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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
GROTTO STAGE
REVUE FRIDAY
Proceeds to Help Send
Local Servicemen Christ.
mas Cigarettes

zlndah's Orotto's "Keep I'm
Smoking Fund" will benefit from
the proceeds of . mammoth Indus
trial Vaudeville show to be staged
IN Buckingham hail on Friday
night. The show Is being held to
provide shipments of Christmas
cigarettes for Waterbury boys In the
armed services Of the nation at
home and abroad.
The festivities will start promptly
at Sis and will consist Of eighteen
acts each Of which has been chosen
BY the employees OF most OF the
manufacturing companies In this
city and Naugatuck to represent
their companies. Because Of this
competitive spirit there will be
much rivalry on the part Of the per-
formers as they vie with each other
TO gain the favor Of the audience.
Following the vaudeville show
dancing will be enjoyed until a. IN.
With music being furnished by the
Zindah Grottonians, a twelve piece
orchestra.
Ever since June Of 1912 the mem
bers Of Zindah Grotto have been
giving freely Of their time and eff
forts to maintain the Keep En-
Smoking Fund" which they origi-
mated in Waterbury, so that local
servicemen might be the recipients
Of regular shipments of cigarettes
from their fellow townsfolk and get
. lift in morale and spirit knowing
the folks back home are thinking Of
them. The idea has proven tre-
mendously successful and to date
over four million cigarettes have
been sent out.
Grotto officers have received
thousands OF cards and letters from
local servicemen acknowledging re-
peipt Of these cigarettes and voicing
their thanks and appreciation.
These will be on public display at
Buckingham hall Friday night.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
RIGID ROUTINE


Bergner and Douglas Fairbanks,
Jr.
Opening Sunday at the Strand
is Campus Rhythm" merry col.
lege musical starring Gale Storm.
Robert Lowery and Johnny Downs.
With this feature there Is another
grand film, Wagon Tracks West" a
story of action and adventure in the
romantic west.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

be lots of study, no late hours. and
a course of conduct on and off the
screen. They must dedicate them
selves to the tfeater - and the
public"
The youngsters will be unknowas,
although not necessarily without
film experience. II think there are
hundreds of talented youngsters in
Hollywood who are never given a
chance" Mary said. They're kept
under contract, and never given
anything to do. just to keep them
away from rival companies"
viii Mary return to the screen
herself when she starts producing
from two to three pictures a year
for United Artists? No, she didn't
think so. At least she wouldn't
work as both producer and star.
II tried that once" she said. 'Tt's
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
IT'S "MON' AS IN MONEY

Hollywood - How to pronounce
Toumanova, the name of the great
ballerina debuting soon in the
movies as feminine star of RKO
Radios Russian guerrilla drama
Days of Glory? Here's Producer
Casey Robinsons diagram: TOO
MON-uvah," accent on the second
syllable. That mon is pronounced
as in money-which is what Pro-
ducer Robinson expects his star to
produce.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

too strenuous schedule. III play a
role only II we cannot find anyone
else suited for the part. And then
I'll step out as producer" she said.
SCARED STAR
Mary stepped in front Of movie
camera for the first time in 10
years recently for a Canadian War
Bond short filmed at Universal STU
dio. "And I was scared to DEATH"
she laughed.
No. she wasn't planning to have
husband Buddy Rogers join her In
the company when he returns from
war.
II don't think husbands and wives
in bushes stogether Is a good pol
ICY" Anyway, Buddy has an offer
to Join a rival producing company,
she said, when the war is over.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
- In ----
Hollywood
BY ERSKINE JOHNSON
NEA Staff Correspondentl

