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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

Ann Godio, Helene Hirsch. Glenna Jacobs, Gwen Locke, Loretta Longo, Ghita Malanga, Joan Mickett, Do- lores Stance.
 StOrk Shower
 Mrs. George Budge of Ball Farm road, gave a stork shower at her home recently in honor of Mrs. James Kielty, Watertown.
 Guests attending were: Mrs. s. Panilaitis, Mrs. Pearl Ranslow, Mrs. Melvin Freeman, Mrs. George Booth, Mrs. Emile Chapuis, Miss Violet Chapuis, Miss Edwina Booth, Mrs. Robert Halloway, Mrs. Bernie Mclaughlin, Mrs. M. Kielty, Mrs. Edward R. Merrill, Mrs. James Kielty and Mrs. George Booth.
 Alvin Kontout of Central ave- nue, lfc Seaman, is home on a 3o-day furlough.
 The American Legion has re- ceived 75 new members, all World War II veterans. The American Legion received Q letter of acknowledgment from the Oakville Honor Roll Committee chairman, for their Honor Roll fund support.
 So far the Honor Roll commit te has received $7,0O0 for the Honor Roll.
 Jack D'Ambrose, commander Of the American Legion, wishes to announce there will be a meeting this evening in the Community hall at 500. All discharged vet- erans are invited to attend. Please bring discharge papers with you.
 St. Mary Magdalen's Church
 Rev. Thomas McGarry. pastor.
 Masses will be celebrated Sunday at 7:30, g and 10 @. m. The last will be a high Mass.
 A 9 o'clock Mass will be read in thS Sacred Heart chapel for the children.
 Rev. Prank Squires, will attend the clergy Quiet Day of the Epis- copal clergy of the Diocese at Christ Church cathedral in Hartford next Monday. Rt. Rev. Frederick Bud- long, Bishop of Connecticut, will open Quiet day with celebration of l0:45 a. m.
 Rev. Prank Squires will assist the Bishop at Holy Communion.
 The Women,s Auxiliary met in the church hall Wednesday at work meeting. The mystery pack
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18
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HOLLYWOOD, Jan. ls-Just about @ year ago, Hollywood was asolutely a-dither about a new star-Lauren Bacall. You heard her name everywhere you went. Every movie magazine Haunted her pie ture on its cover, and carried stories about her in its text. Most columnists seemed to feel that their days work was incomplete unless they had managed to re- port her latest doings. In short, she was the sensation of the hour.
 Today, while still rated as Q star, the shouting and the hubbub about her seems to have died down to a whisper. Certainly she gets no more publicity than one of a score of other good-looking young players. And in the box-office ratings for l045-the only criterion that really counts in the long run-she's ranked far, far down the list.
 So far her career has run true to Hollywood form. Almost with out exception, newcomers who ere ate too much sensation, who get too much publicity, decline as quickly as they Skyrocketed to fame. They're like popular songs which are played too often and wear themselves out in 6 few weeks or a few months time.
 Look over the list of top-ranking stars and you'll find that with the single exception of Van Johnson, whose career seems to defy all rules, that they have one thing in com mon. They were all brought along slowly. Their publicity was never permitted to proceed their actual achievements.
 Love me little, love me long. seems to be sound Hollywood phil osophy.
 Memories That Bless And Burn: When Pola Negri, furnishing her first Hollywood home, called one of Hollywood's book dealers and or- dered "500 books" her only stipula- ton being that they must be showy bindings. When stamp collector Adolphe Menjou left a rare U. S. stamp, worth SIS, on his desk and the little woman used 1t to mail a letter When theater mag nate Sid Grammar hung a Do Not Disturb" sign on his hotel room door - and awakened midway through the next afternoon to dis cover that the stock market crash had wiped him out. When Great Garbo became so excited over for- tune-telling that she forgot her aloofness and volunteered to read the palms of all her fellow set- workers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

