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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

drives tip in his jeep to take us down to the waterfront to greet incoming endorsements.
 TROOPS LOOK FIT
 This time the rumor Is right. Right off shore stand landing barges. We can see from the beach the troops look tough and fit. Our boys on shore (the Mar ines) laugh fit to kill as the troops hit the water-face down, thud- splash - just as we'd done the morning of August 7th when we never knew when the Jappo would start spining. These new boys have a most impressive fight ing uniform green, about the color of the Marine work suit.
 Out to the ship this morning for pictures and the rope ladder swung against the side of the ship, cracking the ground glass in my four by five graphic. Range find- CT knocked haywire too. Don't need range finder to locate free lunch aboard ship. Mccarthy and Bowling beat me to 1t. Food tastes pretty swell after corned beef stew, then only fresh meat in the past two weeks was a hunk of crocodile steak not bad, though. No beer aboard ship.
 condition yellow" sounds about noon while we are aboard. An- chor's up and by the time we get Condition red" (Tojo overhead) we are making fancy patterns on the water. We dodge the b ombs-but fires are starting on the island. They don't get far. Underbush has been cleared around Henderson Field, and the palm trunks aren't inflammable. A few fronds that fall from the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

palm tops, some 30 to 90 feet above ground, soon burn themselves out.
 Marines feeling they are old timers - tell the newcomers they can expect raids 24 hours a day. I can't let that pass, and boy, do those kids look relieved when I tell them that couple of raids a day will be all they can look for. There would be Louie the Louse," who buzzes over on nuisance raid now and then-we recognize him by the miss in his motor and--of course, Maytag Charlie, who drops 100-pounders.
 Japs fight mostly at night. I just get to sleep on my cot under mosquito netting, when whoooo- o-oo-carrrrrumph boom I hit the deck, and hear Mccarthy and Bowling Scrambling for the slit trench.
 Another whoooo-o-carrumph = boom! on the other side of the tent. A Marine sticks his head in the tent, and yells Air raid" As if we didn't know. crack my shin on an empty bomb rate we've been using for a typewriter stand. After then all clear, we
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03
ELKs DISTRICT DEPUTY NIGHT

Dr- Mortimer A. oHaEa On this deputy nigh. To %e1cOEne you home is a great delight. Any work duty. you never dodge We veEy proud that you belong to this lodge Y0u hare visited other Lodges in your district And core splendid EOTk to instruct AGenbeEx, to do their share for victory F0r the good Of freedom and liberty 1 is the duty Of eyeFy member To hate in mind and always remember That you BSing your and energy In inspiring patriotism Of our beloved country. Your kind of work is very much in need To help perform the very essential deed Of beating the Axfs it's sayageFy So that ne all continue to live in liberty. You with 50 many other EkS doing great Ad eEegy member of this lodge does appreciate TiSe efforts and wCrk being done by you all To hasten ttSe dhctatOgS defeat and downfall EseTy member here sill 6o all he can To help bring this to victorious end. @ that our beautiful flag will forever wave csw Ee Land Of the Free and the Home of the Brave
 -ore of the Members of Lodge 2s5. BP.oE
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

 memory of a corresponds, n { . photographer.
 PLACE: Guad- alcanal, Solomon Islands. DATE A day in Octo- Der, 1942.
 Rifle . Range Roscoe Ca Jap TO millimeter s 0 m e mile { away) sent in his morning bar rage The first time I heard Roscoe I dived out of my cot irl f.ha Press Clnt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

The average western Washington irrigation system represents an in- vestment of $i ,i62 farm and $37 25 an acre. Studies have shown that systems costing more than s40 an acre are not generally as profitable as less expensive outfits.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03
w O RID w A R A YEAR AGO
 DEC. 3, 1941
fBy United Press)