Hollywood's first lady = Mary
Pickford - Is about 70 realize her
most cherished ambition-teacher in
school for stardom.
The famous little lady told me
about it today over the luncheon
table at Pickfair where she an
nounced for the first time, the for
nation Of the Pickford Players.
I'm going to school youngsters
for screen careers" she said.
They're going to live and work by
my creed. The trouble with most
youngsters in motion pictures to-
day is that they try to eat the fruit
Of success before it's ripe on the
tree"
There's no doubt that Mary Pick
ford, after 80 years Of stardom, is
probably the best qualified person in
the world to conduct school Tor
stardom. And as the only feminine
producer In Hollywood with her own
releasing company, United Artists,
she can give the Pickford Players
classroom worthy of their famous
name. Mary has a great many IDEAS
about a school for stardom, but the
most important rule, she says. Is
that motion picture stars cannot
expect privacy.
''They must dedicate themselves
to the public" she said.
Mary should know. She gave her
first interview as a child stage star
at S, has been living in q goldfish
bowl ever since. Why, Just the other
day in a Canadian hotel. Mary said
maid brought her o telegram from
her husband, Lieutenant Buddy
Rogers, a flyer in the Naval ferry
command.
81 read your telegram" the maid
said. MY - your husband loves
you very much"
Mary laughed. Privacy? - you
Just can't have any when people
know you're from Hollywood"
RIGID ROUTINE
Nucleus Of the Pickford Players,
Mary said, will be four or five
youngsters, Is to II. She will cast
them soon f. her first production
effort In seven years, the film YER
sion of the play. Junior Miss" She
wrote a check for $350.000 for the
play, the highest price ever paid for
q Broadway hit.
I'm going to give those young
sters every opportunity to become
stars" she said. There will be
a bonus for the most ambitious. But
they'll have to play the game &C
cording to my rules. There Will
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

The area Of the pupil Of the hui
man eye when fully expanded Is
about so times greater than when
fully contracted. says the Better
Vision Institute.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Policeman 5 pleadinq
Averfs Bridge Leap

Sympathetic pleading by police
man convinced 55-year-old Hyatts-
vile businessman, Morton H. Con-
nor, to abandon a threat to leap into
Rock Greek gorge, after the man held
the attention Of a crowd of breath
less onlookers for As minutes late
yesterday afternoon on the Taft
Bridge.
The policeman, George Eppard,
who arrived on the scene while en-
route to serve a summons, kept up a
steady conversation with the man
perched on an outer ledge of the
bridge. Meanwhile, the policeman S
companion, Lurty c. Hough, kept the
crowd back and called for police
and fire department aid.
DO you have a family? Do you
want me to call a Minister" were
questions used by Policeman Eppard
to hold MIR. Connor's attention
Some of the questions brought a
response.
Finally, Mr.. Connor walked back
to the wall over which he had
climbed and was helped to safety by
the policeman.
Mr.. Connor explained he was de-
spondent over an argument he had
with relative with whom he lives
at No. 6 Forest Grove drive, Silver
Spring. Md, Policeman Hough said.
He had left his overcoat, keys and
glasses in his car parked near the
bridge, according to the officer.
After his rescue, Mr.. Connor was
taken to Gallinger Hospital for OBJ
servation. Police said he is the
owner Of the Connor Sales & Manu-
featuring Co., 706 Rhode Island
avenue, Hyattsville, Md.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Churchill Assures
Friends Of Recovery
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
| LONDON. Dec. 30-Prime Min
lister Churchill disclosed today in q
cheerful message issued through No
10 Downing street that he has re-
covered from his attack of pneu-
monia and is "able to transact busi-
ness fully
The note, addressed to those who
had been so kind as to inquire u
about him during his illness, said he
was leaving for what he called IAN
unannounced destination. He be-
came i'll somewhere in the Middle
East.
Il feel good deal better than at
any time since leaving England
the Prime Minister said, although,
of course, a few weeks in sunshine
are needed to restore my physical
strength"
He gave high praise to the physi-
clans and nurses who cared for him
and expressed the hope that "all
our battles will be equally we'll con-
Quoted" He said an admirable"
sulfa drug which was administered
did its work most effectively"
L have not at any time had to
relinquish my part in the direction
of affairs and there has not been
the slightest delay in giving de-
cisions which were required of me-"
the note continued.
Il have highly efficient nucleus
staff and am in full daily cor
Irespondence with London, and
though shall be resting for a few
weeks, I shall not be idle, provided,
OF course, we do not have any seo-
backs"
His illness, he said, had forced
him to cancel proposed trip to the
Italian front.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
BrickIey's Son Takes
Jap on New Britain

