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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Selected Poem
MAPLE HILL

MAPLE HILL
 HTances Frost In Tho Christian
 Science Monitor) This Is the last of the flying weathers. On the apple trees knuckieS those hudded feathers suddenly qulver with thawing notes flung from their small Snow.spattered threats The willows are furred with silver kittenB tho junipers wear fluffy mittens; the rail fence gtaggers between the trees with fresh white drifts to it's spiintered knees And merry and wicked, climbing the rails, drinking the sap from the shining pals trespasSng children shout: "MapleP and bring the wild of their tgoats to the sweetness of Bpring
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

estlng changes in the existing schedule.
 Prize project of the new pro- gram will be the new, b ig g c T, faster, better Liberty ship, This Victory ship is still in the de. sign stage and no keels have been laid. A number of ex. perimental hullS
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

Peter EAeem are being TUT through the Nays model testing basin here in Washington to de' termine the perfect shape, and the first fill.size model of Q new Lentz- type engine Is undergoing tests This Lentz engine Is really some' thing. It operates on the poppet' valve principle, like your automo' bile, instead of on the sleeve.valve or turbine principle used in most steam engines.
 FLExIBILITY OF PROPULSION
 Beauty of the new Victory ship model Is that Its design will permit the use of any propulsion unit avail- able--the old-fashioned reciprocat- ing engines of the Liberty ships, tur- pines, Dlesels, or turbo'electriC drive, In this hexibility, the Mari. time Commission will remove one ot the greatest causes of slow-ups in ship deliveries.
 Heretofore, every ship has had to be designed for Q particular etl" gIne installation. HullS can now be turned out on an assembled pro- ductlon basis, but if Q hull waa ready and the engine wasn't the hull had to walt. Now, with thiS new, adaptable Victory ship that permits the installation of any type engine, ships can be completed and delivered on 6 much better schedule, the ways and the fitting docks clear. ed for other hulls.
 At the present tlrne, about two- thirds of the shipbuilding capacity Is devoted to construction of the l0,b00-ton Libertys They are good ships for their purpose. But the Liberty ship Is slow-maklng around 10 knots-and Is limited to Q cargo. carrying capacity of 5000 to $500 tons. The new VictoryS will be able to make i6 or 10 knots and carry around 10000 tons cargo,
 The new Victory ships, in other words, will be ships that can be used in post-war competitive world trade, whereas tho LibertyS could not, As to what can Do done with the Libertys In tho post-war area, shipping men have varying opinions, A lot of tho Liberty may be sunk by submarines. As for those that survive, the proposal being given most consideration Is that they be disposed of to replace the fleets of other United Nations sunk during the war.
 OUR FUTURE
 MERCHANT FLEET
 The idea of the Maritime Com. mission planning for i044 and io46 is therefore to build up . merchant fleet which can Do used In coInpeti. tive poSt.war world trade. It will contract for the construction of new ships according to tho demand. It will bo able to shift orders to the new Victory ships, to transports, to tnnkers In whatever numbers need. cd. But It's overall picture, in tho number of hulls contracted for and delivered, will look something like AtaiaV
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Washington Merry-G Go-Round DREW Pz PEARSON

Other Government Agencies Attempt to Se Elmer Dovis OWL Cables from s Censored by Stote Department Here's Mother Sends Him Souvenir from Mme Chons KoShsk; onees of Mechont Marine Have Tough Time Getting to Seo WASHINGTON President including Secretary State Stnson
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Your rHelh
 By Dr. WaIiam Brady
WWFN nRNTTgTa m18ACElWW

