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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Washington, D. C., Jan. 23-The National Conference for Palestine, which will assemble more than 1,500 delegates in Washington, D. c. on Saturday evening, (January 25th) and Sunday, January 26th, is ex- pected to be the most important as- Semjbly of American Jews since the issuance of the Balfour Declaration on November 2, 1917 in which the British Government pledged it's sup port to the establishment of Jew iSh National Home in Palestine. In the twenty-four years since that pledge was given American Jews, through the instrumentality of the United Palestine Appeal, extended their moral and material support in the project of rebuilding Pales- tine, making possible the growth of the Jewish population from 55,- 900 in 1919 to 55000 0in 1941. This year because of the collapse of Eu- ropean communities which former ly participated in the reconstruction program in Palestine, almost the entire responsibility for assuring the further development of that country as a major haven for Jewish ref ugees, will have to be borne by the Jewish community in the United States
 With the official launching at the Washington conference of the $12.- COG, ,OO0 War Emergency Campaign, the United Palestine Appeal will call upon American Jewry to give un- precedented support not only to make possible continued immigra- ton and colonization for refugees in Palestine which has been the fore most haven since the beginning of the Hitler regime, but to fortify Pa- leStine'S position as baStion in the defense of Britain in the Middle and Near East.
 Paul V. McNutt, Federal Security Administrator; Majority Leader Mo- Cormack of the House of Represen- tatives; Congressman Sol Bloom of New York, Chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee; Dr. Bernard Joseph, Legal Adviser of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and Dr. Abba Hillel Silver National chairman of the United Palestine Appeal will be among the principal speakers at the conference On Pales- tine problems. The conference will also assemble the foremost Amer ican Jewish leaders including, in ad- dition to Dr. Silver, Dr. Solomon Goldman of Chicago, former pres ident of the Zionist organization of America; Dr. Israel GoldStein of New York, National chairman of the Palestine Foundation Fund; Henry Monsky of Omaha, president of B'nai Birth; Charles J. RoSen- bloom of Pittsburgh, National Treas urer of the United Palestine Appeal; Judge Morris Rothenberg of New Co., Chairman of the Council of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and Dr. Stephen s. Wise of New York, chairman of the administrative committee of the United Palestine Appeal.
 The United Palestine Appeal has performed an immense labor in talk ing care of the refugee immigration. Many of the European Jews who ar- rive are without resources and with out any particular craft. They must be housed and fed, they must be taught to speak Hebrew, which is the language of the Jewish com- munity in Palestine, and they must be trained to take their place as farmers and workers in the life ot the country. During the past year alone eight new settlements were founded ard 7,5OO new agricultural
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
WOMAN SLAYER
 BEING OBSERVED
Harvard Business SeCre- tary Who Killed Lover,
 in Suicide Mood

Boston, Jan. 23.-CUP)-Guarded by policewomen, Mrs. Ruth E. Stead man, 26, Harvard Business School secretary and wife of Pittsburgh, Pa., insurance executive who alleg- edly confessed to police to killing her married lover, was at Boston Psychopathic Hospital today for ob- Servation.
 Doctors said she apparently has recovered from her suicide attempt with sleeping tablets after purport- edly staying Robert G. Emery, 26, Natick real estate dealer and father of two children, in her West End apartment Tuesday.
 Dr. John A. Foley said the deci- sion to transfer the attractive blonde mother from City Hospital yester- day was made when conference ofpsychiatrists decided she was of suicidal tendency at the present tlme." She was ordered removed for 10 days observation.
 Authorities said court action against her would be deferred pend ing reports of alienists and medi- cal examiner. An autopsy must be performed to determine the exact cause of Enery's death.
 Two Fathers Meet
 The fathers of the principals in the marital quadrangle met unex- pectedly in the West End police station yesterday. Waldo Emery, Portsmouth, N. H., naval architect, came to make arrangements for shipment of his sons body to AL fred, Me, while Francis J. Stanwood of Needham, power company off, cial, was there to help police dis pose of his daughters apartment furnishings. The men offered each other condolences.
 Police quoted Emery as telling Stanwood: My troubles are over, but yours are just beginning. Y"
 Stanwood retained Atty. Edward Flynn of Boston to represent his daughter. Flynn later asked Dr. Ab- raham Myerson and Dr. Leo Alexan- der, psychiatrists, to examine Mrs. Steadman.
 When found dead, apparently from an overdose of sleeping tab lets, Emery had strand of rope around his neck. Mrs. Steadman was unconscious in bed. She alleg- edly was Respondent over their in- ability to wed.
 Left Her Husband
 Authorities said Mrs. Steadman told them she met Emery at Need ham house party last June and fell in love with him at first sight. She left her husband, Kenneth A. Steadman, 28, Massachusetts State College graduate and Pittsburgh representative of a Boston insur- ance company, and obtained em- ployment at Harvard last Septem- Der. The Steadmans have a nine month-old daughter and the En- erys, two children, aged four years and four months.
 Mrs. Ruth Emery, 26, wife of the victim, said he left home Jan. 13.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
BUNKER HILL CAST
 TO PRESENT PLAY