BY the Associated Press.
WITH THE MARINES ON CAPE
GLOUCESTER, New Britain. Dec.
27 Delayed) PVT. John Brickley
of New York City, son of Charlie
Brickley, the famed Harvard foot
ball player, captured one Of the
first japanese prisoners in the Cape
Gloucester invasion.
A fiveman patrol landed with the
first wave yesterday morning. The
patrol was headed by 24-year- -old
Sergt. Warren G. Tracy of Flint.
Mich, who shot an enemy trooper.
A marine combat correspondent,
Sergt. jeremiah OIeary of Wash
ington, said the scouts headed up
the beach Immediately after leap
ing from Higgins boats.
One marine in the patrol fell
wounded three times by japanese
hiding in a pillbox. Sergt. Tracy
helped pull the wounded man out
of the line of fire.
1t. Howard Taylor, Cleveland
Heights. Ohio, reported Pvt. Brick
leys achievement. A japanese was
hiding in pillbox near the landing
beach. Grenades failed to bring
him out. A smoke bomb was thrown
in and out he came, captive of Pvt.
Brickley.
Sergt. OLeary formerly was a
reporter for The Star.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Florida Oil Well Yields
IS Barrels q Day
By the Associated Press.

6y the ASSOCIATED PresS.
MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 30.-The Hum
BILE OH Co.'S Sunnyland No. l, Flori-
das first oil well, is producing rs to
100 barrels of petroleum a day. be-
sides providing natural gas enough
to operate a plant in which it is
treated, according to John B. Payne,
company superintendent.
About 600 barrels of oil and water
daily are being taken from the well,
Mr.. Payne reported. This is run
through the treating plant, which
eliminates the water and turns the
by-products into natural gas.
The company is conducting the
test production in support of it's
claim to the s50,o00 offered by the
State for the first commercial well
in Florida.
Evening star., 1943-12-30

more than 20 per cent of it's actual
requirements for a twice. monthly
Sunday chicken dinner.
100000 Pounds Sought.
The freeze" order will remain in
effect, the VIA said, until the Gov
ernment has acquired 10000, 900
pounds, an amount said to be suf-
ficient to provide chicken dinners
for the armed forces at fairly regu-
lar" intervals during the next six
months.
The order affects holdings by deal
ers, restaurant and hotel operators
producers, professors, wholesalers,
retailers and all other holders of
frozen chickens except holders of
less than 5000 pounds and owners OF
chickens held in individual family
locker spaces.
Present chicken cold-storage stocks
were estimated at about ITO, 1000, ,O0O
pounds.
Marketings in recent weeks have
been much larger than a year ear
ller, rejecting a record crop this
year. Due mainly to meat rationing
civilian consumption of chicken has
been at record levels, but storage
stocks have been accumulating at 9
faster rate than a year earlier. The
Government said that reflected in
part increased volumes apparently
stored by hotels and similar institu.
tions.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Electric Irons
Continued From First Page.)

