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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

school education, age between p and 35, height not less than 5 feet 6 inches, experience in supervising people and a passing grade in a special intelligence test which is a modification of the regular Army l. Q. test.
 The Lady M. P.'s' come from various backgrounds. One is a former manager of a chain of res- taurants, mother was a professional wrestler, and there are fomer house wives. factory and office workers, plant matrons and and ex-private detectives. Head of the unit is Mrs. Margaret Barney, one-time social worker and department store detec- tive, who had been a Curtiss- Wright matron before the womens guard company was organized.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
SHERIFF USES PSYCHOLOGY

San Diego, Cal. - CUP) - Deputy Sheriff J. c. O'Connor had little difficulty along about shoe ration ing time in finding jurors for in- quests over a two-day period. He merely visited the shoe stores where Coupon No. r was dying and Coupon No. l8 showing signs of life, and summoned about everyone in sight. T got 30 ve- niremen at the first store I wis., ited," he declared.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
CITY'S 1,O00TH WAVE

Los Angeles, Cal. - (UP) - Phyl- lis Michel, 20, had the good for tune to be the 1,000th Wave to enter the service from this city. Ac- cording to It. Comdr. J. D. Cash man, in charge of Wave recruiting here, enough have enlisted from this city to release enough men to man several warships.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
By ALICIA HART NEA Staff Writer

NEA Staff Writer
 girls them through consistent exercise and massage did Kathleen Harris, Three Katleens sl demonstrates of them
 It's the cycling shoulders holding the back with Now circle the air with pedang bicycle Do this 50 times as swiftly
 Next squat down. and with hands placed the floor behind throw straight and then extend the other Alternate from left times The last the three thingsmerey walk around hte tissues
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thing wrong in Col. Warnings reasoning? He thinks it is per- fectly all right for him to jaunt from coast to coast, addressing rallies, speaking on such subjects as "The War Effort on the Home Front"
 But is it really essential for a man, even if he is head of a great organization like the American Legion, to travel over the country making speeches?
 tween what he would say about the war effort and what a local thinker would say to justify a mans taking up train space to go clear across the country to say it?
 IMPORTANT FOR WIVES
 Is it as important for the people on the home front effort than for little Mrs. Brown, who is making her own effort, to take Johnny Jr. and go to visit Daddy who is at an army camp and may be out of the country any time?
 Even in war time isn't the fam fly relationship more important than speeches?
 The women with children whose husbands are in service lead hard, dreary lives. There's no getting around that unpleasant truth. And a trip to see their husbands is the most important thing in their lives.
 If Col. Waring wants civilians to do something about the travel situation why doesn't he ask civilians not to take vacation trips; ask organizations that are essential only to themselves (and that takes care of lot of them) not to have state or ntaional con- ventions; ask women who still have their husbands with them not to take a trip to visit friends, buy clothes or just to "get away from it all?"
 Why pick on the poor war wives who are so desperate to see their husbands once again that they are willing to take a child or two along on hard, tiresome trip-and still feel it is worth the effort?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
TOMORROW'S MENU
(Eat the Basic 2 Every Day)

IEat the BASIC ' EVcTy DayJ
 BREAKFAST: Sliced peaches with dry cereal, wholewheat toast, butter or fortified mar garine, coffee, milk.
 LUNCH: Lentil soup with bologna, dark bread, radishes, peanut cookies, plums, tea, milk.
 DINNER: Chicken noodle soup, casserole of dried lima beans with chopped leftover meat and gravy, garden salad bowl, bread, butter or fortified margarine, stewed fresh fruit with bakers sponge cake, tea, milk.
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thing like the W a y women and small chil- dren are going about the coun- try - a n d he says fatly that he thinks they ought to stay home.
 He b Iii V e S that If t h e y don't the gov ernment is go- ing to have to crack down on civilian travel ing.
 L o o k, isn't f h Q r Q SnO1p-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14
Caroline Chatfield
Saw To-day
Mothers Partiality for One Child Creates
Bitterness.
Title Registered. U. $. Patent Ofice


