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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10
Couple Guests At
HouselUarn,irg Part,

Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Keshian Of
Melbourne terrace were recently
given surprise housewarming in
their new home by their former
neighbors.
Those attending were: Mr.. and
Mrs. James Bolan, Peggy and Mary
Arlene Bolan, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
Clausen, Mr.. and Mrs. Burns, Mr..
and Mrs. Chesson, Welcome Gran
dell, Catherine Ferns, Mr.. and Mrs.
Leroy Foote, r. and Mrs. Harris,
Mr.. and Mrs. Hoffman, Mr.. and
Mrs. James Karnofsky, Mr.. and Mrs.
James Morgan, Nathalia Morgan,
Mr.. and Mrs. Mccormack, Mr.. and
Mrs. Frank Sheehy, Mrs. Mary Sui
Ivan, Mr.. and Mrs. Francis Summa,
Mr.. and Mrs. Swift, Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Siebert, Miss Dorothy Sic
bert. During the evening entertain
ment was enjoyed and refreshments
were served. The couple were pre-
sented with a gift.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Huckins and
children Delmar and Robert Of
CORTLAND avenue and Mrs. Francis
Walker of Thomaston were recent
visitors at the Worlds Fair.
The weekly duplicate bridge for
ladies was held this morning at 10
at the Pine Orchard country club. A
large number Of women in the sum-
mer colony attended the luncheon
bridge yesterday afternoon in the
clubhouse. The hostesses were Mrs.
Oliver Gildersleeve, Mrs. ]. H.
Steane, Mrs. Wilbur David and Mrs.
Dudley Eggleston. Winners were
Mrs. Lynn Taylor, Mrs. w. D. Pink
ham, and Mr.. Thomas Bryant.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10
BIG BUSINESS MAN

Dick Powell, co-starring with his
wife, Joan Blondell, in Paramount's
IT Want a Divorce" has turned
business man in a big way. Several
days ago he opened large business
block in Long Beach, with half a
dozen stores in 1t. Today he was
made a member Of the Hibbing
Chamber Of Commerce at the re-
quest of Hibbing business men. Dick
already is a member of the Long
Beach, Las Vegas, New, and Holly
wood Chambers of Commerce.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10
Contract Bridge
CORNELL CONTRACT CLUB

Winners In yesterdays session OF
the Cornell Contract club conducted
by Mrs. John G. Moriarty were:
North and South: Mrs. Nelson
Squires and Mrs. Arthur Williams,
100; Mrs. Edmund Spicer and Mrs.
Henry Allen, 1903; and East and
West: Mrs. Louis Lougee and Mrs.
Edward Clark, ia; Mrs. Thomas
Horrigan and Mrs. Joseph Wedge,
SO l-2.
The standing to date is as fol-
lows: Lougee-C Clark, 100 1-2; HENCE
veld-Hengeveld, 1877 1-2; Squires-
Williams, 1874 1-2 and Abercrombie-
Movers, 100 1.2.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10
Doctors Pure
White Medicines
For Kidneys
Now Costs Only $3.50 and Often Brings
Remarkable Relief from Backaches,
Joint Pains. Getting I'm Niehts

Kidney strain, catarrh of the bladder. In
hammation of prostate gland or the kidney
pelvis-may produce backache. pains in legs.
groin, muscles or joints. Also frequent, scanty
or burning passages or irritation.
Doctors prescribe diuretic stimulant to
flush out kidney poisons and excess acids,
and also urinary antiseptic to help purify
the bladder. You can get these two medicines,
both together. in one small white tablet
DURETS. No oily capsules. no coated pills.
Get DURETS. made of medicines many doc
tors prescribe. Money back unless DURETS
help you feel good. Don't wait. Special AL
price-40 tablets soc or 20 tablets -. SS0F
At all ALIENS Perfumers Stores
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10

Some 100 grade separation struc-
lures and 1870 stream and drainage
structures were built for the new
Dream Highway" a 160-mile long
super-road between Pittsburgh and
Harrisburg.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10
. McKENNEY'S BRIDGE QUIZ
Force Opponent Into An Endplay to Discard Loser

This Is the second Of q series
of five articles based on elimin-
atoms, squeezes and coups, as
outlined in George Collins END
plays"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10
NO KITTEN ON THE KEYS

Fred MacMurray, star Of Para
mounts Rangers Of Fortune" could
be a concert pianist If he wished. A
student Of the piano since he was a
child Of five, MacMurray has con-
tinued his musical studies ever
since.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10

diamonds. then led the jack of clubs,
East won but had to return a club
to dummy. thus giving declarer the
extra club trick on which to dis
card his diamond.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10
FEATURED ACTOR
CUSTER ROLE

Lionel Atwill has a featured role
in Boom Town."
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-07-10

Paul Kelly portrays General Gus
ter in bad Man of Wyoming"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
Mystery of Pages
Is and l4-WhO
Ordered Torn Out?

