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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-01-09

which withstood the shock success fully.
 %rhe third big quake of l927-- the Tango earthquake - occurred on the main island some 100 miles south of the 1891 quake. It caused horizontal slips amounting to eight feet and extending 50 miles in from the Sea of Japan. Only 5000 lives were lost since 1t was not a thickly- populated region.
 "Al these utiakes were surface quakes with visible surface effects. The main belt of Japanese quakes, however, runs along the Pacific side of the main island some distance offshore."
 Father Lynch added that one of the most dangerous effects of this group Cffshore is the huge water wave usually caused by the quake. He pointed out that at Sanriku, 8 small island offshore, these water waves caused 30O0O deaths in 1896 and 5000 in 1893.
 "Tormosa (Taiwan), the nuni- tions storehouse of Japan, has a belt of quakes cutting across the middle of the island" he said. 'Some 4,000 people were killed by a quake there in 1885, and destruc- tive quakes of first magnitude oc- cured there in 1920 and 1922" Averages One i'm 8 Years
 "Of the 56 greatest surface earth quakes of the world that have oc- cured since scientific recording of earthquakes began some 70 years ago, five have occurred in Japatl-- an average of one in eight years" the earthquake scientist declared. 'The Japan themselves in their official records for the years i905- 1885 list 19 QuakeS as severe, ar1 average of Q severe quake every 18 months.
 '"The last major earthquake in Japan was in 1883 when 5000 lives were lost. The quake of 1885 in For mosa was more disastrous from the viewpoint of lives lost (4,000). but 1t was not regarded as a major quake. l.S
 According to the law of aver ages, therefore, Japan should not be far from another serious quake" !"
 The deepest known quakes have all occurred on the equator in the Java Sea at a depth of 450 miles, according to Father Lynch. "They are not numerous and we are sure of only three in some fifty years of earthduake observing" he saids "As we come closer to the surface they become more numerous and are found farther and farther from the equator. There have been some twenty or more at a depth of 400 miles. Three of these have occurred in Jauanese territorial waters, but none in Japan proper.
 "Japan experiences two groups of uuakes: surface quakes and quakes at depths of 50 to 250 miles. There have been about 50 at the greater depth of 250 miles and some seventy 1 to 30 at the shallower depths up to 50 miles. Surface quakes have been legion in number"
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(ConClnueu rom Page D certificate a merchandise" value greater than its purchase price.
 Nugent proposed a 10 per cent dif- ferential to be made at the time of delivery. The dealer completing the sale would sacrifice part of his normal gross profit and obtain @ rebate from the manufacturer.
 The entire project would be ad- ministered by the Federal Reserve board which, according to Nugent, is fitted for the task because of its relative immunity from political pressures, and its decentrali1ed sys- tenn of administration.
 The plan envlsages the day when the once of Price Administration and the War Production Board are discontinued. When this happens. the reserve board would have re- sponsibility for issuing special pri- ority certificates as may appear fin the public interest and fixing max imuln wholesale and retail prices of goods covered by certificates to pre- vent post-war exploitation of pur- chasers.
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FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs. Anna R. Knapp will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. at the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue, Dr. John o. Walker offlciating. Burial at conven- fence of the family. Friends may call at the funeral home today from 7-9 o'clock.
 The funeral of William Colepaugh will be held today, at s p. m. at the Munson funeral home, Woodbury, in charge of King Solomon's lodge, Masons. Burial will be in North cemetery, Woodbury.
 The funeral of Biagio Cocchiola, 67 Branch street, was held today at 8:15 a. m. from the Colasanto fu- neral home, 932 Bank street, to St. Lucy's church at g. Burial was in Calvary cemetery.
 The funeral of Joseph E. Bolger, 181 Walnut street, will be held Mon- day at 8:I5 a. m. from the Mulviile funeral home, 270 West Main street, to the Church of the Immaculate Conception at 9. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery. The funeral home will be open today and tomorrow afternoons and evenings.
 The funeral of Mrs. Annie M. Clinkinbeard, widow of Hubbard T. Clinkinbeard, 8 Irving street, will be held this afternoon at 2:3O ct the Anderson funeral home, 70 Gen. tral avenue, Rev. Thomas ein- clair, pastor of All Souls church, ofnciating. Burial will be in old Pine Grove cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs. Bridget Mo- Cartty, 179 Willow street, will be held Monday at 8:15 a. m. from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street, to St. Margaret's church at g. Burial will be in new st. Joseph's cemetery. The funeral home will be open today and toe morrow, afternoon and evening.
