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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-01

I individual plant level, and nobody
minimizes the difficulties and dis
locations created by production cut
backs, cancellations and rescued
uling as dictated by changing and
expanding combat needs, but any
of us-Whether in management, la
Dor or goVernment-Who fails to
put today's war production first and
foremost will unWittingly betray
American fighting men overseas.
| His message, entitled, What Lies
Ahead of Our First Production Vic
tories" said that while the evidence
of Americas production might, seen
in Africa and over German-h held
Europe, speaks a language which
the Axis understands perhaps even
better than we ourselves, these vic
tories should not lure us into false
optimism. For, contrary to an in
creasing number of predictions from
responsible industrial and financial
quarters, they mean-to apply Win
ston Churchill's phrase industrially
the end of the beginning and lit
tie more.
New England shares with other
U. S. manufacturing regions ire
mendous responsibility to keep UP
the pace, the balance and the quail
ity of war production in 1913, 1914
and possibly beyond.
Here, for example, Is what we
are up against
Claimant Agencies
1.-THE Army, Navy and the other
so-called Claimant Agencies which
! have call on the nations war ma
terials, having scaled down their
claims on our all-vital carbon steel
production for 1943's third quarter
to an aggregate of 100000 tons
! were recently told by the War Pro-
| duction Boards Requirements Com
| mittee that they must cut again
below even that minimum-becauSe
the total U. S. production of car
bon steel could not possibly exceed
14,500,0OO tons. That is a 27ls pei
cent cut on claims stated already tc
be bare minimumS.
"A similar challenge faces war in
dustry with respect to aluminium
copper, brass, lumber and other crit
ical materials. And it faces not only
the raw materials producers and
fabricators and the big prime con-
tractors, but also every subcontrac-
tor and supplier, and every maker
and user of parts, pieces and COM
ponents up and down the line.
Facing that, which is both the
penalty and encouraging proof OF
nearly about production mobiliza-
ton, it becomes clear that final
production victory can be won onl.
by the most carefully balanced
thoroughly schooled industrial
teamwork America has ever known
At the same time, Mr.. Wheeler
said that New England industry
viewed midway through our second
year of the war, has quietly scored
one of the most impressive victories
on the whole U. S. production
front, reporting that "our region
whose peacetime value of manufac-
tured products (for 1881 amounted
to $4,891 $50 900 or 8.6 per cent
the nations total, has undertaken
So, SIG, 966,00O or nearly II per cent
of the war contracts entrusted to
American industry between june
1910 and March 1913. And all this
with but Az per cent of the coun-
try's new industrial facility con-
tracts, both publicly and privately
| financed"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-01
HEAVY DEMANDS ON
RAILROAD SYSTEM

The railroads are still meeting
the demands of wartime transport
tation, Charles E. Smith, vice presi-
dent of the New Haven road told
members of the Kiwanis club yes
terdSy at The Elton.
The railroads, he said, now iandle
four or five times as much cargo,
personnel, and freight for twice as
much overseas traffic as before the
war. In comparison with 160,-
600 barrels of oil a day transported
by tank car from the oil fields in
the summer of 1871, the railroads
now transport close to a million
barrels of oil a day to the Atlantic
coast.
Mr.. Smith revealed that so per
cent of the Pullmans and 20 to 30
per cent of the coaches are now be-
ing used for troop travel, while
civilian travel has more than
tripled. He, therefore urged the
people not to travel over the
Fourth of July holiday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-01
St. Margarrt's Team
Wins C.Y.O. Trophy
Fifth Annual Debating Tournament Climaxed By
=. Spirited Discussion on Russia

Arguing that Russia has learned to live with democracy
and resistance to Naz aggression warrants high respect
debaters of ST. argarets church last night successfully
Upheld the affirmative side of the question of immediate
United States alliance with Russia guarantee of post
security and obtained the first leg the coveted
the victorious team well St Francis Xavier debaters
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-01

