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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
Army Nurse Flies To Fame
In Good Ship "Aspirin''
BY NEA Service

Louisville, Ky-"The good ship
Aspirin" is what Lieut.. Elsie OFT,
Army Nurse Corps, Of st. James,
L. l., dubbed the big American
bomber in which she took care of
five i'll soldiers on an ALTAR trip of
10000 miles from India to Walter
Reed hospital Washington. For
which feat she now has the first Air
Medal ever awarded by the U. S.
Army to a woman.
The honor was bestowed at Spe-
cial ceremony at Bowman Field
Army Air Base near Louisville re-
Gently by Brig. Gen F.. S. Borum,
commander of the First Troop Car
rier Command, upon authorization
of Gen. H. H. Arnold, USAAF COM
mandant.
IT called the bomber Aspirin"
said the pretty, dark-haired girl,
because that is the drug I mainly
used on my five charges. OF course,
I had been supplied with other
things, but some of the medicines
would not have been so good for the
patients when they were up In the
air a mile or more.
so in every case, I would give
aspirin tablets and tell the patient
they were special pills for his special
trouble. 1t worked. No. it didn't
work with me when I got air-sick.
I couldn't kid myself.
my flight was an experimental
one. 1t was sprung on me suddenly
in India, where I was attached to
a hospital. OF course, I was thrilled
to pieces. The plane left the next
morning Immediately after I had
breakfasted at the unearthly hour
of 430. I was told to eat plenty, be-
cause it might be longish time I'M
til I got my next meal.
II was curious, and a little wor-
ried. about how many patients I
would have to look after on this eX-
perimental trip. The plane was an
ordinary bomber; not hospital
ship. The bomb bay had been
cleared and they had placed the
cots there. making them fast. Two
of my five soldiers were stretcher
cases. In addition, there were six
passengers and a hospital ward man
to help me with the patients.
Soon we We're over the clouds and
everything behaved except my con-
trary stomach. which went on
rampage. At our first stopoVer. VIC
had a wonderful dinner at the hos
pital, where we also arranged for
overnight care Of our patients. All
of us had good nights sleep anad
we flew again the next morning
right after breakfast Two more
overnight stops ard then, then we
took off for the flight across the
Atlantic.
patients, ward man, passengers
and myself we're in high glee-it was
the home stretch. Our pilot. a Can
adam of 20 years experience, made
me a member Of the Short SnorterS
after we had crossed the ocean and
signed the required dollar bill for
me-"
Lieutenant OFT won her civilian
nurses cap at Lenox Hill hospital,
New York, in 1886, and later worked
in Kings Park hospital, Long Island
and st. Francis hospital, Miami
Beach, Fla. She joined the Army
Nurse Corps In September, 1941, was
commissioned a second lieutenant
and, this February, went overseas
to help take charge of a desert
hospital that had been operated by
the British in India. There she
worked for eight months before
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
BAR COMMITTEE
ON RESOLUTION

Attorney Finton J. Phelan presi-
dent of the Waterbury Bar aSsocia-
ton, today appointed a committee
composed Of Terence F.. Carmody,
Eugene Church and J. Warren Up
son to draw up resolution on the
death of former Superior Court
Judge Frederick M. Pearsley. The
resolution will be read at the annual
meeting of the association May ID
in superior court when tribute also
will be rendered to the late Mayor
Vincent A. Scully, former Mayor
Francis p. Guilfoile, and Thomas
Devine.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
Miss Cora Champion
B. e. p. Club Prexy

At its meeting last evening the
Waterbury Business and Profess
sional Women elected Miss Cora E.
Crompton as its president. She will
succeed Miss Caroline Benham.
In an address to the members DR..
M. J. Colney discussed "Lithuania".
He described the nations progress
in the fields of culture and educa-
ton prior to the present conflict In
EllrOne
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
Pembroke Promotes
Miss Ruth A. Metz

Miss Ruth A. Metz, daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. Gustave Metz of
Platts Mills, has been promoted to a
corporal in the Auxiliary War Serv-
ice at Pembroke College in Brown
University. Every available type of
war job is being done by the PAWS.
Promotions are made according to
the number Of hours spent on such
services as knitting, defense center
work, USO. hospital work, and max
ing surgical dressings.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
BETH-ISRAEI,