Comuatent dsntinls inslAli plates. not temporary plates but tha plaeea the patient VII wear permnz.nl.y. immediately after extraction og ene teeth, before the patient leaves eho ofica-I said in this column noe @ long ego. in explaining the modern practice which dentists ca1 Hlm- mediate denture service"
 This ellcited . protest, believe Q or not from the secretary oe tho Chicago Dental Society. who pubs llshed Q letter "to the editor e 6 chicago newspaper seying Enie simply iB not the truth"
 Naturally ! cannot expect any dentist Co take sides openly With mo in such Q conlruvUrzy--ae sease none in or around the inrisdictlon og the Chioago Dental gOcioey. But privately, and not fcg publication, an oncouragingiy large number ok
 dentists have written Co assure mo that I am right, and some oe theso dentists have been giving their patients immediate denture service for several years-with great eat- isfaction Co their patients and themselves.
 Peopie who gre reluctant Go sace the humiliation or embarrassment of going toothless for weeks alaUul0 welcome this great advance in
 American dentistry. 1ndividunls who have to loose only Q few teeth should welcome the opportunity @ have the missing teeth replaced immediately, so that no distortion sagging or premature lining Of tho face shah occur from loss of us0 of the teeth and from trophy 0s gums, jaws, muscles. v
 How successful immediate deus ture service can bel do not sey always Is, just can be, is shown by this incident: A friend I meet Rt least every week, and often face across card table, had all oe his remaining teeth extracted and iIn- mediate plates installed one after noon. I played cards with him that evening and many times afterward and never noticed that he had lost his teeth, until he happened to tell me about 1t several mCnths later. Discomfort? Very little. he said. Probably no moro soreness or tes- derness In the mouth than no would have had # he waited for tho gums to "hea" or shrink"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
Daily Almanac

Daily Almanac Moon sets 7:i4 ?. m. (war tirne), Sun rises 7:2O q. Tsi., sets 6;H D. m. twar tlmel. Vehicles must Dc lighted thirty minutes after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
. NATIONAL
 SPOTLIGHT
New "Victory" Ship Goal
 Set At 44O3
BY PETER EDISON Waterbury Democrat Washington COrresDOndent

"There is no limit to the need for ships in Q total, global war" says Rear Admiral Emory 6. Land, chair man of the Maritime Commission, and that explains why plans have been made to continue the huge American shipbuilding program well Into i04l and iol5, with some inter-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
A Thought for Today

0od is jealous, and the Lord revengeth; the Kosd revengeth, and iS furlousi the Lord will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he rec eeKveth wrath for his enemles.-Nahum 1;2.
 
 Behold, on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdueS the stgongs-Homer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Reasonable and Not Far


 Please recommend Q doctor who can give - treatment and iB not unreasonable. (Akss. ". X.)
 If you will be good enough to recommend c good doctor not eoo fer from my home. CT. N. Al
 Answer-What is unreasonable and how far Is too farS Children, 1t is @ tremendous task to keep up this service of recommending doo- tors to take the place of those now In military service. The very best can do in any case is to give you tho name and address of Q physi- clan I believe will take god care oe you. ! never can tell you what it will cost or just how fer the doc- tors otilce may be from your resi- dence.
 Vlnoent'S Angina
 Daughter has had Q bad case Of trench mouth. Doctor says sho should have her tonSlls removed. Which method of tonAll removal would you recommend, ard can you refer us to Q doctor for it. VAs D. AS1
 Answer-The diathermy (electSo- coagulation) method. regret ! do not know whether any one In your community Is qualified to give that treatment. We'll Protected
 Four months pregnant. Fell on step, striking abdomen. I was just severely upset but not apparently injured. l wonder # the blow might have injured my baby.
 (Mgs. Q. H.) Answer = Extremely unlikely. You'd be more assured about that # you knew how wonderfully the baby is protected. Send ten cents and three.cent stamped envelope bearing your address, for booklet 'preparing for Maternity" 1nclo1e ten cents additional # you would like also a copy of Tho Brady saby Book,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-03-06

Copyright, ie43, by United Feature Syndicate, Incl
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
NEWSMEN ON THE WARFRON7

Jacksonville ReglSter)
Some of the news from the Warfronts
of the world is being made by newspaper
men. Statistics covering the first year
of the war have been compiled by the
newspaper trade journal, Editor and
Publisher. They show that in 1912 ten
newspaper correspondents were killed,
two are missing and SO were wounded in
line of duty Twenty-three of these news
reporters are now held as axis prisoners.
These are men not allowed to carry
arms. They have no special training for
war except in their own lines. They are
out only to get news and background and
color. News we get daily from the far
battlefronts would be sparse and dry,
indeed, if these nervy reporters were not
out there to ride with the bombers, ad-
vance with the troops into battle and
finger their typewriters in buildings or
hideouts, shaken by exploding missiles.
spondents are in every theater OF
this war. They are standing on the bridg-
es Of ships, occupying cramped quarters
in bombing planes, floundering on the
seas in liferafts, and working their ways
through jungles.
Perhaps they have some protection,
but they do not ask for it. That we may
get the facts. they disregard perils, and
it is inevitable that casualties come out
of the hazards they encounter.
They give US the eyewitness accounts
of fighting on many fronts and every eye
witness in this war is under fire. These
men, whom we recognize only as by-llneS
over stories, are writing for US and risk
ing their lives every day.
Like good soldiers the neWsmen learn
TO forget themselves and the danger To
them the STORY is the thing.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20

