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plane by parachute. "sad sack"-- a crepe hanger, Calamity Joe," pessimist. "Hashtnarks ''-chevrons or service stripes.
 ''The K. P. Murder Mystery''- hash. Chicken Lieutenant''-a col- onel (never used in his presence or hearing). Swimming Lieutenant"-- an ensign. "Digs'-(enters the lan- guage via Australian) any living quarters from barracks to fox-hole, Battery Acid"--coffee. Also known as "jamoke," Q fusion of Java" and MOCHA
 To Q public becoming more and more safety minded Q program de- scribing how sheer neglect in the home causes many unnecessary ac. cidents should be of interest. Tune in on Men, Machines and Victory over the BLUE Network tonight, at l0:30 p. fll., EWT.
 Written especially for the series by Jay Bennett, 'The Open Win dow" describes the tragedy which befalls when Q woman fails to close Q window while hanging curtains and falls to her death. Beyond the personal tragedy of a family is the fact that skilled worker is lost to the production line.
 The weekly Safety Ace" present. cd by the National Safety Council will be conferred on Lamar R. Hem messy of Hudson, N. F., in charge of chemical analysis for the Lone Star Cement Corporation of Hudson.
 Gertrude Lawrence, the world fa- nous actress whose first radio show of her own premieres Thursday, Sep- tember 30th over the Blue Network. Born in London, England, on July 4th and christened Gertrude Alevan- dra Dagma Lawrence Klasen, she made her first public appearance at the age of two when her father, an interlocutor in Q minstrel show, put her in a chair in the lobby and told her to smile. That smile helped sell the programs. At g, Gertie made her professional debut as one of 50 girls in ''The Miracle. Here she met Noel Coward, one of the 50 boys playing opposite. They became fast friends and have remained SO ever since. Dancing and elocution schools followed, with bit parts. chorus work and understudy jobs after that. The struggle to the top was tough, but Gertie's scintillating personality se- cured good roles for herself in Brit ish musicals. She arrived in Amer lea for the first time in 1924 in the "Charlot's Revue" in which she in
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 trodIiced 'Llmehouse Blues'. Lead 1 ing parts in 0ershwin's Treasure Girl" and "Oh, Kay" followed, and then straight dramatic roles in 'Candlelight' with Leslie Howard Coward's Private Lives" with the author and Laurence Olivier. ''To- night at 0:30", "Susan And God" "Skylark' and finally her triumph. ant Lady Tn The Dark" She is married to theatrical producer Rich- ard Aldrich and has Q lovely daugh~ ter by c former marriage, Pamela Gordon -Howley. 0ertie, incidental. iy, is the worlds highest paid ace tress and will receive verltable for. tune for her radio show. Loves raw carrots, hates Spanish shawis.
 Thanks are due--or is that the word to Harry Soboi and Ted Hart man for this one: Maestro Johnny Cart tells of the proverbial Scotch. man who asked another how he liked his radio. Mon. it's grand" replied the second Scotchmali. 'but the wee lights hard to read byW
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
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Fort Rsvens, Mas, oct. 1i.-- (Up) 4aTho weekly newspaper pubs lished hy soldiers at this army camp pointed out today that the "biitzkrlegD never could have oc- cured during tho American Revo- lutlonaty war.
 Instead of placing Q trusty Car- and to his shoulder and firing on the enemy, the minute man of '70 had Co wait until he had executed these commands:
 afzalf-cock your firelocks- prime -shut your pans charge with cartridge draw your rarn- mers-dam down your cartridge return your ralnmers shoulder your firelocks- -poise your firelocks -cock your firelocks present. flrel" ! A total of 10 separate motions were involved.
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nns in the coastal area. The Deafhead was weT behind the ea- nfa. Q tributary of the Volturno, putting the Allies in shape for a wheeling movement westward against the Nagi flank,
 Maximum Gain
 The maximum gain of around l3 aa les was in the area northwest of Eenevento, where he German sa- lient was rolled back.
 Along the Volturno, the massed artillery was stepping up its bom- bardment of the German lines across the river, seeking to flatten the pillboxes and permit 0 large scale crossing. Patrols already had forged across the Volturno, where the Allies were faced woth steep tanks and Q rain-swollen river.
