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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
By WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

Don't let me stop you breathing, folks, but as a practical test of the efficiency of your circulation why not time yourself with a watch, while you are sitting atease, and see how long you can hold your breath. That is, take one full breath and count the seconds from there till you have to take another breath.
 If you can hold your breath forty seconds you are likely to be with us for a long while. If you can hold it only 90 seconds, you really should have a good doctor give you a thorough health examination and survey-a good investment in any case and particularly if the doctor finds nothing much the matter with you. If you can hold your breath only fifteen or twenty seconds - now please don't be alarmed, but we had better stop horsing around and put ourselves under the doctors care, don't you think? After all. it is only common sense to draw the line somewhere, and yoN have just found out where. That is, assuming you are not in hurry to be on your way.
 These figures are only the aver age. Starling'S Human Physiolo- gy," Seventh edition '36 says the breath can be held 68 seconds after a deep expiration followed by the deepest inspiration in fit men, all though the actual time ranges from 30 to 12O seconds.
 So won't be astonished if you hold your breath longer than l have indicated as the average time, and live to tell the world about it. Nor shall be responsible if you don't Just remember, do not advise you to try for a record in holding the breath. Chances are that even if you exceed these limits you'll still be far short of the record-forget now precisely how many minutes and seconds it is.
 From time to time I receive a letter from some one who, thought 8 chronic invalid, finds he or she can hold the breath longer than the average healthy person can. These fortunate ones report it with jeer between the lines. I hope they will understand more clearly now what say about holding the breath.
 For their own sake, though I'd like to throw little scare at men and women past 35 who have begun to pile up stacker flesh, superfuous fat deposits or fuel reserve. When they find it difficult or impossible to hold the breath more than 30 sec- onds it's away past sitting time they had better start walking right now. To help them come back I offer the booklet "The Seven Keys
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29

WASHINGTON, June 29 29-(NEA)- Sabotage by the House Military Affairs Committee of the Senate passed Mcahon atomic energy control bill is rapidly driving the scientist supporters of that ball to atomic distraction if not destruction. Most of the blame is being heaped on the bald head of the Hon. An- drew J. May of Prestonburg, Kyr chairman of the House Military Committee because of his delaying tactics.
 May is supposed to have agreed that hds commit tee would okay the bill passed by the Senate then amendments to be offered from the floor It be- lieved that this would speed up action.
 When the House Military Affairs Committee met to consider the bill, however, Chairman May said, We will now proceed to read the bill"
 Well, the bill is 46 pages long. It consists of 20 sections, each about as important, oyer the long haul as anything that will be done by Congress this year. The congressman proceeded to examine 1t line by line taking their own sweet time. In the first week of intense cerebral fiSsioning the committee got through only seven sections.
 The chief objections to the bill come from haH dozen Republican members of the cOmmittee-Dewey Short of Missouri Charles R. Clason of MaSSachu- setts J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey, Thomas E. Martin of Iowa. Paul Shafer of Michigan and Charles H. Elston of Ohio. Democrats Ewing Thomson of Texas, John J. Sparkman of Alabama, and Chet Holafield of California with Republican Leslie C.. helpless while reading the bill is the Order of business under Chairman Mays ruling.
 The result is that a whole flock of amendments are in the making which may well start long fight on the floor of the House. require long conference with the Senate to iron out differences, and delay the bill interminably if not wreck 1t completely. there no action before Congress goes home in nid-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
Atom Energy Sabotage By Peter Edson

