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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
PLAN TESTIMONIAL
FOR " SECRETARY
Aubrey E. Greenlaw Leav-
ing for Passaic, N. j.,
Position Next Month

Final plans for testimonial din
ner for Aubrey E. Greenlaw, house
and business secretary of the Y. M.
G. A. since 1925 were discussed at
committee meeting at the Central
Y last night. j,
Entertainment will include q
stringed orchestra, reader, q
magician, and group singing to be
organized by Rollin Powell at the
affair which will begin at 8 o'clock
on April II. Mr.. Greenlaw will
take up his new duties as general
secretary of the Bayonne, N. j., Y.
M. G "A. April Is.
Committee members include: j.
Warren Grifdths, chairman; Mrs.
Irene Brown, Secretary-treasurer.
Edwin A. Barrows, George P. Brown
c. Raymond Gaming, George Bus
cher, Rollin Powell, Fred Knoblock,
Michael Bowling, Mary Lawlor
Marjorei Farley, Monica Pagan, Vir-
ginia Worth, E. Christy Erik, Herbert
S. Smith, Howard Thonley, Emily
E. Merriman, John H. Flanagan,
Oscar Campbell, Walter Mcclure,
Walter Wilhelm, Howard F. Cham
berlain and Arthur L. Purinton.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Maritime Officials Are Ali At Sea
On Postwar Use OF Merchant Fleet
BY BOB BLASDELL
NEA Correspondent

Washington, March Confront
ed by bitter postwar paradox,
Maritime Commission officials Shrug
helplessly at problems concerning
the disposal of the now vital Liberty
and Victory ships which will carry
over into the peace an investment of
more than $4,000, 000, 900.
The ultimate solution, they say,
rests in the hands of the public
and congress.
BY the end of 1914, the United
States will have created a mer-
chant marine of so million tons
of ships, highly trained person.
mel of $4,000 officers and men to
operate the more than 5000 YES
sells. Even though a large per-
centage of them will be the COM
paratively inadequate Liberty
ships, this country will possess
more tonnage than would be re-
quired to dominate world trans
portation. The questions to be
faced are whether we want to
control world shipping; and in
any event how best to dispose
OF surplus vessels.
MIGHT HARM INDUSTRY
1t may be easy to give snap
judgment in favor of U. S. domi-
nation of the worlds sea lanes,
officials point out, but if We were
to carry the bulk of our foreign
commerce in our ships, serious
financial damage may be done to
friendly maritime nations such as
England, Norway and the Meth
erlands. AS customers of the
United States, they depend upon
their shipping to build up foreign
balances in this country so they
can buy agricultural and indus
trial products. So if we create
a strong postwar merchant ma
rine, it may be at the expense of
established U. S. industries al
ready struggling with conversion
problems.
The extent of our future mari
time participation depends on
several uncertain factors: the ma
ture of the peace, development of
our future foreign policy, inter-
national economic conditions, and
most important of all, our future
security in an uneasy world.
Yet aside from security prob
lens, it is doubtful that the tax
payers will countenance a repi-
tition of uor World War I expert
ence, when some $4,000 100000
worth Of commercial vessels were
chained together to rust at OBJ
scure anchorages while our enc
mics built the strong merchant
marine which later was used
against us in World War II.
ALLEGATION of shipping by agree
ment among the nations con-
cerned, as suggested by the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
TRAINING CENTER
MAY Be EXPANDED
Present Facilities Avail
able for Teaching Trades
to Former Servicemen

