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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

W4AO M A 0 A get into the United States flocked to the countries below the Rio Grande. Every Latin American re- public, from Mexico to Argentina, got its quota. They came to settle down.
 With the rise of Hitler, some of them went back home, but most of them stayed on and they were on hand, dug in, and ripe material for the Nazi agents to work and build on. They are there yet - 2,000, ,00O of them.
 But they're being dug out. That's the good news. They're being dug out fast. Long before the de- partment of commerce and the de- partment of state slapped down the so-called blacklist in mid-July, 1941-freezing the assets of German and Italian nationals and making it impossible for U. s. firms to do business with agents of Nazi sym pathies-a process of undermining the German business houses had been quietly going on. It worked like this:
 TURNING TABLES
 ON THE NAZIS
 Wherever United States govern ment agents in South America = state department men, consular men, consular agents, department of commerce representatives, Rock efeller men, export-import bank men, federal loan agents-wherever they found North American firms represented by Germans or Ital- ians, the business was quietly switched to a new connection.
 North American manufacturers and distributors were given plenty of time to make the change. Busi- ness men were taken into the government confidence. It was a beautiful example of bsuiness and government cooperation to wage economic warfare against the Ger mans.
 Say it was 8 general drug busi- ness in "Ciudad (city) X" The German house, unable to get SUD- plies from Germany because of the British blockade, started to import ingredients from the Unit ed States. The Americans problem was to transfer United States ex- ports to new wholesale outlet in Ciudad x.
 Instead of trying to send United States citizens to Ciudad x, as Germans had been sent to take up residence and commercial activi- ties, a search was made among the old and established fam lilies of the country for bright young sons who could be set up in busi- ness. Promising young men were persuaded to go into busineess.
 They had the necessary solid financial and community backing They knew their own countrymen and they were natives, points that overcame all the objections to for eign invasion of domestic trade,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
AN ADJUNCT OF
 HEMISPHERE DEFENSE .

AIN AUJ OINO4 OC HEMISPHERE DEFENSE For instance, heavy transport loanS to Brazil have covered the purchasG of 14 ships for inter-American trade the identification of a railway, and new air bases, the equipment to bG bought in the United States. Watch- ing where the money goes, in this manner, has resulted in no whole sale shoveling out of cash, and though the funds have been avaii- able for a year, only IS per cent of the capital has been used. In ad- dition to these loans through the Export Import Bank, there are the operations of the Metals Reserve Company, organized to build up the stock piles of strategic, materials needed for defense.
 Gradually, the information on what South American mines can produce is being assembled. If there is tin mine in Bolivia not produc- ing, there is studied effort to get it going.
 If it takes a loan to get the mine equipment that will put it in opera ton, that loan is forthcoming. That goes for nitrates, asbestos, copper anything the United States doesn't have enough of.
 The point of all this effort is that in addition to helping United States defense, it is helping South America to help herself. Driving out the Germans was just incidental
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
RABBI SHEINKOPF LEAVES THIS CITY

Rabbi Moses D. Sheinkopf was scheduled to leave for Springfield, Mass, this afternoon in order to assume duties as chief rabbi of Springfield, Mass. The former head of Beth Israel and Shearith Isreal synagogues in this city for IA years was rendered farewell in a joint meeting of the two congregations last night in the Beth Israel syna- gogue.
 The departing spiritual leader told the group thath he cherished the inspiration of his many years association with them. He de- clared that if he were ever asked to return he would deem it a priv ilege. The meeting was opened by Simon Golman, president of Beth Israel.
 A reception awaits Rabbi Shein- kopf and his family upon their arrival in Springfield. Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
NO DOUBLE PAY
 FOR EMPLOYES
Judge IngIis Rules Tn- ducted Men No Longer
 in State Service