(By United Press)
 Soviet forces reach suburbs of Taganrog; 70 villages "liberated." Official Finnish reports am nounce evacuation of the Hangoe naval base by Red Army.
 Germans recapture Sidi Rezegh and Bir Fl Hamed In Libyan bat tlefrOnt.
 President Roosevelt fOrmalizes end-lease supply aid to neutral Turkey.
 U. S. gunboats Luzon and Oahu arrive at Manila.
 A new creamery in Machiques Venezuela, produces 2.oo0 pounds of butter a day.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03
HIGHLIGHTS FROM LATEST BOOKS
This Is America---The Precious Homeland We Are Defending

,HIS Ameca-and the brave worth fight
 ing to keep fully everything American glance the weeks pooK ana yo andn nlnntut ctee
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

Georse Washington Slept Here Too. Wartime eighth largest city in the country, The ten to nne ratio of women to has made the city known yar- ousv as the females dilemma, or the bacnelors 5 SelSSht" About 45 per cent of all adult women work at jobs outside their homes Drinking ot hard llquor is the favorite pasnle of Washngtonans, and 1t IS estimated that package stores sell more distilled Spts land Movies are the favorite indoor recreation bank nichts and double features being superfluous At the one bureSQue house the Gayety there IS little audience as the Steve6ores Washington residents seem to be she to take their art or leave alone mostly the latter
 Four art galleries, the Mellon, the Corcoran, the age AS a city, Washington has inherited thousands of no;a6les has produced but few Among them are John Philip SouSa Helen Hayes Al Joson and J. Edgar Hoover.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03
Fourth of Six Articles
---- Why Cameraman Sang About Sally Underneath The GuadalcanaI Moon

Montrose NewspIcures who landed Marines 0uadalcana pictures distributed of the country through the photographic returned o San Francisco from his assignment Although undergoing written gripping stories Ouadacana of which Aha fnmr.,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

Helen VI. Taksar of Hartford, graduate of St. Mary's Hospital Training School for Nurses has been appointed executive secretary of the Red Cross Nursing Service in the Insurance City designed to establish units of registered Florence Nightingalers for Army and Navy duty She has been assigned a desk at the Hartford Army Recruiting Headquarters on Asylum Street where she interviews qualified nurses between 2I and 40. both married and single Helen succeeds Mrs Ruth Relyea who has moved from the Capitol City. She superintendent of the Hartford DispenSary in 1926 and has been nurse assistant to private physicians since graduating from St Marys.
 Bill StrokalatS general foreman of the second shift the Chuckng Department at ScovS knows the value of work on the home front Early Thanksgiving morn ing of his employees approached him and presented petition behalf of others that work be suspended at 6 a. m Bill immediately assembled all his and in stirring apes urged all to remain at their respective machines until the usual cocking out time. So effective the foreman not left his work minute earlier than scheduled Bills plea brief but potent and fell upon truly patriotic It's like Bill and his Chucking cohorts who play so important role on Uncle Sam'S home front When parting time came many of Bills fellow workers showered him with verbal praise He very seldom lets with oratoy but this time his associates found out he has plenty the ball in ways than one.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03
By SHERMAN MONTROsE Written for NEA Service

San Francisco Dec 3You don't keep diary when you're in
 bat zone So innocent an entry Maytag Charlie came over this ng' might reveal Too should that fall the spueing of plane motor giving approach of
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03
CABS CUT A THIRD

Of li,700 licensed taxicabs in New York City (22 per cent of all li- cenSed cabs in U. s. a third have been taken out of service to save rubber, gasoline, and equipment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03
Civilian Defense
 Calendar

Notices for this column must be sent to the Mayors ofElce at least three days in advance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

Don Harmon, son of Prof. Frederick F. Harmon,
 ganiSt at the Church of the Immaculate Conception IS nome on rlOugh from the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois He's just completed his boat training and he returns expects to be transferred elsewhere for three months advanced course His transfer how ever will be welcomed with open Great Lakes IS a real cold spot Don has plenty of snow there, 5us prefers sunshine somewhere else He also longs to get away from that section of the country where every lining is so flat The hills and daleS of the Nutmeg State plenty that part of the country chattere yesterday morning he breakfasted with his genial dad after 26hour train trip. He loves the Navy, though for everything up to now has been right down hiS alley.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

believed to have been making it in- creasingly difficult to supply its forces in the Solomons. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said last week he believed the Japanese would not be able to reinforce their men on Guadalcanal.
 Meanwhile, there is still lack of action of any major proportions on Guadalcanal but American patrols continued active in their efforts to root out isolated bands of Japanese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03

