The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1939-09-18

MAN ABOUT TOWN
AZ Fritz Kuhn's trial next month
q Dewey witness will allege that
Kuhn told him that he would kin
q certain New Yorker Paul ].
Kern, president of the Civil Service
Comm, has instructed his attorneys
to file q libel suit against Father
Coughlln !. Dorothy Thompson Is
taking on" Col. Lindbergh with q
sensational rebuttal It's q girl
for the Captain Stedmans Of the
s. S. Washington at Hardness Paw
ilion. Mama Is heiress to the Shick
electric razor fortune The +.
Blisses barbara Fields, daughter Of
Marshall Fields expect an heir any
moment -. Paulette Goddard's
mater is believed to have eloped with
o nobleman The Henry Glass;
away Davis (Consuelo vanderbilt)
are considering Floridivision d.
Mrs. Eddie Mead is seeing q Reno
tary The AL Paches (Pach
Photographers) have parted. She
was Ann Freshman, the actress \. ].
The Administration Is confident
that the Neutrality opposition will
manage only ~ votes-meaning the
embargo win be lifted.
The column has furnished the
Federal authorities with Q sensa-
tional document concerning the al
legged misuse Of funds collected In
the u. s.. "for the aid Of the Lin
coin Brigade" in Spain The
witness viii be heard by the Dies
Committee Certain correspon-
dents and publications are named as
using the coin for Communistic
propaganda here, Spain and else
where-instead Of spending Il for
relief Of the Brigade :. About ST.
100000 Is involved, including .
special fund Of 100000 "to bring
home six hundred members OF the
Lincoln Brigade"
Billy Rose has paid the Aquacad-
ers all that rehearsal coin as agreed
IN the strike settled by this arbiter
Whalen's trip abroad Is to
try to get IlsDuce and Stain to keep
their exhibits at the FAIR for 1910
Sweden and the Netherlands will
drop theirs Marvin Mcintyre,
FDR's man Friday, will be back
at his White House desk sooner than
his grave-diggers thought The
big reason Uncle Sam just an
nounced that our frontiers are
wherever our ships are" Is this:
The Govt has reports" Of at least
four foreign subs In the Gulf Of
Mexico. A violation Of the Monroe
Doctrine The President is comb
ing the nation for the best men TO
serve the people Gin event OF emer-
gency" So don't be surprised
II Mayor LaGuardia becomes Sec'y
Of War -. F. D. r. rates La
Guardia as "the greatest red-tape
cutter In the world" :. How about
LOUIS Johnson, long doomed for
that job? Louis Is now tenating the
biggest dog-house In Washington.
The New York gazettes muffed
this clutch-at-thc-th throat when the
Athena survivors arrived A
Polish refugee named Shetland, ac-
cording TO some OF the rescued,
s0ved thirteen persons-picking
them out Of the ocean and lifting
them into . lfeboat He Is an
expert swimmer Mr.. Shetland
was 50 busy saving others that he
forgot his two children, who
drowned!
The cable firms have instructed
newspaper men here to stop using
the American "tonite" spelling fol-
tonight" In cables TO London. The
reason: Tonite Is q high explosive
land censors squawked
Spencer Love, founder Of Burlington
Mills, Inc, Tin North Carolina) md
his Elizabeth have reached G de-
cision. He settled one million dol
lars on her ;. The probation peo-
pie will waive the rule and permit
Dixie Davis to leave this jurisdiction
TO work for Warmers In H'wood
Grace Robinson. the star reporter
Is slowly recooping after o fantas-
tic episode on her Connecticut farm
She was bitten by O copperhead and
is on clutches The war has re-
vived O small and rather bizarre In
dustry around town-collecting old
papers ;. A cart load brings fifty
cents: It Is shipped abroad to make
wadding for shells-for The OLD
Shell Game.
Wall Streeters better slow down
II the Embargo Is lifted q lot oil
bills will be put through prohibiting
profits, which naturally will affect
the market Life and Time,
clever photogger, Carl Meidans, wal
taken off q clipper bound for Eu.
rope and left at Bermuda when hi,
appendix burst +. Not all OF u
have our minds on the war. Margit
Hart, the strip teaser, Is breaking
box office records out Of town