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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

Lauritz MelchiOr will sing the title role in "Lohengrin" when the Metropolitan Opera broad casts Wagner's famous opera on
 Saturday, Feb. "A, at p. m. WATR and the Blue Network. In addition to his heavy schedule at
 the Met. Mir. Melchior has re-
 gently completed his first motion
 picture-MGM's Thrill of a RO-
 nance" which will be released
 nationally at Easter.
 travelling salesman who devoted his whole career to selling a single line of products. For example, Jim Doyle, one of Hollywood'S busiest spielers, peddles over the air such diversified products as cigarettes, beer, vitamin pills. shampoo. hand lotion, and cheese products for eight different sponsors each week.
 The SoFrowing and retired father
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
1920 KlocycleS

l59O--WBRY-.96 3:0O--Mary Marlin 3:15--The Swing Shift 3:30--Sing Along Club 4:00-General Electric House
 Party 4:25-News 4:30-Feature Story 4:45-Milt Herth Trio 5:OO-Service Time-First in the
 Air 5:sO--Terry Allen and the Ross
 Sisters 5:45-SWing for your supper 6 G:00-Quincy Howe and the News 6:15-Lyn Murray's Orchestra
 and Chorus 6:30--NeWs by F.. Christy Erk G:45-The World Today 6:5b-The Meaning of the News 7:0O-Treasury Salute 7:15-Brotherhood Week Program
 --I Remember Mama 7:30-The Nutmeg Melodeers 8:00-The Aldrich Family 8:30l-The Adventures of the
 Thin Man 8:55-News Highlights--CharleS
 T. Lynch 9:0O--It Pays to Be Ignorant 9:30-That Brewster Boy 1 10:00-Moore 0 and Durante Program of the Army the Day II :OO-John Daly, News News ONeill, Songs II: :30-Tommy Dorsey Orchestra t2: :00--NeWs on
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

Nick and Nora Charles uncover hidden will and disclose scheme fer blacknlail and murder in 'The Case of the Four Million Dollar Heel" a nlystery-comedy episode in the Adventures Of the Thin Man." ever CBS Friday, February 23 at 8:30 D. m.
 When an aged millionaire wills a fortune to chorus girl, then changes his mind. the Thin Man ard .his lovely wife inherit an in- vestigation into a lively series of murders which involves the repu- dated heiress, her lover, the testa- tors cx-butler and housekeeper - and n-profit organization known as the Butterfly Collectors of the New World
 Claudia Morgan and Les Ire mayne are co-starred in the series,
 Henry and Homer sell War Bonds to raise funds for weasel" which all Centerville should know - but doesn't - is a type of Army tank, during "The Aldrich Family" com edy broadcast Friday. February Z, at 800 p. m., over CBS.
 It's one thing to be Mann. It's another to be Mann overseas. And still another to be funny Mann. Put them together and you get that Mann of men. the personable young cimic, Jerry Mann. who joins the @Stars on Parade" when the brings his zany comedy to the Chesterfield Supper Club fiesta heard at 2 D. m. EWr, over NEG. Jerry, as- sisted by his partner, Miss Betty Linde. has just returned from en- tertaining our boys overseas and is currently preparing for major en- gagetnents throughout the country In addition, he is writing new book about his trip. Another man who Is thrilling millions is handsome Perry Como. the boy with the million dollar voice. He'll be on hand to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

Filling Fridays with festive fun. Sammy Kaye's Tangee Varieties with ventriloquist Paul Winchell and his dummy foil, Jerry Mahoney, will inaugaurate Q weekly series of WATR-Blue Network broadcasts to- night at 10:00 p. m.
 4 long established favorite of WIZ Blue Network listeners to his Sunday Serenade. the Friday series will give the Swing and Sway" maestro his second weekly commer- c!al broadcast on the same network.
 Comedy as well aS music will be featured in Sammy Kaye's Tangee Varieties with Paul Wincheil and his we cracking dummy, Jerry Maho- ney, running the gamut of comic situations. Kaye sometimes helps along as straight man but Mahoney, although strictly block head, us- ually comes out on top in the chat ter sequences.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23
WAVELETS
By BILL HARRINGTON

