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The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16
. FLASHES
OF
LIFE .
By The Asseeiatsd Pres
INSPIRATION

PITTSBURGH - Corp. Earl
Oxford former movie actor who
sings II Left My Heart at the
Stage Door Canteen" in the all
Army stage production current
ly showing here. has a ready
explanation for the emotion he S
able to put into the song. u
lust think of my last girl ! sang
to professionally before goine
into the Army" the corporal
said. The girl? Lana Turner.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16
FRAUD

ATLANTA-Freshmen at the
Atlanta Junior College are ques-
tioning the campaign methods
of Sara Richardson, successful
candidate for class president.
She promised kisses to all her
supporters, they charge, and
paid off with candy kisses.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16
GOLD!
Repairman

NEW YORK Repairman
Frank Holser went to the pit or
an elevator shaft - and did he
get q lift!
He found SLIT in cash.
It'll be his if no one claims 1t
in six months.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16
FRUIT LOVER

FRUIT LOVER
MALTA, Mont. - Mrs, Perry
Mccall appreciates the compile
ment, but it's pretty expensive.
A thief stole ninety five
quarts of her home-canned fruit.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16
MERRY CHRISTMAS AS

In the public square is Christ,
mas tree, respondent with all
the trimmings.
It's a constant reminder that
u.s. time to mail those packages
tn service men overseas.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16

Today il is up to the metal in
dustry to produce the metal and
fabricate il into armament that
will win this war. Every effort
and activity. will be directed to-
ward that end.
William II. Eisenman, secre-
tary American Society for
Metals.
Our job now is TO win the war.
Let's quit talking about what's
going to happen after the war.
Rubber Administrator William
M. LETTERS.
Our dollars did us no good at
Bataan and Corregidor. It was
rifles and ammunition we need
ed then.
Rear Admiral Clark n. Wood
ward, U. S. NJ, retired.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16
SCIENCE LESSON

REDMOND, Ore.-Last sum-
mer Mrs. Jessie Munger, q
school teacher, picked up a tur-
tie egg. She put it on her desk
as a decoration.
Yesterday the class gained an
unexpected pet.
The egg Matched.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16

We do not have as many men as we shall need
eventually, even il all our nonpower we're utilized
with 100 per cent efficiency. But we do have enough
men and women, able and willing to do war work,
to meet our industrial needs UP to the present. it they
we're properly located and assigned
The redistribution arises because, obviously,
II has not been possible to place war orders exactly
where there was labor ready and waiting for employ
gmsnt.
It persists because it is not cosy to workers
snnd their families about the country. might on
oversuppy Of potatoes Of anthracite cool, taking
from surpIuses to supply deficiencies.
Il is not easy to do this-but it is possible. And
exactly that sort Of Juggling what the ndusrol drott
must accomplish
California industrioIists hoard labor because their
turnover is high Once the industrial droft freezes
their workmen in place, and guarantees to core for
future needs, they will gladly release the men they
now are hoordng.
Hundreds Of thousands are out of work in New
York because they hate to owoy they hope that
somehow Jobs will be made for them at home; they
cont see going into Arizona mines at IS cents on
hour when-who knows?-they might have oppor-
tunity to work in shipyord at IS or 20 cents an
hour more.
. The industrial droft will resolve their doubts, by
tell them, fIotIy and finally: Report at o'clock
week from today at the Blank and Smith plant.
They're expecting you"
REPEAT PERFORMANCE
On Oct l8 it will have been six months since Jim.
my DooIitte's squadron bombed Tokyo interuPtng
q japanese broadcast Boosting that we couldn't do
ii.
Thus far there has been repeot performance.
We don't know Why We don't ask why, because the
answer probably would be Of od-we hope not OF
comfort-to the Jops.
We do hope that we shall not have to wait onoth.
Or six months for the next instolment.
STILL NOT ENOUGH
The AeronoutieoI Chomber Of Commences report
on the magnitude Of this eountrys unpubIiczed air
corao program is very pleasing. But lets not forget
that we're still behind the eieht.boI.
Two things about the report should be noted, in
view Of the foet thot necessarily, it deos only in
aoneroIities One is that the Chober represents the
I'D jre plone builders who do not want to see Henry
kdisor oct foothoId in their business The other is
4jot lise.report come right on the heels OF Donald
1s experimental eoreo plane order to Kaiser,
& fS M seem to minimize the importance OF kois-
Dntolities.
70 Noy Be more eoreo planes built and build
6Q3 ~ public knows But experts outside the
NJ eoncede that there oren't nearly enough
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16
. SO THEY SAY