Hopes of state employees in the
 military service that they might re- ceive the difference between their military pay and that which they
 received from the state are ended as 8 result of 8 decision handed down Saturday by Judge Ernest A.
 Inglis of the superior court. Rul- ] ing on 8 test case, that of Emil Bsullak of Torrington against the state, Judge Inglis held that the statute applies only to the several
 weeks of field training such as that given National GuardS1nen and re- serve officers.
 The court ruled that training un- der the Selective Service Act is not field training as meant in the stat utes. It was held further that men called for army service leave the employ of the state and are not entitled to be paid by the state dur ing the time that they are in Serv- ice.
 The test case developed when Controller John M. Dove refused to honor Bsullak'S application for pay from the state while in the army. Attorney-G General Francis A. Pal lotti ruled against Controller Dove, but the latter was authorized by the legislature to hire special case to represent the state in the court con- test. He hired Mayor Thomas Spell lacy and Attorneys John J. Kenny and James M. Carlisle of Hartford. Bsullak was represented by Attorney Simon Bernstein.
 Bsullak was called for service while employed by the state en- ployment service as 8 junior inter- viewer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

1 Only this Chilean ghetto will be peopled with South American Nazis instead of with Polish Jews. Another most effective factor in putting the Germans on the run in South America has been the show ing up of the German propaganda effort as 8 pack of blank-blanked lies. The German story has been that South America absolutely needs Europe for a market.
 It was argued that, North America being self-sufficient and producing the same raw materials and food stuffs that South America had to export-wool, wheat, meat, hides, cotton and so on-the idea of hemis- phere solidarity was myth. North America had plenty of things 1t could sell to South America, but South America had nothing 1t could sell to North America.
 U. S. HAS BECOME
 BEST S. A. CUSTOMER
 The record shows just how cock eyed that prediction has been. In the last six months, the United States has bought more from South America than Europe ever bought in its best year. There is ample evidence, too. that this is not a phenomenon of the United States defense effort, but business that will outlast the war.
 The case of the ow-celebrated coffee agreement is cited as the prize example of how the Americas can go it alone. When the war and the blockade shut off South Aln- erica's coffee market in Europe, all the coffee countries faced ruin. There was a huge. holdover surplus and good new crop.
 If the United States had desired 1t could have been Uncle Shylock and beat down the price of coffee to i3 1-2 cents pound. If Columbia had decided to sell it's entire crop at that figure, it could have saved its own coffee planters, but it would have ruined Brazil and Salvador and and all the others.
 Instead of that, all the coffee countries got together. It was the first. time they had ever been brought together for anything more than to pass resolutions to meet again. This time, they did something Every coffee-growing country was given 8 production quota. The mar ket was divided proportionately flair to the growers and fair to the American market basket. The result was that the South American
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

Sounding like another Winsted tall story such as became famous all the world during the lifetime of the late Louis Stone but actually true the birth of two-headed brown and white calf in herd owned by Isaac Feldman of Winsted Friday. The freak animal larger than calves usually at brth died after living only few hours Where the middle of the face of nor nal animal would be- the bone structure branched form head at each side of the neck but joined at the back Although there four eyes and two mouths, there only two ears each head The unusual calf had only four legs but had two tas of which in the middle of it's back.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

which might be held against North Americans just as well as 1t could against Germans.
 NAZT COUNTERATTACKS
 FAILED TO COME OFF
 In literally hundreds of cases from Mexico City to Chile this formula was followed quietly with unbelievable success. While the so- called blacklist as made public had 1900 firms listed, it was originally nearly twice that size. Before the list was published, half the original names had been taken of by the simple process of forcing the Ger man houses out of business by talk ing their U. s. agencies away and giving them to South Americans.
 When the German houses in South America caught on to what was happening, they tried to beat the game by setting up dummy commission houses of their own. This trick was easily uncovered.
 Desperate, the Germans then tried selling their business outright. But the North and South Ameri- cans played ball. The German "for sale" offers were ignored. The South American customers played ball, too. They started boycotts and blacklists of their own.
 GERMANS MAY GET
 A CHILLY RECEPTION
 Then began one of the strangest sights in South American history a mass exodus of Germans from all over South America to Chile. There are perhaps more Nazi Germans in Chile today than in any South Am- erican country except southern Brazil.
 Southern Chile is a little Germany has been for years. The Germans being run out of other countries now have figured that the Chileanos are the most sympathetic to national socialism of all the South American people. The Germans, they know, have been at work there for years, with better than average success. There have been many neo-Nazi putsches and revolutions in Santia- go.
 If the German choice of Chile for the duration of the war is a good one, there are some South Am- erican experts bold enough to gay that before long you will be hearing of a German ghetto south of San- tiago. It will be just like the ghettos the Nazis set up in Warsaw for the Jews, just after Poland was invaded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

