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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20
DUMP TURNED INTO PARK

Alexandria, o. (UP)-ReSident of this village wanted picnic park on Lob Del Creek, so they volunteer ed their lbaor and turned out to convert an unsightly dump into the desired recreation spot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20

Old Red Schoolhouse At the start of each school year reads that another group of the type called
 Told red schoolhouse been obiterated True they stand "by the road they not much good to anybody because children in the rural districts get their schooling in more less modern building, quite often brick. However being sentimental, Americans hate to see these landmarks go Some of them, by the way were not red but white We watched them and passed by them down through the years, and finally in many cases found ourselves looking at heap of routed lumber and still we said, there's the old schoolhouse." No doubt there are still some left here in New England but wood they become miserable looking affairs with time good healthy ruins of stone such of the old churches and castles of England Scotland and Ireland have historic appeal but 1t is rather hard to find beauty in falling down schoolhouse However, 1t will be long time before we can forget them and it will be q cold day when We won't go sentimental at the nes "St sits the schoolhouse by the road ragged beggar sunning around 1t still the sunac grows. and black berry vines are running"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20

This is another dispatch from Peter Edson, editor of NEA Serv- ice, who was a member of the Pan American press flying party inaugurat:ng clipper passenger service to New Zealand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20

trations was 73,6O5 on August 31, 1940 as compared with 76,736 on July 31, 1940.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20
. ANSWERS TO
 cRANIUM CRACKER

Questions on Comic Page 1. (b) Desultory-superflcial 2. (a) Noisome-noxious. 3. (d) Abortive-ineffectua 4. (a) Ingenuous-artless. 5. lc) Objure-recant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-09-20

Good night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-25
Mrs. Moreenthou Views
Districts Art Exhibit

Mrs. Henry Morgenthau, jr, wife
of the Secretary of the Treasury
Yesterday visited an exhibit being
prepared for the Districts partici-
patton in National Art Week at the
Departmental Auditorium. The pub
lie sales-exhibition will be held at
the auditorium, on Constitution
avenue between Twelfth and Four
tenth streets NV, from November
Is to December l.
A score of es-exhibitions in
art galleries and elsewhere in the
city will supplement the central
exhibition. Mr.. Morgenthau, hon.
orary chairman Of the local cele-
bration, declared she was "con-
WINGED Of the high quality Of work
that our artists and craftsmen are
creating"
The District w. P. A. Is one Of
several Government agencies aiding
in celebration of the art week, set
aside by President Roosevelt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-25
BY LILLIAN cox ATHEY.

No doubt about it, this is black
walnut season. Thousands of trees
stripped of their foliage show one
of the finest crop of nuts seen in
several years. Millions of walnuts
will be not husked. Some will be
able to get start in life Animals
will find an abundant supply. and
those who harvest the crop will sell
them at a much lower price than
has prevailed during the past few
years
During the last World War the
black walnut played a most import
ant part. Every bit of the tree and
fruit was in demand. Centuries ago,
Indians used the green hull juices
of the fruit to paint their cheeks.
Their women made q beautiful
brown dye of 1t.
The black walnut tree has not
been 50 much appreciated as 1t
should. 1t Is almost resistant to
fungous growth and invasion by
insects. True, the tent caterpillar
and the walnut caterpillar are
found in the tree and disfigure it
to some extent. But they do not
kill these trees as they do many
others, leaving them as a sad re-
minder of their destructive visit.
The black walnut is a rapid grow
Ing American hardwood. 1t often
attains a height of 80 to 40 feet,
with a trunk diameter of 5 to 9
inches q distance of 81 feet from
the ground when the tree Is 20 years
old.
This valuable tree is abundant in
the Eastern part Of the United
States and Southern Ontario. 1t
hourishes in the rich, alluvial soil
of Maryland. Pennsylvania and Vir-
einia, west into Eastern Iowa and
Missouri. 1t is not unusual to find
trees which have grown under ideal
conditions in these States to be
$50 feet high and feet in diameter.
The beautiful, soft-brown colored
wood. though coarse-grained, is
easily worked. Since the earliest
days of this country it has been
used for the making of fine furni-
ture and interior finish. 1t holds
first place in America as cabinet
wood. 1t can resist extreme cold,
heat and blows. Because Of its
resistance to shock there is always
a great demand for it for gun
stocks and airplane propellers.
During the winter the trees may
be identified by their fine crown,
deeply grooved, dark bark, sturdy
twigs and the large, soft, gray,
downy terminal buds.
During April and May you will
hnd the flowers, both staminate
and pistillate, on the same tree.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-25

