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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
DEFINES HARDSHIPS

at should be noted that Class
sd il reserved for those whose
induction would mean the de-
pendents left behind would viz
tually become public charges"
Gen. Pearson explained.
"In every instance, the regis
trant must he maintaining e
bona fide family relationship
with his wife. child or parent.
While extreme hardship is not
defined in the regulations. "A
strict Interpretation of their
dictionary meaning will be qp-
piled in every instance.
THE phrase will be construed
I'm the light of the bare necesSi-
ties of life a. distinct from what
may have been accustomed
standards OF living. So-called
moral support will not be-con-
sidered."
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
Draft Boards
To Limit Sd TO
Hardship Group
Times stan Correspondent

- LANSING, May Local draft
boards were warned by selective
service headquarters today against
too liberal attitude towar< ~e-
classifying registrants into the
new 5 - or hardship" group
In a dlrett..e from Brig. Gen
Leroy Pearson, heau4 s2rters ex-
planned the new class IN Hetail,
warning that il does not apply to
collateral dependents other than
parents.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-05-07
FINANCIAL SUPPORT

Headquarters pointed out that
federal allotments and allowance
payments alone will cover finan.
cial support.
"Most cases of extreme hard
ship and extreme privation Will
|primarily involve physical in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
DISPOSAL PLANT
TOWN NECESSITY
Borough Must Start Plans
Immediately Wadhams
Informs Brophy

Naugatuck, Nov. 23-Gen. Sanford
H. Wadhams, state water commits
sioner has informed Warden Leo. j.
Brophy Naugatuck must start i'm
mediately to prepare PLANS and
specifications for sewage disposal
plant here. This is part of the state
program and applies to all commun-
tiles on the Naugatuck river and the
borough hos no choice but to COM
ply, the warden SAIL.
Warden Brophy said Monday
night the cost of such plant may
run as high as $4,000 when con-
strCcted. However, the plant will be
built after the war, but plans must
be readied SO the town would be in
a position to get federal aid If any
is forthcoming after the war, the
warden added.
Mr.. Brophy, Borough Clerk
Charles F. DAILY and Borough En-
gineer Charles D. Curtis conferred
in Hartford Monday afternoon with
Gen. Wadhams, Mr.. Scott of the
state boad of health and Mr.. Weiss,
engineer for the water department.
The site for the plant has already
been decided upon, a piece of land
south of the synthetic rubber plant
and when land for the site of the
rubber plant was being Ole, care
was taken to make sure none of the
disposal plant land Was sold, he
warden said. In addition it has a
trunk line sewer Seyln r, which is
also preparing plans and specifica-
tons, has to erect 10th the sewer
and plant in that tow, he said.
The board of warden and burgess
es at it's next meeting will select a
qualified engineering firm to pre-
pare the necessary plans. The state
will submit list OF approved firms
and the board can select one from
these, the warden said.
The borough, more than a decade
ago, floated $4,000 bond issue
for erection of the disposal plant
ard more than 100000 of this was
spent for the trunk line sewer the
warden said. But because other
towns north of claugatuck had
taken no similar action Freemen
here voted not to build a disposal
plant until Waterbury ha done so.
There was some items number OF
years ago and nothing remains in
the fund now, the warden said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
FLOYD WOOSTERS
WED A YEARS

Naugatuck, Nov. 23-Mr. and Mrs.
Floyd Wooster of VIC ,ster street
were guests of honor at surprise
party Saturday evening on the oc-
casion of their 44th wedding ami
versary at the home of Mr.. and Mrs
Fred Hubbell 80 Sweeney street.
These attending were: Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvin Wooster, Mr.. and Mrs.
Floyd Wooster, Jr., Mr.. and Mrs.
Ernest Simmons, Mr.. and Mrs. Asa
Smith of Waterbury, Mr.. and Mrs.
John Hoadley, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Parks.
A supper was served by Mrs. Hub
bell, the hostess, and gifts were pre-
sented to Mr.. and Mrs. Wooster.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23

