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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21

ther investigations on the basis ol facts offered by Corey, they dis. covered two of the stolen tires on a car belonging to Haraden Demirs lS, who admitted, upon being ques- tioned, that he, too. had been ass0vi ciated with the Westport group at the Arcade. Demirs informed pos lice that he was in on a few jobi with the gang, notably last week Prospect gasoliae station last week where, he said, they had stolen flashlights and automobile access sories.
 When police again question q Corey, he said that he became airs ] when he learned that his pals I've dyin' to get guns" They want ] to be big shot gangsters. I que N and Eddie Armstrong had a lot | big ideas that some of the suya liked" Corey concluded.
 State Trooper Thomas Leona. ] said, after talking with the Wesi 7 port quintet, that he thought they started out to make people forget ,l previous crime waves that ever e.s isted. He suggested that t.'e youths imaginations had been ove. !. developed by too much "nig tai x" and too many crime stories.
 Chief Inspector Joseph P. Stes. ems today lamented the fact th ( such establishments as the Penr v Arcade which he called breeding places for young criminals" were allowed to continue in operation He tsated that most gangs of th-s kind are formed in the stnisteri atmosphere of corner store ct recreation place.
 An ant hill 800 feet high has been dlrnn,tnrad In Otannf elaYd !.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21

Already, with the Christmas rush still two weeks away, Uncle Sam has local merchants and post office ofi- cials crying uncle" and wondering where they will get extra help to assist them through what they be- lieve will be the most prosperous Yuletide season in a decade.
 It is estimated that more than l,500 employees will be needed, $50 in the Post Ofilce alone. Tn past years, Post Ofilce help has come mostly from college students, but 1t is ex- pected that that will be decreased considerably this year, owing to the fact that many college boys are in the service, and others will be kept in class until Dec. 24. Despite the expected help shortage, girls will not be employed as mail clerks, 1t was said yesterday, although many of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21
HEALTH EXPENSES
 IN YEAR $69,3lS
Department Appropriation $67,1l3; Milk and Food
 oCsts S5,289

The city health department had total expenditures of $69,3l8.7l dur ing the year ending Aug. 3l, pr. Edward J. Godfrey, city health offi- Ger, reported today. The health de- partment appropriation for the cal- endar year of l942 is $67,1l3.72.
 Receipts during the l2-month per- Tod from Sept. 1, l941, amounted to $1l ,907.39. Included in this sum is $4,902.60 received by the bureau of vital statistics from Jan. to Aug 3l. Jan. was the date when the health department, under a charter amendment, took o CT the handling of vital statistics.
 Other recepits included $6,860.50 from the municipal abattoir; $124.50 from milk licenses; $2.79 from milk bottle exchanges; and SIT from sale of dental equipment.
 Expenditures during the fiscal year were as follows:
 Administration ....... $l2,2O6.92 Schools and Preschools .. 2s,637.S2 Dental 7,621. .3S Communicable diseases .. 1,5S9.54 Laboratory .............. 4,54O.4S Milk and Food ... ..... 5,289.S6 Municipal abbatoir ...... 4,72O.35 Sanitary Inspection ...... 2,096.30 Venereal Diseases ..... 581.O8 Vital Statistics .......... 5,175.34 Tuberculosis ........... 1,86O.44
 Total ................ $6s,sls.7l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21
ZONE COLLECTORS
 GIVEN ATTENTION

Hartford, Nov. 2l,-Evidence of Connecticut's manpower shortage may be seen in the announcement of the Civil Service representative Paul G. Kerins that the closing date for zone collectors applications for these 40 jobs with the internal revenue department were to be re- ceived only until November IA,
 Made necessary by the additional collections under the new income tax law, zone collectors will receive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21
STAMP FRANCE
 AT Y TONIGHT