shaped leaflets attached to slightly
hairy stem.
Walnut trees are individualists.
They grow either singly or in small
groups. Therefore. no reliable esti-
mate may be made of the present
stand. We do know that five years
ago the total production of board
feet of this valuable lumber was
71,523,000.
Walnut trees grow rapidly from
seed. When years old they
may be transplanted. There are
today transplanted walnut trees in
every State. Why not grow one
for your very own, from a seed
picked up from the roadside?
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-25
Natures Children
Black Walnut
(Juglans nigra)

The former male) on last years
growth and the latter female) on
this years growth. After a visit
from the insects and able assistance
of the wind, the tree is busily
engaged in developing the light
green, globular fruit. At first the
fruit is pulpy, then the hull takes
on hardness, becoming a deeply
grooved shell which protects a single
nut with a flavor of unusual rich
ness.
The leaves of the walnut are
compound, often reaching a length
Of l to 2 feet, with IS to % lance
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-25
TOMORROW.

Minnesota Iowa football party
Hotel 2400, 2:45 pm.
Banquet and dance, 1897 Matrons
and Patrons Association, Eastern
Star Club House. $50 pm.
Dinner, Central Union Mission
Star Clubhouse, $50 pm.
Dinner, State Officers Club, D. A
r.. Mayflower Hotel, 7 pm.
Dinner, Washington Gynecologi-
cal Society, Mayf1ower Hotel, 7 pm
Dinner dance, Lambda Chi Soror.
ky, Wardman Park Hotel, 7 pm.
Bridge party. Duplicate Bridge
League, Wardman Park Hotel, 8
pm.
Meeting, Senior Wardens 1910,
Willard Hotel, $50 pm.
Convention, American Railway
Development Association, Willard
Hotel, all day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-25
City News in Brief
TODAY.

Meeting, A. F. G.. E. District De-
partment, Hamilton Hotel, 8 pm
Meeting, Alpha Province of Chi
Sigma, Mayflower Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting. Metal Trades Associa-
ton, Hotel Annapolis, all day
Convention, Associated Officials Of
Agricultural Chemists, Hotel Ra-
leigh, all day.
Convention, American Railway
Development Association, Willard
Hotel. all day.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11

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The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
Germans Throw Off All Pretense
 Concentrating Military Objectives
 St. Paurs Cathedral Nearly Hit

UNDATED, Sept. 10 (P)-Ger- man warplanes stormed central London with a tempest of giant bombs in the third successive dusk to dawn attack, setting spec tacular fires in the vicinity of his toric St. PauPs Cathedral and in "the city,, London's Wall Street, in 9 hour 2 minute assault.
 Roaring salvos of bombs weigh ing 300 to 1000 pounds each crash ed near the Bank of England, at Guildhall, London's Lord Mayor, at the General Post Office, Lon don Bridge, Fleet Street, and at the Great Inns Court, where En- glish barristers for centuries lived.
 Saved By Wind
 ''In the chambers of 250-year- old St. Paul, the great dome was red-lit from the glare of flames
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
Churchill Asserts Germans Getting
 Ready For Actual Invasion England
 LxhOrts People to Do Their Duty

LONDON. Sep: II tP-Prime Minister Churchill said that Ger many is preparing for the inva- son of England by moving hun dreds of self-p-opelled barges down to the northern ports of the French coast, opposite Brit aims shores. These craft and troop conveys he added are mov- ing into position under the pro- lection of the big German guns set up on the French coast. No one should blind himself to the fact that this German invasion is being planned with all the Ger man craft and method character tistics of them" he declared.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
 .Dedicates
 Big Dam

