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Evening star., 1943-07-15
Win, Lose or Draw
By BURTON HAWKINS
Cooper Failure in Inter-Leogue Competition

convinced that
to baters
leading pitcher the
passabe pitcher.
Cooper pitcher simply
occasions the point nterleagu
excused for pondeng what kind of pitcher
When Walker Cooper catcher
National
Leagues 5-3 victory the AStar
reporters who wanted to
Evening star., 1943-07-15
Manager Sticks by Him

Manager Billy Southworth hasn't
lost faith in Cooper, who already
has compiled IL triumphs this sea-
son. IF we win the National League
pennant," said the Cards pilot,
Cooper will be my pitcher in the
first game of the World Series
The form sheet was no reliable
Evening star., 1943-07-15
Count Fleet in Troinino

Mrs. John D. Hertz's great 3-year-
old, Count Fleet, which injured a leg
in the running of the Belmont
Stakes more than a month ago, is
back in training at Jamaica.
Evening star., 1943-07-15
Fights Lost Night
BY ;he Associated Press.

BY ;he Associated Press.
At Elizabeth. N. john Brown. 151.
New York, outpointed Buddy Farrell.
l51 u, Newark t9).
At WoonSocket R TONY Costa.
1872, WoonSocket. outpointed Snooks
Lacey. l26. New Haven lOl.
Evening star., 1943-07-15
Minor Results

By the Associated Press.
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE.
Jersey City, 4; Baltimore. o
Newark, IS: Syracuse. A.
Buffalo. IL; Montreal, 3
Rochester at Toronto postponed.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
Toledo. 4: st. Paul. O.
Minnea polls. s: Columbus. 4
Kansas City. a-3, Indianapolis, -.
Milwaukee. 10; Louisville, 3 tl2 in
ningSl.
SOUTHERN ASSOCIATION.
Little Rock, s. Atlanta, T.
Memphis, 10: Montgomery, 0-12.
New Orleans, 81: Knoxville, 0-3
Nashville SO: Birmingham, Il.
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE.
Los Angeles. S; San Diego. /.
Seattle, at; Oakland, -
San Francisco. 3: Sacramento 0.
Portland =: HOLLYWOOD J.
Evening star., 1943-07-15
SLIGO Nine Dutinq

Sligo A c. baseball team is book
ing games against good unlimited
clubs. Call Wilson at Shepherd 1852.
Evening star., 1943-07-15
Ram Eleven Depends
On Use OF Trainees
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 15.-Fordham,
for years producer of strong foot
ball teams. has announced it was
abandoning the gridiron sport for
the duration.
Jack Coffee, graduate manager,
said the Rams lacked sufficient man
power for a team, but should the
War Department relax its ruling
against Army trainees participating
in athletics Fordham in all proba-
bility would decide to play this fall.
About $50 soldiers are in training
there.
HUNTINGTON, w. Va. July Is
tP).-President J. D. Williams has
announced that Marshall College
has decided to give up football until
after the war.
Marshall will continue to play
basket ball
Evening star., 1943-07-15

EASTERN LEAGUE.
Hartford, 2-S: WiikeS-Barre, is.
Bnghamton, 3: Albany, ?.
or hers DOsfnoued
Evening star., 1943-07-15

PIEDMONT LEAGUE.
Portsmouth, 3: Richmond, 2.
Lynchburg, 10: Durham, 6.
Norfolk, 4 Roanoke, .,
Evening star., 1943-07-15
Brother Praises Cords Ace

the type of pitch Bobby Doerr
greeted for a home run.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
HOBBY CROWS
into IMAM
War PLANT

st. Louis. July 15-(UP)-Thirty
years ago James A. Beard, Jr., start
ed hobby and now 1t has grown
into full-fledged, one-man war in
dustry occupying the 15-by-25- foot
basement of his st. Louis home.
The smallness Of his war plant IS
right in keeping with Boards hob
by. He likes to manufacture tiny
things. And for more than a year
Beard has been working an average
of 80 hours per week to produce
more than $4,000 minute precision
parts used in war machines or their
manufacture.
Before the war Beard manufac-
tured tiny gasoline airplane motors
for use in model craft. The little
ounces and their manufacture gave
him considerable experience in the
making of small parts. The result
is the Ultima Precision Products Co.
which turns out pinion blanks for
airplane direction finders.
These blanks are only five-eights
of an inch long and Beard is proud
of the fact that the last $4,000 have
been accepted without a rejection.
Another item produced by Ultima
consists of anvils, five Lights of an
inch long and three-sixteenths of an
inch thick, which are used to crinp
fuse primer caps on shells. Beard
has produced 300 of these anvils, so
small that 500 can be packed in a
typewriter ribbon box with enough
room left for cotton packing.
Boards manpower problem is solv-
ed by his wife, Mrs. Helen Beard,
who serves as secretary and general
helper. She modestly says that all
she does is stand by and hand her
husband the necessary tools.
Rate of production at present is
1000 pieces a week, which doesn't
leave Beard much time for his ia
Vorite pastime of fishing.
Beard developed his interest in
manufacturing tiny objects while an
engineer in an automobile plant and
it was his secondary interest in air
planes that caused him to combine
his hobby with flying by making the
tiny model motors.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
F|REMEN BLAME
POOR GASOLINE
Board Officially Informed
of Difficulty; No Second
Deputy Chief Named

