The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-30
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boogle Cafe and thousands of knit stores. They eloped to Las Vegas, Nevada TafntnAny Hall has been notified that Robert Y. wag.
 ler, Jr., will oppose Al Smith, Jr, for Boro Presidtnt of Manhattan An official of the Transport Workers Union, when asked by fiewspaperman Coff the record, last week. whether there would be a strike, answered: Tt will be called off If Laduardia calls Hull. and Hull calls Oumansky and Otiman- sky calls stalln, and Stailn calls Poster and Foster tells Quill" Talk has Dr. II. ?. Ward succeed. Ing Earl Browder as head man.
 Sumner Welles for Q year or s0 has iunched daily at . corner table of a Washington hotel. Usually with him are diplomats, ambassa. dors, ex.PFcmiers, newspaper friends, ct aI. But Welles Is no longer dining there since discovering that the table is right next tO a radiator -- behind which dicta. phones were concealed And every day, they say, after luncheon, others in the State Dept had a complete report of his conversations. He Is planning reprlsals.
 A. c. Blumenthal may be ex. tradited from Mexico next month, The U. s. will try to indict him for income tax evasion. The buzz has 1t that the Govt will throw the book at him $. Burgess Mer- edith is showing Olivia DeHavil- land Nyack. N. Y, and other dark spots Legend says Monte Proser dropped over s20,oo0 in his Dance Carnival affair at the Gar den. You can't win every bet, Monte .. Can you picture Renee DeMarco sitting listlessly in Reno soda parlors7 Me neither Alex Hall is helping Mrs. Paul Doug las count the stars in the Reno heavens Dorothy Roster, rec gently in the Ed Wynn Show, and Slim Smith of Abe Lyman's band, are toying with Q date in July II. The Fight for Freedoms "stop Hit. Ter First" rally will be held at Man. hattan Center Wednesday night in opposition to the one the Crurfls mics are holding at Mad. Sq, dar- den the same date ... Brayohhhhl
 It Could Only Happen in Amer. ica Item: In the small cublcie In Club IS (which serves as the dress- ing rOOm) sat Jack White, Fran. kie Flyers, golfer Jimmy Thomson and the joynts public relations COfhmissi0ne. A regular feller type of man was asking the night club men their opinions on the war, HitleF's chances to whip Russia, Bri. tain5s chances, and other things Of import The guestioner was Harry Hopkins. who advises the President of the U. $.
 Bunny Berlgan and Michael Lor- ing, long-time feudists finally told each other off at Luna Park. And bored everybody stiff Tex Mccrary will donate his WMCA salary to Britain Rockefel- Ter s shopping for anti'aircraft guns for tops of his skyscrapers The AdVA, chorus girls union ls sending bills for back dues to the girls who couldn't collect two weeks' pay when Albert Johnson's Ice show collapsed, despite the fact that they belonged to the union. Fine thingl The headline in one paper screamed: "Russia Agrees to Free Poles" What After liberating them2 .... John stein- beck has just peddled . short story which Harpers will publish Tn 6 few months. The title IS: How Edith Mcdillicuddy Met Robert Louis stevenson That's the title of Q SHORT sToRYl
 Debunking the Bunk Dept :You probably saw that big news photo in the papers the other afternoon It was a six.column picture sent out by Berlin. and 1t was captioned "A great fire after the German bombardment of a Soviet Town. On one side of the building was the huge name "Sheii' lmtaning Shell Oi), and that's where the Nazi propaganda bureaus clumsiness gave them away American oil men are in stitches over She phony photo |. Tn Russia all oil is owned by the State. There IS no private ownership of oil. There fore there is no Shell or any other