 Normally the Volturno is about four feet deep. Now 1t is @ raging torrent. varying in width from 100 feet to 200 yards. At most places the banks are steep-10 to IS feet high. The bridges are gone, and rontoons must be laid under heavy fire.
 The strengthening of the patrols already across the river consequently was slow process. To get the Allied guns and tanks over the bar. Tier equired the seizure of wide stretch of both banks.
 Bridging the river Is a slow and difilcult job," 1t was said officially ln explaining why the troops seemed to be marking time for the moment on the river itself.
 "LimiGed advances" were reported from the Fifth Army front and the eoinmunique said British Eighth Army patrols were driving "vigor. ollsly'A westward, clearing out enemy pockets of resistance west and south. vest of Termoli on the east coast.
 The capture of Pontelandolfc marked the first crossing of the Galore River, a tributary of thC volturno, in force. Allied patrols previously had been reported on the north hank above Benevento, 1: miles southeast of Pontelandolfo, but their progess had been limited.
 Kesselring Attempts
 German Marshal Albert Kesselrine attempted to stop the Allies along
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from the west coast Co the interior, a line running along the Volturno thence along the Galore, and final- ly northeast along the Bifetno to Q point south of Termoii.
 However, the speed of the Allied advance gave him no time to corn- plete fortification of the line and now both the Galore and Biferno Rivers had been preached in force. The bulk of the Fifth Army still was rinassing strength along the south bank of the Volturno from the coast inland 17 miles to Capua, though some patrols had swlHn the stream.
 '"The enemy continues to fight hard and is using the broken and dif1cult country to assist his de fense," the comInunique said. ''De- nolitions are still being met on a heavy scale"
 Greece Bombed
 Both the northwest African and middle-eastern air forces again cone centrated their main weight of bombs on Greece, Rhodes and Crete in support of Allied operations in tklc AeBSun 0eds 6SdVy pULupeTh raided air fields at Athens and Araxos in Greece yesterday and at Maritza and Calato, Rhodes, and Keraklion, Crete Saturday.
 Middle-eastern bombers hit Ma ritza and Calato Saturday night, straddling runways with bombs and starting fires at Calato. All planes returned safely.
 NWAAF medium and light boinb- CTS pounded road and rail com munications, gun positions and troop concentrations in the enemy rear. Six enemy planes were shot down and two Allied planes were lost.
 Front dispatches said the British Eighth Army under Gen. Sir Ber- hard L. Montgomery had gained control of 20 miles of the lateral road from Termoli to Naples with the capt1re of Larino, IS miles south of Termoli, late Friday.
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ship scharnhorst. Reconnaissance photograps will be taken to deter mine whether any of the ships were damaged.
 The thrust to Northeastern Ger many and Poland brought home to Berlin that all Germany now was within range of British.based bombers. The Sunday Times said American heavy bombers had ex- tended their range to 1000 miles by carrying extra Tokyo tanks' in the winks.
 American airmen who participated in yesterdays heavy raid on Nun ster said they left huge fires, includ- ing one that shot flames 500 feet into the air, burning in the indus trial and railway areas.
 Lieut.. Col. Francis D. Filler of Augusta, Ga, who led one group, said that the raid was so success full that don't think that we Shall neer to hit Munster again"
 Once again the boInbers had to fight their way all the awy to and back from their targets with 160 to 200 German fighters attacking ct once. Many of them used rocket guns mounted under the wings.
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Michael J. Grout; alternate, Norah V. Ahern.
 Third ward, city, Maurice T. Healey, Raymond Stone, James M. Lynch, Edward L. Lasky, Martha Zailskas; alternate, Henry Minicucci, town, Cornelius F. Maloney, Mary C.. Kilmartin, Q. Nicholas zappone, Raymond Conlon, John W. Bender; alternate, Margaret Downey: school Patrick s. Bergin, Clarence Ba- landa, John J. Fitzgerald, Julia Mar shall, Michael Toma; alternate Ed ward K. Kelly.