 The funeral of Joseph P. Navlckas of 38 Green street win be held from the Mazaika Funeral Home, 70 Pcr- ter street. Time and other arrange ments are to be announced.
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tions. The waiter, noticing me, a foreigner, said there were no scales. But one grouser, who had been down in the kitchen during an air. raid one night had seen scales and could tell him where the scales were. So, reluctantly, the waiter produced the scales and the various portions were weighed. Each was exactly forty grammes. A little sirn- pie mathematics yields the result that in five months, the German meat ration of 800 grammes a week, had dropped to 160 grammes 8 week. I think 1t is not an eXaggerat.on to say that for the mass of the Ger man people, five months of war in Russia had cost them four-flfthS of their weekly meat ration!
 Other foodstuffs became worsc and less in stages. But the main constituent of the German diet, the very staff of German life, potatoes, disappeared with alarming sudden ness orc day in early autumn. This was the most serious deficiency of all. For potatoes are to Germans what bread is to Americans and spaghetti to Italians. Germans eat twice as many potatoes & year as Britons, and thrice as many as Americans. Throughout the en- tire war there had been a su- per-abundance of potatoes in Ger many. At the beginning of the war all restaurants were required to post little signs on their walls of- fering second and third helpings of potatoes, without extra charge, to patrons who felt they had not had enough to eat. That patrons took advantage of this arrangement is eYinced by an official statement
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ALLIED PLANES
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 The order revealed that Lieut.. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger coim- manded the United States ground forces in the campaign. He was Url- til recently superintendent of the Military Academy at West Point.
 MacArthur's coinmunique report. ed increased patrol activities around Sanananda Point, 2 1-2 miles from Buila on the north New Guinea coast, where the last tiny remnant of Japanese army of 15,000 picked men holds out, and said that 32 enemy troops had been killed yes- terday.
 In the third day of attack on the Japanese convoy bound for Lac, up the coast from Sanananda Point, Allied medium bombers sank the third of the four enemy troop trans ports and heavy bombers scored two direct hits on the fourth transports stern.
 Then fighter and attack bombers took up the attack. raking the land- ing beaches and installations at Lac with their cannon and machine guns.
 They saw fires start, explosions burst, and fleeing troops drop under their bombardment, and the com- muniqus said enemy troop losses were heavy.
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(Continued from Page ) (The point 1sM miles south of Montpelier is in the ocean, but Sete is about that distance south- west of Montpellier.)
 ''In the same telephone call the general was told that Gen. (Henri Honore) Giraud, (French commar- der in Africa) after careful prepar- ation of a plot in France, had boarded a foreign submarine ill the early morning of November 8 and joined the Americans in North Africa"
 Quoting well informed Vichy circles" Berlin said that before the Allied landings vichy had received a report on suspicious activities by Gen. Tassigny, who is said to have raised a small army of his own which consisted mainly of men well known in Montpelier and South France as ardent De Gaullists. This report will be used as evidence against Tassigny."
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BOYS IN
 THE SERVICE

Mcdonald, he is a graduate of Cros- by high school, Holy Cross College, and studied at the Georgetown Uni- versity Law School. He has been in the service since June, 1941.
 Bernhardt w. Erk, Jr., of 66 Chip. man street, who was commissioned an ensign in the U. s. Navy several months ago, started duties this week ct the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The son of Mir. and Mrs. B. w. Erk, he is a graduate of Crosby high school and Syracuse university.
 William Wesson of ST Columbia boulebard left yesterday for Nash. vile, Tenn, where he will start basic training as an aviation cadet. Others from the Waterbury area who were in the group, leaving from Fort DevenS, were: Hervey Setson of Watertow11, Joseph Edlnonds of Torrington, Ernest Fritz, Jr., of Litchfield, Paul Vibert of Unionville, and Paul Farrell of Bristol,
 
 Among the local men who are spending furloughs from the naval base at Newport, R. l., are:
 Carl O. Pearson, 1nachiniSt mate, second class, 238 Scott road; Jo- seph E. Schiaroli, 129 Blanchard street; Edward P. Graboski, 94A Buckingham street; Anthony Corbo, 142 Fairfield avenue; Daniel J. Leone1le, 73 Ward street: Alfred A. Marine, 151 Charles street; Frank A. DeRito, 174 Bridge street; George P. Clarity, i5l South street; Peter Sloboda, 60 Alder street; Ben- jarnin Bannick, 8 Hawkins street; Mark M. Lovallo, 13 Hopkins street; Albert Malagutti, IA Ridge street; Thomas W. Clarity, IS Fort Hill street, and Gordon L. Murphy, 66 Fairview street.
