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The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
By BETTY CLARKE

Are you suddenly leg conscious? If not, you're an exception. War is doing strange things to all of us. It has even made the fair sex aware of her under -pinnings. A thin film of makeup for stockings and lower heeled shoes for walking show ankles at their best-or worst-ad- vantage
 If you don't have the slim ankles and shapely calves you'd like, here are some exercises that you ought to practice Don't expect miracle to happen over night. It will take a few weeks of exercising before you'll turn heater ankle.
 For the ankles-Lie flat on back. Bend right knee, bringing heel near buttocks. Raise and extend left leg. Using ankles as pivot draw clock wise circles in the air with toes. Complete 25 circles. trying to in- crease the size each time. Change position and make counter clock wise circles with right toes.
 For the knees-Repeat above ex- ercise using knee as pivot and
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02

The Daily Alaska Empire has the largest paid circulation of any AL aska newspaper.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02

swinging leg in circles.
 For the calves-Sit on floor, weight on hands which are be- hind the body. Pull knees up. feet flat on floor Slide right leg on floor with slap. As you pull right leg back toward chest slide left leg on floor with a slap. Repeat ex- ercise 25 timds, alternating legs each time
 Perhaps you're one of the lucky gals endowed with gams that are really something. Tn that case, you don't need the exercise but you should do nice job of putting on your liquid stockings. No man appreciates the shapeliest leg if it's a ghastly white, or a dappled brown.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
Rep. and Mrs. Kehoe Take Toner Apt. for Next Two Months

Representative J. w. Kehoe, of the Third Division, and Mrs. Kehoe, have moved from the Gastineau Hotel to the Felix Toner apartment in the M D. Williams residence where they will make their home during the remainder of the cur- to the home of Mrs. Toners par rent legislative session.
 MT. and Mrs. Toner have moved ents, MT. and Mrs. H. R. Wander Leest to reside for the next two months during the absence of Mrs VanderLeest who will leave soon for the south with her daughter, Jeanne, who is to be married in Memphis in March
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02

The idea of cookies for rooklesy club, which was founded by. the coeds of DePauw University, Green castle, Indiana, has now spread tc number of church and women's groups in other parts of the state. In Greencastle alone, during a re-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
WSCS to Meet On
 Tomorrow Night


 The members of the WSCS will hold their regular monthly meet ing Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock at the residence of Mrs. c. L. Pope joy in the Evergreen Apartments. Mrs R. B. Lesher will be the guest speaker. The topic of the evening will be the ancient Arab problem Where there is no vision, the people perish"
 Mrs. Popejoy is also arranging a recorded musical program of re- presentative piano, violin, orchestra and vocal arrangements.
 Mrs. H. R. Sprague will be Char man of the meeting.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
TIDES TOMORROW

High tide-O43 am, l5.3 feet. Low tide--6:24 am, 2l feet. High tide-l2::3O pm, 18.7 feet. Low tide-7:O6 pm, -3.2 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
ARTHUR H. HOOK HAS THRILLING
 DIVING CAREER

