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Imperial Valley press., 1943-03-28
UNDERGROUND APPEAL

The Dutch underground issued an
appeal to the Dutch people to
CLOSE ranks" for a last-ditch strug-
gle against German labor con-
scription measures with a warning
that "if we do not resist, we die
The Nazi- zi-controlled Lyon radio
said a communiSt-led army of in
Surrection' now was operating on
French soil, carrying out systematic
sabotage and terrorist raids against
occupation authorities.
From Stockholm came report
that the Germans have clamped an
II pm. to am. cGrfeW on Rjukan,
90 miles west of Oslo, Norway, as
result of political disturbances
Stemming from sabotage.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
NO ACTION TAKEN
 BY EAST END CLUB
Committee Awaiting Word on Barracks From SCO=
 will Company

The East End Community club took no further action at Its meet ing last night on its protest against the conversion by the Scovill Mfg. Co.,, of the former Chief Two Moon laboratory into barracks for single men employed by the concern.
 The club heard last night that the company has already lodged from eight to twelve war workers in the building, but they are hold ing up an official filing of a pro- test with the company in the hope that it will change its policy.
 At last nights meeting 1t was also decided to hold an outing some time in September, which will also in- clude a testimonial to Lawrence A. Kenny, past president of the club. While no definite arrangements have been made, 1t was generally understood that it will be at Para disc Inn on the first Sunday in September.
 Also at the meeting, Mrs. Helen Leary and Eugene Sullivan were elected co-chairmen and Mary Cor man, secretary to develop plans for instituting various forms of recrea- tion throughout the East End.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
By PETER EDISON NEA Stan Correspondent


 New York Port of Embarkation. Aug. l1-If you have thought of an Army port of authorization as a row If piers at some harbor where men md material are shipped out to ne forces overseas, you haven't imagined anything, yet.
 Up to now, just what does go n in a port of authorization has Seen shrouded in military secrecy. Some of it still must remain that way for reasons of security. But Q give the public a better idea II the size of this job of sending and implying the expeditionary forces, he Undersecretary of War per- s1itted a group of correspondents 0 go through the New York Port N Embarkation area to see it in operation. WIDESPREAD PORT"
 It does not cover just concen- sration in New York City proper, G Manhattan Island. It takes a days trip in harbor boat to cover It, from far dow nthe Jersey shore, up the Hudson and over into Long Island. Some of these installations are old established Army jobs go- ,ng back to World War I, but great ly expanded now. Some are huge peacetime commercial trade zones and terminals, taken over in their entirty and then enlarger. Others are brand new facilities, thrown up since this war started and now going full tilt, day and night.
 There are freight yards, airfields, motor vehicle parks, warehouses, miles of locks. There is a base hos pital to handle returned casualties, reception centers for prisoners of war. There are seveal huge camps, equipped to handle ten of thousands of men.
 But it is the handling of war freight that is considered here, the assembling and loading the Liberty ships and the e.reighters and trmaps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
BOTTLERS PLAN N
 HUGE SAVINGS
Reduced Delivery Mileage Conserves 30,0O0,OO0
 Gallons of Gasoline

The following statement was is- sued today by John F. Leary, pres- ident of the American Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages, national as- sociation of the soft drink industry:
 The nations $500 soft drink bot tiers will reduce their delivery nnile- age by more than 100000. 900 miles and will save 30000,0 ,000 gallons of gasoline during the current year as compared with 1941, according to a recent survey. The saving is the equivalent of 5000 .000 A coupons.
 The associations survey also in- dicated that 3,500,000 delivery trips will be eliminated by bottlers dur ing the year and that the average truck load had ben increased to a full 10 0per cent of truck capacity. as compared with 77 per cent two years ago.
 In line with the national program to hold truck mileage to minimum during the emergency and to con- serve gasoline and tires, the indus try's trucks have been running up 47.3 per cent less mileage than in 1941.
 These economies have been made possible by reducing the number of weekly deliveries to retail customers and to dealers and by insiStence that each truck be fully loaded for every tripfl The frequency of de- liveries to distant points also has been reduced
 The volume of soft drinks deliv- cred to Army and Navy camps has not been affected materially by the drive for transportation economies. delivery operations having been ad- justed to meet the heavy demand for soft drinks on the part of the armed forces.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11

