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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-22
100 Planes Modified
ForAirRaid Tomorrow
Weather Permitting Important Targets to Be Bombed;
Public Asked to Cooperate in Checking Results

Connecticut residents and civilian defense personnel
will experience the nearest thing to actual air raid yet
attempted Sunday afternoon, weather permitting, when
nearly 100 Civil Air Patrol planes bomb cities and towns
with approximately $4,000 mock bombs in drill originally
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-01-22

Meriden, Conn, welder.
The fourth, Carolyn living, Is,
Dumont. was being sought by po-
lice.
Evening star., 1944-08-20

protected. Miriam Bruce of New York City
got an Arab pup. and Jessie limerick of Kan
sas City, Mo-. was particularly lucky. She
fell heir to a Fiat auto when it's officer
owner was ordered to the front.
Pat Rey of Garden City, N. Y, tells of
fellow who slipped off ''Clubmobiler's" torn
glove, returned it little while later neatly
darned, because he wanted to do something
for the Red Cross for change"
For the girls at the front it's the greatest
adventure they have ever had; to many of
them it's brought romance, too. Those who
marry soldiers overseas are assigned else
where, for husband and wife can't work in the
same theater of operations.)
Though the girls sign up for the dura-
ton, the Red Cross can exert only moral
pressure to hold them. Still there have
been few designations - and those most
ly because of illness.
Staff Assistant Adelyn Moeller of St. Louis,
Mo-, makes it all clear in letter from India:
Pm living in bamboo hut with grass roof
and a mud floor. There are rats in my roof
spiders on my walls, CTS in my hair, but
love it. ." That's why, this Saturday, 125 more
girls will march out of American University,
wait eagerly for their call overseas. They
love it. And Americas fighters love them.
Evening star., 1944-08-20

hidden talent in their constantly changing
guests. They've got to be tireless conversa-
tionalists, with emphasis on the listening.
After graduation from American Univer-
sity, the girls do post graduate" work at
USO centers and Army service clubs, all the
while ready to 60 overseas at short notice.
A girl may be shipped anywhere. The only
thing she can be sure of is that she will have
to meet one crisis after another. She must
depend on her ingenuity and ability to impro-
wise, her adjustability and her knowledge of
people. She must be prepared for disease,
insects, dirt, uncOmforta table living quar-
tiers and all the periIs of modern war.
A reporter commented on the strange COM
bination of war and femininity in the girls
quarters somewhere behind the front in Italy.
There were mud and cold cream, safety pins
and flashlights, cleansing tissues in steel he'll
NETS, soap fakes with CT water cans
DERIVATION Unknown
| HE club worker leaves America for parts
unknown with four pieces of luggage and
leather envelope-handbag. Into this limited
space she crowds her uniforms, toilet articles
and towels, shoe polish, extra garters for her
two girdles. sungasses, flashlight She is also
advised to carry Boy Scout knife, thumb
tacks assorted nails, hammer. can opener and
a clothesine If there's room left, she puts in
some civilian clothes, which she may or may
not be able to wear, depending upon regula-
tions at her post The girls spend evenings in
Washington packing and unpacking to make
everything fit in.
After they arrive abroad, some of the girls
Evening star., 1944-08-20

discover needs they hadn't dreamed of in the
States. One of them wrote New York per-
sonal shopping service from the South Pacific:
please send me three slips, size "a, of the
most impractical type possible, designed to
give the wearer a secret feminine life. Of you
have worn nothing but uniform for over a
year you will know what mean)'
Mansion or Mud Hut
A RED Cross girl can never be sure where
or what her home may be. She may be
assigned to a residence hall or former luxury
hotel in Cairo or an old manor house in Eng
land She may be sent to an outpost like New
find, as eight girls did, that soldiers had built
them the best living quarters on the island -
a 12-room house complete with private bed
rooms and a flush toilet ian unbelievable
rarity) She may live in a tent with dirt
floor.
But most of the men in isolated posts see
only the girls in the Red Cross Clubmobiles.
And the welcome they get would warm the
heart of the most blase movie queen Most of
the men queue up third or fourth time.
Most frequent wisecrack made to the girls is,
Don't bother to put any sugar in my coffee;
just put your finger in it, honey"
GI's do everything they can to show their
gratitude. Many Red Cross girl sports a
ring fashioned of aluminium from German
plane, a scarf made of parachute silk, or
trinket picked up in native bazaar. Madeline
Matchett of Washington, D. c., received
gun from a soldier who believes American
girls shouldn't wander around the world un-
Evening star., 1944-08-20