CHATTANOOGA-Amid thun derous applause of thousands of Southerners, President Roosevelt last week dedicated the man. moth Chickamauga Dam.
 The $3O,COO,OOO dam stretches one mile across this Tennessee Valley River.
 The President also dedicated the great lake behind the dam one of the great lakes of the south" created by the vast sy- stem of IVA dams which have assumed increased importance in supplying power for defense works.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
British Drop Incendiary Bomb
 On German Reichstag Building
 Regarded As Symbol of Reich

BERLIN, Sept. II (P) - The British dropped an incendiary bomb through the roof of the Reichstag building early Wednes- day in the wars hardest attack on Berlin while explosives shook government buildings during a central Berlin raid. The Reich stag fire was reported controlled promptly The buildings has been unused, being in the process of being rebuilt since the 1883 fire,
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
 Agency Gets Dies Study

NEW YORK - Dies commit tee agents studied books, financial and payroll records and cores pondence of the German Library of Information which were seiz- ed in their offices adjoining the German consulate here and in- cluded a mailing list of 10000 names and copies of Facts in Review" weekly tabloid paper which carries Hitler's speeches and German versions of-disputed events in Europe.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11

from nearby warehouses. The cathedral was saved by winds blowing in the opposite direc- tion. Hundreds of firemen fought the warehouse blazes with the aid of water towers for eight hours without a break.
 RAF officers estimated that 50 bombers were shutting all night in long relays across the channel and took part in the lombard ment.
 Thrown of All Pretense
 A British communique declar- ed the enemy has now thrown off all pretense of confning him self to military targets" Berlin retorted that the full blast of the aerial seige on Britain has just begun and that ever more planes over London" is the order issued by the Luftwaffe.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11

Next week he said, Must be regarded as a very important one .o us in our history. Every man and woman must prepare to do his duty, whatever it may be. I have special pride and care in our fleet which is very warfuI; our shores are we'll fortified and we'll manned and behind these lines we are better equipped and have a far stronger army than ever before" He compsrei the present invasion with the at tempt of the Spanish armada to invade the British Isles and with he later attempt by Napoleon.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
Churchill Compares Invasion To Spanish Armada
AaE German Delayed Action Bomb Exploded Tuesday Buckingham
 Palace--king and Queen Away

not explained, First Lord of the Admiralty Alexander comment ed on reports of mass concen- trations by the enemy, making his dispositions for the entrance to this country He declared q can promise, if the enemy comes across in surface craft, they are going to get something good
 Parliament Not Worth Farthing
 N8zi quaetars in Berlin assert eG hat ten thousand planes with loads of bombs were 10 be daily unlaashed on the London area in the next few days striking from French coastal bases in a titanic "all out assault. A host of 2,5O0 German warplanes are making four trips daily to carry out the threatened full-scale blitZkreig, they declared, apparently aimed at wiping out the 2,000-year old British capital and its eight mil lion inhabitants. A German close ly connected to Goering said q wouldn't give a farthing for the houses of Parliament
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11

UNDATED, Sept. II (P)-Brit- ons excitedly cheered the smash ing RAF raids on Berlin as a be- lated announcement disclosed that Buckingham Palace, the cen tury-old royal residence of the king and queen was partly wreck ed by a German bomb.
 Monarchs Not Present
 The king and queen were not in the great white stone palace when the bomb, a delayed-action missile crashed from the skies Sunday night and exploded Tues day, demoHshing one corner of the north facade in shoWering splinters of glass. First floor pill lars fell in fragments around a crater Is feet deep and 35 feet wide which blasted a section of the glass-Walled swimming pool directly under the queens sitting room. At least a hundred of the palace windows were smashed. Only household staff members of the palace were present at the time but were safely huddled in underground afraid shelters
 Coincident with this curiously delayed disclosure, which was
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11

but was regarded as the Reich symbol.
 A big bomb landed 300 yards from the United States embassy. Twelve-foot holes were blasted on main avenues and many gov ernment building windows were broken. Moonlight aided the raid CTS which also hit two hospitals, an apartment house and a home for aged Jewish.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
3O,7S7 Alaska Seal
 Skins Are Sold

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 10 (49 Fifty coat manufacturers and fur job bers bought 3O,787 Alaska seal skins from the United States in the semi-annual auction yester- day. The skins brought an av- craze of $21.08 cents each, a 3 3-10 percent advance in price.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
.Nazi Speedboat Bases Bombed