WILLIAM ii. MCCORMACK
william ii. Mccormack, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Mccormack
of so Mitchell avenue, graduated
last Saturday from the Brooklyn
State Hispital School of Nursing
in Brooklyn, n. Y. He is also
graduate of Waterfowl, n. Y,
High School. He expects to enter
the armed forces in the not-toO-
distant future.
Evening star., 1943-10-22
Cigarettes Cost 81 and Meals From $5 to $6
In Corsica, Partly Due to Exchunqe Situation

chasing power of the French franc
and paid off its soldiers at the rate
Of four or five francs to the Ira, now
officially equivalent to one Ameri-
can cent. .c-... j.. -..a
Italians Will Make Deals.
Italian soldiers are now being
evacuated and If one can be located
who has saved his pay he usually is
eager to give at least 200 French
francs for a dollar. He realizes that
the Bank Of France currency will
have almost no purchasing power
when he leaves Corsica. Unfor-
tunately for most Americans with
dollars to trade, the Italians usually
squandered their money as fast as
they were paid This Is the basic
reason for the enormously high cost
of living.
Another is that Corsica always has
been an extremely expensive place.
Even with the money situation
Strengthened out prices probably
still will be very high, judged either
by North African or Italian stand
ards. Normally there is very little
poverty here. I have not seen a
Eeggar in Corsica or anybody who
did not appear in comfortable cir
cumStances. -,
A third reason is that supplies of
everything are very limited There
is relatively little agriculture on the
Island. The bulk of the food has
been imported. The evacuating
Germans took all the food they
could lay their hands on. The stores
have none to sell. Much of the
populace must be pretty hungry.
Food Is Short.
This situation has been hard on
mess sergeants. In both North Al
rica and Sicily, it was possible to
supplement the Army C rations with
fresh eggs and. occasionally, fresh
meat, purchased from local farm
erS Here nobody has any eggs or
meat to sell at any price. If the
Corslcan had an eye for business
which, by and large, he has not
he could get almost any price ne
asked in any kind Of currency.
There is another significant side
Evening star., 1943-10-22

ly Without much doubt, Ajaccio
today is one of the most expensive
towns in the world.
Actually there is very little profit
eering. Merchants and restaurant
keepers are amazed when soldiers
protest over prices which to them
seem reasonable. The whole situa-
ton is due to miXup in the eX-
change value of money. Corsica has
been a part of Occupied France and
the money in circulation here is the
Bank of France franc which in
international exchange has practi-
cally no value whatsoever.
Soldiers came here with Algerian
or Tunisian francs or with Amer
ican dollars. The exchange value
OF the North African currency is
fixed by the military authorities at
z cents per franc.
No Value Set on Franc.
No value has been set on the
Bank OF France franc. But to the
Corsican, shut off so long from the
outside world. franc is a franc,
wherever issued. The two banks in
Ataccio refuse to take any chances
They will give so French francs for
dollar, exactly what so Algerian
francs would cost, and merchants
make change with whatever sort of
money happens to be in their cash
drawer-either French and Algerian
without differentiating between
the two currencies.
Prices in North Africa were ex-
tremely high. Prices in Corsica are
at least five or six times North Afri-
can prices. Undoubtedly the situa-
ton will be cleared up eventually
but 1t has been hard on soldiers here
because Army supplies were at
minimum due to lack of transport
and 1t was necessary to eat many
meals at local restaurants.
There is a black market" on
which one can buy between $50 and
300 French francs for a dollar, but
1t Is highly secret. Italian troops
Who occupied Corsica had a much
better break The Italian govern
ment recognized the very low pur-
Evening star., 1943-10-22

to the picture. The price OF every
thing is either very high or it is
nothing. Outside the regular busi-
ness establishments it doesn't seem
to make much difference whether
you pay or not. In one of the best
restaurants in Ajaccio the other
night my bill for supper was about
Sc. When started to pay the waiter
I was told there was no charge that
evening. l had dined there a few
times before and the proprietor felt
that he had made enough money.
He did the same for three or four
American soldiers.
Outside the towns you are never
charged for anything, AS the guer-
rilla said: In Corsica money has
no meaning. If you have it you get
rid of it. If you don't have any it
makes no difference"
Evening star., 1943-10-22

mated as the United Kingdom mem
ber Of the Council of United Ma
tions for Relief and Rehabilitation
and will lead the United Kingdom
delegation at the forthcoming coun-
ell meeting at Atlantic City, NJ j.,
the Foreign Office said last night.
Sir Frederick Leithross. chief
economic adviser to the government,
will be Col. Llewellins alternate.
Evening star., 1943-10-22
Union Chiefs Pledge
Return al Eddy Plant
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT Oct. 22.-Representa-
tives of striking employees of the
Eddy Paper Co. at White Pigeon
Mich, informed the Regional War
Labor Board yesterday they would
recommend that all employees re-
turn to work Immediately in ac-
cordance with a WLB directive.
Company officials also agreed they
we're ready to operate the plant and
would leave all disputes to be settled
by the labor board.
The promised compliance with the
WLB directive came after hearing
to which the board had summoned
representatives Of the workers and
the company to determine whether
there had been contempt in dis
regarding the order for a return to
work and a resumption of produc-
ton.
board member said about 65 per
Evening star., 1943-10-22
Joins Red Cross Stoff

