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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
MERRY-GO-ROUND

Julius Ochs Adler, one of the few brigadier generals to come up from the reserve, hitch-hiked an air ride with Undersecretary of War Patterson from Rolla, Mo, to New York the other day :. Patterson was much impressed with the job Gen. Ben Lear has done at Fort Leonard Wood, which he inspected recently .. One Re- publican reappointment regard- ing which Roosevelt didn't hesi- tate was that of fortnight Col cnel Charles March to the Fed eral Trade Commission. FDR has had a high regard for March's long record of trust-busting !. Ten state governors (N. r., Mass, N. H., Mich, N. J., Md, R. l., Ill., w. Va, Fla.) have gone on record before the Senate Finance Committee against the tax on pari-mutuels. They claim this should be intra-state, not inter- state taxation Capt. Leland Lovette, new chief of Navy press relations, is getting praise from the newspaper world for his ex- cellent job.
 Copyright, 1942, by United
 Feature Syndicate, Incl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
In Today's Mail
Writer Thinks 'S' Gas Cards should Be CurtaiIed Before Further
 Rationing
Editor Of The Democrat.


 Pardon me for taking the liberty of questioning much older and wiser people than my self, but if MT. Hen- derson is planning another cut In the gas ration here in the east, I really think he should first inyesti- gate the IS" book holders; owners of trucks of all sizes, shapes and discriptions: who are 70 greedy and pleased with themselves that they are the proud owners Of 6 truck that will grant them this ration that they sill their tanks bFlm full and let t spill all over the street. That's their gratitude to the government for i wing ID this gas that I'm sure the government should find 6 much better use for.
 Mrs. Louis ]. Vignali
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

Holland worked out his chart to solve one of the most important problems of the war = spreading war orders among little business. Two people before him have tackled this problem, but failed. Because of those failures, a dis gusted Congress appropriated $150,O00, ,00O specifically for small factory war orders, and created the Small War Plants Corpora ton which Holland heads.
 But despite the importance of the problem, three weeks have passed and not even a peep has come from Nelsons office regard ing Hollands proposed setup. for small business.
 BRITISH BOOM
 SMALL BUSINESS
 Meanwhile, the British Gov ernment has shown how import ant it considers small business by sending to Washington Hedley Williams, regional administra- tor of the Ministry of Produc- tion.
 "If it had not been for small factories" Williams has told U.
 S. production chiefs, i've would
 have been lost long ago. Frankly
 I think one of your troubles has
 been that of placing too mucl reliance on big business"
 
 Big Business according to Williams, "is like a rhinoceros. Once it gets started it has ter rife momentum. But it is hard to start, and it can't turn easily. And in this war you may have to junk an airplane model overnight and build different one to beat the latest Nazi invention. On the other hand, little business IS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

pected him to appear in visible form. But God did something better than this, declared Kings ley; He so filled the heart with peace, the mind with resource fulness. and the whole life with new power that again WIS the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

Police Commissioner Valentine of New York has broken a record. He mas served longer than any of his predeces, sors. AS a police head he has estaollsneo for himself a reputation equal to any in your favorite piece of detectiVe fiction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

h 0 W e yer, m d shortly after he came back one of his assistants got an old-tiine Nell son belly laugh out of him. They were talkin g about the pro- posed firing of WIPE indus try branch chiefs for in efficie e ncy. Heads are go- ing to roll!" said Nelson seriously.
 We m i g h t." poiJ tIoo ocetcfapt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
Under The Capitals Dome
 Here And There
IBY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington
 Correspondent