WASHINGTON = (FR) - Who or
dered the deletion of pages 10 and
IA from the Augsut issue of Recruit
ing News, a publication of the u. S.
Army? And why? Senator Wheeler
asserts that the two pages contained
a letter of congratulations from Gen.
George G. Marshall, Chief of Staff,
U. S. Army, lauding the recruiting
service for having over-fulfilled it's
quotas on voluntary enlistments.
Senator Wheeler charges that the
censoring was done in order to sup
press news on the success of the vol
untary enlistment drive and thereby
promote the passage of the compul-
sorry CONSUMPTION bill General Mar
shall replied that an unidentified per-
son in New York had conferred with
subordinate official in the Adjutant
Generals Washington office, who had
directed deletion on the ground that
1t conflicted with the policy of pub
fishing only factual data and no opin-
ion.
Senator Wheeler asked in reply,
Can anyone imagine some subordi-
nate suppressing statement of the
Chief of Staff" Would anybody
dare to suppress an article by the
Chief of Staff except the Secretary
of War HIMSELF" Secretary of War
Stimson has continued to maintain a
discreet silence.
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
BANKS SCENT
SHARE OF
Defense LOOT

WASHINGTON (FP) = Evidently
encouraged by the successful strike
of the munitions industry for conces-
sions from the government, banks are
now holding out their hands for a
share of the defense loot, it appeared
here.
The demand of the banks, seconded
by the munitions concerns, is that de-
Tense contracts be made assignable
so that they can be used as security
for bank loans.
Shortly after this demand was
voiced legislation to permit use of
defense contracts as bank collateral
was drafted by the department Of
Justice and the national defense adj
visory commission and consideration
of it was started by the house judi
ciary committee.
Requests for the legislation arose
when it appeared that munitions con-
Germs, and airplane manufacturers in
particular, were unwilling to pledge
the credit of their companies for bank
loans.
These bank loans are needed, 1t is
said, to finance plant expansion.
Legislation to permit companies to
repay the bank loans within five years
out of government profits is already
well on its way to completion.
Despite the virtual guarantees al
ready given munitions makers that
they will be allowed to reap a pretty
CONTINUED on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
LABOR EDITORS BACK ROOSEVELT,
OPPOSE CONSUMPTION, POLL SHOWS

affiliated paper in Kansas. The two
papers that sent replies from Indiana,
WILKES home state, are both sup
porting Roosevelt.
A number of editors added lauda-
tory comments on Roosevelt, several
pointing out that all of the daily COM
mercial papers in their area were
strong for Willkie. Roosevelt is the
working mans friend" said Kansas
AFL editor. Tradition means moth
ing; let the people decide when any
President shall quit" observed an
other AFL editor from Missouri.
In contrast, the present decline in
the Presidents popularity as COM
pared with 1886 is apparently ex-
planned by the labor press's hostility
toward CONSUMPTION and any form of
Intervention in European affairs.
Wen support candidate who is
against CONSUMPTION and for the bet
terment of domestic needs" said the
editor of an unaffiliated New York
paper, while oan AFL-CIO organ in
the state of Washington commented:
sAs both candidates favor conscrip-
ton and intervention, we see no diff
ference on vital issues"
Heaviest opposition to CONSUMPTION
was from CLIO unaffiliated and ALL
CLIO papers, which were 9 to / against
with only one paper undecided.
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
STANDING ROOM
ONLY In SING
SING PRISON

