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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
WAR FORCING UP
 PRICES IN CHINA
Letters From American
 Sailors State Shoes Cost $lOO a Pair

A first-hand account of the way prices are skyrocketing in China after four years of warfare is given in recent letters from several friends there received by Chief Petty Officer Garry L. Murphy, in charge Of the local Navy recruiting station. The exchange rate between China and this country is now 20 to = that is, one dollar in our currency can be converted into $20 of Chinese money.
 According to a letter which ar- rived here yesterday, rice, which has always been the staple food of, the Oriental people, now sells at $l6O in Chinese money for the same amount which could be bought for $5 when the local recruiter last vis- ited the country. Also, the best handmade shoes at that time cost $5 or $6, Murphy said, but now he is informed their price has risen to above $100 pair, again in the Chinese currency.
 Other prices which have scared in recent years are meat, the cheap est varieties of which are now $5 8 pound; eggs, which are four for dollar, and gasoline for automobiles, which is $4 a gallon at present. The local recruiter said that when he was last in Shanghai, it was possi- ble to get a car and travel from one end of the International settlement to another for a dollar, but that now with the price of gasoline 50 high, it costs $4 or $5 to go any consider able distance.
 These stratospheric prices, of course, do not cause so much alarm to Americans in China, because of the very favorable rate of exchange between the currencies of the two countries, Murphy pointed cut. Un- til recently, all prices in the East have been ridiculouSly low from the point of view of Occidentals.
 Another letter received here from a sailor serving with the Yangtze patrol states that the Americans in service there are paid in Chinese silver dollars, because most of the paper money is so valueless, and he reports that the men actually have to use pails when they go to the paymaster to collect the pay due them.
 Navy Recrutiter Preston Thorns has also received letters from friends in China corroborating this infor- nation. One of his correspondents reports paying $900 a month tui- ton, ip Chinese currency, for each of his four children.
 Even allowing for the wretched standard of living which most of the Chinese people have become ac- customed to in past years, Murphy said, he doesn't see how it is pos- sible for them to live with prices taking such a terrific boost. In the past few years they have been able to scrape along because prices were at least in proportion to the miser- able wages that most of them earned, but with the current infla- ton, their lot must be really des- perate.
 Those persons who have been wor- rled In recent days about the eco- homie conditions in the United States, and our standard of living. may be treasured by considering in contrast this picture os the embae- tied chinasa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
TO,dsyS Answ0SS e
 RANIUM CRACKERS s
Questions on Cornis Page

1. Blitzkreig is German for lightning war;" blitz m eanin g lightning, krieg meaning war. Pan- ger is German for "armored." Thus armored division is panzer division; armored ship, panzerschiff.
 2. Archie Is British slang for anti-aircraft gun; Jerry is a Ger man fighter or his plane; Tommy is a British soldier.
 3. Navicert is the navigation cer- tificate issued by British to mer- chant vessels certifying cargo is not for Germany. Paravane is device for sheering mine anchor cables.
 4. Y-gun has Y-shaped firing arms for discharging depth bombs at U-boats, which are German sub- marines (unterseeboots.
 5. All planes except Stuka are British. It Is a German dive bolnb- CT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

The rejection of over ten per cent of Selective Service registrants because of deficient and decayed teeth is a striking indictmen of the American people for their failure to make wider use of modern preven- tive dental care and the newer knowledge of nutrition, Franklin M. Erlenbach, DM.D, Chief of the Division of Dental Hygiene, pointed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
- ENM EM.

