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Evening star., 1944-05-03
Maria KurenkO
Hailed in Music
Guild Program
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

The All-Russian program which
the Chamber Music Guild gave last
night in honor of the Soviet Am
bassador and Mme. Gromyko made
known several new composers and
their works. One of the largest
audiences the Guild has had filled
Continental Hall and greeted with
special enthusiasm Maria Kurenko
soprano, who was heard in a num-
Der of songs and the aria of Oxana
from Rimsky- -Korsakoff's Might be-
fore Christmas" Ania Dorfmann
Russian pianist, was also assisting
artist of the Guild Quartet sustain
ing the piano portion of Shostako-
vich's Quintet, op. 81"
Nine. Kurenko brought an atmos-
phere of refreshing vitality to her
singing which bore all the marks of
long artistic experience. In both
Evening star., 1944-05-03
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EXHIBITS.

EAH1b1 -.
Russian farm aid, assembled by
Russian War Relief, Inc, Agricul-
ture Department patio. $50 am. to
$50 pm. daily except Sundays.
Textile and costume exhibit from
Metropolitan and Brooklyn Muse
ums, embassies and private collec-
tions, United Nations War Center,
1870 I street NV, noon to pm.
daily through May Is.
HIKE.
Moonlight hike: Dalecarlia to
Rock Spring Heights. sponsored by
Wanderbirds' Hiking Club, meet at
District Line -Dalecarlia stop on
Cabin John line. 730 o'clock to-
night.
MEETING-LECTURE.
Also the Hills" by Frances P.
Keyes, to be reviewed by Rev. 1g-
natius Smith, on Critics Forum,
Mayfiower Hotel, $50 o'clock to-
night.
SOCIAL.
Dancing and refreshments, with
Temple Youth Group, Eighth and
I streets NV, $50 o'clock tonight.
FOR SERVICEMEN.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco
Theater, tonight: Mariellen Marko,
pianist: Bill Strickland's Orchestra,
and Amphibious Training Base
Band from Solomons Island, Md.
Wiener roast at Rock Greek Park,
meet at USO, Eighth and Pennsyl-
vania avenue NV, 8 o'clock to-
night.
Officers dance. 1400 New Hamp-
shire avenue NV, $50 o'clock to-
night.
Servicemen may obtain additional
on other activities by
calling the United Nations Center,
National 5000, or any of the follow
ing USO numbers: Republic 1927,
Executive 4028, National 0614, Ma
tional 3431, or, for Negroes, Decatur
1854.
Evening star., 1944-05-03

Inc, which operates Stations WJBO
and WBRL. He served as president
of the Southern Newspaper Pub
fishers Association for two terms In
1912 and 1943.
Director Byron Price announced
that Mr.. Manship will take up his
duties in London within the next
month. He succeeds John S. Knight
of the knight Newspapers. who has
returned to the active management
of his properties in Akron. Miami
and Detroit, after a years service in
censorship.
In Baton Rouge Mr.. Manship said
he expected to leave for Washington
Saturday.
Evening star., 1944-05-03
louisianan Appointed
London Censor Director
ky the Associated press.

ny the Associated Press.
Charles P. Manship. ST., Louisiana
newspaper publisher and past presi-
dent Of the Southern Newspaper
Publishers Association, was ap-
pointed London director of the
Once of Censorship yesterday.
Mr.. Manship, 81, was born in
Mississippi and has been a news
paperman since 1899. He is presi-
dent Of the Capital City Press, which
publishes the Baton Rouge IaD
Advocate and the Baton Rouge
State Times, and also Is owner OF
the Baton Rouge Broadcasting Co,
Evening star., 1944-05-03
Nazis Mention Chance
OF Pact With Britain
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 3.-Transocean
German propaganda agency, quoted
a Romanian correspondent in Berlin
today as saying:
People in Germany are asking
whether there does not exist a last
minute chance for Germany and
Britain to come to an understand
ing"
CThere was no disposition In
London to regard the German
broadcast seriously. 1t might well
be designed to persuade the Ger
mans themselves that the Allies
were going ahead with invasion
plans despite German efforts to
make a peace, when actually
there were no such efforts.D
Transocean quoted what is called
a "much-discussed article" titled
THE Situation on the Eve of Inva-
sion," which it said was written by
the Berlin correspondent of the
Romanian newspaper Universal.
with sorrow and also with a
clear sense of reality" the article
was quoted, Germany has come to
the conclusion there are no chances
left for an agreement and the last
word is now with weapons. Though
nobody doubts as to the victorious
outcome of the struggle, the question
Is being asked whether an under
standing still could be reached"
Your War Bond dollars will Speed
Evening star., 1944-05-03

