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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06
YOUNG PEOPLE PLAN MEETING
Protestant Groups Arrange Council Session Saturday
 at St. Johns Church

Young Peoples groups of down. town Waterbury Protestant churches in which Yale Divinity School students are working. will meet at St. Johns Episcoal Church parish house Saturday evening of this week under the auspices of the Waterbury Youth Council. A conference wide meeting of the Woman's Society of Christian Serv- ice will be held January 20 at 10 8. m. and 3 p. m. at the South Nor walk Methodist church.
 The annual New Haven District Conference will be held at Merider. January 9, from 2:30 to 8:30 p. m.
 The calendar of events next week at the First Methodist church, an- nouIiced this morning by Rev. Dr John J. Snavely, pastor, follows: Monday, January 11th:
 6:15-Young Women'S auxiliary will meet. Installation of officers with Mrs. John Snavely as install- ing officer.
 7:00-Senior choir rehearsal.
 8:00-The Ofhcial Board will hold its regular monthly meeting. Tuesday, January 18th:
 l0:30-12:00 and 100 to 2:30-The Women's sewing group will meet.
 2:30-Monthly meeting of the Sunshine society will be held.
 7:45-The church Faith and Fel- lowship" meeting. The Life of Jesus is the subject for the coming three months. ''The Background of His Life" will be the theme.
 Wednesday to Saturday inclusive:
 The church will not be heated on account of fuel oil rationing. Con- sequently no meetings are sched- llled for these days.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

or 1t is a weapon to be used for defense or in retreat across an enemy country. THREAT TO a ADVANCING TROOPS
 Unless adequate anti -contamina- tion measures are taken, advancing troops that have used gas in their attack must cross the territory they have gassed. That may explain why the Germans have not used gas to date. But 1t is known that the Ger mans have large stocks, of gas, and 1t is known where their centers of gas manufacture are located.
 It is therefore anticipated to use gas, when the times comes. If they were forced into a retreat across Russia, if 1t were a matter of a last-stand, back to- the-wall defense, no one believes the Germans would hesitate to use gas. For instance, to maintain their hold in Tunisia, the Germans might be expected to use gas, just as the Italian used gas against the Philippians when they couldn't lick the barefooted natives any other way.
 Chemical Warfare Service officers say the U. S. Army will be prepared for the German gas attack, when 1t comes, and furthermore, they will be able to return gas attacks with .in- terest.
 Edgewood Arsenal alone is now turning out more gas in few d-ys than was produced in :he whole Ward War. Edgewood is just 8 pilot plant. Main production of gas is in arsenals at Huntsville, Ala, Pine Bluff, Ark, and a new plant just being completed near Denver, Colo. NEW GAS PR0TCETION
 FOR AEF <.
 The gases are in the main the same ones used in the last war, though the concentrations and the methods of producing them have been perfected, as well as the means of using them in warfare. Every American soldier, as he goes up the gangplank for service overseas, bets the very latest type of mask, in- cluding two compact spray hoods, a new development which the soldier throws over his head and which covers his entire body like a pup tent, giving him protection during the fraction of a minute required for putting on his mask. Ire con- taminated hood is discarded after a gas attack.
 Gas weapons, as demonstrated at have been vastly im- proved. Mortars will hurl gas shells for miles. A morta battalion can throw five tons of gas in two min: utes, for instance.
 The one big Improvement" in gas warefare technique is the spread ing of gas by plane. One plane diving low, can spray an area of 800x1000 yards with a much thicker blanket of gas than can be laid down by shell or mortar fire. Much faster, too, and that explains the necessity for the spray hoods men, toned above.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06
TROOP NUMBER 3l
 PREPARING BOOKS
Swedish Weaving Club En- tertained at Home of Miss
 Ruth Norton
FAYETTEVILLE
Correspondent: Mvs. William F. Rooney. l9O Dwight SG
 Telephone 3-S47S