other munitions programs, WPB
said, and only excess materials,
facilities and manpower can be
diverted to civilian output.
Electric irons were among the top
10 hardship items" on list of
most-needed goods disclosed by a
recent OCR survey of consumer
needs.
The production of the $4,000 bath
tubs, manufacture of which has
been prohibited since June, 1912,
was divided among five firms. Each
was authorized to produce 10000.
They are:
American Radiator and Standard
Sanitary Corp, Louisville, KY;
Crane Co, Chattanooga. Tenn;
Eljer Co., Salem, Ohio; Kohler Co.,
Kohler, Wis; Richmond Radiator
Co., UniontoWn. Pa.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
James Roosevelt Tells
OF Strong Defenses
Found al Maxim
BY the Associated Press.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, Dec. 30.-Lt.
Col. James Roosevelt told a radio
audience yesterday that changes
made by the Japanese on Maxim
Island in the Is months between the
two American attacks on that atoll
demonstrated that the Nipponese
are an enemy to be reckoned with.
Just back from the mid-Pacific
after participating in the November
20 occupation of Maxim, in the Gill
bert Islands, the Presidents son
spoke on the Marine Corps Halls
of Montezuma" program.
1t was his second trip to Maxim.
The first took place August 81, 1912,
when marine raiders landed on the
island in the course of an expert
mental mission.
Foe Expected Visitors.
Col Roosevelt said when he ac-
companied the combined American
forces which occupied Maxim, the
enemy was expecting visitors.
The japanese had reoccupied
Maxim after our first raid. In Au-
gust, 1912, we found one radio sta
ton, a number of bicycles, two
trucks, repair shop for small sea-
planes, 1000 drums of gasoline, a
warehouse with clothing, a few ma
chine gun nests and less than zoe
japanese soldiers in the defending
force"
BY contrast, Col. Roosevelt said
the japanese were much stronger
at the time Of the American oc-
Cupation,
Plane, Sub Base Installed.
I'VE found a large radio station
and number of smaller ones, two
japanese radar sets, almost dozen
tanks and twice that many trucks
quite a number of motorcycles,
$4,000 drums of gasoline and oil
and several four-engine seaplanes.
They had installed an elaborate
seaplane and submarine base with
machine shops for emergency re-
pairs"
He added that the japanese de-
lenses consisted of two Well-con-
structed tank traps inclosing a fort
ress consisting of many of the same
type pillboXes which were found
on Tarawa The island was de-
Tended by 600 to 1000 japanese,
Evening star., 1943-12-30
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Evening star., 1943-12-30
Flame Throwers Cut
through Jap Lines
On New Britain Front
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ADVANCED ALLIED HEAD
QUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec.
30.-Flame throwers are soaring
a path for American marines
through Japanese pillboxes de-
Tending the airdrome on Cape
Gloucester, New Britain, 'front.'
line headquarters said today.
While Leathernecks on the eastern
flank of the invasion beachhead at
Bergen Bay were holding their front
under attacks by larger japanese
force, their comrades on the western
flank advanced a half mile. using
flames and artillery to melt the
stiffening opposition.
The western thrust put the ma
rines about a mile from the i'm
portant airfield on the northwestern
coast of New Britain, Gen. Douglas
Macarthur communique said
Maj. Gen. William H. Rupertus,
reporting briefly from his command
post in the field, said 200 Japanese
died in an unsuccessful attempt to
stop the marines from crossing
river in the airdNome drive.
The marines on the east line
which extends inland from Bergen
Bay were doggedly hurting back at
tacks from an enemy force estimated
by a headquarters spokesman to
number at least regiment.
The increasing opposition indi-
Gated that while the air and naval
pounding given the japanese when
the marines landed Sunday had
driven the enemy from beach posi-
tions, he had subsequently assembled
a formidable attacking force along
the eastern flank.
Allied planes lent support of the
ground action Tuesday, the latest
day reported, by bombing and straf-
ing the airdtome area and enemy
communication trails between the
airfield and the lower slopes of
Mount Talawe, 6,60O-foot peak
which is one of three submits DOM
mating the cape.
Westward from New Britain.
across Vitiaz Strait, the Australians
continued to push the Japanese up
the coast of the Huon Peninsula,
New Guinea. They overcame Stub
born resistance to reach Blucher
Point Tuesday. This is about 30
miles north of the Allied base at
Finschhafen.
American Army patrols clashed
with the Japanese north of Ameri-
can-consolidated positions in the
AraWe sector, on the southwest
coast of New Britain. The 9Th Army
invaded Arawe December Is, and the
fighting in the jungle hinterland
has see-sawed. with the Americans
currently extending operations into
an area lost Sunday. Only minor
air action was reported here.
Admiral William F.. Halsey's South
Pacific headquarters announced sue
ceSsful air and sea raids on Rabaul.
the enemy plane and supply base at
the northeastern tip Of New Britain,
and Kieta, air and shipping base
on the east coast Of Bougainville Is
land in the Solomons. both Monday.
Forty American fighters circled
over Rabaul, inviting the japanese
airmen to come up for a fight
Sixty enemy planes responded. Gen.
MacArthur's communique said the
Americans downed g. but the flyers
in later reports claimed they'd de-
stroyed II, against a loss of /.
Cruisers and destroyers poured
broadsides into shore installatio
and bivouac areas at Kieta for an
hour and a half before dusk. Spot
ter planes reported heavy destruc-
Evening star., 1943-12-30

