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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
GRAYSoN'S ScoREBoARD
More PhenomenoI SehooIboys in NotionoIs; Troek One Branch of Sports Not Retorded;
 Records Prove Athletics Step Up With Yeors

ming high jumper, among other things, in following the footsteps of his illustrious all-around father.
 Only the daddy of them all, Cornelius Warmerdam, and Dick Vanderhoof, who joined the Navy from Occidental College of Eagle Rock. Calf, have pole-vaulted higher than Del Smiths l3-5 3-8 this year. Warmerdam's maximum in l944 is 14.7 3-4, Vanderhoofs l3.5 7-8. Smith of Glendale. Calif., has cleared 13.7 several times in practice, missed 1911 l-2 by an eyelash.
 Daniel J. Ferris. keeper of the records, asks you to keep in mind that these kids are improving.
 Record prove athletics step up with the years.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
This Sporting World
Home Run Turned Into Double PIoy
By JOHN A. CLUNEY

Oddities in sports are legion in number. For every unusual happen ing, such as an Indian wrestling a Negro with a Greek as referee, which witnessed INDEPENDENCE DAY at the Connecticut State pris- on; another could be told without too much imagination. President Bob Quinn, the MT. Baseball of Bos. ton, tells one that happened when he was a catcher in the Indiana state league before the turn of the century, as follows:
 HARRY BAY was one of the fastest men I ever saw. He could fly before he ran the bases and played center field for the Cleveland
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Woteo SoftboII

Tn an iDterdepagtmept softball same, Maintainepee had no trouble defeating receiving in the Water, bury Tool league by l4 to 3. Brow. nell gave the losers but four hits while O'Dell batted 1000 with foul straight hits, Johnny Reardon ane Winnie zuilla banging out home runs Receiving was also charged with four miseues.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Barrow Bitter As Ever at Night Game
By DAN PARKER

IF AS THE OLD BASEBALL AXIOM has the top @ s % @ h O ns %Shs % @ SS s ess 5 aF % d Ta to M meet % Louis next October and the devil take the hndOs things have happened, but not in baseball.
 won American League championship and so st. Louis has had world series all to itself series wouldn't be novel enough however there already the first night world series it's ast Louis propOtOn the meeting of e srs nex Mondsy % % s Shu will request permission to have all hs remaining home playing all the world series night Sunday
 Despite the avalanche sentiment M there s one ssdts opponent of the under lights thing changed his opinion one whit except to become more positive
 R M % n ad g 1"I ES M be night
 letter had M sent him from Yankee fan who suggested that the
 Besides prejudice origin in arca game kng arc-ghts Wilmington park % w noas foe of he nib % S bS @ % dsy n Ta enacted an un available for night baseDals debut darkness with their light impressions certainly of his have Sesn @ the cause which most
 "Your idea that there trend for night club who planes the failure night
 nnS SnsE minor Or leagues have made the complaint draw they daytime games
 George Weiss you that more good % I pys oo ss ruined ns by night S baseball @ than by injuries sustained soaking wet when the game s IVY
 Night baseball not only takes but eating and the fans who then go home don't home with bellies drink ordinarily dugng hespecaly those who have get
 And then there the since have been with the Stadium every Summer Night baseball does not permit
 "The attendance at night has already begun fall have never drawn big possibly when the Dodgers Grounds And enc more points Most night little have been played If get the idea strong Tor baseball under the lights, right
 or course Cousin Ed could cng the Tanks breaking up those night wo series games plans in their incpiency ~ IT'S SIMPLY AMAZING way Henry Armstrong loses fights onO ne sphere influence In Los Angeles Tuesday night Thomas trouble beating deuy outpointed Joyce Thomas who isn't listed ghtweehts or erWegs was beaten by Willie Joyce Sugg ancient Aldo Spoldi last year. ~ ~ ~ W
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
SeOviII Pitcher
 Hes Perfect Ceme

Perfect piiebing vas on exhibition last night jD aD l. R, A, dusty league baseball game, iD which Floyd Holden, SeOVill SERA pitcher ebalked up Q no-bIi, n0-rnD effort against u s Tmie, Holden regis' tered ten stTIke0uts in his fine et, fort; Bates hitting hard for the winners, KOgeD, DeL0dge and Luddy going well 0D defense,
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 Holden and Laiiuss0, elearyi George, Reyigny and Rousseau,
 Umpire Mobile,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

