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Nazi-supervised arming of French Dakar, Liberia is coming to have great importance. It is located south of Dakar in an area friendly to Great Britain and the United States and which could be used to protect the coast of South Amer ica.
 For some time military strate- gists have driven home to the White House and State Depart ment the very great importance of West Africa in preserving the Monroe Doctrine. For if a hostile army gains control of West Afri- ca, the hop across the south Atlan- tic to Brazil and Uruguay is rela- lively easy for modern bombing planes.
 The Vichy government has now openly admitted the arming of Da- kar against the United States, and Free Frenchmen escaping from North Africa have reported that about $500 Nazi technicians were busy in Dakar and other parts of French Northwest Africa installing coast artillery and building air bases.
 However, south of Dakar and near Liberia de Gaulle Frenchmen are in control. Thus this part of equatorial Africa is being studied carefully as a base from which U. 8. forces might operate to block Nazi operations against the Vest ern Hemisphere
 NOIE-Since the fall of Ethiopia, Liberia is the only free country on the entire continent of Africa. and it has remained so only because of the United States.
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A manganese ore concentration plant located in Oriente province, Cuba, producing 360 tons of 50 percent manganese daily, is believ- ed the largest enterprise of its kind in the world.
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AFL RUCKUS.

Hot inside warfare is raging in the AFL over President Bill Greens appointment of that seven-man committee to study defense labor conditions and promote union CO., operation" with the government.
 It was hushed up. but at a eau GUS last week the powerful build- ing trade unions, representing the biggest voting bloc in the AFL, flatly repudiated the cooperation committee, then followed this up by bluntly telling Green that the committee didn't exist as far as the building trade unions were concerned.
 The caucus was called by Harry Bates, potent chief of the brick layers, who charged that instead
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MERRY-GO-ROUND

The War Department has ap- pointed special four man hard to study a revolutionary teSbg1hpe for the manufacture of smoeeless powder. Known as the Ball. Powder Process. it was developed by Fred Olsen, technical director ofiWest- ern Cartridge Company and has been used with, great success by the British in night air fighting, because of the non-flash quality of the powder x. The day Seha- tor Bob Taft made his isolation ist speech railing against the pro- tective occupation of Iceland, Horace P. Taft, his uncle, accept-, ed the honorary y.chairmanship of the militant anti-isnlationist don necticut Fight For Freednmsz am mittee 5. The leftist publicity agents in the CIQ headquarters,
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Daily Lessons in English v. v L. GORDON

Robert a splendid driver Say a
 OFTEN MIsPRoNOUNCED Indkputabe Pronounce n-ds-pu-ta b1 preferred syllable, the third.
 OFTEN MISSPEILED: right alright.
 SYNONYMS Rambe, rove, prowl
 WORD STUDY: "Use three times and is yous Let vocabulary mastering Today little world tell microcosm; and rightly ae'
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20 YEARS AGO fyfm ffME EMPIRE

 B. D. Territorial business for the Territory Crmont left for Seward Southwestern Alaska cities. included Medames Loomi Iangseth ar Cahil Webster MT and Elmo Baker. Bake the forme Webster MCloskey the Alameda for trip to Anchorage
 Weather: High low 52; cloudy
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HOROSCOPE @,ifH "The stdrs incline
 but do not compe"
FRIDAY, JULY 25

