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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10
COMPENSATION FOR
VOLUNTEER CHIEF
Award Given to Bristol
Co. Employee Injured OBJ
serving Fire Drill

An einploye who is injured while
in the performance Of an act which
is of benefit to the employer, al
though 1t Is outside of obligatory
duties and after working hours, may
receive compensation, it was ruled
by Compensation Commissioner
John ]. O'Connell in finding and
award approved today at his office.
Roderick w. Cooke of 10 Pearl
street, who was employed at the
Bristol Company In Waterbury as
an electrician, fell about six feet and
injured his left wrist last october
between z and 7:30 p. m. while OBJ
serving the actions of q group Of
men on the factory roof during a
fire drill. The practice drills Of the
fire department were conducted OUT
side of working hours and partici-
pants received no remuneration for
their services. Cooke acted in the
capacity of chief of the volunteer
fire department during the drill.
Following the accident, he was
taken to Waterbury hospital where
he received treatment for the in
jury by DR.. Clarence H. Cole. He
was released from the hospital the
next morning and returned to his
work that afternoon.
In granting the payment of med
ical expenses incurred, Commits
sioner O'Connell cited O supreme
court case, Mann VS.. Glastonbury
Knitting Co., 30 Conn.,, ll6-l20, in
which it was decreed Compensation
will follow if any injury arising from
a risk of the business is suffered
while the employe is doing some
thing which, although quite outside.
of his obligatory duties, Is permitted
by his employer for their mutual
convenience. such as eating his
dinner on the premises, or any SINH
lar act to the performance of which
the employer has consented"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10
BLOCK PLAN LEADERS
HEAR STATE REPORT

At q meeting of sector and block
plan leaders in Zone A, Sectors 40
to 40. held on April at Anderson
school, Mrs. Donald Post, chief
block leader. reported on the State
meeting in New Haven and the
meeting held at Bushnell Memorial.
Hartford and Mrs. Morton B. Allan
gave q lecture on the months as
signment IVA. Gardens" Precinct
leader, Mrs. Walter p. Green, pre-
sided.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10
ACTION NEEDED in
RED CROSS DRIVE

An appeal for the Red Cross war
Fund was made by Rev. DR.. John
c. Walker of the Second Congrega-
tional church in an address over
Station WBRY last night. He urged
local residents to make extra ef-
forts to bring the current drive to
the desired goal.
More than $4,000 has been
raised SO far. with the quota set at
$4,000.
Australia is trying to stop go-slow
strikes in coal mines.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10

man informed him he had eXper-
fenced a dizzy spell just prior to the
crash. Nobody was with him at the
time.
The former Republican leader was
the subject of debate in the General
Assembly recently when both houses
voted to restore civil rights he lost
when he pleaded guilty and was
convicted in the Waterbury con-
spiracy trial. Gov Raymond u. Bald
win has not signed the final meas
ure.
The accident occurred on Maple
Ave, a short way from Mackenzie's
home.
Danbury Hospital authorities said
his condition was good"
Police Chief Britto investigated the
crash and described the car as be-
ing in bad shape"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10
LAWYERS NAMES
ADDED TO ROLL

Names of Mark L. Sperry. Ind,
ard william A. Rattle have been
added to the official Waterbury list
OF lawyer-serViccmen. Names of all
New Haven county lawyers who are
now In the armed forces have been
entered on an honor roll TO be ded"
Icated at ceremonies at the New
Haven common pleas court today.
Submission Of names for the list
has been requested by the clerk OF
the local superior court. The two
latest additions bring the list TO "a
names.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10
MACKENZIE VICTIM
in AUTO ACCIDENT
FrOmer Republican Leader
Painfully Injured in
Crash Near Home

Former Republican Leader Harry
E. Mackenzie, 81. sustained tract
ured left and severe facial lacera-
tions yesterday afternoon when he
lost control of automobile and
crashed into a tree, said Police
Chief Morris S. Britto, Jr., of Bethel.
Mackenzie was treated at the
Danbury Hospital by DR.. H. Frank
Moore, who said that the injured
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10