songs by Gretchaninon, "on the
Mountain" and "I1l 60, I'll come" )"
Tschaikowsky's Complaint of the
Bride and Stravinsky's "Pastorale. !"
The improvisation" and Quasi
Serenata' from Antufejew's String
Quartet op. l" played by the Guild
Quartet, Mishel Piastro and Harold
Kohon, violins, Jascha Veisse, viola
and Marcel Ancher, cello, revealed a
composer of original ideas and de-
scriptive powers. The playing of the
Guild members showed better bal
ance of tone and greater variety OF
effects and the same was present
in the Shostakovich Quintet" to
which was added the brilliant pi-
anistic ability of Miss Dorfmann.
Evening star., 1944-05-03
Senute Confirms Currun

The Senate late yesterday con-
firmed the nomination of Edward
M. Curran to serve another term as
United States Attorney for the Dis
trict, A favorable report on the re-
appointment had been submitted
Monday by Chairman McCarran of
the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Evening star., 1944-05-03

to care for his
pa tie n t, will
leave the hos
pital t o ay, it
W a S announced
by DR.. Daniel l..
Seckinger, a c t.
ing superintend-
ent.
A fare Nv c ii
party was sched-
uled by mem
DefS OF Jtle SldH
a n d friends of
DR.. Cake at 80
am. today in the
au dit 0 rum of
the m n i c ipal
Evening star., 1944-05-03
Dr.. Cake viii Leave
GaIIinger Today,
Seckinger Reveals

Dr.. Charles P. Cake, head of the
tuberculosis division of Gallinger
Municipal Hospital, who has held off
his resignation since early January
Evening star., 1944-05-03

Save your waste kitchen fats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
CITY TO BOOST
 BOND CAMP AIGN
Board Votes to Make Ad- ditionaI S5O,OOO Invest ment in Certificates

The city's finance board at spe- cial meeting today at noon author ized the city controller end treasur- CT to purchase $5O0OO in Treasury certificates War bonds to be accred- tied to the Sixth War Loan Drive of the citys'.
 Purchase of these Treasury cer- tificates which are redeemable in one year will make total of $649,- 900 the city has purchased since the inception of war bond drives. The money for purchase is to be with drawn from the capital and non- recurring fund.
 At its regular meeting yesterday a request was received by the board from the American Legion, Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars that the sums of $1,- 900 each for Memorial Day and Arr mistice Days services and $500 for any other veteran celebrations be assigned by the board. The request was tabled as the sum of $1 ,450 has already been set up in the 1945
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
THREE NARROWLY
 ESCAPE DROWNING

Bristol, Dec. 8EEleven-years-old Francis Perfetto of Pleasant View avenue and two men who went to his rescue narrowly escaped drown ing Thursday in the pond in the rear of the Clayton Manufacturing Company on Union street.
 When the boy fell through the thin ice, companions called for aid from the manufacturing plant. Her. man Schultz, carpenter, and Paul Cheney, foreman in the plant, placed an extension ladder on the ice and started crawling out to the boy. The ice broke under them, tumbling them into the pond. They managed to struggle to shore, how ever, pulling in with them the boy who held to an end of the ladder.
 At Bristol Hospital the Perfetto boy was said to be suffering from mild shock. The men were taken to their homes changed their clothes and reported no Ill effects from the immersion.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08

that most of the unemployment is of short duration. "All of the vet erans are anxious to obtain en- ployment," he said, '1but they are more interested in obtaining work for which they are suited and which has prospects for the future, rather than for work with immediate f1nan- cial attractiveness. By offering them unemployment benefits, they are certainly entitled. A good por- tion of those now filing claims have had previous work experience but are desirous of jobs more in keep ing with new sI:ills acquired dur ing their service"
 The number of applicants for vet eran benefits has risen steadily since they were first able to file during the week of September 11-16. when 187 claims were made. During Octo- Der, an average of 446 claims was filed each week, while during No- vember, the average rose to 621. With the number of servicemen be- ing discharged increasing, 1t is ex- pected that the number of appn- cants will increase steadily until the end of the war, at which time the number is epected to rise very sharply.
 Totally unemployed veterans may be entitled to $20 a week for per- iods ranging up to a year, depend ing upon their length of service. Those partially unemployed may also receive benefits at a reduced rate varying in accordance with the amount of their partial earn ings. Claims for such benefits may be filed at any of the 18 offices of the Employment Security Di- vision located in principal cities throughout the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
VETERANS ASK
 PAY BENEFITS
.686 Unemployed Ex-Serv- icemen Filed Applications
 During Past Week

