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days supply on hand and limited
retail sales TO half ton. Anthracite
is used mainly for home-heating
purposes.
The 10000 anthracite miners, al
though not covered by the UNIV
instructions after the last general
strike, were expected to join the
strike In protest against a WLB
ruling, which gave them 80 cents
a-day wage increase instead OF
their demanded So.
Hardest Hit
Hardest hit by the waikout were
West Virginia and western Penn
sylvania-an area which employees
more than half Of the nations
bituminous miners. In previous
strikes, West Virginia's 10000
workers and Pennsylvania $4,000
diggers have refused to enter the
pits.
In Alabama, steel operations al
ready were crippled and the heat
ing supplies OF Birmingham homes
and business houses curtailed by
wild-cat strike which started 10
days ago. About 10000 union
miners took part in the pre-dead-
line walkout and the states other
1000 UNIV workers were expected
to follow,
In the other leading coal pro-
ducing states, indications were that
the walkout would be complete,
These states were Kentucky with
IS, 900 miners; Ohio $4,000; virginia
10000; Illinois $4,000 and Indiana
$4,000,
Ickes disclosed at Washington
that as Of September ]. consumers
stockpiles OF coal were sufiieient
to last an average OF 20 days, Some
stockpiles were reported as low as
~ days for retail dealers. while
electric power utilities were re-
denim him on charges Of being anti.
Russian,
Repereusslons OF Detroits race
riot are major factor IN the
mayoFalty contest there where I'd,
J, Jeftrtes. non.partlsan incumbent.
ts opposed by Frank Fitzgerald, like
wise without party label but never
theleGS o Democrat, Ftxgerald's
election would DO considered q good
omen for the Democrats In 1914.
y. Lylter Donaldson, Democrat.
opposes Simeon 8. willis. Republic
can for governor OF Kentucky. The
state administration has been Dem.
ocratic since the tide turned ma
tionaily IN 1891. Members % con-
gress are 10 be- chosen In Penn
yivania's 2Srd and New YoEk's sand
distrietA.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-01
Full Weather Report

Boston. Nov. 1--(UP)-weather
forecasti
MASSACHUSETTS. CONNEC-
TICuT and RHODE ISLAND -
Continued cool tonight and Tues
day morning,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-01

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plan.
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-01
FIRST GAS USAGE

Natural gas was first used as q
luminant at Fredonia, N. Y, In 1924,
and the first natural gas corpora
ton was formed there In 1865.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-01
NOYOCAlN rOR SPRAIN

Army doctors have discovered
Novocain, in addition to being q
pain killer, provides rapid cure for
sprains as well.
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StroWS

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Hire Control

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Coal Strike
Nightmare

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Evening star., 1943-11-11
Judge Voids Conviction
|0f 9 in Medicine Theft
Py the Associated Press.

Py the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. l1.-Fed-
eral Judge Guy K. Bard yesterday
set aside the conviction Of doctor
and eight other men accused of con-
spiracy in the theft of $1,000 sui
fadiazine tablets destined for the
armed forces, on grounds that at the
time of the theft the tablets were
the property Of the manufacturing
company and did not belong to the
Government.
Granting a defense motion for a
new trial, Judge Bard said that
because of the failure of Congress
to amend the section (of the law
relating to receiving stolen prop
erty to include property being manu-
factured for the War and Navy De-
partments, verdict of guilty cam
not be sustained in Federal Court"
Defendants granted a new trial
were DR.. John Leonard Brill, q
physician; Sidney j. Nerves, Joseph
Softer, David Robert Vasper, David
Masters, Meyer J. Rosenfeld and
Jacob M. Berenbaum, all druggists
Irving Kramer, drug salesman, and
Anthony Frankina. truck driver.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
FBI Joins D. {. Police
In Hunt for Mystery
Film Talent Scout

