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Evening star., 1944-05-14
SITUATIONS DOMESTIC

CURTAINS washed and streached. NO.
DANisH-AMERICAN GIRL. experienced
as cook or housekeeper. Miss Julie, 7O9
ExPiEsRiEaNcED LAUNpREss wants day
GIRL, coiored, wishes % par part-time tH Jobs in
apt. morning, z to ] pm. days; eve
ming; 2:30 to $50 pm, days wk. HO
GIRL GIRL fcqloJ5eeds, wants part time or day
GGdIfRaL, GIRL, colored. wants days work. Hobart
Girl, Girl, coloreGs desires job as nursemaid
GIRL colored experienced, desires per-
mganent day work for employed people,
SOC hr. plus carfare; city ref. Call Dupont
GIRL. eoIored, desires g:h.w. in private
GIRL, colored, desires work as mothers
helper E1a a35o willing to learn; live out prefd.
LADY. colored g.h.w.. plain cooking, for
employed family or couple; refs. TR.
LI4AUNDREssaDoes hand laundry at home.
MAN AND WOMAN, colored professional
spring housecleaners. have few early
days Reasonable workers. Lincoln 57SS.
WOMAN to do day work; So and carfare:
Mondays; Wednesdays; Thursdays, Fri
WOMAN, colored, wishes days week
work, SOC an hour and car fare North
WOMAN. colored wishes Job nights, 70
to am North 08Ql.
QUIET COL0RED COUPLE wishes room
ICES Es nc Husband employed, nondrinkers.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
HELP WoMEk.
YOUNG WOMAN

Hish school graduate, under 26 years of
age. accurate typiSt and willing to do
clerical work. Sl15-Sl30 per month to
start, depending upon qualifications g.
day, 43-hour week. Saturday afternoons
on. Automatic increases, paid vacations,
free transportation, permanent position
Apply personnel department, Room 300
36th and Prospect ave. NV, Georgetown
Take Route No. 20 Cabin John or Glen
Echo streetcar. This position will be of
special interest to those residing in George
town or nearby MARYLAND or Virginia. as
Evening star., 1944-05-14
REPAIRS AND SERVICES.

ELECTRIC WIRING, fixtures, extra out
let's, repairs. old houses a speciality, Resal
Elec. Co. 36Oo Ga. ave RIA 1891
Continued on Next Page.I
Evening star., 1944-05-14

NATURE WOMAN,
Bookkeeper-secty., experienced ofdce asst.
wishes permanent position advancement.
Box 432-G. Star. .
ANALYST,
RESEARCH WORKER AVAILABLE ALSO
EXPERIENCED IN EDITING. BOX 3s3-G.
STAR.
Evening star., 1944-05-14
YOUNG WOMEN

With some college training. under 35 years
of age. for work with figures of a non
accounting nature. Reasoning ability, &C
curacy and a liking for detail essential
Those with mathematic major preferred;
Sl40 per mo. TO start, with excellent op-
portunity for advancement. Apply week
day mornings, Personnel Dept. Room 300.
CAPITAL Transit Co, 36th and Prospect
ave. NV. Take Route No. 20 Cabin john
streetcar TO door. These positions will be
of special interest to those residing in
GEORGETOWN or nearby Md. or Va, as this
Evening star., 1944-05-14
CLERKS. FOR ANSWERING

Phone. filing, typing; no experience neces-
sary: hours. 9:30 to $3.50 and 9:30 to ] 80
on Saturdays; white, gentle; Csc hour to
start. BOX 29S-D. Star
Evening star., 1944-05-14
WOMEN WANTED.

You can now earn $40 per week and
more as streetcar-bus operators or work
part time as Streetcar conductors Essen
tfal work; experience not necessary: train
ing paid for; no. Sundays or night work,
house, paid vacations. free transportation,
separate clubrooms, congenial fellow work
ers. Vacancies at 18th and East Capitol
car line. Apply weekday mornings.
CAPITAL TRANSIT CO.
36th and Prospect Ave. NV, GEORGETOWN
Take Route 20 Cabin John Streetcar
Evening star., 1944-05-14
SITUATIONS MEN Cont

artist, yrs local exp, can handle routine
ofhce duties for sustaining salary and
time to do free-lance work Prefer adver.
PLUMBER wants to work under boss: S1a
years experience in jobbing and new
work. OR 24O3
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-27

DISCS, The Fishes. ."
4 twelfth 1odioc sign. is
generally depicted by two
fishes. To the oncient Egyp-
fions this sign Indicted COM
ing Spring. In Greek legend.
Venus ond her son. Cupid.
c hanged themselves into
fishes offer Looping into the
Evphrofes River TO eIUde the
giont. Typhon. To mork the
incident, Minerva SET two
fishes among the Sfors.
(See NEXT Poge)
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-02-27

