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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-08-09
Monday Sports Wash

George (HlKe) NOOnan, The human
Polar Bear of these parts, had
'hot" one to tell the boys around
Bauby's Saturday morning as the
thermometer registered just 80 in
the shade of the iron pole to which
it Is attached. AS swimming in
structor and life guard at the Chase
Park pool, Hike" opened the west
end water tank at 7 a. M Saturday
| morning to give the night shift
workers chance to take a dip
before they went home and to bed.
An even dozen Of them showed up,
got set for swim, when one guy
put his big toe in the water. Wow,
it's cold" said he, the air temp being
so at the time. The other IL, TAX.
ing his word for it, went right back
and put on their street clothes,
not one of the IL taking a dive
or jump into the water. To Com
modore Noonan, a veteran of 20
years diving through holes sur
rounded by ICE in February; that
was nothing short of SACRILEGE;
which is why he wore an expression
of undivided DISGUST until noon,
as he mumbled a few hundred
times: "The big FRAIDY CATS.
:. Sincere condolences to Tom and
Jim Flanagan, who suffered the loss
of their greatest friend, MOTHER,
last week Wednesday. A member of
one of Waterbury's pioneer Irish
families; Mrs. Catherine Flanagan
was held in highest esteem through
out a long and busy life; in which
she gave two sons to the Roman
Catholic priesthood and two grand
children, niece and nephew to re-
| ligious orders.
Hype Igoe's Sunday story in
the N. Y. Journal-American pro-
vided plenty of laughs for local
ringworms who know the sub
ject written up modest young
COB, Mickey Genaro by name.
Some of them have heard the
yarn before, about the time
Mickey and Make Rosenbloom
owned an Irish Sweepstakes
ticket; but 1t always looks fun
nier in print, especially with
new twist or two; and Igoe,
boxing writer from San Fran
cisco since the turn of the cen
tury did a good job on it.
can just picture Sailor Mike with
that infectious laugh of his the
next time he gets home on fur
Tough from Great Lakes, Ala
bama, or Kiska. He's a wonder
for getting around and about.
One night he called from Mem
phis, Tennessee NOT COLLECT,
simply to inquire "how's all the
boys?"
Bill Winton's 60 had more than
few eyebrows raised Saturday at
the Country Club of Waterbury
where the retired golf pro played
friendly round with Dr. Ken Blan-
chard, Harold Beebee and George
SWentor and posted a SO, par for
the tough but Beautiful course.
DR. B., by the way had IA
which is not too far from PAR.
Though touched for II hits, George
Pinky Woods will probably FRhME
the BOX-SCORE of his first big
league ball game, in which he went
the full distance; winning 4 to
from the hot Washington Senators
yesterday.
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Standing
Schedule

Schedule
Week of Aug. 9-Aug. 18th
Monday, 10 a. m.-BGS VS. Aces.
Tuesday, 10 a. m.-BGs VS. d.
visions.
Wednesday, 10 a. m.-Aces VS. Bis
onS.
Thursday, 10 a. m.-Aces VS. Bull
dogs.
Friday, 10 a. m.-DiviSionS VS. Aces.
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The Standings
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
New York rs, Philadelphia Ia
Washington AS, Boston "a
Detroit SO, Chicago 20
Cleveland 6-5, st. Louis 5-2
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Leading Hitters
NATIONAL LEAGUE
(Eive Leading HitterS)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Home Runs

Cleveland (UP) - Frank Leahy,
football coach at Notre Dame, gives
the U. S. Naval Academy credit for
keeping college football alive in war
time.
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Coisson Jrs. Win

Caisson, Jrs. were 8 to winners
over the Blue Jays in a baseball
game played Sunday morning. with
Perrone hitting a triple for the
winners; Caisson batters got ~ hits
off Cowles; the BIZ team half ~
many from DAILY. Score:-
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Yesterdays Results
Montreal So, Jersey City Az
Newark SIS, Rochester IL
Toronto $40, Baltimore IL
Syracuse SO, Buffalo 3-2
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Games Today

Games Today
Newark at Bufftlo (nighD
Jersey City at Toroto (nighD
RaahAstAr at Syracuse (twtlight)
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NATIONAL LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results
Boston S, Brooklyn
philadelphia SIS, New York IL
Chicago At, Cincinnati $40
ST Louis SIS, Pittsburgh 6-2
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INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE

