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Evening star., 1942-04-27
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Will H. williams In Takorna Park.
They also have made q short trip
to New York City, but are return
ing to the West next week.
Mrs. Chic Wood Miller, who has
been visiting in Takoma Park, has
returned to her home In Ashland,
Va.
Mrs. Miller has had charge Of the
occupational therapy department at
the Washington Santiarium for the
last Is years. and now Is busy on
defense projects.
Evening star., 1942-04-27
Readers Club
Elects Officers

Mrs. James r. Hartnett was re-
elected president of the Washing
ton Readers Club alta recent meet
ing. Also elected were Dell Floyd
smestee president; MIS-. Charles Nc
Muliu recording secretary; Miss
Ada Louise Townsend, corresponding
secretary; Mrs. Eva Hurd Willis
treasurer, and Mrs. Callie Ison, his
torian.
Evening star., 1942-04-27
Marjorie Brett
Bride of 1t. Slade

The wedding Of Miss Marjorie
Alane Brett and 1t. Duncan E. Slade
of Chicago took place yesterday
evening, the Rev, Howard Stone of
the First Congregational Church
officiating at $50 o'clock.
The bride attended George Wash
ington University and 1t. Slade
received his wings recently from the
Jacksonville Naval Air Station. He
Is now second lieutenant In the
Marine Corps Reserve.
Mr.. and Mrs. Slade left after the
ceremony for Chicago.
Evening star., 1942-04-27
Miss Callahan Weds

Announcement Is made Of the
marriage of Miss Rosemary Jane
Callahan, daughter Of Mr.. william
A. Callahan OF Piscataway, Md, to
Mr.. Henry David Cubbage, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Byron Cubbage of
Silesia, Md.
The Rev. Casemir Losinski ofiici-
ated at the ceremony, which took
place before the outdoor Shrine of
the Sacred Heart at st. Johns
Churcn in Clinton, Md, the after.
noon Of April 10. M
Evening star., 1942-04-27
Miss Swami Engaged

Mr.. and Mrs. Richard G. Swami
of Alexandria announce the en-
gagemert of their daughter, Miss
Jean Lillian Swami, to Mr.. william
Bernard Jakeway, son Of NJ and
Mrs. WN1Gn1. JakeS 4 -.
w. Va. Esn~ s- II - - 3 Ss.sss;'iT =
No ti4te has been set for The
wedding.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
SCOUTS TO LEAVE FOR CAMP SUNDAY 7 Going to Plymouth; Cat Show to Be Held at
 Playground
WATERVllLE Correspondent: Mrs. William E. Rooney, 19O Dwight St.
 Telephone 3-8475

Waterville, July 30. = Seven Boy Scouts of Troop 31 will leave Sun day for Camp Mattauck, Plymouth, to spend week with all expenses paid from the troop fund. This money was raised from the sale of old newspapers collected by the troop last fall. The boys are asked to meet at Fraternity hall Sunday afternoon at o'clock where trans portation will be furnished. The boys planning to go are: John Byrnes, Carlton Bird, Francis Kill leen, Norman Henchel, James Ahrens, and William Scanlon.
 A cat show will be held tomorrow afternoon at Fairmount playground at 1:3O o'clock. All types of cats are eligible and may be costumed if the owners wish. Prizes will be given for the largest, smallest, most unusual and most furry cats.
 Mrs. Genevieve Ramsey, leader in the Waterville Junior Red Cross group announces the following girls have won their caps for service work Mary Edith Tooley, Lois Tooley, Ann Daniels. Dorothy Lyon, Shirley and Marcia Rasmussen, Norma Beaupre, Carol Faber, Mary Me Kennerney, Nancy Haggerty, Lydia Carbonell, Jeanne Lefevre, Lucille ,Miclette, Carleen Bird, Anna al Chance, Rita Fontaine, eJanne Marie Dubois, Florence Bates Grace Daniels, Barbara Clark, and Josephine ElmKas.
 Miss Lillian MacMullen of Chapel Street has returned home after spending the month of July 1 Damariscotta Mills, Maine.
 Carol M. Hoadley. daughter ot MT. and Mrs. F. T. Hoadley of Edge hill avenue returned home following a month spent with her grand mother. Mrs. H. (l Forrest, ot Cambridge, Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
DECICCO DEPLORES ABSENCE OF MUSIC