For years lt's been an accepted fact that the best way for a would be screen player to win Hollywood recognition is to get Q role in a New York play. OfS-hand, I could name Q score of actors who, after laboring in vain to make the grade here, returned to New York, scored a mild success in e stage play, and suddenly found themselves showed under by studio bids. Every column ist has commented on that irony, but few have noted that New York's legitimate producers operate in much the same way as the movie mogtlls. Consider, for instance, the case of Lizabeth Scott. For two years, she tried to crash the stage gates and never got anything bet- ter than an understudy's job. But since her rise to screen fame, she tells me she's rejected six offers of starring roles on Broadway.
 One of the principal sets for Sister Kenny" represents the wine cellar of e French chateau, taken over by Aussie Troops during World War I. Art director Bill Flannery, Q veteran of that brawl, had vivid memories of Q specific cellar that had served his outflt as company headquarters, and created an exact duplicate - sweating walls, tiers of cobweb- bot ties, carbon lights, and ali. Direc- tor Dudley Nichols. also Q World War I veteran, ruled it perfect" l" I've been in dozens just like it. he said. Maybe, observed Dean dagger, "but without beings an authority on French wine cellars I think there's something wrong. Ac- cording to the script, our troops have been occupying this chateau for months-yet there isn't an empty bottle anywhere" He won his point.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

Donna Reed is displaying, as . souvenir of her recent meeting with Admiral Nimitz, a photograph that testifles to the Pacific hero's mod esty. She asked for an autographed picture, and the admiral gave her one showing the Japanese surren- der aboard the USS Missouri. Around his own immage he drew a red circle and from 1t . line to the margin, where he noted: I'm the guy in the middle"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

BALLrsrlc FACrs-The proper length of O shotgun barrel ls deter mined by what you want the gun to do. Merton A. Robinson, chief bale AistlciAn of Winchester Repeating Arms Company Division Of olin fn- dustrles gives some interesting facts regarding the effect of various shot- gun barrel lengths.
 Maximum veioclties from shot- shells loaded with smokeless powders are obtained in shotguns with Q bar. rel length of 90 inches for the i2 gauge, % inches for the i0 gauge, and % inches for the 20 and 20 gauges and 4iO bore.
 When the barrels are reduced in length, the loss in velocity for each inch In reduction Is ct the rate of 7h feet for the i2 gauge and 6 feet for the smaller gauges which include i0, 90, 2o, and ai0 bore.
 The length of the barrel has prac- tically no effect on the pattern per- centage or distribution, according to Robinson. Penetration Is roughly proportionate to the remaining velocity.
 The principal advantage of the longer barrels is Q longer sighting radius which tends to reduce errors in pointing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18


 Yes, there gre fashions in bullet jackets, too. Need, not style, deter mines the fashion. The bullet jacket has had three changes since the solid lead ball fired from the old pre.Civil war gun was transformed into c snub-nosed lead cylinder and then into an elongated streamlined projectile, according to Merton A. Robinson.
 Military bullets are ,jacketed not only to make them more humane, but among other things to reduce the fouiing of rifle barrels. Even the Japs used iacketed ammunition. A jacketed bullet with the nose cut of is a "dun-dum" bullet and has lore been out-lawed in war.
 With the advent of smokeless powders, a compound bullet was developed. This consisted of hard ened lead core and a metal jacket. The first bullet jackets were made of steel. which caused rapid wear of the barrel. Next a cupro nickel jacket was adopted. All jackets de- posit some metal on the surface of the bore, ard with cup-o nickel, this was deposited in Jumps near the muzzle and interfered with ac- curacy.
 In 1894 winchester developed 8 gliding metal jacket which elim- mated all of the disadvantages or steel or cupro nickel. This metal consisted of 95 parts copper and five parts zinc.
 At the velocitieS of smokelesS cartridges were increased, the toughness of the gliding metal was increased by changing the alloy to % parts copper and 10 parts zinc.
 Gliding metal for bullet jackets as now universal in this country.
 Gliding metal-clad bullets do not foul the barrels. This greatly as- sisted the CT in the cleaning of his rifle during World War IT. How ever, barrel cleaning is sttll neces- sary due to clalorate in old style service primers used in the calioer 90 cartridges for the Springfeld and Garand rifles.
 The adoption of the Winchester non-mercuric, non corrosive stayr- less priming in the Winchester car- bine caliber 30 cartridge primers, greatly reduced the need for clean ing by CHS immediately after use'
 ON THE AIR-Among the inter esting facts brought out during our Hunting and Fishing radio program last night by Archie Krampitz ana Fari Kurtz of the Peck Lane Sports mems Club. the question regard ing the accidental catching Of fox hounds in trappers' traps" proved most interesting. From here on we quote the answer given by our guess' Earl Kurtz:
 ''This is an argument between hunters and trappers that always seems to come up this time Of the year, and for good reason. or course
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

The Women,s Auxiliary met in the church hall Wednesday at work meeting. The mystery pack
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

A soft-drink vending machine has been designed which, for Q nickel, will deliver your choice of six drinks and serve it in @ paper cup.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

The Standard oil Co.,, of Indiana gives candles as Christmas presents
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