they made their stand, destroyed
two tanks, four field guns, IA trucks
and two supply stores.
RETREAT CUT OFF
Several more towns and villages
were occupied during the night in
the North Caucasus, the noon COM
munique said One Russian unit,
cutting off an Axis line of retreat
in a surprise night attack, killed
about 300 enemy troops, took pris-
oners and captured five tanks and
IL trucks. In another sector Maj,
Gen Ivan Krichenfo's Cossack cav
alrymen pierced through the enemy
rear, and, in another surprise at
tack, threw a force of German
troops into panic, the noon commu-
nique said, and killed about 10 of
them.
Just west of Stalingrad City, the
Russians drove on during the night
to take several fortified places held
by the remnants of a big trapped
German army. They captured sew
eral tanks which the Germans haC
dug into the earth as forts, anC
took six war material dumps anc
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
TWO EXTREMES DON'T
AMOUNT TO MUCH

(Oroville Mercury -Register)
There is a great GIIerence in the man.
ner with which different individuals view
this war and their part in it. There is
one extreme of persons so excited over
the war that they have lost much of
their usefulness. There is the other of
people who hardly think of it at all, and
II they do consider the war it is as a mat
ter far removed that has little bearing
upon their lives. We know people of both
cl.aSiticatons: few, fortunately.
We favor the large middle class who
feel it is-their duty to make considerable
sacrifice, knowing that if millions do this
the net result VIII be a tremendous con-
tribution. We of OrOville have been call
ed upon to make little sacrifice as yet.
but what little we have done. multiplied
by millions. means a great deal in the
aggregate
Among those who seem to be unwilling
to make much sacrifice are the thousands
in the airplane plants who go to work
only when they feel Just right. Charles
E. Wilson, aircraft production chief, an
nounceS that 800 planes are lost each
month because of the thousands who alb
sent themselves from the plants without
adequate excuse. 1t is called absentee
ism" We all know the class of people
who work today and rest tomorrow. There
are many who find it practically i'm
possible to work if they find few extra
dollars in their pockets Let them pos
seSs roll of bills and they simply must
lay off and spend them.
We know no way to cure them of this
habit An appeal to their patriotism isn't
much use, for the word means little to
them. They are the kind that would work
best under the iron hand of Nazism. They
deserve little more. They will continue
to ta coddled in our land of tolerance
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
Il Nazis Downed
Raiding London in
Revenge Forays

LONDON, Jan. 20.-OUP)-EleVen
German planes were shot down to-
day in a sharp burst of air fighting
over Britain which brought Lon
don a brief dive bombing attack
in which casualties, including
school children, were suffered.
The Germans, apparently stung
by the pounding blows of the Royal
Air Force against Berlin, sent over
raiding parties of fighter-bombers
in the first daylight attack which
London had experienced since last
July
The Nazis encountered heavy
anti-aircraft fire-some of the
heaviest London had heard since
the days of the daylight blitz raids
of l940-and formation of Raj
fighters.
Dog fights ragged over the SOUTH
east coast and over London itself.
An Official announcement said
that preliminary reports showed IL
German planes were destroyed ~
RAF fighters.
The attack on London was brief,
occurring between l pm. and / 80
pm, and in many areas. including
the city district and the West EnG-
citizens went about their norma
occupations.
However, many stood in the
streets, paying no heed to spent
machine gun bullets and watched
the biggest dog fight they had
seen over London since the days
OF the blitz.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
1T is NOT
INEVITABLE

