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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
SNEAD SHOWING
GREATLY NEEDED
NERVE CONTROL
PGA FavOrite Beats Sara
zen Though 3 Down, 9
to Go; Guldahl=NelsOn
BY HENRY SUPER
United Press Staff Correspondent

(UnlteQ treSS StdH OOTECSpOiuChtI
Hershey, Pa, Aug. 31-(UP)-The
23rd P. G. A. golf tournament settled
down today to battle of brides and
pars-a dog -eat-dog affair involving
four of Americas gratest players.
They go out over the long, treach-
erous course of the Hershey Country
club in 36-hole matches to decide
who plays tomorrow for the title
Henry Picard yon last year.
In one match we give you Slam
min Sammy Snead against Harold
(Jug) McSpaden. In the other we
offer Byron Nelson, a lanky fellow
who came within a whisker of WIN
ming this one last year, against big
Ralph Guldahl, one of the few men
who ever won two national open
titles in row.
Wide Open
And it comes under the head Of
foolish things to do if you attempt
to say now who'll be in there at sun
down. Out here they were hoping
that Enead would be the man be-
cause he really needs to win a bis
one to help him forget his heart
aches of the past-but they were be-
lieving that the guy whose name
goes on the championship cup would
be the winner of the Guldahl-Nel'
son match.
Yesterday, Snead played some O.
the most courageous golf of hi!
career. He faced cocky little Gem
Sarazen and al the end of u hole
'Sarazen was three up and Sneae
lookd like he was through. Blu
Sam fired out string of brides anC
pars, squared the match on the 33rt
hole, went ahead for the first TIM
on the 34th and won by halving thu
last two.
Maybe Sam has learned how tt
quiet those screaming nerves of hi
when the heat is on.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
TORRINGTON SEMI-FlNAL

Goshen, Conn, Aug. 81 UP) =
The closing rounds Of the seventh
annual Torrington invitation golf
tournament began here today with
co-medalists Bobby Grant, Wethers-
field. and Frank Staszowski, Green
Wood, possible opponents In the
finals.
Grant, In one Of the semi-final
matches. met A. J. Gedney. New
Haven. while staszowski. was pitted
against A. G. williams. Brooklawn.
Fog hung low over the rain soaked
course as the players left the FIRST
tee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
CRYSTAL BOWLING
LOOP AT MATTATUCK

An important bowling session was
held last Sunday A. M. at mem
bers home at which time final pre-
parations for a larger and banner
season were completed
The Crystal bowling loop will be
comprised of six outfits, namely
Diamonds, Rubies, Sapphires, Pearls,
Opals and Emaralds. Action will
start promptly at Z P, M. at the
Mattatuck drives on Saturday, Sept.
IA, and will continue for thirty
weeks.
The slate of officers for the l940-
Al loop is as follows:
President-Phil Napolitano, Vice.
observation-disclosures DiSena, Rec
ording Secretary - Arthur Finelli,
Presiding Officer-Joseph Gugliotti
Treasurer-Constantine Napolitano
Publicity MISUNDERSTANDING Imbim-
bo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
Sports
QUESTIONS
Answered

Have you a sports question you
want answered? Write your ques-
ticn clearly, sign your name and
address and mail your query to
Sports Fan Question Man, Sports
Service Bureau, The Waterbury
Democrat, 1913 18th street, Wash
ingtOn, d. c., enclosing Scent
postage stamp for personal reply.
Don't telephone: write as directed.
@. What was the largest attend
ance at a World Series baseball
game in Washington?
A. At the fourth game of the
1925 Series between Washington and
Pittsburgh, the attendance was
38,701.
(Which race horse was elected as
Best Horse of the Year" for 1886?
A. A committee of Daily Racing
Form experts voted the title to
GRANVILLE. The same committee
voted POMPOON as the "Jevenile
Champion" and DISCOVERY as
the Handicap Champion"
SPIT QUESTIONS & ANSWERS :.
@. In tennis, what are the out
side measurements of singles
court?
A. The singles court is rs feet
long and 81 feet wide.
@. Name the winners of the Ken.
lucky Derby since 1885, and their
jockeys.
A. OMAHA, w. Saunders, 1885:
BOLD VENTURE, I. Hanford, 1896;
WAR ADMIRAL, G. Gurtsinger,
1887; LAWRIN, E. Arcaro, 1888:
JOHNSTOWN, j. Stout, 1899; and
GALLAHADION, c. Bierman, 1910
@. Did the recent Max Baer-
Tony Galento bout end In the 7th
or 9th round?
A. In accordance with Nation
al Boxing Association rule voted at
the annual convention In Washing
ton last September. the bell for the
9th round was purposely Changed.
The rule states that II a contestant
fails 10 answer q bell for the round
signifled by the clang. the fight
shall be declared ended IN that
round
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
NEW ENGLAND TENNIS

