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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
Poolroom Proprietor
 Assessed $25 Today
Arrested By Vice Squad for Permitting Minors in His
 Place; Alleged Reckless Driver Pays $25

Clay street, was sentenced to 60 days in jail when found guilty on a charge of vagrancy.
 Thomas Lewis, 32, colored, of 1856 Bishop street, who was arrested by Sergt Charles McWeeney and Mo tor Patrolman Walter Ogrisek on a charge, of breach of the peace, won a 60-day suspended sentence.
 Wilbur Trundell, 55, of 1080 South Main street, charged with breach of the peace, was fined $10 and costs and sentenced to 30 days in jail.
 Edward Bereck, IS, of 189 Orange street, charged with taking car without permission, was placed on probation for six months.
 Cecelia Caron, 34, of 72 Pleasant street, received a one-day continu- ance on a charge of breach of the peace
 Robert Robinson, 3S, of g Pond street, received 8 nolle on charge of breach of the peace.
 Bonifacio Oricchio, 52, of 66 Holmes avenue, charged with non support, was ordered to pay his wife $15 a week for period of, one year.
 John F. Dowd, ST., 47, of IT Yale street, charged with violation of the state wage act, was given continu- ance to the 28th.
 William J. Cripps, 48. of Wood bury, charged with violating the rules of the road, received a nolle on payment of $5.
 Edward Leary, 59 of 325 Bank street. was sentenced to 90 days in jail when found guilty on a charge of breach of the peace.
 Otto Florio, 40, of Warren, charged with speeding and failure to halt at a stop sign, received nolles on payment of total of $15.
 Emil Dumaine, 42, of 236 Cherry street, charged with reckless driv- ing. received continuance to Fri day morning.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
Auto Damaged

A car owned by Frank Sac- CO of 9 Burton street was badly damaged last night when it caught fire from sparks from 8 bonfire which MT. SaccO had lighted to supply light while he changed 8 tire.
 The auto was parked on Bald win Lane at the time. The blaze was extinguished by firemen of Engine 4.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
VERRY AND PACE
 AT B. (. CONVENTION

William Johnson, superintendent Of the Waterbury Boys club, ls ats tending the final session Of the slEtb annual Connecticut Boys Cluh conference at WaillngfoFd today, Arthur Very, physical director, and William Pace, b0yF game room sue paFyisoF, are also attending the eons ference,
 Tha formal opening es the Cal program Of tlle local Boys clue wlll iake plaee tomorrow, Tie program wlIl saFeas the Vigi0gY Volunteer moYemenk bQllla opeslnoFee hF bo,n alAll@ AAselasheA4 We ealaAA2fs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
COST ACCOUNTANTS
 MEETING TOMORROW

The Hartford Chapter of the Na- tiopal Association of Cost Account. ants will hold q dinner meeting to- morrow night at the Pennington Country Club. Several Waterbury members are expected to attend.
 Maj. Paul A. WllkS, of the Springfield Ordnance district, wiIi speak 0n Accounting Under Gov. eFnment contracts"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
Long Session

Municipal court had one of its longest sessions of the year today. the session lasting from 9 a. m. to 1915 p. Iii.
 Both members of the court bench. Judge John L. oaffney and Judge Theobald E. Conway. were on hand, with Judge dafney hearing virtually all the eases.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
430 Tons Short

Scrap production from automo- bile graveyards in Connecticut last month fell 439 tons short of July's record, according to Alden s. McCue, field manager of the division of conservation, WIPE, in charge of Connecticut production. A total of 4,020 tons of metal was produced during August.
 McCue urged all owners of old cars that were no longer fit for use to sell them to a junk dealer immediately in aorder that they might be transformed into war weapons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
CYclist Hurt

Minor injuries were suffered yesterday afternoon by George Gilson, g, of 705 Mertden road, when his bicycle ran into an au- tomobile on Stillson road.
 Motor Patrolman Joseph Norton reported that Gilson suffered a knee injury when his bike struck a car operated by John J. Lawlor of Webb street,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
BUILDING PERMITS

The fellowing permits hage been Issued nt lhe pfliee ef saildlng Inspector Sehn 4. lgnFileyi
 AleKanaeF hsFinFig, l9 enelese Feranaa at ies Vernon aVeRHe,
 Rsiph DiBrlelli, lsF eslFa Team As flfeanmemnt geFFmeg, 6See,
 fine NaneNenga, fer ebieheD eaeR na Soa Aagtk AaaAR mtmaaA
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14