gather more vocal laurek. The girl who has the beauty with voice to match, vivacious Mary AShworth, will join the Satisfyers in one of the outstanding songs of the day. Ted Steele and his Men About Music" handle the musical scores. Suave Martin Block, radios best salesman, is tonights host.
 Bob Graham, featured vocalist heard on "Duffy's Tavern" over NEG, really began his singing car- ger while doing K. P. duty in the army. Bob, who used to solo a song or two for his fellow spud-peelers, was overheard by music minded officer who took him to Glen Mil- Ter, then forming his original army band. Glen auditioned Bob and placed him as vocalist with the or ganization.
 The professional career of Har- riet Hilliard began in earnest when she signed with Ken Murray and Bert Lahr to toIr the vaudeville circuits playing the part of straight woman to Ken and Bert. Harriet Is now heard on The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" Sundays over the CBS network.
 Harrison Knox, lyric tenor, blends his voice with the string orchestra | of Cities Service Highways in Melody" as soloist this evening NEG 800 p. m. His selections are Soft ly As In A Morning Sunrise, by Romberg, and If Love Again." by Oakland.
 The Cities Service choir does a special arrangement of Romberg $ '"The Fireman's Bride" written by Director Paul Lavalle, and the en- tire ensemble presents the same arrangers medley of Rudolph Friml tunes.
 Betty Smith, author of "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn" and James Dunn, star of the motion picture o1 the same title, visit Columbia'' Stage Door Canteen" tonight WABC-CBS, 10:30-11:O0 p. m, ewD
 Ed Archie" Gardner presents a lethal weapon to the radio audience
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

Leon Fleisher, 16-year-old piano marvel from San Francisco, will be the guest ct the WJZ-Blue Neo- works Stars Of The Future program tonight at 800 D. m.
 When Fletsher made his Carnegie Hall debut last November, New York music critics were unanimous in layishing praise on the young Amer- ican genius. Said the New York Times" "F1eisher at once established himself as one of the most remark ably gifted of the younger genera tion Of American keyboard artists !"
 Regulars Lawrence Brooks, bar!- tone, and Frances Greer, Met Opera soprano, also will be heard on the program, assisted by the orchestra under the direction of Robert Rus- sell Bennett.
 Garry Moore makes Jimmy Dur ante SO mad he sees Red (from the Russians of the same name) in their comedy broadcast over CBS, Sta ti1ns, tonight, at 10 D. m. In fact, Jimmy gets so hot that he reaches the Berlin point, again emulating the Russians. Durante also reports a Russian dinner: They set the b3rscht, the caviar and the kreplach on the table. Soviet!' Roy Bargy presides as commissar in charge of bGlalaika strummers, and Georgia Gibbs sings.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

The Sorrowing and retired father
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

when he persuades George Sanderc to come down to the tavern and star in a mystery drama called The Green Dragon" for the delec- tation of the inmates of "Duffy's Tavern during the broadcast over NEG on Friday, February 23, at 8:30 p. m. With more corpse than copys, Archie finds himself with perfect crime in the person of Fin negan until Sanders steps in and suavely pulls mine host out Of his own hot seat.
 When Dinah Shore played Tess Trueheart" opposite Bing Crosby as 'Dick Tracy in a Command Per- formance" broadcast based on the Dick Tracy cartoon strip this week, she cracked. Dick Tracy singing - this ought to make all the crooks happy!'
 cSinging," in a gangSter par lance, means to break down and confess eVerything)
 One or the pTc-DTOduCdbL ldu6Aio on the Frank Morgan show oc- CUTS every week during the studio warmup when Cass Daley, spotting handsome Robert Young on the stage, chases him up and down the studio aisles and back onto the stage. This week the stunt was top ped by three sailors in the audiencc who took after Cass as she Was chasing Young.
 "Phew" gasped Cass afterward They seem to have been ashore long enough to get their land legs!'
 The modern radio salesman - the announcer on commercial programs is far cry from the oldtime
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