CluD--WaS so SWllt they called him Deer Foot.
 Bay led off f 0 r Marion of the l n d 1 a n a s t a t e League in 1898, W h e n I caught { o r Anderson.
 A big pitcher named Ja n s 0 n singled in t h e e i g h t h a n d numbered to first base.
 We were in Marion, W h ere
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
By HARRY CRIMSON NEA Sports Editor

New York-Track and field is one branch of sports not retarded by the war. More schoolboy stars than ever entered the National A. A. U. cham pionships at Randall's Island Sta dium. Performances turned in by
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Tennis

Elizabeth, \, J, July B~lUPD - Harold Hunter and HeDFl sRlaun beth of Boston, eliminated Neg JsTs sfY opponents Co the heg Jersey state nlens tennis tournament yek- lffday HnnleF defeaied John cls . ktilli Of Newark, e-l e-i and sslaun wsb a so, so victor oveg John Emery of Short Hills, in the second round Of play
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
FODAY'S PROBABLE PJTCHERa
 lbS iBiIea pEessl
AMIlnIlAA LIaAGIE

rleYollnd UlardrT G-IJ aI New w. q, ""
 Detroit (gepirg 1,7 at Boston Nlnslh0n l2-8)wS D, D., E, ", y,
 si Louis lNpnerlrf 7rsl Rt Pbila, E w, P, " "''
 fhieggo f6T0ge Tsg) at Washing. i9n ufaefnsF bFs(-slR0 D, m, e W,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Noktenis Shutout Winner On 2 Hits

Hartford, Conn.,. July 6-(UP)- The Eastern Ieague-leading Hart ford club jumped to three and one- half games ahead fsecond-place Albany last night by taking the Law makers 3-2 in ten innings. Albany .......... 900 0O2 600 O-2-7 Hartford ......... 900 0l0 0i0 i-3-D
 Clemence, Daniels; Naktenis, Stats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

v ee@ eAAS eAD eA whole far super for to those of past years. Many of them are phe- i1omenal.
 Charley Parker. for a striking ex- a m pie. matches the early achieve m e n ts of tn e multiple r e cord- wrecker and Ohio s t a te Ol lympic luninary. Jesse Owens. San An- tonio's T h m as L@... ETf~ ',
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

YESTERDAYS STAR-Bill Mcs Ghee of the Philadelphia Athletics. who made three hits in his first major league game after coming up from Little Rock of the Souther'T Association.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Standing;
Gnnlea Today

New York at ST. Louis Brooklyn at Cincinnati might) Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (night) Boston at Chicago
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Yesterdoy.s Re.uI,.

Philadelphia 9. Pittsburgh { GsO Philad" lphia 12, Pittsburgh ? (2nd) Cincinnati 1, Brooklyn l Boston :, Chicago ?
 St. Louis 1, New York
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

Timber owners Co Argentine are protesting that many forest fires ln the5r country are siafled ln Chile ss . result Of the primitive eliss tome" Of clearing small areas Of woodland by fire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

Eight feet long and about as thick as a mans arm, fish caught off Whale Island is puzzling New Eng land fishermen because no one ap- preached has seen anything like it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
EASTERN LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results Hartford 3, Albany 2 UO) Scranton 9, Wilkes Barre 0 ftica IS. Binghamton l Williamsport IA, Elmira [
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

St. Louis at Washington (niehD Chicago at Philadelphia (nighD Detroit at New York Cleveland at Boston
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
..@MAMIA
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Yesterdays Results New York 6, Cleveland 2 Detroit s, Boston
 Washington 2, Chicago 1 St. Louis 1, Philadelphia 3
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

EeTyleenlen returning home on fuFl0ugB from the Middle Eafi are being given an enthusiastic welcome st Auckland, New Zealand, wltb paFades. speeches. feast and aninses nlefits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Gnnles TnhnE

Hartford at Albany Wllliamsport at Elmira Wilkes Barre at Scranton Binghamton al Utica
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE
VesteFday,s Result

Roehester 6, Montreal 4 Newark 2, Jersey City Q (Oniy games scheduled)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Games Today
Gnmes Tnn,nrrn,E

Cleveland at New York Detroit at Boston Chicago at Washington night)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
Cannes Tomorrow

New York at Chicago
 Brooklyn at Pittsburgh Philadelphia at Cincinnati Boston at St. Louis (nighD
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
NATINNAL LIsAGIE