Mario DiCecco, conductor of the Waterbury Symphony orchestra called attention of the Waterbury Kiwanis Club yesterday to the alarming absence of music in this war as compared with the first World War" MT. DiCecco spoke at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club at The Elton.
 During the first war MT. DiCecco said, we had community singing and choruses and bands were organized in factories. We sent the boys off to the stirring tune of a Sousa march or a patriotic war song. To- day, he said, draftees go off to camp without music.
 MT. DiCecco said that music should be paced on the basis Of other war industries"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

Cuba's tremendous molasses SUD- ply can produce alcohol a-plenty, but there is a serious shortage of the commodity. A short time ago, when it was impossible to buy a quart of alcohol in the shops, a Havana fire consumed 100000 gall Ions stored in a warehouse.
 U. s. SHIPS
 COME IN EMPTY
 Despite the United States pur- chase of the 1942 sugar crop, Cuba has lean and hungry look. Food prices have leaped until recent wage increases were swallowed whole. Because of poor shipping oordination-most Americas fault empty ships come into Havana harbor to take back sugar, while goods for Cuban consumption are stacked tree-top tall on Miami and Port Everglades docks. Yet Brit ish vessels, nosing into port for cargo, unload their cases of fine Scotch whisky and gin, while phar- macies beg for American medicines.
 Electric power, gasoline, tires and critical building materials are ra- toned. But, without a ration card of any sort, I had no difficulty buy ing 20 gallons of gas at one crack 10 gallons for the tank and 10 for two spare cans.
 Tires can be purchased If you know the right guy. As for new building, shortage or no shortage, Havana is having the biggest build ing boom in years. In the city's swankier residential districts, AL mendares, Miramar and Jaimanitas, modern, expensive houses are spring ing up like toadstools.
 OLD LANDMARKS"
 HAVE ALL GONE
 Tourists poured 12 million dol- lars into Havana last year. Now, with a twice-daily plane providing the only means of ingress, the trade has been cut 90 per cent. And for Havana, the turista is the second largest industry.
 Bars have been closed (the famous Sloppy Joe's shut down, and then was reopened on government or der) and hotels are desperate. But for a heavy concentration of refu- gees, the sumptuous Nacional would be nearly empty. Beggars, who fat tened on gullible Yankees with loose pesos, have almost deserted the streets. Fancy ladies have packed up and gone to Panama, where the pickings are better. Twittering old
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
Washington Troy

A RMY has . new "baby A bomber" 8 training ship of 52-foot wingspread which car ries six men and the navigating and bombing equipment of a big bomber. . . . Trade as- sociatiOns are circularizing their members to help out on the salvage program. Unpeeled logs sold for mine timbers are not subject to price regulations, but peeled ones are. . . . Apartment hotels in defense areas can choose whether to abide by the hotel or the rooming house rent ceilings. Q . Q Price ceilings on fats and oils have been re- vised to prevent an increase in the price of soap. . De- partment of Labor says 34 per cent of the war industry workers earn less than $50 a week, another 34 per cent earn between $50 and $40, the re- maining third over $40.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30


 T can remember only two acci- dents due to equipment failure" said the sergeant. "In both cases the landing gear gave way.
 "The ground crews can't fix cock pit trouble. That's something for the schools. They have to teach pilots how to avoid it and then it's up to the pilots.
 "Three things should be drilled into student pilots.
 "First, the gas tanks. They have to understand that gas gauge shows the contents of both the main and the reserve tanks. The main tank mey be dry and the gauge still will register because the reserve is full. If they don't switch over, they'll crash Pilots must learn the first thing to do when an engine goes dead is to switch the gas tank.
 Second, they ought to teach 'em and make sure they learn never to pull landing gear until they are absolutely sure they've cleared the ground.
 Skill Counts In Ground Crews
 And third, they ought to teach pilots more about propeller setting. AS to pitch cvontrol, even old hands in the cockpit sometimes will reach for the wrong knob when they want to change prop setting Most frequently they'll cut the mixture instead of changing the prop pitch. It's not fatal if they have enough altitude to correct 1t in time.
 'When we turn machine out on the line, it's singing right" said the sergeant, and he's typical of the attitude of every ground crew boss.
 Ground crews are organized on skill rather than rank. It's not unusual to find a corporal with ability holding an assignment as a flight chief with jurisdiction over eight or nine planes and their crews, some of which are super vised by sergeants.
 Each ship in a squadron has a permanent crew with a crew chief. Each ship is part of a flight with a flight chief who superviseS the work of the plane crews, and they're all under the master sergeant who is the keystone of the squadron ground crews.
 Aside from this personnel. there is a specialists corps attached to every squadron ground crew. These include the engineering staff, the electrical, instrument, propeller and hydraulic men.
 When a new ship arrives in a squadron it's taken into the han gar and first stripped down. After it's completely checked over, a ground crew assigned, it's put into service.
 Each ship is watched over by its respective ground crew who must kepe 1t in shape at all times. Frequent Inspections
 Periodically every ship is check ed. Every 24 hours ship spends in the air, it's brought in for a spe- cial checkup. On the 50th, the tooth and 200th hour, the check is more rigid, the inspection more critcial. The engine is stripped right down, every part gone over carefully. After 300 hours in the air, the whole engine, in most ships, is removed and replaced with an- other.
 The work sheet for ship is made out by the engineering ofilcer every time the ship Is checked. The list of jobs that must be done on that ship is pasted up on the ship itself and as each fob is done, it's initialed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
GAIN IN STATES
 MORTALITY RATE
Adjustment in Population Figures Held Responsible
 for Estimated Increase