Tryouts will be held Thursday and Friday evenings, January 23rd and 24th, at 8 o'clock, for roles in the next production of the Bunker Hill Players. By popular request, the play will be Jean Webster's story of modern Cinderella, Daddy Long leg" and will be presented in the church gymnasium on March 7th. All who have any interest in any branch of play production are in- vited to be present. There are sev- eral parts for children, as well as fourteen adult roles. The tryouts will take place at the Bunker Hill church. The play, "Charley's Aunt" originally scheduled for this date, will be presented later in the sea- son, because of a publishers taboo which prevents its showing any, where at this time.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
COUNCIL CHECKS DEFENSE GRANTS
Uncle Sam Spends Over $l10,OOO,OOO in New
 England in Two Weeks

Boston, Jan. g Defense contracts and expenditures in New England in the last half of December amount ed to $119,899, 9,636, making a total of $1 ,633, ,499, ,953 in defense awards to New England manufacturers since June 13. 1940, it was reported today in the New England Councils monthly News Letter.
 Of the $119,S99,6 ,636 let between December IS and December 31, naval contracts accounted for $96, 6,O67,528, while the Army contracted for $22,- 185,O91, the News Letter reported. About two-thirds of the remaining expenditures were for the continua- tion of the defense training program. Massachusetts received $72,540, ,329, and Maine was second with $38, ,7S7,- 163.
 The Massachusetts contracts in- cluded orders for the construction of four .destroyers at Fore River and four at the Boston Navy Yard total ling $5O,676 ,976. The Maine awards represent, almost entirely, the award of 8,007, ,732 for the construction of six destroyers at Bath.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
TOBACCO WORKERS
 AIDED BY CHURCH
Hartford Minister Explains Recreational Program to
 Bunker Hill Women

The social service work accom- plished by the church on tobacco plantations here in Connecticut was fully explained to members of the missionary department of the Wo- mems society of the Bunker Hill Congregational church yesterday afternoon by Rev. Stanley Kendig of Hartford.
 Rev. MT. Kendig stated the church has gone to length in en- deavoring to establish recreational program for tobacco farm workers in this state, which in reality, is actually home missionary work. (.
 Mrs. John Ensor conducted the worship service Refreshments were served by committee made up of Mrs. Clifford Rowland, Mrs. Arthur Brewster, Mrs William Saunders, Mrs. William Dorr, Mrs. Carl Heeb- ner, Mrs Arthur Johnson, Mrs Robert Seamen, Mrs. Lawrence Butterfield and Mrs. E. Leslie Beebe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
PLANS DISCUSSED
 FOR MAINE DAY
Spanish War Veterans to Hold Special Observance;
 Painting Donated

An oil painting of Col. Charles Davenport, was voted last night by the Emerson Liscum camp, Span ish War Veterans, to be donated to the Mattatuck Historical society. The painting is now hanging in the room which was formerly occupied by the camp at the armory.
 Meetings were held in their for mer G. A. R. room since they left the armory quarters and with the new quarters find that no space Is available to hang the picture.
 The annual get-together banquet which will be held March 29, the place to be named later. was planned and Comdr. Ben Johnson appointed Harry Bassett, Albert Portman and Charles Rudolph to make arrangements.
 This dinner will celebrate the 34th anniversary of the founding of the camp and an effort will be made to locate and invite all char ter members to the affair.
 Maine day will be also observed by the local camp this year on May 16 at ' o'clock at the Grace Metho- dist church in Waterville May 18th was set for the celebration although Maine day actually falls on May 15.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

replacing the scarcer materials us- ually used in the production of ar- tificial silk-woodpulp, among others which can be placed to many other uses.
 The new medium is fireproof, washable, takes 4l shades of dye, and can be mixed with wool and cottonH Seaweed stockings will, they say, be on the market some time next year.
 When the present huge stocks of makeup are exhausted and pro- duction starts on it's very reduced scale, some woman beauty editor has worked it out that about two ipstickS and two boxes of powder will represent yearly allowance.
 Shops are only going to be al- lowed to sell 25 per cent of what they figured on last year. It is safe to predict general lookingup of old beauty recipes and routines to re- place the necessary luxuries of these later years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Ray Nolan of ChaSeS Grand Street Office was
 pasted and toasted at farewell dinner rendered by fellow associates at Quaker Inn Tuesday evening" He leaves the firm for employment elsewhere. MT. and Mrs Hugh Downey will have three candles on their wedding anniversary cake tomorrow Mrs. D. is the former Henrietta BOuffard DOds JacarusO for wards the Tower the inaugural souvenir edition of "This Week in the Nations Capital She took in the Inaugural Gala Sunday evening in Constitution Hall featuring Mickey Rooney Nelson Eddy, Charlie Chap lin, Ethel Barrymore and Raymond Massey. Israel Goldman of Bronson Street popular member of David L. Fannck Post, Jewish War Vets is home from the U. S. Veterans Hospital in NewingtOn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

