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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
SONS OF HERMANN
INVITE GOVERNOR
Baldwin to Attend Tooth
Anniversary Program at
New Haven Sunday

The Tooth anniversary of the
founding Of the Sons of Hermann
will be, observed next Sunday at
Harugari Park, New Haven. The
Concordia Singing Society of this
city will be featured on the all
day program.
Guests will include Governor
Raymond Baldwin. Mayor John w.
Murphy of New Haven, Charles
Schall. first selectman OF West
Haven, John D. McWilliams, first
selectman of Norwich, and Anthony
Wayne O'Connell, former mayor of
Norwich.
An exhibition will be given by the
degree team Of Elizabeth Lodge, No.
z, of Danbury, and Immergruen
Lodge, No. IL, of Norwich. The
anniversary degree will be exempli-
fed on a class Of 100 candidates,
one for each year Of the order.
Special degree teams from Junior
branches of New London and Nor
witch will put on this ritual.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

Staff In Charge
Aft. Mckinley

Reserve officers from Wa
terbury and vicinity have taken
over the command of Fort Nc
Kinley, Maine, and are now SUI
pervising the instructions of C.
M. T. c. students quartered
there.
The commanding officer is
Colonel Roy E. Rice Of Wood
bury and Waterbury.
Executive officer-Major New
ton A. Alexander, Waterbury.
Acknowledgment James p.
Walsh, Waterbury.
Training Officer-Edwin C.
Glunt, Waterbury.
b Co. commander, musical d.
rector-Captain Joseph p. Di-
Pietro, Waterbury.
Machine gun instructor, Cap
tain Carl E. Anderson, Nauga-
tuck.
Company commander - Cap
tain J. William johnson.
Map photograph = Lieut..
Thomas H. Subtitle, Plymouth.
Machine gun Workmanship,
Lieut.. Francis E. Lally, Water
bury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
REFUGEES FROM
ENGLAND ARRIVE.
Children, Wives Of Oxford
University Faculty Mem
bers in New Haven

New Haven, Conn, July 25-(UP)
The long flight from war-tortured
England was at an end today for
127 children and wives of Oxford
University faculty members.
Three weeks after they departed
from home as refugees from the
impending blitzkrieg of the British
Isles, the group of los children and
% mothers arrived here by way of
Montreal as the guests of the Yale
faculty committee for receiving Ok
ford and Cambridge University chill
dren, Inc.
Six of the children were less than
a year old, and the youngest was
1-month-old Felicity Jacqueline
Maidment, who slept soundly in her
basket as the excited group left the
train last night for temporary quar-
tiers at Yale Divinity school and the
New Haven Children's Center.
After a few weeks of rest, 40 chill
dren and nine mothers will go to
Swarthmore College at Haverford,
Pa, where homes await them for
the duration of the war. Another
ten have been assigned to private
homes at Massachusetts and Maine.
The others will find homes here
with private families or with facul-
ty members.
Last Leg of Journey
Three aforementioned cars carried
the group on the last leg of the
long journey from across the seas.
AS they arrived here they were tax
en- by bus to the two distributing
centerS.
The older children were enthus-
iastically happy to be on the loose
after the confinement of the past
three weeks. Two of them dashed
from the bus as it arrived at the
Children'S Center and showered
themselves with a garden hose,
clothes and all, as others watched
with glee.
The mothers, amused but tired,
helped bundle the children off to
bed after they had light lunch.
Impressed With Welcome
All were impressed with the hear
ty welcome they received.
"It must be wonderful here" sale
10-year-old Frances Burn as she
found her place in the bus. II am
really so excited. know shall
never forget how nice everyone has
been to us already"
Pasquita Floery, 10, amused her.
self by reading a book of comics,
which she said mother and father
never allowed me to read at home"
Her brother, Charles, S, tugged at
the bell cord of the bus.
One merry-eyed youngster, how
ever, rocked reporters with a digni-
fled reply to questions as to how he
enjoyed the trip.
IT have been warned by my SUI
periors," he told them stiffly, ITO
diSpel no information"
Told that it made no difference,
now that he was in America, he in
sisted:
"Oh, yes, but I am British first,
and my loyalty is to my king"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

