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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
ALEXANDER DAMON
 RETIRES JAN. 30
Salvation Army Losing Eastern Territory Lead=
 CT; Pugmire Successor

Major Hugo Wiberg, of the loca, corps of The Salvation Army, re- ceived word from Major zealley o1 Divisional Headquarters in Hart ford, that Commissioner Alexander M. Damon, who has been leader o1 the eastern territory, with head quarters In New York city, is tc retire January 30. Commissione, Damon, a native of Lowell, Mass. has served as Salvation Army of f1cer over fifty years, and has beer one of the Army's outstanding fig ures in the U. s. A. Major Hugo Wiberg and Lieutenant Lawrence of the local corps, are planning tc attend farewell meetings in Bos- ton. in connection with his retire ment Friday, January 12.
 Commissioner Damon visited Wat erbury last in 1897 when he spoke at Young Peoples Councils held here for the Southern New England Division. On that occasion, Rev pr. John N. Lewis, who at that time was acting chairman of the Armys advisory board. welcomed him to the city.
 To take his place at headquarters in New York, Commissioner Ernest I. Pugmire, at present leader of the Armys central territory with head quarters in Chicago, has been named.
 Commissioner Pugmire, although born in this country. became an of- f1cer in Canada, and has seen serv- Ice in Japan and China as well. Major Wiberg learned to know him and his family as g boy in Tokyo just twenty years ago.
 Colonel John J. Allen, secretary of the Eastern Territorial Public Relations Dept, who for the past year has been attached to the chief ot chaplains staff at Washington, D. O.. has been appointed territorial commander for the central states and promoted to the rank of lieut. commissioner. Colonel Allen has also visited Waterbury in the past.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
TALBOT, MONAGHAN
 TOURING DISTRICT
Candidate for Congress Booked for Speaking En-
 agreements for Week

Aldermanic President John s. Monagan, Democratic candidate for Congress in the special election Jan. 20, and his Republican rival, Commissioner Joseph E. Talbot of Naugatuck. tonight begin new per- sonal tours of the fifth district. Each will visit the 37 towns in the district one or more times between now and the election.
 MT. Monagan's schedule calls for meetings tonight with Mayor Cor nelius Caldwell of Derby and other Derby leaders, and Town Chair man Matthew Scully and Warden Leo Brophy of Naugatuck. The Naugatuck conference, to be held at the town hall, will be attended by members of the Democratic town committee.
 At Thomaston Wednesday night, MT. Monagan will meet with that towns town committee. Winsted Democrats will tender him a dinner Sunday at the Elm restaurant. Ten tat1ve plans call for the Democratic candidate to address a women's meeting in Derby Thursday night.
 MT. Talbot will speak at a lunch con of the Litchfield County Re- publican Women's associat tion at the Conley Inn, Torrington. He will speak at The Elton Friday night at meeting of the Italian Republican league. Saturday night he will speak at testimonial dinner for Alder man Peter DeCicco at The Elton and at a meeting of the Summa Re- publican club at l96 Bishop street.
 Next Monday MT. Talbot will speak in the afternoon at Wayside inn, New Milford, and in the eve ming at rally of the Waterbury Women,s Republican club at The Elton. He will be guest at a Young Republican rally in Naugatuck Tues day, the 18th. On the 17th he will speak at an Italian American club rally in Derby. His closing rally will be held at the Waterbury Hebrew institute the night before election.
 Both candidates plan a series of radio addresses during the next two weeks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
Electrical Workers
 Buy Defense Bond

Purchase of a $1,O00 defense
 bond was voted recently by members of Local B420. International Broth- erhood of Electrical Workers, com-
 posed of workers of the Connecti- cut Light 6 Power company, &C., oorddng to announcement by Floyd Kastings, president.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

