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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15
By JAMES THRAsHER (NEA Service Staff Writer)
N M N

Right now, Turkey is probably the most jittery of the nervous Ileu- trals." She lies under the direct threat of a Nazi drive into the Mid- de East.
 Turkeys problem in the present war is the problem of saving her neck. In the Turkish language this is literally true, for the same word serves for both "ttroat" and strait" And the Straits = embracing the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmora and the Bosporus-are tn vulner- able throat that joins Turkeys Eu- ropean head to her Asiatic body.
 Through this throat flows the life blood of three continents. Its pos- sesior has been the goal of cen- turies of conquerors. Once more to- imminent scene of action. For as day it appears to be logical and long as Turkey holds the Straits she can not only keep body and soul together but also check the military expansion of Germany and Russia and Great Britain.
 NO TIME NOW
 FOR FENCING"
 So far the battle for Turkey has been one of words. It has been marked by some extremely cagey diplomacy on the part of the Turkish government and by in- creasingly insistent overtures by the warning powers. But as the pressure gets hotter, Turkeys diplo- macy becomes "curiouser and curiouser."
 What for two year SC was adroit and delicate fencing has now be- come a precarious, breathless bus. inesS of playing both ends against the middle.
 In 20 years Turkey has gone through a century of progress, in spite of geographical position that always threatens trouble. Renal Ataturk, her military savior, dicta-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

tor and president, inherited the rec mains of the sprawling, decadent Ottoman Empire and fashioned 1t into Q progressive, highly respected republic.
 At the wars outbreak Turkey was particularly friendly with England, France, the United States and Rus sia. She feared Italy's proximity in the Mediterranean. Neither the late Ataturk nor President Inonu, his successor, felt too kindly toward Germany, but Germany was Tur- keys best customer.
 Early in the war Turkey signed treaties of friendship, 1on-aggres- sion and mutual assistance with England and France, and with all the Balkan countries except her traditionally truculent have-rot neighbor, Bulgaria. The neutrality pact with Russia received stagger- ing blow with announcement of the Nazi-Soviet agreement, but it Sur- vived because of grateful friendship toward the U. s. s. R., which had been the first power to recognize the new Turkish republic.
 Fear apparently overcaine Tur- keys high minded honesty when she backed out of her agreement with Greece at the time of the Nazi invasion. Turkey was busy herself. Half her army was mobilized and concentrated on the Tfracian bor- der with Istanhul blacked out and partially evacuated.
 It semed that Turkey would surely be forced into war on Britain's side. But Gerrnany's close approach ac- complshed what the Nazi-Soviet pact had failed to do: 1t swept Turkey closer to the Axis. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15
HTvne T,adderH

"The Ladder" |. . Maybe you remember the tempes- tuous of play by this name on Broadway years one in the ordinary meaning of the word "The Ladder opened on Oct 22 1926 According to the critics 1t was for two years thereafter And the reason-we the play was originally written by newspaperman, J. Frank DaviS at the request of Texas oil millionaire, Edgar B. Davis Despite the critics claims and everything else Mr. Davis the oil man, kept that play going for full year. even though night there were only three in the after opening the play became more unique by being offered to public free of charge Even then they relate that the house filled "The Ladder, like some others which suffered at the hands of the critics but lived to confound them made the grade play,
 but certainly miracle otherwise. Why bring it up Davis is dead He died at San Antonio, Texas last week. aged n.
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Turkish governlment's statements became more equivocal, less anti- Nazi. Turkey signed g 1orl-aggres- sion treaty with her old enemy, Bul- garia, and the ink was scercely dry when Germany entered that neigh boring country.
 She managed to sign the pact of Friendship, non aggression and mutual consultation" with Germany just before Hitler attacked Russia. Turkish broadcasts played up the Axis, criticized old Soviet friends. TURKEY HAS
 TO KEEP HOPPING
 Meanwhile Turkey is assuring England of her continued friend. ship and understanding. The young republic seems to be playing an ir- creasingly cynical game of big league power politics. It received pledges of Anglo-Soviet and last August. In September Dr. Karl Clodius arrived at A1kara. He Is the Nazi economies l1egotiator whose presence seems always to herald Berlin's plans for armed invasion. The following month Turkey and Germany signed Q trade agreement which exchanges Turkish chromium for German guns.
 The day of Turkish diplomatic inaneuvers seems about to end. The question of Hitler's attack is more me of "wlhAn' than of Aifn Once past Turkey he can move swiftly toward the Black Sea and the Cau- casion oil fields, and southward to Suex.
 Will Turkey flght2 That depends upon aNgreat many factors, and only the Turkish government knows the answers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

