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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-03-30
THIRTEEN-YEAR-
OLD GIRL FOUND
FOur-dsy Joke on Parents,
Boy Scouts Has Ended
in Her Return

Methuen, Mas, March 80 o.
P) Thirteen-year-old Jacqueline
Barton was back home- today after
playing q four -day "joke" on her
frantic parents and 500 Boy Scouts
and volunteers who searched woods
and meadows for her after she dis
appeared Thursday.
Jacqueline was found yesterday
in nearby Haverhill where she had
gone to earn money for Easter
clothes by working as $9-a-week
domestic.
She told police she had read OF
the search in which airplaneS had
been used and thought it was a
good joke" Her father, a bus driver
had posted a 500 reward for her
return.
Jacqueline, described as model
student and SHY and afraid of the
dark" vanished while enroute to
school.
The 500 reward will go to Mrs,
Albertine M. Deal, 80, of Haverhill
who recognized a newspaper photo
graph of Jacqueline as that of a
girl who asked her for street direc-
tons in Haverhill Thursday.
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INDIA is GIVEN
FINAL APPEAL
Grips States Case to PeO-
pie of Country; Gandhi
May Block Agreement
BY JOHN r. MORRIS
UNITED Press Far Eastern
ManaRerl

New Delhi, India, March 80 -
(UP)-Sir Stafford Grips urged In
dia. in a radio address today tc
decide your own future" by &C.
cepting q final wartime offer OF
postwar dominion status and equal
partnership in British empire and
United Nations war councils.
Even as Grips was appealing 10
the people and leaders Of India for
full material and moral cooperation
in the war against Japan, 1t was
reported that Mahatma M. K
Gandhi was definitely opposed to
acceptance of the British plan be-
cause it called for participation In
the war.
Gandhi is opposed to use Of vio-
lence, but 1t was said that he was
making no effort to influence the
decision Of other leaders Of the pow
erful All-India Congress party.
Grips expressed confidence Of an
agreement uniting the Indian peo-
pie but pointed, out that II the OPP
portunity we're rejected It would not
be possible to make a new offer be-
fore the end Of the war.
In Hands Of Indians
Success or failure Of the pro-
poSals is in the hands Of Indians
and Indians only" Grips empha-
sized in disclosing that India had
been invited to send a representa-
tive to the British war cabinet, the
Empire Pacific council and the
United Nations council.
"The direction of the party to be
played by India in the World war
in which we are engaged must re-
main in the hands of the COM
mander in chief under the war
cabinet, but Indians will be invited
to participate in this central con-
troll not only In India itself but in
all Of Its inter- relations"
He expressed complete confidence
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-03-30
Hartford DYKE
IN cox HEARING
Hartford Contractor Could
Have Lowered Bid If Wet
Fill We're Permitted

Hartford. Conn, March 30 (UP)-
A Hartford contractor testified al
the removal hearing Of suspended
Highway Commissioner william j
Cox today he could have lowered his
bid on the Hartford Dyke construc-
ton SAL, 900 If he had known that
wet fill could be used instead of fill
hauled from inland pits.
The contractor, Nicholas G.. Masel-
II, submitted a bid Of $1e6, sos for
the project, but the contract was let
to the A. I. Construction company
for $166620.
The state charges Savin was in
formed by the highway department
before the bids were asked for that
wet fill, pumped from the river,
could be used on the dyke, but that
no other bidders received this in
formation.
Questioning Maselli on work Savin
was doing on another section of the
dyke, defense council Joseph F.
Berry inquired whether he knew
Savin was using river fill, and Ma
relli replied that he did.
He Didn't Ask
ut didn't occur to you o ask If
you could use hydraulic fill?" asked
Berry with reference to the disputed
bids.
mo. It didn't" he replied.
Richard F. Corkey, assistant at
torney general, asked Maselli "Is
there anything in these standard
specifications) which permits you
to use hydraulic flip"
IT don't know of any," answered
MaSeili.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-03-30
Community
Presented Waterbury
Presentation Yesterday Noon in Front of City
EIal-Many in Attendance

