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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-20
Rush Stricken
Women TO
Hospital

Thirty-four women employees OF
the Webster Cigar Company fac
tory at 5545 Grandy avenue were
overcome by mysterious fumes
shortly after reporting for work
this morning and were rushed to
Receiving Hospital.
All will recover, according to
hospital attendants.
The first woman fell to the floor
at $3.50 a. m, and was taken to q
rest room where first aid was
administered. About five minutes
later another woman tainted and
when, shortly after, three mora
keeled over, the police were sum-
moned.
s07 WORK ON FLOOR
When rescue squads and police
patrols reached the factory, "a had
been overcome.
The women were among BOT en-
ployes on the second floor of the
plant. rolling cigar filters.
/ Many of the women overcome
were nauseated and complained Of
stomach pains.
Precisely what the fumes were
that caused the illness had not
been determined. Gas company
inspectors could detect no gas
odors or leaking gas. The fumes
were difficult to trace because Of
the strong cigar odor that filled
the room.
Detective Edward Eggers of the
police arson squad was investigat-
ing the possibility that the fumes
were of cyanide gas from sealed
tobacco storage room in the base
ment. Bulk tobacco is stored in
the room three days prior to use
by the company.
CARRIED OUT BY FAN
The cyanide fumes are carried
out of the room by a fan that
propels the fumes into a pipe. The
pipe goes outside the plant walls
T near the first floor ceiling and
ascends to the roof where the gas
escapes into the air.
Eggers said that the gas could
have leaked from the pipe and
seeped through the first floor CELL
ing into the second floor room
where the women were at work.
A fan in the room would spread
it rapidly to all sections of the
room.
Mrs. Lillian Landburg. AZ. Of
1894 Payton avenue. one of the
women taken to the hospital. said
she had complained to the floor
foreman of the odor.
"He told me that n repairman
from New York was working on
the plant cellophane machine
and had dumped out some acid"
Mrs. Landburg said. "He said
the odor would vanish In q few
minutes"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-20
IN THE
NEWS
4 RE we nation OF senti
"A mentalists or sadists:

4 RE we nation OF senti-
"A mentalists or sadists:
II we consider the story of
Laddie, we must be sentiment
talists.
Probably every man. woman and
child In America now knows the
story of Laddie, the faithful.
Laddie was d0g-a plain
everyday dog-part AiredaIe and
part just dog.
Laddie and his master. young
Everett Scott, got along swell on
their farm back I'm Chanute,
Kansas.
oh yes. 1t was THEIR farm all
.right-Het just Everett's.
Everett worked on the farm and
did his part OF the plOughing and
sowing and reaping and his part
OF the chores around the house.
But Laddie heiped--as dogs can
and DO.
He kept up the morale.
lie ran along to see that every
thing was done right--and, when
IT was, he barked encouragingly
and approvingly.
Moreover. he protected his
master from any stray dogs that
might wander into the vicinity,
and in the performance Of his duty
got into fierce fights occasionally
and came back to his master
proudly victorious and happy in
the accomplishment OF his daily
good deed.
Indeed. Laddie worked twice as
hard as his master, and went twice
a. far and twice as fast, and kept
his legs and tail and eyes and
ears and nose going all day long
He had earned his dinner when
he came home at night. and he
enjoyed it in the consciousness II
good days work well done.
He was tired. too, when he went
Ia sleep on the rug in his masters
room.
Sometimes he barked muffled
bark in his sleep as he chased an
imaginary rabbit--then woke up
with a start a. he had an actual
and material pillow thrown al him.
But that was all right from
Iserett.
Everything was all right from
Everett.
Everett was the grandest guy in
he world.
He and Lsddie got along just
well
But
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-20
Ford Contract
Speeds Army
B0nnbers
BY GRIFFING BANCROFT JR.
IntI News Service stan Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.-The
new contract TO the Ford Motor
Company, which will initiate this
country's far-fiung program of
turning automobile makers into
producers of plane assemblies.
viii run many millions of dol
lars" defense official said today.
1t will be followed. they added,
be even larger subcontracts from
plane companies for the actual
manufacture of the assemblies in
Ford's new plant at Ypsilanti,
Mich.
The contract. under which the
government will equip the plant,
has been approved by top defense
officials without the labor clause
which caused Ford to turn down
a truck contract recently.
1t was expected to raise opposi-
ton in some labor circles. but pro-
curement officers, frankly wor-
ried about production of heavy
bombing planes. termed the peace
move to Ford as "a deep necessary
to the preparedness program.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-20
BY AUSTEN LAKE

