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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08
CASH BALANCE
 OF CITY GOOD.
Sl,S2l,7O3 Sufficient to Carry City Along Until
 Fall Tax Payments

s a s Q r . 2
 The. city had a cash balance of $1,S2l ,7o3 on July 31, a sum believ- ed sufficient to carry through until second installment tax payments begin in October, City Treasurer Serge Belanger reported to the board of finance yesterday. The present balance compares with one of $2,256,127 on June 30.
 Revenue during the month amounted to $166,l96, all but $4,50O of it coming in the form of tax payments. Expenditures were $600,- 619.
 The Hamilton Park pavilion sink ing fund was reported to have a balance of SLIPS on July 3l, while the municipal golf course fund had
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08
PRESIDENT MAY
 REOPEN PLANTS
Shipyards Must Resume Work Because of Huge
 Contracts to Be Filled
BY JOHN D. GONZALES

Washington, Aug. 8 8-tUP)- Dee fense agencies prepared reports to- day which may be the basis of ac- tion by President Roosevelt to re- open the struck Federal Snipbuild- ing 6 Drydock Corp, shipyards at KeaFf1y, N. J.
 Officials said immediate resunp- tion of work at the shipyards was Imperative because the corporation. 3 subsidiary of United States Steel Corp, holds $45O,000, 900 of navy and Maritime commission contracts. The President could use his auth Drity as commander -in-cl1ief of the armed forces to use the army to seize the sl1ipyards. He exercised that authority tore-open the North American Aviation company plant Tt Inglewood, Calf, which had been closed by 8 strike.
 The launching of three vessels, including the 6,OO0-ton cruiser At lanta, has been delayed by the strike of 16,0OO members of the In- dustrial Union of Marine and Ship yard Workers (CIO) and work was stopped on another cruiser, three destroyers, and several merchant ships.
 Up to President
 The Defense Mediation board said 1t has exhausted the authority pro- vided by the executive order creat- ing it., and the next move must be taken by Mir. Roosevelt unless the corporation and the union come to an agreement. That was not im- mediately likely because no nego- tiations were in progress.
 Officials said the corporation had rejected the boards recommenda- ton for inclusion of a "mainten- ance of union membership" clause in the contract 1t had been nego- tiating with the union, The board has no enforcement powers, and its function ends when its recom- mendations are either accepted or rejected.
 The board said 1t would prepare the facts of the case, which was certified to it by Secretary of La- bor Frances E. Perkins early in July for submission to the Presi- dent, If they were requested. It was indicated that some action might be expected even before the Presi- dent returns to the Capital some time next week from a cruise. on the yacht Potomac.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08

balance of $4,244.
 Controller Thomas M. COnlon was authorized by the board to deduct from the pay of city employees pay- ments toward the purchase of de- fense bonds. Employes must ask that such deductions be made.
 The board voted a number of transfers in appropriations within departments. These are subject to approval by the board of alder men, which will hold a special meeting Monday night to act on them,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08

Washington, D. C.. Aug s.-Just after the invasion of the Low Coun- tries a year ago. Lord Beayerbrook was made Minister of. Aircraft Pro- 6uction. One of his first acts was put through a phone call from Losa- don to Montreal to his old friend, Morris Wilson, president of the Royal Bank of Canada. Both men
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08

Lubricant leakage from wheel bearings to brake drums is respons- ible aor a large percentage of brake refining jobs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-08
CATHOLICS TO EAT MEAT ON AUG. Is Laws of Abstinence Do Not Apply on Feast
 Day


 Catholics of the Hartford diocese. as well as the faithful elsewhere. are not bound by the laws of Absti-. hence on Friday. August IS, accord. ing to an announcement in the current issue of the Catholic Tram script, official organ of this diocese.
 The date Is the Feast of the As- sumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. . holy day of obligation. Un- der a papal indult bishops of di- oceses are privileged to free their parishoners from the laws of absti. hence when such feast day falls on Friday.
 Thursday. August IA. the vigil of the feast, however, is day of both fast and ahstinenee binding on all those governed by such rules.
Evening star., 1941-09-14