Hartford, Conn, Aug. 31-tUP)-
Rain threatened postponement to-
day of the opening matches IN the
New England Public Parks Tennis
tournament at Colt Park.
Edward Andrews, New Bedford,
Mass. last years singles champion
and top-seeded this year. drew a
bye with six others into second
round play.
The tournament drew % entries
In the mems singles and IS doubles
teams. In the women's section there
were IS singles entries and five
doubles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
ICE HOCKEY HEIRS

Boston. Aug. 3i--(UP)-The Bos-
ton Bruins Hockey Club today eyed
two possible candidates for first
line work In the 1913 season.
The prospects are the newborn
sons OF center Art jackson and
hard hitting defensemen Jack Craw-
ford.
The Crawford baby was born IN
Boston yesterday, while the jackson
heir made his debut AZ Toronto
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
BLESSED SACRAMENTS
MEET SUNRISE 9, PALS

Avery Rawlinson of WATERFOWL
was named by Coach Joe Cavanaugh
to take the pitching mound for the
Blessed Sacraments today in a game
at Hamilton Park, set for 2:30 p. M.
with the Sunrise A. G. of Torrington
Rawlinson defeated the Thomaston
Legion team this week. Sunday
afternoon, the Pals and Sacraments
start their three game play-off at
Hamilton Park. Game time Is
named for 2 p. NJ.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
AAfRRICAN LEAGUE

Cleveland "A. Smith 1867 at
Chicago (E. Smith ii-o).
Detroit Bridges $50 at st. Louis
(Nigeeling 6.i0)
Washington lL.eonard i3-i3) 1T
New xo:k (Hufflne 1890
Boston (Bagby e-iO 81 Philadel-
phia lcaster l-i0).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
THREE ACE HILLMAN

Hanover. N. H.. Aug. 3i-CUP)-
A third hole-in-one In eight years
was boasted today by Harry Hill
man. veteran Dartmouth College
track coach.
Hillmans latest ace was scored
yesterday Of the i06.yard fourth
hole Of the college course during
the arnpuai Hanover tournament.
Two years ago he sank q hole.lEi.
one on the same green and eight
years ago marked ~ an ace on the
18th hole.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
PROBABLE PITCHERS
By United Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Chicago (Passeau l7-lD at Gin
cinnati (Walters 1870.
Philadelphia Geek $50 at Boston
(strincevich 4-6).
New York (0umbert o-iD ct
Brokolyn Tamulis 7-D.
st. Louis (shoun i0-D al Pitts
burgh (Heintzelman e.6D
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31

OF the e72 golfers who ccmpsisd
IN the recent hole-ln-cne tolarna.
nent At New York. Willie MacFnr-
lane was the only one Wke wore
knickers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
Games Today
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Games Yesterday
Brooklyn 6, Cincinnati 2.
Philadelphia-Pitt (rain).
(On1y games scheduled).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
Today's Sport Parade
BY HENRY McLEMORE
UNITED Press Staff Corresponding

New York, Aug. 31-(UP)-Miss
Barbara Strobhar, who lives in
Newton Square, Pa, is a very
charming young lady, but this is
the time to gather round and shed
tear-for her and with her.
They are getting ready to play
the National Tennis singles out at
Forest Hills, and the harsh truth is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
TURNS TO WRESTLING

Lou Brouillard, who has taken on
considerable weight since he was
middleweight boxing champion, now
is planning a career as a wrestler.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31

Chicago at Cincinnati.
New York at Brooklyn.
Philadelphia Mt Boston.
st. Louis at Pittsburgh.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31
, STANDINGS
NATIONAL LEAGUE

Games Yesterday
Cleveland 4, Chicago 2.
Boston s. Philadelphia 4.
Washington-New York (rain).
(Only games scheduled).
Games Today
Washington at New York.
Cleveland at Chicago.
Detroit at st. Louis.
Boston at Philadelphia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31

Alice Marble. wemeBs tennis
champion. hasn't suffered a defeat
Ia more than a hundred consecutive
matches since 1928.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-31

Thursday. Both Mrs. Crawford and
Mrs. Jackson are reported In good
condition.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
SIX DAYS:
Shalt Thou Labor

