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Page Four NAUGATUCK DAILY NEWS THURSDAY; AUGUST 3, 1944 Published Every Kvi-nlnjf (Except Sunday) by THE NAUGATUCK NEWS CORPORATION NAUGATUCK, CONNECTICUT All Entered us second class muttm- at the post office in Niuigatuck, Conn, JOE'S POSTWAR PLANS rwulor today olTri's us letter from a in forces, it is one inan's opinion, hut ui' rather ijf'iiL'i'iil interest: will nil tile postwar In. 1 liy homo of' 1J.UOO,- -OlK) Of It'Jou's political, sucial and uconuiTiif cuiivii'tiuiis iiro c-orreeliy anticipated, it oiiy'lit to In; possible to work out plans Unit will stick. Plans which do not lake convictions into considoj-a- tiou are to be rovisc-d drastically by liirri shortly lie trades uiiit'umi for civvies. million plus the 1 ii'iY-ater number thc-y in- j'litOTico tan just about do as they pk-ase our democracy it' they clioosc to act together. "'Politic-ally, will oxpr-cl United States participation in world affairs.

He has lived in just about every country on earth since December 7, 11)41. 'Mis association with other peoples and countries is 'hound to on largo his understanding and make him aware of the elementary needs of the world Family of human builds, "Socially," Soviet 'Russia's great contributions to (lie coining Allied victory have justly excited deep regard and respect. will expect, probably demand unprejudiced information on aims and accomplishments. T-Io will not l)f afraid to weld new -worthwhile ideas into his own previous conceptions of democracy. Kcononiically, is not likely to accept mass unemployment as inevitable in a nation where abundant raw rnateri- nls, an adequate production plant and practically thorn I ess needs are all present.

He expects an opportunity to achieve a reasonable'dog-rcc of economic security." These, adds onr youny fig'liliiift 1 friend, nre the jjonenil outlines of thinking-. He warns us to keep them in mind' nsVe -work on plans for postwar living. With iiever-endiiii? defeats abroad and arrests and murder at homo, Germany must be a cheerful place to Jive in. SUBSCRIPTION KATES In Advance 1 month "5 months S-l-0 3 months 1 year tO-CO The United Press has the exclusive right to use tor rcpublication In any form, all news dispatches credited to this papi-r. It Is also exclusively entitled to use for rcpubllcntlon all the locul and undated published herein, J'TiiillGK TO TIIK FI.AG—"I ulli 1 Khmer tn tint Flan tin; United SttiloH vt stinrrk'it mill to the Jli'iiiilillo for which It iliiiKlN.

Our niitiun ImlivUiMi', with Liberty uiKl for nil." TIIUKSIIAV. AUGUST lull RUBBISH DISPOSAL SITE WANTED board oi' warden and burgesses is having' plenty ut' trouble in try- to find a placu for the dump- of I'Libbish. I'se of site after another lias been refused, and at the lime of this writing Uie bonnigh has no-place in which to dispose of its rubbish. This is a situation which may become serious unless a dumping ground is secured within a short time. One of the objections which property owners have to permitting the boruiigb to use their Jantl for that purpose is the danger from tile fires that are started on a public dump and the smoke nuisance and smeJl caused by the fires.

Purinir a discussion of.the situation at the meeting of iho borough board Tuesday night. Warden Leo J. explained that it is necessary to burn the rubbish as a health measure, due to contaminated materials, and to control the infestation of rats in the area. If sornt-one who has lowlands he wants filled in anil whose site is so situated that no o'lfcjeftion can be offered against its use for rubbish disposal will offer it to the borough fathers, he will be cmcd 'with open arms by the officials In whom the disposal problem is both a nightmare and headache. DO YOU REMEMBER? From The Files Of The News 20 Years Ago Gencyiove and Anna Nash Rubber avenue, returned from a vacation on the bench at Bay View in Milt'onJ, 0 Walter Clark, Harry Nottleton, Milton Currington, and Oini-l Vcnton or Beacon Falls were eligible for jury duty.