Federal Bureau of Investigation
agents today joined District police
in a Nation wide search for q man
listed as Foster Smith who disap-
peared from the Statler Hotel, leav-
ing an unpaid bill, after duping
part of the entertainment world by
posing as talent scout for War;
ner Bros Film Corp.
Detective Sergt. John Luskey, who
is handling the case for Washing
ton police, said the mans real name
is believed to be Robert F. Walsh.
but that District authorities know
nothing of his background.
A warrant for Smiths arrest was
sworn out yesterday by Martin A..
Nichols, credit manager of the
Statler, in which the missing man
Evening star., 1943-11-11

organization Mr.. Smith" allegedly
represented never had heard of him,
and that three movie stars, Bette
Davis, John Garfield and Pat
O'Brien. who he said would be in
Washington last Sunday night ready
to begin work the following morn
ing on film entitled Capital
Capers," were still In Hollywood.
The show people involved UNI
happily remembered Mr.. Smith"
failed to pick UP the tab at any
place they visited in his company.
One Of the parties he maneuvered
the entertainers into giving involved
the expense Of some 200 chicken
dinners.
Evening star., 1943-11-11
New Navy Carrier Is Marvel Of Fighting Power,
Stqr Reporter on Overseas Test Cruise Relates

This is the first of series OF
articles couering actiuities aboard
one OF Uncle Sam'S aircraft car
riers, in the course OF a cruise
extending thousands OF miles. The
DeSSel t01S put through all OF
the eUolutions, n1neuDeTS and
drills her creD might use at any
time in defense against an enemy
assault or in an attack of its o,Un.
BY WILLIAM ]. WHEATLEY.
The writer has just completed a
voyage Of thousands of miles, and
to foreign shores, on one of the
newest and finest of the Navys air.
craft-carrying fleet. From the time
she stuck her prov INTO ocean waters
on her shake down cruise until she
returned to her port of departure,
she moved continually higher up the
ladder of fighting efficiency.
During this period of preparation
she operated under conditions ex-
pected in actual combat. She had
her screen of outriding warships,
for once clear of protecting home
harbors she was kept constantly on
the alert for attack.
The rapidity with which she
settled down to efficient battle rou-
tine was revelation of the ability
of American citizenry to readjust
themselves from civilian living to
the grim routine of technical war
fare.
Every Operation Tried.
During the operation the vessel
made an outstanding performance,
for she returned without loss of life
among her personnel. Her flying
complement, largely young men only
a few short months from the high
schools and colleges, took their fight
ing aircraft with constantly increas-
ing speed from her back, disappear
ing into the air for hours, and then
coming back to drop lightly again
The modern combat aircraft carrier,
alongside dock, appears like moth
ing more than great skyscraper,
but out in the great expanSes of
ocean water the flyers will tell you
that she appears like a mere dot
when they are on their homing runs.
Every evolution and operation
with which it might later be FACED !
was carried out. She was bombed"
"torpedoed' and 'strafed" with
dummy, water-filled heads, of course,
and likewise, returned the fire at
planes towing sleeves.
Mere Boys Form Crew.
Mere boys, for the most part, from
the farms, factories and cities form
her crew. Many Of them were new
to the Navy, and even to ships and
the sea. But they were eager to do
the tasks assinged them, and return
home.
Getting acquainted with the in
nards of vessel of such gigantic
Evening star., 1943-11-11

is accused Of cashing three checks
totaling $l,0o5 at the hotel and OF
failing to pay hotel bill of $237 43.
The lookout broadcast on the
police teletype last night described
him as about AZ years old, 5 feet
10 inches tall, weighing 160 pounds,
hazel eyes. dark hair, deformed left
leg that caused him to limp per-
ceptible, and highly nervous
Smith almost disrupted the "Sons
O. Fun" show at the National
Theater by promising to sign up
half the cast for a Hollywood
movie. He also painted an inviting
picture for the orchestra leader and
chorus at the Earle Theater, and
an act from a local night club.
promising to hire them, too.
He sent orchids daily to an actress
in the Sons O. Fun" cast, at the
Statler's expense.
The fraud was not discovered
until q check disclosed that the
Evening star., 1943-11-11

carrier, in addition to training for
these activities. there Is the opera
ton Of training hundreds Of men in
addition to preparing the planes for
combat flights, get them in the air
under the most adverse conditions.
take them back aboard, refuel and
rearm them and start them of
again.
All of these operations require
vastly greater technical apparatus
as we'll as greater numbers of tech
nicians to operate it than the more
conventional ship of the line. There
must be special crews for fueling,
for arming the planes with ex-
plosives, for maintaining the internal
combustion engines of thousands of
horsepower, for operating the land
ing gear, and even another system
Of communications in addition to
that for the ships operation.
Evening star., 1943-11-11

