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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16
NOTES OF A MAN WITH A
 SLEDGEHAMMER

Sen. Reynolds tumbled from his lofty perch in the Upper House onto the shoddy rabble- -rousing circuit ]. As freak attraction It wasn't much of drop for him. He never rose to the heights that his position demanded Reynolds will attempt to pull the ostrich over American eyes But his act has flop written all over 1t Ameri- cans won't forget that he re- turned from a visit to Germany with hosannas for the Nazi way of low life He voted against defense measures, winked at peculiar groups and impeded the war effort with a flood of demagoguery Reynolds has been consistent .. He was al- ways wrong. The Capitol-Hill-billy can't stop us from winning the peace His alibi that the people support him is laugh He quit the Senate because he knew that voters would toss him on his ear .. By officially joining the rabble- rousers, Reynolds peculiar career comes to welcome finish No one can doubt he has all the quali- cations for has-been [. Hey, Mar tin, move overl
 Variety reports: When Senator Wheeler declared bitterly that the bill (banning the sponsorship of newscasters) was dead he blamed a little handful of people in New York Little Handful of Peo- pie? Whats that-a new way Of spelling Winchell?
 Some critics haven't stopped try to scratch out Mrs. Roosevelt's eyes. Their wrath runs wild because the the First Lady voices political opinions. They forget that the Presi- dent wife has the same right of free speech enjoyed by columnists, edi- torialists and politicians The hecklers never got blue in the face when the wives of Congressmen and Senators wrote for rag later barred from the mails because of its sedi- tious content.
 In 1897 a German general wrote: ''Time always works against any continental power at war with Eng land: that has been proved in the past, and Is entirely true today, when highly developed armament
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16
VERSATILE FIRE CHIEF

St. Joseph. Mo. (UP)-If you hold the job of fire chief in this day and age, you can't tell what you are liable to be called upon to do at least, that seems to be the way with Fire Chief Leo J. Urban ski of St. Joseph. Recently he was called by the Missouri Pacific Rail- way road here to offer advice about washing away soft drink syrup which had leaked from barrels packed in three of the railway cars so that the good barrels could be SalYaRed
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16

Pretty Patsy Garrett, pictured here, is the young lady who has won the radio spotlight with Ronald Graham as co-star of Broadway Matinee" Patsy sings and assists Graham with the hosting chores on the afternoon CBS variety show aired Mondays through Fridays at D. m., Q. V. l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16

deposited on the doorstep, begin- ming an exciting resort mystery.
 Before Ellery solves the seaside baffler, the ace gentleman detec- tive Is required to deduce who beat up Morton Tucker, how he drowned, and what 0 blue chip had to do with his death.
 Having taken @ plunge into the sea of matrimony with his vocalist, Georgia Carroll, Kay Kyser takes another plunge on June 22 when he is the first to enter the swim ming pool at the Naval Hospital in Oakland, Calf. The pool was built at a cost of $25, 900, which was rais- ed last summer by Kyser and his College of Musical Knowledge" cast at a dance held in the Oak land Auditorium.
 A recent Groucho Marx Blue Ribbon Town" script is being in- cluded in an anthology of radios greatest programs titled: "You'll Dial Laughing" To be published in Boston this summer, the script is one recently broadcast with Laird Cregar as guest Director Dick Mack calls 1t the best-written script I've heard on the air"
 New additions to the cast of the current Perry Mason" thriller, 'The Case of the Puzzled Suitor," heard weekdays over CBS. are Mitzi Gould (of Parker Family" WATR fame) as Lois Dalton" the effi- cient but quick k-tempered-secretary, and Helen Lewis as the nervous young woman, Edith Curtis" Rob- ert Haag portrays the puzzled suitor of the title-Marine Sergeant Rex Curtis.
 HI, Lo, Jack and The Dame, the quartet which sings the commer- cials on CBS' Stage Door Canteen" Friday nights, has been booked for a personal appearance at New York's State Theatre beginning the week of July 2. Jingle, Jingle, Jingle" the commercial ditty that the quartet sings, inspired Raymond Paige, music director of the series, to compose a symphony which was recently aired on the program.
 Mercedes McCambridge, leading lady of Carlton Morse's CBS T Love A Mystery" series, is flirting with two tempting flicker offers.
 Last Sundays broadcast of "The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, heard at 9:l5 p. m. over WATR and the Blue network was the final one for pr" Ernest Chappell. Reason for his departure centers around the fact that his Thin Man" program has shifted from Sundays to Fridays, which will give Chappell and his wife, Claudia Morgan who stars in the series, their first Sabbath holidays in years.
 Carlton E. Morse, writer producer of radios T Love A Mystery ad- venture series, Is boosting about his ability as a sleuth these days. It seems that recently he received a postcard barring a mysterious de- coded message. His curiosity aroused Morse set to work on the cipher and finally decoded the message which
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16
Walter WiHacIleu
 COaSt-tO-COaSt