Mrs Joseph Hoye will attend the wedding of her
sister, Helen E. Brignole of Hartford atron of honor
next Wednesday morning at the Immaculate Concep-
ton Church in the Insurance City. Helen will become
the bride of Francis R. Foley of Hartford. Johnny
Jenusats has secured fifty passes for the GiantsCn
cnnati baseball game at the Polo Grounds in New York
benefit thanks to the kindness of Eddie Brannick,
secretary of the Giants. Bill Dermody of crcula
ton department winds up two weeks vacation next
Monday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

jamestown, r. l., July 25.-Three
days of celebration, gaiety and a
period of formal ceremony will be
combined to make of the weekend
of August End, Bird and 4th one to
be well remembered in Jamestown
and adjacent communities. This
will be the occasion of the dedicat-
ing of the new Jamestown bridge,
100000 PWA project spanning
the west channel of Naragansett
Bay between the Rhode Island
mainland and Conanicut Island, and
said to be the longest bridge in New
England.
Almost every town and city in
Rhode Island, as well as many 9TH
er New England communities from
Cape Cod to New London, Conn,
will be represented by one Of its
prettiest girls. These latter will
form the "Ribbon of Beauty" which
has been substituted for the tradi-
tional tape usually cut at ordinary
bridge dedications. They will be at
tired in colonial costumes, (the re-
gion is rich in colonial history, and
will form a symbolic ribbon across
the bridge, joined together by a
ribbon of state colors, fastened
through their coiffures. This will
be cut to dedicate the bridge OFF,
cially.
This official dedication takes
place on August 3rd, when Gov
ernor william Vanderbilt of Rhode
Island and United States Senator
Theodore Green will unite with high
Federal officials and the Governors
of neighboring states in the formal
ceremony at which the bridge is to
be made available to the public. On
that day, too, the bridge will be
open to the public free of toll from
500 a. m. to IL midnight.
The communities of the vicinity
are arranging many special events
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

Leslie Strauss likeable East Main Street hardware
store proprietor is convaescing from recent major
operation at the home of his lovely mother Mrs.
Camille Pollock Strauss, in New York City. Les took
the heavy smell early last week at the famous Memorial
Hospital in New York City Miss Betty Bergin OF
the Ludlow Street Bergns expects to be given her
discharge notice from the Waterbury Hospital next
Sunday She underwent major operation there last
week. Wally Pranskaitis expects to receive his ap-
pointment to seminary in either Rochester N. Y, or
Baltimore Md the middle of next month. He just
finished two years at st. Thomas in Bloomfield.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
u. S. Faces No Threat
OF Rubber Shortage
Nations Industries Ready to Launch Mass Pro-
duction Of Synthetic Rubber, Declares Fortune
Magazine in Current Issue.

New York, July 25-Even If Japan
cut OF all our rubber imports the
u. s. would be in no serious danger
Of q rubber famine. Fortune maya
zine win declare tomorrow.
In an article summarizing months
of research into the sensational
progress Americas rubber industry
has been making toward Self-suffi-
cheney, the $10-a-year magazine Of
management will reveal for the first
time just what the industry's leaders
are now prepared to do to place
synthetic rubber on a mass
production basis before any serious
shortage could develop.
Tremendous Cost
'The technical experts are con-
fident that 1t could be done in two
years, at total capital investment
in the neighborhood of 500, 1000, 900
to 5000, 600, 900 about the price of
one or two battleships or of less
than normal years supply of ma
tural rubber" Fortune will state.
Thousands are now being spent
by the rubber and chemical indus
tries in a rush program for pre-
paredness, and the technicians are
capable of something approaching
miracles.
Price is the critical lever. All Of
the synthetic rubbers, at this stage,
cost from three to five times more
than natural rubber. But raw ma
terials for synthetic rubbers are
cheap in the U. S., labor in semi
automatic chemical processes is
negligable-small volume has been
stumbling block.
"And now there are signs that
the block is soon to be kicked. For
Standard Oil is big-big- volume
and small-profitminded and Stand
ard has bunch that synthetic rub
Der prices can be brought down to
natural rubber. Against the cost Of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