Charged with allowing minors to loiter in his poolroom, Frank Mar ciano, 53, of IT South Leonard street, was assessed $25 for a nolle in municipal court today by Judge John L. Gaffney. He was arrested by Lieuts. Patrick Moylan and Ernest Pakul of the vice squad.
 Harold Champagne, 28, of 419 South Main street, charged with reckless driving, received a nolle on payment of $25 He was arrested by Motor Patrolmen John Murphy and Joseph Kendrick.
 Maurice Flaherty. 49, of 56 East
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
Chart Dept. No. 8
 Gets War Bond Flag

The honor Of flying the depart mental wsF bond flag of the Brls. tol Go. has been won for September by Chart Dept. No. g of the home plant Employes of the department are investing ib.63 per cent Of their pay in war bonds, The flag was held in August by tool and machine department, No. i4,
 The San Francisco branch ofilee retains the branch 0stlce flag, with q record Of ifTi per cent Of ils ins come going lRto war bonds,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
Spotlighting Brass CityNews
Home Entered

Thieves who broke into the home of Mrs. Burton Snagg, 268 Piedmont street extension, fled before taking anything of value Saturday night.
 Mrs. Snagg told Lieutenant John Calvin and Officer Joseph Cavanaugh that the thieves ap- parently fled when they heard her entering the house.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
Rector

NeCVOF
 Rev. Francis O. Ayres, rector of St. Johns Episcopal church will give the invocation at the opening of the superior court criminal ses- sion tomorrow morning at 10 am. Judge John Rufus Booth will pre- side at the hearing. Names of 2S persons accused of charges of murder and conspiracy to theft and breach of the peace have been entered on the court docket.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14

One of these will be concerned with your preparations to defend yourself and your home against enemy attack. The other four will be about the steps you and your home are taking to attack the enemy.
 Here, in advance of his coming, is 6 personal check list provided by the Office of Civilian Defense for your guidance. If your answer to each of the five questions is an honest "yes", you are entitled to and. will receive the United States Governments "V-Home" certifi- cate, 8 badge of honor for families that have made themselves into fighting units on the home front.
 QUESTION I
 Does your Home Follow the In- structiOns of Its Air Raid Warden, Tn Order to Protect Life and Property Against Attack By Air? Preparations against air attack vary in different parts of the country. If you aren't sure what yours should be ask your air-raid- varden-he knows. Defense meas tres will probably include
 CD Blackout preparations. Es- senHal rooms of the house should be blacked out so that normal family life can go on for relative ly long periods without ray of light escaping to guide enemy bombers.
 (O A safety room. The safest room in the house. Blacked out and provided with the necessities for emergency occupation during an actual raid.
 (S) Preparations to fight fire bombs. When incendiaries drop they are dumped by the thou sands. Showers may fall on your block-a dozen on your own prop erty. You can't leave the entire job up to the warden and his fire watchers. They will do their best but each home must be its own first line of defense. Clear readily inflemmable material out of at- tics, closets, basement. Consult your warden for the best fire fighting equipment available and have 1t ready at all times.
 (O Care for the injured. At least one person in the home should know. First Aid. Have the most important emergency arti- cles on hand (ask your warden for lstJ
 (5) Know what to do when the air raid warning sounds.
 QUESTION III
 Does Your Home Conserve Food, Clothing, Transportation and Health, In Order to Hasten an Health, In Order to Hasten an Un-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
HELD TOR FLORIDA

Norwalk, Conn, Sept, i4-lupl- Jasfph 4, Bowles, %, orlando, Fla,, wRs held today f0F FlNFlds RiiheFis lles 0ll Q charge Of murder iD ihe Maylna 0f hls sister, Evelyn 70, says eYal RIeekn ego iIe Was arrested heTt en c ilp fEam 0Flanee, Elaa pellee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
TREASURY BALANCE

Washington. Sept. 14.-(UP)-Goy. ernment expenses and receipts for the current fiscal year through Sept. II, compard with a year ago: Thls Year Expenses Last HenR $l2,4s3,619,543.45 $3,SOS, ,6S2,3S4.le
 War Spending $11,3OS, ,20e, ,66s.SS $2,595, f5S, 09s.S7
 Receipts $1,724,ss4,s55.12 s1,oS7,77s,e2e.2
 Net Deficit Slo.757,1ss,sss.SS s2,ss1, ,so2,s11.ss
 Cash Balance S1,ss7, ,o4s, ,4s2.Ss s9,ss2.s1s,s55.so
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14

tion of Alderman George L. King
 ston (R), after claims that payment would be a violation of the city charter because no appropriation had been made for such purpose.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
By NEA Service