industries depend more than ever on overseas imports of raw ma- terials. A continental power wish ing to defeat England must have either Russia or the United States as an ally in. order to have any chance of victory"
 That was written by Nazi Gen. von RundStedt-who Is now com manding the Nazi forces in West ern Europe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16

read: Happy Birthday to the Boss from the I Love Mystery cast.
 Phil Harris, who takes over "Col- lege of Musical Knowledge" in July when Kay Kyser vacations for eight weeks, will double into pie lures. He's been cast as the romaI1- tic lead in T Love A Bandleader."
 With the close of her CBS pro- gram June 29, Dinah Shore is plan ming to take a quick vacation. She will go to husband George Mont- gomery's Montana ranch for her first glimpse of her hubby's home territory. Montgomery is now a corporal in the Air Forces.
 Although the evening broadcast of the Kate Smith Hour goes of the air for the summer this week, Rates noon weekday talks will continue through the summer, as usual, with Ted Collins keeping listeners up-to- date with events here at home. Kate's mail bag, which seems to expand every week, has had a tre- mendous influx of letters from men in the armed services the past few months.
 Dan Seymour, announcer of We, the People" and other shows, is looking forward to three-week va- cation at his summer home at Cape Cod hepinninp ,TiflV 15
 Quiz contestants aren't always soldiers, lawyers, or housewives. Re- gently, on Bob Hawks CBS Thanks to. the Yanks", the quizees included an orthopedic surgeon, a USO dancer just back from overseas, a jockey and a draft board official!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16

read: Happy Birthday to the Boss
 from the I Love a Mystery cast"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16
WAVELETS s
By ED LEAMY

Radio to me is necromancy pure and unadulterated. Always. about 1t there has been an aura of the irn- penetrable, something that just couldn't be, and yet there 1t is pul- sating, living: Radio.
 I remember my own first set. I was confined to bed. was going to be confined to bed for couple of years, alone in a room in Q San" It wasn't a pleasant prospect, espe- cially since I was young. Then l obtained an inexpensive little set known as a Crossley Pup. It was a small black box with lone Pea nut" tube sticking out of its top like a candle in a stand. The conden- sers, If remember correctly, were made of tin-foil. There were miles, of bright, shining copper wire for an aerial, and @ pair of ear-phones.
 The aerial was erected, the lead in wires and ground connected. I don- ned the phones. I turned a knob. There was little crackle and static. Then, mirabile dictui-music, jazz, coming to me in upper New York state from-C Chicagol grinned like Billiken, for I knew that the long lonely hours ahead were not going to be as lonely as anticipated. Nor was 1 wrong. Radio, the Crossley Pup" quickly outgrown, became a solace and charm. Dread and so- litude were removed from my days and nights for many, many moons.
 Now, when I pick up my small portable and tune in on some super program. sometimes I think of that long ago time when I lay alone in that sanatarium room, and radio was my friend And a warm and kindly feeling fills my heart But even at that radio today, to me is as big mystery as of old-a magician and a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16
Con4BINEs TO OKLAHOMA

Oklahoma City (UP)-The War food administration has allocated 1909 combines to Oklahoma for use an the grain harvest this season, according to word received here re- gently from Congressman Victor Wickersham, D., Okla, in Wash- 1Ilgton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16
I59O--WBRY--96

3:00-Mary Marlin 3:15-Bob Trout--News 3:30-Columbia Masterworks of
 Music 4:00-Broadway Matinee 4:25-Bill Costello, News 4:30-Burl Ives 4:45-The Raymond Scott Show 5:0O-Fun With Dunn 5:30-The Suppertimers 5:45-American Women 6:00-Quincy Howe and the News 6:10-Baseball Scores 6:15-Lyn Murray's Orchestra and
 Chorus 6:30-News 6:45-The World Today 6:55-The Meaning of the News 7:00-Home Front Quartermaster 7:15--Belgium Lives On 7:30-Concert Hall of the Air :00-Maxwell House Program S:30-CBS Program S:55-News Highlights-Charle
 T. Lynch 9:00-It Pays To Be Ignorant 9:30-That Brewster Boy 10:00-Moore and Durante Program 10:30-The War of Enterprise 10:45-Treasury Salute
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-16

