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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20
Loss Of loo Gordon Would 30 Blow to Tanks
By DAN PARKER

BEEN far better the Yankess to have lost the Gordon the team win be ks arch without the keystone am though their pitching base h Yankees would have been lost t the nOD look something like a major league ball club
 A HORSE PLANTERS DREAM He tried to get even like most of us do
 So % w1n %sn TT M out Sun S sTI of 1 H t s5 R: .s Tr mo
 With bOOkie the mob knew as Mac.
 His gal' tried to stop him. i'm. they SsgVs l him sc quit
 .,c Bus ne % scOwed % % ss them saS1ns % NOs me- m S.
 or .' landslide @ '% of real d%oW dooTs.n aS"' 70
 In T1s on si1:G ss :s:' tSs a: is 1s n s:S sf.n''
 Now his bag full of dough weighed ton.
 He broke ev'ry bOOke and put them n hook
 ~ And % his % take M St the % tracks Ks was vas; immense % ; .,
 He wOnm mil through horse sense.
 This story reads lovely: I wish it could be
 - yIst ,t m Is r true as S the poem % may may SC seem s
 #: #: h: Sssa'S So'ss Say V: :s: from me- WHEN BRANCH HICKEY Newsom last % y % & 5 5 S & S he 5 @ @ h n'f had a sent SS contract calling considerable reduction salary he had promised he H 3 with e aS f ' ton ,sS sis 1GT 5 mc. % Ss % @ aRS o S @ club on % % m to a sons @ sry m n n ws' 5 D Of S S pay from tSs tn. M the ia WOULDN'T suRRsE me savod scored an early knockout Garden for Soxng Nov @ with Tam Mauro and % tn setback he s tered at Bus hands in Akron Oct 5 isn't hepng the cause If savd sderng bout with Maureo Akron this offer just couldn't resist received from Cleveland for 
 THE BUFFALO POLICE DEPT. the Yankees badge Monday making him R0a Yankee backOp trying cessfuly police of is "say with the ball club if police club" WITH ST NICHOLAS added to his string. Promoter Jacobs has powerful weapon use against boxers and rival small Mike threaten the eifSes fight at the st. Nick accepts the Rdgwoo Broadway Arena contrary Jacobs wishes contains why does the Commission overlook them in Mikes case? ANOTHER Boxing
 
 club Elizabeth N Commission wouldn't lived recently its action the Broadway let Mike
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20
LAST NIGHTS FIGHTS

Hartford - Billy Banks, iea Washington, defeated Pedro Heg- nandez, 206, New York (S).
 New York-(Broadway Arenal-- Rocco Progano. 125, Stamford, Conn, decisioned George Knox, l27 1-2, Newark, N. J. (6).
 White Plains, N. Y-Pete Dur uzza, 153, Mamaroneck, N. ', de- cisioned Indian Gomex, 160. aa- vana, Cuba (S).
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20

521 532 596 High single-Lindahl, l66 High three Lindahl, 445 High game-Fulton, 665 High team-Fulton, 1770
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20
DEAN OF COACHES

Alonzo A. Stagg still coaches the College of the Pacific at the age of eighty-one and is active enough to play tennis regularly.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20

There are sixteen dog tracln aA operation in London every Gatnr- day afternoon and each one dces . thriving business.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20

More than c million dollars has been wagered every day at New ork race tracks since June % ct Empire City's Jamaica meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20

ALMOST CENTURY AGO The pieces used in chess were standardized into their present pat tern by an Englishman, Howard Staunton, in 1849.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20