Daughters Of Beth Israel will
meet tomorrow evening at o'clock
at the Waterbury Hebrew Institute,
at 8 O'Clock. Mrs. Max Glitter is
chairman of the program, which
will include a talk by DR.. Joseph
Collins, and moving pictures.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
Mothers "V" Club
Holds First Meeting

A newly formed club, consisting
OF mothers Of men in the armed
forces. and known as the "V" club
held its first meeting at the home
Of Mrs. Nellie Sandore of Wood
street.
The members include Mrs. Blu
cite DeSchino, Mrs. Minnie Pugliese
Mrs. Nellie Sandore, Mrs. Mary Ros-
81, Mrs. Anna DeCapua and Mrs
Clara Brangle.
Refreshments were served at the
initial meeting.
People Of Tampico, Mexico
bought nearly 100000 tickets in
the last year to see motion pictures
from the United States.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
Club Notes
HOPEVILLE CLUB

The members of the Welfare
Committee of the Hopeyille Com
munity Club will meet Thursday
evening at O'Clock at the home of
Mrs. Ida Atkins of Baldwin street.
Mrs. John Hyland will preside.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
Weddings
Personal

Mrs. Harold L. Fogg of Washing
ton avenue Extension entertained
recently at her home with q lunch
con in compliment to Mrs. Frank
Hallock of WATERFOWL. Her guests
included Hrs. Edwin Glover, Mrs.
Leon Cinqmars Mrs. Edward Nc
Lean and Mrs. Albert Harris.
Mrs. Myles Mccarthy and the
Misses Regina and Anna Donahue
of Randolph avenue were registered
at the Waldorf-AStoria Hotel In
New York for the Weekend. While
there they listed Mrs. Mccarthy
son, Private Myles Mccarthy, sta
toned at the Army Base, in Brook
Ign, N. Y.
A daughter, Donna Gay, was born
on April Is to Mr.. and Mrs. George
Stevenson Of Edison avenue.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thmoas Grady OF
Fairmont street announce the birth
Of son on April % at st. Mary S
Hospital.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
ST. PAUL'S

The Woman's Society of 81. Paups
church will meet tomorrow after
noon at 2:30 o'clock at the home
of Mrs. Wilson Miller, ST., of Oak
street. On May and 7 the mem
bers will conduct a rummage sale,
As East Farms street.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
SANTA MARIA

Santa Maria Circle, Daughters Of
Isabella, will meet tomorrow even
ing at 8 o'clock at the Knights of
Columbus hall.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
THIRD CHURCH

The Ladies Aid Society of the
Third Congregational Church will
meet tomorrow afternoon At 3 o.
clock at the Parish Hall.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04

More than $l500O,00O was
raised for the British Red Cross
during the first year OF the war
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-04
-Gualtieri

making her unique flight home.
Lieutenant OFT is now at Bowman
Field, taking a course to fit her for
service in the new Air Evacuation
Group under the First Troop Carrier
command. This means" she ex-
plains, that when get my papers,
I will be prepared to fly anywhere
in special hospital planes designed
to carry wounded and sick soldiers
either to big base hospitals or back
to this country"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-22

.. your dollars must take the offensive, too!
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 YOw RsWet Oct ct once! Y.., lt: sSing so b.h.sas dig d.ep.r. Essoips to be hard to give up ali depending except for the necessities of life. ewill be easy for Parcsime patriot to Gnd excuses for himself But tAink of what the millions of men fgbagg this war are giving up! Think of the thousands who have given their lives and the many more who are pre- pared to do SO. If you can still face this one far squasely and fail to buy more War Bonds and still more War Bonds-then no appeal in the world can reachyour heart.
 InUest iH yOWr OSOB security! During this drive Qbeginning April lzth), you may be visited bv one of the thousands of vOss's-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-22

seers who are working % make shis 2na DriSea Rreae success. Welcome him! Becaase he's shese @ help yUu mllre the sfsse iavessmene tn ths woEld-ma good Sae of inaesssG
 Iiaenso sowhaehehas % cell yOa. See ewhsch of thevariOus ypesOf War BOndsandOshersec sies s bee 6ned O your needs. And remember. every dOIIar yOu IswS means anOther sep o. wards security after this wa. lrmeans mOnegsO sale advansaee of she many oPpOurunssies thar will be open o yOu whea peace comes Money thar vii guarantee yOu what yOu want in the furuse.
 Bur don't wair for she War Bond sepiesenaa- siye O caIl Go, ighe nOw, O yOur nearest bank orPoRoGOeOrplsOewheretheys llwAr Bonds Buy all yOu 1n-and shen more. yoin she his oaensiyA! Answer vOur OOun1Eys call for helPs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-22