Nearly half q million books have Seen sent to British prisoners in Esirope by the Red Gross since the war began. a
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
CHERRY SAYS THERE
SHOULD BE TAX RELIEF

Raleigh-Governor Elect R.
Gregg Cherry told the North Car
olina Citizens Association Thurs
day that because of the unprece-
sdented surplus, 'the taxpayers
Of the STATE, faced by the heavy
Federal taxes, have a right to ex-
pect some relief either by way
of adjustment in tax schedules or
by refunds or credits during this
temporary surplus period"
eft seems to me-" he said, "at
the present time when we have
an unusual surplus accumulated,
that the State-supported institu-
tons have right to request some
of this surplus ESTIMATED to be
$7O,0OO,000 in the general fund by
the end of this fiscal year, to meet
the rising cost of living-a request
which would not be expected to
recur in normal times"
Cherry's primary recommended
ton was to use the surplus to pay
off the States indebtedness.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
DEATH TOLL IN WRECK
NOW REACHES TEN

Morganton-The death of Clay
ton Shook, 30, Glen Alpine cafe
operator, at a Morganton hospi-
tai Sunday brought to ten the
death toll from a head-on auto
mobile collision early Saturday
morning eight miles west of Nor
canton.
Six persons were killed in
stantly and three others died sew
raj hours later.
The accident was the worst in
the history of North Carolina in
volving passenger cars.
The National Safety Council at
Chicago, said complete records Of
this kind were not available. but
reported a highway accident at
Staunton, ILL.,, in 1912 which took
the lives of nine persons, with a
tenth victim dying later.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
$6,688,576 Revenue
Collected In N. C..

Raleigh-The State of North
Carolina collected $6,688, 1888 in
revenue from all sources last
month, Revenue Commissioner
Edwin Gill said, bringing to $685.
1874, 955.97 the total collected dur
ing the first five months of the
current fiscal year.
The November collection rep
resent an increase of $520,318.44,
or 8.44 per cent over the amount
collected in the same month last
year, and $465, 1883, or al per
cent, over the total collections for
the first five months of the last
fiscal year.
Of the total collected last month,
$4,495, 639.17 came through the
general fund and $2,192,937. Sc
through the highway fund. The
general fund collection included
81 ,387, 271.81 derived from revenue
division sources, including the
sales and income tax, and $780,
367.36 in gasoline inspection fees.
The motor division of the high
way division provided 1929, $780,
76 for the highway fund and ST.
962, 96690 from the gasoline road
tax.
The sales tax, with collections
totalling $1,984,921.94 contributed
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
Fewer Turkeys
This Christmas

Raleigh-Although more tur-
keys were raised in North Caro-
lima this year than last-258,OOO
to ,OOO-there will be fewer
turkeys for the Christmas table
this year, according to J. J. Nor
gan, State Department of Agricul-
ture statistician.
He said the scarcity is due to
the fact that most of the turkeys
now grown in this State are pro-
duced on a commercial basis, and
are marketed through large pack
ing houses which route them into
markets throughout the Nation.
Morgan added that the Army and
Navy bought much of this years
crop of turkeys.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
COLONEL ROOSEVELT rs
MARRIED AGAIN SUNDAY

Grand Canyon, Ariz.-Col. Ell
lott Roosevelt and Movie Actress
Faye Emerson were married in
a lass-enclosed observation sta
ton on the rim of the Grand Can
yon Sunday what the bride called
probably the most beautiful
wedding there ever was"
The Presidents 34-year-old Sec
ond son and the 27-year-old cop
perly blonde graduate of little
theatres recited their vows at 9
a. M, before a large window over
looking the magnificent chasm.
Blankets of snow and swirling
mist partly concealed its famed
hues. The temperature outside
was % degrees.
"Our marriage means SO much
to us both that we wanted to be-
gin it as beautifully as possible"
the bride told reporters after
ward.
Rev. Roger Sawyer, pastor of a
Williams, Ariz., Methodist Church,
performed the eight-minute cere-
mony as few friends stood by.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
BETTER SCHOOL LUNCH
PROGRAM DISCUSSED