Dr. and Mrs Joseph A. Reynolds were recent guests ar the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va Basking in the sunshine simultaneously with them were MT. and Mrs W. Lincoln Merwin of Milford Attorney H1y Irving Johnson is year older today Dltto Tor Mlke Sheehan of South Elm Street. Dr. Clarence H. Coe and Fred N Bishop have been proposed for membership i'm the Kiwanis Club. Charles Libby was elected treasurer of the Connecticut State Labor Department Association in Middetown recently. He was the lone Waterburan named to office.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
M N M
By PAUL HARRISON

\ DI k AOA AAfAAsAsA0OAN (NEA Service Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Hollywood, Oct. 3O-Long the habitat of the make-believe mobster and the spawning place of cinematic crime, Movieland is embarrassed these days by a touch of realism. It is being pointed out as the home and headquarters and playground of the man who has been called Americas head hoodlun.
 That dubious and unproven dis tinction is tackled on Benjamin ("BugSy") Siegel. He is a looSe- l Tipped lug with slick hair and an | Adolphe Menjou wardrobe, and he ! sometimes has been described as handsome" by local society report CTS who for years have been identi- flying him as "a wealthy Hollywood sportsman"
 Bugsy used to get around with a few movie celebrities and countess or two, and he lived in a mansion in uppity Holmby Hills. But he isn't doing any of those things now. He is sitting in the jail house and pol ishing his perpetual manicure and waiting for November 10. At that time, along with weird charac- ter named Frank (Pug) Carbo, he is scheduled to go on trial for par- l ticipation in murder.
 1 CALLED COUNTRIES
 LEADING GANGSTER
 The victim was Lyman CBig Greeny) Greenberg, or Schachter, who is assumed to have been liqui- lated by some of his old cronies in an eastern enterprise called Mur- der, Inc.
 With several others, Siegel was indicted last year, but the charge was dropped when District Attorney William O'Dwyer of Kings County, N. Y, refused to lend a couple of witnesses to Los Angeles District Attorney John Dockweiler.
 At the time, ODwyer was using them in trying to clear up list of 87 crimes attributed to Murder, Inc. The witnesses are Albert Tam nenbaum, known as "the Christ mas Tree,' and Abe (Kid Twist) Reles. O'Dwyer has promised to send them to California this time, on condition that they are not to be prosecuted here and are to be returned to New York immedi- ately.
 Tannenbaum, Self-d lar e gangster and racketeer, already has testified before the grand jury which reindicted Siegel and Carbo. II heard Tannenbaum say that he and Siegel drove the two cars on the local murder expedition of Thanks giving eve, 1889, and that Carbo shot Greenberg and fled in Bugsy's car.
 He also said of Siegel: He is the supreme gangster in the United States, the top man. He has been the big boss for the last 10 years"
 This estimate was confirmed by Frank c. Bals, New York police captain who figured prominently ir breakwing up the eastern murder for-money ring. Balls declared oi Siegel: He's really the leading gangster of this country. His con- nections run from east to vest"
 Bugsy has, or used to have, ar odd assortment of friends. He is now under $25, 5,00O bond on a fed eral indictment in New York charg- ing him with harboring Louis Gepke) Buchalter, while that ex- kingpin of the underworld was a fugitive from justice. Buchalter who specialized in industrial racket. eering but was linked with almost
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

every sort of crime. now is doing & 14-year rap in Leavenworth on narcotics conviction.
 Bugsby's wife is the former Es- telle Krakower, sister of the late Whitey Krakower, a Lepke mobster but suspected traitor, who was assassinated in New York about the time that his brother-in-law first was being arrested in Los Angeles.
 Seizure of Bugsy's personal papers revealed that he was able to borrow $100,O00 from a St. Paul manufac- turer, Charles Ward, who once served a prison term on narcotics charge.
 SORROWS BIG MONEY FROM DENTIST
 One who seems to have considered Bugsy a lad with a great future was Dr. Benjamin Blank, local physician. Tn explanation of can-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
DREAM COMES TRUE

When Chester Morris was young he dreamed of being a radio an- nouncer when he grow up. Instead, he became a movie star but his ambitions will come true, for hen play the role of a radio commen- tator in "Ill Be Back in q Flash, for Producers William Pine and William Thomas at Paramount.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
HAMILTON PARK-(Continued)

