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Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-29
LID. MAY BUY
CAL,-El.E ECTRIC
Hewes DscIoses District Plans TO
Purchase Competitors Holdings Here;
Announces Chance Of Interest Cut

Possibility of the sale of properties owned by the Cali
onia Electric Power company in the served by the
AAmerican canal to the Imperial Irrigation District
Thursday in statement of Evan T. lleWeS, head of
the districts operations that the power firm had indicated
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-29
Pilot Killed in
Nv. Plane Crash

1t William P Alderman, 24-year-od army pilot from
March Field killed late Wednesday when P38 plane
crashed and burned the Yuha plain 25 miles southwest
of Ell Centre, army officials announced Thursday.
He of flight of three army officers train
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-29
Russians Launch
Moi ior Offensive
Berlin Reports Reds in Full-Sca|e
At++ack on Kuban Bridsehead; US.
Forces Drive Ahead in North Africa
. BY UNITED PRESS

Americans and their allies sliced gashes in the
Axis defenses before Tuns and Bizere Thursday and
Germany reported that the Red army launched ma
offensive against the Kuban brdgehead in the northwest
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-29
Chief Threatens
70 Take Action
As Army Leader
Observers Believe Roosevelt Will
Send in Troops to Protect Miners
Who Are Willing to Return TO Work

WASHINGTON, April 20, (UP)-Presdent Roosevelt
in strongly worded telegram to John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers warned today that "f work at the
mines is resumed 10 o'clock Saturday morning" he
will his powers commander in chief
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-29
REMEMBER THESE pATEsl

"a" Book Coupons
No. 5-Valld March 22-May -.
Shoes
Stamp No. III pair III June 16
Coffee
Stamp No / lb. to April ..
Sugar
Stamp No. 12-Good for pounds until
May 81
Canned Goods
Blue Stamps ID" "E" and "F' In Book
No. 2 good till May /.
Meat
Red Stamp a, B, c, d good lin April 30
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
SALVATION ARMY.
 SUBMITS REPORT.
Sixty=Six Local, Transient Men Given Assistance
 at Lodge During June

Major Hugo Wiberg revealed in his monthly report to the Wa terburry Community Chest that a total of 66 men, local and transient, received assistance at the Army Lodge for Men on Scovill street during the month of June; 1,04S meals were served and 814 lodging provided. Employment was secured for 27 men.
 Major Wiberg also reports that 28 children are enrolled in the Daily Vacation Bible School being con- ducted at headquarters on Cherry strete, whihc commenced Monday June 28th. Young Peoples classes and services during the month regis tered an attendance of 532. This included the Sunday school, the Scout Troop, the Girl Guard troop, the Corps Cadet Brigade and the Boys club.
 Twenty three services for adults were held in June with a total at tendance of 462.
 At public service conducted on Wednesday evening, June 23rd, one senior member and one junior sol- dier were accepted into the Corps by Major Milton McMahon, Di- visional Young Peoples secretary in Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
l3O PRINTERS IN
 WALK-OUT TODAY
Providence Journal Sus= pends Publication; First
 Time in ll4 Years

Providence, R. T., July 7.-UP)- All of the approximately 130 con- positors employed by the Providence Journal Co.,, publishers of the Eve ming Bulletin, morning and Sunday l Journal, went on strike today in a contractual dispute and about 12 pickets went on duty before the newspaper plant.
 Coincidentally, management of the publishing company said that the newspapers would suspend pub lication-the Journal for the first time in it's 114-year history.
 The compositors are members of the Providence Typographical Union QndependenD.
 The trouble, brewing since Thursday, stems from dispute that began last August when certain compositors were given pay rises above the contract scale. The pub fishers said that this practice had been in effect for 40-odd years as a reward for expert workmen.
 However, union leaders protested the action, saying it violated the contract and demanded that no one be paid above the basic wage scale provided in the contract.
 The Rev William c. Meehan, O. P, of Providence College arbitrated the case and reputedly said in his ruling that the action of the news paper publishers violated the con- tract. On July l, when the compost tors met to discuss the case, Father Meehan sent an explanation to the meeting in which he said that his ruling was misinterpreted and that only the wage clause and not the entire contract was violated.
 Sunday the compositors met and voted 1O9-18 to strike. They said that about 95 per cent of their members were present. Later, the U. s. Department of Labor had the dispute certified to the National War Labor Board.
 The War Labor Board sent to President c. M. Baker of the h. ternational Union and President Thomas F. Lynch Jr., of Local 33 at Providence a message which read in part:
 Any interruption of work at this plant would seriously interfere with the dissemination of news and the continued operation of an essentia enterprise and would be in violation of labor's pledge and the national policy of the government that there shall be no strikes for the duration of the war"
 In the event of suspension, this city of about 275,000 population would be without daily newspaper.
 All rl1hhnr 11rnd11oed in Niperia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