Change in the states general death rate from 9.6 per 100000 in 1889 to 10.3 in 1940 and 1941 is large ly the result of adjustment to pop ulation figures revealed by the 1940 federal census, William c. Yelling, director, Bureau of Vital Statistics explains in the monthly bulletin of the State Department of Health. Between census years, it is necessary to base rates on population esti- mates and the estimated figures used from 1880 through 1889 proved to be high.
 Relatively few deaths in Connec- t!cut last year were caused by typhoid fever, measles, scarlet fever and whooping cough. These four communicable diseases accounted for IT deaths out of an estimated 1941 state population of 1,722034. For the first time, not single death occurred from diphtheria.
 Pneumonia as 8 cause of death has had an extraordinary course in the last few years, according to MT. Welling. The rate has fallen from 65.4 in 1897 to 321 in 1941, the low est on state records. The average mortality rate for this disease in the five-year period 1937-194l was 45.4 per 100000. Deaths from pull monary tuberculosis have shown a definite trend downward in recent years.
 Although the cancer death rate has apparently increased to some extent in recent years, part of the rise in 1940 and 1941 must be at- tributed to the adjustment of popu- lation figures MT. Yelling pointed out.
 Infant and maternal mortality rates for 1941 were the lowest, and marriage rate the highest, in the history of Connecticut vital statist- icS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

Walter Movie, 21, former Wilby High School football star, joined the large contingent of Waterbury youths now training at the United States Marine Corps recruit depot at Paris Island, S. c.
 Movie Is the son of MT. and Mrs. Walter N0wie of III Dikeman street. He was graduated from WiIby High in 1889. His brother, John, is serving in the Army. Prior to his enlistment in the Marine Corps, NOwie was employ ed as an office clerk by the Am- erican Brass Company.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

Dawn patrol night beats Jack Freney and Butsy Harris would make swell comic pair for any radio net work The boys have your sides aching from laughter Have Jack tell you the one about his baseball bets The lads the Elton tap room are still talking about Martha Raves recent visit in town Victor DAngeo, a swell bartender is coming out with new drink He's going to call it the "aeropane cocktail" which is sure to provide you with plenty of thrills. Monday eve lings are proving to be slow for the night spots and owners are now closing earlier than the law provides for in the evening Is there any truth to the ruor that Sal Morre has applied for jeep drivers position with Uncle Sam?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

Mae Parker's desk at the compensation commls- soners office is closed she os in Atlantic City sum-
 Florence Bacon of Highland avenue is enjoying her annual -rom-it-all at Madison. George Barn. hardt of East Main street starting another week of waiting at Fort Devens waiting for shoes and such personnel enjoyed the company of illustrous visitor the other morning as Judge Newell M Jennings of the State Supreme Court stopped in for some neigh borly chats First Lieutenant Fred Delnore of Edge wood Arsenal Md, has been enjoying leave here. He took in fishing trip last weekend and helped Chief Petty Officer Preston Thorns Navy recruiter and Ser geant Charles Siers of the Marine station boost their catch to 30.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
CIGARETTES FOR LOCAL SOLDIERS
Proceeds From Dance at Hamilton Park to Pur.
 chase Smokes