John Morrssey and Mary Crane Morrissey are honey
 incoming in Atlantic City, N J. where they are registered at The Crion . Butch Sterniak, Naugatuck athlete, drops card from Jones Beach, L. l. where he weekended on the snow-whte sand. Frank Donahue, of Willow Street. member of display advertising personnel is freewheel-ing it this week with the wife and baby daughter Mir and Mrs. Tony Solury, MT. and Mrs. Tom Coppeto Bill Derwin and Shorty Gugielmo were among the local dance lovers who heard Tommy Dorsey at Lake Compounce Sunday night The beSpectacled ork leader packed in 40o to break his record there by 300.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
WORKMEN INSTALL
 IRON PIPE LINE

While construction of the Lock Joint Pipe Co.'s new plant on Freight street hears completion. company workrnen have been inc stalling several hundred feet Of cast Iron pipe near the Steele brock tunnel.
 The company was awarded tho contract for construction Of see- ond pipe lino from MorTtg aftee submitting c low bld Qf 9o04 900. kt will manufacture cement plSe at iis Freight street plant
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

T. Fred Bowling former Waterburian, was extremely happy Saturday night when the S. R. O. sign had to be used quite early at the formal opening of his costly and Road at the corner of Fremont and White Plains Avenues in the Bronx Downgs Flyer is the name of the classy we'd without waiting Freds motto which has made him of New Yorks most renowned restaurateurs Quality First Quantity Assured still prevails His likeable son. Fred IT,, is night manager Here's hoping the opening night criterion of the business "Dowings Flyer will continue to do.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
Tod0ys AnswesS se 0AE@BUM CRACKERS s
Questions on Comic Page

i. The City of Rayville, sunk by what was believed a mine, off Australia, was first U. s. ship lost. Robin Moor was first torpedoed.
 2. The Lusitania and Galway Castle were torpedoed in World War I, the Athenia in World War II; the Moro Castle burned of the U. s. coast ;the Titanic hit an ice berg, with loss of 1517 lives.
 3. The U. s. lost the Squalus off New Hampshire; Britain lost the Thetis oil Wales; France lost the Phenix of Indo1China in summer, 1889.
 4. Britain lost the 42,OO0-ton Hood, Germany the 35, 50 ,OOO- ton Bismarck in battles between Iceland and France.
 5. The Russian steamer Volga was sunk in 1929 when hit by 8 floating World War mine in the Black Sea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
Good Evening.
BORROWING FROM THE BARD

BOOK OF VERSES BENEATH THE BoUGH, In wonder field Jersey COW, Sun slowly sinking in the vest Where would it set, at best? A JUG OF WINE, LOAF OF BREAD. AND THOUl The sylvan picture Is complete, you will allow Why tax the brain to think too hard, When quickly borrow from the bardl All WILDERNESS! WE'RE PARADISE ENOWl We'll put, oh noble poet, and howl Who likewise has neatly said Something about never seeing so red AS WHERE SOME BURIED CAESAR BIED-but softl As one suddenly gazes aoft, He feels the book and the bough are in vain, For the old bard never visuanzed bomber plane.
 FEM. EM.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

1nob OullG o4tlCC the end of their first world war.
 After that war, with the creation of the Weinlar Repub- lie, the rise of the social ists and the fall of the J unk e rS
 there was an ex- odus of Ger man aristocrats from the Faith erland. Thou = sands of them
 came to the new world. Thos e
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

Dr. and Mrs J. A. Bray, of West Hartford and their two small daughters have returned after vacation at the Dohery cottage at Cornfed Point MT and Mrs G. A. Warner of Naugatuck and their sons have rented the site until after Labor Day. Brian Aherne and his wife, Joan Fontaine film stars, guests of Mr. and Mrs C. Morgan Adrich of Hartford Madison the past weekend The two arrived unexpectedly at Clinton Satur day in their seapane That evening they attended the annual FollieS of the Madison Beach Club
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

