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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12

eaemnnt ln bottles. me bottles arc stored, bottom iiD. isa ranks in a daFk9ied room and every few days eaeh bottle Is turned Q frnetlon Of an inch by hand. when feFfnenta- ton has stopped, the sediment is poured of end the bottle feeefked and ig then ready fcr the ice- bucket.
 The second method utiilzes AnasF- ican scientific and technical iin- provefnents for niass produstio1i and results in c n1odefatoly~pF ftill- fiavored cl1alhpagne. The base fe. mains the same ag in the flfgl method = an aged, high quality vintage. Tho wine ig placed il large B,OOO-gailon vats, where the gas pressure, temperature and other factors are controlled by histrus Fnentss A champagne yeast, which causes fermentation, ig iiitroduceo to tho wine and in about i've dayf t is ready to be bottled.
 The third method results in ( carbcnated wine, but ig not 6 gen. uifae champagne. A gas ts charged under presgure into the wine se that t bubbles and has the ap' paarance Of 6 sparkling wine when t is poured into . glags.
 Last year, the wineries were caught dlaCrtsstockeA for the hOii. day trade and were hard pregsed Eo meet the demand. This year wineries have been preparing foi months and anticipate being able to keep ahead of the demand.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12

Hnsnma Arlene Vauaaae; n uFons Audrey Ahlnas uoNia Arms F0a xheinim Lynch, gosupf Aamnk. Rau- llno Rcsngen, UarmAlnB 9atusn0, Helen WooatsE.
 Grade z A oroup: Patricia Lord, Shirley Retersoia; 8 Group. KayEon Haearian, Beverly Conrad, John Naylor. Barbara zecha.
 Crude 6 - A croups Joseph Afa. eary. Mary MafinO, 0eorRiiaa Ma- sone: D Group: shirley Aitchisen, Nancy Clark, Mario Hilton. Francis Mercier, Joan Naylor, Ralph eatur- no. Theresa gchiayone, Marie Van- asse, John Wiberg.
 Grade 6 -- A Group: Julie Field, Lillian gomma: 3 Group: Allan AhIberg, William Brennan, Anthony Dir,eone, Jean Hayward, Winifred Ieary, Warren Leonard, Barbara eirica, Mildred wooster.
 Grade { -- 3 Group: Jane Briggs, Donald Desgerenux, Lois Hayward, Mary Lou Leichtle, Jacuueline Live erlmore, Helen Lord, Kathleen Mul- lin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12
Popping Corks SymboIize Growth Of Wine Industry
RY RnnERT EAHa

ROBERT FAHS eUnlted Stan COrFeapondsnNt gRano Cn Dec popping of corks from cnanpagne f dune and New Years celebrations VIII pc spohc Americas sparkling wine ndusfy
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12
MALONEY SCHOOL
 HONORS POSTED
Dolores Guarini Outstand. ing Student in I042's
 Graduating Class

Miss Mary D. Kelley, principal of Maloney school, today made public the honor roll of students isl Grades { to Q whose work during tho month Of December was worthy of distinction. The list is as fol- lows:
 Grade B. A-Dolores duarini; D - Charmaifie Thibodeau, Jane Iorio, Charles VeFnaie, Mary Cata- panc, Mary Mason; Rachael Cic. chetti, Albert ksuGso, Rubin Bearz Julius Ciccllettl, George Mason, William BehF, Rosemary dtsaTini.
 Grade z = A-Vivian spardone; noilo, Lenora Epearo Lena Distefano, Eleanor George Matilda Bartolinl: C--ETances Mar- tin, Annette T.aplante, Vera Greece Adam Demirs, Dorothy 1mperatC Eleanor Mcrea, Lucy Cairo, John Rinaldi, Fred Napolltaio. Valentino PcilettA.
 Grade 6 = A--Anna panaccione:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12

The Wine Institute reported that during the first nine fnonths Of lo41, January to September, inclus sive, the .. 6. sales of California Sparkling wines have totaled i0i, ,s O2i gallons, while production dgs ures are not available as yet.
 With the Christmag-New Years holiday season providing c great sales stimulus for sparkling wines, with the current national prosper fly resulting from the defenSe
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12