COMING: For a heart,Uarnsing picture of
Red Cross girl in action, read 81 Sa,1
Them Of" on Page next ,ceek. It's let
ter from, a girl ,CI,o ba,pIed her head off
before thousand american soldiers ,Ul,o
,cere learing for battle. The Editors
Evening star., 1944-08-20


keeping according to Army Standards foreign
health problems, how to play hostess in a
snack bar or club-on- wheels.
How to Keep = GI Happy
| HEY learn square dances and how to make
a festive meal of Army rations They brush
up on football baseball and basketball to
prepare for future chats with CT fans. They
learn how to bowl, play ping-pong, darts.
Most important. they learn how to give
parties. For practice they entertain service
men in the University gymnasium. How to
shoot craps and play poker used to be part
of the curriculum, but the Red Cross has
found that the Army needs no help there.
The girls still play pool, however.
The club workers job calls for everything
needed to keep club functioning as we'll
run home away from home for uniformed
Americans Her materials are her inventive
ness and what facilities her post provides.
This combination hostess. shock alb
sorber and jack of all-trades must beg.
borrow or dream up furnishings for a
lounge and eating place. She hires local
help for barber, valet, laundry and cleaning
service She sets up information services.
Through it all, she plans endless parties -
anything from a winter-sports carnival IN
Alaska or deep-sea fishing trip in the South
Pacific, to a boxing match in Great Britain or
a pet show in Italy, plus sightseeing tours
musicales, fish fries, art exhibits, variety
shows. Many club workers are skilled enter
tainers. They must also be able to unearth
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

one of Manila's talleSt buildings.
said, well, maybe this would be pos
sible. Wait and see.
"Back on the standby with Old
80, / couldn't then know this was
why I had been ordered to jerk her
bombs, reload her with cameras,
and rush the camouf1age in the hope
that permission would soon come. I
only knew big things were moving,
and suddenly ! thought of my little
portable radio. Why not find out
what I could? So I sent Tex back
to the barracks to get it.
''When he returned, had fair
reception when I took it outside the
steel hangar door.
''It cracked with rumors-some
already true, some not yet true.
They reported a big concentration
of Jap ships off Luzon-Manila was
expecting an air raid every minute
bombs were reported already
dropping on Clark Field. I under
stand that early false report reached
the States.
''It was curious" said Kurtz,
standing right outside that hangar
door, looking at Clark Field in the
mid-morning sunshine and hearing
the radio in my hand saying that
bombs were dropping on it. 1t was
crazy, and yet it made US appre-
hensive.
"a classmate of mine at Randolph
Field who had been flying one of
two old Douglases we used for trans
portation to Manila had just pulled
up and got out, and he was listen
ing beside me. Now he said, nerv-
ously, why in hell don't we get out
of here and save these airplanes?'
/ could see he was thinking not only
of the planes, but of our necks as
well.
81 said to him, What the hell,
now, old man, take it easy-we're
under orders But ! was getting
jumpy myself.
s'Then quick came another order
early chow for us pilots and our
navigators at eleven o'clock. So /
told Tex that Eddie Oliver (my nav
igator) and I were going to shoot on
up to the mess hall, eat fast, and
get over to the operations tent
quick and find out what plans they
had lined up for US. Meanwhile
Tex was to oversee the unloading
of the bombs and the replacing Of
them with cameras in the bomb
bays.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
QUEENS DIE -
- PROUDLY ll
w.N.u. FEATURES