July things atomic apt to be in a terrible mess committee is considering for amendment include not only the putting of representative of the armed services back on the fveman atomic energy comnis- sion the provision about which there has been most discussion Also at stake are the licensing and patent arrangements, the fact that the government would have monopoly control of manufacturing and the fact that private enterprise would not be able to take over the future Of atomic energy and develop it in its own way.
 To Chairman Andy May, all this may be in the nature of a swell chance to get even for double cross Last Fall President Truman sent to Congress a War Department draft of bill to control atomic energy development Chairman May introduced 1t m the House and Edwin c. Johnson Of Colorado in the Senate. It was the May-Johnson bill about which controversy ragged all last Winter.
 Chairman May cracked his whip, with full ad- mnistration backing They wanted full speed ahead. May gave it to them After short hearings his House Military Affairs Committee approved 1t.
 Then everybody jumped on the May-Johnson bill and Andy May himself. The Senate junked and wrote entirely bill The President then Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson and Gen. support to the Senate bill And that left Andy May way out on the end of long limb, holding dead and smelly duck.
 So when Speaker Sam Rayburn came around with the McMahon bill and asked Andy May for some fast action it Is entirely possible that he may not have been very enthusiastic So they were in a hurry, were they? Try to make rubber stamp out last Fall and he had been rubber stamp then. Nov they cousi wait even if the whole wond had to hold it's breath while his Military Affairs Committee took its good old deliberattve time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
by DresO Pearson

peN :. .Aso ta be the main concexn of ohlos TasN who NOweveA Sought tight down She line to scutA :: OPA
 NOTE-wStd that Radcliffe. a Democrat mh, votAs with the Republicans leaked out to Mas9apzR vdAs4n ard 0V1tributed to his defeat.
 senator Taft received the overwhelming apRsssnl e Host Republican colleagues at the secret 0s0&. yScus next day, AGugh he also got some odvice he Es.2z& Nhe from SsA1l1aRaGS 0NtspOhen Senator Wu- i1.lm F. KAt%sgnd.
 You're going too far in S>sF fight against OPA,' the Senator from the Golden Gate bluntly warned Taft It seems to me that ths three Republican conferees thinking too much about the producers am against the drastic de-controls you want and think it is nwise from political standpoint for Us to be sticking our necks out so far"
 Nebraska's Whery also got in some hot Hcls about the de-contro1 board proposal, but on the other side of the fence. He contended the Senate itself should decide what price ceilings should 6o lifted and not leave up to board which, he saaas would do the bidding of President Truman.
 Later Millikin of Colorado echoed Wherrys ar- gurnent in an impassioned plea against the board plan when the Senate and House conferees smet in their final session. However, when the Barry com- promise motion OPA extension was again put to vote, this time it was Republicans Taft and Mill- kin not the Democrats, who gaSped and moaned.
 For New Hampshire's Tobey, after wrestling with his convictions for two days boted to the Demo- cratS and voted for the de-contro board as well as to retain ceilings on meat, poultry and dairy, prod- ucts.
 T do not like to desert my Republican col- leagues" Tobey declared, but on the other hand am not ashamed of changing my position think I am doing the right thing because the welfare or my country comes first with me. want you all t6 know that have done lot of praying on this issue in the last two days.
 Tobey spoke with intense feeling, but he wasn't able to convert canvas-skinned Taft and Mnhkn. Both angrily refused to sign the report on the co- promise bill, giving reasons except that it was against their principles.
 This was how legislation affecting every house. wife and consumer in the US.A. was horse-traded into final form.
 Argentine President Juan D. PerOn's choice as new Ambassador to Washington is Dr. Oscar Evalles- svich his personal physician Evanessvich has tre- uuently attended medical conventions in the United States and knows this country well.
 native Argentine of Yugoslav descent, Dr. Evanessivich is considered his country'S foremost nose and throat specialist But nobody ever heard of him before as diplomatic expert Several years ago. during physicians and surgeons conference in Los Angeles, he was elected to honorary membership in the Los Angeles County. Medical Association.
 Those who know him say the good doctor is an able and charming man. He may have full need of such qualities in this hot spot which is not only his initial diplomatic post but his first political ap- pontment of any kind.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
By Thomas Stokes