 Having completed basic training, they will be assigned for advanced study or to sea duty on their re- turn.
 Applications for enlistment in the U. s. Navy have been received at the local recruiting station from Louis Stefanelli, 20, of 394 Baldwin street, Eugene Barrere. g, of 8 Marley place, and Stephen Mastri- ano, 17, of 21 and 1-2 Union street.
 Stefaneli and Barrere applied for the "Seabees" construction unit and their applications for voluntary in- duction will be processed through their draft boards. Men between the ages of IS and 38 may apply for the "fix and fight" branch of the Navy.
 Raymond F. Axelby, IT, of Ply mouth, who applied at the local Navy recruiting station, has been enlisted at the New Haven head. quarters.
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Raymond c. Evans, seaman sec- ond class attached to the Gunners' Mate Training school at Newport, R. l., is spending a seven-day fur- lough at his home at $50 Hill street.
 The Navy needs officers for stevedore battalions, now being or ganized for duty outside continental United States, Third Naval District headquarters announced yesterday.
 Men up to 50 years old who are experienced in the handling of freight and general cargo are asked to apply at the Offlce of Naval Off, ficer Procurement, 33 Pine street, New York, N. Y. Those upstate may write or call at the branch office in the Liberty Bank Building, Buffalo, N. Y.
 If their qualifications are satis- factory, applicants will be accepted as commissioned officers or warrant officers. They will then be trained by the Navy before receiving overseas assignments.
 Those eligible include men who have worked as pier or steamship terminal superintendents and steam ships executives or junior execu- tives who are familiar with the load- ing and discharging of freight of all descriptions.
 Also urgently needed are hatch bosses, foremen, superintendents and triggers who are thoroughly familiar with cargo handling. The customary educational requirements may be waived in favor of practical experience.
 Everett C.. Winston of 10 Middle street has been promoted to staff sergeant at Fort Myers, Fla. where he recently completed course at the Army Air Forces Flexible Gun nery school. The son of MT. and Mrs. Guy B. Winston. he entered the service last May 29.
 Lieutenant Michael D. Sullivan, former curate at St. Paul's church in Kensington, is serving as an Army chaplain in North Africa. The son of Michael Sullivan of Torring- ton, he entered the service last May.
 Thomas Garrity, fireman third class, is spending 8 furlough with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Peter Garrity of IS Fort Hill avenue. He recently completed preliminary training at the Naval station at Newport, R. I. and will leave next week for the base at Great Lakes, III.
 Five local men who have enlisted in the Coast Guard will report for duty at the Springfield headquar- t:rs Monday. They are Raymond Cashin of Woodland street. William Curley of Washington street, Jo- seph Hyland of Baldwin street. Ed- ward Sugrue of Tracy avenue, and ] Robert Patrick of Pleasant street. Arthur M. Mcdonald of 1130 West Main street has been promoted from the rank of ensign to lieutenant, senior grade, in the U. s. Navy. He Is serving as commanding officer on a mine sweeper in the Atlantic.
 The son of MT. and Mrs. Arthur J.
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OBITUARY

HAWKYNS-Henry (Harry) Haw- kins, 73, of Woodbury died yesterday afternoon at the Waterbury hospital. A native of England, he was the son of the late Henry and Margaret (Kent) Hawkins.
 Mir. Hawkins was member of St. Johns Episcopal church, this city.
 He leaves @ son, Albert of Omaha, Neb., @ daughter, Mrs. Edith H. Har- rison of Waterbury, and 12 grand- children.
 One sister, Mrs. Margaret Nixon, of Nashua, N. H., four brothers, John Hawkins and Charles Hawkins of Schnectady, N. Y.: Thomas Hawkins of Derry, N. H., and William of L4- conia, N. H. Funeral services will be held Mon- day at II a. m. at Aldersor funeral home, 70, Central avenue, Rev. Fran cts o. Ayres, rector of St. Johns Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in new Pine Grove cemetery.
 Friends may call at the funeral home today and tomorrow between 2 and 9 p. m.