The remnant of great big wheel Later we found, They say 1t ran brass mill By turning round and round For very many times a day It turned around and round. It turned out the big brass city" The way 1t now is found. The ravageS of time Have worn the top in part, away, And 'tis very sad to know That some of it is gone today. Twas very long ago When this ancient wheel began to turn, Perhaps three hundred years or so Since it started thus to go. It now, Is found, right there Where 1t first began to turn, Simply just waiting For time to wear and tear, That very ancient landmark which SO long, has been right there. But let the old wheel rest On memory,s distant shore Its work was of the very best And we will ask for nothing more.
 DANIEL GILLETTE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

celed checks showing that Siegel paid him $32,0O0, Dr. Blank said he had loaned Buggy that amount over a period of years.
 The physicians friendship also came in handy for Bugsy after the latter's first arrest, because pr. Blank happened to be the county jail doctor and thus was able to provide many little comforts and privileges not enjoyed by odinary suspects and malfactors.
 To the astonishment of authori- ties it was discovered that Bugsy spent much of his incarceration in pr. Blanks quarters, got special meals, employed a fellow prisoner as valet, and in 49 days left the jail IS times. These were for the announced purpose of visiting the district attorney (then Buron Fits, with whom he had ben photographed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
DUAL CAREER

Martin Kosleck,. who plays . fea.' tured role in Paramount's Fly by Night" is also well known as an artist; Some of his paintings hang in galleries in this country and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
BoBBED-HATRED SAVAGE

"Malaya" is the first jungle pic- ture Dorothy Lamour has ever made with bobbed hair. A bob is per- missabIe because the story opens in civilization and then goes into the iunnlaa.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30
Good Evening.
SHINE ON, HARVEST MooNI

Now let's all get together
 For want of another tune, And have a little argument
 About the harvest moon. Some say it's in September
 October, others hold, But listen, we beg you kindly
 To what we would enfold- The harvest moon, so it seems
 Comedies with the autumn equinox, uIich comes about the twenty-first Which sets it pretty approx imately, SO to those who would
 Doubt this fact we say, Harvest, hunters or otherwise
 It's the same old moon anyway.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

Carmne B. Cipriano slipped one over on his city court associates last week While they weren't looking the pop uar court clerk added another year to ms numner ot day older" <. Overheard some conversation tother day about the wedding anniversary celebration held at he home of Mr. and Mrs Louis Chefo of Joseph Street. Related congrats for the well-known couple Philome- na Srca has returned to her duties with the Welfare De partment after weeks ncapacitation caused by ouS accident Rev. John L. Sullivan of North Haven IS
 frequent visitor in town, renewing acquaintanceshps III this the town of his birth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

citv rendezvous of many Waerburians their trips to New York City because of the presence there of Bl Downey Brass Cityte, manager, was the scene of a wild noce-bandit pistol battle the other morning It ended with the fleeing bandit shooting himself, the wound proving fatal According to Art McGney oyrd o5 the Hartford Times Jimmie Carty WaterDurys 1avorte of some years back, has broken arm, the result of
 fall from ladder over at his Berlin Turnpike hosteIy
 New Hampshire is going to be different from the rest of the New England states this fall by observing thanksgiving the 27th of November while we feast I on the 20th . . Congressman James A. Shanley Will De the guest of honor at dinner being sponsored by San Salvador Council Mo- l. Knights of Columbus, in New Haven Tuesday November H. Representative Snaney a has been picked as the memberof hemonth by the New Haven Kaceys for his community and fraternity services
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

Mrs Joseph Santopietro of Manhan Street is con vaescng at her home after spending ten days III the Waterbury Hospital where she underwent major oper
 ation Private Frank DonofriO has returned to Fort Terry after dandy To-day furlough spent revisltng old scenes and old friends here in Waterbury FranK also went and got himself engaged to very nice young fady while home this trip-Miss Lucy U Miele Jimmy Gladney the Washington Hill boy, travelled away out to the East End Tuesday night just to see how Vincent Coates and of the other boys were getting the new Anderson School gymnasium dedcat- cd Red" is past master at these community affairs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: All the Mickey Mouses and the Donald Ducks will hgh-tail it out to the Grange Hall in Mill Plain Halloween Mite to the old fashioned barn dance There will be plenty of refresh ments The occasion is the get-together Of the Street Get into your Uncle Hirams nightgown or red flannel underwear and maybe you'll win prize at the masquerade. Hoping to see you there, remain, m Edward J. Lynch Secretary. (How about "DumDo"! That's Disneys latest creation. The Ed)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-10-30

