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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-14
By s. J. WOOLF NEA Staff Correspondent

A LIBERATOR BASE IN ENG- LAND, March 14-After the bombers have left on a mission, there is a let-down feeling throughout the base. Nevertheless work goes on. Supplies arrive and are slowed away. Roads need constant repair. Com munication wires have 8 way of get- ting out of order. Billets must be looked after. Messes must be pre- pared. And of course disabled planes must be made ship-shape again. Literally, 1t takes hundreds of men to keep one Liberator in the air.
 On day when there is a mission, 1t is not until afternoon that feeling anxiety spreads throughout the base. Mems eyes search the skies. There are frequent surrepti- tious glances at wrist watches, and speculations spread as to what the target has been.
 While the planes are gone, the arrangement of the furniture in the briefing room is changed. The long wooden benches on which the men sat as in 8 schoolroom while they got their final instruc- tionS now are placed around tables. On these, maps are laid out, ready for the returning airmen to tell what has happened.
 The other day, standing in the doorway to this room, could see the ground crews massing about the control tower in much the same way as they had in the morning when the planes took off, The am-
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bulance sand trucks also were there.
 A tall young lieutenant seemed particularly anxious as he looked overhead. He was John Vernon, of San Francisco, and he had flown half a dozen missions. But on this one, his co-pilot and buddy had been picked to go with another plane. And am I sweating 1t out until he gets back" Vernon confess sed as we stood in that draughty doorway, waiting.
 Next I spoke with Corp. Edward Bechthold of St. Albans, Long Is- land. Dark-haired, intense-looking he seems somewhat elder than most of those here. He formerly was in the drug business in New York City, but he volunteered as soon as we were in the war. He said he is having good time looking after the guns on Any Time Annie" And like all members of the ground crews, he takes personal interest in his plane. T always feel good when she gets back, and awfully un- easy while she's gone," he said.
 While we were talking, the first plane returned. could see the crew pile out. Several of them car- ried heavy musette bags. All crowd cd into 8 truck to be taken to the nearby interrogation headquarters.
 At about the same time a Red Cross truck drove up to the hut and in an adjoining room set out sand wicheS and coffee. Someone turned on a phonogram and as the men en- tered they heard selections from "This Is the Army" Many of them
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SHOW TO BENEFIT
 MEN IN SERVICE
Nautical But Nice" to Be Presented Two Nights
 By Metal Hose Cast

Nearly l70 former employees of the American Metal Hose Branch of The American Brass Company now stationed at overseas points through out the world will receive pocket money as a result of show, "Nau- tical But Nice which will be pre- sented at Buckingham hall on March r and 18.
 The presentation will be made by a cast of 75 employees of the branch who for the past twelve weeks have been rehearSing under the direc- tion of John Jannetty, well known Waterbury show director. The show promises to outdo last years per- formance which drew a capacity crowd to Buckingham hall for one night stand. Stage direction has come under the supervision of w. Harold Dowd of the Industrial Relations Department of The Amer ican Brass Company, who has de- signed an attractive nautical setting built around the deck of a ship. A chorus of more than 60 men and women have been costumed by Brooks Costume Company of New York, famous costume designers for Broadway productions, and music will be furnished by Unico Baroness Poli theater orchestra.
 Twenty soloistS will render popu- lar songs as well as old Irish bal- lads appropriate to the St. Patrick's day occasion.
 The show is under the sponsor ship of the labor-management com- mittee of the American Metal Hose Branch who have been assisted by Joseph Gudonis as ticket manager for the first night and John Viega as ticket manager for the second night. Arrangements for the house have come under the direction of Paul F. Mulcahy. George E. Hen- derson is acting as business man. ager.
 The labor-management committee have made arrangements at the ur- gent request of it's employees to take care of the general public at the door for both nights.
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BRISTOL GROUPS
 HELP PRINCIPAL
Fund to Be Raised to Pay $9,l4O Judgment in
 Discipline Case

