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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05

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sells representing II different types.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
Old CARS WANTED FOR
JUNKIN0l
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NOTICE
Liquor PERMIT
Office OF APPLICATION

LIQUOR PERMIT
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
,,r This is p 70 give p notice that Z
Thomaston Avenue, Waterbury,
Conn, have filed an application
dated May 4th, 1874, with the Lii
QuoF Control Commission for a
Restaurant Permit for the sale OF
alcohoiic liquor on the premises.
The business 10 owned by Francis
Robert Burns, of 1853 Thomaston
Avenue, Waterbury, Conn, and will
be conducted by Francis Robert
Burns. OF 1853 ThomRston Avenue,
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Dated May Ath. 1914. h-h-Ia
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05

Groucho Marx, star Of the CHS
Blue Ribbon Town" airshow, spent
three days this week covering three
Of the largest government hospitals
in the San Francisco area, where
he entertained wounded service men
back from overseas. Groucho left
Hollywood for the northern city i'm
mediately after last weeks broad
cast and returned just before his
scheduled preview for this weeks
Blue Ribbon Town" show.
When Max Calm was a member
Of the short-lived string section Of
Maestro Paul Lavalle's Chamber
Music Society of Lower Basin
Street." he longed for the oppor-
tunity to display his comic talents
on the program. The other day,
Calm received a hurry call from
Producer S. James Andrews, who
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05
An11oEncenaents
Lose and Round

HAVING LOST-No. 3 and No. 4
food ration books, issued by local
board; application hereby made for
new ones. Frank Arts.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05

was from there that the McGees'
anniversary gifts camel, Fanny
Brice Is q competent interior deco
ratOr, and Paul Whiteman's farm
In New Jersey has been his chief
outside interest for many years.
John Charles Thomas, will 60
down In musical history books rs
one Of the best barltOnes Of any
general ton, as a Metropolitan, con-
cert and radio star. However, he
also might be considered somewhat
Of q pioneer. The Thomas home
Is high In the dense acres Of woods
Of the Malibu Mountains in Cali
fOrnia. And, II Is here the singer is
proving himself an efflcient car
penter. He Is building q small rough
cabin from the wood he has felled
himself. And Mr.. Thomas, who also
has quite q reputation as an anna
teur chef, will make use Of the
campslte for the outdoor dinners he
plans for summer.
Every orchestra its own electri-
clan! That's what Maestro Don pre-.
diets. He says the recently perfected
electric pianos, organs, cellOs and
viOlins vii be more generally used
as soon as their manufacture on q
mass scale becomes possible. Such
instruments, according to the popu-
lar conductor, are capable Of richer
tones and higher pitches than the
other variety. However, some Of the
drawbacks include the embarrassing
silence when a fuse blows out and
the possible. dangers Of. electro
cution. A shocking forecast, Maestro
Bryan!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-05-05

LOST Between Hotel Elton and
New England Bus Terminal, May
and, silver bracelet made up Of
four Allied flags. MiEpah on the
front, Art-Dru, 1-6-42 on reverse
side. Gift from fianoe- in service.
Sentimental value. Please return.
Reward. Drusilla Pollard, 243
Pennington Ave, Hartford, Conn.
Tel. 6-08TS.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
No Trimmings
upon us.

The wish that seems to be expressed most
the world is that after this war they want to
come home to the same kind of country they
ed society. Before the war there was free
dom, and this is what our men hope, above
At present the feeling that freedom is in
deadly peril hangs heavy over the land. Sell
dom. if ever, in the history of the country.
have the people talked SO much of freedom,
while never has their freedom been SO re-
stricted. Today the energies of every thinking
person are devoted to preserving liberty.
The president of a leading oil company re-
Gently voiced the thought of many people when
he said: ut is important to remember that
the oil industry, like all American business,
has been able to accomplish the extraordinary
war job, because in time of peace, the COM
panies were competing with each other to
make better products by better methods. Spur
red on by this competition, the skill OF the
American worker and the ability OF American
business management combine to make this
country the industrial leader of the world.
What this means to us today, IN war, is
dramatically demonstrated by the fact that
three years ago the United States was the
weakest in armament among the great ma
tons, and now has become the strongest in
armament With this kind of support, our mill
tary forces and those of our Allies are now
moving steadily toward victory"
Competition depends on freedom, just as
does the privilege of attending the church OF
our choice. Yes, plain, unadorned freedom is
our most precious possession.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
FUND SURPLUS
To the Editor:

To the Editor:
In the early '30s when g. Of the
100 counties and 152 of the 242 cities
and towns were in default as to
principal or interest, or both, the
people in the State were very much
interested in what we proposed to
do about it and ] received many in
vitations from civic clubs in many
parts of the State to speak on the
subject. Then, after the refinancing
program had been practically COM
pleted I received many other in
vitations to explain how it had
been done, and how it would work
out, but even though the people
of the State are more interested in
the war at THU time than anything
else, I have been receiving more
invitations than ever before to dis
cuss the financial condition of the
State and local units of govern
ment and they are particularly in
terested in the general fund sur
plus and what should be done with
it and l find that taxpayers gener-
ally, while willing to increase what
ever appropriations it may be nee
essary TO increase, are in favor OF
using the surplus to provide for the
payment of our. general fund debt
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
Our Chief Aim
New Values In Blood

It may come as a shock to the blushing
maid to learn that plastics are coursing
through her arteries, but Harvard scientists
assure us that they do. And not in maidens'
blood alone, but everybody's. And not plastics
alone, but films and foams and other things
besides bacteria.
New and strange values have been discover
ed in human blood. The aforesaid Harvard
scientists are extracting seven life-saving SUBJ
stances from the blood that is being donated
by persons on the home front. report OF them
was presented to the New York section OF
the American Chemical Society by Prof. Ed
win J. Cohn of the Harvard Medical School.
Being a man of science and addressing
scientists, what Professor Coin reported is
partially unintelligible to laymen but an &C
count of his report, as printed in the New
York Times, at least shows how much more
valuable blood is than for TRANSMISSION alone
From the proteins in the blood, plasma, the
Times quotes Professor COIN as telling his
hearers. the coloress liquid left after the red
and white blood cells have been removed are
extracted plastcs, films and foams for cllnl-
cal use as we'll as the immune globulin used
as a preventive for measles, and the iso-hem-
agglutinins used in blood typing.' What ne
saws further is interesting, if not wholly under
standable:
1.-The plastics are made from fibrlnogen,
upon which the physical properties OF the olood
clot largely depend In connection with announcer
plasma protein, named thrombin, the fibrino-
Gen can be made into fbrin films used as
membranes and into fbrin foams, used to
check bleeding in surgery on the nervous sys-
tenn.
"A" these products, Professor Cohn report
ed; are being made available as stable, dry
white powders in sufficiently large amounts
for clinical appraisal.
The largest constituent of the plasma pro-
tens is albumin, which represents less than
60 per cert of these proteins and is responsible
for 80 per cent of the osmotic activity OF the
blood. DR.. Cohn said The albumin, also IN
the form OF a stable, dry, white, powder, is put
up in Is per cent water solution in the lOo-
cubic-centimeter Army-Navy package. tIhls
package (about one-fifth pint is equivalent to
pint Of blood and is used in the treatment
of shock resulting from battle wounds and 9TH
er causes.
This work, Professor Coin reported, has
been carried out under contract recommend
ed by the Committee of Medical Research be-
Development and Harvard University"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
Training For Foreign
Students