Hitler sees with amazement
that our defeats are but step
ping stones to victory, and that
all his victories are stepping
stones to ruin.
Winston Churchill.
We are in the midst OF man.
kinds greatest war, q war to de-
eide whether the march or prog
ress shall proceed or be halted.
President Roosevelt.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-10-16
MEN NOT At WORK

The monpower supply is so low thot, probably
roht otter election an industrial droft will be estob-
shed in the United Stotes which will deprive both
men and women Of the privilege Of working if, when,
where and how they individually may please.
The industrial droft is coming because we do not
have enough men to do the fighting manufacture
the armament and munitions Of war, rose the food,
land keep essential services eoing
Yet in the single city Of New York there ore sup
posed to be almost half million men and women
who want work they cannot find. And in California
q scandal is brewing because loree war plants are
boarding men whose services they cannot use, as in.
suronce against the coming day when those men will
be needed.
Aside from the shortage Of skilled workers, which
IS different problem involving training and uperod-
ina, the monpower is direct result Of noIdistr0u'
fion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

Waterville, March 17.-St. Mi chael's church is holding man. moth Bingo party tonight in the parish hall open to all. Twenty-Five games will be played and special prizes given, also door prize. The affair will begin at SIS under the direction of committe including Patrick Shea, George Graham, Fred Truelove, Robert Cosgriff, William Brennan and Thomas Kelley.
 It will be a parish party, under the sponsorship of the Holy Name society, with the assistance of the Ladies' Aid and the CYO society.
 The Casper Davis Junior Auxili- ary held a regular business meet ing Friday afternoon at the home of their leader, Mrs. Frank Carney on Chapel street. A special event was the dedication of their new flag. The girls held short ceremony colored blues singer, scores in two hotcha numbers where no verbal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
AUXILIARY CORPS
 HOLDS DINNER
2l Members of Engine 4 Celebrates End of First
 Course

Tn celebration of the completion of their preliminary course of in- tstructions as auxiliary firemen, 21 members of the auxiliary corps of Engine 4 joined with regular mem bers of the company in 8 dinner last night at McGrath's pine room.
 Members of the day shift of En- zine 1 attended while the night shift was treated to ice cream, cake and cigars. George B. Conlon was toastmaster.
 In 6 brief talk Lieutenant James Barry, in charge of the night pla- toon of Engine 4, outlined the work which members of the auxiliary fire corps would be called upon to do in the event of emergency. T hope it never becomes necessary for you to go into action," he said, "but I am confident that you will be 8 credit to yourselves and to the men who have been giving you instructions if you are called upon in crisis"
 Those attending included, Jerry Tehan, Edward Sheehan, Thomas Scadden, James Shea, James J. Gladney, Bart Shea, Joseph Kenney, Frank Cummings, Thomas Murphy, John Mellon, Howard Higgiston, Ro- bert Eustace, Peter Spala, William Faudhaper, John Condon, Arvid Johnson, Edward Palmer, Jerry Ker- win, Gene Ford, Joseph Mclean, Frank Koch, James O'Donnell, Fred Milton and Ernest Pelequin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
PERMISSION TO USE
 SCHOOLS GRANTED

Permission was granted the Board of Education at 8 meeting held last night to various organizations to use school buildings for their activities. Those who received. the permission were:
 The Goodwill Dramatic club, An- derson school gym and Community room, May IS, minstrel show and dance, and, May IA, for a dress re- hearsal; Sts. Peter and Paul's Holy Name society, Anderson gym, March IA. for a dress rehearsal; Misses Julia Kelley of Merriman school, Dorothy O'Connor of Roosevelt and Anna Skehan of Hendricken, permis- sion to hold book sales, the money to be spent for school purposes.
 Yucca plants, originating in Mex ico and acclimatized in Germany, will be cultivated in Sweden for the flbers, which will be used as sub stitue for hemp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
BLACK AND WHITE
 SHOW SCORES HIT
Diversity Studs Well-Bal- anced BurIesque PrO-
 gram at Jacques