proportions as this great hulk of
steel is a task in itself, but it was
mastered in matter of days, as was
the operation of the machinery and
gear.
The time between commissioning
and joining the fleet is taken up
largely with drilling and organiza-
ton of the crew into a formidable,
woodworking fighting machine,
trained to handle the intricate ma
chinery and technical apparatus
with split-second accuracy to assure
victory.
Training for Hundreds.
Shading down an airplane carrier
to take her place with the fighting
forces is tremendously greater task
than that of getting other ships of
the line ready, such as battleships,
cruisers and destroyers. In the lat
ter there is only the task of training
the crew to operate the ship and
Evening star., 1943-11-11


past five years, also heard from her
nephew The letter came only few
hours before the War Department
notified her of his death. In it he
said he hoped he would never again
have to 60 through what he had
during the past few months. But he
also said he was glad his family was
backing him up and that he. was
proud to be fighting for them.
"If they get me-" he wrote, I'll
60 down fighting. We're a fighting
bunch
Pvt. Stike was hunter and he
said picking off Japs was "just like
hunting at home" After a year of
combat duty, he said, ote of the
best feelings he knew was to sen a
Jap plane plunging earthwar6 in
flames.
And there are lot of them fall
Ing around here" he said.
Pvt. Stike was born in Green
Cove, Va, where his father, the
Rev. c. L. Stike, is pastor of the
Baptist Church. He went to school
in Green Cove and spent two years
in CCC camp. While in Washing
ton he was employed by the Federal
Security Agency.
Two brothers are serving with the
Navy, CoxsWain Franklin Stike, 81,
and Arvel Stike, 10, fireman second
class.
His youngest brother, Roswell,
will be II on November 26. AS
soon as he heard of his brothers
death, his aunt said, he tried to
enlist TO pay back the Japs" The
Naval Research Laboratory, where
he works, refused to accept his res
tgnation, however, assuring him the
work he was doing there was as i'm
portant as anything he could do at
the front.
Evening star., 1943-11-11

only a fresh on
rush of tears. A
day or two before
she had been in
formed that Pvt.
Stike, %, h a d
been killed in
a c ction in the
Southwest Pa
cifc.
Mrs. Wayland
F a Iii 1921
Southern avenue
Sc, Pvt. Stike's
aunt, with whom
he had made his
Evening star., 1943-11-11
Virginia Girl Receives
RinqFromD. Soldier
Listed as Killed

Miss zenna Dolinger of Whitetop,
Va, found an engagement ring from
her flance, Pfc. William L. Stike of
Washington, in the morning mail,
Evening star., 1943-11-11

Keep on backing the attack with
your purchases of War bonds. Give
War bonds for Christmas.
Evening star., 1943-11-11

prepare it to give battle to enemy
air, surface and Subsurface forces.
But in first-line combatant
Evening star., 1943-11-11
BEST WATER
man CAN Drink

1t is frequently said Mountain
Valley is the worlds finest drink
ing water" We feel this is only
half Of it.
l. It is delicious to taste-not
carbonated, not laIdtiue.
2. 1t provides the body with pitdl
minerals.
3. It is mildly alkaline-tends to
Offset acidity.
4. 1t promotes kidney function
aids in treating Rheumatism
and Arthritis.
5. 1t is delivered to you just as it
flows at the springs in Hot
Springs, Arkansas.
Phone ME. 1862 for q ease
Mountain Valley Mineral Water
so4 18th St. NV. ME. 1867
Evening star., 1943-11-11