NIT and Mrs John A. Cluney, IT.. observed their first wedding anniversary Friday. The latter is the former Helen Carln of Oakville. Bill Dillon of South Elm Street recipient of lovely ring at birthdav marty last Sunday at Burns Grill in Water vile Mir and Mrs. Fred QuatranO of MOrningSide Avenue observed their eighth wedding anniversary last Saturday The latter is the former Alvna Slrica Ot Franklin Street Rudy Hennick of the Naugatuck Daily News is a year older today. Sam MenchinO of the Health Department has natal day to observe tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-03
AMERICA REMEMBERS

K EEPING scrapbooks is rot con- "A fined to this nation. but it is a habit that almost every American experiences in some stage of his life. Then the scrapbooks disappear and
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Registration
For Draft
Set For Feb. l6

Selective service registration
for men who reached their goth
birthday on or before Dec. 81.
1941, or who will not be As be-
fore Feb. 16, 1912, will be held
but one day, Monday, Feb. 16,
1912, it was announced yester-
day by James v. Robins, chair
man Of the Santa Cruz County
Selective Service Board.
The registration will not apply tt
those who were registered Oct. 16
l940, or July l, 1941.
For the Feb. 18th registration
there will be registration places il
Nogales, Patagonia, Tubac, Ruby
Sonoita, Elgin and Washington
Camp.
Previous reports that the Febru'
ary registration would last three
days were wrong, Chairman Robinl
said, who added that total O.
about two-thirds Of the numbe.
registered Oct. 16, 1910, is expected
on Feb. 16.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
New Tropical
Gardens To
Open Sunday

Under the sponsorship of the
Greek War Relief association OF
Nogales a benefit dance will be
given in the Cavern Tropical Car
dens in Nogales, Sonora, Sunday
night and proceeds from the ball
will be given to the American Red
Cross.
The affair will mark the opening
of the Tropical Gardens, which has
been constructed by James and
Nick Kerson of the Cavern Cafe.
A group of ladies from both bor-
der cities will serve as a reception
committee and will wear Red Cross
head dress.
Special entertainment will be Of
fered and James Kerson, member
of the Greek War Relief association
committee, said plans were being
made to bring in some out-of-town
talent for the dance.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Lieut.. Mangan
Phones Here
From Australia

From far away Australia
about 1000 miles from here,
came a telephone call Saturday
from Lieut.. ]. HI. Mangan, 22-
year-old US. Army air corps
officer, to his mother, Mrs. M.
H. Quesenberry MARY Harri-
SOM, who is visiting her parents,
State Senator and Mrs. James
A. Harrison, 531 Morely avenue.
That the call was coming was
first learned by Mrs. Quesenberry
week ago yesterday when she was
Australia is calling Two
days later, at am. Saturday, the
call was finally completed and she
talked to her son from whom she
had not heard from since he was at
Manila in the Philippine Islands
shortly after the United States de-
clared war early in December.
Lieut.. Mangan informed his
nothen that he was safe and well
Mrs. Quesenberrys husband Is a
COLONEL in the us. Army and was
.tationed at Fort Mckinley. near
Manila when war broke out.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Woman Says Japs
Took Hawaii Homes
OF Americans Dec. Z