for use in Alaska, to rubber which
conducts electricity. The latter In
used on shoes of persons working in
clunitions or INT plants, a guide
explained, and that static electricity
present in a workers body would be
grounded, he said.
Boots used in jungles, those used
On slippery submarine surfaces.
boots made to resist poison gas and
fur-lined boots for use in Alaska,
most of which are made in Nauga-
tuck, attracted the eye of many
who viewed the exhibit.
Life-saving suits, self-sealing gas
tanks, seven-man and one man life
RATS, plane tires, life belts, diving
suits, asbestos fire-flghting suits,
munitions, a variety of wires and
cables and many kinds of boots and
rubber footwear used by servicemen
and women comprise part of the
display.
Synthetics in the crude in tire
products are exhibited. Tires for
planps vary with a tire used for
landing on an aircraft carrier being
wider and able to stop more quickly
than the ordinary plane tire.
Borough and factory officials and
the press were shown the exhibit
Monday morning when 1t opened at
10 a. m. Throughout the day teach
ers, factory workers and others
viewed it. The exhibit continued to-
day and will also be on display to-
morrow from 10 a. m. to II p. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
PRISONER=OF=WAR
BULLETIN RECEIVED

Naugatuck, Nov. 23-MisS Edith
Steever, executive secretary has an
nounced the sixth prisoner -of-war
bulletin has been received by the To-
cal chapter of the American Red
Cross.
The bulletin has been distributed
to the Howard Whittemore Memoir
ial library, War Council Information
Center, the Red Cross chapter
house, the ark-Memorial library in
Bethany and the post office in Bea-
con Falls, where it may be referre3
TO.
Copies of the bulletin are sent tc
the registered next-of-kin of The
prisoners but others may refer to the
bulletin at the places mentioned.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Borough Funerals

Naugatuck, Nov. % Funeral
services for Matthew John Mata-
kits, a resident of Naugatuck 46
years, who died Sunday night in the
Hungerford hospital, Torrington,
will be held "Wednesday morning
from the Stokes Funeral Home, 694
Riverside street, Waterbury, at $50
o'clock to st. Joseph's church with
services at 10 a. m. Burial will be In
st. James cemetery, Naugautck.
Friends may call the funeral
home this evening from 7 to 10 p.
m.
Funeral services for Charles Leon
ard Anderson, well known business
man, who died at his home 375
Hillside avenue, Monday will be
held Wednesday at $3.50 at the Sa-
lem Lutheran church with Rev.
William R. Frendberg officiating.
Burial will be in Grove cemetery.
Friends may call this evening
from 7 to 9 D. m. at the Anderson
Funeral Home, 201 Meadow street.
Funeral services for Mrs. Gigne
Wedin, 60, widow of Theodore We
din of 1853 Ward street, will be held
Wednesday at p. M at her resi-
dence with Rev. William R. Frend-
berg, pastor of the Salem Lutheran
church, officiating. Burial will be in
Grove cemetery.
Friends may call at the residence
this evening after 7.
The funeral of Flight Officer
Rinaldi w. Sokoloski, 81, killed
Friday in a glider crash at the
Laurnburg- MaXton Army air base,
North Carolina, Nill be held Thurs
day at 8:15 a. m. from the Fitzgerald
funeral home, 80 North Main street.
A solemn high Mass will be cele-
brated at O'Clock at st. Marys
church and burial will be in ST..
James cemetery.
A flag draped caSket, containing
the body, arrived in Naugatuck at
1921 last night. Flight Officer Lieut.
G. Robb of Philadelphia, stationed
at the same field, accompanied the
body. He will remain until after
the funeral.
Military honors will be bestowed
on the young flight officer by a
squad from Bradley field. Lieut..
Robb is in charge of these arrange
ments. 1t is expected a delegation
of World War veterans from Maui
gatuck post, American Legion and
Crusader post, Veterans of Foreign
Wars will attend the funeral.
Flight Officer Sokoloski was the
fourth Naugatuck young man to die
during the present conflict. He is
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
AUDREY KERNER
Y.P.F. TREASURER