after all, they are trained and paid to
be good drivers. But the thing to re-
member is that the Good Samaritan
stuff is voluntary and almost entirely
gratis. 1t is a rare bird among the
transport drivers who will accept any
money for his services.
And these services are multitudinous
and varied because the boys have not
only the know how" but also the
equipment. In a railroad wreck in
upper New York State, it was two
truckers, bowling along Route S, who
jumped into the fray with their
hydraulic jack and pried the twisted
cab open so doctor could crawl in
and administer hypodermic to the
crushed engineer. And down in Texas,
when w. F. Bryant rolled his big semi
trailer up to an excited crowd on the
highway, he saw the usual picture of a
gang of people milling around smash
up in empty-handed futility. A pas
senger car had rammed tanker carry
ing 1000 gallons of gasoline With the
truck driver unconscious and trapped
by a jammed door, the leaking gas
oline had already caught fire when
Bryant arrived. Immediately jumping
out with his own extinguisher. Bryant
first knocked down the fire in a jiffy.
Then he pulled his truck across the
road. hooked his tow-chain on the
jammed door and ripped it out by the
roots so the driver could be extricated
and placed in an ambulance.
And this seems to me very good
place to bring up a point that can
never be stressed too much. Namely,
Evening star., 1941-09-14
THIS WEEK MAGAZINE
DON'T CUSS THE TRUCK DRIVER!

through an upper window. A woman's
head appeared, then reappeared mo-
ment later to scream that the stairs
were cut off. To make long story
short. McGovern got three people out
of there just ten seconds before the
roof caved in.
Likewise. in Connecticut, Curtis
Greene stopped his six-wheeler long
enough to get four sleepers out of
burning residence at 4 Am. He missed
a fifth because, on his third trip up, the
stairs burned through and dropped
him into the cellar!
Of course, life saving by truckers
isn't always so dramatic. Up in South
Dakota, Earl Jones and couple of
other drivers shoveled every foot of
the way through blizzard to town
fire miles distant to rescue thirty-one
motorists marooned in the storm.
In fact, they come even simpler
than that, as indicated by this letter
from Maryland motorlst to the State
Police:
The road looked entirely clear to
pass" writes the tourist, but as
blew my horn, the truck driver
switched on his spotlight to illuminate
the figures of man and a woman
walking directly in the middle of the
left-hand lane. l crowded back just in
time to miss them, and there is no
doubt that if it hadn't been for that
drivers quick thinking. would have
smacked squarely into those people"
That's the kind of guys the truckers
are - Samaritans on wheels!
The End
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Continued from pose six

that there isn't one OF us ordinary
drivers who could not do vital ser
vice to our fellow motorists - and
ourselves - by carrying few of the
truck drivers items of emergency
equipment. Over one million auto
mobile fires annually, for example, are
an eloquent argument for carrying
fire extinguisher. A minimum of
1,65O,OO0 traffic accidents offer oppor-
tunities for assistance to, conserva-
lively, five million motorists. That
should convince anyone that a first
aid kit is handy bit of equipment.
Use Flares for Sofsfy
+ LARES are extremely useful too, and
certainly do not take up much room.
But few drivers carry them, which is
why so many are hit changing tires
at night; yet flares cost only about
fifteen cents a pair at auto-supply
stores. Nobody will ever know how
many thousands of flares the truckers
have given away to stranded motor
lists - or how many more accidents
they've prevented by setting flares
around wreck until the police came.
Which merely brings us back to the
original theme that few people have
any conception of the total services
rendered by the truckers. The number
of dwelling fires they discover in the
wee, small hours, for example, is
legion. Recently in Michigan, Arthur
McGovern, a long haul trucker, spotted
a ruddy glow on the lower floor of
two-story house. Shouting brought no
response, so he heaved fence picket
Evening star., 1941-09-14
flan the vitamins into your meals
GET THEM FROM ORANGES AMI
ID OTHER FOODS THE NATURAL WAY.