Twenty-four years of thrilling ex- periences as a professional diver, during which he has made over 1C ,OO0 dives and rescued 19 bodies from the depths of the sea, is the record of Chief Boatswain Arthur N. Hook. U. s. Coast Guard. With Chief Boatswains Mate Bill Rice, II s. c. G.. he carried out the dives in connection with the recovery of Don Glass's body and salvage of the tri-motor Stinson in Gastineau Channel last week.
 Hook. who says he is past fifty years of age but looks young forty, was practically forced into the div ing profession by continual de- mands for his services. It happened this way. Twenty-four years ago minister his daughter and another young girl drowned when a row boat overturned in Lake Whatcom, Bellingham. City officials borrowed diving equipment from the U. $. Navy at Bremerton in an effort to recover the bodies and Hook vol unteered to make the dive. While the equipment was in Bellingham, the city asked him to make an in spection of the intake of the city's water system. Other requests for him to make dives followed thick and fast until Hook decided to make it his life career
 Octopus Fight
 One of his most exciting exper- fences was fight with an octupus in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in 1927, a story which circled the world in Associated Press dispatch es and has been published in sev- eral magazines as feature story.
 Hook was inspecting a fish trap when he encountered the octupus which had the body of a man in its clutches. The octupus, over IA feet across, was feeding on the head when Hook attacked it with the knife he carries with him al ways After a brief, fierce struggle, he so wounded the octupus that he was able to siege the body and take it with him to the surface.
 The body, that of Healey, cook on the tug Warren, was the only sign ever found of that ill-fated craft which had completely dis appeared off Protection Point, near Port Townsend, together with its entire crew day or so earlier.
 Though Hook made two or three more dives looking for wreckage Iof the tug, or other members of the crew, no further sign of either was ever reported.
 T have literally walked hun dreds of miles on the bottom of the sea and have seen many strange sights. For years kept track of the mileage I walked on the bottom of the sea and it runs well into the hundreds Hook said.
 During World War l. Hook served as Chief Machinist's Mate in the Navy and during the present con- flict he is serving in the U. S. Coast Guard which he joined last May. He has been in Alaska, off and on for the last 31 years and head quartered in Ketchikan for the last eight
 Adventure comes naturally to Arthur Hook as his father, who came to Alaska many years ago. was the first white man to winter within the Arctic Circle.
 Rice, who worked with Hook in the diving operations in Juneau last week, is also an experienced diver and has worked around Alas ka for the last several years. Among work he has done in this vicinity is some diving he did in connection with the Islander wreck.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
MRS. B. E. KkUDSON IS NOW SOLE OWNER
 OF SEWING BASKET

Mrs. B. E. Knulson, has pur- chased the interest of Mrs. Billie Jaegel in the Sewing Basket, at l35 Franklin Street, and will op- crate the shop as sole owner in the future. Mrs. Knudson and Mrs. Jaegel were formerly partners in the needlecraft store.
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cent week, women, too old to join the WAACS or WAVES and too tied down with home responsibilities to work in production lines" did bake seventy-two dozen cookies for rock les. The coeds and the church wo- men believe that this movement not
 only promotes Army morale but helps build a good community spirit.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
Lutheran Ladies
 To Meet Thursday

Members of the Lutheran Ladies Aid will be entertained Thursday with dessert luncheon at the home of Mrs. Chris Wyller, Sixth and Gold Streets, beginning at l;30 D. m.
 At that time plans will be con- pleted for rummage sale to be held by .the Aid sometime this month.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
AMERICAN LEGION
 AUXILIARY MEETS

Regular business meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held tonight in the Dugout, open ing at 8 o'clock, it has been an- nounced.
 All Auxiliary members are invit- I'd to attend. s
The Daily Alaska empire., 1943-02-02
ChdpeIadies 10
 Meet "Wednesday

The Chapeladies will hold their meeting tomorrow evening (Wed- nesday) at the home of Mrs. Mo- Daniels on the Fritz Cove Road
 All members are urged to attend.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
National, Not Party
 Government, Favored
Roosevelt Fails to Elaborate on Statement; No Re.
 spOnse on Fourth Term Suggestion

term had beer mentioned aroused considerable interest here. Walker rates almost abreast of former Com. mittee Chairman James A. Farley as an original Roosevelt man. It was with $i0,000 contributed by Walker ard $20, 900 put up by two other firm believers that Farley was able in 1881 to set up the orginaZation which, in the following year, ob- tained Mir. Roosevelt's first presi. dential nomination.
 The visit of a committee delega. ton to MT. Roosevelt was ordered by the mid-winter Chicago meeting of the full committee where anger over patronage conditions almost got out of hand. As one of the lin. happy ones explained 1t: The war agencies in Washington are run by Republicans and they figure when they give a Republican job it is all right but that 1t would be play ing politics to give job to a Demo- crat.
 At least one committee partici. pant in yesterdays conferences re- ported that he was definitely dis appointed" He said he and the oth. CTS wanted to talk about party mat ters but that Mir. Roosevelt dwelt on war, manpower. food supply and his desire for a national govern" fnent.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
BUTTER RATION
 PLANS DRAFTED
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 Food administrator Claude R, W!ckard was said to have been TO. luetant to include butter, cheese, lard, and other cooking fats and oils on tho same ration card with meats. He bowed, however, to the wishes of the OPA, which will Nd. minister tho program, because of the urgency of tho situation, it was said.
 OPA officials said shortages In the items other than meat made it nee- essaFy to ration them as quickly as possible. They said inclusion Of them with meat under ration book No. 2 was the only practical method for speedy rationing,
 The nation Is entering Q period of declining meat slaughter but in. creasing butter production, Meat supplies are expected to continue low until the fall slaughter season beginning in October. Butter pro. duction Is expected to continue high through the summer.
 The latest Agriculture Department survey estimated the per capita civ llian supply of butter this year at i2,8 pounds, compared with 1 ponunds last year. Cheese was esti- mated at 4.8 pounds, comapred with GA pounds last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
Rx LESLIE 0. WILSON

