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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15
Governors Of United States A Composite Picture of the Average Chief Exe-
 cutive of the Various States.
By TALBOT ODELL, Staff Writer Waterbury Democrat Washington Service Bureau

members of the armed forces of the United States, or as ofilcials par- ticipat.ng In such war activities as admtnistrati Of the draft or Of war industries. Three governors were in the U. s. army during the Spanish American war and the Mexican border campaign and hail dozen others served with, or are members of, the National Guard, Naval Reserve or Reserve officers Training Corps.
 Gov. Hurley Saw Sub Service
 Five governors served in the army air corps. Gov. Frank M. Dixon of Alabama flew as an observer and machine gunner, was shot down and later was decorated with the Cro!x de duerre with Palm, Chevalier Le- zion of Honor and Order of the Purple Heart. Gov. Spessard L. Holland of Florida shot down two enemy planes, was siot down once himself and was decorated by Gen. eral Peyshing with the Distinguish cd Service Cross. Governor Robert H. Hurley of Connecticut served III 6 submarine in the .. s. Navy.
 Many of the governors have hob- b!es ard with most Of them It Is hunting, fishing or other sports; but Gov. Keen Johnson Of Ken- lucky collects pipes; Gov. Sumner Sewell of Maine collects early bale loon pictures and Gov. Murray Van WaRoner of Michigand state that his hobby Is photography.
 Twenty-eight governors are Dem- ocrats and twenty are Republicans
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

time 1t was spanned by planes. He had been working on the Idea of flying the Atlantic in 1917, but America's entry into the war post poned the plan. When the flight was finally made, Towers own plane was forced down in fog at sea, slight- ly damaged. He managed to keep 1t afloat for 52 hours and, without charts, guided only by his knowledge of currents and wind, he taxied his plane 200 miles to the Azores.
 Next, he was threatened with retirement over eye trouble. A Congressman who publicly threat. ened to "tear the hide off the Navy Department on the floor of the House" if Towers was retired didn't need to carry out the threat because of Q successful operation.
 Passed over for promotion to rear admiral in 1898, Jack Tow CTS was selected by President Roosevelt while still captain to haed the Nays Aeronautics Bu- reau. Then he received his rear admiralcy.
 Success in overcoming 50 many obstacles did not 90 to his head. He Is still c shy man, but his blue eyes look with disconcerting directness ct the person to whom he Is talk ing. He Is fair skinned and his blonde hair Is graying. The skies are his real leement, but his soft south ern brawl identifies hi mas Georgia born.
 As the NavySs flying chief, Ad- miral Towers spends most of his time in the air, and when he comes down to earth he gives the impress sion of never quite settlnig on It. There Is on ordinary flat-topped desk In his Navy Department office here, but he never uaeS 1t. He reads hls correspondence, signs letters mad orders, studies reports standing be- froe c high mahogany table which looks like an oversize drafting board.
 He hasn't had much free time lately, but when he can, he flies down to Palm Beach to join hls family, play 6 little golf, walk with hiS Sed0te Scott!es (MacTav- ish and Cinders) and enjoy the people his wife entertains. Ills daughter, who recently married "in the Navy" and his son are btoh children of his first marriage. PILOT LICENSE
 NUMBER 2
 Tho Navy's "No. 1 Filler" has al- ways had Q low number. Four
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