30 Years Ago Jennie Condon and. Mrs. James-Newman were de'egatoH from St. Ccculins to attend the state meeting of the TAB. Alternates were Alice Fnrrcn and Kitty O'Shca.

Mrs. Arthur Smith and son were visiting- rola- tivuH in Jersey City, Lillian Anderson of Walnut was in Washington, for a visit. ANOTHER POST WAR PROBLEM Around the Clock Fred Davi, Naugatuck promotional im- pressario, who is behind the Waterbury Brasscos in the Saturday night ball games in the Brass City is said to be trying to sign Junior Thompson, former Cincinnati Reds pitcher, now stationed at the Coast Guard base at New London to hurl against the Cuban Colored Giants this week. Thompson is really a great pitcher and if he comes to Waterbury, fans are really going to see a job of hurl- ling. sri S- Friends Believe Wallace Will Get Important Post WASHINGTON Henry Agard Wulluco may have been dumped as President Roosevelt's running mate for the fourth term, but his friends aro predicting he will turn up smiling in n.n important, government post if the Democrats are victorious again in November.

Berths mentioned for Wallace, include tho ambassadorships to either Russia or China or some roving assignment for the president. Despite Roosevelt's failure to give strong support to Wallace at the Democratic national convention, the vice president's supportfirs are- certain that l.ho. shaggy-haired, idealistic is still White house favorite and would command much attention in the assignment of an important wartime or postwar diplomatic post. Observers recall that Wallace has been virtually hound dog faithful to the president even in tho face of biting White House criticism of some of his statements and' the yalso remember that Roosevelt has Riven Wallace a double endorsement in recent months. irirst was the sendoff accorded Wallace by the president upon departure for Russia and Second was the White House letter to the Democratic convention in which the president said: "If I were a delegate, etc." Production Goals For 1' Army Falling' Behind Schedules Special to Central in the Army's supply schedule Hence, the warnings of th lary that production goals been met.

For the first half year, only 1G per cent of the schedules achieved. I -WPB's accounts of VJ duction performances, the says, are bused on month predictions to be ntujined in that month. aro not bafced on the Army's and do not reflect accomplishn measured against the ovsr-all gram laid down at the the year. High military officials are' cerned because they know ihat linal grand assault against many wifT consume war.matt in unprecedented quantities. warn that the small month in production cumulative.and are not 'being mi6 up.

For example, truck production i expected to SO.OOO vehicles shon of Army'requirements if the pre- ent lags continue for the of the year. You're Telling Me! Uy WII-I-FAM KITT (Ontral I-rcsn Writer) Docyan and Barrio Smith ro- in a joust oT tennis at K'oeroation field. Miss an old band at l.ho Bailie Mr. Smith eonlly Looking at Life lessons that no doubt be very hclp- 1:0 him in the I'lutherance ol' his tennis education M.i's. iriorenee Par- rou' j'aniily of have romt-ved to London, (o mako their home with the head ('he family.

Chief John Far row, veteran of two wars, who has been yiven permanent shore dn.ty at ibe Na'val base in that oily. Mrs. Karrow is the Miss of Nan and she and her family have been residing here for the past several years during which time Chief Torpodoman Farrow did a long stretch of active submarine iu the South west Pacific war x.ono. Mr. and Mrs.