Miracles will never cease, for last night at Jacques Theater a prece- dent was set when a Waterbury bur- lesque audience, known from coast to coast by troupers as hard boiled critics, freely, loudly and con- sistently applauded the chorus girls.
 Rightly so, to, for the colored gals in the second portion of the two for one show deserved it. They were just the opposite of the usually lackadaisical white chorines. Co., ordination was evident, their num- bers more intricate and their terp- sichorean ability so superior, it must have been heart breaking to the white gals to see them strut their stuff so unerringly.
 However, principals in both halves do justice to themselves in what constitutes ohe of the best shows of the 1941 42 wheel here under the genial managerial reins of the yet eran snowman, Jack Beck. To single out individuals for meritouS performance would not be fair, for all share equally in the success of the novel undertaking.
 Slim" Thomas, colored dancer, proves why he can't put on weight In a four-minute routine of taps, too numerous to count, Slim winds up with a clever offering ln which he taps a fast number while reclined in chair.
 (Jtna nIae VIYt1Iie CA1AYoI atVa0AP has to do five numbers, two approprl- ately dedicated to St. Patrick's Day before he can exit. Susan Brown tops as straight man for Dusty Fletcher, able colored comedian whose script is probably the clean est in burlesk, yet just as effective as lines along other lines.
 I. B. Hamp steals the thunder ID the white l.alf, the tramp comedian making big hi in his debut here this season. He's ably supported ir his comical sketches by his blonde wife, Gertie Beck, veteran straight woman. Sir Cecil Alexander, sing ing tramp comedian, draws his ap- plause from his enviable dittieS poems and songs while he nanip- ulates a five cent lighter cigar in and out, around and about, to ano fro, without getting hot lips.
 The shippers are Sally O'Day brunette, "yeah" gal with q mtl- lion dollar personality who lets nc grass grow under her feet, Coette elongated titan -haired beauty, and Renee, strawberry blonde. Each makes but one appearance, enough for such a lengthy show.
 Charles Harris, manager of the company, does very well by him. self as a straightman while the same goes for Larry Norman, singer, who also appears in comedy bits, Ona Lee, tall brunette eccentric dancer, and "Shuffles" Levan, com edian making his second showing ci the season here.
 All in ail. it's show worth catching.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

Yesterday afternoon anything but blue Mon day Callers galore and went and the phone seemed to ring every other minute It just one of those days that makes the Fourth Estate such grand game One of my always welcome visitors was the North End grocer Fred Rizk whom the Army may get before many more moons pass by. He came in deslrous ot a
 t of information and after receiving the data handed yours truly ten-cent Blackstone Cabinet The cigar went into the shirt pocket as Fred departed Right hen Jack Stevens sporscaster of radio fame came in to say hello with Chick Kelley who had him as guest star on his local program last night Immediately Jack say? the cigar and remarked Glad to you smoking Phies The latter you know sponsors his nightly air shots. Boy was I glad the label didn't show.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
KEARNEY OPPOSES
 SCHOOL CONTRACT
Makes Minority Report on Awards for Two School
 house Jobs

Commissioner John J. Kearney of the Board of Education went on record last night at the school board meeting as opposed to the con- tracts let out to the Moran Con- struction Co.,, for replacing the roof at Wilby High School at a cost of $11, gro and the repairs to the para pet walls at Slocum school at a old of $3,455.
 The school house committee, of which Com. Kearney is a member, made the recommendations for the contract but he refused to sign the report. Commissioner Kearney told board members that the bid was ul- most half of $23,094, the highest bid which was submitted by Smith Con- struction Go. Incidentally this was the only other. bid for the roof job. The objection voiced by MT. Rear ney was that the concern awarded the roof replacement contract had in the past done work for the school department which he considered un- satisfactory.
 Questioned on what supervision there will be on the work, Board Chairman Raymond Stone replied that the department will appoint someone to be on the job in order to see that the company complies with specifications.
 Other bids on the parapet walls at Slocum school submitted were: Waterbury Concrete Co.,, $6,650; Smith Construction Co.,, $6,492; T. F. Moran & Sons, $4,950; Moran Construction Co.,, $3 300; Hayes Con- struction O., $3,455.45.
 In the instance of the Slocum school bid, Commissioner Kearney also pointed out that the bid was almost half of the highest submit | ted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