that the Chief was holding his coat for him.
 Gen Emmons B . little under six feet tall, is slender, with hori. zon-searching blue eyes and curly white hair. He stoops a little when he walks. He says he thinks he looks as army officers are supposed to look in civilian clothes; "a little dowdy and united" Actually he dresses well, although conservative ly. A steel-grey, double-breasted suit, with blue foulard tie and white linen is a typical choice.
 Mrs. Emmons paints and plays the violin equally well, and the General enjoys her talents but he says I'm just a listener. don't know much about such things" FIRST TO ARRIVE,
 LAST TO LEAVE
 General Emmons is the first oiis to arrive in the morning at his of- flee in the Administration Building at Boiling Field near Washington, and the last one to leave at night. He says, T never like to leave any, thing on my desk" His speech is clipped and precise and he likes his words to look that way on paper. If 6 letter with Tong sentences and elaborate clauses Is given to him to sign, he red-pencils about half Of 1t and asks to have 1t written down to the size Of his style.
 At the Field he spends the n1orn- ing reading reports, sometimes calls for his official car and goes In town to the War Department for confer ences. He lunches usually at the Ohicers Club Ito talk business"
 At 53 he is the Ariny's youngest Lieutenant General. He graduated from West Point with commission in the Infantry. In 1917 he quali- fled as @ pilot, and his recollection of his first solo flight is that he was "oyerconfident." There were only 70 fliers in the Army then, and 100 planes. Emmons says of the forces he commands today, We have the skeleton. Now we need to put the fat on." He was attached to the Aviation section Of the Signal Corps l TOT Ukl6 QuEdttOLL VI UkiO AAcV VSAN War, and then studied at Harvard Maxwell Field, and the Army Schools at Fort Leavenworth.
 He doesn't consider his air ad. ventures worth talking about. anc skips over what he calls minor &C., cidents" he has had. He was ex. cited about his command of 8 flight of flying fortresses' to South American republics, and more re- gently about the two months he spent in England observing offen- sive and defensive tactics In the thick of bombardments.
 He was promoted to command the Army Air Force two years ago. and if the United States is at war, he will be wherever the major part of the air forces are, responsible for marshaling them in the same way the commander of the ground forces organizes troop movements It wouldn't surprise his officers in the least to see their Chief at the controls in c flight.
 TOMORROW: Admiral Hus-
 band E. Klmmel-"CINCUS."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Point( was turned down three times because of his eyes, finally made 1t just one year before the U. s. en. tered the World War,
 Admiral Towers was turned down for Annapolis and went to Georgia Tech for two years until his application was reconsidered and he was admitted to the Naval Academy. This was only the first of 6 series of tmies when Jack" Towers was almost lost to the Navy.
 In 1912, when planes were not equipped with safety belts nor pi- lots with parachutes, he was rid- ing with another navy man in Q two -seater, open cockpit plane. The ship hit an air pocket ct about l700 feet and both men were bounced out. The pilot was killed, but Towers clung to Q strut on the planes wing and floated down with ti. He escaped with out fatal injuries. After that, the Navy adopted safeyt belts.
 FORCED DOWN
 IN FOG AT SEA
 Then there was the time in 1919 that Jack Towers led the flight of NC-4's across the Atlantic-the first
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Rev. James Woods, genial assistant pastor at ss. Peter and Paul Church, Is friend of every boy in the parish and rightly so for he's the man who sees to It ages should get. Father Woods is chaplain and com.
 tteeman for the parish Boy Scout Troop, one of the up-and-coming units of Mattatuck Council Right now the boys need uniforms and their beloved chaplain be- leves there many former Boy Scouts who have uni
 forms tucked away in the closet for keeps These would certainly be appreciated by the SS Peter and Paul lads if you have any equipment such hats, bouses hand kerchiefs the like won't you donate them to these lads? Just be kind enough to give Father Woods phone call
 or drop him postal and he'll see to 1t they're collected
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Bruce H. Booker and Joseph Guglott, privates with Company at Camp Banding F1a are the only Brass City products selected for the newyorganzed New Eng land 43d Division Gee Club at the southern army slte Booker is second tenor and Gugotti first tenor n the Waterburans were among the IF boys selected from 450 applicants Of those selected only AS from Con- necticut However they will have to continue to be i'm pressve, for Lieut. Colonel A. Lambdn, former director of the New London Oraoro Society for 10 years going to the pruning knife within the next few weeks to in Florida have already secured the group for concerts
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: I'm sure many of your Rood readers are Gilbert and Sullivan fans and would be grateful to you for notifying them of performance of of the famous G. & S. operettas in this vicinity St. Johns Young Peoples Glee Club will persent "The Johns Young Peoples Glee Club will present "The shortened version but will be the whole works and for 'Non-Ads" show The cast numbers about 35 and have been directed by Alvin A. Wooster organist Of st. Michaels Church, Naugatuck Stop in and give us the once over. Two passports enclosed. Sincerely, Les Shepard (Second from the left in the chorus! :. (Saw "Pnafore presented years ago by St. Johns and if presenday performers good should be rare treat for the city.-The Ed)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

