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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
ADMIRAL DIED LAST MONTH|N
 PACIFIC FIGHT lsOrOku YamamOto, Sea Leader, Succeeded By
 MineiChi KOga FUNERAL TO BE DAY OF NATIONAL MOURNING Boasted He Would Some Day Dictate Peace Terms
 From Washington
BY UNITED PRESS

Admiral Isoroku Yama- moto, the commander-in- chief of the combined Japan ese fleet who boasted he would dictate peace terms rom the White House, has been killed in action, Tokyo 'adio said today. The broad cast said the 59-year-old sea eader who helped plan the sneak attack on Pearl Har- DOT died a month ago in air combat "on the foremost front.
 A Tokyo broadcast heard ln Chungking fixed the time of death as the middle of April and the scene the South Pacific. It was regarded likely that Yamamoto was killed fighting American forces.
 Yamamoto was personally direct ing the operations in an airplane which engaged the enemy" at the time of his death. broadcast re- corded by the United Press in San Francisco said
 The DNB (German dispatch rom Tokyo said Yamamoto "died l hero's death in battle aboard an aircraft carrier in April while di- ,ecting operations from foremost ,ine.' The dispatch was broadcast oy Berlin radio and heard by United Press in London.
 The deral Communications Commission which also recorded the broadcast, said Tokyo reported that Adimral Mineichi Koga was named 70 succeed Yamamoto as the high ,st Japanese naval officer.
 Long high in Japanese naval cir ,les, Yamamoto made hi" peace ;ermS boast almost year before he December T, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor.
 The boast was revealed by Domei ,JapaneSe) news agency in Tokyo broadcast 10 days after Pearl liar DOT. The same broadcast credited Yamamoto with carrying out "the strategy of surprise" at Pearl liar DOT
 q am looking forward to dictat- ing peace to the United States in the White House at Washington Yamamoto was quoted as writing to ! friend in a letter dated January 24, 194l.
 The announcement of his death was brief.
 Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, commander in chief of the com- bined Japanese fleet, is dead,' Tokyo said. "This was announced in a communique issued at SD. m. (Tokyo time) this Friday afternoon by the imperial headquarters.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
N. H. LEGISLATURE
 WINDS UP SESSION

Concord N. H, May 2l-tUP) - The New Hampshire Legislature has adjourned after tumultuouS 20- Week-long session,
 The Legislature adopted two year state budget, granted Gov. Rob- ert O. Blood extraordinary wartime powers. passed an act providing a $l00 bonus for World War II vet erans, and approved a 5 per cent pay increase for state employees.
 More than 500 bills were COT sid eIcd curing the session that ended last night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
Clothes Rationing
 In 1943 Avoided

Washington, May 21-(UP- Rationing of clothing and tex tile products appeared today to have been avoided, at least for 1943, provided the public buys sensibly.
 Passing of the immediate threat was disclosed following a meeting among the nations retail clOthicrs' representatives. War Production Board Chair man Donald M. Nelson and Ar thur D. Whitesidc, chief of WIPES Office of Civilian Re quirements.
 No blue print was worked out at the conferences, nor were hard -and-fast decisions made. But, an official said, a general plan of action was agreed upon which was described as having brought a much better tone to tho situation"
 The one unacceptable fact, it was said, is that there will be fewer textile products for the remainder of the war. This, an official said, must be accepted by civilians.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
DAVIES DELIVERS
 NOTE TO STALIN
Contents of ROOseveIt'S Message 10 Russian Pre-
 mier Remains Secret

Moscow, May 21.-(UP)-The mis- sion of Joseph E. Davies, who last night delivered a sealed letter from President Roosevelt to Premier Josef Stalin in an audience at the Krem- in, was believed today to have been highly successful.
 All external evidence indicated Soviet favor of the mission, the na- ture of which still was cloaked in the secrecy MT. Roosevelt threw over it in dispatching his special en- voy to Moscow with a personal mes sage for Stalin.
 (Prime Minister Winston Chur- chill told Congress Wednesday that he and MT. Roosevelt hoped to meet Stalin and if possible Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek of China, "at no distant date."O
 The Moscow press gave promi- nent display to the announcement that Stalin received Davies last night.
 Stelin significantly summoned Davies to the Kremlin a few hours after Davies conferred with Foreign Commissar V. M. Molotov. Foreign diplomats usually wait several days after seeing Molotov before Stalin receives them.
 Another potentially significant point was that Stalin, breaking his current practice of receiving diplo- mats in the presence of Molotov, waited until he was alone with Davies to accept the presidents message,
 Morning newspapers published five columns of Prime Minister Win Ston Churchill's speech to the American Congress. including his reference to a possible meeting With Stalin The speech had been brushed off yesterday with perfunctory ac- counts.
 Davies had a short chat with Stalin before taking the letter from his brief case. They had not seen
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
GERMAN AERIAL MORALE WEAKER.
Allied Experts Wondering What Has Happened 10
 LuftWaffe
By VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Staff Correspondent