he clipped it away from the lips and shaved the corners.
 Then, with agile fingers that had not forgotten the trick of it., he crowned his head with a white cotton skullcap and tied over it the kufyiah, the large, square silk kerchief Of rull red with a bright orange border from which dropped coolred tasSelS that reached his waist. He fitted the kufyiah close to the back of his head with the help of the askal, or twisted hair rope, and pulled it out in a peak prorJuding over his forehead so that it shaded his eyes and gave to his COuntenance that truculent expression on which true desert- men pride themselves. He dressed his body in simple white cotton shirt, tight-SlecVed, open in front, which covered him from head to foot and was girt by a handsome shawl He struck a crooked, silver handled jambyiah dagger into his folds. Over it all he threw a voluminous burnoose of camels hair - good against cold, good against heat" say the Arabs = and inserted his bare feet into yellow leather slippers,
 He was about to leave the room; stopped suddenly on the threshold
 Something - he thought was missing from his costume.
 He frowned, wondered.
 Then he knew what it was.
 In former years when, for the sake of the adventure, the thrill, he had mingled with the Moslem na- tiveS, there had been one thing which had acted as talisman. It had been important, had opened certain doors. Today it's value was merely sentimental Still, just be- cause it was sentimental, he wanted , it.
 So again he groped in the trunk and found a broad bracelet of hammered iron, silver -inlaid with Kufic characters. He took it out, looked at it, boyish, rather self-conScious smile curling his lips.
 He remembered the first occa- sion on which he had worn it,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Remembered how, as Terek el- Medjahiri, the Syrian Arab, he had joined the dervish Lodge of the Bi Hassanyieh, passing with aching limbs and fear-chilled heart through the initiation ordeal of fire and water, of steel and rope, of scorpion, and snake; had thus become a member of the Lodge and learned it's secret pass words.
 It was or, rather, had been - Moslem society, admitting both men and women. For years it had been powerful in Central Africa :; had, finally, become too powerful.
 For it's leaders had begun to mix politics with the religious and mystic rites. RclayiI2 on the su- perstitious awe with which the Negroes regarded them, they had European intrigues.
 So the French government had stepped in. The Lodge had been declared illegal. Many of the members had been jailed and more eXiled. And when, some weeks earlier, on the even of hls departure, Lincoln had conferred in London with Geenral de Gaulle and Winston Churchill, he had l been given mass of confidential information in regard to the equa- torial colony which he was to rule whom to truts and whom not to trust, whom to flatter and whom to threaten, who to bribe with gold and whom with honors and whom - oh yes! - to liquidate, if need be the Bi Hassanyieh had not even been mentioned.
 The Lodge, no doubt of it, had ben dispersed. Its power was gone. It was today no more than a pale memory. Still, here was it's talisman, the iron bracelet; and why shouldn't he wear it?
 It was part of his one-time Mos lem incarnation. There was about it certain tradition, certain TO- nance and, too, a certain senti- ment.
 So he slipped it on his wrist.
 "Salaam aleykoom, yah sheikh!' he greeted. laughing a little, his reflection in the mirror
 He eXtinguished teh lamp. Cau- tiously he left the room, the house. walked out into the street, lost himself in the dense, dropping shadows cast by the Mosque ot Swords.
 Once more, for the last time he would dip into the secret river of Islamic life; would forget, for the space of a few hours, the crushing burden which Fate had put upon his shoulders.
 (TO Be COntinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
Compensation Agreements