The number of unemployed ex- servicemen filing for idle pay bene- fits in Connecticut under the C.. I. Bill if Rights rose to 6s6 tiur- ing the week of November 27- December 2, it was announced to- day by John J. Egan, commissioner of labor. A total of $9,541 was paid out during the week to 530 veterans, the remainder of the applicants having filed initial claims which are not compensable.
 Payments are made by the En- ployment Security Division of the State Department of Labor with funds furnished by the Federal gov ernment.
 Since benefits for veterans of World War II first became payable in September of this year, 1,474 de- mobilized servicemen have made application for benefits covering 4,039 weeks of unemployment. A total of $72,073 has been paid thus far, covering 3,890 weeks.
 Commissioner Egan, in announc- ing the number of applicants, stated
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
PARAMOUNT CLUB
 WILL HOLD PARTY
WATERVILLE Correspondents PhOne-S-651l

Waterville, Dec. 8.-The Fair mount Community club met We'd nesday evening in their club rooms on Essex avenue. Plans were made for the annual Christmas party on December 20 at the rooms. The supper-party will feature a grab bag, and social hour. Clifford North rop, former member of the club who has just returned from sea duty with the merchant marines, told of some of his experiences on his recent trip to England. Fred erick Poudim, president, presided att he business meeting.
 Clarence R. Fischer, seaman sec ond class of 84 Stafford street has completed his recruit training at Sampson, N. Y, and is spending a leave at his home here.
 Pvt. Ralph Fappiano, Jr., U. S. Army is spending furlough with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Ralph Fappiano of 19 Sprague street. On completion of his furlough he will report to his new post at Rich mond, Va.
 Miss Theresa Dubay has returned to her duties at the Waterbury Tool Co, after brief illness at her home 55 Downes street.
 Mrs. William Westwood of Cooke strete is patient at the Water bury hospital.
 The Women's Society for Chris tian Service of Grace Methodist church met Wednesday evening at the church. Plans were made for the Christmas party next Wednesday evening, December 18th. Election of officers has bene postponed in- definitely. Mrs. Mary Lowell led the devotional service and Mrs. N. Hon. mold gave an interesting missionary talk on the Women of Japan" It was also voted to give card shower for Mrs. Westwood who is in Wa terbury hospital, and also for Miss Evelyn Black who is patient at the Brooklyn Methodist hospital, Medical Building, Brooklyn, N. Y. Those present were: Mrs. Bertha Platt, Mrs. Evan Bergwall, Mrs. N. E. Honnold, Mrs. Ralph Lane, Mrs. J. M. E. Johnson, Mrs. Allan Fair hurst, Mrs. Harry Lattimer, Miss Ruth Norton, Mrs. Arthur Twelves. Mrs. Joseph Caron, Mrs. Frank Wilson, Mrs. Harry Stride, Mrs. Will liam Lambert, Mrs. Charles Greene, Mrs. Clarence Barber, Mrs. William Hornbecker, Mrs. George Horn becker, Mrs. Frank Fay, Mrs. En- fly Berger, Mrs. Fred zaugg, Mrs. Mary Lowell.
 Mrs. Nils Munson is confined to her home on Manville street by illness. Her condition is very much improved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08

