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The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
Goes to Jury

Judge Edward J. Finn finished his charge to the 12-man jury hearing the S5,000 personal in- jury suit of Rose Mombardi, a minor, against the fly of Wa terbury, at 1 o'clock this after noon in common pleas court and then dismissed the panelman for lunch.
 The litigation is based on in- juries the plaintiff sustained in fective curbstone last year near Anderson and Highland ave- nues. The only witness on the stand this morning was virgilio Angellno.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
T'ailOrS Meet

A representative number Of local .tailors and officials of cleaning establishments were pres- ent at The Elton last evening when John Harvey of Boston spoke on the advantages of or ganization and better working conditions. A series of meetings will be held in the near future for the purpose of discussing and taking action on some of the pro- posals outlined last evening by MT. Harvey. There is citywide interest in organization work and more harmonious relations among Mem- bers of the trade.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15

Essex County in England will spend s2,500 a year in preserving windmillS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
Spotlighting Brass City News
Fined S

John Shea, 9, of 572 East Main street. arraigned before Judge T. E. Conway in city court this morning on charge. breach of the peace, was found guilty on charges and fined S5 and costs. Shea was placed on three months probation in which to pay up.
 He was arrested last night by Sergeant McWeeney and Officers Deeley and Dunphy on charges of creating a disturbance on South Elm street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15

World War, America has rid it. self of the dictators who followed that war. FaScism, like some foul disease, is gone. But armies and and navies endure. And already there are rumors of 8 final world
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
MOVIES SIGN BLACKFooT

Whitefish, Mont. - (UP) = Mar tin Goodrider of the Blackfoot In- dian tribe. Glacier Park, has been given a contract for a part in one of. Shirley Temples coming pie lures. Goodrider was given movie test at New York, and en route to Hollywood. stopped off to see his tribe here.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
IDEAL SECRETARY" TO WED

Berkeley, Gal. (UP)-Fourteen thousand university students, unlike 50,000 Frenchmen, can be wrong. The student body at the University of California voted Miss Marie Phil- lips, the ideal secretary" Miss Phillips decided instead to get mar ried, and her engagement has been announced.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15

One of the first professional &C., tivities of Cary Grant, now star ring with Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., in RKO Radios "Gunga Din" was as a youthful comedian in England, At the age of IS, he went to New York with his act and played at the Hippodrome two years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15

Goodrich dealers, the Waterbury to the Worlds Fair, all expenses paid by the Goodrich Go.
 Enthusiasm on product advance" ment and the safety tread and blow out protection of the new Life Saver Silvertown tires characterized last nights meeting.
 John F. Shea, Waterbury man. ager. played a prominent part In the discussion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-15
Walter WiHacIaeII O. Broadzgny
Notes of a NetU Yorker.
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Notes of a New Yorker.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
PAN AMERICA:
Good and Bad

In a happy mood did Secretary Of
Commerce Harry Hopkins announce
foreign trade figures for the autumn
months. Exports to the United
Kingdom Except cotton were down
appreciably; so were exports to Bel
GUM, Netherlands, Spain, Germany
and Poland. But a ray Of warm sun
shine came from the south: Exports
to Latin America in October were
% per cent higher than in Septem-
Der, SAT 1000, 900 against $3.50, 700, 900.
But all was not peaches and
cream. Complaints against the gov
ernment's reciprocal trade program
began blossoming in farm and in
dustrial circles, and were even felt
by diplomats.
Announcing the new trade pact
with Venezuela would take effect
December 16, the President pointed
out that Germany and all countries
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
HOUSEHOLD
QUESTIONS

Prunes, to be properly cooked,
should be stewed very slowly for
at least two successive days. The
prunes will come out whole, soft
and tender, and with the richest,
most delicious juice.
When Washing Gl0ves.-If few
drops of olive oil are added to the
water when washing channels
leather gloves, they will not be-
come hard or stiff.
A shiny coat collar can be
cleaned by sponging with a cloth
moistened with ammonia or vine
gar.
Removing Paper From Raisins.
If the paper sticks to the pack
age of raisins, place them in the
oven for a few minutes and the
wrapping may be removed easily.
It will also cause the raisins to
separate and fall apart.
Tarnished table silver may be
revived if placed in a quart of
boiling water to which good
pinch of washing soda has been
added. After boiling for a few
minutes remove and dry thorough
ly with q soft cloth.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01

