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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
PETAN, LAVAL
 FRIENDS AGAIN

Vichy, France, Jan. 20.-(UP)- An official announcement said to- day that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain had met former Vice Pre- mier Pierre Laval Saturday to dis cuss a violent anti-government cam paign in the Paris Press.
 The newspaper campaign began after Petain dropped Laval from the government on December 13. The Paris Press insisted that Pe- tain had not given the nation suf- ficient reason for busting Laval, who formerly had been designated as successor to the chief of state.
 It was forecast that as a result of the meeting with Laval Marshal Petain would revise his cabinet and reaff1rm collaboration with Ger many. There was no announce ment concerning Lavals future status although Sunday com munique said that all misunder- standings which had provoked his dismissal from the cabinet had been dissipated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
STUDENTS PREPARE FOR EXAMINATIONS
Mid=Years Scheduled at Boston University for
 Last Week in Jan.

Waterbury students at Boston University who recently returned after enjoying mid-year holiday at home with their parents, are as follows:
 Anne L. Barry, B South View street; Rose A. Kingston, 149 Wood tick road; James R. Lawlor, 416 Wilson street; Judith Lipetz, ITO Fulton Park avenue; Rocco s. Ma. rino, Briarcliff avenue; Violet c. Ryb, g Earl street; Sonya R. sey- mon, 28 Clinton street; A. Josephine Steinman, RED. No. 3; Harold A. Stetson, Willow Court; Joseph Q. Swirsky, 33 4Pine street; and George c. Yuolgaris of S57 South Main street.
 From Thomaston: Elinor M. Charpentier and Evelyn R. Lind quist. Watertown: Donald N. Masi; Middlebury: Thomas F. Brosnan.
 Mid-year examinations are sched- uled for the last week in January, following which students and facul- ty will begin preparations for the University's largest traditional ob- servance, the annual Founders Day cnnvocatinn on March 13.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
332 Auto Deaths In
 State During 194O
9 l6O Accidents of All Types Reported to State Motor Vehicle Department; Official Figures Being Compiled

over 1899, but an increase will be noted for 1940 in bicyclists injured.
 The report also had registered a total of 510,164 motor vehicles as against the 1939 fifiure of 476,837 motor vehicles.
 There were 58O,222 persons who were licensed to drive automobiles as compared to 546,310 for the same period in 1889. An increase of new licensees represent about per cent
 Gasoline consumption as reported from gasoline distributors have moi been received but a statement end ing for the period of November 30 1940, can be made. For clever months of 1940 there were 331 ,668, ,15t gallons of gasoline consumed as com pared with 3O8, ,O79 O55 gallons for tht same period in 1889.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
TRUST CONTAIN NAMES SAYLOR.
Annual Meeting of Direc- tors Held at Waterbury
 Trust Co. Today

P. D. Saylor, former chairman of the board of directors, Waterbury Trust Company, was elected presi- dent at the annual meeting of di- rectors of the bank this morning.
 All other officers were reelected: F. w. Chesson, vice-president and trust officer; Louis R. Schick, vice. president and treasurer; Walter F. Torrance, secretary; w. L. Loonis, assistant treasurer; M. E. Horseley, assistant trust officer.
 Directors: Frederick w. Chesson, Harry S. Coe, Edward M. Cookson, James H. Darcey, Fred w. French, Chauncey P. Goss, 3rd, John R. Hughes, Theodore Lilley. Edward H. Madison, Parry D. Saylor, Louis R. Schick, J. Francis Smith, Charles A. Templeton, Walter F. Torrance, Glenn H. Wayne. Harold F. White.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20