Present facilities at the War Pro-
duction Training Center, TIT South
Main street, now available to all
discharged veterans for the purpose
of training may soon be expanded
with courses being instituted other
than for industrial training alone.
At present the training center has
available some 40 major pieces of
equipment consisting of all types of
latheS, milling machines, planerS,
grinders, automatic screw machines,
etc. These are all available for use
without cost to the discharged vet
eran interested in the fundamentals
of trade or the continuance of
work begun during his service, or
for that individual who upon return
may be temporarily unfit for full
time employment.
Tentative plans for expansion of
the facilities at the center call for
the establishment of such fields of
training as woodworking, radio, gen.
eral app iances and posibsly auto
motive repair as well as others
Sources stated that survey would
be made preliminary to setting up
such new courses whereby it would
be determined just how much of a
response to such available facilities
would be forthcoming from the
many discharged veterans and
civilians.
The local center has trained over
l 800 war workers in this area in
the past two years in addition to
training discharged veterans who
have been referred there. The
courses given at the South Main
street plant are of an individual
and perSonalized nature so that a
prospective trainee may start in at
any time. Although classes are
conducted daily from 8 a. m. to S
p. m, and every evening. five days
per week, from $3.50 to $50 O'Clock,
an individual may fit his time and
convenience into the hours he de-
sires. Training may be part-time
or full-time.
"All that is asked" Supervisor
James D. Calvin, lis that the pros
pective trainee be sincere in his use
of the available facilities"
Consistent with the plan to as
sist in veterans aid, center authori-
ties have contacted various repre-
sentatives of veterans associations
and the city bureau recently set
up to handle such matters. Infor-
nation as to what is offered for
use for the veteran at the center
has been made known to these
sources.
Contact with authorities may be
made. 1t was stated, by calling
S-0504 or by appearing personally.
The center is located in what was
formerly the 9teele g. johnson
building.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

Designed and built for the
emergency, not for competitive
postwar competition. some Lib
critics may be used for the slow
er, cheaper cargoes, but most will
be of little shipping value after
the war. According to Maritime
officials, some 1900 or 1900 viii
be built in 1914. Construction
continues because they are pow
cred by easily built 2500-horse-
power reciprocating engines, while
there is difficulty in procuring the
intricate O00-horsepower steam tur-
bine-gear power plants for Victory
ships.
Depending on the number of
turbine engines the Maritime
Commission can get from the
Navy Department, 1t hopes to
build at least 300 Victory ships
in 1914. To a landlubber's eye,
the difference between the two
types seems small: The Victory is
Is 10 feet longer, has five feet
more beam, is four to five knots
faster.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
|ATTU BLIZZARD
| JUST NUISANCE
TO U. S. FORCES
BY RUSSELL ANNABEL
UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
Attu. March 20 - (UP) - Uni
ted States forces spending their
first winter on this desolate, surf
beaten island after taking it away
from the JapS, are learning plenty
about North Pacific weather and
how to continue operations eff.
GENTLY despite it.
Recently a two-day blizzard howl
ed out Of the phantom-wh peaks
with such fury that by morning OF
the second day most of the Quon-
set huts were completely buried. 1t
was impossible to open the doors
against the weight of snow-so in a
number of cases the men had to
crawl through the windows and
burrow up through the wind-stiff-
ened drifts. Trucks and jeeps were
showed under, the network of
trench-like trails was filled in, tele-
phone wires were weighted down,
and roads were blocked.
This correspondent, returning at
midnight from Americas western
most movie theater, floundered
through shoulder-deep smother
Of snowd, inadvertently stepped off
snow-masked bridge in the blank
darkness, and plunged out of sight
into afeathery drift filling a deep
ditch. Luckily, another wayfarer,
Lieutenant Al Neal, Pittsburgh, Pa,
had fallen into the same ditch, and
had gotten hold of hand line
stretched across it earlier in the
evening by some THOUGHTFUL sea-
, man.
"A hell of country" Neal as
serted Indignantly as he pulled US
both to the surface. "a guy could
get lost in one of these holes and
they wouldn't find him until
June"
1t was very special blizzard,
even by Aleutian standards. But
within an hour afte rdaybreak the
station was back on a normal OPP
Grating basis. Tractors, scrapers
and snow ploWs cleared the roads
and the landing strips. Mechanics
cleaned the snow and ice off the
planes and ran up the motors.
Me nshoveled out the paths, exca-
waited the buried huts-releaSing
several officers woh had been i'm
prisoned due to their windows
having frozen shut. Gun crews dug
ont their revetments. Communica-
tons men repaired the telephone
lines.
The snow-laden 75-knot wind
| continued to screech in from the
slate-gray Pacific, but the station
was back in readiness for offense
or defense - the lean, gun-bristling
planes poised on the strips, the
administrative STATS busy with the
manifoln routine affairs of the
base. Two years ago the men tell
you, such a storm would have tied
an Aleutian base in knot, be-
cause we had neither the expe-
rience nor the equipment for eff
GENTLY combating sub-Arctic wea-
Their. But now weather is no longer
bugaboo, merely nuisance.
AS Lieutenant Neal remarked as
we were clawing our way out of the
snow-filled ditch last night, I'VE
hate this damned weather, and we
hate the Japs twice as much for
| making us come out here. But
storms don't deal us the grief they
used to-. We just dig out and go on
about our business
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