Naugatuck, Nov. 23-New Officers
of the Young Peoples Fellowship OF
the Congregations. church were
elected recently as follows: Treasur-
er, Audrey Kerner: membership
chairman, George Holden and pub
licity chairman. Anne Rehrendt.
Movies were shown at the meeting
Sunday evening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
ELMER SCHMTTZ
DANCE CHAIRMAN

Naugatuck, Nov. 23-The annual
Thanksgiving dance of the Hop
Brook country club will be held Sat-
urday at the Country club. Elmer
Schmitz is chairman of the arrange
ments committee.
Music will be furnished by Ernie
Cosman and his orchestra
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
MRS. HOLMBERG
SEAL CHAIRMAN

Naugatuck, Nov. 23-Mrs. Albert
w. Holmberg is chairman of the
37th annual Christmas seal Sale
which opened yesterday.
Seals wese mailed to all Nsuga-
tuck residents Saturday and were
delivered to homes yesterday.
The sale is conducted by the
Naugatuck chapter, American Red
Cross, affiliated with the Connec-
ticut tuberculosis association. As
sisting Mrs. Holmberg are: Mrs. J..
w. Woodward, Mrs. Milton Forde,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
c. G. REYNOLD s
PLAY DIRECTOR

Naugatuck, November %. - Miss
Cecilia G.. Reynolds was director
Of the program presented by Grads
of Rubber Avenue School recently.
The program was as follows:
Opening-1lag Salute
Poem-Uncle Sans Young Army
Song-God Bless America
Playlet-How Hartwen Learned to
Like Books
Superintendent of Schools -
Thomas Darmody
George-Joseph Rendeiro
Mother-Lorraine Woodside.
Mother Education-June Loyer
School Subjects:
Arithmetic-Jeam Borzino
History-RobertR ockhill
Language-Jan Kelly
.Geography-Shirley Miller
Spelling-Patricia Santore
Writirg-Lorraine Swanson
Reading-Robert Elkberg
Book Characters:
Jack in the acknowledgement
Hanley
Cinderella-Janet Petrucelli
The Tramp-Donald Canaperi
Golden Locks-Patty Crotty
Red Riding Hood-Donna Seller
Sonny Elephant = Mary Ann
Moesarko
Pinocchio-Anthony Martinez
Hiawatha-Donald Fairchild
Tom Sawver-,JameS McCann
John-John Miller
Billy-Dcmiric D. LaurenZio
Poem--If You Lived in a Book
Dorothy Jordon
Piano Solo-Donna Settler
Song-Bookland-Class
Poem-I Like a Book-Jacqueline
Hubbel
Star-Spangled Banner
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
CATHOLIC CLUB
PLANNING DANCE

Naugatuck, Nov. ga Christmas
dance will be sponsored by st.
Francis club in the latter part Of
December, it was decided recently,
The committee in charge includes:
Thomas Heating, chairman, William
Patterson. Francis Ruccio, Donald
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
TWO DAY SAND
DISTRIBUTION 81

Naugatuck, Nov. 23.-Borous
trucks will distribute sand Friday
on the east side and Saturday on
the west side, Warden Leo j. Brophy
announced today.
The sand is to be used by local
residents for icy sidewalks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
JEANETTE FUTILE
GIVES FUND $500

Naugatuck, Nov. 23-The Nauga-
tuck War Fund remains at 12,280
with no new donations reported to-
day. Many donations poured in
Monday in response to letter ap-
peal. A house-to-house canvass
started Monday.
Largest contribution in the latest
list announced by Milton S. Lent,
campaign chairman, is $500 from
Jeanette S. futile. The local
quota is $29,500.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23

Naugatuck, November %. = War instruments being
oade Naugatuck plants and other factories of the u S.
Rubber Company display in the Charles Good
year game of the local footwear plant Admission is
by invitation.
MANY of the several hundred persons who viewed the
varied exhibit Monday surprised by the wide range
var products made They ranged from "mukuks' boots
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Death REMOVES
CLARENCE HALL
California, Former BOr=
Ough Resident, Leaves
Wife, Two Daughters

