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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04
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DR. LEON '. TOT'rEN. optometrist - South Main st. Open evenings only. 2 Co ..
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

Two brothers. Giles D. Blais, i9, and Denis s. Blais, l7, Of 490 South Leonard street, were enlisted in the U. s. Navy at New Haven head quarters yesterday. The sons of Mir. and Mrs. Giles Blais. they left today for Newport, R. l.. where they will receive basic training.
 Others who applied at the local station ard were sworn in yester- day at New Haven are Daniel !. Lawiey of 75 Idylwood avenue. Pas- quale Dicesare of 64 sylvan avenue. Ernest q. Johnson of Bantam. John K. Masakewki and Albert J. seibeFt Of TerFyyiile.
 Latest applicants at Ghe local Navy station who will be sent to New Haven for final examination aFei Walter kaFenEa. go. Of eos North Riverside street, Joseph J, Shea. go, 0f 38 North Main street, Victor MaFeeila, 2, of % LinWeod street, Thomas ?. Healey. go. Of iie We0d street. all ef Waterbury. and EugeBe W. vlgeant, i0, ef NeFthfleld.
 I've IoeaI men were swern into the U. s. Army at Hartford head quarters yesterday after being ac- eepted at the local statlsn. They are Denald V. Kerr. 2I. ef as9 New- ton avenue. whO enlisted aa a spe- elnlint electrician in the ar corps. and Peter Leasack, %. of % Vine street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

Camp Murphy, Fla, Sept. 4- Howard Wooster, son of MT. and Mrs. John J. Wooster, 43 Ashmun street, Waterbury, Conn.,, has been promoted from private first class to corporal at Camp Murphy, Fla, Sig nal Corps camp. Corp. Wooster is assigned to Headquarters Detach- ment DEML.
 Ft. Myers, Fla, Sept. A. First Lieutenant Francis M. Noonan, son of MT. and Mrs. Daniel F. Noonan, 204 So. Leonard street, Waterbury Conn, reported for duty today at the Army Air Forces Flexible Gun nery school, Ft. Myers, Fla Lieut. Noonan attended the University of Connecticut from 1880 to 1884, where he received the BS degree. Before entering the service on August g. 194l, he was a civil engineer with the American Brass Go.
 At the Ft. Myers gunnery school Lieut.. Noonan will assist in the training of students to operate the flexible guns that arm American planes against enemy attack,
 Camp Polk, La., Sept. = Pvt John G. Wall has just arrived here for training. He has been assigned to Headquarters Co.,, 1st Battalion 31st Armed Regiment, commanded by Lieut.. Frank A. Burckhard Is . native of Waterbury, Conn.,, the son of Mir. and Mrs. John F. Wall ot III Auburn, avenue, Waterbury, Conn.
 Sergeant Fred Smith, son of MT. and Mrs. Frank Smith of 69 Louns- bury street, is serving the U. S. Army somewhere in the Pacific. He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

Two airllneu are now operating out of Seville. Spain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04
ROTARIANS SEEK DONATIONS HERE

Wolcott, Sept. 4.--Donations to the Naugatuck Rotary Club cam paign for funds to continue gifts to lnductees from the 4-A selective service district will be accepted from residents of Wolcott. William c. Boies. treasurer of the Naugatuck's club committee, announced.
 Pen and pencil sets are given to ail the inductees from the district which includes Wolcott. Cheshire. Prospect and Naugatuek. Donations may be mailed to William c. Boies. Naugatuck National Bank.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

Sergeant Fred Smith, son of MT and Mrs. Frank Smith of 69 Louns- bury street, is serving the U. S. Army somewhere in the Pacific. He
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

ADD-MEN IN THE SERVICE -
 John Ande, son of MT. and Mrs. Howard Apdc of Buckingham street. OakYille, was recently promoted from private to corporal. He entered the armed forces April 20 and is stationed at Headquarters Company. New Orleans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04
Aoselnskl. BsFgmann

AEr. and Mrs. Andrew BeFgmann of Brooklyn. ". Y., and Brooks Hill. Wolc0tt announce the marriage of their daughter, Miss Constance Bergman to Sergeant Julian Mos- elnSki. The ceremony was per~ formed in Brooklyn, Y. F., on Aug. 70. Mrs. MoScinski ls well known here. as she has spent her summers here with her parents since she was 6 small child.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

is with the 102nd Infantry. A for mare employe of The Waterbury Democrat, Sergeant Smith is 8 graduate of Wilby High School.
 Francis R. Gauvin of 642 High land avenue and Edward R. Lubak of 284 Orange street, and William T. Bergquist of TOrrington are among 38 Connecticut men who have just been assigned by the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center in Texas to take preliminary flight training. They will undergo 27 weeks of precision pilot training at various primary, basic, and ad- vanoed schools in the Gulf Coast training center before receiving their wings and commissions in the Army Air Force.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-09-04