BUx wAR BONDS AND STAMPS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-20

THE BUFFALO POLICE DEPT. Mccarthy the Yankees badge Monday making him honorary member Bud dy Roar former Yankee backstOp quit the trying cessfuy to get the Buffalo police force The moral of is stay with the ball club if want police club"
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11

art alone he took making automatons of hts statues
which said to have walked around the studio
These experiments with wood, metal and other materials
developed and scientific side Of his mind
Athens the ideal atmosphere for the brilliant Greek
but one day he left it all hurry The had
nothing to do with art science. lie was wanted for
homicide
King Mnos of Crete welcomed the fugitive justice
because the people those of Athens, made
principal living traderprates Their ships traded
peacefully various ports but when the
rivals met at they hjacked one another without
scruplc
Ainos was Ead to have one Of Athens brightest minds
place made his talents useful in many ways
of which the most famous was labyrinth sort OF
mystic complicated and confusing that once a
prisoner in it he could never find his way eHt
There is a lot Of fiction about magnificent bull that
should have been sacrificed TO the gods but spared by
Vaccinations the Queen involving Daedaus Any
how il clear that the sCptor-nvcntor who TO
have been Cantatcrous genius got wrong with His
Majesty that he found himself and his Icars Jailed
the labyrinth he had invented The place perfect
that even could find his way
he invented a flying machine, with wings made from
feathers en cd together with On these and his
took off for Sicily under their muscle power.
Nobody who knows anything about aviation believes
has sprung prisoners from prisons there
were any by brhng his guards to let him out But just
today the guards dared go through with it until
plausible story concoctcd show that they
two prisoners stick TO the tale all their lives and besides
1t would help their prestige in Sicily.
The only likely way they could have gone from Cetc to
the threo-corncrcd island by ship and somehow
the way youth Icaus lost which may have been
due any reason from appendicitis to falling over
board m storm But had TO fit that misfortune
ntohs yarn so be related that ali went well their fight
until fooshy dsobeyed his fathers warning not to
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11

NAEDALUs had CHOSEN Sicily for tho
Crete because he knew that scat of learning
whore he would be appreciated His researches probably
added 10 A6Vvrtcr which everywhere
else kept secret siciys science is indicated by
other myth coupled with of the greatest military
mysteries in history.
The island Of Trinacria which means thrcccorncrcd
pacc6f terror to an mariners and for many
the least of which tabled Inhabitants There
the of Cycops giants with only huge, gerng
eyeiUp place Of the normal pair Of sniaT Ulysses
monarch Of the little hard-scrahble Greek kingdom Of
Ithaca after his from the sackng of Troy gave
what purpoed TO be eyewitness account of his capture
by the chief of all the one-eyed monsters Polyphemus
But Ulysses had taken years to get home his
wife Penelope, from that Troy job Journey that, with
any luck he should have made in few weeks SO he had
lot Of explaining TO do and did it 10 the Queens taste
PeHee o bCiirved every word Of il must have been all
that trusting wife should bc-and then SOME
A CCoRDTNG to his alib chronicled by Homer Ulysses
and his ships company captured but Ulysses
sharpcned the end(6t small point their fire
and plunged into the giants eye while he asleep
This blinded but did not kill Poyphcmus and there they
in with the blind giant waiting at the mouth
to take them to pieces they should out
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11
BY CHARLES w. GODDARD

1853 r American Weekly. Britain Rights Reserved
y" HE outstanding feature of sciys conquest air
power which first softened up its defcnses, then
dropped paratroopers and finally spread umbrella
the ZOO ships which landed the force what
the ancicuts called "thc hoarse Trinacrim shore"
And hOarse il with the thunder of heavy swells,
breaking the beaches
The average Scian adult cannot read but those who
the first strangers fluttcrng from the night sky
knew the tradition that 5000 years ago a similar
thing had happened the great prehistoric scientist
Daedaus SUPPOSED have flown there from the Island
Of Crete on wings made of feathers and
Probably every the invading army had heard Of
the legend also many knew they invading the play
ground feHFf1t
and progress that hourshing when Rome was only
seven barren hills and must have been that
they following the oldest path of destiny in the world
Their ships were passing over the shallowcst part of
tho Mediterranean where psychologists say there
sipa Gland bridge the tip Of Italys boot across
go Cane Bon Africa of which there remains today
only Sicily
A CROSS tlss fsl+ral bridge varc innumrrabe animal
~ invaders before was evolved and think the
Cro-Halaoa with his brain larger than that Of
any got just before Nature destroyed the
bridge Il 'he present Sician Gro Magnon blood in
ts veins la claim descent from the greatest and
Oldest ~ AN as9oaces but Doe has had his ups and downs
and tl.- hs lowest lows
ot course Generals Eisenhower Montgomery and their
sfTrs tHc planned tht invasion thought only mili-
tE ol.eatFos ard yet the Knowledge that they were
.EnE the ancient path of destiny uay well given
H.f. t..r.. What man hath done man can do"
l L-lLl ~ "a frsrr- vyire5
srrt8r ones. A.s under The husks OF symbolism and
..# taa'ou slNasf. 81 historic truth
useaaIas Is,Is.1s undoubtedly existed .n Athens
whore he Was renowned sculptor But rot content with
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11

