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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26

where the new Center should be. The result Is this:
 If you had a map just the size of the United States which weighed nothing at all ..
 If you could place every man, woman and child atop lt
 And if you could place 6 pinpotnt under the center of popuiation-- Senator darrison's cloverdeld -s
 The map and its occupants would balance perfectly,
 Boy, will the Senator be happy about tilisp CarT1thers exclaimed.
 And he Joined Mrs. CaFTltheES ih preparing the neat, little farm house for the influx of vidt0rs its new fame may be expected to sttgaet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26

The Kids who have been enjoying the exploits of General George Caster ia ~They Died With Their Boots On" Shiverng with apprehension when Sitting RnIRs warriors cut down gallant eavaEymen, may be amazed ta know that two Of Cuss scouts died on the same day last week. Joan Gallagher and John C. hEeCaMms the first 99 the latter S4, succumbed on Tuesday at Seattle Washington GaIagher led Custer thEeagh the West number ef expeditions against Maaxamding Indians MeCelnm was with the expedis ten that was massaered at the Little Big Horn, but was diving an ammnnfRn Wag0n far tn the rear when the Indians aktaekea and did not arrive math NheF had withdrawn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
HOLY NAME GROUP
 PLANNING TOURNE

sS. Peter and Paul Holy Nd sosleky wall hold lts regular meet tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock, { lowing which the winter card tO| namesik, under the supervision Chairman Frank McWeene@, \ get underway.
 k Further plans viii be dAscus| for the minstrel and dance whl the members will sponsor joir| with the Children of Mary sodaI of the parissi, St. Fatricks night, A. Corden is secretary of the E Name group.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26

lnneFtv lo m draw. giving Nn only score in tho match. Tae acl New nrltai co Bridgeport
 HoNnail, Q pr1imau.
 '. Grybcnki. O Krclsick.
 esynakleniez, h Tinnerty,
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 Gasoline, c poukln.
 Totals, A Totals, ~ The schedule for tho third rnl In the B division: Dec. c. Hartf at Waterbury Xl1CA; Dec. 6, ' at Bridgeport: Dec. 3, New Bril- at New Haven. The Travels Bristol match has been poskno| until Friday, March a.
 This column offers condOler to Fred perrsol of Deep Rlven the death Of his father.
 Be seeing you next week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
CHEMIST EXPLAINS
 SYNTHETIC RUBBER

Ludwig Meueer, chemist ct the Neugatuck Chemical CO, traced the many phases Of scientific contgibu' tons made by European researchers and inventors in Hianufac actuTtng syu- kSetsc rubber att ne weekly IunehS con meeting os tire WeteFbuEy Ros tsFy club ct yesterday noon ct The Elton. Mr. MesieeF spoke on the scientific development og compounds which gre used iH the n1sBufactuFe q synthetts rubber ard the needs Eor GeEense production
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26

According to reports, John Ra- Elka Of Deep River has been draEt- ed into Uncle sam's army. He has been a student at N. r. .. for the past two years. How about start. Ing a chess league where you're stationed, John? ~ Led by Thomas, former state champion, the New Haven co downed the Travellers by q score of 3hsllk. The score:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26

Bridgeport co B team used the whitewash brush rather freely in taking over . weakened New Brit- ain B team by . score of 4.S.is. My old opponent, szymkienicz, held
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26

The Deep River team Is up to its old tricks again. They scored an upset by trimming Hartford to the tune of 3is-ih. The contest of the Swedes turned out in favor of Deep River, Clareous drawing with Hiai- mar Johnson, and Rainar Johnson beating Bjorkmar. The score:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26
Conn. Chess Leaeue Gossir
By WILLIAM WARNER

The iocal x1fCAs B team re- gently lnst elnsa match tc the New Haven club hy Q score ol Ssa. nhil- lor, noeenbeTg and ChFist0ffc being absent, patched llneup was used. Frank Naka, tho genial chef of the z, was drafted for service and WCn hls game. The score:
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-11-26