Games Tomorrow
, games scheduled)
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Games Today
(No games scheduled)
Games Tomorrow
mo games scheduled
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Games To-day
(No games scheduled)
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YESTERDAYS STAR Rudy
York. who hit three homers as
Cleveland clouted st. Louis, 6-5
and So.
Evening star., 1943-10-17

in this war" he said Yesterday. "It
looked pretty bad for us last spring
with cold and rain and floods. We
finally got in some crops late and
not too we'll planted. If we had had
an early or savage frost, the corn and
soybeans wouldn't have had chance.
But we had good hot summer and
the frost held off and it looks as if
we'd do pretty we'll"
Then he paused for moment as if
preparing the sting in the tail of his
speech. God knows" he said, "after
all the troubles put in the way of
farmers, this year we need the Lord
on our side. That's about the only
thing could have saved us!"
Behind this speech lies a fact of
great significance to workers, city
dwellers and all the people living
outside America who are dependent
upon the American farmer for food.
1t means they are going to have con-
siderably more to eat than they might
have had.
City people are beginning for the
first time in history to have an inter-
est in where food comes from, and
for the first time they are beginning
to understand that a good farmers
life isn't a simple one and that he
has to contend with labor, price
regulations, filling in forms, taxes,
insurance and God knows what.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
5000 Jews in Mines

A report has just reached Czechoslo-
yak circles In London on the fate Of
about 5000 young Jews working in coal
and salt mines and in building yards in
Upper Silesia. In the district of Birke-
nau, Upper Silesia, mammoth factories
and workers barracks are being built
near coal mines. While British prison.
ers Of war and French workers are bill
leted In camps or neighboring villages,
the Jews, together with many convicted
criminals, have to sleep on the building
yard floors
The report from reliable witnesses
says that those young Jews, many Of
whom are only 16 years of age. look like
ghosts wrapped in indescribable rags,
their shoes are riddled with holes, many
with their feet wrapped in newspapers.
They have no shelter from the rain or
snow; their hands are sore, their feet
covered with frostbite from last winter.
Their guards treat them with utter
brutality, the Withdrawing of food for a
period OF "a hours being one of the minor
punishments. Neither sick people nor
casualties receive any attention and
those in agony are not evacuated. Often
people wake up in the morning only to
flnd FELLOWSHIP erers dead at their side.
Evening star., 1943-10-17

labor and machinery available. There
is infinitesimally more machinery
available this year and even less
skilled labor than last year. The
border between the abundance pro-
vided by the Lord and the amount of
food lost through mans bureaucratic
stupidity will be great, perhaps as
great as the vast losses in unharvested
food last year.
Meanwhile, the good farmer con-
tinues to work hard and place his trust
in the Lord, which is about the only
place he has been able to place it
up to date. Children and grand
mothers are running tractors. Cattle
are breaking down fences because
there isn't enough labor or material
to repair them. So-called victory"
implements and materials are high
priced and so shoddy they are scarcely
worth buying.
The farmers sows eat their pigs be-
cause no meat scraps supplement is
available. Other supplementary feeds
for dairy herds and poultry are either
unavailable or so high in price that
they leave no margin Of profit. In
short. life for the farmer today is one
long headache. He has barely met
one emergency when another con.
fronts him. It Is almost impossible for
him 70 plan ahead.
Evening star., 1943-10-17

A good farmer has to know more
than men in any other profession in
the world. He has to be a veterinary,
an agronomist, biologist, botanist,
a mechanic, weather diviner and
plenty of other things. In the get
rich-quick era Of industrial develop
ment, Americans forgot that their
whole economy rests upon the land,
its fertility and the men who handle
it. In the past the American farmer
hasn't had a high enough opinion
of himself.
Today no American citizen is doing
a better job than the farmer and
very few are doing as good job.
He has gone right ahead plugging at
feeding the pepole in the towns and
cities. He doesn't talk about patriot
ism any more than he talks about
religion because that's not his way of
doing things. He is very poor
politician. But he's doing his job and
a magnificent one 1t is. And don't let
them tell you he's getting rich, be-
cause he isn't, or that he has any
very big share Of the $4,000, 900 900
OF uncontrolled infiationary money
churning about in this country. He
needs the Lord on his side. Up to
date he hasn't had much else.
NAisassd b. the Bell Syndicate. rns)
Evening star., 1943-10-17
Curios From Ruins
From the Evening Standard uondon).