Raymond E. Snyder chairman of the entertainment committee of Zindah Grotto, announced today that plans have been completed for the public Cigarette Dance" to be held at Hamilton park dance pavi- lion tomorrow night.
 Zindah Grotto is sponsoring this gala dance in an effort to swell it's fund for the Keep Elm Smoking" campaign which comes to a close on Saturday night.
 The admission to the dance will be three packs of cigarettes and all cigarettes thus donated will even- tually find their way into the hands of Waterbury boys in the armed services of the United States at home and abroad.
 A big program of entertainment has been arranged and music for dancing will be provided by Fred Bredice, his electric guitar, and his IA Men of Melody. This new dance orchestra, recently organized, has been meeting with great success and already boasts 8 large following among dance enthusiasts here in Waterbury and about the state. MT. Bredice has arranged number of novelties which he will introduce at tomorrow nights big dance party.
 The officers of Zindah Grotto have made an appeal to the public of Waterbury for their support of this worthy endeavor and indica- tions point to capacity attendance at Hamilton Park pavilion tomor- row night which will result in many additional packages of cigarettes be- ing thus obtained to be sent to Wa terbury boys in the various military and naval service units. The festiv- ities will start at 8 D. m. sharp.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

maid school teachers are a rarity. Sans souci's gambling trade is al- most pure Latin, and you can walk miles without having to buy 8 maraca.
 Cattlemen have been withholding their beef from the slaughter houses because they can't make a profit on the fixed price of S.8 cents a pound. Rice, despite government orders to plant 1t, is as precious as caviar.
 War taxes have been placed on 1uxuries. Special increases have been granted public utilities. Five hundred busses have been with drawn from circulation, yet truck ing is unregulated all over the is- land. Empty trucks race up and down the central highway with little though for tires and gasoline.
 Cuban sugar is shipped to the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

Louis Mango and his daughter, Joanne, Ge week end visitors in Providence R. While in the Rhode 1S- land capital Louie took time out to call on Bill McGnn his former boss at the Swift plant here some years back
 Edward J. "Duke" Meehan, now stationed at Santa Anna Calf expects to go to Tucson, Arizona shortly where he'll complete his air training and receive his wings Mary Anna Iadarola of upper Walnut Street is one of the most popular little ladies in this section of the city and there isn't passerby that doesn't stop to chat with Mary Anna for few minutes when passing her home Louis Vioette of Mrs. Marie Violette of East Dover Street. been chosen to attend the auto
 mechanics course at the Arored Force School at Camp Polk, La.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

world almost entirely from Havana now = with the result that dock workers in 27 other harbors are to be supported by the proceeds of a special tax.
 Cubans pay 34 cents gallon for their gasoline, with another boost expected momentarily. There is an equal shortage in heating and cook ing fuel. Supposedly, though, tank CTS are among the most frequent visitors to the island, and the tanks at Guanabacoa, across the bay, are heavily guarded and full as tick.
 Cubans of all degrees have been uncooperative in conserving their sparse products. When gas ration ing first went into effect, it applied only to private cars. Business houses were asked merely to state their needs, which were to be granted.
 Yet Eduardo Montoulieu, head of the Public Works Special Fund Di- vision, announced that 70 per cent of private business reports were
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

falsified, and enforced a B 1-3 per cent cut. The incident is typical as the private drivers wink to his favorite filling station attendant. I'm getting more gas than ever got in my life," one frivolous young socialite says happily.
 THE PRINCIPLE OF :. "VIVO" AND "BOBO"
 Building materials, supposedly strictly rationed, can be obtained by presenting a certificate from the So- ciety of Architects, showing cause why the building must be con- structed. Cause" seems only to be the desire to build Speculation as to who controls critical building ma- terials is a favorite cafe sport.
 Cuba" 8 25-year resident of the island says, "Still operates on the old Spanish principle of viYo and bobo. A vivo is a wise guy who takes everything he can, with no questions asked. A bobo is fol- lower of the golden rule, and the nearest English translation is a "jerk".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

by the man who does 1t.
 The crew chief, of course, is re- sponsible for seeing that it is done.
 If the job is too complex for the plane crew, the specialists are called in-the engineering crew or the instrument, the electrical crew, etc.
 After the job is done, the inspec- tor gives it a thorough going over.
 As the master sergeant who runs such a squadron ground crew puts 1t: We never gamble. When our crews say ships o. k., you can bet it's O. k. Find a monkey wrench that will fix cockpit trouble and you'll really see the accident rate go down."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
FEDERAL STAMP RETURNED TO OWNER

