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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Daily Almanac

Moon rises Al iIi2e ., N, lwRF nms),
sun rises ~ bib6 0, No., sets ~ 1858 ., m,
fYaf liine),
Vehicles must he lighted thirty minutes
after sunset
sun Fi'es 81 $3.50 3, ~, sets at TibT ., No.
(WaT time),
Vehicles must be lighted thirty minutes
after sunset
Sun rises 81 sos ., NJ. sets at 1868 y, m,
(waF tigael.
Vehicles Hsiwt BE- sighted thirty minutes
after sunset.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09


me ] should BIZ
m ore liberal. ]
should buy a new
car, ] should buy
present for people
] am not a tight.
wad, I'm just pa.
tFiotie. They don't
realize that should
] become 9 spend,
thrift, I'd only b.
taking goods OF
the market AT 4
point where an In,
Gpaa cad Aana amf
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09

OF quiet beauty, olive green or gray
or wood brown with patterned wings
whose detail Is quite invisible until
you have captured one and stilled
those wings. And then, too, you can
see why the sphinx chooses the
petunals and the nieotlana At which
10 feed, II mas q snout or sucking
tube as long rs your finger which
Is e0lled like q nautilus shell there
beneath It's eyes when not IN use,
When II Is feeding. that sn0ut eem
be thrust into the depths Of any
floral trumpet 10 reach the nectar
drops.
The sphinx seldom comes 10 bat.
ter Us life away against q pane pY
screen when the lights have been
turned on inside the house, Usually
II Is the luna moth which comes,
with us light green wings, or the
neer0pia or p0lyphemns, yellow nF
brown or delicate shade OF red, IN
terms or beauty, ell three snTnass
the sphinx, But the sphinx pfQbs
ably on SEES them because u has
q lesser degree OF llgFtsmadness ~
q greater concentration on the
necessities OF life. And II there's .
moral here, II started With d horn
worm gnaWing At Flpening tomato,
Natures morals, u any are 70 be
found, have some very strange eblls
nuities,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09

labor than IN pre-
venting increases
in the price Of
products.
As a represent
alive Of labor and
member Of the
National War L..
Dor Board. I have
often protested
against the IN.
creascs in the
price Of goods
which the work.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09

Y ct, WI eO we
thtnk o little
more deeply, We
see that these
men were not the
truly great men,
Who have been
the truly great
meDf Let MS call
the roll Moses,
through whom
God gave the Ter
q ON mandments,
20arataG the mill.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Pay No More
Nv ROBERT J. WATT

To prevent disaster from imitation
the Government has tried TO keep
prices from rising. Thus far the
effort has been more successful In
preventing increases IN the price OF
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Selected Poem


P0kTsCRIPT
Arthur Wallace Peach W the New YORK Tines
The oyeliest words know the tbFushes write
~ summer dnkks across the ffagf@lt night
When busy hours have said all they could say,
The thFnsles add postscript 70 the dayl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Feeds On Loose Dollars
nv THOMAS a MORGAN

President, The Sperry Corporation
Your dollars are the blood plasma
Of the home front. Spent patriotic
ally nov they viii help save the
Democratic way of life IN the United
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Bad Time TO Spend
BY JACK BENNY

] have been falsely accused of be.
lng sttngy, Frequently Rochester or
Mary or Don or even Denis tells
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09

" tho1 cnas1 bclieve. an things are possible
20 him that believeth.-Nlark s:23
no iron chain. or outward force Of any kind.
could ever compel the soul Of man 10 believe
or 10 disbclieve: Il is his own incefeasibe light.
that judgment OF his: he viii reign and believe
there by the grace Of God alone-Carlyle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09
Washington Merry-Go-Round DREW By PEARSON

Bonke Returns WPB Bottle FOR Big Business
Weinberg Once Nelson supporter Now Opposes Him Agency
FDR 1910 composn Story Coed Illustration Of Political Aeumer
Friend Persuaded Foey Woy cheosO Not Atoek eth
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09