 KELSEY--Mrs. Florence, (Miller) Kelsey, wife of Irving Kelsey, of 25 Vermont Street, died last night at the Waterbury Hospital. A native of New Haven, she spent most of her life in this city.
 Mrs. Kelsey was a member of the Second Congregational Church.
 Besides her husband, she leaves Q son, Harold, of Camp Lee, Vir. ginia; 8 daughter, Mrs. Norman E. Kundee of this city; three grand children; a sister, Mrs. Ernest Barnes of West Haven.
 Funeral services will be held from the Anderson Funeral Home, 70 Central avenue. Time and other arrangements will be announced.
 ELLNOR = Mrs. Julia Ellnor, widow of Thomas F. Ellnor died thi3 morning at her home, 1l55 South Main Street, following 8 long ilness. A native of this city, she was the daughter of the late Ed ward and Mary (Moran) Horaa.
 Mrs. Ellnor lived in Waterbury all of her life, most of that time in the South End. She was a commun- icant of St. Francis Xavier Church, and a member of its Rosary Con- fraternity.
 Mrs. Ellnor leaves two daughters, Mrs. George Chatfield, and Mrs. Alex Fossbsnder.
 Funeral services will be held on Monday morning at 8:l5 o'clock from her home, 1155 South Main street to the Church of St. Francis Xavier at g o'clock. Burial will be in old St. Joseph's cemetery. Friends may call at her home, 1l55 South Main street, this evening and to-. morrow afternoon and evening. \
 HART--Mrs. Margaret (Curran) Hart, wife of James E. Hart, of 26S Woodtic road, died early this morn ing at St. Mary's hospital. A native of Ireland, she had been resident of this city for over 50 years.
 Besides her husband, Mrs. Hart leaves three daughters, Mrs. Olive Kennedy of this city; Mrs. LAuretta Seipel and Mrs. May Smith of Buff falo, N. r.: two sons. Charles and Harold Smith of this city.
 Funeral services will be held from the Anderson Funeral Home, 70 Central avenue. Time and other ar- engagements are to be announced.
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that consumption of potatoes has gone up about twenty per cent since the beginning of the war. Potatoes were, in short. the last and most re- liable line of reserve on which the food ministry always knew 1t could fall back; if all else failed there would always be enough of that item. But one day the unexpected happened, and there was not 8 sin- gle potato in all Berlin.
 POTATO CRISIS GANGS
 UP ON HITLER
 The potato crisis had but little to do with the Russian war. It was just another one of the many cir- cumstances that "ganged up'' against Hitler. The reason for the scarcity was not martial but meteorological. The summer of 1941 had been brief and unusually wet and autumn unusually cold. The incessant rains took @ heavy toll of the crop, then the early cold made 1t impossible to remove the potatoes from earth-pits to be transported to cities, for they would freeze before they could be moved, or before the pits could be closed again. The Nazis claim only about five per cent of the crop was lost, but the actual figure, according to my friend in the food ministry, was over thirty per cent.
 To housewives who had watched all their other shopping items dwin- de, the sudden disappearance of this one thing they thought they could always rely on was a severe shock. For almost two weeks there were no potatoes in Berlin. It was at this time that the government cut passenger schedules on the rail- ways and began using heated third class railway coaches for transport ing potatoes to consumption cen- ters. Even after this, however, sup plies were scanty and the quality of the potatoes bad, and ratiorl- cards for potatoes were introduced, something no German would have thought possiblel The government also issued an appeal to the people (and an order to restatirants) not to peel potatoes before boiling them. for this wasted fifteen per cent of each potato and served to intensity the scarcity.
 (Copyright, 1942, by Howard K. Smith. Distributed by United Fea- ture Syndicate, Incl
 MONDAY - Automatic prOhi-
 bition; against it's will, Germany
 takes to temperance.
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NOOutIluSu HUH EaSc II
 from the Lake Chad region. The dispatch admitted that the French were steadily attacking.
 A United Press dispatch from AL giers to Madrid said fresh supplies were en route to North Africa from Gibraltar. primarily to equip a French army of 5000 men or more. Most of these men are trained.
 Allied North African headquart- CTS reported limited patroling and offensive sweeps" by fighter planes in the northern Tunisian sector on Thursday. The Axis lost four planes in efforts to raid Allied objectives, and the Allies lost four in raids
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Three Villages Fall
 Into Russians Hands
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which goes to Budennovsk, 60 miles northeaStward.