Benefic aspects rule powerfully today. Even though the midsummer day may be uncomfortably warm, the stars encourage initiative and dynamic effort. It is a fortunate sway for building and not too early to prepare for autumn. t
 Heart and Home: Women. are subject to the most stimulating and inspiring planetary influences while this configudation prevails. The stars seem to presage great en- thusiasm for public service and it is predicted that thousands of vol unteers will be difficult to place to the best advantage in war work. This is an suspicious date for sign ing contracts, but there may be errors of judgment in assigning tasks. The women's contribution to defense is to be greater than ever envisaged, it is prophesied. 'sh9
 Business Affairs: Merchandising is well directed today. Some com mercial setback may be expected. This seems to be an omen of loss of a ship. This is an suspicious time for reorganization and reori- entation of certain industries. It Is lucky for construction work and should accelerate the building of airplanes and mercantile vessels. Women now will prove their abil- ity to assume big burdens in the ! business world. AS scientists and executives they will be in dernafid Women physicians may have to make united effort for recognition in defense mobilization, but they will accomplish much when in Army hospital service.
 | National Issues: Flaws in 'denioc- racy as it operates will be revealed in Washington and in centers where troops are mobilized. Race prejudices will be apparent as the training of soldiers, marines and aviators proceeds. Astrologers em- phasize the importance of living up to the loftiest American ideals. The Constitution should be care fully studied and its meaning faith fully applied in major and minor matters. In this world test of na- tional standards there should be no dodging of issues. the seers, de- clare. o International Affairs: As this month advances much of conjec- ture attends European conditions. Mars is in a place presaging des- perate acts of sabotage and incen- diarism as Hitler's problems in- crease. Danger from acts of defiber- ate hostility within the United States will increase as secret or ganizations work with persistency and originality. Unusual methods Of undermlnlng patrlOtlSm VIII be employed for the stars indicate more of the surprises long fore told as outstanding features of this desperate world war.
 Persons whose birthdate it is have the augury of year of out standing significance in their careers. Domestic upheavals may be productive of happy readjust- ments.
 Children born on this day prob ably will have lives that are for tunate. They may have large am bitions, many of which will be realized.
 Copyright, 194l)
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have laid down a new press dic- tum. They refuse to give any in- formation to hostile reporters, even if it is only the first names and titles of CIO officials. Copy right, 1941, by United Feature Syn dicate, Inc)
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1922 MODEL

More interest than usual attaches to the forth coming new automobile models due August l but unlikely to make their debut before August IS and some of them later than that date. The likelihood that further reductions in production may be inn posed by Washington has increased eagerness to
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their hands of it. It is thought that Green may be endeavoring to keep him on the committee to avoid disharmony talk that would be sure to arise if he resigned
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D E noNn Hs E 0UIz l.

civic organizations funds from
 their heasuries into Defense Savings Bonds?
 such organizations money Series or Series Can citizen Defense Savings z 2 [ Bond7a Hss %ss eslo ii #a xS Yes po@tdsd he resident United States its Territories
 pnse&iona aTnousands this country
 putting savings Defense Bonds to shcv ther faith in ! Arneriean democracy sss1s
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Washington Merry
 Go-Round

tContinued rom Page one)
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| HAPPY BIRTHDAY

JULY "A
 Dan RalSton
 Jane English
 Mrs. M. Mahlon 7H Marie Williams 'la William Mahoney Mrs. B. Carmichael B. H. Manery 'ed Robert Simpson Jr. Walter H. Robinson ' John w. Jones r
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-16

into Caleb. It's all full of butter and I don't want it to get soft"
 Adoreen grabs a bowl of chow der and slides out of the kitchen. Angus scratches his head slowly, starting on his forehead and go- ing back to his neck, like he is blowing field of alfalfa.
 "See what mean, Millie. It's gettin' worse. She ain't never been like that before. If that guy gives her any more ideas, I'm gonna go ou there and"
 Millie slaps a pork chop on the griddle and turns around to glare at Angus. "You ain't gonna do a thing, Angus. Understand? You're gonna stay right here until he's gone. You ain't gonna go moppin up this joint with any travelin salsemen"
 "All right, all right. just wish he wouldn't talk like that. Millie, you couldn't burn those pork chops a little, could you?'
 Millie is flinging potato sticks into the french fryer, and grabs one and pitches 1t at Angus head.
 It is 20 minutes later before An gus finally hears the door slam out side and he peeks into the other room and sees Adoreen cleaning of the counter He goes back to his stool and he is hungry again so he orders a piece of pie and gets an- other cup of coffee. He is already half an hour behind schedule but he has to get a few things straight ened out before he takes his load of butter in to Caleb.
 Adoreen is still looking like she has a part interest in a cloud. Did you hear what that nice gentleman told me, Angusp He said I wouldn't have any trouble at all-not a bit"
 No trouble doin' what, Addie?"
 why getting job in New York, of course. Modelling, or maybe even getting into a show"
 Angus puts his fork down and scratches his head. "Now, Addie, you don't want to listen to that kind of talk. You don't want to pay no attention to 1t. That cookie wasn't no gentleman, anyway - and he had mustache."
 Angus, quit talking like that" Adoreen flashes. T was just tell ing you what he said and you have to take it all wrong. I won't ever see him again, but I'm glad he stopped. He appreciated my tal- ent - evn if you don't"
 What talk? Oh, all right, Ad- die. Let's forget it." Angus is playing around with the maringue
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-16