The following agreements for weekly payments during disability of for specific pyament in case of permanent injury were approved toda vat the office of Compensa- tion Commissioner John J. O'Con- nell:
 Ivory French of no Bidwell street, Waterbury, against Ameri- can Brass Company, $25 begin ming July 2, strain of left hip.
 Aldege Villemure of 29 West Clay street, Waterbury, against American Brass Company, $20.73 beginning June 29, confusion of left foot.
 Edward Pakul of Prospect against American Brass Company, $25 beginning June 21, multiple body burns.
 Joseph Mikulskis of Naugatuck against Seaboard Freight Lines, Inc, $21.37 beginning June 8, in- jury to right thigh.
 Joseph Lebest of Torrington against American Brass Company of Torrington, $15625, 25 per cent loss of use of third finger of right hand.
 Nazereno Lourenzi of 159 Locust street, Waterbury, against Sccvill Manufacturing Company, $25 be- ginning June 9, strain.
 Ida Rizzi of 10 Berkley street, Waterbury, against Chase Brass and Copper Company Noera Man ufacturing Company division, $15.71 beginning June g, back in- jury.
 Clark Cook of 193 Capitol ave- nue, Waterbury, against Chase Brass and Copper Company, Roll ing Mills divisian, $25 beginning June 8, chest injury.
 Guerino DiBlasio of 19 Wood street, Waterbury, against Chase Brass and Copper Company, Metal Works plant, $25 beginning June 12, toe injury.
 Ray Suprenant of 59 Fuller street Waterbury, against Chase Brass and Copper Company, Metal Works plant, $25 beginning June 3, injury t oback.
 Henry Copeland of 26 Vine street, Waterbury, against Chase Brass and Copper Company, Metal Works plant, $25 beginning May 20, ankle injury.
 Edward Kornegay of 175 Bishop street, Waterbury, against Chase Brass and Copper Company, Metal Works plant, $24.O8 beginning June 16, injury to instep and toes.
 Ernestin Salerno of 60 Scovill street, Waterbury, against Benrus Watch Company, $11.70 beginning April 20, finger injuries.
 Clinton E. Tyrell of East Can aan against American Brass Com pany of Torrington, $2439 begin ming June 26, foot injury.
 Louis Sulkazsi of Torrington against Turner and Seymour Man ufacturirg Company, S25, begin ming May 27, toe injury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
X U Listening?
. with CHARLES MANN.

Personnel of the CEILING UN- LIMITED series carries over to its new summer replacement James Hilton, Observer" program on CBS each Monday night Suggest that he see some of the scripts the late Eric Knight wrote for CBS and NEG Hilton is smooth, but Knight knew radio technique. -.
 l Milton Berle, currently starring in the "Ziegfeld Follies" on Broad-- way, will add to the festivities on the Wednesday night Sammy Kaye Old Gold show when he appears as guest star tonight at 800 p. m., over CBS Although Berle has | been absent from the mike in re- cent weeks, his work in the "F'ollies" is proof of his stature as one of our top comedians . Give him the right gag writers and his ex- will make a movie a ssoon as the sponsors will come back to him on | their hands and knees Berle musical is terminated.
 Agnes Moorehead, one of the first ladies of radio, has been given an important role in Warner Brothers new film, Conflict" Watch that girl She's the most ter rifle actress on the air today!
 That melodiously husky voice of Bing Crosby that still sends wo- men swooning from coast to coast ! will boom out over the airways to- night over WATR at 9:30 on the program, Soldiers With Wings"
 Major Eddie Dunstedter and his 51-piece Air Corps orchestra supply the musical background for this l service show which emanates from the West Coast Air Force Training Center at Santa Ana, Calf.
 Tom Fizdale tells us that the secret ambition of John Nesbitt, story teller on NBC's chauvinistic Passing Parade" service, is to con- duct a Shakespearean company. Nesbitt saves a tenth of his salary CnSA WCCA, puts lt HI O opCCldl luIlu for what he kiddingly calls "The Bard". His friends think it's a gag. Poor Nesbitt gets so overwrought with his emoting on the Parade hour, we suggest the director gag him once in a while.. The Parade each week is. undoubtedly, good intention, but Nesbitt is a little premature with his melodramatic Shakespearean acting. He starts in high and attempts to go higher.
 Juvenile zoot-suiters and Suzy- Q-ers will turn out en masse this week for a Here's to Romance" pre-vue of Dick Haynes, new sing ing sensation wko is stepping on Frank Sinatra's heels as the all- time favorite of the jitterbugs. Haynes doesn't start on Here's to Romance" until July 18, but sponsor is prevuing the show several weeks early in order to test audience re- action to new format.
 Walter Cassel refers to him as 'Messolini" and "Il Dupe".
 "You cha tfooetaoinshrdluetaoin "You can't fool me-" a woman listener wrote to the Sportsmen quartet in Hollywood this week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
Hlaca OXaihi 7 s'::'' 7: ;::'';;' :; < ' AA AM.AlAcnf,