So greater government control OF All
types Of business after the war Is lneVl-
table?
Poppycock!
The government will exercise only that
measure of control over business which
the American public permits to be eXer-
cised. Permits. Not wants. The pubic
can get what it does not want, and often
does get it, through passive permission.
The fellow who tells you that greater
government control of business is ineVl-
table is helping along, Intentionally or
unintentionally, toward bringing about
that state of affairs. He Is a propagan-
dist for defeatism, whether he knows 1t
or not.
Those who knowingly encourage the
home-front propaganda for greater CON
troll of business in the postwar period do
it with malice aforethought. They want
to bring about federal domination of all
branches of life. More and more, 1t seems
that their goal is warped form OF ma
tional socialism in which the state is the
ruler of everything, and freedom is just
a word fed to the public as sedatives are
fed to an invalid.
Consider this propaganda for control
of business How can it hurt the Ameri-
can concept of freedom for small busi-
ness man to express the opinion, after an
orgy of current reading and listening,
that there is no way out, no way to keep
the federal government from running his
office for him? Here's how:
If he does convince himself and his
friends that there is no escape, he will
not try to escape. If he believes thing
is inevitable, that there is no use fight
ing it, he will not fight it. Believing 1t
inevitable. he will give his permission,
because he will accept the new peace
time status without a struggle.
If the headquarters propagandists can
repeat that one phrase-about federal
control being inevitable long enough
and often enough, they will make enough
people believe it so that it will be an
easily accomplished fact They will over
come opposition by putting it to sleep.
They will have clear field for their
operations.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
Reds Get Lion S
Share Of Plane S

lease program in March, lo4l. Aid
10 Russia did not begin until Oc-
tober, 1871.
The United States made import
ant progress in 1912 in Scndlilg
arms and other supplies to the so
Wet Union under lend lease, Stct-
tiniUS said. we have not yet peen
able to send as much as we should
like-or as much as the Soviet
needs-and part of what we nave
sent has been lost on the way. But,
after a slow start, lend-lease SNIP
ments have greatly increased They
are continuing to increase in spite
of the shortage of shipping ana
enemy attacks on the difficult sup
ply routes to Russia"
The United Kingdom, Settinlus
said. has shipped to Russia more
than 2600 tanks and 1000 planes on
q lend-lcase basis a., ...Ia
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
PROPAGANDA TACTICS

PROPAGANDA TACTICS
German military commentators III
radio hroadcaStS surpassed them
selves in weasel wording in order
to hint at but to avoid admitting
German defeats.
In the northern Ieningrad sec
tor the SovietS broke into the Ger
man positions at some points south
of Lake Ladoga," one said. THE
Soviet endcaVorS to extend the
breaches in a southWesterly direc-
ton we're frustrated however, and
the breaches were sealed.
The strongest enemy pressure
CCntinuS in the southern sector,
where there is extremely hard fight
ing which ats various points has
assumed the character of mobile
warfare. The enemy. aware that
winter will soon be over, is riSking
heaviest losses III efforts to gain
control of Strategically important
points"
MEANS RETREAT
Mobile warfare" is the term the
Germans use to cloak precipitate
retreat such as that OF the Afrika
Korps in Libya.
OF the position at Stalingrad,
where less than 10000 axis troops
remain of % divisions, the COM
mentator said the Germans firmly
hold an important strategic key
position in the rear Of the Soviets. u
Vichy radio was permitted to
broadcast:
In the region of the Middle Don
the Italian garrison at one
advanced base fought its way
through the enemT lines to join ur
with the main army"
This was the technique by which
! the Germans admitted the loss OF
/ Velikie Luki on the central front
There the garrison also fought
its way through the enemy lines
/ to join amythical relieving force.
Mario Apellius, a leading Rome
commentator, broadcast the COM
plant:
Russia is not a country, it is 6
huge accumulation of garrisons anc
barracks"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
Axis Mixed Up In
Propaganda Story
BY UNITED PRESS

An axis radio report said We'd
nesday Robert Taylor, American
movie star, has been interned by
Spanish authorities as a crew men,
Der Of one of the American bombers
forced down in Spanish Morocco or
a flight to North Africa.
In Hollywood, Metro -Goldwyn-
Mayer officials reported Taylor was
working on a picture in their stu
dios and was not even in the armv.
The enemy report was spread by
the German Transocean news agen-
cy in q dispatch from Tangiers. 1t
said Taylor tried TO escape, but that
he and his fellow crewmen were
taken prisoner after short flight -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
BY HENRY SHAPIRO