Bristol, March 14-A campaign to raise funds by public subscription to assist Harry D. Williamson, Bris- tol school principal, against whom the Supreme Court of Errors last week upheld $9140 Superior Court judgment, was launched Monday night.
 The initiative was taken at a joint meeting of the Parent -Teach- CTS associations of Sarah E. Rev. holds and Greene Hills schools, two Forestville schools of which MT. Williamson is principal.
 MT. Williamson was accused of kneeling and sitting on Donald Cal way, 13, pupil at the Reynolds school, when the boy was 10 years of age, in the course of disciplinary action against the boy. Subsequent ly the boy contracted osteomyelitis from an infected skin abrasion. The Superior Court verdict was rem dered a year ago.
 A resolution was adopted at a meeting of the two PTA groups at the Reynolds school Monday night, expressing every faith and every confidence in Harry D. Williamson. faith and confidence that is based on our own personal, intimate knowledge of him." The resolution also directed that a committee of representative citizens of Forest vile and Bristol" be set up to re- cetve contributions to be wholly used to assist in defraying expenses which have been by order of the court assessed against our princi- pal"
 Also represented at the meetings were the Bristol Teachers Associa- tion, Bristol Youth Council, Lions Club, and the Bristol Central Par ent-Teacher Council. The teachers association meeting Monday after noon passed vote of confidence in MT. Williamson and agreed its members should take an active part in the raising of funds to defray the principals expenses.
 Named to the fund raising com. mlttee were John Gienty, president of the Reynolds PTA; Maurice Mo- Laughlin, president of the Greene Hills PTA; George L. Shelley, Jr., president of the Central PTA Coun- ell, and J. Gordon Warner, secre- tary of the Bristol Bank and Trust Company, who will serve as treasur- CT.
 Representatives of other groups will be added to the committee lat CT, It was decided. Besides those organizations having delegations at the meeting, the Rotary, Exchange and Quota clubs. the Woman's Club of Bristol. the Bristol Women's Col lege Group, the Town Club, and the Bristol Council of Churches will be asked to participate in the drive.
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stones throw Cry to throw one) to the office of my friend Earle Fer riS. always like to go in to Earle's office, and not just only to see him, but because meet lot of other people who are also in there to see Earle Ferris - top-line radio stars whom he represents in various cap- acities, and near top radio and movie stars and anc - just stars before my eyes. (And not the kind you're thinking of either.
 It's not easy to corral Earle Fer ris. But dragging him away from a lot of importuning darlings, push ed him back into his chair and his desk, impaled him with a piercing glance, and said, Whats new Come, me lad, give" A dreamy look came into his eye, and like an automotan he reeled off:
 Present indications are that while just one girl will win a l3- week contract as soloist on the Hour of Charm" in the programs current search for the undiscovered voice of America, at least,a score of others will land radio singing jobs as result of the nationwide additions. Several station executives have requested additions officials to allow them to feature girls brought to light by the additions, if they do not qualify as the winner in the NBC shows quest"
 Stage Door Canteen's" two most frequent guest stars, Comedienne Patsy Kelly and Singer Barry Wood are the co-stars of the revised Mill lion Dollar Band" setup, which be- comes effective Saturday, April 1. Miss Kelly proved herself network comedy bet on the Friday night "Canteen" series.''
 Ben Grauer, the "Mr. and Mrs. North" announcer, is back from Washington, D. C., where he em ceed the annual dinner of White House correspondents.
 Although Cowboy Rhapsody" written by Morton Gould, co-star of the CBS Carnival" was originally scheduled to be world premiered by Artur Rodzinski and the New York Philharmonic, Rodzinski Cat whose suggestion the composition was written) allowed the composer to debut 1t with the St. Louis Sym phony Orchestra on March IS. Rodzinski will perform it in New York at later date"
 "Thanks, Earle, thanks" I inter- rupted and sped from his private office, for gorgeous gal in a mink coat was walking slowly along the the corridor as if looking for some- one.
 Gan I help your" I asked.
 Certainly she answered, (Oobi! Oobi Oobi) "I'm looking for Earle Ferris"
 "I'm Earle Ferris" I said.
 It seemed like a good idea at the time.
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WAVELETS
By ED LEAMY