 DEAR GARFIELD:
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 them the partiay mother darling the others but there's bond between her and the parent until the brothers Sometimes congenaity of spirit them it's swift nuive the mother that child and sometimes the neXplcabe.
 speaking to satisfied by begging by browbeain This equally true of mother and friend No sulk and spite faces better show little
 
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WOMAN'S REALM=L Ia
WE, THE WOMEN
,--WE, THE WOMEN
 What Price War OratOry?
 Asks Millett
Rv RJJTH MILLETT

As head of the American Legion, Col. Roane Waring has recently travelled 6O,OoO miles, much of it in this country.
 He says he has never seen any
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-14

THE SlOR1: LllcOin Eiioi, American, decides to have one final fling at adventure before set ting down to his important du- ties as the newly appointed mili- tary governor of French colony fin Central Africa. Disgusting himself as the Arab, Terek el- Medjahiri, he seeks out the der wish Lodge of Bi Hassanyleh, of which he had once been mem- Der. Sit Fosiha. an old sweet heart, conceals his real identity, thus enabling him to learn of plot against the government. When she realizes what she has done she kills herself.
 THE LINE OF DUTY
 CHAPTER VIII
 re was appalled,. He felt his hair raise, as if drawn by shivery wind. There was pity in his heart; grief; remorse.
 But, a second later, another mo- ton projected itself across the morose confusion in his brain; the idea, so simple and trite, of duty
 Duty, too, was part of life. II was - and he wondered if, perhaps 1t was his fathers New England inheritance calling the tune - the finest part of it, being the most unselfish. And his duty was clear He must act, sharply and at once against the conspiratorS, and chiefly against the hykmoot ameez the Man of Mystery, sitting there in his lair south of Lake Tchac like a gigantic spider weaving g poisonous web, waiting for the dervishes who were hurrying tC obey him blindly.
 He must go back to his house rouse Captain Pelletier, send fol the prominent men of his staff talk over the situation, cable tc London, arrest whatever locaI members of the Lodge he could find, dispatch a large detachment of airborne troops toward Lake Tchad ..
 "No!" he said to himself sud- denly. Te would do nothing oi the kind.
 Secrecy would be out of the question. The signal drums would drone the news in all directions within the hour. The hykmoot amei and the emissaries hurrying to hin would fit away into the wilderness like shaows and simply bide theil time.
 There was one other way. Just enc.
 He remembered that. in the knds of Islam, it is never a peo- pie in ferment and travail, but al- ways One Man who pulls the strings, for good or for evil. One Man who is the heart, the brain the nerve center. One Man: dreamer or doer - idealist or criin- inal-saint or devil.
 And. as often as not, the former more dangerous. because of his very sincerity. than the latter.
 It was so in this instance. There was the One Man the hykmoot ameez.
 Saint or devil, he would have to be found, dealt with. He was the heart, the brain. the nerve center. Would have to be destroyed
 You're damned right" Lincoln Elliot said to himself. Its up to youl"
 A hard undertaking. But not im- possible. He knew where the man lived. Nor. coming as a messenger ef the Bi Hassanyieh, would he be suspected.
 FoSiha. the only human being aware of his identity, was no more. He would start tonight, at once, into the interior.
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HUMMINGBIRD FRAILTY

So tiny are hummingbirds that instances have been recorded of them being caught in spiders webs, stuck to thistles, or impaled on thorns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13

10. His only uniform is that of air commodore in the RAF. It was among his life's proudest moments when, recently, he was presented with the wings that adorn 1.-the second honorary wings ever awarded by the RAF. TRIED PILOTING ONCE
 He has always been interested in flying Ca couple of crackups as 8 student dampened his piloting thousands of dwelling units built for war workers by private builders with FILA. financing will probably revert to the government by de- fault when owners move out. Com munities cannot afford to wait until war plants shut down and thou sands of new workers shift to their old home or other cities. Solutions then may be short-sighted. Oficials should determine now what disposi- ton of emergency federal housing will best serve their local interest"
 Mrs. Rosenman added.
 MT. Joseph D. Leland of Boston, vice-president of the United States Housing Corporation in World War I, is chairman of the sub-commit- tee which prepared the report. Copies are available from the Na- tional Committee on the Housing Emergency offices at 512 Fifth Avenue, New York, at ten cents per copy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
YOUNG CREWS IN
 PHOTO FLIGHTS
Aviation Cadets at Yale Getting Practical Experi-
 ence Over Elm City

