The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-29


 besides getting 10c to 15c more per pack, the cigarette gals are invari- tipped an average of 25c for each pack. This, too, goes to the con- cessionaire As result, gettting soc per package for cigarettes (for which retail stores charge 17c) the concession are able to pay good deal more for cigs than the retailers. That explains why all the night spots are doing a terrific cig biz.
 Another sleeper" is that a great many businesses are combing the smaller burgs for fine perfumes, brandieS and other French products which are so scarce and which have been completely exhausted In the big cities The small town and village stores have these ar- ticles on their shelves and do not realize what wealth they have in stock, collecting dust.
 Before Col. Elliott Roosevelt ar- rived safely, this column reported the rumor around New York that lone of the Presidents sons is ru- mored overdue This Is the reason for the scare =. Just as the Colonel was to hop for the U. s. (from an advanced base abroaO he decided not to enjoy his we'll earned leave back home unless he could bring his whole crew with him So Elliott waited to arrange holidays for them all Give officers and seven enlisted men), who re- turned with him A nice story, isn't it? Therefore, let's make it public-in view of the ridiculous N. Y. criticism because he helped stop a street brawl.
 One good friend told us long ago always to butt out of matters we were not hep to :. Anyhow, to get to the point, all that space we wasted the other day trying to ex- plain loaded dice (and that you couldn't make 9s with dice loaded to make As and. 10s) was a wrongo. You sure, it seems, can. A pair ot s'tops" (phonies) with the numerals 1-5-6 Con one dice) and the nu- morals 3-4-5 (on the other) can make passes all night long and never "crap" (to lose) or seven.
 Insiders, incidentally, hear that the recent complaint by a New New Yorker (that he was swindled in a dice game) will not be pressed The book stores will shortly re- ceive an extraordinary book called tAxis Rule in Occupied Europe. It is hC Raphael Lemkin. It is pub lishcd by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace .. Book IOracles state it is really the last word on what the NaziS have done to The Old Country. The Writers War Board s(staffed with intellec- tuals, authors, editors, ct aD IS unable to name 8 more mportant volume in its field" ;. The author of the book has created a word -"genocide' to define the calculat- cd destruction by the Germans Of national and racial groups .. Buy two copies. One to read over and Over again and the other to bang on the head of any supporter or 8 Na1 soft-peace.
 Arnold Reuben sold $300,000 worth 1 of war bonds the first day the drive opened .'. He is miserable over 1 the fact that his restaurant drew 1 a fiye-day liquor suspension because one of his employees was caught bet 1 ting on the horses Eccentric as | he is, Reuben has done a fine job l in the war and for charitable lnstl- 1 tutions. He feeds two dozen men and women in the armed services every night as his guests for din- ner; he had over 800 warrior guests for Thanksgiving; his Father Duffy Canteen takes care of 508,000 troops q month with his famous sand wiches and his hot coffee at trans portation junctions; Reuben hsa sold millions of dollars worth of war bonds; has collected and don ated thousands of dollars for hos pitals and cripples-but despite all this he gets Socked with this petty rap.
 Some of US don't like it either.
 Capt. Don Gentile's best man at , his wedding will be It. Spires Pis- ganos, whose story is a lump in the throat Spirots wasn't allowed 1 to fly in his native Greece be- ICause he wasn't of aristocratic birth
 He came here e-wrked as a busy ! boy in Plainfield. N. J., (to take fly- ing lessons), joined the RAF, then 1 the AEF, has 106 missions and just about all the decorations 8 grate- { ful America and Britain have to of- fer a hero Every important citizen in New Jersey turned out to honor the ex-bus boy on his re- turn here recently.