The clothes moth, always unglamorous, is now ac- cused of being unpatriotic According to cedar chest manufacturers who accustomed to dealing harshy with the pest the clothes moth chews up about 200 mil lion dollars worth of woolens and furS annualya sum naught 10 destroyers 225 flying fortresses and 1000 dive bombers Some appetite! But definitely unAmeri- ican these days They explain however that the clothes moth itself isn't invulnerabe to attack The red cedar heartwood used in cedar chests contains natural voa
 tile oil that is effective killer of clothes moth larvae contain great deal more than the governments re- quired minimum of 70 per cent red cedar heartwood Alright these chests many death chambers for clothes moths
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

circulating 8 petition. It was slow culated during lunch time.
 But at last reports some of the 5000 employees at Bethlehem had signed the petition, volunteering Sunday work without pay to speed up ship production. It took a few days more before the plan was given the blessing of the proper labor council. Then it was endorsed by this one and that one, and if some body who is big enongh to make his endorsement heard all over the county speaks up, maybe Art and the Bethlehem boys started some thing.
 FARMERS OFFER
 SCRAP IRON
 While this was going on, people in other fields of work became in- terested, too, in building more ships. A man in 8 farm community wrote in and suggested that there was probably enough iron scrap rusting away behind barns, in the form of abandoned equipment in his county, to build a ship if it could just be collected on volunteer patriotic basis. The farmers wouldn't sell the old equipment as junk, he pointed out, but they'd let it go as a patri- otic donation.
 Everybody can't be an afraid warden, special policeman or a watcher, but they are willing to do almost anything, if they are just told what.
 \ The San Francisco civilian de- fense set-up is admittedly pretty much lon paper" Equipment is sadly lacking. It is a vital spot, but the organization appears to have Jagged. Twenty-Five hundred volun- teer auxiliary police have finished their training and are ready for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

Happy birthday to you. |. '. Yesterday John Greene, well known man about town and rowing farmer Sum- days was umpty-ump years old. He celebrated the by purchasing several bushels of seed potatoes for his many v for Victory gardens in the surrounding towns and countryside. "Food will win the war, says John provided you know your onions also potatoes 6 Mr. Greene wants you to understand has relation to horses For when it to judging horse flesh, John says make mine pigs knuckes every time-food will win the war"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
Diana MacDOn-
Clipped from Crosby's Argus

Clipped from Crosby's Argus Diana MacDon- ough is chairman of group arranging an exhibit of English class Assisting Barbara Feinn, Janet FL we'll Irving Swrsky Richard Ozaroff and Joseph Curto
 The Girls Vocational Club visited the American In the party were Eleanor Barry, Winifred Dalton, Lucy DiStefano Lydia Ermida Kathryn FallOn, Greta Hahn, Diana Marlborough Constance McSherry, Mary Ann Metzler Joyce MucrOne, Madeline Pope, Eleanor Snyder, Alma Speidel Mary Jane Stuart Fife Tcha- kerides, Joyce Tierney and Ermine Ubaldi Stu dents of Miss Julia SuIivans history classes pre- pairing scrap-books containing data Waterbury, Connecticut and New England which will be sent to England in exchange for similar work being done by English schOOIbOys and girls.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
EAST END CORPS
 CAPTURES PRIZES


 At the Rhode Island Fire society's annual st. Patrick's Day contest held in Pawtucket, R. l., Sunday, the East End Community clubs drum corps captured five prizes, including the first prize in the bugle and drum open class. Two other first prizes were one for having the greatest number of marchers in line and the other one being for the corps which journeyed the farthest to enter com petitions.
 Miss Shirley St. Hilaire, drum majorette, won the blue ribbon for being the best appearing drum ma for and for handling her corps in competition. She was also awarded first prize for the best baton twirler
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
INDIVIDUAL HOUSE
 METERS ARE URGED