LONDON = Royal Air Force planes have bombed the Nazi sub speed boat base at Lorient on the French coast, the Air Minis try announced, and with good results.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
Carol Leaves For Portugal

LUCIANO, Switzerland. Sept. II tP)-Dethroned King Carol. left last night by special train via It. ally for Portugal. Mazda Lupescu accompanied him.
The Nome nugget., 1940-09-11
King Haakon
 Norway Declared Unable Function

OSLO, Sept. Il (P, - The Nor wegian parliament declared King Haakon was no longer able to function but decided to postpone, until after the war, the question of wherher he be allowed to re- turn to his country.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
MiddIebury Seeking
 Contract With City
Arrangements Likely for Fire Protection New Fire
 man Appointed of Thanks Received


 The fire board yesterday appointed Edward J. Gagain to the fire depart ment and discussed plan for pro- viding the town of Middlebury with fire protection. The police board, which met before the fire board, instructed Patrolman James Jordan to appear at the next meeting to be promoted, and received several let- ters of appreciation for past services.
 Fireman Gagain was appointed to the vacancy created by the death two weeks ago of Private Jerome Pilkington, of the Burton street sta ton. The new fireman was counseled to make Fire Chief Thomas F. Cav- anaugh his ideal Eff you want to be good fireman"
 Contract Proposed
 In regard to protection for Middle bury, the board received draft ot proposed contract from J. Gregory Lynch, corporation counsel. The draft provides that Waterbury will send apparatus when called on, at a price to be fixed later. For its part, MiddIebury will take out workmen's compensation insurance to cover the Waterbury f1remen. It will also agree to pay the firemen the difference be- tween their salaries and the com- pensation, in the event of an acci- dent. The town will also take out insurance covering damage to Wa terbury apparatus.
 The proposed draft made by MT Lynch was result of several months negotiations with the Middlebury officials, after it was pointed out here that the city might be liable for firemen injured, or apparatus damaged, while responding to Mid dlebury calls.
 Copies of the draft were dis tributed to the board members whC will vote at the next meeting.
 The fire board also received ap- plications to the call force from An. thony J. Jonikas, Edward F. Kenney Francis Cummings, John P. Burke and George Dews.
 Jordan Cited
 At the police board meeting Patrolman James Jordan was in structed to appear next time aftel the board received his application to be promated from Grade c t' Grabe B, having served one year il the lower grade.
 A leave of absence from Novem Der 1 to November 27 was granted Patrolman Joseph Dwyer as he ha the days coming to him.
 The Visiting Nurse association wrote a letter thanking the boar' for Patrolman William Dwyer' services in teaching one of the nurse how to drive. A letter was also re ceived from the liquor control com mission thanking the departmen for its cooperation in enforcing tn law.
 The board voted to inspect tn force as soon as the officers don win ter coats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
Services Held In
 Local Synagogues
Jewry Observing Feast of ROsh Hashanah- -Rabbs
 Deliver Special Sermons on Current Problems

The radicals tell me that this war is but last desperate attempt to perpetuate corrupt capitalism. And while admitting they are right, I am prepared to say that prefer the rotting capitalistic system to the alternative which Hitler'S vic- tory implies.
 What are we going to do now? We are going to defend ourselves against the menace that threatens to overwhelm us. We are going to utilize all the resources and power at our command to hold back the rising tide that would engulf us. We do not know what the future may bring. Perhaps new Hitlers will arise to nullify all our present efforts. Perhaps there will arise those within our land who will Sully and cheapen the things we seek now ! to preserve. But we are not bat ting for the ages. We face an i'm mediate evil for which there can be but one answer. Our answer must be that for us life and liberty are synonymous terms, that without the one the other would be wretched useless thing. We seek to preserve our liberty 50 that we may live"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03