Nov York lVnifalla I03) ai Rl ,.9Dis GDFlsieb b't)wsis0 9, O., z
 lsr0gkllH iDasis fsbl at Gineln, naN iWaiiers lB'Slwk D. N, f, "
 Philadelphia fRHnensbefgfr gssD ai Piifsb1rRh lsirlnee,lrh BsD - SEQ 9. m,, F, ", r,
 Bofion lJasert s.iel si chlaaEs nehlpmRD esel ls 9 Hi,, r, w, '
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

Chile s urging Iis people t0 accumulate eeai during ths sum. meT.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-06

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12

peoples shall soon again be able to celebrate their freedom in the light of day, happily and unafraid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12

Chile now has 2 shortage of nar- cotics, particularly opium powder.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
REFUND CHECKS 1 MAILED 68,152
Connecticut Taxpayers Re. ceive $S7O,964.56 Dur-
 ing November

08,152 Connecticut taxpayers re- Peived refund checks totaling $70,- D64.56 from the Bureau of Internal Revnue during the. month of No- Tember, Frank w. Kraemer, Collec- tor of Internal Revnue announced Monday.
 In payment of refund claims on income tax returns filed last March, Ehe November checks bring the to- bal amount of refunds paid to date Do 194,019 checks amounting to $6,- e65, ,251.78.
 MT. Kraemer said that there still about 30,000 refund claims in the process of being checked. However, it is impossible to predict when pay- ment of all remaining claims will be completed. Payment is being made as swiftly as the audit staff are able to compare and check the docu- ments such as declarations of esti- mated income tax, and withholding tax receipts with the income tax re- turn, so as to ascertain whether the correct credits have been taken. Errors made by taxpayers naturally will delay the receipt of their re- fund.
 MT. Kraemer asks that taxpayers who have moved since filing their tax returns and who expect, but have not yet received, their refund cheeks, advise his office of their old and new addresses. Hundreds of re- fund checks have been returned by the post office department, undelv- erd because taxpayers. have moved and left no forwarding address.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12

Road fatalities in Fire have in- creased 50 per cent in the last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
Oil Fields In England
---One Of Wars Best-kept Secrets!

tons a year. This figure has now been achieved.
 The oilfelds are essentially. a British achievement. Skilled British tecfnicians were called home from Persia to supervise and instruct local workers in what was for them an entirely new field of work. Early last year. however, supplementary assistance was given by American drilling contractors.
 Anything less suggestive of an oilf1eld to the Britisher trained by the movies to expect collection of unsightly derricks and generally untidy landscape would be difficult to imagine. Few visual evidences of the work exist. Apart from the of- fees, stores, workshops and labora- tories, all compactly grouped at headquarters and the gathering sheds, every care has been taken to ensure that rural amenities are preserved.
 LOCATION IS SECRET
 The 7-foot electrically driven pumps dotted over the rich pas ture land and tree-clad hillside are no more unsightly than the mech anical farm implements which ply among the pumps.
 Oil being a national necessity, nothing is allowed to stand in it's way. Farmers have been compelled to let official prospectors experi- ment on their land. On the other hand, every possible care has been taken to allow the farmer to carry on his own just as important war time job, that of producing food- stuffs. Milk and oil from the same fields has been the motto of the pioneers.
 The area of the main f1eld-the principal single continuous forma- tion-is about two miles by half a mile. The oil-bearing strata being worked lie btween 1000 and 2500 feet below the surface. The work on the oildeld in question has called for the drilling of som e1600 shot holes covering an area of 1900 square miles. The deepest well is about 1000 feet deep.
 That the creation of this new industry should have been kept secret for SO long, not merely from the world but from the people of these islands, is surely unique in the history of oil. Censorship has just released the story but the exact location of the oil fields remains a military secret.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
FEAST
 ENDS DEC. IS
ChanukO COmmemOrates Victory of EnsIaved PeO-
 ples Over Cruel Masters

