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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09

Fact is, however, that most of the things FDR told Congressional leaders that day, off the record, he told his press conference next day-for publication.
 There were details about the way the Firestone Rubber com- pany Is double-tapping rubber on It's Liberia plantation, the way Roosevelt celebrated his birth day, with cake and candles in the plane 5000 feet over Haiti, and the story about the Presidents being so comfortable in Casablanca that he didn't want to move, in spite of advice that the confer ence should shift locale from day to day for safety's sake.
 But there were at least Q few things the President included in his talk with COngressmen which were not revealed to the press.
 One was the tOuChy problem of civilian unrest and possible revolt among the native pOpu. lAtiOn, mostly Arabs. The Presi. dent pointed out the danger of such an outbreak to our mill. tary operations. It would be like having hostile action on the rear flank, he said.
 The other matter which the President discussed with Con- gressional leaders was the Tolan- Kilgore-Pepper bill creating @ centralized civilian reorganization for the War Production Board and the production powers of the Army and Navy.
 The President backed up the Army and Navy, said he was em- phatically opposed to the bill, and asked for Congressional support in defeating 1t.
 If the bill passed, of course, 1t would be tantamount to Con- gress stepping in and telling the Executive that the production end of the war was not being run efficiently. The Army and Navy, especially the former, have been bringing all sorts of pressure to block passage of the bill, which would place their production entirely under civ- ilian control.
 NOTE: The Presidents report on Arab unrest checks with that of OWLS Milton Eisenhower, a brother of the General, recently returned from North Africa. CAPITAL CHAFF
 According to Hollywood Re- porter, Sam Goldwyn is suffering
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
Health
 By pr. William Brady

Signed letters pertaining ! par-
 sonal health and hygiene, not Co l disease, diagnosis or treatment, win De answered by pr. 7rndy M
 . stamped self-addressed envelope l ls enclosed, Letters should be brief and written in ink. No reply can be made to queries not conform
 ing to instructions. Address pr. William Brady. National News.
 paper Service, S2O West Madison
 Street. Chicago III. .'.l t4 HEAVEN HELP MRS. wIsEACRE's
 BABY
 Catching up with her in the mid. dle of page three I hear the cotIl- plaint of the Wiseacre babys mother
 .. help my nine months old
 baby overcome her constipation. She cried night and day from the
 time of her birth because of ses
 we're collie pains t So far Mrs. Wiseacre has equipped the defenseless infant with two complaints which, if the infant were given a fair deal, would never oc- cur at all, namely "colic" and "ccrl- stipation."
 =. so we took her to Q special
 ist in town and he gave her pills etc., which did not help much Specialistp The Wiseacres would go to a specialist" They think specialist" because he calls him. self specialist" is a cut better than an ordinary doctor"-that's what the Wiseacres call the honest doc tor who doesn't charge fancy price for his advice or service.
 .. her fromula was changed eight times ...
 You know--that trick algebra which the child or baby Special ists" sell the credulous Wiseacres In lieu of telling them to feed the baby half milk and half water.
 .. doctor finally said she would outgrow 1t 'a
 We'll, that isn't another ailment, perhaps, but it is Q sorry dodge for any doctor. Waiting for a child to outgrow any ailment, defect, de- IOCulCy or pL1ySAChA SOAEuAWVA ID !" confession that you are too ignor- ant to give the child Q break, that's all. A child may outgrow crib, clothes or playthings but not physi- cal ailments. If child's physical ailments are neglected in the hope that the child will outgrow them 1t Is far more likely that the ailment, although amenable to proper treat ment, will retard or prevent normal growth of the child or afflict the child with defect or deformity which canot be corrected later hl life.
 .. friend suggested mineral
 oil, one or two tablesporlofuls
 every day. It worked, all right. but If I omitted> 1t a single day she would be as bad as ever .. .
 The unhappy little tike. Think of the crudity of plying a young infant with such foreign sub stance as mineral oil every day VIII the poor kid weather 1t all rightp Will the Wiseacres conceive still worse punishment for the baby? Tune in tomorrow, folks, and hear the fate of this baby. ..,..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Excessive Sweating