In the article on Ivy Poisoning
published here recently ] wondered
whether the immunity some people
acquire BY eating q wee bit OF IVY
leaf early in the season protects
against ivy poisoning for the season
or longer, and invited readers who
have had experience TO tel us about
II.
Answer-I received q raft Of letters
telling Of all sorts Of fayorite rene.
dies for Ivy poisoning and assorted
skin conditions. only one mention
ing eating of ivy leaf and lifelong
immunity thereafter. do not advise
eating poison Ivy leaf-if you try
Il you must do so at your own
peril am glad to send on request
q pamphlet about prevention ana
treatment Of Ivy poisoning, II you
inclose q stamped self addressed
envelope.
What Is the longest time for
change of life to iast2 Menssruation
stopped at 81 and now at 81 seem to
be going through most OF the sylnp-
tOFns2 mrs. q. L.
Answer-TheFe are no symptoms
normally. Just cessation OF menstFu-
alton. not abrupt. but gradual, IN
the course Of several months. Send.
stamped self addressed envelope for
pamphlet ON THE Men0pause."
Rules for Reducing
How can ] get your rules for re-
ducingp is water fattening2 drink
a lot OF water. MRS. l., IT, -
Answer - Send twenty-five cents
and stamped self addressed envelope
for ga0klet RULES for Reducing
Water Is not fatteDlng
Copyright 1914, John p. Ollie Coz
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-08-09

WASHINGTON
peacetme
washington unique
the fight
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Versatile Catalina Stars
As Dumbo, the Lifesuvel

WASH1NGTON-The Consolidated Cat
alma, already war famous for its versatility,
now stars in a new role, saver of downed air
men, and has new name Dumbo.
Dumbo is no one arplane. 1t is the af-
fectlonate title for any one of the Pratt &
Whitney powered Catalina flying boats which
search the South Pacific for fers in distress.
Recently, after an Allied smash left Kavi-
eng abaze, Dumbo performed one of his
most spectacular rescues.
Fifteen American fiers from eight planes
f1oated helplessly in the shel-torn water.
Dumbo appeared. Four times the Catalina
plowed through the enemy fire to land in
the harbor. -Four times Dumbos Hamilton
Standard propellers went into low pitch and
lifted the flying boat - saving all Is airmen
The tale of another Dumbo rescue is told
by the crew of Mitchell bomber which had
crashed few miles off Jap island. The
enemy rolled field guns out on the beach to
shell the helpless crew in their rubber RATS.
Through the hail of shellfre came nom
chalant Dumbo, calmly landed picked up the
stranded airmen, radioed to an American base.
Dumbo's call sent flight of Vought Cor
sairs into the air. Before the Japs could get
their field pieces under cover, the Corsairs
swept over, killing every Jap on the beach.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
United Air Lines Spans
Country 3,OO0th Time

NEW YORK-United Air Lines, on JAM
II, 1914, made its 50000th transcontinental
flight. In rolling up this record its planes COW
cred over Us million miles in l6H years of
coast-to-coast flying. United is the first air.
line to pass this milestone in air transport,
according to company officials.
The systems first transcontinental flights
were made in Wasp-powe1ed Boeng 40-A
mail planes with los m.ph. cruising speed
The two passengers sat on the mail sacks.
Today's Twin Wasp-powered Mainliners,
Douglas DC-3's, carry Fl passengers and
cruise at l80 miles per hour.
Tomorrow's Manliner fleet will include
Douglas DC-4 Skymasters. They will be
driven by four higher Pratt &
Whitney engines, will carry AZ passengers,
and will cruise at 220 miles per hour, flying
coast to coast in about twelve hours.
In May l94l, United Air Lines had 20
transport planes in operation. Then the Army
took over half the domestic airline equip
ment. Yet, with fewer airplanes, United Air
Lines has flown more passenger, freight and
mail airline miles than ever before
To help do this, United has increased its
Mainliners' time in the air from S1z to nearly
IL hours day. In addition, it has increased
time between overhaus of its Pratt & Whit
ney engines from $50 to $50 hours.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

But land-based Corsair squadrons took up
protective patrol high over the surface fleet
as the carrier planes took off.
Eighteen enemy torpedo bombers appeared,
heading for one of the carriers, intent on the
kill.
Out of nowhere screamed Corsairs of
1t. Commander John Thomas Blackburn's
"Jolly Roger" squadron, based on a nearby
tropical island. They knocked down II Of the
Jap planes. The 18th got through.
But right behind it was Corsair, splitting
so caliber slugs from its wing guns. The
Jap bored relentlessly through the murderous
fax put up by the ships. The Corsair came
in, too, determined to prevent the Jap from
slamming his torpedo home.
With only seconds to go the Corsair blew
the Jap apart. The American plane zoomed
away, riddled by US. fax but still flying.
With the engagement over, all the "Jolly
Rogers" landed on a carrier, refueled and
then resumed patrol.
The Rabaul raiders returned to the fleet to
find their carriers unharmed. The "Jolly
Rogers" went home.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
laps "FataI Weakness"