Mile OF Jeeps' Drive
Launched By Legion
Statewide Bond Campaign Undertaken By Connecticut
Department; Two Waterbmians on Committee

statewide campaign by the American Legion CT
Connecticut to sell enough War Savings Bonds during the
Second War Loan drive in April to purchase 'le Of
Jeeps" for the Army, announced today by Colonel
Thomas Hewes state administrator Of the War Savings
Committee on Organizations and Arthur J. Connel Oe
MiddIetoWn. national vice commander Of the Legion
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10

a program based on the music OF
Omitted tSates and Allied nations
WI b presented ct the twenty
fourth annual concert Of the Con-
Dolidated High School Orchestra
and Band TO be held ct the willy
auditorium on Thursday, April Is,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10

ski, So. were found In their room
Thursday overcome from effects OF
fumes caused when . coffee pot
boiled over and extingulshed q gas
flame.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10

FIrst-aid groups are being console
dated with rescue parties In Eng
land.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-04-10
I@se4M%1yavt&
esIAsLlsEED IsOO

There's A Greet All Around Gobor-
dine Topcoot At $35 That Will
Help You Feel Like Throwing Dull
Care To The Winds.
u starts the urge to go pieces ond
show lift gives you spring in
your step-pep in your sOit-Ond
feeling thot you need moke no
apology for your oppecrcnee.
Its greet set up to your pride in
good elothes-it's greet goboT-
dine topeOOt for $35-ond hos
wey Of sticking close through
thick and thin and Becoming
better pol e0eh dOy.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22

Alan Laid is now Cpl.
Eleanor Roosevelt buying her
own ticket for the army show
at 500.
Janet Gaynor will resume her
career -Y via the networks 80 in
the spot Mary Aston had.
MID TO W y Nignette-No
vi well known person, per-
haps, has attracted so much at
tention-or turned so many
heads.
Members ~ the highest court
who have come 10 the Stork
Club haven't aroused so much
curiosity
War heroes such as John
Buckley Of PIT boat renown and
Capt. FoSs, who doWned Is Jap
planes. supped there without so
much as stare.
Because even the staff didn't
know they were IN the place, no
doubt.
But the other night A movie
favorlte kept the patrons TO-
cused on her Betty Cradle
And near the bar. alone. sat
sailor. who didn't attract an
admiring glance
He wore every campaign rib
bon-10 OF them.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
Summer in the Garden
Boer to Get Grapes
Beetles Don't Want
BY ARTHUR BUGS" BAER

Today Is the first day of and very good for
victory gardens The should be starting look like
passport picture
Everything should be up and looking fine. There
should be enough japanese beetles the grapes you
feel you will get few for yourself
The should be about the size of doorknobs
small hotel Their chief enemies hornworms and lunch
wagon chefs
The hornworm is caterpillar and gets be about
three four inches in size. 1t looks Ella
in the morning. The best way is by hand
picking MN N'rN >..t... NN\Wh
Decide which end of the hornworm its mouth and
then force of calcium down its throat.
shall speak about the hornworm the aphis the
hp and the beetle Saturday when organize the Daughters
of the Old Colonial War Gardeners.
That gives the and the beetles Tuesday Wednes-
day, Thursday and Friday chew and nibb But I'm still
mad at them
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
He Won the
Game of Life

NIKE and Tommy Sheehan a
A'A former Brooklyn third base
man, organized the two. clubs
that toured the Orient long ago.
They had no money but had a
lot of fun.
Mike always claimed that il
took tn r e wheelbarrows TO
carry away the receipts of a
Sellout in Yokohama and the
gross shook down to $3.50 in
American money.
His experiences on that trip
kept Mike in stories the rest of
his life.
He was probably well-heeled
financially when he died and
Scoop Gleeson recalls that
Mike got his start on the road
10 fortune by installing moni-
tors in a popular priced dance
hall in Seattle and then in cities
OF the northwest.
ESCOOP" thinks Mike should
~ be credited with taking
the dance hall out of the slums
and under the supervision OF
committees of clubwomen, maxi
ing 1t a highly regarded diver
sion as we'll as a revenue pro-
Queer.
He built the Arcadia in San
Francisco. which lately has been
converted into one of the city's
biggest bowling alleys.
But the fame of gusty old
Mike whose somewhat broad
humor was his greatest char
acterlstlc up TO the hour of his
death, always will rest in Pa
cific Coast baseball on his Ia
coma Tigers and that is the
way Mike would have wished IL.
Copyright, 1913, by King Features
Distributed by International News Service
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
On the Side