New Haven, Conn. Aug. 13-Avia- tion Cadets from the Army Air ] Forces Training Command School at Yale are now flying daily over New Haven and vicinity. photo graphing the terrain with the same type of aerial cameras used in re- | connaissance missions overseas. Photography Cadets In the last phase of their course take off from the Municipal Airport in C-78, ac- cording to Captain H. c. Jame. the schools Assistant Director of Field Operations. The photo flight crews are piloted by silver Wingcrs Lieutenants R. r. Mckee and J. J. Drucker
 These photo missions, designed to supply the cadets with taste of practical aerial reconnaissance ex- perience, follow pre-navigated course over restricted areas for about an hour, with the Cadets busy lens mapping the la d below. After the Cadets have photo graphed their targets, they pro- cess the aerial rolls of films in lab oratories at the airport, developi::g E the films and making prints al within q period of three hours.
 The course is one of several initi- ated by AAFrC officials in the past few months to train the future oi ficers in all practical phases of combat operations.
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CIO Makes Demands

Detroit, Aug. 13.-UP)-Ap- proximately 2.2o0 workers struck at the Chrysler Corporations Dodge plant yesterday in what the com- pany charged was an obviously carefully organized and conducted" stoppage of war production.
 A management statement said the plants entire first shift stopped work at 9:45 a. m. "simultaneou 'y and obviously by direction" and that at $50 a. m. a shop commit tee representing the United Auto mobile Workers (CIO) presented the company with four demands.
 These were, the company said:
 l. Don't move men from one department to another to try to keep up a government-requested schedudle; rather, cut the schedule If you have manpoWer or material shortages.
 2. "When men are absent from particular department. don't try to maintain production, rather, cut production in the department where there arc less than the usual re- quired number of men.
 5. If production IS halted be- cause of unavoidable material shortages, pay the men for the remainder of the shift.
 4. "If some departments must stop early and the men be sent home, send them home only by seniority" tThe company said this always has been done)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
By TOM WOLF NEA Staff Correspondent

