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Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-27
vaIona Undergoes
Heavy Bombing

STRUGA, Jugoslavia, Jan. u.
(UP) - British airplanes heavily
bombed Valona, Albanian port where
troops and supplies arrive from
Italy, it was reported today.
Several bombs were said to have
fallen on the town, killing four per-
sons and wounding IL.
The British also bombed Italian
motorized columns south of Valona,
and then flew over the port.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-27
Italian Chiefs
DENY Riot Story

meat that the inconvenience which
have occurred in its distribution dur
ing the last few months have. been
so genera and common as to make
one believe that a ration caro-
should really be instituted for this
vital food product" he wrote.
He added that boarding by pers-
ons who had ice boxes and lacked
any idea of civil solidarity or
Fascist discipline had ''irritated the
conscience of the lower classes and
caused much i'll feeling
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-27
Nazis Lambast U.S..
Foreign Policy

BERLIN, Jan. 81. CUP)-United
States foreign policy is based on
false impressions and artlficiaily
created threats" an authorized
Nazi informant said today, and to-
talitarian nations are wondering
where does the United States
western hemisphere really end"
The informant made his state
ment on the remarks of japanese
Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka
before the budget commission OF
the japanese parliament at Tokyo.
Matsuoka said Japan must be
recognized as the leader in Eastern
Asia.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-27

The army and navy want their men
healthy and sound, and will do what
they can to keep them so. We know
enough now to control these (social) dis
eases, but do we have the applied COM
mon sense to do so?-Dr. Ray Lyman
Wilbur, president American Social Hy-
giene Association.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-27

WASHINGTON. Jan. 81 WASH
ington never saw a vice president
like Henry A. Wallace before. The
town has had eight years to get
acquainted. but it isn't entirely on
to him even yet.
Vice presidents who get inter-
ested in abstract ideas aren't new,
but there never was one who
would put his teeth into an idea
and shake it to pieces the way Wal
lace does. A sample is his famous
experience with the boomerangs.
When he was Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace used to walk most
of the way to work, leaving his
suite in the Wardman Park hotel
and swinging down through Rock
Creek Park. jim lie Cron, his as
sistant. used to walk with him. To
get a little exercise as they walked,
the two used to carry bag OF
Golf balls. throwing them ahead
and picking them up as they reach
ed them. One morning LIE Cron
showed up with a couple of boomer
angs to vary the game
Wallace not only took to throw
ing boomerangS; he got interested
in the theory of boomerangs, stu
died them carefully, drew up air
fell sections and calculated just
how a boomerang could be lmprov-
ed. Finally he had some made to
his own design out of plastic-pro-
ducing. probably. the most effec-
tive boomerang ever seen. Having
done all of this. he lost all inter-
est in boomerangS. He had MIXED
the subject of its last drop OF m
tellectual interest - and then he
was through with it.
MYSTlFIES
POLITICIANS
His absorption in French poodles
is another angle of the same thing.
The Agriculture Departments eX-
pertinent station at Beltsville, Md,
a wear or more ago set out TO I'M
prove the breed of sheep dogs, CEN
terine its attention mostly on u
Hungarian strain. Wallace heard
that the French p0odle is one OF
the most intelligent of all dogs. He
verified the theory, saw that this
particular kind Of poodle IS q rangy
leng-legged animal we'll out OF the
ordinary lap-dog class, and imme-
diately had a number OF poodles
entered in the experiment sta
tons class"
This work is still in progress, ano
still holds his interest His prl'
mary idea, of course. was to find
OF develop q dog that would be g
better helper to the shepherd; but
he was also intensely interested ir
abstruse things like the inheri-
tance of intelligence factors, and he
mad a Whole series of croSs-breed-
ING experiments started-seeking
among other things, to see Wha'
sort of canine gray matter woule
result if Il French poodle were
crossed with one Of the famou:
seeing eye" shepherd dogs. g
Wallace is a queer mixture ol
the abstruse and the intensely
practical. He is generally looked
on as a mystic. although his closest
friends saw he is actually a pro-
found realist.
Politicians for. long time hay
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-27

EDITORS NOTE: The fOllOtcing
editorials are presented as interesting
opinions DOiced by editors etseIDhere.
They do not necessarily reflect the
opinion of this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-27
THOUGHTS for the Day

