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Evening star., 1942-07-15

enough to steal it and that was that.
Frequently he was.
American producers have been
coming slowly to the same theory,
slowly and reluctantly.
That they have come is the point.
Latest illustration that such is the
case is to be found in a brief Sc
quence in This Above ALP which
was screened yesterday for critics.
In it, in the role of harassed ell
derly waitress, audiences will find no
less an actress than Sara Allgood,
once of the Abbey T'heater, later of
Broadway and finally of Hollywood
In the few minutes she is on the
screen, stars Joan Fontaine and Ty-
rome Power are practically nowhere
in This Above ALL"
1t is quite as it should be, as it
should have been long ago, consid-
ering the fact that little people al
ways have known their big moments
in life-if not very often in the
movies.
Statistical, or accounting, depart
ment: Motion picture stars in the
past six months have travelled 788,-
895 miles in providing entertain
ment for members of the Armed
Forces.
In the same period, 723 players
have made 3,l98 personal appear
anceS.
In the current nationwide bond
selling drive, 80 top name stars will
reach 35,000,000 Americans in 100
cities.
Astronomical though these fig
ures are, wait until the end of the
first year, says the Hollywood Vic
tory Committee which produced
them.
Evening star., 1942-07-15

his duties, regular and extracur-
ricular, he has to battle with fist
and foot in a rough
mob fight, skirt precariously around
a three STORY window ledge and
perform all manner of daring stunts.
By way of compensation he gets
to kiss Brenda Marshall. He does
not get to boot the managing editor.
He is the managing editor.
Evening star., 1942-07-15

dotes to sleeplessness. They both
drink warm milk before they retire.
Vera Vague. who teamed with
Colonna in "Priorities of 1943," has
a similar way of treating insomnia.
She sips hot chocolate.
Bob Burns formula is nearest to
sheep counting. The comedian
harks back to his boyhood on an
Arkansas farm. He counts pigsl
Evening star., 1942-07-15

jlaced, a press agents pipe dream.
There have been many such pieces
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help him to fall asleep tmmedi-
ately and sleep like a log!

help him to fall asleep immedi-
ately and sleep like log!
Bette Davis has repeating phono-
graph which plays records over and
over again and then shuts off auto
matically. After the seventh re-
cording, the phonograph's nightly
work is done.
Joel McCrea recites Lincoln S
Gettysburg Address. Dorothy La
mour repeats the telephone numbers
of her friends. Frances Clifford goes
over the names of all the trans
Atlantic liners she can remember
spelling them out as she goes.
Bing Crosby thinks over the words
to new song and so silently puts
himself into the realm of the un-
conscious. Anne Shirley's maid puts
Brahms Lullaby" on the phono-
graph.
BY a coincidence, Jerry Colonna
and Bob Hope have the same anti
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Drama desks 90
not believe them.
T h e y a r e a c.
eepted usually at
their face value,
which is zero.
Usually" t h a t
Is. At their face
value of zero
they are thrown
IN the W a S t e
basket W i t h
never a second
thought.
The Goldwyn
publicity release,
however, had its
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09

himself. Rolls parkshuted to tha ground safely. receiving only minor injuries.
 While at Taft, Ely distinguished himself as a member Of both tho .footbafl and track teams. After graduating from Taft he went on to Cornell. and had completed threa years of engineering training before entering the Army, Air Corps. He received his wings on June i6.
 Ely is the fourth Taft graduate Ito lose his life in the, service of his country since the outbreak of the war. First to do SO was Ensign. Howard V. Wade, U. s. N. R., also member of the class of 1888, who. was lost at sea in the sinking of the U. s. s. Reuben James last fall. The other two, George Robson, '31e and Alex Harvey, '39, were pilot ofs, ficers in the R.A.F. and were shot down in action over Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
Second Church Gives
 $6,O21.2O To Appeal
Dr. Walker Believes War Victims Pledges Total More
 Than Any Congregational Donation in America

are as follows: Presidents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ensrninger; Secretary and Treasurer, MT. and Mrs. Nor man R. Reed: Entertainment Com mittee: MT. and Mrs. Henry Strow, MT. and Mrs. Edwin Harvey and MT. and Mrs. Robert K. Walter.
 The Evening Department will meet Tuesday evening, October 1S for its reguglar October Birthday Party.
 Miss Lee Ya-ching will be the speaker at the fall meeting of the Mattatuck Historical Society in Mattatuck Hall Wednesday, October IA. Her subject will be What China is Fighting For" This is a joint meeting with the United China Re- lief Committee.
 The Fall Meeting of the Nauga- tuck Valley Association of Ministers and Churches will be held in the Oakville Congregational Church Tuesday, October 13 at 2:30 p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09