The formal presentation Of a Com
munity Ambulance to the City Of
waterbury by Corporal Coyle Post,
No. /, American Legion was wit
messed yesterday noon hour in front
of the city hall. Thanked by repre-
sentatives of various ex-servicemen's
groups, community clubs, municipal
departments, Visiting Nurse Associa-
ton and interested citizens Com
mander Paul Stafstrom presented
the ambulance in the name Of the
legion to Mayor Vincent A. Scully.
General Chairman Frank Mccain
who directed the public subscription
for the necessary funds to purchase
the conveyance was unable to attend
yesterdays ceremonies. He IS now
in Florida convalescing from a re-
cent attack of illness.
Past Commander George j. Nc
Duff officaited as master Of ceremo-
MES. Public acknowledgment was
made of the legion's gratitude to
prominent Waterburians, business
and professional Arms, factory work
ers, the various ex-servicemen's Or
CARNATIONS and others for their gen.
crosby in donating the necessary
funds, approximately 5000.
Mayor Accepts Gift
In accepting the gift on behalf of
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BY FRANK TREMAINE
United Press STAFF Correspondent

kOAAtCtt GECSS swan SVENCSVOAAuChSl
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, March 80
(UP)-A boyish naval flyer who is
one Of Americas outstanding heroes
of the new war received the press
today to describe, in his own words,
an exploit with few parallels in
aerial warfare.
He Is Lieut.. Edward S. O'Hare
who Feb 20 somewhere in the
southwest Pacific" while flying a
carrier based fighter plans, took on
nine Japanese bombers single-hand-
ed, shot down five of them and dam
aged another.
The exploit had been described in
detail by correspondents who ac-
companied the naval task force Of
which the carrier was a part. but
1t never had the validity 1t had to-
day when its author, acutely uncoTn-
Portable in his unwanted place in
the spotlight, told about 1t as though
1t were nothing. His superior Off
GERS took occasion to praise his work
and to suggest that he had saved
the force from serious damage land
that embarrassed him the more.
All the flyers on the carrier wers
busy Feb. 20. In the morning they
shot down two four engined Jap
anese patrol hombers. shoppers,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-03-30
SABOTAGE RULED
OUT in EXPLOSION
Remington Arms Company
SearChers in Bridgeport
Seeking Bodies

Bridgeport, Conn, March 80 (UP)
Sabotage was ruled out today as
the cause of terrific explosion at
the Remington Arms Company plant
late Saturday, which took seven
lives and injured about 80 persons.
Authorities still were searching
for some of the bodies. The burned
bodies of two women and a man
were recovered shortly after the
blast.
In a statement explaining the
cause of the explosion, the COM
pany said:
e'After a preliminary examination,
company officials were convinced
that the explosion was caused in
the packing area where primers
for military ammunition were being
packed in wooden boxes.
These primers are more sensitive
than ordinary ammunition and
Continued on Page A.
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VIOLENT DEATH
TOLL In CONN. 9
Death of Seven in Blast
at Bridgeport Boosted
Rate in State
CBy United Press }

An explosion at the Bridgeport
plant of the Remington Arms Co.,
which took seven lives, and two
automobile fatalities brought Con-
necticut's weekend violent death
toll to nine.
Authorities still were searching for
some of the bodies In the Remington
blast, which occurred Saturday af-
ternoon. About 80 persons were
injured in the explosion.
Automobile accidents:
Rose Barker, 10, New Haven, was
injured fatally when the bicycle she
was pedaling was struck by an auto
bile.
An unidentified elderly man was
killed at Waterbury when struck
by car.
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power houses, the bridges and the
key buildings which the British
forces blew up, it appeared certain.
Britain paid with some commando
casualties, but reliable quarters said
German claims that 400 men were
killed or captured were gross exag-
gerations.
zone hundred probably be an over
statement" the informant said.
Those who came back described q
battle which started as they went up
the estuary Of the Loire river, con-
tinued under a sky afire with shells
and searchhghts and ended, with
great fires blazing and demolition
explosions rocking the countryside,
when the last motor torpedo boat
zigzagged recklessly out Of the river
and into the sea on its way home.
Witnesses made 1t plain also that
the old American destroyer Blu
chanan, called by the British, Camp
belltown, rammed the key lock gate
at 20 knots and that the five tons
of explosives with which 1t was
filled smashed the entire dock gate.
The Loire has big tide varia-
ton and this tidal gate Is vital to
the use of the st. ISaZaire naval base
because without 1t the basins used
by submarines and other naval
craft and for shipbuilding would
be empty of water most Of the day,
Gordon Holman, official British
press correspondent, with the ex-
uedition, told how the port had been
smashed, and its huge dock gate
block by the twisted remains of
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MACARTHUR HOME
MAY BE BOUGHT