Inferior gasoline was blamed by
Capt. George Holmes, head of the
fire departments repair division for
some of the troubles with fire ap-
paratus at yesterdays meeting Of
the board of fire commissioners. He
implied that the fire department.
was no exception from a lowering
the quality of gasoline supplied to
motorists since the start Of ration
ing
Fire Chief Thomas Cavanaugh
told the board that while there are
at present no vacancies in the de-
partment, 1t was expected that seven
or eight would soon occur because
of the induction of firemen into
the armed services Judging from
past experiences he said. it is use
less to ask for deferments.
No action was taken by the board
on the bill passed by the legislature
authorizing the city to name sec
ond deputy fire chief because the
city has not yet received official
announcement of the bills passage,
Chairman Finton j. P1lelan said.
Capt. Stephen Bloomfield, who has
been acting as second deputy chief,
is expected to receive the appoint
ment when the board receives Off
cial notification of the legislatures
action.
Purchase of coal now for next
winters supply for the fire stations
was recommended by Fire Chief
Cavanaugh. He estimated that 427
tons Of coal will be required.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15

ately have gone to work on them.
Lobbyists, manufacturers, whole
sale or retail groups, labor leaders
the paid agents and organizers
whose own jobs depend on max
ing showing before their organiz-
ations and clients - have set
upon these statements to break
them down. Sometimes before
Congress, sometimes before OPA
or WLB. And al lalong the line,
the government tends to yield be-
fore the pressure groups, usually
with public support at least with
public sympathy.
We've got to say, NO to these
pressure groups and mean it," de-
clared the War Labor Boards head,
and that means that BOTH CON-
GRESS AND THE PRESIDENT
TOGETHER - not just one or the
other - must declare what the
policy is to be on sterilization and
then stick to it.
Eventually, it seems, all these
questions of what's wrong with
the home front in the war effort
come back to this fundamental:
There must be agreement on pol
icy in all branches of govern
ment.
"Once we decide what we are
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
BY PETER EDISON
NEA Washington Correspondent

NEA Washington Correspondent
The plant of William H. Davis,
chairman of the National War La
Dor board, is that there is in the
United States today no acceptance
whatever of the idea of "stabiliza-
ton"
He likens it to the experience
of the lady from Boston who got
lost while driving in the Berk-
shires:
MY good man." she said to the
first native she encountered, II
want to go to Keene.'
Without stopping his work he
said, why don't you?"
The question which the much
kicked-around but still unruffled
Chairman Davis asks is, eff we
want sterilization, why don't we
stabilize?"
The answer is that there is still
no general acceptance by the gov
eminent or by the people of the
idea of sterilization of wages and
prices, or of the need for it.
You can't scare Americans
with the word initiation ex-
planned the WLB chairman, be
cause they don't know what it
means. They haven't been through
it. And so you can't educate EN-
on the needs of sterilization.
STARTING THE SPIRAL
I'VE have said that we're trying
to save the WOrkingmans dollar
anyway. But it carries no real
conviction. They say we can't
stabilize - that the cost of living
will go up anyway. And some
labor leaders - red in the face
because they know that more
American workmen today have a
higher standard of living than
they ever had before - come be-
fore us with the plea that we
should raise wages because OPA
doesn't do anything to freeze
prices.
Shall we now raise wages be-
cause of that? If we do we mere
ly chase up the spiral.
Most workers already have
the advantage of a little imitation.
But the people who for that rea-
son advise that we let the thing
alone are good bit like a man
who's winning at Monte Carlo. He
doesn't know when to quit. He
wants to go on and break the
bank
1t this failure to believe that
wage sterilization is worth while,
this lack of fear Of imitation,
which concerns the War Labor
Board chairman most seriously.
People still don't understand
1.-THE thing" as he calls it, re-
peatedly, and the problem is to
convince the country that the
government is honest and sincere
about it.
GOVERNMENT YIELDS
There have been plenty OF
declarations of policy on this
question of sterilization. And
plenty Of pressure groups immedi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15