Around the town |. Entering the Union Station to- day it's hard to bring up any memories Of any other ra road station here in the Brass City But your Water buran of not too advanced age will describe at great for so many years and which did such valiant service in the days when people only travelled to New Haven Hartford Bridgeport, and New York on rare occasions and then only by train Lower Bank Street at Meadow was great center of activity in those hacyon days with It's fourshing hotels and other establishments The New England Division also maintained station of it's own just about where the present Union Station now stands Incidentally that's how the Union Station came about There was more than division passing through Waterbury when came about that they amagamated the depot became Union Station.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
Hard I'D Stop
Would.Be Filler Returns
TO Canada

II appeared today that all the
kings horses and all the king S
men can't put Charles Whitman
back in the United States when
he wants 10 join the kings Royal
Canadian Air Force.
Whitman. &C, of Chicago, jumped
of the Steamer Put-in-Bay "a
swim 10 Canada to Join the army
on Wednesday, A United States
Coast Guard cutter picked him up
and he Jumped or and swan 10
Amherstburg lie was arrested
there. put i'm Jail for a night and
shipped back. 10 Detroit aboard a
hus by Canadian immigration Of
fccrS. Today he is reported
somewhere in Canada by immi-
grafton officers.
He loft a record az the immigra
lion Office stating he was bound
for the air force recruiting office
lin the-Gsneda Building. bat ~
last reports hadn't reached there
yet.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

Air Corps Denies Ii Needs Color-Blind Observers
to Spot Can,ouflage From Planes

The army air corps has no
more need for color-blind aerial
than II has for blond
hair-in fact. it has no particular
use for either.
The idea that a color-blind per-
son can better detect camouflage
than one with normal vision--a
rumor recently circulated - is
based upon an erroneous assump-
ton. the air corps says.
a citizen. who read that color
blind observers from a plane can
distinguish between Camouflaged
and natural ground objects better
because they can see only the con-
traSt. suggested IN a letter
let us provide all airmen
with equipment so they may
make themselves color-blind ut
will. Let's provide them with
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
Extend Drive
For Aluminium

Because OF the request Of Ever
EFT De Ryke, executive director Of
the Michigan Council of Defense,
Detroit has another "a hours OF
grace before the city's drive for
scrap aluminium closes.
The executive director made the
request 10 Mayor Edward J. JET
fgies Jr. when canvaSserS Of
women's auxiliary organizations of
vari0us Legion groups reported
that various washing machine
companies and allied places OF
business have not yet been
checked.
DPW trucks today will collect
late gifts scrap-e4Hfninurf -
swell the pile at Nineteenth street
and Michigan avenue and hcip the
Mayor win his bet with the Mayor
of Cleveland.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
EraGe Fan
Spectator Is Fined $40
for SWatting Lawyer

Because she smacked an attor-
ney in the face during an eviction
hearing before Circuit Court Com
missioner William }. Cody. Mrs.
Mary Glado today paid a $40 con-
tempt OF court fine.
Mrs. Glado. a courtroom spec
tator, hauled off and hit Nicholas
j. Rothe, defense attorney, when
she became angered at a question
concerning her which Rothe put
Ia the landlord, Alois Van Bokland.
a melee ensued when the attor-
ney turned on Mrs. Glado and Van
Bokland sprang 10 her defense.
court attaches said. A constable
discntanglcd the Scrappers.
However, Rothc emerged n
technical winner when the court
dismissed the suit against his client
Robert Burns. Van Bokland main
tanned Burns failed to pay his S25
monthly rental for july 16 Ia
August is on a lover flat at 1859
Lemay avenue.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
Mayor Probes
City Auto Cost