Alvin Kontout of Central ave- nue, lfc Seaman, is home on a 30-day furlough.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-01-18

The American Legion has re- ceived 75 new members, all World War II veterans.
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20

under Allied control and prepare a
constitution for self government.
Whereas Russia had proposed a
strong central government in Berlin
(Which might be more easily domi-
nated), Secretary Byrncs advocated a
decentralized federal form of govern
ment which would give partial au
tOnOmy to German states.
Byrnes rejected Frances claim for
separation of the Ruhr and Rhine
land from the rest of Germany al
though he did favor French acquiSi-
ton of the Saar. He pointedly told
Russia and Poland that the United
States did not consider as permanent
the eastern German border they ar
bitrarily placed at the Oder River.
No Pawn or Partner
1T is not in the interest Of the
German people" Byrncs said, "or in
the interest of world peace that Ger
many should become a pawn or d
partner in a military struggle for
power between cast and vest"
America had no intention, he
warned, of Withdrawing security
forces from Germany before the Rus,
slams did "AS long as an occupation
force is required he pledged 'tht
Army of the United States will be {
part of It,
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
Flof Shots
Around the World AWuy

Q IN Moscow, the Union Of Soviet
Writers removed its president and ex-
PEELED two members for having failed
to impregnatc their writing with ''the
militant spirit and aggressive ideology
of Communism"
Q In LeWisboro, n. Y, Morton B.
Bluemenstock, 46, movie advertising
executive, was rescued by a state
trooper from an angry crowd which
said his car ran down a man and
woman. Placed unconscious in pa
tro, car, Biuemenstock revived en-
route TO hospital, struck the trooper.
was promptly subdued and hand
cuffed. In court, he was released in
81 900 bail on charges of drunken
driving, assault with a car and assault
ing an officer.
Q In Tokyo, Asahi New Agency OBJ
served that kissing doesn't mean
democracy" yhile branding "repug-
nant" and shameful" the recent
trend on Japanese stage and screen.
Il: is not unnatural as far as west
erners are concerned but not (for)
Japanese, traditionally undemonstra-
tive in public" said the agency. AsahI
castigated Women's magazines for ex.
planning the technique of kissing and
soothing words of love-making
What is in the minds of these edi.
tors?" Asahi marveled.
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
GERMANY: Key to Postwar Europe

GUNNER WELLES, former Un-
~ dersecretary of State, declared
during a strident week that a
crisis between Russia and the
western powers is inevitable and
it would be solved through states
manship and the United Nations or
by continuing demonstrations of
armed power. An Increasingly tense
world waited TO see what the choice
would be.
The struggle for control of Ger
many which, it has )een said, means
control of Europe is the hard core of
the east-WeSt differences moving week
by week nearer a climax. Whatever
the disputes over boundaries in Italy,
Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria and
Turkey, they are secondary to the
clashes on Germany, when Big Four
diplomats eventually get around to
discussing those issues face to face.
The Potsdsm agreement reached
more than a year ego decreed Big
Four cooperation in guiding Germany
to democratic independence. That has
not been realized, primarily because
Russia sealed off its occupation zone
and France demanded partition of the
industrial Ruhr and Saar valleys.
Soviet Plan for Germany
Foreign CommiSsa VyacheslaV
MolotoV's speech July 10 outlined the
Soviet plan for Germany-a plan paw
ing the way for Communist domina-
ton Russian propaganda has been
aimed at bringing the rest of Ger
many under her control.
At Stuttgart, Secretary of State
James F. Byrncs set forth the Ameri-
can plan for Germany. He spoke
plainly to the German people and to
Moscow.
Byrncs proposed carly establish
mcnt by Germans Of d provisional
central government 10 run the Reich
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20

Olhcr differences between cast and
west cropped up around the world.
AZ the Security Council in Lake Sue
cess, N. Y, the u. S. sided with Aus
tralia in branding as "groundless"
Russian protests over Greece as a
threat of world peace Planes of
Navy task force on a courtesy visit"
to the Mediterranean roarcd in fOrma-
ton over Athens as symbol of
American airpoWCr, still the might
lest in the world
Ask Assembly Delay
At RusSia'S inSi5tCncc the Big Four
asked the United Nations to postpone
It's General Assembly for d third time.
Molotov cablcd L. N. Secretary Cen
cral Trysvc Lie that the Paris peace
conference would lie over by October
%.
In Seoul Koica. Ii. Gen. John D.
Hodge, commander of American oc-
cupation forces, said he believed an
anti-Amcrcan propaganda campaign
was Communist inspired He said the
U S. would help Korea to stand
alone" and pledged: we have not
brought liberty across bloody seas TO
sec il discarded or lightly suspended.
The Soviet Army newspaper Red
Star fatty accused Britain of prcpar-
ing for war in the middle east.
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
In Short