ignate. Next Saturday state troopers will bring their ambulance to Water bury SO that local auto dealers may see what the legion committee has in mind as to what completely mod ernized ambulance should represent
 With less than a week to go the legion committee is sounding a final call to the public to cooperate. Wa terbury is in need of additional conveyances in anticipation of war emergencies. The ambulance will fill a community need, 50 every effort will be made to realize the quota of $5,000. Any money in excess of that amount will be utilized in the pur- chase of equipment.
 Today Dr. Vincent Shea was named chairman of a special doc tors committee and Judge T. E. Conway of lawyers committee They will call upon members of their respective professions TOT contribu- tions.
 The committee announces with a vote of thanks the receipt of over $200 from Commissioner William M. Black of the police board. He ob- tained donations ranging from his associates at the Scovill Manufactur- ing company. A contribution of $l0O credited to the Chase Brass and Copper company headlines the latest list of donors.
 Contributors include:
 Democratic Women,s Booster Club $l5; Charles Palomba, $5; North Star Lodge No. 165 F. of A. $2: American-Italian Civic Club, s5: Frank T., Healey, s5; Howard F. Tracy. 50 cents; Dan Carson, s3; Patent Button Company. $25: A. H. Wells Company, Inc, $25: T. E. Con- way. $; Employees Thin Sheet Met als Company, $50; Friend, $5; Can- adian Legion Post Mo- 94 and Can- adian Legion Auxiliary, $15.0l; Sam uel Goldman, $5; H. D. Wild, $5; C.. P. Goss, Jr., $5; F. Reuter-. $5; G.. H. Wayne, $5: R. c. Jeter, $; w. P. Ferguson, $5; Michael Wall, $; Charles Overton, $5; Lester Tender son, $; L. H. Mayshaw, $5; w. M. Black. $5; J. G. Wolff. $5; P. E. Fen ton, $5; E. D. James, $5; A. b. Patchen, $; A. P. Lusher, s5; F. R. Boucher. $5; A. c. Curtiss, $5; Chas. F. Warner, $5; w. H. Machim, $5 B. F. Johnston, $5: c. E. Borgoert, $5; H. c. Senior. $5; A. N. Rowland $5; w. E. Mcbride, $; F. s. Weiser, $5; c. P. Goss. ard, $5; R. w. Goss. s5; M. w. Lowe, $; F. J. Senior, $5; A. w. Schaff, $5;
 w. H. Hill, $500: G. H. Barlow, $500; P. J. Sullivan, $500; A. Friend. $500; V. A. Hedberg. $500; w. Bice. s2.0o; M. G. Camp. $3.0o; o. c. Curry, $2.00; J. Tucker. $100; J. F. Coffey, $1.o0; J. Carolan. $l.00: Wm. Gleason, $500; A. Hollywood, $200; M. Granoth, $200; G. Genier, $200; H. Montambault, $200: Wm. Munson. $2.oo: w. Johnson, $l.oo;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
STATE ARRANCES
 SURVEY ON CRIME
Police, Lawyers, Social Workers to Gather for COnfab in Hartford

Representatives of the Waterbury Bar, police and judiciary will attend a meeting in Hartford, January 12, marking the launching of a study of the effect upon crime, delinquen- cy and alcoholism, of the migration of defense workers to this state.
 Presiding vii be Chief Justice William M. Maltbie of the supreme court of errors, and Mrs. Dorothea s. Bowles of the state defense coun- cil, both commissioned by the coun- cil to plan the inquiry. Gov. Robert A. Hurley is expected to attend.
 Among those invited are: Walter Torrance, president of the Water bury Bar association; Municipal Court Judge Theobald E. Conway, Municipal Court Clerk Carmine Cip- riano. Probation Officer Stephen Homick and Supt. of Police William J. Roach, all of this city; and Judge Martin Came, Terrence Carmody and Michael Nolan. an of Naugatuck borough court
 Conducting the survey, which will seek to ascertain the prevalence of particular types of crime, and rec ommend measures for their elim- ination, are Dr. Neal E. Miller of Yale and Mrs. Frances Roth of the state judicial department. Assisting as volunteers will be five professors of the Yale University Institute of Human Relations: Prof. Mark A. May, Dr. Howard w. Hageard, Dr. E. Morton Jellinek, pr. John Dollard and Dr. John Whitney.
 Actual research will begin Janu- ary IS with a study, lasting two months, of crime records and case histories in the courts of Bridgeport. Waterbury, New Haven. Hartford, stratford. Glastonbury, 0roton and Naugatuck. Reports on the progress of the work will be made from NRo vvrt, ,,yf{v May
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
Legion's Ambulance
 Fund Closes Saturday
Contributions to Date Total $4,24952; Official Quota
 Desired, $5,O0O Committee Sounds Final Appeal

The American Legion Community Ambulance Cam pagn fund entered its final phase today with the will officially end next Saturday. To date contributions to- tai & The quota desired is minimum of $5 0O0 The ambulance will be presented to the City of Waterbury by the legion and will be used in event emergency any community purpose the city fathers may wish to des
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
Milford Resident
 Divorces Local Man

A decree was awarded by Judge Kenneth Wynne in New Haven su- perior court Friday, to Mrs. Flor ence Hungerford of Milford, in her divorce suit against Charles Hun gerford of Waterbury. Alleging in- tolerable cruelty, Mrs. Hungerford was also allowed the custody of a minor child, and $4.00 weekly for its support. The couple married October IS, 1897.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
V. E. w. MAY BUY
 DEFENSE BOND