(OnIted Press stan COrTeSponuenV
 Washington, March { - (U.P) = President Roosevelt told the Demo- cratic National Committee deiega- ton which came here with patron- age pains that in wartime the coun- try needs a national government rather than a party government.
 A conference participant said the president added that with a war on he had a job to do and was doing it the best he could. He did not elaborate the national government 'dea, the United Press was inform ed.
 Nothing was immediately forth coming after the conference about MT. Roosevelt's national govern ment remarks. Instead. Postmaster General Frank c. Walker. who is committee chairman. told White House reporters that two or three committeeman had suggested a fourth term to MT. Roosevelt with. out getting any response from him.
 The presidents pondering on a national government coincides with the 10th anniversary of his first ifi. augural and with the most effective congressional rebellion to adminis- tration leadership in any of his terms.
 Congressional opposition is spark. ed by Democratic patronage trou- bles. suspicious that the executive branch has come to dominate the legislative and difficulties now de. veloping in fitting the nations manpower to the war effort at homo and abroad.
 Former Gov. Culbert |. Olson of California identified himself as one of the two or three" who told Mir. Roosevelt he should run again. He said he did SO because he believed there was general sentiment for a fourth term among committee mem bera.
 Tho fact that Walker revealed to White House reporters that fourth
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
SHOOTING VICTIM
 REPORTED BETTER

Improvement was reported today In the condition of John Kakaitis, 42, 20 Sylvan avenue, shot while working in North Main street tav- ern Tuesday night. Kukaitis' phy- sician, Dr. Ralph DeCristoforo, said he would await further improvement before removing the 38 caliber bul- let lodged in the mans left side. Kukai.is was shot when a revolver being examined in the washroom by two colored men was discharged, the bullet penetrating the wall and striking the bartender in the side. Held under heavy bonds are Carroll Clark. 25, 204 Orange street, owner of the gun and 6 companion. Ed. ward Matthews, 28. i23 Locust street, who had the gun in his pos- session. Both were granted con. tinuances under bonds of 5000 and $2,5O0 respectively in city court yes- terday. pending KukaitiS recovery.
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 William A. Kelly; Wolcott-Gdward Y. Pracny and George 0. Williams; Naugatuck-Thomas ], Noary and John P. Jones; Mllsord-oeoFge r. Weed, deputy. ,..
 The House also approved Q bill allowing the town court judge oI Wolcott to appoint Q clerk at s200 . year: permitting the state board of education to set up vocational day and night schools; granted uni. form allowances to officers and members of the organized militia and passed . bill adding ten years to the sentence of Q prisoner es- caping or caught trying to escape from prison.
 The Senate voted to reimburse George M. Smith for services as acting sheriff of Middlesnx county. and to grant free motor vehicle op. orators license to men in tl'e armed services. e.
 Unfavorable reports were received on bills to set up e state labor re" lations act, and a state committee on fair employment practices, ana on a bill to put the Greenwich town clerk on a salary basis.
 The House received favorable report on e resolution to make tne American robin the state bird.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04