Invited to attend the celebra-
ton are all those remaining Of the
thousand prominent Americans
who in 1915 volunteered for mill
tary training at their own ex-
pense, as well as the 100000
youths who subsequently took the
citizens training course which the
War Department developed from
that beginning.
The camp pioneers and its grad
yates will commemorate the
striking part that first camp
played in awakening the country
to its weaknesses.
World conditions now are Strik-
ingly similar to those which pre-
vailed when Theodore Roosevelt
addressed those thousand volun-
teerS at the barracks on the
shores Of beautiful island-studded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

Lake Champlain, with the Green
Mountains beyond and on the
southern horizon the distant Adj
rondacks.
The first President Roosevelt
then startled the nation by declar-
ing that, with war raging in Eu-
rope, our armed forces were i'll
prepared.
The group of leading men he
addressed-who from patriotism
had volunteered to be driven over
hill and dale by regular army drill
sergeants-included T. RS sons,
Theodore, Jr., and Archie and
their brother-in-la DR.. Richard
Derby.
Others in the group were George
Wharton Pepper and tennis cham
pion william Clothier of Phila-
delphia; Hamilton Fish, Jr., Will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

Henrietta Jentoch claims optimist is a
who marries his secretary, thinking he'll be able to
son. Robert, of Highland Avenue and Mrs J. Trumfio
and son, Robert, of Edin Street are home from
months vacation at Blue Anchor, HammOnstOn and
Atlantic City, N J. Mrs Daniel CampiOn and son,
Frank using the guest towels of DIR. and Mrs.
George G. Keee of Hartford at their cottage at Madi
son. Clarence Cassin former sports ed of the Dem
and of the New York Daily Mirror, is renewing
acquaintance here this week before finishing his
vacation next Sunday night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
SACRIFICES IN FLYING

The thrilling sacrifice of a stunt
flyer to save an important plane
from crashing during test flight,
is said to be one of the exciting
highlights of RKO Radios Men
Against the Sky" Richard Dix, Kent
Taylor, Edmund Lowe and Wendy
Barrie are featured.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

What's what and who's who . Marty DiTOta, the
the South Ends well-dressed -about-tOwn was a
recent visitor at the Worlds Fair Dora RedassO of
Walnut Street has returned home after an enjoyable
two weeks vacation at Myrtle Beach. Dyson Hem
ingway ST. of Walnut Street. is recounting the quail
tiles of mis- new granddaughter proudly these days The
Young lady is the new arrival of Mr. and Mrs John
nemngway =, =. s, o"isy Manor) Sorn
Hemingway Ia the former Adeline COlangelO . . . Mrs.
nj Bruce OF Brooklyn, N. Y. has been spending the
mast two weeks with her sister, Mrs James Caffrey Of
Ives Street. and Mr.. Caffrey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