 During various eraS since 1880 B.C., Suez has been the terminus of a water route carrying traft1c between Europe and the Orient. At times 1t fell into disuse and at other times it was blocked and closed as a military measure, just as today the Axis seeks to cut this British lifeline"
 Digging of the first canal is credited to an Egyptian Pharaoh Rameses II. It was he who is said to have held the Hebrews in cap tivity and he may have used their tribes as conscript labor in the project.
 Cairo and Suez Linked
 There is & fresh water canal now between Cairo and Suez which | in many places follows the orig inal channel dredged out 3,0OC years ago.
 This first canal fell into disre- pair and 700 years later (609 B.C.) another was begun and although | 10000 men peris,hed in the under taking, it was not completed. First actual connection with the waters of the Red Sea was made some 30( years after this, in 285 B.C. Up te that time there had been a portage between the canal and trie sea.
 In the 8th century AD., wher the Moslems ruled Egypt, the Caliph of Baghdad ordered ths canal closed to prevent supplie! reaching his enemies in Arabia The British today may. be using the canal in just this way, to sent supplies and troops via the Rex Sea into Iraq and Iran.
 Harun r-Rashid Had Idea
 The idea of cutting route across the Isthmus of Suez, thu course of the modern canal, fl ssaid first to have been proposed b! Harun ar-Rashid of Arabian Nights" fame. But he did not pres 1t, fearing the route would permi the Byzantine navy to endangel the coasts of Arabia.
 Even centuries later, when tht French suggested the present canal the British at first echoed. the ok opposition of the Caliphs. The! protested against the project be- cause they thought it would threat en their maritime supremacy. How ever, Lord Beaconf1eld (Disraeli) Queen victoria's prime minister
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Suez Control Cause
 War For Centuries
First East.West Ditch Believed to Have Been COnl'
 pIeted By Rameses II

