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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15
State Experiencing
Sub-Zero Weather
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mission Is air brakes and air-cloeed
doors froze and water lines were cut
TO prevent engines from freezing.
He requested residents In the area
to remain at home and avoid suf-
fering possible frost bite while
waiting on corners.
Three hundred workers In the
Woodbury. Shoe Co., plant at Derry.
N. H., were sent home because 1t
was impossible to heat the building.
Several persons were treated for
frostbite at Boston hospitals.
The forecast was continued ex.
tremely cold with the temperature
below zero throughout the day and
little change tonight over last night.
Preceded by q snowfall that
ranged from four inches in SOUTH
ern sections to 10 inches in Maine,
the biting cold was made more
severe by a blustery, 30-mile-an-
hour wind.
No deaths were reported but off,
Gals said that the fuel oil situation
was exactly critical" and that
excavations Of families seemed pos
sible.
Frozen switches delayed many
transportation lines and thousands
Of workers enroute to war plants,
It was feared that the transporta-
ton tie-ups might affect shipments
Of vital fuel oil scheduled to arrive
in the area during the day.
Thousands Of home owners re"
ported that their oil supplies were
running low and that the wind
driven cold was increasing consump-
ton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15
MILAN, SPEZIA
BOMBED BY Raj

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ItaIy's second port and main REIN
forcement base for Tunisia, and also
the Crotone airdrome on the sole
of Italy's "boot" on Saturday. That
night RAR bombers from Africa
bombed Sicily while home-based
British bombers dropped 1000 tons
of bombs on the Lorient submarine
base on the French Atlantic coast.
Last nights pilots found clouds
over Cologne, where submarine
parts factories are again operating,
pressed home their attack. Though
anti-aircraft batteries were less ac-
tive than In previous raids NUM-
Der OF enemy fighters were eflcoun-
tered.
The German radio, heard here,
acknowledged that British bombers
damaged buildings and inflicted
casualties IN western Germany dur.
ing the night and claimed eight
planes were shot down.
Milan, part Of Italy's great Milan.
Turln-0 Genoa industrial triangle.
was attacked In bright moonlight
about 1880 p. m, Returning pilots
reported only light, Ineffective anti
aircraft IRE despite Adolf Killers
promise 10 send ample antl.alFeFaft
guns 10 protect Italian cities. No
fighters were Don.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15