I fought on windy piam, on
mountain ora0 T.
DoWn deiis and By gay babbimg
streams,
Yet not for Inst Of blood
But for n fnG
Incarnadined an dreams.
-Advivum
(Above/was written by L 5
marine whose modeSty inspires
him to use the nom de plume
"Advivium" This marine fought
at Guadalcanal.-EVD0.
NANCY WEXFORD. Once of
~ musical comedy. She starred
in mo. No Nannette!n The hit
song of that show was Tea for
Two"
Margaret Bridget Bryan Cox
Hart. Danseuse. Better known
as Margie Hart, The Poor
Mans Carlo" She IS from
Missouri.
Grantland Rice. Dean of
sportscribes. / claim Mr. Rice is
one Of the great American poets.
l think some Of his lines
should be in the text books
along With-thoSe- of Bryant,
Whittier, Longfellow, Holmes,
etc.
For example, the poem from
which the following IS an eX-
Cerpt
Eyes TO the front, though the
m,sts ore henry.
Life At best Is bret parade
Keep one dream IN your heat,
my brothers,
Aothinc shatters the una fraud,
IF YOU have dog, keep the
following advice by Robert
Leighton. dog expert. in mind.
Dogs never forget an injury
wlllfully inflicted" said Leigh
ton
They even feel the sting of
ridicule.
1T Is not wise to laugh at a
dog or tease him.
They resent anything in the
form OF deceit or unfairness.
"You must be certain of a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
Better Il e III

DO NOT believe that any dis
L covery in science ever was
made which strikes me AS so
entirely magical and wonderful
as the X-ray.
The revelations Of the micro
scope, which have shown us a
whole world Of tiny living crea-
lures which we never would see
otherwise. IS wonderful. but I
can make sense out Of the micro
scope.
But that shaft Of light could
be d evised which would 90
through opaque objects and
reveal the contours OF organs
known only TO the anatomist IS
certainly pure witChery.
! presume II has affected
nearly everybody in the same
way and that has exaggerated
It's value as a dlagnoStlc pro-
cedure.
NOT that | want 10 attempt
" 70 underrate rs value
! should say that taking
series Of medical and surgical
cases and assessing the value
the diagnostician gets out OF
various procedure, the X-ray
would come third
AS | have been saying in this
series, the patients story Of his
own illness is the most impor-
tant, what the doctor can see,
feel and hear is second in i'm
portance and the X-ray comes
third
This is true IN the first place
because It is valuable in more
kinds OF cases than any other
laboratory procedure.
II is valuable 10 the bone sur
geon, 10 the chest physician, 70
the heart physician. 10 the in
terniSt in diseases of the Stom-
ach and 10 the nose, throat and
ear specialist.
T. a series Of 100 patients the
l. doctor. no matter what kind
of doctor he Is. viii have TO
have a history in all Of them
He Will have 10 have phySi-
cal examination in all Of them
And he Will have 20 have an
X-ray in about 80 per cent Of
them in order 10 be perfectly
sure Of the diagnosis
1t can perhaps best be
illustrated by The common case
Of A fractured bone
The surgeon hears about the
accident and knows what part
of the body IS injured and what
part hurts
That, is the history and 10 a
certain extent limits his inquiry.
II II is in the leg, he can tell
by feeling and looking at the
leg pretty well whether It is a
broken bone, a dislocation or
Spraln.
But he cannot be perfectly
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
March Of Events
BY Ben in min DeCaSseres

81 7NCLE DICK1E, the sage
~ OF Staten Island writes
81 notice Joe Stain granted
fishing privileges 10 Japan in his
territorial waters.
This furnishes the Jap with
about IS per cent Of his neces-
sary food.
is not this aiding and abet-
ting an enemy
Well. Stain does not look on
Japan as An enemy
II vas not 50 long ago that
he did not look on Hitler as an
enemy either.
In fact Stains definition If
an enemy IS any one who in
vades Russia.
He doesn't understand team
work.
As Uncle Dickie" suspects.
Russia Is not playing ball
with Us, and never did
But shes champion ~ ~oli-
talre.
\ RE We born with our opinions
~ ready-made or are they the
product of education
w s. Gilbert, the comic opera
king, asserted that everybody
and every gal that's born into.
the world alive IS either a little
liberal or else =. conservative ~
In other words. We have in
heritcd patterns Of mind, Just
as We have fatally a certain
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
The Brighter Side