Chicopee, Mass. March SOUP
The purchase of the birthplace OF
the late 1t. Gen. Arthur Mac
Arthur, father of Gen. Douglas
Macarthur, and the renovation of
the house as a memorial to the
two military heroes vii be consid-
cred at q city council meeting TO-
morrow night.
Mayor Leo p. SENEGAL has pro-
posed that the plan to make the
house a shrine facing on an attrac-
tive circle be financed by public
subscription, including voluntary of
ferings from Chicopee school chill
dren, because the city cannot Oxford
to undertake the project.
The memorial plan began when
Andrew Bradley, 70, a retired tex
tile worker, wrote Gen. Macarthur
in the Philippines about his fathers
birthplace.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-03-30
THIRTEEN HURT
AS BUS CRASHED
Greyhound Machine Out OF
Control on Worcester
Turnpike Today

Shrewsbury, Mass, March 80
(UP)-Thirteen persons today Suf-
fered injuries that required hoSpi-
talzaticn when q Greyhound Lines
Bus, bound from New York to Bos-
ton, apparently went out Of control
on slush-covered down grade on
the Worcester turnpike and crashed
against q concrete and steel guard
rail
The rail prevented the bus and It's
"a passengers from topping down
q 30-foot embankment.
Police said the bus travelled about
IT'S feet while hurting q 1O-foot
dividing lane, overturning, righting
itself and stopping against the rail.
Several other persons were treated
for minor hurts at the scene by
ambulance personnel and police.
Some passengers were transferred
to another bus and proceeded to
Boston.
The injured were taken to a
worcester hospital.
The accident occurred near the
southwest cut-off.
Those hurt suffered mostly back,
shoulder and ankle injuries. Some,
however, were shaken Severly. Hos
pital attaches said none was be-
ieved in serious condition.
The injured were driver Frank A.
Canonica, 81, of (l212 43rd Ave.)
Long Island City, N. Y; Rubin PEN
anski, 50, of Roxbury; his wife,
Jennie, 50; their daughter, Char
lotte Is; Anthony Marino, 20, Of
East Boston: his wife, Augustine
"a; Miss Marion Greene of Keyporr
N. j.; Robert Strange, IS, also OF
Keyport; Mrs. Guy Fisher, "A, OF
Weehawken, N. j.; Leo Jacobs, So
of (lO4S Walton Ave.) New York
City; Mrs. Vera O'Brien, "a, OF
Boston; Mrs. Joseph Burgess, 80, Of
Cambridge, and Joseph Mantell, As
Of (l64l West 18th St) Brooklyn
New York.
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japanese Invading Forces
Were Threatened With
Complete Disaster
RETREAT OF TROOPS
VERY MUCH LNHPEDED
japanese Now Possess
Only North Coast Bases
Abandon AirdrOme Sites
By BRYDoN TAvEs

UNITED Press Staff Correspondence
General MacArthur's head
quarters, in Australia, March
30.-(UP)-Japanese forces,
threatened with disaster bY
New Guinea tropical floods,
were reported fleeing back
today upon their north COAST
invasion base of Lac in the
Island sector where Allied
warplanes have crippled more
than 10 per cent Of Japan's pre-
war cruiser strength.
The precipitous Japanese WITH
drawal to the Port Of Lae--padly
battered target Of American ard
Autralian planes-was called big
gest Nipponese setback Of the Aaia~
tralian campaign
Air Minister Arthur 8 Drake~
ford of Australia estimated that
one-tenth Of Japan's cruiser
strength as Of Dec. 7--abogit 40 81.
service and others under constTt1c-
tion-had been crippled in the past.
three weeks by American ana
Australian planes attacking the jap
anese seized bases on Australians
northern flank.
On the basis Of Drakefords re-
port 1t appeared that five or slx
Japanese cruisers had been knocked
out of action In the recent bonablag
attacks.
The air minister also reported that
AZ Japanese bombing and fighting
planes had been destroyed or ''proh-
ably destroyed" around Austraila
and the surrounding islands Ia re-
cent weeks, with at least Is others
damaged.
The blasting Of the Japanese
cruisers, he said, began with h54
big allied air attack on Lac On
March 10.
May Mire Jap Forces
The huge foods threatening u
mire Japan's invasion forces were
said to be pouring down the Marx
name valley Of New Guinea.
Rainfall exceeding 40 inches had
turned mountain tributaries into
roaring torrents which were nood-
ing the valley down which the jap
anese had started toward Porb
Moresby. opposite the Australian
continent.
The main body Of the Japanese
was reported already TO have fallen
back Of Lac from Nadzab, their new
base q miles away, while others
were struggling back, abandoninE
the airdrome sites they had selected
as bases for attack on Australia.
The entire valley between Lac
and Nadzab was reported flooded
and raging rivers impeded the re-
treat Of troops still trapped.
Advices from Port Moresby ard
Australian patrols In the interiur
reported that the Japanese now
possessed only their north boast
bases where they were open 70 the
hammerng blows Of the allied aif
force.
Heavy rains were reported on the
north coast, making an Immediate
japanese advance almost i1npoae
sible.
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I oriental Rains Flooded
Whole New Guinea Valley
Gen. Wainwright Defenders Have
Inflicted Heavy Losses Upon Japs
Hit So Hard Saturday That
Japanese Have Made No
Attacks Since Then
BY MACK JOHNSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