Pointing toward the six-day, per-
haps seven-day week in defense in
dustry, Defense Council Chairman
Knudsen belabored American indus
try for tagging, and declared the
United States was ''not getting the
spirit" of defense work.
Knudsen told the manufacturers
many things, but one of these was
outstanding, and had to do with
airplane manufacture.
U. S. goal, declared Knudsen, had
been 1000 warplanes a month by
January l. He said at the rate things
were going, we'll be lucky if we
are getting $50 a month by that
time.
The reason for the lag is lack of
comprehension by manufacturer, by
laborer, of the meaning of the ma
tional defense program. U. S. is
supposed to be getting ready to pro-
tect the nation in case of aggression
and to help England hold things in
status quo until that time.
Knudsen pulled no punches and
told the manufacturers that they
were spending too much time fig
uring what to do with their profits
and earnings, and not enough get
ting out the material. This was a
double-barreled blow at the employ
ers for temporizing with employees
demands for higher pay, and with
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26

took Laval into custody, thus put
ting into at least a momentary de-
cline the man on whose shoulders
rested considerable of the onus of
Frances surrender.
Rumor foated double barreled
around the French overturn. Rumor
No. had it that Old Man Petain,
realizing that revolt was stirring be-
meath him, charged Laval with plot
ting to get France into the war
against England, and had summar-
lily ousted him.
Rumor No. 2 was to the effect
that Laval had plotted to overthrow
Petain and create a new govern
ment with himself as dictator.
Whichever might be true, watchers
agreed that the aged general acted
with much the same speed as the
younger Hitler in slapping down
purge" which shot LavaPs feet
from under him with dispatch.
The upheaval met the same view
in most circles, that it was another
evidence of the general European
unrest that was moving through all
the conquered territories, an unrest
that might find no directional force
for a long, long time.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26

Persistent rumors current in Eu-
rope say that Bruno MussOlini
(above), eldest son of ii Duce, was
shot down and killed during an air
raid on Salonika, Greece. Official
Italian circles have denied this re-
port and say he is serving at an air
port in southern Italy.
Gus parts Of Italy, but more par
ticularly in the north, and about
the industrial cities of Turin and
Milan.
Despite all efforts of censorship
to keep the true situation from be-
coming generally known, the deba-
Gle was too enormous to be hidden
longer, and Mussolini's aides had to
take to the radio and to the Italian
press to prevent a spread of the
disaster to home fronts.
Dismissal of leaders, disaffection
in the Dodecanese islands, riots in
the streets of the two big factory
towns had leaked out, and then the
Fascist party line editors and COM
mentators began dishing out orders
to the populace from the higher
ups, at the same time issuing warn
ings to Britain and the Hellenes as
to what they might expect from the
Italian troops when "they get really
mad"
While there was some news of
sporadic increased resistance at
certain points in the fronts, the gen.
eral words were two-retreat and
evacuation all along the line. And
the press articles about the might
of the British enemy and the cum
fair" bayonets of the Greeks were
just foretaste of what was to come,
with Tirana full of wounded and dy-
ing soldiers back from the front
lines.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
HIG LIC IL L ) i. in the weeks ne,us

.dobOken i Fire destroyed mil
ion-dollar defense plant, engaged in
making unreported appliances need
ed by u. S. naval vessels.
Washington - The government
sought $500, 900, 900 at the lowest rate
of interest ever to be paid on a loan.
On the first day, it was oversub-
scribed eight times, more than
$4,000, ,000,00 being offered for the
certificates.
Kobe, Japan-Warnings by the
Japanese press that it's going to be
long war were seen as shaking
the confidence of the Nipponese in
the power of at least the Italian end
of the Rome-Berlin-T Tokyo Axis.
Vichy, France - Mrs. Elizabeth
Deegan, state department employee,
was freed after being detained by
the Nazis five days, charged with
aiding British officers to escape
France after the collapse.
Washington-The total number of
draftees to be called in January will
average about twice the number in
the first call, it was estimated.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26

WILLIAM KNUDSEN - Pictured
as he urged a wartime basis" for
industry to speed production of vital
defense needs.
employees for threatening and car
rying out strikes.
He introduced the longer work
week idea by stating that employ
ers should find way to use ma
chimes on Saturdays and Sundays,
making the obvious point that use of
these two days on a full-time sched-
ule would automatically speed up
production about 80 per cent, or the
amount it is tagging.
In advance he answered the man.
Nufacturers' plant that they lacked
the trained men to do this. Knud-
sen told them to get more men and
train more men. He told them to
"stagger" their trained men through
the extra shifts, thus swiftly train
ing the less-able to catch up to full
time production.
His address to the manufacturers
was an air-clearer, like the first
lightning flashes before a storm that
he hopes will rain airplanes and 9TH
er defense material.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
DEBACLE:
Italian Version

