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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
Current Comment

To date the great difficulty with
helicopterS as an anti-submarine
weapon Is the lack Of lifting capa-
city to carry into the air a Suffi-
Gent bomb load.
Navy Secretary Frank Knox.
None Of our victories have been
final victories. They are only step
ping stones to our real detectives
Rear Adml. Clark II. Woodward.
Labor Is producing the weapons
OF war-and now we must call
upon labor also 10 pay for them.
We must ask labor 10 furnish most
OF the money IN the Third War
Loan campaign.
Treasury Secretary Henry Nor
genthau. ".
We have yet 10 drive home our
hardest pnnches--llot only on the
battlefront but on the industrial
front &c well.
War Manpower Chairman Paul v,
McNutt
Don't think you are going 10 find
u easy 70 pick up Q respectable glTl
IN italy without running the Eiak q
q flFst.Fate lfaniilyl row, and, re.
member. number o. 0ermnng came
10 81 untimeig end through trying
Soldiers Guide 70 Italy.
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While Italy is battle center at the
present writing the Vatican radio speaks
to the world quietly and reassuringly. We
can have no conception of what Italy is
like at the present time with the battle
raging early this week at Salerno. Some
concern is felt for the Holy Pontiff, and
as news dispatches state all eyes are
turned on the Holy Precincts of Rome.
The Vatican radio, however, source of au-
thentic news to the entire world, speaks
quietly and reaSSuringly.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
DwINDLING SMALL BUSINESS
(New York SUM

To the owners Of numerous small
business enterprises harmed by
scarcity Of materials, price restric-
tons, rationing and other wartime
conditions, 1t may seem that Con-
gress, after an impulsive effort. has
forgotten them. That this Is not
yet true may be surmised from the
concern shown In their future by
Senators James E. Murray, chair
mon Of the Senate Small Business
Committee. One Of the most recent
indications that the committee is
backing measures to protect the
small business men Is the appear
ance Of report by the OPA with
a preface by Senator Murray deal
ing with the British program for
aiding enterprises forced by the
war to quit or sharply curtail pro-
duction, sales or development.
One Of the principles adopted by
Great Britain, for instance. was de-
vised TO equalize advantages be-
tween companies Of large buying
power with stores or plants easily
accessible to markets or sources of
supply, and small firms not so sit
uated or equipped for heavy pur-
chasing. The corrective was to grant
fixed percentages Of scarce goods to
al small retailers and distributors.
unfortunately. the problem Of SINH
larry aiding small business In this
country seems much more complex
than that Of Great Britain and as
vt ls not clearly understood by our
gators In Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
All One War

Nothing will happen now, but Admiral
Yarnell is to be commended upon the
astuteness with which he has recon-
mended that Army, Navy and Air Forces
be combined under one overall Depart
ment of War, with a civilian head and
military chief of staff; and that all Off
GERS be trained basically in all three
branches, whichever they may specialize
in later.
1t will take years, even with support
from such an expert, to achieve such a
revision of our antedeluvian military
structure. Let's hope it comes before the
next World War We shall need 1t then,
badly
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15

STRANGE GROUND
barbara Overton In The Christian Science
Monitor)

This afternoon, came UP the hill
Afoot and footloose the air was still
With the dream Of summer. A mulberry tree
BY the side Of the road astonished me;
! ate Of Its berries, wondering how
/ never had noticed II there till now.
And drank where spring With nectar taste
Lay hidden from those who pass In hasUs;
When biackbird Tippled up overhead
had time TO notice mis- wings fash red,
And winteTgreen spFang from this strange new
new ground
When thought there was none for miles around.
have Travelled on wheels thousand times
Over the hill where this old road climbs,
Yet though Il IL such familiar way
] never had seen II until today.
I was late getting home, tonight, know
But am wiser for being SLOW
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15