Miss Claire Still, 1912 South
Thomas street, Arlington, has been
appointed to the field service of the
American Red Cross, it was an
nounced today. Miss Still will serve
as a medical social worker in the
Nichols General Hospital at Louis
vile, Ky.
Evening star., 1943-10-22

just eighteen days this first inside story of the
l. Polish underground went from Washington to
London to Poland and back again In each place was
carefully checked-in Poland at the Gestapo-watched
headquarters of the valiant underground leaders them
selves 1t was readied for publication in Golfers out
Evening star., 1943-10-22

cent Of the company's production Is
used in packaging ammunition and
lease lend goods.
The strike, described by Leonard
Shaw, regional representative of the
CIO United Paper, Novelty and Toy
Makers Union, as one called legally
under the Smith-Connally Act,
closed the plant on October 2 and
made 220 workers idle.
During yesterdays hearing of
union representatives, Edwin w.
Witte, chairman of the regional
board, had demanded an unequivocal
Evening star., 1943-10-22

no meaning IN
Corsica - time,
d i S t a n C e and
money"
S O f. a r a S
money is con-
cerned, this is
very true for
F e n C h a n d
American troops
of the Army Of
Liberation. Gig
arettes cost So a
package and an
ordinary m e a !
from $5 to Sc.
Everything else
rpctc oooorl;,or
Evening star., 1943-10-22
BY THOMAS r. HENRY,

WITH FRENCH ARMY OF LIB
GRAFTON IN CORSICA, Oct. 8 (By
Aerial Courier. Three things"
the guerrilla leader told me, have
Evening star., 1943-10-22
LIeweIIin to Represent
Britoin at Relief TuIks
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Oct. 22.-Col. ]. j..
Llewellin. British resident minister
in Washington in charge of sup
ply for North Africa, has been nomi-
Evening star., 1943-10-22

This issue continues Archbishop spsmans
OF his Personol mission tho fighting 'front.' faction This
there such Ioea
Of the et ond Dry School" Yoe University
and liquor saIesmen seoreh the Of
Answorths won,ony pUrehasins
skn" Carl sondbvrs 1he American FabIe" ostns
cake, with the usval Golfers trimmings
" YOUR NEWSSTAND is SOLD
BORROW 4
Evening star., 1943-10-22

yes" or mo" answer as to whether
the striking employees would obey
the WLB directive to return to
work.
Evening star., 1943-10-22

checked-ln Poland the
headquarters of the valiant underground them
selves. 1t readied for publication in Golfers
today
That the stipulation of the lean, drawn ghppd Pole whose
body shows the marks of Her backjack
condition which the Hitler hunted Mr. story
"Revense in Poland,' to Golfers George Creel
And here's the won't pretty reading Fighting Hmm
ers orure-specais isn't pretty work But you'll inspiring
reading Listen Here's sample of what operative Mr.
B.
In
executed Naz officials
railroad
of burned
four supply depo way
ahonsts
when you read the whole flaming story you'll shake
the hand of this Polish gentleman unafrad He Polish
holocaust.
Add this amazing article Frank Norris account of
now our Pac Fleet task force introduced Island
to the Navy Grumman Hecas Add ana]
SIS OF lhe Fascist Way Argentina You'll agree Golfers mold
ing true to its established practice its purpose keep its
mutmon readers the leaders and
victorious America.
Evening star., 1943-10-22
Is Years Ago Today

October %, 19l8-German
newspaper asks Kaiser to abdi-
cate; French Armies at Danube,
so miles from Austrian border:
King George tells delegation at
London that Allied victory
must be complete; Navy asks
Congress for S600,000,000 for
new warships: Treasury plans
for a fifth Liberty Loan next
April.
Evening star., 1943-10-22
Hoystock Reported Stolen

LOS ANGELES IP):-Police In sub
urban Van Nuys aren't worrying,
about finding any needle. A rancherl
reported the theft of big haystack
valued at $3.50.
The best way to root for victory
is to dig deep into that pocketbOok or
purse and buy War savings stamps.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Swedes Like Movies

Sweden now has 2,176 motion pic
ture theaters with a total seating
capacity of $4,000 and which sell
100000 admissions annually.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
z Stretcher-Bearers
Give Lives 10 Save
Patient From She'll
BY STAFF Correspondent of The star.