John Cronin of 438 Hamilton avenue lost his $5 automobile use tax stamp in the center yesterday It was found by Patrolman Edwaro Higgins an identification was made through the motor vehicle bureau Motor Patrolman John Spadaro re. turned the sticker to Cronin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

In the news. |. i. i. This weeks papers, especially in the Connecticut area, carried the story of Hope Buckleys becoming welder in New York munitions plant Miss BulkeIey, 21, has been associated with the theater and has just finished tour of army camps the daughter of HoughtOn Bulxeley and the grand daughter of Morgan G. BuIkeley, once U S. Senator and of the state Incidentally the young lady of the four girls in the Battle of the Sexes quiz this week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rush observed their third wedding anniversary yesterday. The latter IS the former Ernestine Stenert Howard Neubert is year older today. Al "Red" PrOnovost has another birth day to celebrate tomorrow. Jack Rutman is vaca- tioning this week in Maiden, Mass Emily Brown of this city and Helen M Lawson of Naugatuck were recent guests at the swanky Cavalier Hotel Virginia Beach. Billy Walsh of the Shoe Hardware Company comes through with the prize slogan of the week Here 'ts: A salvage heap will buy jeep".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

Heard in passing The Miss America Beauty and Talent Pageant Atlantic City's highIght, is sched- uled for the week of September to 13 this year sam Donahue rated by Coleman Hawkins the "great- est white tenor saxophonist of all time, is going into New RochelIe's Glen Island Casino this week for A. week stay Charles Morrow Wilson's Ambassadors in White" will remind you that se-carryng mos outoes are even more deadly than the greatest air planes built today All-Amercan Comics is putting
 new comic on the market-"Picture Stories from the Hible".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
FORMER MARINES IN
 MEETING TONIGHT

The Corporal Francis J. Jamele detachment, Marine Corps League. will hold a meeting tonight at the clubrooms on Grand street. Arr engagements for incorporation of a new charter will be made and other business will be transacted. Mem bership in the organization is open to Marines of the district.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

Marie Glasberg of East Main Street member of sne observation post aircraft warning service, is patient at St. Marys Hospital where she will undergo operation. Adelaide Jean Poi, granddaughter of the late S. Z Pol was married last Saturday morning in New Haven to George Keich WICC radio engineer Her mother Mrs Adelaide F. Poli, her only attendant The reception was held at the Poli summer home i'll WOodmont. Mrs. Chester LaRoche of Southport, the former Clara Russell of this city, took prominent part in the Ancient Auto gymkhana field at the Fairfield County Hunt Club last Saturday An electric Rausch and Lang 1918 model owned by MT. LaRoche captured the open Ing race on the program Mrs LaRoche also acted as one of the judges for the fashion show hgh-ght of the afternoon
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
SOLDIERS FARDRoBE

The wool wardrobe of a U. S. soldier includes two pairs of under drawers, one overseas cap, two shirts, three blankets, two pairs slacks, one service hat, four pairs socks, one pair gloves, two under shirts, one overcoat, and two blouseS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
. WAR QUIZ
Questions on Want Page

1. Soldier is a member of the Medical Corps.
 2. "Pouron coal" Is Army slang for step on the gas.
 3. Lieut.-Gen. George H. Brett is commander of allied air forces in southwest Pacific. He has com manded air and combined air. ground forces of the United States and United Nations in half dozen parts of the world, was recently awarded Distinguished Service Me- dal for exceptionally meritoriouS service"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30

If you have a set of x 30 up tc 2 50-power Tense binoculars loar them to the Army or Navy. If not. your purchase of War Bonds anc Stamps will help buy this equip ment for our fighting forces. At least ten percent of your income in Wa~ Bonds every payday will do the job and provide the ''eyes'' through which scouting pilot may spot an enemy battleship.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-30
CLOSET BLAZE IN
 TERRY RESIDENCE

A closet fire last night at the home of Eben c. Terry of 272 Pine street was extinguished by f1remen from Engine one and six and truck two and the booster. The fire was caused by a short circuit.