Since last Sunday further gifts and pledges have brought the grand total for the World Communion Day appeal for War Victims and Services and the Soldiers and Sailors Com mittee to $6,021.20 from Second Congregational Church parishioners, | it was announced this morning by Rev. Dr. John C. Walker, pastor, who believes the generosity of his parishioners has surpassed that of any other Congregational Church in America.
 The first Intermediate Choir re- hearsal will be held in the Chapel at GAS Sunday evening.
 The Girls Sorority will hold a membership supper in the work room Monday evening, october F at 6 o'clock. All young women sev- enteen years of age and over are invited to attend the supper and to join the Sorority if interested.
 A speial meeting of the Second Congregational Society of Water bury is called for Tuesday evening, October 13, at 8 o'clock for the pur- pose of considering the question ot changing the fiscal year of the So- ciety; to begin January 1st instead of April 1st to conform with the plans of the United Church Can yass: and also to act on the resigna- ton of Chase Kimball as member of the Society's. Committee, and tc elect his successor.
 The MT. and Mrs. Club will holc it's first meeting of the season We'd nesday evening, October q. There will be a covered dish supper al l6:3O D. m. followed by speaker The officers for this coming veal
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
DEAN SAR SPEAKS
 HERE TOMORROW
Services to Be Held at Beth Israel Synagogue;
 Public Invited

A M'lavas Malkoh party will be held at the Beth Israel synagogue tomorrow evening with Samuel L. Sar, registrar and dean of men of the Yeshivah college of America as the guest of honor and princi- pal speaker. The affair will start at s:15 p. m. with the general pulp lie invited to attend.
 MT. Sar will discuss the part American Jews must play in, the rehabilitation of European Jews in Palestine, the Jewish National Homeland after this war is won. He will also speak of the present problems facing world Jewry. Rabbi Max Gifter will also speak.
 The affair is being sponsored by the local Aguda of the Misrachi Or ganization of America, the orthodox wing of the Zionist movement. Da- vid Freilich is president of the To- cal group.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
PLAN CLINIC FOR
 TRAFFIC MANAGERS

James B. Griffin, traffic manager of the Scovill Manufacturing Com pany, will conduct a clinic on traffic management problems each Monday night at 7:3O at the Central Y. M. c. A. Factory shipping room enl- ployes and representatives of truck ing firms are expected to be among those enrolling for the course.
 Registration is still being accepted for several other extension classes, including speaking, basic metal lurgy, and elementary Spanish, held Monday night, at 7:30; current lit erature, and real estate law, held Tuesday at 7:3O p. m.; vocabulary building, held Wednesday at 7:30 Enrolment will be open until Octo- Der IA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
WOMEN TO TRAIN
 FOR TRADE WORK

Enrolment of more women to train for toolmaking and machine work jobs is being sought by. the Waterbury IVA center. About 500 women have already been trained there for work in local industry; but need for more exists, according to an announcement made by Ed- ward w. Bean, supervisor.
 The students will be paid $25.6O per month while training, and upon completion of the study the U. s. Employment Service will assist in placing them in local plants.
 BUY WAR BONDS, STAMPS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
TAFT GRADUATE DIES IN CRASH
Lieutenant Ely Outstand- ing Athlete at Water
 town School

Watertown, Conn, Oct. g News has reached Taft school here of the death on October. of Lieut.. Theo- Siore B. Ely, 8 graduate of the school in 1938 and a resident of Ere, Pa. Details of the tragedy reveal that. he died a hero's death.
 Ely was piloting algtraining plane at Gardner Field, Bakersfield, Cal, when it failed .o come out of q crash. He. ordered his companion, Cadet Truman Kolls to parachute as the. plane went out of control and then found it too late to save
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09

officers for the coming year will be vice-president, Randall Hale; sec retary, William L. Caligan; treas urer, Richard D. Benson; directors for three years, John H. Gilbert, Walter A. Jarvis, Wallace Husted, and Timothy Sullivan; board mem Der for one year, Joseph Galasso; auditors, Everett Grahn and R. O. Palmer.
 Leo Conway who had served as secretary for IS years and retired because of ill health was presented a $2OO savings bond in appreciation of his service.
 Frederick s. Chase. retired presi- dent of the company, and Sabir Chase, his son, were guests at the meeting. A turkey dinner was served.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
FORM YOUR CLUB
 N O w!