 Fourth ward, city, Martin J. Tehan, Maurice Rousseau, Raymond J. Quinn, James s. Andrea, Deborah Kendrick, Joseph Keartgan; alter nate, Rose Sevickas; town, Francis x. Bergin, Mary Bedell, Patrick Kelly, Rose H. Martin, Edward P. Goggin, Helen M. Delaney; alter nate, John P. Dalton; school, Mat thew J. Gaffney, John J. Savino, Daniel J. Mahaney, John Ftzmau- rice, Joseph Mazaika, Arthur J. Dansereau; alternate, Josephine Me- Grath.
 Fifth ward, city, Joseph M. Shea, Nellie Hayden, Vincent Palladino, Martin F. Sullivan, Marguerite K. Gilhooley, Edward P. Rafferty, John J. Rock; alternate, Bernard x. Keefe; town, Maurice Tangney, Ger trude Gordon, James W. Fitzger- aid, Vincent J. Coates, Edmund J. White, Julia E. Kelly, Edward F, McGrath; alternate, Anna Bowey; school, Thomas Driscoll, Peter Grif- fin, James P. Walsh, Catherine zi- bell, John T. Hartley, Catherine c. Corcoran, Joseph P. Phelan; alter nate, Josephine Klobedanz.
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 lied commander for southeast Asia,
 Mountbatten, whose name is syn onymous in British minds with combined operation" is expected to base his campaign on established and expanding airpower and grow ing Allied naval strength. The lat ter made possible by surrender of the Italian fleet in the Mediterran- can.
 Major Thrust
 The major thrust in what London believes will be a three way offen- sive in the Far East, is expected to be directed by Mountbatten against the malay Peninsula. Coincidentally, General Douglas MacArthur's Southwest Pacific forces most likely wilql strike at Japan's naval and air bases in that area, and General Chianug Kai-shek's Chinese armies may be expected to open an offen- sive in Upper Burma, observers said.
 The Chinese attack would be de- signed to open the way for Q junc- ton of the new Ledo road from India to ChungkinE with the up- per reaches of the Burma road.
 Mountbatten. 1t is believed. will hurl his main attack against the Kra Isthmus, which links Burma and Thailand with the Malay Pen- irlsula. Such an attack would threaten the Singapore naval base and, If coordinated with a strong thrust by Macarthur from the South Pacific, would force Japan to scatter her sea power.
 While the Japanese have sizeable land forces in Indo- China and Thai land, invasion of the Kra Isthmus would be difficult to counter be- cause of the rugged terrain separat- ing those countries from Central Burma.
 No Lorge Operation
 London sources deprecated the probability of any large Allied oper- ation. from India into Arakan ano down the Mayu Peninsula for the same reasons - mostly logiStical - which impair the Japanese defense of the Kra Isthmus.
 There are many indications that the real Allied offensive will not be mounted before ne: | spring at the earliest, but 1t was considered likely Mountbatten might feint at the Japanese lines in Western Burma and attempt to clear the enemy from the Nicobar and Andaman Is- lands in the Bay of Bengal.
 In Allied hands, these islands would provide an excellent base fol air and sea operations and would serve as stepping stones for any at. tack against Upper Malaga.
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Ukraine.
 (Radio London said the Red army was only five miles from Gonnel in the southeastern corner of White Russia.)
 Near ROut
 Apparently in full realization that their retreat amy develop into a rout, the Germans were counter-at- tacking with increased force and frequency, sparing neither men nor machines.
 Growing bands of partisans in the enemy rear rendered effective and sometimes decisive aid in securing bridgeheads and disorgani2ing the enemy's concentrations.
 The Germans were throwing thou sands of troops and hundreds oi tanks and planes againstt he Reo Army all along the Dnieper front but the Russians continued to push relentlessly westward. A strategic height and a village were captured yesterday, the Soviet high command said.
 The Germans counter attacked eight times in futile effort to regain the village, a communique said, but each time were thrown back with heavy losses. Some a.. 200 Germans were killed and 30 tanks were destroyed in the repulse of other enemy counter-attacks.
 GAIN NEW GROUND
 Russian forces also gained new ground in their frontal assault on the Axis defense line in White Rus sia. More than 140 towns and vil- laees were seized on the approaches to Vitebsk, at the northern end of the front, alone. Advances of up to seven and one half miles were re- corded and Yenocichi, only 20 miles east of Vitebsk, was captured.