Impressive services marked the opening of the high holy day in the Jewish calendar, Rosn Hashanah, in five synagogues yesterday and similar programs will be offered to- day and tomorrow featuring inSpir- ational sermons by the respective rabbis who will ask their congrega- tions to pray for happy and pros porous year
 Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmund speak, ing at Temple Israel last evening told his appreciative listeners that we seek to preserve our liberty so we may live in his sermon, "The Re- ligious Mans Dilemma.
 Mrs. Robert Birt played the organ and the musical program was feat ured by Paulette Wolozin, soprano; Mrs. Charles Foster, contralto; Charles H. Shons, tenor; and Ken- meth Tullar, bass. Rabbi Zigmund also spoke this morning in the Cooke Street synagogue on the subject, What Is the American Way?".
 Tonight at o'clock at the He- brew Institute Rabbi Moses D. Sheinkopf will speak on Historic Responsibility, of the American Jewry'. This morning he delivered | two sermons, the first at the Beth Israel synagogue on Sacrifice = Our Greatest Need" and the second at the Institute for the Young Israel congregation on Two Fears.
 Rabbi William P. Greenfield used Out of the Horrors of War" for his topic this morning at the Beth Fl synagogue. Rabbi zigmund last evening said in part:
 "Here is the dilemma which con- fronts every conscientious liberal, yes, every man who conceiveS ot religion as a practical way of life. We do not want to advocate war nor preparation for war. We do not want to kill or to be killed. We do not want to violate the deepest principles of our souls. We do not want to blaSpheme our God. And yet, if we are to live, we want to breathe the pure, clean air of free dom. If we are to walk upon this earth, we want to walk in the light of the sun. If we are to abide here we want to abide in peace.
 Here are the alternatives be- tween which each one of us must choose. Either we must remain faithful to the religious ideals oi love, forgiveness, and the return ing of good for evil and resignedly submit to whatever degradation anc humiliation fate may have in store for us; either we watch, unresisting while the world we love tumbleS all about us; either we agree to adjust ourselves to new way of life 1T which neither our ideals nor oui religion will have a place: or we must be prepared unequivocally tC resist the inroads of despotisn .anC stand ready to make the sacrifices which such resistance entails.
 "But I have reached decision h have decided that if there is ne cause worth fghting for, there art conditions under which life is not worth living. have decided thai even in the bestial carnage that 1 war, it is possible honestly to favol the winning of one side over thu lother. I have decided that even 1T inc midst of the pain and the blood and the death, there can be a goot cause as against a bad cause.
 .sThe radicals tell me that this i but another war of imperialism be. | tween imperialists. And while ad, mitting that they are right, I an l prepared to make . choice between the two conflicting imperialisms
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03
H,y :. s.y YOUR MEAT A.v .s csst !
Rib Roast Is One of Choice Cuts of Beef
Rolled or With Bones in It Is Regal Looking
 Main Dish

Sometimes it is well to remember that economy in food buying means good management as well as thrifty selection of cuts. The choice cuts of meat have their place in the schedule of meals of the carefully budgeted household, and they need not be considered an extravaganza if every portion is used to good advantage.
 When buying a roast such as g. rib roast of beef, 1t is a move for economy to select one large enough to serve for several meals. This roast may be used for a company meal or for Sunday dinner, and the leftover portion will provide for one or more succeeding meals. There is a saving in the home makers time and energy when the meat for more than one meal is cooked at one time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-03

a rare roast; 160 degrees F. for 3 medium roast and ITO degrees F. for a well-done roast, Allow eighteen to twenty minutes to the pound for cooking a rare standing rib roast. twenty two to twenty-five minutes to the pound for a medium and twenty-seven to thirty minutes for a well-done roast. A rolled roast re- uuires about ten minutes longer per pound for the cooking than does the standing rib.
 Shepherds Pie
 Diced cooked meat 1-2 cup diced celery 1-4 cup minced onion 3-4 cup stock or water
 1 tablespoon flour 3 1-2 cups mashed potatoes
 Combine meat, celery and onlon and place in 8 casserole or baking dish. Mix the flour with the stock and pour over the meat mixture or use leftover gravy. Pile the sea- soned mashed potatoes over the whole and bake in & moderate oven (350 degrees F) for thirty minutes
 Breslau of Beef
 2 cups chopped cooked beef
 cup stock or hot water
 2 tablespoons butter
 1-2 cup bread crumbs
 cup cream
 tablespoon parsley