Announced: BY Chester BoWlcS, for
mcr national OPA chief, his candidacy
for the Democratic nomination for
governor of Connecticut.
Set: By RAF Capt. E. M. Donaldson,
a new world record by flying 6l6 miles
an hour in a twin-jet British fighter.
Scored: By Maine Republicans, an
other clean sweep of the state election
for the sixth consecutive time, tanning
COP hopes that "as Maine goes, 50
goes the nation"
Died: Bcrtram NJ Campbell, 90, Of
Frecport, N. Y, falsely imprisoned 80
months for a forgery he never COM
mitted, three months after New York
State awarded him S115,000 in dam
ages.
Found: Unharmcd in Terre Hautc,
Ind, Madeline Tobias, 3, kidnapped
from her Kansas City home a week
ago by housekeepcr who explained
TO police: Il loved the little girl and
wanted her for my own"
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
Finance
Uneasy Stock Market

Ten days ago Wall Street tempo
rarily went bearish. Stocks dropped l
to II points. Even key issues slumped:
du Pont II points, U. S. Steel 6. When
the gong closed the days trading,
overwhelmed tickers were able to
catch up and record 2,900,000-share
day. Next day some losses were re-
couped and by the weekend much of
the $6,OO0,O0O,000 slump in value of
tht listed stocks had been recovered
Liquidation hit the market again a
week later, forcing big industrial is
sues down to u points. The aver
ares tunbled under the low of the
first break In many instances the de-
ClnUS we're more severe than a week
previous The turnover in the five
hours of trading totalcd 100000
shares.
On several days, the market showed
St,ong signs of recovery.
Stock market analysts were puzzled
by the gyrations. They said it might
have been caused by the darkening
international situation plus a broad
cast of Gen de Gaulle's prediction that
"War with Russia" might come this
year, or by rcCOnVerSiOn bOttlcneCks,
strikes and declining profits for some
huge industrial corporations.
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
ABROAD: Palestine Parieys
A World Problem

All Palestine was under q virtual
state of siege and strict curfcW as a
Wave of terrorism spread over the
Holy Land simultaneously with the
opening of the Palestine conference
in London, boycOtted by both Palcs-
tine Jews and Arabs.
More than a third of Palcstinc'S
Jewish population was placed under
strict house arrest for a day as 1000
British Tommies poured into Tel Aviv
to assist police in making a door-to-
door search in the all-JcWish city
after series of bombings and eX-
plosions.
British authorities reported the Pal
eStlne Railway had been cut in so
places, the flow of oil to the port of
Halfa disrupted. A series of eXplO-
sionS rocked the diamond industry
town of Nathanya, midway between
Tel Aviv and Haifa.
The Jewish Agency, recognized
since 1929 by Britain as representa-
tive of Palestine's 100000 Jews, re-
fused to attend unless the British
oSlCCu " DlOducH DdSlC uISCuSSIOllS "
include the Zionist plan for an ado
quate Jewish state with control of its
own immigration.
The Arab Higher Committee, rep
resenting most of PalcStine's 1,l00,-
600 Arabs, rejected an invitation after
the British refused to accredit as head
of their delegation the Grand Muft
of Jerusalem, Axis sympathizer anc
bitter foe of Jews.
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
Il. S. SuUeuts
Out Strikes