A or 6 per cent increase in traffic accidents was predicted in preliminary report submitted by the department of motor vehicles as of January 16, and the report states that it will be several weeks before the flow of 1940 traffic accidents has slowed down so that a reasonable comparison can be made with 1889.
 There were 19,160 traffic accidents for 1940 as compared to the 18,525 of 1889, an increase of 535 over 1899 figures. The motor vehicle depart ment of Connecticut expects a 5 or 6 per cent increase in accidents but there were g fatalities les for 1940, which totaled 332 as against 355 of last year. Personal injuries also took a substantial decrease over last year. Persons who suffered injuries amounted to 1856 for 194O over 13,044, a difference of 48 Bless in- jured
 Pedestrians by far took the lead in fatalities, the report listed 183 pedestrians killed during 194O, as compared with 185 during 1939-a reduction in pedestrian deaths of two.
 Bicycle riders who met death were listed as 10, against 12 of 1889, re- duction of two deaths.
 Occupants of cars for 1940 who met death was reported as 139 deaths as compared with 158 deaths during 1889, lowering of 19 for 1940.
 There has been slight reduction in traffic accidents but where the increase in pedestrians injured during 1940 occur as compared with 1889 is now indicated.
 A substantial drop in car occu- pants injured will be shown for 1940
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
Borough Church
 Sports Balance

Naugatuck, Jan. 20 - St. Mary's church had a very good year, the annual report, made at Masses yesterday by Rev.
 Thomas M. Griffin, pastor,
 showed. Despite the fact that the church was much improved all bills were met and there was balance at the end of the year.
 The basement of the church
 was renovated, outside walls of
 the church were painted and
 windows calked and these
 items in themselves cost ap- proximately a total of $500. But the revenue was sufficient
 to offset these and usual ex- penses of maintenance. Father Griffin congratulated the par ishioners and expressed him.
 self as being quite pleased with the increase in revenue over the previous year. He urged them to continue their fine
 work this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
Two Credit Unions
 Declare Dividends
Newspaper Employees, C. R. &.L. Annual Meetings;
 Reports Submitted, Officers Elected at Meetings

Dividends of AS per cent were voted by members of the Waterbury Newspaper Employees Federal Credit Union at their annual meeting in Moose hall Saturday afternoon.
 The union now has assets of $13,- 900, and has made 633 loans for a total exceeding $57,000. Member ship in the union totals 303.
 Officers elected are as follows:
 William J. Slater was elected president; Carl L. Morrison, vice president; Miss Marguerite Sulli- van, clerk, and George w. Robi- taille, treasurer. Others named were William L. Harvey, retiring president; Lester H. Warner, and Albert E. Brown, board of directors; MT. Brown, Henry L. Schwarz and Helen Terrell, credit committee, and Mrs. Catherine c. Miller, Francis c. Blum and Edward c. Scholey, su- pervisory committee.
 It was announced last night at the annual meeting of the Conn. Railway & Lighting Go. Federal Credit Union meeting of members at the Y. M. c. A., that 966 loans for a total of $1O0,158 have been made since the organizations crea- tion in 1885, without single loss
 Dividends of 4:5 per cent were declared, the same as last year. Di- rectors and officers elected are:
 Martin J. Kelly, president; Peter L. Kenney, vice-president; James O. Culbert, treasurer, and Otis Fair ley, clerk; directors, G. c. Williams Lorenzo DiPolia and Alfred Mad dox; credit committee, G. c. Will Hams, Frank Guerrero and Joseph Schultz; supervisory committee John J. Uhas, Calvin Stone ano Arthur Butler.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20

Naugatuck.
 Wolcin was involved in the acci- dent after the car he was driving overturned when he crashed into the rear of a parked car owned by Stanley Dormard of Porter avenue, Middlebury. The operator of the parked machine had pulled Up to the curb to wipe his windshield.
 The injured man was treated by Dr. Victor Crescalla who told police Wolcin suffered brain concussion. Wolcin was taken to the hospital, but baked on being examined. He was later taken home by a friend.
 Iraq has stored over $300,000 worth of medicines and drugs for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
MYRON C. TAYLOR
 LEAVES HOSPITAL