PEARL HARBOR-"Japanese avia-
tion does not belong in the big leagues"
according to Rear Admiral Arthur w.
Radford, chief of staff of the Pacific Fleet
Air Force.
"The fatal weakness is their engine de-
velopment. The Japs still lag three to four
years behind us in the development of high
powered aircraft engines and this lag is
probably the basic reason why they were
knocked out so rapidly over Truk, Eniwe-
tok and other island bases," Admiral Rad
ford declared.
II don't know of single Jap engine
that isn't basic swipe from one of our
old models, though of course they may
have copied some German models also,"
he concluded.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
He|ieopter Rushes P|usmu
In History-Muking Flight

NEW YORK-On blustery January day,
Coast Guard Sikorsky R4, piloted by Com
mander Frank A. Erickson, carried out an
emergency mission, to fulfill the first opera
tional assignment in the history of direct
lift aircraft.
The destroyer U. SIS. Turner had exploded
in the Ambrose Channel. Survivors had been
landed on Sandy Hook, far down across the
bay. They were urgently in need of blood
plasma, banked in Manhattan. Snow, rain and
wind had grounded all airplanes Harbor traf-
Evening star., 1944-03-08

PHots overcome tremendous obstacles to
fly "over the hump" Their heavily loaded
transports must climb $4,000 feet in IS min
utes to get over the first pass between the
hve-mile-high mountains.
That climb is like walking from the inside
of roaring oven into winter day in the
Yukon. At take-off, the thermometer registers
1lO' in the shade, and the fliers have to wear
gloves so they won't burn their fingers on the
controls The only other things they wear ars
socks, shoes and shorts.
25' Below "Over the Hump"
At 5000 feet it gets little cool and the
pilots pull on their pants At $4,000 it begins
to get really cold and the feece-lined suit goes
on. Even then, there's plenty of shivering in
the ~ to Is below zero temperatures.
After the first ridge is passed, the ATc
pilots must keep their Pratt & Whitney-pow-
cred transports flying at 16,OOO-feet altitude
or more for the rest of the 500-mie trip That
means the pilots are on oxygen six hours
out of seven on the round trip between India
and China.
For the eight long months of the monsoon
season they fly mostly on instrument, because
the weather is really thick But they fly. They,
fight some of the most vicious air currents
in the world amid the jumbled Himalayas.
All Supplies Go In By Air
Everything imaginable goes into China
by air - gasoline, bombs, jeeps, artillery,
rifles, ammunition, clothing, aircraft engines. ]
spare parts and food, in quantities which,
dwarf the IS 900 tons a month formerly
carried over the Burma road. On return trips,
tungsten, mica and other vital materials are
flown out, in addition to military PERSONNEL
On the grueling run, Douglas Skytrains
and Skymasters, Consolidated Liberator Ex-t
presses and Curtiss Commands are used.
All are powered by Pratt & Whitney enginess
The Skytrains, Skymasters and Liberator Ex.
presses are equipped with Hamilton Standard
Hydromatic propellers.
The India-C China air route was opened less
than month after the fall of Burma. II
started with handful of veteran Douglas
Skytrains, Army version of the familiar
DC-3 commercial transport. There were few
pilots, almost no servicemen. Operations be-
gan from single landing strip. There were
no dispersal areas for air raid protection.
Servicing was done in the open. Crews loaded
their own airplanes. Flying the uncharted,
little-known route, pilots felt their way over
the mountains and jungles to China.
More Planes and Pilots Arrive
A month later more Skytrains came. Addi-
tfonal pilots came from the domestic airlines
and the American Volunteer Group. Things
were beginning to move.
The real expansion began early in 1o43,
when the 1ndia-China lifeline was put into
the hands of the Air Transport Command and
new transports like the Curtss Commando,
Liberator Express and Douglas Skymaster
with their large capacities were put into ser.
vice.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

long-range bombing attacks upon the Nazis.
Now Pratt & Whitney's successful applica-
tion of water injection" has appreciably in
creased the horsepower of the Double Wasp
engine, and the victory ratio of Thunderbolt
pilots promises to go even higher.
Terrible Twins" Down 1854 Japs
Pilots of the Navy's Terrible Twins" the
Vought Corsair and the Grumman Hellcat
fighters, have shot down 884 Jap planes with
a loss of 10 of our fighters.
The Corsairs first went into action with
the Marines in February 1943. By the end of
the year, Corsair pilots had destroyed 584
Japanese planes in the air and many more on
the ground at cost of 108 Corsairs.
The Grumman Hellcat is the latest Amer
lean entry in the Pacific fighting. In their
first four months of action Navy pilots flying
Hellcats had shot down 800 enemy planes
while escorting bombers and torpedo planes
and protecting their own carrier task forces.
Hellcat losses were 62.
Evening star., 1944-03-08


