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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

After Cesar Romero joined the Coast Guard. he found out he was tn lexe with Ann Rutherford. who Is here fn New York and may not even know about 1t Dick pur- cell and Katherine Booth would like to ne alone Lillian MacNGillali. a Kran6-danghter of David Lloyd George and a locker. plays . part in "CcaMrnandos Strike at Dawn" Anne Nichols. author of "Ahie's Irish Rnse.s is ineognito at Mt. sinai hos- pstal with torn hip ligaments from a fall Xavier Cugat, CBS Car. avan maestro and in his twelfth engagement at the Waldorf Astoria, wfll give a special performance for President BatiSta of Cuba in the Grand Ballroom December 18th. Seems that the president, who al- wayS hears him. wants to see him.
 NEarxie Hart. responsible for the high blood pressure of the witnesses in the strip tease trial that closed s~wme. wcmen and Song" is suf- fering from low blood pressure. Her doctor ordered her to quit the show. She stuck to keep the company working Renee villon, 5l Club dancer, will wed an insurance com- pany president as soon as he gets his divorce. Instead of Q ring, he gave her a-policy.
 OwI Is blazing at the colleges in general because of wide and ape palltng apathy of undergrads to bond. blood and other patriotic drives Liberty is trying out its third film critic in a month and will drop its unique habit of pub- fishing reading time" which, when it started. was intended as start linz novelty :. !. Bette Cannon, towel heireSs. and Chic Farmer. society blade. have tiffed and parted. They were on the verge of an elopement Eleanor Vie. southern society girl and Captain (rich cotton marl) Hugh Bartonman will wed in South Carolina around Christmas time.
 When Helen Berlzhelmer, wife of westehester pencil king, sued for di- vorce and named Florence Proctor as more than a friend to Henry she did not make clear what had become of the mid-wester1L brewer La Proctor married in Miami las, May Jimmy van Heusen is writ ing the songs for the picture Dixie though he has a full-time job as a test pilot for Lockheed Bine Crosby will star in 1t. and this is to warn him that there Is compe- tition coming. CBS has planned a tremendous campaign for Frank Sinatra. Tommy Dorsey's former vo- calist. who will get a solo spot, billed only as Songs by Sinatra". He is 3A. married and has a 2ts-year old girl, though only 24 Jed Harris has a ne wplay packer. Cleceland lawyer Red Skeletons picture T Dood It" will exude a reminiscent flavor of an old Buster Keaton smash, Split Marriage. And the gagman on the script is-Buster Keeton.
 Eva Ssovak. silent screen star in the Triangle days. who rode to fame right behind her sister Jane, sup porting William s. Hart. is battling to keep her family together in New York-tak.Eg 3 welding course ai ! Government school in Brooklyn
 When John Powers. the model merchant sees what Alan Mowbray makes of hlm in the film, Pow CTS Girl" John won't like.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04
CHRISTMAS PAGE CONTEST RULES

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

0m NRw TeaRS Eve. when cafes and clubs jam every inch and tack un the gypA one famous dinner and Slanper ehlh will net he open at all. Bin Ragtoloeki'@ ln the Village, with Q hal1~eentnxy of tradition. will stay aark on that nixht of nights which Is the haStox~keeper'S dream. Last New Years eve. Hill had to dis- apnosnk and emharrass some old. thne friends and patrons who couldn't he served. He don't do h this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-04

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 Am eaH6cer with one os the best names an sase nation ss reported to have Saagse@ a superior 0ffacer 2t~ 5er a verbal Set~e0 aa a camp near Manhattan, This, sA wartime. is an ofsense that can erf29 on most sera0us gonscvaemeAs Ras tAeT say an he goa was transfer to far of unit, not osatsaae the U> S . 1, : Whatever the controversy about whether or moi ex-ccHvSesS are be- 1ag GsTasacS, QSne cf sAs most psth- aJc1sea of BSoa8wsys SSng SSng sons was 1na1c1e@ and val soon be on fsis wap 10 active Gsssr Major General Paas1Sspser. head 0s Army EmerYencp ReaSes, sasw t0 Boston and told the cast of ~'rGSS Is he Army that, asser the film Is made. each lad may pSeS bis cwn combat area.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
DRAFT DEFERMENT HELP
FOR VALLEY FARMERS

