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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
IT'S ON THE MAP

Many these days are confused perhaps, When they try to locate on maps Places they once knew, the Malay Straits, The exact location of South American states. It's all confusing, names so often change Of cities and rivers, mountain range It's most discouraging to try to locate A place in Burma of very recent date Maps look different today its true Than they looked in nineteen-o-two. There's Iraq and Iran-we grow Q bit leery About Russian names, also Ireland now Fire. Maps are dscowaging, almost make us dippy, But thank goodness, we still can find the Mississippi we thought we knew just how certain rivers ran, And how far off were Hawaii and Japan. But we really never had notion How filled with islands was the Pacific Ocean. where Kodiak Island? off Alaska, you sap If you don't believe it, consult the latest map -
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

Chester F. Ruzzy, 20, of Union City, Conn.,, is getting rid of his "extra" left foot by steady drilling at the United States Marine Corps recruit depot at Paris Island, s. c.
 The new Leatherneck is the son of MT. and Mrs. Chester RuZzy, S6 Locus Street, Union City. He attended Naugatuck High School and was employed by the Sey- mOur Manufacturing Company prior to his enlistment in the Ma rine Corps.
 Ruzzy hopes to get into the air branch of the Marine Corps upon completion of his recruit training.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

Since America has actually en- tered the war, this bitterness in the top segment of the German nation has increased Q thousand fold, and will be responsible for the increased viciousness of all forms of attack on America.
 Among the masses, reaction to Americas approach and final entry into the war has been significantly sluggish. For one thing, the aver- age German mind had been so sat- urated with all types of propaganda
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

that 1t could assimilate no more.
 Further, the circumstances sur rounding American participation ir the war were too complex for the man in the street to grasp fully He wasn't exactly sure why he should hate America.
 Finally, he didn't want to hate America anyway. The tradition oi America as the land of the free k still very much alive in the Third Reich. And 1t has been sctrength. ened by family ties resulting from emigration to the new world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

Six months before formal hos- tilities began, propaganda press and radio broadcasts began developing the theme that England and Rus- sia would be beaten down before Ahmerica could come in or give ef- fective help.
 GOEBBELS HITS
 U. s. INTERFERENCE"
 But six monthse after America's s formal entry, Goebbels was still hammering away at the same theme. Tn the last copy of his per- sonal news organ, Das Reich, Q copy of which I obtained upon leaving internment, the front page banner line screamed the same tattered old bulletin:
 ROOSEVELT AND AMERICA
 ARE TOO LATE"
 For an understanding of German feeling toward the new enemy, the German people must be placed in three classes, the super-privileged group including party members and industrialists; the working masses, and the army and navy.
 Official Nazidom and rich indus trfialists, who live of the. loot thrown their way by the regime, have always been viciously resent full of American interference" in the war.
 This bitterness, hardly concealed by diplomatic politeness before the war, often took violent forms of ex- pression when Americans and Ger mans met personally.
 During October, November and December proceeding the break with America, the American colony in Berlin riSked personal injury by conversing in English.
 One newSpaperman, leaving Q cafe after quiet evening with American friends, was followed by three Luftwaffe officers. On an un- lighted side street they halted him, cursed him as an American who dared speak English in Germany, knocked him into the gutter and kicked him as he lay there. CRAFTS DENOUNCED FOR SPEAKING ENGLISH
 Tn 8 restaurant where had long been customer, I was denounced one evening before a full house as a damned American who comes over here, living of the land, daring to insult Germans by speaking the enemy language in public"
 I was fiabbergasted by my an- tagonist's perfect English, which included an extensive vocabulary of obscenities.
 The restaurant manager, apolo- getically asking me to leave to avoid further trouble, explained that my critic was Ruhr factory owner who had come up to Berlin for a weekend of rest from British bombings.
 His nerves are upset" said the manager. You know why-the bombs are coming from American built planes"
 This bitterness was especially noticeable on mornings after bomb- ing raids. Once, after 8 sleepless night, reached the office of 8 pub- fisher with whom I had always been on good terms.
 Instea d of returning my prof. fered handshake, the executive bored me with cold look, raised his right arm stiffly and said "HeiI Hitler"
 We are going to be enemies soon enough" he said. We might as well stop shaking hands now" MASSES ARE SLOW
 IN HATE FOR U. s.
 An hour later at the propaganda ministry I received a similar re- ception.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