AnneFky to a draw. giving NH only score h tho match. Tae acd
Evening star., 1941-11-09

the mulberry trees and do his own
foraging. He must be served in bed.
He likes mulberry leaves finely chop
ped and will even relish at first dish
of lettuce salad. Later branches of whole
leaves may be hurled on his tray, and he
will gobble them up, getting hungrier by
the minute. His eager servant, Mr.. KEEL
cher. is forced at the height of the sea-
son to rise early and stay up till mid
right He gets but four brief vacations
during the eating month when the worm
takes time out to shed its skin.
At last the little caterpillar loafer
decides to get down to work and make
silk He climbs on bare branch and
spits out a filmly thread, winding it
around him at the rate of IS head mo-
tions per minute, or total of 100000
mods to build his cocoon in about three
days.
Cocoons to be used for silk are, after
eight days, placed within an oven fired
at a temperature slightly lower than
the boiling point for water, to slay the
inclosed chrysalides. Moths will emerge
from the other cocoons in about a fort
night Domesticated through thousands
of years the female moth cannot fly at
all, and her mate gives poor per-
formance When the two are placed
together eggs will be laid within a few
hours after the moths have emerged,
and the life cycle of the silkworm will
have been rounded out within one and
a half months.
Mr.. Keleher says he must be wary
during this time that his insects do not
suffer from indigestion. dropsy or
pebrine. Pebrine is disease OF the
silkworm's blood, which almost exterml-
mated the silk industry about the time
of our Civil War, ravaging France and
spreading over the world until Japan
remained the only major uninfected area.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Bv Howard DObSon.

a rebuilt machine dangling underneath
in a rope sling.
few weeks ago, Simmons received
that old machine, SO rusty you couldn't
read the builders name stamped into
the frame: a few days from now it will
be in a defense plant.
The story is this:
In about one-fourth the time neces-
sary to build a new machine tool, you
can rebuild into an old one the accuracy
and speed the machine had when it was
new.
Charles A. Simmons has been doing
1t since, as . mechanic with grease
grimed fingers 80 years ago, he started
= business on a single abandoned metal
lathe.
Six United States companies do most
Of the machine tool rebuilding, and the
Simmons plant in Albany does more
than any two others. BY the end OF
the year, founder and President Sim
mons says, his plant will have put back
into defense production about $1,000 900
worth of rebuilt machine tools. They
were worth about $4,000 900 when new.
Here's how it works:
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Junk Yards Yield Defense Tools

ALBANY, Nov. 8-Out of the ma
chinery graveyards of the Nation,
Charles Simmons has dug machine tools
long idle-and put them to work on de-
fense production.
The Nations assembly lines are racing
toward a production peak set for next
March l, operating partly on gears and
wheels that had rusted since 1918 in
leaky sheds of industry and under cob
webs in idle Government shops.
If defense plants had waited for all
new tools, Simmons men say, that pro-
duction peak would be at least nine
months further away.
A machine tool briefly Is q machine
that does the work OF . tool-a planning,
cutting or drilling tool. For example,
planer shaves q slab Of steel down to
within thousand OF an inch of the
thickness specified by blueprints. 1t
would take weeks to do this by hand.
A machine tool seems an unromatic
hunk of steel until you talk to B. A.
Getz, sales manager of the Simmons
Machine Tool Corp. plant. and watch
15-ton crane roll along on its rails under
the tall roof of the Simmons shop with
Evening star., 1941-11-09

A Canadian tank plant needed 10
foot planer and only one American firm
would take the order to build one-if the
tank plant could wait IA months. Ex-
perts in Simmons section of o. P. M. in
Washington found a 40-year- planer
and in less than IA weeks the Simmons
plant had completely rebuilt the ma
chine and put it into production in
Canada.
1t Is a steel and sweat drama of smoky
shops, vital machines and the strong
backs of men throwing every minute of
the day and night into defense work;
men who toiled in the 1917-18 plants
bringing back to the industrial battle
lines old machines that helped fight
that war.
At q bench in the Simmons plant
stands old Isaac Carey, a machinist So
years. He scrapes that last thousandth
Of an inch off a casting after the big
planer had pared it down that far.
Isaac retired last summer and the boys
gave him little party. The next day
he was around the plant, dressed in the
suit he usually wears to church on Sum-
day. Three days later he reported for
his regular shift-asked if he could have
his job back
The life of a machine tool in steady
production, Simmons experts say. is
about 20 years. Rebuilders guarantee
another 20 and claim a rebuilt machine
is superior because its castings have
finished the slight stretching and warp
ing that can throw new one enough
out Of line to ruin its work
Simmons, a pioneer In his business,
was called to Washington by the o. p M.
over a year ago to head its division of
rebuilt machine tools. The air was blue
with talk about "retooling," "tooling up"
and machine tool bottlenecks.
Grabbing telephone in each hand
and jumping machine shop operators
out Of their shoes from coast to coast,
he began to dig up rusty old machines
everybody had forgotten. He sent his
own ace salesman, George Long, out to
make survey of unused machines,
and Long found machines the Govern
ment didn't know it owned.
The Crucible Steel Co. made shell cas-
ings in 1918, and after the armistice
tossed out the lathes they had been US
ing. Last year, they dug those machines
out from under a coal pile where they
had been for q years. Simmons work.
men had those lathes back at work in
Crucible plant in about three months.
A Midwest plant operator told Sim
mons he had to have q 40-inch planer.
Where could he get one?
Simmons replied promptly, First, you
don't have to have 40-inch planer.
Second, We can get you two 16-inchers.
Now take them and get to work."
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Giant Plane Spells Doom Of Dirigibles