Copyright. 1871. by Boston American
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he plant manager, William ].
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
South Britain Briefs
stable Is chasing speeding motorists elsewhere.

stable Is chasing speeding motorists elsewhere.
 Colonel Eltlng is . shipshape military man who stands for no fooIing. He retired to Woodbury and wants that town to be just 8 little more like the Ideal village than any other town in Connec- ticut. He has frequently sponsored town regulations that would have improved the affairs in that neck of the woods.
 Somehow, the Colonel appears to have gotten the idea that another good package store would be helpful in Woodbury. In March, the town meeting tabled 6 sug- gestion that no package store be allowed within 2000 feet of another such dlspensary. The Colonel fig ured that Rob Judson and Harry Garfield might be interested in that town ruling. Anyway, Harry delivered some film to the Col onel's house, words were exchanged and Harry says the Colonel kicked him,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
GOOD START MADE
 IN GOVT ECONOMY
Roosevelt Cuts $IO9,0OO,. 900 From Relief; More
 SIashes Are Expected
BY FRANK McNAUGHTON United Press Stan Correspondent)

Washington, May 2i. (UP)--Dem- ocratic members of the house ways and means committee called Presi- dent Roosevelt's proposed cut of $i09 900 900 in relief Q good start today, but called on him to econo- mize in other non-defense expendi- lures.
 The committee is considering q proposed $3e00,o00,00 tax program and had urged the White House to take the iniat!ve in pairing down ex- penses not essential to defense.
 The house deficiency appropria- tons subcommittee starts hearings on the 10d2 relief appropriation to- day. MT. Roosevelt, In 6 message to Congress yesterday, proposed revl- sions of his earlier estimates and reduced the $905 900 900 requested in January to $s86 100000. -.
 Chairman Robert L. Doughton, D., N. O., of the ways and means com mittee, said. "Thats e start. hope 1t keeps up" However, the suggested economy "of itself wouldn't have any great weight on $3,600 100000 tax bill, but might have c good psycho- logical effect"
 Rep. John M. Taber, R., N. Y, criticized MT. Roosevelt for not rec- ommendlng c larger cut in relief ex- penditures. and said he personally would fight for reduction of that appropriat ton 10 $80000,00o
 MT. Roosevelt" Taber said, didn't take into consideration that there is employment available for q lot of these people. He has them working on defense projects when the work could be done cheaper, bet ter and more quickly by regular labor on c contract basis"
 Calling WPA "loafing agency" Taber said the Presidents sugges- ton was "just Q part of his anti- defense program to fool away 6 lot of money"
 Republican members of the tax
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
BENTLEY SCHOOL BOUNDED IN 1915
H'ime Proves SOundness of
 Ideas in Skilled Account. ancy; Graduates Rated

4 The Bentley School of Accounting and Finance, of 0i5 Boy:S;on street, @oston, Massachusetts, was found- nd in 1917 upon the dual idea that khe age of specialization was just hgeinning to get under way and that the need of skilled accountants An business and in professional ac-
 ounting was in It's infancy.
 l The Intervening years have prov- on the soundnesS of these ideas and now the Bentley School, with an enrolment of more than 2,600 Stus dents, is the largest echool in the United States which specializes ex- clusively in training men for careers An Accounting and Finance.
 Its students come from all parts IDf the country, and its graduates are employed in 37 states and 16 foreign countries.
 The two year Bentley course com. ,prises more than double the aver age number of semester hours of accounting trianing given by all schools of college grade in the country.
 Bentley training is constantly be- a1g revised and improved to keep ,aip to the minute with the ever changing needs of business and fi- nance, and in accordance with the schools basic tenet-"Nothing is SO good that 1t cannot be made bet- ter"
 The schools unparalleled growth as due to the superior quality of the work It's graduates are doing. Bus tness executives and public account ants freely testify that Bentley graduates, as Q class, adapt them- selves and become capable employees an less time than do those they can optain from other sources.
 More of its graduates have passed Certified Public Accountant exam anations than those of any other school or college in New England.
 Many business corporations and public accounting firms continually take on more Bentley graduates; one company, the leader in It's in- dustry, has just engaged 10 men from the class that will be graduat- cd in June of this year; and some of the largest companies in the Mid- Idle West hire Bentley graduates gear after year on the recommends kion of the school oi7;cers. without Gver seeing the men until they wall: Anto the offices to start their work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