night cluDS.
 Cab Galloway and has band are doing fine business at the Park Ccntrars Cocoanut Grove; Duke Ellington's musical aggregation heads the show at the Hurricane; Cafe Society Downtown has a ca pital all-Negro show, and the Ink Spots are headlining at the Copa- cabana.
 Due this month in the theater is Run Little Chillun," play with music which has a large all-Negro cast; George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess'' is due here for return engagement this fall; Dave Wolper plans to produce musical comedy by Ellington which is patterned on "Aesop's Fables" and bears that title; and Billy Rose has an all- Negro show in the works that he hopes will knock your eye out and not cause too many body revolu- tions in the grave of Georges Bi- zet.
 The Rose enterprise is version of the Bizet opera Carmen" which nbrettist Oscar Hammerstein has provided with an American Negro background. The music is not be- ing tempered with--no tive, no boogie- -woogie-but the story, cos tunes, etc., are up-to-date Amer ican. A war plant in Charleston, s. C., rather than Spanish cigaret factory, is the opening scene; Don Jose becomes Joe, an American sol- dier; Carmen Jones is a war plant worker, and devil with the men, of course; and the toreador role has been changed to that of a prize fighter. Carmen Jones" Is the name of the production and Roses scouts are out now securing the highways and byways for Negro singing and acting talent.
 T'HIS is for those misguided souls | who still may think that ballet dancing is sissy stuff. There is some virile footwork in the musical com- edy "Oklahoma!" and it seems as if one of the male dancers is always on the injured list. Marc Platt was out with a sprained foot while back. When Platt got back to work he accidentally broke the hand of Vladimir Kostenko when they were engaged in a struggle scene in a ballet number. Harold Gordon took Kostenko's place and wound up the other evening with broken nose suffered in the same bit of business with Platt. Eric Hawkins has taken Gordon's place; he has also taken out insurance and no doubt had to pay high premium.
 
 JIMMY SIMMS, a trombone J player in the Horace Heidt band, has his troubles. Despite his busi- ness connections and wiGe circle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
HAST OF THREE ARTICLES
ARMY ALLOWS A LOOK AT VAST AND COMPLEX MACHINERY OF MILITARY TRANSP ORTATION

Gasoline may go deep in the hold, too. Most of 1t, of course, goes in tankers, but a lot of it goes in 50-gallon steel drums, or in the handy five-gallon cans that armor- ed force men empty into their tanks. Tankers load at the refineries, but the drums and cans may be light cred to shipsde at piers and hoisted abroad while other cargo is loaded from the warehouse piers into other holds.
 VARIETY IN VEHICLES
 Motor parks, extending over many acres, reveal the variety and com- plexity of the rubber-tired and dreaded rolling stock it takes to run mechanized war. Ambulances, jeepS, peeps and seeps, scout cars, combat cars, wreckers, tank trucks, airplane trailers, warehouse dinkys, heavy special-purpose equipment to built airports and rebuild and re- pair military highways, mobile radio oVdoAOAio, hAODAlC WCdbllCA 1OACCdotAiA5 stations, supply trucks, ammunition trucks, sedans for generals, motor cycles for couriers, the curious three-wheeled trailers known as prop dollies that carry the slim, graceful but awkward-to-handle airplane propellers. Literally miles of them, lined hub to hub, destined for the ends of the earth to help flight war.
 Many of the vehicles now come to dockside knocked down and crated to save precious shipping space-even to the heavy engineer trucks-for a Liberty ship boom can hoist weighty load and let it down again at any old port from Attu to Zanzibar. But lot of these ve- hicles come in rolling on their own, and they're slung abroad to be lashed to the decks to top of a load.
 It is in the New York Port of Embarkation terminals and ware houses that you throw away all the adjectives for size and quantity.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
JUNGLE PICTURES
 UPSET ENGINEERS
Tough Fighters Quail Be- fore Hollywo0d's "Jun-
 gle Epic" Feature