The third is a series of Stamp Frances" will be held at the Y. M. c. A. tonight. Airline Moorhouse of the Delta Phi Epsilon Tri-Y is chairman of the entertainment cora- mittee, and Jane Brice of the Omega Omicron Omega club will be in charge of refreshments.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21
Nuke Your Faith

sa active, daily part of your personal life. Go Co church regularly. Support your ;ocal church-find q way Co give is nsere of your time, your strength.
 Make it your resolve, especially during ihe weeks ofNovemher Is to December o. Co attend divine services at your hoasc of worship, and so pledge extra support kor your local church in meeting she heayy burdens which ahc war has placed apon ik as is seeks to sninisser to wsr.suEnN nNvoFid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21
lN FAITH LIKE THEIRS
 America needs vs ssrong today

in which our institutions are rooted, our liberties secured.
 For only then can we live victoriously in this war-torn world-and win victory in the peace beyond the war.
 This sSabbath-whyno attend localchurch. And there, with your fellow Americans, seek the strength and confidence that only faith in the eternal truths can give us:
 America needs such faith today-in you in all of us. It alone can bring us true victory |. {. it alone can give meaning to our future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21

NUbENI uEALEx
 Recently promoted to the rank of second lieutenant in the Army was Robert Healey, son of Probate Judge and Mrs. Patrick Healey of Chapman avenue. He Is . grduate of Holy Cross college in the class of 1888, and did graduate work at Boston university. His brother James was recently advanced to first lieutenant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-11-21

Too often, perhaps, we have let ourselves forget i. this is a nation founded under God ]: in deep religious faith.
 There were many differences among the Founding Fathers-but one great thing in common; faith in God and human freedom under Him.
 And now-in time of trial and crisis America needs us strong once more in faith like theirs.
 We must return, each in his own way, to the religious conviction in which our free dom was born. / We must strengthen our faith-the faith
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
MasOns Fete
Memory of
Patron Saint

Members of Mount Clemens
Lodge Lodge No. 6, F. & A. NJ,
will commemorate the life of
one of their patron saints at a
special st. Johns Day service to
be held in the Presbyterian
church, Sunday morning, De-
cember 81, at 100 o'clock.
This special service will be
held in connection with the reg
ular morning worship service
and the Rev. Joseph L. Kennedy
will officiate.
All local Masons and sojourn-
ers are requested to meet at the
Masonic hall by 10:45 a. m. and
60 to the church in a body. A
cordial invitation Is extended to
the general public to attend this
special church service.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
Army Resisk
Nelson Control
Undereover Struggle
Seen in CopitoI
BY ERNEST b. vACCARO

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a Up
- Reports were circulated on
Capitol Hill today of a resump-
ton of an undercover struggle
between military and civilian
production authorities.
A usually well-informed con-
gressional source told newsmen
he had every reason to believe
War Production Board Chair
man Donald NJ. Nelson was con-
templating extending civilian
jurisdiction over Army and Ma
Wy placements.
Army production and procure
ment officials, the informant
said he had been told, are exert
ing every pressure to resist fur
Their control by Nelson and Char
les E. Wilson, WPB vice presi-
dent, to whom Nelson assigned
additional powers in directives
announced Saturday.
II understand Nelson is NOV
ing toward mandatory control
over the placement of certain
Army and Navy contracts" said
this source whose committee as
signments keep him in contact
with both military and civilian
production authorities. He ask
ed that his name not be used.
"My understanding is that the
move would permit military re-
tention of control over contracts
for munitions and war weapons,
but that the WPB would assert
a right to prohibit contracts
from going into areas of labor
shortage or to factories requir-
ing new equipment or tooling or
already loaded with ORDERS" he
asserted.
In directive announced Sat
urday, Nelson gave Wilson re-
sponsibility for scheduling of
Army, Navy and Maritime Com
mission production as well as
authority to assure their being
consistent with maximum pro-
duction possibilities of the ma
tional economy"
The latter order was inter-
preted in some quarters as an
indication the military authori-
ties might be directed to shift
some of their production to fac
tories not now handling Army
orders.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
BY WILLIAM r. ARBOGAST