Mayor Edward J. Jcffrics Jr,
today ordered Budget Director
David V. Addy 10 make report
on what il costs the city to operate
its own automobiles and suggested
that the private autos of city
building inspectors may be re-
placed by city-owned cars.
Despite a one-cont a mile in
crease for the use of their cars,
granted them a week ago by Com
mon Council, inspectors have re-
fused TO take out their automobiles
and are now covering the city ON
foot and in street cars and buses.
There arc 100 inspectors in tive
building and safety engineering
department and Commissioner
Joseph =. Wolff said he did not
know how many Of them have re-
fused 10 use their autos at the ilvo
cents per mile rate paid by the
cstr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
Add z to Draft Medical Units
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING, Aug. 1.-Two addi-
tional members of medical adj
visory boards for Wayne County
we're announced today hy- SclcctAc
service headquarters. Lloyd 3.
Young, W D. and CuFt-B-
Schneider. VI. D., were made men,
.bers OF Board No. 20.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

TVERY morning long before most Detroit
n ers are out of their beds, 500 naval re-
- cruits $1,000 by next Friday troop from
Naval Armory to the lawn bordering East JEFF
ferson avenue.
That's at 5:45 a. M, just Is minutes after
reveille, and is the start of 15-minute period
of brisk calisthenics that the navy depends upon
to keep these lads toned up. This is virtually
the only physical work they do, because they are
assigned to Detroit for six-week courses of study
in machinery and motors.
The exercises are simple, similar to those
used in the high schools and colleges and each
designed to work some particular muscle. The
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

glasses that will screen out the
reds, green's and yellOws that
are used in camouflage paints
The matter was put up 10 the
physical department Of the bureau
of standards, in keeping with the
army's program OF welcoming all
ideas, only 10 result in the conclu-
sion the air corps can get along
Just as well-and probably better
without color-blin observers.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
Highway Aides
Get Pay Boosts
Times stan Correspondent

LANSING. Aug. Pay In
creases for 762 employees Of the
state highway department were
announced today by Commissioner
G.. Donald Kennedy. The increases
$1,000 per month.
"Revisions were made in many
eases 10 retain technical en-
ployes who are in great demand
by private industry" Kennedy
said. They have the approval of
the civil service commission"
y With the election Of Kennedy
salary adjustments have become
semi-annual. The last revision.
which ranked Republicans, Yves
made last December.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02
State Denied
S2,952,963 Tax

The State OF Michigan today was
denied a S2,952, 1868 delinquent tax
claim against the Grand Trunk
Railway by Federal Judge Frank
A. Picard. who said the levy vio-
lated a 1927 agreement with the
railway.
The agreement was made when
the Grand Trunk agreed 10 pay for
the moving Of its right Of way for
the widening OF Woodward avenue
over a period Of ID years during
which time its taxes were 10 be
only S25IT0 annually
The $685. 500 was the differ.
encc between what the railway
paid under this agreement and
tho opy IL would haze paid under
a regular assessment.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

Gen. Hugh :. Johnson,
Americas Fighting Thinker"
Writes Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

6rn. Hugh JOhnson,
"America's Fighting Thinkef."
Whites Daily for the Times.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-08-02

series is that used throughout the navy ashore
and afloat.
The naval post at the armory has no ath
letic director; ensigns assigned there take turr
about directing this period, SIM -=xn.z
ply use the calisthenics they -
learned at Annapolis.
The Times on this page, using Seaman Sec
ond Class Walter Ellsworth Jones Of HIGHLAND
Park as model, presents few of the navy
10O-odd exercises-with the thought that de
fense-busied Detroiters might like to adapt then
to early morning bedroom use to keep Detroit
waistline closer to the navy's.
But remember, like the navy to do it befor
breakfast.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1941-10-30

have meant nothing had there
been only two or three gallons in
the main tank.
And, of course, never hurry a
take-off.. If you do, the chances
are you'll overlook something and
it might be something important.
So if another plane is coming into
the approach circle and it's a
question of taking off right now
or waiting two or three minutes
until it has landed just wait those
two or three minutes and 60 over
the check list again.
3. Be sure you have full power
for take-off. Be sure that it's get
ting delivered to your propeller.
If there's no other means in your