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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

US c0fYee.. Hal Block seems well launched on his dissection of
 John Bulls funnyb0ne,
 American funnybones, Hal Block one of America's ace script writers las been requisitioned to plant some pure American corn in British radio program. He recently arrived here to join the staff of the B, B. c.
 Block, who has written gags for topnotch U. s. comedians, disputes the stock American conception of teh British sense of humor that three days after joke, the Briton starts to smile
 LIKE 'EM RIPE
 Because of different joke tell - ing techniques. the Briton and the American laugh at different kinds kinds of gags" said Block. "rhe British are strong for old jokes, They love them, like old songs, partly for their age. But the dough- boys over here are not amused"
 American humor is much faster than the British, says Block. We suggest Q gag and expect the au- dienoe to supply the answer, Here In Britain, the comedian supplies both gag and answer
 As an example Block supposed that Benny asks Rochester what ho has been drinking 'I can't say. boss" replies Rochester but my stomach amt never gonta have dandruH"
 As played by the British, the tng line would read: T can't say, guvnor, but ] hope you weren't intending to use your hair tonic tonight"
 Secondly, says Block, great deal of Americas humor is built around insults Pat says; Who's that peeking over your shoulder?' Mike: No one" Pat: Don't tell me those are cars"
 Inc British don't go for Insults as humor.
 IMPORTANT FUN
 But there are certain slmilarities between British and American hu- nor. Both love to gag topical sub- jects, In an English joke the boss tells his secretary. You've been such q help to me you can have any two things you like" The secretary clooses mink coat and an egg Tho boss says; Isn't that asking an awful lot2" Where fin the world can I get an egg2"
 You get the same joke, with American variations, on every U. s. comedy program on the air today.
 What we hope to do," says Block through two-way programs such aB the projected Anglo o-American Hour 6 to teach Americans about British humor and the British about ours. They'll have to learn about jerks and 'dripS' and wolves and we'll have to learn lots from them"
 There's an important basis for common understanding through humor, Block believes. because 1t Ia more than merely entertaining.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
"Tain't Funny" Tanks Agree: So BEG Imports U. s. Radio Gag Man

A joke can be a verbal cartoon which packs volume of criticism into a few terse lines. For in- stance, NaA was telling an Eng lishman about how good things arc in Germany. "Yes," says the Englishman, but when some one knocks on my door early in the morning, I know it's the milkman. '"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

Principal
 James NJ. Perry, Jr. Principal of the Perry School will attend the joint meeting of the Massachu- setts Association of Business and Secretarial schools and of the New England Business College As sOciation, to be held at the Uni versity Club in Boston, Saturday May s. Dr. J. $. NOffsinger, execu- tive chairman of the War Emcrg- emmy Council, Washington. D. C. will be the speaker. Dr. Noffsing- CT will speak on the subject "Thc Private Business Schools cOOpcra- ton with the government in the war effort"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
FRENCH TEACHERS IN
 HARTFORD MEETING

A luncheon at 12:30 D. m. will open the annual spring meeting of the Connecticut chapter of the American Association of Teachers of French which is to be held tomor- row at the Hotel Bond in Hartford. M. Pierre Brodin, director of the Lycee Francais Of New York, Mile. Valentine Tonone, director of folk lore celebrations at the Sttae Teach CTS College at Montclair, N. J., and M Jean Boorsch, professor of French at Yale University will be introduced as guest speakers at the session.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

India will build many roads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
By TOM WOLF NEA Stan Correspondent

London, May q -- There's new heading on the lend-lease ledger these days: ITO Britain-one con- sienment, American sense of hu- nor"
 Because 1t takes different kinds of tickling to affect British and
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
BAPTIST WOMEN IN
 ANNUAL MEETING

According 10 an announcement mde today, the anual meeting and election of officers of the First Baptist Church Women has been postponed until May 10, The busi- ness meeting will be preceded by a box luncheon at 1 D. m.
 Mrs. Anson Stone will preside over the meeting which will consist also Of reports of officers and committee chairmen.
 India will build many roads
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07
Boatswain Mate Outstanding Hero Even Where Heroes Are Plentiful
BY WILLIAM r. THREE United Press Staff Correspondent