In the humid jungles Of New Guinea, at a base camp not far from Wau, engineer soldiers waited anxiously for that most precious device - a movie protector. Locked in the green jail of trees surround ing them, they had had no enter tainment for months. The coming of the projector was an event Of major importance.
 Jeep-driven over the rutted trails, the protector finally arrived. With loving care it was lifted carefully from the jeep and handed to a sol- dier nearby. Nervously he clutched it, only to drop it on the ground breaking it almost irreparably.
 Engineer technicians, determined not to lose their protector, worked nights rebuilding 1t with spare auto parts, extra wire and bits of air planes. These men worked at bridge building and at punching roads through the forests during the day but gave weeks of painstaking ef- fort to the repair of the machine.
 After days of feverish waiting, 1t was finally announced that movies would be shown. Men dressed as carefully as they were able for the New Guinea premiere of any pie lures sent them. Some even shaved for the first time in days out of respect to possible Hedy Lamar or Dorothy Lamour.
 A newsreel flashed on the screen. The men sat in stunned silence watching a group of American sol diers laboring at United States base building a simulated jungle. They frightened considerably at the end of the newsreel and awaited the feature picture. It flashed across the screen. "Green Hell, a Jungle Epic" was its title.
 "The hell with it," said the engi- neer soldiers emphatically as they returned to their pup tents. I'm lettin' mo beard grow" one said as he crawled under his canvas pro- lection. T wouldn't sit through that, even if they gave away dishes"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
C. U. A. TO BUY
 FIGHTER PLANE
Students Enthused Over Objective of War Bond
 Campaign

Washington, D. C., August II - (SpeciaD - Designed to raise suffl- cient funds to purchase fighter plane to be named by the school, a Victory bond drive is in progress at Catholic University of America with an enthusiastic committee of stu dents engaged in the campaign to sell war bonds to everyone on the campus, including the faculty and administrative personnel. Miss Dorothy Chernuck is chairman of the committee which has repressen- tatives in all the schools of the Uni versity soliciting prospective pur- chasers. Bond sales stands have been set up in McMahon Hall lobby and other points where student activi- ties abound, and committee mem- bers report a ready sale of bonds of varying denominations.
 "It is thrilling to think of pur- suit plane over enemy countries bearing on its wing Royal Car ulIldl UT tlle IHuCIl-lOVcu V. U. HlOI- to" Chairman Chernuck said. Per haps one of the flyers schooled at the university would pilot the plane or one of the newest devices in its controls had been perfected in c. us engineering laboratories. A fighter costs many thousands of dollars and is a huge sum for any institution to raise, but lofty aims should be a challenge to Catholic University. If everyone on the cam pus, the faculty and the adminis- tration personnel would purchase 2 $25 bond the goal could be reached
 Catholic University enrollees have also participated with the National Federation of Catholic College Stu dents in the war bond drive which was held on a national scale and were responsible for the same of $20,O17.85 in war bonds and stamps, according to the Rev. Dr. James A. Wagner, procurator of the Univer- sity, who had charge of the student committees. Of this sum $l9,755 was invested in Series E and c war bonds while the same of stamps amounted to $2,442.85.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
NEW 0PA WORKERS
 TO BE APPOINTED
U. s. Employment Office Receiving Applications;
 August "A Deadline

Hartford. Conn.,, Aug. l1.-Appli- cations for appointments as investi- gators with OPA are now being re- ceiyed, Paul P. Kerins, local civil service representative announced today. These positions, which pay $3l0O for associate investigator and $24o0 for junior investigator, with overtime. involve the investigation of compliance, obtaining factual evil dence of violations for legal action and similar activity.
 Successful applicants must have at least one year of Investigating experience or two years of progress siye handling of industrial purchas- ing or billing transactions, with a knowledge of grades and shipping procedures.
 Several of these positions will be filled in tise near future, MT. Kerins sstA. while otaaAr sassaAssfSa eAndi-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
THE WAR ON
 MANY FRONTS
BY UNITED PRESS

