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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Utopeon Dream
Comes True

NEW YORK, Dec. II. ,CUP)-
Oscar H. Gropper said his 22-year-
old blonde bookkeeper had a heart
OF gold, but he wished she had never
set out to make others dreams come
true.
The bookkeeper, Madeline Dunni-
gan, was held in $4,000 bail today
after her arraignment on charges
of misappropriating between $30,-
600 and $4,000 to give unauthorized
wage raises to fellow workers, pay
for operations, and set up a pension
fund for a friend. Mrs. Dunnigan,
who had smilingly told q policeman
she raided her employers bank ac-
count because his employees needed
it," wept as she sat in court beside
her husband, Joesph, $40 to $50 a
week defense plant worker. Assist
ant District Attorney Francis x.
Clark said she told him before going
to court that IF l hadn't raised
salaries, all the girls would have
left u.s.
Gropper called in District Attor-
ney Frank S. Hogan to help figure
out the mess he suddenly found his
leather goods business in. Hogan's
accountants couldn't begin to tell
how much was missing, and every
one had to take Mrs. Dunnigan's
own estimate, which she offered
with a nonchalant sweep Of her
hand
She didn't profit personally. She
underworld an operation for her
mother and several nice things for
her father. but she didn't even have
n fur coat.
She was a lady Robin Hood
said Hogan.
Choppers chances of getting his
money back were small, because the
persons who benefited frcm Mrs.
Dunnigan's generosity were numer-
Gus and of limited means.
There was a messenger boy in
Choppers leather goods store who
was struggling to get along OH SIS
week. His wages were increased
to sos week, and until today he
was very grateful to Gropper
There was the fellow who had
never been able to climb above
handy-man's job and fretted away
at SO day. His spirits rose at the
same rate as his salary, which fl
nally leveled off at SIS a day.
One of Mrs. Dunnigan's friends
had a streak of hard luck, and
wasn't able to work. Mrs. Dunnigan
fixed her up with $25 week pen
sion from Choppers funds, al
though the recipient had never
worked fer the man.
For two and a half years Gropper
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of security had not become fully
Then the snap and pre-
cision timing of today's battle-expe-
rienced outfits was lacking.
The crack Second Armored Divi-
sion of the Ninth Army is an exam
pie of Americas topnCtch fighting
machine which packs a punch and
possesses acumen.
This outfit is really part of Amer
lean skill and character transported
to the old world. 1t is composed of
men from all parts of the nation.
It's speech contains the drawl CT
Georgia and Alabama, the careful
phrases of New Englanders, the zest
of Californians, the open talk of the
Texans, and zippy Brooklyn wise
cracks.
The division was first formed in
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY

WITH THE SECOND ARMORED
Is MILES INSIDE GER
MANY, Dec. Il. CUP)-America dur
ing the last three years has learned
how to wage victorious war.
Gone are the bloody, costly days
of Kasserine pass in nCrth Africa
or the Philippines when the green
ness of our army contributed al
most as much 10 our setbacks as the
lack of material-especially tanks,
airplanes and artillery.
I recall the pitiful situations
which I witnessed in the early
phases of the north African cam
paign when our half-tracks got
caught in the whitening crossfire of
the German 88's CT when the dough-
boys failed to dig in properly.
IN EARLY DAYS
In the early dayS the necessity
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Wanted: Snakes
RattIers-for
Aid to Soldiers
By BEN III. COOK

LONG BEACH, Cal, Dec. II. (UP)
T. A. TEX Schubach is worried
about the rattlesnake death rate,
he confessed.
Schubach, who conducts rattle
snake boarding house" with $50 or
so paying boarders, said he was
afraid that II people in California
didn't let up in their feud with the
rattlers a lot of soldiers cut on
Pacific island might get pretty badly
poisoned by snakebite.
For instance, he said, take his
crop this year. The nine rattlesnake
hunters he has roaming the noun
tains and deserts of California
caught less than 100 of the reptiles
during the four month season. In a
good year, he said, they should have
caught between $50 ands 700.
What that all means to the SOL
diers in the Pacific, he said. is that
maybe come next summer they won't
have enough anti-venin serum with
which to treat their snake bites.
Schubach is herpetologiSt by
profession, a member of the Long,
Beach Psychological society as a
hobby, author of pamphlet on rep
tiles Just because he wanted to write
one, and boss of a reptile farm that
contains lizards, toads and-inci-
dentally-his $50 plump, long-fanged
rattlers.
His corps of rattlesnake hunters
ship him all the live rattlers they
can find, and he does his best to
keep the snakes contented during
the two-Week intervals between
venom extracticns.
Once every two weeks, Schubach
opens the mouth of every one OF his
$50 boarders and collects his rent
three or four drops of pure, amber
rattlesnake poison.
The poiscn-Which readily crys-
tallizes-he packages and ships to
an eastern laboratory. There 1T is
injected into horses, which develop
an immunity to snake bite. From
each horse about three quarts Of
blood can be taken to be converted
into anti-venom serum before the
process starts all over again.
b.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