Keep OH backing the attack with
your purchases of War bonds. Give
War bonds for Christmas,
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Lost Subs
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Perch, overdue in the Java Sea; the
Grunion, overdue in the Pacific, and
the Argonaut. officially reported only
as overdue, but later disclosed in
dispatches from Australia as having
been sunk by enemy action south
east of New Guinea.
American submarines, for their
own losses, have run lup a formi-
dable score in their campaign of
attrition against Japanese ship
ping. The Navy has reported to
date 1859 enemy ships sunk in the
Pacific by American subs, q others
probably a sunk and A more
damaged.
Both the Amberjack and Gram
pus were fleet-type subs. The
Amberjack was launched in March,
1912, by the Electric Boat Co.. New
London, Conn. A 1,525ton vessel,
it was BOT feet long, was armed with
one 3-inch anti-aircraft gun, two
anti-aircraft machine guns and
ten 21-inch torpedo tubes, six at the
bow and four at the stern. The
ship was powered with Diesels and
had rated surface speed of 81
knots.
The Granpus was commissioned
in 194l and was Slightly smaller than
the Amberjack. 1t also was built by
the Electric Boat Co. Whereas the
Amberjack Was in the Cato class, the
Grampus was in the Tambor class
of l,475-ton submarines. 1t was 299
feet long and carried the same arma-
ment as the Amberjack. 1t likewise
had the same type of propulsion ma
chinery and a speed of 81 knots.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
.372 Held in Budapest;
War Minister Quits
Steps Toward Policy Of
Non-BeI|ieerency Seen
By the Associated Press.

oS INC hoooSldteo fTeSS.
BERN, Switzerland, June 12.-
The arrest of 372 persons in Buda-
pest and the resignation of Col
Gen. William Macy as Hungarian
minister of war were reported today
Swiss Telegraphic Agency re-
ports said the 372 persons had been
arrested Thursday and Friday,
after 125 first were taken into Gus
tody on suspicion of violating ma
tional security regulations.
Berlin reported that Admiral
Nicholas Horthy. regent OF Hun
gary. had accepted the resignation
of Gen. Macy and appointed Col.
Gen. Ludwig Won Csata, 81, to sue
ceed him. Csata, commander of
the Sd Hungarian Army since last
February, commanded the 5th Hun
garian Army Corps in Russia last
year, and took command of all
Hungarian troops there when Ool.
Gen. Won Jany was wounded.
The army shakeup was seen as
possibly step in Hungary's shift
from complete Axis collaboration to
a new policy of non-belligerency
Under this policy, Hungary was said
to have withdrawn from the Rus
friendships through which she might
keep annexed territories after the
war. Hungary still remains men,
Der of the Axis.
Private telephone communications
between cities in Hungary we're for
hidden today by the Minister OF
Commerce and Communications.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
All Guilty Face Penalties
In loot Suit Warfare
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June ia Gov-
ernor's committee inquiring into
widespread recent disorders involv-
ing juvenile gangs and servicemen
demanded today that the guilty be
punished, regardless of whether
they wear "zoot suits, police, Army
or Navy uniforms"
The committee, headed by State
Attorney Robert w. Kenny, said
that "the problem is one OF Amer
lean youth, not confined to any
racial group"
The wearers of zoot suits are
not necessarily persons of Mexican
descent, criminals or juveniles, ~
the committee continued. 1T is a
mistake to link the phrase 'zoot
suit with the reported crime"
The committee, summing up its
investigations to date, reported
there are approximately IS neigh
borhood gangs in Los Angeles,
many of whose members have
criminal records"
Some of the members Of these
gangs wear zoot suits; others do
not" the committee said. Some
are Mexican, some are Negro and
some are Anglo American; that is,
they include all types or classifi-
cations of youth"
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Allied Flyers Damage
.2,000-Ton Jap Ship,
Destroy 6 F|oatp|anes
a Raiders Over Mondono
Fight OFF 20 Zeros,
Downing One Of Them
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Sunday, June ia
Liberator damaged 2,O00-ton jap
anese cargo ship yesterday of Kai-
mana, Dutch New Guinea, the high
command announced in todays noon
communique.
Long range fighters destroyed six
japanese f1oatplanes at their moor
ings in an attack on the Aroe
Islands. Two others were damaged
and one was shot down trying to
intercept the Allied raiders.
Four Allied raiders over Madang,
New Guinea, were swarmed on by 20
Zeros, but fought them of, downing
one. Another Of the 20 was listed
as probably destroyed.
The Allied planes in the Madang
action were Lightnings (P-38s).
To the west of the action against
the float planes on the Aroes, big
Allied bombers attacked the air
drome of Langgoer on the Kai Is
