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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
WATCH PRESENTED
FRANCIS X. MOSS
Local Unit of State Guards
HOnOrs Member Joining
Armed Forces

Company E, Connecticut State
Guard, presented Francis x. Moss
with wrist watch last night at a
testimonial dinner at Sossins restau-
Mr.. Moss enters the Army on Nov
16.
Lieut.. Col Peter E. Fox made the
presentation Captain Howard S
Hickcox, commander was toastmas-
ter.
Among the invited guests were:
Rev. Roger 3. T. Anderson, Maj
Peter Costigan, Capt. Dillon, Lieut.
Donald Macdonald, James ODon-
nell, superintendent CT the state
armory. and Capt. Douglas Little
OF Co. H, Torrington.
Charles Melville, Louis DuMont
and Richard Clark, former mem.
bers of Co. E, furnished the music
F'enton Niver of the board Of alder
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
WHERE ARE THE MARINES?
ON THEIR WAY TO TOKYO
BY PETER EDISON
NEA staff Correspondent

Washington. Nov. 10 The CLAM
or bows of World War / were the
Marines. and in some quarters there
was even a belief that the Leather
necks actually won It, with only
minor assistance from the dough
boys. This time it's little different.
Ii some theaters of war you can
even ask. Where ARE the Marines?
without having a bunch OF them
iump out from behind a door.
They've been conspiciously abb
sent from the Atlantic. from Al
RIGA, Sicily. italy, the Middle East
India, China ard Alaska. Tney
may be missing when the long
promised offensive is opened in q
second front against Germany.
But there are indications that they
nav be headed for the big often
sive against Japan. In the Pacific
heavy fighting to date, you can
watch for them to maintain their
heroic traditions and write Sun
other verses though they didn't get
a lock in on the shores OF Trlpoll
this past year.
III any case. the Marines-who
are celebrating the l63 anniversary
of the founding OF the Corps on
November 10-claim to have their
situation well in hand even If they
aren't mentioned in every communi-
que every day. from ever" front.
MARINES ARE FIRST
For example. who IS teaching the
Army and the Navy all they know
about this amphibious warfare?
why, the Marines-who invented
the stuff.
Who are the American Comman-
dos? The Marines again, in the
Raider attachments commanded b.
Lieut.. Col. Merritt A. Edison and
Lieut.. Col. Evans Carlson, whose
men have to know why they're
fighting as we'll as how. And don't
call EN- Commands, either. They're
Raiders.
Who sank the first Jap bat-leshir
In World War II? 1t was Marine
aviator. as you may suspect, at
Wake Island.
Who is the first ace OF this war?
A Marine aviator Major Joe tost
OF Guadalcanal fame, who shoi
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

Aboard the U. S. S. Hornet at the
lime of its attack, Commander f. B.
Harp, Jr., u. ). Navy, will relate
some interesting experiences TO
workers of the American Metal Hose
Branch OF the American Brass
Company and their families at the
waterbury Women's Club Saturday
evening.
One of the last men to abandon
ship, when in october 1912 the car
rier met its fate at the hands OF
Jap attackers, Commander Harp
was aboard from the date OF us
commissioning October TO- l94l.
The chaplain, born in Hagsers-
town. Mo. in 1908, attended FRANK
lin and Marshall College in Lancas-
ter. Pa. ard received his B. A. de-
gree in 1925. Three years later he
became Doctor Of Divinity, obtain
ing this degree from the Reformed
Theological Seminary, also in Lam
| caster.
Entering the United States Navy
in 1928. Chaplain Harp is now IN
his fifteenth year Of service. For a
time he was associate chaplain al
the Naval Academy, Annapolis
Mo. and later was attached to a
destroyer squadron in China. Al
the outbreak OF the war between
China and Japan he was based al
Pekin.
Upon returning from his Horne'
assignment Commander Harp was
made executive officer Of the Navy
! Chaplains School, serving in TINS
) capacity seven or eight months. Al
present he is senior chaplain at the
U. S. Naval Hospital, st. Adams
Long Island, New York.
Sharing honors with Commandel
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