THEY buried good old Mike
u Fisher in San Francisco re-
Gently and the rabbits prayerful
/appraisement of Mikes life APP
pealed so strongly to Scoop
Gleason, famous Pacific Coast
sports writer of another day
now engaged in business pur-
suits, that he felt impelled 10
write me about II.
Mike Fishers name may
m n nothing 10 the present
generation of baseball fans on
the West Coast or elsewhere
but in his time he was one of
the most colorful figures the
game ever has known-and IN
cidentally one of the two men
who first took baseball teams
transforming 10 Japan and
China.
THE rabbi, writes Scoop
L GleeSon, drew a parallel be-
tween life and a anne as
spropos of Mixes affiliation
with baseball.
He spoke of baseball as an in
tegral part Of American life.
Its action. its anecdotes. its
records, color and sportsman
ship.
And he said that now that
Mixes span had ended he would
be remembered. Their than
mourned, for his accomplish
ments in baseball just as the
game Is remembered. with an
ccdotes and pleasant remlnls-
CenCe.
HE won the game of life"
the rabbi said.
And" says Scoop" "it &C
Cured to me that in its sim
plicity, that was about as fitting
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22

- inc Grayson's suspension al
M-G-M is over John Shelton,
who was sent 10 Fort Mon
mouth, n. j., and she came east
10 be that nearer.
The Jackie Gleasons are call
ing 1t day-dream
Cover Girl Anita Colby
drew the assignment for the
newspaper and outdoor ads on
WAVE recruiting.
Sophie fuckers chums hear
that her autobiography won't
mention her husband, A Lackey.
Mary Roche. last enjoyed in
the Gilbert and Sullivan shows
at the st James, gets her
flicker break in "Tropicana.
She's only 20
Goldwyn's North Star" they
say, is far off It's budget. Cost
mint TO date
That was a breathleSS mo-
ment IN 57th street spot the
other night when singer re-
claimed his wife from the arm
of A booking agency exec.
Gloria Swanson IS supposed
10 have loads OF coin invested IN
war industries.
Medicos keep Barney Ross
from seeing war films, which
are daDreSSlveS for him
Copyright by DAISY Mirror. Inc.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
Connolly Answers

la ANDREW Jackson. th)
John Quincy Adams, tc)
Zachary Taylor
2-(a) United States: Ch)
France. Cc) Sweden.
3-(al Elizabeth Blackwell lhl
Anne Boleyn, tc) Harriet
Beecher Stowe.
4-ta) The Duel. Oh "DodS-
worth tc) The Bridge Of
San Luis Ray"
0-ta) cotton treated with nit
rlC acid and sulphuric acid;
th) from cinnabar or mere
ury sulphide; Co juice of
lemons.
6-ta) Jules Verne: (b) Ma
thaniel Hawthorne; tc) Lew
\[ Wallace.
Copyright, 1913. BY King Features
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22

THE Headliners " incent
l. Sheean, the novelist, hack
from the war zones, pocketing
his ribbons.
Dixon Of Oklahoma on
horseback in The early ayems
Preparing for the cavalry.
Enric Madriguera and his
lovely canary. Patricia Gilmore,
who - also his wife.
Belle Livingston and Evelyn
Nesbit reminScing about their
heyday-in Place Elegante.
ms correspondent George
Lait back from the front. minus
40 pounds and plus five wounds,
being embraced by every one
IN Leon & Eddie's.
Blue-eyed, b ! o nd Martha
\Stewart who thruShes the Hit
parade tunes AT Carnegie Hall.
Raymond Massey, on leave,
shyly accepting the verbal plau-
dts on his current film. Action
in the North Atlantic. corker
Hu Kong, once attached 10
the Chinese embassy, now
waiter AT Club Is.
Buster Collier once star.
now an agent.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22

kind n body or weak heart
or a strong one
And this pattern Of mind has
nothing 10 DO with the station
IN life in which one Is born
The rich and arIStOCratlC Mar
quiS De Lafayette was born d
RevOlutioniSt and the humble
born Adolf Hitler was destined
10 butcher the poor IN wars
and in shotgun government
The main contention Of Marie
kimball's jefferson the Road
10 Glory Coward NcCannl Is
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22


knowledge Of his guilt before
YOU punish him"
GONE chief petty officers in
- the WAVES have charge OF
the housekeeping.
They can criticize the way a
WAVE takes care of her quar-
tiers and the WAVE cannot talk.
back.
Imagine the self control
necessary for a woman 10 listen
10 her housekeeping being criti-
clzed and keep silent.
A FORMER Hollywood film
"a star is now taking part in
the Japanese war effort in
Toxic.
II is Sessue Hayakawa who
starred N many pictures made
IN Hollywood in the silent film
era.
Hayakawa appeared in what
many still rate the most sensa-
tional film ever made in Holly
wood.
This was The Cheat" in
which Fannie Ward also APP
peared.
= In this film Hayakawa, play
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
BY Damon RunyOn

