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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03

Construction in force in the state of Connecticut, announced by the Connecticut Highway Department July 1, 1941 for the week ending July 12, 1941, together with the surface and shoulder oiling and stone sur- face treatment. This report does not include the Wilbur Cross Park way which is being constructed on new location.
 Closed for Construction
 Detour Provided
 Route No. 15-Union. Approxi- mately 4 1-2 miles of reinforced of Route No. IS, beginning at the Massachusetts state line.
 Old Route No. 32-Windhan. Re- inforced concrete box culvert at Obwebtuck river.
 Route No. 30. Saybrook. Two sections of bituminous macadam pavement, 2,850 feet ii1 length.
 Route No. 121. Orange. Wilbur Cross Parkway. Reinforced concrete twin t-beam bridge on Grassy Hill road.
 ConstructiOn-Trafic Maintained
 Route No. U. s. 1. Old Lyme. Bridge and approaches at Lieuten- ant river.
 Route No. 2. Borah. Yantic river bridge and approaches.
 Routes No. 2 and 15. East Hart- ford. Main street. Bridge on the Hartford bypass.
 Route No. U. s. 5. Berlin and 18-075 feet of concrete pavement. Meriden. Wilbur Cross Parkway.
 Berlin and Newington. 6 miles of rolled gravel surface on Berlin turnpike.
 East Hartford. Main street and Ellington road. l 1-2 miles of rein- forced concrete pavement. South bound traffic detoured to old Route U. s. 5.
 South Windsor and East Windsor. 3-4 miles of reinforced concrete pavement on the Hartford-Spring- field road.
 Route No. U. s. 5A. Windsor. 1-2 miles of reinforced concrete pavement on Hartford Windsor road.
 Route No. U. s. 6. East Hartford. About l mile of reinforced concrete pavement On Burnside avenue. Open to local traffic. Eastbound and westbound traffic detoured to Holland Turnpike.
 Manchester. Hockanum river bridge and approaches. Temporary bridge provided.
 Route No. 8. Beacon Falls and Naugatuck. 1-2 miles of rein- forced concrete pavement from Beacon Falls northerly.
 Route No. g. Granby. Bridge over North branch of Salmon Brook and approaches on Tariffville- Granby road.
 Route No. 15.e Stafford. Drainage system on approximately 1-2 mile of Route No. Is at Police Barracks Hill.
 Route No. 20. Enflied Culvert replacement on Somers road.
 Route No. 29. New Canaan. 1 1-2 miles of reinforced concrete pave ment on South avenue.
 Route No. 32. Franklin-Lebanon Windham. Grade crossing elimina- tion at Williams Crossing.
 Route No. 34. Orange. Bridge and approaches at Wilbur Cross Park way on Derby avenue. Orange and West Haven. 20,4O6 fet Of reinforced concrete pave ment on Derby avenue.
 Route No. U. s. A. Canton Sims bury. milo of concrete pavement on Canton -Simsbury road.
 Eastford and Pomfret. Approxi- mately 6 miles of bituminous maca- dam pavement, including steel gir- der bridge, on the PhoenixvilIe- Pomfret road. Slight delays. Traf- f1c is urged to avoid this section, if possible. Best route is posted. New Hartford. Constructing 1 | mile of reinforced concrete pave mnt through the village of New Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03

bombers were operating shuttle service of death between their air. fields in France ard Plymouth in England, the people of Torquay- the outsiders-were something more than uneasy.
 The night I arrived in Torquay on the late train they had an air raid warning, searchlights began probing the skies and in the lobby of the hotel there was a feeling
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03
LOBSTER SEASON PROFITABLE

Yarmouth, Nova Scotia - (UP.) --Lobsternen in this little Nova Scotian port are congratulating themselves on the close of one of the most successful seasons in re- cent years. Entire catch this year was sent to New England markets. fetching l4 to % cents per pound.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03
MAKE ARRESTS

Washington, July - (U.P0 = Defense Oil Coordinator Harold L.. Ickes today urged city and state highway patrols throughout the East to make a few "judicious arrests" to encourage conservation of gasoline and oil by motorists,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03
MAY BRING PEACE

Washington, July 3 = (UP) = Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said today he hopes that the recent decision of the Japanese supreme council on a new foreign policy will make for peace in the Pacific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03
American Flags With Pole QQ,
 At Democrat Office

Everyone win American Flag for July 4th. win the big Legion convention month besides many other special oppor- tune time to get just the that Is of convenient size with stan that s very simple and easy to operate
 flag consisting by foot flag with poSe etc., may be purchased at the Democrat Oe with coupons clipped from the Democrat your flag supply is exhausted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03