Except for the first few days
after Mussonnis fall Italians have
been apathetic. They have seemed
content to let the Germans and
Allies fight he battle while they
stood on the sidelines.
But that was when the battle
was localized in Sicily. Now the
battle has come to the mainland,
and an armistice prevails with the
Allies.
This should be the moment for
release Of all the pent-up feel.
ing against Germany - q feel
ing traditional in Italy. To
Italians, Germans, Austrians,
Bavarians are all alike - foreign
peoples who swarm through the
Brenner Pass TO modest them.
Meanwhile, German armies can
not fight without trains, tele-
phone and telegraph, food sup.
plies, water, shelter, fuel, and the.
endless variety Of facilities and
equipment which an army re-
quires. Though the Germans
have placed white-collar officials
In all strategic activities, the man
who drives the locomotive, or
pumps the water, or dispatches
the telegram Is an Italian.
This opens up tremendous OPP
portunities for sabotage - from
hindering troop movements to
dropping poison In NaN spaghetti.
MARY CHURCHILL
AND SOL BLOOM
Attractive Mary Churchill COL
lected severals souvenirs during
her first visit to Washington, ins
GLIDING a picture Of her famous
father addressing Congress and a
colorful booklet on the history Of
the Constitution.
The booklet was the gift Of its
author, Rep. Sol Bloom OF New
York, who autographed It as fol-
lows: please read and study this
carefully, and after you know the
history Of the American COnstitu-
ton you will be able 10 argue bet
ter with your Dad"
"You don't know what Il Is
to argue with my Dad" replied
Miss Churchill after reading the
inscription.
Gloom told her about his many
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15

trips to England early in the
century, as q song plugger. II
wrote some Of the hit songs Of
that era" he recalled, land most
Of them were introduced In
England. Perhaps you've sung
some Of them. The Honey.
suckle and the Bee,' for in
stance"
Heavens, I'm not that old,
Mr.. Bloom" Scolded his visitor.
But remember that particu-
lar song very we'll My father
used to sing It TO me-"
Miss Churchill was shown the
sights Of the Capitol by Archi-
tect David Lynn and Capitol
Guide Harry Nash. When the
bronze statue OF viii Rogers, tn
famous humorist, who pointed out
to her, she remarked: ooh, Of
course I remember him. He used
70 be In the movies"
Nash amazeS tourists by his
rapid-fire spiels about the Capt.
tolls ShowpieceS. But when he
and Miss Churchill stood before q
large painting in the Rotunda,
the guide was at loss for words.
Finally he blurted out: "That's
the Surrender Of CORVALLIS"
"Yes, Il was at Yorktown" re.
piled Miss Churchill.
TRAIN WRECKS
The current wave Of tragic train
wrecks has recalled to War Pro-
duction Board officials an I'M
published conversation long before
Pearl Harbor at which steelmar
Leonard Replogle urged the rail.
roads to order new rolling stock
Immediately. f'
This was in the days when Ber-
ME Baruch and Leon Henderson
were warning that war was GER
tain and pounding the table that
American industry should get
ready for 1t. Secret hearings were
held by the National Defense
Council, at which Replogle out
lined a long list Of strategic ma
terials which shouold be purchased
and equipment. manufactured.
Having been one Of Baruch's
right hand men In l917-le, Rep
logl had a good idea Of what the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
Helicopter Plans

Andrew Jackson Higgins, who probably
holds several worlds records for losing
government war contracts through no
fault Of his own, has come up with a new
helicopter which he is trying to sell to the
government If Uncle Sam isn't interested,
Higgins plans to go ahead anyway and
prepare for postwar civilian production.
The helicopter designed for Higgins by
Enea Bossi will use less gasoline than the
ordinary automobile. BoSsi believes 1t can
be made in the coupe or two-passenger
model to sell for $500, and in the
sedan" to sell for $4,000.
The line will form to the right.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
LADY WITH A HOE
(Christian Science Monitor

(CnrlsClan science Monltor)
They're down, on the farm this
summer - more than a million and
a half of them. From the potato
fields Of Aroostook County to the
lettuce farms in the San Joaquin,
soldiers of the Woman's Land Army
are digging for victory.
Their noses are shiny, their I'm
ger-nails unmanicured, and Rosie
the Riveter" gets all the headlines
but the home front ranks would
be as incomplete without them as
an Army minus its infantry.
Crops are as necessary as ships
this year, and nowhere has the Ma
tons manpower shortage been felt
more seriously than on the farms.
Both soldiers and civilians must be
fed. Not only the United States, but
its Allies must have food. There
must be stores Of food for the fu-
ture. ready for civilians in the plum
dered countries Of France, the
Netherlands, Greece, Norway and
the rest, when the Allied armies
march In. Much Of 1t must be raised
here where the soil has been free
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too little on the
offensive. Every
one seemed to
agree that the
thing the church
needs above all
else Is to launch
an offe n S 4 We
against the evils
which started
the war and
which, from the
begi n ming OF
tim e, HI We
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
BOOM EMPLOYMENT