Anthony Limone of 114 Hill street will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on Sunday, August 6th. Open house will be held for friends and relatives of the well known local couple from 3.to 9 o'clock on Sunday. Cngratulations, on this very happy event! While Walter Winchell is away, this month, his column will be conducted by guest columnists. of a- By EKICII I didn't feel like going to the' office this morniiiK arid decided to write a beautiful column for you home, My desk looks out upon the gor- den naturally, with all beauty in front of me, I ought to Ket some wonderfully inspiring ideas. see, what shall I write about? Love? Flowers? Yup, I have boon beating my way Contentment? through the world of music for "Pardon me a moment," says my twenty-five years now.

wife as she comes- quickly into the! Always, since that day in Man Talking About Himself By PAUL WHITEMAN THE POSSIBILITY of .1 sudden German defeat has left many Washington observers wondering whether the Allies have a full- fledged plan for occupation and control of Germany in the wake of unconditional surrender terms. Some fear thai Germany, now: admittedly in the throes of iis-most important internal crisis of the war, may be plunged into the same confusion that overtook Italy that war-guilty criminals may escape, temporarily, as did Mussolini, and that anarchy may rule the land. The situation is one of iho most pressing which besets Washington. HITLER is not or.ly losing ill-gotten "lebonsra.i:m" but, out Zadok Dumkopf, he even Elba room any more. i thrifty Scotland three kj gos arc Well, they ft money ta.lks.

THIS SUMMER of 13-M happens to be my silver jubilee anniversary. room. "May moment?" I disturb you just 1 a I say hi not too plcas- "Go on." lories. "1 bought a chicken, dear," she tells me. "Would you like it fricasseed or think.

I answer: "Fricasseed." Let mo see. What was I to write Love? Flowers? Youth? Contentment? My wife returns. "Oh, I forfrot, dear," she says with honey i'ii. voice, while poi- when my first, nine-piece Jaix Band made its debut -the Alexandra Hotel in L.OS Angeles. I havo aimed at fostering the kind of music 'whichMs completely' American, at glorifying the works of American composers and giving them a place in the sun.

What our little- band had to sell then "symphonic ragtime with the kinks ironed out of it. Mary Pickford was at the Alexandra that opening" iiight, nr.d so wore Douglas Fairbanks, Rudolph Valentino. Wallace Reid. son is in my heart. "Would you like! Charlie Chaplin and many another your rice just plain or browned in Mv Larry and "Don" Lovinc of the United States Enhhcr, Co.

Mill Lahoratory Division aro their annual vacation. Larry is an instructor in the hiivh school, and clonhles up on a war joh hero while "Don" is Iho head of a Church street music store, Vicside.s his full lime job Marion also of the "lab" lias a dormiril.is of (lie arms, a very painful skin condition similar to poison ivy, that Jia.s iho yoiiny lady's two arms wrapped up in a cocoon fashion Charley Kichardson. fumier chemist, hero is now associated with the Armstrong Tire 'Rubber Co. of New Haven. Miss Eleanor Harrison of Quinn street, local G.

C. Murphy Co. office worker, is enjoying her annual vacation Mr. and Mrs. Carmen Bozzano of High street were recent visitors in 5 New York city.

Mrs. Bozzano has received word that her nephew, Private William Capadino of the United States Army, former Naugatuck resident, has arrived in Italy with an American army unit. Mrs. Harold Sunblade, well known Park avenue resident, is spending the week at Bantam Lake. olive oil the way 'you liked it so much the other "Browned in olive I say, without a moment's ilioaitation.

Love? Flowers? Youth? Contentment? Ajrain. my w'ife's dulcet voice. Don't you want a vegetable witfl your fricassee? How' would broccoli suit you'?" "Oh, I exclaim, and unfortunately wife thought that I meant that as. my choice of vegetable. Now the phone ring-s.

A real' estate woman tolls me all a-bout a wonderful house she for I hang up, madder thun a wet, hen. Love? Flowers? Youth? Contentment? Deuce, my dog, is coming to my desk. He plops his wet ball into my lap and wants to play. "Get away," I say; "I want to work." Tail between his legs, ball in his mouth, he slinks out, telling me with his eyes that I'm 'just a f-' ot tllom on billboards as The Rhythm Boys movie nouible of bygone days. They spread the good word about us and wo clicked.

