as an indication that the top ranking party leaders would give him strong backing at the conven- tion and might try and prevail upon Lt.-Gov. Wilbert Snow to withdraw, accept the nomination for U. s. Sen ate, or try again for the lieutenant governorship.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
5th Districts Patterson Labeled 'Thoroughgoing'
By JAMES M. MOORE Democrat News EditOr)

Editors Note: This Is the third in a series dealing with congressional candidates of all parties In the 5th District.
 Others will follow daily0
 
 Naugatuck, Sept. Il Friends of James T. Patterson of Naugatuck assure you that it Is a safe bet that any political campaign he enters will be thoroughgoing.
 "He is a thoroughgoing man" they tell you when you ask about the youthful Patterson and his avowed candidacy for the Republican nom- ination for Congressman rom Connecticut's 5th District.
 Their claims aren't generalities, either. The point to his wartime record as a major with the U. S. Marine Corps. Then they point to his educational background and fol- low that up with an account of his sports activities. When you meet the man you can't f<onf'd Pare 1O-(KTH DySTRICEl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11

New York, Sept. 11-(UP) The Communist Party was accused by Mayor William O'Dwyer today of directing the runaway general trucking strike which in it's 11th day had a stranglehold on the city's economic life.
 According to police re- ports," the mayor said, "the Communist Party is leading the strike"
 O'Dwyer, predicting "bloodsneo and injury" appealed by telegram to Daniel Tobin. president of the international Brotherhood of Team sters (AF.L.), to intervene, and said full responsibility for future con- sequences rested with the aged labor leader.
 Tobin's Whereabouts Unknown
 However. associates said the whereabouts of the 7l-year-old To- bin were not known, and no answer was expected from him until late to- day.
 The mayors blast was believed to be the preface of strong attempt to break the strike. O'Dwyer re- vealed nothing of his strategy, but 2,OOO new policemen have been or dered to duty next week. He may reveal something of his plans in a radio address scheduled for P. M., EDT, today.
 ODwyer told Tobin that other To- calls were ready to negotiate, but union officials had lost control of Teamsters Local 867, and that it's members were preventing the others from returning to work.
 "I will not stand by any longer and permit the people of this city to suffer lack of food and medicine be- cause of the actions of some mem bers of Local 807, nor will I permit the tens of thousands of organized lteamsters who desire to work to be intimidated and prevented from so doing"
 Fail to Induce Other Drivers Attempts by strike leaders to ex- tend the strike to all drivers failed last night. A meeting of the Joint Council of Teamsters, comprising delegates Of 26 New York locals, voted last night to carry out their contracts with operators and not stage sympathy walkout as requested by the three striking locals, 282, BOT and 816.
 If the council had voted support, every truck in the city would have been idle. Leaders of the working locals said it was up to the police department to see that they were not involved.
 The possibility of violence was im- minent between the striking and non-striking truck drivers. The strikers patrolled the streets calling on trucks to halt and have set up picket lines on highways entering the city.
 Approximately 1,270,000 workers in New York City have been or soon will be laid of by the strike, the Commerce and Industry Association of New York announced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11

reached" the stubby, grey-haired Syrian said.
 'Unless these terrorists are con- trolled promptly, it is greatly to be feared that the situation will de- teriorate further and force the peoples of the Arab nation Of Pal estine to find means to control the situation themselves.
 Khouri stressed that the Araos firmly oppose any partition of Pal estine into Jewish and Arab states.
 What we are concerned with IS that Palestine Arabs should not lose their rights" he told the meeting in Lancaster House. That no part of their country should be cut of to make a state for body of imml- grants of different nationalities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
Boes Gains Steady Support From Sectional Party Lenders

ticket remained highly uncertain today as the interest centered on the guberna- torial nomination and Senate bids.
 Windsor Town Court Judge Charles E. Mahoney, who is seventh district cen tral committeeman, was mentioned for lieutenant-governor, and also for attor- ney general. Albert l.. Coles, Bridge port, was another second-place possibil ity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
REMAINS ON WAY

Rome, Sept. 11-(UP)-A U. $ Army C-54 transport plane took oil from Ciampino Airport for the United States today, carrying five caskets containing the remains oi American fiiers shot down by Yugo- Slav planes Aug. 19.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
Policemen Win
 Day Off Today

Boston, Sept. 11-UP)-The hazards facing policemen won day of today for Patrolmen Herbert L. Smith and Joseph Snyder of the Mattapan station.
 They were called to shoot a skunk trapped in a cellar. The skunk fired first.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
Arabs May Retaliate,
 Syrian Warns Britons