A special meeting of Wheeler Young post, Veterans of Foreign Wars. will be held in Mechanics hall "Wednesday evening. instead of Tuesday, as originally planned. A vote will be taken on whether to transfer $l,000 from the building fund for the purchase of national defense bond.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
Threefold Campaign In Defense Activities
 Officially Underway
Teachers, Janitors, Pupils to Be Drilled for Elmer gencies; Principals to Meet Wednesday to
 Promote Sale of Defense Stamps

A threefold campaign of defense activities in the schools of Water bury is being worked out at pres ent in cooperation with the State Board of Education and the State Defense Council, according to an- nouncement today by Supt. of Schools Thomas J. Condon.
 Plans are being made for the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

Waterville, Jan. 5 Casper s. Davis, American Legion Post, will sponsor a Civilian Defense night Wednesday evening at 7:30 in Sprague school gymnasium. It was previously planned Thursday even- ing, but the date had to be changed, because of the Air Raid Warden's school in Waterbury that evening.
 All residents of Waterville are in- vited and urged to attend. Co-op- erating with the Post will be George Grady, district air raid war den for Waterbury and a member of the Waterbury Defense Council. Ar thur Goepels Is chairman of the committee arranging the affair, as- sisted by Patrick Moriarty com mander of the post, William Rooney Everett Cook, Russell Atherton and Clifford Northrop.
 It Is expected Mayor Vincent A. Scully and James Curtin, chief air raid warden, will be present.
 Mrs. William Rooney, president of the Auxiliary requests as many members as possible be present. It is hoped they will wear caps and attend in a group. Mrs. Everett Cook holds the office of National Defense chairlady of the Auxiliary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

What lawyers can contribute to- ward the national war effort was discussed by Atty. Chase Kimball at . monthly luncheon meeting of the Waterbury Bar association, held in The Elton Hotel at noon today. The meeting, the fourth since the association resumed its monthly sessions after the sum- mer interlude, was we'll attended. The organization Is headed by Atty. Walter F. Torrance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
&,se4H%1yn>v% ESTABLISHED 1888
esrAsLi SHED 1888

Any Young Man Who Tries To Get Along Without A CoIorful Sports Jacket For His Scrambled Suit Will Find It Hord Sailing, $9.75 to S17.75.
 In Prep Shop" = Second Floor. There's big hand given our mon- otone noturol tan camel type jacket at $l4.75.
 It's one of those jackets fhot sells itself on sight. Smort style dis function and an appealing price $l4.75 just completes the purse and eye appeoi.
 Separate slocks of tan brown. ond green covert bring out the won- derful richness of this popu|or jacket which leads the followers By large margin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
NASTRI HOST

Anthony R. Nastri of l3 Fairview street, will be host to the board of directors of the Waterbury Lions club for their monthly business ses- sion tomorrow night. A dinner will be served previous to the meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

UM4ng the second quarter of i0l0, the United States imported
 278,l0l pounds of refined cotton
 seed oil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
Food Sale

The Casper Davis Auxiliary held a successful food sale Saturday morning, at Kramer Brothers Mar ket, the benefits of which will be used to buy cigarettes ana other useful articles, which will be taken Thursday to the Veterans hospital at NeWington.
 Mrs. William Rooney, rehabilita- ton chairlady, and Mrs. John Byrnes, unit activities chairlady, were in charge.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
RUDY IS AN ACTOR

Rudy Vallee's role with Claudette Colbert and Joel McCrea in Preston Sturges' The Palm Beach Story" is a character one, rather than a sing ing role. He has only one song.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

Lambs Quarters," . plant of the gosefoot family, also is known as "fat hen" and "pigweed."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

Leonard Libbey, manager of the Continental Store, Boston, will be the principal speaker. He will dis cuss the clothing industry's cur rent problems. Golfers Fashion forecast and 8 demonstration of window will be other features of the gathering.
 MT. Perreault is advertising manager and in charge of dis play, while MT. Leary is assistant furnishing buyer for Fitzgerald & Platt.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

The annual convention of the New England Clothiers and Fur nishers' Association, Inc, opened this morning at the Parker House, Boston, and will remain in ses- sion until Wednesday evening. The address of welcome was given today by Mayor Tobin. Among the representatives of the leading clothing establishments of New England were Lucien E. Perreault and William V. Leary of Fitz- gerald & Platt, Inc, Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

Because of the Defense Night, the monthly meeting of the Fairlnount Community Club Wednesday even
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05
Women Meet Tonight

ing has been postponed until Jan- uary IA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-05