South Pacific Base ODelayed) (UP)-Fobert l. Rhend 22 boasWain wild where there heroes aplenty.
 He's the young sailor Ciuadaanal during the islands darkest have been driven off, his story be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-07

Pennsylvania fish hatcheries dis tributed more than 600,000, 900 fish in a single year.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
FLYNN TRIAL HAS
SENSATIONAL TURN
Satterlee Girl Admits Un-
dergoing Illegal
Operation

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 2o.-R.
Peggy la Rue Satterlee, 16-year-olo
HOLLYWOOD showgirl, admitted to-
day at Enrol Flynn's trial on three
counts of statutory rape that she
has undergone an operation, and
the prosecution stipulated that the
surgery was an abortion.
That was one of several sensa'
tional bits of information whlcn
Defense Attorney Jerry Glesle1
drew from the girl-chief state
complaining witness-during lnten'
sive cross-exalnination.
Among the others:
She had been given to under
stand that at her request, no ac.
ton will be taken against the man
responsible for her operation.
She has been living, at state
expense, with policewomen, n $
been attending movies and visit
ing hotel cafes and took a lo-oay
trip 10 San Francisco.
That she has stated her age var
iously up to 81 years in appllca,
tons for employment at nj n
clubs and In the movies, and car
Continued on Page Six; Col "
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
Chile SeveI
All Tiies
AXIS Na
South American Republic
Begins Concentration
OF Nationals
GENERAL ROUND UP
All Aliens To Be Exchang-
ed AS Country Lines
Up With Allies

SANTIAGO, Chile. Jan. q
|-P)-As a contribution tt
hemisphere solidarity ant
long after the original indig.
nation over Axis attacks or
Chilean shipping had cooled
Chile broke off diplomatic re-
lations today with Germany
Japan and Italy and began the
concentration of Axis ma.
tionals.
President Juan Antonio
Rios last night obtained the
supporting approval of t h
Senate, by a 80 to 10 vote
then signed the decree to- -oust
the Axis dip o m a t S, who
were to be handed their pass
ports later in the day.
May Go To Argentina
I 1T was not known Immediately
whether the diplomats would re-
main in Chile until an exchange
could be arranged or whether they
would be transferred to Argentina
which now is the only South Ameri
can nation maintaining diplamatle
relations with the Axis.
President Rios was scheduled tt
tell his nation of the break in 9
broadcast tonight. All Axis nation
ais meanwhile were being rounded
up and placed under guard.
Foreign Minister Joaquin Fer
nandez called in the American
diplomatic corps to make the an
nouncement.
The Brazilian ambassador, Sam
uel Souza de Leao Oracle, whose
country is the only South Amerl
can belligerent, said upon leaving
the foreign office:
This decision places Chile II
the Democratic front"
Bolivian Ambassador Alberto
Ostria Gutierrez, who as foreign
Continued on Page Six; Col. A.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21

three women killed when bomb
passed through the top Of a cafe
and across a street into a row OF
houses.
In southern England, where the
raiders also delivered destruction
one elderly man died of shock in a
southeast coastal town where 40 to
so planes appeared in two waves,
but dropped no bombs.
Probably 80 heavily escorted raid.
ers were bound for London and in
all, at least 13 Focke-Wulf 1905 and
Messerschmitt 109 fighter-bombers
were shot down by Raj fighters.
Civil defense authorities said the
school disaster was the worst suf
fered by the London schools from
the aerial attacks in the war. The
highest previous death toll in bomb
ed schools was "a.
Twice the usual number of child.
rem had remained at the school cafe.
terra instead of going home, for i'm.
mediately after the luncheon they
were going on a theater party.
Residents said three planes flew
low over the district and dropped
bombs.
Some of the explosives wrecked
an entire block Of buildings near.
by. Children Oh a, playground escap.
ed machine-gun fire from the planes
but three persons half block away
were wounded.
Men digging in the school ruins
came upon the multilated body of
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
FINANCE GIVEN
MUCH ATTENTION
Both Houses OF N. c. Leg.
islature Work On Sur
plus Fund