With the Sicilian campaign all but written off as an Allied triumph, the question of where the next as- sault will be made against the Axis European fortress took on increasing importance today.
 Prime Minister Churchill's cur rent visit to the American side of the Atlantic aroused speculation in London that he and President Roosevelt would revise the Allied timetable for the invasion of the continent in the light of successes in Sicily and Russia and the con- sequent sLoc.i to German and Ital- ian morale.
 Among other matters to be dis cussed by MT. Churchill and Mir. Roosevelt. 1t Was believed, will be the framing of a surrender ultima tum to Premier Marshal Badoglio of Italy.
 SOftening Coast Line
 Today's Allied communique on Sicilian operations indicated that the Italian coastline is being soft ened for an attack on the mainland. British warships shelled the Castel- lammare Di Stabia naval shipbuild- ing yards 20 miles southeast of Naples and Cape Vaticano farther to the south.
 A suggestion that the Allies might be preparing for military action in the west was seen in a report that the visitors ban probably would be resumed along certain sections of the English coast.
 The Allies plodded forward in the northeastern corner of Sicily and the battle of Randazzo- possibly the last decisive engagement of the Is- land campaign appeared imminent, with American and British troops massed before the city.
 Guardia Captured
 The British 8th Army captured Guardia on the east coast of Sicily and were within sight of the toe of the Italian boot for the first time. The number of Axis prisoners taken rose to 125,000, or abmost half the total German and Italian forces re- ported in Sicily at the start of the campaign.
 For the second successive night, the Royal Air Force battered Ger many from the air, dropping at least 1,500 tons of explosives on the arms and transportation center of Nurnberg in Southern Germany. The raid cost the British 15 bomb CTS.
 The Russian army pushed ahead on both the Kharkov and Bryansk fronts. Soviet tanks and infantry were being concentrated for the final drive on Kharkov after more than 70 towns and villages had been captured in that sector. Capture of the rail center of Khotynets brought the Russians within A miles of Bry- ansk.
 Pacific Zone
 In the Pacific war zones, Amer ican troops who took Munda closed in today to destroy the Japanese Garrison at Bairoko Harbor, last enemy strongpoint on New Georgia Island, as Pacific reports showed new aerial blows by U. s. fliers on New Guinea and Burma.
 Conferences in the China-Burma-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
PRESENT APPEAL
 FOR PRENTISS
President May Be Asked to Save Young Winsted
 Soldier

Congressman Joseph E. Talbot U. s. Sen. John A. Danaher, and Judge Hadley How'd of Naugatuck will ap- pear before the U. s. Military ap- peal tribunal in Washington in be- half of Pvt. Roy Prentiss, Winsted soldier, who is condemned to hang for the staying of Norwalk soldier at Camp Hood, Texas.
 Congressman Talbot said that he and his colleagues will plea for 8 less severe sentence.
 If the military tribunal rules for an appeal to the President, Prem tiss' mother will do so.
 The charge against Prentiss de- clares while he was being taken to the guardhouse at Camp Hood, he shot and fatally wounded his guard his best friend 50 Prentiss later claimed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11

Ten-story buildings at the waters edge, with their spur tracks and travelling cranes under the largest glass roof in the world, so that unloading can go on, day or night, in any kind of weather. Boxes. bales, bags, buckets and bundles by the million, waiting to be sent to war.
 They try to load every ship full and down-meaning that they trp to fill every nook and cranny of evey hold, and to load it with enough heavy stuff to bring the hull dow in the water to her plimsol mark. That isn't always possible, but standardizing on the Liberty ship has helped a lot, for with a little experience. the stevedore boss
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11

es know what 1t takes to load a ship.
 Out in the lower bay you see these freighters of war riding at anchor by the score or more. Some are full and down, ready to go. Others light and up, awaiting their turns at the piers. It's amazing how fast they load them with their 1000 tons of gross cargo, turn them around and send them off to sea again. It's unbelievable how often the conveys are formed.
 How fast, how many, where to, how often-will have to wait for the telling till after the war is over.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
T0DAY'S WAR
 MOVES
Registered U. s. Patent ofice>
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE Limited Press War AnalySt)