Scouts of Waterville will be held
Friday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock in
Waterville park. Time, place and
arrangements for the annual outing
will be discussed. All members are
urged to attend and offer sugges-
tons so as to make the wartime
outing as successful as possible.
VOlleyball
Transportation difficulties have
eliminated the activities of the
Fairgrounds volley ball teams but
Supervisor Jack Delaney is trying
to get enough to make more than
one team. This would make it pos
sible to have more games among
themselves. The following boys are
asked to come to play volley ball on
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
at p. m: Bud Whelan, Charles
Clarity, Tom Kelly, Frank Fappi-
ano, Bill Mccarthy, Bob McAree,
Robert Moran, Harold Moran, Jack
Seeley, Harold Miller, Gilbert Hub
bell and Frank Guerrero. Any other
DOyS WHO dIc lllGcl CSCCu dlC dohCO
to give their names to one of the
supervisors.
The girls volley ball teams will
play on Mondays and Fridays and
the following are asked to report
and to bring anyone else who is in
terested: Jackie Johnson, Olive
Johnson, Betsy Ann Grain, Jackie
Cunningham, Joan Lonier, Betty
Vrotocol, Jane Johnson, Helen Bar
low, Lena Williams, Jean Craw
Alice MacMullen and Betty Craw.
These teams are under the super
vision of John Reardon and Jack
Delaney.
The baseball team for the Parks
league is coached by Jack Delaney
and is comprised of the following
players: John Reardon, catcher
Frank Guerrero. pitcher; Bud
Whelan, first base; Tom Kelly, sec
ond base; Charles Clarity, short
stop; Bob McAree, third base; and
fielders Jack Hughes, Silvio Fappi-
ano and Dick Petrillo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
I-
'''DON'T CARE" ATTITUDE
BLOCKS STERILIZATION
Pressure Groups Hamper Wage Fixing But Labor Boards
Chairman Is Most Concerned With Apathy Of Public

going to do" said the chairman,
"once we say definitely that this
is all there's going to be on prices
and wages, there are thousand
and one ways to do it." He mem
toned enforcement, rationing, roll
backs, subsidies, incentives, taxation
compulsory saving and all the other
devices that have ben used success
fully in other countries in meeting
these problems.
Chairman Davis's idea for help
ing to sell sterilization to the
country is fact-finding board of
the caliber of the Baruch COM
mittee which could make report
that would show what the vari-
GUS economic groups of this coun-
try are making today. Davis be-
lieves that the mass of wage
earners today has more money
than ever before, and that under
rationing there is a better dis
tribution of the available goods
than there has ever been before.
That is a challenging state
ment, and it would probably
draw fire from lobbyists and
from people who feel that their
sacrifices at home have been I'M
bearable.
BENEFIT TO MANY
But Davis went on to point out
that while some few million peo-
pie may now have fewer luxuries
than they had before, they must
be balanced against many more
millions who had less than sub
sistence before but now have
much more.
Davis mentioned the coal dispute
at the freshest in mind and the
greatest threat of initiation from an
out-and-out pressure group. In gen
eral, the country favored the miners,
believing them to be suffering from
a hard life and high prices.
Actually, however, the Chairman
of the War Labor Board wishes it
could have been stated authorita-
lively that the miners today are bet
ter off than they ever have BEEN
For years their average work year
was 100 days or less. Now it is close
to 300 days, plus overtime. Neverthe-
less the miners have been led to be-
lieve they can expect an annual in
come in wartime far greater than
anything they had before, putting
them among the topnotchers among
labor. That, in the Davis view, is
not sterilization.
NEXT-Prentiss Brown,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15

1863 hours OF service, Mrs. Howard
Hart, chairman, reported.
The next visit of the Mobile blood
plasma unit will be made here July
%, with Chase Metal Works en-
ployes to be donors, DR.. Edward
Godfrey, director, stated. The pro-
ject will be conducted from 1890
to $50 p. m. at st. Johns parish
house. A visit to Thomaston will
be made August 10.
Other reports were given by Mrs.
Edison B. Hitchcock, production
chairman; Mrs. M. H. Toomey, sur
gical dressings chairman; Mrs. j.
Chester Little, canteen chairman;
Mrs. Stephen Burial, motor corps
captain; Mrs. Gordon Hurlbut, camp
and hospital service committee head
Mrs. Judson Wells, staff assistants
director; and Mrs. Frank j. Ken
ney, publicity chairman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
Metal Stitching
Speeds Production

