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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21
CHAPTER XXVI

Irene said, When we met at the Athens Club party I had no idea that you were bread-Winner. You looked so ultra that night"
 T stepped out of type for the evening"
 T don't want to be nosey, but you're different, Ann. Where IS your family Why are you housekeeper- if you don't mind telling me"
 My parents are dead, they were killed in an accident. I don't know ml1ch about my fathers people. Mother came from Seattle. Perhaps I have cousins and uncles and auntS out there. I never looked into it."
 Are you absolutely on your own?"
 "Yes." T give you credit, Ann. l couldn't earn enough to buy q po"I of bread and milk"
 They talked on like two girls In the same walk of life. Irene asked, where's that good-looking man who was with you at the Athens Club?"
 Hes out in Moline, fioorwalk- ing a 1O-cent store" Ann's face shadowed. fl,
 Watching her, Irene said, "l thought you two were in love.
 People like us can't afford to be in love"
 "That's dreadful
 I'm having a lot of fun at the moment being in love" Irene con fded. Dad would throw fit If he knew She laughed delightfully."-. "Steve Claybourne2" Ann asked.
 "No. Jeff Fortner-he's an or. chest1a leader Irene sighed. TT get over it, but hate to-heS new kind of thrill. .,
 "Youre not going to marry him?
 "Goodness, TO. l don't fancy my self as the wife of an orchestra leader. I'll marry Steve some day we're not in love, but we go Wltf tho same crowd and like to do th' sane things. I'll marry Steve Whei I yet around to it."
 Ann laughed. Does he know it.?
 "Oh, suppose he feels like dc that we'll make a nice pair Whel we each want to be half of pair.
 "Would you care if he fell in loV with someone else?" Ann was think
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

ONE of the first stamps issued V by France since the declara- ton of war is that honoring the province of Languedoc, above. The stamp pictures a woman in provincial costume, holding a glass. In the background is the Cathedral of Bcziers. Languedoc is important for it's wine industries and brandy distilleries.
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Cn AMgS)M Cn AC.K sRS
MEMORY TEST

You remember these events all right, but do you recall WHEN they happened? Just name the year. It may seem easy; but if you get all correct, you have a memory above average.
 1. The marriage of the Duke of Windsor to Mrs. Wallis Warfeld.
 2. Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris.
 3. Hindenburg dirigible disaster at Lakehurst, New Jersey.
 4 Adolf Hitler became chancel- lor-leader of Germany.
 5.-End of Prohibition in the United States.
 Answers on Back Page
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CAST OF CHARACTERS

ANN BROWN-Orphan daugh- ter Of . gambler, alone in an un- friendly city.
 PAUL HAYDEN-stOck room boy with ambition.
 STEVE CLAYBOURNE-weal- thy playbOy.
 CLARA BROOKS-dime store counter girl.
 IRENE TEMPLE-sOciety debu' tante.
 YESTERDAY: Steve tells Ann he Is still in love with her, but she reminds him that she is servant. Ann finds the cook has been buy ing large quantities of food, too much for use. She senses trouble. Late one night, Irene comes to Ann's room to chat.
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DINING ROOM ROTATEs

Waseca, Minn.-(UP)-Far be 1t from Howard Diechen to deprive guests of a view of Clear Lake from all points of the compass while re- laxtng in his laks-front home. Diechen, using automobile parts, built rotating dining room, made to complete one turn every half -four.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

Dublin. Fire, is considering plan e building and selling houses for the l0w-Salaried, payments to be made in 35 years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

 AWAIT ELECTIONS
Nominating Com mitt ee Presents Slate of Officers
 March 27
MlDDLEBURY Correspondent: Nancy Riley
 Telephone 4-G41O