OF course nothing like really happened 70 Ulysses,
but part of his story that he had made stop
Sicily and nobody doubted that the island was
Cycops folk they would have thought Il queer If
hadn't any Therefore he made his story
about them good The interesting question is how
this universal notion Of with big shining eye
has often been shown that myths embroidered
but rarely they created ont Of whole cloth
Some have spcculatcd that this land Of secret
knowledge something the way Of short sngle-bar-
relied spygass with large lens had been invented and
distance would look not unlike big single gazing
at ships confirmation Of this wild speculation
comes history Syracuse the first dccpharbor
city captured by the Allies
~ c. the Roman army and fleet under Marcclas,
captured the city, after three-year siege prolonged
by terrifying inventions Of the great mathematician
Archmedes The mysterious Of these sort
mirrors which focused the sunlight a
beam that set afre The Roman ships, just as they y
getting within bow range OF the wall.
The Roman commander anxious 10 discover the
secret the burning ray that when the city finally
falling ordered troops not 20 njure Archmcdes
soldier the great mans house happened
CtTTsh tout lie beheId with long stick.
making geomctncal figures in the courtyard sand
Don't disturb my circles said the man, without
looking up.
This so angered the soldier that he him through
with Thus Pcrishcd Of the great minds Of
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11
fly too high

fly too high.
Up he went un-
til he came so close
TO the sun that its
heat melted the
wax, his wings
came apart and he
crashed in the lear
ian Sea, which was
named after him.
King Cocalus Of
Sicily who had kids
Of his own that
were always getting
hurt trying forbid
den things could
readily believe that
part of it and well
coined the distin-
guishcd fugitive for
the same reasons
as had Minos Dae-
dalus was probably
put ashore secretly,
in the night, to-
gether with some
sort Of contraption
W hic h he ha d
t h o u & h tfully
smashed In an al
legged crash landing
and would not fly
again until someone
brought him some
spare parts, includ
ing feathers OF some
type Of bird that
probably c ould be
found nowhere else
except on the Island
OF Crotc.
Detroit evening times., 1943-09-11

Tho Cyclops, how
ever, l,ept his sheep
there nights which
made the cave smelly
but gave the Ithacan
King an idea
Next morning he
tied each of his band
under ono OF the
sheep and h i'm s elf
clunC 20 the wool of
a large ram a
phemus fclt Of Y
back OF each sheep
and let il pass. man
and an. The band
boarded their ship and
quietly rowed away.
At what seemed like
a safe distance Ulys-
ses shouted d some
taunting re m ark 8
which revealed 90 the
giant what had hap
pcned. Aiming AT the
sound Polyphcmus
hurled bouldcrs at the
ship, and finally sue
ceeded in scoring one
near-miss that almost
Capsizcd IT, !
La gaceta., 1943-08-11