 WASHINGTON Sept i4some time air raid warden block leader will his hand will sheaf of red white and blue VEome" window embes He VOL five
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14
MMaM
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Cotton O. Clark Redfed A has drafted his youngsters 2 the cotton field weeds while his 7yearod brother and sister, Billie Dean and Betty Ann him at and accumulated vines and
 points.
 By NEA Service
 putting cotton threatens descve the boil weev
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14

QUESTION II
 Does Your Home Conserve Food, Clothing, Transportation and Health. In Order to Hasten an Health, In Order to Hasten an Un-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-14

Does Your Home Refuse to
Evening star., 1942-07-24

of bays co.es, inlets and tidal flats,
dodging around cliffs and the salt
crusted wreckage Of ancient whaling
ships, the pilot wearied of 1t and
pulled up into the gray soup. We
climbed 5000 feet before we went
through the roof and then we had
to stay there 500 miles before we
could get down again.
At midnight, time of weird pearl
gray dusk we crossed the snow
capped backbone of Alaska flying at
10000 feet. We went over the hump
and down over the sea to fly 200
miles more TO Anchorage in a scene
of majestic, unbelievable beauty.
Under or right wing lay the
broad waters of Cook Inlet, q dark
mirror clouded here and there with
the last wisps of seaward fog. On
the mirror, almost in the sky above
1t f1oa.ed the cathedral pile of
Mount Augustine. Between the fog
banks the water glowed into weird
fire under the moon
And above our right wing lowered
the mountains straight up from the
sea. They were high, black. saw
agely saw-toothed and laced with
glaciers ages old.
A bombardier on leave sat beside
me on the aluminium bench and
stared at the grandeur outside.
This is the meanest country in
the world and the most wonderful.
I'll never leave it," he said.
Evening star., 1942-07-24

I beneath. There was no land, nc
sky, nothing but fog.
Who knows it's Dutch Harbor?'
I yelled.
THE navigator" he grinned. Hes
never missed yet"
But we didn't land. We cruised ir
circles for an hour but the rocky
harbor entrance, guarded on one
side by the black buttress of Cape
Cheerful and on the other by the
sharp fang of Priest Rock. was sc
choked with fog that we couldn't
get in.
Two hours later, under a lowering
sky. we slipped into a desolate bay
and landed.
The radioman scrambled into the
gun-bay with a signal lamp and
soon a motor whaleboat came buck
ling through the seas to pick us up
We tied the plane to a buoy and
left her.
That night we slept aboard an old
destroyer converted to duty as a
seaplane tender. And we stayed
two days, for next morning the
wind had risen to gale force ahd
the ship pitched and strained at
anchor even in the harbor.
Her men were friendly, hospita-
BILE lot. The officers were young,
juniors insyears but veterans in
point of war service. They had
fought in Dutch Harbor and in the
open sea and they were ready to
fight again.
On the second day I went ashore.
The boat put me within reaching
distance of a 50-foot ladder up the
cliff and I scrambled up while a
flendish wind tore at my borrowed
raincoat and threatened to jerk me
back to the water.
Found Phone in Shack.
At the top I saw the tundra for
the first time, hummocky morass
that looks like land God plowed ex-
perimentally and then wisely de-
cided to throw away.
-Four r-engined Bit and B-24 heavy
bombers, fast P-4O and P-38 fighter
planes and a half-dozen huge am
phibian Catalinas crouched along a
runway carved through that useless
land.
In a lantern-lit shack I found a
field telephone and soon a truck
driven by a cheerful kid from Texas
came jouncing over the tundra to
get me.
This is a hell of a place." I
told him.
"Well, it amt Texas" he admit
ted. But you get used to it"
We halted alongside a cluster of
brown-sod banked tents and he led
me to one. 1t had no floor and no
light. A couple of cots and a heap
of muddy gear filled the interior
This was headquarters and also
home for the squadron skipper, he
said.
In the darkness we stumbled
down an incline into the ground
passed through a rough board door
and found ourselves in an under
ground chamber walled with scrap
lumber. A typewriter's clack anc
the nervously kissing spark gap oi
radio greeted us.
Slept in Tent At Night.
The skipper, tired, sandy
haired man clad in a weird assort-
Evening star., 1942-07-24