of a service man killed overseas, re- ceiVes new courage and inspiration from Miss Hattie, in Ethel Barry mores starring drama over Station WATR on Sunday, February 20, at 3:30 D. m. With characteristic un- derstanding and wisdom, Miss Hat tie" persuades a defeated man to take his place again as leader ln community that needs his guid- ing presence.
 Jim LaWton and Gloria, his "Hol- lywood Mystery Time" secretary are confronted with a foul murder but they have something to crow about before the close of The Case of the Pie-Eyed Parrot" on Sunday, Feb ruary 25, at 9:l5 p. m, over Station WATR. It all starts when a man brings the producer detective a hiccuping parrot which he vents the movie-maker to star in future film. However, playing nursemaid to the bird almost becomes lifetime res- possibility when the owner is shot just as he leaves the office. After a thrilling chase, the. Hollywood Mystery Time" sleuths, aided and abetted by the parrot, catch the killer. Carleton Young and Gloria Blondell co-star in the mystery series
 For her fourth guest appearance as soloist on Music America Loves Best" on February 25. the lovely Met Soprano Mona Paulee will do "St. Louis Blues" with Tom- my Dorsey handling the trumpet end of the solol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-23

Show 7:15-W -WEAF-John W. Vandercook WOR-The Answer Man WJZ-Raymond G. Swing WABC-Brotherh Week 7.30-Al Roth's orch.
 WOR-Keep Ahead: Variety Show
 WJZ-The Lone Ranger WABC-Friday on Broadway Frank Parker 7:45--W WEAF-H. V. kaltenborn s: S:O0-W EAF-Highways in
 Melody: Harrison KnoH WOR-Cecil Brown WJZ--Stars fo the Future; Leon Fleishcr
 WABC-The Aldrich Family Dick Jones S;15-W WOR-Curt Massey, songs 8:3O-W WEAF--Duffy's Ed. Gardner George Sanders WOR-Freedom of Oppor- tunity
 WIZ Army Nurse Joan FOntaine
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09

TOO MUCH WATER-The ram
paging Missouri river is eroding
millions Of tons of good soil away
every year. Here the food waters
carved into the bank, washing out
q road, and leaving pillar Of earth
to indicate the earlier line.
bureau of reclamation to get the
program underway.
President Roosevelt signed the bill
on December %, but put a hiatus
in the proceedings by recommend
ing the creation of a Missouri VAL
ley authority to handle the project
and asserting that his approval of
the bill was with the distinct under
standing that it would in no way
jeopardize the creation of such an
agency. He appealed for early con-
sideration of the new authority by
the 10th congress.
The President further asserted:
81 consider the projects authorized
by the bill to be primarily for post
war construction"
Only blue-Prlnt Now.
Hence, the project is now merely
in the blueprint stage and it is pos
sible that fight may develop in the
new congress over whether there
shall be divided responsibility as to
the army and the reclamation
bureau, or whether a new Missouri
valley authority shall be created.
Proponents of single regional con-
troll point to the Tennessee Valley
authority and its successful opera
ton as a yardstick for future fed
eral policy in developing and con-
trolling all the nations waterways.
However, there are powerful inter-
ests which oppose the creation of
these regional authorities, such as
the power utility interests, the rail-
roads, the national rivers and har-
bors congress, the Mississippi Val
ley association, and even divided
public opinion along the waterway.
The rule of thumb, for instance, of
the iva is that regional authority
will produce the largest possible
benefits at the least possible costs,
and leach task must be carried
out In such a way as to contribute
to the total result to salvage every
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09
Federal Plan TO Tame Missouri River After War
Will Benefit Il Million People Living in IFS Basin
Dams Curb Erosion,
Provide Irrigation,
Electric Service
BY WALTER SHEAD
wNU Washington Correspondent mt