The observance this year of Cha nuko, also called the Festival of Lights, during the eight days of December 11-18, has intensified meaning as we approach a certain victory for the Unitedd Nations.
 This annual winter holidays com- memorates the victory of enSlaved peoples over cruel masters.
 Its story is to be found in the Apocrypha in the First and Second Books of MaccabeeS. Therein is told how Antiochus Epiphanes tried to destroy the culture of the con- quered Judeans by imposing upon them his own pagan practices and enforcing them with ruthlessnesS.
 But he was astounded, in the year 165 B. c. E., to find that his conquered people wanted more than bread and circuses. They wanted freedom of religion, and liberty in- stead of tyranny.
 Led by Judas Maccabeus, the handful of ill-armed Judeans re- volted against the overwhelming number of the SyrianS. They sup- pAC4ACAAOCO GI1c1 u11OSI.6QUlpDSQ dT- senal with courage and faith. And they succeeded in freeing their coun- try and their religion.
 The parallel to events of today is evident. It is not inconceivable that oppressed peoples today have taken courage from the story of the Maccabees, and have become heart ened by the knowledge that at other times, under similar circumstances, God and right triumphed over ty- rannuy and evil.
 The Festival of Lights derives its name from the miracle, related ill the Book of Maccabees, of the tiny cruse of oil, sufficient for one day, which was found in the Tenn pie of Jerusalem after the Syrians, By miracle, the oil lasted for who had defiled it, were driven out. eight days until new, pure oil could be sanctified for use in the can delabra of the Temple. For this reason Chanuko, which means Dedication" is celebrated with the lighting of candles for eight days
 Israel's prayer today is that all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12

turn and grease the wheels of the Allied war machines in the Euro pean theater of operations.
 Britain's oil fields have been one of the most closely-guarded secrets of the war.
 STARTED IN 1918
 Local knowledge of the exist ence of oil deposits in England goes back some centuries, but there are no records of attempts ever hav- ing been made to put them to any use. About 100 years ago oil was foun allowing into coal working in Derbysnire, where for more than year at on a day was collected and sent ot a zocal refinery, there to be separated into burning oil, lubricants and paraffin wax. This discovery remained without sequel, however. and for many years after wards there was nothing to prove the existence of oil deposits either there or in other parts of the Brit ish Isles.
 The first serious attempt to in- vestigate Britain's indigenous pe- troleum resources was made in 1918. At that time, under the pressure of urgent war demands, the Govern ment decided to undertake a cer- tain amount of exploration drilling. When the second World War broke out, 20 areas in Great Britain had been tested by the Anglo -Iranian Company, but total production did not then exceed 967 tons. Their rapid wartime development-100, 900 tons year from some 238 yells scat tered over many square miles-is the culmiriation of paintaking pros pecting and drilling. By 1941 the target enthusiastically set by the Brit ish Oil Control Board was 100000
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
DIR. J. CUNNINGHAM
 MEDICOS LECTURER

Dr. James Cunningham, head of the Connecticut state department of health, will read 8 paper on 'psychiatry in the General Hospi- tai" at the monthly meeting of the Waterbury Medical association Thursday at 8:30 p. m. in the Castle Memorial building. Dinner at the Elton will precede the meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
By ROSETTE HARGROVE NEA Staff Correspondent

Somewhere in England Dec. 12.- War forced England to produce not only every ounce of food out of her land but also compelled her to ex- tract every drop of oil out of her soil. So today she has her little oil- fields at home as well as those vast ones in Asia and other continents.
 It has now been revealed that Britain managed to maintain her oil supplies in those critical days oil 194O-1941, when the U-Boat campaign was at it's height and sinking tankers in the Atlantic in tens and twenties, thanks to her efforts to bring to the surface every ton of oil she could produce at home
 Todya British oil fields are yearly supplying the country with 26,00O,- 900 balloons of high-grade oil "a relatively small but very appre- ciable contribution to the vast quan- titles of petrol and oil needed to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12

BUY WAR BONDS AND srAsEra
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12

Eight Waterbury area men are serving in the 399th infantry regi- ment of the Tooth Century diVi- sion which has been credited with setting a record for speed in leav- ing this country and arriving at the Rhine.
 Serving in the unit are: Private First Class Thomas F. Owens of 236 Oak street, Corporal William L. Mattel of 995 Baldwin street, Private George J. Cambigo of Hitch cock Lake, Captain Richard G. Young of Watertown, Private First Class Victor E. Grossetti and Pri- vate Angelo Romaniello of Torring- ton, Sergeant Paul G. Schultz of Bristol, and Private Edmund Sierra kowSki of Beacon Falls.
 The release from Army headquar- terS in France states:-
 Some of the men in the regi- ment marched down Fifth avenue in New York city to help inaugu. rate the 5th War Bond Drive, and they were in action on the U. s. 7th Army front in Eastern France when they read about the results of the same drive.
 Arriving in France on October 20, the men, commanded by Col W. TychSon of Haddonsfield, N. J.. spend several days assembling their equipment and regaining their land legs.
 '"Then came the order to move up, and for days and nights the regiment rolled toward the front The men dismounted from theil vehicles one night-and the next morning they were in the lines They had relieved a veteran regi- mentt hat had seen service in Sicily Italy, Anzio and southern France and they took over a sector that wa! one of the toughest along the entire front.
 ''The sector, then in the Foret dt Ste. Barbo, was densely wooded and mountainous, with an almoS jungle-like undergrowth impeding progress. But the 399th fought it! way against fanatic enemy, agains
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
Century Division
 Set Speed Record
From Fifth Avenue Parade to Front Line Action in
 BreatEl=Taking Time; Waterbury Men in Outfit