American Maritime Council, seems
the most likely pattern for the fu-
ture. The Maritime Commission
and the War Shipping Administra-
ton have appointed a planning COM
mittee to survey the future mari
time needs Of commerce and de-
Tense. In addition, the State De-
partment has set up an interna-
tional shipping committee.
WON'T GIVE UP SHIPS
1t is believed very unlikely that
our shipping facilities will be put
into the hands of our competi-
tors. as has been suggested by
some. The Maritime Commission
hopes to see at least so per cent
of our foreign trade carried in
our own ships.
But even if we decide to carry
large part of Our foreign trade
in our own ships, it will be car
ried by the faster and more eff
Gent Victory ships and that
leaves the problem of the DISPOSE
ton Of the Liberty ships.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
LAUNDRIEs AID SCRAP DRIVE

Chicago -(UP)-- Laundries and
dry cleaning establishments of the
nation turned in enough metal scrap
during 1943 to make possible the
manufacture of 20.500 one-ton
blockbusters, according to the Amer
lean Institute of Laundering. Tabu-
lations on the scrap campaign, un-
dertaken last March In cooperation
with the Industrial Salvage branch
of the War Production board, shows
that industry members amasSed a
total of 1891 1893 pounds Of metal
scrap.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

at Sprague gym and again at Doo-
little Alley hall. Tickets purchased
for the first performance will be
honored tonight.
Alderman Patrick Shea, who did
such a grand job as master of cere-
monies at the initial performance a
week ago last Saturday will hold
down the same role in the same
efficient way this evening.
Banquest April 2
At meeting of Casper S. Davis
Drum Corps last night arrange
mnets for banquet, April 2 were
made
Mrs. Catherine Buxton and
daughter, Kathleen, spent the week
end in Burlington, visiting Mrs.
Buxton's son, Cecil, and his family.
William Emmons of Homer street.
has returned from a visit to Mon
treal, Canada.
Forest Stetson, % Chapel street,
has returned from a few days stay
in Nantucket, Mass, where he wit
messed the ritual of Foyal Purple
degree in Odd Fellows camp.
Earl Ericsson of Chapel street.
spent a few days in Boston recently
visiting his brother.
Leo LeBelle, son of Mr.. and Mrs
Frederick LeBelle of Thomaston
avenue, his returned to his Army
camp after spending To-day leave
here.
Albert Grenier, who left with the
last contingent of draftees is sta
toned in Camp Craft, s. G.
Charles Maxwell of the Army All
Corps, has been transferred to an
Advanced Radio Training school at
Scott Field, Illinois.
EmmOns Transferred
Alfred Emmons, serving with
Seabees, has been transferred from
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
USE OF METAL
POWDER SPURTS
PARTS OUTPUT
BY CHARLES T. PEARSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
Detroit, Mar. 20. UP)-Manu-
facture of tool steel so hard 1t win
cut glass and pressed metal parts
Weighing more than 100 pounds,
through the powdered metallurgy
process, has been revealed by
Chrysler Corps Amplex Division.
Developments now being studied
in powdered metallurgy promise to
add UNNECESSARILY to the superior
ity Of American weapons" said A.
j. Langhammer, Amplex president.
Parts made from powdered metal
sometimes are produced 200 times
faster than by standard manu-
featured methods, Langhammer
said, and are now used in practical
ly every piece of war equipment
built for its Army and Macy.
The Amplex chief said his divi-
sion now is producing more than
100000 units daily of parts for war
equipment from powdered metal.
and that technique has advanced
so fast since Pearl Harbor that
where formerly three-pound pressed
pieces were considered q maximum,
Amplex now presses units weighing
more than 100 pounds
Saves Labor and Metal
ION one job adaptation of the
powdered metal technique saved
more than 100000 man hours and
/ 1000 pounds of strategic metal, "
the company said.
Langhammer said powdered
metallurgy has solved many prob
lens on war equipment in the form
Of oil-impregnated bearings that
provide thetir own fabrication.
He termed the new "Oilite" bear
ings vital contribution to the
design of equipment that has to
function efficiently in the worlds
greatest climate extremes.
"Oilite bearings now are en-
ployed in more than 5000 different
war applications. One American
plane was of such fast climbing de-
sign that while its units functioned
smoothly at ground level, high-al-
titude operation was impeded by
congealing oil and grease" he said.
by using oil-impregnated bearings
made by Amplex, these difficulties
were overcome.
Broke BOttleneck
The new tool steel-so hard that
it will cut glaSs-Langhammer said
is used in precision measuring de-
vices, and Is pressed from steel mill
waste that is not reclaimable
metal.
Iron powder so fluffy that a
good breath will blow it away is
now being pressed into precisioned
tool makers instruments that at
tain accuracy to one ten-thou-
sands of an inch" he said.
The company said this dveelop-
ment broke one of the wars worst
bottlenecks at a time when, in spite
of the nations vast machine tool
capacity, production Of precision
measuring devices Jagged.
Company engineers said one Of
the most important advances OBJ
tanned through the use Of powdered
metal is that the necessity Of ma
Ginning parts is almost obviated,
resulting in a substantial saving
both in labor and materials.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
Bows Demonstrations
To Stud Scout Show
Seven Troops to Feature Six Star Program at Buck
ngham Hall Saturday Evening

