The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-10-26

danea" was of the hits Of the popular musc Woa about 1919 when the ladies were wearing IongSh nosy dresses and when they fox-trottng ana tangong This hit tune sold e500000 records Even you oEoppeo record on the oT5 you eTS1 ewse sod ooo hee music copies At the start 1t was not gong over 0's because 1t was hard to play-you know now wen' .a ant phrases but 1t got going 1t didn't need any JuNe boxes to swing It. "Dardanella" Is still good If you can play 1t.
 S.Srt Vinal L. Cloney, %, of Watervlle has been awarded the Good Conduct Medal at his base, some. % WheTe m ia ss TOT resntv by his comand ing officer Sgt Cloney, who IS an assistant engnsSE on of the big B24 Lberatcr Bombers 0! the % aotn since April 15 1943 and arrived overseas ths PSSS summer He graduated from the Fort Farhelo, Maine, High School with the class of l04O and prior to his entry into the Service was employed Gs .a a machine operator for the American Brass Metal Hose Company of this city, Ills parents, W.T. and. ana MFS
 Fancy That . Among the Christmas gifts you can buy early, and can't 90 wrong on are war SonoS t.s is turning lot of leaves, and It's our joe to rske them up We could keep 1t more cheerful world II we'd all remember to forget our troupeS m irony oa Christmas coming when we will have to race Iaets no Examinations in the streets, pretty garands or tes toons no pretty pretty In the parks no publicly hghteo trees But there is one thing certain there Is Santa Claus and he'll be around wherever there are chin- neys wide enough to climb down.
 John Barone has been promoted to sergeant some. where in Italy Eleanor Arnold and Stella ZdanowcS have reported to Hunter College in New York for train ing with the WAVES. Eleanor Burner who recently completed her WAVES training is now stationed tenn porarily in Washington Mir. and Mrs William Frl. witx are still receiving congratulations m hOnor % % their silver wedding anniversary which was an event of October IS.
 Yes bandleaders have their troubles these days whether 1t is Harry James Glenn Miller or the we'll known Dorsey brothers, Jimmy and Tommy one of the problems that keeps their thoughts jumping when these Maestros of live and jump should be sleeping that or keeping the personnel of their bands intact If 1t isn't Uncle Sam who wants their drummer-boy, then ts another bandeader who IS trying to lure away tne ra n0 young Maestress who has spent three years building p an al-gir band that Is fast becoming known as the Mo- aggregation Of its kind in the country-and one oi your "nen" decides to join up with one of the many womens uniformed service corps or wants to quit the bandDuses to get married 6 musicians @ n soo nss very enticing-and just like their brothers leave one band to play for another Joy Cayler lovely Maestress of Swing Jve leading her gamorous agrl orches- tra all the country, is hard put to find suitable repacements for girls who leave her. She has not only to make sure that the newcomer has the necessary ab y to play with an astar girl orchestra but also has to bear in mind the girls character, her habits and her general disposition. Because Joy and her bandmates cannot afford to have anybody join them who Is not "good fellow" and whose personal habits and mode of living not up to the high standards they maintain And since girl musicians with ability are much harder to find than her trouble is doubleand causes her many sleepleSS nights
 
 Tom Grady of Cole Street is singing the praises of the StOrk who left his better ha the former Mary Moss a son Tuesday at St. Marys Hospital First time Tom had occasion to pass out the smokes. It's girl at the Henry SchdgenS on East Waterbury Road. The arrived at the Waterbury Hospital Tues day and is coming along nicely. Ditto for MOmna, nee Marie ODonnel
 Staff Sergeant John c. Kwetkus, and infantryman who wears the Purple Heart and of Mrs Josephine Kwetkus of Route No. 2, Thomason is squad leader in hig the South Pacific veteran of Gaudalcanal and New Georgia in the Solomons Sgt Kwetkus has been over seas nearly three years He nducted in February, 1g41. After Army troops had made the first land offenS i've in the South Pacific success the 25th Division embarked for more jungle fighting on New Georgia It was in this campaign that Sgt Kwetkus stopped a sniper's bullet After the 25ths triumph in the Solo, mons the outfit was sent to New Zealand for a rest sut Kwetkus who attended Thomaston high school was employed as tool setter by the Seth Thomas Clocks Company Besides the Purple Heart Sgt Kwetkus he Good Conduct ribbon, the American Defense ribbon and the AsiatcPnciilc Abbcn, the latter with two NaIsD stars.