Numerous transportation prob
lens are expected to develop here
because Of the change In work
hours, and the VINO area commit
tee, now in the process Of organ
ization, will administer remedies to
that as well as all other problems
affecting labor and employment.
Conferences with employers and
labor leaders were continued today
by Mrs. Dewey and a committee Of
eight representative officials Is ex-
pected to be announced shortly, she
said. The group will serve in an adj
visory capacity for the area includ-
ing Waterbury, Naugatuck, Middle
bury, Thomaston, WATERFOWL, and
Cheshire.
While arrangements were being
continued to draft committee to
serve directly in the Waterbury
area, j. Harold Madden Of the
American Brass Co. was named to
serve on the New England regional
labor board. The unit will include
eight representatives each Of indus
try, labor and the public.
Mrs. Dewey stated today employ
ers who find they cannot comply
with the AZ hour requirement will
be required to submit their reasons
to the WING regional office by
March 81, the deadline for compli-
ance, and indicated some leniency
may be shown in the cases where a
definite handicap is involved. 1t was
stressed that great strictness will
be observed and all employers are
urged to definitely plan method OF
fulfilling the requirement.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15
Big Allied Drive
lin No. Africa Nears
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ing force outside Of Russia the
Allies in North Africa are relatively
inexperienced. ~
The British First Army was a
leavening Of men who fought IN
France. But 70 rthe most part, they
need battle experience to get the
most from their fine equipmnt.
In some sectors, they are still too
short Of infantry to hold and ex-
plot gains made by heavie rforma-
lions. French equipment Is obsolete,
and despite their n1anificent fight
ing, British and Americans do not
believe they should have been used
except where they wer direly
needed.
(While Beattle was en- route back
to headquarters, Gen. AlphoH1se
JUN announced that French units
were being withdrawn, brought UP
to full strength and re-eQuipped
with the most modern arms)
In the air, the Allies are poten-
tally superior and generally possess
the edge In types Of planes. They
had nothing to equal the German
high altitude fighter, the Messer-
schmitt 1896, in Africa. The Allies
do have planes that are equal TO
the l09-G, however, and may be
better, and they undoubtedly WILL
be rushed to this front.
AS of now, however, the Germans
can, still gain local air superiority
for any given action.
Air Fights Lively
The gradually increasing tempo
Of Allied bombing has apparently
forced the Germans to keep their
air force reserved for front actions,
where aerial lighting Is the liveliest.
That sharply restricts German air
activity behind Allied lines. Means
while, more advanced Allied air
fields are being rushed to compile
ton, and the air picture should be
favorable when the offensive starts.
On the ground, the Allies fight
under tremendous ilandlcaps, with
overlong lines Of communications.
Engineers have done wonders with
roads which became quagInires or
mud slides under transforms. but
communications are stu head
ache.
Two days ago. drove through q
binding mountain snowstorrn.
which blurred the windshield and
iced the road. The difficulty Of
such driving can be imagined. con.
sidering that IL was midnight and
thousands Of three-ton trucks,
without headlights were moving up
to the front from the other direc-
ton. But the truck drivers do It
night after night.
Supplying armies by truck and q
few overtaxed trains takes time, and
that Is what the Germans and Ital-
ians are playing for.
on the r0ads-Whlch vary from
fine. paved highways 70 muddy
trails, tanks sftll cannot 0pernte
with certainty, and great wa9Is
(dFy creek bedsl shaking across the
valleys make magnificent tank bas-
riers.
Until the Alllad commanders can
be certain q coed weather, they
cannot move IN llsli strength.
The men Who fght me AXIS p
TnniGla live Ga the bush. They
cook over flve-RalIon gasoline flnt
with the top hacked solg ana tA1e
bottom filled With sand. Tho sand
N saturated with gasoline. and one
result = . store wilh none - me
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me Oflcial temperature at Bos-
ton reached q low Of "a degrees be-
low AERO at e:S0 q. M, almost equal.
ling the ail-tinne record Of IS below,
established February Q, 1884. DUR
Ing the next hour, It rose one de-
Rrae.
ALTHOUGH the weather bureau saw
no relief In sight, Colonel Thomas
Il. Sullivan, Massachusetts, einer-
gency fuel conservator, said that
the fuel oil situation was mot too
had'' and that 1t probably would not
ba necessary 10 evacuate families
nom heatless names.
II expect no suffering" Sullivan
bAid.
the coolest officlal reading In New
England was a record-equalling AZ
atop Mile High Mt. Washington in
New Hampshire. However, unofn-
elal sub-zero temperatures In the
20's and sos were common in outly-
ing sections Of the six states.
Most transportation systems, IN
cluding railroads, buses and troll
legs, suffered delays ranging UP to
two hours.
It was the coolest day on record
IA Northern Berkshire County, with
North Adams reporting a low OF
26.
Other cold spots included: Heath,
40; auckland and Shelburne Falls,