Boston, Jan. 20-(UP)-Myron c Taylor, 67, President Roosevelt's special envoy to the Vatican, leave; New England Baptist hospital to- day after three weeks confinement 'ollowing gallstones operation, ac- cording to his wife.
 Mrs. Taylor, herself completing weeks rest cure. at the hospital said they would leave Boston imme-
 lately but did not disclose their destination. It was understood they would go to Florida.
 Taylor was well enough to dic- tate several letters to a secretary as he observed his birthday Saturday. He was operated on Dec. 28
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-20
AUGUST WOLC|N
 BALKS ON EXAM
Flatly Refuses Treatment at Hospital Following
 NaugatuCk Accident

August Wolcin, 25, of 12 Aetna street, Naugatuck, flatly refused to submit to an examination when taken to the Waterbury hospital by Patrolmen Wilfred Evon and Jo- Seph Kenney of the Naugatuck po- lice force, following an automobile accident Sunday night on Hotch- kiss street, near South Main street,
Evening star., 1941-10-15
Miss Clifford Wins Fame
Playing in Cliff hangers
BY IRA WOLFERT.
HOLLYWOOD.

the ceanmbed gu-wiers killers
wild beast baYb appeknockes Republic
her early twentes who stands like sacks Smith
Clifford and she is the first in than
Roand-to be bruited about a serial queen.
that serial real
Evening star., 1941-10-15

off gun every 80 seconds at some
one the audience loves-is still the
ideal of the business and always
will be-"
Serials are sawed out and tackled
and pasted together by staff of
four writers working a 9-to-5, five
and one-half day shift under Hall.
Hall himself used to be newspaper
man and magazine writer. Then
there is Joe ODonnell, who was
catcher for the Brooklyn Dodgers in
1911 and 1912; Ronald Davidson.
who was born rich. got Phi Beta
Kappa at the University of Cali
fornia and has made lot of money
fooling around in business on the
side; Joseph Poland, a pulp and
gag writer, and finally Bin Lively,
who was halfback on a University
Of Wisconsin football team and has
wandered through the newspaper
and advertising businesses.
A serial writer makes from Sc 500
to $1,000 a year-52 weeks a year.
He gets three days of with pay be-
tween each picture. Republics crew
writes. two 15-episode and two 12-
episode serials year-the equiva-
lent of 18 feature length pictures.
The serials cost from 100000 to
$500,000 to make and gross on an
average 100000 and $75000O. The
Lone Ranger" was the biggest money
maker of recent times, taking in
$1,200,000. But something like Fran
ces Clifford is likely to get serials
Evening star., 1941-10-15

of Bernard Shaw In so many ways
Mr.. Shaw has proved worthy of the
faith that one more can make little
difference, perhaps.
There is one more, however, that
will make its mark upon the faith
full: perhaps increase the number
of "the faithful"
That is the prologue which Mr..
Shaw does to Gabriel Pascal's screen
version of Major Barbara" which
was screened yesterday. In it he
plays Bernard Shaw, a bearded,
bright-eyed, mocking man of 85 who
speaks to the American people with
a kind of poignant humor about the
state of the world.
"At any moment" he says, sitting
there In a ShadoWy room located 40
minutes from London, "a bomb may
come through this ceiling" adding
that the idea represents more of a
hope than possibility. 1t is pretty
dramatic, as Mr.. Shaw knew it would
be.
But more dramatic is the passage
In which he says that regardless of
how the war goes, he knows his
number Is up"
1t Is a concession that one does
not expect of Mr.. Shaw, somehow
or other.
Its impact is the greater for that.
When Gilbert Miller's biographer,
or biographers, gets around to ex-
planning the tardy, reluctant en-
trance of the producer into the
movies they could summarize the
whole story in couple of words:
Lester Cowan. They could, but, in
the way of biographers, they won't.
Mr.. CoWan, who has just co-pro-
duced Ladies in Retirement" with
Mr.. Miller, was a fellow with an idea.
1t was very simple idea, namely
that what Mr.. Miller produced for
the stage proved to be so good that
1t ought to be in the movies. Mr..
Cowan lost no opportunity to say
so, pointing out with the eloquence
and skill usually associated with
great trial lawyers that Hollywood
was translating Miller productions
on its own and not always to the
credit Of the master.
Mr.. Miller had heard that before
but never from any one so forceful
and persistent as Mr.. Cowan.
He finally had to say yes, he, too,
thought it would be a good idea.
The first evidence Of its excellence
or its merit, to be conservative about
1t, will be Ladies in Retirement"
Mr.. Miller would not try to inf1u-
Evening star., 1941-10-15