Allied Headquarters, North Africa, May 21.-UP)-The next few days or weeks of Allied air attacks on the Axis Mediterranean peri-meter may supply the answer to the ques- tion of what has happened to the German air force.
 The Nazi air arm has shown little sustained striking power, with the possible exception of on the Russian front, for several months. Allied air experts, speculating on this mili- tary puzzle today, offered several theories concerning the apparent decline of the luftwaffe.
 It was suggested Germany may be trying to cover too many fronts and thus is breaking up it's air force into small pieces instead of concen- trating it.
 Other gueSSeS were that Germany may be running short of trained flying and ground personnel, that the fuel supply may be running low, that airplane production has been declining. and that both morale and leadership may have been poor.
 For the first time in several days the enemy sent into the air size able numbers of planes piloted by men willing to fight it out as Allied planes attacked targets in Sicily and Sardinia Wednesday. It is too early to tell whether this is a flash in the pan or will become a permanent situation
 But it is safe to say that Germany and Italy will throw everything they can into the air in an effort to pre- vent the Allies from softening up the Mediterranean islands and the Italian mainland. The Axis has no reason to hold back anything now.
 If Germany withheld anything from the Tunisian campaign-and Air Marshal Sir Arthur w. Tedder and others doubt this very much that no longer will be the case.
 German militariSts have used overwhelming air power to good ad- vantage in the early days of the war against Poland, the low countries, France and Greece.
 The Allies, in their final drives
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
BY II. o. THOMPSON United Press Staff COrrcspOndcnt)

Hot Springs, Va, May q. = (UP) - Delegates to the Interna- tioual Food Confererce rejected to- day the theory that they were con turing a permanent system of in ternational charity.
 They described as erroneous ideas that the United States would be called upon to feed the world at the expense of it's own people.
 Richard K. Law, chairman of the British delegation, keynoted that theme with the statement that the United States would provide some things in the post war world. but that no one at this international conference is asking for charity.
 We shall not have solved the problem of getting the food that is prCdccad to the people who ned It ii VIC copjure up pictures of a
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
AMERICAN BLAST
 DAM IN SARDINIA
By United Press

The London radio reported today that American airplanes in North Africa, following the example oI the RAF attack on Ruhr Valley dams had blasted dam on. the Italian island of Sardinia.
 An NEG broadcast from North African headquarters said that "a dam in central Sardinia was hit" No details were given.
 There are two artificial lakes in Sardinia. both providing huge hy- dro- electric power One collects the waters of the Tirso river in the center of the island and the dam backs up some 450,000,00O cubic me ters of water. The other in the north part of the island has a capacity of 342 100000 cubic meters. Both gen. crate about 24,000 horsepower.
 The Tirso is the only big river on Sardinia. It has course of 94 miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21
STATE WHOLESALER
 MAKES $4OO REFUND

Hartford, Conn, May 21-CUP)-- A Connecticut wholesaler charged with selling seed potatoes for food has made $400 refund out-of-court settlement with the OPA, it was an nounced today.
 The wholesaler was accused of selling seed potatoes to restaurants and hotels for 75 cents more per hundred weight than the ceiling price for table stock. The OPA Said that B others similarly charged would be gwen the same oppor- tunity for settlement.
 Summer Term June lSt for College Students. Bulletin on Request. Post Junior College of Commerce.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-05-21

LAUNCHINGS TOMORROW
 Portland, Me, May 21. (UP)-A destroyer and net tender for the Navy will be launched tomorrow at Maine ShipyardS.
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Evening star., 1943-07-04
Legislators 10 Speak
Al Adventists' Camp

