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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03
Walter Wi1acIaeII
In Neze, York

YOUR BROADWAY AND MINE
Faces In the Night: War Cores
pendent boolwriter w. L. White
swapping South Pacific gossip with
The Spewacks at Theodore's
William Gargan, the actor, Just
back from China, India and Burma
"a 50,0O0-mile air trip catching his
first cold in q year the first night
Of New York's sunniest day /.
Tony Mele, the bistowner (Ruban
Bleu boss), hanging up a picture
Of Cong. H. Knutson, the SCION
who is fighting hardest to save the
night clubs and entertainers from
the victims of the heavy tax
Suffering Sam" Dowen back from
Hollywood with her bridegroom Is
Hindley) being embraced by Luigi
Sobolo, the column-writer
Bobby watson, who left the Broad
way shows II years ago from Movie
burg-visiting the Grandest Canyon
! for the first time since. He por-
trays Hitler in 1.-THE Hitler Gang
flicker Sunny O'Dea, the Wall
flower" darling. Size owns nearly
half-a-million (including theater)
in Pittsburgh She's been hoof-
ing since she was IL.
| Sallies in Our Alley: Grace Moore
heard 1t in the Stork the night the
Fritz Kreislers visited the spot fol
the first time Il like this place
4 must come here often," he SAID
!. mo, you're not" said the
famed fiddler's bride, "you must
stay home and practical" Fred
Aliens crack: "Everyone's writing
books on what to do with postwar
Germany. From the way the Rus
SLAMS are going there won't be any
Germans to worry about"
MemOS Of q Midnighter: General
Alexander and his bride, Gloria
Baker, are honeymooning at the
Broadmoor, Miami Beach ). Dolly
Brill, Conover model, goes to the
altar on May 18th with Ensign
Royal Peterson Yvette clicked
SO big on two guest appearances
she will become a regular member
of the Edgar Bergen Sunday night
Yer Nice little war they're hay
t1ng backstage at "Helen Goes to
FTroy" Nita Rosa is Cugats
new canary. Walked in and just
asked for the chance to replace
THE departing Lima Romay Nitas
konly II Three Of the New
s-York Yankees ball team wear cor
lEetS. To brace their backs. They
sare Outfielder Levy and Pitchers
yDonald and Monham The 20
year old (but ageless) ditty, at
HAD to Be You" is the featured
humber in E. Cantor's film, "Show
Business"
Midtown Vignette: A navy lieut..
npulled his rank on sailor who was
kiining at the Stork with a society
girl. The joynt was crowded, peo-
bile were practically elbowing each
lDther. and the sailor accidentally
Teamed on the officers table I
beg your pardon, SIR" he said.
"a while later the sailor leaned on it
again and repeated his regrets
But the two-striper demanded his
pass you're too fresh," he
said. I'm going to put you on re-
port" . Nice guy =. A patron
nearby assured the COB he would
relate the matter to the Command
Iant, and then startled eavesdrop-
lpers by saying: 'srhe lieutenant ap-
parently isn't familiar with regula-
tons. Officers are not supposed
70 frequent places patronized by en-
listed men!"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03
WATERBURY EVENING DElI0CRAT, WEDNISDAI, nAY ). IL
WATR PROGRAMS
1890 KiIocycles

S:00-Red Sox VS.. Washington
Senators
5:00--Melody Revue
5:30--News
6:46--Superman
6:0O--Yankee News
6:15-Terry and the Pirates
6:30-Pleasure And Profit: News
6:45--Jack Armstrong
:O0--Fulton Lewis, Jr.
7:15-Terry's Tunes
7:30-Phone Your Answer
:45-Symphony Serenade
S:0O--Sizing Up The News-Cecil
Brown
S:15-Fulton Oursler
S:3O-Xavier Cugat
9:0O-Gabriel Heater
9:15-Return of Nick Carter
9:3O-Spotlight Bands: Interlude
1O:0O-Royal Arch Gunnison
10:15-Top OF The Evening
1O:3O4-News: Dancing Discs
1O:45-Del Courtney's Orch.
11:OO-Yankee News
11:15-Ray Henle, Commentator
11:30-Gay Claridge's Orch.
11:55-NewS
TOMORROW
7:3O-Happy Hank
7:45-Sacred Heart
S:OO-Yankee News
S:15-Shoppers' Guide (Part -
8:55--Morning Devotions
9:OO-Breakfast Club
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03
New York Stations