RALEIGH, Jan. 20. III Both
houses of the Legislature gave un-
divided attention today to the lay
ing aside of surplus monies al
ready in the states bulging Golfers
and to any further surpluses that
might accumulate during the cur
rent wartime prosperity.
Both houses acted on postwar
fund legislation, the Senate pass
ing bill by Senator O'Berry OF
Wayne to authorize the Governor
and state treasurer, with approval
of the Council of State, to invest
surplus funds in interest-bearing
securities, while the House passes
the bill to create postwar re-
serve fund of $20,000,0 900.
O'Berry's bill was concerned
with surplus that might develop
after a sizable portion of the pres
ent surplus is invested in securi-
ties. 1t was sent to the Senate
after the House had offered amend
ments that would allow the funds
to be invested in paper guaran-
teed but not necessarily issued by
the federal governments.
After passing the House, the $780,
100000 surplus bill was sent back
to the Senate for concurrence in
amendments that sliced off ST.
100000 of the Senate-approved $22,-
100000 measure.
Aside from money matters, the
Senate received a bill that would
fix the terms of office and quail
fications of members of the State
Board of Health.
Introduced by Senator Weathers
of Cleveland, the bill provides that
one member of the board be a
Continued on Page Ten; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
Use
OF BUSES OUT
No Increase In Carrier
Service For Enjoy
ment Allowed

Stay off the buses during hours
when they are needed for trans
portation of war workers.
The request for public coopera-
ton in the matter of refraining
from use of buses during the busy
hours comes from N. E. Drexler,
president of the Tide Water Power
company, as the result of a direc.
tive issued by Joseph B. Eastman,
head of the Office of Defense Trans.
portation.
Mr.. Drex1er has received word
from the national ODT office to
the effect that transit companies
in II eastern states and the Dis
trict of Columbia have been ad.
vised not to increase bus service
for the accommodation OF plea
sure seekers. Since the pleasure
ban has been imposed upon priv
ate vehicles, transit firms in the
east have been besieged with re-
quests to augment service especi'
ally on Sundays and in the even
ings to places of amusements, Mr..
Drexler was told b ythe ODT di.
rector.
Answering for his own concern.
President Drexler revealed that
Tide Water Power company ex.
poets to comply with the national
order fully. He also made the sug.
gestion that entertainment events
be scheduled to begin and end al
times not conflicting with the rush
hours when workers are being
transported to and from their jobs
Mr.. Eastman declared further ir
his communication to the loca.
transit company:
'Bus service should not be sup
plemented to provide Transports
ton for amusement and entertain
ment purposes beyond the norma!
schedules in operation prio to the
ban on pleasure driving in priv
ate automobiles.
sThe Office of Price Adminlst
tration ban on pleasure driving
was imposed for one purpose, the
conservation of gasoline. Therefore
if the transit companies were to
place additional buses in service
to carry pleasure seeker, the con.
servation aims Of the ban would
be partially nullified.
"There is no objection to plea.
sure seekers using the mass trans
portation facilities where they can
be accommodated with the regu-
lar service, not requiring the ad-
ditional expenditure of fuel and
rubber. Supplementing street rail-
way and like facilities which DO
not consume gas and rubber, is OF
course permissible.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
INCREASED AID
PROMISED REDS
Lend Lease Shipments In
1913 To Be Further
Developed

WASHINGTON, Jan. 90 Up -
The United States and the United
Kingdom have sent $500 tanks and
4,6O0 planes to Russia, the lend
lease administration reported to.
day with a promise that aid to
the Soviet will grow still more
in 1943."
Administrator Edward R. Stet-
tinius Jr. said that as of January
l more than $500 tanks and al
most $500 planes had gone from
the U. S., and $500 tanks and
more than 1000 planes from the
United ingdom.
Announcing important prog
ress'' last year in supplying the
Soviet, Stettinius declared:
"The people Of the Soviet Union
have so far waged magnificent
battle against the Nazis principally
with their own arms. But lend
lease aid to Russia is growing to
sizable proportion. 1t will grow
still more in 1943."
Stettinius said the United States
had not yet been able Ito send
as much as we should like-or as
much as the Soviet army needs
and a part of what we send has
been lost on the way"-exactly
how rn,1cn he did not say.
after slow start, lend-lease
shipments have greatly in
creased" he asserted. 'They are
continuing to increase in spite OF
the shortage of shipping and en-
emy attacks along the difficult
supply routes to Russia"
Stettinius' statement also report
ed:
Lend-lease shipments of war sup
plies to Russia reached new
high IN November, equaling 13
times the total sent. in January,
1912.
AS of January 1, the u n e d
States had shipped to Russia un-
der 1end-lease more t h n 5000
tanks and almost $500 planes.
Tank shipments to Russia were
greater under lend-lease than to
Continued on Page Six; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
PRICES MAY RISE
Prentiss Brown Makes No
Promises But Holds
For Relief
ASKS UNDERSTANDING
Feels Duty Is To Acquaint
Public With Rea-
son For Moves