War Production Board Boss Don- aid M. Nelson has taken hard the kicking around and whipping that merciless Washington gives to Its top public men. For the past month or so he hasn't laughed much or been his usual good-natured self.
 His weeks vacation in northern New York did him lot of good,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

e. How many children has Ad. miral Ernest J. KingP
 A. Seven; six daughters and one son.
 @. What were the real names of the two humorists who wrote under the names of Josh Billings" and "Petroleum V. Nasby"?
 AZ Henry Wheeler Shaw and David Ross Locke, respectively.
 e. Did Mary Astor actually play the muiscal numbers on the piano in the motion picture "The Great Lie"?
 A. No, they were played by one of the staff musicians of Warner Brothers Studios.
 O. What is the amount of de- posits in unclaimed postal savings accountS2
 A. The only available figures are for accounts which have had no ac. tivity for twenty years or more. AS of June 30, 1941, the deposits in these accounts amounted to SILL. 882O0.
 O. What is magma?
 A. The molten mineral material below the surface of the earth, which forms the lava of volcanoes.
 e. How many philatelic agencies are maintained by the governmentT
 A. The Philatelic Agency. Post ofiice Department, Washington, D. O., is the only agency of the kind maintained by the U. s. Govern ment, but several of the larger post offices have philatelic windows for the convenience of the public.
 EDITORS NoTE-If you are desirous of securing this weeks booklet, HOME REPAIRS" ad- dress F. M. Kirby, Department 2-lOO, Waterbury Democrat Serv- Ice Bureau, 1913 Thirteenth Street, Washington, D. C., with 15 cents to cover postage.
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e. Are members of the Army Specialist Corps given draft defer ment2
 A. Not unless they have some other ground for deferment besides, membership in the corps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS D. D.

HIS GRACE SUFFICIENT
 Charles Kingsley once declared that in an hour of trouble he chal- lenged God so earnestly to fulflll His nronises that he almost eX-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

TODAY's COMMON ERROR Do not say, "Will you leave me 20 alOne?" say, "let me go alone"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
;. what is a tracer-builet9

A. It is e bullet which gives oR a trail of smoke by day or a bright light by night. It is useful in cor- recting the aim of the. gun since it can be seen how close the bullet scane to the target.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
What Your l. O.?

Can you answer seven of these test questions? Turn to back page for the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
c. !. 0. GOES PLUSHY

c. l. O. has moved into new headquarters in Washington, having joined the ranks of the property owners by purchasing a modern fiYe-slory building on Lafayette Square. just half block from the entrance to the White House,
 Big laugh in Washington is that c. l. O.s new next-dooF nelghbof iS the ultra conservative Brook ings Institution, where research men write theses and monographs to prove that wages are too high and the union shop is crime.
 But that's only the start of it. c. I. O. occupies only the three top floors. As landlord. it rents the two bottom floors 10 the former building owner, a bank.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
Washington Merry Go-Round
Nelson Deoys Pon Turn Little Plants Wor Production; Hoond Organization SetUp But WIPE Is Silent; British ofco Says Output of Small Factories Saved Ensond; Elmer Davis Faces Tough Job in Return Radio Broode0sns
A.l5f fsis
BY DREW PEARSON

Holland Donald Neson
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
SPY STORY UNMASKED

The full story has never been told on why the government was never able to get a full confession or statement out of Theodore Wozniak, the man who is supposed to have started the fire at the Canadian Car and Foundry Plant in Kingsland, N. J., January II, 1917, setting of an explosion that, with the Black Tom disaster. was supposed to be the most effective jo bof sabotage in the last war. Now that Wozniak is again in custody, the story is out.
 Wozniak dropped out of sight after the fire and was not located until 1880 when the Mixed Claims Commission was conducting its investigation into the disaster. Then Wozniak appeared and offered to sell his information.
 Not knowing what his informal ton was. no terms could be made, but a supposedly secret meeting was arranged between Wozniak and a member of the commission. Wozniak specified that no one else should be present and that there should be no steno2raphic record. Just the samea couple of stenog- raphers were stationed in an ad- joining room to take down the statement.
 Half way through the state- ment one of the stenographers sneezed. Wozniak bolted from the door and disappeared. By the time he was next located. the statute of limitations had run out and he was saved from prosecu- ton. But the Department of Jus tice has him in custody now, just for safe keeping.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
BREAKS
 SILENCE

Nelson's Labor Day speech at Cleveland is his first major address since last June. Last spring he let himself get in for a whole series of public appearances that ended with the whirlwind tour that took him to his alma mater, University of Mis- souri at Columbia, Mo-; miners meeting in Butte. Mont; a Mac Arthur-day celebration in Chicago; Northwestern University dedica- tion in Evanston. A couple of radio talks were thrown in for good meas ure. After that Chautauqua circuit swing, he raised his right hand and swore solemnly there would be no more speechmaking for long time to come.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
HOME" DRIVE