Along the way. Rdgefeld, Connecticut is featur
ing Tonight at $3.50" at the New England Playhouse
this week. Alfred E. Smith likes the Old New York
Room for New York City dining Emmett Lavery
who wrote The First Legion and Second Spring was
scheduled to lecture this week during the Mohawk Drama
Festival in the Old Chapel at Schenectady NJ Y. Week
days dramatic productions are in order and Sunday
nights prominent lecturers help along the cause of the
drama . Carol Stone, who is playing down at the
Montowese Playhouse at Indian Neck, will be married
late this month at Forest Hills L. L. to William McCahon
lumberman of Brookline, Mass. Vivien Leight and
Lawrence Olivier about to start work the stars E
the film version of "Cyrano de Bergerac. The Berk
shire Hills rather active these days in anticipation
of the opening of the Festival concerts which start August
first and continue for two weeks All inns taxed to
capacity by the incoming guests not to mention the
registered students who scattered about the Lenox
Stockbridge countryside Elsa Maxwell does other
things besides throwing parties and she's getting
all mixed up in dinner party and will try her luck
in acting in Dinner at Eight at the Spa Theater in Sara
toga Springs during the racing season.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
ADDS TO KNOWLEDGE

Patricia Morrison, who gets her
first starring role in Paramount's
Unframed" Technicolor drama of
the north woods, learned the Indian
sign language during the filming
of the picture. More than score
of Indian actors, from several diff
ferent tribes, acted as her teachers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
OUR TOWN
I BY THE MAN m TIE TOWER

introducing Cyrus Hawkins and His FARM
Old Cyrus Hawkins down at Corn Hollow,
owns big farm What's on it? please follow
Chickens, ducks, pigs and cows,
O implements including poWs
Cy has a garden known all over Our Town,
Well worth seeing everyone goes down
To admire the vegetables row after row,
Hoping the planting will withstand rain and blow
CIV does a big business in fancy brolers,
His potatoes reished by city toers
To the diaries he sends his milk and cream,
His yellow bantam corn is a reritable dream.
CIV has going thing at his Corn Hollow farm,
A real slightly spot that has plenty of charm,
With old house dating back to revolutionary days
Old elms old naples protect it from suns rays.
there's place Town of which right proud
It's Cy's at Corn Hollow where there's always crowd,
At planting time hayng, harvesting in the fall
Husky young farmhands both short and tall.
Old Hawkins is important to Our Town.
When he comes around he's sure to invite us down
EN-. EN-.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
Editor. Tall Tower Topics. i.

Editor, Tall Tower Topics. have been pa
tient at Uncas- Thames sanatorium for the past
year. In the living of building is piano,
but we lack music Will any readers of your column
who have classical operate modern piano music
songs to pass to Others kindly mail them to at
this sanatorum, Norwich, Conn? 1t will be great
of pleasure to many of the patients Margaret
C. Smith
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
Urban Areas In
State Declared
Danger "Spots''

The urban areas are still re-
cOraing more than half the au-
tomobile fatalities in the state,
according to figures released by
the motor vehicles department
today.
OF the 40 fatalities reported
for Connecticut during the first
six months Of this year, 81, or
SIS per cent occurred in the 80
congested area municipalities.
Last year there were l29 ia
talities during thls period, 10,
or B8.9 per cent occurring In the
eongested area municipalities.
OF the 81 cengested -area fatali-
ties during the first six months
Of this year, IS, or e8 per cent
were pedestrians.
OF the four largest cities,
Hartford has the best record
with three fatalities fog this Pc
riod; WAtsfbury is next with
SIN. bridgeport recorded mine,
and New Haven rs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

If the Leavenworth High School Junior Rifle Team
or the Brass City Club should call special rifle practice
these days continue their quest for state and national
honors either group would be without the services OF
one of their "aces - John Sherwl, Jr, of Riverside
Street The popular Leavenworth High School student
is now recuperatng at St. Mary's Hospital "Old Man
Accident nicked him few days ago in fall on Grand
Street. but just to prove that he can take hard luck"
in his stride Johnnie continues greet his friends with
a welcoming smile He will be discharged in time to
enjoy the few remaining weeks of the summer recess
High.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25
FIRST POSTAL CARDS

Postal cards first were introduced
into America on June 8, 1872, but
penny postcards were not issued UNI
til approximately one year later.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

About $1,000 grains of pollen are
produced by a single dandelion BIOS
som.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-07-25

introducing Cyrus Hawkins and His FARM
Evening star., 1940-05-20
-Sumotru q World 'Pepper Pot