 They were advancing up the right of the Caucasus railroad, and rap- idly clearing out the eastern half of the Caucasus, as well as up the main line. In drive on the right or eastern side of the Caucasus rail- road, the Russians captured 12 1n- habited places yesterday.
 Dispatches reported that the e1a- tire Georgievsk- -Budennovsk spur was now within range of Russian light artillery.
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PLAN
 BRINGING RESULTS

The transportation committee of the Waterbury Defense Council was told yesterday by L. T. Scott- Smith transportation administrator, that the stagger-hour plan in major lo- cal factories has already cut loads in buses at peak hours. Travel volume has been spread out much more evenly, he said.
 Acting Police Supt. Daniel J. Car- son said that the department will cooperate in enforcing the federal ban against pleasure driving.
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H' A' SMAAh ways In touch with trends in popular senti- tnent, interceded and protested that Aroaher official reduction would havs an extremely bad effect on
 nor.le and hasten the decline that had already set in.
 The solution to the meat problem was eventually settled by comprom- ise-and here we have another typ- ical Nazi solution" to 8 given prob lem. The cut would be made. But 1t, simply would not be announced. Appearances would thus be main- tained, and the two parties con- cerned satisfied; only the people were left out of consideration. So while there was no official an- nourcenent, less meat was delivered to butchers shops and to restau- rants. In restaurants, for a l00s gramine meat coupon, the chef siEff- ply dealt out an 80-gramme piece of meat.
 FOOD SUPPLIES
 DW1NDLE FAST
 But even this could not be main- tained. Food supplies were not, to use figure, walking down stair case; they were sliding down a chute, and a very slippery one. More reductions were introduced in the same manner, until they passed the limit of imperceptibility; until 1t became obvious that 1t was not the chef who was depriving :ou, but the government. Restaurants not only reduced the quantity of their servings, but in the first days of autumn began to run out of meat altogether before the end of serv- ing time. In order to maintain ap- l pearances, the Hotel Kaiserhof be gan the practice of issuing 8 menu with two meat dishes on 1t, when
 the kitchen actually could serve but one, Just before noon, the hour when law permitted serving to be-
 gin. the walters would simply visit each table and run a pencil mark through the second dish on the menu as though 1t had been avail able but too many orders had ex- hausted the supply. The Strategem 1 fooled at least half the clientele,
 that half which came after one O.
 clock and thus had no reason to
 doubt appearances. But knew one of the walters, seventy-year ar-old man who was mad at the Kaiserhof
 because the management wouldn't
 pension him off, and he told me.
 The poor butchers had no such siln-
 pie way out; they could only shrug
 their shoulders and point at empty counters when customers came in
 after the sell-out. The result of early sell-outs was that the rush
 hours gradually shifted up to mid day and finally to early morning
 when housewives gathered outside
 the shops before opening time.
 z Just before I left Berlin I had ar
 opportunity to make a statistical measurement of that stage in the
 progressive reductions. I was sitting with 8 group of correspondents and petty officials of the Propaganda Ministry in the Press Club on Leir Eiger Platz, where the healthiest 'a- tions in all Berlin were served. The
 meat course was served and the lit- tie officials set up their evening howl at the tiny blobs of meat or their plates. The size of the portions was actually a little better than the standard for all Berlin. But the bt:reaucrats demanded justice and scales. They would weigh the DOT
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area the Russians threatened envelop the German flank.
 10 Towns Cautured


 The midnight communique re- ported the capture of 10 towns and villages in the corridor between the railroad running west from Stalin- grad and the southern arm of the Don Bend, and the Russian troops freed as the result were available to strengthen the drive below the Don.
 Desperate German counter-at- tacks were reported along the lower Don. The Russians smashed them all and continued to advance.
 In the Caucasus the Russians were now 12 miles southwest of the Georgievsk railroad jupction. 275 miles southwest of Rostov, and only seven miles southeast of Buden- novsk.
 At Georgievsk the main Caucasus railroad connects with the spur
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Last Train from Berlin
 By HOWARD K. SMITH
INSTALLMENT VI. Meat And Potatoes

The effect supplies for the German home-front was immediate For the first two years of the war; the German meat ration had been 800 grameS per person per week. That amounts to about five steaks, little bigger than medumsze, each week At the beginning of the Russian campaign in June, 1941 the government announced the 8 reduction of meat rations to 400 grammes week