WABC-Allan Jones, with
Frankie earle Orch.
INSTRUMENTATION Oursler
WJZ--Lum and Abner
S:S0-WEAF-Beat the Band:
Hildegarde
woR-xavier Cugat and
Orch,
why Best Girls,
dramatic sketch
WABC-Dr. Christian: Jean
Hersholt; news
WEAF--Eddie Cantor, Mary
Aston, guest
WOR-Gabriel Heater
WJZ-Joseph Dunninger,
mind reader
WABC-Frank Sinatra Show
Joan Leslie
9:30--WEAF-Mr. District Att
orney, Jay Jostyn
WOR-First Nigater:
Barbara Luddy
WJz-Spotlight Band: Hal
McIntyre; story
WABC-Jack Carson Show:
Arthur Preacher
10:00--WEAF-Kyser's College OF
Musical knowledge
Harry Babbitt
Georgia Carroll
WOR-Royal Arch Gunnison
WJZ-Raymond G. Swing
Music: Faust
10:15-WOR-The Insider
WJZ-Top OF the Evening
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
Mischief Plastic
WJZ-WJZ victory Troop,
Manhattan Beach
WABC-Report to the Ma
ton: Quentin Reynolds
00-WEAF-News, Lyle Van
WOR-News, Tro Harper
WJZ-News; Ray Henle
WABC-News; w. L. Shirer
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Hardness
WOR-Herald Tribune news
WJZ-Sylvia Marlowe, harp
WABC-Joan Brooks, songs
| 11:30-WEAF-A. Hopkins Pre-
sents: Successful Calamity
WOR-Guy Lombardo's
Orch
WJZ-Johnny Olson's
Rumpus Room
WABC-Invitation to Music:
e. Robert Schmitz
12:00-Sign Off
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03

to the YankS" a1rSnOW on May o.
One Of the bulging bags will be con-
signed to the u. s. Army BeshOn
General Hospital, at Butler, PENN,
and the other g0e0s to the u. s.
Army Station hospital at Fort
LawtOn, Seattle, wash.
Joe Cotton, star Of the CHS Sun
day program, "America-Ceiling
Unlimited" likes to wave his arms
wide as he enacts his dramatic roles
each week. His gestures inspired
one young listener in the front row
at his program this week to remark:
Gee! He banks just like P-38!"
That most popular of all musical
topics-Love-Sets the keynote OF
waltz Time Friday, May (NBC,
900 p. m.), When Tenor Frank
Mum and the girls of the Amster-
dam chorus sing II Love You" and
Love Has Made This Such Love-
ly Day."
Contralto Evelyn Mac regor con-
tinues in the same vein with I'm
in Love with Someone" She also
sings Goodnight, Wherever You
Are Mum is heard with the Choir
us in by the River of the Roses
and with the girls of the chorus in
'I'n Get By"
Abe Lyman's orchestra plays "And
So Little Time and Among MY
Souvenirs"
Baritone Curt Massey will pre-
sent Songstress Marie Lawler in a
repertoire Of her own styled ar
rangements as his little-known
guest on the Starring Curt Massey
Program" Saturday, May 6 (NBC,
5:45 .. NO. Miss Lawler is a, veter-
an performer of Chicago supper
clubs.
Massey'S tunes will be ''It Had to
be You" and MY Heart Isn't in
It." The Vagabonds, novelty quar-
tet, will offer ''Honeysuckle Rose"
and Massey, Miss Lawler and Jim
Blade and his music will join in the
finale, Yours" Bill Arson is M. G.
Backstage before Milton Berries
LET Yourself Go" hits the air,
you'll find Berle entertaining
jacques Renard, Ken Robots and
other members of the company with
card tricks. Berle is one Of the
outstanding sleight- of hand artists
among the non-profesSional magi-
clans.
Cute-as-a-butto Brazilian singer,
Bidu Sayao, lyric soprano of the
Metropolitan Opera, makes her ini-
tial guest appearance on the TEL
ephone Hour" on NBC, Monday,
June 10, 8 a. m.
Two new shows are making the
rounds in Hollywood with interest
ed sponsors auditioning them. They
are mfr. Fixit," starring Harry
Langdon, thSk film comedian, and
Dear Hetty Hearthrob." another
fun session with Elvia Altman and
Arthur @. Bryan. Miss Altman,
currently one Of the busiest actress
es on the west coast, is heard as
Cora Others on Blonde" over
CHS Monday nights, and also hobs
up frequently on the Jimmy Du-
rante-Garry Moore sessions over
CHS Friday nights.
Sagely observes Michael O,Day,
of the Parker Family" "A girl who
doesn't use bit of cosmetics Is like
a broken-down car trying to go up
hill-she has trouble making the
graded"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03