taxes next year. Secretary Of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau was va
cationing at the time, so the dirty
work of repudiating Eccles' state
ment fell to Undersecretary John w.
Hanes. Said he: ~ don't think he
(Eccles) spoke for the administra-
ton. doubt seriously if he spoke
for congress. ! am certain he didn't
speak for the treasury"
Observers thought John Hanes'
boss would secretly applaud the re-
mark, for Henry Morgenthau-al-
though loyal to the President-has
fought deficit spending. And the
treasury, far from stumbling blindly
ahead, is sitting thousands of sug-
gestions solicited during the past
summer before offering congress
any recommendations on 1910 tax
program.
That congress may also be con-
trary was limited when Colorado's
Sen. Alva Adams told the press he
favored establishment of congress
sional agency to police" the APP
preparation demands Of executive
departments, not by way of block
ing requests for funds but to give
the taxpayer chance to argue his
side Of the story.
Meanwhile it was learned the
budget bureau may not issue its GUS
tomary revised estimate of receipts
and expenditures this year. Like
the congressional tax committee,
which is holding its recommends.
tions in allegiance, the budget bureau
is stymied by abnormal conditions
abroad.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01

Kuhn that he failed to hear the ques-
ton most good Republicans have
been asking about him: ''Where does
he stand on national issues?"
Dewey, like at least two other 1910
hopefuls, was preparing to talk.
First on the agenda is speech at
Minneapolis December 6, where
party observers hoped to hear an
answer. Other stumpers:
~ Ohio's Sen. Robert Taft, who
ranks low on Gallup polls, opened
his campaign at Cleveland by criti-
cizing Gallup polls for ''leading to
superficial facts and piling up band
wagon sentiment" On his schedule
before Christmas are at least eight
states.
CO New Hampshire's H. Styles
Bridges, who has dropped the ''H."
for campaign purposes, was found
in Los Angeles.
90 Michigan's Sen. Arthur VAN
denberg was silent; so was Penn
sylvania's Gov. Arthur James, latest
new candidate.
G.. O. P. 1910 strategy will proba-
bly, be "streamlined" if early signs
offer an indication. Seriously con-
sidered is blitslrieg from Septem-
Der to November, instead of long
campaign. Meanwhile Marion Mar
tin, assistant national chairman, told
reporters Of women's organization
zoe, 900 strong. which will sell the
party not by punching doorbells but
through social contacts. One job:
To scotch the notion that all Repub-
lcan women are rich and wear or
chids. pe fssa
Franklin Roosevelt kept himself
busy playing with the press. Laying
a cornerstone for the Jefferson me-
mortal in Washington, he said he
chopped" he could be present when
it was dedicated in 1941. This, he
commented later, was injected inten-
tionally to trip up the commenta-
tors. A few days later, dedicating
his memorial library at Hyde Park,
he poked more fun: g. ! hope
they (the press) will give due inter-
probation to my statement that we
hope it will be a fine day when we
open the building"
At Baltimore, Montana's Sen. Bur-
ton Wheeler (who may be John
Lewis candidate) made a speech
that looked conciliatory with Frank
Lin Roosevelt. At Dallas the Texas
Editorial association, booming John
Garner, took crack at John Lewis
criticism of their hero by holding
banquet dedicated to ''sin and cor
ruption.1 The whisky drinking old
man." who was busy fishing that
day, got himself toasted with milk.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01

under her de facto control would not
benefit from tariff reductions on
crude petroleum and miscellaneous
agricultural products. This brought
two repercussions: ~ Observers
wondered whether such recognition
of Germany's control over Czecho-
Slovakia and Poland might not be
a blunder; (2) the so per cent tariff
cut on crude oil imports meant,
among other things, that Mexico
could sell us at reduced rate the
oil she appropriated from U. S. COM
panies.
Loudest objector to the Latin
American trade expansion was Fred
Brenckman, legislative representa-
tive Of the National Grange, who
told that groups convention in
Peoria, ILL.,, that he didn't like the
proposed Argentine trade treaty, a
pact which would necessitate larger
agricultural imports from that ma
ton to offset larger exports from the
u. S. Said he: 'It looks as If we
were going to buy Argentine friend
ship at the cost Of the American
farmer"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
EUROPE:
Protest or PLea?.