Naugatuck, Nov. % - Word has
been received here of the death No
vember 10 of Clarence D. Hall. 76,
former Naugatuck resident, in Palo
Alto, Calf.
Mr.. Hall was born in Naugatuck,
the son of B. c. and Adelaide Smith
Hall. Although he left Naugatuck in
his youth, he returned later. He had
resided in California about 20 years
and in recent years was in the
building and real estate business.
He is survived by his wife, Grace;
two daughters, Anita and Katherine
all of California, and two brothers,
Attorney Louis H. Hall of New
York City and Edward G. Hall of
Naugatuck. Burial was in Palo Alto
Oil Burner Fire
An oil burner fire at the home of
Charles Gilbert. 496 North Main
street, was extinguished by fire.
men at p. m. Monday. Consider
able damage was caused by smoke.
Eagles Plan Party
The Naugatuck Aerie of Eagles
will hold its annual Christmas
party December 10Th, it was decided
at a meeting Monday night in K.
of G. hall. The party for children
of the borough, will probably be
held in K. of G. hall. Joseph Nc.
CURE, worthy president, is il
charge of preliminary arrange
ments.
| The society also decided to hol
series of dances or socials in tn
winter months to create com
munity spirit among new resident
here. The first dance will be hel
December f. AL Baukas heads tn
committee and assisting him are Ju
liam Stenejhen, George Rowbir
Jane Bontempo and Arthur Smith
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23

the first to die in the service to
be buried here.
The funeral home will be open
tonight from 7 to 10 and tomorrow
from 2 to 10 D. m.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
War Instruments Display PleaSeS

Narducci, william Dunn, Robert
Burns, Fred Radcliffe, Joseph Mad
den, Francis Schaffer, Ray Dowlingf
Robert Lynn, Thomas Leary, Jo-
seph Healy and John Cuddy.
Roy and William Loveridge gave
an exhibition Of fancy bag punch
ing and boxing, and William Lover
idge, Jr. assisted. The boys will meet
Dec. to hear talk on "Electronica
and Radar."
3 73 ARCH ST. Naugatuca
Rooms
F. Monzillo, $50 North Main. 3-5932
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Borough Briefs

Naugatuck, Nov. 23-Corp. and
Mrs Joseph Kaczkowski of Green
wood st., announce the birth of a
son. Joseph John "a, at st. Mary'S
hospital, Thursday, Nov. 10.
Payments to the Naugatuck
Building and Loan association for
November are now due. E. c. Ling
enheId, secretary, will re at his Of
flee this evening from to o'clock.
Pfc. william Schmelcke, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Herman Schmelcke of
North Main street, has been trans
ferred from Camp Breckenridge, KY,
to Camp Rucker, Ala.
Miss Gene Martin Of New York
city, spent the weekend with her
mother, Mrs. Thomas E. Martin of
Ward street.
There will be regular meeting of
Liberty Daughters of st. George
this evening at 8 in Goodyear hall.
There will be nomination and cleo
ton of officers.
Miss Jean Stinson, cadet nurse.
who recently underwent an opera
ton for appendicitis at the Bridge
port hospital, is convalescing at the
hcme of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harold Stins0n of Trowbridge place.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23
Rubber Company
Show Continues
Until omorrow
Wide Range Of Products Made By Company Surprises
First Day Audience; Guides Explain History OF Each
Article Shown; Borough Officials, Press Guests

Correspondent, Larry Shepley-Phone Naugatuck 3945
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-23