With the merciful thou wilt shew thyself mercifu'
and with the upright man thou wilt shew thyself
rght-u Samuel 1925.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-27
by Bruce Cation :.
The Inside Track in Washington

had him pegged as a hard man 10
talk to. Small talk doesn't come
easily to. him. He doesn't drink,
doesn't play cards, doesn't go hunt
ing and fishing. and man who
can't even talk about those things
is likely to strike politicians as
queer fish. and bit OF hlghorow
besides.
On top of this. Wallace has
wav of concentrating sharply on
whatever topic happens to strike
his interest the most. 1t often hap
mems that a caller will start him on
one chain of thought and Will
switch to another without taxing
Wallace along with him-and VIII
realize. several minutes later, that
Wallace Just hasn't been listening
to him.
STILL NO GOOD
AT SMALL TALK
Such traits will make it hard for
him in his new job. IN whlch IN
innate conversations with a great
number of intensely practical poll
ticians will play an important part.
But Wallace is no political lnno-
cent-after all, he dealt with con-
eress pretty successfully during his
eight years as secretary OF agrl-
culture-and he does like people.
Incidentally, one of his best friends
is Ed Flynn, chairman OF the Dem
ocratic National committee.
When he first came to Washing
ton. he disliked official functions,
Then he discovered that the end
less round of ban9uets, dinner par
ties and lat homes" are very I'M
portant to a cabinet minister
Learning 6his, his intellectual Gu
riosity made him want to find out
the how and why of that import
ance. Since then he has been about
as deep in the social round as any
member of the cabinet.
This still hasn't developed his
ability to make small talk. They
tell of one dinner party at which
his hostess saw him sitting in 81
lence all through the evening, and
despaired that anyone present could
make him talk. Finally, though,
she saw him in animated conver-
Sation with some young Sprig. Ea-
ger to know what subject had at
last stirred his interest, she sidleo
over-to find Wallace and the
young sprig deep in chat about
Iowa hogs.
Wallace likes many games, but
he likes to play them, not to watcf
them, and hasn't gone to pro-
fessional game as a spectator fol
years. He plays tennis and bad
minton, and enjoys long walks. Hi
is fond of picking up new games
but he doesn't go for cards. HI
reads a great deal, but it's mostly
pretty deep stuff-genetics, mathe
matics, economics, the history o
civilizations, comparative religions
and so on.
His interest in experiments ha!
led him to try out various kinds @
diets. When in college he lived fo
time on soy beans, just to SCI
what the result would be. For ;
number of years he was a vegetar.
ian, although he has since giver
e that up.
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Famous Sayings

In all His dispensations God is at work for our
good.-John jay
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

Editor Tall Tower Topics By this time, you must have given up os but at last have found myself with an afternoon with no added chores to perform. Therefore, I'm spending the D. m. answering letters. really problem with soldier boys Lights are out after nine o'clock and to stay up late answering ones cores pondence makes that six o'clock call come around much too fast This Band work Is the thing to be in while one Is doing his duty for Uncle Sam have had taste of the infantry and tickled that a member of this band as It Is enpoyable work and as yet haven't handled gun What keeps so busy is that am the newshawk for the band and the playing manager of the dance orchestra, which can stand up to any Of the topnoch bands in the country Mothers Day. six people were invited to the Hotel Lanier which Is 102 years old and where "StoneWall Jackson" held prisoner by the Yankees during the Civil War It is quite hstor cal spot The various churches about had their parish toners take in many of the boys for Mothers Day dinner making them feel at home. These southerners really go out of their way to be extremely hosptabe to soldiers Nevertheless had to leave that delicious dinner for broadcast at for our Mothers Day presenta- ton from the camp. The band played two numbers, "Songs My Mother Taught Me-" and My Mom' with a vocal chorus by ocette with yours truly singing lead with them surely wished were national hookup so folks in Waterbury could have heard the program It was beautiful At present, waiting word from the War Dept granting permission to the national hookup Monday night, from 830 to 800 p, m EST At the present time, we are on summer schedule which calls for hours concert every evening at the various battaonS and there many of them about as we are quartering about 10000 soldiers in little city by itself My regards to all Sincerely, Private Peter Alexander, Camp Wheeler Macon, Ga.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