The Nations Reading Habit
Magazine Srction-Detroit Times
Copyright. 1914 by American Weekly. Inc
- All Rights Reserved
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Senate And House Play
Ping-Pong With Tax Bill

law amendments which snarled
senate debate for more than a
week.
Approving the senate-incorpor-
ated December 81. 1914 termination
date for renegotiation, Knutson
said:
Personally. I'm In favor OF term
mating renegotiation. As matter
OF fact. we should have provided
for termination next December 81
ON the theory that II the procuT-
ment division hasn't acquired an
understanding OF production costs
by this time, President Roosevelt
should get some new members at
work making contracts. They have
had nearly three years experience.
They should be able TO negotiate
contracts that will stand up"
Democratic ways and means
members declined 10 comment on
the senate version Of the tax bill
until they have had time TO read II
but they agreed no major dificul-
ties were apparent which would
prolong conference consideration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
FDR Fourth Tern, For
President" Gets Impetus

Washington, Jan. 22-(UP)-The
Democratic National Committee will
meet today TO prepare for. and per-
haps launch. President Roosevelt's
fourth term campaign.
A promoting conference OF mid
west Democrats yesterday adopted
a resolution calling for Mr.. Roose-
welt 10 run again. When the pTesi-
dent was told about 1t he said
oh"
That was all.
Official business before the ma
tional committee today Is TO select
a time and place for the national
convention and to receive the resig-
nation OF Frank @. Walker as chair
man. Walker Is slated TO be sue
ceeded by Robert Il. flanagan Of
Missouri. commissioner OF internal
revenue. There was some talk Of
leaving final selection Of O conven-
ton date TO the new chairman in
stead Of making the selection today.
The convention evidently will be-
held IN Chicago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22

Washington, Jan. ~ = CUPO -
The 1914 tax bill, carrying s2,276.-
6OO,OO0 In additional revenue as 1t
passed the senate late yesterday.
today was headed for the House
again where 1t Will be rejected
speedily and sent into conference
for compromise next Monday.
Amounting to less than a quarter
OF the si0.5O0 .OO0, 600 asked by the
Treasury to help finance the war
and prevent imitation. the present
bill has been denounced as "un-
realistic" by President Roosevelt.
Considerable conference debate
on the measure was indicated by
House Ways and Means Committee
member Harold Knutson, r., Mimi.
who said the House would insist on
It's Indignation Of victory and regu-
lar individual income taxes-which
the senate rejected.
However, Democratic members OF
the committee predicted that
agreement would be reached in
two days. Neither quarter expected
any difAcuity over the renegotlation
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Big Fire
InHortford

East Hartford, Jan. 22-CUP)--
The Campagna Boat Construction
company, working on government
landing barge contracts, was swept
by the general alarm fire today and
was believed to have been entirely
destroyed.
The fire was raging two hours
after the first alarm was sounded,
despite efforts of flremen to control
it, and the flames illuminated the
sky for several miles.
The plant consisted Of one large
building, located near railroad
line, and adjacent to a large gov
eminent housing project and nu-
merous residences and stores. ABB
sence Of wind kept the flames from
spreading. and the fire department
said that the whole town would
have gone up" had the blaze been
stirred by wind.
Quantities OF kiln-dried lumber
fed the flames which enveloped the
entire plant.
Loss could not be estimated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22

The Castel Gondolfo area
previously had been restrict
ed for Allied airmen, because
Of the proximity of the Papal
residence, but the ban was
lifted when it was learned
that the Germans were TAX
ing advantage of the inn
munity.
One of the participating pilots re-
ported that Castel Gondolfo "never
felt thing, so cautious were the
American airmen in their precision
bombing.
Flying Fortresses with an escort
of nghtnings, striking far to the
west, neutralized the German air.
dromes at Estes LIE Tube and Salon,
near Marseilles, France, with a
heavy raid during which II inter-
cepting planes were shot down.
Both airflelds were well covered
with bombs at a time when glider
bom!1ers and torpedo planes based
there have taken off for attacks on
the Allied invasion fleet preparing
for the landings below Rome.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
NoCIue In
Wife's Death