back and forth all morning with con-
fiicting orders, came screaming
down the field. Take her back to
the hangar; they want the camou-
fiaging finished by all means!'
Presently came another order for
me and two other planes of this 30th
Squadron to unload our bombs and
insert cameras. Nothing more than
that, but it was clear they were
preparing us now for reconnais-
sance over Formosa.
II didn't then know that our little
field only reflected what was going
on at Manila Headquarters, where
our Air Force General Brereton had
been up long before dawn and was
at big conference all morning. OF
course it's very easy to be wise
after the event.
Sand of course, even though Pearl
Harbor had been attacked, our
American Congress had not yet de-
clared war, and perhaps it was too
great a responsibility for our Philip
pine command to strike back when
someone might argue that war did
not exist technically.
General Brereton knew our posi-
ton at Clark Field was so danger
Gus that if we did not at once strike
at Formosa, we could probably new
er strike at all. He wanted per-
mission to make a reconnaissance
flight over there, so we could at
least see if the Japanese were max
ing preparations to strike us. Sure
ly, now that they had hit Pearl Har-
Dor, it would be only aminor neu-
trality violation to fly close enough
to Formosa to take a few pictures.
consequently the rundown on
this wasn't complete; Headquarters
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
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THE STORY THUS FAR: Lieut.. Col.
Frank Kurtz, who was pilot of the griz-
zled old Flying Fortress known as "The
-swoose," which escaped from Clark
Field, tells Of that fatal day when the
-Japs struck In the Philippines. Old 80, a
Flying Fortress, is struck down before IL
can get OF the ground. Later, Lieuten-
ant Kurtz bicycles to the scene Of the
bombing. He finds Old 90 pile Of junk.
He sees eight boys of her crew-his boys
Lying in an irregular line. They had
been killed as they ran for shelter. He
counts them, pats each on the back, and
talks to them as II they were still alive.
Then he goes to where Tex is lying, at
the end Of the sprawling line, and makes
q promise.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
Protect and ease abrased
skin with Mexsana, the
soothing, medicated pow
der. Also relieve burning,
itching, Of irritated skin.
Z F.
CHAFE
AN N OYs
Refresher Raid

A refresher raid is small-scale
raid made on a target which has
been heavily bombed in the past.
The purpose of the raid is to pre-
vent the enemy from restoring the
damaged target.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
Effect Of Noise

Sound-conditioning studies show
that noise causing only 5 per
cent decrease in the output OF
manual workers will cause a 80
per cent decrease in the efficiency
of executives.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
Lesson for March IL

Lesson subjects and Scripture texts Sc
lected and copyrighted. by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
THE BEACH BELOW ROME


count spot in a tough war. That's
what you thought, Joe. Maybe,
crashing through it, you called it a
bum town. Well, you were right in
way. Two great buns lived there
once. Couple of guys named Nero
and Caligula!
Nero and Caligula, two Of the
great buns of history. Buns with
color and class, but murderers and
torturers and tyrants to fare-thee-
well. They were born around An
zio. The name Of the town was
changed on 'em to get rid of the
bad taste. Maybe, on pass from
hell, their spirits stood there in the
shadows along the beaches when
the Yanks landed. They were big,
noisy brutal guys, Joe, but craven
against odds. They must have been
pretty scared when they saw you
Yanks leaping ashore from landing
craft.
Nice guys, Nero and Caligula!
They poisoned their wives and kid
dies, when they couldn't devise
something rougher. They were close
to all-time tyrants, but in points
they didn't rate up with certain top
Nazis. The people caught up with
them in time and they got the works.
If alive today they would have
strung along with Adolf and Benito
and Hermann. They were the type.
They liked to torture the weak and
to kick the helpless around.
Once Caligula held a public BAN
quet in the middle of a bridge for
the fun of seeing it collapse, drown
ing the merrymakers. Hitler would
have liked that. Caligula did crazy
things. He once appointed his horse
consul.
You know all about Nero, Joe.
He was the swastika type. Sweet
boy, Nero! He poisoned his own
mother for what you would call "a
DAME" He killed his own wife.
A star, Nova Pictoris, has just
blown up. Looking down on earth,
stars indignation must be pretty
close to the exploding point most of
the time these days.
Some suggestions were recently
made to our airmen that they cut
out the highly suggestive names
painted on some bombers. They
were too rough. We have just heard
of one result. One of the bombers
that has been doing terrific battling
over Germany bears the name
"Wabbit Twacks."
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
JESUS BETRAYED, DENIED
AND CONDEMNED

LESSON TEXT: Mark 14:10, II, So. "a.
66.72; 15:12.15.
GOLDEN TEXT: He is despised and re.
jected Of men; a man of sorrows, and &C.
quainted with grief.-Isaiah 1873.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
~ lkAPR OWED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
ooeHSooool Lesson