Allied plans for speeding the offensive against Japan are expect ed to be gone over fully in the Roosevelt Churchill consultations with the combined chiefs of staff now assembling in Canada.
 Just as swift developments in Eu- rope make revision of the Allied time table there seem probable, so is the campaign in Asia and the Pacific likely to be advanced. It can be assumed that the recent meeting of Churchill with the Pacific War Council in London was in prepara- ton for this Allied high command conference.
 The general lines of Pacific strat- egy have long been worked out. The conference presumably will discuss their practical application at the earliest possible moment.
 High In The Agenda
 High on the Agenda is the prob lem of knocking the Japanese out of Burma and breaking through for a junction with the Chinese, the first essential step on the road to Tokyo from the west. The approach from the Pacific must be co-ordin- ated with it, possibly as a simul- taneous operation to strike the enemy from both sides.
 The Burma campaign will entail land, sea and air operations on 8 major scale. The difficulties of driv- ing the Japanese out of the deep jungles and hills of Burma have been fully explored by such means as last years experimental drve for Akyab on the Bay of Bengal Coast, and the amazing Wingate expedi- tion which spent three months in the heart of northern Burma.
 Burma Campaign
 The Burma campaign has for some time been expected to start shortly after the Monsoon season ends in October. Latest develop ments in the global war picture make it extremely probable that it will. If the six-month period from next October to May is mt used, the Allies will have lost 8 whole year, and present Allied psychology does not favor giving the Japanese more time.
 The invasion of Burma will be primarily British and Indian, with, however, the potent aid of the Tenth United States Air Force in India. In the Pacific the Burden will fall on the United States Navy and air force and on General Mac Arthur's command.
 Combined 'Offensives
 When the Burma campaign is under way, 1t is highly probable that MacArthur's northward push from the Solomons will be supple mented by a naval-airdrive from the east aimed at Wake and the Marshall and Gilbert Islands.
 This combined offensive would be aimed at smashing the Japanese hold on the Pacific islands, tearing away the barrier to the direct ap- proach to the Philippines and to Japan itself.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11

flying nearly every United Nations flag.
 You may begin with the load ing of ammunition. That's heavy and it goes into the bottom of the hold. A new pier has been built, extending far out into the bay. Along it, half dozen ships may be loading at once. The pier is double tracked, and freight cars discharge their cargo, to be slung aboard by ships winches. Behind the pier is freight yard to hold a days loading. These cars move in at night, carefully time-tabled so that no more arrives than can be loaded in the next day, according to scheduled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
DESERTION BASIS
 OF DIVORCE SUIT

Mrs. Mary J. Cappella of Water bury has instituted divorce proceed- ings in superior court against Jo- seph A. Cappella of New Haven, claiming she was deserted April !. 1889. The marriage took place July ', 1917. In addition to decree the petitioner seeks custody of four minor children and support and al- mony allowances.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
V. N. Association

The Visiting Nurse Association announced today that a class for expectant mothers will be given by Miss Florence Walker, R. N. on Thursday August 18th, at 200 p. m. at the Visiting Nurse Asso- citation office, 37 Central Avenue.
 Miss Walker will discuss plans and preparations for a new baby in a home. as well as give helpful suggestions to young mothers re- garding their own cars.
 All women who are interetted are invited to attend this class, but all of those expecting babies are particularly invited.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11

dates will be placed on a roster from which all future investigators will be placed on a roster from which all future investigators will be drawn.
 Applications vii lbe received until August 24 at any U. s. Employment office or from the local Civil Service sAa~aiasw
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11

of friends he didn't get any phone calls during his first week at hotel here. When he went down to pay his bill he found out why; the hotel staff thought he was the singer Ginny Simms ahd wouldn't want to be disturbed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
WOMEN TO DIRECT
 WAR BOND SALES

War bonds and stamps will be sold by the Colored Women's Re- publican club Friday afternoon at Victory House on The Green. Mrs. J. w. Goodson heads the arrange ments committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11

It is estimated that the United States can obtain new supplies of rubber. natural and synthetic, to- taling 27S 900 tons during le<a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-11
Hot Dog Roast
Stetson Funeral

Stetson Funeral
 MT. and Mrs. Percy MacMullen left yesterday for Nantucket, Mass, to attend the funeral services for Mrs. MacMullen.s mother, Mrs. Stetson, who died Monday after a brief illness.