% to 80; Ashfield, 80; Rowe, %;
cheshire, 35; Williamstown, 30; and
Stamford, VT, IS.
schools in many communities In
Che Berkshires were closed.
In Rhode Island, hundreds Of
automobiles carrying war workers
20 various plants were stalled along
highways as the bitter temperatures
aroze radiators.
\ Court sessions were held UP and
many public buildings reported
workers delayed by the extreme
cold. Perhaps so schools in the
state were closed and many social
affairs were Cancelled.
At Pittsfield, James w. Hyde,
war worker, died Unexpectedly Of
heart attack induced by the ex-
treme cold while enroute to a fac
& tory.
In the Berkshires. the extreme
cold was accompanied by drifting
snow which blocked number Of
the main highways, including the
Jacobs ladder route between Pitts
field and Boston.
At Dalton, u dairy farmer was
unable to reach his barns to milk
his cows until state tractors arrived
and plowed a path.
In Hinsdale, two dealers had to
discard o total Of 1000 gallons OF
milk because Of their inability to
deliver II over snow-choked roads
ain Lawrence where the tempera-
lure was IL below, bus service on
ne eastern Massachusetts, Street
Railway Inns was demoralized and
General Manager Garfield 8. Chase
naade o radio appeal for persons in
he area to remain at home.
30 Buses Idle
a0haSO said that 70 Of the COM
pany's 30 buses were out Of COM
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eccentricities Of fancy mechanical
cookers.
American and British troops
along the TuniSian front look about
Ave times as healthy as those sta
toned around Algiers, In the rear.
Bushes and tree cluinps conceal an
endless variety Of military person.
mel and equipment. 7 recall one
speciman, about the size Of 0 big
lilac bush, that disgorge da hriga-'
der, three colonies, three or four
lesser lights and a complete once
truck. s
Air force men stationed at adj
vanced air fields construct for
themselves caves by using fiattened
gasoline tins to roof shallow holes.
At one airdrome, somebody gots&
ball turret from O damaged Flying
Fortress and built 1t into his roof
so he could look out without having
to leave cover.
A lot Of American food comes
from the British compo box, which
feeds Il men FOL: one day, and even
provides them z IL cigarettes eachI
/ loap, matches and toilet papera al!
most priceless anywhere In TuniSia.
"A campo box-there are IL or IA
assortlne ntS-may include tea, with
milk, bacon, sausage, stewed steak,
with vegetables, steak and kidney
pie. crackers and pudding. Compo
box experts prefer box A, which
contains canned fruit, and avoid
box F, which leans strongly to bully
beef.
Eggs Peddled
Arab bread, flat, round loaves
which are very good when hot, can
be bought along the roads. Occa-
sionally, a farmer has Q spare
chicken or pig. and Arabs peddle
oranges and eggs.
One Of the major annOyanceS Is
German planes. A man out In q
jeep when a German plane appears.
stops and with no dignity abandons
it. With one hand clapped over his
tin hat, he dashes for cover, and
cover doesn't mean q ditch. After
the Germans set the car on IRE,
they usually strafe the bitches for
good measure.
Politics naturally have . bearing
on the military situation. but -
seems that after three months OF
violent boiling, the political gitua-
ton In North Africa has eimrneTed
down to the point where it can be
discounted as threat TO the Allied
rear. - -
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trations, constantly harrassing the
enemy supply lines.
Allied bombers again blasted Axis
airdromes in Crete and targets IN
southern italy and Sicily.
Apparently the British were adj
vancing leisurely, satisfied with
keeping contact with the Afrika
Korps' withdrawing rear guard. The
middle eastern command has not
yet thrown its powerful air striking
force against the enemy In lower
Tunisia.
Crete, southern Italy and Sicily
were bombed Saturday night, the
middle eastern command and Royal
Air Force announced.
Illustrating the strength Of Allied
air defenses, a small formation OF
enemy bombers approached Beng
hazi, Libya, Saturday night. They
withdrew without dropping their
bombs, but Allied night fighters
hoped them and shot down one.
All Allied planes returned from
all missions Saturday night and
yesterday.
The Allies, along with their
devastating air attacks against
enemy transport and port facilities,
were conducting a systematic CAM
paign to bleed the Axis air force In
Africa, by running air fields and
destroying parked planes.
The Allied high command an
nounced that American bombers
from North African bases Saturday
attacked Fl Acuina airfieid at
Tunis, roaring IN In two waves 70
send bombs crashing down upon
enemy planes concentrated In q cor
ner Of the field.
-four American Mitchell b0gnbera
and three Lightning fighters at
tackled so German troop carrying
planes between Sicily and Tunlsla
and shot down At least SIX. The
transports were flying toward Sicily
evidently 10 pick up more German
soldiers there and ~ them back q
Ttinigia.
Allied planes from the western
front also attacked Bizerte Katur-
day niailt. sinking tire troop carry
Ing ships ana leaving che with ~
decks Rwash, and shot np enemy
land transport.
There was stan iiltie land activity
on the western side q he 1uninlan
front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15
BOYS IN
s ) THE SERVICE