Pat Leblanc, of Meadow Street, is a very lucky fellow His sedan ran off the highway in Southngton Saturday night and broke off utility pole The machine was wrecked but Pat and passenger escaped injuries Frederick E. Cleaveland of Torrngton has been dis charged from the Waterbury Hospital. Mrs Donald A. Hiard will be bridesmaid at the wedding of Dorothy O. Johnson, of West Hartford and Oscar E. Eckbom of Flushing, T. l., Saturday September G. at the Emanuel Lutheran Church, Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

Navy Recruiter Preston ThOrnS had hard time retaining his usual efficiency yesterday after pulling in at four a. m from New York City, where he bright ened corner of Gotham the weekend. His col league, Gary Murphy insists he must have come home via Chicago arrive at that hour Murphy prefers the outdoor life He reduced the piscatoral population of Newtown by about thirty during weekend visit.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

Verna M. Alsins, of 1741 Baldwin Street and Edmund P. Donovan, foreman, walked into the town clerks office in MiddletOwn Saturday and secured marriage license Johnny MOrOz of WOIcOtt prOfes- sOna boxer has been released from the Bristol Hospital where he treated for head abrasOns and possible c0ncussion the result of head-on collision in Union vile recently which demolished his and one operated by Clifford FOntaine of UniOnvile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

George Brown of Bunker Hill Avenue, one of the eight local men of that name visitor to the home town the weekend looking very naty in his khaki outfit He's of of Waterbury draftees sta toned at the air base at Manchester N. H. The boys up there take turns driving each other home week. ends, George reports
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26

MT and Mrs William D. Nelson of Sheffield Street, Waterville spent pleasant weekend in Newark N. J. guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Jay, former local residents The Palomba family, of EastOn Avenue day. Dom PolzelIo, 11-yearOld Spring Street young ster, is going great guns Democrat newsboy in Exchange Place When school bells ring next month he'll be fourth grader at St. Marys my ama-mater.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
U.S.-South American Tactical Teamwork Has Naz Trade Invaders" On The Run
PLAY" EASES OUT ENTRENcHED GERMAN

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
BY PETER EDISON

(NEA Service Staff COrrespOndent)
 Washington, August 26 The Germans in South America are on the run-for the first time since
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-26
Tall Tower
 Topics

nm Ien ,S3,l l BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
, 1941-09-24
Master
workers get
increases

The following is a list of
workers at Master Electric who,
through organization in the Unit
ed Electrical Workers, have re-
Gently received a five cent in
crease in pay. Clifford Harris, VIM.
Cook, Earl Clanuch, D. Willard,
Leslie Moore, Harold Burton, VIM.
Vallo, r. Orril, L. Lloyd, Willard
Hodson, J. Jewell, E. McVey,
Ellwood Dolphin, W. Wiltse,
Richard Elliott, and others too
numerous to mention. We wish
that space allowed us to print the
names of all the workers who
participated in this increase. Con-
gratulations to these men, all of
them! Full organization is the only
answer to the gains that they have
made.
- nan ~-~rrryrv
, 1941-09-24

vital Importance to all of us! IF
the profit crazed management at
S-W-W succeed in forcing their
workers to exist on the dole of
coolie wages, the standard of liv-
ing of every American worker is
endangered.
Protect your country! Protect
your standards of living! Defend
the very existence of your fam
lilies! Your future depends upon
your maintenance of American
rights. Support these workers at
S-W-W who are defending your
way of life!
, 1941-09-24
Wedding bells
to ring

Wedding bells are going to ring
merrily September %, for one
Maxine Truax, now working at
the Delco and Brother Kenny
Lees is the lucky dog. We feel like
singing that tuneful line about a
young mans fancy lightly turning
to thoughts of love, because it's
always springtime to romantic
folk! May Maxine and Kenny en-
joy many years of welded bliss.
, 1941-09-24

In showing such an obstinate
attitude, they tend to influence
other subversive elements through
out the country. What better way
to hold up the production so
necessary to our National safety
than to starve the workers, while
at the same time, driving them be-
yond the capacities of human en-
durance?
These workers will not take
such actions lightly! It is the direct
duty of every worker in Dayton
to support the efforts of these con-
scientious men. Their fight is of
, 1941-09-24

extended

We wish to offer our sincere
sympathy to the family of John
P. Bauer. Brother Bauer was we'll
known to all Delco work. RS as a
fine representative of the spirit
of cooperation among his fellow
workers. A member of Local 755,
Delco, he worked at Delco Pro-
ducts for twenty-one years, ter
minating his services with his I'M
fortunate death on September II,
1871.
, 1941-09-24
Simonds-W orden-White Workers
Fiqht For American Standards