flea, sino tambien por 10 que re-
~presentan las sociedades que dan
sus nombres a las novenas.
Los dias son de ''intranquili-
dad" Y de "nerviosismo" y conve-
niente es que ell ~pelotero reconoz
ca su responsabilidad frente al
pdblico, Y lie p1blico freute al
pelotero.
Cuando ell pelotero es amable,
fino y cordial, cast siempre ell
pdblico. lie considera y lie otorga
su aprecio.
Demanda ell prestigio de la L.
ga que los ~peloteros 'procaces'
sean castigados.
Demanda ell prestigio de nues-
tras sociedades que los especta-
dores agresivos y capaces de Ian
Ear malas palabras en- contra de
los pe~loteros, sean arrestados Y
castigados.
Ell hecho de vestir un uniforme
no faculta al p~elotero para me-
nospreciar a sus companeros Y a
los 'fanaticos".
Pero ell hecho de pagan los rs
centavos no concede autoridad al
e%spectador para mortificar a los
peloteros Y despues, cuando lie
viene en- ganas, insultarlos.
La Liga tiene en- manos re-
solver ambos problemas.
TODD pelotero desconsiderado
con ell p1blico puede ser amones-
La gaceta., 1943-08-11
Ell ASEDIO DE MADRID
POr A ZAMACoIS

blaban soIicitando informes de 10
que ocurria. Desterr6se Ell piropo
insolente. En- los t~ranvias la ju-
ventud cedia su asiento a los an
cianos v a las mujeres, y basta-
ba que un peat6n llamase a un
chofer para que este detuviese
su auto y desinteresadamente, 81
era precise, lie llevase adonde ne
cesitaba ir. Establecieronse res
taurantes y alojamientos gratui-
tos, y ell Gobierno sehal6 un jor-
nal de diez pesetas a cada mill
ciano. Desaparecieron las corba-
tas Y las joyas. Las gentes YES
tian sencillamente. Las mujeres
dejaron de usar sombrero. La Vi
da. ante la terrible amenaza que
pesaba sobre ella, habiase vuelto
facil, acogedora, intima. Ell hogan
invadia la Gale. Los hombres vol
Wan a sentirse hermanos Y sc a.
brazaban. La terra ial fin!- sc
bebia la sangre de Abel y los des-
heredados del mundo Sc miraban
sin receIo Cain habia muerto.
En- las mansiones senoriales
convertidas en- Hospitales de San
gre, los primeros heridos llegados
de la Sierra, de Carabanchel, de
Guadalajara y de Toledo, contem
plaban absortos los muros reeves
tidos de damasco, las araias de
CRYSTAL Y de bronco, los cuadros,
los objetos de artes, las panoplias
Y ell mueblaje opulento de ~aquellos
salones destinados a la ociosidad
y a los devaneos galantes, Y lie
nos entonces de dolor; Y clos que
nunca tuvieron. NADIA" sentian O..
ell disfrutar un POGO de 10 mu-
chisimo que 'los otros" tuviesen,
les recompensaba de su sacrifi-
clio.
Los patriotas que, exponiendo-
Sc a morir, verificaron este mo-
vimiento salvador, no deben aver
gonzarse de los desaciertos que
cometieran. En- la Revolution
francesa sc registrar casos vitan-
dos de sevicia - como Ell de aquel
noble con cuya epidermis sus sa-
crificadores hicieron una petaca
- y, sin embargo, de aquella ira
gedia plagada de crfmenes sur
gieron triunfantes clos Dere-
chos del Hombre'. iY quien ne
garia que tamana conquista vale
lntlnltamente mas que las cabe-
zas segadas en- la plaza de la
Greve por ell genio igualador del
progreso?--
Ell pueblo co~ntraatac6 justa-
mente a los oligarcas que, dispo-
niendo de TODD 20 de cast TODD
adn deseaban mas. La plutocra-
ella militarista Y vaticanista, insa-
tisfecha de sus f%ueros, pretendia
dominar dictatorialmente, implan-
tar los jornales miserables de o.
tros tiempos, apoderarse de las
conciencias, hacer de cada ciudad
un preside. Y ell prpletariado Sc
La gaceta., 1943-08-11