kOHAUEu AEG9S SbttAk
Washington, March 80 - CUP --
Lieut.. Gen. Jonathan M. VAIN
wrights Philippine defenders in
flicted such heavy losses on the
Japanese when they attacked his
lines Saturday that the enemy has
not attempted any further assault
in force, the war department re-
ported today.
Patrols continued active on both
sides, however.
A communique said the sharp
fighting on Bataan peninsula
throughout Saturday night died
down at dawn yesterday, "the enc
my's assault having been repulsed
with heavy losses"
Enemy dive sbombers continued to
attack Wainwright's front lines and
rear areas.
Japanese air raids on Corregidor
continued through the day and
night but they inflicted mo serious
damage" The communique noted
that "the number Of bombers en-
ployed Is not large"
Last week the Japanese used as
many as Sd bombers at a time in
their Intellectual attacks on Cor
regidor.
Anti-aircraft batteries OF the is
land fortress shot down japanese
plane flying at an altitude of more
than 1000 feet. This indicated that
as on previous days of last weeks
virtually continuous raids on Cor
regidor, the enemy bombers chose
to stay high up in the sky-even at
the cost of dropping most of their
bombs in Manila Bay. Even at a.
600 feet, about five miles-they
could not escape the anti-aircraft's
fire.
25th Jap Plane Down
This was the 25th Japanese plane
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NEW HAVEN ROAD
REPORTS FOR FEB

New Haven, Conn.,, March 3d.
(UP)-The New Haven Railroad Sys-
tenn reported today its net income
for February amounted to $685., 739,
whereas for the same month year
ago it was $90,982.
Gross revenue was $10,132,395, an
increase Of $2,753,2 66, and operating
expenses totaled $6,679,041, an in
,crease of $l,519,113.
The net income for the first two
months of the year was $660,50
which compared with $99,Sl9 for the
corresponding period in 194l.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-03-30
SUPREME COURT
ISSUES FINDINGS
Peaceful Picketing Given
Different Ruling in Two
Labor Cases

The Supreme Court, by a to 4
division reuled today that states
may prohibit peaceful picketing
which is not confined directly to
the labor dispute from which it
grew.
The ruling came in a decision
unfolding Texas state court in
junction which barred two ALL
unions from picketing a Houston
cafe.
-The decision was one of the three
significant rulings handed down by
the court today on labor matters.
Both the other labor rulings were
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HELD FOR BURGLARY

Derby, Conn, March 30-(UP)-
Two men were held on burglary
charges today in connection with
an attempt to break open the safe
of the F. w. Woolworth g. Co. store.
Those held were Thomas Mac
Narar, Is, New Haven, and Joseph
Vincent, 81, Hartford. They were
found hiding in coal sllute In the
cellar Of the store building.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-03-30
WANT ADS WORK
FOR YOU!

Every day of every. week every
body In Waterbury can profit
by using DEMOCRAT Want
Ads. So many millions of peo-
pie In so many cities, towns
and villages have made so much
money this way that Want Ads
readily deserve the title Of the
easy, low cost way to make
money quickly. Read want ads
for extra profit ~ use them for
extra results.
PHONE 1921 NOW!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-03-30
Great Nazi Submarine
Base In Blazing Ruins
Raid By British Naval, Commando Forces on St
Nazaire, One of Most Disastrous to Germany;
One Year to Repair Losses
BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS
United Press Staff Correspondent