The management at S-W-W continues to hold up the program
of National Defense by denying to their workers, a decent American
standard of living. The wages paid at S-W-W are a disgrace to the
American worker. In the face of the rising cost of living, these
struggling men are forced to deny to their families, the very neces-
sites of life.
This management has not only a responsibility to its stock
holders! It also has a duty to perform to the government of these
United States! These men are important to the welfare of this
country. The management at S-W-W is a distinct menace to the
defense program in DENYING to the workers a living wage!
, 1941-09-24
MGR
GA@
AND
goA~94

One of the new tricks that the
EIU is pulling has happened in
Assembly c, and this is to tell
the new men that have been
transferred into this department
that there are no Union men in
this department. We have proof of
this and only use this to show
some of the lies that the EIU
uses to get new members.
X
If the girls jobs are so good
why are so many laid off after
they have only been there a few
weeks? The reason given is that
they cannot make out, and we
think Walter Boswell should look
into this.
Well, we notice that the IU
stooges have found a new meeting
place. This time they have moved
into a bar room where they can
talk and drink, and we don't mean
water. Harry Creamer does not
have to wear dark glasses, we
know him lust the same be it
in a bar room or not.
X
We want to congratulate
Russell Derrick and Earl Leh-
man on the new arrivals and
we hope the mothers and babies
are doing alright. These men are
both from Punch Press /, and
thanks for the cigars boys.
4
We wish to express u SYM
pathy to Carl Weldy and fam
lily on the death of his grand
father.
X
Why don't the EIU do some
thing about the price cutting in
the various departments. It looks
like the company has to cut down
on the men in order to pay for all
the new shrubbery they are put
ting out in front of the buildings
on Main Street. The EIU will
Just sit back and take the work.
ing mans dough and do nothing
about it. If the UE-CIO were in
the saddle like the EIU there
would be a lot of different changes
made. The jobs would be tried
out before being cut, not being
cut without ever being looked at
, 1941-09-24
Frigidoire
theories not
so hot

F%rigidaire's management profess
to believe in observing good
health, and hygiene rules to pro-
tect their employees. This is a
beautiful thought in theory-in
practice it works something like
this:
Arthur Skidmore worked at
Plant No. 1 on a cyanide tank.
The physician ordered that he be
transferred to another job, so he
wouldn't have to breathe danger
GUS acid fumes. So management
obligingly assigned him to the
gun-plant, on the cyanide tanks.
, 1941-09-24

employment Compensation Act. TIL
One of the major changes in
the Unemployment act is a clause
which reads briefly as follows:
The waiting period instead of
three weeks is: (a) now two weeks
(of total unemployment or (b)
two weeks in which the claim
ants earnings are less than his
weekly benefit amount, or (c) one
week of total unemployment and
n which in which the claimants
earnings are less than his weekly
benefit amount.
The minimum weekly benefit
amount is now $500 instead of
none as in the old law. The max
imum benefit has been raised
from $500 to $500. Finally, the
duration of the benefits has been
extended to IS weeks over 16
weeks in the old law.
These are the most significant
changes in the law. Other minor
changes improving benefit pay
ments have also been made. These
changes came about in the last
session of the legislature due to
the organized pressure of the CLIO
locals in Dayton and throughout
the state. The legislative power of
CLIO in this manner was made
effective enough to insure further
monetary gains to its membership.
REGISTER NOW ~
O is THE TIME!
Now is the time to register your
vote,
Or you will be- like the man in
the boat.
He had no oars with which to row,
And YOU can vote, neither YES
nor NO,
UNLESS YOU REGISTER !
, 1941-09-24
UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION LAW
CHANGES on OCT.

Several important changes have been made in the Ohio I'm
Compensation Act. These changes are effective October 1.
, 1941-09-24

= VOTE FOR CROMWELL
, 1941-09-24

We wish to express our SYM
pathy to Carl Weldy and fam
lily on the death of his grand
father.