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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18


 How quickly you can kill a sum- mer romance with boring letter! And yet good letters are as easy to write as bad ones. Easier! For it's hard, dull work to grind out Dear Bill, How are you? I am writing to say = " But it's cinch to scrawl your gay, na- tural greeting, "Hi, Bill!" And why waste words writing to say"? Just SAYi At once Bill rec ognizes the real, the attractive you he knows. He loves your charac- teristic description of the jalopy that wants to die but nobody1l let it." the glorious purple sunset at Clear Lake"
 It's the same in business letters. You don't hem and haW, Tn reply to your letter" You write directly: "The salary you mentioned will be satisfactory"
 That positive note is important in closing, too. Not "Regretting the delay, we are" but We will see that such a delay does not occur again. Sincerely yours :" Our 32-page booklet tells how to make yuor letters vivid and correct. Has samples of 24 letters formal, friendly, business. Helps improve your grammar, suggests topics to write about
 Send 1Oc in coin for your copy of Good Letter Writing Made Easy" to the Waterbury Democrat Home Service, 635 Sixth Ave, New York, N. Y. Be sure to write plainly your name, address, and the name of booklet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
Of Interest to Women

Have you nousehOld prObleIn to solve? Write your question clearly, sign your name and ad- dress, encloSe three cent postage stamp and mail to The Woman's Editor, Washington Service Bu- reau, The Democrat, lO13 18th Street, Washington. D. C.. for ( personal reply.
 @. What can be done to remove the rancid taste from oceans?
 A. It cannot be removed. Pecans in the shell, stored at about g de- grees, will not discolor or become rancid for as long as one to two years. Shelled oceans will also re- main sweet and sound for some time when stored at about g to 35 de- grees. Before storing, they should be clean and dry.
 o. Is there any difference in the food value of red and pink salmon?
 A. They are practically the same, except that red salmon contains more oil.
 @. How may I remove varnish from inlaid linoleum without harm?
 A. Paint or varnish renovers of the organic solvent type will re- move varnish, but will also tend to soften and attack the linoleum. Ie is suggested that you try a mild solvent such as turpentine or min- eral spirits, rubbing it on small areas at a time with fine, steel wool.
 o. At what age should I start feeding vegetables to my baby?
 A. Usually when the infant is 5 or 6 months old, green, leafy veg etables can be fed at least three times a week, and other vegetables, such as carrots, peas, or string beans, on the other days. Cook the vegetables in as little water as pos sible, with little salt, just long enough to make them tender. Do not overcook them. Mash them through 8 stFainer, and serve the cooking water with the vegetables. Canned vegetables prepared by ap- proved methods in the cannery may be used. Potatoes may be given.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

from two to six months old, unles. the physician for some special req son deEns 1t better to defer vaccina tion for a while. At the same time or anyway within the first two years of the child's life the child should receive the Schick test (for sus- ceptibility or lack of immunity to diphtheria) and, if the test indi- cates the child lacks immunity, the standard i1nmunizing treatment toxin -antitoxill or toxoid).
 I do not believe compulsory vac- cination against smallpox is justi- liable. I believe that as physicians or health authorities we should urge upon every one the value of vac- cination, we should be well vac- cinated ourselves, we should see that those depending on us and those trusting our advice and judgment are properly vaccinated as aroutine service of municipality or state to every one who wants 1t. Having done this, we should grant to every person of sound mind the right to get along without vaccination If he or she so choose. Those of us who are protected by vaccination have nothing to fear from any one who may have smallpox in any circum- stance. So why all the petty perse- cution of people who have 0bses- Sions or prejudices or religious or other convictions against vaccina- ton?
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Altitude
 My daughter complains much o, the discomfort from her ears stopping up" whenever she trav- els to any considerable altitude. Is there any way to prevent that?
 (M.R.W.)
 Ar1swer-S should indulge in g wide gape or yawn at frequent in- tervals when ascending or descend- ing-to aid escape of air from mid- dle ear cavity and equalize pres sure. With ascent the air is more rarefied, pressure lower than pres sure of lower altitude, and that leaves too high pressure within the ear cavity, unless the Eustachian tube is opened enough to allow some of the air under pressure there to escape.
 Oatmeal Water
 AS a young man in West Indies, I noticed firemen on Steamboats soaked oatmeal in their drinking water-they said it was cooling for the blood. (A.S.W0
 Answer Seems contrary to the familiar notion that oatmeal is heating" Perhaps the effect they derived was due to the salt in oat- meal. More cooling for the blood" more refreshing, more likely to pre- vent heat cramps and heat ex- haustion is the practice of taking some salt with each drink of wa ter-about ten grains with each pint, or five grains with each glass of water, when working or playing in extreme heat.
 Copyright, 194l, John F. Dille Co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18