BY HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

Merchant Marine Academy
The army has West Point; the
navy has Annapolis; and now the
merchant marine, too, has its own
academy at Kings Point, N. Y.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

Jimmy Davis who goes around
with his guitar singing "You Are
My Sunshine" at Makes No Diff
ference Now" "Nob0dy's Darling"
and a fine selection of corny NUM-
bers has won the primary and is as
good as elected.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

Down in Louisiana f'rinstance, the
next governor, unless all signs fail,
will be a fellow who has leaped into
fame as crooner, guitar player and
radio entertainer. He is also Hol-
lywood cowboy actor, which helps
when the mob makes an appraisal
of the qualities of craftsmanship in
this gooney era.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

This is an age of screwball tastes
and If the COP. wants to lick
Roosevelt it had better run Sinatra
and Crosby.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10
THE POLTTICAL TREND

The FULNIICEAL INENU
This department is not afraid Of
Fascist government in America. It's
afraid Of a Croonist regime. Signs
indicate growing danger.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

Craftsmanship is Of no account to-
day if it doesn't record well for
juke boxes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

Public leadership cannot quickly
be established in America without
a good list Of ballads, some musi-
cal instrument and a mike. In Lin
coins day it was "FrOm log cabin
to White House," Today it's "FrOm
Pistol Packin' Mommer' To Any
Office Within the Gift of the PeOple!"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

Years ago in order to get the votes
for public office in this country a
man had to have solid opinions,
some experience in public Office, a
platform and an opinion on the tar
if. Now all that is necessary is a
Crossley rating.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

What candidate used to do with
oratory and statement of beliefs
he now does with 'Milkman, Keep
Those Bottles Quiet" and "All or
Nothing at ALL"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

Both Wendell Willkie and Tom
Dewey are making a fatal political
mistake in not proclaiming their
candidacy through a rendition Of:
Marry doats and dozy doats
And fiddle lambzy divey.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

You can fool all the people some
Of the time and some people all the
tilac; and, with a good radio per-
sonality and a fair musical routine,
you can fool all the people all the
time.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-03-10

Down in Texas the question right
now is not what experience has
he ever had in government" but
"How many records did he make
In the last year,"
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-06-13
UREDNIsKA STRAIN ~ENAkoPRAVNosTI' .

tova trgovska mornarica bo
igrala vazno vlogo v prevozu
potrebscin "a partizane. Ia
mornarica sestoji IL petnajstih
parnikov in skunarjev. III par
niki so prvic dospeli v London
%. maja. Parnik Senga je pri-
plul v pristanisce pod jugoslo-
vansko zastavo Titovo zvezdo.
Njegov kapitan Stojan Vuksa
je bill iskreno pozdravljen.
General Dusan Simovic, ju-
max antifasisticnega prevrata v
Beogradu v marcu 1941, .je Sc
stavil delovni poslovnik "a Ju-
goslavijo, sestojec liz 80 took.
Nacrt je bill oddan marsalu Ii
tn v pregled. Znacilno je, da ia
nacrt ne omenja kraljevine, ann
pax naglasa, da mora biti vo-
liza naroda najvisji zakon. Ma
crt predvideva tri dobe v jugo-
slovanski obnoyi. V prvi dobi Sc
bo'nadaljevala osvobodilna VOL
ma in krivice napram patriotom
morajo biti poravnane. Druga
doba bo prehodna doba, v ka-
teri bodo vsi deli dezele osvobo-
jeni in bodo odstranjeni vsi re-
akcionarni element, Xxi so od-
govorni "a jugoslovansko ne
sreco. Tretja doba bo organi-
ziranje miru v soglasju s po-
trebami naroda, pod vlado, XII
DO nadzirana cd ljudstva in XII
81 bo prizadevala izvesti mai
boljse socialne reforme. (Gor-
MIA porocila so povzeta il Over
seas News Agency.)
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-06-13
Drus+vo Sv. Ane. st.
4 S. D. Z.