shortly to study at q school for
guards.
Guy r. Hogarth OF Cheshire has
been promoted to first lieutenant
in Washington, D. @. where he Is
with the Army Transport command.
Ensign Vincent McElligott Of "a
Lounsbury Street Is serving In the
Coast Guard at BuzzardS Bay.
Clifford Waugh Of Temple Street
has been promoted to sergeant at
the Blythe Air Base, Calf, where
he Is serving as radio operator.
The son Of Mr.. and Mrs. David
Waugh, he began Army duty last
April %.
STAFF Sergeant and Mrs. Serge
Doucette Of Ajo, Ariz,, are visiting
in this city.
John r. Cashen, a graduate of
Cheshire academy, Is reported to be
missing In action In North Africa.
He visited relatives In Meriden last
month, reporting shortly after for
the Africa assignment.
Great Lakes, Ill.-Three Water
bury, Conn, men were graduated
today from the service schools at
the U. s. Naval Training Station
here. Now specialists" in the Navy,
they are awaiting assignment to
duty aboard warship In the U. 8.
fleet, or at some naval shore sta
ton.
Selected from this advanced train
ing on the basis Of results from O
series of aptitude tests given them
while In recruit training, these men
are now eligible for advancement
to petty officer ratings.
The graduates from Waterbury
Conn, and the courses they have
studied are: Joseph Viscosl, 81, son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Viscosi, 1853
EaSton avenue, ynachinists mates;
Louis E. Howard, 81, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Howard, Is Taylor street,
ma chinist's mates; John r. Mikline-
vich, az, son Of Mr.. and Mrs. M.
Miklinevich, lat Allen street, ma
chinist's mates.
Corporal Leonard e. Browne, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence T. Browne
of 40 Frost Road Is spending a
leave from Camp Edwards, Mass,
at his home. He entered the Army
ten months ago and is now serving
in a medical division.
Ames r. Minor of Bethlehem Is
studying at an officers candidate
school in England.
Henry r. Grant, corporal tech
nician, fifth grade, of Philmont, N.
Y, and a former cook at the local
Waldorf, Is receiving training in
the Signal Corps at Fort Mon
mouth, N. ]. HIS brother, Staff Ser
geant Clifford j. Grant, Is stationed
with the same company.
Corporal Warren L. Schoeck. son
of Mrs. Elizabeth Schoeck of % Ro-
land street, has been assigned to the
armored force vehicle school at For;
Knox, KY.
Joseph Tambarello, son Of Mr.
and Mrs. Paul Tambarello Of Ills
East Main street, has been promot-
ed from private first class to corp
oral at the Army Air Forces Basic
Flying school at Shaw Field. s. O.
The following l7-year old youths
were sent to New Haven this morn.
ing by the local Navy recruiting Of
fee: Oscar v. Ventres:a Of 80 Rob-
inson street. Charles r. Gillette Of
Beacon Falls. and John Barna Of
IS Center street.
Applications for enlistment have
been filed by Quentin Spence cartel
6f Q Spark street and Joseph Rus
sell COddington of OakVilIe,
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rad, Industrial capital Of the Dom
9ks Valley nearly 100 miles north OF
Rostov.
The only avenue Of escape for the
German forces In the Donets VAL
lsy, estimated at upwards Of 100000
men, apart from secondary roads,
was Q single track, circuitous rail-
rad that winds from Rostov,
through Taganrog to Stalino and
thence to q branch line Of the
Dniepropetrovsk- Sevastopol line.
n Advance on T1ganrog
Field dispatches said the Rus
dams already were advancing on
Taganrog, IS miles west Of Rostov,
along the eastern end Of the DON
~ part Of q general advance all
cts pocket.
sRostov itself was q burned and
blasted city strewn with the corpses
Of German dead, back In Russian
hands for the second time. Many Of
ia buildings were still in flames,
set afire by Soviet Smelling or by
German demolition units.
TO the north, the plight Of
Eharkov, vital German base, was
increasingly grave and field dis
patches reported that the trains to
Kiev, $50 miles to the west, were
packed with Nazi soldiers with
drawing to escape necidclement Of
Eve onrushing Red armies.
The Soviet high command report
ID that the desperate Germans were
throwing picked SIS units, trans
Serred from France, into battle in
the Chuguev area, 20 miles south
east Of Kharkov, in a desperate
effort to stem the Soviet advance.
"Our troops are overcoming the
enemy's resistance and infficts
heavy losses on him In men and
material" the midday communique
said. In three days of fighting,
our * unit burned and disabled
03 German tanks and wiped out
more than 1900 officers and men.
I'd another sector, the Hitlerites
attacked with is tanks. Our troops
destroyed II enemy machines and
the other four tanks hurriedly re-
treated"
The Red Army forming the north
most arm Of the Kharkov pincerS,
captured an inhabited locality in the
Zdlochev area, some IS miles north
west Of the city, the communiuue
said. A German counter ATTACK was
repulsed with heavy losses to the
enemy.
The Russians also were forging
ahead west Of Kursk, 100 miles
north Of Kharkov, and the capture
Of q large town In that sector was
announced. Two hundred German
officers and men were killed and II
gupns, IS trucks and three tractors
captured.
(Another swedish telegraph
Bureau dispatch said the Germans
already had begun to evacuate their
remaining Caucasian forces across
the Kerch Strait TO the crimta).
Tho double capture Of Rostov and
VGEoshilovgrad yesterday represent
ed the biggest Soviet victory yet
announced Ia q single day. Voroshi-
ilggrad, In addition 10 rs other In
diItries and rs importance as a
German anchor base. Is the site Of
the worlds second largest locomo.
lice factory. In peace time. u pro.
alleed more locomotives than oil
other Soviet fartcorles combined.
fIhe German radio claimed the
04gmann evacuated Rostov and
Vqfpahll0EBrad Ia an orderly man.
mar, after destroying ell war-lp'
na#iant installations and removing
a anrms and wounded.l
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15
WILSON POST UNITS
IN JOINT MEETING