Draft deferment for vital agricultural
workers in Imperial Valley can help solve
the labor shortage which threatens the
nations food supply-and many of our
community organizations can help the
farmers obtain draft deferment for their
laborers.
The organizations need not bring pres
sure upon the draft boards-Such thing
would be unthinkable these days-but
they can help the farmers immensely by
setting up advisory machinery to aid in
filling out forms and determining grounds
which should be set forth in any claim
for deferment.
As was pointed out here yesterday, a
request for draft deferment by a vital
farm laborer is not unpatriotic-it is the
direct opposite. 1t is a step toward solv-
ing aproblem which, if it were allowed to
go unsolved, would severely cripple the
nations war effort The nation, and the
men in the armed services, need food.
Only the farms can produce it, and they
cannot produce it without manpower.
In the big industrial areas, where man.
power is at a premium for the produc-
tion of arms, every possible help is given
those who are entitled to draft defer
ment as essential workers. Employers
and organizations alike advise and aid
the workers Farm laborers, vital to pro-
duction, are just as essential as the fac
tory workers. Yet they have received
minimum of help from any source.
The farmer himself, with an ingrained
distaste for filling out forms and ques-
tionnaires, often fails to request defer
ment for trained workers who are virtual
ly irreplaceable these days. More farm
ers would be more active in protecting
their labor resources-and the nations
food supply-if help were made avail
able in filling out the forms required in
deferment cases. That is where the var
ious civic organizations, such as the farm
bureau and chambers of commerce, can
play large part.
With paid employees operating full
time. these organizations are ideally set
up to act in an advisory capacity In this
crisis, which is daily becoming more
acute By establishing a place to which
farmers and farm laborers could go for
help in filling out requests for defer
ment, and in meeting other requirements,
the organizations could do their COM
munity and their nation maj jor service.
Only direct action, and that soon, will
remove the danger to Americas crops
that exists today We can't wait for some
vague George" to do it. We've got to do
it ourselves.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
SOLDIERS AND PAY

Think this one through and see
where it leaves you. Congress
wants TO raise the soldiers pay At
the same time, good many con-
gressmen want to have the saloons
and the dance halls and such
places prohibited in areas of far
greater radius from the camps.
Nest of the soldiers drafted thus
far, being in selective service class
IA or B or c, have no dependents
and therefore make little or no
allotment of pay to their folks at
home.
Therefore, by raising the SOL
diers' pay, Congress is merely
giving the boys more money to
travel farther for their wine,
woman and song. And what could
be fairer than that?
But this leaves the Army brass
hats in a quandary They don't
mind letting the boys have their
fun and they'd like TO see everyone
make as much money as possible.
But the officers have to maintain
discipline, and they fear that the
combination Of more money and
more remote places in which to sin
means only trouble. A bill that
would provide for larger allotments
to the dependents of family men
would suit the Army top command
much better. They'd be able to call
up more &c men under a law
like that,
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
Japs Cling TO FoothoId

WASHINGTON, June 13-(UP)-
Army and Navy airmen are trying
today to blast the Japanese out
of the Aleutian islands where they
have established their first foot
holds in the western hemisphere.
So far. the enemy is known to
have landed on only one island
Attu, WeStelnmost of the Aleutian
chain which stretches 1900 miles
from the Alaska mainland toward
Japan But enemy vessels-their
type not deSignated-have been OBJ
served in Kiska harbor, about 100
miles east of Attu.
Japanese operations in the Aleu-
tian area are still in progress The
navy announced last night in a
communique-the first on the north
Pacific and Alaskan area since the
Japanese dropped bombs and con-
Quoted a reconnaissance flight over
Dutch Harbor, important naval base
in the Aleutians, last week.
ATTACKS CONTINUE
American a.rmen already have
succeeded in driving the enemy
from the populated regions of the
islands and the navy indicated that
with good weather, air attacks on
the invader would continue in
greater force.
The navys announcement last
night came only a few hours after
it made public a final tally of the
Coral sea engagement showing that
American naval and air forces sank
or damaged 81 Japanese warships
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
1st WAAC Wants
Revenge on laps

COLUMBUS, o., June 13-CUP)-
Americas first WAAC volunteer
wants to wear Khaki to mourn the
death of her brother, Americas first
air general to die in action.
Mrs. Villa Tinker Rippel, whose
brother, Major Gen. C. L. Tinker,
was commander of the U. S. air
forces at Hawaii, is ready to fight
or wash dishes for the army.
General Tinker was reported lost
in the battle of Midway island yes
terday.
The slim, attractive Columbus
woman smcothed her dark hair, and
said she is now more willing than
ever to go anywhere to do anything
her country assigns her. She was
the first woman in the United
States to take the preliminary tests
for the woman's auxiliary army
corps. She passed with flying colors.
my brother was a first-rate sold
ier. and I'm sure America realizes
his loss" Mrs, Rippel said.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
More Americans
Land in ireland

Negroes, disembared quickly and
climbing into trucks, were hustled
to prepared camps without fanfare
Living symbols of the pledge that
the United States, like Britain, had
agreed with Russia as to the urgent
need for a second front, the crowd
ing troops and their great masses
of equipment were diSgorged from
a convoy.
Many tanks and guns of all de-
scription were unloaded at emer-
gency pace so the ships could start
home and take on troops, tanks
and guns.
The ships intend to keep up that
ever increasing flow of men and
materials which is the watchword
of the American Army in Europe.
The complete lack of ceremony
was the most impressive part OF the
arrival, because the men were on
business. They. were the most
boisterous lot of Americans since
the first troops landed in northern
Ireland Jan. 26. They were the
fourth contingent to arrive
There were no flags, no bunting,
no bands, no speeches.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
CONGRESS KIDDED?

