The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-10-24

kakiy arrived Thursday at the Mc- Alpin hotel with the shoes she or dered And Mrs. Roosevelt came in from Washington to get them.
 John Edgar Hoover, who usually travels by air, just returned from the coast on The City of Los An- geles streamliner, the Union Pa cific's crack train .. . In the diner the G-Man complained about feel ing sluggish after a heavy meal =. Why don't you go up to our gym?' suggested the steward.
 "Gym?" said Hoover. q know that this wonderful train has all most everything-but hadn't heard that it also had a gymnasium?"
 Sure" kidded the steward, tits in the baggage car up ahead, where you can exercise your head off throwing the trlnkS around"
 The British Govt may have to shut down the British Broadcast ing system =. German sub and plane pilots, it appears, can get to London and other British places f1y- ing blind, simply by tuning in their radio direction finders on BEG sta- tions Britain stopped broad casting and publishing weather re- ports, but Germans can guess it from the radio reception from those stations In Hitler's "Mein Kampf," the author insists that German women must vanish from jobs because their place is in the home Now six million Ger man fraus are forced to work in German factories! The trouble is that the French hand out too many Communiques and not enough CommunikayoS There is talk that Lindbergh may run for vice. president If elected, he'u get all the privacy he doesn't seem to desire any more.
 Excerpt from a letter to a friend here from Connie Bennett's hus- band, the Marquis Henri de Ia Fa- laise, etc: ". what am I supposed to do about those libels in the American movie columns and maga- zines; let those soandsos go on printing such lies about me? Here I am ready to go to the trenches and I want it cleared up for once and for all. There has never at any time been any talk of any set- clement with Connie to give her a divorce. Over a year ago I told her 1t was not easy to get one in Paris and for her to go ahead in Amer ica. thought it would be more gall lant of me to let her get 1t, any, way Since that time, 13 months ago, she has done nothing but spend 5000 for transatlantic phone calls to tell me she loves me, that I was the only man in her life I hate to think I may die in the war with the stories saying I died in possession of large sums of money swindled out of poor, unsuspecting American girl, when I really am as poor as a mouse, and probably will have to wash dishes when this war is over. Please show Winchell."
 A game now popular among, some stay-up-lates is called State tis-tics" Frinstance:: Whats the State with the minerals?" (An- swer: Ore-gon) =. Whats the principal State2n- fMaines "What's the sickest State?" Tll- inois) Whats the cleanest State?" (Wash-ing-ton, ha-haD Childish, but amusing non- sense over drinks The feeble argument by some people that American newspapers are Jewish, controlled reveals this fact: Jews control only five per cent of the U. s. gazettes The publishers names are usually Hearst, Patterson, Knight, Reid, Scripps- Howard, Me- Cormick. Moves and Gannett {. Mabel Todd's definition of Holly wood: Where the skeletons in the closets are ashamed of the people who live in the houses" And then there's the silly about the drunk who kept knocking on a lamp-post and mumbling: "There mustn't be shomebody home. Theresh a light up there!" -. And Eddie Cantor's nimble wordage: "The way some people drive you'd think they were late for their accident!"