Middlebury, March 21-The an- nual meeting of the Middlebury Parent-Teachers Association will be held in the town hall on March 27 at 3 D. m. Members of the nomi- mating committee who will present a slate of officers to be elected are Mrs. Raymond O. Mills, Mrs. Albert G. Clark and Mrs. Ralph Swift.
 Answering Our Childrens Cues tons" will be the subject of pr. Louise de Schweintzs talk. Dr. de- SchweinitZ, a pediatrician in New Haven, is the mother of four daugh- ters and one son. She is a graduate of Smith college and the John Hop- kinS' hospital. All members and friends are invited.
 MT. and Mrs. John R. Freeman, Jr. of Porter Hill are spending this week at Mount Tremblent, near Montreal, Canada.
 The following persons were re- ceived as new members Of the Congregational church on confess sion of the faith: Shirley Harper, Louis Kutzner, Gerald Mercer, AL bert Noakes, Doris Noakes, Howard Peterson, Ruth Peterson, Robert Phalen, William Pope, Gene Skiff; and by reaffirmation of faith: Olgo Peterson and Carl Peterson.
 Mrs. Grace Stevens of Westover school will visit her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Printz and MT. Printz at their nome in Hallstead, Penn. during the Easter recess.
 Rev. William McCance will be the speaker at the Easter Dawn service 70 be conducted by the Wa terbury Youth Council at Bunker Hill park in Waterbury Easter at 5:30 a. m. The theme of the ser- vice will be Peace"
 Mrs. 0. w. Smith of Middlebury Mrs. Otto Ziems of White Oak Lane have returned from a visit in in New York. While there they at tended the International Flower show and the performance of Faust" at the Metropolitan Opera.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

Mrs. Grace Stevens of Westover school will visit her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Printz and MT. Printz at their home in Hallstead, Penn. during the Easter recess.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-03-21

MT. and Mrs. John R. Freeman, Jr. of Porter Hill are spending this week at Mount Tremblent, near Montreal, Canada.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-25
Synditaie of Gard Sharks Rounded Up; Prominent
 Sportsman Under Arrest

NEW YORK, NOV. 25.-HyHale Caplin, big time boxing manager, is enmeshed in wh 1t Brooklyn's District Attorney William Odwyer called cleanup of nationwide combine of card sharks respon- sible for fleecing over $2000,000 from poker playing business men in the last 10 years.
 Caplin was arrested on grand larceny charge specifically in con- nection with friendly game" in a Brooklyn hotel in May, two years ago when a clothing manufacturer dropped 5000.
 Caplin denied the charges.
 It is alleged however, he is one of a large syndicate that has fleeced hundreds of victims for as much as $l5O,000 apiece.
 Thirteen men and women have already been arrested.
 Caplin, it is revealed, was ar rested as he left his home last Friday to see his lightweight Champion Lew Jenkins work oll' before Friday nights bout
 Caplin managed five world cham pions at one time or another, in cluding Solly Krieger and went to Seattle twice when Krieger fought HoStak.
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DENIES THAT PERKINS HAS
 CABINET
White House Denies Re- port that Secretary of
 Labor Has Resigned

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. - The White House today said that Fran ces Perkins, Secretary Of Labor, has not submitted her resignation ard sthe President has not discussed the resignation with her.
 This assertion came from Stephen Early, Presidents Secretary, when asked to comment on story III to- days New York Times saying the woman member of the Cabinet has submitted her resignation and the President has accepted 1t.
 Shortly after the election oi President Roosevelt for third term it was reported that three members of the Cabinet were to resign ano the Secretary of Labor was ont of them.
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Italian
 FIeef Is On Move
Quits Base at Taranto Fol- lowing Disastrous
 RAF Bombings

LONDON, Nov. 25. British naval sources said the RATS bomb- ings of the Italian fleet at Tar snto, naval base. has forced the Italian Navy to withdraw the ma- jor portion of it's fleet from the badly damaged port.
 Several warships are on the beach, damaged, and spars of two are showing above the water where the bombs did such damage that they sunk.
 Pictures taken by RAF observers show great damage to the naval base itself, heaps of masonry piled up, deep craters made by bombs and gun displacements destroyed.
 The destination of the fleet now is not given.
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Hamburg Atia(ked
 Al Nighf

LONDON, Nov. 25-Heavy bomb. CTS of the British unloading many tons" of explosives and nearly 2.000 fire bombs, made concentrated at tack Sunday night on Hamburg's shipyards and German naval ves- sels, the British Air Ministry re- ports.
 This air raid capped a weekend. of revenge blows of Axis raidil ( planes.
 When the RAF raiders were pounding Hamburg and the Ger. man naval ship yards, Nazi bomb. CTS were swarming over the easS English coast.
 The British Air Ministry reporte RAF observers saw vessels hit and bursting into flames and also many fires started in the navy yard vicin- ity.
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Program for
 New(ongress
 Is Taken Up
Senator BarkIey Confers for Long Time with
 Roosevelt