Senator Edwin c. johnson, DEM
ocrat. OF Colorado and Representa-
tive Beall, Republican of Maryland
will speak on Religious Liberty, an
American Heritage" at special serv-
ices at II o'clock this morning at
the annual camp meeting of the
Potomac Conference of Seventh
Day Adventists in Takoma Park, Md.
H. H. Votaw, secretary of the Re-
ligious Liberty Association and edi-
tor of the religious magazine Lib
erty," will be chairman of the
meeting which will be a highlight
of the final day of the Today camp
session which closes tonight. More
than 5000 Adventists have been at
tending daily services held in a
tent city" on the grounds OF the
Washington Missionary College.
A temperance rally is scheduled
for 3 pm. tomorrow with RepreSen-
tative Bryson, Democrat of South
Carolina, author of bill to suspend
the alcoholic industry for the dura-
ton, as the principal speaker. He
will be introduced by Floyd c..
Carrier, secretary of the American
Temperance Society, and other rep
resentatives of national temperance
organizations will be special guests.
Special music will be given by the
musical department of the WASH
ington Missionary College.
Evening star., 1943-07-04

was announced today by Mrs. Barns.
ley. One hundred and flfty-five
quarts will go to the school cafe
terra, and the remainder will be
used for the Rockville Canteen Red
Cross emergency shelf, 1t was stated.
According to Mrs. Barnsley, the
Victory Garden at the school. which
is a project of the All Club Of
the institution, is expected to pro-
duce $50 quarts Of tomatoes from
AIS plants and 100 quarts of sweet
corn from IS rows, each 300 feet
long, all Of which will be for the
school cafeteria. Operations are be-
ing directed by Mrs. Barrsley and
Roscoe n. Whip, assistant agricul-
tural agent for Montgomery Coun-
ty, while gardening is being done
by All Club members.
Wire to Head Class.
Paul Wire has been reelected
president of the Mems Bible Class
Of the Rockville Methodist Church.
Other newly elected officers are:
Edward r. Mullin, vice president,
and John Arthur England. secre-
tary treasurer who succeeded him.
self. William B. Floyd is chairman
of the Membership Committee:
Louis Bremerman, chairman of the
Visiting Committee and Leslie D.
De Haven, chairman of the Recrea-
ton Committee. The Rev. John w.
Rosenberger, pastor of the church,
is the class teacher, and D. P. Hur-
ley is his assistant The class has
approximately 30 members.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Reserve Militia Recruits
SOUGHT in Arlington

Capt. S. P. Vanderslice, Company
of the Virginia Reserve Militia, an
nounced yesterday that a recruiting
campaign to form third platoon
will start Tuesday and will continue
through July 13.
Recruiting centers will be set up
In Clarendon, Cherrydale and at Co.
lumbia pike and S. Glebe road, he
said. in an effort to get the necessary
36 men. There are "a men and three
officers in the company now, he said.
Able bodied men from II to IS
years of age. who own their own
rifle or shoutgun and are willing to
purchase a uniform not exceeding
$40 in cost, are the type recruits the
company is interested in, said Capt.
Vanderslice.
Primary purpose Of the company
Is to combat fifth columnists and
saboteurs and to protect vital in
stallations, he said. Activities of the
company consist of regular drill,
combat tactics, small and large-bore
rifle instructions, alerts, quick as
semblies and field encampments and
maneuvers.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Commercial Vehicles
In New Safety Contest

A 12-month Commercial Vehicle
Safety Contest. ending June 80
1914. is under way, the Alexandria
Safety Councils chairman. L. Ray
mond Torpy. announced last night.
This contest is designed to ac-
complish the dual task OF improving
the safety Of our citizens on the
streets and to help the war effort
through conservation of equipment
and manpower lost each year due to
vehicular accidents" Mr.. Torpy said.
Local business and industrial
firms were approached and their
cooperation requested. Records of
accidents will be kept by the coun-
Gil, and monthly results published
as an incentive to drive more slowly
and more carefully. At the end of
each years competition, awards will
be given to concerns and individual
drivers for outstanding accident
prevention work.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Miss Hy|ton Named
Alexandra Hospital
Nursing Instructor