Broadway SrnaIl-talk: Wayne Lon
organs attorney has the appeal mo-
ton ready Popular Joe Wade
of the midtown crowd IS now in
an Australian hospital. Cracked up
in New Guinea two months ago, but
Is on the mend The Cafe De
La Paix in the st. Moritz has
shelved the dancing to keep their
patrons At the Waldorf the
other night the entertainers Suf-
fered from heckling by the Better
Glass of Punks. When Sinatra
obliged by getting up to sing for
nothing, woman threw plate
at him. Victor Borge ard Russell
Swami were interrupted by others.
Must be a new kind Of people :.
Follies girl Sidney" Brown was
asked the corny query: "Howz yer
love nfe?" which brought on the
tears. She admitted for the first
time that she was secretly married
to a soldier killed in Africa a few
days ago.
Broadway Ballad: (By Don Wahn)
There is a little Inn on Heart
break Street-and no one knows its
number or its name But ghosts
drift in and casually meet - and
warm themselves at Memory's pale
flame Somewhere within the
room old music drifts-against the
eerie silence of the night And,
imperceptibly, the setting shifts-to
that lost year when all the world
was right . d.. There is q quiet OPEN
ing of door-and you arrive to
keep rendezvous Then sud-
denly the ghosts are ghosts no more
but all the laughing clan whom
once we knew Dear, does 1t
make you wistful that we meet.
There at little Inn on Heartbreak
Street?
The Big Time: 20th's "Pin-Up
Girl" with Cradle Mary Small
on the Blue "StarduSt" as
Louis Prima toys with it at the
Park Central Roof Sanabria's
sambas at Madrid =.
Larry Douglas at Versailles /. Kay
Penton's song styles on CHS Friday
nights Cary Grant and Janet
Blair in "Once Upon a Time 4.
Jack Harris violin solos at La Conga
-. Scallions to the aging wealthy
divorce who gets so drunk she falls
to the dance floor and has to be
carried out nearly every nirht.
Manhattan MuralS: The British
Bldg. Cat 5th and 50th), the only
Radio City edifice flying the Ameri-
can flag Little Jack Sharkey,
once the bantam champ, now the
doorman at the 81 Club. He blew a
mint on the gee-gees in his prime.
u. The cop handing a summons
to a sun-seeking beauty for wearing
bathing suit in Central Park T.. :.
Lucius Boomer, the Waldc~f'~ Mr..
Big, who has the Wedgewood Room
music in the hotel piped into his
upstairs suite. That's one way of
getting away from the nasty old 80
per cent tax The two-drink
drunk "a Major audibly critcizing
two civilians with: 'Why aren't you
in uniform?" They rolled up
their trousers, displayed wooden
shafts :. I'VE lost a leg at Guadal-
canal" said the boiling mad spokes-
man, "and we have dischar~e pa
pers, too. But you won't see them
until we've knocked your brains
outT' The major, back in his
right mind, apologized and then
gave them each a tense salute.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03