de su mission depuradora, SUI
plan ventajosamente a la tecni-
ca. Su acci6n justiciera una
iusticia fulminante como la de-
cretada por Lynch = aleanzaba
10 mismo a los adversarios del Re
gimen que a cuantos al amparO
de un Garnet sindical realizaban
alguna tropelia. Sobre la hirvien-
tie marejada de todos los apasio-
namientos politicos, de todas las
concupiscencias, y de todas las
yenganzas personales, la Ley Sc
erigia impoluta, fra, insoborna-
BILE. Y en- evitaci6n de hechos q.
pudiesen macular la pulcritud ca
toniana del "frente rojo", a la
vez que Sc castigaba con penas Sc
verfsimas a quienes sin ser mill
cianos efectuasen registros domi-
ciliarios, y Sc prohibia a los CO.
m~erciantes subir ell precio de las
subsistencias, Sc decretaba la for
maci6n de millares de comites de
vecinos - tantos como casas -
obligados a conocer la filiaci6n
politica y las actividades de los
habitantes de cada inmueble. Ofus
cado ell pueblo por su anhelo de
acelerar la r~evoluci6n no par6
mientos en- la ayuda que secreta-
mente los Estados totalitarios da-
ban a los facciosos. Antes que en-
deshacerse de sus opresores, ell
pueblo - esta generosidad fue su
gran error - pensaba en- renacer,
en- estudiar. Por 10 mismo nunca
vivi6 la Espana leal horas mas
limpiaA
"Solidaridad Obrera' pidi6 que
los ladrones, por deshonradores
de la Rep1blica fuesen conside-
radios como enemigos y fusilados
y su solicitud qued6 atendida,
con 10 que los delitos llamados
"vulgares" desaparecieron total
mente. Y mientras este sucedia
en- la Gale, en- los s6tanos del
Cfrculo de Bellas Artes
funcionaba implacable un comite
de investigation publica ante ell
cual desfilaron muchos politicos,
periodistas, banqueros y vivido-
res que nadie ha vuelto a yer. En-
aquella segunda %quincena de jul
lilo no amaneci6 ninguno de esos
dias hueros, CRISES, infecundos,
en- que los hombres Sc preguntan,
entire dos bostezos, 10 que van a
hacer. Por ell contrario, cada jor-
NADIA estuvo tan plet6rica de SUI
cesos, tan congestionada de emo
ci6n, que sehala una efemerides.
La fisonomia espiritual matriten-
sc cambiaba de continue, como las
piedras multicolores de un calei-
doscopio. La muchedumbre indo-
lente Y desasida hasta entonces
de los problemas pdblicos, adqui-
rio un dinamismo apasionado, des
bordante de impetuosidad frater-
ma. En- las GALES los t~ranseuntes
aunque no Sc c%onociesen, Sc ha-
La gaceta., 1943-08-11
%ACOTACIONEs
BEISB 0LERAS

No andan bien las cosas en- la
Liga Intersocial y este es lamen-
table porque a ella pertenecen
cuatro prestigiosas sociedades.
Hemos recibido numerosas
q~uejas Y las hemos silenciado en-
honor del cuerpo director de la
Liga, que realiza ~plausibles es-
fuerzos Y procura que ell equili-
brio no Sc rompa o altere.
IHay alguna razon, teniendo
en- cuenta la bondad del p1blico,
para que un desaffo tenga que
suspenderse por faltarle ~peloteros
a dos novenas?
iPor que Sc hacen demostracio-
mes pocos sensibles por parte de
los peloteros, sabiendo que todos
pertenecemos a una misma fami-
liza, la "colonia latina" de Tam
pa?
tHay l6gica y nobleza en- IL
actitud de algunos espectadores
que insultan a los ~peloteros, bien
enterados de que la mayorfa de
ellos son muchachos finos Y de
respetables familias?
La gaceta., 1943-08-11