Raleigh-The North Carolina
Nutrition Committee, concluding
a two-day session here, discussed
at length recent statements that
81 per cent of North Carolina Sc
lectees had been rejected as ply
sically unfit for military service,
and directed DR.. Carl V. Rey-
holds, State health officer, to con-
fer with Selective Service Off
Gals for additional data on the
subject.
n In a resolution urging a more
reflective nutrition program for
children and adults alike, the
committee said:
'This resolution is inspired to
some extent by a feeling in some
quarters that analysis of all fac
tors may prove the relative stand
ing of the State in Selective Serv-
ice qualifications of its selectees
to be inaccurate.
ION the other hand it is insplr-
ed more powerfully by the be-
lief that the facts are important
enough to call for frank facing of
them, with the view to con-
structive program looking toward
their improvement"
At the concluding session the
committee charted a course of
definite action in establishing a
more adequate school lunchroom
program in the State, and said it
would take the nutrition program
into the ranks of industry.
Industrialists, the committee
said, would be asked to establish
more adequate lunch programs in
plants in order to improve the
health and industrial workers and
10 ''carry the message of good nu-
triton into the homes of the
workers"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
President Urges Nation To
Work For A Lasting Peace

Observation-Disclosures Roose-
welt, asserting that ultimate vic
tory is inevitable, Saturday night
called on the nation to dedicate
"everything that we do" to ach-
ievement of lasting peace.
He voiced the plea in a letter
to Col. John Callen O'Laughlin,
editor of the Army and Navy
Journal, for publication in the
Journals Dec. United States at
War" edition. The President
coupled his ultimate victory is
inevitable" assertion with a grim
warning of the hard fighting and
hard working which must pre-
cede victory.
'"The weapons of war which
America has turned out and which
have given us superiority on land,
on the sea, and in the air." MIR.
Roosevelt said, must continue to
flow if we are to attain that vic
tory. Everybody on a war job
must stick to that job.
1.-THE effective cooperation
among the United Nations which
has done so much to insure final
victory must continue after the
war for building a structure of
peace. All over the world peace
loving men and women are de-
termined that this cannot occur
again. Everything that we do
must be dedicated to that objec-
tive"
He said 1914 ''has been year of
outstanding accomplishments for
the armed forces of the United
States"-a year in which they
'have taken part in 81 different
D-Days-each one triumphant
success"
eve are now waging major Of
fensive operations $4,000 miles
apart from each other" the Presi-
dent wrote.
although we were obliged to
take the defense when the attack
was first made upon us, it was
our strategy from the beginning
to move out to strike the enemy
as soon as our power and re-
sources were fully mobilized-to
strike him on his own home
grounds.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
GENERAL DE GAULLE
is NOW IN RUSSIA

MoscoW-Gen. de Gaulle ar
rived in Moscow in a snow-storm
Sunday but got warm reception
at the flag-decked railway sta
ton from Foreign Commissar Mo
lotov and other notables.
The French leader, here for
talks with Premier Stain, step
ped out onto a scarlet carpet that
had been laid along the platform,
while a Red Army band played
the Marseillaise and Soviet hymn.
Molotov, wrapped in a fur
trimmed coat and wearing a black
fur cap, beamingly shook de
Gaulle's hand.
De Gaulle also was dressed for
the sub-freezing weather in a
long khaki fur-lined coat and
heavy gloves, but his nose and
the tips of his ears soon Redeemed
in the cold as he saluted various
persons in the crowd of diplomats,
Russian generals and foreign Of
flee officials who surrounded him.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
U. S. NOW SEEKING
MORE FREEDOM OF AIR

Chicago-The United States
led the way last week toward a
choice for each nation between
skyways free of political and eco
nomic barriers and the age-old
method of bargaining for the
right to fly.
It was the last choice open to
the international Civil Aviation
Conference, which in sessions be-
ginning Nov. l sought vainly for
a. complete agreement under
which the ocean of air would be
as free as the seas. The effort
collapsed when the United States
and Great Britain found it i'm
possible to agree on a method by
which the air freedoms" could
be conditioned with certain con-
trolls on the amount of flying to
be done.
There was no doubt how the
American delegation, headed by
Adolf A. Berle>Jr., Assistant Sec
rotary of State, felt about it, and
many of the 81 nations represent
ed here and prepared to grant
mutual exchange of the "five free
doms" almost Immediately. That
experience with the principles is
expected to attract other coun-
tries into it.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
More Chicks Are
Being Hatched