ence any ones judgment in advance
at an extremely pleasant press ses-
sion yesterday afternoon.
X X X X
As matter of fact, Mr.. Miller
said virtually nothing about him
self as a motion picture producer
or even stage producer. He talked
about virtually everything and sew
eral people else. He talked most
amusingly on the subject of his
amazing record of having four sue
cesses, four hits, mind you, in a
single season number of years ago.
THE thing no one remembers,
fortunately" he says,'"is that mar
nowly escaped reducing my average
by producing two failures the same
season. I had nothing to do with
the escape. 1t was mere chance.
But 1t works out very well for the
reputation, you know"
That, too, will make good chap
ter for Mr.. Miller's biographer, espe-
cially if it has the Miller flavor in
the telling.
X X \ X
After dark memo: Tonight it is
Versailles that will open to give
post-twilight wanderers q place to
go. There will be not one band but
two. Ruff Hawn's will be the varied
orchestra, Jack Fernandez's that
which sticks to Latin American
music.
X
Oracle Fields show memo: Tickets
to the English condolences special
show November l for British war
relief will go on sale today at Homer
L. kits.
Evening star., 1941-10-15
He Didn't Say Vouz>all,
And Playwright Was Hurt
Shaw Puts Drama Into Prologue;
Gilbert Miller Becomes Producer
Of Movies Because of Cowan
By JAY CARMODY.

ideas Muonpoiing ideas,
should be told in the
ing In theater which might might Washington the
cast of that play which might have been written
initials might be M A,
Evening star., 1941-10-15

~ liidAi, AoA CholilpIc, SWCdtCl
Queen or a Silk Stocking Queen.
There have been only three lady
cliff hangers in the history of the
movies-Kathleen Williams, Pearl
White and Ruth Roland-and all
the girls became immensely wealthy
and as well known to the world as
sugar is to coffee.
This Clifford girl seems to have
It," Norman Hall said. He is the
boss writer of serials out here.
"She has the Clifford it, if you get
what I mean, my punchy pal, the
Gift to stand the gaff."
Mr.. Hall was floundering around
among words because he isn't ex-
actly sure what Frances Clifford has
that makes her a serial queen.
Nor Is anybody here exactly sure
why one girl can get away with
doing the heavy lifting in serials
and a thousand others who are more
this or more that have to go out Of
business and retire to art. Only the
kids who make or break the busi-
ness can tell why they stopped 60
ing to serials that featured hero
ines when Ruth Roland retired and
stopped the studios from using girls
as anything but an extra worry for
the hero. Only the kids can tell
why the Clifford girl made them
change their minds. The trouble
with the kids Is that, while they
can tell, they won't. They say
nuts" to questionnaires.
well, whatever it is" Mr.. Hall
said, shes got it. I found that out
when we dropped into a little dime
theater out in Carmel one Saturday
afternoon to see how our art was
conducting itself. When the lights
went up the kids found Frances
sitting there In a nice little green
suit, looking all shy and pretty and
soft.
"'Aaah, nuts!' one of the boys
said. He Is the one little apple that
you always find in a crowd who ap-
plauds the villain and Kisses the
hero and winds up by getting his
eyes pulled down over his mouth.
'Aaah, nuts this punk says. She
amt so hot. She couldn't lick an
ice cream cone
That's Scriticism in the serial
business, and I paid attention to it.
But so did the little girls. They
seemed to love Frances, and they
got tough about it and ganged up
on the knocker and chased him up
the aisle so fast that his short pants
couldn't keep up with him, and the
girls like to strangled him with their
pigtails.
1--WE could tell it wasn't just 10y
atty to their sex, but the serial did
it. We could tell because Of the
tough way the little girls acted. The
serial got into their hearts and
poked them up and made them act
tough-which is what it should do
when 1t hits"
So Frances Gifford's next picture
is to be 'Perils of Nyoka," which
ought to give a flip to all Of us old
guys who can remember "Perils of
Pauline" from 25 years ago.
"Oh, sure" Mr.. Hall said, "it's
still the same stuff. Kids haven't
changed. Any old timer who comes
around and tells me about how diff
ferent the younger generation is,
going to the dogs, and so forth, not
like us old turkeys and like that
well, he's crazy, and all I have to
do is show him some Of the old
time serials and some Of those We
are making now to prove that he's
crazy. We got the guys fighting on
airplane wings now instead Of on
cliffs, but the ancient beau ideal Of
all serials-dQuring out how to shoot
Evening star., 1941-10-15
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
and Time of Showing