that tough artist in mobile war
fare, Major General Ernest N. Har-
mon, who has had more experience
in fighting Germans than any field
commander in the American army.
The Second packs terrific fire.
power. This heavily armored out
fit has 232 Sherman medium tanks,
164 light tanks, many self-propelled
105-mm. howitzeis, and 2000 vehicles
of all kinds, including 1000 combat
vehicles.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

thought his bookkeeper was rare
find. His books always looked ex-
cellent. but concealed the 500 a
week which Mrs. Dunnigan esti-
mated that she took from Grcpper
to give to others.
The matter was brought to light
when one of Choppers creditors
wrote a rather nasty letter.
Send this fellow check Crop
per told lis bcokkeeper.
Mr.. Gropper, you might as well
know this" she answered. You
haven't any money in the bank"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
Yanks Soon Master Art of Winning Battles

July 1910 at Fort Benning, Georgia,
less than a month after the fall of
France. The original three regiments
were drawn from the 65th infantry
which as a tank corps in the last
war licked the Germans at St.
Mihiel and the Meuse- Argonne Of
fensive. In June, .l94l, the Second
Armored maneuvered in Tennessee
and later the same year engaged
III maneuve1s in Louisiana and
Texas and then in North and South
Carolina
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

glasses TO by-standers to mold dur
ing the tussle.
After the fight. the glasses were
returned but Jones failed TO find the
man who held his watch
He neglected to say who won the
fight
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
PLAYS UNFAIR

SACRAMENTO, Dec. II. up
His opr5nent fought fair but a by
stander didn't, John w. Jones told
police.
When he became involved in fist
fight, Jones handed his watch and
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11
ALWAYS AT 1T

This small, virtually self-con-
tanned army has been in close con-
tact with Hitler's legionS for 1T
consecutive days. The Second ic one
of the three most powerful armored
divisions in the world.
The division is commanded by
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

The United States Army buys H.
900 different cotton items, ranging
from handkerchiefs to gun camou-
tlage.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

They need no "brealIiiig-in"
and you get "Old shoes" COM
fort right from the START.
No better value anywhere.
Shoe stamp required.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-11

Lovely designs in all-Over pat
terms, stripes. geometric, conser-
vative, etc. Wrinklc-resistant lin
ings that help hold perfect
knot. Full length. A wide sell
cction and n gift idea appreciat-
cd by any man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12
N Y Times Is Commend ed

Washington, Oct, i2-(UP)-A group of Washington neWgpapers men have selected the New York Times as the rewspaper maintain. ing the best ali-rotlfd Washington news service as measured by Fe. liability, eoinprehenSiVeneSs ard fairness, it was announced today,
 The selection was made in a boil conducted by the Saturday review or literature. Results were publish. cd in the fall book number of [ Q congressional pre@ gallery and i60 answers we're received,
 The New York Times received eB votes for the best Washington News Service, The Washington Post with 10 votes was second, followed by the New York Herald Tribune with i4 and the Baltimore Sun with 2.
 Arthur Krock. chief Of the Few York Times Washington Bureau, was Geleeted by 6i voters aS "the Washington correspondent Who ex. eFts through his writings the great. est Influence on Washington. Drew PeafSon, author Of the United Feas tuFe Syndicate's Washington Mers ys0o-Round, was second with 32 votes and Walter Lppnann, New York Herald Tribune coiumnist was third with 10 votes.
 Pearson received SO votes aS the Washington coiumnist exertIng through his writings the greatest in. fluence on the Tlation, Lippmann was second with % votes and Krock third with i3.
 Thomas l., Stokes, Hcrtpps.Hows ard coiumnist, was chosen aS the Washington correspondent who does the best ailsFound job as measured in terms Of reliability, fairness and ability to anaiyZe news" He received 2S votes while Marquis childs, United Feature Syndicate columnist was second with %. Bert Andrews, New York Herald Tribune, and Roscoe DFufBs iTiond, Christian Science Monitor, tied for third place with eight votes each.
 The Chicago Tribune. with 66 votes. was chosen by the corTespon. dents as "the newspaper which is the most fragrant in angling or WeightIng the news to suit It's own editorial opinions" Tie Washing ton Times Herald received 34 votes to take second place in this cates goFy, and the New York Newspaper PM was third with % votes.
 The reminder of the votes in all categoFies were widely scattered.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12
.C. Q. ?. WORKERS HOLD MEETING
C. Russell Sumpf Opens Campaign By Urging
 Confidence