Two thousand eight hundred pri
soners are crowded into Sing Sing, a
penitentiary built to accommodate a
Seventy are cell-less and must sleep
on cots in the corridors. Dining rooms
and bath rooms are alike over-taxed.
Sing Sing congestion is due to the
large number of lawbreakers recently
sentenced by the New York City
courts. The First City of the U. S. A.
is providing more than it's quota of
prison inmates.
The latest census of prisoners in
the U. S. (1936) reported an average
daily prison population of 10,082 in
New York state, 10,029 in Illinois, T.
1856 in California, 1868 in Ohio, 6,402
in Pennsylvania, and 5,943 in Michi-
gan. The average for the country
was 123,857 prisoners a day
Cold figures of tens of thousands
of human beings locked away inside
stone walls record the facts, but they
do not even suggest the frightful hui
man wastage. Boys and girls, young
men and women are deprived of nor
NAL social contacts and left to learn
what they can in the atmosphere of
criminality and in intimate associa-
ton with experienced lawbreakers.
The growing army of police scarce
ly keeps pace with the growing army
of lawbreakers. Town police, city
police, county police, state police and
the rapidly expanding FBI are all kept
busy dealing with the broadening
problems of law enforcement.
An American Indian tribe or Chi
nese village is policeless and virtually
The city of New York,
with it's 1886 police, records nearly
1 100000 crimes year. In 1905 the
city had $3.50 police and 1886
crimes. In 1888 it had more than
twice the number of police and more
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
ONLY 1920
of POPULATION
WAGE Farmers

The WPA Division of Research pro-
vides an informative picture of the
cross-section of the U. S. population
in it's recently issued booklet, Facts
About Unemployment" The report
gives figures based upon detailed stu
dies, made in March 1889 by the WPA,
of the populations in three large
American cities of varied Industrial
backgrounds: Birmingham, Ala; To
ledo, Ohio; and San Francisco, Calf.
Figures for the three cities are here
averaged into one composite figure
for briefness:
OF all the persons in the popula-
ton, 52% are non-workers. OF all the
non-workers, half are in school or are
too young to work, 1920 are home
makers, 1919 are permanently unfit,
retired, or pensioned.
Forty-eight percent of the individ-
uals in the population are workers
with jobs, or actively looking for
jobs, or temporarily neither).
Of the total workers, quarter, or
$3.50, are unemployed. OF all the un-
employed, 2S6 are in the Works Pro
gram (WPA, CCC, NYA, etc., 1910
are not.
The employed are divided: $40
wage and salary earners, 1910 self-em-
ployed, 10 unpaid family workers.
The population is made up of the
following segments by percentages:
BIB percent wage and salary earners;
Continued on page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
BY ALEXANDER L. CROSBY

by ALEXANDER L. CfbOoDi
Almost twothirds of the American
labor press is supporting Franklin d.
Roosevelt for reelection and opposing
peace-time CONSUMPTION, results of the
first monthly poll of labor editors by
Federated Press indicate.
Reports from 122 leading papers in
81 states and the District of Columbia
show $3.50 for Roosevelt 3.36 for
Norman Thomas (Soc), 2.4% for
Wendell L. Willkie (R.), 1881 unde-
cided and 14% either neutral or crit
ical of both Roosevelt and Willkie.
In 1886, Roosevelt was backed by
97ee Of these papers, although the
number reporting their stand in the
last election was 20 less-largely be-
cause many CLIO papers were founded
after that date. Alfred M. Landon
was Endorsed by only 2q5, and Thomas
by 10.
On CONSUMPTION, $3.50 of the edi-
tors questioned said their papers are
opposing a peace-time draft, 26.2%o
are in favor and 90 are undecided.
The bulk of the Roosevelt strength
came from the II AFL papers that
participated in the survey. Most OF
the 20 CLIO publications said they
were undecided or neutral.
WiIlkie garnered his three votes
from an ALL paper in Iowa, CLIO
publication in Oklahoma and an I'M
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
LABOR SCORES
AS KING BITES
DUST In Utah

WASHINGTON.-FP) - Sen. VIM.
H. King 3D.. Utah seemed destined
for prominent place in the growing
lineup of labor's political victims as
the returns of his states primaries
rolled in here September A.
King, elected to the senate in 1916,
was trailing Rep. Abe Murdoch d.,
Utah), elected to the house in 1882.
by a substantial margin of 10000 to
10000 with less than half of the
states precincts unreported.
Murdoch was given enthusiastic
support by both the AFL and CLIO in
the state although AFL Pres. VIM.
Green attempted to secure the en-
dorsement of the state ALL for King.
With Rep. Arthur Healey 3D.,
Mass.), Murdoch formed the minority
of the special house committee in
vestigating the national labor rela-
tons board which filed a vigorous
dissent unfolding the work Of the
board and attacking the findings OF
the committee majority.
Kings most recent activity in the
senate was a fight on behalf of the
house-approved bill calling for the inn
mediate deportation of Pres. Harry
Bridges of the init. Longshoremen and
Warehousemen's Union (CIO).
Others of Kings colleagues who
have been retired to private life in
recent primaries because of their hos
tiiltv tn labor are Senators Holt I'd
W. Val and Burke 3D., Neb).
Holt incurred the wrath of the
Continued on Page Three)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11