first two lieutenant generals in his
tory-Commandant Thomas Hol-
comb and Alexander A. Vandegrift.
Marine action thus far in the war
has been confined entirely % the
Pacific theater of operations, which
is largely Navy show. On Novem-
be- 2, the green-clad scrappers
s%ermed ashore on Bougainville Is
land and now are battling for this
last Jap stronghold in the Solomons.
FOUGHT IN PHILIPPINES
At Corregidor and Bataan, 1900
officers and men Of the Fourth
Marines fought that five months
losing battle. Practically all of those
not killed in action are believed to
have been captured, but few are
known to have escaped into the hills
and may even now be leading guer-
rilla bands against the Japs.
At Wake Island there was another
tragic Marines loss, when Major
James P. S. Devereux's little band
of 400 defenders was wiped out and
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
S.Hornet Chaplain
Speaks Here Saturday
Survivor OF Japanese Bomber Attack to Relate Ex-
periences; Tokyo Bomber Guest OF Am. Metal Hose

Harp on the American Metal Hose
Rolly program will be Major f. w.
Holstrom of the All Corps, who with
Major General Jimmy Doolittle
bombed Tokyo in April, 1912. Major
Holstrom, according to the book -
Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, was
the third to take off the aircraft
carrier Hornet on that historical
mission.
The entire rally IS sponsored by
the Metal Hose Companys labor
management committee and a mo
ton picture - THE Life and Death
OF the Hoinet'-will graphically
portray a portion of the evenings
principal topic. Dancing will con-
clude this elaborate program and
proceeds CT the event will go to the
military benefit furd set up for
employees Of the branch in the armed
? services.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

Here's story Of "Bouch', the UNI
dependable or the indispensable
Seabee of Algiers, Telnis and all
nearby battle stations Of the Afri-
can sector. He sells the fighting
gobs and builders beer, razor blades,
smokes and whatnot, but sometimes
his importance to the Seabees as a
morale builder" is not limited to
his salesman ability. AS matter
Of fact the official paper of his
outfit now in Africa refers to him
as Beatrice Fairfax. He advices the
love -smitten' Seabees and gives
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
PUBLIC SPEAKERS
IN VARIOUS TOPICS

An address by Thomas P. Ashton
covering the subject Of the torpedo
as war weapon was the highlight
of last nights monthly meeting of
the Waterbury Public Speaking Club
at the Y. M. c. A.
Fred A. Steward also discussed his
experiences as member of the
club while Mrs. Stephen Star spoke
on the "Glamor of War. About IS
attended.
Plans for the clubs Christmas
party, December IA, were discussed
at business meeting proceeding
the talks. Paul Egan was chairman.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

them George Washington's advice
on foreign entanglements'.
'Bouch' is our former fellow citi'
zen Cleo Bouchard, who Is serving
with a Seabee in Africa. He Is 9
veteran of World War No. I, has q
son in active naval service and hi'
wife not content with directing &C.
tivites on the home front is an en-
ergetic war worker at the Scovil
Manufacturing Company. Yes sir
the Bouchards are doing their BIZ
for victory in big way.
Here's the story as printed in the
"Sealines", official paper of the Sea
bees with their own headline or
page one:
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
CRISIS LOOMS in
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
League of Women Voters
Launches Nationwide
Educational Campaign

The board OF directors OF the Ma
tional League of Women Voters will
meet in Washington for q week,
beginning November Is, to make
plans to carry on the leagues ma
ton wide effort to reach people
one by one with conversation Oh
international cooperation.
Because it believes that a crisis
on our country's part in faShioning
the world after the war Is fast APP
preaching, the National League OF
Women Voters has added sixth
day to It's customary five days OF
November meetings. according to
Marguerite M. Wells, president OF
the league.
While the senate struggles" Miss
Wells said today, Ito Stiffen its
members TO meet the postwar crisis,
the League of Women Voters has
undertaken to help stiffen the people.
Sixty thousand men and women I'M
der league leadership have set out
TO reach millions Of citizens in
dividually, person to person, not
to propagandiZe but to help them
lay aside doubts and fear and for
tify them for the time when the
fateful choice will be made. The
will to find a way to collaborate,
whatever the difficulties and doubts.
will determine the choice people
make, for when there is q will, there
is q way
Mrs. r. T. II. Halsey OF New Ha-
ven, former president of the Con-
necticut league, is secretary Of the
board, and Mrs. Harris T. Baldwin
of Washington D. c., whose first
hand knowledge Of legislative work
in congress made SO interesting Iler
recent speech in Hartford, given
before the council meeting of the
Connecticut league, is first pres
ident. Massachusetts, New York,
Illinois, Minnesota, Texas, Missouri,
Michigan, Indiana ard Iowa arc
also represented on the board.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10
ELECTRoPLATED BUTTONS