These are boom times. indeed. In
the matter Of employment. An ALE
time record peak Of S4.300. 900 ere
now employed. according 10 latest
figures OF the United States Census
Bureau. The peak was reached IN
July when q swelling army Of
youths coming out % schools added
10000 70 the employment army.
Among these yeuths. many are
flilng the t0bs oaee held 81 men.
They are CLERKS IN, ieoraa. They ere
learning trades and Business, Tack.
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persons or one
,agency's fault,
and the bottle
neck win in time
Ibe cleared or
broken. But due
Ito q combination
Of circumstances
which no one
|foresaw, the sugar
situation on the
east coast today
looks like this ball
Of wax:
There o r Q a
number Of ships
loaded with raw
aaHnaH riding at
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
Your Health
By Dr.. William Brady


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digease, diagnosis % treatment,
win be answered by Dr. Brady e
stamped gelf-ad dressed envelope
b enclosed. Letters shouId Be brief
and written IN ink. No reply can
b made 20 queries not conform
ing 70 instructions. Address Or.
william Brady, National News
paper Service, $40 West Madison
Street, Chicago, III.
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER Is, 1948
A Thought for Today

y. what must be given Is given willingly, the
Kindness Is doubled.-Syrus
Ana IL shall come TO pass In that day, saith
the Lord God that win cause the sun to 60
down NJ noon, and viii darken the earth in
the clear days-AnOs $50.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15

from the churning tread of tanks
and the explosions of bombs.
That is why 1t has been so i'm
portant this year for people to raise
their own vegetables. in order that
the Nations crops may be canned
and dehydrated for ammunition
In the months and years to come.
That Is why thees unsung women Of
the fields are doing q Job as vital
t othe war and to victory as their
more publicized sisters on the as
sembly line and in the ways Of the
shipyard.
The lady with a hoe In her hands
and a shiny nose knows that she
has tackled no glamour job. But Sc
has chosen the sunlight rather than
the spotlight in the sober realiza-
ton that 1t takes food as well 81
guns 70 win q war.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
STRENGTH
FOR THE DAY

WE NEED A SPIRITUAL
OFFENSIVE

A group Of chaplains were talking
together and someone had said that
the trouble with the church Is that
1t Is too much on the defensive and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
Daily Almanae

Daily Almanac
Moon rises At $40 .. m. (waf tiHiel.
sun rises AZ o;si ., ~, sets ~ 1908 .. m.
lwar time).
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-15
Washington Merry-G Round DREW PEARSON

oons Nay Give Valuable Aid Allies in Kicking Nozis Out;
Cvon Workers Have Great Opportunities for Sabotage;
War; Repose Warned Railroads Order New Equipment
Is cousht Mapping by Gonnet Farm Conference
WASHINGTON September Washington the
Italian
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Views Of The Press

ling q job young Is not going to hurt
them. They are going to be better
more self-reliant persons because Of
IL.
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2 NATIONAL
SPOTLIGHT
Sugar
Situation
Still Sticky
BY PETER EDsON

% AGAs G0OVN
Waterbury Democrat Washington
Correspondent
All those good government inten-
tions to increase the supply o. sugar
which you were hearing about 50
enthusiastically . month Of 30 ago
have turned into taffy In one Of
the most perfect examples Of q
bottleneck to be developed during
tbs war. II .sn't exactly any one
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
New Shortage of
Meas Is Forecast

CHICAGO, Aug. 23 CUP) = The
national livestock and meat council
said today that the armed forces
and civilian consumers may face
huge losses of meat and serious
shortages of beef next winter and
spring.
The council based its statement
on the diminished number of cattle
being sent to midWestern feed lots
for fattening. Many cattle feed
erS. the council said, have reduced
their operations or discontinued
them entirely because they lack
faith in the government meat
program.
During July, 80 per cent fewer
feeder cattle and calves were ship
ped in the eight corn belt states
than during July year ago. the
council reported
The number of feeder cattle
passing through the stockyards at
Chicago, Kansas City, st. Paul and
Omaha during the two weeks end
ing Aug. 13 was AZ per cent less
than during the corresponding
period of 1912, the council said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
HOLLYWOOD
RY H,RGKTNE JOuNS0N