A gathering of Republican work. CTS of District S-S formally launched 0. Russell sumpf's campaign for election as Republican nominee for state representative last night,
 Hitting the "fatallstio attitude Of many local Republicans who are too prone to take the stand that a Republican just can't win in Waters bury" MT. Sumpf urged that the workers do c thorough and efticlent job of oanvasslng their sections to make certain the Republican Inter. est was at its fullest by election day,
 At the same time, Q meeting of Republican workers of Districts a-4 and 2-B was held at the home of Mrs. Alice 0erardi, vice-ChalrInan of the Dewey for President club at 30 Beacon street, Mrs. Flora Allan, chairman of the club, Sen. Francis J. Summa, running for reelection In the 18th district, and John Misunas spoke at both meetings,
 Lewis Alexander, Republican lead- CT of the district, presided at the district S-S meeting, At Mrs. Ger- ardls home, Michael stolh, Mrs. Margaret Rinaldi, and Joseph Gal- asso, Republican district leaders and town committee members, as- sisted.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12
Waterbury To Play Role Tn Good NeighbOr Plans
President Paine of Local Chamber of Commerce Wis., \ uaizes Great Opportunities for City, State

ductlon would have been seriously delayed,
 So Americans north of the border would not be far wrong if they gave Christopher Columbus Q little credit for helping to speed the United Na- tions on the way to victory,
 On his ia98 voyage, Columbus can be said to have struck oil", be. cause Q very large part of the ga- Sollne which powers Allied fighting planes and bombers and of the .s. brieants which keep machines turn ing out equipment for var now comes from Venezuela, Venezuela is second only to the United States in export of oil.
 Brazll's list of contributions Is long, From this Portuguese-speak- ing nation, this country is getting very large quantities of beryllium (nlloys, airplane engineS), man. ganese (Steel, batteries), 100 per cent of the Brazilian output of uuartS crystals (ballistios, radio fre- quency controO, and 1irconium (flash-llghts, blasting caps), Drugs, medioants and coffee are import- ant, as well, among imports from Brazil,
 The United States is getting 100 per cent (and that means 100 per cent of the worlds produetion) of Chile's natural nitrates (ammunt- ton, fertiliZerl plus large shipments of Chilean copper ore (shell castings, electrical products), and iron ore (tanks, ships, machines),
 Mexico Is also aiding the war of" fort with weighty exports of copper and big turn-outs of antimony ore (engines, batteries, dies, hullets), natural graphite uron and steel, lu- bricants pencils) and zinc (shell easinss, cartridge olips).
 Uruguay sends wool, hides ana skins for war production, Bolivia Is the source of such strategic ma terials as tungsten and tin. Cuba contributes sugar and molasses for industrial alcohol and smokeless powder. So 1t goes down through the list,
 Nineteen of the 20 Latin Amer. ican republics have either declared war upon or severed relations with the Axis, All this has created hemlspheric solidarity and friend- ship among the nations of the new world which Columbus discovered 452 years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12
Lutherans Gather In
 National Conferences
Sessions Open in Minneapolis, Sandusky; 1000 Con.
 gregatlons Represented; Future Programs