I haven't encountered since the early days in London, just before large scale air raids began. It was fear. A fear of what might happen, which is worse than danger itself.
 There was no fear in the bar, however. Some officers on leave were having a whiskey and soda night cap and the hotel could have come tumbling down around their ears
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03
CONDITION OF BANKS

Washington, July 3 = UP) - The comptroller of currency today issued g call for the condition of all national banks as of June 30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03

Registration Due to the severe electrical storms which disrupted communication
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-07-03
CONNECTICUT SECURITIES
 The B. F. Grfggs Co
PUBLIC UTILITY STOCKS

PUBLIC UTILITY STOCKS
 Bid Asked Bridgeport Gas It. co. B 26 Bridgeport Hydraulic Co. 32 35 Conn. Gas & Coke pfd. 30 B Conn. It. & Power .... Al 43 Conn. It. & Pow. 51a%
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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
BLACK BEAUTY INDICATED

Probably none of them had reod
"BIock Beauty" Thot's story widely
read during the horse-ond-busey era
in which Ann SeweI taught kindness
to animals, particularly horses. Motor
lists posing along the New Jersey road
lust outside New York have lived their
lives, mostly, on rubber tires. But the
some instincts that animated their 10th
ers and erondfothers ore still in them.
When passing motorists come on
horse, PROSTATE in the shofts Of q bug
az in the middle Of the highway, and
found thot it had been mercilessly driv-
en- oil doy without food or water along
the brutal concrete highway, they fur
iously punreIed the heortIess drivers.
Untroined hands funbled at mucous
toned Straps Of the harness, lifted the
exhausted mare to her shaking legs.
Stote police had to rescue the drivers.
It's good to see that generation
or two Of driving motor vehicles has not
duIIed mems minds completely to tho
sight of brute misery
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
The u. s. IS NOT AMUSED

For some reason hard for outsiders
to fothom, the biscuit-ond-bonjo cam
poion tootics Of Gov. w. Lee O'OonieI
seem to omuse the electorate Of Texos.
BY dnt of lavish use Of hiIbIIy music
and slogans about passing biscuits.
O'DonieI got himself elected governor
Of Texos, and now seems to have been
elected to the u. S. Senote.
Whether OOonieI will try out on
the whole American people the some
kind Of political horsepIoy thot tickled
Texos remains to be SEEM But these ore
serious times With the world ropidIy
follin9 oport around our ears, we ore
old-foshioned enough to believe thot q
Y. S senotor must seriously buckle down
to national problems.
II ODoniel tries out the biscuits
ond-bonjo technique in the w. S. Sen-
ote, we predict thot TIE people of the
United Stotes will not b omused.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
STORIES .
. IN STAMPS
Russian Pre-Wor Stamp
Marked industrial Coins

ONLY a few weeks before Nazi
~ Germany marched into Rus
STA, the Soviet government is
sued the stamp shown above as
part of q special industrial series.
The stamp shows automobiles
and airplanes and symbolizes Rus
sian advances in both fields. News
paper stories coming from the war
zones bear the best testimony as
TO whether Russia's industrial
progress has been SUFFICIENT TO
cope with her friend-for- the-mo-
ment, turned enemy once more.
Little exact information con-
corning Russia's mechanical prep
arations for war was available be-
fore Hitler's most momentous
double-cross. For many years
after the Revolution, American
technical experts and engineers
were called to Russia to aid IN
placing the Soviet Union on an
efficient industrial basis.
Greatest obstacle oil along was
the fact that people in the Soviet
Union had no industrial back
ground of the kind that existed
in other nations, and most OF them
had 10 be C|poled from the be-
ginning in thS We Of new devices
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

two or taking out with one no
trump.
The normal response Is to con-
firm his suit, il you can, in order
to show him at once that your
combined hands hold a playable
declaration. This confirmation
may be vital in order to enable
him to 60 on with an otherwise
doubtful rebid.
In today's hand, South has a
"minny" as to top cards, but af-
ter the response Of two spade. he
ter the response of two spades,
he may very well take advan-
tage of his strong pattern to bid
three diamonds. He figures that
at worst he will play the hand
for three spades instead of two,
IL North is weak. But North s
hand now bee es strong
through the excellent support
for diamonds - the doubleton
honor plus four spades. North
properly jumps TO four spades,
since he cannot risk failure to
reach game.
The contract can Just be made
it is close because South's re-
bid was close.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
d. MIND YOUR
MANNERS