 More than 400 Germans were kill ed and four tanks, Il guns and many machine guns destroyed in in the fighting before Vitebsk, the Soviets said. Red air force assault planes wrecked 70 trucks and blew up two ammunition dumps and Il mortar and artillery batteries Thirty three German planes were shot down.
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from the beginning, the fury of their fighter opposition was inter- p. sted as evidence that they have strengthened their mid-Pacific strongholds against whatever is in stcre in the fast-developing battle of the islands.
 The attack opened with a heavy naval bombardment of the three Islands in the Wake group-Wake, Fsale and Wilkes-coupled with a hsayy bombing by carrier-based rlan,ss that knocked out most of the ground defenses.
 Late Tuesday afternoon the big Liberators, striking from undis- closed land bases and manned in part by veterans of Bataan and flyers of the original American vol- unteer group that fought in China, swept in for Q low-level attack.
 Weak Opposition
 They encountered only weak fiak ard no aerial opposition. and plas- tered dispersd areas, shops, barracks and supply dumps on all three iglets. Then they dropped down to within 300 feet of the ground and raked the island with machine gun fire.
 Carrier planes from Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomerys task force returned to bomb the island We'd nesday morning and the warships then gave 1t a final pounding.
 Cmdr. John T. Hayward, Great Neck, L. l., who commanded the Liberator force, said he saw many Japanese dead, at least IS to 1e burned-out twin-engined bombers and more than a dozen Zeros on the ground.
 The task force, he said, sank an enemy tanker athwart the only eIl- trance to the lagoon and set fire to 6 number of installations.
 '"The JapS were lying lnburied where they fell, and wreckage was everywhere" he said. Apparently they made no attempt to repair the mornings wreckage."
 The Liberator crews included It. Allen Seaman, Coronado, Calf, who fought at Bataan.
 Passenger
 Also aboard, as a passenger, was Capt. c. w. Styer (301 Lombard stFeet), San Francisco, Calf, senior American submarine commander in the Pacific who went along ito see what an air raid is like" He took photographs which were used to guide the carrier planes in their second attack the following morn ing.
 Hayward said reconnaissance be- fore the attack indicated the Japa- nese had built up Wake Island ''considerably" in the last six months.
 The Japanese, he said, had built trenches and tank-traps along the beaches against a possible landing.
 Also in evidence was the hulk of n Japanese destroyler sunk by the American Marines during their he- roic defense of the island in De- cember, 1941.
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with his hands may receive a sal- ary of $5,0O0 per year, regardless of his efficiency, ability and coopera- tion."
 Lincoln, whose company compen- sates its employees according to an incentive system, declared that "pen- alizing incentive cannot do other wise than eliminate American effi- ciency of industrial production"
 'The new tax law" he continued, must encourage productive eff ciency rather than kill it. It must stimulate the worker to produce more, not less. It must increase ef- ficiency if we are to maintain Amer ican standards of wages and life in the postwar crisis"
 The committee, many of whose members have voiced opposition to the treasury plan, resumed its hear ings as sentiment appeared to be crystalizing in various congressional quarters for Q 10 per cent federal sales tax.
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CCuntlnueu from FaBe ~
 ported that more than 100000 pounds of food and other agricul- tural commodities were delivered to shipside" in August for lend-lease. the largest share--6D percent-was consigned to the British Empire. Russia got 2S per cent, North Africa seven per cent, and Greece, West Africa, Turkey and the Netherlands combined one per cent.
 More than half of all lend-lease shipments are munitions and these are sent to the military commanders in the various threaters of war.
 It is possible that natives in coun- tries where British commanders are in charge may feel that all the im- ported goods are being brought in by the British, 1t was said. This works both ways, however. In Afrt- ca, for example, the natives heliev- ed all commodities brought into that area are from United States. which is untrue. Much of 1t comes from Britain, they said.
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Argentina plans to spend over SS,O0O. 900 on new roads and bridges.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-06-30
SUMMER PROGRAM
FOR GIRL SCOUTS
Miss Myers, Field Execu-
tive to Be Available for
Consultations

Girl Scout troop outdoor actiti-
ties will be conducted throughout
the summer months at the Camp
Day" site in Middlebury and lead
ers have been asked to register fol
picnics or outings at the Scout head
quarters on Church street. THE
Camp Day" session will be held
as scheduled, and individual troop
outings will be arranged on request
as additional activity.