From the Evening Standard London).
Surrounded by the clean white dust
OF a stonemasons workshop in North
London. 6s-year-old Sidney Bysouth has
worked on stone for 48 years. But now
the Luftwaffe has brought him a new
job.
He is carving up chunks Of stone which
have seen history made.
They are choice pieces salvaged from
the rubble which, before the night of
May 10-1l, 1941, was part of the fabric
OF the Houses of Parliament.
Now Sid and about a dozen fellow
stonemasons, including two Of his sons,
are busy turning the historic stone into
useful articles such as bookends, garden
troughs, ashtrays. tobacco jars-each de-
signed by an artist, each finished with .
decorative lead plaque.
The rubble was given to the Red Cross,
to which all profits on sales are handed
over.
After less than six months, during
which the scheme was getting into shape,
the amount earned for the Red Cross
totaled about $1,000.
Evening star., 1943-10-17

, phoid, cold and hunger reduced the once
mighty grand armee to stumbling, in
effectual disease-ridden remnant less
than 1/27th Of its former personnel and
power.
The Crimean War Of 1854 proved again
If further proof were necessary-that
disease ranked as the soldiers No.
enemy. At the Scutari Hospital
base, British doctors discovered that only
81 of every thousand deaths were caused
by wounds. All the rest were credited
to pestilence.
The Allied French Army. no luckier,
sacrificed half its men to cholera and
typhus.
Our own military health record for
the period provided no incentive for
dancing in the streets. In 1861, Presi-
dent Lincoln appointed a committee to
investigate the health of the Union
Army. The bearded pundits reported
back that "the fever prevalent among
soldiers is bilious remittent fever which,
not having been controlled in It's pri-
mary stages, has assumed the dynamic
type which is present In enteric fever"
This meant that typhoid was rampant.
So were malaria, dysentery and mumps.
Three Of Four Die Of Disease.
When final casualty lists were totaled,
three out OF four deaths in the Civil War
on both the Union and Confederate
sides could be laid directly to disease.
Less than 40 years later. in the Span
ish-American war, fever camps" bur-
geoned into national scandal. Roughly,
one out of every seven soldiers came
down with typhoid. Disease accounted
for more deaths than all battle actions
combined.
Even so recently as the First World
War. disease led the Four Horsemen
of the Apocalypse by many lengths.
In their famous retreat of 1915, the
Serbs lost $4,000 men to typhus. The
balance Of the army escaped annihila-
ton only because the pursuing Austrians,
very sensibly, hesitated to advance
through fever-ridden land.
Cholera, malaria, dysentery, tetanus,
the dread lockjaw. gas gangrene. pneu-
1i1l1UC1lLd, AiGAlAlSlllS duOcu tllCA
toll. Even mumps cost our Army almost
1000, 900 man-days Of lost duty.
Not all of the clinical killers Of the
ages have been conquered. But all
have been-or will be-controlled to the
point where the commander, estimating
his probable, losses need no longer score
one casualty from battle and four from,
| disease
Blood plasma, promptness of medical
and surgical care, transfusions, the
wonder-working sulfa drugs, the even
more marvellous penicillin, improved
techniques for treating burns and scalds
influenza mists to combat respiratory
| infections-these and many more in the
making are Johnny Doughboys faithful
and effective allies against his most
| dangerous enemy
| Soon-if medical science continues to
| advance at its present rate Of progress
all Johnny Doughboy need worry about
: Is bullets.
Evening star., 1943-10-17
Pool for Relief
By H0ward Dobson,
Associated Press Writer.