Cotton Is King. This being Cotton Week cotton is tops, whether for sheets gowns Cotton Is gorfied today as before Cotton to be used for second best everyday dress Today it. used for beach or ball room This season you will see designed on its expenses anything from tomato to tomahawk Cotton is gaily spgged and spattered with big flowers and little flowers with vegetables and fruits; with arplanes and guns; and American design The ancients spoke of cotton 1t is nothing and precedes Ell Whitney who invented the cotton gin It is vegetable product and was actually used 5000 years ago in India The American cotton belt is for the most part from Virginia to Oklahoma south ward The plant hrves best in warm climates Cotton of many species Favorable climatic conditions and soil have made the United States of the chief sources Of supply for cotton Believe 1t or not about ten years ago there l62000000 cotton spindes in the world and can mills The principal cotton manufacturing states are Massachusetts, North and South Carolina and Georgia Cotton and the processes of curing weaving and anu- eacturing engrossng topic Think about 1t this week as you don your new print Cotton is King!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
ELEANOR CARRITY
 HURT PRACTICINC
CYO Softball Player Frac- lures Leg in Collision at
 Park Last Night
ERVILlE Corresp0ndent-Mrs. R. W. Hcni0n, Telephone 3-5462

Waterville, May 2i-Eleanor Gar. rlty, 10, daughter of MT. and Mrs Peter Clarity of Fort Hlll avenue catcher on St. Michael'S Girls O. Y o. Softball team, collided with an- other player last evening ct Water. vile Park during practice and suf- fered broken leg, She was taken to St. Marys hospital.
 A social meeting of Court Welch Foresters of America, will Do held Thursday evening at 8 o'clock, at Foresters Hall, with Arnold Keith in charge.
 John Humphrey, Al Franks, The- odore Manton, William Smith, Wil- liam Lonergan, Arnold Keith George Meckelman and William Moher, members of 6 committee irl charge of decorating graves Memor- ial Day, will meet before the social to make final arrangements. They will leave the hall at 9 o'clock, Sun. day morning, May 25, and 90 to ail cemeteries In the city, to place plants, flags and F'oresters markers on graves of 28 deceased members.
 The local court has received ar invitation from Court Washington Torrington, to attend an old timers night, Friday, May 23.
 A team of George Feest, Gordon MacQuarrie, William Lonergan, Will liam Smith, William Dunlavey and Arnold Keith, attended q card tour nament Friday held by Court Rich- ard Wagner, at Turner's Hall, Wa terbury.
 Final Meeting
 Tho final meeting of the Every. mans Bible Glass will be held Sur- day, May 25, at the Grace Metho- dist Church, not to be resumed uY- til October 5. The guest speaker will be Rev. W. II. Sullivan, recently -c- turned from the Philippine Islands following six years there, under the Christian Missions Alliance, working as 6 missionary among the Yokar MoroS. Rev. MT. Sullivan leader oi the local Bible Glass in 1928.
 All men in Waterville are in. vited to attend the meeting Sunday Vincent Leonard will be In charge with Charles Probert leading the song service. Mrs. Frances Butcher will be pianist and s. Gift Butcher violinist.
 Carl Froelich, president of the Waterbury Federation of Mems Bi. ble Glasses and member of the local class, will be chairman ir charge of preparations for a tive day session of meetings of the State Federation at the Methodist CamE Grounds, in Plainville, June anc 8. Many local members will attend
 The Ladies' Aid Society of St. Michael's Church will hold & care party tonight at 8 o'clock in the Parish Hall, with committee oi Mrs. John Byrnes, Mrs. Daniel Sul-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

then you see death.
 The station was not on fire when we arrived, but 1t might just as well have been. It was In the triangular corner of three fires --a garage, a paper warehouse and & freight yard which made three fiery beacons and turned night into day.
 There was an ambulance ct the curb which we learned was now available. A short 10 minutes be- fore, two girls had decided to double up In one ambulance be. cause trying to drive around bomb craterS and rubble in this section during a blitz Is a two- person proposition. They had made one trip to the hospital and were returning for another load of injured when bomb, the one you never hear, struck the right front fender. Not even the fend- CT was left, but the next day one of the wheels was found In the middle of the next block.
 So that was the ambulance that
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

was available, the one this Sec- ond girl had left parked by the curb. And this night the young little Captain, Madame 0. c. she Is called by her subordinates, dld not object to e man not in uni- form helping out. EACH RUN WAS
 "A NIGHTMARE"
 Climbing in, we headed for c large public air raid shelter which had been hit. There were more than 60 injured stretched out along the street, and as the wardens continued to dig, they uncovered more.
 Some were already dead and many, you knew, wouldn't last the trip out between the shelter and the hospital.
 That trip, and the others which followed, was c nightmare. The girl was good, though. On the trips when she was at the wheel which was most of the time, she never got rat- tied. Not even when we would be going slowly down an open street
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
THE END or A PERFECT JOB