MOSCOW, Jan. 20. - (UP)-Red
army troops threatened Kharkov,
Russias fourth city, and the main
north-south railroad through the
Ukraine today as their south-Vo-
ronezh offensive gained momentum
and regiments of the famous guard
went into action.
The tank and shock-troop spear
head which took the great railroad
center at Waikiki, had driven on
to capture Urazovo, 10 miles east
northeast of Kharkov. and was ad-
vancing on Kupyansk, SO miles
east-southeast of Kharkov and one
of the main bases from which the
Germans launched their summer
offensive.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
NQzis Alarmed
At Red Victory
BY ROBERT DOWSON

LONDON. Jan. 20. CUP1--G Ger
many, plainly alarmed over the VIC
tories of the Red army, started
warning its people that a big Rus
sian break through was possible, at
the same time assuring them that
Germany itself was safe from at
tack on the east.
Stockholm dispatches quoted a
German army spokesman at Berlin
as mentioning for the first time
the possibility Of "a real Russian
break through
IF this should happen, the
spokesman said, there is so much
land between the front and Ger
many that it would take years be-
fore the Russians could seriously
threaten the Reich
LAST DECISIONS
The Voelkischer BeC3achter, Of
ficial newspaper of the Nazl party,
started calling German attention
TO the critical eastern front eitua-
ton. a Berlin dispatch to SWitzer-
land said. The newspaper admitted
the extreme violence of fighting and
Russian superiority. The German
home front. the newspaper said, was
watching the battle fully aware OF
its great significance for the last
high decisions.
A United Press Ankara dispatch
quoted Franz Won Papen, German
ambassador to Turkey as saying to
neutral diplomats of the Don and
| Caucasus offenSiVes:
Mover since the 11th century
when Alexander Nevski defeated
the Prus3ian Tcutonic knights has
Germany undergone a similar
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-UP)-
old-Leasc Administrator Edward
Gtcttinius. Jr, reported today
at the United States has sent
rcx,matcly 1900 airplanes to the
-oyiet Union-morc than has been
sert by lend lease to the United
Kingdom or to any other military
Reporting on United Nations aid
70 the Soviet Union, Stettinius said
that shipments of all kinds o.. oi
mjlitary equipment were greatly
increased after a slow start The
United States has sent 81 ,OOo trucks
end jeeps and other motor VehlcieS
TO the USSR, he said. :,
The Soviet Union also received
from this country up to January l,
1943. more than 5000 tanks, which
is more than have ever been sent
incc the beginning Of the lend
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
GERMANS ATTACK

Allied North African headquarters
reported yesterday that two COM
panies of German infantry had az !,
tackled northwest of Bou Aradas
some AZ miles southwest of Tunis~
They gained some ground, at first,
but British armored units attacked,
took all the lost territory and killed
several hundred Germans.
A little later several enemy tanks
attacked along the road running
west of Bou Arada. British artii-
lery destroyed most of them.
Axis units gained some ground
southwest of Pont Du Fahs. which
is 38 miles southwest of Tunis.
American and British planes ham
mered the axis both in Tunisia and
Tripolitania.
The Germans, who keep close
watch ON Gibraltar. center of Al
lied naval operations III the North
Africa area said that large con-
voy of l3 merchantmen had sailed
from Gibraltar yesterday.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-01-20
Reds Drive ReIentIessIv
Toward khurkov Fortress

ether spells. About 300 Germans
were killed in this fighting, and 90
made prisoner, the noon commu-
nique said.
ADVANCE IN NORTH
The Russian offensive ON the
front between Leningrad and the
Velikie Lu&i-RzheV area 27O miles
to the south was developing stead
ily threatening the Germans with
a forced general retreat from their
northern salient.
The noon communique reported
that south of Lake Ladoga Lenin-
grad area the Russians continued
offensive fighting during the night.
They occupied one strongly forti-
fled center, demolished II block
kor5es and 10 dugOuts, destroyed
five field guns and II machine guns
and captured one tank, IA field
guns, 33 machine guns and cap
tured one tank, IA field guns, 33
machine guns. 55 tommy guns
war material dump, food dump
and other important spoils, it was
said