It is an entertaining fact, as any reporter will attest, that when he is assigned to interview some ty- coon or big shot, number of times out of ten the interviews will utter what has long become bromide, T used to be a newspaper man my- self" It is really surprising the numbers of business men and others who once worked at the newspaper trade. In fact, I once was news paper man myself.
 The percentage of newSpapermen who grow up, live, and die in the shop is comparatively few. They have a habit of drifting into other fields, writing magazine, publicity, merchandising, stockbroking. Some even become editors of house organs and these latter are among the least sung and the least praised. All this came back to me the other day when I was reading Tom O'Reilly's column in PM. and had just been glancing through several of the excellent house magazines put out by Waterbury war plants.
 1OLI V 3tCAAAy AA0A GSCA WAANAAAS about newspaper correspondents overseas with the troops, and how they would be remembered in post war days by the lads whose doings they covered. In a recent column Copyrighted by Field PublicationS) he paid high tribute to good news papermen who Have taken over the seemingly small, although just as important job, of keeping up the morale of people who are working day. and night in our war plants by getting out the house organ"
 Then he went into paens of praise about one house organ in particular-"Norden Insight" which is edited by ex-newspaperman Jack Purcell with the assistance of some others including Robert Benchley, Jr. whose father you have often see in the movies. was glad to read what Tom O1Reilly had to say about "The Insight for I have known that publication since the first issue came of the press for distribution
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were flushed. Few smiled. They were all intensely serious as they went in to describe each detail of their mission.
 All of them seemed reticent about what had happened. The job was done, and that was that. There was none of the wisecracking and en- thusiastic chatter that you'd hear, for instance, in a locker room after football game.
 NEVER MENTION MISSING
 One who was little more articui- ate was Lieut. Robert Krieger, of Minneapolis. A tall, lean, shy-Iook- ing youngster, he hopes to be home by July, when his baby will be born. He is 24, played fotball for Dart mouth. and for a time was a pro with the Philadelphia Eagles. But when he entered the army he was working with an accounting firm.
 T thought my first mission was exciting" he said. But this one was more so. It was so tough that I got to thinking I'd rather be play ing football against Joe Osmanski, who once knocked me cold"
 I learned later that one plane failed to return. Little was said about 1t. The pilots name was never mentioned. Tn the lounge that night the talk was about shows and chow and the cold. A radio played inconsequential music. Behind the talk, the jokes and the banter, one felt that these youngsters were not allowing themselves to think. Had they done so, the chances are that they would hvae been thinking of the 10 who would never come back.
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Silver Tone CorneC Band were there at the time, and none of them con- sidered the occasion important enough to note the date.
 The scene is easy to reconstruct, however. despite the passage of years. At that time, the Silver Tone Cornet Band practiced of an even- ing in the Van Buren plumbing shop. Bob Burns, the bands man. dolin player. idly picked up two pieces of gas pipe, slid them to- gether and blew. The boys in the band laughed at what they heard. SO Bob added funnel to the thing and christened 1t the bazooka.
 This instrument was fated to help make Bob Burns as famous as he has made his home town of Van Buren, Arkansas. It was there, as millions of radio listeners know, that the NEG comedian was born, on August 2, 1893.
 Most radio listeners do not know, however, that Bob was not the scion of 8 back-country hillbilly family. His father. W. R. Burns, was civil engineer, and he hoped young Robin would grow up to be one, too.
 But young Robin had other ideas. True, he studied engineering at the University of Arkansas after he had attended public school in Van Buren, but he never did much with his hard-earned knowledge. Only once, when show business was bad, did he turn to civil engineering. He found 1t was even worse than show business.
 Bob's first show business job, with touring carnival, paid him $3 8 week, plus room and board. After that he moved from one carnival to another, between times working as a day laborer in New Orleans, farm ing peanuts in Oklahoma and mak- ing an unsuccessful try at the hay business.
 When World War I broke out, Bob enlisted in the Marine Corps. He came out sergeant and the champion rifleman of the A. E. F.
 Back in show business after the war, Burns tried opening a side- show in Atlantic City and doing a blackface act in vaudeville. Neither with much success. A brief try at Hollywood in 1881 also came to naught insofar as motion pictures were concerned. But it was Holly. wood that gave him his stepping stone to radio stardom.
 Rudy Vallee introduced Bob to the trans-continental NEG audience in April, 1885, and the comedian was an instant hit. By the end of 1885, he had been chosen by radio edi- tors throughout the nation as the outstanding new star of the year.
 And that, my beloved readers and caluminators is the story of little Bob Burns and his pet the Bazook Next week East Lynne.
 From Sydney Eiges' office in Rockefeller Centre it is only
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WATR PR0 GRAMS
 1890 Kilocycles

3:O0--Sheelah Carter 3:l5-My True story 3:f5-Little Jack Little i:O0--O8ark Ramblers
 4:30-Full Speed Ahead 5:00-Melody Revue
 5:30-News
 5:i5--Superman
 6:O0-Yankee News
 6:i5-Terry And The Pirates 6Ss0-Music For Dining 6:45-Jack Armstrong
 7:O0--My Secret Ambition
 7:S0-Carson Robison's Buckaroos 7:i5--Jose Morand's orch. 8:00-Watch The World Go By S:15-Fulton Oursler
 S:30-Melodies Of The Moment g:O0--Gabriel Heater
 9:15-Believe It Or Not
 9:30-Spotlight Bands
 9:55-News Gram Swing iDscs: News By Night 1 1 :00-Yankee News J. Taylor 1 1 l:30-Isou Breeze's Orch. Ii :55-News
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so,nds on the air are at times skillfuly blended, Sounds have often pleased, sounds have offended,- Girls grooming loud and raucous, Enough volume there for caucus Then again there's much lhore promise In the suave phrasng of John Charles Thomas There's lots of harmony, lots of blare. In what you hear over the air. Little drops of sunshine little grains of sand, Solo or quartet fifty piece band. The quizz masters compound riddle, Heifetz and Spading play the fiddle. Sounds at times proper and fitting Then again overwhelming and ear-splittng. You're happy sometimes to hear tenor'S bravura And the cascadng trills of coloratura. Sounds indeed are we'll just sounds At times like the paying of hounds. Jazz Ter up yells the house As for me, make mine StrauSsl EM EM.
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STATES BULLET IN BRAIN