A war that hurts civilians is at
once the most painful and the most
likely to end in a hurry. Thus far
the War of 1889 has disdained bomb
ing cities and has even been easy
on troops in the front line. But a
continent whose life blood courses
the seven seas cannot laugh off many
body blows to its merchant marine
by late November the intensified
arship-submarine-mine warfare
being waged between Britain and
Germany had taken a big toll and
the price was getting higher every
day. Britain searched for the Nazi
raiders Deutschland and Admiral
Scheer while the air force made a
futile raid on the naval base at
Wilhelmshaven. The navy was or
dered to seize all Nazi ships trans
ferred to Russian registry.
Cause of this scurrying was the
wars second major disaster. The
4thenia sinking cost ll2 lives, but
150 were feared lost when the Dutch
liner Simon Boiipar struck a mine
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
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Nausea and Headaches from eS.
cess stomach acidity this remark.
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No need now to be afraid to enjoy
the food you like. If you expect acid
indigestion after meals, follow this
simple routine.
Take two teaspoonfuls of Phil
lips Milk Of Magnesia half hour
after you leave the table. Or, il
you're not at home take two Phil
lips Tablets, which have the same
neutralizing effect.
This gives you a thorough "alka-
lization" just at the time excess
stomach acids are developing. and
does the job in a few minutes. No
nausea or embarrassing gas, none
of that uncomfortable fullness, or
singing heartburn. You're sur
prised at how wonderful you feel.
The Phillips Method may be q
revelation and solve your problem
once and for all.
When you buy, ask for and make
sure you get the real Phillips Milk
of Magnesia. Note the words 'sgen-
uine Phillips on both bottle and
Tablets box.
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01

Owen ID. Young and Gerard
Swope, board chairman and pres
ident, respectively, Of the $685.
600, 900, 900 General Electric COM
pany, announced their retirement
January ! to make way for
younger blood.
Benit0 Mussolini warned that
Italy wants the "final word" when
peacetime returns to Europe.
Wang Ching-wei, whom Japan
hoped to establish as puppet ruler
Of China, has baked SO much that
establishment of the govern
ment" has been postponed.
DR.. James Monroe Smith, ex-
president of Louisiana State uni
versity who was convicted Of
fleeing state and college, at
tempted to kill himself in prison
with a razor blade.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
Our Cotton Exports Are
Continuing to Decline

We have witnessed the spectacle
of our secretary of agriculture seek
ing to get our cotton or some other
farm product into foreign markets
by use of various forms of cash pay
ments to the producers. While he
has been passing out checks, our
exports have declined and are con,
tinuing to decline, and there is moth
ing that can be done about it. Other
folks have learned to grow cotton
and they are not going to stop. We
cannot control them by law saying
farmer must plant only so much,
or that there must be six million
little pigs killed off.
was asked recently for my own
opinion on the outlook for business.
My reply was that disliked making
gloomy predictions. Pollyanna stuff
is much more pleasant. On the
other hand, President Hoover tried
hard to get prosperity to come
around the corner, and he looked
rather ridiculous when she stayed
just around the corner through more
than nine years up to the present
time. Secretary Hopkins, of the de-
partment of commerce, is trying
now to induce the coy young woman
to come around the same corner.
His department has been issuing
statements about bulges in produc-
ton and in sales and in shipments.
But could not read the figures the
same way the secretary read them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01

Observation-Disclosures our ma
ton is not mixed up in the European
mess, and its people will not permit
any administration to drag us in, it
strikes me that the war on the other
side of the Atlantic already has done
lot of things which ought to be
reviewed. There has been much
laughter about the "phoney" war
and the ''sitdown strike" OF the
enemy armies, because thus far
there has been no real fighting. !
do not propose to discuss that phase
of the situation. There are some
things which have happened and are
happening here at home, however,
that surely are worthy of considera-
ton.
When steel began to flash abroad,
there were thousands, if not mil
lions, of Americans who believed
a conflict overseas would pull us out
of the depression. Visions of ex-
ports amounting to millions of tons
were seen by many of the unthink-
ing and misinformed persons. High
er prices-it is hardly necessary to
recall how excited some folks got
about the prospects Of higher prices
and there was talk about shortages
and all of that sort of thing. There
was the usual effort of certain
type of business interests to grab off
extraordinary profits. Most of the
price hysteria has collapsed and
quite a few persons lost their shirts
in the speculation to which they
turned with the excitement of war
talk.
It is true that there are some in
dustries which are profiting from the
war. Some, but not very many.
Statistics are tiresome, but close ex-
animation of them does reveal, in
this instance, how thoroughly spotty
the anticipated war boom actually
is. In my own appraisal of the stu
alton, based on all of the facts I
can obtain along with opinions Of
experts, I have come to the conclu-
sion that the war thus far has done
our American Observation-Disclosures,
commerce and industry-more dam
age than it has done good. That is
to say, if it were possible to bal
ance the increase due to the war
against the further decline in other
lines, the total business of the United
States would show an actual loss.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
POLITICS.:
Stump Trail