am seventeen. My trouble IS that my hands become wet with sweat when I attend dances, and 1t 1t very embarrassing. (A. w. M.l Answer Instructions for use of a local remedy to control sweating palms are given in pamphlet on Sweating" Send stamped envelope bearing your address for copy.
 These Cold Nights
 Sister and I, i6 and 22, sleep in twin beds upstairs where we. have no heat. We have always kept two of the three windows open. Parents object, 50 we closed one these cold nights. Now they say we should close the other window at least han. We never have cri. Dad says there Is enough ventilation around wiii- dow and door frames as the house Is not weather proof. (S. E)
 Answer-If 1t is question Of health, keep on as you are. If It IS a question of conserving fuel, i1iom always knows best. Tn any case, It is never too cold for health If you are comfortable in bed.
 No Substitute for Quinlnc .a
 Quinine proplylaxis against cri has proved highly successful m our family for several years. Now that we can't get quinine what do you suggest as a substitute?
 (M. N. M
 Answer-I regret I know of none. There are substitutes for .quinine against malaria, but none for qui- nine against respiratory infections, as far as I know.
 Copyright. 194S, John F. Dille CO.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09

EeteE EuSO@ t10n, dlStlnctlVe lights and shadows, and the camou. fiage for all must of course be dif- ferent. ..
 To bring each of these remote spots to the camouflage laboratory in Fort Belvoir, artists have labored painstakingly to build old-fashioned diorama miniature, tables sized, three educational replicas of typical arctic or tropical scenery. Each diorarna is perfect as to detail, to lighting effects and coloring. Even the intensity of the sunlight and glare Is accurately reproduced.
 When @ new paint job Is to be done on @ tank-say it's for Libya- a scale model of the tank is built in perspective. It is then placed in the Libyan diorama. It is photo- graphed, looked at from a distance. The paint job Is changed. Results are compared. The lights are chang ed to represent morning. midday, rain, overcast or shine. More com- parisons. Out of this detailed la. boratory testing, the ideal paint job is found for this particular tank. Then 1t iS' copied on the tanks to be sent to Africa.
 FALL OF PoNTooM
 No one knows just exactly who ordered 1t or how or when 1t hap. pened, but the correct spelling is now ponton--not pontoon. Most of the technical terms in rnilitiry science come from the French - words like reconnaissance, cul dc sac, revetement, enfilade, echelon and pontoon. With the fall of France, pontoon seems to have fal- len to ponton. Maybe some of the others will follow.
 Anyway, old-fashioned pontoon bridges in the last war were made of heavy steel or wooden barges. It took one truck or trailer to carry each of the boats and, when you consider that 1t takes 20 or 50 or more flats to cross e stream of any width, you can see that solne- times 1t was almost impossible to get the makings of Q pontoon bridge up to where they could be used and do some good.
 Today's modern ponton bridges have the boats made of fabric-rein- forced synthetic rubber. If you say that looks like @ waste of precious rubber in these days of rubber shortages, the Army Corps of En- gineers will say that 1t isn't and will argue that a ponton float made of synthetic rubber actually saves rubber. The reasoning behind this statement Is that detiated rubber ponton weighs much less than Q steel or wooden barge. One truck is thus able to carry number of com pact, deflated pontons and the num- Der of men transported to carry and infiate the rubber pontons is corre- spondingly reduced. That means less rubber for truck or trailer tires. WATERBUGS GO TO WAR
 People who have always consider ed outbroad motor speedboat and waterbug racing as the most futile and suicidal of sports might be in- terested to know that the U. s. Army Corps of Engineers has taken this idea, enlarged on 1t, and de- veloped @ landing barge scooter, powered by a 50-horsepower out board, that can skim over the sur- face of shallow water, skip like a flat stone onto dry land, and per- init detachment of soldiers to leap into action as a first wave in es- tablishing a bridgehead. These mili- tary scooterS are useful in crossing streams too wide to bridge with pontons.
 The Russians are supposed to have used craft like these success fully at Sevatopol.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09

No one can be happy until he re altzes that Gods attitude toward us is one of unfailing love a n d tenderness. If He permits some sorrow to come upon us or allows a heavy burden to be laid upon our shoul- ders. He does 30
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09

aldermanic body fails to voice an opin- ion on it's governing officer.
 If there was supposed to be political strategy in the recent Republican maneuver 1t has fallen quite short of its mark. The bomb, if meant to be one, was very much a dud.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09

hage is tested be- fore 1t Is used in the field. /
 Along one . wall of the model room you can, in one sweeping glance, take in the Aleu- tian islands, the Belgian Con g o, the A m erie an desert, the Solo. mon islands, Lib- va and Panama. Every one of these regions has dis- tinctive col ora- tion. distinctive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
Selected Poem
CAPE con PORTRAIT
Frances Hall in The Christian Science
 Monitor)