ming insplrationai soSBlons with out. standing speakers will be eliminated and the convention win hold three sessions Q day until tho agenda is completed. Nearly two thousand congroRatlon that constitute the American Lutheran church will Do represented by over 2TB clerical and lay delegates. Mission activities at home and abroad will occupy Enush of the attention Of tho meeting The Youth Board of the Church reports the amazing results of Q new experimental approach to leader. ship training which it conducted the past summer in eight Of the thirteen districts. Of the 1911 young men and women appointed by their pastors to attend, . total Of 2D2 have elected to train themselves for full time service iri the church, Membership it the church hos ins creased two and one half per cent the past year and property yalua. ton has increased by one million dollars.
 Delegates to the Minneapolis con- vention of the United Lutheran church will be asked to approve Q budget of 17,B00,00O for the next three years, with three million of thlS amount set aside for emergency poSt-war needs throughout tho world $50 delegates from the 32 constituent Bynods will map the progress of this, the largest Luth- eratl body ln the United States and Canada, for the blenniunl un. til the next session in i040.
 The Board of Social Missions asks the church to call upon the United States government to formulate now specific proposals for q peace achieving political, cultural, and spiritual freedoms through the world, and economic justice and higher standards of living for oil people" The convention will also Do asked to endorse e resolution pro. testing any universal military cons scription in time of peace. A fe. port of the Board of American Mlss sionS points oiit that It's reBourees Whh bS doSo " HBblbb AAV IHlbbIpH eongrega tons to erect new church buildings aS soon as priority restric. tons are lifted, toward the cost of which these churches have already accumulated more than 5000, 900,
 Postwar projects include tho deepening of the eonsciousness of the churchs responsibility in TO. habllitating returned service per. Soi1nel and "uprooted industrial workers; the development In co.'s legos and seminarles of the body of research and instruction courses in social action; and plans for deyels oping autonomy on Lutheran tnis. sion fields in other lands, The United Lutheran church now nun. bers almost two million ir1embers and the four thousand eoilgrega. lions have q property valuation of siO0,oo0,00o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12
OVERSEAS MAIL
 REPORTED HEAVY
Long Line of Senders ThtOng Lobby of Local
 Post Ofnce T

Long lines continued Co form at tlla local postofflce parcel post win- dows today as tho deadllne for mall. Ing Christmas packages to men over. seas drew nearer. Since the dpadllne day Oct. iH, falls on Q Sunday, @ o'clock on Saturday night will Dc the closing time for mailing tho over. seas packages,
 Parcels for overseas mailing will be accepted after Oct. 10 but they will have to be accompanied by . letter showing that tho serviceman has requested the package,
 Food Items appear to be the most popular for tho overseas packages, according to reports from local ner. chants. Fruit cake, cookies, canned foods, and hard candy are among the items secured by many sendprs, Christfnas knlck-knaclks have been added by many to convey some hol- lday atmosphere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12
Cops Quiz Kidnoper

lice continued their questioning of Mrs Eleanor smith, 3S-year-old Negro, today, seeking to learn why she selected . white child to kid- nap and rear as her own, to satisfy, us she intimated in e confession made last night to County Proseeu- tor William E, Bowling, Q frus- trated mother impulse.
 Mrs. Smith, police revealed, at- tended child care course last year at 0 neighhorhood church, and told Mir, and Mrs, Clarence King that she wanted to study child psyehol- ogy at the University of Michigan when she accepted Q job aS nurse. maid for their four.months-old son, Robert, She disappeared with the baby on September 30. The child was being well cared for because of It's face covered with sun-tan oil to darken 1t, but physically unharmed.
 The Negro woman, light in color as Is her husband, admitted the Kidnapping after daylong question: ing by police to break down her in. dignant and steadfast claim that the child was hers.
 Bowling said disposition Of the case had not been determined.
 The parents of the abducted child were inclined to be sympathetic to- ward the nursemaid, whom they Dc. lieved to be white when they hired her as Helen Rosman." They said they felt during the entire time that the child was missing that he was being vel cared for because of the deep affection the nursemaid had shown for him.
 Bowling said Mrs. Smiths story of how she had given premature birth to Q child in Chioaao-a story that the King baby was Kidnapped to substantiate was "very well thought up," He called her . "psy- ehopathic."
 Bowling said after questioning the Negro woman that she had cone feSsed but imposed conditions pre-. cluding his giving out any details" Bowling said she was the victim of frustrated mother love who had countered natures denial by taking another woman's baby.
 It was revealed that Mrs. smiths husband, Eugene, had urged her to confess and that she appeared re. lieved after she had done 50.
 tn Dowling's offiee, the fantastic story was unwound in detail. Mrs. Smith had told her husband that a Detroit physician had informed her she was pregnant, On June 90, she said, she stopped in Chicago en route to her mothers home In Met. ropoliS, H., and gave birth to the child in Wesley hospital, attended by q "Dr. Wade"
 Because the baby was two months premature, she said, 1t had been placed in the hospital incubator and she returned to Detroit July 6. She returned to the hospital August q, but left the baby there because she feared his exposure to infantile paralysis.
 She took the King baby homo and told her husband Q cousin, Oeia Hines of Chicago, brought the child to Detroit. She had no birth certl. ficate for the infant, she said, be. cause sine could pay less than half of q S2b0 hospital bili.
 Bowling said that he would Dc tense was exposed whom two fellow church members questioned the Negro parentago of c child with brown hair and blue eyes. They no. tiAed police, who learned that Smith himself was suspicious.
 Bowling said thta he would be ready to recommend the warrant against Mrs. Smith" Friday morn. ing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12