The honorable discharge button
soon to be issued to eX-members OF
the U. S. AIMED sevices will have a
specially teated plastic base so that
& thin layer of silver and then gold
may be electoplated onto 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

An eagle with a wing spread Of
seven feet was caught by both feet
recently In a rabbit trap at Yolla,
Tasmania.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-10

men addressed the group.
The committee in charge IN
cluded Chairman Aldred Drexler
Vernon Peacock and Anthony Thi-
bault.
Evening star., 1943-04-04

York for years. "Mais oui, lie con-
gress," they said, still uncompre-
hending, even when it was explained
to them.
They were bound for Fort Ben
ming, Ga, After short course there
they will be transported to North
Africa to act as liaison officers be-
tween the forces of Gen. Giraud and
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
They included a sports writer for
a New York newspaper chef from
a New York hotel, a former editor
of a French magazine, an attorney
from one of New York's biggest law
firms, military aerial photographer
who had been over the German lines
in 1910 and others.
One officer joined them in WASH
ington. The names of the officers
were not disclosed because they have
relatives in Nazi-held France.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Civilian War Service,
Fund Measure Sent
To Budget Bureau
Hope Voiced for Passage
In Time to Meet
PoyrolI April IS

Legislation to provide funds I'M
der the Blackout Act and to in
clude Civilian War Services in the
Department of Civilian Defense has
been sent from the Corporation
Counsels Once to the Budget Bu-
reau, Clarence A. Aspinwall, chair
man of the Executive Committee
of Civilian War Services, said yes
terday.
March 81 was the expiration date
Of the ALLEGATION of funds from the
Community War Fund for the CEN
trail office, 1924 F street NV. Mr.
Aspinwall said he was hoping for
the passage Of the legislation 80 that
the pay roll could be met April IS.
The War Services Division, for
merly the Civilian Mobilization Di-
vision, suggested on March 8 a total
budget of 500, ,480, including $35, ZOO
for a contingent reserve fund to
meet staff or supply needs. which
the Board Of Commissioners later
disapproved on the ground that a
contingent reserve fund could not
be allowed under District budget
procedure.
Will Suggest Director.
Mr.. Aspinwall has informed the
Commissioners that the committee
will suggest an executive director
to be in charge of civilian war serv-
ice, who will be responsible to the
Executive Committee and to the
Commissioners through the director
of civilian defense. The director
will also serve as member of the
Advisory Board of the Department
Of Civilian Defense.
There has been no nomination
yet" Mr. Aspinwall said.
He said that "the executive COM
mittee will continue to function in
an advisory capacity to the director
of Civilian Defense and the Board
OF Commissioners on all matters
pertaining to Civilian War Services
activities only.
1T will review all Civilian War
Services programs" he added, land
will submit appropriate recommen-
dations for their coordination with
existing community activities other
than those of the protective serv-
ices"
A summary of part of the recon-
mendations on policy and admin
istration Of the Civilian War Serv-
ices program, approved last month
by the Commissioners, follows:
l. That the Commissioners an
nounce that the name OF Civilian
Mobilization Division be changed to
Civilian War Services and that the
organization be established for the
dura ton of the war only to meet
war needs and to provide the civilian
services necessary to the war ef-
fort
Two Departments Proposed.
2. That Civilian War Services
operate according to the proposed
organization chart through two de-
partments-war program planning
department and area orgaization de-
partment.
3. That in the planning depart
ment, each war program, whether
federally or locally sponsored, shall
Evening star., 1943-04-04

