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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05


 The washing machines, powered by the hospitals own plant, are the main mechanical attractions at this forward American base, sloshing away in complete peace near the batlegrounds of what was one of the longest fights in the North Burma campaign. Other hospital attractions, operating under their own power, are l8 pretty female American nurses who recently joined the hospital. Their laundry, with the exception ot those intimate and flinsy garments which women do not trust to the indifferent devices of a washing machine, is done by the six pro- ducts of civilization.
 Lieutenant Colonel Warren Diess- ner of Waconia, Minn., commanding officer of the hospital, said he was very proud of his laundry. It comes in handy, since the demands of a 400-bed hospital and its staff are fairly large. Diessner, incidentally, also has taken over a 400-bed Chinese hospital which had been maintained by famed Dr. Gordon Burma Surgeon) Seagrave until Seagrave moved out to be with front-line troops moving south from Myitkyina.
 Mud Is Strained Out
 The water from Diessner's river bank laundry emporium is taken from the Irrawaddy, piped uphill about 50 yards strained to remove the mud and then plped back down to two tanks where 1t is heated by fires built underneath the tanks. The water is piped to each washing machine through flexible metal hose. something like the hoses Americans used to see when they went to gasoline filling sta- tons.
 The business of actually washing the clothes in the Myitkyina laun- dry is supervised by Private Harlan Nimmo of Ann, Ill, and Private Lloyd Wagner of Milwaukee, Wis, When cornered by reporters, Nin- mo and Wagner were clearing ground to add to the present l.20O feet of clothesline which has been strung on bamboo poles along the banks of the river. Nimmo was up in . tree, saving off limbs which were falling fairly close to Wagner who was on tho ground failing the underbrush with c Burmese dah, which is q knife.
 The 1900 feet of line was heavy with wet sheets, operating gowns towels. hospital palamas and vari- ous articles of clothing belonging to the hospital stan members.
 Nimmo and Wagner have two aS- slslants who do most og the actual work. They are two BurmtBa boys who move about under a cloud ol gloom, probably wondering why the crazy Amefioana MAnl lo Co to all
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

this trouble to wash clothes when any fool knows the established meth cd is to beat them on a rough rock.
 Besides the laundry, there are other improvements at Colonel Diessner's hospital. Sush as showers Colonel Diessner demonstrated the showers, which were made from scrap pipe and tin cans. He said the officers and the nurses used the same showers.
 But not" he said, Fat the same time"
 Rigs Up Wash Basin
 And then he showed the pride of the hospital, wash basin (for face and hands) with running water, invented by Capt. Elmer Myers of Philippi, w. Va, The basin is in Myers quarters. It is fed from small tank placed above and outside the door. When the person desiring to be washed steps on a foot pedal whittled from a piece of wood, water spurts from the rubber tube into the basin, an old five-gallon can with the top cut of.
 Myers also had provided his own personal shower with handy gadgets. The shower was supplied by a tank which was placed on a platform 10 feet high. There were steps, salvaged from some old house, leading up to the tank and used to carry water up to fill the tank. But this got tiresome. So Myers got some old pipe and a discarded hand pump and now he carries the water to the foot of the stairs, arranges his pumping ap- paratus and fills his tank. All for a bath.
 Commanding ofiicer of the nurses Is Capt. Elizabeth N. Fichtel of Cal- umet, Mich. Her IT charges are Katherine Mckinley, Sandwich. H.. Helen Boucher, Madison, Wis. Betty Clark, Virden, H., Marian Dannis, Benld, H.. Mary Fries. Rhinelander, Wis, Kathryn Gale. Hunter, N. D., Elma Heinanen. Karsarge, Mich, Eileen LeClaire, Cheboygan, Mich, Rachael Robinson. Portersyille, Ala. Caroline Parmenter, Summerville, s. O., Gladys Ross, Springfield. H., Martha Toulme, Springfield, H., Rosemary Sullivan. Klncaid, H., Jane Thompson, Parma, Mich, Helen White, Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