liter being out in the country bit, that each of us does have something to do with these things, even with what is done about the Atomic Bomb.
 For though we may not realize it, the Baruch proposal for control of the bomb and atomic energy is a breath-taking idea which, carried out, will take us much faster than know to real world government And that is just where we have got to go if we ourselves.
 It is not just delegation by our government to Mr. Baruch and others to do something. Each of us is involved and in this way. All the changes that will be necessary will require further action by Con- gresS. Which means that we've got to know about what our government and MT. Baruch are trying to do. so that we can back them up when contrary as they will do It is individual responsibility and that means individual voteS which Is what makes Congress move in the end.
 And that means politics, about which so many people do not want to be bothered today.
 There is another big job before us toO and con- stantly pressing upon uS in which we each have responsibility, which again means politics That IS to make our democracy work.
 We have bigger job as people than any in the world. All over the world nations have shu1fled off or are Shuffling off. democracy as we know It, and going, have gone, into state control That is the easier way Ours is the hard We are try ing to democracy as we have known 1t and at the tme to adjust its mechanisms so that we have economic security too. That is 8 really supendous job requiring constant alerness constant inventivenesS.
 In the last analysis what happens will depend on our choice of those who govern us.
 It is important even if wet get tired or trying to think about it. and get tired of those who write about it. like this fellow, who perhaps should go oil and cool himself in movie where Bill HartS fsiic- shooting from the hip in color.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
The Firing Line
 By D. N. T.

snort Sk1rCS nave Deen COleIdUcu several years in succession only be- cause the women could do nothing else. e."-From an editorial in the Hartford Times.
 WHO'S SICK OF FEM? When Fashions somewhat easy
 Whim
 Ordains exposure to the limb, The women make their dresses
 short
 That is, according to report. When Fashion says they should be
 long,
 Then women to the edict throng, And hardly care to show their
 ankles,
 For the outmoded number rankles. Yet now it has been several years It's shortages, so it appears Since short ones, both by night and
 day, Have had to lead the Fashions way. The ladies' thoughts are grim and
 black:
 They want to get the long ones
 back;
 They criticize and they berate The ones they had to tolerate. My toleration's out of joint; It's nowhere near the breaking
 point;
 If men could vote it, it is clear The built-in shortage would be
 here.
 MT. Truman's charge that Harold tckes is making it difficult to fill Federal appointments is under standable. When Harold got through they had to find Is men to take his place.
 With OPA extended for another year, we can expect an abundance of everything, we suppose. You re- member? The way it was during the war?
 Fred M. Vinson assumes the of- flee of chief justice of the Supreme Court at an inauspicious time. There is wrangling and feuding on the high bench, a far cry from the good old days when the chief justices principal disciplinary chore was to see that all the boys had their shoes on under their robes.
 President Truman's "take-hOm pay comes to only $3O,727 year. No doubt there are pay days when he wishes that he could take it and take 1t hOme-tO Independence. Lady Astor, who often does speak her mind, now speaks it about Bos- ton, city which she says, has the worst municipal government in the world. That is only one of a myriad complaints along the same line most of them coming from Boston, incidentally. The squeaking wheel may get the grease, but appar- ently it hasn't reached the Hub.
 Bostonians probably don't give hang if they have the worst gov ernment, so long as they have the best baseball team.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
QUESTIONS and ANSWERS
 Going SRimminG2

I feel the children should go swim ming as often as they like, but my husband says the public plunges are contaminated and disease distribu- tors. Would you let children use the public swimming pools when no others are available? (Mrs. B. M0
 Arswer-Yes. After all, the chil- dren have got to live-can't keep them forever away from people. Every one using 8 swimming hole, public or private, should invariably wear nose stoppers while in the water, breathe entirely through the mouth, if possible take no water in to mouth, but if water accidentally gets into mouth never eject it into the pool, Any one who breaks this rule should be excluded from use of the pool.
 Sniff, Sniff, Ahem, Ahem
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
Free Pamphlets on '7ow To Lose Weight" Offered

to Vite"-for copy send twenty-five envelope. If you ask for it in writ ing I'll send also a pamphlet How to Lose Weight"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
Waterbury Of the Past
25 Years Ago

25 Years Ago Senior Scouts conducted hike on the Blue Trail. Miss Helen Thomas of Boyden Street was vacationing in Scranton, Pa.
 15 Years Ago Thomas Lester of Wheeler Street was vacationing in Vermont. Karl Kelley and Edna Burke of Waterbury announced their mar riage intentions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29
15 Years Ago
5 Years Ago