WITH U. S. FORCES IN SICILY
fBy MaiD The story of two stretch
er bearers who gave their lives for a
wounded man when the first aid
station where they we're dressing
his wounds came into the range
of intensive shelling was revealed
here today.
They were Pvts. Robert S. Jacoby
of Carthage, H., and Adam Goer-
litz Of Rison, Kans. All afternoon
during the desperate battle in the
hills above the north coast road
near Coronia in the advance beyond
San Stefano these two had labored
with well-nigh superhuman en-
durance CARRYING wounded to places
of safety. When they realized the
dressing station they had set up
might be hit at any moment they
picked up the wounded man and
started to carry him to their own
foxhole. They themselves would
take their chances in the open.
A shell dropped directly in front
of them. AS they saw it was about
to explode both threw themselves
on their faces over the body of the
patient. Both were killed by shell
fragments. The man for whom they
sacrificed their lives received no
further injury and now is we'll on
the way to recovery at an evacuation
hospital.
Recommended for Medals.
Dotl, =, I. Il !
for posthumous DISCS. Other Med
ical Corps personnel attached to
another regiment of the Sd Division
performed almost equal acts of valor
in evacuating wounded over country
so rough it was necessary to carry
their burdens for miles on stretchers.
Sometimes this required several
hours. The less seriously wounded
had to be tended and sheltered as
best possible under fire. At the end
German prisoners were pressed into
service to carry the stretchers and,
from all reports, worked willingly.
In the same regiment they tell OF
the valor of Mai. William C. Morrow
Of San Rafael, Calf, at bitterly con-
tested San Fratello ridge where the
backbone of German resistance to
the Allied advance was broken on
August II. He was ordered by the
battalion commander to set up an
observation post for artillery fire on
high ground just west of the ridge.
Maj. Morrow undertook the mission
with one other officer and two en-
listed men. The latter laid tele-
phone wire from the battery to the
post, all the time under constant
shelling.
Hardly was the observation post
in operation than the Germans
launched a counterattack. Mai.
Morrow determined to hold out to
Evening star., 1943-09-02

The sooner you get that War saw
ings stamp in your book. the sooner
you will get victory in the bag.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
McCIoy Praises Army
For Kiska Landinu
After Flight Of laps

Military authorities in charge of
the Kiska occupation were exoner-
ated today by Assistant Secretary of
War John j. McCloy for allowing the
japanese to escape.
Mr.. McCloy, who arrived on the
Aleutian island two days after
American and Canadian troops land
ed last month, said there were in
dications the japanese had evacu-
ated some 10 days before the occu-
patton forces moved in
"As we went ashore" he said. "the
odor Of human occupation was still
strong"
He pointed out that there were
many signs of hasty retreat, but
said he did not believe that the Army
had left only day or two before
the Allies landed.
The landing operation itself was
beautifully carried out. the timing
was exact and didn't know of any
beaching boats being lost, though
perhaps some were" he said. "It
was certainly an Improvement over
anything ever undertaken like that
before"
Mr.. McCloy said it would be a
hopeful sign if future tions
were carried out with the same re-
suits. He said the landing was "a
piece of magnificent training" for
the forces involved.
Mr.. McCloy said it was deemed
safe for him to join the occupation
forces after the island had been
reconnoitered and only two dogs had
been found
The Assistant Secretary said the
evacuation of Kiska by the Japs had
saved Allied forces between 5000
and 5000 casualties.
IF we could have painted the lily
and forced the japanese to shoot
their way out" he declared, there
would have been brighter picture. I"
Evening star., 1943-09-02
In Summer It's
Water for Health

Over 100000 Washinetonians have used
Mountain Valley Mineral Water from Hot
Springs, Arkansas, to aid in Arthritis,
Kidney and excess Uric Acid conditions.
You drink Mountain Valley in place of
other waters-six to eight glasses a day.
1t is delicious as we'll as healthful
Mountain Valley has aided thousands suf-
ferins from Rheumatism, Kidney, Stomach
and Bladder disorders. You will like its
pure. delicious taste. Not carbon na ted. not
laxative-you drink 1t Just as visitors do
at Hot Springs. Order a case Of this
celebrated mineral water today. Phone
ME. 1862 or write
Maintain Wntar e.
Evening star., 1943-09-02