Stage.
National-"Candle in the Wind"
new Maxwell Anderson play with
Helen Hayes: 2:30 and $3.50 pm.
Screen.
Earle-"Hold Back the Dawn" a
tender love story: 10:45 am, 1:30,
4:20, ITO and 9:55 pm. Stage
shows: 12:45, 3:35, 6:25 and 9;15
pm.
Keith's-"The Little Foxes" with
Bette Davis as the chief spoiler:
10:45 am, 1885, sos, Sis, 7:25
and 9:35 pm.
Palace-"Honky Tonk," Clark Ga
BILE kisses Lana Turner: 11::55 am,
2:20, 4:45, tbs and $40 pm.
Capitol-"The Feminine Touch"
applied lightly by Rosalind Russell:
10:45 am, 1870, 4:20, 7:10 and 10
pm. Stage shows: 12:40. $3.50, $40
and 9:10 pm.
Metropolitan - "One Foot in
Heaven" screen version of the best
Evening star., 1941-10-15

edy, Chicken Feed" Saturday night
at S:15 o'clock at the Agriculture
Auditorium. In addition to the
play there will be musical numbers
by the N. D. r. A. Troubadours.
Service men in uniform will be ad-
mitted free of charge.
Evening star., 1941-10-15

played in a great many theaters
that don't have them now.
"Shes the new twist the serial
business needs" Hall said.
Released by the North American News
paper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1941-10-15

selling biography: II am, los. $40,
Sis, 7:20 and $40 pm.
LittIe-"Mata Hari," espionage a
la Carlo: II am, 12:45, 2::25, 4:10
5:55, 7:50 and 9:45 pm.
CoIumbia-"When Ladies Meet"
romance in the high places. with q
starry cast: 10:45 am, /, $40, 5:25
TAO and 9:55 pm.
Pix Three Cockeyed Sailors,
British slapstick afloat. 1920 am,
1:20, $3.50. $50, 7:30 and 9:40 pm.
Trans-Lux - News and shorts;
continuous from 10 am.
Evening star., 1941-10-15

To Stage Comedy
The Defense Players Of the N. D.
r. A. will present Guy Bottoms COM
Evening star., 1941-10-15