Monitor) He thinks like the tide rising, Inevitable, slow, Not minding which way winds blow. His words lap at truths rough edges And his phrases grow As a wave comes up and over, Again and over c third time over, Before 1t gains the strength to throw 4 splendid crest against the sky. Let us go
 And walt and be silent along the shore. At length will come the neap With shells and stones, small treasures to lay by For us, the gsrnerers. content with sun and sleep
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
STRENGTH FOR THE DAY
By EARL L. DOUGLASS Q. D.
GODS LOVE BEHIND ALL

GODS LOVE BEHIND ALL
 When we have to do what we do not want to do. or bear some bur- den which grieves our hearts, we are tempted to feel that God is very severe on us. We may even arrive at a point of despair and bitterness where we believe that God takes satisfaction in grinding us down.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
Current Comment

The world struggle is proceeding with gathering momentum toward its climax = so far we have every reason to rejoice.
 Winston Churchill.
 H@
 We never are able to get the Ger mans to come out and meet us tn a tank to tank combat. They don't like to play our way because we prefer to slug 1t out.
 Major James s. Zimmerman,
 in Tunisia.
 q.
 The Russian is the most sociable of human beings. He derives from feeling that he is one with the rest of Russia and with the rest of the world.
 Alfred B. Mirovitch, lecturer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
Washington Merry-Go-Round. DREW PE PEARSON

FDR Tells Secret Meeting of Congress Leaders of Aeon Unres Opposes Complete Civilian Power Over War Produetion Hot Fight Control of the Me chant Marine Nearing Climax Maritime Commission Suspects Navy of Spreading Hostile Stories
 WASHINGTON Feb 9mmeaey after his return from North Africa the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
U. s. Army Canouflage Is Lab-Tested
By PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrresnOndentl

Tn 8 well-camoufiaged, highly-re. Stricted one-story brisk building in the woods of the Corps of Engin- eers training center at Fort Bel- voir, Va, is the camouflage labora- tory of the U. s. Army. Here camou-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09

York; Bishop Francis J. Mcconnell. New York; Rt. Rev. Walter Mitchell, Arizona; Bishop G. Bromley Oxlam. Boston: Rev. Dr. De Sola Pool. New York; Rt Rev. Msgr. John A. Ryan, Washington, D. o.
 Sincerely yours,
 A. E. CRANDALL.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
Daily Almanac

Moon sets at Ii:50 ?. m. twar umel. Sun rises at 7;bS a. Ell. sets e:iS ?. m. twar timel.
 Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-09
A Thought for Today

The Lord Is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acqult the wicked. d.-Nahum I:3.
 Patience provoked often turns to fury srus.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-11

the wall fnG there stood the corpse and;
Upon its hodd with red. extended mouth and
solitary eye of fire sat the hiIcous beast
whose craft had scduccd me into murder and
whose informing voice had .gHed me TO
the haugman I had walled the monster zap
within the tomb"
Mrs Russelrs intuition did not give her any
such definite picture as this All IL told her
was that something had happened 90 Mary in
that house and she ought 90 find out
SO she visited Mr. and Mrs Robert ". Mil
Ter nciEhbors ON the other side of the dream
house now beginning 10 bee a mystery house,
and she learned something which confirmed
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-11

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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-11

house. So skllfully was it done that the POI
lice searched the cellar in vain and were just
, going away. entirely satisfied, when TO quote
] from The story:
u was answered by voceNfrom within the
tomb by Avery, at first n,ufflcd and broken.
Ike the sobbing of a child and then quickly
swelling into one long, loud and continuous
scream, utterly anomalous and inhuman
howl wailing Shrek half of horror and half
OF triumph such as might have arisen only ont
OF he'll. conformity from the Threats of the
damned in their agony and of the demons that
oxut IN their damnation,'
OF course the police, in the story, tore down
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-11