Test your knowledge OF correct
social usage by answering the
toIlouing questions, then check
ing against the authoritative an.
STeTS belOU:
|. May the American flag be
feStooned over an arch or a win
dow when q hall is being deco
rated for a patl lotto celebration?
2 Would it be correct to use
the flag to drape a statue to be
unveiled in a public ceremony?
3. Should a man in civilian
dress remove his hat when the
American flag passes in parade?
4. If fla, S of two natioEs other
than the u. S. are displayed,
should the flags be of similar
size and flown from staffs of the
same height?
5. If you had to decorate the
speakers platform at a patriotic
rally would it be all right to
drape the platform with an
American flag?
What UOuld you do If
You Wdnt to fly the American
ing and the flag Of your state o,
your citys penndnt on the same
bdlUdrd-
(D Fly the American flag dboDt
me state flag or the city penndnt'
10 Fly the state flag or city pen
ndnt ADORE the American flag!
Answers
|. No. Bunting should be
used for this, never the American
flag.
2. No. The flag is never used
as covering in an unwilling
ceremony.
3. Yes.
4. Yes.
5. No. Bunting is the thing to
use.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
MUNICIPAL MICROPHONES

Five American cities have gone into
the broodcostine business, four Of them
commercially.
Thot's the newest development to
be recorded by the international City
Managers Association. Dallas, jack
sonviIIe,. Comden, and St. Petersburg
not only operote fuI-time stotions, but
sell commercial time and make q profit
scn i. New York operates station, but
exclusively for its own purposes.
81 sple have grown accustomed to
( lIfies operating rodio stotions
q ~ sS6gk, ond 'tor purposes Of 3D.
pn'nnd sducdfion in whot the
Ga But % find them entering
gfipo introdt.ces q
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
, HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

the Welsh director, Tudor Will
liams, collected lot more. And
all their songs except God Save
the Queen" are in their own
tongue. John Ford is directing
this picture almost like ., silen,
documentary film, with choral
background and narrator
voice added.
Top part goes to an almost un-
known 12-year-old, Roddy Nc
Dowall. An Unwilling refugee
from London, he made his movie
bow as the cabin boy in the cur
rent Man Hunt" In How
Green Was My Valley" he's the
youngster through whose eyes
the life and hard times of the
colliery workers are seen.
SET BRINGS TEARS
Patric Knowles is the choir
leader and this is his first picture
since he was washed out of an
instructorship in the Canadian
air force by defective vision.
Walter Pidgeon is a minister. but
with these and other principals,
the people of the town and the
town itself seem to be the real
stars. Among them is an oldster
who, after his first amazed look
at the set, burst into nostalgia
tears.
"They sing all the time" said
Ford, land feel little sighted il
don't let 'em rehearse for a
couple of hours early each NOR
ming. They like the echoes; it's
the first time since they left
Wales that they've had a chance
to sing against mountains"
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
~ PETER gDSoN
Dolly Monitor Washington

Correspondent
WASHINGTO N-Behind all
the headlines about U. S. oc.
cupotion Of iceland there Is
one Of those queer stories in
which old lady Fote ond grand
mother Circumstance seem to
pick q guy out Of the worlds
hot and set him down, much to
his own omozement, to play
on importont though unspec-
tocuIor role in this strange
confusion called History.
The mans name in this cose
is BerteI Eric kuniholm ond he
is and hos been since April,
1910, the u. S. consul at Reyk-
jovik, the lcelondic copitol.
In the U. S. Department Of
Stote directory kunihoIm is
roted as only q Gloss six con-
suIor officer, which doesn't
make him important when you
consider that Gloss one is tops
and class nine is next to the
bottom, which is uncIossified.
Anywoy, BerteI Eric kuni-
holm, just turned 40 lost May
l3, storted out in life to be an
Army officer. He wos born
ct Lake Gardner, Moss, went
to the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. then Arry-Novy
Prep School, firm which he
wos graduated in 1919 to 60
right into the u. S. Military
Academy at West Point. Out
Of the academy as q second
lieutenant in the class Of 1924.
he served for three years in
the regular Army.
In 1927 he drew, Of all
things, an assignment as in
structor in miIitory science ot
the Woodward School for Boys
He stood it for just q yeor and
then, so the story in Washing
ton goes. he decided thot /, this
was all the excitement there
wos going to be for him ir
the Army, he wos going to get
out. The Army didn't rotn
very highly back in the 20:
you'll remember.
BEGAN CAREER IN kovNo
So here old lay Fote step
ped into the picture. topped
KunihoIm on the shoulder onc
persuaded him to chuck hi:
decodent Army life. Maybe
Fote knew then that she wos
Ieodine him right to O spot
where he would be one OF the
first Americans to get into the
thick Of things at on outpost Of
hemisphere defense. 1000 mil
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
The VIRTUE OF BEING FIRST