Buffalo (UP)-The loWly sewing
needle is putting high-speed pro-
cesses such as riveting and spot
welding to shame, at Curtiss Wright
Corporations Airplane Division, saw
ing % hours weekly.
With a new method Of assem-
bling airplane parts known as
metal stitching - a piece OF wire
only slightly thicker than a hairpin
is punched through a quarter-inch
of steel. Less than one-fifth of a
second after the operator depresses
the foot pedal, the machine has
taken the wire, ofrmed staple,
punched it through the materials,
and clinched it securely on the bot
tom side.
An added feature Of metal stitch
ing is the ease with which the ma
chine assemblies materials such as
fiber, plywood, or plastics--becoming
more and more important in airplane
construction.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
BOARD MAY NAME
NEGRO PATR0LMEN
Equal Opportunities AS
sured; No Action in
Stango Case

The police board declared at its
meeting yesterday that equal con-
sideration will be given to Negroes
and whites in appointments to the
police force. This action followed
the suggestion of the boards COM
mittee on men and discipline which
had met with The Better Race Re-
lations committee which had been
urging the board to appoint Negroe
patrolmen. Two applications for
appointment to the supernumerary
force received from colored men at
yesterdays meeting made a total of
four such eligibles now on file.
The board took no action on the
application for reinstatement of An
thony Stango to the police force be-
cause, Chairman William Verriker
explained, the board had rot yet re-
ceived any notice of the passage by
the legislature of the bill authoriz-
ing the board to retinstate Stango
although he is now over the max
imum age for appointment to the
lOlCC. Nl. OtdllSO, dlCSl ocl Wing vi
the force for five years was dis
missed last year on the ground that
he was an enemy alien. Later he
attained citizenship through a spe-
cial act of Congress making it pos
sible for any alien who has served
at the Mexican border in 1916 to
become a citizen without taking out
second papers.
Christopher Luddy and Natalie
John Spadaro, supernumeraries who
have been doing duty as regulars for
the past several months, were pro-
NOTED to the regular force at the
board meeting. Both men were COM
mended by Chairman William Yer
riker on their past records.
Patrolman James Fennessey, who
has been on the force since Feb. 2,
1916, was placed on the retired list
at his own request. He will receive
a pension of half his regular pay.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
SUPREME COURT
UPSETS RULING
Judgment of $500 Given
Soldier Ordered Set
Aside

A $4,000 judgment returned by
Superior Court Judge Frank p.
McEvoy in New Haven last year in
an alienation of affections suit
brought by George Kovacs of the
U. S. Army, formerly of Bridgeport
and Wallingford, has been nullified
by the State Supreme Court of Err
rors in Hartford.
In the memorandum Of decision
reversing the original finding, Chief
Justice William M. Maltbie states
teh trial court erred in allowing
personal knowledge to enter the
case. Observations made by the
jurist and allowed to influence the
decision in effect constituted a sit
uation in which he might be termed
an unsWorn witness, the higher
court ruled.
The soldier brought the suit
against his mother in-law, Mrs.
Julia Szentes of New York City,
claiming she broke up his home by
threatening to disown his wife If
she stayed with him.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
Committee Reports
Review Activities
Mrs. Percy Warner Resigns at Home Service Division;
Chairman of Local Red Cross Chapter

Mrs. Julius B. Smith was named
chairman of the local Red Cross
home service division, succeeding
Mrs. Percy Warner, at a meeting
of the executive board of the chap
ter Yesterday. Mrs. Warner served
in the post for 26 years, having
started her utilization with the Red
Cross in 1917. The meeting was de-
voted to presentation of reports of
the various services.
The new home service director re-
ported that 426 cases were handled
last month, and 1875 interviews with
new applicants were conducted.
Instruction in swimming during
the Learn to-SWim' drive was CIV
en- to 285 children with 230 learning
to swim, Arthur Very, chairman
of life saving and water safety, re-
ported. Similar courses will be
given each year at city pools, it
was announced.
Five new applications for nursing
service with the armed forces have
been approved, Mrs. Albert Hummel,
chairman of the nurse recruitment
committee, stated and the applicants
are awaiting assignments. Several
other applications are under con-
sideration, it was reported.
Thirty-five local cars will be sup
piled with emergency first aid plates,
Miss Alice Briggs, chairman of the
first aid service, said. Car inspec-
tons will be conducted before the
plates will be presented, she added.
A Grey Ladies' course, the first
here during the present war, has
been completed and graduation ex-
ercises will be held next week, Mrs.
Charles Hart, chairman, announced.
Nurses aides last month gave g.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
NUTRITION COUNCIL
OUTLINES PROGRAM