Edward Blanchard, Martin Gold ing and Clifford Mettle of Water bury left for an extended fishing trip to Maine.
 Rottert Smart and Nellie Ches- ter of Waterbury annoLnced their marriage intentions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29

Send letters to Dr. Brady in care of the National Newspaper Service, 326 West Madison Street, Chicago, Ill. Copyright 1946, John F. Dille Col
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29

MT. Truman's charge that Harold 1ckes is making 1t difficult to fill Federal appointments is under standable. When Harold got through they had to find 15 men to take his place.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29

With OPA extended for another year, we can expect an abundance of everything, we suppose. You re- member? The way it was during the war?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-06-29

WASHINGTON, June 20-The secret sessions of Senate and House cOnferees on extension of price control were highlgated by the voting acrobatics of two Senators-RadclMfe of Maryland and Tobey of New Hampshire
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
Foremen Now Eligible To Join Unions
 Management May FIIe
 Notice Oi Appeal
 on Ruling

A ruling by the National Labor Relations Board that foremen and supervisors may join national un- ions of production employees may pave the way for an intensive local organization drive once present la hor disputes have been settled.
 Industry has maintained that Soremen' and supervisory. ofiictals are management representatives and cannot rlghtfully hold inem- hership In unions of production workers. On this basis, plans for on appeal to federal courts, and to the Supreme Court, if necessary, are already being made by manage TIlent.
 The C.Io. Mine, Mil 6 Shelter Workers union, the strongest oi local labor organizations, will un- toubtedly take advantage of the NLRB ruling at the earliest possible ff:oment. It can be assumed that M.M.S.W. leaders here have filed away the ruling for future refer ence and will take 1t up when they feel conditions warrant.
 In two previous rulings, the NLRB had held first that foremen could join @ union but not be in- cluded In collective bargaining, and later that foremen could join un- ions of their own but could not afiliate with production workers unions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
Papers Recorded By Local Firms

Organization papers have been filed ct the office of tho Secretary of State by the following: Shores Auto Parts, Inc, of 407 West Main Street, @i6,000 subscribed; Dona- hue Manufacturing Company of Watertown, S24,O00 subscribed; ElFn- ridge Farms, Incp of Ldtchtield, e2,00O subscribed.
 A ceftiilcate of amendment has been filed authorizing the SonerS BraSs Company of Waterbury to issue 265 additional shares at 926 a share.
 The Ardon Furniture Company of East Main Street has been au- thorized to issue 2S additional shares ct tiOO and seven shares at e6.
 Certificates of incorporation have been granted to the following: Dad- done Construction Company of Waterbury, Federal Trucks of Wa terhury. City Block, Inc, of Tor rington, 6cientificit Products. Inc. of Beacon Falls, and Prospect Lockers. Inc, of Prospect.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
Four Local DriUers Among TlOelDe Called
Hearings on Various Complaints to Be Heard Tuesday Morning in City Room: Names Posted

Twelve Connecticut motorists whose licenses have been suspended will appear on Tuesday. March i2 at l0:30 Q. m. for hearing before Francis W, Hogan, Director of op- orator Control, in the City Court room.
 Among the l2 are four from Wa terbuTy. The names of the opera tors and the dates of suspension follow:
 John R. Riley of go Vermont Street, license suspended Jan, a, ie42; Owen w. Elliott of 9 Fuller Street, license suspended Nov i24, lo46; Edward J. McDonald of % Gloves Terrace, license suspended, Oct. lb, l940, and Paul l., Loranger of 4S0 South Main Street, license suspended, Dec. l2, io46.
 The other area drivers who will face hearings on suspension Of their licenses are:
 Joseph '. Dufour of Naugatuck, license suspended July 10, l045; John Moss of Prospect, license suspended tukAS AUe AOtOl &tAWaAa ns SNSSSss of Torrlngton, license suspended Jan. 8, ie46; Thomas R. Kitchin of Litchfleld, license suspendedJ an. q, 1887; Mrs. Anna II, Cripps of Woodbury, license suspended Dec. ii, io45; Ernest E. Racenet Of Woodbury, license suspended Dec. Ii, i040; Robert ]. Murphy of New town, license suspended Dec, II, io45, and Domealc J. Sacco of Tor rington, license suspended Oct. lS' 1o46.
 ElRht other drivers, five of whom are from this city, will also appear for hearings on violations ot the motor vehicle laws In which licenses were not suspended.
 The waterbury motorists are:
 Armand L. Collella of 1880 Tholn- aston Avenue; George A. Smedes of 20e2 East Main Street; Alexaiad- der DubIclEi, Jr., of i69 Washington Avenue; Carl H. Nye of 5e Chestnut
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
Triboliur,, Confusuna
Liable to 7hrouU Confusion
 In LiUes of Flour Hoarders