From then on in, we were a lot less leery about doing experimental stuff. search for the and exciting in American music and musicians has led me into plenty' of blind and dead-end streets, but' more frequently the results have made musical history. Two Unknown Hing Crosliy There was the time in Los Angeles when I hud an evening to kill at movie Grauman's Chinese was handy, so dropped in. I wasn't in the mood for vaudeville, and particularly was not in' the mood for the two gangling boys who ambled out onto the stage and draped- themselves in front of a battered piar.o. Eut when those kids started to sing, I listened, Two days later I had lured them away from vaudeville.

teamed' them with Harry Earis of my orchestra, and plain dope. Tim maid comes "Luncheon, is 't'hc says, I-go-in and oat in an abstracted sort of way, nil the time thinking of love, flowers, youth, and what a gosh darn o.n- noying- placu home cnn.be when you really should be. somewhere else. So I dressed and am "taking tho.l:OS train' to tihe office. And you won't get any love, flow- One difference -between Hitler and Napoleon is that N'apoleon never got himself into a fix where he had to shoot his best generals.

The amateur contest last week-end, at the St Heil-witr's carnival ended in a draw, with the co-winners of! the high school group "'so the 'grand prize. The comedy dancing team Kay Bernacki and Kay Kncxynski shared honors with Stanley Zaputka, vocalist. Both acts were good, the audience 'showing its apprecititio?) giving both a deafening hand, Tnci don tally, Rev. John S. assistant pastor, and chairman of the carnival committee, has announced that tfie t'nn and frolic will continue for another week-end, by popular demand.

However, this will definitely be the last two days, so get down for a good time. contentment today! from me (Copyright, 194-1, King Features. Syndicate, Inc.) Rubber Contour Maps Guide Invasion Forces New' York 1 rubber contour -of -enemy country and fortifications were -stuflicd by invasion forces who unrolled them in landing boats just before H- hour. Herbert Smith, president of. the United States Rubber siid the rubber maps w'erc'lirst used to 1 guide Gen.

Mark Clark's divisions in 1 the landings'at Salerno, Information for the map's is' gathered from all possible he and- -brought to dato- by aerial photography. First a model -is- built, '-Smith explained, and from the model plaster ncgatiyc is cast, with'' mountains showing as depressions. The -rubber 1 sprayed, dried and cured on 'the? cast, he said. "The maps are highly success- 1 said. men learn' from them where the concealment of the.

enemy is most likely and where they-carrioxholc with the'. most safety." You've about those boys since. One was Al Rinker, the other Harry Lillis Crosby, bettor known as I found Mildred Bailey in a Angeles honkny-'-onk. She couldn't got a-decent job for two reasons: she was too heavy for- a glamor- and she hod a way of singing a song that none of the tradition- haunted bands would touch. Her overweight- certainly didn't bother your.

rotund correspondent, I signed her. Bix Bicdcrbecke, the jazz immortal, wandered into-a rehearsal one day and asked if I would please hear him play. I hoard him, and signed him. Bi.x' tragic I death was -a blow to the music world. We played in his home town a few years afterwards, and it was a race as to who would break down members of the audience or the members of the orchestra.

The Dorscy Brothers, Benny Goodman, Matty Malneck, Jack Tcagardcn, Jane Froman, Henry Bussc, Ramona and dozens of others were with me. early in their artists who add to the reputation of American music. -The composers do more-than- their part, too. There usetl to be a fellow in my bond named excellent musician. with only one bad liabii.

He incurred the anger of every restaurateur- in every town the band vi.sit.od by scribbling musical notes tablecloths. I urged 1 him to use manuscript paper instead. He did, and out of those manuscripts came "Theme and Variation on Noises in a Garage," which I introduced at Carnegie Hall in 1926. -'Grand Canyon Suite," "Mardi Gras," and the other Grofc modern classics. Sometimes it was easy to jret composers to work, other times it was tough.