Congressman who like to throw
their weight around and use theil
influence to get people jobs have a
secret beef against the Army and
Navy for resisting congressional
pressure to get commissions fol
their constituents. Only reason the
matter hasn't come out in public is
that the congressman can't prove
their case.
But their suspicious center
around couple of seemingly
harmless and ordinary little ini-
tials, sc. t. 1t is the belief of
some congressman that whenever
they make a recommendation
that somebody be appointed TO
job, the application is marked
&C. l." And when those letters
appear on any application, it is
doomed from the start. The let
ters are supposed to stand for
Congressional Interference
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
CAPITAL TALKS
by
Peter
Edison

A new era of administrative leg
erdemain and red tape Is coming
into full bloom through the device
of what might be known as gov
ernment by directive" The word
directive" is an old but rarely used
one in diplomatic language. But
now there is a vertitable food of
directives floating around official
Washington. No one can do any,
thing without a directive. BY long
odds, directive" is the new fash
ionable, polysyllabic three-dollar
word of 1912 in Washington.
Just how a directive differs
from an order or a memo or
request or even a mandate is not
quite clear to the average vacant
lot. victory garden variety or
curbstOne lawyer. Certainly. 1t
sounds much more official to get
a directive than il does to get a
phone call, and maybe that's the
secret. II is also mclear as to
just who has the power To issue
directiveS. Another back alley
barristers' guess would be that
individuals issue orders while
boards, administrations, commits
sions and agencies issue direc-
tives.
An implied meaning is that if
Agency A has the authority to is
sue directive, it has the power of
telling Bureau B to do the work,
while Agency A sits back and
watches for results. Thus, the War
Manpower Board can issue direc-
tives to the Selective Service Ad-
ministration to exempt angledozers
from the draft. Board of Econom-
ic Warfare can issue directives to
Rubber Reserve Company to stock
pile so many tons of gualule goo.
And so On.
Next time you want the boy to
run to the grocery for you. don
tell him to go, or ask him to go;
give him a directive. It's so much
smarter.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
THE LEXINGTON

Now the Axis can stop claiming that
the u S. S. Lexington has been sunk.
Her loss has been admitted by our navy.
1t was an admission which could not
have been of much cheer to the Hirohitler
clan. The japanese paid with Is war
ships for the Lexington and two minor
American vessels in the Coral Sea battle.
At that rate, we could afford to lose
few more ships-the enemy could be
completely out of naval vessels before
we scratched bottom.
Loss of the Lexington, Oldest u. 5.
aircraft carrier, did not cause great
deal of gloom in the United States, for
the simple reason that recent japanese
losses at sea-in the Coral Sea and in
the battle of Midway-demonstrate that
the Japs are no match for the Americans
where anything like equality of forces
exists.
With two or three more such battles
as those of the Coral Sea and Midway,
the japanese fleet will be practically non
existent. We can we'll afford the loss of
the Lexington, in the circumstances.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
'WARMONGERS NOW
PLOT PEACE!
(Wall Street JournaD

(Wall Street JournaD
Of course you remember the old theory
of our self-Styled liberals about the in
Spiration for wars. Anyone who made a
piece of ammunition bigger than shot
gun she'll was a merchant of death"
Big business" was always plotting a
war. If big business did not plot avid
ly enough, why the international finan-
ciers' prodded the big business men. Yes,
you must remember.
On the word of Mr. Thurman Arnold,
assistant attorney general of the United
States, this view was and is Just as near
100 per cent wrong as anything can pos
Sibly be- Big business" is not a war
monger. 1t Is a peace monger, said Mr..
Arnold in a recent speech before the
Illinois State Bar Association. Through
international cartels, it dictated our for
eign policy. "To these international car
tells" says Mr.. Arnold. 1--WE owe the peace
of Munich" Not only that but these same
misunderstanding to Mr.. Arnold-are
again plotting peace, peace without
victory.
Personally we think no more of Mr..
Arnolds theory than we did of the pre-
vious one In the years under discussion
we met some big business men and it
occurred to us that they were plotting
nothing more sinister than how to break
hundred on the golf course But then,
it is of course possible that we are of a
too trusting nature.
But what we are getting around to is
an expression of fervent hope that Mr..
Arnold will quit these extravagances of
expression We hope that because Mr..
Arnold has begun to plead for full and
unfettered production as the cure for
economic ills. That is a message which
he cannot repeat too often. Mr.. Arnold
would do we'll to cease weakening his
own argument by statements which are in
conflict with common experience.
When Mr. Arnold pleads for prOduc-
tion unfettered by business, labor or leg
islative enactment he is on sound ground
and when he warns that the striving
among groups for economic power will
mean the end of free economic enterprise,
he should be needed and respected.
Flights into the realm of phantasy may
make headlines but they do not make the
converts of the kind Mr.. Arnold needs.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
DETRACTING FROM
WORTHY APPEALS