DALLAS, Tex, Jan. 29-Mrs.
George D. Quirk, wife of a United
States Navy officer, said last night
that the Japanese were so sure Pearl
Harbor and Honolulu would be
theirs by nightfall of Dec. that
many of them moved into homes
evacuated by Americans.
when the owners returned, the
Japanese occupants told them: This
was your home, but it isn't any
more, " she nelated. The Army
took care Of these japanese"
Mrs. Quirk, in Honolulu at the
time of the attack, spoke before 1900
air raid wardens.
1.-TWO days before the attack, "
she said, Japanese we're warn
ed through a large cloud shown in
their newspaper advertisements. No
one knew what the sign meant ex-
cept the japanese
On the day Of the attack, she
said. japanese were found on
buildings and telephone poles
flashing signals Some had baskets
of carrier pigeons to release with
messages, others sfcTtwave radio
Some tried to destroy gasoline
tanks"
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
CONSTRUCTION 5OO-MAN US.
ARMY RECREATION CAMP TO
GET UNDER WAY TUESDAY
Lieutenant, Who Is To Be In Charge OF Project
Arrives From Fort Sam Houston; Most OF
Actual Labor To Be Done BY CCC

Construction of 50O-man
United States army recreation
camp will get under way here
Tuesday, 1t. HI. A. Moncrief, Jr.,
who will be in charge of the
project said yesterday.
Arriving in Nogales several days
ago from Fort Sam Houston, 1t.
Moncrief has completed arrange
ments for getting the project start
ed.
A group of Civilian Conservation
Corps workers will be sent here
from Tucson and most Of the actual
labor will be dcne by the CCC.
Materials will be sent in from Fort
Huachuca.
The camp will consist of 100 semi
permanent buildings. to be con-
structed partly with lumber and
partly with tenting materials.
Ninety eight of the lighthouses will
be used for sleeping quarters while
two large houses will be used for re-
creation purposes.
The camp will be set up on land
adjacent to old Camp Stephen D.
Little which was abandoned in 1888
as an army post. The land for the
recreation camp was leased from C..
@. Cheshire by the city of Nogales
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Roosevelt To
Speak Tonight

Several special broadcasts will be
heard over nationwide radio hook
ups tonight dealing with President
Roosevelt's birthday today and the
national mfantile paralysis drive.
Charlie Barnets Spotlight Band
will be heard in a special program
honoring President Roosevelt over
the Mutual Broadcasting System
following the broadcast of a prize
fight at Madison Square Garden
which begins at pm.
President Roosevelt will ad-
dress the nation during one
hour celebration broadcast over
all networks beginning at 9:15
o'clock, NOgales time.
Vladimir Horowitz will give 9
special piano recital from Carnegie
Hall honoring the President be-
tween BIS and $50 o'clock tonight
This program will be heard over the
NBC Blue network.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Santa Cruz Has
300 In Nation S
Armed Forces

Including 129 national guards
men who left here In September
1S46, about 800 Santa Cruz
County men are now in the
Nations armed forces, it was
estimated Tuesday by Mrs. Mar
guerite Macdonald, clerk Of the
Santa Cruz County Selective
Service Board.
OF this number. A have been
drafted and other selecteeS are
unden orders to Leave early in Febru-
ary for the induction center at Fort
Bliss.
The 800 figune includes about %
young men whom the local selective
service board knows have volunteer
ed but not all enliStments OF mer
under q since the war began ir
December
The total, aside to the 12S guards
men. includes 76 in the Army anc
13 in the Navy.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30

Meade, Ajo, George Fry, Phoenix
and G. C. jackson, Kirkland. vice
presidents; Vic Householder, Phoe-
nix, secretary.
Directors include E. F. Bohlinger
of Patagonia.
The Arizona state supervisors
association elected r. T. Frazier
president. Other officers chosen
were: j. b. Meade, and George
Fry, vice presidents; w. G. !.
Simonton, Santa Cruz, secre-
tary.
Governor Sidney P. Osborn COM
plimented the roads association for
its part in Transforming the state
from barren desert to a region of
diversified industry in 80 years.
G.. L. McLane, senior engineer for
the US. public roads adninistra-
ton, urged limitation of construc-
tioal virtually to military needs.
More than 80 delegates attended.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Cars To Not
Be Kept Long
In Storage