Miss Eleanor Myers, field execu-
tive of the local council, will be
available to accompany the troops
and will aid in making arrange
ments, 1t was announced. Nom
scouts as well as registered men,
bers of the organization will be
registered for the activities.
Open house was held at Camp
Wequapauset in Waterville yester-
day with % counsellors present tc
receive the guests. The camp will
open officially tomorrow when thu
first of the Brownies arrive for the
first period of camping. 1t was an
nounced Miss Margaret Rogers, r
NJ, local industrial nurse, will be
at the camp evenings throughout
the camping period.
An adult institute will be held
during the month of August one
night each week at the Scout head
quarters, and all leaders who have
not yet received special training
for their duties will be asked tc
register. Women, over 18 years old
who wish to participate as leaders
next fall also will be invited to at
tend.
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PURCHASING AGENT
LIFE JOB VETOED
Governor Baldwin Claims
Measure Against Public
Policy

Governor Raymond E. Baldwin
yesterday vetoed the bill which
would have frozen City Purchasing
Director Martin J. Sweeney into Of
flee for life, on the grounds that
the bill, in his opinion, is not con-
sistent with this principle of local
government and for that reason
does not comply with what he
deems sound public policy. 1t seems
therefore most likely that the gov
ernor will veto most of the Local
bills on his desk now since they dc
not adhere to the principle Of
"home rule.
Nevertheless the governor de.
clared that his vetoing the Sweeney
bill should cot in any way reflect
upon the action he intends to take
in the near future on the remainder
of the Waterbury bills.
City hall officials are now Won
dering at the prospects of the bill
abolishing the present five-man
board of assessors aid substituting
three man board appointed for
life.
The board of alderman, the To-
cal legislative body elected by the
people, has no power to change the
set-up of the assessors but it has
the power to legislate on such mat
tiers as are covered by the Sweeney
bill, the bill fixing the salaries OF
the policemen and firemen, the bill
promoting Police Sergt. Chatfielc
to a captaincy, the bill appointing a
commission to study the city's pen
sion system, and the bill freezing
the health department nurses into
office for life.
In a statement attached to the
Sweeney bill when it was returned
without his signature to Secy. OF
State Frances B. Reddick, Gov
Baldwin declared that the bill was
not consistent with a policy of the
state government which gives tc
local governments powers slVfi-
GENTLY broad to deal with purely
local problems"
Richard Walsh of Southington
the governors press secretary, said
the Sweeney bill, introduced in the
Assembly by Sen. Francis j. Summa
(R) OF the 18th district, was vetoed
at 4:45 O'Clock. 1t is the first Of the
Waterbury bills on which the chief
executive has taken action.
Mayor John S. Monagan was ap-
preached for statement on the
governors action, but he declined to
comment whatsoever.
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CIRCUS TICKETS
TO BE EXCHANGED
Patriotic Persons Who In
vested in Bonds Advised
on Date Changes

Persons who have obtained tick
cts through the purchase of War
Bonds to the Ringing Brothers and
Barnum and Bailey Circus which is
scheduled to appear in Waterbury
July Is, 16 and II are requested to
make sure that their tickets permit
them to see one of the perform
ances to be given on the evening of
the 18th, matinee and evening of
the 18th and matinee and evening
of the 18th, it was announced to-
day by William H. Jones, retailers
chairman. Persons holding tickets,
through the purchase of war bonds,
for July IA and the matinee per-
Torrance of the 18th are urged to
exchange them, because perform
ances previously scheduled for that
time were cancelled.
The Barnum Bailey Ringing
Brothers circus has donated 1888
ticvkets for each of the perform
ances to be staged in this city next
month. These tickets are now "for
sale" at booths in Rowland Hughes
and Miller and Peck stores. Sale
of the bonds is under the direction
of the Women's committee, headed
by Mrs. Robert Harvey.
Every person purchasing a 1000
war bond will be given ticket,
which upon payment of a 22-cent
tax, will entitle the holder to a
front row seat in a choice section.
There are 16 of these tickets avail
able for purchasers of ST 1000 bonds.
There are 80 seats available for the
purchasers of $500 bonds, each
night. Also, 1913 seats each night to
purchasers of 500 bonds and 112
seats to buyers of $50 bonds.