Mrs. Norman H. Wood, Mrs. Will
liam j. Rcsmer, Mrs. Chester Isbell
and Mrs. Seymour Squires.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
First WAC Contingent
Arrives in Britain
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
EIGHTH UNITED STATES AIR
FORCE ORIENTATION CENTER,
July 20.-WACS by the hundreds
the first feminine American expedi-
tionary force to Britain and repre-
setting every State in the Union-are
here, hard at work preparing to
give the 9th USAAF a helping
hand.
They will grease airplane motors,
plot weather maps. take over tele-
phone switchboards - the special
hate of men soldiers. They will
release men clerks and stenogra-
pliers for combat f-sustaining
they brought along their own cooks,
bakers and. laundresses.
The women soldiers are redheads,
blonds and brunettes varying in
age from girls in their 20's to
women in their 40's-one a mother
of six and also a grandmother of
six They were given a gala well
come when they recently arrived at
this orientation center for short
preliminary training before going
on duty.
From Col. Harvey H. Holland,
Silver Spring. Md, commanding
officer, bedecked with many medals.
Evening star., 1943-07-20

death rattle starting grindingly,
stopping and starting again in his
throat.
When the tank halted its fire
to take up a better vantage point,
the Japs slid out the back of the
pill box and started to run away.
There were II of them. They could
not be seen, but could be heard
thrashing and wallowing like ami
mails as they tried to force their
way through the brush.
The movement in the brush gave
them away. The tank let loose a
single long burst with a machine
gun, swung the gun like panora-
mic camera-and the thrashing
sounds stopped and the swaying and
shivering of the brush stopped. The
IL dead Japs, some lying sideways
and some on their backs and some
on their faces, formed almost a
straight diagonal line.
Those were the last Japs to run
from pill boxes. The rest stayed
and died inside them.
The battle ended in the middle
OF the afternoon, and as the sound
of 1t died and silence returned to
the jungle battlefield it seemed like
a sad, deeply moving painting. 1t
was toy battlefield, hardly more
than 500 yards wide. At the rear
of it litter bearers were working
their way slowly through the trees
over fallen logs, carrying their
melancholy burdens.
The boy with the top of his head
blown off was still alive and lay
very quietly, hardly breathing. A
chaplain sat silently beside him. his
prayer book in his hand. The boys
fingers were dead and his arms were
dead; his head. legs and hips were
dead. but his chest was still alive,
his heart beating frailly inside
Death was creeping up him and
down him and had gained all of him
except his chest, which still rose and
fell slightly.
A sergeant, leading corporal
called off the names of the dead as
he found them. He was crying
steadily as he talked big yellow tears
falling down his gray face. He called
out for each dead boy the nickname
by which he was known in life.
At the front of the battlefield the
winners lay exhausted. Some are
sleeping. some lay face down in the
mud as if dead, but those awake had
looks of hard-bitten triumph on
their faces as can come to man
only once in his lifetime. They had
won they were alive and unhurt,
and the victory they achieved made
the end of the whole campaign seem
only matter of days now.
tCopyright. 1a43, by North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc)
Evening star., 1943-07-20
FB| Probes Wreck
OF Munitions Train:
Ohio Town 'She|Ied'
By the Associated Press

by ITe Associated FTeSS~
MONROEVILLE, Ohio, July 90
Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents today sought the cause of
the derailment and explosion of a
munitions-laden Wheeling & Lake
Erie freight train which showered
this city of 1900 with shell frag-
ments and brought local civilian
defense workers into action to pro-
tect the citiZenry.
Train officials said one of three
"transients" seen riding the train
before the explosion was killed and
that another was missing and be-
lieved dead The only body found
was burned beyond recognition.
The explosion occurred late yes
terday when the munitions cars left
the tracks, dragging IA others along.
A series of rapid-fire explosions
followed, raining spent shell frag-
ments on the village. Civilian de-
fense officials said no damage re-
suited and residents were hurried
to shelter.
Firemen from Norwalk and other
nearby communities were stymied
by the intermittent blasts.
Fire spread to the other derailed
carriers and consumed nine cars of
crude oil. The blast tore up 500
feet of the w. q L. E. line. Debris
halted traffic temporarily on the
New York Centrals adjacent tracks.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Army Planes to Repeat
Night FLIGHTS Over D. G..