About third the size of neighbor- ing Florida, the Dominican Republic is three times as densly populated. Four mountain ranges, thicEly wooded, cross the country. The Gen. tral Cordillera, dividing the republic into almost equal parts, Is the chief watershed. Tn this range is Monte peak in the West Indies. The valleys and lowlands are uniformly fertile. With this natural endowment, and with other known sources of wealth insignificant in comparison, the na- ton has made agriculture a sure and solid base for its enocony,
 In early colonial times sugar was the principal product of the great plantations, source of the wealth which made Santo Domingo one of the most prlzed of the Spanish de. pendencies in the New World. So today, though 1t is by no means the only contributor to 1t, sugar holds first place in the republics growing prosperity. Sugar makes up close to three-quarters of the value of Dominican industries, but Q pro- gressive and alert Dominican govern- ment, alive to past lessons in the un- certalnties of reliance on oIle-crop prosperity, is well along in a planned agricultural economy in a country predominantly agricultural. Follow ing sugar in the worlds trade listing of Dominican offerings are cocoa, coffee, molasseS, starch, corn, han- anas and tobacco in steadily in- creaSing volume and value. @
 As today the Dominican citizen can look back with pride over four and e half centuries of struggle for independence, often seemingly hope less, so he can look forward, with confidence, as his country takes iI1- creasingly important part in the life and affairs of a united AIneri- can family of nations.
 ur neighbor nations prepared by ) information of students partt- an Student Forum, and for their
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Takes after his father Al Paris one of the Demo- crat's typos" was beamng with fatherly pride when
 he came to work the other morning And he just couldn't resist telling about his young son. Joseph better known Skipper" to friends up around Wood Street It seems world and earn his way His mother advised him to wait few years, but Skipper" had other ideas. He five cents in change When pressed for explana- ton he told Pa and Ma that he made selling magazines Pa thought he had taken some old magazines from the back porch but checkup revealed that he had taken the latest ones he could find in the house and which his parents hadn't read And further checkup showed that he had sold them for ten cents more than the actual cost.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15
YOUNG BARITONE
 TO APPEAR HERE

Alfredo Chigi, young baritone who has appeared with the Chicago. Philadelphia, MonteC Carlo, New York Hlppodroane and Columbia opera companies, will be guest ars tist with the Waterbury Civic or- chestra in its final concert of the season ct Buckingham hall April 10.
 Mario DiCecco, founder and per. rnanent conductor of the orchestra will direct. The orchestral portion of the program will be devoted to the Brahms Symphony in c, minor, No. 1; "The Swan of Tlonela" by Sibelilis and Rlmsky- Korsakov's ''Capprlclo Espangnole."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15
HOUsEMAID

There comes a time wherein Spring must renew its furnishing in house of copse and grove when April comes to hang with unseen glove her many garlands draped for better view; she deftly sets no flower or bud askew on branch or tree and is as careful of unsightly Crag and bog as bower of love- xe-carpets each in silks Of softest hue. NO fault her task once done, the eye may find when that glad tenant, May, possession takes hgineing his choirs and every voice and kind to pour sweet symphonies from grove and brakes a maid is April; we recommend her ways with hearts and gardens wherein winter stays.
 -E. ]. B.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15
PANDAIGIS SUIT
 REP ORTED SETTLED

A settlement was reported to have been reached in the civil action brought by Atty. William K. Lawlor of Waterbury against George pan- daigis also of this city, yesterday afternoon when testimony in the case was to he resumed in common pleas court. Atty. Lawior had claimed damages of ei,O00 for legal services rendered the defendant on three occasions. He alleged that he represented the defendant in c 9l2,- 900 damage suit in i0S0, adjusted another suit in l0A0, and had c 10 per cent commission due him for selling sT,600 worth of stock owned by the defendant. Terms of the settlement were not revealed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15
President