When the Western Union or Postal Telegraph Company TO. celvcs Q wire from the War Dc. partmcnt or Navy Department In Washington announcing . casual. ty, that telegram will not be telc. phOned but will be delivered Co the person to whom it Is addressed and it will not Do left unless signed fer
 Any one receiving . telephone call and told that such 6 tele. gram has been received from Washington moy know that 1t ls not authentic as the telegraph companies always deliver and nev. or telephone casualty messages.
 Neither does the War or Navy Department send representatives
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04

elnaShing &AF raiu on BeFlan Mons day night.
 A joint cir minlStFy.home securs ity ministry eonmunique said only 90 to 70 German planes crossed the British coast in tho first raid and fewer than that penetrated the London barrAg0. An even smaller number Of planes participated in the second attack. Altogether three raiders were shot down, the com. niuniquo said.
 Tn East Anglia, tho home coun. ties and tho London area, there number were fatal, but damage number vera fatal, but damage nowhere was extens!ve," the com. naunlque said.
 Among the dead was Dlckio Dor. bett, British bantamweight boxing champion for 10 months beginning in December 1881. He also won the title In 1884, but gave it up when he became overweight.
 There were no casualties ct all In London in the second raid. Two men were killed an Q south coast town " 8S1tA~0AHCkAAb bkk9Asbs
 As was expected, the Berlin radio triumphantly reported that German planes, attacking in waves, caused tremendous destruction in London, dropping thousands of incendiarteS and numerous high explosive bombs of heavy and heaviest calibers." The broadcast obviously was designed to bolster the morale of the German people, reeling under the Impact Of the Allied raids.
 One bomb was dropped in Q Thames estuary town during the pre-dawn raid. but there were no reports of any falling in London itself. A few boInbers were heard over the city, however. and 1t was theorized that the fierce anti.air- craft barrage put them to flight be- fore they could drop their cargoes. Three Houses Destroyed
 Eight hours earlier. another small German force attacked London, this time dropping high explosive and lncendiary bombs in several dis. tricts. Several fires wre started and in one area three houses were de. stroyed, burying the occupants.
 Rescue squads still were digging into the rlbble this morning.
 The bombers took advantage of low-lying clouds to approach Lon- don from several directions, but rant into a sheet of bursting anti- aircraft shells that brought down at least two of them. Night fight CTS also were active and one shot down a German bomber as tt wes going in for Q landing at 6 Dutch airdrome
 Busses operated as usual through out the raid and many pedestrians remained in the streets to watch the spectacular anti.aircraft bayTage. Among them were many American soldiers, some Of whom were utl- dergoing their first air raid.
 m contrast to the feebleness of tho German raids was 6 report from the British Broad:asting Corpora ton that Ares still were burning h Berlin from Monday nights RAr assault. Swiss reports indicated that the city stlll was without gas. eiec-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
Red Cross Advises Kin
 OfMen In Armed Forces

to the homo Co report casualties. Only official telegrams or letters written on tho proper stationery should be considered authentic. The families Of service men who receive questionable information from unreliable sources should communicate with the Homo Ser. vice of the American Red Gross, SS Field street, Waterbury, for verlilcatlon of such information. Call S.2iS6 daily from Q to 5, and S-A4sl evenings, Saturdays and Sundays.
 Waterbury Chapter,
 American Red Cross.
 JOHN M. BUREAU,
 Chairman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
AMERICANS AGAIN
 LOMBARD SICILY