There will be no meeting of the standing committee of the Congre- gational church this week.
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The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07
Poland Calling

Are you listening, America? A Polish
woman calling. calling :.
/ live in Warsaw. Ten people live with
me-in one room. Two are old grand
parents. Four are middle-aged, like me.
Three are children but by the time
you read this they will have gone. Chill
dren don't live long on potato Feelings.
Do you know what II Is TO be hungry?
I mean really hungry. l mean hunger
that goes on day after day, that breaks
down your pride so that you crawl along
the cutters watching for an old bone, that
makes you cringe and whine before a
Nazi in the hope that maybe he'll toss you
a piece of bread.
That's the hunger / know. That's the
hunger these children here know. These
thin, shrivelled bodies don't know how
they came here; all they know Is that
their father was shot and their mother
raped before their eyes and then chased
across the fields while drunken Nazis
fired at her. betting each other as to how
ciose the, could get without killing her.
The oberlieutenant ended the spree by
shooting her clean through the head when
she stopped. painting for want of breath =.
You don't believe these things, America?
Then you don't know the Nazis.
l was the respected mother of good
family but / was pulled out of church by
the hair and the priest was dubbed TO
death at the altar. And now I must get
off the sidewalk when a German APP
proaches: get only a little rations-if
/ can get them at the store after the Ger
mans have had as much as they want Be-
cause we are permitted to shop only after
the Germans have finished.
don't think about Maria any more
my daughter. She was pretty and young.
They rounded her up with others and put
them In the Warsaw camp TO entertain the
officers . and after that they sent her
TO Russia or France or somewhere to en-
terrain the soldiers. God save her soul!
But a day Is coming, America, when
they shall see that we of Poland are cap
able Of hate-fierce. burning hate that
knows no pity, that will consume this
Nazi plague In flame Of vengeance!
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07

stoi and Tschaikowski pllaged and pollut-
ed by the Nazi hordes. Think how YOU
would feel if Monticello were used for 1oi-
let purposes by a Nazi army
have seen the spots where children
were burned alive because they wouldn't
betray our guerrilla fighters
! have spoken TO the men and women
with battered bodies, with eyes gouged
out with nails torn out by the roots
But maybe you are tired of this
you think maybe this is just "atrocity
propaganda
That's what the Nazis want you TO think.
But your men will find when they come to
grips with these monsters that atrocities
are part of their military scheme.
We shall not rest, we shall not sleep,
until the last Nazi is driven from our soil.
We shall not stay our hand until, with YOU,
the British and the free peoples of France,
and Poland and Germany itself. we shall
have wiped Hitlerism and its poisons from
the face of the earth.
The great offensive against Hitlerism has
begun. Hand in hand with you we shall
go forward to Victory. History will record
that our mighty peoples will win the war
and hold open the gates of progress for
the people everywhere.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07
Chinese Guerrilla

l am one of countless Chinese who are
fighting the hardest fight of all-the fight
against the Japanese invaders behind
their lines! BY day we are hard working
peasants, or are hidden In the hills, but
when darkness begins to fall we pick up
our weapons and creep quietly, silently in
among the enemy.
Have you seen our weapons? Old guns
for which we make our own bullets Old
fashioned swords-with sharp blades.
Homemade daggers. And simple string
good for garroting Japanese sentry And
clubs and dynamite!
Night after night we harass the jap
anese. We blow up their trains. We
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07

poison their food. We pollute their water.
We STAY the stragglers from their col
umns. We give them neither rest nor
peace /. and we shall not until every
japanese has been driven from our sacred
soil.
could tell you about the Japanese !.
about their rape Of Marking, when they
took an entire city, butchered the help
less the aged, the children and declared
the city brothel, with all women prey
TO the soldiers; about their binding our
captives together, alive. and then using
them for bayonet practice. They did the
same 10 the British after the capture of
Hongkong.
But that is how fascists are; il is foolish
to expect them TO act differently.
We are fighting side by side with you
i'm one war, war of liberation. So please
pay no attention to the fascist propaganda
that this is white mans war. This is
not a war to fasten white mans I'M
perialism on Asia.
1t Is a peoples war, to open the paths
to freedom TO peoples everywhere, regard
less of the color of their skins or the
shape of their eyes.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07
A Yeor of Wor
America. Dec. Z, 1912