The proposal of leading American educators
TO bring up to 1,500 students from occupied
lands into the country for training in educa-
tion, industry and agriculture, ranks among
the soundest and most constructive measures
advanced for the postwar world The plan is
to bring specialists from underground groups
is receiving the serious consideration of the
State Department.
If put into effect, and the selection of STU
dents is carefully made, the program can 60
a long way toward fitting the peoples of war.
crushed lands to solve their own problems
through self help. To finance the program
would require expenditures of $500, 600, one
third to be provided by the United States
government, one-third by the lands to be bene-
fitted and the remainder by private educational
organizations.
Considering the money that has been wasted
in various and sundry ways, the amount re-
CURED for this worthwhile undertaking is
small indeed
In its prese~4 stage, the program provides
for the students to be concentrated in fifteen
one hundred students each. They would be
mixed so that any center might have students
from all the countries affected
A four-week oientaton course would be pro-
vided for all students. In this period they
would be instructed in English and in Ameri-
can ways This would be followed by eight
weeks of manual labor or experience in in
provide first-hand experience that would en-
able the visitors to assinilate the theoretical
courses more readily.
Then would follow nine months of intensive
training. The student-specialists would be in
structed in the latest methods of teaching
and would be trained in fields that might help
them when they return to their own lands.
After year these men and women would
return to their own lands as key instructors
and experts in specific tasks of rehabilitation,
ready to train others.
1t is planned to form committee OF Amerl-
can experts to determine which university cen
tiers can offer the best training facilities. Local
committees on educational reconstruction
would be invited to provide the necessary
places in theoretical and practical training
There is one essential safeguard which
would have to be provided if the proposal is
put into effect It is that American schools
and industries should not harbor potential enc
mics, in the way they were when Japanese
were making their plans for this war during
the half century ut preceded Pearl Harbor.
We must not again train aliens to make war
upon us.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
AVERA RETURNS
FROM CONFERENCE

N. A. Avera, manager Of Will
mington office of the Social Sc.
curity board, has returned from
meeting at Charlotte where
field office managers from eleven
states and officials of the board
from Washington, Baltimore, and
Atlanta assembled for a three-day
conference.
He participated in a discussion
concerning the effectiveness OF
training materials field offices
have received from the central
office.
John ] Corson, director of the
Bureau of Old-Age and Survivors
Insurance, reviewed the accom-
plishments of his organization and
discussed future developments IN
the field of social insurance. Par.
ticular attention was paid through
out the conference to the matter
of training field office personnel,
because so many of the men have
entered military service.
Another matter which came in
for special consideration, accord
ing to Mr.. Avera, was that of adj
Indicating claims.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
LETTER BOX
BOOSTING WILMINGTON

To the Editor:
Most of us will not be on any
postwar planning board, but each
one of us can assist by boosting
the Wilmington that We love and
for which we hope so. much in the
future, after we have regretfully
said goodbye" to the many fine
Army friends that we have made.
Several years ago 1 was visit
ing in a distant city where met
an Army officer and his wife also
visiting there. 1 told them of Will
mington and they seemed so in
terested that I wrote Louis T.
Moore, then of the Chamber of
Commerce. He sent them some
interesting literature of the city,
which they studied and liked. A
few weeks ago after a long 81
lence, I had a note from the lady,
from Fl. Riley Kansas. In it she
said: I'VE are still planning to
come to Wilmington with the idea
of making it our home after the
war. Several officers who were on
duty there have verified all the
nice things you told us about the
place."
These people have never been to
Wilmington. They have only the
word of an ardent Wilmington
booster.
Mrs. H.
Wilmington, N. C.
Feb. IS 1914.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
War Plant Wits

More and more, and with ever increasing
industry representatives, are voicing pleas to
war plant workers to halt their sabotage,
or practical jokes, and with good reason.
Monetary losses from the half-baked humor
of these war plant wits are seldom high, but
in the long rum cost in other ways-lost
manpower, of which there is a scarcity, and
lost time, of which there is not much. Every
tick Of the clock brings Victory that much
closer, but when horse-play is the order of
the day, it pushes Victory that much farther
away.
Gags such as welding motor frame to
the floor to watch the expression of a crane
operator when he tries to lift it and taking
screws from work benches so that they fall
apart when touched, are legion, according to
Investigations made by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation.
The distorted sense of humor isn't always
so mechanically original Stink bombs shut
down a production line in New York state
war plant while in Detroit, paper wadding
was found in pipes which carried liquid from
the basement to another floor of war plant.
Tricks played on fellow workers are not
always harmless. either Ir a Michigan plant,
one employee playfully placed lamp shade
on fellow workers head. Annoyed, the vic
tim threw the shade at his torn1entor, miss
ing him, and hit drilling machine costing
$40, 600. The shade broke a small part of the
machine and it was put on the casualty list.
Little do these pranksters realize they are
helping Hitler and TOTO just as much as if
they were paid by the Axis to hinder Ameri-
can production.
The pranks are the same kind as practised
by the underground movements in occupied
Europe to slow the German arms output. The
is succeeding in its purpose OF
the Nazis unwittingly, these gag
men at home are doing the same thing.
A war plant is no place for pranks, es-
pecially with the lives of millions of our
Fl lighting men at stake
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
Interpreting The War
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON

ready paid for crushing defeats in
Russia. There are intimations from
London that a new element OF at
tack strategy drawn up at Teheran
may be taking shape-an aerial
blitz from the east to intensity the
terror that rides German skies by
night and day.
Russian lines along the northern
and north-central sectors of the
eastern battle front are now as
close to Berlin as Anglo-American
air bases in Britain. London OBJ
servers report russian air experts
have been making an intensive
study of American and British
long range bombing technique in
preparation for a Russian Shift
from tactical to strategic bonn
bardment.
Russian four engine ships capa-
BILE of hurting two-ton bomb loads
against targets $500 miles distant
are said to be in readiness. That
would mean a three-way or even
a four-way air attack on Germany.
Week by week the British-Amer'
lean mass air attack from Britain
is gaining in power and scope both
over Germany and over the Nazi
boosted Atlantic Wall' defenses
across the channel and the North
Sea. That it is to be matched from
the south, once the battle for Rome
has passed its approaching crisis,
has been authoritatively disclosed
If Russia does turn to strategic
bombing, however, it is fair
guess that Rumanian oil installa.
ton targets would be among first
prime Russian targets. Russian
spearheads in southeastern Pc.
land are now within 400 miles or
less of Ploesti, and even closer tc
the main Rumanian oilfields on the
flank of the Carpathian mountains
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
COAST CUARDSMAN
REPORTS BEATING

E. R. Warman, Coast c,.,
man from the quarterboat doai uS,
at the foot Of Princess stree 'e Ne,
the victim of foul play Al * Va.
hands of several Negroes who ' a!
fered to transport him to bis ~. W.
ton IN a taxi about midnight Ma I'a'
day, he told police after bo Ot pl
made his way to Communit,, nao
pltal for treatment of painf,, nus
jurles. '-- III H.
Warman said he had been
beer parlor at 10th and cr W
streets and was walking an ''ace
Cross street toward town VIZ, Isea
the taxi, cruising in the onn maeA
direction, pulled to a b9 EpOSl'e
offered a lift. ana
AS Warman started to 90.
the car, he declared, the N 60, IN
grabbed him and pulled b irS Y;
side. They carried him 70 th m
of what appeared TO be 1 se. Iot
building, according to Warm rYo'
beat and kicked him and reTo ,'a,
him of his pocketbook con, a;s.
approximately $25. '8''-AS
Warman said large blac, ".
gro called George by thu 'a 1--WE We
five, pressed two fifty cent D Srsr
in his hand for bus fare FN|s'
Before leaving him. The .-.,
ers dumped Warman into a S Si,s
the report showed, and from thon
the man later made his ws ,,N' =.
the hospital. W
Warman said the taxi was
tan colored Chevrolet, and that
he would be able TO identifv
George" but none of the otbar
in the group; nor could he locs,o
the scene of the alleged robhsrv
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
Tax Extension Due

The House Ways and Means Committee, in
response to wide public appeal, is trying to
find a way to simplify income tax forms SO
that run Of the mill citizens may figure their
taxes with some degree of accuracy and with
out sweating blood in the process. If the
committee achieves simpler form it will
have conferred great blessing on the people.
But that will not help now The forms for
1943 taxes are already in the peoples hands,
and under existing rules must be submitted
to the Internal Re'-"nue Department by March
IS. Any change in the forms cannot be put
into effect until the 1914 returns are to be
made What is needed is help now, and what
is obvious is that March IS is too near to
afford that help Tens of thousands of persons
who must file returns cannot hope to do so
withen the allotted time, even though they
employ expert aid in figuring their taxes.
There is the short form and the long form,
for example. The tax payer is permitted to
use either, according to which involves the
smaller payment. Not one person in a hun.
bred or probably in thousand is capable Of
deciding which gives him the advantage
though he spend deys with pencil or calculat.
ing machine. When he puts his case in the
hands of an expert the expert, too. must
figure for hours to reach decision and Their
run the chance Of having his calculations sci
aside - ~" "'e jok
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
new ELECTRICAL
COURSE PLANNED