II she had died on him that way" il was the
meanest trick she could possibly play The
thought made him so mad with rage he said
that he stamped on her body thus spelling all
hope of pretending that death came from an
accidental fall
Throwing the body down the cellar stairs.
Potts blundercd into the kitchen 20 be con-
fronted with cheerful sounds and smells Of
cooking it Mary's delayed chicken din
ner. He did not need any dinner but next
day he had 10 go down cellar or the furnace
would die too, and there he saw Mary. The
two cats were looking at her. too.
He shut the cellar window and carried the
animals upstairs where they crooned at the
cellar door until he shut them in the attic
There, they continued the dirge but it did not
make him quite SO nervous
Digging shallow grave at night by the
rays of a Gashhght so the ncighbors would
not notice, was infinitely harder than he had
imagined but at last he had her out of sight
But the cats by their attic wailing. and when
ever he let them down by their shifting at a
bloodspot he could not quite remove from tho
rug, constantly reminded him that ne had
merely put off the evil day Of discovery
As often happens TO people in such d pro-
dicamcnt he began a mental runaway First
he tried TO appease the haunting memory Of
the person in the cellar by trying 90 keep the
house as clean as she had done
Another symptom was sleep Hundreds of
confessions reveal that after the emotional
strain Of killing the murderer enjoys an
unusually heavy sleep.
Tn the death house it is not uncommon FOR
one 60 sleep through his last night on earth
as if druEgcd Amuesia, in which memory
slumbers indefinitely. is form Of the sleep
escape
Nobody knew this in Poe's day and his
readers would have lau ghcd at him had hc
made his villain act as Potts did actually
sleeping while the d6tcctvts we've searching
for the body. But sheep had become the mans
only refuge from the trap Of reality and as
often as the detectives pulled him out OF b. s1e
struggled 90 90 back
lie even fled back into tho past. hiding
behind the skirts Of his mother
4 guess / got that bad temper because MY
mother spoiled me when / was a KID Potts
said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-11

~ the murder Of Mary Potts, the perfect
4 maid" fact tried hard 10 be stranger than
y fiction stealing the plot Of Edgar Allan
Poc's horror-thriller, The Black Cat and. for
good measure, making it two cats.
Furthermore, it was Poes great story which
caused a woman TO put the finger Of intuition
on the mlFdcrer.
Mrs Robert Russell q sociahte Of Denver
Colorado, called at 36ll Milwaukee street
with only one thought 10 induce Mary Potts
the mistress Of the neat little bungalow. 10
work FOR her a couple Of weeks or at least
few DAYS Mary had been a gem Of a maid
IN the good old days when maids were not so
scarce and now, Of course, she was a jewel
beyond price
IN trUyc days Mary had worked for Mrs
Russell, sometimes with "A happy little song on
hDr bps and always with dream In her heart
OF home az her own Beng "a pretty girl.
that dream started TO come true as soon as
she and Mr. Howard C. Potts met So Mary
won her dream home Potts won a wife and
Mrs Russell lost the best maid she ever had
In spite OF the present maid famine Mrs
Russell had two good reasons for hoping Mary
would help her out Mary liked her and the
dream home had a painfuy-rcal mortgage
whose payments had "A habit ~ getting into
arrears because Mr. Potts salary as shipping
clerk for a local electric concern couldn't seem
90 quite swing them and dress Mary as Mary
wanted 10 he dressed
Bat nobody answered the doorbcn So Mrs
Russell asked q nc!Ehhor when Mrs Potts
would Doe back
The ueiehbor said that L would De a long
time because Mary was visiting q s5s'cr I'm
california ~ least so Mr. Potts had irtimatcd
Tu' DO would know better He would bo home
for supper Yes. be cooked most Of has break
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-11
THE Black Cat"' PoeS
Horror Masterpiece inREALLifi