Next war campaign to be launch ed among the civilian population will be a two-weeks' drive to get residences, apartment houses and dwellings of all kinds inspected and registered as "V-homes." This will be an Office of Civilian Defense campaign, opening September 15.
 By October l, it is hoped that OCD volunteer workers can visit every sector and zone of the coast al defense areas checking up on black-out provisions, sand buckets, water pumps for use against incen- diary bombs, clean attics and gen. eral fire prevention.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05
SWEET
 THOUGHT

There are now seven government agencies having some say-so on sugar supply, and that leads to com- plications.
 Into this already oversweetened kettle of fish an eighth agency has now stuck its spoon-the Board of Economic Warfare. One subse- quent situation developed like this: Although Department of Commerce agencies have bought and stored practically the entire crop of Cuban sugar to keep the Cuban sugar growers and mills from going broke, no such favor able arrangements have been made to purchase the crop of Puerto Rico.
 The Puerto Rican sugar people, anxious to make 8 deal for them selves as favorable, started nego- tiating with all the various gov- ernment agencies as required. They just started, however, when their Washington representatives received 8 letter from the sugar section of the Board of Economic Warfare. It said, in effect, that BEW had heard about this pro- posal and 1t was BEW's opinion that any deal for Puerto Rican sugar should now be made through BEW. The reason: BEW has control of all imports.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

make the slogan Keep 'em Roll ing"
 Unca' Donal' threw back his head and roared.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-05

e. How many children has Ado miral Ernest J. KingP
 A. Seven; six daughters and one son.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-13

First Time in ~ Years
Fort Macon is now garrisoned for
the first time since 1865.
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THE STunY so FAR: Clay Morgan
has decided to play lone hand against
Ben Herendcen, rancher bent on rum
ming the cattle country his own way. The
two men have been enemies for years,
having first fought over Clay's wife,
Lila, who died hating him and believing
she should have married Herendeen.
Morgan is a solitary figure, devoted to
his nine-year-old daughter, Janet. Al
though two women, Catherine Grant
and Ann McGarrah, are in love with
him, they know he cannot forget Lila.
OF his former friends, only Hack Breath
itt has not gone over to Heren6een's
side. Seen camping with Pete Borders,
a rustler, he is a fugitive from Heren-
deems men. Gurd Grant, GATHERINGS
brother, hesitated about joining Heren-
deem, but became Morgan's sworn ene-
my when he discovered that Catherine
had been to his ranch. When he learns
that Hcrendeen has sent a party out TO
find Rack and kill him, Clay starts out
TO Kern Cases store, where he thinks
he viii find Hack. Herendeen arrives,
and there is free-for-all fight. In the
midst Of the fight, Hack appears. Her.
endeen and his men are driven off, but
not before they have set fire to the town.
the whole town, including Cases store,
burns to the ground.
Now continue with the story.
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PAGE SEVEN

technique in its attempt to obtain a
coach for their school. The board ran
an advertisement in the help wanted
section of the Toledo Blade. We re-
call number of years ago that there
were several dozen applicants for ev-
cry teaching post but now filling
vacancy is real task for any school.
&&*
Making an auto trip from California
to Bluffton, 2,400 miles in II hours
establishes a local record for fast
overland travel, to the best of our
knowledge. This was the time made
by Lieut.. and Mrs. DeLos Kervin and
two children Michael aged 3 and Pat
ricia, eight months, who are visiting
at the home of Mrs. kervin's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cleon Triplett. Mrs.
Kervin will be remembered as the
former Miss Dorothy Rae Triplett.
The family left their home at Plais
Verdes, near Long Beach, Calf, last
Friday night at o'clock and arrived
here Monday night at IL p. m. With
exception of Sunday night, they drove
continuously, taking turns at the
wheel of the car. The trip was made
without incident or mishap of any
kind.
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GEORGE ROGERS CLARK
(1752-16181