Wateryille, Jan. 6.-Girl Scout Troop No. 31 met at the home Of their leader Mrs. Sidney Henchel Monday evening. Scrap books for che U. s, O. were made. Present were: Ruth Batchelder, Nancylou rotten, Shirley Leisering, Priscilla denchel, Lillian McMullen, Joan Pierpont and Jean French.
 Court Welch, Foresters of Amer ica will meet Thursday evening at o'clock, Foresters hall.
 Fairmount Community club will meet this evening at 8 o'clock at their rooms on Essex street. Ken meth Rappe presiding.
 w. s. c. S. will meet at the home of Rev. Ernest Weise, pastor of Grace Methodist church this eyen- Ing at 7:3O o'colck. ai
 The following members attended the meeting of the Swedish Weav- ing club last evening at the home of Miss Ruth Norton: Mrs. John Platt, ST., Mrs. Harry Stride, Mrs. Harry lattimer, Mrs. Ralph Benson, Mrs. John Platt, Jr., and Mrs. John M, E. Johnson. Lunch was served.
 Girl Scout Troop No. 27 will meet tomorrow afternoon at 3:3O o'clock at sprague school gymnasium.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06


 The sentry sensed the presence of .trangers. He shouted: .sQui est ca7'' 4-"Who's there?n The Germans ale ways challenge in French on this front.
 I was about 20 feet behind the British officer, 90 feet from the Ger man. A bullet whistled over our heads. Our officer threw a hand grenade at the sentry and I saw a great white explosion. The ground shook. Then a machine gun opened fire with the quick short bursts the Ger mans favor.
 We were flattened on the ground and the Germans were trying to spray us without success.
 The patrol opened rifle fire and German riflemen answered.
 Orders were whispered: Get out the grenades." Fix bayonets." Send section around to the. left" The section moved out and blazed away at the Germans with light machine guns and rifles. It was, getting too hot. '!
 withdraw" our officer shouted, and we crept back. e
 We scrambled down the hillside, stumbling over the rocks, cursing and straining our eyes to keep from stumbling into 8 hole and perhaps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06
SALE s MEN IN EAST. FORGOTTEN }
Others to Be Allowed to Drive 659o of Last
 Years Mileage

Washington, Jan. 6-(UP)-The office of Price Administration an { nounced today that qualified sales men-except in the 17-state east ern shortage area-will be supplied with gasoline rations sufficient to enable them to drive up to 65 per cent of their last years mileage or 8,600 miles year, whichever is less.
 The eastern shortage, OPA ex- pla1ned, makes 1t impossible now to include salesmen from that area in the new. provision.
 OPA War Price and Rationing Boards will be ready to issue ration books for the additional mileage beginning Jan. g., 1t was said. To qualify, salesman must have been principally engaged in an eligible sales activity for the last three months, or be taking the place of salesman who was so engaged. He also must meet OPA requirements on ride-sharing and lack of alter nate means of transportation.
 Eligible salesrnen include those primarily engaged in selling neces- saryqmaterials or equipment for the operation of naval, military or hos pital establishments, common car- riers. public utilities, industrial or establishments essential to the war effort, or those principally engaged in selling foods, building materials, clothing, fuel and medical supplies essential to public health except those selling direct to householders.
 The tllowed additional mileage, which was recommended by Rubber Director William Jeffers, will be issued in e" ration. OPA said.
 OPA said eastern salesmen would not be so favored until 1t finds that the available gasoline supply in such area justifes extension of the provisions"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06
SKI ROMANCE FACES {
 EARLY ANNULMENT

Cambridge, Mass, Jan. 6. (UPl- The To-day ski-romance marriage ot Henry Palmer of Lexington and Louise H. Culpepper of Philadelphia faced an early annulment today when the bridegroom discovered that his bride had been married three months before their wedding.
 Palmer petitioned for apnulment in Middlesex Probate Court yester- day alleging that his bride was married to one Joseph Solari in Philadelphia on Sept. i0, 1922"
 Palmer said he wed the girl in Woodstock, Vt, the day after Christmas during . skiing trip.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

Francis E. Dadson of the Steam Department at Scovs well afford to pour forth steam these days full service for him with that important industrial plant Although actually employed by the company only 25 years he had been around the plant since March with New York firm who installed the electrical equip
 ent the East Power House. When the work was com pleted he left the company with whom he had been a- fated than IT years as an engineer to work for Scovl as Chief Electrician, which job he's held ever since. He has three married daughters, all living in Waterbury. a*~'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