(Marysvile Appeal-DemocraD
Nationwide gasoline rationing, if it
comes, will be primarily for the purpose
of conserving automobile tires. A sec
ondary consideration, applicable in nom
producing states, where pipelines are not
available, will be transportation, The
saving of gasoline itself is not the prob
lem.
Yet we just listened to an impassioned
plea over the radio to save gasoline so
that fighting planes might be supplied
with all the fuel they need. Cut down on
driving and save gas for the bombers,
was the theme. 1t was a transcribed an
nouncement, evidently approved by one
of the many war publicity bureaus.
That sort of thing merely detracts
from the many sensible and sound ap-
peals that are constantly being made for
worthy war purposes. There is an over
supply of gasoline; in some instances it
is being pumped back into the wells as
the best means of storing it. There are
good reasons to cut down on motoring,
without digging up imaginary ones, which
the public knows are not true.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14
SevastopoI Battle
Reaches Peak with
Death Toll Risinu

MOSCOW, June 13-UP) = The
valiant garrison of Sevastopol was
making a supreme effort to crush
the massed infantry, tank and
! plane assaults of the German 11th
army today, the Nazi casualties
were reported as "frightful.'
The first Soviet communique to-
day said there was no important
change in the iIont during the
night.
1t reported. however, that the
Germans had been using their Ru-
manian allies as cannon fodder" ="
Yesterday, the communique assert
ed Rumanian soldiers carried out
four psychological attacks = that is,
marched abreast with a brass band
playing headlong into Russian po-
siticns-and were met by rifle and
artillery fire. The experiments cost
the Rumanians at least 200 men
and the remnants retreated, the
communique said.
The German offensive there, now
in its eighth day, was believed to
have reached its peak and a de-
cision was expected soon Although
the situation was very strained" on
number of sectors, the Germans
were far from taking Sevasopol
RuSsias great Crimean naval base.
The German Trans Ocean
agency reported from Istanbul that
the battle was heard all yesterday
along Turkeys Black sea coast. 1t
said the thunder of heavy artillery
was clearly audible at Sinop, 200
miles from Sevastopol)
COUNTER ATTACK
Last midnight's Soviet communi-
que reported that the Russians had
counter-attacked the Germans who
three days ago began an assault
on the Kharkov front, 300 miles
north of Sevastopol. Soviet units
were engaged in furious fighting"
with advancing enemy tanks and
infantry, the communique asserted.
Official reports of enemy losses
clearly demonstrated the ferocity of
the battle of Sevastopol The COM
munique said the Germans lost
three regiments of infantry 10000
mem and squadron of cavalry
Yesterday. Sixty German tanks
were destroyed and Il damaged and
10 artillery and trench mortarS bat
terieS were blown up.
Russian planes ranged far behind
German positions, blasting their
supply lines. One of the Soviet air
forces most successful blows yes
terday was the destruction of 40
planes on the ground around Khar-
kov.
Imperial Valley press., 1942-06-14

velopments which will soon be
forthcoming
The Midway Island and Coral Sea
battles were revealed now as having
constituted one grand scale action,
ranging over 5000 miles of ocean
from Midway to the Solomon Is
lands, starting with heavy plane
attack on a japanese fleet in Tu-
lagi harbor in the Solomons 1000
miles off Australia May and end
ing with the flight of a Japanese
armada from the Midway zone one
month later.
In these battles Japan lost at
least 10 or 20 ships sunk, including
at least four and possibly five air.
craft carriers, and 81 to "a ships
damaged, including one or two car
riers damaged.
Japan has lost far upwards of
$50 planes.
us. LOSSES SMALL
Against this score, the United
States lost one aircraft carrier sunk
and one damaged two destroyerS
and a fleet auxiliary sunk, and an
| unSpecified number of planes, be-
lieved to be but small fraction
of those the Japanese lost.
1t is now revealed that the United
States forces, Navy, Air Force, Ma
rines and Army, shattered two sep
arate japanese fleets which attack
ed Midway Island
One was striking force which
! included four carriers, three battle
ships and numerous cruisers and
destroyers.
JAPANESE PLAN
The second was an occupation
fleet including IL large ships crowd
ed with troops and supplies and
protected by numerous cruisers and
destroyers, and, probably, battle
ships.
The striking force was supposed
to knock out Midways defenses
sc the invasion fleet, which follow
ed, could occupy it at leisure.
But the American forces struck