"Joyce Jordan's" Betty Kane, shown
here, is one Of the first radio wives
to lose her actor husband, Raymond
Edward johnson, in the draft Of
fathers. Son Robert has promised
his father to be temporary head Of
the family except on income tax
returns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-03

IIilu Belle and her husband.
partner, Scott Wlaemap. Of Nation
Al Barn Dance thBC, saturday,.
o.o0 D. M were born within ~
naiaas - eaah nAAaav - hwih OaEos
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
FEED:
See Relief

Because of decline in require.
ments of concentrates when pas
lures are opened and a 16 per cen,
drop in the 1914 spring pig crop,
the nations tight feed supply should
be relieved soon, the Bureau Of Agri-
cultural Economics said.
However, overall prospects for the
year are not so rosy, even though
the geographical distribution of sup
plies has been improved by an in
crease in the corn price ceiling and
the set-aside ALLEGATION for high pro
tein feeds.
BAE noted that with prices for lay
ing mash this spring up IL to Is per
cent over last year, the egg-feed
price ratio will be less favorable,
since returns on eggs are not likely
to increase. Total slaughter Of
chickens for 1914 should approx
mate the 1913 record of billion
300 million pounds, despite prob
able decrease in the marketing Of
young chickens.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
ITALY:
Bitterest Fighting

Bitterest battle of the bitter Ital-
ian campaign was being fought
around the Nazis' mountain strong
hold of Casino, with valiant U. S.
doughboys working their way into
the town behind the rumbling roar
of their tanks, while German sui
eide squads sniped from battered
buildings now in rubble.
Forty miles to the north, the enc
my rushed in reinforcements to
counter the Fifth army operating
from its beachhead below Rome,
with parachutists, antiaircraft gun
ners, tankmen and reconnaissance
units formed into regular units to
fight off the U. S. and British troops
moving on the Germans supply
roads under the heavy fire.
Although Casino itself lay heaped
in ruins, the enemy chung stubbornly
to dominating heights around the
town, and dug firmly into strong
web of concrete machine-gun and
mortar pits on the level ground. AS
doughboys picked their way through
the defensive maze, they closed on
the main highway leading northward
to Rome, over which the enemy was
supplying his troops.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
MORE MONEY:
Circulation Up

Tax evasion by people with large
incomes, and activities of "black
market" operators are at least part
ly responsible for the huge rise in
money in circulation, a current sur
vey has revealed. At the present,
currency in circulation amounts to
20 billion dollars, or $3.50 per capita.
Demand for $1,000 bills has more
than doubled since the war started.
There were 100000 of these floating
in 1941 and there are some 100000
now. One hundred dollar bills are
most in demand, their use rising
from 8 million to ~ million since
Pearl Harbor.
"Black market" dealers in furni-
ture, jewelry and the like, buy and
sell on a strictly cash basis, keeping
no accounts on which taxes might
be levied, the survey explained. SINH
lar ways of tax evasion are possible
in other transactions, all requiring
large amounts of paper money.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18

last war, it rose steadily, 1923 per
cent. However, there is catch in
those figures. In the last war, the
farmers dollar rose only 13 cents
in purchasing power. Today, the
farmers income has risen " per
cent in terms of purchasing power.
Preliminary Report
Just what is ahead? On or before
February II, debate will begin on
the bill extending the life of the Com
modify Credit corporation containing
an anti-subsidy provision.
Meanwhile, the farm bloc adher-
ents and supporters will probably
carry on pretty good publicity plan
for their side and some Of the con-
sumner groups will be heard from.
Labor will shout the loudest and
most effectively. But that is simply
because it is a large and a we'll
organized group. 1t is a strange
thing, but America, which has or
CARNATIONS of almost every kind and
description formed largely for in
creasing the income of its members,
has very few organizations formed
for the purpose of decreasing their
expense. Consumers, as such, are
not organized. There are, of course,
few cooperatives but they are
hardly more than local affairs and,
comparatively speaking, small and
weak. This is due to the cheerful
American theory that if you haven't
got enough money to pay your ex-
penses, you ought to 60 out and get
some more money.
In any case, labor (although Or
ganized primarily to get more pay)
is going to use its organized strength
to fight higher prices and the ad-
ministration is at present counting
on enough support from the labor
lobby itself, the results Of the pro-
subsidy publicity on the general pub
lie, to sustain a presidential veto of
any measure banning subsidies.
There is no sign of enough votes to
prevent the passage of the BILL but
enough are expected to sustain the
veto. So that legislative process will
have to be gone through with unless
the farm bloc feels it has an accu-
rate measure of the administrations
strength, as revealed by various test
votes, so that it can compromise
without going through the veto proc
ess. Either way, some kind Of
compromise will undoubtedly be
reached.
But the way is weary one.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
Preuieuu of
Invosion Tactics