BAneAo clnElesllo. Esther xa- monss. Mary hAaFehine, Vivian Mulll Elizabeth xnnkowss Annanny xnkio. Jnaeph AKass0kta, Annn May tgardozsi, Flora Raetelia; C-caflo BonViaaato, Robert ueVlto, Francis IlaMheFii, Joan V6zani, Josephine AddasIo, Josaph h6afKone.
 Grade s ~ M-hznfgueFite Napol- itano. Rosemary PMnaccione, Thel~ ma ITOkty, shirley MrslSine; o. John D'Anaico, Vito Rollo, Catherine Frentzls, Virginia Eianco, Edward Miller.
 Grade { A-Nrnest Sullivan; 8 sally Berardo, Robert Iorio, Lidia CoFrela, Constance Trostv, Marie 0uerriero, Rosemary Eant0- pletro: -Icseph ubaldi, Primo Bazarini, Joseph VaFsallone, ga- bato D,Ambrod, Regina Cipriano, Edward KiilmoWslki, Harry Martin, Gus Procopion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12

characteristics and qualities of the finest foreign wines, plus Q distinc- tive flavor and aroma Of American grown grapes.
 Sparkling wine production In ig37, before the war, in California was only 0o,000 gallons. Sales Of all American sparkling wines that year totaled ii4,003 gallons, In 1888 production increased to iSo,. 900 gallons, but sales dropped slightly to iii,8A2 gallons. The next year, 1o3o, brought another slight increase in production to l600oO gallons, while sales totaied i2l ,486 gallons.
 Rooms on Fall of France
 Then the effects of the zall of France, one of the worlds priHiciE pal champagne producing areas, began to be felt Production in ie40 was nearly triple that of 1887 and sales were doubled. The l040 pro- duction was 206,000 gallons and sales totaied 22i ,020 gallons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12

with competition from foreign nhamuasnes virtually eliminated
 eaaise oG war conditions, Amer nan vintners have been called on an supply tho United states spar ki'nR wine market and production has skyrcaketed.
 GailforniaS wine industry, which ufoauees about 90 per cent ot the American wines, has expanded and grown by leaps and bounds during recent years, but the greatest stirfl- thus os ell phases of the industry has been in the production Of ehaInpagnes.
 s. N, Harkieroad, Fresno, pres. iaenk Of the Wine Institute, said that sales of California wines dur ing Se4i are up 2S per cent over lask year, while the sales of cham. nagnes have shown 6 l26 per cent Increase.
 Connolsseurs, who formerly rare- iy tried American wines, let alone uraiAe them are, discovering" that 3lae california product has all the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12
ANDERSON SCHOOL HONOR STUDENTS

The Anderson school honor roll for this month was announced to- day by Miss Mary c. Delaney, principal. The list of honor pupils in the i've upper grades is aS fol- lows:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12
10 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS

boom and with the general public learning it is possible t0 purchase really fine American cfiampagnes at moderate cost, it iS expected that more people than ever before will hear the popping Of cOrkB dlirs Ing holiday celebraticng.
 There are three general types ot American sparkling wines.
 One type is made in the Hme- honored naetted4 cf Europe, 4 good, vintage wine is allowed te
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-12
YOUNG MAGIC

Chester Morris, starring in Para mounts "No Hands on the Clock" for william Fine and Vivian Thomas, gave his first performance ag a magician at the age os twelve in Q school play. He Is considered the best magic artist in the film colony,
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
THEY JUST
CAN'T UNDERSTAND

The German national psychology as
reflected IN the German national polieY Is
a sound demonstration Of the reason Ger
many can never dominate the whole
world, even though she continues to WIN
military victories for years on end
which is not likely.
Consider the news recently.
German officials Monday ordered l00
prominent Paris Jews arrested and neld
as hostages for maintenance Of order III
the city.
Earlier, German officials had annoohe-
ed that acts of sabotage IN France WOULD
be punished by the execution Of prisoners
already held for political offenses. IN
other words. all prisoners were hostages
to prevent sabotage.
In addition. Germany has announced
that a widespread Communist plot Is
responsible for anti-NaZi demonstrations
and violence in both the occupied and
unoccupied portions Of France.
As far as the official announcements
GO. Germany might BE presumed 10 De
following out propaganda pattern IL
these matters. The presumption Is can
celed out. however, By German actions.
These actions have demonstrated beyond
a doubt that: ID the Germans actually
believe execution Of political prisoners
already held will prevent sabotage by
dissatisfied Frenchmen still at large, %
the arrest of prominent Jews will reduce
the increasing tempo of anti-NaZi actlV-
ity. and (3) a Communist plot IS the
handspring behind the growing unrest
of the French.
The German national psychology, in
other words, refuses to recognize in an
other people such a simple yet funda-
mental thing as the undying yearning to-
ward liberty which has motiVated the
French people through generations Of
bad leadership and good, through hard
ship and prosperity, through defeat and
victory, adversely and success. Behind
the German national policy is this fail
lure to recognize thing which Germany,
itself, has never known and so cannot
comprehend. The failure will be behind
German failure, in the end, to subjugate
so much as one nation to the Nazi will.
Germany may have trouble with Com
munists and Jews, it is true-but the
trouble they cause cannot be a drop in
the bucket compared to that set afoot by
men and women whose only desire is lib
erty from tyrannical oppression.
The thing Germany cannot understand
is simple thing: you cannot kill the love
of freedom
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
So They Say