Fos MEAD START on your vitamins, begin
at breakfast with fresh California orange
juice in eight-omce glasses!
This provides all the vitamn C your
family needs for abounding health 1t also
includes valuable amounts of vitamins A,
Evening star., 1941-09-14
PRODUCED
BY YOU
Titling tricks for
home movies

low that most of our vacation
IN movies have been taken, and
Z y given their private pre-view,
how about getting to work on some
titles for them?
The ideal title for touring film is
map showing the route you followed.
One way to handle this is to pin a
Iarge-sized map on the wall and have
somebody trace or outline the actual
route with black crayon while you
photograph the operation. Get the
camera up close, of course, so the
map covers the whole picture area.
Another method of employing the
map is through animation: that is,
having black line indicating your
route run mysteriously across the
map without any visible human aid.
You can do this easily. First, fasten
the map on the wall securely with
thumb tacks. Then focus on it from
a point which will just include the
borders. using tripod. naturally.
Now with good, heavy crayon or
soft drawing pencil. blacken the first
inch or two of your route on the map.
Then 60 back to the camera and give
the release button quick but gentle
jab - on and off in second or less
so that only few frames are
exposed. On the map draw in an
other inch or two of the route. Then
flip the camera release for couple of
more frames, and so on until the en-
tire route has been outlined.
When you run this off on your pro-
jector. the route line will simply flow
magically across the map without
any evidence of your labor, making
a very effective title. OF course, you
can letter across the map. Vacation.
l94l," or whatever other legend you
need to specify which trip this is.
Evening star., 1941-09-14
Another Movie Trick

ANOTHER good movie trick adapt
able for a vacation picture at the sea-
shore or the lake is to letter the title
in the wet sand, drawing the letters
with broad stick or forming them
out of pebbles or shells. This simple
expedient can also be very easily con-
verted into swell trick title by hav-
ing a wave write" your title for you.
like this:
Draw your letters in the sand (or
outline them in pebbles) very close
to the waters edge. Now turn your
camera upside doWn and shoot the
lettering for about three seconds or
until wave washes over the letter.
ing.
If the beach is miles away now,
write your title in the dirt in your
backyard and have somebody toss
nail of water over the letters after
you've shot them for three or four
seconds.
When this length of film comes
back from the processing plant it
will naturally be backwards. All you
do is cut out that length (or have
somebody at the photo store do it if
YOU haven't an EDITOR; reverse it
end for end; and splice it in at the
beginning of your film. What you'll
see then is, first, the wave washing
across the screen and, as it recedes.
the letters appearing mysteriously
out of the wet sand It's all very puz-
cling to an audience and never fails
to make hit.
None of these ideas require any
special equipment other than your
camera. And when you get started on
them, your own ingenuity will soon
carry you to bigger and better ideas
that make titling as much fun as
shooting the original film itself.
-FULIOh WILLIAMS
Evening star., 1941-09-14

Bl and G; calcium, and other essential
minerals.
Then get further supplies of these from
a variety of good things to eat. For all
the vitamins are found in foods - all are
obtainable in three meals day.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-11-23
CUNTS in pi$tailS-
BY POPULAR DEMAND

Unasked, the public has elected how the hair OF
Americas most famous little girls should be DONE 1t
decided curs mops bobs shingles and Dutch cuts and
bangs were less suited modern little girls than plain
old-fashioned pgtails.
So, by popular demand Miles. Marie, Emile, An
nette Cece and Yvonne Dionne, of Calender, Ont,
world only CUNTS appear for their public in pigtais
How to fix the hair of the CUNTS has been bother
some problem at the Dafoe Nursery for months.
The nurses who have fix the hair had idea. The
parent had another A professional hardresser was
called in but the couture she designed didn't suit
body.
Least Of all the public when it saw pictures Of the
Quints wearing it. Letter writer's voiced unanimous
disapproval Almost unanimously they declared for
pigtais.
The Quintuplet Guardianship is used to criticism
from countless women who appear to have adopted
the CUNTS as their own. This time it took heed
Reserved
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14
Better Health
By DR.. Logan Clendening

gross than understood in its
minute details.
Why does the blood remain
fluid while inside the blood ves-
sells, and Immediately jell when
exposed 10 air? Some chemical
change must occur in il TO form
the sticky strands called "fibrin."
which is jelly. but what that
chemical change is remains
more or less theoretical.
II is unnecessary-indeed. it
would take us deep into techni-
cal biochemistry-to outline the
theories. Suffice is TO say. that
somehow a new chemical ele-
ment is formed on exposure to
the air. much as chemical change
is produced on a Photographic
plate on exposure 10 air.
Suffice il that some anatomi-
cal elements always found in cir
culating blood-called the blood
platelets-dissolve on exposure to
air, and probably liberate SUBJ
stance which produces the jelly
fibrin.
When the coagulating power
the blood disappears, as it some-
times does-in fact. quite fire.
quenuy-real trouble begins.
Newborn babies, for instance,
often have bleeding disease. so
that the blood seeps out of the
umbilical cord.
This can be stopped by imme-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14