Women Meet Tonight
 The monthly meeting of the Ladies Aid Society of St. Michae's church will be held tonight at 7:30 in the Parish hall, during which time election of officers for the con- ing year will be held.
 Tomorrow evening at T at St. Michael's, there will be religious in- struction for all High school stu dents, followed by regular meet ing of the c. Y. O. Society. Plans will be discussed for sleigh ride, if the snow remains.
 The monthly business meeting of the Grace Methodist church will take place tonight, with the Tither's supper at 6, followed by their meet ing. At 8 o'clock, the Official board will convene.
 The Pride of Welch Circle will meet tomorrow night at 8, at For esters' hall, with Mrs. Francis Whe- len, chief companion, presiding.
 Children returned to school today following a Christmas vacation of sixteen days. The snow which fell Saturday night and Sunday pro- vided an opportunity for sliding and on many side streets and in the park, they were making the most of their last day of vacation. Skating has been popular at the pond on Sheffield street, the past few weeks, because of the continued cold wea- ther.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-13
Auxiliary Patrol
Group Organized

Section No. / of the California
Highway Patrol auxiliary was per-
fected at a meeting in FL Centre
Tuesday night and arrangements
made for the first practice at 7:3G
p. IN. Thursday.
Highway Patrolman William
Mitchell will serve as liaiS0n officer
and have general supervision OF Sec
ton No l which includes Ell Cen
tro and surrounding territory.
George Kennedy will be section
leader and Jess Simpson assistant
section leader,
Simpson will be in charge of Pos
No | of Section Nc. / at the Four
Corners. He will be assisted by
John Fraser, j. A. Wade, and Jerry
Capl.nger.
Bert Purdy will be leader of Post
No 2 at Fourth street and Ross
avenue. He will he assisted by Con
Maertz, Charles Sharp. and jeff
Mills. DR. Norman E. Dupont will
be leader of Post No. 3 at the inter-
section of highway 80 and the Dog-
wood road He will be assisted by
H. H. Foreman, Don ParkhurSt, and
Calvin Hembree.
Section No, 2, Heber and sur
rounding territory, now is being Or
gained Under Highway Patrolmar
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-13
Nerve Gas Stories
Just Hot Air Say
Army Specialists
It's Gas from GOebbels
Is General Belief in
Washington Circles

WASHINGTON, May IS.
(UP) = American military
authorities today indicated
that there was remarkable
similarity between the nerve
gas" the Germans are repeatedly
using against the Russians and the
gas" CT Goebbels' propaganda ma
chine.
las far as I'm concerned" said
one military authority, expressing
the war departments attitude, 1.-The
only nerve gas that I'm sure about
is the nerve the Nazis have in
spreading such stories"
Renewed speculation about nerve
gas arose from a Swedish report
that the Germans were using it
against the Russians in the fighting
on the Kerch peninsula in the Cri-
mea. The Berlin correspondent of
Continued on Page 6; Column -
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-13

'AuSUIdlld.
A German communique claimed
the battle for the Kerch peninsula
in the Crimea had been won and
that the Russians were encircled
or in retreat after five days of
fighting in which 10000 prisoners
were taken.
But Moscow and London reported
that severe fighting was still in
progress, with crack Soviet Stormo-
vik planes smashing at Nazi tank
concentrations and with American
triple turret tanks in action on the
eastern front.
Russia's Caucasian army threw
all arms" including the formidable
Black Sea fleet, into the battle.
The five-day-old battle ragged
stubbornly along the narrow front
with the issue still undecided, ac-
cording to advices reaching Moscow,
but the Red army forces were said
to be inflicting steadily increasing
losses on Adolf Hitler's spring Of
fensive", his dive-bombing planes
and his swarms of tanks.
RUSSIANS STRONG
About $500 Germans were report
ed killed in one Crimean battle.
The Russian front line dispatches
emphasized Red army Offensive
operations continued on other Sec
tors, despite some German counter
attacks, in an effort to force break
through that might endanger the
German rear lines in the Crimea or
make Hitler withdraw supporting
troops from that battlefield
The Russians are known to have
powerful reserve forces concentrated
on the Ukraine front north of the
Crimea and a counter-offensive in
that sector might be of utmost i'm
portance in relieving the threat of
German seizure of the Crimean
gateway to the Caucasus oil fields.
A new burst of fighting in the
Mediterranean, where the British
island of Malta continued to strike
back against steady Axis air assault,
aroused speculation on the POSSIBLE
ity that new offensives were in prog
ress there despite approach of the
hot season in the Libyan desert
AFRICAN PINCERS
Fifteen Axis fighter planes and
one British craft were shot down
in an air battle over the North Afri-
can coast, where three of four Brit
ish destroyers hao been sunk this
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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-13