Reqister it at Civilian Defense headquarters by ceiling 40e09. Give your name, your telephone num- ber name of organization, location of scrap Iot.
 Coll at CiviIion Defense headquarters for ser0P location cards and booster motero after Wednes- doy Cords telling where heavy sercp is oeoted in your district will be ovoiIobIe Saturday.
 Go to work mow Loofins scrap in Waterbury meons Iozy people, Let's hove none of either Woterbu!yy' man for man. womon for women, and child tor ehI'd s che best city in the stote
 We know thct. You know thct Let's live uP to GUT Feputotion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
LOMBARD ASSISTS
 JUBILEE COMMITTEE

Joseph Lombard of Waterbury served on the reception committee for the annual jubilee and banquet of the Motor Truck Association of Connecticut in Hartford last night Other local residents who helped with arrangements were Peter N Laskas M. J. Bisnovich and M. L. Darcey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09

BUY WAR BONDS. STAMPS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
FIREMEN CHECK
 RUBBISH BLAZE

Bremen late yesterday afternoon quickly extinguished a rubbish fire in a building at 352 South Main street. Engines 3 and 10 and truck 1 answered the call.
 Fire headquarters said that the building is owned by Max Traurig.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09

When bees took the offensive in East Anglia, England. and counter attacks of volunteers failed, the military authorities stepped in and captured the swarm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
WORLD CYCLIsT

In 18s4-86 Thomas Stevens trav- eled around the world, covering land areas on a high-wheeled bi- cycle. He pedaled 13,500 miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-10-09
CHASE FOREMEN
 ELECT ORSINI
Leo Conway Presented With War Bond on Re-
 firing as Secretary

Gento B. Orsini was elected pres ldent of the Chase Foremen's Asso- citation at meeting last night. He will succeed Paul Petersen. Other
Evening star., 1942-02-01