especially those in the services, re- linquish all aids to beauty. Recent ly a Women's Ambulance Transport Service unit outside the London area was asked what they would like as a Christmas present. "A mobile hairdressing van,' was the answer. And they were speaking for thousands of other girls stationed in out-of-the-way places where the chances for getting a hair-do are more than remote.
 MAKE STOCKINGS
 OF SEAWEED
 Research experts in the Leeds University textile department have found that seaweed will make an excellent rayon fiber to replace silk for stockings and underwear.
 According to them, stockings made from seaweed will be cheap CT and more durable than those fashioned from other rayon, besides
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

and rarer.
 The reason for this state of things is manifold. Few men realize that it costs blonde all of two dollars to acquire that shade. Besides, a golden hair-do lasts rarely longer than twelve days. Then it has to be touched up, and this does not in- clude the original dyeing and re- conditioning of hair for permanents.
 With SO many women now in the Services, it is also a question of time, as well as money which will gradually see the disappearance the war has led to psychological changes.
 Women are inclined to be more sincere, constructive, with "gad- about" girls going all out for war work, worrying less about frivoli- ties, and achieving another sort of attraction to take the place of the oldtime glitter
 This does not mean that women,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

should be cut by half, in order to save steel for war industries.
 But while the curtailment of all the more frivolous adjuncts neces- sary to moredn women's comfort and happiness have scarcely ruff fled the feminine world at large believing as they do that there will always be alternatives or "ersatz" to make do with until the war is won-there have been strong protests where corsets are concern ed.
 This measure apparently hurts the older woman to whom corsets are as necessary as shoes.
 A member of the trade stated re- gently that apparently the Board of Trade did not know doctors had ad- vised women to wear. corsets when they help to brace them against nervous shocks. Besides that, many women without corset lose some thing of their poise and self -confid-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
Personal To Fat Girls

Now you may slim down your face and ngure without starvation dieting or back breaking exercises. Just eat sensibly and take Marmoia under the conditions and e. cording to directions on the package.
 Marmola Tablets have been sold to the public for more than thirty years. More than twenty million boxes have been distributed during that period.
 Marmola is not . cure-all. Marmola is only for adult fat persons whose fatness is caused by 8 thyroid deficiency (hypothyroid- ism) but who are otherwise normal and heal thy. We do not make any diagnosis as that Is the function of your physician. who must lose those ugly, uncomfortable pounds the Marmola way7 Get box of Marmola today from your druggist
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
EXPECTS THE WORSE

In the past three years, Melvyn Douglas has appeared in more out landish costumes, ranging from feminine attire to a diving suit, than any other actor. So it didn't surprise him when he was asked to wear a strait-jacket for a scene in Columbia's "ThiS Thing Called Love-" in which he is co-starred with Rosalind Russell
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

The invisible goldfish at Root and BOyds continue to cOnfound and amaze the innocent. Over a center bowl of water filled with trimmings that go toward brghtenng up the secluded personal life of the much abused fish, the insurance people placed sign reading "Invisibe Goldfish from South America" People who look once, and there many stop to have another look The second Hook" isn't at all enghtenng The bowl presents an absolutely empty appearance mute proof if such is needed that the goldfish is in truth invisible And judging the caIm untroubIed waters within the bowl one should say that at last goldfish have peace
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
MEET "MEANEsT MEANY"

Warren William, because of his deep-dyed deviltry in Arizona" 1" Wesley Ruggles' Columbia epic starring Jean Arthur, has been voted the "meanest meany" of the 194O screen season by prisoners in a western penitentiary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
A BELIEvE-IT-OR-NOT