mind that great many people will
vote for President Roosevelt if we
are at war-because we are at war
who wouldn't vote for him if peace
arrives before November, 1914"
Senator Brewster, Republican, of
Maine said he felt, like others. that
the President laid the groundwork
for a fourth-term race by his re-
cital Of the accomplishments of the
New Deal and his prediction of an
expanded economy after the war.
Senator Brewster added, however,
that the Roosevelt plans would
bear watching" and observed that
the President might only be pre-
pairing the way for some one else
to run.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Bc!timore Gas Heaters
Checked After ; Deaths

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 30-A rising
nUm3er Of carbon monoXide poison
iNg cases in Baltimore has resulted
in the city health department con-
dcmning more than 500 gas water
heaters of an unapproved type dur
ing the last several months.
Department officials reported yes
terday that three persons had died
of the poisoning since November !
and that 80 cases had been in
veStlgated.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Worker Declares Britain
Will Help Crush Japan
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 30.-The
British worker will not consider the
war over when the last shot is fired
in Europe, but will strive to make
England the arsenal for America in
destroying Japan, Patrick j. Carey
of Kingsbury, London, believes.
Mr.. Carey. representing the Ma
tlonal Union of Sheet Metal Workers
ana BrazierS, is one of four British
workers who are visiting Buffalo on
a tour of American war industries.
With them are four American work
ers who have just completed a
similar tour of British factories.
At dinner in their honor last
night, Mr.. Carey declared there is
no complacency in England because
we've been through too much. We've
been through enough to know Ger
many is far from beaten"
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Two FCA Officials Renamed

BALTIMORE, Dec. 80 P.-Reap-
pointment of Jacob H. Mays, Weiser
Park, Pa, as director at large on the
Farm Credit Board of Baltimore and
Of w. Lawson King, Gaithersburg
Md, as third district director was
announced yesterday by A. G. Black,
governor of the Farm Credit Ad-
administration. Both terms were for
three wears.
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Income Tax Forms
To Be Mailed Soon
Sy the Associated Press.

Ey The Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Dec 3O-More than
100000 taxpayers in the Maryland
District area of the Internal Reve-
nue. Bureau soon will receive in
come tax forms to be filed by March
Is.
A. Parks Rasin, acting collector
of internal revenue for the Mary
land-District area, said the forms
would be mailed beginning Monday
Evening star., 1943-12-30
Jap Ammunition Dump
On Nouru Set AbIoze

PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 80 P).-An
ammunition dump was destroyed
and fires started at the heavily
fortified Japanese base on Nauru
Island, 400 miles west OF the Gilbert
Islands, by Navy medium bombers
which attacked there Tuesday, Ad-
miral Chester w. Nimitz announced
yesterday.
Several bombers suffered minor
damage. 1t also was announced
that Navy Liberator, while on a
search mission in the Marshall
Islands Monday, spotted an enemy
tanker and damaged it.
Evening star., 1943-12-30

ton. Kieta Is directly across the
island from Empress Augusta bay,
where the Americans have estab-
hshed an airport, and while 1t is
on waters reckoned as in the Japa-
nese control sphere, the warships
met only weak fire from shore.