gers the Imagination little at first.
More than 100000 rivets hold it to-
gether. Within its wings, In which a man
8 feet tall can stand upright easily, and
in its hull are miles Of piping and III
miles of wire. The wing floats are as
large as motorboats 1t weighs 100000
pounds. But mere numbers cannot tell
the story Imagine, If you can. 15-room
house, streamlined and borne on wings
spanning two-thirds of block, taking
ped marines, flying across the Atlantic
Ocean, turning around and flying back
again without stopping to refuel. That
may give you rough idea.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

Virginia is well blessed with wOrmS-of
the garden variety-the silkWorm has
yet to make any American millionaire.
Not that the worlds most honorable
worm, BombyX mort, dislikes our land.
When the Revolutionary War f1ared up
Ben Franklin was busy setting up silk
filiature in Philadelphia, and ever since
then a very few Americans have been
tending eggs, larvae, cocoons and moths
with great biological but rare flnan-
cial success.
If YOU want to see a silkWOrm egg to-
DAY, go out and visit fine old home at
3513 Tenth street NV, where you Will
find 236 900 of them. They are the prop
erty and delight of white-haired scien-
tist with stout heart, Thomas A. Kele-
her. Early in May when the 10 mulberry
trees in his yard bud out, he will remove
his eggs from cold storage so that his
worms may hatch, much as he has done
since 1884.
Labor Competition
Historically, there is one reason why
Mr.. Keleher's silk production Is hoboy,
not big business America has always
faced the competition of cheaper labor
in the Orient and South Europe, tending
worms and ~reeling golden thread from
cocoons.
Last year the precious flow Of raw silk
into this country was valued at $126,-
600 .O0O Now, through the hazards of war,
it has stopped. .
Mr.. Keleher, the man with hobby,
is becoming the man with a cause. Pick
ing his words with careful conservatism
this retired sericulturist for the Depart
ment of Agriculture Will tell you of his
belief that this Nation may soon pro-
duce it's own silk to fill the demands of
defense and the cravings Of maids and
matrons. To see what might be involved
in this, observe the annual operations Of
Mr.. Keleher.
Evening star., 1941-11-09
Silk Culture Is Scientists Hobby

The silkworm would have set foot on
American soil in 1909. under royal spon-
sorship Of England's King James I, if a
shipwreck had not sadly caused the
death of every worm aboard 1t was 10
years later that Virginia's settlers daZ-
zled by visions Of quick wealth, began
breeding silkworms in good earnest.
They were inspired by bounties-and
by poetry, of which the following bit Of
propaganda was typical:
Where Wormes and Food doe naturally
abound
A gallant Silken Trade must there be
found.
Virginia excells the World in both
Envie nor malice can game say this
troth!"
While to this day none can deny that
Evening star., 1941-11-09
BY Ben Pearse.

men. or heavy load of bombs very
long distance at moderate rate of speed.
1t can cover larger area in a shorter
time than any craft now possessed by
any other nation. Moreover, now that
we have it, we expect to find out more
about what it can do than perhaps we
dared hope when it was first conceived
five years ago."
Three companies submitted designs at
the Navy's invitation. That of the Glenn
L. Martin Co. was accepted and later
the same company's bid on its own de-
sign was approved by the Navy Depart
ment. 1t was chance to prove the
theories the Martin company, builder of
Evening star., 1941-11-09
BY Henry Gemmill.

He goes to his attic about May l,
when the temperature is about rs de-
grees, and lays out his almost micro
scopic lilac-hued eggs on large trays. In
eight days or SO q clicking is heard and
baby worms jump out for glimpse OF
the world.
An infant silkworm is one-eighth OF
an inch long when born. BY the end
of the month, the time when he begins
spinning his silken blanket, he has
grown to 3 inches A human baby ex-
panding at the same rate would be 40
feet tall when a month old-creating
food problem.
The silkworm is hungry, too. Ready
right at the start for eight meals day,
he is. however, unwilling to go out TO
Evening star., 1941-11-09
BY Clarke Beach.
n LANCER. the noted Harvard his