With invasion in the offing I de-
cided wanted preview. A little
difficult to arrange, / admit. know,
however, that you could see full
dress rehearsal at the amphibious
base at Fort Pierce, Fla. That
institution has been cloaked in the
darkest secrecy until recently. Just
before the base celebrated its ami
versary was allowed to look behind
the scenes.
No details can be reported Of this
revolutionary development in Amer
lean military history that started
fresh from zero.
For almost a full week watched
and, in some cases, worked with
the men who make "amphibious ac-
ton" possible-those who 60 over
the transport side into the landing
craft and up the beach, and the other
men who see that they get there,
from scouts and raiders who slip in
at night, crawling through the wash
of a strange beach to throttle the
sentries and clear the way for the
others, to the last Of the reserves.
have never met finer type of
man, soldier or marine, and they
are all there-army, navy, coast
guard, and the engineers, the sea-
bees, the medicos, scouts, raiders
and the other specialists. Coopera-
ton is the key to the greatest
achievement in amphibious action
army and navy working together as
one. It is a navy operation right up
to the tide water mark, where the
army takes command, but close
ly interviewer texture, as much a
single unit as fighting division Of
land troops or navy task force.
I talked with their leaders, tough,
quiet young men, who have learned
by doing-they know what it is to
land on strange shore in Africa or
Sicily or the Pacific. They are a
great lot-the scouts and raiders
(our commandos) some big, some
little, some college athletes, some
from farm and factory, but all hard,
wiry, certain, and anxious for more
action.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
SOLDIER VOTING:
Red-HOt Issue

Joining with the almost solid Re-
publican bloc, southern representa-
tives in the nations Capitol held
their ground for state control of
soldier voting in opposition to the
administrations plan for federal SUI
pervision of elections for the offices
of President, senator and congress
man by means of blank ballot on
which servicemen would write in
either the names of their choices
or just mark the party they favored.
A compromise between the senate
and house doomed, with the senate
favoring bill which would allow
use Of the federal ballot for soldiers
whose states failed to provide for
absentee voting by July l, and the
house lined up for a measure direct
ing the distribution of applications
for ballots among servicemen and
prompt provision Of such ballots by
states if the application is accepted.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
STOCK EXCHANGE:
Shows Profit

For the first time since 1885, the
New York Stock Exchange showed
profit in 1913, earnings amounting
: to $675, 500 against loss of $815, 1872
in 1912.
In addition, it was revealed that
the Stock Exchange collected $685.
600 in initiation fees, which was not
added to profit but rather was trans
ferred to the capital account. Last
year, 1926, 900 was collected in such
fees.
Rejecting the increased invest
ment interest as a result of the war
boom, 278, 742,O00 shares of stock
were traded in 1913, compared with
125, 685, 900 shares in 1912. Daily
trading averaged approximately
100000 shares, against $50, ZOO
throughout 1912. The brisk action
has been maintained this year.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18

from an old bolster were packed
into a thick seat cushion to raise
the seat which has been lowered
by removing the rockers. This re-
quired yard and a quarter of
ticking. Four and one-half yards
of inexpensive chintz in a bold,
modern pattern did the rest. Total
cost for an up-to-date chair less
than two dollars, one that will
serve well for the duration.
NOTE-This remodeled chair Is from
BOOK which also contains directions
for undermining an old fashioned couch
and making other home furnishings from
things on hand. To get copy of BOOK S
send is cents to cover cost of mailing
direct to:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
FURLOUCH:
For Pacific Vets