London, March 30.-(UP)-British Naval and Com
mando Forces which raded ST. Nazare the French in
vason coast Saturday left that great submarine base
blazing nightmare OF ruin eyewitness said today It will
the submarine mornings the harbor installations the
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Your Help Needed-NOw. New
Courses Begin April Is, Post Junior
College Of Commercially.
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TREASURY BALANCE

washington, March 80 CUP )-flpvs
eminent expenses and receipts Ter
the current fiscal year through Mar.
9th, compared with a year ago:
S&a,sR7, 262, 620.76 $s,61s,a4e,4 1g,dsE
War Spending
$14,s72,79G,557.04 $3.50, 0B1, SBe.fv
$~S,S72,58s,662.4 ,31s,Se1. e4xsT6
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The Weather

Moderately Cold For
This Evening.
run weather Report Paee {
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-27

Club began to compile 20 years
ago, will be completed next year
with the publication Of John Her
vey's Racing in America 1865
1865" Pete Reilly, the old silver
fox who stays close to the feath-
erweight championship situation,
has taken an option from Mana
ger Freddie Sommers to buy Cleo
Shans' contract. The option is
good until January 4.
Service department - Former
Middleweight Champion Fred
Apostolic, somewhere at sea, re-
ports his rating is to be changed
from specialist, first class, to
boatswain's mate, first class. Also
that he finds it harder to keep
slamming shells into a gun than
to slam padded fists into an OPP
ponent's puss. And when a new
candidate approached 1t. Jack
Gray, cage coach at the Corpus
Christi Naval Air Training Gen.
ter, and said: "Miller's the name;
West Coast all-conference," Gray
just grinned and replied: Glad
to have you. Go over there with
those boys under the far basket
and change to a blue shirt; the
All-Americas are wearing white
shirts today"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-27
Carolyn Wilson Expected
To Play in Christmas
Table Tennis Event

Carolyn Wilson, local woman
champion and ranked eighth ma
tionally, is among those expected
to compete in the District Table
Tennis Associations annual Christ
mas tournament tomorrow and
Tuesday night at Columbia courts.
Mems and women's singles and
mems doubles are scheduled, along
with a special event for veteran
men players.
Also on the program is consola-
ton event for men eliminated in
the first round. The tourney opens
tomorrow night at 7 o'clock, with
finals slated for Tuesday night.
Results of this meet will weigh
heavily in determining rankings for
the 1942-43 season.
Entrance fee Is so cents for each
event and must be in by $50 pm.
tomorrow at Columbia courts. The
tourney is for members of the
DCTTA and players may join at
the time Of registration. This is
waived for players in service uni
forms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-27
Final Week of Year Finds Sports Program Well Filled
Selected by Writer Include

we still believe that B. c. team is
great-not to say mad about that
Holy Cross thing.
Cotton Bowl - Texas over
Georgia Tech; Sun Bowl-Har-
din-Simmons over the I'd Air
Force; East-West-the West.
Guesses, that's all.
Today's guest star-Tommy
Fitzgerald, Louisville Courier
Journal: 1T has been proposed to
divide the majors into an East
ern and a Western division to
save rail travel. East Is East and
West is West whenever the twains
don't meet"
One-minute sports page
Brooklyn College has revised its
eligibility rule as the result Of the
local basket ball fuss, but now it
can't find a suitable date to re-
schedule the Cancelled game with
N. Y. U. Mrs. Leila Hall, the
champion woman sharpshooter,
has enlisted in the WAACS. And
Dorothy Traung, who used to be
one Of the longest drivers among
the woman golfers, now drives a
5-ton truck for the Marine Corps
Ordnance Department in San
Francisco. The history Of Ameri-
can racing, which the Jockey
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-12-27
Bethesda, Greenway Drives
Have Bowling Events on
Tan This Afternoon

A handicap tournament for men
and women at Bethesda Bowling
Center and team match at Green
way Bowl top this afternoons bowl
ing activities.
The Bethesda event, starting at 2
o'clock. guarantees a top prize Of
$25. Scratch is 1913 with full handi-
cap. Entry fee Is $3.50 for the Ave
game block, and games may be rolled
any time after 2 o'clock.
The Greenway match at 3 o'clock
pits Julie Singers home alley boys
against Hap" Newman's Cavaliers.
Singer will roll with Weddy Rob-
erts, Bill Griener. Ed Heller and
Bill Pruitt, while the invading quin-
tet will consist of Dutch Sherbahn,
Johnny Burger, Ell Geib, Eddie Keith
and Bert Lynn.