"Give me s6OoO,' George Rogers
Clark begged the Virginia Assem-
bly,, land leave to raise an army
and I'll conquer the Ohio Coun-
try"
The Ohio Country was then that
great, littie-explored territory that
stretched in endless forests from
the Ohio to the Mississippi.
Clark, Virginian by birth, sur
veyor by profession, and explorer
and adventurer by choice. knew
whereof he spoke.
AT 90 he had penetrated deem
into the Kentucky wilderness. A
friend of Daniel Boone and Simon
Kenton, Clark was always fore
most among the volunteers on In
dian raids.
1t was 1776 when he appeared
before the Assembly. A new ma
ton had been born east of the
Alleghenies. West of the noun
tains, England and her Indian al
lies held fast.
Clark knew that if the United
States was to be a great country.
it could not hug the Atlantic
Coast. 1t must spread westward
His plea was granted. An army
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1942-08-13
Haze Policy To Help
Child Stay In School

Policies of the Ohio State Depart
ment of Education are based upon
the desirability of keeping children
in school so there is little provision
within the rules to permit high
school pupils to do farm work while
school is in session.
Local school boards follow state
regulations for school attendance in
order to share in state funds allotted
for the support of Ohio schools.
These local boards can set the length
of school terms and the length of
school weeks, and can omit vacations
to permit ending the school year
early.
The State Department in reply to
an inquiry from Guy Dowdy, extern
sion specialist, Ohio State University,
says the law requires $50 days of
school to permit the school full par
ticipation in state funds. Under no
circumstances can a pupil be counted
as in attendance except when actual
ly present in the class room.
The State Department has author
ity to adopt rules to authorize a
school superintendent to excuse a
child Ia years old for future limit
ed period to work for parents or
legal guardians. The superintendent
already has authority to grant pu-
pills 5-day leave for farm work and
this permit may be renewed twice
for total of Is days absence.
Teachers would be expected to
give special attention to pupils which
have been excused to help them make
up school assignments missed while
working. The State Department con-
siders making up work less beneficial
to the pupil than the same work
done in class.
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Indians, and moved 600 miles to
Vincennes, to crush Clark.
1t was February. Clark heard
of Hamilton's move. Rivers had
become lakes. The cold was Bit
ter. The tiny army swan, waded
and starved on the epic march to
Vincennes. In the face of over
whelming odds, Clark captured
Vincennes, and nearby Fl. Sack
vile. Hamilton, a prisoner, was
sent East.
Clark returned to Kentucky.
The Shawnees were raiding from
Ohio. Another army gathered. 1t
landed and marched north to old
Chillicothe. A Shawnee town was
destroyed. The Indians were pur-
sued to old Piqua near Springfield.
Their stronghold was captured,
the Indians dispersed. The North
west was safely a part of the
United States-the Ohio Country
portion of the new Union.
In Ohio at Piqua, in Virginia,
Illinois, Indiana and Missouri are
monuments to this man who
reached his peak at &c and who,
for the rest of his Al years, suf-
fered only disappointment and in
gratitude.
George Rogers Clark died in
1918.
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agent and so on. One of them Fred
erick Ludwig, stayed on at his old
Fairgrounds and is today employed at
the plant as an engineer.
Driving thru the country side one
is impressed by the rapid evolution
of farm machinery. For the grain
cutting operation many of the farm
ers today are using the modern labor
saving combines. Almost every adult
can remember the following sequence
of instrument used in grain cutting
sickle, cradle, dropper, reaper, wire
binder, twine binder and today the
combine. An interesting question to
ponder is whether the next two or
three decades will see progress cor
respondingly large.
One of the big treats for town
children is to visit in the country play
with the farm animals. Last Thurs
day Jimmie and Joan Harmon and
Sara Jane Huser visited Phyllis Mar
quart, at the Harley Marquart farm
west Of town. They had great fun
riding the ponies.
Dorothy Anderson, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Jesse Anderson of Orange
township and senior next year al
Bluffton high school, found her name
sake at the Girl Reserves camp which
she attended recently as delegate
from her club. Dorothy tells US tha
the other Dorothy Anderson didnf
look exactly like the Orange township
| Dorothy but that it was sometimes
bit confusing when their names
| were called out.
Rejecting the very acute shortage
of teachers, the Mt. Cory board of
education successfully used a new
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window a perfevtly formed V-potato
which he dug on the farm of Mrs.
Sam Lora. The tuber is attracting
much attention.
It's cotton picking time way down
south writes Mrs. A. K. Lee of Odem,
Texas, Bluffton resident some thir-
ty-fve years ago. The cotton gins
are running day and night she says,
and fields are colorful with pickers.
OF course you know you'll have to
do lot more walking for the dura-
tion-but it isn't going to be so bad.
Walter Gratz, Bluffton shoe merchant
gave US a peek at the new fall styles
the other day. They're really made
for walking comfort Gone are the
spike heels in women's footwear
they've been replaced by substan-
TALLY fuller heel base and girls the
NeSo olS VI oaoCi. WHICH YOU ScG lIlcIil
you'll agree that they are mighty
chic-altho different. Better make
up your mind to like them for tires
are wearing thinner and thinner.
Harvey Beidler tells us that it
seems just yesterday when a bunch
of the eighborhood kids could al
ways be found playing in the sand
at the municipal light plant when he
was superintendent back in the early
| twenties. These kids included Free
Herr, Norman Triplett, Frederick
and Richard Ludwig and Donivar
Hochstettler. At that time the won
derful intricacies of the water works
machinery, the sand pile, the quarry,
the railroad tracks provided the COM
mon ground for their play interests.
Today the boys are in widely separ-
ated fields, one a preacher, another a
Junior executive, another an insurance
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MGiMA
Du4oAoI