gers, but he travels with only Q pi- lot and co-pilot who is also his aide. Usually the co-pilot is the passen- ger, because Gen. Emmons can't be in tine air long before he goes for- ward to take the stick in his own hand. He has piled up 4000 pilot hours since he got his wings.
 Taking his turn at the controls to relieve his, pilots on long flights is typical of the General. When he is grounded" iil his Boiling Field office, he never summons his subordinates with buzzers and tele- phones. If he wants them, he gets up and leaves his office to 90 to theirs. If there is e queue before the check-room at his club, he gets in line to wait his turn instead of sending 8 junior officer to fetch his hat and coat. More than one sec- ond lieutenant has been startled out of his respectful dignity to find
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Prfyates Paul Rabbto and A. A. Humphrey of Camp Wheeler Macon, Georgia, are the exact image of one another so much so everyone at camp takes them for twin brothers. Since they've met they become fast friends Each weighs 160 pounds and stands i've teet Service at Hartford few months back where they met for the first tne They sleep in the same barracks at Camp Wheeler where they are members of Company
 of the eighth battalion and believe 1t not they both court the same girl. They look so much age they're seriously thinking of going into vaudeville in 1922 as the new pair of Siamese twins Rabbito halls from this city while Humphrey is a New Haven lad.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

MT. and Mrs. James Crichton are counting the days now until Thursday evening, May 29 when they'll trek to New York City to catch the early evening broadcast of the Chesterfield program starring Fred Waring and his Pennsyvanias Jim secured the ducats through the courtesy of R. B. Fleming assistant secretary of the Fifth Avenue Company {. :. :. Rudy Majewski pub lie relations officer for St. Stanislaus Young Mems Club honors the Tower with complimentary tickets for the dance his group will sponsor tomorrow evening at Belleview Park featuring the Kosciusko Radio Orches tra The Polish lads hope to make these hops weekly events so everything hinges the outcome of tomor rows offering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

years after he graduated from An- napolis he asked for aviation duty and was turned over to Glenn Cur tiss for instruction. He was the Navys third pilot.
 Soon after he got his wings, he set an endurance record of six hours and ten minutes. The Navy did not have an aviation field at that time and young Towers stayed on for Q while at Curtiss Camp as Q test pilot. When the navy built a flying field ct Annapolis, Towers was sent there to take charge. La- ter, when the Pensacola school was established, he was made executive officer there.
 Admiral Towers considers battle- ships and airplanes equally indis- penslble supplements to one anoth- CT, and Is therefore against an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15
HICKEY TO ATTEND
 AID CONFERENCE