EkGBaugAb
 DF. Francis s. Onderd0n, noted world traveller and architect, gave . talk on the war situation at . meeting of the Rotary club yegs terday noon at The Elton.
 NOaminatlOn of 0iflcers was held, the following members being named: Martin [. Maftus, pFesl- dent; Louis S. Fitehs vfce-presi- dent; George ". Greene, secre~ tary; Edward Fitzgerald, sergeant at-arms; DougIas Heaven, treas- urer; William Asaelung, Michael V. BlansheId, Stanley H. Crater, william IT, Butler Donald '. Post, Wilfrcd B. gchesaI, and Gordon ". SOmers, directors. Election will be held on May 12.
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oOod EyenIng.
HERE'S TO THE HERO

Heres to the hero who draws forth the sword m defense of cause that is just, who hghts like man as long as he can, And who dies like Q man if he must. Here's to the hero who leads the troop on, AS they rally with blade and with gun; when forlorn is the hope, they storm the last slope And the citadels taken and won. And here's to the heroes unnamed and unknown, Unrecorded in song or in story, The legions of brave, who sink, to their grave UnmIndful of honors or g1ory
 By F. ONell in the Boston Post.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

Johnnie DiBeneditto of 96 Hawthorne Avenue, now private at Fort Eustis Virginia, slipped dag xng diamond on the finger of his heart thrOb, Angie DantinO of EdgewOOd Avenue, before leaving TOT service in the Army few weeks ago. My thanks for m invitation to attend the annual concert of the Gee Clubs and Orchestras of Choate Deerfeld HOtchkisS LOOmis and Taft schools at the Horace BusnneM Memorial Hall in Hartford Saturday evening, April IS. Frances Powers, fourth grade student at Hopevile school hOnors the Tower with her initial contribution of tinfOil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15
o ANSWERS
 TO WAR QUIZ

Questions on Comic Page 1. No map maker, he Is an cleo. trieian's mate.
 3. Het Loo is a royal palace ir Holland.
 3. Tobruk is in Libya.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

Pvt James Hogan" Jamele, son of MT. and Mrs. Anthony JaeIe of Clairmont Street. surprised his par ents with unexpected brief visit home Sunday from Fort Eustis Va Pvt Jamele popular B. A. c. minstrel show entertainer stationed with Battery B. 7th Bat aiOn Bldg 11O2 Fort Eustis and is enjoying Army life and wishes to be remembered to all his friends. On Easter Sunday he was the guest of his unces AttOr' neys James and Nicholas COoSantO at their home in Alexandria, Va
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

Unable to obtain labor to con- struct an air raid shelter, on Bt- year-Old man in Davenport, New Zealand, dug and covered Q trench, using crude implements. in e short taHnos
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

New Zealand has nationwide collection Of binoculars and tele- scopes fro the armed forces, and the public is urged to lend, give or seil them to tho Defense ID. partment
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

Robert L. PurintOn of this city, Winfield E. Wight Oe ThOnaston and Calvin T. Hughes of Mlldale are among the 25 Connecticut boys in the LOOmis School Gee Club which will be heard in the annual preparatory schools concert in Bushnell Hal Hart
 ford, Saturday night Best of luck and good wishes Alice Huruk arriving at her 21st birthday yester day. John Laudis of Orange Street has started to sa his goOdbyeS to friends He called the Tower yeSter
 day to say he off for induction center later this month and is aiming for post In the Medical Corps.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

Four voyages Columbus made to the New Lands of his day, but 1t was to the realm of Dominica that he sent his beloved brother, and 1t was to that earth, too, the Domini- cans stoutly claim, and they are to have a memorial to prove 1t, that the immortal Columbus himself came for his final peace.
 The island is beneficent. To the part that is Haiti came simon Boli- var for haven and inspiration when the causeN Of freedom fared poorly on the mainland of South America, and among the Dominicans, Jose Marti, Cuban patriot, found refuge to plot the entanglement of mighty nations that was to deprive Spain of Cuba and her vast New World colony.
 Independence came more hardly to the Dominicans than to any other land. Three nations they fought, and three nations they defeated-Spain France and Haiti, before they ems erged untrammeled and free, an island kingdom of the people.
 Lying below Florida, and stretch ing to the east and south in leis- urely, broken curve are the Antilles, first outposts of unknown lands to greet the eyes of Columbus, Midway among them, second in size, is the island of Hispanlola, called Haiti" by It's aborigines because of its broken and mountainous surface. The western one.third of HiSpanlola is the republic which retained for itself the ancient name of the island. The eastern two-thlrds is the Dom- inican Republic. In It's modern and busy port and capital city, Ciudad Trujillo, still stand ruins of the old spanish colony of Santo Domingo the name given by Columbus to the first European city in the New World.
 One of @ series descriptive of
 the Pan American Union for tt
 ioipating in the 1942 Inter -Ameri
 parents, teachers and friends,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15
DOMINICAN REPUBLlC-THE
 INCOMPATIBLE