CHICAGO, Jan. % -UP-The
nations automobile dealers were
told today that new cars would pass
through their hands so fast that
they needn't worry about govern
ment storage" and that sufficient
tires fer everyone should be avail
able next year.
Cyrus Mccormick, automobile and
truck czar of the Office of Price
Administration, told dealers-com-
planning that they would be forced
out of business by storing 100, 900 to
14O 600 automobiles until next year
that the government won't make
anyone do anything
Mccormick predicted that the
600 900 new cars to be available dur
ing 1912 will be sold before the end
of the year, with no holdover for
next year.
j. w. Newman, president OF
the Goodrich Rubber Company
Akron, Ohio, said that the tire
shortage should be over by next
year.
Newman said that 400, 900 tons of
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Whereabouts
Of Soldier Boys

Whereabouts of some of our SOL
dier boys when last heard from:
Manuel Escalada and Chuck Fain,
in army air corps at Sheppard Field,
Wichita Falls, Texas.
Harold Wizard, Quarte1rnaster
corps of bombing squadron at
Muroc, California.
= Captain w. L. Bristol, Camp
Chorrera, Balboa, Panama Canal
Zone.
Ralph TelleS, brother in-law Of
Mrs. Benny Lowe, now IN field ar
tillery at Camp Lewis, Washington
Willie Joffroy, coast artillery al
San Diego.
Walten FigueraS, son of City Al
derman Joe Figueras, at Fort Ray
naond. Seward, Alaska.
Hector Larriva and Davis Parrior
somewhere at sea-"
j. Yanez. w. Ramirez and r
Pesueros, in army air corps a.
Keesler Field, Mississippi.
Gilbert Soto, navy at San Diego
Henry G.. BaZurto and Harole
Brown. Jr., in cavalry at Fort Bliss
Ell PaSo.
Pierre Baffert, Connecticut.
Albert Alvarez, youngest SON Of E
Alvarez, army air corps at Shep-
pard Field, wichita Falls, Texas.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Enemy Aliens
Must Register

Applications for certificates of
identification must be filed by all
German, Italian and Japanese ma
tionals residing in Arizona, accord
ing to word received here from the
DEPARTMENT Of Justice
The applications must be filed at
the nearest first or second class, or
county seat, postoffice between Feb.
9 and %.
Issued by authority of presiden-
tial proclamation Jam. IA, the new
regulation requires all enemy ma
tionals IA or over who have not yet
taken the oath of allegiance before
a federal judge, final step in &C
qtIirinC American citizenship. to OBJ
tain Identification. certificates.
Severe penalties, including pos
sible internment of the enemy alien
for the duration of the war, may be
imposed for failure to comply with
the new regulation; officials said.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Ordered To
Phoenix For
Physical Exam

Orders were issued yesterday by
the Santa Cruz County Selective
Service Board for the following reg
istrants to go to Phoenix for final
army physical examination:
Jose Maria Alvarez, Jr., Dimes
Nelson, Angel D. Soto, Jose Angel
Rosas, Raymond Y. Rada, Edmond
Basila Itule, Carlos B. Gutierrez,
Ernest Caceyes Soto, Andres AL
berto Trevino, Marcelino Uvaldo
Varona, Ralph Woodhouse, Paul
Clark Macgregor. Hector Moreno
Paez, Dario Laguna Portela, Carlos
Reyes.
Albert Leon Encinas, William
Cervantes, Jack Beatty Ryland,
Walten G.. Wingfield, Manuel Ro-
nero Sinohui, Lewis Edwin McCor
mick, Carlos De. Jesus Lopez, Cor
nelio E. Gortarez, Fred T. Gardner,
John Munoz Widmar, Luis Bernard
Fleischer, Henry Sidney watkins,
Venture s. Estrella, Eddie Bejar-
ano.
Josiah Bond, Alfredo Navarro
Figueroa, Pablo l.. Portelo, Frank
B. Moson, Jr., Paul E. Stott, Gilbert
Ohnesorgen, Francisco E. Huerta,
Joseph Knight Wise, Walter Hol-
brook, Rafael NJ Gourdin, also Ed
ward Diorio of San Francisco and
Manuel Portillo of Dunsmuir, Cali
fornia, the latter two having trans
ferred to this county.
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IS Registrants
Examined
Here January Is