Chicago, Jan. 22.- CU.P.) - The
only tangible clues in the fatal
shooting of Mrs. Adele Born Will
hams, SIS, wealthy socialite wife Of
a state department attache. today
led police back to the fashionable
Drake Hotel overlooking the curv-
ing shoreline Of windswept Lake
Michigan.
Coroner A. L. Brodie planned to
open two safety deposit boxes
which Mrs. Wil,i0mG rented at the
hotel few hours before she was
shot in her room Wednesday night,
to determine what the wealthy So
cial figure decided was no longer
safe in her room Is days after she
registered at the hotel.
The slain woman's family incl
Gated that the deposit boxes might
contain $4,000 worth OF jewelry
which the woman brought with her
CONTINUED on Page ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
ZONE RIGHTS
TO Be aired
IN COURT SOON

Long drawn-out litigation
of East End residents against
extension of the East Main
Street business area into
Wales Street will be heard
in the State Supreme Court
of Errors in Hartford short
ly, it was revealed today
when the February docket
was released. The appeal
hearing was sought by the
Zoning Board of Appeals OF
the City of Waterbury and
the Sycamore Corporation
of West HI artfOrd after
Superior Court Judge John
A. Cornell handed down a
judgment for the plaintiffs in
June, 1912.
The case is listed on next month S
list but since the evidence has not
yCL 0CCA4 PI AlOCu ~ 40 UCAACNCO ~ may
rest on the docket until later in the
winter or early spring. The litigation
was started nearly four years ago
when the coming board permitted
an addition to the Sycamore con-
Germs building at East Main and
Wales street occupied by the First
National Super Market.
JUG Cornell ruled that the board
erred in permitting the erection and
his decision in effect was an order
to remove the addition, made at an
estimated cost of $4,000.
Plaintiffs in the case are: Henry
j. Gordon Of 20 Wales street, Helen
Meridas OF 80 Wales street, Frank
Gaglione of SO Wales street. and the
Waterbury Second Mortgage corpor-
alton. The East End Community
club was a party plaintiff originally
but was dropped when the judge
ruled the organization could not be
aggrieved in the legal sense in that
1t did not own real estate.
The property involved in the litig-
alton is next doc. to the old Chief
Two Moon building, also a subject
of controversy in the East End since
it left the hands of its previous own
err.
Among the other cases listed on
the docket Is the criminal appeal
taken by Michael Churchelow OF
Naugatuck, who was sentenced to a
term OF to 7 years in states prison
last Oct. 20 after he was found
guilty by Judge Cornell on a charge
Of criminal assault. The evidence has
not yet been printed. Churchelow Is
free under a $4,000 bond at the
present time.
Civil action appeals listed include,
the Porter will case, taken by the
City of Waterbury to the high court
in an effort to secure funds to set
up a trade school In this city.
Other cases listed are: John Nc
Keenan, against the City OF Water
bury, plaintiffs appeal; John Brod-
erick against the City Of Waterbury,
Continued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22

Mr.. Roosevelt received some OF
the midwest conference partici-
pants at the White House yesterday
afternoon before reception for the
membership OF the committee as a
whole. Oscar Ewing OF New York,
vice chairman OF the national COM
mittee, walked into the executive
ONCE with Elmer Klein. Democratic
state chairman from Minnesota, and
Elmer Benson. farmer laborite and
former governor OF that state. Mr.,
Roosevelt has been trying since mid
way In his 1895 presidential cam
paign TO combine the Democratic
and farmer-iabor parties.
He told Ewing he was delighted
10 see Benson and Kelm together
and that when such men were In
partnership II was - red letter
day."
There was some Roosevelt
sentiment In and around the firing
es Of this national committee meet
CONTINUED on Page a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Jops Bombed
In RomuAreo

Advanced Allied Headquarters
New Guinea, Jan. % - (UP) -
Allied naval and air blasting OF
Japanese attempts to reinforce
their New Guinea garrisons were
reported today by General Douglas
MacArthur's commilnique, with the
operations limiting Of q determined
two-day, drive on the strong enemy
coastal base OF Madang, on the
northern coast.
Allied medium bombers and
fighters dropped "a tons Of bombs
on Japanese positions In the upper
Ramu Valley; American PIT boats
speeding through the Japanese
controlled waters of Madang, sank
four enemy troop laden barges aAd
other medium bombers and fighters
sank 20 barges and damaged others
at Hansa Bay, 100 miles north OF
Madang.
The concentrated air attacks In
the Ramu Valley. q headquarters
spokesman said, indicated pos
sible Australian offensive with linz
tied detectives as the veteran jun
gle fighters continued TO improve
their positions only 80 miles south
Of Madang.
The attacks by the PIT boats
Thursday night carried them far
ther north than at any time pre-
viously and followed Allied sue
cesses In extending their control
OF the coast TO O point As miles be-
low.
requirements
Navy crews reported that the
equipment Of the 100 Japanese
troops killed when the barges sank
indicated they were requirements
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Argentina To Investigate
Alleged Axis Spy Ring