Tn one case, that of George Gershwin, it was just a matter of building up self-confidence in talented boy who had been kicked from pillar to post, by the hard- boiled denizens of Tin Pan Alley. Gershwin, was an obscure flunky for a song-publishing firm when I met him. He turnea out dozens of songs, but no one would touch were too unusual, too unfamiliar to fit into the standard groove. I tried to encourage this germ of originality in the young composer, suggesting that ho try his hand at something moro ambitious than a ballad. result was "Rhapsody in Blue." My band introduced this together with Zez Congrcy's "Kitten on the Keys" and four Victor Herbert Serenades, at Aeo- lia.n Hal! in February, 1324.

We the evening "An Experiment In Modern Music." It turned out to be a noble experiment, one that affected the entire course of American music. There was Robert Katschcr, whom I met in Vienna. I liked him tremendously and he helped mo get over that awful shock of discovering that the Blue Danube isn't blue at all but a very muddy brown, Katscher had this tune caflcd "Madonna" that he wanted me to play. I rearranged the number and 'surprised hfm one night by including it in one of my con- THE BATTLE OF THE LAWYERS in ihe government's mass sedition trial, continues unabated in Washington's sultry wartime summer. Nerves aro getting thin, and no end is in sight for the legal battle- royal being fought ir.

Jusiicc Ed-' ward C. Eicher's bandbox court-' room. Best bat is the trials will- drag on late into the fall. IX ALL TKI3 TALK of "cutbacks" and reconversion, orn? fact has gone unnoticed. This is the in- 1 crease of nearly one billion-dollars SeifiitKts.

says an exoliangfil hearts witli no ill of Didn't they even crotk! Germans refer to Eisenhower is "cr.nngi;.-er-f'ice<3," forgetting il's Adolf and not who has taking them for a ride. There are varieties of grsa Factographs. Yes, bur moss Oxandpappy Jenkins, not one of them a. self-mowing ki-nd. It's odd how GoririiU! tol.

uhlc to resist the- temptation to aim one of bot flying homhs In the dirocthi of Berclilesgudcn. Rommel, says report, is sick Homesick, the peso -ind quiet of. old El "There are almost five acres of forest -land in the U. S. for each and child.

plenty of mistakes, more care to remember, One of 1 a the time I hired a green youngster named Downey, merely because i in 32-bar chunks, just enough for That's how "When Day Done" was born. When this gifted composer died in Hollywood a few years ago, his last request was that we play the song at his funeral. I think he would have been pleased with the arrangement the boys gave it'that dny for it came right out of our hearts. Bach Would Re Writing Hot Jazz Have you noticed that no one apologizes for jazz anymore? For you like it or you don't, the same way you like or don't like anything else. But 1C you're open to conviction, you'll look into it, live with it lor a while, experience it and learn something about it: if.

you don't go for it, so much the worse for you. For my money I think that Bach might be tossing off jazz fuges in this very day( if he had been born in time, because there was a man who knew j-ythm. I only wish that some of our best tune-writers wouldn't think going ftps handsome Irish face, 1 I had "him sitting in the brass section-holding a saxophone (which couldn't play. beans) for months, merely for the glamor of kept asking me-to let him and I kept telling him to. go back--and tell his troubles to the saxophone.

was pcr- and I finally, broke let him warble. I should done ii. a lot sooner, Write Music On Tablecloths: a pope chorus and the royalties, which often don't come. They can always knock off that pope tune, you Why not try to do something big? But I'm not discouraged. I'm convinced that first 25 years have been the hardest and that the next quarter of a century will be a einch.

These kids who come along arc musically inclined, intelligent and- sensitive, and will brighten the picture for us. We're still looking for and we're sure to the performing And another Gershwin. Pepsi-Cola Long Island Citu. Franchisee! Bottler: Pepsi-Cola Bottling Bristol, Conn BUY WAR BONDS REYMONDS.

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