THE STORY. Lincoln Elliot. American, has just been made military governor of a French colony in Central Africa. Long ago he had enlisted in the For eign Legion following a bitter quarrel with his father over a ne'er-do-well half-brOther, Raoul, and this is the climax of his career. But aS he sits alone that night, refiecting on the important job ahead of him, the chant of the African drums awakens old yearnings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
HEALTH PICTURE
 UNUSUALLY GOOD
City Credited With Few Cases of Contagious
 Diseases

Not only has the health Situa- tion in the city of Waterbury i'm proved decidedly, so has the condi- tions in the state are greatly im- proved' announced Dr. Edward j. Godfrey, municipal health officer | today.
 The weekly health report for last week revealed so few infectious cases in this city, perhaps the next report may show Waterbury without any at all, said the pleased health officer Here's hoping" he added.
 When asked why the health situ- atlon here was so good at this time of the year, he expressed that the summer months are usually the healthy ones, but people infection able will contact sickness any time of the year, he said.
 The health report revealed one case of whooping cough and ' cases of measles, for the week ending July 3.
 Other diseases prevalent through the state are: 2l cases of broncho- pneumonia, 65 chickenpox, 25 tuber- culosis, Al gonorrhea, 55 syphilis. Five cases of the dread disease meningococcus meningitis were re- ported for Fairfield, New Haven and Windham counties. Waterbury has had no cases of this dread dis ease for some time now" said the health officer. "Let's kep it that way"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07
BI HASSANYIEH
Chapter Il

He remembered how, years ago. tn this same town of Mounet- vile, promoted to sergeant and with quite a little free time on his hands, he had on occasion delib- erately forgotten that he was an American, Christian. Remem- bered how he had mixed with the Moslem natives, often, when he was on furlough, for days at time wearing their clothes, eat ing their food, fearing their fears, hoping their hopes, dreaming their dreams and oh, yes shining their sins.
 Nobody, neither his comrades nor his Moslem friends, had ever known that Lincoln Elliot, serg- cant in the Foreign Legion, and Terek el Medjahiri, the young Arab from far-off Syria - Allah Allah! What a queer accent these Syrians have!" - who occasionally wandered into town, were one and the same.
 Yes. He remembered.
 Remember the color of It. Color of gold. Color of blood Color of passion.
 Remembered the scent of it, a mingling of musk and sweat, rose oil and garlic.
 Remembered the life of it, shame less. untrammeled, savagely, glori- ously free
 And, as he remembered he felt In his heart an unrest that set his nerves to tingling.
 He had already poured a gen. erous two fingers of Whiskey, when, drowning the chant of the drums, there came from near Arab house a confused symphony of voices, unrestrained Oriental laughter, high-pitched yells, the tinkle- -tinkle- tinkle of Womans glass bracelets, a Negros 'clicky jungly talk. The sounds leaped up like fragments of some half forgotten melody; they mocked him and tempted him and, suddenly, he laughed.
 He laughed, perhaps, at Africa Perhaps at his own self
 fTte! Ile thought. fIte, once more, for the last time To the devil with duties and responsibili- yies -- for the space of one night!'
 Anri he left the veranda and walking on tiptoe, went to his bedroom,
 He listened.
 TEe house was quiet. The serv- ants were asleep His second-in- command and good friend, Captain Robert Pelletier, also of the Legion. who had the room next to his, was snoring heartily.
 He locked the door, pulled down the window blinds, lit a lamp, undressed.
 Feeling very much like a con- spirator in some screen melo- drama, he opened a trunk which held some of his more intimate belongings. He looked at the con- tents, smiled went to work.
 Studying his face in the mirror, he found it burned a clear ma hogany by the tropical sun of many seasons Given the right costume, he could pass anywhere for a desert Arab. Only his mus tache was too military, too long. So, in the proper Moslem style.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