Army planes will repeat at uncer-
tain intervals the flight they made
just before midnight last night in
order to give the searchlight and
gun crews in Washington essential
practice, Army officials at Boiling
Field said today.
Citizens should not be alarmed,
they added, unless the AFRAID sig
nails are given. The flights in them
selves will not be sign of black
out, it was pointed out.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Immediate Postwar Plane Boom
Doubted by Aircraft Executive

war which would be able to use some
of the present fighting ships. Whole
new fleets of passenger and freight
fleets will be in demand for the
worlds air lines, he predicted.
Mr.. Woodhead cautioned those
who had visions of hundreds of
thousands of young pilots returning
from the war providing ready
made market for private planes.
The first thing the returning
pilots are going to do is look for
jobs" he said. Then each will want
to buy an automobile and after that,
when they are settled, they will want
a small plane for weekend use.
The small plane is coming into
its own. Thousands of them will be
built, but not the hundreds of thou
sands that so many people visualize. )"
Airplanes, he said, will not replace
trains, ships or the automobile, and
aircraft manufacturers will not find
automotive manufacturing profit
able.
Evening star., 1943-07-20
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, July 20.-Dont look
for an immediate sky-filling boom
in civilian aviation after the war,
but rather for preliminary recess
sion and feeling out" period, says
Harry Woodhead, president of Con-
solidated-Vultee Aircraft Corp.
Declaring that he was speaking as
"a production man." Mr.. Woodhead
told a group of Detroit automotive
and aircraft executives yesterday
that his company was deferring post
war plans now in the interest of
winning the war, "but we know that
the minute the present contracts
terminate there are going to be lots
of idle factories and machines" He
estimated 20 per cent of present pro-
duction would constitute "a good,
healthy postwar operation"
Most of the Army planes cannot
be converted to commercial use, he
said. but he expressed hope for an
international police force after the
Evening star., 1943-07-20
Births Reported

Edward and Eva Anderson. girl.
Harry and Theresa Bassford. girl.
Leon and Margaret Bocek, boy.
John and Margaret Boushka, boy
Steohen and Amy Bradhurst, boy.
Harry and Kathryn Brown, boy
Paul and Ida Callahan, girl.
Frank and Margaret Calure, boy.
langdon and Frances Carico. boy.
Frank and Hazel Czapanskiy. boy.
Thomas and Ruth Daniels, girl.
David and Florence Eddy. girl.
Rlchard and Louise Ensley, girl.
Luther and Dorothy Farley, girl.
Rex and Laura Gholson, boy
Owen and Lottie Gibson, girl
Wilbur and Madeline Glenn, girl.
Cecil and Annie Guest, boy.
Lewis and Edith Hallman, girl.
Wayne and Florence Holcombe, girl.
Herman and BesS Katz. girl
Raymond and Doris King. boy.
Eohert and Mary Kunde. BOY;
Walter and Ruth Merchant, sirl
William and Lea Mirabella, girl twin
Sam and Gladys Munson, boy
MOTIFS and Helen Nelson, boy.
James and Josephine Newton, boy.
Carroll and Alice Pittman. boy os
Louis and Merle Platt, boy.
Mlillam and Anita Reynolds, girl.
SharleS and Veronica Ryan, boy.
Fndnln' FT@GSlTick an ana rMaariore scheel girl
Allin and Helen Seward, boy.
Joseph and Janis Shubert, girl.
Harold and, Bessie Schultz. girl.
kerwyn and May Smith, girl
Maurice and Virginia Smith, girl.
Robert and Augusta Smith, girl.
Arnold and Dale Somerville, boy.
George and Wilma Souders, girl.
Seymour and Yetta Steiglitz, boy
Alfred and Pauline Suraci, girl
Walter and Anne Sylvester, girl
Clayton and Louise Whisenant, girl.
Thomas ard Lillian Bruno, girl,
John and Mary Duncan, boy.
Isabelle and Helen Frigillano, girl
William and Doris Gary boy.
Oswald dand Beryl Glymph, girl.
Allen and Eva Goodwin. girl.
Thomas and Juanlta Hall boy.
Robert and Catherine Harling, boy.
Fred and Mary Jackson. boy.
John and Myrtle jackson. boy.
Napoleon and Emma jenkins, boy.
Alfred and Helen Smart, girl
John and Rosetta Young. boy