Cur spiritual defense must keep
step with our military preparedness
if we are to preserve those things
which We have struggled SO hard to
secure.
DIR Frank Kingdom, announcing
Bible Week, Lee. 3-14.
Ii we could start with prayer
meetings in the White House, il
would nave more beneficial effect
than all these ether meetings they
have there.
-Luren D. Dickinson, former gov
erhor Of Michigan.
There is a whole lot OF difference
between simplification and stand
ardization, SPAB.
I made lot of money in Holly
wood; why should I ask for any
more?
-Annabella, movie actress, testi-
tying in a suit for fees.
It is the determination of the
CLIO. that this nation shall be q
land worth defending with every
effort.
Philip Murray, CLIO. president.
The Roman king Beliogabalus.
fed guests the brains of GOO os-
triches at a single feast.
Ia England, the tax on pack
age Of 20 cigarets now is 20 cents.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
BATTLEOF
SICKNESS
Nevada State JournaD

Nevada State Journal)
An outbreak of sleeping sickness i'll
North Dakota and Minnesota is believed
now to have reached its crest, while re-
cent cases also have been reported III
Manitoba. across the Canadian border.
So alarming has the diseases growth be-
come that the senate has authorized and
sent to the house an appropriation of
s. 600. 900 for establishment of an en-
eephalitis control board The new agen-
G. would work with the public health
service in investigating the malady's
causes and in quarantining suspected
areas Of source.
During the most recent week for which
figures are available. new cases in North
Dakota rose from 17S to $40, whiae the
increase in Minnesota was from 60 to
121. Asking approval of his control
board measure, Senator LANCER of North
Dakota told his colleagues that the dis
ease unless checked may spread all over
the United States, leaving death and
paralysis in its wake.
Encephalitis. like infantile paralysis,
may leave after-effects even If it does
not take the life of the victim And,
again like infantile paralysis, much is
yet to be learned about its cause and cure.
Health officials in Washington feel there
may be some significance in simultan-
eous increase of infantile paralysis cases
in the Northwest areas where sleeping
sickness now is spreading.
Because encephalitis attacks fewer per-
sons than does infantile paralysis, it has
not received the extent of research ac-
corded the latter Most of the wide press
publicity attached to sleeping sickness
cases has concerned individual sufferers
who have attracted national notice be-
cause of the length of their somnolence
But the Northwest outbreak has
funds appropriated may serve not only
to check a spread Of the sickness to
other sections but also to obtain more and
badly needed data for the benefit of medi-
cal knowledge
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
NOW NOW HAROLD!
(Chico Enterprise)

(Chico Enterprise)
Secretary Ickes' efforts to get gasoline
consumption in the east cut down volun-
tarily in proportion to available Nupply
are all right if they work. If they don't
something more stringent will have to be
tried, and we suspect that some of the
same people who now ridicule the voun-
tary effort as inadequate and call for
something stronger will then cry Dictator
ship.
Honest Harold seems to be over-reach-
ing himself bit, however, when he sug-
gests that other parts of the country
which have plenty of gasoline should pre-
tend they have shortage just SO they
can have the pleasure of suffering with
the unfortunate east If such gasoline
as would be saved in other sections could
be sent east to relieve the shortage there,
there might be something to the idea.
But it can't. The problem is one of trans
portation, not supply.
Sacrifice, denial, even suffering for
purpose, because it is unavoidable, is one
thing. But if one man in the office hap
pens to have pair of tight shoes, for all
the others 10 take off their comfortable
ones and put on tight shoes, just to be
sympathetic, or just to be miserable
along with the unlucky one-that's pref
ty close to perverted.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
by Willis Thornton :.
An Old Dream Becomes a Nightmare