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a Up
- Final details of a plan to
give microscopic scrutiny to all
appropriation requests next year
were outlined today by an au-
thoritative Con gress o n |
spokesman.
Approved by leaders of both
parties, the plan was worked out
in a series of conferences held
after members of the House APP
preparations Committee had an
nounced non-war expenditures
next year would be cut to the
bone.
The program will center
around a staff of auditors, to be
known as Amen" who will be
direct agents of the appropria-
tions committee operating out
of the general accounting office.
The staff will be appointed by
Lindsay Warren, comptroller
general and will work under his
supervision.
The principal job of the aud
itors and investigators will be to
furnish to the Appropriations
Committee information on the
necessity for expenditures, the
manner in which previous ap.
preparations have been spent,
and other details. In the past,
the committee has had to ferret
out this information for itself
or depend on the testimony of
interested department heads.
The need for such a staff of
experts has been stressed re-
peatedly by Representa- We
Woodrum DIVA, ranking ma
jority member of the commit
tee.
THE time has now certainly
come when we should use the
magnifying glass and the fine
tooth comb and that is what is
going to be DONE" Woodrum
said when asked for his views
on the proposal.
Woodrum said he believed
"the American people are will
ing to be taxed for whatever it
takes to train, equip and main
tain our forces, but they have
right to demand that all nom
war activities be curtailed and
expenditures for the same cut to
the BONE"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
BY ANN FRANCE WILSON

NEA service StaII correspondent
WASHINGTON, Dec. "a -
This year has been a year to tax
clothes designers ingenuity.
First there was the matter of
conforming styles to WPB's
cloth-saving regulations. And
now the designers are trying to
figure out new ways to keep
your wartime clothes fastened.
Metal fasteners of all sorts are
up fc- further production cur
tailment. So, you can look for
new styles using more tricky
tie fastenings and pearl but
tons, and fewer hooks and eyes,
snap fasteners and snap tapes.
SEASIDE OUTLOOK
While we're on the subject of
clothes - you won't be seeing
any new slinky black swim
suits and smart, dark colored
beach clothes next summer.
Though it's not true, as has been
rumored, that dye stuffs are of
inferior quality, there isn't
enough of them.
Cotton's also getting short.
That means there will be few
er summer evening dresses and
long beach coats. So, if you're
planning your vacation ward
robe early, figure on wearing
pastels, whites and light colors.
Or, probably better still, plan
on wearing last years ward
robe
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
Home Front Forecast
Clothes Designers Seek
Ways to Make Ends Meet

If you know some recipes for
good old homemade soup, hang
onto them. And, if you don't
know any, you'd be wise to get
some. You'll probably need 'em,
since WPB has cut soup cans
to half the number produced last
year.
It's not likely that WPB will
stop there, either. If the war
lasts long and both tin and
manpower become harder to get
AS is expected-canned soup
will have to give way to more
concentrated and nutritious
food. AS you know, soup al
ready has gone through one
concentration process. And it's
in line for still more.
PULVERIZED COFFEE
Don't get too excited about
the fact that you've discovered
that those concentrated pow
dered and pulverized coffees
are not rationed. Rationing for
them is just around the corner
just as soon as a standardized
package has been developed
a package which will hold the
equivalent of one pound of or
binary coffee.
The hitch in rationing pulver-
lied coffee sooner was that no
one could figure out how much
of it was equivalent to one
pound of coffee for which you're
oeen Surrendering your COUPONS.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
Non-Wor Expenditures
to Be Cut to the Bone
Stoff Of Auditors Knokn as "A Men
to Be Appointed by Lindsey Worren

what Is more" he added,
"They have the right to demand
that we abandon, in this emer-
gency, all further social and eco
nomic experiments and new
ventures. To finance and win the
war should be our first objec-
tive"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
NEW BALTIMORE

NEW BALTIMORE
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Rev. b. A. Warren, Pastor
Sunday School 1890 a. m.
Morning Worship 1870 a. m.
Postponed Christmas 'Cantata
and Program, Sunday Evening
1880 p. m.
NEW HAVEN
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
Rev. b. A. Warren, Pastor
Morning Worship 10 a. m.
Church School 11:15 a. m.
Annual Election Of officers.
Christian Endeavor 1880 p. m.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
Tools For War

Tools For War
Machine tool production in
1912 reached value of ST. $780,
100000, seven and a half times
that of 1899, but even more will
be needed in the future to keep
'em rolling, flying and fighting.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24

FLINT, Dec. - ~ The
Genesee County Social Welfare
Board has aske d officials Of
Flint and the county to prepare
! list Of projects which might
be undertaken il industry fails
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24

Platinum can be rolled and
beaten into leaf one 200,000th
of an inch thick.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1942-12-24
Congress to Scrutinize Requests for Appropriations

to absorb persons left idle by the
ending of WPA.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-27
BUDGET GARDENS