A State college short course on
mathematical analysis of alternat-
ing and direct current circuits will
begin in the Vocational building of
New Hanover high school about
Wednesday, February %, it was
announced Tuesday by Edward W.
Ruggles, of Raleigh, director of
engineering science and manage
ment of war training at the col
lege.
Sponsored by the U. S. Office of
Education, the course is designed
to offer practical instruction to
men engaged in electrical work
such as shipbuilding, radio, rail-
way signals, telephone, telegraph,
electric service and utilities.
Subjects to be covered include
Ohm's law, simultaneous linear
equations, Kerchoff's laws, loga-
rithns, trigonometric functions.
solutions of right triangles, ele-
mentary plane vectors, and alter
mating current circuits.
The federal government defrays
all costs except for a textbook.
Students must have high school
education with two years of math-
ematics and must have electrical
experience. Glasses will meet for a
three-hour period one night per
week for twenty weeks.
Interested persons may contact
T. J. Martin, Jr., the instructor Of
the course, in the Vocational build.
ing of the High school on the cor.
ner of 18th and Market streets, be.
tween $50 and 8 p. m. on Wednes.
day, Thursday, and Friday nights
February is, II and 10. Martin
may be reached by telephone al
1851 after $50 p. m.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16
The Literary Guidepost

1t is Mr.. Lssker's opinion that
we formerly spent too much time
on the dramatic aspects of the
region. We found great temples
in the jungle, and were fascinated
by them. Palace life attracted us,
and the study of isolated frag-
ments of ancient races drew at
IGNITION from the study of the less
romantic majority. He believes we
must base our future study on
this majority, and worry less
about the intricate Burmese mu-
sic, the brocades of AMMAN, the
Cambodian bronzes. We are to try
a very great experiment in inter-
national guardianship he says for
which we shall have to have real
knowledge.
Therefore we must first concern
ourselves with the actual interests
of the inhabitants, and only Sec
ondarily with the interests of the
alien rulers or for that matter,
alien business men. It will be nee
essary to alter he thinks our con-
ception Of the Southeastern peo-
Piles as chained to their environ
mental influences. mot even the
jungle jewellers Of Malaya," he
writes ARE quite as hemmed in
by nature today as our novels and
motion pictures make them out to
be-"
This is an over simplified sketch
OF Mr.. Lasker's book, which is
actually a brilliantly considered
and neatly balanced picture of the
worlds newest powdes-keg, based
on a great many years Of per-
sonal research and Investigation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-02-16

The northern as well as the east
ern bastions of the roofless fort
ress Europe are beginning to crum-
BILE, opening Germany itself to a
four-way AIied-Russian air attack
as a prelude II Anglo-American in
vasion from the west.
Once Finland gets out of the
war-and her capitulation may be
only a matter Of days, perhaps
hours-Nazi evacuation of northern
Norway seemingly must follow.
German access to Swedish iron
ores vital to her war economy
would be threatened. Norwegian
sources in London indicate the Hit
lerite retreat already has started
in expectation of Finnish surrender
on Russian terms.
Use of Finnish air and sea bases
and transportation systems by Rus.
STA and her allies to press the war
on Germany is the core of reported
MOSCOW pCdSO ICl1lS w 1lI4d11Os
That means Russian domination Of
the upper Baltic by sea and air,
and potential Anglo American
bases in northern Norway to KEEP
open the Attic lend-lease routes to
Russia. 1t must mean, too, con.
certed Allied-Russian pressure or
neutral Sweden to shut off all wal
goods traffic with Germany.
There is little dou' t that Sweden
would openly link her fortunes with
the anti-Axis powers even now but
for dread of German vengeance
But with Russian sea and air pow
er operating from Finland and AL
lied air bases in Norway possible
the hour of complete rupture Of
Nazi Swedish relations may be
near.
That is only a part of the pc
tential price the Nazis have al