1t is q relief to see onti-Nozi forces
move first. Always they have been
fighting desperate rear guard actions
otter the Nozi fuehrer has taken the
initiotve.
Thot's why the American move into
Iceland is logical wisely foresiehted
step.
The full meaning Of the setting up
of on American naval bose beyond what
hos been additionally regarded the
Western Hemisphere is not yet COM
pIeteIy clear. But this probably wouldn't
be for wrong:
With vost Noz forces now engaged
in Russia, there is q tendency through
out the onti-Nozi world to sit back, re-
lax, and enjoy the breathing spell.
Nothing could be more fotol A
breathing spell wasted in Iollng around
is gone for good; q breathing spell utiI-
lied to the full to catch UP and speed
up is really useful. The Russian divers
ion is no time to 10y back and take it
cosy on aid to Britain. 1t is heaven
sent opportunity to double and redouble
thot old. .
Now Iceland. BY autumn, one Of
two things will have happened. Either
the Nozis will have beaten the Russian
army. or they will be deeply involved
in q winter comPoi9n in central Russia.
We're not guessing which.
In the first cose, the whole German
might may we'll be turned to q deperote
oII-out assault on Britain, probably be-
fore winter. In the second cose, q re-
doubled campaign in the Atlantic will
be almost certoin, in desperate need to
stop the did to Britain which would by
then be vitoI foctor
Note that it is the Navy which is
taking over Iceland from the British.
Thot means naval stotion somewhere
in IceIondic waters, which are almost
ice-free all the year around. That, in
turn, means another and advanced link
in the chain u. s. cost coost-Newfound-
Observation-Disclosures England.
Thot is the vito supply line thot the
United Stotes has undertaken to keep
clear, which must be kept clear if Eng
land is not to be forced against her will
into q peoce as dangerous to the United
Stotes as degrading to herself.
The occupation Of Iceland is OBJ
viousIy q step taken not for the present,
but for the near future Iceland lies
squorely within what the Germans have
proclaimed to be q war zone, but which
the United Stotes hos determined is O
zone vital to its own protection now and
in the future.
From steps like this there con be no
drawing back. They must be made to
stick, and stick firmly.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Services staff Correspondent


HOLLYWOOD-From Movie
town, you 60 northwest about 20
miles, through the land of the
hot dog and the nutberger, the
roadside produce stands and the
lavishly irrigated little GASES
which people of the screen call
ranches. At a sign pointing
southwark to Brent's Crags, you
turn on a narrow road that
ambles up into the Santa Monica
mountains.
Near the summit there's a side
road marked by a man who sits
in a canvas chair and reads fan
magazines. Half mile more, if
he lets you through, you're in a
little mining town in Wales.
never had seen a Welsh viii
lage before, but I'll take the
word of the inhabitants of this
one that it's authentic. Anyway,
it's one of the most amazing
movie sets ever built, and 1T
beats them all for completeness
1t cost nearly $150,000.
SCENERY SHIFTERS
Daryl Zanuck bought the
novel, How Green Was My Val
ley" last year and in November
sent a mechanical army of work
men into the hills. The isolation
and surrounding vista were just
right, but the immediate location
didn't conform to studio design
ers' sketches. So first a fleet of
tractor bulldozers pushed the top
off a mountain and made some
other big-scale alterations
around the edges.
Then the surveyors and car
penters and plaster men came.
They built a row of stores, a
church with yard full of tomb
stones, numerous retaining walls
and IL houses.
Up the slope and dominating
the village is a cluster Of mine
buildings. The tower over the
pit head has a hoist that really
works. The power house has a
boiler to make steam that Kisses
in white clouds from leaky pipe
Joints, and a furnace to generate
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
. BEHIND THE SCENES
m WASHINGTON
IS from loke Gordner. Moss.