NOTE This is the last of series on the Midde East battle-ground and the scene or con c Britain and the Axis powers
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persuaded the British to share the financing of the construction.
 Thus, in the 30th century of its use, the route via Suez was found by Great Britain to be an essen tial link in the traffic between it's western and eastern empires.
 Scene of Rosetta Stone"
 Just west of the canal at one of the mouths of the Nile is the town of Damietta. center of cotton cloth manufacture, from which comes the word "dimity." Farther west at the other mouth of the Nile is Rosetta. Just outside this town, in 1799, one of Napoleon's soldiers found the Rosetta Stone" covered with ancient writings, which gave scholars the key to the interpreta- ton of Egyptian hieroglyrC1ics.,
 Today's war in the western desert" of Egypt and Lybia is be- ing fought over territory whose past is not SO well explored as that to the east but which some day may be discovered to be as fabu- lous.
 For example, Benghazi in Italian Lybia was founded by Ptolemy II in the 3d century B. c. Originally 1t was named Bererice for his wife. Benghazi today is the capital of the province of Cyrenaica. The an- cient capital was Cyrene, about 120 miles to the east. Cyrene, one of the greatest Greek colonies, was founded in 630 B.C. and was once 8 flourish city of 100000 persons, famous for its universities and med- ical school. Today 1t is a partly excavated desert ruin, which hap pens to lie in the path of the me- chanized legions of the 20th cen- tury.
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on top of his pis. <t keeps slip ping off, and he is trying to put 1t back on top of the lemon filling.
 And another thing" she is sayin, "he is the kind O. man who would call me Adoreen, which happens to be my name"
 Angus is fishing around nerv- ously in his pocket for osme change to settle up. T been think ing( Addict mean, Adorcen. You and me well, we been kinda we Aw shucks, Addie. Let's stop this fighting. Let's get mar ried.
 What he has just said scares even Angus, and there is a long period of very loud silence be- fore he collects enough courage to go on. We been going together for year, Addie, and we love
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who has an alleged criminal record out West John Roy of the Rainbow room has been bedden for six weekS-pneumonia ... Rich ard Waldo is reported broken in spirit" over various upsets ! Ramon Navarro goes to the Club l8 not for the jokes, but for the blonde pianist, Dorothy Leyes The beating of a Sand Street waiter (not 18) has him in the hospital-almost whipped to death The Mayor may close the joynt because of the slugging Add swell Summer drinks :'The Frozen Ruby" concocted by Tino at Place Elegante): Three fourths Dubonnet, 1-4 lemon juice, 1-2 teaspoon sugar and 8 dash of Mazarine Ca cordiaD. Shake and then pour into a glass of shaved ice.
 Douglas Chandler, former Balti more newspaperman, who broad casts from Germany as Paul Re- were" land so dull!) is remembered well by Americans =. They alIege for many years his only source of income was the pocketboOk of the laet phiIanthropist, Adolph Lew shown, who would probably turn over in his tomb, if he saw this Around the Harmony Club they insist that Chandler went to Germany on Lewishon's coin and even bragged about his friendship with the kindly old men - before he took up hating for living.
 Rafael Hakim, the French film man, was punched by Alfred Parker the other eve in night spot. Stew stuff. He says he's been offered $10,OOO to drop the threatened action Quentin Reynolds brother, Don, is at Kings County Hosp with a crushed knee after motor acci- dent. Quent is safer in London with all those bombs one time-Mayor Gaynor's boy, Norman, is on the verge of marrying Mrs. Edna Jennings, Fairfield socialite, now at Nassau John Cudahy says he is strictly a reported. His exclusive interview with Hitler was all sweetness, peace and flowers. But to newspapermen (when he ar rived) he said Hitler regarded him with cold hostility all during that interview because I am an Ameri- can" Why didn't he mention that in his interview? A reporter would.
 Peg O My Heart Dept: Senator Overton in the May 18th Congress sional Record ::"Westbrook Pegler, master of mendacity, runs a whole gamut of Justification and shows in its full bloom the reputation for recit and distortion Pegler's effusions are to be attrabuted chiefly to diseased brain. Libel is his stock in trade Without the spice of islander, his wares would find no market. He is the garbage man of the columnists .. He Is Americas outstanding representative of the (deleted by the editor) / And not only that, Senator IT the stage version of Louisiana Pur- chase" Pegler's name was used fol a cholumnist- st-character IT Tn Paramount's version, it will bt
 changed to the One the Public Knows Tee, hee.
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each other at least I love you, Addie and I make good money $125 a month - and MT. Witten- baum says maybe he'll raise my wages in a coupla months. We could get house in Caleb and"
 Adoreen has cooled down and she reaches out ana grabs Angus hand Angus, I like you, but I'm not sure. You see :"
 Look, Addie, I gotta go. down to Mooseheart for another load of butter this week and I'll be comin' back this way nighS after next. You think it over. You can tell me then" .. .
 Adoreen grabs a cloth and starts polishing the pie case. "All right, Angus. Night after next. I'll let you know" (TO Be Continued)
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FOUR MIDSHIPMEN
 TO BE GRADUATED
Congressman Smith Noti- fled By Navy Dept. of Ap-
 pOintees' Success
Special to The Democrat)


 Washington, D. O., June 16-The Navy Department today notified Cong. J. Joseph Smith of Water bury, Conn.,, that all four of the midshipmen appointed by him to the U. 0. Naval Academy at Anna polls will be graduated in 1942. The four are Robert E. Doherty of Win sted, Francis J. Berry of Ansonia, William H. Cross of Naugatuck and Edward R. Bergin, Jr, of Derby. The latter originally would be a member of the graduating class of 1943, but recent legislation has re- duced the course at Annapolis from four to three years.
 In anticipation of request from the Navy Department for candidates to fill the four vacancies to be created by the graduation of the fifth district midshipmen, Cong. Smith has invited young men inter- ested in attending Annapolis to sub- init applications for appointment.
 Candidates, to be eligible for consideration under the Navy De- partment requirements must be residents of the fifth congressional district, and not less than 17 years of age, nor more than 21 years of age on the calendar year in which they enter the academy.
 Application blanks and full de- tails of the mental and physical requirements for appointment to Annapolis may be obtained from Cong. Smith whose address is 1046 House once Building, Washington D. c.
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Nearly 2,25O.OOO cattle were slaughtered in Brazil last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-16