ME nation, alter a summers
L respite from the jitters, again
underwent a creeping paralysis as
potent as any spread by the crit
ical steel, coal and railway ticups
last spring. 1t was a mental as
we'll as physical block
One prime factor was a maritime
strike that stalled shipping on three
coasts and slowly throttled industry
by cutting off supplies Housewives
had to stand in line for meat again
and in many cities be content with
fish or fowl. Initiation was still on the
march; housing, cars and many con-
sumner goods were still hard to get.
An alarming slump hit the stock mar
ket
A strike of $4,000 New York City
truckmen forced factories to close
and squeezed the food supply of the
worlds largest city, already hampered
by the shipping strike.
Against Public Welfare
In Pittsburgh, a court order enGcd,
at least temporarily, strike of cleo
trio power workers which threatened
TO black out the steel capital. The in
junction, directed against company
and union, forebade any activity "ac-
lively imperilling the lives, property,
health or welfare Of citizens
AS last spring, strikes by a COM
parativeiy few thousand workers in
key industries reached the stage
where they affected millions of IN
nOcent bystanders.
The maritime strike, however. was
not against employers but against the
Wage Sterilization Board which ruled
pay increases previously negotiated
by ship operate and two AFL uniors
''inhationary" and ordered them Gu.
At WSB rehearing IN Washington,
the only witness was representative
of shipoWnerS who urged the board TO
reverse itself
The striking unions wired CTO
president Philip Murray and AFI,
president William Green asking D.
hour WORK stoppage by all organized
American labor if WSB refused t.
rcScind its stand.
Spreading Paralysis
Picket lines of 10000 striking AL
scamen were respected by more than
100000 other AFL and Go seamcH
Stevedores, teamsters and other mari
time workers. Nearly $500 oceango.
ing vessels were tied up at piers alonz
the cast, west and gulf coast, UN2Rh
shipments TO famine areas abroa'
were halted More than 5000 loade
freight cars clogged harbor iail tcGnI
mails.
The paralysis spread inland 5WifllT
Rail lines placed embargocs on al
freight headed for strike bound pol Is
, Steel, flour and other industrial man
ufacturers faced sloWdoWns with stop
page of export business. The Post
master General in Washington or
dcred inland ports to impound mai
for overseas to prevent piling up .
storage facilities in New York, EeH
Orleans and San Francisco.
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
Homes
Be II Ever SO Humble

Housing is d key pos war problem
in every nation. Although the United
States was not devastated by war, its
housing program too, is snarlcd by rcd
tape, bottlcncckS and rising costs. Vet
Grams and their families are the chief
sufferers.
In England people who couldn't or
wouldn't wait for the Labor govern
ment's four-ycar plan tD put roof
over their heads began "squatters
invasion. They moved cl masse into
any available vacant pre- nseS-Army
huts, half-fnished houses government
buildings, luxury flats.
Inspired by British Communists, the
suuatters number more than 10000 and
their number is growing every day
They have even taken over Castle Roy
in Scotland, a wing of an English priS-
on and two huge SWaIky London
apartment buildings, held vacant by
the government, capable of housing
1000 persons.
The Labor government, elected on a
platform of naturalization of basic
industries, began legal action to evlct
SquattcrS from private property.
Despite labor and material short
ages. the British housing drive is gain
ing momentum. Traditional building
methods still predominant but the
Home Ministry is pushing construction
of concrete and prefabricated steel
housing developments.
Said the London EUening NelUS
For months government department;
have held, but not used, premises in.
tended to be residential . now come!
retributiOn.'
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20

vorrd a republic 3.%DllG0 10 III 900
The ratio Was decisive, % 70 L. There
were no anti-mona:chjs' riots during
the election campaign a. in Italy and
Greece A regency had ruled for Sim
cor, only son of the late King Boris III
and Queen Ioann2, and it was the Sy5-
tom Bulgarians hated, not their boy
king.
Simeon, who speaks five languages,
helped his mother pack for exile. He
was glad, he said, that he soon would
see his grandfather, former King Vic
tor Emanuel of Italy, and many other
relatives in Egypt, traditional refuge
for CXilcd mOnarChs.
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20

In place of the absent Palestine
Arabs were delegates from the Arab
states of Saudi Arabia, Transjordan,
Egypt, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon and
Iraq.
Britain opened by asking for dis
cusson of the plan for 'federaliza-
ton" of the Holy Land, drafted by a
commission of Anglo-American ex-
perts, but stressed that it was not
committed to the proposal and that
the Arabs could suggest amendments
OF other prOpOsaiS.
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
Royalty
Over The Hill to Egypt

Nine -year-old King Simeon II, blue
eyed schoolboy king Of Bulgaria for
the last three years, became the latest
of Europe's dWindllng royalty to lose
his throne. The 69-ycar-ojd rule of the
House of Coburg, during which Bull
garia lost three wars and suffered
countless casualties. ended with last
Sundays plcbisci;@ when voters ia
Milford chronicle., 1946-09-20
POLISH PLANNING
PORT DENELOPMENT

GDINIA. Poland a. L. The
government and maritime cnei-
ncrrs for the ports Uf GNdnla
and t;danSk have outlined Il de
Nrlopncnt program To proNld"
facilities for unloading l.oo", M"
IONS of goods per month.
Engineers reported that the
former German port Of Stcttin.
now Szczccin. should he hand
lIng hctcWcn 2O0.0 and 3j0. .nou
tons of cargo per month in l9t7