Down in The Cellar
Was Buried The Body
Of the Murdere d
Mrs. Potts and Ii
Might Still Be There
Undiscovered Had II
Not Been for The
WoiIing Of Her Pets.
JUST as II Happened
in The Famous Story
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-07-11

l..- .- H.t.l r'tt I.'.l - anna it'
kept The house real tidy
that is for q man
This was bad news for
Mrs Russell bat there
uts nothing She could
aa about a.
She was just turning
20 her car when a sound
made Ter look UP at The
Abuugalows half attic IN
vthe window was the
small face 9f "A cat VT
teung these uncarthly
walls usually heard only
~ night and supposed 10
hc the reason for the
ancient belief that thc
animal is closely hooked
up with Satan himself.
Presently a second small
face appeared and made
IL % weird duet.
Right then and there
Mrs. Russell had an in
tuition that something
had happened 10 Mary, a
feeling that her beloved
servant was dead IN her
own dream home. psy-
biologists say that even
such an intangible thing
as intuition is based on
something definite
II Mrs Russell MS a
young girl had not ShlF-
cred over that Poe story
and almost forgotten IL.
under the weight of mod
cru "so-what p" fiction,
she would not have had
that intuition As il was.
however she turned
amateur detective.
In Poe's classic, as al.
most everyone VIII re-
call the murderer had
hidden his wife's body
within one Of the foun-
dation walls Of his
house. So skillfully was
lice searched the cellar ii
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CONTINUED from Page u
tican City had barricaded them
selves In the area and announced
their determination to fight any
German attempt to occupy 1t, the
Lausanne Newspaper said.
A Madrid dispatch said Marshal
Albert Kesselzing, Nazi commander
in Central and Southern Italy, had
hundreds Of posters put up in Rome
threatening the death penalty for
any person who attempts to harm
a German soldier, aid the Allies
or conceal weapons.
German soldiers were afraid To
circulate singly In Rome because Of
the danger that an empty wine bot
tie will crash on their heads or even
a worse accident" befall them
Madarid said.
Despite the tightening NaM grip
on Rome, reports reached Spain
that impromtu demonstrations were
staged in the Italian capital, as well
as in Naples. following disclosure
that the Allies had seized the ini-
tiative at Salerno. Romans were
said to have whispered that Allied
landings probably could be expected
at Ostia, the port Of Rome.
Sabotage and strikes were report
and Northern Italy as opposition
ed spreading throughout Central
to Nazi rule increased. Martial
law was imposed for Northern Italy,
where Marshal Erwin Rommel COM
mands German forces.
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washington, secretary and treasurer
Of the Arm; James q. Fuller, 43, who
was convicted In January at Brook
lyn, N. Y, on charges Of mailing
fraudulent securities and sentenced
to 1--WE years imprisonment; James
Barton Underwood, as, formerly In
the armies Of this country and
China and now q group captain IN
the Royal Hellenic Greek air force,
and Bertram Hall Of Dallas, Tex.
Underwood now Is on furlough In
this country.
The most recent previous indict-
ment Of q member Of congress was
that Of Rep. B. Frank Whelchel, D.,
Ga, on charges Of receiving per-
sonal emolument in obtaining APP
pointive Offices, but he was acquitted
May 8, 1910.
Other Cases
There Is no accurate record Of
the number convicted while serving
as members Of congress, but in re-
cent years there have been these
cases:
Rep. John H. Hoeppel, D., Calf,
who with his son Charles was
charged March IS, 1885, with con.
spiracy to solicit personal emolu-
ment for support and influence in
procuring on appointment for one
James w. Ives. He appealed to the
supreme court, but the conviction
was confirmed.
Rep. George Foulkes, ST., Michi-
gan, who was convicted Nov. 81, 1885,
and sentenced to 10 months in a re-
formatory and fined $1,000 for con-
spiracy to solicit and receive con-
tributions for political purposes from
federal employees
Rep. Harry E. Rowbottom, In
diana, charged with procuring and
aiding to procure and soliciting and
receiving money In connection with
postal jobs was convicted April Is,
1881.
In the present case, Curley and
the co-defendantS were charged
with taking an active part in the
alleged fraudulent scheme and OF
spending large sums on entertain
ment. travel, and hotel bills to es-
tablish an impressive 'front.'. They
also allegedly used the names Of six
prominent industrialists and engi-
neers, whom they described as their
advisory board, but who were not
aware that their names were being
used.
Although organized in 1871, they
allegedly told prospective clients
that they had supervised over $780,
100000 worth Of construction during
the past u years in this country
South America and Europe. Numer-
GUS other fraudulent claims alleg.
eddy were made in order to impress
prospective clients which included
mainly manufacturers they knew tt
be seeking war contracts.
The indictment followed long In.
vestigation by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation. The activities OF
the group also had been subject Of
Truman committee investigation