 Vegetables and fruits are essen- tiaL it's true. So are dairy prod ucts, whole grained cereals. But the real test of your ingenuity is in keeping enough meat in your menus, serving it interestingly, and holding down the budget. Low-cost meats prepared with special sauces and stuffings ena- ble you to juggle all three at the same time. For flavorful exam pie:
 LEFTOVER HAM AND VEAL
 PIE
 (Serves 4 to 6)
 Two cups diced cooked veal, 1 cup diced cooked ham, h cup diced cooked potatoes, h cup of cooked peas, # cup cooked car- rots, 1-4 cup diced raw celery, IF cups leftover gravy, salt to taste, pepper, biscuit dough.
 Combine meat, vegetables and gravy. Season. Heat to boiling, then turn into casserole. Cover with baking powder biscuit rounds. Bake in hot oven (450 degrees F) until biscuits are Drowned and well
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

when the baby is about months old, but they should not take the place of green or yellow vegetables
 @. How long does it take to roast Shelled peanuts?
 A. Generally about 20 minutes, ii1 an oven heated to approximately $50 degrees F. or moderate bake oven temperature.
 o. Are breast-fed babies usually healthier and happier than bottle fed babies?
 A. Yes, and nursing the baby < good for the mother too.
 e. How can evaporated milk bt whipped?
 A. It must first be chilled ant the simplest way is to pour tht milk into a freezing tray and lei it remain until fine ice crystals begir to form around the edges. Pour il into a cold bowl and whip rapidly with a cold beater until the milk i' very stiff.
 e. Where can I get pro and cor information about birth control?
 A. Send a self-addressed stamped envelope to the Waterbury Demo- crat Service Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth street, Washington, D. O.. for a list of references on this subject.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
BY RUTH MILLETT

l You'll get along :ottter in hot weather if you'll make up your mind not to let tactless remarks of friends and strangers upset you.
 And there's one sure way of talk ing blows to your ego lightly It isn't by superhuman effort to think well of the other person, no mater what he says or does.
 That just won't work if you're nu-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

The fool-proof way, and once you've caught on to 1t you can use it through life, Is to make capi- tai out of the in cidents and re- marks that play havoc with your ego and on first thought m a k e you boil.
 The m 0 s t amusing person you know prob ably learned that lesson long ago. eIlkixlr hanlr kn
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

bill ot I 8 I c, tn e n you cl- ready kn W that our Army gets plenty of
 energy = making
 m e a ts in its diet. nd if you've an army of your own to feed-a hun gry hus b a n d and husky, ac- tive children you lead them often to the iron and pro- tein bin your
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
sATALLPox IS oN THE NAV oUT

From 1921 to 1880 there were 7,282 cases of smallpox yearly, on the average, in the United States.
 From 1881 to 194O there were 1O,799 cases each year, only 2,839 cases in the United States in the year 194O, the lowest number of cases in any year since statistics of the prevalence of smallpox have been kept.
 In one area embracing a quarter of the entire population of the namely, the New England, Middle Atlantic, and Delaware, Maryland and the District of Co., lumbia of the South Atlantic states there was not single case of smallpox in 194O.
 Some people like to think I dis- approve of or oppose the practice of vacination--I infer, from the propaganda they send me.
 If I believe in anything human intelligence can achieve I believe in the efficacy of vaccination against smallpox,
 It seems Self-eVident to me that vaccination, and not mere improve ment in sanitation, is responsible for the conquest of smallpox. Do people who fancy themselves and their environment sanitary" have a lower incidence of respiratory infection than people who lack or neglect sanitary" conveniences and habits?
 In Canada in 194O there were eleven cases of smallpox and no deaths. Compare that significant record with the records of Minne- sota and Iowa for the same year each of these states had more than 400 cases of smallpox in 1940. Even in California there were only little more than 100 cases of smallpox in 194O-not all among the "okies" either.
 My advice to parents is that they should see to 1t that every child is vaccinated before the end of the first year, best when the infant is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
Latest Styles.
-MEALTH
Hoze, 70 Keeb WeH
By DR. WILLIAM BRADY, MD.