America, Dec 7, 1912
year of war -.
Our dead are in the Pacific In the gray
waters of the Atlantic, on the hot sands
of Africa in the steaming jungles of
Bataan :. testimony from the grave that
we cannot live unto ourselves.
We have learned, the hard way We
have had to put selfish interests aside we
have had TO give up our accustomed ways
of living, we have had to fight to put Amer
ica's interests above personal and COR
porate interest-and it's been a hard. up
hill job.
But we're doing It, The worlds
mightiest industrial machine Is pouring
out the worlds mightest flow of war ma
terials-and something to be proud of
we're not satisfied.
We are resolved, as never before, to turn
out the goods, to present solid and UNI
breakable front to the defeatists and ap-
peasers who would sell our country short,
to march forward TO greater and greater
democracy ut home.
With vice-President Wallace we say!
"The peoples revolution Is on the march,
and the devil and all his angels cannot pre-
vail against It, They cannot prevail, for
on the side Of the people IL the Lord"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07
a Germon Mother

My name is kathe-never mind my last
name, 1t doesn't matter. All that matters
is that / AMI was-a German mother.
No. not the mother of soldier, although
l meet them every day-the silent, forlorn
mothers whose sons are perishing In the
mud and blood of Russia.
l was-oh, how can / go on-a young
mother. Mother of young Ottlie Ten
years old-a young, impsh kid with her
long, blonde braids and her shining blue
eyes. The only child we had -Wolfgang
and !. And Wolfgang is gone, too
But Ottilie. o God above. how we
planned for her, and lived for herl How
we cheated on the rations so she could
have enough to eat! How we went
hungry ourselves so she could eat! How,
under our breath, we cursed that day
when Hitler came to power and made our
land prey TO fever and TO death.
Ottilie kept us living :. she alone :.
And then, one morning. she couldn't
rise. She couldn't eat; her face was
flushed; and tears of pain rand down her
face / ran for a dOctor-but there are
not doctors for the poor in Germany The
Army needs doctors; the Storm Troopers
need doctors; the Nazi officials need doc
tors. There are no doctors for us-the
workers.
went to the Nazi headquarters.
You want doctor?" They laughed
You don't need doctor. Frau you need
man" They laughed again. / ran,
their laughter scoffing at my pain. :.
And then, in the dusk, met Louis. the
man from the Underground I drew him
quickly into doorway and told him. He
looked at me closely.
Katie. you're not lying trying to
trap u.s."
was hysterical I laughed In his face
lie shook ME by the shoulder.
Come out of it, Kathe. Ottilie will get
a doctor-tonight"
In darkness l waited, praying to God
and cursing Hitler crying by myself and
being cheerful for my little girl, now red
and feverish :. and ready to face a con-
centration camp if the Nazs found a
doctor from the Underground in the room.
At midnight he came-a thin, serious
man with scars across his face scars from
Nazi lashes. Even as he turned my little
girl over and listened to her heart and
looked IN her threat felt the breath Of
death.
He stood up. shaking his head
"She could be saved. One man know
could save her. An expert ;. ;"
/ grasped his coat "Get him. I'll get
the money, somehow"
His eyes were full of pity. "I can't
Hes I'm Dachau He's a jew :"
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07
A Frenchn1un TuIks

am Frenchman. worker. men,
Der of our great CGT-the General Con-
federation of Labor I fought in the first
World War. After the war, ! strove to
bring up my family rs well as / could
but the years were long, and wages were
low. and the franc fell in value, and prices
went up. and my hope for my three
boys-my hope that they would have
better life than / had-died, slowly, Bit
terly.
For time things were better when our
people got a government like the New
Deal. when our labor movement was
united. And hope, which never entirely
dies, began to bloom again, shyly at first,
and then stronger, stronger.
But then came betrayal. Our leaders
dickered with the Nazis. while we beat
our heads against the walls of their self
interest. Our trusts inspired from Berlin,
hammered at our unions. Our military
leaders despised us. the workers, and
Knocked at our democracy
Then war came, and shame - not the
shame of outright defeat in battle, but the
shame of betrayal into the hands OF
enemies. nation was sold by its Judases
and we have known In our bones and
flesh the suffering of Golgotha.
Now they have taken me taken me
to work In Hitler's factories. They have
taken me from my family without warm
Ing. They do not tell me where go, nor
when / shall return. My wages? What
Hitier's leaders say. My hours? What
Hitler's leaders say. My freedom? Don't
ask 1.-THE word freedom brings an ache,
q pain, to my heart
You in America once had slavery. You
cleansed yourselves of 1t. But now this
ugly thing has reared itself again, and
free men are now In chains-not fgura-
lively, but literally, toiling and dying In
the mines and factories Of Hitler
While YOU still have freedom, Fight
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07
Red Army Mon