Appointment of Miss Pearl I.
Hylton as instructor of nursing arts
and history of nursing for the Alex
andria Hospital School of Nursing
which will reopen in September, has
been announced by Mrs. Irene Ros-
Eel. director of the school.
Miss Hylton is a graduate of the
nursing school of the Medical Col
lege of Virginia and for the last two
years has been instructor of nursing
arts and assistant to the director
of nurses at the South Baltimore
General Hospital.
Mrs Roszel also announced that
work has been started on the reno
vation of St. Mary's Academy
Building on Prince street for use
as headquarters for the school.
The building will contain class
rooms and living quarters for the
students, as well as chemistry and
dietary laboratory and a COM
plete library. 1t will accommodate
80 students and applications are
now being accepted at the hospital
Students must be between l7l2
and 80 and must have a high school
education with at least two units
in science.
The following faculty list has
been announced: Dr. H. A. Latane,
medicine; Dr. William T. Burch,
eye, ear, nose and throat: DR.. John
T. Ashton, oral hygiene; DR.. J. w.
Love. dermatology and syphilogy;
DR.. j. Cameron McCluer, pharmo-
cology: Dr. Carson L. Filler, surgery;
j. E. w. Timberman, Pho. ma
terra medica: DR.. o. Anderson Engh,
orthopedics; DR.. Herbert D. Wolff
urology; DR.. Floyd Hobbs, diseases
of metabolism; DR.. John A. Sims,
chemistry; DR.. Harrison Picot, OBJ
stetrics: DR.. Robert Hightower, Pc
diatrics; DR.. George Denton, nervous
and mental diseases.
Also Dr. w. A. Browne, public
health and sanitation: DR.. Alfred
Abramson, emergency nursing: DR..
Martin D. Delaney, jr. anatomy
and physiology; DR.. Thomas Peery
and Mrs. Victoria Kempfer. NJ. T.,
microbiology; Mrs. Doris Rhea. r.
N. psychology; Mrs. Elsa Butler
Grove, sociology; Miss Virginia Mil
lard, nutrition and dietary therapy;
Mrs. Roszel, professional adjust
ments: DR.. Robert H. Groh. PSYCHE
airy; Miss Hylton, nursing arts and
history of nursing. and DR.. s. H
Williams, anasthesia.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Chevy Chase Marine
Is Made Colonel

The promotion of Edward L.
Pugh, AZ. Of 4 Rosemary lane, Chevy
Chase. Md, to the rank of colonel
in the Marine Corps was announced
yesterday by Marine Corps Head
quarters here.
Col Pugh was quoted in a recent
dispatch from Guadalcanal as stat
ing that our figures on the number
OF japanese planes shot down in
that area are conservative.
He added that the first scores
those that usually make the head
lines-almost always require upward
revision in our favor.
Col. Pugh has been in the Marine
Corps since 1927. Before being sent
overseas in January. he had been
stationed in San Diego for nearly
| three years. He is the son of Mrs.
E. L. Pugh, sr., of the Chevy Chase
address.
He graduated from the University
of Maryland in 1925. going to that
institution from Mckinley High. He
was one of Maryland's topnotch
| athletes, being a member of the
football team of 1923 which defeated
Penn and outplayed Yale's Eastern
championship team Of that year.
only to lose. 16 to IA
He captained the 1924 eleven and
the following spring was leader Of
the track team, on which he was a
quarter miller and hurdler.
A brother, Capt Michael Pugh,
is with the Army Air Forces in
Miami Beach, Fla Another brother,
Charles Pugh. also a great athlete
at the University of Maryland, was
killed in a plane crash at Hagers-
town, Md. 10 years ago. He was
an Army flyer.
Col. Pugh's wife lives in California.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Rental Rules Issued
For War Housing
In Alexandria