The Old-timers are amazed when they see that William H. (Bg BilD Edwards was sixtysix years old when he died this week in New York hospital Thus
 do the years fly by Football star of the lSSOs he has never been succeeded by player better known or more ropuIar He was great figure at Princeton rallies before games or in hotel Hobbies during democratic national convention. He powerful figure of a man, 300 pounds and as guard at Princeton in lSS7 the polite game of football He was one of the 'biggies" of his day and helped make Princeton famous He dabbled in politics but always just missed being great.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06


 You can get testimony from dis tinguished scientists and statistics from the Veterans Bureau to sup port the theory that gas is less horrible than other weapons of modern war. Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard and chairman of the National Defense Research Committee, is one who holds to this view. The mere fact that the Ger mans had learned of the American development of Lewisite, towards the end of the last war, is supposed to have haStened the German de- cision to ask for an arrnistice. Vet erans Bureau figures show that in the last war, less than 2 per cent of the gas casualties died, and the Veterans hospitals today have prac- tically no gassed cases. Some con- sumptives were even cured by gas. GAS HELD NO WORSE
 THAN BOMBS -. From the civilian point of view, the mere idea of gas warfare is of course horrendous. The mere threat of a gas attack on defenseless wom- en and children is psychological weapon of no mean importance. There's nothing about war that can be made pleasant, but to say that gas warfare is any worse than high explosives or incendiary bombing is, according to the point of view of the Clerical Warfare tacticians,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

Dr. and Mrs John M Bozzuto, Jr. celebrated their second wedding anniversary last Saturday. The latter is the former Angeline Farino .. Police Chief John Gormey of Naugatuck observing 27 years of buecoat duty this week Mrs Fred Quatrano of Morningside Avenue was year older Monday of this week Ditto for Mrs Vincent Coates of Woodbine Street MT. and Mrs Wim Kety are celebrating their second wedding anniversary today The former is serving Uncle Sam
 Bobby Tracy of South Street enjoyed furlough at home last weekend He's stationed with the U. S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06
MEAT HOUSE MEN
 DETAINED BY F.B.l.

Hartford, Conn, Jan. 6.-(UP)- In the first case of its kind in Con- necticut, three wholesale meat house owners and employees were held by federal authorities today on charges of violating the governments meat price regulations.
 Those held are Kalman, Berco- wetz, 57, and his, son, Irving 26, operators of a wholesale meat con- cern at Bloomfield, and Yale Sokoll, 26, Hartford, an employe. ' The three men were arrested af- ter complaints by the OPA.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

Spring is here! With a hey, nonny, nonny! Our first invitation is here It's to spring opening, and as we write the thermometer down i'm the doorway seems to be at about 10 above The invitation asks us to come (nOt to Kew in lilac te) but down to the can yOns of Gotham and see Mr. Johns collection of hats and accessories on the morning of January the 12th which will be a Tuesday. On the morning of Tuesday the 18th we may be digging ourselves out of snow bank much as we would love to mngle mid the StrawS and prints that bloom in January.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

Shades of Edwin Booth. The old Ford Theater m Baltimore has been ordered closed Famous for over seventyve years this famous house has had many oI Katherine Cornell Maxine Elliott, Richard Mansfield, William Gillette, Judith Anderson and others have of HI MS Pnafore" was at Ford's. The structure has been ordered closed until it be revamped and made safe for carrying on business 4s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

Louie Cirninera, Riverside Street tOnsOrial artist believes his friends ganged up him Christmas week. for every tie he received present exact replica of q barber pole Mr. and Mrs. James Keenanl of East Clay Street had plenty of rice tossed at them 20 wears ago this morning Mrs Jim is the former Anna Harmon of Baldwin Street They have son, named after his Iieabe dad .. George BIinn of Waterville knows fellow with the D. Ts who was accidentally drafted But nobody noticed it yet-cause the guys driving jeep.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

Two inebriates swayed on the corner of Mill and East Main Streets the other day waiting for a taxi. One of them bOaSted that he'd have trouble lOcat- his fellow swayer, that there will be light burning in the window?' Mo- was the response, but my wife will be-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