Winslow, Me. (UP)-John Brooks, Brooks, 2S' is going around these days with a bulletin in his brain. After he was shortly accidentally few weeks ago, doctors decided again removing the bullet be. cause 1t did not injure any vital brain tissue.
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Mr. and Mrs John Graham of Sunnyside Avenue took in the finals of the state schOOIbOy basketball tour nament at the New Haven Arena last Saturday evening" tnatOr at hoop contests picked TOrrngtOn to beat New Britain for the Connecticut title by five points They won by nine.
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Clara L. Commerford of South Elm Street has completed 25 years of faithful service at the ScOvi Mfg. Company. She started in 1918 in the Primer House and at the close of the first World War was transferred to the Duplicating Department under the late A. s. Ketcham. She has worked there Hecto- graph operator and order checker since Earl Odell her foreman, rates her very conscientious worker, one who doesn't know the meaning of absenteeiSm.
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Edna B. Fogarty of Fairlawn avenue has wound up 20 years service with the Connecticut Light Power Company She's member of the central stenOgraphic department. Before joining the Power personnel she was employed by the Waterbury Chamber of Con- merce grand person, Edna makes her home with her S6year-Old mother.
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Pic. Joseph Movie Is With the Marines someWhere III the European War His brother Walter, holds the title with the contingent of fighting men and is somewhere in the Pacific Joe Cradles of Lawor Street claims optimist is who believes the pictures he seed packets Joe Cocchiola says loose auto nuts most dangerous when one of them is driving.
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Jack Manherz is enjoying his 21st year as physical high school in Waynesboro Pa and the College at Springfield Mass After receiving his Bay State diploma skill, N and came to Crosby six months later. In 155 swimming meets since he took the Crosby ermen his teams have 115 and lost 40 for percentage or 741.
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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dillon of Giles Street will celebrate St. Patrick's Day in New York City where they will catch Fred Warings Chesterfield Pleasure Time broadcast at the Vanderbilt Theater The former is the veteran water meter reader with the enviabe sense of humOr. 1. MT. and Mrs LeavenwOrth F. Sperry are enjoying all the comforts of home at the Hotel BiItmOre, N Y. c. Al Paris of Wood Street is celebrating another natal day today Thirtyseven candles on the cake Is my guess.
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One of the big St. Patrick week events will be the third annual Riddles Revue sponsored by St. Margarets parish All those who attended las. years good ow and the has acquired reputation for appro- 1ate and poppy hits The latest songs of the day are mterlarked with old favoriteS Looks like big time again this year when the show plays two nights tomorrow and Thursday.
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William MacKeeman of Ashley Street, who enlisted recently in the U. s. N R. left yesterday to begin his boot training at Sampson, N Y. Billy is the third member of the MacKeeman family in the Armed Forces Staff Sergeant Kenneth MacKeeman is radio operator B-24 LiberatOr stationed in Italy while brother Robert is aviation maChinist in England.
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Abe Corn says it's April fool joke that liquor prices go up the first. It's not joke. An Ohio judge suggests longer courshps Longer marriages wouldn't be bad idea either. Temporary insanity sounds like good plea in defense of making incorrect income tax report. The black market man does honest work .rs instead of honest work.
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Harlem, the Saga of Community, by Donald Cou- per- scheduled for publication May 15 according to Wen and the American Negro but major and necessary con- trhution to present interest and discussion of the race problem Written by white newspaper man, edi tor traveller and veteran of World War the book pre- sents forhrght sober though challenging discussion of the nations Mo- problem. It is history of Harlem as far back the year 636-and there is other thentic record the subject in printbegnning with to- days Harlem of halfa-mion Negroes from every part of the world and going back to the communtys remote lot how he views the white and his attitude toward him; his aspirations American citizen; his resent
 entS illustrations and difficulties in the land of his birth and the many dramatic and tragic incidents affect ing Negro life in Harlem and throughout the nation have been interpreted with courage vision and sympathy for national audience through the thoughts actions and achievements of the Harlem Negro.
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Frank Pope, formerly of the Frank Pope Co.,, is now receiving his mail somewhere in England, having ar- base ordinance outfit and has been in the service year and half.
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From Sydney Eiges' office in Rockefeller Centre it is only a
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Good Night.
Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-08-12

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Montana oil and mining journal. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1931-1953, 1944-08-12
Proven Wyoming Fields
Yield Good Producers

CASPERGood producers continued be completed with al
most monotonous regularity Wyoming fields during the week
with wildcat reported competitions
reported during the week Ohio Oil Company No. Poweon
in the Garland field pumping $50 barrels daily from the Tenseep