be the slightest chance of the Hitler
plan succeeding.
But it won't do to dismiss it, for
all that For a hundred years, Eu-
rope has cried for deliverance from
its fatal Balkanization. To restore
their freedom to peoples robbed of
it is a necessary first aim. But it
is only a beginning. There Is no
hope for the world in returning to
a condition of inter- national an
archy in which the pig-headed rul-
er of any local Ruritania can jug
gle the peace of Europe; a condi-
ton in which every small country
is a pawn on a chessboard, moved
about or captured at will by the
big players at the edge of the
board
The axis partners hold up before
the world a picture that is a night
mare version of an old European
dream. The insidious part of it is
that it bears just enough faint re-
semblance to the dream that some
may be unthinkingly drawn toward
it. It has, further, the virtue of
concreteness; the forces of freedom
have not yet drawn their dream of
a free Europe in sufficiently def
mite lines.
The Nazi proposal cannot be
laughed Off it must be studied,
first to reveal the naked horror of
its cold impudence; second. to
bring home the stark necessity of
something better
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09

HOLLYWOOD, Sept. 8 - Inter-
viewing two comedians at the same
time is something like trying to do
the rhumba with Annie Sheridan
while fencing with Basil Rathbone.
Anyway, it's eXhausting, especially
if the comics happen to be a cou-
pie OF burlesquers named Red
Shelton and Rags Ragland
It was not planned interview
I have known better than that
since spending an afternoon with
Groucho and Harpo Marx and later
discovering that I didn't have a
line Id dare try to put into a
newspaper. This Skelton-Ragland
encounter was just something that
could happen to anybody on a
sound stage, like getting beaned by
a falling arc lamp.
The picture is Panama Hattie
and the director is Norman Nc
Leod. a comedy-maker and ordi-
narily a pretty funny guy himself,
Mcleod now wears dark circles
under his eyes and has sunk into
a morose and wary silence.
SCENE SWIPUNG STOPPED
just as he lined up a shot with
scores OF cabaret customers regis
tering animation. and with Ann So
thern poised for song, pendemon-
ium broke loose in one of the port
able dressing rooms. There were
thuds and curses and hoWls. Out
burst the romantic lead, Dan Daley
Jr., with his clothes half torn off
and artificial gore on his face. Rag
land and Shelton were only two
jumps behind as he fled across the
set yelling, Honest fellas--I prom
ise-T1l neyery try to steal another
scenel"
Skelton is an ingratiating. rather
handsome redhead with a continu-
Gus and contagious grin. Reminds
you Of Jimmy Cagney, only bigger
In appearance, Rags is exactly
the type that Warner Brothers
likes to hire for the more sinister
chores in its gangster flickers. He
has an underslung jaw and an
Overwhelming passion for bad puns
Before he was a member of the
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
AN ISSUE THAT
NEEDS CLARIFYING

Rep Martin Dies charge that Price
Administrator Leon Henderson is for
mer member of "at least four Comnun-
ist-front organizations, and is in sympa
thy with the Communist party, needs
clarification
Henderson, in his public discharge Of
the duties assigned to him, has not ap-
peared nearly as leftist as some others
against whom similar charges have never
been made. His denial of Dies charges
was, naturally, in an angry tone, but it
struck an unfortunate note in that it
applied to Dies the same false epithet
that many known Communist groups have
applied to '.un-American." Dies
may be lot of things, but he is not that.
We hesitate TO believe that Henderson
is a friend Of the Communists. We rec
ognize that Martin Dies, who has been
right more than he has been wrong, can
nevertheless make mistakes.
Everybody would be better off, and
the public would be better satisfied, if
Dies would list the organizations he says
Henderson belonged To. along with other
proof of his claims. The President, to
whom Dies charges We're made, should
be the one TO ask for proof
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
by Peter Edison =.
The Inside Track in WASHINGTON