OF the play generally, the actor
Evening star., 1941-10-15

speclflcally, the
irreverent hus-
band had this to
say after seeing
Monday nights S
performances:
m y biggest
disappointm e n t
was when So
and-so did not
say vouz-a all"
4 X X X
For a lon 6
time, one of the
worlds most val
i'd faiths has
Ion- +Io lro
matte qualities
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-03-20

of soil and forest conservation,
but we have not done enough to
assure conservation of human
lives from the blight of unem-
ployment, of economic shifts and
instability.
Today hundreds of thousands
of our families wander like tum-
bleweeds across the expanse of
our country, families who can
and should be given the oppor-
tunity to grow roots in commun-
ties which they call their own,
to establish homes, and thus to
be assured healthy and normal
growth as human beings, as
families, as citizens, and as pro-
ductive workers.
These millions of people, fore
ed to search for new homes, and
new jobs are so near the ragged
edge-with total annual earnings
ranging between around $500
and $500 per family-that the
slightest setback or misfortune
is certain to push them into ut
ter destitution.
To the plain public duty of re-
medying these conditions and of
removing their causes is now
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-03-20
Charles Stelzle
1869 1871

(By Charles S. Macfarland,
General Secretary Emeritus,
Federal Council of the Churches
of Christ in America).
The world of religion and the
world of labor owe great debts
to Charles Stelzle. He was an
unusual combination of practi-
cal sense and, in the best sense
of the term, of culture. Among
the many who have contribut-
I ed to what is known as the $50
cial gospel" he was a pioneer
who saw deeply, had an almost
unerring sense of direction and
an inflexible conscience in his
view of justice.
DR.. Stelzle was among the
first to lead the Christian
Church to a sense of it's respon-
sibility for that element of hu-
manity which we call the work
er."
While on the one hand he al
most unerringly pointed out, in
cisively, the failures and limita-
tions Of the churches, he was
also courageous in reproving,
and when it was necessary, con-
demning the errors, whether tao
tical or ethical, of the labor
movement and it's leaders.
DR.. Stelzle was not given to
superficiality. He knew labor.
not only from his own expert
ence as a worker, but also deep
ly informed himself by wide
reading. While without either
academic or theological training
in college or seminary, his quick
observation and rapid thinking
made him master of his chosen
themes.
His life story, "Son of the
Bowery," should be in the hands
of the multitudes of our young
men today, who see the difficult
ties of life in the shadows of our
contemporary social order.
AS my colleague over many
years, Charles Stelzle, while in
dependent in his thinking and
action, was ever generous and
helpful. The Federal Council of
the Churches of Christ in Amer
ica was in no small measure
guided by him in it's earliest
years. He was one of the franz
ers of the classic so-called
"Creed of the Churches" which
ultimately became the social
standards of the many denomin-
ations in the Council.
In recent years, after many
men of his age were in retire
ment, he continued, in his re-
leases to the press, to give light
and leading in time of indus
trial complexity and uncertain
leadership.
AS one thinks back over his
half-century of service and es-
Inmates the new relations be-
tween the Church and Labor,
one can find his Life and mind,
and still more perhaps, his heart
built into enduring institutions
and into the lives of many of us
who shared his service, caught
inspiration from him, and who
today are moved to gratitude
for a great leader and friend.
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-03-20
SURPLUS OR
SHORTAGE

Shortage Of certain kind of
skilled labor here and a surplus
there does not indicate a lack
of skilled man power of a ma
lion. Yet, there are some who
would make radical changes and
unjust laws on the strength of
the first report of a shortage of
labor in a certain trade. 1t
doesn't indicate that there is a
justification in tearing down
standards of labor and enacting
laws predicated upon false
alarms that the country is suf-
fering because of a labor short
age.
There has been definite i'm
provement in employment but
we still have millions out of
work and on short-time employ
ment. Yet, an assault is being
made on labor standards by pol
iticians who would pass legisla-
tion to compel workers to work
on jobs whether they like them
or not and to abolish overtime
rates.
Our defense program must be
pushed as fast as is humanity
Newark leader. ([Newark, Ohio]) 1917-1946, 1941-03-20

strength is paramount. But what
will it profit the American peo-
pie to throw an impregnable de-
fense around their borders and
at the same time face defeat in
the internal fight against un
employment, privation and in
security?
An essential part of our de-
fense problems therefore, is to
plan and build in such a way
that the sources of employment
could never run dry as they have
done in the past, that a constant
supply of productive activity is