the stage. He kept looking up and
down the street.
Then he walked out to the curb.
A black sedan crawled up out of the
traffic, and the man slid through the
front door. Max only noticed the little
incident because the man did not
even seem to know that there was a
girl in Rowley's window "a girl
Mr.. Grumbine laughingly referred to
as the Rita Hayworth of the lacquer
business.
But Max had no time for personal
pique. She turned on a fresh charge
of magnetism and picked up Placard
No. 9.
Her eyes flickered carelessly over
that particular corner of the window,
but the young man was gone. Which
was as it should be. Max told herself
firmly.
Late that afternoon a messenger
boy delivered a package, addressed
to "The Girl in Rowley's Window"
One of the assistant display managers
handed it to Max as she came out of
the window at $50 1t turned out to
be a two-pound box of candy. Not
the sort that young man with lot
of money would get at Barloff's.
There we're no nut or fruit centers.
There was note tucked in the inner
wrapping Max read it for the second
time as she stood before the locker
containing her hat and tweed coat.
Dear Miss Laidley Lacquer:
Do you believe in love at first
sight? saw you first in the window
of The Croft Paint Co. don't think
you noticed me. | also saw you in
Mandel's window. l am not trying
to be fresh. My life is full of dingyitis
ever since l saw you. Just so | no
longer will be an unknown brand to
Irving Webster
l176 w. Adams Street
Psf you should decide to change
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~ SSay ~ tf+a' IA SiSFSAA " SiOSh WV
small boys and colored man fingered
momentarily, and Max tried valiantly,
using the trio as a nucleus, to build
an audience for a completely rounded
performance put tho ho,,e loft af+e~
one of them drew a face on the win
dow with damp finger; and the col
ored man drew his head down into
his threadbare raincoat, like a tired
turtle, and drifted away.
The sedan slid into space in front
of the window, just vacated by a
truck, few minutes before twelve.
Max noticed it only because the man
who got out and looked up and down
the street for minute, before he
sidled back into the car, had small
pointed ears. She never saw the driver
of the car. The momentary gap in
traffic filled up with hurrying gray
figures.
Max dawdled among her props. 1t
was really going to be difficult to
pretend not to see one person stand
ing in front of big window. Espe-
cially if he - he made motions.
1t wasn't quite as if he was Just
a pawer like the man at Grott's. There
certainly had been nothing naive
about Mr.. Whipple. He -
Then - before Max could decide
on course of action which would
show Mr.. Irving Webster that she
was no common pickup and, at the
same time, accord him the tolerance
a more mature person extended to
naive young man not in the Whipple
class - he was standing in front of
the window
He wore the same old battered felt
hat and the same topcat, reversed to
expose tan gabardine to the chill
drizzle.
And he still carried the black leather
brief case.
He smiled. In way it might have
been said to have sell in it. Max felt
a sudden moment of panic. 1t was silly
of course. She picked up a placard I'm
certainly. The easel stood at the oppo-
site side of the window. Max started
for it.
Then she stopped. Somebody was
standing directly in back of Mr.. Irving
Webster. 1t was the man with the
pointed ears. He was standing very
close. 1t was a very funny way for
person to stand. Max saw his lips
moving. Something about the way
they curled and uncurled in quick,
curt soundless movements made Max
suddenly prickle. 1t was like a scene
she had seen in the pictures once.
Something with Edward G. Robinson
in it. A gangster was about to be
taken for ride.
Mr.. Irving Webster certainly didn't
look naive now Neither did he look
like gangster about to be taken for
a ride. He just looked like badly
frightened young man.
Even in the dull slate-colored mist,
every freckle on his pleasant face
seemed to stand on end. And his
eyes were fixed in an agony of en-
treaty on the placard Max still fin
gered.
Max stared down at it 1t was Plac-
ard No. l3. 1t read:
II You Need Help
Call On Laidley
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your mind about me, will be in front
of your window tomorrow morning
at about half past twelve or a quarter
to one, depending on deliveries. -
l. w.
P.P.S.-The telephone number is
Yardley 1869. Please call between 6
and IL. w.
P.P.P.S.-Will be near the telephone
this evening. Il. w."
HE note was so amusing. And yet
there was something about it that
was different. Max groped for the diff
ference as she adjusted her small
green hat before the washroom mirror.
1t was - was cocky and yet simple.
MIR. Irving Webster was naive. Or
was that exactly the word?
Max wasn't quite sure. But as she
Strengthened the bow of color on her
lips with the tip of her little finger,
she decided one thing. He probably
wasn't the type that - he wasn't like
the man from Grott's Paint Store.
Max frowned in the mirror, then
shrugged her slim shoulders philo-
sophically. Every person in public life
had to get used to running into rummy
situations and unpleasant people.
Max tucked the pote into her patent
leather purse. In way it was nothing
but fan mail. Rita Hayworth prob
ably got a lot like it. She sighed.
1t rained the next day, cold, pene-
trating drizzle. Friday was always a
big day at Rowley's. Every depart
ment had its Friday specials. But it
was bad weather for personalized
demonstrations. The window steamed
up, and it was difficult to project
magnetism and personality to sour
rying parade Of hunched shoulders
and dripping umbrellas. Even great
actresses never give their best per-
formances to empty seats.
Mr.. Grumbine came around about
ten o'clock and said it was fine day
Evening star., 1942-02-01
II You Need Help
Call On Laidley
Color Experts New!