There's new "bock to the farm"
movement sweeping the country in
which every householder can share,
even if his form" is no more than
rue-sized back yord plot of ground.
Stort planning that war garden now,
and gather your harvest next summer
in fresh vegetables for your table and
lower food costs for your budeet.
Cities, too, can join this war eor-
den effort by providing individual
plots in vacant lots for apartment
jewellers who have no access to back
yords But the Department of Aeri-
culture warns against repetition Of
1918 mistakes in which eordens we're
planted in unfit soil and seeds, fer
tilizer and work we're wasted. City,
sponsored projects should be directed
by agricultural experts for best results.
A successful garden requires eor-
dening experience. fertile, well-droin-
ed soil, sunshine. adequate woter sup
ply, garden tools and proper kind Of
seed. If you haven't all Of these, bet
ter leave the gardening to someone
else. But il you do possess or con &C.
quire these you can aid Americas war
compoi9n materially by little back
bending and elbow ereose. Buy De-
tense Stamps with the money you
save.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-27
High|ights from
the Latest Books

After Hong Kong, Manila, and
Singapore came the Indies. An
in a strategically timed book
about these victimes of Jap at
tacks Frank Clune takes us on an
informative tour of the Dutch
East Indies-the isles of Spice"
(Dutton: $3.50.
The spices of these isles, how
ever, are not the main reason
nations of the east and west
covet them.
The spices of these isles are
not the principal attraction that
brought Jap invaders streaming
down from the north, but they
are among the many riches of
the archipelago. Warriors of the
past and present have gone to
the Indies for rubber, tin, tobac-
co, rice, and endless other min
erals, resources and foods. Voy-
ayers have found glamor, mys-
terry and strange way of life in
this string of equator-stra
ding islands.
Around Java, as il in a defcn-
sive ring, are clustered the is
lands of the Indies, and in Java
is their heart. Clune takes a
jaunt through Java, to its army
headquarters in the mountains
at Bandoeng, through the streets
of the capital. Batavia, where
bombs have since fallen. and to
less known places such as the
Stupa of Borobudur, a marvellous
mountain of ornamentation riv-
aling the pyramids of Egypt.
Across the Java Sea is Borneo,
which really is a land of wild
men. Head hunters still practise
their quaint hobby here, and by
now may have some slant-eyed
numbers in their collection.
Then there is Celebes, its CAPT.
tai, Macassar, and the Macassar
Strait where the Japs lost half
an invading force. And of course,
Bali, with its sarongs, dark
maidens and tourist lures.
Clune covers these and the
other islands of the Indies with
thorough treatment that paints a
word picture of today's 5000
mile-long Far East battle
ground. He also visits northern
Australia, Darwin, the vulner-
able coastline north of the down
under lands great desert, and
touches Indo-China, that lost
land of rice bamboo and temple
dancers. now the springboard Of
the Japanese military machine.
The author flies through the
isles of Spice" on modern
Dutch airliners, and makes his
manuscript as modern as his
mode of travel, mixing history
and adventure with vital facts
about the Indies. His personal
lied narrative makes you en-
Joy the trip, feel like you were
riding along in the next rick
shaw as Clune tours this region
of glamor and gunfire.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-27
. MCKINNEY ON BRIDGE

But when we turn 10 the first
question, what SUIT to open, we
find it impossible to lay down
rules. Bridge would he a much
easier game il we could always
infer the best lead (the lead we
would choose if we could see all
four hands) from the sight of
one hand and differences from
the bidding. All that we can do
here is TO point out some of the
factors that the leader should
weigh in making his choice.
One factor is principle i'm
portant in all defense, caution in
cashing aces and kings. These
high cards held by the defense
often stand in the way of the
declarer's developing enou & h
tricks for his contract. They give
the defense time to attack the
dcclarcr's weakness. and there
fore should not be led out with
out careful consideration.
In today's hand. West might
lead the king of hearts i'm order
to take a look at dummy" as
the saying goes. But this look
would give the declarer his con-
tract against any defense.
In clubs West has a solid Sc
quence that can develop third
round trick. West should open
the queen of clubs to develop
this trick before his ace and king
Of hearts arc forced out.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-27
/. HARRISON IN HOLLYWOOD