Registrants ordered by the Santa
Cruz County Selective Service Board
for physical examination here JAN
lIary 26 were:
Anastacio Salaiz, william KING
Dimes Nelson, Apolonio DayJo
Hosuer Howe, Isidore Marquee
Peter Cangemi, Perry Devere, Ct'c'
Bennett. Angel D. Soto. Rafae'
Gourdin. Jim Gastelun, Jose Luz
Pfnuelas. Rafael r. Berrellez anc
jose Angel RoSas,
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Foster Rockwell
Dies At Phoenix

Foster Rockwell, 81, operator of
the Adams Hotel at Phoenix since
the death of the late John c..
Adams, founder of the hotel, died
at his home III Phoenix Monday of
a heart attack.
Rockwell was an all-American
football player during his days at
Yale and shortly after leaving COL
lege came to Phoenix where, in
about 1911, he married Marguerite
Adams, only daughter of the found
er of the Adams Hotel.
Rockwell was one of two former
football stars mentioned in a book
published year or so ago by For
mer Democratic National Commit
teeman James A. Farley He was
one of F'arley's gridiron football
idols some 10 years ago.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
HEAVY TICKET SALE FOR
PRESIDENTS BIRTHDAY BALL

Penney Co., La Vile de Paris, No
gales Transfer & Fuel Co., Arizona
Furniture Co., j. j. Newberry Co.
Pay'n Help Yourself, Nogales Her
aid, Western Union Telegraph Co.,
S u. Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Entomology and Plant
Quarantine, Railway Express Agen-
cy, Southern Pacific Co., The Pro-
greSsive Grocer, Monte Carlo Dairy,
First National Bank, Border Club,
Citizens Utilities Co., The Popular
Store, F. w. Woolworth Co., Ari-
zona Home Supply Co., Levy's Bor-
der Cafe
Montezuma Buffet, Sander S
Place, Nogales Creamery Co., Karls
Shoe Store, international Drug Co.,
Banco del Pacifico-Tourist Dept,
Postal Telegraph Gable Co., Occi-
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Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Lon Chaney,
Famous Actor,
Visitor Here

Lon CLANCY, famous motion
picture actor, arrived here Mon
day and left Wednesday for a
hunt in Mexico across the bor-
der from Eagle Pass, Texas.
''The purpose of my visit to No
gales was to call on my old friend,
Robert Hoeffer," he said, as he and
party-his wife and his uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. George CLANCY
Of Applegate, California, ate break
fast in Ted Chaney's Shamrock
Cafe on Morley avenue.
The two Chaneys are not related
but it was pleasant surprise to the
husky, handsome actor to learn
from menu that the Shamrock
was run by a CLANCY and that the
Nogales CLANCY, too, was quite a
hunter.
The Hollywood CLANCY and party
motored here from Oregon. The
tire situation prevents us from
travelling to Guaymas, he said.
CLANCY added that ''if I am not
working I will be back here for the
annual fiesta May ST. and that he
comes to Nogales about every nine
months and was last here in May.
He has just finished making a
picture known as The Ghost Fran
kenstein," and others of his cur
rent pictures are "Wolf Man and
North To The Klondike'
The we'll known actor is a native
of Oklahoma City.
Nogales international., 1942-01-30
Praises Local
Draft Board

There is no better seiective
service board in the entire state
than the one in Santa Cruz Coun-
ty,' Major George Macdonald, state
recruiting officer, declared while
here this week from Phoenix.
The Santa Cruz board has an
swered the calls almost perfectly
and performed all duties In ad1 ex-
cellent manner he said.