Ss svoSo.0
but certoinIy. Is yeors 600.
Second Lieutenant Bertel Erie
kunihoIm didn't have the.
slightest ideo he would end 10
in Iceland. perhaps setting the
sto9e Tor q war. Hemisphere
defense. 3 years oeo, hodn't
even been thought Of beyond
the point that Herbert Hoover,
who beot Al Smith for the pre-
sidency that year. immediately
boorded O bottleship and mode
q cruise around South Amer
leo Just as q friendly gesture
to stimulate trade.
Kuniholm, then ooed u. re.
signed from the Army, took off
his Uniform and applied for an
appointment in the U. S.. con-
sulor service. Accepted. no
went to Foreign Service School.
men served q year and q holt
os vice consul at kovno. Irons
ferred to Poris, he was assigned
to the ecoIe kotionoIe dss
tongues OrientoIes Vivontes.
which means that he studied
Russian. The Soviet, you'll
reeoll, had everybody guessing
in those days too, and experts
we're needed.
From 1888 to 1910 Kuni-
holm lived the life Of q career
diplomat working from the
bottom up. He served q couple
Of short bitches in Woshina-
ton, ond at ToIIinn, Moscow,
Riao, Zurich. then Reykiovik.
Less than O month otter he
wos appointed to Iceland, the
British army moved in there
and took over. He was keep
ing his date with grandmother
Circumstance.
The u. S. Stote Department
couldn't have had O better man
for the Job. Here he was.
West Point trained, listening
in OF the very edge Of the war,
q militoy observer in q con-
sul's shoes. His reports to
Washington ore supposed to
have made some Of .he most
fascinating reading available.
not only for the diplomats. but
for the Army and Navy bross
hots os we'll. And when the
important negotiations had to
be carried on With the IceIond-
ie government and the British,
kunihoIm was on the ground.
The Department Of Stote hos
Just sent him up some help in
the person of-H. Bortlett Wells,
80, Of PIoinfieId. N. j.. out Of
Phillips Exeter and Harvard,
with foreign service in Mana.
quo, Mexico City and Monte
video. And the prime minis
ter Of Iceland hos requested
that the U. S. send up q dipIo-
notic representative. Kuni-
holm. being only Gloss six, no.
turoIIy doesn't rote high
enough to get the Job. But
he's had oil the fun SO for. ony-
woy, And you never con tell
about Fote.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11

An important principle in re-
spending to your partners open
ing bid is: the weaker your hand
the more imperative it is tc
make the normal response. This
principle is best shown by the
choice of raising his suit bid to
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11
THE PHONY CHOICE

Monv Americans, consciously or
unconsciousIy, ore letting their view
Of world events be swoyed by quest
ion:
well. which would you rather be
under, otter all, Communism or rose
ism?" And then, otter surveying TINS
shuddery choice, they admit thot me
bolonce falls ever so tremendously to,
ward one or the other, and orient oil
their thinking along such line.
Its phony question. The outomo-
tic answer, which should swell up into
q crescendo SO loud as to drown out the
question itself, is Neither"
To out any such choice up to the
American people, even to put It to our
selves in our secret hearts, is to get "ott
the beam" completely Our whole effort
is concentrated today on avoiding the
necessity of making ony such choice.
The American people have been
making for 20 years convincing dem--
onstroton thot they want no port OF
either totolitoron system. Thot one
might in some hypothetical oose be q
miIlionth port preferable to the other
simply has nothing to do with todoy's
realities.
The Russian system hos maintained
ever since the Revolution, an inferno
tionoI organization devoted to proPo-
oondizing and "boring from within" in
the interest Of suppIontne all establish
ed governments with their system.
There is no doubt of that, but despite
favorable conditions, their progress in
shaping America to their way is close
to nil
Though Foscsm began 20 years
900 as q counter-irritont to Comru-
nism, its German manifestation hos
only the minutest following in the
United Stotes, thong h its methods have
been equally contemplate.
The horrors of Fascist or Conn.,
munist Europe ore now poroded before
US. If Nozi Germany wins this war over
PROSTATE England, there can be no
doubt that all Europe will be Fascist.
But if Russia and Britoin win together,
though some Of Europe might be en-
quilted by Russia in Communism, Eng
land and other centers Of freedom
would remain. How they might fore
with bigger and broader Communism
on the continent one cannot know, but
one can be pretty sure thot they would
have q chance to rebuild freedom,
whereas Nozi victory means on inn
mediate and totol blockout, with no
chance for freedom at oil.
The American people ore not in
terested in choosing between Connru-
nism and Foscism, in splitting ideoIoe-
icoI hairs from twin dogs The Aneri-
can people ore interested in freedom,
ond in free world in which peoples may
develop such political and social in
stitlItiOpS nc eeepo to them oood
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-07-11

black smoke for the main stack.
A majority of those in the cast
actually are from Wales. Los
Angeles had a Welsh choir, but