George r. Cohen of Hartford, chairman of the speakers commit. tee for the First Aid Conference at the University of Connecticut on June i3 and i4, announced today that Edward J. Hickey, Comnais- sioner of State Police, will be one of the principal speakers on the program of the conference.
 Commissioner Hickey as head of his department has done much to interest the public in First Aid measures and also in arranging am. bulance service for rural areas of the state. Ills long experience In DO. lice work has provided him with Q wealth of anecdotal material mak. ing him one of the most sought after speakers in the state today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Army. Navy air force comparable to the R. A. r. "A naval aviator is part of a teain,' he says If he doesn't practice with the team, he won't know the signals"
 OFTEN HIS OWN CO.PILOT
 Like Admiral Towers, Gen. Em- mons, the Army's Number One fiier, is most at home in the air. A part of each week he is Ion the road" which means he's flying to every corner of the United States. He visits every air base ct least once every three months. When he travels, he dresses in uniform and takes enough civilian clothes so he can come down in northern Michi- gan or the tip of Florida and be comfortable. His Douglas C-42 transport plane carries thre passen-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Mr. and Mrs. Leone Andria of Town Plot honor your correspondent with an invitation to the wedding of their daughter Margaret, to Richard F. Turcotte former leather singer Saturday morning. May 31, at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel at o'clock St. Mary's Senior C.YO. Girls softball team send along pair of Annie Oakes for the sport dance they will sponsor at Concordia Hall Friday evening, June IS, featuring Bob Lowrys orchestra. Thank girls Mrs. Anna Cyr of State Street. loveable local Avon representative, is opening her mail at the Water bury Hospital after undergoing major operation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15
AERIAL NEwsBoY ON JOE

Sydney, Australia - (U.P9 - The aerial newsboy has arrived. An issue of the New Zealand Herald was delivered at the front door of the residence of the manager of the cable station at lonely Norfolk Is- land on the day 1t was published. It was the first time Norfolk Island had read news which was only 6 few hours old.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Lieutenant Neil J. Doyle Army chaplain at Camp Blanding, Florida, and former assistant to Rev. Edward L. Morrison at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament tried playing the cOrnet for the first time in IS years at mpromptu party arranged by Colonel Kenneth F. Kramer, 169th Infantry Regiment conn mander, at the camp the other day He also led the boys in a community sing and our special camp porter claims the popular priest should forget he took cornet lessons After Father Doyle got the boys i'm the mood he held singing bee of Irish melodies which the campers claimed turned out to be the best fellowship and entertaining affair they have yet enjoyed in the sunny south.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15
WAR CHIEFS
BY GERRY DICK NEA Service Staff Correspondent

Washington airplane being the cradle is not surprising to find two comparatively the U. and D. air forces.
 commanding general of the air 63 His counterpart Admiral chief the beay of aeronaucs only three years older.
 The air forces nearly missed both men, Gen. Emons tried to transfer graduation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15
BLOSSOM TIME

BLOSSOM TIME Blossom time, blossom time
 All about our states; queens crowned, may-pole dances, A thousand and one different fetes Down in the Shenandoah valley To Maryland and Delaware they reach As well as full bloom in Connecticut Of apple, cherry and peach Blossom tlme blossom time,
 Delicate pink and white; It isn't raining rain to me,
 It's raining blossoms light.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-05-15

Q whose Job s the intimately to life series of six cOlorfu informative articles written Waterbury fourth article.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-12-26
TOKYO GLOATs OVER HONGKONG VICTORY

TOKYO - Hongkong, century old British crown colony off the China coast. was in Japanese hands last night after a 19-day onset against the colony and II days attack on it's island stronghold. Japanese radio broadeasts of the imperial headquar- ters announcement described the conquest as a glorious Christmas present to the Japanese nation and said that in effect the British had retreated more than 1000 miles to the next outpost at Singapore. Domei, Jap news agency, reported that two British nOncombatants brought the Japanese a message from Sir Mark Young. British gov ernor of the colony, five hours be- fore the actual surrender. In that message. Domei reported, the Cover nor said he was not yet willing to surrender. He had rejected earlier a Japanese ultimatum. After the sur render, Domei said, Sir Mark went to the peninsulas hotel at Kowloon. across Victoria harbor from Hong kong. for a conference on terms with Japanese officials.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-12-26
RED D#FRONT
lBY Associated Preal