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20
P) - Smiling Prentiss M.
Brown took over price con-
troll and rationing admins
tration from L con Hender-
son today, and Immediately
held out some hope for more
liberal gasoline ration t n $
summer, better fuel oil sup
plv for next winter, and more
svmpathetic regulation all
around. :.
The new OPA chief predict
ed price rises would be slow
and "well ordered" at the
same tim e commenting i
don't b believe we can hold
r,ces at a flat level"
Goes To Press Conference
An hour after he took the oath
of office. Brown went before
nress confe1en to plead for I'M
derstanding from the public.
Brown rnade no promises. say
i,g he wanted a couple of weeks
to study his task, but at every
step he indicated hope for relaxa-
tion of restrictions and comment
ed
THE Keynote of rationing and
nrice control will not be imposl-
ton, out protection of the public.
I think the President put me here
for the purpose of making plain
to the people why we do the things
we dc here"
The former Michigan senator
took the CPA helm shortly after
Food Administrator Wickard had
expanded the number OF t o O d S
that OPA can ration, if necessary.
The new foods include evaporated
and condensed milk, canned flsh
Continued on Page Six; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
Walter Lippmann Says:
No Real Account Given
On North African War

ed, has made it appear that in
the opinion of the State depart
ment and of the War department
General Elsenhower's military po-
sition is being undermined and his
army put in jeopardy by the mach
nations Of the British Foreign Of
flee and of General De Gaulle,
and of those Americans who pre-.
sumed to Suggest-though they ac-
knowledged the temporary neces.
slty for it-that they were not
happy al finding themselves in
bed with the vichy Frenchmen,
who are responsible for killing OF
wounding thousand Americans,
for selling out Indo-China to the
japanese and for many other acts
OF treachery to our cause
This propaganda campaign con.
tinues in spite of private repre-.
sentations which have been made
by Independent observers that il
be disavowed, or at least stopped,
until the true situation in North
Africa could be effectively re-
ported, and then examined and
discussed on its merits. 1t is now
necessary to carry the case to
the public judgment. For behind
the curtain Of the censorship and
the barr age of propaganda, the
authorities in North Africa are on
the verge Of an action which, if it
is carried through, may make a
difficult problem almost insoluble.
l refer to the importation into
North Africa from the Argentine
OF a M. Peyrouton, figure little
known to Americans but very well
Continued on Page Nine; Col. y
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
BACK TO WORK
IS MINERS CRY
Shouting Coal Workers Ex'
press Desire To End
Walk Out

WILKES-BARRE, Pa, Jan. 70.
-LRA Stomping, shouting miners
launched a new back Ito work
movement in Pennsylvania S
strike-bound hard coal fields to-
night.
Cries of back to work boys
rang through union halls as nearly
three thousand workers voted te
comply with President Roosevelt's
order that they end their three
week-old unauthorized walkout by
noon tomorrow.
Throwing parliamentary order to
the winds. the 1900 employees o1
the Lehigh Valley Coal company's
Prospect-Henry colliery didn't ever
bother to take a formal vote. In
a five-minute session they yelled
unanimous approval VIII II one
worker called out:
"What do we want meeting
for? Let's &C back to work!'
They were the first to make
such a decision since Mr.. Roose.
velt issued his ultimatum yester.
day and warned that he would
"take the necessary steps, unless
the miners obeyed.
More formal but just as deter.
mined was the Lance colliery local
of Glen Alden Coal company, with
1 900 members. After voting 25C
to no to resume production to-
(Continued on Page Ten; Col. II
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-R)-
American troops, relentlessly
pressing a campaign to eliminate
enemy forces on Guadalcanal,
killed 1882 Japanese in five days
of jungle warfare, the Navy re-
ported today.
In patrol skirmishes and in COM
paratively large scale engage
ments, they advanced on the Japa-
nese and wiped out group after
group in the five days ending
January II.
Many of the engagements were
within a short distance Of Hender-
son air field, base for American
planes which have been bombing
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
Owl Head Says Outlook
On War Is Encouraging