Unquestioned was the fact that
Italy had been kicked wholeheart-
edly out of the war by Britain,
Greece and the Free French, to-
gether with other sundry allies such
as Polish, Czech and other hands
that had joined into the Battle of
Greece and the Battle of Egypt.
The invader, who stepped briskly
into the war just at the moment of
Frances collapse, shot forces along
the Mediterranean coast from the
border of Libya to Sidi Barrani, and
who sailed across mountains for
Athens from an Albanian take-off,
had become the invaded on both
fronts.
AS the British and Greeks
summed up huge supplies of war
materials captured, and enormous
inventories of prisoners in hand and
still coming in, the Vesuvian rum
bles began sounding through vari-
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26

Baltimore-The new Martin B-26,
latest American medium bomber,
underwent test flights, made around
400 miles an hour, landed at 125
miles, and was able to stop on the
field o. K. Army pilots hailed it as
a "bomber's dream" One said that
if its brakes were shot away it
would roll more than two miles
against the wind before it would
stop.
Istanbul-Dwarfed in the larger
tragedy of Europe, came the story
of more than 200 Jewish refugees
from Central Europe who had paid
$3.50 each passage money on a 100
ton wooden ship on the guarantee
that they would be landed in Pal
estine, being capsized and drowned
in the sea of Marmora. The cap
tain, a White Russian, was saved.
Berlin-The ministry of agricul-
ture claimed the present allowance
of fat Gutter, margarine and other
edible fats) Is 10 ounces per per-
son per week as against Az ounces
during the World War I.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
UNREST:
French Version

Britain was getting little comfort,
according to her own sources, from
Frances governmental upheaval
which sent Pierre Laval, pro-Fascist
foreign minister, flying out of the
Petain cabinet presumably into con-
finement, and put Flandin, pro-Nazi,
into his place.
In fact, British circles frankly
doubted the authenticity of any in
ternal disturbance to amount to any,
thing, and laid the whole change to
orders direct from Hitler.
However, it was a notable occur
renee, and accompanied by a sour
rying about the streets of Vichy, and
presumably Paris of a body of GP-
men-France's new Gestapo or
GPU. In Italy they were calling
them faction squads" but they are
all the same sort of strong-arm gov
ernmental police.
France called them "Groupe de
protection" hence the GP on the
arm-band. 1t was a GP band that
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26

is not known. And if the law did
apply, the chances are about one in
two billion against its happening
next year.
Only five star explosions have been
seen in the Twentieth century with
the naked eye.
Extremely catastrophe star ex
plosions-when there is 00,000,-
600, 900 times increase in brightness
are even more rare. Only two o.
these have taken place in the Milky
Way during human history-in 1854
and 1872.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
Blouse Jumper for
Schoolgirls Smart

IF YOUR daughter is just about
1 ready for a new jumper, and
several new blouses to go with 1t
then make them up with this new
design (No. 1282-B) and she'll be
perfectly delighted with the result
This jumper is dart-ftted to create
a smallness of waist that school
girls covet and are not likely to
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
Likelihood of the Sun Exploding Is Extremely Remote

600 fold during this process.
Such an explosion on the sun
would certainly wipe out all life on
the earth.
But DR.. Edwin Hubble, astronomer
of the Carnegie institution of Wash
ington, is not pessimistic. He says
that the likelihood of the sun explod-
ing is extremely remote, explain
ing that the law of averages can
not be applied in this case because
the exact cause of the explosions
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26

WASHINGTON one knows
when or how the earth will end,
but astronomers do know one way it
can happen.
Each year about 80 of the 50,000,-
100000 stars in the great Milky Way,
of which the sun is a part, explode.
They blow off envelopes of flaming
gas which rush outward in all di-
rections at a speed of about 1000
miles a second. Their heat and
light increase approximately 10O,-
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26

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easy to do, even for beginners.
Barbara Bell Pattern No. 12s2-B is de-
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terial for jumper; ia yards of 39-inch
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The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
LOTHIAN:
Predicts. Then Dies