Cairo. March { - (UP.l --Amer. lean heavy bombers have again at- tackled Meesina, Sicily, tO which supply trains destined for Axis forces in Africa are ferried from the Italian mainland. 1t was an. nounced today.
 The attack was made in day. light yesterday. and every bomber that took part returned safely.
 German planes attacked Trlpoli ct dunk Tuesday. and Allied fighters damaged Q Junksrs @ bomber.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
P JAP SHIPS
 SUNK BY ALLIES
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(Continued rom PNRe D which airpianes along attacked enemy surface vessels attempting Q military incuYSion and seemed to demonstrate that powerful aerial force could wreck Q convoy not heavily protected by planes.
 The American victory in the battle of duadaleanal Nov. i3.lb In which 20 Japanese vessels were destroyed was the only ono to outrank the now one in damage inflicted upon the enemy. The battles of the Coral seq and Midway resulted In fewer ships being destroyed, though they were, Strategically, of the ut. most importance.
 Tho convoy was bound for Lae, on the Huon gulf in New Guinea, and the last phase of the battle was fought In the gulf.
 The victory was . major diS' aster to the enemy" on Army spokesman said.
 The tonnage of the destroyed ships totaled approximately 90.00o tons. Seventeen Japanese planes, in addition to the SS destroyed, were damaged.
 The battle started Tuesday morn. ing when Allied bolnbers blasted an 0,000-ton and a I0,000.ton trans- port. By Wednesday morning 1t had entered Huon gulf and was joined by eight other ships. All day Allied fighters steadily whittled down the protective Japanese fighters while the hombers flew in at low level to wreck the transports and warships,
 A-20 Havoc light bombers came in over the ships at mast-height to fire a 600O-ton and two other medium cargo ships.
 Dozen Direct Hits
 Before the day was over, they had scored 12 direct hits on six ships Three Japanese fighter planes rec fused to fight them.
 Meanwhile, B-25 Mitchell me- diums were at work, accounting fol 10 ships. A destroyer rolled over and S-nk. A 5,000-ton transport sank two minutes after being di- rectly hit. Other medium cargo ships and two other destroyers were left turning and smoking.
 When the BASS turned back to their base four columns of smoke lowered over the oil-slicked waters and could be seen for 60 miles.
 P-3S Lightnings were engaging between 20 and 25 Japanese fighters of mixed types while this work pro- ceeded and shot down 10, as well a. damaging three.
 Then came three waves of Fly ing Fortresses. The first scored q hit and near-miss on a cargo shir and destroyed seven out of i5 or is Japanese fighters. The second scored 6 hit and near-miss on c 4.O00-ton frelghter which exploded and sank and bagged one Japanese fighter out of Q force of eight or 10 Two other enemy planes were dam. aged.
 The third hit . medium cargo ship and shot down i've out Of IS Japahese interceptors.
 Detailed reports covered only the action through Wednesday until noon, and the story of the rest 0l the attacks has yet t0 bo compiled
 ~ono Of the greatest factors cons sributing to our success Was thl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
RULING ON SPITE
 FENCES APPEALED

The Beacon Falls property liti- gatlon between Anna Svetloft Chris ten and George Ruppe will taken to the Supreme Court of Errors in Hartford, according to a notice ot appeal filed today in Common Pleas court where the action originated. Tn q decision handed down recently the defendant was ordered to re. move a fence place on property Of the plaintiff. yt vas alleged the carrier was erected flor spite bee cause Of a dispute between the par- ties.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
RAF Bombs Hamburg,
 Germans Hit London
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ts!clty or water.
 Premier Joseph etaiin os Russia, whose own boinbOFs have made Q number of raids on Berlin, sent Prime Minister Winston Churchill ''cordlal eongratulationB' on the RATS successful bombing"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
Stir Up Your Lay Liver Bile
10 Help Relieve Coust tipat tionI

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
5 Scrupulous Justice
 Supreme Courts Aim
Nal PrOpagandlsts Conviction Being Set Aside Ger. taIn Proof; Times Gives Peanut Vendor Editorial

officlal. Tho minority opponents of the administration are not the hunt cd as in many countries, but tho hunters. That is Q way of making democracy safe for everybody but those in power.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
WATERRITRY GIRL
 MAY GET OSCAR
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Honor guests and speakers inc :luded Lowell Me.iett of the Ofioe of war Information and Gov. Earl Wsrren of California.
 voting on award of tne 0seefs closed Feb. 20.
 Considered were:
 Best films: Mrs. Miniver, Kings Row. The Invaders. The Pied Piper. wake Island. Yankee Doodle Dandy. The Masnificent AnbeTsors. Pride of the Yankees. Random Harvest, and Talk of the Town.
 Actresses: Greer Carson. for her performance in Mrs. Mlniver: Kath~ crime Hepburn for woman oS the year; Bette Davis for Now Vcyageg; RosaIind Russell for My Sister Eileen: and Teresa wright for Price of the Yankees.
 Actors: James cagney for Yankee Doodle Dandy: Ronald Colman for Random Harvest: Walter Pldgeon for Mrs. MIniveF: Monty Wooiley for the Pied Piper: and Gary Cooper for Pride of the Yankees.
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fact that the Japanese convoy was anticipated and its intentions diag. uosed," the Army spokesnlan said, '0ur afr force had been conditioned and prepared for such an attack during recent iufis.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04

Preceding causes water pipes eo hurAl due Co lhe e4panson ok ta water ts 6 changes Q igs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-04
ALLIES DRIVE
 CLOSE TO PASS

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GOVERNOR SIGNS
 WAR FUND BILL

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