health nyEaene 
 
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
3 MODERN MENUS
Tip From Army: Meaty Meals
 Build Energy

done, about 20 minutes.
 Here are a few menu sugges' tions for these hot days: Broilee hamburger patties, large buns cabbage and carrot slaw, baked fresh pears; vegetable meat balls buttered spaghetti, raw carro strips, fruit compete; veal or skewers, steamed brown rice, greer salad, cherry brown betty; colt ham, hot potato salad, grapefruit salad, open-faced apple pie.
 TOMORROW'S MENU
 BREAKFAST: Tomato and lemon juice, scrambled eggs, wholewheat toast, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Fried cornmeal mush, brown gravy with left over vegetables, peaches, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Flank steak with sausage, baked potatoes, green corn, radishes, stewed plunlS, coconut cake, coffee, milk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
BY MRS. GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Service Staff Writer

If you're one of the multitude with 8 boy or brother in camp, and his letters tell you anything at all about a khaki-clad lads
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

social for soldiers In 3 large city floor where several thousand soldiers the most interesting things swiftly each searches out his kind The lads have
 finding like those they left at home
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

 Letters unsuitable for publication VII Se Write Miss Chatheld In of h1M new
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

Then there camp through whom the soldiers may work to gS girls k Nothing requires any pulling twisting turning and keeping at than social life And discrimination desirable, always soldier honng feminine cOmpanonshp better not turn up ms the arranged dances under ausmces of institutions.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
Caroline Chatfield
Social Program for Camp Lad. Coming Up But
Says Toda.y
Title Registered. U. s. Patent ofnce

Social Program for Camp Lads ComlnS OP - Du
 Slowly.
 DEAR MISS CHATFTEID , ..,s t 4b,s corn tor
 I'm in the army expect to be stationed at thus ms @ camp M t raion of Consequently would hke 10 get my ducks in a row meet grls-nce gls-ke aoss left behind met only those who go to canoes
 focal entertainment of soldiers and must haven't what I'm looking 1or 4he SorS oA sNA ~ meet would require introduction
 Same men don't seem sort of girls they pick up h I'm coosy had figured that if attended church womb meet the families introduced the daughters So ar m Alice In the asked mother to have our Eess send along would introduce people ike The letter isn't thought might as well impure fhe is any start Believe little fennnne com R"nAOAsMP 70 R~'' ' SOLDIER.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

And so say unknown soldiers We
  coming" CAROLINE ChATF1EAD.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

the church holds the fort Tor It's own young people who has minister priest ne can call take letter the minister priest or the and find himself sponsored
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

Think back to that Screamingly funny story she told on herself the other evening. The one you laughed At so hard and made her repeat to sOmeone else.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18
ANSWER:

ANSWER: these days community doing Its eve pest perfect social for the strangers W tne @ @ sn takes provide the entertainments and tune get money subscribed collected Then the trained social workers the volunteers how to After which, let hope all the sooler aos WI" girls like those they left behind
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-18

training army and training civilians 10 .O4k the mammoth task which we civilians seriously first lark which we read didn't touch close N Then our friends got the call and began to realize what 1t all about
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28
Bagging Germans
Easy for EagIet

los ANGELES. Get. % CUPD
Shooting down MCs ierSChmlttS is
easy If you don't go' OK tied" Car
roll W McCopin, az" Los Angeles
tller with the RAJ Eagle squad
ron, wrote IN, former employer
Stanley SaNcr s1fer disclosed to-
day.
The British air ministry yesterday
cited McCoIpm 27-Ycar-old frcckl-
ed red-haircd fighter. Tor bagging
hls fourth and fifth MeSsCrSchmitts
III single combat against SIX Ger
man planes.
The German pilots" McColpin
wrote follow inamation to the
letter We fellows who think clearly
have it all over them
Sayer. president CT the Olympic
Battery and Electric corp, for
whom McColpn worked eight years
aa an electrician. characterized him
as the "coolc,t most Unrutfled ano
mosf accuga," person / ever knew "
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28
Hunchback Killers
Confession Tells
Of Horror Murders
Wells Story Describes
Holding Baby While
Mother is Killed