War and neutrality made way in
November for politics. For between
now and january 8, when reconven-
ing congress grasps public attention,
politicians have their only pre-con-
vention chance to sell The Cause Of
1910. On the Republican side at least
three stumpers were hitting the trail,
while national headquarters in
Washington planned skull session
December 7 to map campaign STRAIT
egg. The Democratic party, mean
while, contented itself waiting for
Franklin Roosevelt to say yes or no.
New York's District Attorney Tom
Dewey was not so busy prosecuting
German-American Bundsman Fritz
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
Airplane Manufacturers
And Rail Lines Benefited

It can be pointed out, for example,
that airplane manufacturers are do
ing thriving business. They are
selling airplanes for war purposes
and they are selling them here, as
well. Likewise, the official reports
show how the industries producing
airplane parts and equipment and
certain other types of war material
are rushing their products through
to finished state.
The rail lines have benefited.
Through a stretch of six consecu-
tive weeks, car loadings-an accu-
rate business barometer-have ex-
ceeded 100000 cars for each seven
day period, and then dropped off.
In this case, car loadings have
shown a vast bulk movement but
one must examine the commodities
hauled to calculate what conditions
are. It is to be noted that there
were exceedingly heavy shipments
of stuff disable in war included in
the 800, 900 total. A good deal of this
had been ordered previously. It
could not be sent out until the So
called arms embargo was removed.
Experts appear to believe that
large portion of the shipments may
not be repeated. At least, not in
such quantities. ALI of which is to
say that shipments of normally do
mestic products, consumer goods,
must still be very much below par.
Respecting the market for So
called consumer goods, mention
may be made of apples and what
drug they are on the market these
days. This may not be the same in
all parts Of the United States, but it
certainly is true in the great apple
growing sections of Virginia. One
large grower told me that he had
not sold single apple for the Brit
ish market where he usually is able
to ship several hundred carloads in
the course of a season. Imports of
all fresh fruits have been banned in
> England.
The industrial conference board,
aprivate organization which is quite
accurate in its reports on business
conditions and trends, said lately
that our exports to Canada are due
to fall with dull thud. In 1888,
Canada acquired 68 per cent of all
Of the things she imported right
across the border in the United
States. It is to be remembered, too,
that about 40 per cent of all ex-
ports from the United States in nor
NAL years 60 to Canada.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01

learned their notorious relative had
become 'sCitizeness Ruth Frieder-
ichovna Boerger Of the Soviet union"
and probably never will be heard Of
again in the U. s.
Appeal
q At South Bend, Ind, General Mo-
tors corporation moved to appeal
the conviction under which GIN and
three affiliates were found guilty Of
violating the antitrust laws (by CO.
ercing dealers into using the GMAC
financing plan).
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
LABOR:
Liability

Compared with A. F. Of L., the
hands of G. I. O. are comparatively
clean in the justice departments
campaign to remove alleged trade
restraints in the building industry.
Though both organizations have
maintained Trust Buster Thurman
Arnold has no right to indict trade
unions under the antitrust laws, it
is chiefly A. F. of L. building groups
which are suffering in the present
drive. Already indicted, for exam
pie, is William Hutchinson of In
dianapolis, head of the carpenters
union and an A. F. of L. vice presi-
dent.
Thurman Arnold listened to la
boris complaints few days and
then startled labor with a ruling:
Organized labor is not immune from
prosecution, and the justice depart
ment will prosecute unions attempt
ing to prevent private industry from
using improved production methods
designed to bring cheaper and bet
ter goods to the buying public.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
MISCELLANY:
No Sabotage

At Bayonne, N. j., government in
vestigators scoffed at sabotage ru-
mors when a U. S.-owned but Pana-
unregistered tanker exploded to in
jure four persons.
Quits
q At Baltimore, Brother John Ca
pone intimated that Scarface AL, just
released from prison, is humbled
and ready to cry quits. Said John:
"He's in a cheerful mood and doesn't
hold grudge against anybody"
Rubers' Finale
q At Miami, the daughter, mother
and father of Ruth Marie Rubens,
who figured two years ago in a
fraudulent Soviet passport case,
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
TAXATION:
argument

Long sirnmering has been the an
ticipated blow-up between spenders
and savers which is bound to come
when congress meets next January.
Reason: In the next fiscal year the
national debt will pass the $45, O0O,-
100000 legal limit; congress will
have its choice of boosting that limit
or making an about-face on spend
ing.
First signs Of an inter-administra-
ton squabble came after Mariner
Eccles, federal reserve chairman and
spending advocate, told st. Louis
bankers that congress should raise
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1939-12-01
Whot Has War Done to
American Merchant Marine?

But the situation is changing rap
idly. Canada is going industrial as
rapidly as she can under the stress
and strain of war. Being part of
the British empire, does any one
think that the British war Office is
going to seek supplies in the United
States that can be bought in Can
ada? Obviously not. To show how
Canada has developed her capacity