The volcano near San Juan Paricutin, Mexico, which has been active since February 22, is esti- mated to have destroyed totally or partially 750,00O acres. mostly farm lands, with it's lava, ashes and smoke.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

By making AS caliber sub machine guns from stampings and uncritical materials, army ord- nance has cut the cost from $225 to $21. Redesign of the 50 caliber aircraft machine gun. saves 52 pounds of steel, two pounds oi bronze, and $500.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Bombed out of her home in Lon don, 98-year-old Mrs. M. Girse asked permission for her two boys to visit her at St. Marys hospital in Homfirth, and whan they appeared it was revealed that both were old age pensioners, Herbert being 72 and his brother 70.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Dinah Shore program on Sunday and the Fountaineers of the Rudy Vallee program are the same per- sons."
 OVERHEARD: One man reading newspaper over another man; Hoover?
 The Other Man: Oh, that mus be ex-President Herbert Hoover He's done so much about the fOos situation abroad, guess they mad' him the admiral of the ship ht ships his food on.
 No, no, a thousand times no! = Garry Moore, who has been pinned down as Jimmy Durante's Comedy partner on the air protested vigor- ously when he heard that four representative serviceWomen Wer, publicly going to choose him as | their "pin-up-boy of the = month" | when he appears as the guest con- | testant on Wally ButterWorth's Take A-Card' over WATR tonight at 8:30.
 Don Wilson, announcer for the Jack Benny radio program. has just been advised by 'Movie Radio | Guide" that he has won the annual poll taken by that publication for the most popular announcer on the air.
 Now Lionel Barrymore's acting awards can set up housekeeping. A few years ago Lionel won film oscar" for his picture acting. This week, on his Mayor of the Town program he was presented with gold statuette, a winged female figure very like the Oscar, naming him ''favorite actor ill Movie Radio Guides annual poll.
 Side by side on the mantel they make fine couple" says Barry more, "and I trust theirs will not be a lonely old age.'
 Jane COwl and Elsa Maxwell are in the running for a new daily news comment series now being mulled by sponsor which has several soap operas currently on the kilocycles.
 Charlie Ruggles, Mary Astor and Carlos Ramirez. stars of the Thurs day night CBS variety show (Roma this week were awarded certificates by the Treasury Department fol their recent bond tip to San Fran cisco.
 Hal McIntyr tells the silly about the citizen who wrote to his con gressman for some seeds and re- ceived instead a seedy congressman. Oh, Hal, recap that tyre.
 Charlie Spivak insists it happen ed on the Pennsylvania Railroad where they now have girl conduc- tors. A male passenger asked one of them leading question and she told him where to get off. Whoops!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Food control measures were taken by the Chinese government as the result of an increase of 400 per cent in food prices in Chungking, the capital, in one year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

q discovered" said Miss Anderson" that Thrift Check is a new kind of checking account service - just tailor-made for me, I know in advance just what my checking account will cost. You know the checks really are neat and I like my name printed on each one. I am proud to write checks on The Citizens and Manufacturers Ma tional Bank"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

All rubber produced in Nigeria must now be sold to the Govern ment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

T know your voices. particularly that of the second tenor, and am convinced the Sportsmen of tho Dinah Shore program on Sunday and the Fountaineers of the Rudy Vallee program are the same per- Sons."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Charlie Spivak insists it happen ed on the Pennsylvania Railroad where they now have girl conduc- tors. A male passenger asked one of them a leading question and she told him where to get off. Whoops
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Don Wilson, announcer for the Jack Benny radio program. has just been advised by "Movie Radio Guide" that he has won the annual poll taken by that publication for the most popular announcer on the air.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Agnes Moorehead, one of the first ladies of radio, has been given an important role in Warner Brothers new film, Conflict" Watch that girl She's the most ter rifle actress on the air today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-07

Hal McIntyr tells the silly about the citizen who wrote to his con gressman for some seeds and re- ceived instead seedy congressman. Oh, Hal, recap that tyre.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-12-23
Shoe Store Manager
Loses S45 10 Bandit

Police today were looking for "a
man Aho last night bound Joseph
WobbInS al. manager al q shoe
store At Hap r. Jefferson locked
him in Il Irar room OF tho store
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pedestrian by ltnucking ms h'mi
against INC glass I'm lhc door The
pedestrian called police.