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-Senator Alben w. Barkley expressed the vp- inion, following conference with President Roosevelt this afternoon, that the question of British cred- it's will not be taken up at the cur rent session of Congress.
 Other sources however said that the possible repeal of the Johnson Act, which prohibits further cred- it's from defaulting nations, was discussed at the hour and one-half conference with the President.
 Senator Barkley asserted that the conference concerned chiefly pro- jecting on the future, and discuss ing the whole program for the new Congress which convenes on Janu- ary B."
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litt|e Kingdom Has So Far S(orned Pressure Brought
 by Germany and Italy
STATEMENT IS MADE
 BY BERLIN AUTHORITY
Soviet Russia Advised Nation Not 10 Line Up
 with TotdIitdrians
By ASSOCIATED PREss)

Indications are seen today that little Bulgaria, whose 200 mile wide xingdom is all that separates Nazi roops from Greece, may absolute V scorn the German pressure to join the Axis ruled European bloc against Great Britain"
 Informed quarters in Berlin made this surprising discloseure today,
 Signatures of Hungary, Rumania and tiny Jugoslavia have been made to the Rome Berlin Tokyo pact and this has ended the present series of acquisitions to the Axis.
 It is recalled that last week, high source in Sofia announced that Russia advised Bulgaria not to join the totalitarian bloc although both Nazi and Fascist quarters widely heralded Bulgaria an immi- aent signature to the Axis pact.
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WASHINGTON uncensored facts reaching here in the dlplo- matic pouch indicate that British cities are taking far worse beatlng than the public realizes. The de- struction of Coventry was just one eye-opener.
 One friendly. observer just back from England describes London - probably quite accurately - as the Verdun of the present war.
 London is the battle on which the outcome of the war may depend. But the difference is that the pun ishment at Verdun was borne by seasoned troops, while women, chil- dren. civilians and supply factories remained far behind the lines. In I,onuon the situation is just as if women and children, hospitals and munitions plants were right up in the front line trenches.
 Under this bombardment, all ob- servers report, the courage of the British people is heroic in the ex- treme. Watchers remain on the roof tops while bombs rain around them at the rate of one minute. The watchers are supposed to spot bombs as they fall, since more and more bombs are now of the delayed action variety, and have to be car ried off to an isolated place before they explode.
 The watchers laugh, joke and call out from adjoining roof-tops, but they never leave their posts.
 During the night many people cannot sleep, so they take cat-naps in the daytime. You see London stenographers sleeping in strange places. sometimes at their desks, sometimes in corridors. And there is complete tolerance on the part of employers toward keeping em- ployees.
 ENGLAND LOOKS TO U. s. A.
 Despite this heroism, the Amer ican public might as well look the facts squarely in the face-namely, that few people in Great Britain would continue this suffering if they were not confident that very vigor- ous. major help was coming from the United States.
 Tn fact. most of the British peo- ple much as they are suffering, do not have any full idea of the danger
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Bristol Is Assaulted from Dusk 10 Day|ight-45
 Major BIdzes
HEAVY BLOWS STRUCK
 BERLIN, OTHER AREAS
Thousands of Tons of EY- pIosiyes, Ineendiary
 Missiles Hurled
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Germany's aerial armada smashed overnight at the west English sea- port of Bristol in another Gov entry assault, Nazi quarters said, setting AS major fires amid deluge of 100000 pounds of explosive bombs and 10000 incendiary bombs.
 Bristol is described as the chief port of entry for goods from the United States, presumably mclud- ing war supplies for Great Britain.
 Heavy Attack
 A British communique, without identifying the target, said a sec- tion in West England was heavily attacked from dusk to midnight. almost continuously causing great damage to buildings, killing some residents and wounding many.
 The Bristol raid climaxed a week end of furiously intensified warfare in the air.
 Nazi Land Raided
 British RAF bombers struck ser ies of heavy blows ranging from the heart of Berlin to the royal arsenal and the big Fiat shops in Turin, Italy.
 British airmen brought back re- ports of flaming destruction in the vast Krupp armament works at Essen and three Berlin railway sta tions and freight yards as well as hitting blows at Essen, Leipzig, Duisberg, Ruhrort, Boulogne, Brest and Lorietn, the latter three ports Nazi occupied on the French n- vasion coast.
 Birmingham Bombed
 Hitlers command said Nazi war planes by the hundreds attacked Great Britain's industrial cities and important ports, dropping more than 666, GOO pounds of bombs on Briming- ham and another 100000 pounds of explosives and l2,000 incendiaries on Southampton.
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Italian Military Base in Southern Albania Is
 Threatened ApGIR0CASTR0A MAY
 FALL DURING NIGHT
Full f|edged Offensive !s Underway : Capture of
 Islands, Next Move
(By ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Athens military sources declare the Greek forces are hurling full fledged offensive" against Musso- linrs Italian invasion forces in drive to wrest Albania from Fas- ciSt control.
 These same sources said the coun- ter invasion of Albania might also be linked to a joint plan of Creek British seizure of Italy's Dodecan- csc Islands.
 Dispatches from the Balkan war front said the Greek advance troops have reached the outskirts of Ar girocastro, Italy's main military base in southern Albania and the city is expected to be captured be- fore evening.
 Heavy fighting is reported south of the city and Greek troops are there threatening to smash through to the Adriatic coast and isolate large numbers of Italians.
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Senator George
 honored
Named Chairman of Sen- ate Foreign Relations
 Committee

WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.-United States Senator Walter George Of Georgia has been selected by the Democratic Steering Committee to be Chairman of the important For eign Relations Committee, succeed ing the late Senator Key Pullman.
 Senator George is understood to be opposed to any revision of the Neutrality Act and also against repeal or revision of the Johnson Act prohibiting loans to nations which defaulted in World Wal debts.
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fIsiS iS fhe life!

How are they going 10 tredt you in the conscript army?
 What ore they going to feed you? Whot will they give you 10 wem?
 See this is the life." stdrt- ing today in The Empire.
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1raiior0us
 Filipino Is
 5ent.prison
Capt. Comero Convieted Of Conspiring to Sell
 Army Secrets

MANILA, Nov. 25.- Capt. Co., mero, of the Philippine Scouts, was today convicted at a general court martial of conspiring to sell mili- tary information.
 Capt. Comero was immediately sentenced to Is years at hard labor in a military prison.
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SUCCESSOR NAMED

BELFAST, Nov. 25-John Miller Andrews, Deputy Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, has been elevat- ed to the position of Prime Minis ter to succeed Viscount Graigavon, deceased.
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vistouni Graigavon
 PassesAway, Belfast

BELFAST, Ireland Nov. 25. = Viscount Graigavon, 69, first Prime Minister of Northern Ireland, bit- ter opponent of the proposals for a union with Erie, died at his home a union with Fire, died at his home here.
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MAKE CONNECTIONS

Dr. and Mrs. F. B. Gillespie, of Fairbanks, who flew here from the interior, left for the south aboard the Baranof.
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MRS. SPENCER LEAVES

Mrs. w. w. Spencer, rom Good news Bay, who has been visiting her mother. Mrs. William Fromholtz, for several days, continued south aboard the Baranof.
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OFF FOR KETCHIKAN

Travelling man Ben Bellamy and N. A. McEachran are passengers for Ketchikan aboard the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-25
Prince kimnothi
 5aionji Dies, Japan

OKITSU. Japan, Nov. 25. r Japans Genro or elder statesman,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-25

Prince Kimmochi Saionji, whose sl years spanned the whole period oi Japan's efergence from medievai insularity to rank among the great economic and military states of the modern world, died here yesterday.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-11-25

Some wood-burning locomotives are still in operation in Florida
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
WOOL AUCTIONS .
 START IN BOSTON

Boston, Oct. 16-UP)-Wool auc- tions, usually held in the western sheep growing territory, were under way here today for the first time since the World War.
 Between 100000 and 5000, ,O0O pounds of western grown wool, de- scribed' in trade marts as average, ordinary selection" were offered in the auction that started yesterday and will continue through Friday. The auction was at the Boston office of Merrion & Wilkins.
 Greasy wool totaling 100000 pounds was offered yesterday and 1,238,975 pounds were sold at auc- tion. In private sale, other lots totaling 193,000 pounds were sold.
 Officials said the lots brought 6 to 8 cents above the best bids received for similar offerings in July at Og- den, Utah, and were close to current Boston market prices for comparable grades. One choice lot brought 39 1-4 cents per pound Seven lots of. Wyoming wool sold at 31 to 35 IA cents per pound. g
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WOOL MARKET