Peter Stepanovtch talking soldier OF
the Red Army A plain man, son of
peasant but am part of a great army of
plain people, fighting for our country and
for freedom We are fighting for the
right of people everywhere to make things
better for themselves and their children.
We are fighting because we have tasted the
joys of fire. dom and creation, and because
we know that should Hitler triumph the
road to freedom would bog down in pit
of endless darkness.
have been in the territories which we
have recaptured from the Germans.
know what Hiterism means
l have see the bodies of children from
whom German doctors have taken skin
while the children were yet alive to use
In grating operations for Nazi officers.
have seen long rows of hanging bodies
bodies of men and women pulled from
the ground and left TO strangle. This for
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07

81 never thought they'd do it," l said.
We should have known better. We
should have known that the rape of China
would some day mean a stab in the back
of America. We should have heard the
warnings In the tramping German and
Italian legions when they invaded Spain.
We should have seen behind the false
smiles and honeyed words of Munich
We shrugged aside the lesson of Cain,
when he challenged God: Am my
brothers keeper"
We had forgotten that all men are
brothers. =.
But now our eyes see, our ears hear.
Listen.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07
america, Dec. 7. 1941 /.

america, Dec. Z, 1871 ..
America was the road between Akron
and Cleveland, the languor of gray cool
day with fall lingering in the air; families
tramping through the metropolitan parks,
eating hamburgers, talking about how soon
we'd be getting plastic autos and incident
ally, wondering how come the Russians
were doing such job on Hitler. -.
America was us. bursting into friends
house. with our kids hungry, apd jostling
past our friend little pale, who said,
did you hear? The Japs have bombed
Pearl Harbor?"
laughed and helped to get the kids
something to eat.
He repeated 1t.
You're kiddin'," said, and started off
on something else.
Listen" He turned on the radio.
a.. the State Department Is buzzing
with activity. Crowds are outside the
White House. Soldiers are posted at all
the Government buildings. And here's an
other flash: Japanese planes attacked our
bases :"
sat down. A clock licked slowly in
the room. The kids ate on, unconcerned.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07

Robert Crnden, author Of this
story, is publicity director Of The
United Rubber Workers, CIO, and
associate editor Of the unions off.
ciai organ, The United Rubber
Yorker.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07

al example 10
other men and
women to bow
meekly TO the
Nazi yoke.
l have seen
the sllrines Of
our country
our churches,
o u r national
museums. I h e
homes of Tol.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07

Through the Underground hear Ameri-
can soldiers are already on the way TO help
u.s. God grant it may be so! Every night
/ shall pray-"God bless America! God
speed the day when the Yanks are COM
ing."
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07

But we adults
looked at each
other feeling
alre a d y the
u n C e + ( ainty
ahead, k n o w
Ing that Mu-
Mich had borne
Its bitter fruit
w ar h a d
come TO us al
last.
The CIO news. (Cumberland, Md.) 1942-????, 1942-12-07
One Year al War.

And so help us God when the day of
liberation comes. We Shall Fight with
You!
Long Live Freedom! Long Live France!
Evening star., 1942-01-02

Again the jacket dress is the fashion
that makes headline news for the coming
season! Every important version in this
sale . both dress and jacket so fastidious
ly detailed they may be worn independent
of the other Highlights, too, are the dis
tinctive new prints and fine rayon sheers
in exquisite one-piece dresses for town,
business and afternoon wear Navy and
black with white lingerie; new greens,
blues and pastels. Sizes IL to 20.
Evening star., 1942-06-08
Manners
of the
Moment

So many people make cracks about
slacks that are worn with high
heeled slippers that I sometimes
wonder how there possibly can be
so many people left who wear them.
But there are. Almost every day
some girl comes tripping along in
slacks and high-heeled pumps. And,
every time / have an almost un-
controllable desire to trip her up,
OF course, it may be that some
girls get 50 that they are more COM
Portable in high heels than in low
ones. know cowboys who get that
way. But it's hard for me to imagine
it. All these years I've been wearing
high heels out of vanity. But never
have I worn them out OF common
sense or for comfort.
And If you aren't more comfort
able In high heels than in low ones,
why should you put on your most
comfortable OUTFIT and then ruin
your comfort by wearing high heels?
It doesn't make sense. JEAN.