difficult of life sympathzng with each other in suffering
inspiring each other fine living
Oh yeah? But honest that the form friendship
will really take? Perhaps is There friendships like that
There people who and endure
sincere and stimulating friendship
RUT MOST OF US DON'T WANT ANYTHING OF THE SORT.
~ We who will coddle weakness
Condone our laziness-
Ab cussedness--
Flaer N
boss "
help responsibility depressing
reality.
IN SHORT. WHAT WE WANT IN A FRIEND is A GOOD
RELIABLE YES-MAN WHO WILL HELP US GO BEING
THE SILLY, WEAK CREATURES WHICH WE ARE.
AND WE'D BE BEWILDERED. PEEVED AND BORED
BY THE WISE STRONG. RUTHLESSLY HONEST FRIEND
OF OUR DAY DREAMS.
WHY do friends fail
" That's why WE PICK FRIENDS WHO WILL FAIL U.s.
Our friends fail because hearts fail
true friend should understand but fatter.
He should sympathze with suffering
weakness that caused that sufer1g
He should love and yet despse all YOU
and expect you do the o
He should be himself and let yourself
in the most intimate friendship love freedom. give
insist eedomand be able responsibilities
loneliness which free souls
real friend should have qualities YOU
qualities yourself? You dream about them practice
them? Would you really enjoy living with
Friendship is what make You get YOU give
You find what you want If friendship failure that
failure YOU.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14
MISS CHATTERToN


Tor everybody do firmly repeatedly Every
Every Way Am Getting you
ball player named Lee Magee; his real Leopold
Hoernschmeyer think the interesting
of all time except that Olga Cronk changing
her Claire Windsor.
PUTH CHATTERTON York city native who has done all
~ right Broadway playing "Pygmalon.i
Her greatest hit Daddy Long Legs Remember her
that? Well then do remember Mary Pcford the film
version? Zosk Burska enogapher day. professional
wrestler by night quite combination of activities
ever know young who pharmacist the day and
rhunlba dancer at night club
WHY is they put only brides initials
~ wedding gifts of linen and silver? newlywed husband
know somewhat indignant regarding
exclaimed he. marriage
they fixing still you
another To quiet him down his wife had
There there darling I'll have initial
right away"
MEN science hecng asrogers accusing
AVA gaers believe completely
aroogy but be denied there something those
being born of the year having similar traits of
The standard astroogy adhered by
astroogers precise opinion
honestly rendered unless II the
month"; time the geographical location
o place o birth o individual"
FLAMING youth continues for the part
all right but when they do their flaming highways
hopped-up super charged aope many
young peppedup jalopy Hundred Miles
Hour clubs Prospects of fine will brighten these
speeders Nobody pair dong parents would allow
youngster drive hoppedp jalopy The thing to do is to
threaten these adoescent ambrans with of hard labor
thought of having do hard work will them
death.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14

"Can you see Drusilla fiip-
ping a pork chop or washing
the baby's socks ?"
mo, nor l can't see a .ad
brought up like yourself mar
ried to a girl that couldn't.
Drusilla's just another career
woman, like the rest of your
collection"
She waved a disdainful DUST
cloth toward the portrait gal
lery and marched out.
"Ill be back with clean
towels" she said.
When she came back Ban
was in high spirits.
you've wrecked a great ro-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14
Daily Short Story
By HOLLIS STARNES

in what Katie called the rag,
tag and bobtail set"
Her fathers millions took
care of her costly coming out
party, also of the high pres
sure publicity campaign that
followed. Drusilla was eye
filling and photogenic. so it
was easy enough to get her
pictures in the papers.
After her debutante glory
had died down. she tried to
hold her place in the news by
getting engaged to a series of
SWANS about town. Several
Opponents were rumored,
which DruSilla later denied.
This seasons publicity's coup
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14
SHE WANTED A PRESS AGENT