London Sept 11-(UP)-A spokesman for the seven Arab countries at the Palestine conference warned today that the Arabs may retaate against Jewish terrorism bringing civil war to the Holy Land
 Paris Bey Fl Khour president of the Syrian Chamber of Deputies voiced united Arab policy toward Palestine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
sEAMEN ASK LABOR sTOPPAGE

New York Sept. 11-(UP)-The joint strike commit tee of AFL maritime unions today urged William Green, AFL president and Philip Murray president of the CLO to call 24our stoppage of all American labor should the Wage StabzatiOn Board not itself its decl- sion which precipitated the national maritime strike.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
IT. S. RENOUNCES CLAIMS AGAINST ITALY

Paris, Sept. 11-(UP)-The United States announced today that part the against Italy cost 100000 but all reparations claims against Italy and served notice had intention of paying ays rep aratiOns bill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
ODwver Accuses Reds of Supervising Truck Strike
First Komikuiz Winners Claim Cartoons

Three winners in
 the first of The Democrat KOnikwiz contests
 pick
 up original copies
 of comic strips their prizes. The winners are (left to right: Joan Zappone, 12,
 of 45 Gilbert Street; David Brenner,
 8,
 of 3O4 Monroe Avenue, and Antoinette Perugini,
 15, of 19 Ohio Avenue. Again tonight, at 5:45, WATR
 will broadcast 8 question about some cartoon
 in The Democrat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
Late NeWs Bulletins
POLICE TOLD TO GUARD AGAINST SQUATTERS

London. Sept 11-(UP)-The Government in a state ment from Mo- Downing Street tonight ordered police to any further property seizure by squaters whom charged with breaking both civil and criminal laws.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-11
Urges Tobin Of eomsters To Intervene
 Mayor Moy Try
 To Break Strike;
 Police Ready Bulletin

Indianapolis, Sept. 11-(UP)- Daniel J. Tobin, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (AF.L0, refused to- day to intervene in the New York Truckers strike and tele- graphed Mayor William O'Dwyer he thought the strikers were fighting for justice"
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The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-04-25
Electric Fences Safe
When Properly Built

Electric fences have pleased a
large percentage of the Ohio far
mers who have used them, and these
fences are specially convenient for
temporary use in hogging down corn
~" FOR dividing pastures; but l. P.
BlauseH specialist in agricultural
engineering warns farmers not to
make the fences unsafe by using a
makeshift device to control the cleo
rical current.
Either barbed or smooth wire may
10 used for the fence and the wire
can be mounted on either steel or
wooden posts but must be insulated
from the posts. If the livestock to
he turned by the fence are of about
the same height, only one wire is
needed: but two wires will be re-
quired if hogs and cattle run
together.
Mr.. Blauser says each wire should
be placed so it would come in con-
tact with the body of the animal it
is expected to control. Electric fen
ces have not been as satisfactory for
confining sheep as with other types
of livestock. Dry weather or con-
tact with weeds with the charged
wire may make the fence less
effective.
The energizing or control unit
governing the current in the fence
is very important. Commercial units
may cost from SIS to s45, but the
University engineer recommends
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-04-25
Gold Rush in Ohio
By Ben Hayes - Columbus Citizen