Buenos Aires, Jan. 2z.-(UP)-Tne
Argentine government announced
today that it was pressing a com
plete investigation" of an alleged
Axis spy ring in this country fol-
lowing the arrest of a member of
the Argentine consular service by
British counter espionage officers at
Trinidad.
British authorities at Trinidad
disclosed late yesterday that the
consular employe, Alberto Osmar
Helmuth, was arrested while en-
route to Europe and held after it
was found he was IAN enemy of
the United Nations"
The Argentine foreign Office i'm
mediately announced Helmuth's dis
missal from the consular service.
(The London radio, in a broad
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Reds Drive
Battered Foe
From Bases

Moscow, Jan. 22-CUP)-Red ar
mics cleared the Germans from a
second direct railway between Le-
ningrad and Moscow today and
pressed on in pursuit Of enemy units
fleeing in disorder from their shat
tered northwestern front defenses.
The Soviet high command said
the remnants of German divisions
which besieged Leningrad for more
than two years were abandoning
one stronghold after another and
casting aside their arms IN a pan
icky attempt to escape a Soviet
trap that threatened to annihilate
300, 600 Of them.
Enemy forces Immediately south
of Leningrad were squeezed into a
35-mile wide corridor that was dis
migrating rapidly under Soviet
pressure from three sides. Consid-
cradle prisoners were being round
ed up, the Soviet high command
said.
Gen. Leonid A. Govorov, com
mander of the Leningrad armies,
and Gen. Kyril A. Meretsllov, lib
orator of Novgorod, reopened the
second direct railway line between
Moscow and Leningrad yesterday
with the capture of Kga. five-way
railway junction % miles east
southeast of Leningrad.
Occupation of Mga and several
surrounding localities cleared the
Germans from the Leningrad-Mga-
Kirishi-Moscow railroad. Previous
ly, the Soviets had to rely on an
emergency line skirting Lake La
doga from Volkrovstroi on the Volk-
hok River to Schusselburg and
thence over a short line to Lenin-
grad for communication between
the country's two largest cities.
1t was over the emergency line,
built following the smashing of the
Leningrad blockade in December
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
NO SABOTAGE
IN FIRE AT
Wells PLANT

Sabotage was discounted
as a cause of the blaze which
leveled the A. H. Wells &
Company plant on Water
town Avenue the morning
of January 5 in a report filed
with the State Fire Marshal
by Waterbury Fire Marshal
Dennis ]. Lahey this morn
ing.
The marshal's report reveals that
the main structure was over so years
old, dry and finder life. The floors
were oil soaked, dry kerosene used
to soak up oils. There was a stor-
age Of kerosene and other oils, as
we'll as a good sized container of
spot remover of an explosive ten
dency in the vicinity of the start of
the fire. There were also many
conditions that might easily have
started the fire.
Text of the Marshal's report
Hartford, Connecticut.
The State Fire Marshal,
SIR
In compliance with statutory pro-
vision the fire marshal of Waterbury
herein presents certain data and in
formation pertaining to a fire on
the morning of Jan. S, 1914, which
completely destroyed the plant OF
the A. H. Wells g. Co., Inc, man
ufacturers of brass and copper tub
ing, at or about No. 500 Watertown
avenue, in the City of Waterbury,
State of Connecticut.
The record shows the first intima-
ton of fire was received by tele-
phone at 1852 a. M, and that En-
CINE Companies 8, 10, 8, Truck No.
3, and the booster engine from Fire
Headquarters were detailed by
headquarters, under Deputy Chief
Martin j. Campion: that five min
Continued on Page y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Accident
Ratio Is Low

Despite the sharp increase in the
number of workers in the Water
bury area factories last year and
the great expansion and speed-up in
production occupational accidents
showed only a slight increase over
the previous year, 1t was disclosed
today. Statistics compiled at the Of
flee Of Compensation Commissioner
John J. O'Connell show that 4,236
work accidents occurred in the fifth
congressional district in l943 as
compared to 4,l87 in 1912.
The accident. trend here was diff
ferent from that in the nation as
whole, whose total Is listed by the
Department OF Labor as six per cent
higher than In the year before. The
number Of persons disabled by work
injuries last year in the whole coun-
Continued on Page y
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Bristol Will
PuIILocoI Ball
Bearing Labor