North Carolina hatcheries. pro-
duced 100000 chicks during Oc-
tober, an increase of eight per
cent over September production,
the State Department of Agricul-
ture reports.
Curtis F. Tarleton, Department
statistician, estimates the num-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
Brief National And World News During The Past Week

the largest amount of3revenne IN
the general fund. The franch1se
tax contributed $1,051 ,00406, and
the income tax $705, 1902. Sales
tax collections during the first
five months of the current fiscal
year total $8,621,738.37, and the
franchise tax 32,360.45-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07

Der Matched to date at 26,419,000
chicks, q per cent fewer than
last years record total of $780,
900.
Eggs placed in incubators in
October totaled $4,000, 60 per
cent less than he 2,205,000 eggs
set in October, 1943.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07
DIR. JOHN @. MYERS
DIES IN CHARLOTTE

DR.. John Q. Myers, Sc, long a
prominent physician in Charlotte,
died in a hospital there early Sum
day night after an illness of about
two months.
DR.. Myers had been member of
the city's medical profession for
many years and was well known
over a large section. He is surviv-
ed by a daughter and two sons.
DR.. Myers had many friends in
this county who were sorry to
learn of his death.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07

Sgt Theodore r. Eastrdge Qeft), and PFC John East
ridge (rgh the of Mr. c. S. Eastrdge of Clifton
who both serving the European theater OF war;
Theodore who has been for two among
first France in June He stationed in Bel
GUM john with the Army Corps has been in Italy
past several months Their father Carl S. Easridge
is a of the where he serv-
ice i'm the Philippines i'm 1900.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1944-12-07

When stewing dried fruits, the
addition of a small amount of
lemon or orange juice and bit
of lemon or orange rind will i'm
prove the flavor.
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-05-20

The greater part OF the dis
cussion IN the council meeting
concerned deferment granted
&c one Of our police officers. II
appeary that the officer in ques-
tion. being slated 10 enter the
armed services. applied 10 the
local draft board for an occupa-
ticnai deferment. which was
granted and thereby the officer
was enabled to retain his posi-
ton with the police force.
The granting Of the deferment
apparently resulted in consider
able annoyance to some. As a
result Of the annoyance, II was
moved by Councilman Jones, and
supported by Councilman Nixon
that an order he issued to the
police commissioners board sign
ed BY the village president. or
dering the police commissioner
board TO write letter demand
ing that the draft board cancel
the deferment previously granted
10 the officer in order that The
The Detroit tribune. (Detroit, Mich.) 1935-1966, 1944-05-20
Deroi Top Talent Prepares For Annual Musicale Eaboretta
WAYNE NEWS

Mrs Bertha SEVER Handles Of
Indianapolis Ind vas the week
end guest % Mis- cxsiell Wade
and Mckinley Sanders a. s45s
Hum street
Mrs LuyenIa Martin of cypress.
street left Friday night FOR Bowl
irg Green Ky
a fine baby girl vas horn MAY
4 70 Mrs Kate Barrow sister-.n-
law Of Joe Louis
Joe Coleman has returned from
a recent visit with MS mother In
South Carolina
James Watson and brother 'Ro-
ma attended the funeral % their
fnther in Tarreytown, NY
The ladies auxiliary Of the
Mems Community club Was or
eanized las, Friday nigh, a. the
home u Airs Beatrice Hearst on
Beverly roaa There we're about
Is present the Officers elected
were Mrs Elsie Davis presi-
dent Mrs nell Harrison vice.
PRESIDENT Nrs zcffie Reanum.
recording sseiary Mrs Marie
Hart corresponding secvetary;
Mrs Mary 1aYlo financial sec
retary Mrs Monar chaplain. and
Mrs beatrice Hearst treasurer
All present seemed interested
and many plans and suggestions
we're axfeed upon 70 make he
ch.h success
Essie Hall was given a surprise
b % ,ay pafiy last Tuesday ni2ht
h nor mother Mrs Murdice
Brewer Those present wore
Johnnie Mae Watson = Dorothy
Alexander Audrey BroWder Ger
iruae Kendall Tally Watts o.
User Bel Charles Robinson and
Thomas and Edith olemnn