A local youngster was arraigned in juvenile court recently and placed probation for few months court official secured job for him on tobacco farm i'm TarffvIe He was ordered to report to the prOba ton officer every two weeks in persons write the official once week. The lad very much opposed the idea of going to work farm but left reluctantly He's still there and only the other day sent the prOba- ton officer letter notifying him he was still on the iOb having the time of his life and being i'm the best of health So Waterburys probation officer reforms mother
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
SEDAN DAMAGED BY
 BLAZE IN CUSHION

The cushion of a 1940 Chevrolet sedan was damaged by fire this morning at 79 Montgomery street. Engine was called to the scene at 6:39. Bremen believe the blaze may have been caused by a cigaret butt. The car Is owned by E. Flanagan of the same address.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
By JEAN GRAPHS (FOrmer Acme-NEA Berlin GnunnnnannaslnnA

New York June 5-When the American people became Germany's newest enemy last December, an- other NaA promise that 1t can't happen here" burst with numbing force in the minds of Hitler's &C., 100000 subjects.
 Offlcial Nazidom was fully pre- pared for the break months before
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
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The article below is Che second of series of flrst-hand accounts of Germany and the Naxl-c0n- quered European nations. It was written by correspondent Jean GrafIis after his release from GestapO custody and return to the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

lt occurred. But the masses were not. And the accom- pits he'd fact dealt them @ blow from which they may never recover.
 Doktor Joseph GoebbelS' ow n propaganda ma chine provides b est evidence that war with A m erica has put Germ a n morale to the eaYVAnaara feet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

Just a coincidence. . Joe Cosgriff, fireman at the Waterve Station and Maurice Harmon of Headquarters are roommates at St. MaryS Hospital Both are to be operated on before being in the usual pink of condition to perform their many and varied duties Here's hoping for speedy and healthful recovery to both
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
CAPTAIN RIGNEY
 NAMED PRESIDENT

Capt. Hubert Rigney was elected president of Go. c, Connecticut State Guard association at a recent meeting. Others who will assume duties are: Pvt. Fred Gyuricsko, vice-president; Pvt. J. Pierce, sec- retary; Sergt. E. O. Brustat, treas- urer; Pvt. c. E. Baker, clerk.
 Plans were made by members for the purchase of field caps. Drills at the meeting were super vtsed by Lieut.. Harold O'Reilly, Sergt. Paul Marticello, and Sergt. H. Mcdonald.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
ARMORED CAR TURNS
 OVER IN COLLISION

Prospect, June 5-An armored payroll truck owned by the Brinks Co. turned over on the Waterbury Prospect road Wednesday when the driver swerved to avoid hitting a dog. A telephone pole was knocked over by the truck. John E. Mckay and Robert Brooks. both of New Haven, truck guards, were slightly injured.
 DeQueen, Ark, has a newspaper published by DeQueen Bee Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
e ANSWERS
 70 WAR QUIZ

lQnsslians on RAgs ie i, Knslenia weaFeE ss m Are wateha e in civilian defense forces. g. General Bonesteel ls foinmaa- aer of allied forces fla Iceland. s. @Mavy ceektail' means eassos oll to c sailor.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

North Carolina was the first state to impeach governor William Woods Holden in 1870.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05

There C on0ush ica in AntaFetiea to ensase the entire woTld in g layer go feet thick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-05
IM MEMORY og REaIANHN KEnN

Many years aRe, soldier sailed Rgay Te land across the sea To fight s0g e eense that today again We pray wib end 10 victory This soldier sailed agaln the 0theg aay Tl0 Q land beyond the Rea tze fought again, my poor brave Dad A hsstie ln which he lest But the today ny heart is sad And nhall be fn the years te pass know nt last he nov has found A pesce tbat onfy God can eiye.
 By HIS CON |
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
MAY

Here are a few Of the Pulitzer
Prize winners, as announced by Co
lunnbia university: Meritorious pub
lie service by a newspaper prize
went to the Los Angeles Times; best
national reporting award went to
Louis Stark of the New York Times;
local reporting prize to Stanton Del
aplane Of the San Francisco Chroni-
Gle; Ellen Glasgow's novel, SIN This
Our Life" also took first award.
On the 25th anniversary Of his
conservation as bishop, Pope Plus
broadcast to the world, appealing
for peace. He said, in part: "The
family is sacred; it is the cradle
not only Of children but also Of the
nation, of its force and its glory.
Do not let the family be alienated
or diverted from its high purpose
assigned to it by Cod"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
FEBRUARY