After hundred the most graceful compliment yet paid to domain of the Dominican Republic remains tribute dcoverer that of the New World Christopher Columbus He called panicl Little Spain and has not souhquet ateng favorable comparison he ],
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

new altar was consecreted in the Lady Chapel of St. Paricks Cathedral New York City, Monday morning by Archbishop Francis Spellman It replaces the altar where the Archbishop celebrated his first Mass in the U S. A. after his ordination in Rome May 14 1916 Top
 ping this altar white marble statue of the Blessed Virgin which will be known as Our Lady of New York The Archbishop has granted indulgence of 100 days to all recting the prayer "Our Lady of New York pray for us" at any time and any place. Among relics placed in the new altar, which will be directly behind the litgical altar being built for the cathedral were
 from the Sepulcher of Our Lordpthe Veil of the Blessed Mother the Mantle of St. Joseph St. Joachim St. Ann the Three Magi st. Luke, St. Matthew, St. Matthias, St. Paul. St. Peter St. Simon St. Peter Claver and St. Rose of Lima As described in the New York Herald Tribune the
 altar is adorned on the front with design in multi colored marble inlay, depicting the Annunciaton The altar approached by three steps of golden brown Sienna marble and backed by creamcolored marble reredos Surmounted by the white marble statue of Our Lady of New York"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-15

Over 3i, ,O0O, 900 tons of coal await cd shipment in South Wales recent ly.
Evening star., 1942-11-22

duration Of the war and six months
thereafter"
In the event the proposed legis-
lation is enacted a uniform allow
ance would be granted to all per-
sons serving at the time the bill
becomes a law or thereafter &C
cepted for active duty in the COM
missioned and warrant grades in
the Army of the United States, in
cluding the recently created war
rant grade of flight officer, which
carry with them the pay and al
lowance of pay periods below that
of the fourth pay period. An ex-
ception, of course, is made of grad
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Rabbi Brickner 10 Speak
Al Zionist Rally tuesday

Rabbi Barnett r. Brickner will
address a city-Wide Zionist rally, to
be held at 8:45 pm. Tuesday al the
Cafritz auditorium at the Jewish
Community Center, it was an
nounced yesterday. AN Answer to
the Critics of Zionism' will be the
subject of the address.
Sponsored by the Louis D Bran
deis Zionist District of Washington.
the rally will coincide with a Nation
Evening star., 1942-11-22

than 100000 Reserve officers or
active duty now are Mr.. Stimson's
comments on Reserve peacetime
training policies. Commenting on
this important activity of the Re
serve component, Mr.. stimson, in
a letter to the Congress, said "the
peacetime training policies for Re-
serve personnel undoubtedly will
undergo drastic revision after the
war and the War Department be-
lieves that any legislation on this
subject should be designed to meet
the present problem alone and
therefore be effective only for the
Evening star., 1942-11-22

wide commemoration Of the issuance
of the Balfour declaration in 1917,
which declared the intention of the
British government to facilitate the
development of Palestine as ma
tional homeland for the Jewish peo-
pie.
Rabbi Brickrer is a member Of the
Executive Committee of the Zionist
organization of America and a men,
Der of the World Zionist Actions
Committee.
After his presentation he will
answer questions in a forum discus
sion, Admission to the rally will be
free
Evening star., 1942-11-22
YWCA Xespers