Harvesting the nations Sec
ond mightiest river, the turbu-
lent, muddy Missouri, which
annually roars its flood crests
along its twisting course for
2,460 miles through seven states,
will become one of the major
postwar projects. More than II
million people live in this great
basin of a half billion acres,
comprising one-sixth of the area
of the United States.
For more than 80 years feeble at
tempts have been made to shackle
the destructive power of the Mis-
souri,. Millions of dollars have been
expended in levees and dams in at
tempts to prevent the costly floods
which annually destroy vast sums
in crops and property. Damage of
the l943 floods alone was placed at
$35, 000, 1000.
Army engineers and the bureau of
reclamation of the interior depart
ment have been for some time at
cross-purposes in the development
OF comprehensive plan. The army
approached the job from the stand
point Of navigation and flood con-
troll. The reclamation engineers
were interested also in irrigation,
erosion control and power projects.
On November 81, 1914, a recon-
ciliation report was filed in which
the two agencies were in complete
accord and the congress in its flood
control bill accepted the entire pro-
gram and also authorized 5000, O0O,-
600 each to the army and the
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09

An American soldier made such
hit conducting Berlioz symphony
in Rome that the Italians requested
repeat. He couldn't because his
three-day pass had expired.
Ralph Waldo Emerson once said
that Good is good doctor but Bad
is sometimes better" But what
difference does il make? They're
probably both in the army now.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09
B A r BIS by Baukhage

There is a report that Hitler can't
even hear himself properly any
more. Lucky Adolph.
They say girl gave the answer,
1.-THE telephone rings" when asked
by the professor as to what happens
when body is immersed in water.
But I doubt If she felt that it would
put wet blanket on her CONVERSE
ton.
Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1945-02-09

GOOD LAND now laying waste
and overgrown with sagebrush can
be brought into productivity by ade-
quate irrigation. This picture shows
. tract q few thousand feet away
from productive irrigated land.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01
French Liberate People
And 71uo Maxi Officials

the Allied Military Governments
in Germany. They now are living
with their families in the French
town awaiting a decision BY Al,
lied authorities on further DISPOSE.
ton of their case.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01
|LUMBERMEN URGED
TO CUT OLD TREES

PORTLAND, Ore, Dec 81
(UP)-Premature logging OF young
growth in West Coast areas may
threaten the future of forestry and
operators should move at once to
get on basis of continuing
growth, warns Emanuel Fritz, for
estry faculty member at the Uni
versity of California.
Fritz told members OF the West
ern Forestry Association of prob
lens created by the sudden in
crease in the industry's output IN
the past few years. He urged con-
centration on stands which are ma
ture or over-mature and said the
lumbermen of California. Oregon
and Washington should be think
ing of the days when their indus
try must be supported by new
stands.
Sustained yield is only an
ideal" Fritz explained. No lum-
herman will know when he has a
sustained yield on his timber lands.
However, it is an ideal that should
be aimed for and approached as
nearly as possible. But neither the
public nor the private forester will
be able to say positively that this
or that timber stand has a sus-
tanned yield"
Fritz said Public Law 273, giving
the U. S. Forest Service power to
set up cooperative timber stand
ownership working toward sus-
tanned yield, lis a step in the right
direction, provided the Federal
Government doesn't use it to build
up it's own local power" He said
one possible downfall in applying
the act would be the private indi-
vidual who will put less into the
cooperative agreement than he
gets out of it,
Plastics will not be cure-ail
for the industry, although they
have great possibilities, Fritz said.
He said lumbermen must not lose
sight of the fact that when they
make plastics they are making a
product which is in competition
with their own major project of
lumber. He added that the steel
and light metals industry are or
ganized better than is the lumber
industry as to research and mar
keting facilities for new products
after the war.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01

Large numbers of insect eggs
are destroyed by parasites SO
small that the adults are one.
twenty-fifth of an inch or less in
length.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01

