The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-25


 snrieked the foreman "It must be so," parked Goering, and strode away Nad efficiency came crashing through, and three days later, when a crew arrived at the factory, the planes were ready as ordered The pilots got in and scared over the Channel to bomb | the British Reaching London, the first pilot pulled his bomb re- lease-aTd out dropped four of the factory's night shiftl
 Henny YOungman tells about the actorm who was worried about catching colds. Every day he dosed himself with vitamin pills, sprayed his throat, put ephedrine in his nostrils and sucked cough drops Nevertheless, he came down with the flu As they dragged him to an ambulance he shook his fists and yelled: "Ohhhh that George Jean Nathan!"
 Joseph Clark Baldwin, who has been mentioned for the vacancy caused by the passing of Kenneth Simpson, has four-year-old un- married son who attends private school. The other day he was asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance All the political talk he heard at home apparently confused him. He convulsed his teacher by start ing: q pledge allegiance to the flag and to the Republicans for which it stands!" ,,,
 Jimmy Dorsey tells about the Hollywood producer who was trying to theft a big box-office person. ality from rival studio. He dangled a contract in front of the actor and asked: well, is it Yes?" The actor shook his head .... Then" per- sisted the producer, "is it No?" :. The actor still shook his head.
 Well" plaintively continued the producer, "at least won't you re- consider and give me a definite maybe?" .4.
 A delegation of Japanese recently visited the Curtiss-W Wright aviation plant in Paterson, N. J. An inspection tour, it was called =. They were loaded with cameras, of course Guided and supervised by courteous personnel, they were allowed to snap pictures of certain parts and motors to their hearts content Now don't get excited it was all right This was the catch Before leaving the plant all had to pass through a tiny room in single file In that room, unknown to them, with a battery of X-ray machines, bombarding away Those rays, in case you didden knew, rendered useless the films of the Japanazis had exposed None of the pictures turned out" and no relations or niceties were strained.
 Item datelined Pennington, Me: "The manufacture of earmuffs is said to be booming. Manufacturers are behind filling orders"
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 Dear wv: We Americans are amusing, emotional and excitable. We see lurid visions of NaZi spies sending secret code messages in that flood of radiograms sent collect to Berlin - forgetting that our pres- ent foreign policy still permits di- rect, uncensored radio and phone communication from New York to Berlin We overlook one vital fact. Nazi radio propaganda reaches American listeners direct only by shortwave broadcasts. And owners of such sets ordinarily use those bands very little because of the poor quality of reception.
 So the NaN master minds dope out a pot of scold" program with thousands of prizes of free radio. grams to Americans. who rush to express their opinions of Hitler. The networks rebroadcaSt this offer to American listeners. The newspa- pers splash the stories on their front pages. Everybody talks about it. Herr Goebbels has received price less publicity for his ,shortwave propaganda programs at the cost of only a few thousand dollars. Exactly as program sponsors give cash prizes to attract more lis teners And WE laughed when Englishmen listened to Lord Haw- HaW!-Ed Clark"
 A Washington paper, reporting eX- Senator Rush Holt's departure for w. Va, added: He left taking with :. |.