Many Of you have seen in the NOV
les, or heard on the radio the per-
sonality known as the "Voice Of Ex-
perience.". He was Marion Sayle
Taylor. Waists the correct verb,
for he died February at the age of
So. from . heart attack, in Holly
wood.
In q middle Of the month meet
ing, DR.. John w. Studebaker, U. S.
commissioner of education, told a
meeting of 1900 educators in the
East that schools must modify their
course Of studies. Schools should
add technical courses, stress health
education and Latin America.
Down in Puebla, Mexico, the AS
trophysical congress was told that
the Milky Way system is 1870 mil
lion billion miles from the sun. Sci
entists meeting at Columbia univer-
sity, New York, were told by Prof.
Roger Williams, University of Tex
lasy that an abundant supply OF vita
minis promotes intellectual keen
ness" and also are capable Of fos-
Itering morality
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
AUGUST

This sounds as though it Is not
meant to be, but 1t is all in earnest.
A witness, known only as Mr.. Muir
ray, testified before a senate mill
tary subcommittee on making con-
crete cargo-carrying submarines to
save steel. In case you have doubts,
remember that Sen. Josh Lee said
he is convinced Of the plans feast
bility.
Yale university announced the
award Of 10 scholarships to la
Dor union leaders. They'll start
to school next February and UNI
dertake q research project ON
the development Of trade unions.
There was no statement rs to
whether the Continuous men,
bership" and ''check of" clauses
were in the awards.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
NOVEMBER

AS for Stain, over in war-torn
Russia, things might have seemed
a little brighter when he was told
that Sergei, acting Patriarch, has
conferred the official blessing Of the
Russian Orthodox Church on him.
Sergei is a native Of Polish terri
tory taken over by the Russians.
Josef Stain was called ''the divine
" anointed leader of our armed and
cultural forces"
Celebrating the British victory in
Egypt, church bells in England rang
between 9 a. m. and noon on Sum
day, November Is. Some Of them
rang for the first time since Dun
kerque in June, 1910, when it was
decreed that they should be rung
only as an invasion warning.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
SEPTEMBER

Along comes this month and you
are told, according to London APP
reports, an unpublished Sherlock
Holmes story, "The Man Who Was
Wanted" was found by Adrian Co
nan Doyle, son of the writer. He
said his father didn't want it pub
lished because it just wasn't up to
scratch.
= You, old-timers remember the Po-
lice Gazette, don't you? It has been
barred from the mails by the post
Office department. Lascivious, lewd
material was the reason given.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
JUNE

According to the U. S. census bu-
reau, more than SO million persons
Is years old, or older, completed at
least eight years Of grade or ele-
mentary school. More than Is mil
lion in the same classification had
finished high school.
And another thing, said DIR.
Mclaughlin of the University Of
Michigan, exploding" stars
don't actually explode. They just
merely "let of little steam."
At the end Of this month the ma
ton faced a shortage of $4,000 teach
ers, especially in mathematics and
physics. The draft, higher wages in
industry were the cause of many
schools deciding to close in 1913.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
Lynn Says:

The Score Card: More foods
have come in under the ceiling
price list. Foods exempt from
March ceilings but under the
new ceilings are poultry, mutton,
butter, eggs, cheese, canned
milk, onions, white potatoes, dry
beans, corn meal, fresh citrus
fruits and canned citrus fruits
and juices. Take this list to the
market with you and make sure
you do not pay any more for
these items than you paid for
them between September %
through October 2.
The 21s-pound meat allowance
must include meat for you, your
dogs, cats and other pets. It
includes meat eaten in your
house by guests, meat eaten by
you in restaurants, and bone
gristle and waste that comes with
edible meat. It includes bacon,
sausage and canned meat.
It does not include scrapple, or
the variety meats like liver,
heart, kidneys, tripe, and brains.
The allowance includes beef,
lamb, veal, mutton and pork
but excludes poultry, eggs and
| fish. Stretch your meat allow
ance with these and meat ex-
tenders like oatmeal, cereal and
bread crumbs.
Coffee rationing will mean that
you have to consider other
sources for hot drinks these cold
days. First, you can probably
stretch your coffee by using q
coffee stretcher'' using half
coffee and half stretcher. You'll
like fruit juices, hot and cold,
milk for drinking. hot soups,
bouillon and consomme.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25