Wheeler of Butte, Mont, who as
everyone knows IS No. l spokes-
man for those who believe the
United States should stay out Of
this war. and who could be count
ed on to appoint a subcommittee
OF senators who hold similar views.
Wheeler has done exactly this.
Chairman Of his subcommittee is
D. Worth Clark of Idaho, an out
spoken "isolationist", to use the
nasty word The other members are
c. Wayland Brooks of Chicago,
Homer T. Boone of Tacoma, Wash,
Charles w. Tobey of Temple. N. H.
and Ernest w. Mcfarland Of Flor
ence, Ariz., all with isolationist
leanings.
All this subcommittee can do Is
make its preliminary investigation
and if they are justified in DOING
so. recommend to the full commit
tee that the full committee recon-
mend to the Senate that the Clark
Nye resolution be passed.
Since there is a possibility thai
this resolution might be defeatsc
by the Senate. it is to the adyant-
age Of The Subcommittee to brins
out all the dirt it can at the pre-
liminary hearings. They miss NJ
opportunity to insist, however, thai
this is not witch hunt
FOR YOUR INFORMATION
The Navy will eat four millior
pounds of canned asparagus in {
year. Offers to loan binoculars anc
ether types of field and spy glasses
to the armed services are declined
with thanks. WPA will provide
leaders for operation Of recreation
centers in military and industria
defense areas. Z. S. birth rate j.
down to such an extent that {
census survey shows a "repro3uc.
ton rate" of only 96 for 1858
as against a rate Of III for 1925-29
About $4,000 of Americas six mil
lion farms raise goats. Twelve mil.
lion Of the 62 million hogs raised OF
u. S. farms in 1899 we're bu5chereC
on the farm for home use. TwC
million aged, $4,000 blind and 9OO,-
coo dependent children are receiY.
ing aid under federal-state pro.
grams of public assistance. JUS
when production Of washing ma.
chimes is being restricted, more
washer women are going into de.
fense industry work, thereby in
creasing the demand for NOR.
washing machines. When photo
graphers took pictures Of Vict
President Wallace wearing cottor
SOY, he refused to take off shoe
preferring to pull up his trouser,
and pose with feet on the desk
Then a cameraman suggested thai
might make it appear he wasn't
working. So the V. P. took off 4
shoe pretty, the way the camera
man wanted.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09

II would be easy to greet the
One Big Nation -for-An Europe
plan of Hitler and Mussolini with a
loud horSe-laugh. Too easy.
The wild-sounding plan announc-
ed in Mussolinis private newspaper
will nog - dismissed with Il single
loud snort
1t can never come true, but that
is not quite a good enough reason
for dismissing it utterly. Back of
it lies an age-old longing of Europe
for some kind of order to take the
place of the weary generations of
economic and political anarchy
which have racked that tired con-
tinent again and again.
Thousands, both in Europe and
here, will be tempted to say,
There's something in that" That's
the insidious part of it, there is
something in it.
Europe is never going to be made
into a single state in the sense
Hitler and Mussolini mean. That
it, it is never going to submit to
domination of all its peoples from
Berlin where a self-appointed
mastered race" sits in a rigid sad
die, welding a cruel whip over less
er peoples whose role in the uni
fled state is meted out to them at
the end of lash.
It will never work. There are toe
many millions of people in Europe
still who love freedom for there to
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
Barbs

There's a bright side even for
school children-only nine months
till vacation.
Your peace of mind often is de-
stroyed by a piece of somebody's
elses.
Peach preserves keep much bet
ter when placed ON a top shelf-if
there are children in the house.
After his wife won the rolling
pin throwing contest at Salina,
Kans., fair, a man copped the 100
yard dash. Practice makes perfect.
Why rot pass a law against
standing in street cars SO people
viii get a real kick out Of doing itf
Imperial Valley press., 1941-09-09
by Paul Harrison =.
HoIIywoods Fads, Fancies and Foibles

original Panama Hattie company
Ragland had been real star IN
burlesque. Said Shelton admiringly:
when Rags quit he was making as
big a salary as the strippers!'
EIGHT-BALL WISE GUY
He started in his native Louis
vile. L was poolroom comedian y
Ragland said. You knoW-a wise
guy. People figured they could get
rid of me by sayin I oughta go on
the stage. Pretty soon there was a
show in town and the manager
beat I'D the second comedian and I
got the Job. was biggern the man
ager, so we got along good"
Rags has refreshingly un-Hol-
lyWooden attitude about public re-
lations. The other day he offered
a studio press agent a story for the
local papers. He'd attended big
party the night before. 1t went on
until we'll past dawn, with the
neighbors screaming dire threats
everybody getting thrown in the
swimming pool and three carloads
of police finally arriving. The agent
had an awful time explaining tc
Ragland that wasn't quite the type
of event the movie industry likes
publicized.
For laughs off the set, Rags goes
around with a flutter- Drained cutie
named Suzanne Ridgeway. He says
he took her to a concert at the
Hollywood Bowl the other night
and as they. inched their way ur
the ramp with the throng she re-
marked: Now I know why nobody
ever comes here; it's too crowded.