Flash from Bill Homick Hirohto is suffering from MacArthuritis . |. Pete Lynch can't understand why the Army fOrbids weather reports. He thinks they should be published to fool the enemy just like the weatherman always fools Chick Kelley has youngster of whom he's plenty proud. We asked the WolcOtt mayor how his offspring was getting along Great he replied, every time the Russians take an other new town he learns two more wOrdS'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06
MOTHER KNOWS BEST

Once upon a time,
 You must know the rest, Youngsters were agreed
 That mother knows best. Those were the days
 If kept after school You didn't Scamper home
 Indifferent and cool. Those were the days
 You ran pell-mell, But oh how you hated
 And dreaded to tell The picture has changed,
 And don't you get hot When youngsters come back With 8 snappy-So what2 Once upon a time
 The classroom pest Was forced to admit
 That teacher knew best. Times have changed,
 You know the rest Albout the old phrase
 That mother knows beStl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06
By PETER EDISON NEA Service Staff COrresn0nd

NEA Service Stan Correspondent
 Edgewood Arsenal Md an 6Ths headquarters of the United States Army Putting accurately it the pilot ing ground and training school center for the Chemical Warfare but when that civilian shudders But the Chemical Warfare Service General William M Porter ism tS1ch terrhla klsnes at hat
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06
Patrol Duty In No.
 Africa Has Risks
Travel in Crowded Trucks With Mine DetOnatOrs
 Ready to GO Adds to Tensity
By NED RUssEUL

United Press Stan Correspondent
 Medjez El-Hab Tunisia Jan E. (Delaye British patrol of 20 silently up rock hill north Medez ago
 the houette soldier helmet 10 feet from the hO Inc [
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

Tn all nIdia there are now less than O,000 licensed radio sets.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

over S6,O00 families in Dublin win he siven free fuel this winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-06

RUY WAR BONDS. STAMPS
Evening star., 1943-03-21
Eden
Continued From Page B-1D

unhappy precedent of mon intervention"
was set. High policy in Britain decided
on non-intervention in the Spanish civil
war and it was Edens duty to help pre-
serve the pathetic sham of the non-in-
tervention committee which masked the
participation of Hitler and Mussolini in
that opening battle of the present con-
f1ict.
Under the shadow of the approaching
disaster of Munich, Eden again broke
with the Conservatives, who were IN
power. He resigned as Foreign Minister
on February 49, 1888, announcing to the
House that it was not over the Mediter-
ranean agreement reached with Italy,
which he was known to have opposed, but
over an ever more grave issue This
stirred flood OF speculation all over the
world. The curious did not have long to
wait. A few weeks later the Nazis in
vaded Austria and appeasement was
made that much more difficult. This
meant for Eden a definite break with
Neville Chamberlain. If he had STAYED
on, of course, he would inevitably have
borne the stigma Of Munich.
With the outbreak of the war In
1899 he was made Secretary of State
for Dominion Affairs and in a quiet in
conspicuous way did much to co-ordinate
the war effort of the motherland and
the members of the British common
wealth. Then when France fell and
Chamberlain was hustled of the stage
to make way for Churchill Eden be-
came War Minister 1t was a irving
interlude preceding his return to the
foreign office.
Today Eden has look of maturity
that was lacking five years ago. The
trials that he has been through show
plainly in his face. He has been through
the fiery furnace and that ordeal has
given him a strength which he NAV
not have had before. Above ALL having
been through two wars. he is determined
to try to find . decent footing for q
long peace.
printed b. eDeeiai Arrsnsement With the
u. Louis Post-Dspatch>
Evening star., 1943-03-21
European Front