'here until today
The communities hit or skirted
by the tWiste- were Ewing, orchard.
Osmond, Foster, Elgin and Oakdale.
The dead included four members of
farm family living seven miles
southwest of Ewing and a 60-year-
old farm woman living northwest
Of Orchard.
First reports of damage said
numerous farm buildings were
leveled, thousands of dollars worth
of livestock destroyed and COM
munication wires damaged.
The known dead included:
John Leahy, his wife, their O.
year-old daughter, Elaine, and
their 5-year-old daughter Barbara.
Mrs Frank Vrooman.
Among the injured we're Shirley
Leahy, 8, another daughter of the
John Leahy'S, who still is uncon-
scious, and Frank Vrooman, hus-
band of the dead woman, who was
critically hurt. John Leahy is a
distant cousin of Frank Leahy,
football coach at Notre Dame.
Badly injured in both legs, Char
les Vrooman, a son of the dead
woman, crawled half mile to a
neghboring farm for help.
The Leahy family was caught by
the twister as they dashed for their
cyclone cellar.
The Victor Ballwitz family, liv-
ing near Ewing, escaped to their
storm cellar just before the storm
struck, wrecking all the buildings
on their farm.
Five farms were reported struck
near Foster and two near Cakdale.
Eight farms, in addition to those
of the Leahy's and Vrooman's, were
reported hit near Ewing.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-13

washington, uIlCOIlIlTIIleu IcpOI lo
circulated in Vichy that Germany
has demanded the Vichy govern
ment refuse to surrender any of the
10000 tons of French merchant
ships now at Martinique.
Before permitting the ships to
fall into United States or Allied
hands, Germany was reported to
have stated, they must be scuttled
Laval's message to Washington
was described in an official COM
munique as a 'reply" on the Mar
Unique situation.
(Secretary of State Cordell Hull
has made it clear that the United
States government is negotiating
directly with Admiral Georges Rob-
ert, French governor at Martinique
regarding additional measures in
surfing the independence of the
French Caribbean possessions and
does not intend to be influenced by
any protests or proposals from the
Laval government in Vichy)
An official cOmmunique said that
the United States had made new
demands" on the French high COM
missioner in Martinique, which
would modify the present status of
Frances possessions in the Carib-
bean.
The nature of the so-called de-
mands was not disclosed, however.
In connection with the reported
German demand for the Scuttling
of merchant ships at Martinique
if they are endangered, the morn
ing newspaper LIE Matin in Nazi-
held Paris said that Admiral Darlan
was commander-in- chief of the
French armed forces, already has
issued such an order to the COM
manders of all French merchant
ships.
Laval's original reply to Washing
ton was sent directly to the French
ambassador in Washington, CASTOR
Henry-Haye, but copy for trans
mission to the state department was
handed to Pinckney Tuck, U. S
charge daffaires, when he called
at the foreign office at 7 pm.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-13
Union Men Offer
Blood for Bank

Imperial VALLEY Local No 1913 of
the Truckdrivers, WarehouSemen
and Helpers union will cooperate
100 Per cent with the nationwide
movement of the union to contrl-
butte to Americas blood bank.
Members of the local, at their
meeting in Ell Centre Tuesday
night, voted unanimously to offer
themselves as blood donors any
time County Health Officer E. B.
Godfrey wants us
The movement was started by an
eastern local of the teamsterS un-
ion, and has spread throughout the
country, Ray Magness, valley bus
mess agent for the union said.
He said that Of the 48,OcC mem
bers of the union in Los Angeles
county, $4,000 would offer them
selves as blood donors on a single
day next week. The valley local
has 500 members, Of which $50 at
tended Tuesday nights meeting and
volunteered to give pint of blood
each.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1942-05-13
Girl Injured in
Bike Accident

Patsy Lou Ashley, 8, daughter OF
Mr.. and Mrs. John Ashley, 78l Olive
street, was injured painfully late
Tuesday afternoon when she rode
her bicycle into the path OF an
automobile driven by Mrs. Made
line Rutledge, $50 Olive.
Ell Centre Policeman Reed Cum
bingham, who investigated the &C
cident, said Mrs. Rutledge tired
vainly to avoid striking the child,
as she rode out of a driveway IN
700 block of Olive
The girl was taken to Ell Centre
hospital in Lemons mortuary am
bulance where she was found to be
suffering from bruises and a dis
located shoulder.