countless land mines and booby- traps, and against terrain and weather difficulties that favored a Well-entrenched enemy.
 While the French army drove to Strasbourg in enveloping move ments from the north and south, the 399th helped smash the Nazis backward toward the Rhine, and soon won a reputation for being an experienced, hard-driving, relentless fighting unit"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
BREAK FOR GIs

Gary, Ind, (UP)-A special class to teach mothers how to pack and seal foods for shipping to their sons overseas has been started by Miss Ruth Schooler, home economics supervisor. Any type of home-cooked foods-the kind their GIs like best friend chicken, baker beans, pies, cakes, etc.-will be able to be sent without spelling to any point where the boys are fighting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
PoTATo-GRow1NG CENTER

Fort Fairfield, Me.-(UP)-Farm- CTS in Fort Fairfield raised 60 per cent as many potatoes as were grown in all five of the other New England states combined this sea- son.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-12
WIGGINS TO HEAD
 BUCKLE ENIPLOYEs

A new mAnagement-union oese tract between the Waterbury Buclria Co. and the CIO Local 25d 6 beluN sought for the first time since 1s37.
 In preparation .mployes yester4 day elected new officers in . xecra ganizational drive. Fred WigRina was elected president.
 Others elected were: Paixlcl Doolan, vice-president; Beatrice Stasonis, secretary, and Helen Lu~ gauskas, treasurer.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-07-01
Nurses Hold
18th Annual
State Meet

The Mississippi Association of
Colored Graduate Nurses met Sun
day, June rs, a. pm. at Jackson
College, Barrett Hall, with Nurse
Q. w. Harris as hostess.
The efficient president, Mrs. Su-
die Randolph Terrell, R.N, express
ed her gratitude for the fine way
in which the state nurses were car
rying on in these turbulent times.
Plans were formulated for the
coming of the Southern Regional
Conference of Graduate Nurses.
The following officers were re-
elected
President, Mrs. S. R. Terrell.
Vice-President. Miss Orelia w.
Harris.
Secretary, Mrs. Eliza F. Pillars.
Assistant Secretary, Miss Nettye
NJ Perkins.
Treasurer, Miss Gertrude Than
es.
An interesting report of the Re-
gional Conference that met in Jack
sonville, Fla, was made by the
regional president, Mrs Beatrice j.
Holmes, of Laurel. Miss.
This annual meeting of the state
nurses is very inspirational, and
educational.
The Mississippi enterprise. (Jackson, Miss.) 1938-current, 1944-07-01

S. Sgt Sprose Bullie, No. 34,134,-
$50 Co. D., 38Sth Post Battalion,
APO 7O9 co PM, San Francisco,
Cal, son of Mr.. and Mrs. Eddie
Bullie, R. 2. Box 26, Pocahontas,
who has been in the army since
1941.
S.Sgt. Bullie has been overseas
since February 10, 1943.
On last week, his mother, Mrs.
Bullie received letter from him.
the first in over year and her
many friends are rejoicing with
her in the happiness that this let
ter brought her.
Mrs. Bullie is well known in her
community having played most
outstanding part in the religious
civic, educational and social af-
fairs of Madison county. Secretary
of the China Grove Benevolent So
ciety for % years and Am. Matron
of the Heroiness of Jerico, Mrs
Bullie has also been very active in
Red Cross work and was a vol
unteer worker in the 4th War Loan
drive. She also received an award
from Mississippi State College as a
volunteer worker in the All club
and community. affairs.
Mrs. Bullie will appreciate hav-
ing her friends write to Sgt. Bullie,