ThIs ls ITl m < tNss ssn ycu muss Kssd- Asplea you muss respond Co. On svssz 1ghtins AOne Ameeia moves ahead. In the sOrtuOus swamps of ths tropics, on ths sasing ssas, over the afr of Europe and in AGia ous troops are sseildng hasd.
 And Gom sye0wSere eGsfs ecmes Ux TOT Rlp.
 :MoFe tanIs, nsUre gunsr cry the soldiers.
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 STheyre seady. eager o srrme ar me enemy And they furn to Amefica-tc YOU-for help. "ssAnd thae is why your Government makes shis urgent public appeal asking us to ls~d k is billion dollars during these momentcus NHs. NOW as Amesjca takes the offensive
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-22
From every fighting front comes a cry for help!

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-04-22

your dollars must take the offensive, sOO!
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
Harvard Doctor
Proposes Bureau
OF Population

WASHINGTON, July 20
(UP) = DR.. Earnest Albert
Hooton, a noted Harvard
university anthropologist, to-
day proposed that the govern
ment undertake the improvement of
its citizens by program of super
vised breeding, sterilization of the
unfit. and increased control over
the development and education of
its future parents.
Stating that only medical men
were qualified to undertake the job,
but that only government had
enough authority and resources,
Hooton proposed the setting up of
a department of population, head
ed by a cabinet officer who was a
doctor, with four bureaus.
The first would be the bureaus
of adult rehabilitation. This would
"remake adults below the age of
SO years insofar as they need re-
habilitation. The young and mid
dle-aged men and women are our
breeding stock"
The second would be bureau of
marriage and genetics. This would
fill our supreme social need . q.
the scientific improvement of mar
riage, reproduction and the home ="
1t would function in four ways
l. medical and genetic supervision
Of marriage to prevent matings
bound to produce inferior offspring
Continued on Page 6, Col. -
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20

cut the island in two. Reports indi-
Gated that opposition in that sector
was crumbling to little more than
token resistance.
But there was furious fighting
at Catania, where attack and coun-
terattack followed in rapid success
sion and the Germans threw para
troops inio action as infantry in
their desperate efforts to hold off
the Fordes of Gen. Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery at Catania and weSte-
ward around the Gerbini airdromes.
Gen Guilo Cesare Gotti Porcinari,
Commanding the 54th Naples divi-
sion, was captCred-the fourth
italian divisional commander to be
taken prisoner.
The main Axis elements involved
in the battle at Catania were units
Continued on Page 6, Col. 81
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
First WAAC Battalion Arrives in
Britain: Band P!aVs Lady Be Good

WITH WAACS SOMEWHERE IN
ENGLAND. July 20-UP)-A band
played Lady be Good" and an AM
erican shouted "Geez, lookit all
them babes" when the first eXpedi-
tionary force of 600 WAACS reach
ed Britain. The women marched
with eyes dead ahead, under the
commands of Brunette 1st Sgt. Vir-
ginia Rosekrans, former sculptor,
of Chicago, to reception center.
After about week at the center,
they will be assigned to posts as
telephone operators, stenographers,
plotters and in similar jobs, free
ing men for combat duty.
FIRST BATTALION
Officially they are known as the
first WAAC separate battalion and
the group includes all ages, includ-
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
Nazis Shift Fliers
From Russ Front
HEADQUARTERS

A L l. I E D HEADQUARTERS
NORTH AFRICA, July 20-(UP)-
The Allies announced today that
German airmen from the Russian
front have entered the battle OF
Sicily, some of them evidently
shifted While the summer cam
paigning there was getting under
way.
A joint statement of the United
States army air force and the Royal
air force disclosed the presence in
Sicily of Nazi airmen whose trans
fer must have weakened Germany
The statement recalled repeated
statements by Allied leaders of in
tentions to ease the German pres
sure on Russia.
N t b 90 k and dictionaries
brought from Russia were found
in German air force officers mess
il Sicily, the announcement said.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
Guardian ANGEL Falls Flat