Because Of the large number of
new apartments under construction
in Alexandria which are being listed
with the War Housing Center for
rental. Miss Barbara Watkins, direc-
tor of the center has announced the
regulations for certifying applicants
for dwelling units.
According to regulations of the
National Housing Agency under
which war housing centers operate,
tenants are divided into three
classes, with first preference going
to indispensable immigrant war
workers. They are servicemen or
war workers brought to the area to
do job which cannot be filled by
local workers and who have moved
to the area since July. 1912.
The second class of tenants is COM
prised of war workers in the area
prior to July. 1912. All other ap-
plicants fall in the third class
Housing also is divided into three
classes. The first is that which has
been, or is being constructed, with
priorities issued since February TO-
l943. Existing housing for which
priorities were issued prior to that
date makes up the second class. All
nonpriority housing falls into the
third group.
Only the first group Of tenants is
eligible for the first class of housing
and then only on certiflcetion by the
War Housing Center, regardless OF
whether the units are rented from
the center Applicants can be GER
tilted only if they are not adequately
housed at the time, or if they pre-
sent a court order of eviction from
their present quarters.
Limited To Inadequate.
War workers in the second class
will be certified only if they are not
adequately housed, and in all cases
tenants are referred to dwelling
units only on the basis of not less
than rs persons to a room. Fol
example, a couple can only have
a one-bedroom unit, and three per-
sons are entitled to only two bed.
rooms. Children over eight years
Of age of opposite sexes, however
are not expected to share room.
To be accepted as indispensable
war workers, Federal employees must
be so certified by the Budget Burau;
servicemen by their own division
of service. and employe of private
concerns by the United States En-
ployment Service. Only the thirC
class of housing is available to per-
sons who cannot be certified.
218 Units Listed in June
Miss Watkins revealed that during
the month ending June 20. the Alex
andria War Housing Center LISTED
2l8 units as available, but a great
many were not ready for occupancy
and los units actually were rented
through the center.
The center rented 1896 rooms. plac-
ing all persons who applied for this
type of housing and still has 354
rooms listed
However, Miss Watkins pointed
out that most of the available rooms
are on the edge of the city, not con-
venient to transportation and rooms
in the center of the town are still
badly needed.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
MARYLAND Guards Called Out
To RepeI Enemy Porotroops
Minute Men Join in Defending Vito
Points Threatened by Fifth CoIumnists'

were landing on the race track near
Bel Air.
Defenses Set up.
The supposed workman. who mar
rowly escaped capture, reported that
the parachutists commandeered pri-
vate cars. stopped an Army convoy
of five trucks and captured the
drivers. They then began to move
against the city.
Defenses were set up against this
"attack" by the Baltimore city guard
units.
The simulated attack was con-
Quoted by Company H of the End
Battalion. under the command of
Capt. F. H. Kidd, jr.
While the guardsmen attempted
to repel this practice attack. minute
men patrolled reservoirs. bridges,
tunnels and other strategic points.
Whether the defense against the
simulated attack was successful
awaited critique of the entire ma
neuver by Guard officials
Evening star., 1943-07-04
Garden Club Sends Flowers
To Hospital Weekly

Wednesdays are the brightest
days in the lives of the Naval Hos
pital patients at Bethesda, accord
ing to Miss Mary T. Dunn, field di-
rector of the American Red Cross at
the hospital On that day the Be-
thesda Garden Club sends large
quantities of summer flowers to the
hospital for distribution to the pa
tients.
For the last several months CON-
mittee of 10 women. serving weekly
in couples. has supplied the flowers.
mostly from their own gardens. Now
the project is being thrown open to
the public. and all residents of the
area are invited to take their flower
donations to the Battery Park
Community House on Wednesdays
before II am. Girl Scouts have
been asked to adept as troop
project, the collection of flowers for
the hospital.
Evening star., 1943-07-04
203 Servicemen Licensed
To Wed at EIkton in June
Rv .ha In,

BY the Associated Press.
ELKTON, Md, July ga total of
203 members of the armed forces
were granted marriage licenses at
this Gretna Green during June, ap-
parently taking advantage of an en-
actment of the last Legislature which
allows them to obtain permits with
out waiting 48 hours.
Soldiers, sailors and marines from
2l States, most of whom are now
stationed at the Aberdeen Proving
Ground, Edgewood Arsenal and the
Bainbridge Naval Training Station,
obtained licenses.
The new law, which took effect
June l. allows immediate issuance of
marriage license when one of the
parties is member of the armed
forces.
Previously. the 48-hour waiting
period between application for and
issuance of the license could be
waived only with approval of the
county Circuit Court.
While Elkton had a bumper crop
of service weddings, the total num-
ber of licenses issued during June
showed sharp drop from the figure
for the same period last year, Total
permits issued in June were 6l2,
a decrease of 537 from the 1,149
issued in June, 1912.
The ban on pleasure driving was
blamed.