speaker at the May meeting of the women's Missionary Society of Zion Lutheran Church, Thursday after noon at the church on Cherry street. Mrs. Bloomquist, whose home is in New Britain, will address the women on some phase of the societyS many activities and will also bring c greeting from the annual coriyen- ton o fthe New England group, held this month in Worcester, Mass.
 Mrs. '. Einar Kron will preside at the meeting and introduce the guest speaker. There will be Q short business session of the local society. After the meeting coffee will De served by a special committee. All women of the congregation and al interested in missionary work nave been invited to attend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
Daily Statistics
 on Auto Accidents

. General Traffic Accident Data Total number of traffic ace
 cidents reported for last
 year as of this date. , 7O33 Estimated number of traffic
 accidents caused so far
 this year as of this date 0O29 Total number of personal
 injuries caused last year
 as of this date ..........4l36 Estimated number of per-
 sonaI injuries caused so
 far this year as of this
 date ................. .44l4
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

Harry Garfield doesn't carry any grudges against any man. If the Colonel would just stop trying to improve the town so fast, Harry might even string along with him. But when . man gets kicked, then it's something more serlus.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

We'll bet ten cents that Lyman Green never had the advice of q county agent to help him make farming pay. The only reason why the ID of A men ever stopped off there was because Lyme had a few gypsy moths and the govern ment needed an excuse to start another VITA project. Just ask Lyme about government expertsI Ask him--and run.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

blue, like the sky or a baby's eyes. The fiber is tough and hard to separate Old timers used to work on 1t, but 1t takes too much mach inery now to fabricate the stuff to make 1t worthwhile except under some sort of Q government sub sldy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

an outstanding S { q te Senator, and Harry Can-
 field, Postmas- ter and drug gist, again face the possibility of having to battle for their right to retain
 package store 1icensesl Col. Elting prepares for action in town meeting!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

County agents are usually too busy with politics to give you much help with these new crops. According to all reports, they have yet to find . way to combat the strawberry weevil, 8 new pest that has the berry pickers worried Only a few people have ever been able to grow decent peas in this valley, but the county agent hasn't come around with any sug- gestiOns to improve the pea crop
 It's funny about government and state employees who are supposed to work with agriculture. Take Nate Evarts, now. Nate forgot what day you were supposed to blow under cornstalks, one year, and the first hustler who passed his cornlot made a complaint. There was quite a bit of trouble about that particular mess of corn stubble and Nate doesn't like to think about it even to this day. One rumor has 1t that Nate got summons because of that lapse of memory; anyway, if one of mates best heifers had choked on an apple, you couldn't have found a county agent or a Department of Agriculture expert within fifty miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

The Mount Carmel Dramatic Clubs outing committee will meet tonight ct 7;30 o'clock at the par- ish hall of Our Lady of Mount Car mel church to make final arrange ments for the picnic which will take place next month. The committee Is composed of Pasquale Bredice, chairman, Anne Raimo, co-chair- man, Mary Ranaudo, secretary, Mrs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
ZION SOCIETY BILLS SPEAKER
Mrs. Gustav BIOOnquist of Hartford Lutheran Won.
 ems Guest Tomorrow

Mrs. Gustav Bloomquist, president of the Hartford District Womens Missionary Society of the AuguStana Lutheran Churches, will be guest
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
BY BILL GARRIGUS