An artillery team of six enlisted men, back from fighting in the front lines inside Germany, will make four-day tour of Connecti- cut beginning Friday, December Is as special emissaries of General Dwight D. Eisenhower to talk to war workers about the urgent need for more artillery and mortar am- intuition, Major Alex Smith, In- dustrial Services Officer, First Ser vice Command, announced today. Accompanied by Captain Thomas F. BogarduS, of JaneSville, Wise. who served g months overseas, in- cluding duty with Merrill's Maraud- CTS in the China Burma India the ater, the artillery team will make its initial Connecticut appearance at the Petroleum Heat Products Company in Stamford on December IA.
 Governor Raymond E. Baldwin will officially welcome the men in Waterbury on Saturday, December 16. The Governor and the Army team will make a special broadcast to war workers in all plants from the Scovil1 Manufacturing Con- pany at 200 p. m. The program will be broadcast over WTIC, Hart ford, under auspices of the Connec- ticut War Council and the War Manpower Commission. The team will spend the weekend in Hart ford and on December IT will par- ticipate in 8 program at the Bab- cock Printing Press Company in New London.
 The tour will take in plants where artillery and mortar ammunition is manufactured and the men will tell in their own words their experiences on the battlefront inside Germany only few weeks ago. The Con- necticut team is part of a group of twenty y-seven men flown to the United States from the battlefront at the request of General Eisen- hover to tell war workers how cri- tical the need for this ammunition is.
 Plants were chosen by the Army after consultation with the War Production Board. Immediate ar- engagements for the tour are being handled by Major Smith, of the h. dustrial Service Office of the First Service Command, and Richard Ba- lazy, industrial incentive officer o1 the Connecticut War Counncil.
 Members of the artillery group are:-
 Pfc. Vincent J. Romano, 25, o1 Brooklyn, N. r., gunner on 155- nm howitzer crew; Pfc. John Kras- nowski, 31, Avenel, N. J., an ann munition bearer in an 81mm mortal squad; Cpl. Joseph H. Rostohar, oi Worcester, N. J., 8 member of 2 155mm howitzer crew which wal in the fighting at Aachen; Pic. Frec Sparks, I24, of LaFollette, Tenn, { canonneer with the 5th Field Ar. tilIery; Pic. Edward c. DeRider 26, of Rochester, N. Y, Q cannooneel on a 155-mm howitzer crew witt the 5th Field Artillery; and Pvt. EuripidiS J. Jamoulis, 27, oi Brockton, Mass, an ammunition
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
EXPLANATION ON
 BILL OF RIGHTS

Anticipating comparative spurt in the building industry when re- turning servicemen take advantage of the rights to home-loans guar anteed to them under the CT bill, Irving H. Hammers, executive vice president of the First Fedaral Saw ings 6S Loan association last night urged local real-estate operators to become versed in the terms of the bill.
 Mir. Hammers and the FFS85L were hosts to local agents, con- tractors and building materials men at a dinner 'neld at The Elton
 MT. Hammers recounted his find ings in an investigation of the vari- oIts phases of the G. I. bill and he pointed out the services which can be extended to veterans by the building trades and real estate firms.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08

budget.
 Waterbury's city treasury balance declined from $2,189, ,3S9 on Oct. 31 to $1,795, ,844 on Nov. 90. according to the city treasurer's report sub mitted at yesterdays meeting of the board of finance.
 Receipts during the month amounted to $391, ,O62 of which $268,042 represented taes paid in to the tax collector. Disbursements during the month totalled $784, ,6O7. The Hamilton park balance on Oct. 30 was $1,O03. Receipts to Dec. 3 were $7l5 and expenditures were $14S. The fund also turned into the park bond sinking fund $400 during the month, and had ac-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08

counts payable of s176, leaving net fund balance Dec. of S0g8, cE which $500 is available for the sink ing fund.
 The golf course balance on Oct 30 was $8,609. Receipts to Dec. amounted to $507 and expenditures to $1yO6S. Change on hand amount ed to $50 and accounts payable t0 $948, leoying a net fund balance on Dec. 4 of $7,248.
 The stadium refectory had a hal~ ance oct. 30 of $1,238, receipts tu Dec. of $874 and Expenditures during the period of e39O. AccOunfa receivable were $73 and accounta payable, $271, leaving a net fund balance Dec. 3 of $1,527.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
War Veterans to Tour
 State To Boost Drive
Unit to Appear Here With Governor Baldwin; Bring
 Message From General Eisenhower for Production

bearer on an 81-mm mortar squad with the 9th Infantry Division.
 Each member of the team has seen active service in North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium and Ger
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08
BRUSH FIRE

Bremen eXtinguished a brush fire of Hill street shortly after ? p. m. yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-08

Mrs. Nils Munson is confined to her home on Manville street by illness. Her condition is very much improved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-09
Tiger Hunt Started Grew On Trail Which Led To Diplomatic Career