Individual meters for computing gas and electricity charges should be installed in Waterbury's defense houses, in the opinion of Congress man Joseph E. Talbot. The repre- sentative said he is studying the situation in general and hopes to have "the full details of this prob lem before me in a<few days"
 Use of the master meter creates no inducement to conserve power and therefore is subject to criticism, said the congressman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

Shades of Bill Garrigus!!! The former Democrat correspondent and Connecticut historian would have waxed politically erae had he been around his ma tive dgginS last week when the announcement of the death of Charles B. Thompson of Bridgewater was made. Mr. Thompson is credited in many places with being the father of the maiI-Order' business. His career which began and ended in Bridgewater, was high-light of Garrigus book, "They Found Way, characters which won much favor few years ago Mr. Thompson was 90 when he died on March 5, but into those ninety years had been crowded two or three lfetimeS of business experience. There have been many merchandising princes and wizards in New Eng land history but Mr. Thompson was certainly the fore runner in ways and which are still considered rather modern As Bill Garrigus put it, he certainly Hound way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
STRAND THEATER
 CHANGES HANDS
Warner Bros. Not to Oper- ate It When Lease Ex-
 pires March %

Announcement was made last night by Miss Julia Smith, manager of the State and Strand theaters here, that Warner Bros, Inc, will not operate the Strand theater af- ter March 29. The Warner Bros, lease on the Strand thater ex- pires March 31. according to Miss Smith, who started her career here as manager of the Strand IS years ago. Miss Smith will continue as manager of the State theater.
 Edward Fitzpatrick, manager of Loew's-Poli Palace said that the Palace organization, which now owns the Strand, plans to completely remodel the old theater and con tinue its operation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

duty. There are 27,0OO enrolled volunteers, and the city is organized in four divisions and going on down too II battalions, 62 companies and block Wardens.
 The system is operated in con- nection with the police department with Chief of Police Dullea, head of the defense council. But people around San Francisco feel that 8 lost is lacking.
 Jere Sullivan, head of the morale division of the council, boils over when he talks about what should
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
MISS EUNICE AVERY
 COMPLETES COURSE

Members of the Waterbury Wo- mems club heard the last of series of lectures last night given by Miss Eunice Avery. Miss Avery's topic was the present war and the role played by radio and airplane in 1t. She said that war conceptsf do not prevail as in the past and war strikes in all parts of the earth.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
Q ANSWERS
 TO WAR QUIZ
(QuestiOns on Comic Page)

N&nCSSAVNS wa DvA@~ ~@H
 1. Four stars, full general; three, lieutenant general; two, major gen. eral; one, brigadier general.
 2. A tin fish is submarine, 8 tin can destroyer and an ash can a depth bomb.
 3. Jackson, William H. Harrison, Taylor, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Ben- janin Harrison and Theodore Rocse- welt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
SEES HoRsE-TH1Ev1NG NEXT

St. Louis (UP)-Police are pre- pared for anything how. Some one stole four steel-rimmed wheels from a spring wagon parked in a vacant lot Police Captain Elias Hoagland, who long before warned his men to guard against tire steal- ing, said he expected horse thefting soon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

be done. He wants parades, some
 tanks rolling through the streets, and some enthusiasm aroused. Just
 words, words, words over the radio or in the newspapers won't do it, in MT. Sullivan'S opinion. Says he, Any Jap with a fishing pole can go out and sit on the waters edge and see what's going on around the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17

harbor here. But Americans who are waiting to be stirred can't even read about it."
 There are more committees dash ing around in the San Francisco defense set-up than there are hairs in a horses tail. Were fighting the war with committees one ciyi- minded business man remarked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-03-17
BRASS BOWLERS
 ENJOY BANQUET

A banquet for the American Brass Bowling league was held at the Copper Kettle Saturday evening with Rudy Meyers acting as master of ceremonies. The high scoring bowlers were awarded prizes. A professional troupe, under the di- rection of Billy Carbon, entertained the diners.