good lad. and never missed a
Sunday calling his mother on
the long distance. upstate
where the DruryS had a big
dairy farm.
words are my weapons"
he would say of his telephone
courtships. "SOme day I'll be
swallowed up In a sea of
ghoulish adjectives."
Even that. reflected Katie.
would be better than being
swallowed up by Drusilla.
The dashing Drusilla was
Bans current heartbeat, ac-
cording to the columns. She
was a cafe society glamour
girl and postdeb, who got a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14

b ody would
ooZe out and
leave us like a
Debated tire.
were II not
that the blood
becomes solid
at the h ole
and plugs up
the & a pin G
blood vessel.
We're it not
so. our anceS-
tors w oul d
h a V G b @ e n
strewn along
the shores of
the palezoic
nCaan w 4 h.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14

THE BLOOD has one very
useful and necessary policy-it
iells. or coagulates. when eX-
posed TO the air. We would be
in very bad shape indeed, if this
were not so.
Every time we had A scratch
deep enough to pick a blood ves-
sol every dron of blood in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14

out giving the world the benefit
of arranging for the production
of us.
PROCESS OF CANCELLATION
The process of the coagulation
Of the blood. however-impor-
tant as its survival value has
been-is far better known in the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14

IN HER 10 years as chamber
i maid in a theatrical hotel,
Katie Kilfeather had often
rendered gallant aid 10 cupid.
Her own romantic nature, now
that she was fat and nearing
80. found release through the
love affairs of her glamorous
guests.
Always on her floor at the
San Pedro. which stood in the
shadow of Broadway. there
was some youthful Romeo or
Juliet in need of a nurse.
In her day. Katie some
times boosted, she had made
more marriages than were
made anywhere this side of
Heaven. But last week cupid's
emissary turned in a neat bit
of opposition. Her conscience
is clear. however. She did the
Little Love God a favor, she
declares-a favor in reverse.
Ever since he moved onto
her floor five seasons ago,
Katie took a maternal interest
in young Ban Drury. He was
such bright, d a shi ng
creature. tall and slim with
a jaunty SLOUGH. His hair was
crisp. red and curly, his eyes
were blue and full of drollery.
Ban was a night club press
agent. one of the. best. He
put over one gay night spot
with a fancy name after an
other, and had Katie dizzy
trying to keep track of them
all. Like Broadway shows.
these places always seemed to-
be "bowing" as Ban called it
when they opened up, and
folding" when they closed
up.
WILD. HECTIC LIFE
1t was a wild. hectic life
that Ban led. working all
night and sleeping all day.
This season was the worst yet.
1t was the war, he said.
People couldn't stand stay
ing home any more, listening
TO the news over the radio.
They wanted to get out and
about, and forget the worlds
troubles.
Ban said his brain was a
blank from trying to think up
new ideas to keep his clubs
lively. Overwork, he declared,
was cutting cruelty into his
time for rest and romance.
There were always droves
of girls in Bans life, though
none of them represented
what Katie called real ro-
nance. The walls were stud
ded with pictures of night club
beauties-'career women" he
called them - hot career
women"
Some of their autographs
were so blazing. Katie said
the frames should be fire.
proofed.
"They put me to shame for
my own seX," she declared.
But Ban said the ardent in
scription meant not a thing,
except the girls wanted him
to put pieces about them in
the papers. They weren't in
love with him, nor he with
them.
NO career gal for me-" he
told Katie, "when the day
comes for the big 4 Do"
But he had a smooth line
with these beautiful eyefuls,
as he called them. Katie
could write book of the soft
soap she'd heard him give out
on the telephone. He'd be
winking at Katie as she made
up his bed, and telling some
eyeful that he adored her, and
what ravashing calves she
had.
But there was no harm in
Ban Drury. most of his bold
talk began and ended on the
telephone. He was a decent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-02-14

NANCE" he cried, "Drusilla
just gave me the gate"
WHAT said Katie.
II told her l was going In
the air service for three years.
Would she marry me before I
left: She wouldn't. You
were right. kilfeather. She
wanted a press agent"
He reached for his hat and
coat.
"Where are you off to
now:"
Down to the air service
office. It's been in my mind
for some time"
Katie looked at him fondly.
Even on X. p" she sighed.
you'll be a freer man than
tied to Drusills."
THE END.
TOmOrrow's short story:
Declaration Of independence"
by Alma and Paul Ellerbe.