hours together. some alchemy Of
Alaskan soil and weather converted
good share of mud into a choking
dust cloud that f1oated always just
breath-high over the plain.
That night I shared a tent with
eight ply aviators, some who had
lived through weather crackups and
others who had shot down Jap
planes and had been shot down. The
Oldest was %, the youngest not more
than 20.
Next morning I would fly to
Kiska in Bit and they were going
out on patrol flights that would
keep them aloft in the soup for as
many as 20 hours.
The trip to Kiska might have
been a nightmare, but was actually
a miracle of aerial navigation. The
big bomber took off, circled once
and ducked under the ea-hugging
fog -Four hours thereafter we saw
no land, nothing but the fog press
ing down and narrow circle Of
water racing along below us. We
saw no land until we pulled through
the soup and found the rocky peak
Of our target rearing through the
murk a few miles away.
Hard Working Airliner.
Two days later 1 discovered what
has become of Americas civilian
airliners. Out of the fog like a
ghost glided Douglas DC-3. Six
months ago it was doing duty as a
luxury airliner in the States.
She was still piloted by an airline
flyer, but now he wore the silver
bars of an Army lieutenant. The
plane bore coat of war paint and
had been stripped of such peacetime
non essentials as seats. upholstery,
ash trays, free lunch and steward
eSses.
1t disgorged a dozen men and a
couple of tons of freight including
such lightweight trinkets as engine
parts, propellers and dozen black
smiths anvils. Half an hour later
it was in the air again
We had 500-foot visibility to get
off with but within hundred miles
the soup had closed in and when an
hour had passed we were flying 20
feet off the water with one wing
over the land and the other over
the sea. We scuddled along at
l60 miles an hour unable half the
time even to see the land so threat
eningly close. Once the right wing
jerked up frantically and I looked
out in time to see the murky bulk
Of Catalina drumming past just
outside the window in the fog.
After two hours of that madden
ing chasing the shoreline in and out
Evening star., 1942-07-24
No Baths or Beds for Americans Flying
Through Endless Fogs to Save AIeutions

ment of Army and Navy winter
clothing, greeted me. pumped me
eagerly about the war in the
Southern Pacific, arranged my
further transportation and sent
somebody to find me a bunk for
the night.
That night we slept in a tent and
by morning another 70-knot wind
had the canvass cracking like gun
fire while rain Slated through the
flaps and We huddled in down Sleep
ing bags, vainly hoping to get warm.
The wind abated during the day
and we got away in Cat amphibian.
The pilot was a veteran of a years
flying in Alaska.
This day the weather was clear
for an hour and we passed Mount
Shishaldin's smoking, snow blank
eted spire in bright sunlight. Few
have ever seen that awesome peak,
for almost always it is wrapped thick
in Aleutian fog.
We made Dutch Harbor that day
after challenging three aircraft en-
route. Each time an unidentified
speck appeared near us the gunners
unstrapped their guns, opened the
blisters and waited until the plane
was identified. 1t was not many
days since the Japs had appeared
here and there was no guarantee
they wouldn't come again.
That night at Dutch Harbor there
was dinner at table and there was
bath, luxury appreciated no less
because the water has quality Of
turning brick red when heated.
Next day we were of again. head
ing for the makeshift outpost from
which the Kiska bombers jump off
We found that almost repetition
of our first dispersal point-with
several important differences.
Our new tents had floors and
fires. but the food supply here con-
sisted only of canned sausage.
canned cornbeef and canned salmon.
Miracle of NaviSa ton.
Here was no tundra, but real grass
and wild violets as large as half
dollars speckled the green with stars
Here, too, few Quanset huts varied
the canvas skyline. A Quanset hut
is an igloo of corrugated iron and
if you've been living in tent under
perpetual rain Quanset is palatial
The mud as always, was knee deep
Whenever the rain stopped for two
Evening star., 1942-07-24
Two D. {. Men Hanged
For Baltimore Murder
E. tie Associated Press