New York, March D. Housewives who have dashed out and raided grocery shelves of flour in the face of President Truman's appeal to share the bread in a world lean wheat year are going to have to reckon with one MT. Tribolium Con- fusum.
 This fellow, often the victim of mistaken identity, as his name i'm. plies, has a way with flour and makes plenty of trouble even for those professional flour keepers who protect stocks of flour before the average homemaker gets 1t. Al- though often called by his nick name Confused Flour Beetle, he knows his stun when it comes to running flour unless that nour IS properly stored and protected against his encroachment.
 He has near relative, too, who is just as much of & nuisance. when not using the old feudal family name of Tribolium Castaneum this intruder goes by the ordinary mon- iker trust red flour bettle."
 Some weeks hence the hour hoarder-upper may awake to some flying visitors in the house and De sure at first glance that clothing moths are after the family furs. But 1t may be that actually Miss Ephes- tia Keuhniella, who arrived in a bag of flour, is out for 8 flight. Although her ancestors have prob- ably been in America for genera tlons, this gal is still known as the Mediterranean -four moth to those who know her best.
 Production and Marketing Ad- mlnistratlon of U. s. Department Of Agriculture Is noting these facts ate tempts to point no morals regarding the subject of hoarding in the face of threatened scarcity. but observes that the day of the family flour bar rel in the cellar is over in the aver age American home. Despite the modern four miller's ingenuity in protecting and sealing flour and flour mixtures, his packaging doe' not anticipate long term holding ir modern steam heated houses and apartments.
 UsDA urges that Mrs. Housewife use up that 2S or 6O-pound sack oi -four on something more than batch Of nauiins every other Sunday if she must store the -four in th' kitchen cabinet of a steam heates apartment or house.
 Prevent waste of -four and o breed--that is the current messag' of U4DA. A pound ot bread save' from spoliage here means almost pound Of wheat available to send ' those who are starving abroad Share the bread and save their iivel
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-03-09
.Yonks Sonk 1000 Subs During War
 bFINsh Accounted
 For S2A U.Boais
 haAlmaR nArnamR
AgalRsR oOFnans

Washington, March - (uP)-- American and British forces sent almost 1000 Axis submarines to the bottom in World War II, the Navy announced today.
 Fixtures complied by the British Admiralty and D. S, Navy U-boat assessment committees gave the final score as 7el German subs, 90 Italian and iS0 Japanese - or eo0 destroyed in all
 Agalnss the Germans, the British accounted for b2A U-boats while U. s. Forces destroyed i74. The British sank 0e Italian submarines and American forces four,
 U. 8. aircraft, ships and mines were credited with li0,6 Japanese submarines and the British 9.5. The half credits resulted from success full Joint operations.
 Ships and shore-based aircraft split evenly in the credit for des- troying the most German underseas sraft, followed by carrier aircraft and bombing raids on U-hoat install lations,
 Against Japanese Subs, surface ships accounted for the largest number of those sunk. The next most effective weapon was suhmar- Ines, which accounted for 26 enemy U-hoats in all. Of these, American submarines accounted for 2S,
 The largest number of Italian sub- marines were destroyed by surface ships, with submarines rating as the next most potent weapon. The Bri- tlsh destroyed ie Italian subs with their own undersea craft.
 Other causes of enemy suhmar- inc losses included mines and conn hined ships and carrier aircraft ac- ton, Approximately 35 enemy U-boatS were lost from unknown causes" Tn all probability they were damaged by Allied efforts but dl6 not sink until later.