SAN BERNARDlNO, Cal,
Oct. %. (UP)-Hunchbacked
Alfred Wells, 81, shot his
half brothers wife, Jean,
while holding her infant son
in his own arms, his confession, rea /
into the murder trial testimony to-
day, showed.
The state is attempting to prove
that Wells killed his half-brother,
Raymond: Raymond's l9-year-old
wife. Jean, and Jeans girl friend,
Rose Destree. Is, because they in
tcrfered with his illicit romance with
his l8-year- half-sister, Violet.
The confession was introduced In
to the testimony today despite pro-
tests of Wells attorneys.
Wells told how. after Violet had
been induced to leave his home, he
had gone to his brothers home. and
found Jean and her friend Rose.
He told in the confession how he
lured them into the hills near San
Bernardino and shot them both.
II tied their hands with cord, y
the confession said. Il gave Jean
my coat to put on the kid SO it
wouldn't catch cold. Jean asked me
Continued on Page 8 Col. y
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28
Dogs Owner Finds
Ordinance Toothy,
Same as His Pet
Canine Bites Local
Citizens, So Law
Nips POcketbO0k

FL Centre grocer Robert
Hong Tuesday could testify
from actual experience that
city ordinance 342 has real
teeth, and that said teeth can,
bite.
He knew al this because he has
a dog with teeth that bite
A few weeks ago a dog owned by
Hong bit a number OF persons, in
cluding Merle Armstrong, and cit
health officials ordered the anIm&.
quarantined. But Hong admIttcu
IN Judge Lee Nuffers police cOu,t
that he hadn't obcyed the order
with the result that a complaint
was filed against him by humane
officer H S SchWcitzer.
Hong was tried under ordinance
342. relating to dogs that are allowed
to break quarantine, pleaded guilty
and was fined S25.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28
Wind Fans Fire in
Flax Straw Stacks
OF Company

f Centre fire department had =
busy time from midnight until vel.
past dawn Tuesday when fire OF
undetermined origin broke out IL
piles Of flax straw at California
Central Fibre Corps temporary
storage ground here
Two stacks apparently caught fire
simultaneously and, famed by q
brisk wind, burned furiously for
hours. Firemen, however. succeed
ed in keeping the blaze from
opreading by uSin2 every piece OF
equipment in the clty's fire depart
mcnt system.
Two small temporary stacks in
quarters west of the company's REG
ular storage ground We're consumed
officials of the firm said Straw
was stacked there last slunMer
when stocks OvCrfloWcd the norma!
storage space Loss WAS estimated
from 100 to $50 tons FLAX straw
brings $50 per ton at the farm.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28
N All i
Plots
Bd red
President Tells
Of Plan to Take
South America

WASHINGTON, Oct. %.
(UP) : President Roosevelt
last night notified the world
that shooting has started'
between the Axis nations and
the United States, and simultan-
eously charged Nazi Germany wilh
definite plot to subjugate Sourh
and Central America and suppress
religion throughout the world il
favor of a "NaZi church.
The President renewed his pledge
that the United States will do Its
share in defeating NaziSm.
He said that we must supply the
British and the Russians and the
Chinese and that we dare not
fail"
I'VE have wished to avoid shoot
ing" the President said. But the
shooting has started. And history
will record who fired the first shot
In the long run, however. all that
will matter will be who fired the
last shot.
I'VE Americans have cleared our
decks and taken our battle stations.
NAVY IN ACTION
Our navy is ready for action.
Indeed, units of it in the Atlantic
patrol are in action"
Mr.. Roosevelt confidently predict
ed defeat of Hitlerism and promised
our help in establishment of "a new
peace" He snapped his listeners up
sharply in their chairs b. revealing
that he possessed a secret NaZi map
showing plans for domination Of
much of Latin America and the
Panama canal ana another secret
document from Berlin outlining
plans for substitution of an inter-
national Nazi church for all estab-
liShed religions.
1T is map of South America
and a part of Central America,
Mr.. Roosevelt explained. "as Hitler
proposes to reorganize it. Today in
this area there are IA separate
countries. But the geographical ex
perts of Berlin have ruthlessly oblit-
ci"VSu oiI ChloIiilS pOuliQdlS llIltS'
They have divided South America
into five vassal states, bringing tho
whole continent under their domi
nation.
And they have also so arranged
it that the territory of one of these
new puppet states includes the re-
public of Panama and our great
life line-the Panama canal That
Is his plan. 1t will not go into effect
This map makes clear the Nazl
design not only against South Amer
lea but against the United States
itself.
Your government has in its pos
session another document made in
Germany by Hitler's government.
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Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28