preserving peace.
The immediate objective of the dele
gates enroute Monday to the nations
capital was the defeat of the Burke
Wadsworth CONSUMPTION Bill, anc
should this fail, to take immediate
steps for proper legal and constitu
tional repeal.
A few minutes before Rev. John B
Thompson, dean of the Religious
Foundation University Of Oklahoma
and chairman of the Southern Con
ference on Human Welfare, was I'M
animously elected permanent chair
man of the newly organized American
Peace Mobilization, the delegates and
visitors representing 12,057,285 people
heard Harry Olson of the state OF
Washington delegation read the report
of the farm panel discussion.
He prefaced his official statement
by saying that too many people have
the misconception that farmers are
among the most reactionary elements
in the nation
Farm communities lack access to
good reading that will give them a
basis for Judging current events and
issues" he said.
The report of the farm panekstated
that immediate steps will be taken
to provide a home-community peace
program for 6k million farm fam
lilies suffering from "phoney farm
leadership that has stood by and al
lowed politicians to sabotage urgently
needed farm legislation"
1--WE need to be lifted out of our
chairs" the report continued, $50 as
to be prepared for the job of ousting
our bad leadership. We need the
help of trade unions; we need infor-
nation on current events that our
newspapers do not carry; we need at
least the cost of production for what
we have to sell; we cannot continue
to work for Is or 20 cents an hour.
"The war in Europe has already
taken our export markets away from
us. The huge expenditures for arma-
ments threatens the little we get from
AAA subsidies. The farmer has
everything to lose and nothing to gain
from war.
1.-THE World War of 1918 crushed
the agricultural industry with debt
structures. Nearly three million farms
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
SALE OF ROTTEN
MEATS EXPOSED
BY NEWSPAPER

NEW YORK. - (FP) - For people
with strong stomachs, the newest ex
pose of the newspaper PM is recon-
mended
A series of articles that began Sep
TENDER 8 told how New York markets
have become the dumping ground for
rotten meats and diseased poultry.
Chicken Ghouls Unload Rotten
Poultry on City; Diseased, Decom-
posed Fowls Are Staple Item of
Retail Trade; Health Department Is
Complacent," read the page one head
lines for the first story.
Accompanying a report of shop
ping expedition by PM reporters was
the full text of laboratory report
on Is samples of meat and poultry.
OF the IS, the laboratory found that
IL were unfit for human consumption.
A photograph showed two tumors,
each five inches long and weighing
more than two pounds apiece. The
laboratory had removed them from
two chickens.
The news story pointed out that the
rotten flesh, much of it from chickens
that had died in transit, is sold only
in the lower grade markets where
people of low incomes are forced to
do their shopping.
Names of all the stores where the
purchases were made were listed in
the report One butcher, Frank Bo-
logna, who operates large store in
Queens, was shown to have been pros
ecuted no less than Is times for vio-
lation of the sanitary code. Usually
he was fined SO or S25, or given a
suspended sentence. Finally he drew
$3.50 fine, although the code author
ICES fines up to $4,000 and a year
in jail.
PMS attacks on the sale of rotten
meat and poultry is considered neat
comeback at the city Health Depart
ment, which had pooh-poohed an ear
lier PM expose on the sale of heavily
watered meats with the comment that
the practice merely injured the con-
sumers pocketbook, not health.
Asked by Federated Press for COM
ment on the story, Bologna said: ITS
hard to explain. But they can't prove
that those chickens were mine"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
WILLkIE PLEADS
GUILTY ON
LABOR RECORD

NEW YORK. = (FP) - Wendell L
Wilkes answer to the 18,000-wor6
special Willkie section issued by The
New Republic on September 2 was
$50 extraordinary in character that il
might as well be called a confession,
the magazine says in its issue of Sep
TENDER 16.
The editors of The New Republic
point out in an article headed, "Mr
Willkie Pleads Guilty" that with a
single unimportant exception, Mr.
Willkie and his aides centered their
whole fire on only one section of our
supplement, that dealing with his la
Dor record" 1t was in this section
that records of the LaFollette COM
mittee were cited to show that out
of 10 subsidiaries of WILKES Com
monwealth & Southern Corp. were
clients of notorious labor spy agen-
cies.
WILKES answer to this statement,
The New Republic notes, was There
is nobody connected with any organ
ization that l have ever been associ-
ated with who ever testified before
the LaFollette civil liberties commit
tee."
To this The New Republic answers:
"Of course not, and The New Re
public did not say so. We were we'll
aware that the chief evidence of the
LaFollette committee came not from
the employers but from the records
of the labor spy agencies. Employers
in every field made every effort to
conceal their use of labor espionage,
and in this respect Mr.. Willkie and
his associates were, and are, presum-
ably no different"
A new charge is leveled against
Willkie company by the magazine, in
commenting upon the assertion OF
Vice Pres. D. E. Karin Of Consumers
Power Co. that this Michigan utility
has always been willing to bargain"
(Karn's company has provided one OF
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
MAD SCRAMBLE
FOR PROFIT UNDER
DEFENSE PLAN
Scandal Looms AS Industries
Demand "Pound of Flesh"
in Advance for Cooperating
With the Defense Program.