ladies are not well paid in Holly
wood but being typed in Hollywood
as an old lady is lad business for
a beautiful young lady.
They'll finally get tired of my
wrinkles and rubber chins." Rose
mary explains, and someone else
will get the mother roles. My agent
will try to get me roles as some
body's sister or maybe gal who
breaks up somebody's home and
the casting director will say.
Rosemary De Campl Ye gods, no.
All she can play is mothers
I'D like to play a menace" she
says, "or steal somebody's husband,
or play a low, sneaking woman"
Just to prove she's the type to be
herself, she recently went to
photographer and had glamor
sitting.
Except for one scene as 1917
chorus girl in This Is the Army"
Rosemary De Camp has never APP
peared on the screen as her CLAM
orous self. That one scene has
started Hollywood to thinking that
maybe she can play something be-
sides mothers.
Producer Jesse Lasky called her
and her agent TO his office at War
ner Bros. studio the other day to
discuss a role in the film biography
of George GershWin. Rhapsody in
Blue" They were not told what
kind of a role Lasky had in mind.
HOPES AWRY
Il was hoping he wanted me to
lean against a cocktail bar in the
Partisan sequence. So I put on q
red dress, a floppy hat and went to
Mr.. Lasky's office Miss De Camp
said Jesse didn't want Rosemary
to lean against any bars, however;
he wanted her 10 play the mother
of George GershWin and he had the
contract all written cut.
Rosemary De Camp, daughter of
Prescott, AriZ., mining engineer,
arrived in Hollywood four years
ago via Mills College plays, summer
stock in Connecticut and radio
soap operas. Martha Scott helped
her win role in Cheers for Miss
Bishop"
Two years ago she became the
wife Of Municipal Judge John
! Shidler of Torrance, Calf, who is
now corporal in the Army. Eight
months ago they became the par
ents of a daughter.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Tension High i'm
Russ SituQ%ion

Anthony Eden of Secretary of State
Cordell Hull. if it follows the
Roosevelt Churchill Quebec con-
ference, may relieve the situation.
Quarters best informed on Rus
sia emphasized that one thing, and
one only, is necessary to cement
the Allied front and that is a land
ing in force in western Europe.
Moscow dispatches offered SIM
pier explanation and one which
might fit into the complicated
diplomatic picture. Dip o m q C
circles in the Russian capital
pointed out that Litvinov and
Maisky, two of the foremost Soviet
foreign affairs experts. may have
been recalled so Josef Stain would
have them near for advice and
consultation en- postwar settle
ments. Both are foreign affairs
vice commissarS.
Rome and Berlin. of course,
shouted in radio broadcaStS that
Allied matters were in a sorry
state. Rome even talked about a
Russian ultimaium that without a
second front, the Russians would
60 no further.
MUDDLED SITUATION
A calmer report by Berlin radio
admitted that even the NaziS think
nothing could make Russia, Eng
land or America look with any
favor on Germany and that from
military standpoint, the current
situation is only muddled, and not
any better for the Nazi armies.
While bo'h Litvinov and MaiSky
may have been needed badly in
Moscow with Stain preoccupied
with the fronts, they are RuSSia's
best known diplomats. Litvinov's
successor will be Andrei A. Gromy-
ko, charge G'affairS at Washing
4on. and Maisky's successor is
Fedor Gusev. present first Secre-
tary in London.
Viewing the air destruction of
German productive capacity as the
NEST valuable contribution in the
west the Russians argued steadily
that it, although great, fallS 10
draw off 40 to 60 divisions from the
eastern front - Russia's minimum
requirement.
Expert sources believed there was
no chance of Russia responding to
German peace Establishments,
rumored to have been made at
times.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
RY ERSKINE JOHNSON

This business of celebrating
Mothers Day 365 days a year is a
little too much. Rosemary De Camp
said today. Not that she isn't
proud of her screen sons, Jimmy
Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy" ="
Ronald Reagan in This Is the
Army Sabu, a couple of un-
named youngsters and now Robert
Aida as George GershWin in
Rhapsody in Blue"
It's just that she is tired of gray
wigs. padding, rubber chins, Wrink-
les, soggy handkerchiefs, menthol
tears in her eyes and people want
ing to help her across the street.
For a beautiful young lady-"my
press agent says I'm 81 but I'm
really 30"-Rosemary De Camp has
grounds for complaints. Hollywood
has typed her as a sweet old lady
Every time she steps in front of a
camera she's so or even 10 years
old.
FAME'S PRICE
Now it is not that sweet old
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23