Well it's over-whether you voted
or not, Tuesday and the COP real
ly stirred up lot of dust--we didn't
say dirt-in the committeeman races
in A and B. :. well that's settled and
now there'll be a brief lull until the
county candidates begin beating the
bushes for tn November election.
and speaking of the November cleo
ton don't expect too much in the way
of cracking down on the rationing
front until after the vote is cast.
politicos don't want to stick out their
necks. after November it'll be diff
ferent. :. mosquito situation improv-
ed, however, one could hardly say
situation is we'll in hand, as the army
puts it. and that clatter you heard
going down Main street was probably
just another one running on the rim
-. and she's planning to do heap of
canning. :. anyway she signed up for
the sugar last week. and new ba-
bies arriving in record number at the
hospital. . all time record of ten in
the nursery Saturday went into the
| discard Sunday when there were elev-
en-. :. looks like well have to get
more teachers in the grade school
about 1913. =. one Bluffton grocery
selling watermelons by the pound. -.
that's new one..
Mrs. Catherine Daner, SO, of South
Jackson street is one of the oldest
readers of the Bluffton News. She re-
Gently returned from Ft. Wayne
where she spent several months at
the home of her son.
Army life may be hard and tough
in spots, but Bob Schaublin, physical
instructor in the air corps can vouch
that it has its brighter intervals. Bob
is enjoying one right now-being
quartered at Miami Beach, Florida, in
a former millionaire's home taken
over by the military. -.
&**
From Jim Griffith at the armp air
base, Randolph Field, Texas, comes
word that the Button News is a real
tonic to the local boys in uniform who
look forward to its weekly budget of
happenings about town.
And congratulations to Coach A. c.
Burcky who stepped up his volume of
life insurance sales and won a trip to
Put in Bay, Tuesday which he and
his wife enjoyed with a group of in
surance notables.
Altho the drive for discarded phon-
ograph records is officially closed,
they still keep coming in. We noticed
large collection in front of the
bank, Sunday.
Even potatoes ae taking up the
"V" idea-and just to prove it Ray
Mumma placed on exhibit in the News
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"a few hundre d men-was
trained on the Ohio and in 1878
he started swiftly toward the Mis-
sissippi, 240 miles away, to con-
quer Ft. Gage at Kaskaskia. He
surrounded the town. The British
were holding a ball Fort and
town surrendered without a shot.
The French Creoles welcomed him
openly. He established a new
civil government, made friends of
the Indians.
In far-off Detroit, the British
general, Hamilton, heard news of
his success, gathered troops and