1t was real battering. The Japs were
driven so far underground, their aerial de-
fenses so weakened that the fleet was able to
line up off the Marshalls and pound with its
big guns in comparative immunity. Mean
while carrier-based dive and torpedo bomb
ers hit strong points and carrier fighters COW
cred landings
Army and Marine forces, in their most suc-
cessful amphibious action to date, swarmed
ashore and mopped up. The concentrated air
attacks and naval bombardment had broken
the backbone of Jap resistance.
Evening star., 1944-03-08

fc was creeping through the murk Every
minute counted.
Here was situation to challenge the Coast
Guard motto, Semper ParatnS always
Ready. The Coast Guard came through.
Over at Floyd Bennett Field, Commander
Erickson rolled one of his Sikorsky helicop-
ters out of the hangar. Lifting into pelting
snow, he headed at tree-top level for Battery
Park, at the tip of crowded Manhattan. There
he landed, took on plasma from Red Cross
truck and lifted off again across the bay, keep
ing to his course at masthead height Four
teen minutes later, he settled down at Sandy
Hook, delivering his precious cargo exactly
where it was needed, long before it could have
reached the survivors by any other means of
transportation.
There were no crowds, no cameras, no fam
fare. Commander Erickson described the mis-.
sion as routine" But history had been made.
AnVERTTSENENT
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Darlington Joins Propeller Team

DARLINGTON, R. I.-Hamlton Stand
ards newest plant officially became part of
Americas propeller production team, when
the first propeller for Douglas Dauntless
dive bomber rolled off its production lines
here on January "a.
The work of converting the former textile
mill began only last July. In near record time
the building was rehabilitated and equipped
Tor precision manufacture.
The Hamilton Standard team produces
more than 1916 of Americas combat trans
port and advanced training propellers Be-
sides the parent plant at East Hartford Conn.
propeller production units include satellites
here, at Norwich, Conn, and Westerly, R. l.,
as we'll as the icensee plants of Nash-Kel-
vnator, Remington Rand, Frigidaire and
Canadian Propellers, Ltd.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Can You Answer These?

@. How many air route miles do the
American civil airlines fly within the
United States?
A. 43,404 route miles. In 1913 the air
lines few their airplanes more than one
hundred million miles over these routes.
@. Are us. bombers going to Russia?
A. Yes. For example, the US. has de-
livered more than 1000 Douglas Havocs.
G. How many times have airplanes of
the British and American Ferry Com
mands crossed the Atlantic?
A. More than 10000. The 10,0O0tA
crossing was made on Christmas Eve-a
nine-hour nonstop flight by Boeing Fly
ing Fortress.
@. In military parlance what is meant
by Roger?
A. Message received and understood"
@. What is the Black Widow?
A. The Army's newest night fighter,
built by Northrop, driven by two high
powered Pratt & Whitney engines.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Fighting Corsoirs" Set Record

ADVANCED PACIFIC AIR BASE
Rabaurs deadliest attackers, members of Ma
rine squadron, "The Fighting Corsairs," are
taking well earned rest after having fn-
ished their third tour of combat duty, in
which they destroyed 104H Jap planes, 851l
of them in single month, a record in this
area.
The Fighting Corsairs," so-called from
their 2,OOO-horsepower Vought Corsair fight
ing planes, have ten aces in their ranks.
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Pre- Invasion Airwork Softens Morshu||s
coordnoed 75-Doy Boens by Aimen Of Army, Navy and
Marines Poves Way for Final Assault