young Joe was just a little hard of hearing, and would be unfit for the service.
 Young Grew then tired appeal to the President = Theodore Roose- welt, who was also a Harvard man flor 8 direct appointment to the consular service. All such jobs in those days were political plurns There was no U. s. Foreign Service with competitive entrance exam nations and promotion for merit within the service. T. R. wrote back that he was sorry, but pressure from CongreSsmen to have their constitu- entS appointed to these soft jobs kept him without any vacancies to which he might appoint men of his own choice.
 Undaunted, Grew went to Cairo and there got himself a job as a clerk at $500 a year, indexing and copying records that were years out of date in the files of the Amer ican consulate. As a spare time occupation he started to write a book, Sport and Travel in the Far East" which recounted his experi- ence at tiger hunting.
 When the manuscript was finished it was sent to 8 Washington acquaintance of the Grew family, with a request for advice and help on finding a publisher. The friend read the manuscriupt, and on a walk with the President one day, told T. R. about the young hunter authors experiences.
 Interested, the President asked to see the copy, read it all through and then said that the United States needed young men of that sort in its consular service. He offered Joe Grew an appointment as deputy consul general in Cairo.
 Less than two years later he was a third secretary in the embassy at Mexico City and he went on from there, with appointments in St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Vienna; as Minister to the eVrsailles confer ence, to Denmark, and to Switzer- land; as Ambassador to Turkey and aJpan. Dean of the Foreign Service, he is 8 career diplomat of 40 years rich experience which he takes with him to the position of Under Secre- tary of State.
 T passed my examination for the Foreign Service" he told an old friend in the Department of State, when I crawled into that cave to shoot 8 tiger in China
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-09
M PETER EDISON NEA Stan Correspondent


 washington, Dec. Because he brawied into Q cave in China to shoot tiger, over 70 years ago, Jo- Seph Clark Grew, at 64, is today the new Undersecretary in the Depart ment of State.
 Tn 1902 young Joe Grew, scion of . Boston banking family and fresh cut of Harvard, was offered as Q kraduation present the usual trip to Europe for Q years travel before settling down to business. With few classmates, however, Grew de- sided to vary the traditional sight, seeing by shooting his way around Inc world.
 At the appointed time the gay poung blades assembled in Sing hpore and set about chartering . little boat to cruise up the Malay coast, then go into the jungles on q tiger hunt. They had some trouble with the native skipper, who tried to hold them up when he discovered they were richc young Americans, but overcoging that, the expedition went ahead and Grew not his first big striped cat. He also got malaria.
 CONSULAR VISITS
 After his recovery, the party set put for Burma for another hunt, but there Crews malaria returned and he had to go to hospital. While he was bedridden, Grew was visited almost daily by an American consul lar officer. One day the consul brought him flowers and in his high fever Grew threw the bouquet nt his well-meaning viSitor-and Rhen regretted 1t. But why, the in- kalid wanted to know, should any American way out in Burma be so concerned as to call on a perfect stranger and bring him flowers?
 The consul explained. He was m officer of the United States government and 1t was part of his duty to look after Americans who might be in that part of the world, whenever they were in difficulty. Grew was interested.
 When he got over his second attack of malaria, Grew joined the young hunters on journey to the Chinese jungleS to bag another tiger. The hunt included the usual krappingS. Chinese hunters first bothered a goat on the edge of a clearing. That night 8 tiger came sitter the bait and devoured 1t. Next
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-09
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3:00-Matinee in Rhythm 3:30-Syncopation Piece 4:00-Report from Washington 4:15-Report from Overseas 4:30-Assignment Home 5:00-Philadelphia Orchestra 6:00-Quincy Howe and the News 6:10-Treasury Briefs 6:15-People's Platform 6:45-The World Today 6:55-Horace Heidt Musical 7:00-The Mayor of the Town 7:30-America in the Air S:00-The Kenny Baker Show 8:30-The FBI~in Peace and War 8:55-Bob Trout and the News 9:00-Your Hit Parade S:45-Memorable Music 0:00-Something for the Girls 10:15-Here Comes Elmer 10:45-Talks-Perc J. Philip
 "Canada's Conscription Con- troversy" 11:00-NewS 11:10-Local News 11:15-Enric Madriguera Orchestra 11:30-Peace and Dynamite 9th
 War Loan 12:0O-News 12:05-Sign Off
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-09

the concussion of the shot had blown out all the torch lights, leav- ing the cave in blackness.
 New torches were lit and Grew had to crawl back into the cave 8 second time. There he found the cat had been shot right between the eyes. Backing out, he sent the Chi neSe in to drag out the carcass and skin it.
 That was enough tiger hunting. Grew came back to Boston to ad- wise his family that he was going into the consular service. That caused more consternation than the tiger hunt. A son and heir of Boston banker go into the lowly employ of the government? Un- thinkable.
 But the young man persisted. He learned of a newly appointed min ister to Siam just ready to sail for Bangkok and rersudaed that digni- tary to take him on as secretary. When the Grew family heard what had happened they brought pres sure on the diplomat to cancel the appointment, on the ground that