Waste of Time Dept: A senator prevailed upon the owner of three Montana radio stations last week Butte, BOzeman and Helena) to cancel all commentator programs as mot being in the public interest"
 So all of us were omitted from those stations last night But Denver and Salt Lake, both 50,OOO- waters blanket the Northwest, so who's laughing the lOudest now.
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Daily Statistics
 on Auto Accidents

GENERAL TRAFFIC ACCIDENT
 DATA Total Number of Traffic Accidents Reported for Last Year as of This Date-8,159. Estimated Number of Traffic Ac- cidents Caused So Far This Year as of This Date-10,650. Total Number of Personal In- juries Caused Last Year as of This Date-4,975.
 Estimated Number of Personal In- juries Caused So Far This Year as of This Date-5,321.
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By ROBERT [. FREY

United Press Correspondent New York June 1e-CUP)-Thy fighting control o the
 waterway the Istmu of Suez but ditch between the Nile and the entrance or N
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RUSSIAN BOY
 WRITES OF BOONE

Pittsfield, Mass. (UP)-An H. year-old Russian boy, Igor Bat- tenieff, who came to this country two years ago with his parentsi has won Berkshire Museum con- test. The boy, who knew no Eng fish when he entered the country. wrote paper on Daniel Boone.
 Government and private con- struction is booming in Brazil
Evening star., 1941-01-12

fashions. still don't know anything
about the prevailing lines this year, or
the smart color combinations, or what
trimmings will be worn with what out
fits. But | have found out something
about our fashion of living that gives
me new faith that our civilization is
built to stand, strong and firmly
rooted, even though older civilizations
around us crumble.
Yes, we shall even get along without
Paris couturiers if we have to. After all,
Mary Jones, the housewife, and Sally
Smith, the stenographer, never had
Paris gown in their lives. And they are
the best-dressed women in the world
- they and few million other aver
age American women. That is the kind
of civilization we have =.
Some thirty years ago, in bungalow
in Kansas City, an average American
housewife decided that she was en-
titled to look well-dressed even while
she was doing her housework - even
with mop in her hand. That was
distinctly an American notion No
where else in the world would it have
seemed anything but a crazy whim.
Why, Nell Donnelly's husband made
only eighteen dollars week,
1t was not crazy whim here, be-
cause through the years it had become
our fashion to believe that average
Americans could live better than any
people had ever lived before - and to
prove it Nell Donnelly proceeded to
prove it again.
Evening star., 1941-01-12
STRANGER
THAN MAN

! HE farthest recorded distance ever
Travelled by any starfish is approx
mately 5000 feet - less than one
nautical mile - and this "long-
distance" trek took ten months time.
! HE life span of the halibut is about
the same as that of humans. The
largest halibut are forty to sixty years
of age or older. Halibut do not
reproduce until they are about ten
years old.
Z REE LUNCH" on the wing: The
black skinner, bird related to
the gulls and terms. has a novel way
of dining. His razorlike lower bill is
much longer than his upper, and he
flies along the surface of the water
scooping up insects with it.
Carl kULBeRG
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Wesley Rowmon

how artistic, how extravagant, what
sort of lives they lead. and even how
they treat each other"
And so, testing his theory, l have
been finding out about clothes - and
Evening star., 1941-01-12

them - if they are civilized. Clothes
are universal form of self-expression
Show me what people wear, and I'll
tell you practically all about them -
how skilled they are, how practical,
Evening star., 1941-01-12
Here's one good reason -
a lady named DonnellY,
who had an unheard-of
idea about house dresses

AM ONE of those men who drive
wives to desperation. | have no
. eye for clothes. | don't realize that
my wife has new dress until she asks
me how | like it. Sometimes | notice
that she looks particularly nice, but l
never know just why. | couldn't 60
into shop and pick out a hat that she
would wear on a bet. And l never
could understand the tremendous inn
portance of being in fashion.
Recently heard my wife and some
other women talking. They were won
dering who would set the styles now
that Paris is in the hands of the
Germans and the French are having
all the creative artistry regimented out
of their systems. My reaction was one
of sour masculine superiority. Just
like womenp' l thought. Worrying
about clothes when a whole civiliza-
ton is crumbling''
1t took an arCheologlst, who happens
to be friend of mine, to overcome
my masculine snobbishness. When l
started grousing to him about it, he
took me up very short do you know
anything more synonymous with civil
ization than Clothes?" he demanded.
"Of course women are interested in