Thank goodness its all done, Now we can have some fun. No more curtains to hang, No more hammers to bang. No more laying of congoleum, Or cementing linoleum. De-mothed Is every closet, Newly packed is every faucet. The terrace has fresh painted chairs, There's fresh varnish on the stairs, On tho lawn new bird bath, Neatly trimmed each garden path. The attic looks clean and neat And the cellar Is quite treat. The last piece of brass is rubbed, The final floor Is scrubbed, The dressers have new chintS frils, What a bit of paint does for window sills The summer garden rugs are down, The porch is done up brown. Yes, house renovating is done And 1t may have been lots of fun. But dad is up in the air, Says--where's his old morris chairl
 EM. EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

ished digging through to people trapped beneath the timbers of their home.
 The wait was never long, however, because the telephone was always ringing. Then 1t was out in the shrapnel and bombs again-oniy by now there was no danger because every movement had long ago be- come automatic.
 Even the drive down the avenue flanked by fires and the streaming water which firemen continued to play upon each inferno, had lost It's effect of deathly beauty.
 Twice, after 3:30, when we passed such fires, we stopped and went over to the ever-present mobile canteen for hot tea.
 Along about five the German planes stopped their bombardment and returned to their home bases, but the job of transporting the in- jured continued on until nine in the morning. Then 1t all began to taper off and with the day shift
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

and suddenly find the street no longer open because high explosives had cut 6 crater dead center.
 When that happened, I'd climb out and try to find Q way round, or else an alley cutting into the next block. Usually, though, 1t meant turning the ambulance in the middle of the road and heading back to the last cross street.
 We made that first trip to the hospital all right, and the fifteen or more which followed. At 3:30 in the morning the downpour of heavy bombs seemed greater. We were no longer clearing the air raid shelter, because long ago that job had been taken care of with the help of half 6 dozen other ambulances. So 1t was purely spot work by this hour. FIRES WEIRD BEAUTY
 FALLS ON THEM
 Wed return from the hospital to the ambulance station and walt for e call from some air raid warden whose crew Of men had just fin-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
"I SAW DEATH
 In Wholesale Quantities"

center the city and then they would dive in long roaring gdes until leveled out at around two three thousand feet
 After bombs had rocked the hotel time stopping the that always through big dining left the telephone the station ambulance unit spot London raid station between military the gubby homes which always surround objectves
 STATION HEN1MED IN BY FIRES
 When returned being swanped casualty driving buance really btz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
Todsys Amswevs S0
 0ANllUM CRACKERS
Questions on Comic Page)

Questions on Comic Page)
 1. Georgia recently enacted Q law placing the whole state on eastern time.
 9. There are nine time zones on North and South America: three in Alaska and northern Canada, Pacific Mountain, Central, Eastern, Atlantic, Rio de Janerio.
 3. The prime meridian, from which time zones are figured, passes through Greenwich, England.
 4. At midnight in New York, 1t Is 6 e. m. in Berlin.
 5. Daylight saving time means advancing the clock by one hour, generally during the summer months, to obtain an extra hour of sunlight in the evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

Buy bond. Irving gHBerlin is working on Buy. aBond" song to pep up the sale of defense bonds and saving stamps. This will be significant event because 1t will mark the first time the government has used song increase the sale of securities They only buya few seasons ago in which George M Conan played Pres dent Roosevelt The secretary of the treasury In that put of the best songs of the show In great fashion, Buy Bond For Baby" The show in question was "Id Rather Be Right"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
INDEX CLUB TO HEAR
 JOHN P. O'CONNELL

The Index club will hear Q talk on Investment Finance" by John P. O'Connell of Hartford, banker and insurance man, at their weekly meeting tonight at 6 o'clock in the Central Y. M. c. A.
 MT O'Connell, 6 member of the Insurance Reserach bureau, has travelled in Europe five times for research studies,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