DR.. Howard E. Wilson In an ad.
dress In New York city said that
most Americans are guilty Of ''geo.
graphic illiteracy" and that Hitler'a
successes were made possible be.
cause of his knowledge of the geog.
raphy and economics of the nations
he intended taking under his ''pro.
lection"
Later on two Boston, Mass,
doctors, Herbert D. Adams and
Leo ". Hand reported that q
man, operated on for lung all
ment, whose heart had stopped
beating for 20 minutes, was
brought back to life and In good
condition. They had kept his
brain and the rest Of the body
supplied with oxygen.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25

your part in the way you can best
and that's the best job, you, Mrs.
America, are qualified to do.
Plan every meal so carefully that
you will make use of every bit of
food you have. That means doing
the most by your leftovers and fit
ting them into your meal program.
Economy is the watchword- elabo-
rate food is out for the duration. vi
tamins, minerals and proteins are
your cue to- balanced meals.
BY way of initiating this program
you will note that even the New
Year buffet supper I've planned fits
into the guide outlined above: the
chicken may be leftover from your
holiday dinner as may be your spin
ach and beets for vegetable and
salad.
*Scalloped Chicken.
(Serves 81
cup cooked, cubed chicken
IN cups buttered crumbs
3 hard-cooked eggs, chopped
teaspoon SalG
Dash Of pepper
~ cups medium white sauce
Cover bottom of baking dish with
crumbs. Add chicken, sprinkle with
salt and pepper. Pour sauce over
all, cover with remaining crumbs.
Bake in a moderate (350-degree)
oven Is minutes.
The casserole of chicken is SIM
plicity itself and is especially fine
with the spinach timbales because
it provides bit of sauce that goes
well with them:
spinach Timbales.
(Serves 81
cups cooked, chopped spinach
2 tablespoons butter, melted
3 eggs, slightly beaten
IA cups milk
n cup soft bread crumbs
Salt and pepper
Dash Of nutmeg
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25

cause of its sour milk, molasses
and raisins:
Victory Bread.
cup flour
" teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
teaspoon salt
cup whole wheat flour
cup wheat germ
" cup brown sugar
I cup seedless raisins
" cup m0lasses
" cup sour milk
N cup melted butter
Sift together flour, baking powder,
salt and soda. Add whole wheat
-four, wheat germ, sugar and raj
sins. Combine molasses, sour milk
and melted butter and stir quickly
into -four mixture. Pour into q
creased oblong pan or two loaf pans.
Bake in moderate to slow $500
degree) oven for / hour.
Easy does it! That's what you'll
say when you whip together the
fascinating cranberry and pineapple
drink that looks 500 pretty with its
swirls of pink fluff atop each glass
full. Serve it as the dessert with pa
per thin slices of that fruit cake you
put up before Christmas. The drink
is grand one to substitute for cof-
fee, and requires no sugar either:
pineapple Cranberry Duff.
Makes small glasses)
1-pint, Bounce can of unsweet-
ened Hawaiian pineapple juice
" Of l 1-pound can cranberry
sauce
Chill both juice and sauce thor
oughly in the can before opening.
Beat sauce with rotary beaten until
fluffy, add pineapple juice gradually,
beating all the while. Pour into
glasses and serve at once.
Lynn Chambers can tell you ho.o to
dress up your table for family dinner or
| festivities, giue you menus for your parties
or tell you hoo to balance your meals in
accordance Nth nutritonaI standards. lust
s0riis 70 her, explaining your problem, al
Western Newspaper Union, 2I0 South Des-
4 PLANES Street, Chicago, Illinois. Please
enclose stamped, seIf-addressed envelope
for your anslcef.
/ Released hy Wsstern Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25