Members N Wilson post. Amei1-
can Legion End Us auxiliary, con.
Quoted . joint meeting yesterday 1T
3 O'Clock 1t the post rooms On Blshs
ep street. Commander william
Thompson Of the post and lima
RhinhaFd, president Of the auxili-
AIRY. presided.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15

Tuberculosis death mte Cor
Wyoming was 2D.i per 10000 IL the
population IN 1899. Rs compared
with siS ~ seas.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15

NOUHUIIUVu ITUHL FHBV y
plants. The War Manpower Com
mission will undertake to arrange
appropriate placement for all work.
ers who are relieved because Of the
change in time schedules.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-15
BITTER FIGHTING
NEAR EAID PASS

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Louis A. Aauecl az l0ao North
Main street has complated '"bo0t"
training ne the naval baEa VI New.
port u. !. end viii be assigned
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FUEL SHORTAGE
IS WORST EVER

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NO EXCEPTIONS
in 4S-HOUR WEEK

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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-01
Port Clinton
Union Tops
Bond Drive

PORT CLINTON, Sept. 2S-
Largest single contributor to the
3rd War Loan Bond Drive in Port
Clinton is Local 497, UAW-CIO,
with a total of $44,250 which is
approximately one-third of the
total for the entire city of Port
Clinton.
Members of Local 497 are en-
ployees of the Standard Products
Co. of this city, which is also MAX
ing a great contribution to the 3rd
War Loan Drive, matching dollar
for dollar the amount of bonds
purchased by its employees. More
than one-half the bond sales in
this city will be made to the EN-
ployees and management of the
Standard Products Co.
Thomas Kinney, president of
Local 497, expressed his satisfac-
ton with the fine showing made
by union employees of the COM
pany when he said, "Our people
are interested in winning this war.
We believe that we can win it by
doing our bit on the production
line as well as by buying bonds
and we will support any and all
drives which will hasten the end
of this war"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-01

last studio portrait for the dura-
tion. Upon completion Of Rus
sia," his current picture, the
M-G-M star reports to the Navy
Air Corps.
Accompanied by her celebrated
actress-daughter Greer, Mrs.
Nina Carson took her initial
driving test at the Department
Of Motor Vehicles in Hollywood.
Greer, who is starred in M-G-M's
Madame Curie," marked the oc-
casion by presenting her mother
with candy automobile as
graduation present.
Wit still sparks on the set Of
'Whistling in Brooklyn" where
M-G-M's buffoons Red Shelton
and Rags Ragland make with
verbal combat. Latest SHELDON
prime rib" was rendered during
a scene where the comics, strad-
died atop an elevator cap, hurtle
toward the roof. Well be crush
ed like beefsteaksl" Ragland
howls. THAT means" Red soothes
him, well be worth more dead
than alivei"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-01

194O when Mr. McDowa British Merchant Marine
sent his wife, his daughter Virginia fifteen and Roddy to
America for the duration.
Roddy first picture here which endeard him vast following
was How Green Was My Valley Since such things The Pied
Piper and My Friend Fcka he has continued fans He has
remained however natural unspoed boy whose hobbies the
those other boy of his He collects has
thousands of them. He likes rabd
cdentaly he reads all his fan mail of himself
He's against Onions
His mother he all his vegetables
he doesn't like them that he discovered the cook while she
peeng them This sad situation didn't appeal him
hhed onion His favoe dessert
eat all day long left to himself according NcDowa
Uddy and his sister, Virginia
movies This Above ALP of her pictures Roddy played
16 films in England three of them made btz
Studies the
The boy is in first high school When he working the
studio, his classroom the Recently during
York his teacher along and morning
three hours.
His favorite actress Bette Davis
Tyrone Power Donald Crisp and Walter Pdgeon
Home Donald Crisp plays the Roddys
time. He also his father Valley while
Walter Pdgeon the padre Mr. Grufydd
"Lasse include May Witty Gwnn Nigel Bruce
Elsa Manchester and Ben Webster.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1943-10-01
Theofre Bond
Sole Is Success

The Toledo Theatre Managers
War Activities Committee has
done ar excellent job toward the
war effort. This month, during the
Third War Loan Drive, the the
atres Of Toledo have sold over
S2,000,O00 in bonds to moviegoers.
These sales were made possible by
special War Bond Premieres at the
Paramount, Rivoli and Valentine;
also the War Heroes Day Rally,
Sept. 1S; Free Movie Day to pur-
chasers of War Bonds in all the
atres on Sept. 81, and actual sales
at special booths manned by vol
unteer workers. Theatre managers
are working arm-in-arm for the
cause, waving personal promotions
for their theatres.