A philosophy of total warfare that calls
for tossing loaves of bread to your enc
my's hostages at about the same time
you chuck the last hand grenade at him
will be implemented next month by the
United Nations.
They will put their resources for eco
nomlc resuscitation of liberated countries
into pot, and from the investment con-
fidently expect a return not only of graft
tude, but practical help of the they went
that way" variety.
The pot will be known as the United
Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Ad-
ministration (UNRRA). Probably pre-
siding over the ladle will be Herbert H
Lehman, former Governor of New York
and more recently head of this country,s
Office of Foreign Relief and Rehabilita-
ton Operations (OFRRO).
Representatives of the countries which
have signed the United Nations agree
ment are to sign the UNRRA pact No
vember 9 at the White House, and will
convene the next day In Atlantic CITY.
N. j., to set up the organizations gov
erning council and determine policies.
1t is expected here that Lehman will
be unanimous choice for director general
relief boss of the world. He put the
OFRRO together, was an author of a
previous tentative United Nations relief
agreement, to which the Netherlands
made some technical objections and has
assisted in revamping the proposal to
provide safeguards for representation of
small countries in the work.
While the job certainly will be the
biggest Lehman has tackled, a lot of it's
fundamental principles will be familiar
to him. He was Governor of New York
from 1888 to 1943, decade which saw
hundreds of thousands on the States re-
lief rolls and saw relief costs mount into
the millions of dollars.
A wealthy banker, man who never
has known personal want, Lehman, now
IS, has devoted Is years to public Office
because he says such is the duty Of any
man who can afford to do it.
He also has spent hundreds OF thou
sands OF his own dollars, and more than
40 years Of busy life, on various charities
associates. Perhaps best remembered in
his native New York City is the time he
pledged a large share of his personal
fortune to protect depositors who were
caught in the failure of a bank with
which he was connected
The UNRRA will consist of a council
composed of one representative of each
member nation. Nations not originally
included may become members upon
application to the council
This policy making body will select
director general as administrative officer,
Between council sessions, central COM
mittee made up of representatives of the
United States, England, Russia and China
is to hold emergency policy powers.
Each member is to pledge its full sup
port, within the limits of its resources
and subject to its constitutional pro-
cedures, to the relief program.
Evening star., 1943-10-17

Most of all, perhaps, he has to con-
tend with the weather. Not only
can it ruin him, but it can make a
whole nation go short on food.
We've been lucky in this country
since our very beginning. We've had
too much land, too little population,
great variety of climate and all the
things which 60 to prevent the kind
OF famine great countries like Russia,
China and India suffer periodically.
For the first time in our history we're
beginning to feel the kind of pinch
many millions Of the people of other
nations take for granted.
IT we have more food than we
hoped for this year it's because we
were lucky to have the Lord on our
side to cancel out the folly and lack
of providence for which we ourselves
have been responsible
The news isn't all good. In large
areas of the South and West drought
has ruined crops and pastures. In
certain restricted areas of the Middle
West, heavy rains and late spring
ruined prospects of oats, corn and
soybeans beyond repair.
The actual harvest of corn, soy
beans, sugar beets and potatoes still
lies ahead and how much OF that we
shall reap as food available to nom
farmers depends not upon luck and
the Lord, but upon the amount o9
Evening star., 1943-10-17

men for feed. But supplies OF this
wheat are running low and will be in
sufficient to meet this winters needs.
Some grain has been brought in from
Canada, but shortage of shipping
facilities and a recent Canadian en-
barge on barley will limit such supplies.
Food officials show concern over un-
favorable milk production prospects in
the East, South and Far West They
have studied numerous suggestions ad-
vanced for diverting corn from hogs to
dairy cows and poultry.
Those suggestions include feed ration
ing and Government purchase of corn
in the Midwest at above-the- ceiling
prices for resale to dairymen at the
ceiling prices. This latter suggestion has
been criticized as putting the Govern
ment in black market operations.
Dairymen also complain that ceilings
placed on milk are much less favorable
than returns allowed most other farm
commodities. The Government itself
agrees with this complaint 1t recently
lnaugurated subsidy payment program
designed to give dairymen returns suff1-
cient to offset the increases in their
cost of production since September,
1912. Those subsidies range from 25 to
SO cents per hundred pounds of milk.
Dalrymen contend, however, that this
is not enough. The National Co-opera-
tive Milk Producers Association says
price increases ranging from II cents in
the North Central States to $1.37 on
the Pacific Coast are necessary to give
dairymen returns which would encour-
age them to maintain production-pro-
viding. of course, that they can get
food
Evening star., 1943-10-17
BY Paul Field,
Associated Press OF Great Britain.