USUAL.
A roundup by the National Safety
Council, Chicago, ILL.,, Of dizzy mis-
haps for the year reveals that war
or no war, a lot of people found time
to do amazing things in amazing
ways. For instance:
Saleslady Bessie Swank Of
Bridgeton, N. j., tried valiantly
to fit small girdle on plump
customer. She tugged SO hard
she was taken to the hospital
with a severe back injury. The
customer took the girdle.
Eugene B. Grabbe Of Denver has
never been a circus trapeze per-
former, but he could be. Washing
windows on the seventh floor of the
u. S. National Bank. building, he
started to fall as the buckle on his
safety belt gave way. Grabbe hurled
himself backward with such force
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25

These are said to be the graves
Of foursof She SIX Nasi saboteurs who
landed on Long Island and Florida
beaches. Neither friends NOR rela-
eives claimed the bodies.
laboratory test. OK, let out your
breath now. What did your wife
say when you told her that one?
A New Jersey building contractor,
Claude sHabberstad. tried out some
new wooden tires he had made. He
drove rs miles an hour on a con-
crete highway and said the tires
should last for $4,000 to $4,000 miles
q the speed was kept down.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
DECEMBER

Charles Van Hefty, q Chicago
war plant engineer, served as
an example to hundreds Of other
motorists in that city, and cities
all over the nation. He had
boarded IS gallons Of gasoline
Just before the recent gas ra-
tioning went into effect. Neigh
bors kicked. Police investigat-
ed. Firemen supervised his
pouring the gas down the sewer
while they shot streams Of wa
ter after it. Hefty was out 16
bucks.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25

that he fioated through the air with
the greatest of ease, cleared 16-
foot space and landed on his feet atop
an adjacent four-story building. He
broke both legs, but considered him
self lucky.
Joe Konecny of Great Bend, Kan,
had stored his car in a garage at
Little Rock, Ark, to make an auto
trip with friend. AS he and his
friend were driving along near
Mountain Home, Ark, their car coli
lided head-on with another machine.
Both cars were wrecked. When Ko-
necny crawled from the wreckage
and looked at the other car, he saw
that it was his own. It had been
stolen from the Little Rock garage.
Joe got legal revenge.
Wrong Girl.
Wallace d. Smith Of Louis
vile, KY, was flying an air
plane at low altitude when he
saw girl he thought he knew.
He waved at her. She waved
back. Pleased but distracted,
Pilot Smith dew his plane into
tree top, an electric light wire
and another tree top, where he
ended his trip. He shinnied
down, hurried 60 the girl 20 AZ
sure her he wasn't hurt. She
wasn't the girl be had thought
she was, but Z total stranger.
He was distracted again.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
OCTOBER

The Sister Elizabeth Kenny meth
cd of treating infantile paralysis by
hot applications, massage and ex-
ercise, which has caused so much
furore in the medical world, is to
be taught in six New York hospitals.
Sister Elizabeth Kenny, an Austria
Ian, is director of University Of
Minnesota clinic.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25

Burns Mantle, New York Dali
" News drama critic, listed the
following as his choice for the 10
hest plays Of the season, ending
June s Junior Miss BY Jerome
Ch6dorov and Joseph Fields;
TN Time to Come, By Howard
Koch ana John Huston; The
Moon Is Down." by John Stein-
beck Angel Street, = W Pat
rick H5I1ilton Jason. hy
Samson RaphaeIson; Blithe
spifit, +" by Noel Coward; <a''-
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
News Of 1912 Tells Of Churchbells in England,
Gray Hair, Streaming Stars and Breath Holder

played by the NBC symphony or
chestra conducted by Arturo Tosca-
mini in New York city.
DR.. Grinnel Jones, and co-work-
err DR.. Juda, both Of Harvard, an
nounced the perfection Of a new fire.
sisting chemical which can be
sprayed or painted on wood to make
it practically fire-proof. OK for
plastic planes?
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
Bv CLIFF LANCE

Released by Western Newspaper Union.
During the past year news Of
the Allies battling the Axis, war
pfodaction, Consumption, wage
price-labor control measures,
all have showed many stories to
the back pages. Stories that
might have been ''played up"
more If they happened during
peacetirne. The following is a
quick summary Of some Of
those naany news-shorts, and
human interest stories.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1942-12-25
MARCH

Hold your breath on this one:
: Eugene .. Frechette Jr., 20,
New Haven, Conn.,, junior ut
wesleyan university, Middle
town, Conn.,, brought honors to
his Alma Mater by establishing
q record by holding his breath
for 20 minutes, 5 seconds I'm q