ROME, Oct. % CUPl - Premier
Benito Mussolini. speaking from the
balcony of Venice palace, told a
cheering throng of $4,000 Fascists
tonight that the United States and
other anti-axis forces will be crush
ed by the axis.
Mussolini appeared on the bal
cony of the palace in response to
the shouts of the uniformed Fascist
demonstrators who carried placards
and posters denouncing tie United
States and President Roosevelt
The occasion was the 10Th ami
yersary of the blackshirt march on
Rome which put Mussolini into
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28
Engineer Studies
Paving Proposals

Ell Centro's plans to pave num-
Der of city streets with state gaso-
line tax money were being studied
Tuesday by R. l., Beuthel, of the
state highway engineers office at
San Diego.
Beuthel was in hours long COLI
ference with city Public Works Di-
rector Walter Heinecke. who had
submitted proposals to pave severa.
blocks of highway feeder streets tc
the highway department.
About $4,000 can be made avail
able from city-collected gasoline
taxes for a paving program. but
the highway department reserves
the right under the law to designate
what streets shall be improved, anc
the type of paving to be laid.
Results of the conference bctWCcL
Beuthel and Heinecke were to be
announced Wednesday
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28
Fibre Corporation
Employees Unite

Employees at the California Cen
trail Fibre plant in Ell Centro formed
their own union recently and Tues
day filed articles of Incorporation
with Secretary of State Paul Peak
in Sacramento.
This union was named the En-
ployes Association of the California
Central Fibre corp. Chester d. Tan
kersley, Fred l.. Werning. and Mar
vim Wise, all of FL Centre, were list
ed as directors Of the non-prollt
association.
The articles said the corporation
was formed to exercise the powers
of the corporation in providing ano
maintaining the means and agency
whereby all of the members OF the
association may join together il
harmonious and concerted action II
all problems and questions of com
mon interest or mutual concern.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-10-28

army.
In Rome, thousands of uniform
ed FaSCiStS in an organized demon
stration denouncing the American
president converged on Venice Pal
ace in apparent hope of hearing
Premier Benito MusSOlini reply to
Mr.. Roosevelt's charges that the
Axis plotted to set up vaSSal states
in South America and eliminate
organized religion in the now world
order.
In Berlin, Nazi spokesmen charG-
ed that the presidents speech was
a lie and fake and the press as
serted that the United States ha1
taken "a final step toward shoot
ing war, presumably by indication
of plans to provide naval escort II
American ships are permitted to
deliver supplies inside the present
belligerent zones.
The Axis attack on MI. Roosevelt
in which Japan was significantly
outside the picture-coincided with
Russian reports Of stern Red army
resistance to an enemy drive by
perhaps 100000 men and $4,000
tanks into the industrial Ukraine.
NO GAINS MADE
The spearhead of this advance
was believed by London still to be
about 10 or Is miles from RoStov
indicating that no important gains
had been made there in the last
few days and that the Germans had
been slowed down to a crawl since
sweeping around Taganrog on th2
Sea of Azov
North of Taganrog, the Nazi high
command claimed the capture Of
Kramatorsk, so miles from Stalino,
and said that Hungarian troops were
pushing farther into the Donet6
basin.
Russian dispatches reported the
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