Action and more action is the
theme Of the stage demonstrations
of the Six Star Scout Show which
will be held in the Buckingham
Hall Saturday evening. After a
suitable opening ceremony seven
Troops will put on demonstrations
of Scouting Activities.
Troop 10 of the Sacred Heart
Church will run speed knot tying
contest while Troop 10 of st. Peter
and Paul's Church will demonstrate
Tower lashing and signalling. Troop
/, Christ church, WATERFOWL, will
put on tumbling act and Troop 1,
Oakville, sponsored by the Oakville
Civic Association, will participate
in a Semaphore Drill. First Aid
demonstrations of various types
will be presented by Troop 9 of
the Washington Park Community
Club, Troop / of st. Johns church
and Troop 26 of Our Lady of
Lourdes. These will include ice res
cue, Blackout, Personal First Aid
and stretcher making by the use Of
shirts.
The demonstrations will be fol-
lowed by five contests which in
clude making Fire with Flint and
Steel, Morse Signalling, Lashing,
making fire by bow and drill and
pyramid building. Taking part in
one or more of these contests will
be Troop WATERFOWL, sponsored
by the Watertown Methodist
church, Troop l Woodbury. spon-
sored by the Woodbury. Lions Club,
Troop Is sponsored by St. AIMS
church, Troop 10 of the South Fed
Grated church, Troop 10 of the
Sacred Heart church, Troop of
Washington Park Community Club,
Troop l Watertown sponsored by
Christ church, Troop Cheshire,
sponsored by the Parent Teacher
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

Association, Troop 20 sponsored by
Our Lady Of Lourdes, Troop 81
sponsored by the American Legion
Post No. 1856 in Waterville and
Troop / of Southbury.
The final part of the Scout Ac-
tiyities demonstration will be a
Camp Fire Scene led by Troop No.
sponsored by the Immaculate
Conception church with Troop
Watertown and Troop 9 Waterbury
cooperating.
This part of the Six Star Scout
Show will begin at $3.50 following
an exhibit of various types of
Scout Craft which will be open for
the inspection of the public at 600.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

Corporal Randall j. Mccarthy, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jerry Mccarthy of 2o2 South Elm Street. is enjoying
weeks furlough away from his medical detachment at
Lincoln Nebraska. His wife, the former Ruth Murphy
of Lake Hitchcock made the trip east with him. Ellis
worth Luddy former mxologist at Jim Murphys Grand
Street emporium and better known to more intimate
acquaintance as Gene now receiving his mail in
of the New York City postmaster He's corporal tech
nician, fifth grade
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

Mrs George Muligan of Phoenix Avenue Mary
Malone of 46 Oak Hill Avenue Catherine Cunningham
of AZ Bond Street and Shea Sheehan of ISL South Elm
Street. year-old undergraduate at ST. Marys Paro
cha School, beat todays deadne for used prayer books
and rosary beads for of armed forces with gen.
contributions yesterday. None will be accepted
after today for tonight shipments will go out to chap
lainS in all corners of the world
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
WHAT TO
DO ABOUT
CONSTIPATION
Ndieeof semo efowpre- eminent doeiOEs)