LONDON, Aug. 90 CUP)-Rela-
tions between Russia and the
Anglo american partnership were
believed today to have reached a
state of tension which could be
improved only By the opening of a
second continental front.
There was nothing to make OBJ
servers feel the Allies faced any
thing as drastic as an actual split.
But there was plenty to indicate
the Russians were prepared to
bring the strongest pressure to
bear to get the course of action
they desire.
The situation followed the re-
lieving of Maxim M. Litvinov and
Ivan MaiSky of their positions as
ambassadors to the United States
and Great Britain respectively.
While full Qualification was not
forthcoming from Moscow, the ac-
ton drew bead on enduring Rus
sian demands that some of the
heavy fighting load be taken from
their backs "a step which, on
grounds now available. may not be
within the power or the scope of
immediate and urgent Allied plans.
MAY VISIT MOSCOW
Experts believed a visit to Mos
COW by British Foreign Secretary
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
u. s. Airforce in
China Attacks in
Greater Strength

CHUNGKING, Aug. % CUP) :
American air victories which cost
the japanese 40 to SO planes, a
bombing assault on HankoW, and
the first enemy raid on the Chung
king area in two years marked a
sudden outburst of aerial warfare
in China today.
Thirty-three Japanese planes at
/ tackled the Chungking section but
were intercepted by Chinese fight
ers and no bombs hit the city.
A dispatch from a forward base
of the 14th U. S. Air Force re-
ported that Liberator gunners de-
stroyed 35 japanese planes, got
nine probables and damaged two
more in an intense As minute at
tack Saturday on the Hankow docks
and airfield.
The big bomberS, followed 20
minutes later by Mitchells. touched
off several fires on the field in
their surprise raid which hit at
enemy reinforcements brought up
for an offensive against budding
American air strength in this
theater
Earlier Saturday, a Japanese
fighter sweep over an advanced u.
S. base of Maj. Gen. Claire Chen
nault's 14th Air Force was met by
F-40s, which got five leros GER
tainly and one probably destroyed.
The apparent Japanese objective
was to prevent development of Am
erican air power that might strike
at Japan proper from China bases.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
fiIipinos Forced
Into Slave Labor

HONOLULU, Aug. % CUP' = A
Filipino who recently escaped from
his occupied homeland said today
that the japanese have forced the
Philippines population into slave
labor at starvation wages after
stealing all the food and money
they could find.
Everyone has to work, even the
small children, to earn a few
mouthfuls of their own food that
was stolen," he said. 1T is work
or starve.'
The Filipino called himself Jose
De La Cruz, withholding his correct
name to prevent enemy retaliation
on his family. One of the few who
have managed to flee the islands
since they were conquered, he and
party were picked up by an AM
erican vessel from the fishing boat
in which they left Manila Bay 81
days before.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Major Denounces
Manpower Waste

LOS ANGELES. Aug. % up
Seventy-nine percent of industrial
plant absenteeism caused by illness
and accidents is unnecessarily de-
laying production of vital war
equipment, Maj. Laurence B. Tip
ton. safety officer, said today.
Upton, war safety training
supervisor of the committee for
conservation of manpower. said the
figure was too high and must be
curtailed. Cost of plant accidents
last year amounted to more than
S3,750000,000 he said, and ap-
proximately four billion man hours
were lost during the past two years.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-08-23
Rooster SiIencer
Plans Arc Lost

LES ANGELES, Aug. 90 CUP)-
Councilman Harold Hardy. self
styled inventor of an effective
booster silencer,' who was forced
to back down when he lost his blue
prints, today has an offer of aid.
Seems r. H. Mortimer, Kitchener,
Ontario, Can, heard of the coun-
cjlmans embarrassment when pub
lie demand for specifications ap-
proaC he'd avalanche proportions. He
sympathized with Harby's inability
to produce plans.
But" says he, "my sisters hus-
band kept about a hundred young
roosters quiet with similar gadget.
saw it in operation many times
and it was effective. Will be glad
to send you a sketch"
Hardy declared he doubted that
the Ontario silencer would be as
good as the one he lost the plans
for, but said he might send for the
sketch ANYWAY