The Young Women's Christian
Association will hold Thanksgiving
vespers today from s to 6 o'clock
in Barker Hall OF the Central
YWCA, Seventeenth and K streets
NV. Men and women will be vel.
come.
Miss Mary M. Burnett, soprano
and member of the YWCA staff. will
take part with the Elizabeth Somers
Glee Club in presenting the choral
music at the service.
Meditations will be led by Miss
Mabel R. Cook, YWCA-USO club
! director
Evening star., 1942-11-22
Increase Sought in Allowance
For Army Officers Uniforms

Legislation was introduced last
week to increase the amount of the
Army uniform allowance from $50
to $3.50 and also to extend the al
lowance to National Guard officers
warrant officers and other groups of
the military establishment not now
covered by the bill The estimated
cost of this proposal for the 1943
fiscal year, over and above the cost
Evening star., 1942-11-22

of existing uniform allowance legis-
lation, is s68,927 900.
Secretary of War Stimson. in sup
porting this proposal. expressed the
opinion that it would be imprac-
ticable at present to attempt to
enact permanent legislation of this
nature to apply in peacetime as well
as during the present war.
Also of great interest to the more
Evening star., 1942-11-22

Grease makes gunpOwder! Save
waste kitchen fats. Take them to
YOUR meat dealer.
Evening star., 1942-11-22

yates Of the Military Academy at
West Point, who have a substantial
uniform fund available.
In his letter Mr.. Stimson pointed
out that the Budget Bureau advises
that, although there is no objection
to the submission of this report to
the committee the increase of the
clothing allowance from $3.50 to $3.50
should not be considered as being
in accord with the program of the
President.
Evening star., 1942-11-22

SNOW SUIT DOLL
She's a cuddly baby, all dressed
up IN a pink, blue-trimmed
f1annelette snow suit and
rarka! Is inches tall. Her
eyes open and QSr
close
Evening star., 1942-11-22

ARMY FONE
= You can talk-you can listenl
Two Communicators with a
long cord. A small boy needs
it to keep up his Junior
Army's Army, '0mmuni'a- 25c
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29
A CHALLENGE
By PEDRO 5AGUHAR
Sports Writer

The Key West baseball club
takes this means of challenging
the Naval Operating Base team,
champion of the Key West Serv-
ice Baseball League, or the Fort
Taylor nine, runner-up, any time
and any place" and any number
of games.
The writer is not offering an
aIibi for the showing of the civil
ain Red Raiders when the Serv-
ice League was in action but we
do claim Key West never had q
representative team on the field
in any game Now, the boys are
ready to play, and well show
'em our smoke, says William
Gates, player-rrfanager.
The Key West team will be
composed of Cyril Griffin. Rob
ert Bethel, Julio Barcelo, William
Gates, Jackie CarboneH, Amman
do Aeevedo, Esmond (Tarzan)
Albury, Evelio Rueda, Gabriel
Garcia, Domingo Ubieta, Philip
Baker, Mario Pena, H. Molina,
Aritas, and Jimmie Otis pitcher
from Macon, Ga, who would like
to show the service men his
stuff.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29
Miners t49)
CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
WILL OPEN MONDAY

The three-out-of-five series be-
tween the Miners and Gardeners
for the high school basketball
championship will open at the
schools gymnasium Monday
night.
The Miners are the defending
champs but the Gardeners are said
to have an excellent chance of
upsetting the titleholders.
The Girards and Thompsons,
losers in the preliminary play
offs, will meet in the first game
each night of the championship
series to decide the winner of
the consolation title.
Games will be played Mon
daY, Tuesday and Wednesday
nights. The opener will get un-
der way at 7:30 o'clock and the
nightcap at $50 o'clock.
The public is urged to attend.
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1942-10-29

The feature game of the eve
ming was between the Thompsons
and Miners. The Thompsons
went down in defeat, 1925, and
thus were eliminated from the
final playoffs for the title.
1t was a thriller to the end, a
much better game than the score
would indicate.
Thompsons were led by the
giant, Paul Herrick, began with
a zip, and held the Miners in
check for the first half, but let
the game slide away in the
waning minutes of play.
Herrick was by far the out
standing man on the floor as he
prevented numerous shots by his
stellar defensive work. He sim
gle-handed bottled up the highly
touted Barber and MCGOWAN for
the entire first three periods but
gave way to the strain in the last
quarter to let them put the game
on ice.
Knowles, Barber and Meow
an were outstanding for the Win
ners, showing high caliber of
ball playing.
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