We're it not for parasites, many
insect pests might increase to such
an extent that growing of crops
would be impossible.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01

kind, that free people can be-
come the strongest military power
on earth.
Long after our words about de-
mocracy are forgotten, the specta-
Gle of this democracy in arms will
remain in the minds of men, and
will influence their actions. What
ever happens about the Atlantic
Charter, or about this and that,
the people of the world will re-
member the homesick, friendly
American soldiers walking about
Paris and London and Rome, with
their hands in their pockets, who
proved once for all how strong a
free people, when it is aroused,
can be.
That is our real contribution to
the acceptance of the Four Free
doms. and it is from it, not from
declarations and announcements.
that our true foreign policy will
develop.
Copyright, 1914, New York Tri-
bune Inc.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01
FRENCH FIRST ARMY HEAD

FRENCH FIRST ARMY HEAD
QUARTERS, Dec. 81. -P- "A
rare case of collaboration in re-
verse came to light with the re-
cent capture of a Vosges mountain
town by French troops. ,
The soldiers found that they hao
liberated not only the native
population but also two German
civilian officials of the Nazi oc-
cupation forces. The two men had
been ordered to evacuate their
posts and retreat with the Wehr-
macht to await reassignment but
they refused, preferring to remain
in the French community where
they felt more at home than IN
the fatherland.
At first, French military authori-
ties took them and their families
into custody for routine detention
as enemy nationals. However, the
local leader of the French resls-
lance movement Immediately
came forward demanding that
they be given special treatment.
1t turned out that the two Ger
man officials had been quietly col
laborating with the French during
the whole period of occupation.
They had helped French workers
evade Nazi attempts to round them
up for shipment to German war
factories, and local inhabitants
credited them with going out Of
their way, to help them circum'
vent all kinds of NaI restrictions.
Both men have offered to assist
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01
Stock Mart Begins Year
With Seven Year Record

! Reporting on 1914 operations OF
the Nations roads, the Associa-
ton of American Railroads last
week called attention to the fact
that although freight and pas
senger volume were at record
highs, net income of S207, 1000, 600
under 1913 because of larger op-
Grating costs resulting from nigh
er wages and bigger taxes.
A. T. MERCER, president of the
Southern Pacific, stressed the in
crease in traffic to be expected
by Western roads after Ameri-
can forces are concentrated
against Japan, but he said the
carriers will nave to have more
workers to do the job expected
OF them.
All sections of the list Joined
the rails in the late rally that
wiped Out the severe losses of
Tuesday and Wednesday when the
list broke under impact of profit
taking for tax purposes. But as
The U. S. Western Front armies
Matted the German drive and be-
gan forcing Nazi troops back to
the Rhine, sentiment turned bull
lish and traders again turned to-
ward the buying side.
Steels, m tors, amusement
shares, chemicals, farm nipple
ments, utility stocks and liquors
all had periods of strength. Utili-
ty shares responded to announce
ment of record electricity output
in the week ended December %.
Chemicals were aided by de-
partsnent of commerce report that
1915 will be a good year for such
companies.
Westinghouse Electric common
and preferred shares ran up more
than 10 points on announcement
of a 4-for-l stock splitup. United
Merchants & Manufac turers also
firmed on disclosure of plans for
a 1-for-1 splitup. Steel operations
down sharply because of the
Christmas holiday but the group
advanced on Washington disclo-
sure that OPA plans boost in
some ceiling prices to offset high
er wages.
Sales last week aggregated s.
722, O80 shares compared with g.
508,09S in the previous week, of
the 1,l57 issues traded, 668 closed
higher, 321 lower and 1853 I'M
changed There were ISL new
highs and nine new lows.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01

NEW YORK, Dec. 31.-UP)-
The stock market enters 1945 with
prices at the highest level in more
than seven years. In the final
week of the old year quotations
rose about half a billion dollars
in response to improving war news
from Europe and favorable domes
tic corporation developments.
The 1914 gain in valuation of
all listed stocks amounted to
around $4,000, 1000, 900, of which
about S3,00O.0o0,000 piled up in
December when railroad stocks
shot forward to new high since
August 81, 1887 on forecasts of
good 1886 dividends and indica-
tions. that even more business will
develop - at least for Western
roads-after the fall of Germany.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-01-01

Edna St. Vincent Millay has
also been published under the
name of Nancy Boyd.