Guns along the PomperaugI Woodbury seethesl State Senator Robert o. Judson, thrice elected to the General Assembly and now
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
LIFE SAVER

Warmers Jean Ames is one of the few Hollywood actresses who has earned a Senior Red Gross Life Saving emblem.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
Seldom do

SeIu m 0O
 we hear anything from the silent reaches Of W00dbury, except com piaintS about the Over.zeal0us con- stabulary, but we're hearing things now that make us prick up our ears. Harry Canfield, Q former South Britain boy, runs Q drug store, package store, and post office in North Wo0dbury. He keeps q clean establishment and when you buy slippery elm bark there, 1t slips. The same k true of the pac- kaged goods dispensed there. Harry knows merchandising and he keeps Q customer once the first purchase is made.
 Rob Judson runs a drugstore and has a package department down at Woodbury center, that portion Of town where you usually find the constable lurking. MT. Judson has been even a livelier merchandiser than MT. Canfie!d. He was also a postmaster but he lost out when the New Deal started passing out patronage. Rob IS Q gentleman and q first class citizen. He has Q cir- culating library and Q good soda fountain. He keeps his stock ship shape and the best people trade there. MT. Judson enjoys considers able transient trade when the con- committee said the President ought to have cut relief deeper. Rep Thomas Jenkins, R., O., said Mir Roosevelt's plan was mo encourage ment."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
Rev. Paul Lunskis
 Elton Party Guest
St. JOsephs Curate Receives Gift at Farewell Func.
 ton; Leaves for Pennsylvania PastOrate July
BROOKLYN NEWS

Antoinette DeMaria, Rocco Ciampi. Vincent Mature, and 0uartao Fiorucci. Ia
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1941-01-10

ILr. AL. Swanson lief for
Eklutna last wock end who re he
II IL sc eL1p 10 ed for some time.
The Valley settler. (Palmer, Alaska) 1937-195?, 1941-01-10
STOCN.lEN MET

Bans disease and its control
was tic topic Of dis cussion at O
moo ting Tuesday nj GIT, OF farmers
interested in the COW business
whether in Dairy or Beef prodnc tt on
Dr.. Earl T. Graves, Terri oria
Veterinarian ncWly arrived from
the States, Was present to an sWer
the nam Questi ons that were asked
and oxpllincd methods Of control
practicod in many OF the dairy
statos outs ido.
Calfhood We ccina lion Was
brought into the di cuss ion as
wore also the possibilit tt os in
artifi ci@l ms omin0ticn. Dr..
Graves stated that it is Governor
Grucnin5& dosirc tn every COW
il Alaska be tested for Baa s.
Tie 8tockl1on present st the
nc ting IS igaifiod their dosiro to
cooper ratio by voting. for q re-
test Of tie COWS il the Valley.
Nat nials md equipment fer
testing i Il be ordered ilraediatol II
end DR.. Graves will probably be
making tosts Within thirty days.
He Wi Il also conduct the 1aborat ory
work cnd l;oop. on officia al record
Of all VS. tested. Each animal
wi Il b . car tagG cd for idont iii
cation.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-31

comments are so ridiculous as to
result only in a long horse-laugh.
The crocodile tears OF Berlin
paper, which charges that President
Roosevelt is circumventing the
rights of Congress, are equally lud-
icrous 1t is hilarious for a country
which threw its own Congress COM
pletely out the window eight years
ago to take this stand in relation
to an incident in which every
American child of 7 knows that the
President has put the issue square,
ly up TO Congress.
Two countries which have openly
avowed their intention TO put an
end to "decadent Gemocracies" shed
crocodile tears over the rights of
democratic citizens and the func-
toning of freely elected democrat
ic legislative bodies! 1t is to laugh.
The object of the propaganda
services of totalitarian countries is
not to make other people laugh.
When the telegraph wires in the
lands of the barbed wire go hay
wire. it's time to look for short
circuits.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-31
END OF THE WHEELER
STIMSON FIASCO