War bonds make bombers to bomb
the Axis and lower our taxes. Why
not buy some and help yourself?
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Two Destroyer Escorts
Launched at Philadelphia
y the Associated Press.

oy tIC hSsONihlcu 1Tceo.
PHILADELPHIA, April 3.-Two
more weapons for use in the battle
against Axis submarines, the de-
stroyer escorts Scott and Burke,
slid down the ways in twin launch
ing at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
today.
The two ships. latest Of new type
OF fast. hard hitting naval craft, are
OF 1900 tons displacement and ap-
proximately 300 feet long by IS feet
wide. They will be powered by
turco-electric drive and will be
faster than corvettes but slower than
destroyers.
Equipped with light and heavy
caliber guns, anti-aircraft guns and
depth charges the ships will be able
to battle it out with submarines on
the surface if necessary.
Admiral Milo F. Draemel, COM
mandant of the Philadelphia Navy
Yard, speaking at the launching
said that many of our merchant
marine vessels are being sunk now
and many more will be sunk this
spring. Our most urgent need is
for better protection for our mer-
chant marine with just such vessels
as these"
Evening star., 1943-04-04

be reviewed and planned in CO.
ordination with existing community
activities, and the responsibility for
carrying out the program deter
mined
4. That the area organization de-
partment shall be responsible for
the channeling and effective or
ganization of each of the war pro-
grams in the area for the organ
ization and conduct of the block
leader corps.
Under the plan, the Council of
Social Agencies, as corporate VOL
unteer, has been requested to be
responsible for the planning and di-
rection Of those activities concerned
with wartime health and welfare
needs as part of the War Program
Planning Department.
Meetings Would Be Held.
If this arrangement is ap-
proved" the recommendations add
ed, "the executive secretary of the
Council of Social Agencies shall be
invited to meet with the Executive
Committee of Civilian War Services,
and, similarly, the chairman of the
Executive Committee shall meet
with the board of the Council of
Social Agencies to insure effective
use of all existing Council of Social
Agencies services"
Under the organizational chart for
Civilian War Services, the program
planning department, with an exec
utive secretary, includes such war
time welfare services as child care
and protection, family security,
health and cooperation with neigh
borhood councils, as we'll as con-
sumner education, nutrition, victory
gardens, war housing, war hospi-
tallty and war transportation.
The area organization depart
ment, with an executive secretary,
Is designed to have 13 regional
branch offices with volunteer chair
men, volunteer area war services
chairmen in &c civilian defense areas
and volunteer block leader corps.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
DC. Laws Force 40 Frenchmen
To Drink to Giruud Sittinq Down

Forty French officers on their way
to join Gen. Henri Honore Giraud
in North Africa encountered diff
Guilty with Washington's drinking
regulations at Union Station yester-
day.
Gathered in a station restaurant
with cocktails in hand, they stood as
one man when Col. Albert Jean Paul
LIE Bel of Gen. Giraud's Washington
staff rose and gave the toast, "Sante,
La Belle France"
Then, it seemed like every one of
the mattresses descended on them at
once. Its against the rules" they
protested. you mustn't drink stand
ing up
The officers meekly sat down and
asked puzzled questions of one an
other. What was wrong?' Most
of them had been living In New
Evening star., 1943-04-04
jap Prisoner Hoax
Revealed by Australian

The man who was not a prisoner
OF war has called Japan's bluff and
disclosed a false propaganda move
by Toxic radio. T. S. Power of sgd
ney, described in broadcast as a
prisoner of war in Java, reported to
Australian authorities that he is
safe in Sydney, is the only Mr..
Power on Lynch avenue and that
his war service was in the previous
war, as he is now too old to serve.
Mr.. Power said he believed Japs
werc haphazardly picking names
from telephone books for use in their
prisoner broadcasts.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
The Welcome Sign Is Out:

Now and then you hear a remark
that Washington is cold town
howard strangers. We hope the
thousands of newcomers who
ride with us day by day don't feel
that way about US. We certainly
don't feel that way toward you;
not by jugful. We know some
Of the problems strangers are up
against. Many of them we can
do little or nothing to solve. But
we are trying always to help all
we can to make the time YOU
spend as our guests as pleasant as
possible under extraordinary con.
ditions.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Room Racket Suspect
Demands Jury Trial

Charged by police with fleeing
residents here in room racket
scheme, Walter F. Horton, 43, COL
ored. 1900 block of Fourth street
NV, pleaded not guilty in NUM-
cipal Court yesterday on 10 false
pretense charges. He demanded a
jury trial, which was set for Thurs
day by Judge Almond Scott.
According to Assistant United
States Attorney Sylvan Schwartz
Horton, posing as owner or agent
of a building, obtained deposits
ranging from $40 to $40 from per-
sons seeking rooms or apartments
when the lodgings already were
occupied.
Evening star., 1943-04-04

Put your pocketbo0k on the offen-
sive. Buy War bonds now.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Jewish War Veterans
To Hear Senator TunneI|

Senator Tunnel, Democrat, OF
Delaware will address Washington
Post So, Jewish War Veterans, and
its auxiliary at an Army Day cele-
bration at pm. Tuesday at the
Jewish Community Center
A broadcast. sponsored by the ma
tional orga<zation of Jewish War
Veterans. will be made from the
meeting over the Mutual network at
10:45 pm. Comdr Irwin M. Gems
berg will preside for the post and
President Hattie Dorfman will pre-
side for the auxiliary.
Speakers Will include 1t. Alan
Rothenberg, U. S. NJ, who received
Evening star., 1943-04-04
New Bridge Delayed

SANDY HOOK, Md, April 3 R.-
The new Potomac River Bridge be-
tween Sandy Hook and Loudoun
County, Va, will not be completed
until after the war because of the
need for steel in war industries.
Already completed are 13 concrete
piers and two abutments.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
GiIlilun to Be Speaker

Strickland Gillian. entertainer
and speaker, will give humorous
stories and poems at a benefit to
be held in the social hall of Cal
vary Methodist Church, Twerty-
third and Grant streets. south, Ar
lington, at BIS p. m Wednesday,
Evening star., 1943-04-04

two citations for sinking Japanese
warships in the Pacific; Sedley Peck,
foreign correspondent, and Sergt.
Jack I. Nelson, Marine Corps, who
was wounded in action in the Solo,
mons and is now drillmaster of the
junior drum and bugle corps of the
Jewish War Veterans.
Evening star., 1943-04-04

The smiths are part of that loyal
force behind our Car and Bus
fleets that is constantly working
harder to keep EN- rolling in your
service. Come to think of it,
maybe we ought to buy a couple
of chestnut trees.
Evening star., 1943-04-04
Under The Spreading Chestnut

Tree: We haven't any chestnut
tree in our shops, but we do have
blaeksmiths. And you recall that
ever since Longfellow wrote about
the Village Smithy it's been good
practice to associate a blacksmith
shop with a chestnut tree. Our
smiths aren't shoeing horses-not
yet. But they do look out for the
smithy needs of our 800 Street
Cars and 1000 Buses. That makes
4 lot of work for their skilled and
sineuy hands,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-26
Army Promotes
{ From State

Promot ION az six Michigan off
Gers were announced today hy The
var department They arc.
Captain 10 MAJOR
.r.yt- Gilmore &C lt- Monterey Hsh-
Isus Paris
First LIeufe nanf 20 Captain
Kenneth WOtmayer AC Decatur
Kenneth TrhnN. on. 1850 'heff' lawn.
rl-u. Wou1e. Cp Wa,Rna.
I'd Lieutenant 10 fst Lieutfnant
sarah Irrgts WAC Lansing
csr RAYMOND. Az Wayne
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-26
Police Officer Hurt in Fall

Police 1t Fred DrcChSler %,
OF 1924 Virginia Park suffered
laceratcd scalp when his chair
tipped and he fell striking his
head ON the edge of desk IN The
office of the city corporation
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Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1943-11-26
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