NAoWeeOE S9m0 q OuH Ie-eanAIssaat uVSSVAH
The strain Of modern life may tighten up
our lower digestive path and cause q "hoid-
up of food waste. That's the common rea-
son why. we have irreRulaTity.
The above is the advice Of some Of our
pre-eminent doctors. They say q laxative
may be taken occasionally as indicated. And
among others they recommend the laxative
ingredient in Espotabs. g..
Try Espotabs tonight as 'directed on che
label. See II you don't awake happily TO-
morrow full Of keen zest for the day - coe.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
BENEFIT revue
LISTED TON|TE
Honor Roll Committee Re-
peating Minstrel at
Sprague Gym
WATERVILLE
Correspondent. Alice MacMul-
len, Phone 3-7217

Waterville, March 20 - Tonight
marks the final public performance
of the Gay Ninieties Revue" spon-
sored by the Honor Roll committee.
Very ably directed by Cliff McHale.
The revue has already been given
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

John D. Whalen has assumed his duties assistant
trainmaster with the N. " N H. and Hartford Railroad
Company here. Horace Cook is coming along very
nicely after being confined to ST. Marys Hospital some
time with neuritis. Jebediah ]. Goodrich freight
brakeman has completed At years of service with the
railroad He retired last month";
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

Pfc Carmen J. LaFauci, son of Mrs Sarah LaFauci
of 81 Lamont Street. by direction of the President under
existing Army regulations has been awarded good con-
duct medal by the C. O. of Infantry Regiment in the
South Pacific, acknowledging exemplary behavior, eff
cheney and fidelity He entered the coor in June of 1910
and was stationed at Camp Banding Florida before go
ing overseas in January of 1912
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

Plays The Sweetest Trumpet In The World got last
minute deduction his income tax when baby boy
was born to Mrs. Spivak at 12:4O M, March 18th.
The new dependent weighed in at five and half
pounds.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

Mary Kenney, exponent of vitality, has been
declared Girl of the Week at the Waterbury Tool where
she is a supply clerk i'm the Main Office She has
brother, John, staff sergeant with the Army Air
Corps.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
SCOVILL COMPANY
STATEMENT FILED
No Indication OF Net Earn
ings Given; $8,269,292
Balance Reported

A balance of $8,269, 1893 was re-
vealed for the Scovin Mfg. Co. for
the year 1913. This was arrived at
following the deduction of expen-
ditures of $116,328,665 from total
gross income of $126, 235 ,581, accord
ing to the annual report of the
company just released.
A total of $6,175 SIT Of the balance
has been set aside as a reserve for
meeting yet undetermined charges
resulting from renegotiations of
contracts and reallocation of amor
tization which undoubtedly be ne
cessary during the readjustment
period following the end of the war
emergency.
Taxes assessed against the con-
Germ, according to the report, are in
the amount Of $22, 800, 900 for fed
eral excess profits tax, normal, sur
tax and declared value excess
profits taxes estimated at 81 1870, 900
and property and miscellaneous
taxes at $1,100,336 with social secur-
ity taxes at $1,352,934.
Williamsburg, Va, to Portmouth,
Me.
James Hyland Of Sheffield street.
is confined to his home with minor
illness.
Harold Harp" Dunn, who saw
service with the Army in Italy's is
now at Shore Rest in England.
Seaman Richard Wilke, who has
Just completed many months service
on the high seas is spending a Is
day leave with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Ameil Wilke Of Sheffield street.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

Corporal Robert T. Harriss, of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Harriss of IL Ambrose Street, is enjoying
furlough here. former member of the staff of the
Federal Department of immigration he is sta
toned at Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, with the Rainbow
Division.
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WANTED.

The Democrat has a position open
for a proof reader. Steady work.
VIII instruct beginner If neces-
sary. Apply in person at Water
bury Democrat. Phone 4-2121 for
appointment.
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Good Evening.
IN THE ROUGH

The old nibhck is sort of rusty,
/ need some new clubs,
But clubs are luxury today
So I'll give them few ruhs.
Almost any Saturday now
III look the old course over,
Check up the green's and such,
Me and my hound dog Rover.
This ayem shifted the air,
In it was hint of spring,
So guess I'll visit my locker room
And give the caddy master ring.
MY clubs must be sort Of seedy,
Gosh, 1 need lot of new stuff,
But perhaps it will do another year
Fir guy that's always in the rough!
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29
ASPARAGUS AND KINGS

The time has come the walrus said
To talk of springlike things,
Shoes and shad and frogs legs,
Asparagus and kings
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-03-29

FASHIONS ARE FUN
My dear. what q cute hat,
All made Of flowers
But1what will happen tOit
I'm April showers!