London, Aug. 13.-Last spring when Winston Churchill, then 69 was gravely i'll with pneumonia, 1t was he who prescribed his own medicine-one of the sulfa drugs.
 Taking the direction of any situation into his own hands-for better or for worse-is the key to MT. Churchills prime minis tership. It also explains why, as the British people are so acutely aware. no one man in England's $ long history has ever made him. self so completely irreplaceable.
 Britain's war is Winston Churchill's war. A man with less driving energy could never have carried the load. For more than three years he has kept a sched- ule that would have killed nor nal man half his age. He set this schedule to meet the demands of Britain's critical finest hour"
 NEVER ANY LET-UP
 There have been no let-ups in it since, and no changes, except those dictated by the require ments of grand strategy. Thus in August, 1941, he did not hesi- tate to board a battleship and sail across the Atlantic for his first-the famed Atlantic Char ter" meeting with President Roosevelt. And when the swift moving tide of battle and politi- cal developments in Italy de- manded 1t, he made his fifth west ward crossing for his sixth-and current = conference with the
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President and Anglo-Americau chieftains.
 The prime minister likes to sleep fairly late If he wakens before eight, he frequently grum- bles about 1t later in the day. For security reasons he still sleeps away from No. 10 Downing Street, the prime minister's tra- ditional residence.
 Though many bombs fell near No. 10, it suffered only minor dam age. There have been few changes there during the past three years. MT. Churchill has brought home few visible mementos from his "gadding about" Gas close friend put it) PRESIDENTS GIFTS
 There's Mayflower model, presented by President Roosevelt In commemoration of the Atlantic Charter meeting. There's the Will kie-delivered presidential note cSail on, O ship of state"D, occupying a place of honor between pictures of the king and of daughter Mary Churchill on the mantel in the prime minister's study. And that's about all.
 MT. Churchill usually break lasts in bed shortly after eight After breakfast comes the first of the days ten Cor more) cigars, perhaps one of the extra long Havanas given him by his friend Franklin Roosevelt Then his of ficial family-including a military and a technical advisor-descend on him. He spends the next couple of hours dictating in bed.
 The prime minister arises about
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PERTAINS WAR IS CHURCHILL'S WAR
Brings Him on Fifth Trip to America For Strategy Talks With
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his radio speeches. his parliamentary addresses are often hesitant. He talks slowly, his hands loosening their firm grip on his lapels when he wants to emphasize a point often by pounding his right forefin- ger on the rostrum.
 Lunch is usually with an impor- tant guest. Chronologically. the Churchill day after lunch is u1- usual only in two important re- spects. The first is that there's always a mid-afternoon nap. Sec ondly, refreshed by this sleep. Mir. Churchill does not feel the peed for further rest until incredibly late at night.
 Dinner often provides the days only gay social break After din- ner it's back to business. Meet ings, affairs of state, of political and military necessity occupy the prime minister until the small hours of the morning. If he is in the country on weekends he often stays in bed late in the morning, working with Nelson, his pet cat, curled across his feet.
 ENERGY NEVER FAILS
 Winston Churchill's driving en. ergy, the feeling of urgency which he imparts to everything he does, never fails him. Harry Hopkins spoke for a multitude of men who have worked with Churchill when he once complained In despair: Isn't there something in the British con- stitution about the prime minister having to go to bed at a reasonable hour?"
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ardor) and still prefers to travel by air. The nose of his Liberator, the Commando, rivals a commer- cial travellers suitcase for labels of visits.
 Perfectly at home in the air, he often paints while flying. He paints wherever he goes, did sev- eral landscapes during the Casa blanca conference. Painting is one of his few diversions. Corinthean bagetelle is another. There's a book at Chequers, bound as finely as any in the library at this official coountry residence of prime minis ters, in which high scores are re- corded.
 A confirmed movie addict. he is shown pictures almost every Sat- urday and Sunday nt Hgihss urday and Sunday night. He's par ticularly partial to French films While no one would mistake him for native, his French is suffi- ciently good for him to prefer it to using an interpreter when possible as 1t was, for example. during dis cussions with the Turks.
 SHUNS EXERCISE
 MT. Churchill never exercises, hay ing once said: 'The Churchills die young, so why should bore my self to premature death with exer- cise?"
 When he is in London and parliament is in session, he usually spends the latter part of the morn ing there. To an American, MT Churchill's appearances in the house are apt to be disappointing. Unlike
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Ghost Towns May Be
 Avoided In Future
DisIocatons in Realty Values, Tax Structure May Be Prevented By Cooperative Effort By Various Units

To prevent disastrous diSlocationS in local realty values, in tax struc- lures, and in residential areas, and to prevent "ghost-towns," such as followed the last war. prompt action by federal and local officials, real estate associations and city-plan boards on the postwar liquidation of emergency Federal housing is urged in report just issued by the National Committee on the Hous- ing Emergency.
 The report was issued through the Committees chairman, Mrs. Samuel IT. Rosenman, of New York. Point ing out that no ready made plan for the disposal of these emergency Federal properties can be developed in Washington, since each com munity has differing problems, Mrs. Rosenman said, it is the local of- ficials working with well-informed citizens who should determine, in each locality, what is to be done with each individual project"
 To aid city-plan boards. com- munity officials and real estate associations in drawing up a local plan, the report lists specific ob- jectives, and gives procedures for acting with the Federal bureaus to obtain the soundest liquidation of emergency properties.
 It urges the immediate creation within the National Housing Agency of a Disposal Division to outline basic Federal policy.
 These problems cannot wait until the end of the war for solution" Mrs. Rosenman said. Not even local officials who know their commu- mites can pull plan out of the hat.
 Some of the worst slums in the country today" she continued, "are houses built for workers in the last war. In Norfolk, Virginia, for ex- ample, it took the city twenty years to catch up with the over-supply of housing. Properties abandoned after the last war became blight and a serious tax problem to the city. Dumped as they were on the mar ket. they depressed real estate values and the local building in- dustry."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13