uudruidn amer rails Fat-
AL Volkart was left at home alone
the other night. His wife told him
to watch a big kettle of beans she
left cooking on the stove.
1t was nice and cool in the house
so Al composed himself for a quiet
evening of reading. He read a
while but that didn't last long. He
went to sleep. A long time later
AL opened one eye. What a smell!
He opened the other eye. More
and worse smells!
He bolted for the kitchen, feeling
his way through black smoke which
smelled worse than anything he
ever smelled before. You get it.
The beans were burning He forti-
fled his hands with towels and
lifted the kettle from the stove.
The bottom of the kettle fell out
and the burning beans tumbled to
the floor and rolled all over the
kitchen. All up and down the
street heads were popping out of
doors and noses lifted to track
down the terrible stencil.
The scent attracted the neigh
bors to the Volkart home. Inside
AL was engaging in a major clean
up campaign.
He aired out the house and
cleaned up the mess but did he
catch what for burning up that
aluminium kettle?
He did.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
Tide in Air Has
Turned for Allies

LONDON, July 20 (UP)-The tide
has turned and air superiority the
world over-both in personnel and
equipment-has been won by the
Allies, former Air Ministry Secre-
tary James Spaight asserted in the
preface to the 1912 edition of
James "All the Worlds Aircraft"
Spaight said nearly all Axis air.
craft production facilities now were
within range of the Allies, whereas
the Axis was unable to reach United
States plants.
American factories stand above
the tideline of war" he wrote
They cannot be touched. The Axis
can be 6iSarmed from the air and
the Allies cannot. That is the de-
ciSive difference"
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
NAVY PREPARING to
Fight in Pacific
Sector Unit! 1949
Knox Hits COmplacency
OF American People;
Says Long Way to Go

WASHINGTON, July 20.
-UP)-The Navy is max
ing plans on the basis of hav-
ing to fight in the Pacific un-
til 1919. a high naval officer
revealed today in seconding verbal
assault by secretary of navy Frank
Knox against unwarranted public
complacency about progress of the
war.
Public optimism over "our minor
military successes" is lust silly"
Knox said at an unusual press con-
ference also attended by Vice Ad-
m.ral Frederick j. Horne, Vice
Chief of Navil Operations. and
Charles E. Wilson, Vice Chairman
OF the War Production Board.
Wilson joined in the plea for con-
tinued all-out efforts on the home
front by asserting that the United
States ought to produce $500 air.
planes this month but that 1T is
doubtful that we will do it, because
war complacency appears to be
slowing down our production levels"
COAL is LOST
WPB hopes to produce 100000
additional tons of steel during the
third quarter to meet war needs
and another 100000 extra tons in
the fourth quarter, Wilson said,
aiding that in the face of these
efforts 100000 tons of production
were lost in 80 days because of the
coal strike
The ships lost because of this
lack of steel are the same as ships
sunk" Knox commented. He point
ed out that it would take only 49,
600 tons of steel to replace U. S.
ships lost in the recent battles of
KCla Gulf
American losses in the Kula Gulf
battle were listed as one cruiser and
two destroyers. Nine Japanese war;
ships were destroyed
Horne said his statement that the
navy is planning on the pacific war
Continued on Page 6, Col. y
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north and south had left the Ger
mans in a sack the narrowing neck
of which faced west.
With the Corridor closing. the
Russians likened the situation to
that at Stalingrad last winter when
the Red army nipped off the pocket
iutting into the Volga CITY and
killed or captured 100000 German
troops.
The army driving in behind Orel
from the north was reported to
have advanced within seven miles
of the Orel-Bryask railroad, des-
cribed as the last rail line left to
supply the threatened German
Garrison.
VILLAGES TAKEN
The Soviet positions across the
25-to-30 mile Corridor were not de-
fined specifically. The Soviet COM
mand, reporting gains of four to
six miles yesterday, said that one of
1870 captured towns and villages was
Malo Arkhangelsk. 25 miles south
of Orel on the railroad to Kursk.
Later dispatches said Russian
pressure forced the Germans to re-
treat all along the line below Orel.
Concentrating their onslaught
against a tactica)ly important hill
and village, Soviet forces captured
them and the Germans had to
make a general withdrawal from
that sector
CThe German radio reported Rus
sian losses since July of more than
as, 1000 prisoners, about 4,8O0 tanks,
and 2,c01 guns. A Berlin COM
munique said 562 Russian tanks
were knocked out yesterday alone.
T. reported fierce Soviet attempts
to break through the German lines
in the Caucasus. along the Mus
river northwest of Rostov. and along
the DonetS in the Ukraine)
(The British radio said the Rus
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
Accused Head Of
SmuggIers Held