By Ben Hayes Columbus Citizen
A lot of Stafford people didn't
remember Ike Tanner when he came
back. He's famous now. His dream
of a gusher brought him back. In
his sleep, Ike saw golden oil spurt-
irr from the confer Of the village.
The Rio Tniun cold flows and
flows now from the treasure lode
beneath this MONROE c0rntv vi11o0o.
IT hos just about 100 people. Some
of them are getting prettv close to
rich The oil chocls keoo coroiro. 50
thew don'+ MIND havino derricks
erected beside thoir 1-it"Nen doors
Since Ike came back. telling his
d"oono, thoro hove hnen q wells
drilled. The rios are put directly be-
sido or hohind tLo h0rs~s. Lawns,
flower beds, rhrbarb clumps and
~ord"ne aro sacrifiop1 The oil paw,
1900 feet down, is the thing
Handy Oil Field
"This is tho handest oilfieId
southeastern Ohio ever had" as
serted Mrs. Geneva Coffev, Staf-
ford's central girl "When a call
comes for aan oil man, just stick
NV head out the door and yell for
him. He hears me-"
When Ike first came back, no one
gave much attention TO his oil talk
He sat in front of Rob nson's store
or loafed at jim Princes garage.
Some listened tn his dream. Seems
he and Aleck Smith. another man
who was born in Stafford, were
scratching in the earth.
at was right up here" Ike would
say, pointing between the houses.
We scratched only five or six inches
deep, and the oil spurted up"
Ike founded a few of the older
ones who recalled him. His father,
Hiranm Tanner, was teaching in the
Stafford school, when Ike was born
there, back in the sos. The family
had left. Ike lived in Youngwood,
Pa, when he had his dreams.
Bnt Ike had keen recollections of
his Stafford bovhood. He showed
them where he had trapped his first
rolecat. Then he ALWAYS got back to
oil. Another time he had dreamed
IF = cow wa1kir" across the same
srot. It was muddy The COW pulled
a hind foot from the mud. Oil
e0urted un!
Ike Persisted
Ike was cafe in telling his dream,
for this was one Of the drilled-out
soctions Of the Mosksburg oilfield.
Dry holes had been drilled all
around Stafford.
Ike persisted. He told his dream,
and pointed ont no well ever had
been drilled ri@ht in town. He leased
the three-acra pasture of Walter
Fing, and started stacking out
we'll
The way the road curves to climb
the RIDGE out Of Stafford to the pic
mic grounds makes the houses just
about surround the Walter King
field. Ike's g sher was drilled just
few feet northwest Of the crossroads.
There was lots of fun about the
dream well" until it struck the Big
Iniun sand about 100 feet deep.
The oil flowed over the derrick. 1t
shattered on the buildings. The
Golden fluid ran down the hillside
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-04-25
Farm Help Is Needed
For Food Production

Ohio farmers are beginning the
seasons work with prospects of
much less help than is wanted, ac-
cording to county repots sent to
Guy Dowdy, state supervisor, emer-
gency farm labor, Ohio State Uni
versity, who says lack of expert
enced workmen who want jobs by the
month or the year is the worst spot
in the farm labor picture.
One county reports the housing
shortage in the cities and towns has
become so acute that men are ap-
Flying for farm jobs with the in
tention of getting a place to live
and then working elsewhere. An
other county reports placement of
two men on farms but the men later
refused the offer of 800 a month
plus board, room and laundry on
the farm and took jobs in town.
A third county reports applica-
tions from 13 servciemen for farm
work. Seven of these men wanted
to take advantage of the training
in placement offer which porvides
government payments to the farm
workers while being trained by ar
experienced farmer. Farmers are not
anxious to use their own time from
work to train help.
Several counties report farmers
are cutting their cropping and live
stock enterprises to conform to the
help situation. Farm sales are re
ported at an all-time high in ont
county, which means that an exper
fenced operator is turning over hi
business to other management. Uset
farm equipment still brings higl
prices, showing that farms are no
being abandoned. g..
Mr. Dowdy found on . recent tril
through several southern states tina
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-04-25

their purchase and use. Considerable
numbers of livestock have been killed
by fences in which the current was
supposed to be controlled by home
made device which failed in its
purpose.
One control unit will safeguard all
the electric fences ordinarily used
on one farm. Livestock can be
trained to respect the fence by in
stalling one in the barnyard or a
feedlot for a short time before the
stock is turned against the fence in
the field. The cost of current for
operating the fence is low, running
from Is to 25 cents month.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-04-25

A series of meetings to test pres
sure Gamer equipment and to dis
cuss food preservation have been ar
ranged in Ohio. The places and dates
are Dayton, March %; Cleveland,
March 30; GAINESVILLE, April 2; Col
umbus, April 4; Cincinnati, April 5;
Waverly, April g: Athens, April Is;
and Mansfield, April 18. The time
of each meeting is $50 a. m. to
$3.50 p. m. Ohio State University
specialists will be at each meeting,
and extension agents in the county
arrange the meeting place.
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-04-25