John Rollo of the Steam Department has completed 25 wears of faithful service the Scov Manufacturing Company He joined Scovills in 1918 and went to Work for Mir Als in the Yard Department as general helper little later he spent months in the Plating Room, but soon returned the Steam Department to work for William Foley and Bill Carruth He has stayed there ever since and ammonia operator in the re1g orator plant John says he like it in America and has been proud to raise family of seven children as good American citizens Two sons are now in the Armed Forces Ernest the eldest, is attending an army mechanics school in Illinois, and George is in military police battalion at Spokane Washington. He was born in Aveno Italy, and to the United States in 1904 Very after arriving in New York; he came to water bury and has made his home here since.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
WEEKLY DROP KEEPS CHUTE
 PACKERS BUSY
BY DONALD G. COE United Press Staff Corresponds


 WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY, NORTH AFRICA (UP)-"It takes Us week, then there's another drop and all our work has to be done over" said Lieut.. John Anderson of Shelbyville, Ind.
 Anderson is in charge of packing and maintaining the parachutes of regiment of paratroops as well as the parachutes for their equipment and supplies.
 Tn the big hangar. working on smooth. fiberboard tables, packers under the direction of Master Sgt Hugh A. Tracy of Jamestown, Ala were examining and packing some new camouflage 'chutes. Tracy was one of the original test platoon that formed the nucleus of the entire American parachute infantry. He has been in the army three and a half years.
 Other men were working on the 24-foot reserve chutes each para trooper wears, and the vari-colored chutes for equipment, ammunition 1000 ana water.
 Anderson also has to maintain the containers, including one spe- cial one his men constructed fol dropping blood plasma The chute for that has big Red Cross on 1t as do others containing medica supplies.
 Another job of Anderson's sec. ton is to maintain the mems jump suits. When this correspondent wis., tied the sewing shop several mer were working on reinforcement o1 the pockets of jump suits. I remem. hered that the paratroopers who fought in Tunisia last December anC January had found their pockets needed reinforcing, too. One of the sewing machine oper- ators was Technician Fifth A. B Walsh of Shreveport, La, who &C., quired his sewing machine tech | nique as an upholsterer for Genera | Motors.
 As a sideline, Anderson works witf the men who are continually trying new methods of dropping equip ! ment. He showed a small cart witt two rubber tired wheels, dropped the other day. The chute had tan gled--a "malfunction" is the para troopers term--and the cart plum meted, hitting the ground on one wheel Yet, only one wheel had been broken. ''The Firestone tire didn't suffer a bit" Anderson add ed. But the hub and the rim parted company"
 Earlier a group had been packing equipment and demolition materi- als in heavy containers under the direction of Lieut.. Harold H. Swim gler of St. Louis, Mo. SWingler took time off to contest Sgt. Paul Nigra's defense of the Giants, Swingler be- ing a Cards man.
 Other demolition men weighing and packing equipment included Pvt. James J. Bettell of Plymouth N. H., Pfc. Bernard Fox of Houston Tex, and Pvt. Lyle J. Borden of Saltwater, Minn.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-13
Clark Gable Gets No Pix

London. Aug. 13 (UP) - Capt. Clark Gable stood for seven hours between the pilot and co-pilot of the flying fortress "ain't 1t grue- some" during raid on Germany but he was unable to get the pie lures of aerial combat that he wanted.
 The bomber's position in the formation prevented Gable from getting the pictures. But the big plane saw plenty of action. It came back with IS Klak holes and sur vived five head-on attacks from Focke-W fighters without serious daamge.
 Lieut.. John Lee Mahan of Holly wood, Cal, who is writing the script