the last. He ordered his companions
back to shelter and remained alone
directing fire In the face OF the ad-
vancing enemy. Then suddenly his
voice ceased. The post was out of
operation. Maj. Morrow had been
killed.
Signalman Is Outstanding.
One of the outstanding heroes OF
the advance through the hills flank
ing the coast road, officers of an
other regiment said today, was
Corpl. Ben r. Austin of Los Angeles,
Signal Corps wire layer He dis
tinguished himself on Ave occasions
when establishment of wire COM
munication in the face of enemy fire
was of vital Importance Carpl.
Austin first came into prominence
the day after the landing near Licata
on July 10 when under heavy fire he
laid line connecting shore party
with the beach head A bullet went
through the top of his helmet, but
he worked on as if nothing had
happened.
Then he appears to have done
nothing extraordinary until August
when the regiment was on the
point of entering San Stefano. He
volunteered to lay wire across q
heavily mined dry river bed before
the engineers had chance to sweep
a path with mine detector. Two
days later he laid another wire down
a steep mountain slope under direct
enemy artillery fire.
Then followed three hectic days
from August to 8. when Corpl
Austin labored without rest laying
and repairing wires along San
Fratello ridge under heavy fire
These wires constantly were being
cut by shell fragments. As soon as
one went dead Corpl. Austin went
out to patch it.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
II Soldiers Are Stricken
AT Indiana Army Camp
BY the Associate Press,

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. Capt.
Elmer Sherwood, public relations
officer at Fort Benjamin Harrison,
reported yesterday that 72 members
of an Army Air Force military police
battalion were stricken with food
poisoning and are in the post hos
pita@ under observation. Capt. Sher-
wood said all were mild cases.
The military police had creamed
eggs and toast at breakfast, Capt.
Sherwood said, and he attributed
their illness to that meal, but added
none of the men complained of i'll
effects until after about 2 pm,
after drill.
The 70 men hospitalized consti-
tuted about half, of the Air Force
M. P's. stationed at Camp Glenn, a
part of Fort Harrison.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Accidental Deaths Rise
Only 3 Pet. Despite War
BY the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, Sept. 2.--Despite in
creased employment and high speed
production, accidental deaths re-
ported to 81 State industrial COM
pensation commissions show an in
crease of only 3 per cent for the
first half of 1943 over the same
period last year. the National
Safety Council said today.
The six-month total was 1891
accidental deaths for the 81 re-
porting States. OF the IA States
with increases, Alabama, Arizona
Texas and Missouri had rises OF
more than so per cent. Increases
ranged from per cent in New York
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Feared New Raids.

AT hrst the men used to come ont
IN the daytime to work and the
women to cook meals on open fires at
.he cavern entrance. Then the
heaos OF the families became too
terrif1ed of the bombs to work and
there was no food for the women To
COOK. Lice, filth, starvation and
complete license became the estah-
Evening star., 1943-09-02
y. S. Army Doctor Seals up Doorway to Hell,
Huge, Noisome Afraid Shelter at Messino

the Messina doctors and nurses who
fed into the hills when, the shelling
became heaviest to return to their
duties. The hospitals are full of
bomb-injury cases and persons in
jured in street fighting with the
evacuating Germans. One of his
biggest strokes Of luck was to find a
lot of immaculate sail cloth which
could be used for bandages and a
storehouse of naval uniforms which
could be turned into hospital garb
for the patients. In addition, he
himself worked as doctor and sur
geon both among the civilian popu-
lation and the soldiers when no
other physician was to be found.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Weiss Named to Direct
Baltimore Sinui Hospital
BY the Associated Press.

bE Int ASSOCIdIeN FfesS.
BALTIMORE. Sept. 2-Harvey H.
Weiss, former president of the
Maryland-District of Columbia Hos
pital Association, yesterday became
executive director of Sinai Hospital
here, succeeding Sidney Bergman
who has accepted a similar position
at Montefiore Hospital in Pitts
burgh, Sinai officials announced.
Mr.. Weiss served at the Cumber-
land Hospital for the last 10 years.
He is member of the American
Hospital Association and the College
of Hospital Administrators.
Evening star., 1943-09-02
Woman FotoIly Shot;
Police Hunt AssuiIunt

Mrs. Mary Williams, "a, colored,
was fatally shot today, police said,
in an alteration with a colored man
in her apartment at ll07 Fourth
street NV. She was pronounced
dead by a Casualty Hospital ply
sician.
Police said they were searching
for the man,
Evening star., 1943-09-02

and Oregon to 10 per cent In Ari.
zona,
Largest decreases we're reported
by Illinois and North Carolina, both
20 per cent under last years figures.