The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-14

only 25c): Franklin Delano Roose- welt, Memorial" FDR once
 told a faithful: ''The greatest con- tribution of a liberal is his influ- eilce on those who follow him."
 Just for the Record (and our files) Dept: The. hecklerss alleged that this reporter at San Francisco got only bum steers and no news. One of our beats (which we filed with the telegraph desk) was:
 Among rumors was that Truman might fly to meet Stalin and Chur- chill to assure the success of the Security Conference Our ,cri- tics said we reported Truman was already flying, which we didn't, at all :. So wot? So United Press on May 11th (according to Los An- geles papers first page) stated in part: Meanwhile, conference dele gates tonight saw as an early possi- bility meeting in London between President Truman, Churchill and Stalin .. The Big meeting was regarded as essential to dealing with a host of pressing postwar issues, including several arising from se- curity deliberations in San Fran cisco' =. o, dear.
 The R. Halhdays tMary Martin, the star) are imaging again =. 1. John Dillinger is a musician with the big-time Les Elgart band s. ]. Jean Acker (once Mrs. Rudy Val- entino, and a darling) now owns rich ranch. She has come out of retirement to play big in the flick CT, "Stork Club" .. 1'helma White Gone of the better strip-pelers) has a novel act with a dog that gets equal billing! The canine helps Thelma disrobe In the past 2 years almost 100000 ex-servicemen applied for = and received = govt jobs Zanuck producer Brynie Toys house was burgled of gems valued at $40,000 (insured), but 10 cartons of stolen ciggies weren't. Phil Spitalny says the only evil dence of European mourning (when Hitler died) was in Milan-where they hung Mussoloni at half-mast!
 With Laff and-Kixxxxxx!: Jim- Durante's zingy radioafing .. Mill ton Berle's, too Joe E. Lewis remarkable performance GAO min- utes of belly-laffs) at H. Hover's Ciro's in H'wood. Plus Phil Oh. mans crew there Prof. Emil Coleman's orchestra at Cholly Nor rison's glamour-joynt. Mocambo .. :. The blintzes at Dave's Blue Room Con the Sunset Strip, if you can get in .. The fun at Slapsie Maxie's .. Styne and Cahns new postwar song classic: I'm Glad I Waited for You" Ida Lupinos gay ac- dressing in Pillow to Post" a War neriot . Geo. Raft and Joan Bennett in 20ths Mob Hill" and D. Zanuck's version of "A Bell for Adano," the Pulitzer prive novel. It opens at the Music Hall in July.
 The Buster Vests Gucille Page) will be four in the Winter :. Margie Hart resumes with new nov lty act at Montral's Gayety Thittir today Roy Howard is seek ing another Haywood Broun".. That's like looking for the gold at the end of the rainbow Lobby ists are going nutz trying to find out who has Truman,s ear. Here's some inside dope, you dopes: It's J. @. Public. Aside to Sec'y of State- tinius: Isn't it true, MT. Sec'y, that Guatemala has seized the property Of American citizens without legal procedure, or reason and chased them out of there Sudden Tnawt: How about calling those Sumarai-swordsmen (WhO decapi- tate American flyers): "Japastards'9
 Our thanks to digest magazine for the plaque (by sculptor John Begg) and the 5000 cash award flor his uncompromising fight against fascism in America on the home front. =. We have turned the $5,OOO over to Army Emergency Relief, Navy Relief society (which takes care of our Marines, tool and the Coast Guard Welfare fund.
 Milton Mayer of Chicago Che writes for mags) was quoted in a Detroit newspaper as saying: Americans should withhold judg- ment of war criminals until ten years after the war, and refuse to believe war crime and atrocity stories until they are proved" =. This person Mayer (were he in Ger many ten weeks ago. would have been one of those internment camp skeletons The Hays office has the first copy of Kathleen Winsor's c'Forever Amber'D completed script. If okayed, she gets $200,000. If nixed-she gets nuttin' . Item in a coast trade paper: "Sidelight in SF is that Winchell left town be- cause he was getting tired of cer- tain newsmag staffers, checking his every move" Nh-nh. He was invited to emanate two broadcasts from San Francisco and did three (plus ten for the Blue Network for free) and then went to Girl town to bake his annoying sinuses. (Sezzee!) The headlines will soon announce unhappy news con- corning a famous and brave ad- miral.