Marie G. Macdonnel elocution teacher at Crosby she has ever tutored. Rehearsals to date for the Women's Club play, "You Can't Take It With You" June TO- have been most complimentary to Miss Mac. this production are Bob Wakely, Dot Kane, Grace George, Marion Bendler Lucian Cantin Dan Gentile Roland Largay, Bob Ker, Muriel Marter, Henry Bans field and Jeanne Greenblatt Remember you can't take 1t with you,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21


 livan, Mrs. Fred Gillespie, Mrs. Thomas Buckley, Mrs. John McAree and Mrs. James McAree, in charge. Boy Scout Troop No. 3l met last evening at Fraternity Hall, and made plans to march in the Memor- ial Day parade in Waterbury and Waterville. Cobra Patrol will meet with Frank Ware at his home on Boyden street, Thursday May 20, to study first aid, and the Lion and Flying Eagle patrols will meet with Clifford Northrop, commander Of the Casper s. Davis, American Le- zion Post, next Tuesday evening fol- lowing the scout meeting, to study the Morris Code.
 All scouts are distributing posters on Defense bonds. Those present last night were:
 Cobra patrol-Michael Killeen, Norman Henchel, Ray Wright, Wal ter Barker, John Murphy and Louis Williams.
 Lion Patrol - William Scanlon, John Burns, Alfred Sullivan, John McNdahon.
 Flying Eagle - Frank Killeen, Lloyd Wright and Carlton Bird. Senior Patrol = Joseph Killeen Edward Franks, Wendell McKen- nerney and Harry Clark.
 Leader Frank Ware, and visitor MT. Northrop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21

scheduled to take over, we returned to the station.
 A TRYING ORDEAL
 FOR AMBULANCE GIRLS
 She was tired, of course. So was I Everyone was. But sitting around in the big living room of the house which this unit used for an anbu- lance station, you couldn't help mar vel at the job these girls were doing.
 For most of them, 1t was the first time in their lives they'd really seen death in wholesale quantities with no punches pulled. But they were standing the ordeal fine. Sit- ting around like this, though. i'm. mediately after c heavy night, they were inclined to 90 to pieces-just c little.
 "You become little hardened after e while" one said, "but that is only when you're working. Later, like now, you know you'll never get used to the sight of violent deatll-- never, even if this war lasts another thousand yearS"l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
They don't annh AAA~

call them hlstorlans---just reporters. Yet historians they
 really are,
 writing
 hour by hour, day by day, the real and terrible history of the Battle of Britain. No more stirring chapters of this history.on- newsprint are to be found anywhere than the dispatches of Paul Manning, London staff correspondent for NEA Service
 and the Democrat. The accompanying stOry--of Q night spent as an ambulance man during . heavy blltx-raid In I.ondOn--is typi. cal of Mannlng's courageous effort to "brlng home" to Amer ican newspaper readers Q full and true word. picture 0f life, and death, In
 blltx.torn
 England.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
GREAT.GRANDMoTHERs LIVE

Woodsville, N. II. = (UP)-Baby Kenneth Learned has four great- grandmothers-all living. They are: Mrs. Minnie Cryan, 90; Mrs. Laura Palmer, 84; Mrs. Hattie Aldrich, e1; Mrs, Minnie Thayer, 7i.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
TO MY MOTHER

From my entrance upon this light lit earth, And from my creeping years at the hearth, You have guided my limbs, filled with fear, And in that way I always felt you near my childhood days twas you advised in many heart for has always been full of tenderness And I in return have shown very little goodness. my years you bring and consolation You, for my advantage still seek information, must repay you, but how? To Mother Mary will my prayers address, That she protect you during the day and at rest, And that I'll always have my Mother Never to trade her for any other.
 FRANCIS dIAQUINTo
 Holy Gross College.
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to the board of managers of the Batavia school for tho blind. He was the first graduate ever to be thus honored. He now IS president of the board of managers, and the only member of the board who Is sightleSs.
 Recently tho entire town honored Severne on his 00th birthday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-21
Democrat Writer Rides
 Ambulance Through Blitz

London May 21-Peacock Alley at the Ritz-that's where met The girl ambulance driver in uniform, and this was her night ofso she wanted to celebrate
 But one hour all the celebration lasted because 30 minutes after the air raid alarm sounded it evident that this ordinary bz night bonbeS coming and by their the planes four-engine jobs
 coming height until they reached the