Hayes Bros. drilled in the Haw-
kins well. The gas howled. AS the
drill pierced deeper into the sand,
the golden Injun oil started flowing.
1t was another good strike! Perhaps
it will be the best strike so far
even better than the Mobberly well.
Another rig is drilling on the rear
of the school lot. OFT Keevert has
two steel 11-barrel tanks between
his house and his outhouse. Piles of
casing smash lettuce beds. Rhubarb
is beneath bull wheels. Wiley
Thompson has gas engine astrad-
die his cellar door. Virgil Watson
had to telescope his rig to locate
it behind the Thompson house.
Had Her Garden
Mrs. Jim Prince, 68, was Setting
onions in a little garden strip be-
tween the Watson and Clark rigs,
A ditch of sand pumpings splashed
dangerously close.
"Let them drill across the ditch,
but I'm gardening on this side" Mrs.
Prince said. This is more impor-
tant than OIL Oil will bring you
money, but you can't buy anything
at the store. You've got to raise
something to eat"
Seas of sand pumpings sometimes
gray, sometimes red, surround out
buildings. Other rigs are getting
ready at the southern edge of Stat
ford. They are hurrying to strike the
pay before the oil dwindles. Ike is
drilling a second well in the oppos-
ite corner of the Walter King pas
ture.
The Bic Iniun sand had yielded
oil in several places in Monroe coun-
ty. 1t lies between the Keener and
the Squaw. The strata crops out to
form the huge rocks at Black Hand
Gorge along the Licking River, east
of Newark.
Boom Helped People
A good thing about the Stafford
boom is that it is helping a lot of
people. Most of the wells are
Stocked out" in shares as small as
ones Xteenth and ne-thirty-second.
Here's the way the Mobberly we'll
"paid out"
The drilling cost about $500
$1.65 per foot. Shooting, cleaning
out, casing and tank cost another
$500. Total cost was about $4,000.
1t flowed 1880 barrels in Is days to
yield $3564. From then on, it was
profit.
A Chicken brooder" is placed
above the hole when a well is shot.
This huge shield prevents oil and
chunks of rock from being thrown
on houses. They drill through an "oil
saver"-a device that can be closed
to prevent waste flowing.
The boom has fascinated children.
They go about, leasing each others
lots, initiating drillers and tool
dressers. Some have even constructed
play" rigs and are drilling on their
own.
The activities of 6-year-old Ray
mond Keevert inspired Mrs. Coffey,
the telephone operator, to write a
poem, Part of it was:
"His hands were greasy and his face
was black,
He had been working on a well and
just got back E"
The journal. (Caldwell, Ohio) 1934-1961, 1946-04-25

right through the village. And when
the wild flow was curbed, it made
100 barrels per day. And this at
$3.50 per barrel.
The gold rush began. Everyone
was leasing everyone else's lot. Con-
tractors came in. Rigs were set up.
They spudded for the bonanza. 1t
was a race, Two wells were drilled
on lots a few feet east of Ike's
gusher. They we're small. Three dry
holes were drilled at the picnic
grounds to the north. They produced
some natural gas, one of them a
little oil.
The next good we'll was struck
by Hayes Bros. beside Jim Princes
garage. 1t flowed 40 barrels per day.
It was just down the slope from
Ike gusher. Two wells were drilled
to the west, one 100 feet from the
Prince well, the other 200 feet. Both
were clusters.
The oil search turned south. The
pay streak seemed to run south
right through Stafford. Clark Bros.
swung their rig in behind Jim
Princes house, directly across the
road from his garage. Hayes Bros.
moved their rig farther down. Both
were good wells. The Hayes we'll
howled with gas in an upper sand.
Accustomed to Noise
Stafford is accustomed to noise
now. All night long engines chug
end bark and snutter There are
sounds of clqnking metal around
the clock. There have been loud ex-
pIosions. A smashed electric bulb
cot fire to ~as in the we'll Frank
Wortell drilled. The flames swept
through the rig, threatened the en-
tire town.
The southeast quarter Of Stafford
was the last section to be invaded.
Now it is the busiest. John T. Wat
son hit it rich on the Mobberly lot.
The we'll produces 60 barrels per day
and paid for itself in i days.
The Mobberly we'll flows every
half hour.
Mrs. Frank Swortwood, a neigh
Dor of the Mobberlys, said: "You
can lie in our bedroom IT night and
hear the oil rolling in the tank. 1t
just rolls in"
Every Monday morning Mrs.
Swortwood hangs her wash in her
backward. among three drilling rigs.
No Explosion
The Bill Suttons live bes de the
Swortwoods. When the Mobberly
well. was in, the shooter had bad
luck. He put in 40 quarts of nitro
glycerine and two squibs to loosen
the sand so oil would flow freer. But
no explosion.
"They left it in there over night.
We we're afraid, the gas would blow
it out and let it explode in our back
wards" Mrs. Sutton explained.
Guv wires run every way here.
A guy wire from the mast of the
ouick action spudder of Hines Bros.
runs to a dead" mana solid ar
rangement of stakes and bars-oe-
side Mrs. Swortwood's kitchen porch.
The Hawkins family had an excel
lent garden. But now it is lake OF
grav sand pumpings. The oalllhgS
from the wells had to be damned
for the school playground lies just
below.