Secretary of War Henry Stimson has
proved himself gentleman by apologlz-
ing to Senator Burton X. Wheeler for
the "close to treason" remark brought
on by his belief that Wheeler had circu-
lated postcards among United States
soldiers asking them to protest to Pres
ident Roosevelt against steps leading to
war.
1t is the end of the Wheeler-Stimson
feud, but it leaves a peculiar aftermath
Secretary Stimson has put his Comman-
der-in-Chief in an unenviable position.
1t is not the secretary's fault, perhaps,
but his apology to Sen. Wheeler leaves
President Roosevelt in one of the most
embarrassing political predicamentS OF
the year.
For, if you remember, the President
supported the secretary in his criticism
of Sen Wheeler, bringing up the sub
ject himself at one of his press confer
ences and declaring that the senator had
gone too far" His statement, as he in
tended it should, was given widespread
publicity.
Now Secretary Stimson has knocked
the props out from under the Presidents
criticism by publicly apologiZing to Sen.
Wheeler If Stimson was wrong, Roose-
velt was wrong too. If StimSon owed
the isolationist senator an apology, so
does the President
The President would be a bigger man
for it if he would make the apology. But
will he?
Secretary Stimson (and President
Roosevelt too) should learn from the
incident the lesson that was pointed in
this column the day after the original
attack against Wheeler-that such ser
ious charges should not be voiced with
out adequate investigation beforehand
to determine that there is a sound foun-
dation for them.
The voicing of 'close to treason"
charges without such an adequate inves-
tigation forced an apology from the cabi-
net official and left the President in
political hot water. If they, and others
close to them, learn not to use their high
office to tarnish the characters of others
before thorough investigation, the coun-
try will be better off for the incident.
Hysteria should not be allowed in
this country during the present emer-
gency, and least of all should it show
its head in the high places.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-31
b. Peter Edison.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

to match the produCtion-purchaSes-
prioritieS Defense Industry Adyis-
ory Committees. When it comes to
naming committees, Sidney Hill
mans division is second to none.
~ Then, E. r. Stettinius, Jr., head
of the priorities section in OPM
has lust announced his contribu-
ton to the general confusion. Stet-
tinius doesn't call his committees,
but branches, and his first lineup
listed eight commodity branches,
ranging from No. rubber, syn
thetic rubber and cork to No. 8
asbestos, mercury, industrial dia-
monds, quartz crystals, platinum
metals, radium, uranium, kyanite,
abrasives, diamond dies and jewel
bearings.
If you haven't surrendered al
ready, it might be mentioned in
closing that the boys thought up
another dodge last week. Not COM
mittees and not branches-panels.
Just what the difference is between
committee and a panel is not yet
clear, but first indications are that
while the committees will be perm
anent, the panels will be temporary.
Panels will just be called in to
solve specific situations, temporary
crises, and they will then be ex-
pected to dissolve.
The gag around Washington now
is that OPM will die, one of these
days, of its own sheer weight and
clumsiness. An equally good bet is
that Congress will appoint a COM
mittee to investigate OPM. Or the
Supreme Court might be argued
into declaring it unconstitutional
Imperial Valley press., 1941-07-31
GUNBOAT BOMBING

If the japanese bombing of the L. S.
gunboat Tutuila in the Yangtse river at
Chungking strengthened congressional
support of the bill to retain drafteeS,
reserves and national guardsmen in serv-
ice, it was all to the good Of this country.
But it should not be allowed to become
an incident out of all proportion to its
actual Importance.
We need a continuing strong army and
every bit of preparedness we can get.
We needed them just as badly before
the Tutuila bombing as after Its only
Importance, in this country, should be
the psychological effect on some short
sighted congressman who need an actual
physical blow before they can see the
danger that should be apparent to them.
AS for the bombing itself, it might very
we'll have been unintentional and accl-
dental. japanese pilots are notOriOusly
poor marksmen. The Tutuila incident
cannot be regarded as seriously as the
bombing of the Panay, before EurOpe's
war broke out. We didn't fight about
that; we should not feel that we have
to fight about the Tutuia.
If later events prove that the bomb
ing was merely the first step in attacks
against United States property, that will
be different matter altogether. Such
attacks, deliberate an d considered
should not be tolerated for one minute.
But let us be sure the incidents are
deliberate before We let ourselves get
too excited about them.