La misma consideration que
merece ell pIblico, merecida es
tambien por los p~eloteros.
Sobre los peloteros esta la au-
toridad de la Liga Y ell peso que
d~esarrolla la opinion p1blica.
La Liga puede suspender Y
multar a un pelotero, Y Ell pdbli-
co puede declararle persona no
grata" y hacerle Unpopular Y "an
tipatico".
FL pelotero esta obligado a com
portarse con la mayor correction,
no solo por 10 que la Liga signi-
La gaceta., 1943-08-11

tado, multadO y en- iltin|
~expulsado.
La moral del campeOnl
puede estar a mereed De
mas individuOs.
Con la ayuda del piafs
policfa, la Liga puede "n'
%cintura'' a los '~partidaH'
pierden la vision clara De
sas y prefieren insultar
mar.
La gaceta., 1943-08-11
FITZSIMMoNS FIUMO
UN CONTRATO

Filadelfia, agosto i'll
ditto" Fred F%itzsimmon
director de los Phillies, 4
yer un contratO como dirs
la nOvena de Bill Cox para
porada de 1914.
Chuck Klein, ell "coaAI
bien ha sido firmado pan.
proximo.
F%itzsimmons ingres6 n
ladelfia luego de que |
Harris habia sidO descOrI
c~esanteado.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-09-15
Beauty Salons Are
A Necessity

= 1t pays to look well. So well
does it pay, that where there are
any appreciable number of women
employed, it is incomplete with
out its beauty salon. Your per-
sonal appearance is your biggest
asset.
Ruth's Beauty Shop, conven-
iently located at 5O2 Main Street
at fifth, is the last word in salons
catering to feminine needs, their
appearance.
Ruth G. Whiteside, the win
some and smiling proprietress,
with her attending expert opera
tors, Mrs. Ruby Clytus and Mrs.
Helen Shaw. both of Texas, have
the confidence of their patrons,
who usually leave the finishing
touches to the discretion of the
operators who really know.
The busy but smiling boss OPP
orator had no time for an inter
view: I'VE stand on our reputa-
ton for service and satisfaction.
Our patrons know this. Those
who have not enjoyed it. always
will find a welcome"
To those who do not wish tC
be found on the waiting list, II
would be well to make an ap
pointment, Main $3.50, when al
experienced operator will be wait
ing your coming. When you leave
somebody is going to look twice.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-09-15
SHOOTING COLONEL
CUT TO CAPTAIN

SELFRIDGE FIELD, Mich. -
Col. William T. Colman, former
comandant at this Army air base,
was reduced in rank to his per-
manent grade OF captain by a
general court-martial that tried
him on 28 counts of violating the
Articles of War. The court or
dered him placed at the foot OF
the list of captains, not to be
promoted for three years.
Colonel Colman was convicted
of careless use of firearms in the
shooting of Pvt. William R. Nc
Rae, Negro chauffeur, and of
four charges of drunkenness. He
was acquitted of other charges.
Among the latter were charges
that he had Illegally arranged
transfers for enlisted personnel to
the field here and that he had
accepted for his private use a
vacation lodge from a Bay City
Mich, contracting firm.
Colman, Regular Army offic
er. held the temporary rank Of
colonel.
The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1943-09-15
HEY YOU KIDS,
EVERY MITE AT 10 P. M;
EVERY MOUSE TO
HIS OWN HOUSE

Seattle youths between 16 and
Is years of age, whose nocturnal
meanderings in the past have
been of little legal concern to
municipal authorities, will be off
the streets and away from public
places by 10 O'Clock tonight-or
else.
Stringent provisions of the new
law. sponsored by Councilwoman
Mrs. F. f. Powell, will prohibit
the presence of minors in public
places, including theatres, after
10 o'clock unless accompanied by
a parent or guardian, prohibit
minors from lettering in public
places after the curfew hour,
make it unlawful for parents or
guardians to willfully or negli-
gently permit minors to violate
the ordinance, and make it unlaw-
full for adults, including parents
or guardians, to congregate or
loiter with minors after the cur
few hour.