Inc notable, Dlunt-SpOken British
bachelor Marques of Lothian, am
bassador from Britain to the United
States, lay dying in his Washington
home from uremic poisoning at the
very moment when his written
words, spoken by proxy at nearby
Baltimore, were predicting what the
war in Europe will be.
Lothian's "deathbed" prediction
was that Britain, with the help al
ready promised and under way from
America, will win the war decisive
ly" in 1912.
Whatever the facts may be, the
shocking news of his death gave his
final utterance unusual prominence
in the news, editors tearing their
hair over the problem of whether
to put the largest headlines on what
had happened to Lothian, or on what
Lothian had said.
His passing was the occasion for
the press here and abroad to ex-
press genuine sorrow and shock at
his untimely death, and his loss was
believed to have left a gaping hole
in Britain's diplomatic body.
Lothian was worker, his speech
was brusque, and these two quail
ties alone had given him great
weight in Washington.
AS to his prediction of the end of
the war in 1912, and with Britain
victor, it was met with keen interest
and perhaps added power because
it was to all practical purposes, his
dying utterance.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
Surprise Return

Surprise Return
"Any surprises among your
birthday presents?"
eyes. Wilson gave me a book
I lent to Brown six months ago"
Thoughts of Home
First Sergent-Stand up straight
hrOU your shoulders back and button
up your coat.
Married Recruit (abSent-miHdedlyj
Yes, dear, I'll do il right GIcay.
Can alimOny be described as
mans cash surrender value?
Better Than Expected
"Was it a good show at the the
ater last night?"
"Oh, yes; they advertised
chorus of forty, but none of them
looked more than thirty-five.
To the Memory
Lincoln must have had great
memory"
"What makes you think that?"
"Well, they built such a big me-
mortal to it."
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
PRESIDENT:
And Flying Duke

President Roosevelt returned to
his White House desk to face tre-
mendous problems, behind him a
4,0OO-mile trip on U. S. S. Tusca-
loosa which was shrouded in secre-
cy before it began, turned out just
what had been predicted-a junket
throughout prospective naval-air
bases in the Antilles-and wound
up in blaze of front-page articles
when the duke of Windsor flew out
to sea to confer with the Chief Ex-
ecutive.
1t all began when Duchess Wallis,
who had to have an infected tooth
out translated in royal language
into a 'major dental operation'O
decided to have the surgery per-
formed in a Miami hospital. She
and the duke went thither in the
yacht of a Swedish friend who oddly
was pal of Goering's.
The day after the death of Lord
Lothian, the operation was safely
over, with the duchess convalescing
bewitchingly, and the duke with
considerable amount of time on his
hands. Suddenly it was announced
that President Roosevelt wanted to
talk to him.
A navy bomber scared down onto
the blue Biscayne waters, a motor
boat met the duke, and off he went,
shrouded with more secrecy than
the President himself had been
when he started out. He was back
the same day, and the next day the
Tuscaloosa came in and the cruise
was over.
The public, prepared by all this
for something monumental, had to
satisfy itself with the story that
the duke and the President had
talked about the unsuitability of
pint-sizef Tayaguana island for a
naval-air base, and asking the duke
if he couldn't arrange better one.
1t was the biggest anticlimax in
yoonfbc
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
LATE:
Guards Ne1U Ddy

Delay in building barracks the
chief cause, National Guardsmen in
many parts of the U. S. got a
months respite from the rigors of
military training.
The new date announced from
Washington was February 8, and on
this day the army hopes to start
many thousands of guardsmen off
on their year of intensive military
schooling. Meanwhile 1910 draftees
were being trained by U. S. army
regulars.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
BY Edward C. Wayne
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Greeks Continue to Push Back Italians
AS British Seize New African Bases;
Laval Loses French Government Post;
Knudsen Claims Defense Program Lags

EDITORS NoTEWhen opinions
Released by Western Newspape
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26

NEW YORK.-CalIed the
champion recruiter of North
america, this pinsome young
lady, Miss Elaine Basset, is the
original of the Canadian Join
the-Army posters, ,ohere her
face did such good job that it
no,u has been selected to per-
,orm like service for Uncle
Sam.
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
CITY:
anxious

Strangest public health story In
years "broke" in Rochester, N. Y,
with whole city of 100000 souls
rushing to be inoculated against
typhoid.
First in sharp sequence of dra-
matte events was the firing" of two
city officials when a public health
officer, ION his toes" discovered the
city's water supply had been con-
taminated with water from the Gen.
esee river, infested with sewage.
Rochester's population, most of
them modernly health conscious,
rushed to have themselves inocu-
lated against typhoid, a job which
takes three injections with an in
terval between.
First day, the health officers dis
tributed 5000 "shots" of the serum,
which were promptly gobbled up by
private physicians and shot into
600 anxious arms
The Ely miner., 1940-12-26
Need of Advice

Every man, however wise,
needs the advice of some saga
cious friend in the affairs of life
Plaulius.
Evening star., 1940-07-21
Bleach Your Skin
by using
MercoIized
Wax Cream

This dainty cosmetic light
ems the complexion, fades
x1t