Vigorously assailing what he termed
"pay-triotism," Congressman John Cot
fee of Washington said of monopoly
industrialists, "They are demanding
their pound of flesh in advance be-
fore accepting billions of dollars in
defense orders" Coffee declared that
these are the 'loudest proclaimers"
in favor of conscripting youth at $21
a month while they demand higher
and higher profits for themselves"
On frequent occasions charges have
been made on the floor of Congress
that attempts are being made to turn
the national defense program into a
raid on the federal treasury. The
concessions are those which
have already been wrung from the
government or which have been
agreed to by administrative officers
pending confirmation by Congress:
l. Competitive bidding on defense
orders has been eliminated.
2. Antitrust prosecutions are being
quashed.
8. Vinson-Trammel act limiting prof
it's on defense orders to 8-12 per-
cent over and above cost is to be
repealed Congress has not yet
acted.
4. Amortization of new plants is to
be allowed in five years or less
instead of Is to 20 years as at
present; Congress has not yet
acted.
Though the defense program is still
argely on paper, the department of
Justice has already been assigned the
ask of investigating the Bethlehem
Corporation on the
Continued on page Two)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
OFFICIAL SAYS
MONTANA SELLING
her HERITAGE
Chairman of Regional Or
ganization of National Re-
sources Planning Board Adj
vocates State Regulation of
Gold Dredging.

Charging that Montana was SELLING
her heritage for pot of gold" p H.
Elwood of Omaha, chairman of region
6 of the National Resources Planning
Board, at a divisional meeting of the
board in Helena, criticized the state
for failure to control gold dredging
operations.
Montana" he said, lis running agri-
cultural prospects and wasting eco
nomic and recreational resources"
He advocated strongly state regula-
ton of gold dredging and the restor-
alton of the scenic valleys where the
dredges operate, after the gold has
been recovered.
Montana" he declared, sis one of
the most beautiful and scenic states
in the union, and even outsiders like
myself hate to see this heritage cast
aside. Can you imagine one of the
beautiful valleys of Switzerland de-
bauched and degraded like some of
those in Montana?"
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11

Hresolution against the attorney gen.
eral already pending in the legislature
and one said to have already been
prepared, impeaching the governor, 1t
appears that sometime during the
night between March / and March 2
and in the early morning hours of
March 2, 1889, some agreements ap-
peared to have been arrived at and
both impeachment proceedings called
Off statement credited to L. NJ. A.
Wass, state liquor control administra-
tor by DR.. Dunn in his sworn state
ment to The Voice
The testimony of DIR. Dunn on which
the reported impeachment resolution
was said to have been based was
given to the select committee of the
Senate in Lewistown. on February 16,
1899 and related to claims by DR..
Dunn that he had personally delivered
foodstuffs which were the property of
the state to the Governors mansion
in Helena, while he was assistant and
acting superintendent at the Warm
Spring state hospital This testimony
was turned over by the committee to
special committee Of house members
for further investigation, but due to
adjournment of the legislature being
imminent, this special committee ad-
mittedly did not have time or means
to investigate the charges thoroughly
and submitted their findings in a re-
port to the legislative body without
Continued on Page Four)
The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1940-09-11
PEACE MOBILIZATION IN
CHICAGO DEVELOPS INTO
ACTIVE 0RGANIzAT'l En-
Anti-conscription Rally at Fir szzession At
tended by More Than 1870 zPeople; If
Burke Wadsworth Bill Pas : Organiza-
ton Promises Steps for Constitutional APP
peal; Thompson Of Oklahoma, Chairman.

agricultural workers representing farm and
organizations America the of 900 that
from the Chicago Stadium late Monday afternoon
when the Emergency Peace Mobilization adjourned
Washington D. c. after threeday session that de-
veoped permanent organization dedicated to the task of