Boris Karloff's hobby, when he is not soaring people on the screen, is gardening, and during his latest Columbia thriller, '@The Devil Com mands." the horror drama star took up the cultivation of that most deli cate flower, the orchid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Editor Tall Tower Topics: You hereby cordially the Pre-Ienten Dance given by the zwango Club The place is the 48 Green Street Hall in Brooklyn the time is o'clock Friday night, January 24th; the music will be furnished by Don Lowe and his orchestra aug mented by the vociss of Miss Ann Del Grosso and the feature event will be the La Conga contest in which hope to witness example of your Terpsichoria Ex- pectantly, obediently Joseph Hebert, chairman. (Thanks for those kind words, Joseph You make me feel almost like boy again. But you give the La Conga exhibition and I'll do the watching and applauding.- The Ed).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

stockings. This apparently should leave them high and dry so far as making themselves beautiful goes.
 In addition, the latest edict of the Board of Trade is directed against corsets, this agency having
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
Good Evening.
DAYS OF OUR YEARS
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

First freeze, Followed by breeze, Then 8 sneeze Wet and sloppy days, Foggy ones with haze, Winter has funny ways. Down, down, the mercury goesi Pretty cold for nylon hose, It's just the way the old wind blows. Up, up, the mercury jumps! Ashes everywhere from the dumps. Skidding cars get many bumps. Some weather! so one hears, Like laughter mingled with tears In these days of our years.
 FEM. EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23
British May Now Ration Glamour
WAR COMPELS CURTAILMENT OF COSMETICS, FINE FABRICS, STOCKINGS - AND CORsETS!
BY ROSETTE HARGROVE

 outlook mighty British glamour girls"  cosmetics produ fabrics the total
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

ence.
 Another slant on the beauty busi- ness: Gentlemen may still prefer blondes, but as the war goes on, golden-haired gals will become rarer
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Cattle breeders of Uruguay gave two ambulances to the British Red Cross
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Bill Derwin of the Park Department, supervising the entertainment for the annual Presidents Birthday Ball for the Infante Paralysis Fund scheduled for Ham,
 ton dancetorum one week from tonight, would like to several volunteer entertainers for this most
 worthy cause The other evening in the newsreel deeply moved by shot of six kids being kept alive in those fearSome iron lungs The closeups showed the kids wnkng at the camera and grinnng as cheeruly up half dollar. The iron lung is of the marves of medical science It keeps boys and girls and men and alive while doctors carry the fight against infante paralysis. The iron lung is costly machine and maybe that's the reason why there all too few of them in the United States More of them are needed to keep fine kids from having their lives choked off by
 disease medical science is fighting with all the brains, courage and money at its command There is no lack of brains courage in the medical profession but there is lack of money. That's why an like the Hami- ton Park ball is being sponsored If you sing, dance entertain in any pleasing way, won't you be kind enough to donate your services? Lucky who have had personal or family contact with nfante paralysis
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

RIGHT: Judy Nc Crea, in peacetine a popular
 British
 ShOwgirl, has deserted the world of
 glamour for that of grim reality. She serves as an air raid warden i'm LOndOn's PaddingtOn
 district. LEFT: British women
 in the war services do not forget all about beauty. Members of a
 WOIuen's
 Ambulance
 Transport Service unit,
 like this, recently hoped Santa would bring them "a mobile hairdreSsing
 van' for
 Christmas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

TRAVELLING DIRECTOR
 Robert Florey. director of "The Face Behind the Mask has di- rected films in every civilized coun- try. including China and Japan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Henry E. VOegeli, whose talents as an architect and engineer at the disposal of the American Brass Company, but whose heart belongs to the great out dOors enlightened the curiosity of Kiwanis Club mem meeting this at the Elton. Henry invited the boys to don their cOOnskn hats take their ntlOcks in hand and accompany him along an imaginary forest snakes he discussed the various species of little Sthery friends of brush and thicke from the parlOr variety dangerous to wOmankind, down through the various breeds of cObras and copper heads to the hot water bottle snake mentioned of the domestic delights encountered the fabulous Hilbert Islands No thrill short of the D. ITS equalled Henrys educational address,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Joe Meehan, manager of several American Brass basketball teams which captured few State Industrial championships is back in the Brass City with the Scovill Manufacturing Company. He was with Ana conda in New York City for many years after leaving here Donald Weisman 16year-Old son of Attorney and Mrs. Henry Weisman, is very sick boy at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. Sergeant Chares McWeeney has been missed around police head quarters the past few days being laid up at home with illness. Freddy Cadotte of Atwood Avenue, popular Chase Office worker is coming along nicely at St. Mary's Hospital after minor operation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-01-23

Freddy Smith, former Olympic Club basketballer, will be year older tomorrow. Mir and Mrs. Cy DVileskis of Hnsdale Avenue wintering in Miami, Florida, which they claim is true beauty spot of America. .. Bill Morris, Naugatuck lad, has earned himself place the varsity basketball team at St.
 BonaventureS, making him three-letter man in his Chief in the borough. Jim Fitzpatrick Washington Hill voter, will be year older next Saturday Florence Scullo has been named charlady of the annual dinner dance of Semper Fdes sorority at Waverly February 2.