Among the insects are butterflies
and moths of great size and beauty.
Only about 10000 white persons
live IN Sumatra. They are mainly
Dutch merchants, farmers and
officials.
The great mass of the people are
Of Malay stock, and are related to
the Filipinos.
Sumatra is one of the worlds
pepper pots" The pepper is OBJ
tanned from tall bushes which
sometimes grow to q height Of 20
or 80 feet. The berries change
from green to red to yellow. Then
they are picked and laid out to dry.
After drying they turn black and
supply black pepper which is ex-
ported to scores Of foreign countries.
(For Travel section Of your scrapbook }
If you want = free copy Of the
leaflet entitled background Of
European War" send me . g.
cent stamped, self addressed en-
velope In care Of The Evening
Star.
1~eA Rad
Tomorrow: Japa's Rice Crop.
Evening star., 1940-05-20
UNCLE RAYS CORNER

The Dutch East Indies came into
the news last month when Japan
gave out warning. The Japanese
limited that they might try to take
over the islands If Germany made
an attack on Holland
Holland is small country, but
she has a big empire. The Dutch
East Indies contain most of the land
in the empire, as well as most of
the people.
Maps of Southern Asia usually
show the Dutch East Indies off the
coast. Holland owns Sumatra and
Java, and q great deal Of the land
In Borneo and New Guinea.
Sumatra has about the same num-
ber Of people as Holland, but is
more than 13 times as large. It is
extremely long If we could lay it
down on this continent, it would
reach from Montreal to st. Louis,
Or from Lake Erie to Central Florida
Much of Sumatra is covered with
forests. Trees grow thickly on hills
and mountains. Ironwood, sandal
wood, ebony and many other kinds
of trees are spread over the island.
There are flowers, too, and among
them the giant Raflesia. The
Raflesia has blossom which often
measures two or three feet across.
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Don't Take Nv
Word For 1t
BY FRANK COLBY.
BIitzkrieq Names

(Note. The pronunciations listed
as "Anglicized" are more prevalent
among English-speaking peoples
than the European forms)
Antwerp-Province and city of
Northern Belgium. Anglicized:
Antwerp. The Flemish form is
Antwerpen, pronounced AHNT-
vair-pen.
Albert-Important Belgian canal.
This name is pronounced according
to French values. The second syl-
liable rhymes with fair, hair; the
final 1T" is silent: al-BAIRa
Curacao-Island in Dutch West
Indies. Anglicized: KEW-ruh-so.
West Indies pronunciation: KOO-
rah-SAH-oh.
The Hague-Capital city of the
Netherlands. The Anglicized pro-
nunciation rhymes with vague:
HAYG. The Dutch form is 'sGra-
venhage, pronounced SKRAH-ven-
HAH-guh.
Ijsselmeer-A lake of Holland,
formerly part of the Zuider Zee.
The "i' in the first syllable is long
as in ice; the zee" of the third syl-
liable is the "ay" sound of may:
1ce-el-MAYR.
Liege-Fortified city of Belgium
Do not rhyme this name with siege.
The name has two syllables; the
second has the short vowel sound
of edge and the "zh" sound of azure:
lee-EZH.
Luxembourg-A duchy between
Germany and Belgium. Anglicized: !:
LUX-em-berg. German: LOOK
sem-borch, the final "ch" as in
Ach, ich.
Meuse-River of Belgium and
Holland. Anglicized NEW. French: !:
MUZZ, the III" is approximately as
in urn. The Dutch form is Mas,
S,roy,0ylrced MAHSS
Evening star., 1940-05-20