If the facilities and battle condi-
tons allow, an increasing number Of
veterans with two years or more
service in the Pacific area will be
granted furloughs, Com. Gen. Mil
lard +. Harmon declared.
Already a program Of replacing
vets with fresh troops has been ini-
tiated, General Harmon said, but on
a limited scale. Availability Of ship
ping and need for troops for the in
creasing tempo of the Pacific war;
fare will determine the extent Of the
furlough program, General Harmon
explained.
"Anyone in a responsible position
in the army, from General Marshall
down, appreciates the desirability of
rotating men in the combat zones"
General Harmon said. "But they
also appreciate the need for winning
the war, and you cannot allow rota-
ton of personnel to interfere unduly
with that accomplishment"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
PACIFIC:
Won't Fight

Again the boastful Japanese feet
refused to come out and fight, and
following the heaviest naval bonn
bardment in history which left shore
defenses in smoking tatters, u. S.
forces overran the Marshall islands
in mid-Pacific.
One of the enemy's last outer de-
fensive rims Of their main holdings
in the Philippine area, the Mar
shalls, were virtually surrendered by
the enemy, without the bitter, last
ditch fight expected. When marines
swarmed ashore after a murderous
Ibarrage Of U. S. naval guns, they
met only scattered pillbox opposi-
ton, the enemy's own big artillery
pieces have been smashed.
Invasion Of the Marshalls gave
the u. S. springboard for the next
step in the march to Tokyo, now
1000 miles off, while reports indi-
Gated that the Japs were massing
planes all through the Philippine
and homeland area to meet the push
of the greatest naval armada in his
tory, when that day comes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
WAR SPENDING:
On Rise

During the first half of the 1914
fiscal year starting last July, U. S.
government expenditures totaled
521s billion dollars, compared with
Az billion dollars for the same
period in 1913, and the increased
spending rate was maintained dur
ing January.
More than 7h billion dollars was
spent last month, in comparison
with about 61z billion dollars for
January, 1913, with the army ac-
counting for 118 million dollars of
the increase and the navy 8O8 mil
lion dollars.
Because of the current pay-as-you-
60 tax deductions from weekly wage
envelopes, treasury receipts for jan
uary were above last year, thus
bringing lingo and out-go into better
balance. Bond sales also were up
more than 450 million dollars over
January, 1913.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18

Six pounds, five ounces when
born, tiny Paulette Matthes Of Chi
cago celebrated her first birthday,
weighing three ounces less, in a case
that has baffied physicians.
Only able to digest little Of q
formula of milk and water, tiny
Paulette has been in need of almost
day and night care, which her moth
er has unselfishly given. 1t was q
happy birthday, with Paulette, now
20 inches long, smiling for the first
time. The Matthes have a thriving
son, Ronald, A.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-02-18
BRIEFS. BY Baukhage

Twenty-seven barter stores have
been opened in Berlin, the British
radio says, in reporting that the
Berlin chamber Of commerce had
decided to make all wares subject
to barter.
Texas farm woodlands have an
excellent record in fire prevention
with less than ! per cent burned an
nually for the past several years.
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injuries sustained as a result of the
use of defective equipment by the
employer, when better facilities
were available. The courts action
reversed its previous rulings in sim
liar cases.
Said Justices Roberts and Frank
furter: ''The evil resulting from
overruling earlier considered deci-
sions must be evident Defend
ants will not know whether to 1iti-
gate or settle, for they will have no
assurance. that a declared rule will
be followed Respect for tribu-
mails must fall when the bar and pub
lie come to understand that nothing
that has been said in prior adjudi-
cation has any force in a current
controversy"