 Reports filed by division leaders today totaled $2Sl,sl The Patent Button company was awarded the flag for oversubscrihing Its quota,
 The Industrial Division reported donations and pledges of $22S, ,093, The downtown committee account ed for $S9,ll2 and the women'S d. vision, $l4,0lS,
 The American Brass company's report showed $57,oe0 realized; Chase Brass & Copper Co.,, $55, ,237; Scovill O., main plant, SIG, 400; OakVille Division $5,242 and Water- vile Division $l,666.
 The meeting was formally opened by sherman Perry campaign chair man, who introduced Arthur Hick- OK of Scovill's chairman of the in- dustrial divisions.
 Seated at the head table in addi- ton to MT, Perry and MT. HiekoX were Orton P. Camp, Wendell Cross James Corrisan of the American Federation of Labor, Clyde Jennings Roger Sperry, Harry Libeskind, Jo- seph Alderman, Jeff Roland, Daniel T, Burlington, Jr, Mrs, Patrick Healey, Walter Jarvis, Joseph Nar- dello of the CIO unit of the Amer ican Brass Company, Miss Marion Hunt and Mrs. Ruth Garfield. 1n- vocation was given by Rev. Alan Fairbanks,
 Yesterday afternoon at 5:46 o'clock Carol Peterson, Sloeum school student, read her letter over teh facilities Of Station WATR, praising the work of the Girl Scouts. Following the broadcast Miss Sarah Miller, executive secretary of the Girl Scout Council, thanked Miss Peterson for her splendid letter and tribute.
 This afternoon Miss Lois Krom, Crosby High school student will read her letter on American Field Service" Mrs. Ruth Garfield, as- stStant executive secretary of the Community Chest, Inc, will speak on behalf of the organization.
 The letters read are among the eight selected from scores suhmit- ted by grammar and high school students. The two final winners will Do anonunced next week and awarded war bonds donated by tho War Fund committee and the Wa terbury Council of Catholic Women. The judges in the contest will be announced shortly.
 Miss Pettersons leter was as fol- lows.
 Dear Family:
 Community Chest time Is here again and I hope you are plan- ming to contribute as generously aS you have in previous years, It means so much to so very many people around the world.
 Being c Girl Scout I have first
 hand knowledge of the benefits
 to local organizations,
 Two weeks at Girl Scout Camp
 Wequapauset were two of the
 happiest times of my life. The camp equipment is expensive and
 of the best quality and the coun. cilors are carefully chosen. A doctor was on call at all
 times and c nurse lived on the
 premises 50 the girls health was
 well taken care of. Glasses in
 Arts, Crafts, Singing, Swimming,
 Boating and other sports were
 conducted. The whole camp
 schedule was Q profitable and
 joyful experience for all of us
 who attended. And we are thank.
 ful to the Community Chest for
 their share Of support and l
 know dear family you will profit
 by giving to such Q worthy cause" Affectionately yours, CAROL PATTERSON.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-12

gently designated as the first state Inter- American Center, is inaug- urating e program to help maintain these friendly relations and to make certain that Waterbury and Con- nectlcut will have Q rightful share in post-war trade with the Good NeiRhbors to the south,
 Text of Mir. paine's statement follows:
 World War II has brought home more than ever before the reali2a- ton that Christopher Columbus dis- covered not one but two continents, Not only did Columbus land on the Island of San Salvador on October l2, l4e2, but on his voyage in i4eS he poked the prov of his ship Into the mouth of the Orinoeo river after skirting the coast of what Is now Venezuela and thereby discovered South America, too,
 That was An achievement of great importance because not only South AIiiariea but all of Latin America Is among tho most loyal and helpful allies of the United States in fight. ing this war. The Latin American republics have not only made avail. abia bases for use in defense Of the Panama Canal and against inVa- sion, and hopping-otf points for traiir-Atlantie shipment of sup- plieg by sea and air, but they have also supplied the United Nations with vast quantities of invaluable war materials, without which at. tainment of the peak of war pro.