Netherlands-The country of Hol-
land, from neither, low, and land
Anglicized: NETH-er-l -landz. The
Dutch form is Nederland, pro-
nounced NAY-der- -lahnt.
zuider zee-The diked sea OF
Holland. Anglicized: ZY-der ZEE
Dutch: ZOY-der FAY.
(Cdpitals indicate sylldbles to
be accented)s
For q personal answer to your
questions about words send .
stamped (3-cent), self addressed
envelope to Frank Colby, care
The Evening Star.
Evening star., 1940-05-20

In and about the rivers are lizards,
turtles and crocodiles. The forests
seem filed with wild animals. in
cluding fox-nosed monkeys and
orang-utans.
Elephants, tigers, rhinos, wild
oxen, deer, wild pigs, wild dogs,
and bears are among the other ami
mails. Sumatra has q two-horned
rhinoceros, while the nearby island
OF Java has q rhino with only q
single horn.
There are birds of many kinds in
Sumatra. These include parrots,
hornbills ard fire-backed pheasants.
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Northern IreIond's Problem

Northern Ireland is trying to
solve the puzzle of food control and
meat rationing in its campaign to
promote the tourist trade,
Evening star., 1940-05-20
Modern Puzzles
BY GERALD L. KAUFMAN.
QuiddoIs and DoIquids

No matter how you stand one of
these in the corner OF a rectangular
room, if any two sides are pushed
fiat against the adjacent walls, the
third side lies fiat on the floor. You
know what this indicates, of course,
about their shape.
Now here is the rest of the story:
A. A quiddal is just one duff deep.
B. A dalquid is just one plup deep.
c. The top of a quiddal is one
square plup.
D. The top of a dalquid is one
square duff.
If they both hold blumph, which
holds more?-
Just how many times more does
it hold?"-
Very well, then suppose you find q
16-letter word which describes the
shape of each of them:
The word
Are you quite positive about this?
SOLUTION TOMORROW.
Copyright, 194O)
Answer to May 10 problem, Be-
fore and After: The answer was
obviously "yes."
Evening star., 1940-05-20
POINTS FOR PARENTS
CHAIR SITTER

BY EDYTH THOMAS WALLACE.
When you think a child's dis
agreeable behauior is largely for the
purpose of annoying you. lDhy giDe
him the satisfaction of knowing he
has accom- plished his purpose?
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-06
GERMANY ASSERTS
BLOCKADE SUCCESS
CONTINUED From Page One)

in sending the Arandora star
through "a dangerous war route
loaded with German and Italian
prisoners bound for Canada the
British were guilty of 'irresponsi-
bly, breaking 'her obligations I'M
The Arandora star was sunk by
a German submarine with ap-
parently heavy loss of prisoners
lives.
The German source said belli-
gerents we're obliged to keep pris-
oners out of war zones.
It was the second time in "a
hours that expressions of indigna-
ton were heard from the Berlin
Rome axis over British action term
ed contrary to International Law.
The seizure or destruction of
most of the French fleet was la
beled Churchill's cowardly raid"
The British prime minister was
butcher of Europe" in the Berlin
press.
French government action in
~severing relations with Great Bri-
tain was 'The only thing that any
government with a feeling of de-.
cency and regard for its political
existence could do" authorized
German sources said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-07-06
RUMANIA'S NEW
REGIME CLOSES
TWO NEWSPAPERS
Continued From Page One)

day said withdrawal from Bessa-
rabia and Bucovina had been COM
pleted July 8.
Small Rumanian military losses
were acknowledged.
The communique said that in
Bucovina where the Russians in
advertently we t past the agreed
line, they have fallen back
The reports that Russia h a d
moved new troops and mechanical
equipment into Bessarabia and is
planning new demands upon Ru-
mania were published in Budapest.
Meanwhile the Hungarian press
said:
1.-The fate of Rumania may take
an unexpected turn within hours
and perhaps days. One thing is
certain. There is no longer any
such thing as Rumanian territorial
integrity and stability of govern
ment."
In Pennsylvania, Jewish leaders
were reported ready to make a
mass migration to Palestine, AZ
RIGA or anywhere there is room
for them, !