WASHINGTON, Jan. 2o.-PC
Elmer Davis, director of war infor'
nation, today described the wal
situation as pretty encouraging, in
general" although Axis submarines
SO far this month have taken a
heavier toll of United Nations ship
ping than in the corresponding pc
riod of December.
The most encouraging war news,
Davis told a press conference, is
coming from the eastern front in
Russia, but he remarked that the
Germans still have great deal OF
that territory under their control.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
1882 Japs Exterminated
By Americans In 5 Days

enemy positions on other islands
and attacking shipping in the Solo.
mons area.
One was an encounter in which
American troops moved steadily
forward, advancing between g.
900 and 1000 yards to throw back
the Japanese despite stiff enemy
resistance" last Friday.
Again on the next day the ground
fores forged ahead, with the ene-
my offering determined resistance
from trenches and ambushes in
the jungles.
Other skirmishes took American
troops into action against pockets
CONTINUED on Page Six; Col 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
New OPA Head Sees
Hope For Increase
In Gasoline Ration
Pleasure Driving Ban
Still In Effect, Says
OPA Spokesman

The ban on pleasure driving
is still in effect and is still be-
ing enforced, a spokesman for
the Office of Price Administra.
ton here warned drivers in the
Wilmington area Wednesday
night.
Answering the questions of
numerous motorists in this sec.
ton, the OPA official declared
that strict adherence to the
driving regulations, banning all
pleasure missions by car, is q
necessity.
OPA Investigators are report.
ed to be active in the field.
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21
By WALTER LIPPMANN

Our forces have now been in
North Africa for more than two
months, ard the American people
have yet to be given an objective
account of any phase of the great
enterprise. Even the stroy of the
initial landings has never been al
lowed to come through the censor.
ship in such way as to give an
ineligible picture of what happen
ed at Cassblanca, Oran and Al
giers. The critical and mysterious
story of the first days in Tunisia,
and what the local French author
tiles did or did not do when the
Germans came in, has never been
told. The political censorship has
been no less impenetrable. TT e
story of the arrangements with
Admiral Darlan and with General
Nogues has never been plainly
told. There has been in regard to
all the salient aspects of the en-
terprise almost no light.
There has been a general dispo-
sition among responsible people
not to complain, on the contrary,
to assume that whatever the ap-
pearances, the situation would be
worked out satisfactorily in the
course of time. I myself still hope
and believe it will be. But it must
be said now that the self-restraint
of those who were quite prepared
to wait and see has been abused.
To the military and political CEN
'sorship which has prevented in
dependent reporting of any phase
of the situation there has been
conjoined an inspired campaign in
the press which, only think veil
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-REAn
opponents cry of perjury today
capped Edward ] Flynn's denial
of wrongdclng and the Senate For
eign Relations committee decided
to get the views Of Mayor Fiorello
H. LaGuardia and other New York
officials On Flynn's fitness to be
minister to Australia.
Flynn. chain-smoking cigarets,
went over one by one the charges
leveled by Republicans contending
he is unfi for the Australian post,
and branded them all political in
origin anc absolutely false in their
implications.
The, Sidney Baron, New Yorker
The Wilmington morning star., 1943-01-21

in the heart of residential section,
was smashed into rubble.
There wasn't q chance that the
children and teachers buried in the
ruins were alive. ror they had been
chattering gaily at luncneon on the
first floor; but 200 rescue workers
kept digging for them.
Only II children and one teach
er in the building emerged alive.
Thirty bodies Of children from six
to IA years of age had been re-
covered.
The known victims besides the
children in the one building were
10 children and six women killed
by a bomb which smashed three
London houses, and six children and