lands. Eight enemy fighters at
tempted interception and one was
believed to have been destroyed.
On Dutch Timor, Koepang. which
on Friday was set ablaze In
heavy raid in which ~ tons of
bombs were dropped, was visited by
medium bombers yesterday. They
attacked the Penfoei airdrome.
Over Dutch New Guinea, in ad-
dition to the bombing Of the cargo
ship, the airdrome at Nabire was
attacked. In the attack on the
cargo ship. 500-pound bombs fell
within 20 feet of the ships hull,
badly damaging it,
In the northeastern sector, the
airdrome at Cape Gloucester, South
ern New Britain, was raided.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Lompedusu
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Three of our aircraft are missing" >"
(Although it had been regarded
as obvious that Lampedusa was
doomed as soon as Pantelleria
fell, the speed with which the
Allies moved in to take over the
airport base was believed to be
evidence of their determination
to carry the assault swiftly and
relentlessly against Italy's main
coastal defenses.
In London, unofficial sources
expressed the belief that Sardinia
would be next. They pointed out -
that although it does not afford
a concentrated target for the air
and naval battering which caused
the smaller islands to give up, it
Is beyond the defensive range of
the Axis unless Italy's harbored
fleet ventures into actionD
Lampedusa is $50 miles south of
Sicily and 100 miles west of Malta.
1t has been cut off for weeks bv
Allied air and naval control of the
surrounding waters.
Although Allied air attacks re-
Gently have kept the Axis from using
Lampedusa's air base, motor torpedo
boats and submarines have used it's
harbors to menace the Allied sealane
through the Sicilian Strait.
No Losses in Landing.
1t was disclosed that the fortifi-
cations and garrison at Lampedusa
old not compare in strength with
those at Pantelleria, which capitu-
lated yesterday in the goth day of
terrifying assault from air and rea
1t was officially announced also
that not a single soldier was lost
When units of the veteran British
lst Army swarmed ashore on Pan
telleria yesterday after its bomb
dazed garrison had surrendered
This refuted German claims that
an attack by so to so Nazi dive
bombers at the climax of the occu-
patton had sunk an 8,000-ton Allied
troop transport and IL landing
boats and done serious damage to
several British warships. Fourteen
OF the attacking dive bombers were
destroyed by alert American fight
ers covering the movement.
1t was pointed out that possess
sion of Pantelleria's airdrome places
all Sicily within easy operational
range of the Allied fighter fleet
and that from now on fighter planes
will be accompanying Allied bomb
ers IN their raids on the big island
situated of the toe of the Italian
mainland.
The air field at Reggie Calabria
Italian mainland post just across
the narrow strait of Messina from
Sicily, was blasted by Raj heavy
bombers Thursday night, a few
hours before the surrender of Pan
telleria, the Middle East Air Com
mand disclosed today in Cairo.
The bombers hit a base which
otherwise could have been used by
enemy planes to interfere with the
occupation of Pantelleria the fol-
lowing day.
Several fires were started on the
airdrome. mainly in the hangar
area, . communiQue said.
Evening star., 1943-06-13
Child Health Clinics
Will Give $1,000
Combined Serum
Agent Will Immunize
Against Diphtherio
And Whooping Cough

Adoption Of combined diph-
liberia -whopping cough immunizing
agent to be administered to children
attending the municipal child health
clinics was announced last night by
Health Officer George C. Ruhland.
He estimated that $1,000 children
of pre-school age registered with the
Health Department would be i'm
munized against whooping cough as
we'll as diphtheria during this sum-
mer.
The combined inlmunizing agent
is designed to protect the child si-
multaneously against the two dis
eases. The new agent is administered
in three doses. one month apart, and
the usual procedure would be to give
the immunization to a child when 1t
is between and 7 months old. DR..
Rutland said. A booster" dose
would be given again before the
child enters school to build up ad-
ditional protection against the dis
eases.
The department reports there have
been no deaths so far this year in
the District from diphtheria, but
that the Whooping cough record was
not SO favorable. For the first six
months of this year there were 533
cases Of whooping cough and IA
deaths, Last year for the same
period there were 474 cases and nine
deaths.
Children under school age whose
diphtheria immunization has been
completed may receive the whoop-
ing cough vaccine separately, DR..
Rutland said, advising that this be
done as soon as possible after the
child reaches the age of seven
months.
The tuberculin skin test, DR.. Ruh-
land added, is being continued as
a routine for pre-shool children, as