Boston, oct. IS (UP)-Prices were very firm on fine and half blood territory wools in Boston today, the U. s. Agriculture department re- ported.
 Good French combing length fine territory wools with fair amount of staple combing brought $1O2 to $105 secured basis for graded, and original lines French combing half blood was sold at around $1 secured basis.
 Prices at the wool auction at Boston on Tuesday on western grown wool stored in the west were close to the current prices on spot woolS in Boston. Prices on graded wools delivered Boston were around o7 cents to $103 secured basis for combing wools running bulk aver age to short French, 92 to 97 cents secured basis for half hood average combing, mostly 83 to 88 cents SCOUT ed basis, for three-eighths blood, and 78 to 81 cents secured basis for quarter blood. Original bag fine bulk average to short French brought mostly 95 cents to $1 secured basis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
BY ELMER c. WALZER United Press Financial Editor

New York, Oct. 16.-(UP)-Issues of durable goods companies led 6 moderately active advance on the stock market today. Gains ranged to points and several issues made new high for the year.
 Traders said the improved tone was influenced by reports of Will- kie gains anf what experts consid- cred not unfavorable war develop ments, notably Russian uncertain ties. Business news continued fa- vorable in the main, marred only by estimates of contraseasonal de- cline in car loadings.
 Steel shares featured in activity. U. s. Steel was the second most ac- tive issue traded. Most active was Republic Steel which was popular on belief directors soon would clear the way for dividends on the stock. It gained nearly a point. Crucible Preferred made 8 new high at 91 up 5 and Jones G Laughlin eQualed its high. Gains or more than a point were noted in Youngstown Sheet & Tube and Vanadium.
 A statement by William s. Knud- sen of the national defense advis- ory commission that. the machine tool industry was sold ahead for a year attracted attention to stocks in this category. Chicago Pneuma- tic Tool Convertible preferred rose to a new high at 36 7-8 up 1 7-S and Bullard gained 5-8 to 32 7-8.
 Budd Manufacturing preferred jumped 2 points. Mesta Machine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
No "Sn1ear Talk" For Paul Cornell c. o. ?. Candidate

Paul Cornell, Republican
 candidate for the United States senate calls no "names," talks no smear" doesn't attack" and refuses to "score" the Op-
 position.
 T think" Paul Cornell says of this new trend in political campaigning, "that the issues facing the American people to-
 day are very plain. Name-call- ing is petty business. Today a man can only ask himself-"Is it good for America?" On that question, and that question alone, the fate of this great
 nation depends. This is no time to tear down ... and that in-
 cludes political opposition. This is a time for constructive talk ing .. constructive thinking, and constructive action by men
 of action who will save Amer ica."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-16
FREEDOM AHEAD, ASSERTS WILLKIE COP Nominee Urges Men of Draft Age to Look
 Ahead

Buffalo, N Y, Oct. 16-(UP)- Wendell L. Willkie, Republican presidential nominee, told men of draft age in radio speech last night that although many of them have not had their full share in the way of life they were called upon to defend, they were registering now for lone more chance for freedom ,
 Discussing This Life That We Have Had Here in America" he said that many of you, know, have not had even an opportunity to share in it. Many of you are, skeptical of it. Many of you, being skeptical will even resent the sacrifice you are being called upon to make"
 T realize the injustice that has ben done to you," he said. T Know that the roots of your trouble lie in stony ground. They lie in the mis- takes of my generation. Let us recog- nize the simple truth. You, the young men, have not failed us :. we have failed you.
 And I want to plead with you not to judge this cause to which you have been called-this great cause of freedom-by the mistakes that my generation has made, whether in private life or in office. Do not judge this cause by our failure to give you jobs by our idle factories, our shabby houses, our stagnant mar kets, our squabbles and dissensions among ourselves these are not the cause in which I would ask you to enlist.
 'The cause I mean lies in that unknown future where free men must and shall exist. You who have in thoughts abandoned our Ameri- can doctrines for other doctrines and creds-I plead with you to judge us, not what we have been, but what we might become"
 Willkie said that he had favored the draft, not because he favored going to'war against dictators but because he believed if this country had strong army, those dictators would not dare to strike at us." Also, he said, this country still has free- dom that now can be found in no other major country "and if we do not guard it-with our lives if neces- sary-it will perish from the earth"