Mullenger, who must have read
somewhere about the brief mo-
vie careers of campus queens,
said no. A man from a talent
agency offered to represent her
if she ever wanted to become
an actress. 1t didn't cost any
thing, so she signet..
After that, she gambled cou-
pie of months in brushing up
on rudimcntary dramatics, and
finally she telephoned the agen-
cy she was ready for a screen
test. They went out to Metro,
and she went through some
scenes from 1.-The World We
Make" Miss Mullenger wasn't
especially nervous because she
knew of a very good secretarial
job she could get the next Mon
day.
Instead, she got a movie con-
tract. 1t was as simple as that.
Before they could even decide
to change her name from Null
lcnger to Reed, she was work
ing in a picture called THE
Getaway" Had the leading fem
mime role, too.
DAZED DONNA
BY this time she was nervous,
all right. Or dazed, really. Miss
Reed declares that she can't re-
member anything about acting
in that picture, or in 1.-THE Shad-
ow of the Thin Man." or even
in "The Bugle Sounds" Along
about the time she was cast in
The N'okey" and hen in THE
Romance of Andy Hardy" she
regained consciousness.
She now is working in one of
those DR.. Kildare yarns, and
that makes six pictures in IL
months, unprecedented for a
newcomer. After the preview of
the Hardy picture, in which she
really has some acting to do in
the split personality of ugly
duckling and glamor deb. the
studio knew it really had some
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-27

7 was 234O and the number wounded
wos o46. Of all the eombotont ships
bosed on PeorI Horbor - bottIeships,
heavy cruisers, light cruisers, oircroft
corriers, destroyers and submarines -
only three we're permanently put out
Of commission"
The Jop propoeondists soy the
Knox report was fictitious.
Our President soys it was true.
We choose to believe the President.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-27
~ PETER eDSoN
Dolly Monitor Washington
CogPespondent


WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-
Saying things in terms Of bill
lions Of dolIors-the way gov
eminent stotisticions do -
doesn't mean much to the ov-
erooe person and may not
mean much. to the economists
themselves, for no one ever
sow q billion dollars except as
q figure on O piece Of poper.
Thus, most people get lost
when it's mentioned eIibly that
notionol income will rise from
the $50 billion Of l94l to
$lOl billion in 1912 with tox-
es and savings at $2l billion,
leaving q net national income
of $50 billion while production
of civilian consumer goods and
services drop from the $74.2
billion Of l94l to on estimot-
ed $65 billion for 1912. Whew!
When you divide all those
figures by 40 million - the
estimated population Of the
country - to find out whot's
going to happen to the over
oee inhobitont, then these fig
ures begin to make sense. Per-
forming thot trick. you deter
mine these approximate but
simple focts:
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-27
BY PAUL HARRISON
NEA Service Staff Correspondent

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. q -
I've been hearing about you,"
said to Donna Reed. "You seem
to be a remarkable story"
"Why, no." she said, looking a
little startled and probably won-
dering whether the press agents
had dreamed up glamorous
history for her. You see, with
me, everything has happened
pretty simply. L"
That's just the point" l in
sisted. And l still think SO. Here
is the living, prospecting refu-
tation of all the legends, fol-
bles. angles ard traditions about
breaking into Hollywood and
making good.
In the first place, she never
dreamed of becoming an actress.
Back on the farm near Deni-
son, Ia, Donna Mullenger new
err dangled her pigtails from the
window of the hayloft and
spoutcd Juliet's lines to a barn
yard audience. Her idea of a ca
reer was to become a private
secretary in a big office build
ing and maybe MARI the bright
young assistant manager.
WENT WEST
If Miss Mullenger had want
ed to crash the movies she new
er would have come to Holly
wood, because everyone knows
the studios watch only Broad
way and the little theaters and
never pay any attention to tai
cnt already here. Miss Mullen
ger came here to attend City
College because she could live
economically with an aunt.
After a couple of years, being
d curvesome coed with arrest
ing dark blue eyes, she was
chosen Campus Queen. Her pic
ture got into the local papers
and most of the studios asked if
she wanted a screen test. Miss
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-02-27
WE BELIEVE THE PRESIDENT

Rodio Tokyo, in q blast at Presi-
dent Roosevelts Feb. q address:
Every American is aware now of
ne fictitious character of Knox's Pearl
Horbov report"
President Roosevelt in his toIk to
IN nation:
"a 60 from the realm Of rumor
= H. field Of focts: The
~ Officers ond men killed
cn Psoh HORROR on Dec.