Food conservation efforts were
discussed at a special Meeting OF
Waterbury Nutrition Council mem.
bers yesterday, and plans for pub.
licizing the program were discussed
Rev. Roger B. T. Anderson. who was
appointed chairman of the Local
food conservation program by the
state nutrition council, presided.
Others attending the meeting in
Guided: Mrs. julius B. Smith, chair.
man of the consumers committee
of the local price panel; Miss Mar
garet Chagnot, canning demonstra-
tor; and Mrs. Frank Kenney, put
licity chairman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
STORES $4,000 FUR PIECES

Chicago-CUP) - Racks totaling
one mile in length are needed to
store the $4,000 fur garments pro-
tected in Marshall Field & Co.'S
vaults during the summer months.
A constant temperature Of 80 de-
grees, with humidity at zero, pre-
serves $4,000 to $1,000, 900 worth
Of furs stored In four Vaults.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
PET SHOW OPENED
AT FAIRGROUNDS
About rs Boys and Girls
Entered Pets at Show;
Prizes Awarded
WATERVlLLE
MISS ALICE MacMULLEN
% Chapel Street
Phone 3-7217

Waterville, July 15.-There were
about Is boys and girls who entered
their pets at the pet show held at
the playground last night.
There were number of prizes
given to winners of the contest.
Those who won are: Best looking
pet, won by Julia Lane; unusual pet
won by Leonard Ilnicki; funniest
pet won by Nancy Haggerty; big
gest pet won by Lawrence Lafierty;
latest pet won by George Lane;
and a tie for smallest, won by
jeanette Ilnicki and Shirley Steele;
for the cutest pet was won by Mar
cha Rasmussen.
Judges for the show were Francis
Whelan, John Reardon, Thomas
Kelly, Charles Clarity, Ada Simon
son and Alice MacMullen.
The show was under supervision
of Jack Delaney.
Florence Brewster Entertained
A birthday party in honor of
Florence Brewster was held on We'd
nesday at Burns Grille. The party
was given by the honored guests CO.
workers in Waterville division of the
Scovill Co.
Miss Brewster was presented with
a gold cross and chain from those
present. Marie Sonier entertained
with piano solos. A delicious supper
was served to the guests.
Those present were Helen Begnal
Anna Brueder, Marie Sonier, Irene
Peters, Mary McClue, Mabel An
dreWs, Florence Brewster, Anne Car
roll and Helen Burns.
Briefs
Girl Scout club number 16 will
meet this evening at 7:30 at the
home of Mrs. Frank Carney on
Chapel street.
Tennis matches will be held to
determine the best players and tc
teach those who don't know how tc
play, the rules of the game. The
meeting will follow the matches.
Sector D-86 wardens will meet
this evening at st. Michaels hal
to elect a new sector head warden.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph McArdle Of
Is briggs street, left today to spenc
their vacation at the shore.
Miss Eleanor Burns of Sheffield
street is mentioning at the home Of
her aunt in Shelton.
Mrs. George Blinn has returned
home from st. Mary's hospital.
Thomas Denihan of 10 Chape.
street is a patident at st. Mary's
hospital.
Irving Moore, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Johnny Moore, recently visited his
grandmother, Mrs. William Moore
of briggs street before entering the
Army
Open Air Meeting Friday
An open-aird meeting Of the Girl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15

This is one of a series Of in
terviews with heads of Washing
tons top civilian agencies who
discuss home-front plans and
problems.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
Good Evening.
WILL 1T OR WON'T IT?

(ACCOfQllR hoobol10
If it rains today we're SUNK
Don't be thinking it's the bunk
st. Swithin, that predicting saint
Tells us if it is or amt
Going to rain and spoil the Joy
OF every circus-going boy
Also about the days to come,
Shall it rain? every one?
st. Swithin tells us yes or no,
When he predicts we know it's So
When it rains on ST. 5within's Gay
Few of US kneel down to pray,
But we're counting on weather report,
Hope it's going to be snappy and short,
Any other day who would care,
But today please make 1t fair.
EN- EN-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15

Scarcity of supplies and machin-
cry may close all gold mines in
Venezuela.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15

Russia maintained colony on
the California coast until l04l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-15
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

Said the elephant to the clown,
Laugh clown, laugh! to froWn.
Hi. you monkeys and zebras let's make merry!
We've finally made Waterbury.
Said the band-leader to the clown,
Well do things up brown,
We've heard lots about this city,
Just lamp those hills pretty.
sc Gargantua to the monk
let away from that elephants trunk
look out! Lalage is In the air,
Passing airplanes take care
Said the elephant to the clown
I seem to remember this town,
I seem to recall long ago scene
When paraded round the Green
EN- EN-