MOsCOW-Front line dispatches today acknowledged stiffening Ger man resistance to the Russian counter offensive on the Moscow Leningrad and Ukraine front and in the far southern Crtmean theater a fierce battle ragged as the Germans stroye to batter their way through the last defenses of Sevastopol.
 By Russian count, at least 2000 Germans were killed in a furions six-day battle which the Russians said failed to crack their stubborn before Sevastopol Else where the Russians acknowledged that the retreating Germans had re- eoiled counter attacks which. though strong, failed to halt the Soviet ad- yances and incurred only new and heavy losses. particularly on the north and south Hanks Of the Mos COW defense area.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-12-26
WAR.
lRY Associated Pressl

LONDON - Hongkong.s last ditch defense has broken under relentless assault by land. sea and air and the crown colony has fallen to the Jap anese. So ends a great fight against overwhelming odds. the British col onial office said last night, an nouneing the surrender. It said no further resistance was possible. The announcement said lack of water was one of the great handicaps of the defenders. It added the courage and determination of the royal navy and troops from Britain, Canada and India as well as local volunteers units. including many Chinese. will long be remembered.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-12-26
CH U C HILL

WASHINGT0N-President Roos- eyelt introduced his distinguished guest, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, to a typical American Christmas dinner last night They ats turkey. chestnut dressing with giblet gravy and cranberry jelly topped off with plum pudding and coffee. Tn cir table-mates included Mrs. Roosevelt, Crown Prince 0lav and Crown Princess Martha of Nor way, Lord Halifax, the British Am bassador, and Lady Halifax and Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's minis ter of supply.
 Churchill arrived in Washington two days earlier by airplane to go over Allied war strategy, presum- ably having crossed the ocean by boat The passage had been kept secret and all the world had noted his absence from London, Tokyo, London and Rome particularly re- porting him in all parts of the world, most prominently in Africa.
 Churchill and the President in interviews with news men stressed the importance of the Allied plans being worked on a worldwide scale to definitely defeat Hitlerism. Chur- chill, a veteran newsman of former wars himself, said in reply to a ques- tion of how long he thought the war would last, just half as long if VIC do a good job than if We do a poor one"
 The President emphasized that all powers fighting the Axis would sit in on the conferences for Allied strategy although it was indicated Washington and London would take the leading role.
 Christmas morning the two states attended devotional services, heard a plea for the world to return to the love of God so that Christmas in the future might not be wrapped in flames and hatred. The two world leaders worsbiped at Boundary Methodist church, one mile from the White House.
 Today Churchill addressed a joint session of Congress
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-12-26
THINGS ALIEN ENEMIES ARE NOT PERMITTED TO
 HAVE IN POSSESSION

Under the "ailen enemy recently proclaimed by President Roosevelt, copy of which has just been received by officials here, alien enemy under this proclamation pertains to Japan ese who are not citizens of this country. The act has since been ex- tended to include Germans and Ital- ians.
 No alien enemy can enter or de- part from Alaska except under such rules and regulations at the [. s. At torney General may prescribe. and no alien enemy shall have in his possession, custody or control at any time or place firearms; weapons or implements of war or component parts thereof; ammunition; bombs; explosives or material used in the manufacture of explosives; short wave radio receiving sets; signal de vices; codes or ciphers; cameras or papers, documents or books in which there may be invisible writ ing. All such property wound in pos session of an alien is subject to seizure.
The Wrangell sentinel., 1941-12-26
AMERICAN COMMANDER
 PRAISES SAILORS FOR
 PEARL HARBOR DEFENSE

HONOLULU-The fiercest Of Jap ans attack on Pearl Harbor has convinced an American naval off cer that the nonchalant courage and determined initiative of American sailors make them more than a match for the enemy his officer Lieutenant Commander, whose command shot down a Japanese dive bomber. said in a statement released by the Navy how the conduct of "our men under fire would measure up to the highly cultivated fanati- cal zeal exhibited by Nipponese rat ings. After observing the calm, al- most nonchalant courage and the determined initiative tempered with sense that the American enlisted men showed during the recent at tack there is no doubt in my mind of our superiority or that our sys- tenn of training is correct"