William LANCER. the noted Harvard his
torian.
The job of these thinkers is to supply
the President with information which
will provide depth and background to
all the events which take place in the
world from day to day and which may
affect the destiny of the United States.
They study the spot news from the point
Of view of the historian, the ethnologist,
the geographer, the economist, the psy-
chologist. They know the college world
and can plug in a call to any expert in
the country who might be able to throw
light on some special subject.
The presidents personal adviser on
economic and statistical matters, with
an Office in the White House, is Isador
Lubin, who is on leave from the Labor
Department. where he is commissioner
of labor statistics.
Mr.. Lubin, dealing largely with Army,
Navy and Maritime Commission matters,
works mainly on special assignments
from Mr.. Roosevelt He gives the Presi-
dent running picture of defense pro-
duction, assembling and digesting sta
tisticS SO that the President can grasp
them easily presenting them in the form
Of brief memos or charts
This is job which Harry Hopkins
did until the defense program outgrew
its original proportions and Hopkins was
put in charge of the lend-lease Office.
Mr.. Hopkins now is the Presidents chief
source of information on lend d-lease mat
ters
Lauchlin Currie, however, deals espe-
cially with aid to China and Mr.. Roose-
velt turns to him for knowledge of the
progress of aid to that country.
For check on happenings in Great
Britain, the Presidents source is Am
bassador Winant All information from
the British government passes through
the United States Embassy in London,
just as all information directed to Brit
ain from the United States Government
goes through the British Embassy here.
The State Department. however, with
Evening star., 1941-11-09

It's staff OF worldwide news gatherers
and Of research men stationed here, still
Is the Presidents most abundant source
Of foreign news. Mr.. Roosevelt handles
personally more Of tho detailed work of
the State Department than Of any other
agency, since he Is charged under the
Constitution with the conduct Of for
cables received by the department go to
his desk.
These, like all other written commune
cations to the White House, pass through
the hands of Rudolph Forster, executive
clerk in charge Of correspondence. Since
President McKinley's administration,
Forster has been doing this type Of work,
seeing that all communications are in
order and properly prepared before they
go to the President.
Wayne Coy. as liaison officer for the
Office of Emergency Management, serves
as extra eyes, hands and brains for the
President" on all matters concerning the
o. P. M, o. p. A. and other civilian de-
fenSe agencies When anything is going
wrong, it is Coy's job to know about it
and tell the Chief.
Older than any Of these emergency
Offices and still highly important is the
ONCE of Government Reports, directed
by Lowell Mellett, a former newspaper
editor. Besides running a Government
information bureau for the public here
and in 30-odd States and a newspaper
clipping bureau for all Government
agencies, the o. G. r., under the law,
must
Keep the President currently in
formed of the opinions, desires and COM
plants of citizens and groups Of citizens
and Of State and local governments with
respect to the work of Federal agencies. ="
Through its field Offices, it makes sur
veys for the President and for any Fed
eral agency which requests it; and VOL
unteers confidential reports on agencies
outside of Washington which are not
functioning smoothly.
Evening star., 1941-11-09

many Clipper types. had long held but
had never had an opportunity to put to
the test.
william K. Ebel, vice president in
charge of engineering and chief test pilot
for many years, put it this way:
"The Martin company has been build
ing flying boats for long time because
we believe they provide the best and
safest type of transportation on routes
over the water. Perhaps it is only natural
for us to be Of the opinion that flying
boat could do everything that dirigible
can, do it faster and with less risk. We
hope the tests prove we were right"
Everything about the Mars stag
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many of the hand tools used by ma
chinist lathe operators. Men in both
these classificatons are of high de-
gree of intelligence and it seemed to
us that with training in the changed
technique, due to working on metal,
instead of marble, it would be fairly
simple matter to place them in ship
building where there is desperate
need for men of their ability.
80 Already Placed
conferences with union represen-
tatives and executives of the Bethle-
hem Shipbuilding Company produced
immediate results. To date we have
placed more than so marble workers
at related shipbuilding trades and we
hope to announce scores of additional
placements in the very near future
Brockway emphasized that out of 4C
workers originally referred to the
Bethlehem yards, only three were re-
jected outright as unsuitable. AL
those accepted were given brief train
ing courses, varying from one week
to eight weeks, depending on the
work assigned them.
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was fatally injured in a Labor Day
auto crash near Ashland and died
several days later in Columbus hos
pital; Sister Elizabeth Blair, third
fatality, died of heart attack short
ly after returning home from days
work at the pottery.
1t is needless to say that we car
hardly realize that these members
have been called from among us, as
death came quite unexpectedly. The
relatives of the departed have our
sincere sympathy.
Our next meeting is scheduled for
the fourth Monday night Of this
month when plans call for some dras-
tic action etfecting those who fail tc
see the wisdom of meeting their cash
obligations to the local. These obi.
cations must be met if the parties ex-
pect to continue work, or larger re.
instatement fee must be forthcoming
o. c. l22.