e. TIE AsSoclated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 24.-Two
Washington colored men convicted
of Staying a Baltimore delicatessen
owner went to their deaths on the
gallows at the Maryland Penitenti-
ary early today.
Neither Edward Woffard, q, of
the 1890 block of Cochran street
NV. nor Charles Jackson Benjamin,
%, of the first block of Patterson
street NE. spoke. The executions
were carried out swiftly shortly
after midnight.
Robert White, Is. of the 200 block
of p street NV, Washington, was
given a stay Of execution by Gov.
O'Conor yesterday.
Both Woffard and Benjamin had
asserted previously that White was
not with them when Vincent Di
Pietro was killed last December dur
ing an attempted holdup, and the
two told Gov. O'Conor Wednesday
that White was in Washington at
the time of the Staying.
Gov. O'Conor made no state
ment concerning Whites case, be-
yond granting the stay. He had de-
MED appeals OF both the executed
men for combinations Of death
sentences.
Evening star., 1942-07-24
Capt. BaIsIey, a Founder
OF Lafayette EscadriIIe, Dies

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, July 24--Capt.
Clyde Balsley, Al, one of the found
ers OF the famed Lafayette Esca-
drille in the World War, died yes
terday.
He was given the French Med
allie Militaire and Croix de Guerre
with palm and made chevalier in
the Legion of Honor. First Ameri-
can shot down, he was seriously
wounded
Capt. Balsley was born in Car
bondale, Pa, and attended the Uni
verSity of Texas.
Evening star., 1942-07-24
(Sixth of a series.)
BY KEITH WHEELER.

10y
tCopyrisht, 1912. by Chicaso Times. Inc
SOMEWHERE IN ALASKA (De-
layed This is the record of 10
day 3,000-mile trip out along the
Aleutian battlefront to Kiska Island
and return.
Americans are living and fighting
in the Aleutians - and the Aleu-
tians are American soil. They are
fighting and dying there to stop
an invader who. they believe, is bent
on conquest of the United States
itself.
They lead as brutally hard, cheer
less and dangerous life as man
can. They have pared living down
to its essentials-and these do not
include baths, clean clothes or beds
to sleep in. They sleep and eat In
tents and burrows in the soggy tun-
ORA. They fight in airplanes, flying
in weather that at its mildest would
keep any peacetime plane nailed to
the ground.
3 Trees at Dutch Harbor.
The islands they cling to are des-
olate and savage-a f1inty wilderness
of mile-high, perpetually snow
capped peaks that reach through
the endless fogs.
The trip began from nameless
base on the Southern shore OF the
great peninsula. Only one refer
ence point will be named here and
that is Dutch Harbor - dreary
enough by itself, but an oasis Of
luxury compared to others.
We started in a Catalina flying
boat that roared across a narrow
bay, rose into the air, banked steeply
to avoid a jutting cliff and leveled
off to slide across 1,000-foot pass.
Puny as they were. those would
be the last trees except three for
1000 miles.
Dutch Harbor boasts three sickly
pines but they are not native. Some
lonely American carried them there
and now fondly nurses them through
discouraged life. The inhospitable
Aleutians encourage trees no more
than they welcome men.
Except for long handled" wool
underwear and a fur-lined jacket
borrowed from the Navy, I began
the trip in clothing left over from
tropical cruises. I soon found that
a mistake and gradually acquired
knee-length wool socks, gloves, a
heavy wool shirt, a pair of water
proof iron" pants and five-buckle
galoshes to keep the mud and cold
out of open work tropical shoes.
Never Wore Parachutes.
We never wore parachutes, not
even during bombing attack on
Kiska.
Most Aleutian flying is done with
in 100 feet of the sea and If any
thing goes wrong at that altitude
a parachute is worse than useless
Parachutes were no good either at
10000 feet over Kiska, for recourse
to chute above that Jap outpost
or the adjacent waters would only
have made death a little slower and
more difficult to accept.
We turned westward and set a
course down the peninsula in
weather that, for once, was good.
Two hours later it began to close
in and I saw the sun only once
again in nine days.
Above Harbor for Hour.
The wet cold Of the islands soon
bit into me. an emergency solved by
showing a pile of miscellaneous gear
off a bunk and going to ground in
an eide:down sleeping bag.
Five hours later the gunner shook
me awake and told me to get up
because NE were ready 10 land. We
were outside Dutch Harbor, he said.
I scrambled back through the
plane to the gun blisters and looked
out into gray wet world in which
the only distinguishable features
were the darker gray waves directly