he can get to a dressing station-or
until stretcher-bearer can get to him.
Either way, one result OF prompt and
potent medication at the time and place
wound is suffered Is the miraculous
record Of survival among American bat
tle-wounded-thus far, 81 per cent have
lived.
Service in the armies that ravaged
Europe during the Thirty Years War
from 1918 to 1648 proved another ex-
perience scarcely calculated to lower a
soldiers life insurance premiums
Typhus and bubonic plague fell in step
with the troops. Filth, medical ignorance
and superstition soon advanced them to
a commanding position in the ranks In
Munich, typical town, half the popula-
ton was wiped out. Augsburg lost four
out of five inhabitants. After the war.
Germany, bled white by disease, ceased
to exist as nation.
The grenadier OF Napoleon came in
for fair share of glory-and an even
greater exposure to pestilence.
In Egypt. the French legions ran afoul
OF strange eye malady. Endemic oph-
thalnia' was the seven-dollar word
Larrey, Napoleon's surgeon, applied to it.
Actually. 1t was trachoma.
Plague Hits at Home.
For time, trachoma threatened the
sight and existence Of the army itself
Then, denied victory in the field. the
disease struck at the wives and children
Of the returning French victors, one
Napoleonic spoil of war rarely stressed
in Bastille Day speech making.
Other ports and places brought other
pestilences.
Bubonic plague ragged at Joppa. scurvy
at Alexandria. In Russia, typhus, ty-
Evening star., 1943-10-17
This is historys safest war for the SOL

This is historys safest war for the SOL
dier.
Medical science has robbed Mars OF
his most lethal weapon: Disease.
War always is a dangerous business.
Cavemen bouncing rocks off each other
skulls risked the same death as does
Johnny Doughboy in his foXhole. But
Johnny Doughboys chance of coming
through alive is four times as great as
any of his warrior predecessors.
He's in the healthiest, best cared-for
army the world ever has known. The fin
est medical minds and the Aladdin like
products of their skill go with him on
the march. His chances of contracting
one or more of the dread blights that
withered the ranks in other days are
about what they would be on Main street.
1t wasn't like that in the days of Per-
icles and the Greek army that defended
Athens against the Spartans some $500
years ago.
Athens walls were high and thick
and solid. But plague struck popula-
ton swollen by refugees to 10000, and
before the epidemic burned itself out
an estimated half to two-thirds OF the
lence now believed to have been typhus.
Typhus Is Remote Threat.
The shifting tides of global war may
land Johnny Doughboy on one or more
of the worlds worst typhus spots. But
his chances of contracting the disease
that once wiped out a city, culture and
civilization are remote
The crusaders of 1896 were a glamor-
GUS but scarcely hygienic lot. Part OF
their program was to bring back from
the Holy Land the cross on which Christ
was crucified. Instead, they brought
back leprosy.
The scourge spread rapidly. was so
little understood that by the 18th
century the landscape Of Europe was
marred by 10000 Lazar houses-so called
because Lazarus was supposed to have
been leprous.
China, India, the Near and Far East
any of these hotbeds of leprosy may
be mixed in on Johnny Doughboy's fu-
ture sailing orders. Thanks again, how
ever, to army medicine, his chance OF
infection is roughly equal to yours
The introduction Of gunpowder did lit
tie to improve the hygiene or chance
of survival of the common soldier The
medieval medicine man believed all gun
shot wounds were poisonous. They were
but all too often the wounds proved
less dangerous than the methods used
to treat them. Red-hot irons and boil
ing oil were applied. If these tender
ministration failed, the 14th century
surgeon would turn to with hacksaw and
scalpel-usually without benefit of opiate.
Sulfa Tablets Great Aid.
The soldier of today stands a far
greater chance of survival. Unless NOR
tally hit, the sulfa tablets and powder
in his kit will reduce danger of infec-
ton almost to the vanishing point. II
the wound is painful, the hypodermic
that is another must in his equip
ment, will make him comfortable until
Evening star., 1943-10-17

worshiping G cd
and so they could
not be otherwise.
I don't mean by
religious that they
are church going.
A good farmer
will not hesitate
to plow a field or
m a ke h ay on
S u n d a Y rather
than to let the
abundance given
us by God be
wasted through
laZineSs or stupid
Evening star., 1943-10-17

lty, or false reasoning.
have just come back from trip
through the rich Middle West and
found lot of good farmers praising
the Lord. Their attitude was ex-
planned by S1e direct statement OF a
neighbor.
"The Lord seems to be On our side
Evening star., 1943-10-17
By Louis Bromfeld.

Most good farmers are religious
men. They are good farmers because
they love the earth they till and the
animals they raise. That in itself is
Evening star., 1943-10-17

"The sum total OF the common
sense OF the common people is the
greatest and soundest force on
edrth." Thomas Jefferson.