ABOARD THE CENTRAL PACIFIC COMMANDERS FLAGSHIP
With 75day coordinated aerial assault
the Marshall landing Hoover
OF the CentP
In this offensive units Of the Ay Seventh Air
with Marine and Navy hs gasoline dumps
batter hangers and and ground pounding
found impossible
undoubtedly would have discovered
aircraft cdg Consolidated American Mtches Repc
Thundrbos Loheed Vought Cors and %
Evening star., 1944-03-08

by the superiority OF its hghter planes.
Both Germany and Japan are now bring
ing out improved fighter models which COM
mand the respect of Allied airmen.
This means that America, even while it is
bending every effort toward construction of
the big bombers to smash at the enemys heart,
must more than match his efforts in the fight
er field. For upon our long-range fighter
planes is placed the heavy responsibility of
going along with the big bombers to shield
them from Axis fighter attacks.
Battle reports indicate that the traditional
american insistence upon chronological su-
periority is paying dividends in the fighter
field as we'll as among the bombers.
Superior Engine Power Pays Off
During the past year, America has hurled
into action three new fighters. They are the
Army's Republic Thunderbolt, the Navy's
Vought Corsair and Grumman Hellcat. Each
has established its superiority over the enemy.
Each is driven by 2,000-horsepower Pratt &
Whitney Double Wasp engine. This gives
American pilots decided advantage in horse
power over both Nazs and Japs.
Reports from Truk in the Pacific recently
emphasized the Importance of this superior
engine power. based aircraft, because
Of their greater structural weight, are sup
posed to be at disadvantage when tangling
with shore-based aircraft
Navy Hellcats, however, struck at the
famed Japanese stronghold and conquered
the best the enemy had to offer right over his
own base. Superior engine power made it pos
sible for these U. s. Navy heavy carrier
based fighters to overwhelm Japan's best
land-based planes.
Thunderbolts Destroy 657 Nazi Planes
Combat reports from other theatres are
also impressive. In action with the Eighth
Air Force in the big league over Europe last
year, Thunderbolt pilots definitely shot down
657 Nazi planes while losing l56 of their own.
The Thunderbolt's outstanding perform
ance has played an important part in our
Evening star., 1944-03-08
New Tactics Add to Nuvy's Punch
Carriers lovneh All Ponss Mission; jap. Come for
Overwhelmed by Lond-Bossd corsoirs Flying Top Cover

WAsH1NGTON-Voug Cors flying for the US Navy
helped develop and successful tactical operation.
Their enables them
task
the carriers whose entire complement of fighters then
torpedo planes striking missions.
These
HILL,
Evening star., 1944-03-08
Aerial Route Over the Hump"
Keeps (hinu's Life Line Open
From Indo Eoeh Doy Hundreds Of u s. Transports Cross
Lofty HimoIoyos, conqverins Fos Cold and Vicious.
Winds TO Deliver Precious Corqoes

ASSAM NDOver the jagged peaks of the mayas
Army Air Transport Command flying
anne the
Today ve the hump probably biggest transport oper-
the world 1t has pilots than the
sends daily than the 20 scheduled Field
New York
To develop uneng battle
Evening star., 1944-03-08
New High-Powered U.S.. Fighters
Give Allies Edge in Air War
Axis Countries Forced Concentrate Fighters Defense;
Powerfully Ensned ThunderboIts, cosoirs and HeI|cos
Help Mointon Combat Superiority

Observation-Disclosures from Axis indicate
They production fighter
the Allied bombing attacks bases
In contrast America building fighters
transports with which to smother the Axis from the air.
Concentration defensive fighter production by both Axis shows
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-06-06
NOTICE

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-06-06

mics had been heaved over to con fuse the ground defenses.
 The German High Command saic the Allied forces suffered partic- ularly heavy reverses in the Caer area of northern France, claiming an entire regiment of paratroopers was destroyed in that section.
 A DNB report said the German forces are launching a counter attack and knocked out 35 heavy Allied tanks at Snelles in the Seine Bay area, alone.
 German Claims
 By noon the innumerable bar riers on the beaches are rendering the enemy landings extremely diff ficult. In the area east of Cher bourg massed German counter thrusts are making good headway The enemy now is throwing the bulk of his landing troops into the area between Cherbourg and Oys- treham," the German report said.
 Nazi reports gave Caen at the base of the Normandy Peninsula 120 miles northwest of Paris, as the scene of the gravest fighting They said the grand scale landings were made between the mouths of the Rivers Seine and Wire, and claimed a cruiser and a large troop crammed landing vessel were sunk off Cherbourg.
 Planes Blacken Sky
 Eye witnesses early this morning said American planes, transports and gliders are covering the air thick as flies and the sky is black with American planes
 In Stockholm, Berlin correspond ents of Aftonbladet asserted in a dispatch that the Allied invasion attacks seem directed against the most heavily defended section of the French coast, and aimed di- rectly at Paris.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-06-06

Man is the newest of all the ami malS.