Referral of local workers to the
ball-bearing industry in Bristol and
possibly to other out-of- the-area
points will start here next week due
to the critical shortage of help in
urgent ball-bearing production, 1t
was learned by the Democrat today.
The action will be the first taken
to send Waterbury area workers TO
other localities.
Area War Manpower Director
Mary M. Dewey, when contacteS
this morning. confirmed the report
that the ball-bearing industry has
been placed on the local priority
list by the joint urgency and pri-
ority committee of the state, and
that the U. s. Employment Service,
which has control over all industrial
placements, will start to refer work.
.ers to Bristol.
All other localities OF the state
already are referring workers to the
bearing industry which was
given the highest rating on the
priority list when the new hiring
controls program opened October
Is, it was pointed out.
The order pertaining to the Wa
terb'Iry area will in effect place the
ball-bearing industry in Bristol and
elsewhere on higher plane of urg-
ency than any local production and
new workers will be directed first
to the ball bearing plants.
The new jobs mainly will be for
the second and third shifts, it has
been disclosed with the placement
e local workers in Bristol to start
Wednesday.
Tfe New Departure Company,
Ishica already employs about TO-
200 workers at its Bristol plants.
8 expected to gain mainly from
the order reaching Waterbury. 1t
Is believed two other out-of-town
ball bearing manufacturing plants
also will absorb local residents.
Under the new hiring system new
Job applicants are referred first to
the top-rating concerns. II a good
reason Is shown why the applicant
cannot accept job at the partic-
ular concern an exception Is grant
ed and q Job secured In another
plant that rates highly In the
urgency OF production. For the
most part, however. workers are
placed In accordance with rulings
of the state joint priority and
urgency committee,
(Continued ON Page a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22

Mimi AAA @A0AOAA NOSS0ks
The widespread attacks
cost the Raj SIS bombers, the
largest loss in a single nights
operations since last August
%, when So were lost in a
heavy raid on Berlin.
The air ministry an
nounced that huge fires were
left burning in Magdeburg,
German aircraft and arms
center rs miles southwest of
Berlin.
The bombardment OF
Magdeburg was described Of
ficially as Every heavy" a
designation reserved for the
supreme efforts of the Raj In
the knoc kout offensive
against German war centers.
It followed by "a hours record
assault on Berlin. In which the
greatest number OF British bombers
ever thrown against the staggered
capital left 1t wreathed In flames
which glowed $50 miles through the
clouds.
Industrial Outpost
Magdeburg, outpost OF the Berlin
industrial perimeter. comprises with
Its suburban factories one OF the
major war centers OF the Reich. A
railroad hub, 1t also Is the site Of
Junkers engine and parts plants.
The Krupp ornaments works has a
very large iron and steel foundry
there, while more than half a doz-
en- plants make 1t one OF the most
important arms centers In Ger
many.
The more than 1000 British long
tons of high explosives and incenl
diaries dropped on Magdeburg add
ed up TO better than 2,240 Ameri-
can short tons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
ALLIES SEIZE new ITALY bEACHHEAD
Formidable Foe Lines Are OutfIankeCI
Air Blows Dealt Enemy
Nazi Headquarters
Near Rome Blasted

Allied Headquarters, Algiers January ~ = (UP)-
Hundreds of American planes, parayzing the enemy in
preparation for big Allied amphibious landing below
Rome destroyed German headquarters only five miles from
the Popes Summer residence at Castel GondOlfO and
wrecked Nazi arieds and communications along 500
mile front, it announced today.
Two waves of eight American A-36 invader planes
trking 10 minutes apart, destroyed the villa housing
German headquarters Frascat, Is miles south of
Rome with 26 direct hits in raid reminiscent of the
destruction of Naz headquarters at Taorna Sicily only
g few hours before the invasion of that Island.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Marine Corps Photo from NEA-Telephoto

cast recorded by CHS. quoted ian
official Argentine broadcast" to-
day asserting that Helmuth was not
dismissed but has been exonerated"
of the charges against him.
Argentine government spokesman
said the country's federal police.
created recently along the lines OF
the FBI, had been investigating Axis
spy activities for some time.
"Some arrests already have been
made" one spokesman said, 'but
due to the bearing of the inquiry
on the interests of the belligerent
nations the matter has been kept
secret"
1T is the firm aim Of this gov
eminent to carry forward the in
vestigation until the facts are clear
ly established and punishment in
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-22
Big 225-T on-An-Ho Aerial
Bombing Blitzes Axis Europe

London, January %. - CUP - Big British bomber
fleets sending 225-ton-anhour AngloAmerican aerial
bombarment of Axis Europe into its second day. dropped
than 224O short tons of explosives Madgeburg,
of the most important centers in Germany, last
night.
small force of four-engined Lancasters and twin
engined Mosquitoes made simultaneous diverSionary
attack Berlin still burning from the previous nights
record assault and third formation hit targets the