Max could see the arm of the man
with the pointed ears. 1t was pressed
into the back of this Irving Webster.
1t seemed to prod him. With a sigh
of despair that Max could almost
hear, young Mr. Webster started to
turn away from the window.
On the wings of conviction she
didn't stop to rationalize, Max ran
across the window. To the left rear,
hidden beneath a small walnut mold
ing, was little gadget 1t was part
of the protective system of the store.
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the assistant store manager had
warned her not to touch the little
hard rubber knob. He had explained
why.
Nov h,Ir't r-acred the details. It
had to do with open or closed cir
cults or something, and emergencies
and things like that. But she remem-
bered, wildly. what the man had
said would happen.
And it did. Even through the thick
plate of the window. 1t rose like the
scream of some strangled robot. Rose
and fell. Rose and fell. The scene
through the window lost all the order
of a rainswept day. 1t became frenzy
of twisting, running figures. A police
whistle shrilled.
Max stood at rigid attention in the
middle of her little stage. What had
she done? Women were screaming in
the audience.
They were screaming because the
grayness was suddenly threaded with
orange flame. Orange flame and the
rolling thunder of gunfire.
Max sat down suddenly on the rose
colored stool. She hoped she hadn't
made a terrible mistake.
1T WAS almost like a Hollywood
preview. Strangers shaking her hand.
policemen pushing people around.
newspaper reporters. asking number
less questions, flashbulbs plopping.
A young policeman with a frankly
admiring eye gave her most of the
facts.
1T was the Bertholdi brothers. We
got 'em cold, thanks to you. A pair
of young punks that have been out on
parole for about two months. Bad
eggs, sister. They made a speciality
of robbing bank messengers and the
lads that make security deliveries for
brokerage houses, like this chap. The
captain figures they've been putting
the finger on this young Webster for
two or three days. You know, follow
ing him around. Getting set to walk
him into their car. l guess the boys
been stopping along here pretty
often"
The young policeman laughed. mot
that I'm blaming him, sister,"
e. Now turn this way, Miss Shea,
and smile -"
Max gave feeble imitation of her
old sell. But her mind was elsewhere.
Anxiously she asked the question that
was uppermost in her mind.
do you think he is badly hurt?"
''Webster?" The young policeman
shook his head. "He got it in the
shoulder. He'll be all right. Plenty
of CUTS for kid. He held on to that
million dollars
million dollars!'
Another bulb exploded.
maybe not exactly a million dol
lars. But lot of dough, sister. Securi-
ties. See? Of course all of them would
mt have been negotiable, but l heard
the Cap tell Morning Mercury guy
that the boy had fifty-thousand dol
lars worth of government bonds that
we're just like cash."
''Now, Miss Shea, if you will just
stand up and let us get shot -"
Max sat still. ". You're going
to fall in love with young man with
a lot of money" The men with the
cameras were walking around her.
Max stared at them unseeingly. Of
&1 -
Evening star., 1942-02-01
"WMwIM

"TIKE millions of other
l. Americans, I've
asked myself one question
repeatedly ever since these
fateful words popped out
of my radio:
" Japanese planes have
bombed Hawaii!'
Daily, nightly, I've turned
this question over and
over in my mind - with
the reading of every news
bulletin on the air and the
appearance of every epic
headline.
what can l do here at
home?
What can l do while
Americans are fighting
and dying in the far
reaches of the Pacific for
freedom and for me?"
What can l do?
"Only last night l found
the answer as my eyes fell
on my wife's knitting bag
and my ears caught the
click of her knitting nee-
dies.
II could give to the Red
Cross.
II could give to the limit
of my means to aid and
comfort those who are
giving SO much more.
"And l have - today"
SIND Contributions
TO YOUR
LOCAL CHAPTER
Evening star., 1942-02-01

lie was InuCl, Ivv yvu.,e ~ LD
a movie scout, she thought
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-28
District Happy
Over POstpOnement
of Gas RatiOning
Further decrease to
have meant hardship
to many local citizens

The postponement of the gas ra-
tioning for Washington and Oregon
was good news ito most Kennewick
people. With the increased popu-
lation and the necessity for the use
of cars in farming operations a fur
ther decrease in fuel supply would
have meant an undue hardship.
While all preparations had been
made locally to issue the cards, with
volunteer workers selected for the
job, the ration board was all set ito
take on the work. 1t was estimated
that there were in the neighborhood
of six Thousand cars and trucks, half
of which were registered from this
end of the county.
Citizens are still signing UP for
sugar ration cards and making ap-
phcation for canning sugar at the
local board office The same board
is handling all rationing, tires, sugar,
gas and wnatnot. The office is open
each day in the old Chevrolet garage.
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1942-05-28
w. B. School Is
Total Loss By
Unexplained Fire
? Only partly insured i.
loss includes all records
built in 1922 !,

Fire of unknown origin totally de-
stroyed the school building at White
Bluffs Tuesday afternoon. The loss
included all school records.
The fire was discovered by Rein
holt Warner at about Sis, at which
time the blaze was already well I'm
der way. Inasrnuch as there is no
fire fighting equipment in THAT area,
there was but little that could he
done. Before it was possible ito res
cue THE records the fire had gained
such Roadway that they could not
he saved. -
The fire apparently started in the
furnace room, although the school
had been closed since the seventh
of May. The building was erected
in 1922. 1t was a complete loss,
only partly covered by insurance.
Mo arrangement have yet been made
to house the school for next year.