Predsednica, Julia Brezovar,
1173 E. 60 St.; podpredsednica,
Jennie Stanonik; tajnica, Mary
Bradac, 1853 E. 167 St.; zapis-
nikarica, Genovefa Zupan; bla-
gajnicarka, Josephine Orazem,
1926 Carl Ave.; rediteljica, Ma
ry Pristov; nadzornice, Anna
Erbeznik, Jennie Suvak, Rose
l.. Erste. Drustveni zdravniki
SO vsi slovenski zdravniki v Gle
velandu in biiznji okolici. Dru-
stvene seize so vsako drugo sre-
do v mesecu. Zacetek OBJ 8. uri
zvecer v SLOW. mar. domu, GAIT
ST. Clair Ave-, soba st. /.
Enakopravnost. [volume] (Cleveland, O.[Ohio]) 1918-1957, 1944-06-13
EVROPA PO INVAZIJI

Bert Wyler cd Overseas News Agency posja il Ber-
ma svici porocilo datrano 8. junja, XII Sc glasi:
Porocila bojisc radjska porocila in komunikeji
nevtralnh virov il osiscne Evrope vorijo ka zanivo
siko invaziji oh koncu tretjega dneva.
V Visiju vlada zmesnava, kjer sc vodini can Wade
MISC prikazali cd torka Propaganda minister Philippe
Henrie e nenadoma pojavi Berlinu, ker e zagoto
vii novnarje in avnost, ola je Parls popolnoma miren
Francosko prebivastvo poslusa De Gaulova povelja,
da mai ostane disciplnrano. Drzo Sc tudi angeskega
nasvea da maj osaneo proc cd stratekh centrov, kot
so tovarne, zelezniske postaje, in cesna krzisca.
V vecni nen1Skih tovarn "a orozje FIanciji je
delo ustavilo Nemske ganze izgubjajo svoje vojake
samo nekaj SIS Get in pa navadno obleceni vojaki so
osta Glavni stan Wade marsaa Peaina Hotel du Pare
je prazen, in domneva se da vada spet sell Bor
deaux
Milan e prevectlpe da bi Sc njegovo prebivalstvo
udeezlo splosnega Veseja. Razen kaksne hre razpro
dale posebne zdae Cowiere Bella Sera satrao Italja
ne tam "a "mrne in udane usodo'
Pac pa obhajajo slavnosti partizans1ih okrajih
Dvanas III po naznanilu nvazije partizanske forma
CHE paradrale pc ucah vekm zastavami in tribarV
mimi letak med srecnmi VzlzIlI prebvastVa.
Begrajski univerzitetni STUDENT so korakali po u
cab mnogobarvnimi sopki roz in splosno prevladuje
mnenje, da ura obracuna nj Vec daec.
GrGiia e bila elektrizrana radi neOsnovanega poro
ella da so zavezki zcal svOje cete pr Patras maj
seyernesi toGki Peoponeza Nemci Grcij nemudoma
mobilizra razpusceno go poIicijo, groznjo, da so
grski policaji odgovolni svojim zivenjem red.
Sofia je Sc vedno vznemrjena zaradi vladne krize
in nj Sc znano kateo pot bo ubra novi minstrs pred
sednik Ivan Bagrianov Ker e Get bolgarske prestol
nice razdeane, prebvastvo porebi hrano nezmo-
zno pokazati veselje Nj p1av mic vereno, da b "a
veznki zrcali Grc ker nihce yer jane, da bo Bol
gara znozna obdrzati ozenlja XII jh e ugrabila Grcj
Bukaresti nosjo zenske rdece, belle in modre cvet-
lice kar sno ez nemske oficie in mnoge gizdavo 60
wore francoscin Kral Minae e spreel kmeckega vo-
diteIa Julio MANU. in ga vprasal pod kaksnmi pogo bi
bill pripravljen sestavitl vlado Marsa lon Ano-
nescu je romuns presolnci kar je nasprotno govo-
ric da je zbezal Turcjo.
Prava slika Madzarske pray mic ne skada S tele-
gramom, XII ga je postal Herju minisrski predsednik
Doeme Sztojay katerem mu zagotaVlJa ola celia Mad
zarska gorece ze nemskeg uspeha Nikdar Sc nj bio
Budapest toiko veselh obrazoV ko sedaj odkar Sc e
pricea nvazija. Celia Madzarska e prepricana, da DO
Nemca zoml jena pred zino in zlobnim veseljem opo-
zarja budapeska javnos nenslze vojake na invazijo
tenn da ctra Htlerjevo prorokoVane, ida Sc mora So
vraznk smaati srecnega lahko ostane ma konti-
nenu devet ur.''