an epitaph as I have ever heard
used in the passing of a sporting
character"
NIKE. who died al 81, was the
NA great diamond hero of
Scoops youth.
II was Scoops" uncle,
Tommy Gleason. then manager
of the championship Sacramento
ball club who induced Mike TO
give up his job as a Sacramento
cop to play professional ball.
In the years that followed
Mike made baseball history on
the Pacific Coast, particularly
with his Tacoma Tigers.
That was one Of the greatest
clubs the Pacific Coast League
ever has produced.
MIKES Tigers included Orvie
-u Overall, former University
Of California pitcher and foot
ball star who was afterwards
10 become pitching mate of
the mighty Mordecai Three
Fingered Brown and Ed Reul-
back on Frank Chances cham
pion Chicago Cubs.
Another Tiger was Elmer
Stricklett, who had the long
since banished spitball in work.
ing order before il was ever
heard of in the big leagues.
Truck Egan, a shortstop with
hamlike hands, who could maui
the ball 10 who laid the chunk:
Demon Doyle, who pitched
mean curve and filled in on off
pitching days in the outfield,
and Jack Fitzgerald. redhead
who afterwards pitched a 26-in-
ming tie against Elmer KoeStner,
were also members of the club
that Mike never forgot.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
Stain Definition
Of Enemy

They arc born 70 act pre-
cIselv as they do as Jefferson
was
BEWARE Of the postw ar
- poverty pleas Of defeated
Germany and Japan.
Poverty is a racket Of the
greatest psychological value
and both Germany. and Japan
know how 10 work II on. peace
time Soft-hearted, wecpy-eycd
Uncle Samuel
DO YOU remember how Cor
many drew millions out Of the
pockets Of the Americans. the
English, the NorWeglanS. the
French and Dutch for - years
after the Armlsucc on the plea
that She was starving. that
babies had no milk. that she
was nationally down and out?'
And there's always Dawes
or a Young with a plan
CERMANYS doing pretty
~ we'll for bankrupt +"
starving nation isn't she7
And remember that il was
some OF our soft dollars that
helped 70 build her up.
Another country that PLAYED
the poverty racket vas ia.
pan
Remember how. she inspired
and "buffsloed'D American and
Engllsh correspondents m To-
klo 10 send out long cables year
after year that she was in no
shape for war that she was
bankrupt" >
Well, folks, that is all going
10 BE- pulled on US again after
we've got Germany and Japan
on the floor
And will we. sucker eternita-
tuS, rush 70 lift them up again?
VIII We give them plans.
send our food 10 them and our
money! -
Id like 70 say no.
s. But knowing ourselves and
knowing the tricks Of those willy
enemies Of all that Is decent in
lie, I'm compelled 10 say yes.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-06-22
N1argie Hart
From Missouri

ing Fannie Wards husband.
claimed she had been unfaithful
To him.
SO he took a red hot iron and
branded the word cheat on
her back.
As TO the greatest general in
\ history how about the Duke
of Wellington. He defeated
Napoleon three times.
Rita Hayworth when seeking
a divorce described her mar
RED life as "A vicious circle Of
arguments " That is an excel
lent brief description of an I'M
happy marriage
II was in 1893 that Henry
Luce married Clare Boothe.
Clare had a daughter Is years
old al the time OF her marriage
TO Mr.. Luce.
Seems difficult 70 believe the
youthful appearing congress-
woman from Connecticut now
has 25-yesr-eld daughter bat
such seems 70 be the case.
QUERIES from clients:
" Q-What do you consider
tho five most important things
for happiness in the order
named
Al, Health ,, rcciprocated
love, 3. freedom ! coHgenial
work > economic Independence.
Q The sergeant says the
longest fight ia the past so
years was between Sullivan and
kItraln. How about il?
A-The/ sergeant Is wrong.
Without looking at the records
| VIII bet him A Stogie that the
75-round fight he refers 10
took place over 80 years ago.
| think the Gans-Nelson fight
was the longest in past so
years.
Q-What do you think of a
husband whe-fafeiy tells his
wife he loves her, spends his
evenings at the corner cocktail
bar and flirts with all the pretty
girls at parties? And he has
only been married two years.
Ale should be ashamed OF
himself. He acts like A man
who has been married five
years.
Copyright. ls43. by King Feature.