on charges of violating censorship
regulations.
Ebury was seized last Saturday
but the arrest was not announced
until preliminary investigation was
completed. He also was allegedly
involved in BLACK market" op-
erations concerning u. S. dollars in
Latin American countries.
Hearing on the censorship charge,
which carries maximum penalty
of 10 years imprisonment and $lO,-
900 fine, has been continued until
Saturday by a U. S. Commissioner.
Ebury is held in the Salinas, Calf,
iail in lieu of $4,000 bond.
Hoover said Ebury admitted using
code in cable and mail communica-
tions to an individual in Quito,
Ecuador, pertaining to the alleged
smuggling activities.
TO BUENOS AIRES
The ring sent more than 1000
grams of platinum 70 Buenos Aires
dealers in the last few months,
Hoover said. 1t was purchased
from illegal dealers in Colombia
and smuggled to Argentina through
Intermediates in Lima, Peru, Quito
and Santiago, Chile
The agents CARRIED the metal in
a special belt. The critical ma
terial lacked by Axis nations ap-
parently was smuggled aboard neu-
trail vessels at Buenos Aires for
shipment abroad
Ebury, who first came to this
country in 1925, has resided at
Plainfield, N. j., Forest Hills and
Long Beach. N. Y, Palo Alto, Calf
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Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
Quota for
Fl Centre Down

Because of a third reduc-
ton in Ell Centro's tire quota for
July, large number of applicants
for grade one tires will be forced
to accept inferior grades or receive
none at all, ration board officials
said Tuesday.
Mrs. Margaret Foster, board sec
retary, was advised by Fred Ches-
nut, mileage rationing officer for
the district, that at least one out
of every five applications for grade
one tires would have to be re-
jected Ration officials did not
know when Ell Centro's quota would
be increased.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20
Italian Commander
Gives King Warning

LONDON, July 20.-(UP)-Inva-
on-menaced italy proclaimed 81
more provinces war zones today
and a Madrid dispatch reported
that Gen. Alfredo Guzzoni, Axis
commander in Sicily, has sent a
memorandum to King Victor En-
manuel reporting that he cannot
stave off Allied occupation OF the
island much longer.
The new war zones surround, but
do not include, Rome and extend
from Naples up the west coast to
Genoa, across central Italy and
from Venice around the east coast
to the Jugoslavian border. Two big
naval bases are encompassed in the
new zones, La Spezia on the north
west coast and Pola, to the east.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-07-20

1hey also scored near hits on an
unknown number of enemy vessels
| around the base. Near hits fire.
quently are as damaging to ships
as direct hits.
This daring thrust by army filters
made while their comrades half
way around the world were bomb
ing Rome-waS announced today
By the navy, which controls opera
tlonS in the pacific.
The big enemy base, only about
1900 miles from Tokyo itself, is one
OF the strongest of Japan's naval
installations. 1t is on the north
ern-most of the 80 Kurile islands
which extend northeastward from
Japan proper.
WARNING TO JAPAN
Bombing of paramushiru brought
home to the enemy the likelihood
of new air attacks on their home
land. Long-range planes, if able to
operate from recently -recaptured
Altu have to go only 765 miles to
reach Paramushiru and little
more than 1000 miles to reach
Tokyo itself
The consolidated Liberators which
attacked Paramushiru might also
have come from Amchitka, anothe,
| U. S. Aleutian base which is 96t
miles from Japan's Pearl Harbol
of the north pacific"
This was the first raid of Para
muShiru to be announced by the
navy. Observers generally had ex-
pected for some time that with
! American forces in control of Attu
Paramushiru-and probably other
enemy installations in the Kuriles
soon would feel the blows of Am
! erican bombs.
The commInique revealing the
Paramushiru foray also disclosed
that on Sunday, force of medium
and heavy army bombers attacked
the main camp area and Gertrude
Cove installations on Japanese
held Kiska, sole remaining enemy
foothold in the Aleutians. Over
cast prevented observation of re-
suits.
The communique also announced
that on Sunday GSland time) Jap
anese planes bombed the Allieo
base at Canton island in the
Phoenix group in the south pacific
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