An encouraging indication that all is
not well in Germany came last week
from the Third Reich via Stockholm.
When copies of the Essener National
Zeitung reached that capital the Swed-
lsh readers saw in 1t the news that
Essen has been put under martial law
as result of recent destructive assaults
by the Raj on the Krupp armament
works there. An official appeal has been
made to the populace to preserve order
ana the newspaper, taking cognizance
of the fact that the Krupp works are
filed with laborers imported under
oufeSS from the conquered countries of
Europe, said: 1T can - assumed that
enemy agents are harbored among the
many foreigners in our midst They be-
heVe the hour has come to cause unrest
by spreading wild rumors" The jitters
have struck Germany.
Resistance in France continued to
flare dramatically last week, but it had
small effect in itself toward diverting
the Germans from their battlefelds.
German SIS troopers led French motor
lZed police into the hills of Haute Savoie,
close TO Lake Geneva, to hunt for sew
eral thousand well-armed young French
men who were hiding out in defiance of
Nazi ultimatum to surrender. In
rebellouS fight from the German labor
draft. the youths repeatedly were led by
former French officers and generals.
Late IN the week, however. the rebels
were reported coming down from the
hills, where they could get no food.
Secretary of State Hull last week
warned that the war will be long In
expressing that sentiment he echoed
British Foreign Secretary Eden. Gen.
Francisco Franco, the Spanish caudillo,
told the Cortes in Madrid last week he
thought the war would last six or seven
years.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

fiercest attack against the Soviet forces.
Even the generals who had opposed
following the hunch of the Fuehrer did
their utmost to break the resistance of
the Russians.
And the worst happened. The winter
caught the Nazis totally unpr apared.
Skis had not been constructed for their
planes. Improvised contraptions were
attached to the bombers and fighters.
but they caused such vibrations when
the speed of the planes reached ITO
miles an hour that the efficiency of the
Nazi aviation was greatly reduced. The
pilots did not master the art of land
ing on ice or in deep snow and many
planes were wrecked and their pilots
and bombardiers killed.
The Nazi forces expected to spend
the winter cozily in houses in the prin-
cipal Russian cities. They had no wooden
clothes or heavy furred topcoats. Neither
did they have furred boots. The result
was that many of the Nazi soldiers fell
victim to the subzero cold.
The fieldmarshals who had been
dubious about the Russian adventure
from the beginning began to show their
discomfort and warned the Fuehrer that
he was jeopardizing the Reich's chances
of winning the war. They were re-
moved from command and sent to posts
from which their voices could no longer
be heard
The hunch strategist of the Nazi
forces was determined to put his plans
through. His lunches had failed him
in the past, but he could see no reason
why they should fail him again. The
only concession he made to his pro-
fessionAls at headquarters was that tn
Evening star., 1943-03-21

EtI UCVUIt IUI VIIt OtIIII al TNUSSIdII ITUIII,
For the first time since 1941 Soviet
soldiers last week crossed to the western
side of the Dnieper River. as a step in
the Smolensk campaign. In the south
however, where the winter is vanishing,
the Reds are giving way to the Nazis,
who, from taking Kharkov, now have
moved on to Belgorod in a slow and
bloody retracing of their retreat earlier
in the winter across the Ukraine. The
Soviet Embassy here reported during
the week that the Germans have moved
Is fresh divisions into Southern Russia
during the past month. On the other
side of the world the Japs have kept
quiet which cannot last long.
Evening star., 1943-03-21

stead Of throwing against the Red
armies only Germans, as had been the
case in the 1941 campaign, he agreed to
order Rumanian, Hungarian, Italian,
Croat and Slovak divisions into battle.
Since the second campaign against
Russia began only once or twice has
the Fuehrer been away from the battle
front. The strategic plans were his own
and their execution was performed under
his strict supervision.
The second Russian campaign was
even worse flop than the first The
only redeeming feature, as far as the
Germans are concerned, rested in the
fact that more "allies" than Germans
were killed, wounded and taken pris-
oners
Hitler Abandons Strategy.
With the last failure against Russia,
Hitler is reliably reported to have
abandoned his hunch strategy and
placed in charge of all military opera
tions professional men who know what
must be done. He expects that these
men will now repair the damage done
by his lunches" and has withdrawn
to Berchtesgaden where he is kept in
formed about the course of operations
on the Russian front.
The generals now in supreme COM
mand on all fronts are expected to
remedy the situation. The new cam
paign against Russia is conducted by
them as an offensive defensive opera
ton. Now that the damage has been
done they must attempt once more to
cut off the oil supplies from the Russian
armies, before they decide finally to
withdraw to defensive positions close
to the German borders.