The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-05-11

Fort DeS Moines, Iowa, May II -
Belmira M. Silva of TIA Mill street,
Waterbury, Conn, was member of
a Women's Army Auxiliary Corps
unit which left First WAAC Train
ing Center here recently for duty
with the Army at Mariana, Ariz.
WAC units now are at work
with the Army in more than 20
states and overseas.
The expanded training program
of the WAC is resulting in the re-
placement of trained man power by
trained woman power in non-com-
Blatant Army jobs week by week.
Hundreds go out weekly from Fort
Des Moines and from the other four
WAAC training centerS and several
specialist schools to take their
places with the Army.
WAAC companies on duty with
the Army are self sufficient. They
include women trained to do the
jobs for which the Army has re-
quested them at each post, camp
and station and in addition include
mess and company personnel for
the WAC companies.
Jobs with the Army in which SOL
diers can be replaced by WAACs
now number we'll over 100, ranging
alphabetically from accounting to
weather observing.
New York, N. Y, May 11.-Elmer
L. Baxter, "a, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Chester A. Baxter LOG Eden street,
Waterbury, Conn, was commission
ed a second lieutenant in the Army
Air Forces this week during cere-
monies which marked the end of an
intensive course in meteorology
taught at New York University
College of Engineers under the di-
rection of the Army Air Forces
Technical Training Command.
During the three-quarter year
course in military weather forecast
ing, Lieutenant Baxter, and other
graduates in his class learned to
shoulder the responsibility of pro-
viding Army Air Forces pilots with
accurate weather information.
BY the use of modern equipment
and latest scientific methods these
weathermen of the AAF will give
eyes beyond the horizon to flyers
who must brave an conditions to hit
the enemy wherever and whenever
| they find him"
Lieutenant Baxter. who was ad-
mitted TO advanced meteorology
training because Of his college back
ground of mathematics and physics,
graduated from Crosby high school,
Waterbury, in 1886 and attended
Colby College. Waterville, Me. He
was employed in Hartford as an
actuarial clerk for the Travellers In
surance Company before he enlisted
in the AAF
Word has been received that Pri-
vate First Class Ernest Monroe,
son of Mrs. Lillian Monroe of 80
Woodward avenue, is stationed with
the Army Signal Corps in North
Africa. He is a graduate of Leaven-
worth high school and was en-
ployed at Post Motor Lines when
he entered the service a year ago.
Before being assigned to his over
seas post, Private First Glass Mon
roe was stationed at Fort Mon
mouth, N. j. His brother, Henry, is
with the Navy as an apprentice
seaman at Sampson, N. Y.
Private Nunzio Ricciuti is with an
Army Ordnance unit at Yuma, Ariz
He is the son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Louis
Ricciuti of So Dikeman street.
Having entered the service two
weeks ago. Victor ]. Polidori, son OF
Mrs. Filomena Dalsandro OF "a
Sumac street has been reported sta
toned as an apprentice seaman at
Newport, r. I. Three other sons OF
Mrs. Dalsandro are also serving
their country They are Anthony
Patrick Mucci of the Navy. and Fred
Mucci and Mario Mucci of the Army
Sergeant Albert M Schiavone,
son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Albert J, Schia-
vone OF 1853 East Main street, re-
Gently completed an advanced
training course at Camp Murphy,
Fla, where he had been stationed