fell and not 8 plane flew in or out Then rain fell on top of the snow and froze, leaving the field covered with more than four feet of snow ice.
 As soon as the precipitation let ly fleet of snow blows, snow shov- els, ScrapeSS, buldozers, drags scoops and other mechanized snow removal apparatus went to work to clear the runways. Within 72 hours Goose was again in operation.
 The fact that a major air base, capable of handling more than 200 planes a day, could be put back in operation after this short period of time shows how completely the Arc tic winter has been licked as fly ing hazard. Planes can fly in bright sunlight above the winter overcast, even above the storms, without too much difficulty. They can even fly through storms on instruments. But what ties planes down are storms on the ground. Even farther south, U. s. airports are from time to time closed down for periods even longer than 72 hours by fog or blizzard or freezing con- ditionS.
 BETTER BETS
 Goose Bay and similarly located far-north air bases with clear dry weather between the storms are ire quently better flying bets, with more good flying weather, than bases in milder climates. Sometimes they don't even bother to remove the snow at these northern bases. They merely roll the snow, packing 1t into ice, and land on the solid crust.
 All this perfection of Arctic fliyng weather is beautiful vin- dication for the theories ad- vanced years ago by It. Col. B. R. J. "Fish" Hassell. Today as commanding officer at Goose Bay, he is merely seeing his early dreams realized and getting a lot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
AIRPORT PLANS TO BE STUDIED
Widespread Interest in To- nights Meeting at
 Country Club

City officials, members of the City Plan Commission and others will attend tonight's dinner at the Country Club of Waterbury spon- Sored by the Connecticut Chapter of the National Aeronautical asso- citation.
 Charles I. Stanton, deputy ad- ministrator of the Civil Aeronautics Administration will be the principal speaker. Street Supt. Herbert Scott Smith, a director of the Connecticut chapter of the NAA, will be the chairman.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

Can't blame us if we entertain slight suspicion of an pishy sadistc touch to the nature of that fire man working the Center Street fire last Saturday who upper floors was so incautious to mSdrec the heavy nozzle end through geaming 12foot, wide and high, untouched plate glass window the ground floor Know just how he was tempted Had beautiful tone, too.
 Read in The Democrat lately of a Navy helicopter (the kind they predict will all be flying in years to come) crashed in four feet of water in Long Island Sound with the only casualty being sprained back for one of the passengers The other three walked into shore unscathed Better record than the average automobile accident, by far.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
CAPTURES 3 WITH MESS KIT

Auburn. Ind. (UP)-Sgt. Jay n Buttermore wrote his parents, MT and Mrs, W. r. Buttermore, That is what I call getting them on the platter" when he captured threC Germans with hIs mess kit. Butter. more W sagolng to chow, mess kil in hand, at his American camp in Germany, when three Oermanl stepped out of a building. "Whal could do but flash my mess kil on them and make the capturep' hO said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

The fact he has neither missed . days work nor been late for work during the 54 years he has been employed at the Eagle Lock Company didn't discourage John O,Brien, 89 years old, from join- ing the Blue Cross, COnnecticut's nOn-profit plan for hospital care, now that the age limit has been removed.
 MT. O'Brien, a highly skilled IOcksmith at the TerryviIle plant, signed up during an offering of Blue Cross membership there re- gently. Until the development of the new overall Blue Gross plan, membership was possible only for persons under 66 years of age. The Blue Cross has been able to re- move the age limit in order that every employe of Connecticut business and industrial firms will have an opportunity to join.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

of satisfaction, out of it.
 Back in 1928 he proposed that the best way to get from the middle of the United States to Europe was to fly across the Arc- tic. Everybody said he was crazy then because everybody knew that Europe was east of the United States and to fly north was a waste of time. Fish knew better. He says he knew better because as a boy in school his geography teacher had always used globe, never a merca- tors projection which made the earth look flat.
 what the future Of Arctic flying will be, but he does indicate that it is just beginning.
 He is, incidentally, pioneering in couple of other lines at Goose Bay raising pigs and chickens in this far northern climate where the only animals to survive are fur bearing Last year he had some Plymouth Rock baby chicks flown in, and A4d44 O kIOZC41 I1C0 oOWSs Il 44C PASn are fed on the Goose Bay air base garbage. They have a pure bred boar now, and are trying to develop a strain that will stand Arctic win ters. The chickens, kept indoors in winter and fed vitimans, have proved to be good layers.
 Not far away the Canadian army has an agricultural experi- ment station greenhouse which is working on dry sand culture for tomatoes, celery, lettuce and the long growing season vegetables which can't ordinarily be grown outdoors that far north.
 If methods of food growing can be worked out to make these far north bases self sustaining as to food supplies, another problem of Arctic flying will have been licked.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
BY PETER EDISON NEA Washington Correspondent


 NEA Washington Correspondent
 Goose Bay, labrador, Dec. 5-Go half way up the Labrador coast off Northeast Canada, then a couple ot hundred miles inland on the Hamil- ton and Goose rivers, out of the fogs and gales of the coast, and you'll find one of the most impor- tant stopping points on the air ferry inc for combat aircraft going to Eu- rope.
 Until now, it has been under the wraps of military secrecy But the part it has played in getting the big bombers and the combat ships to Europe can't be ignored, and it may be on the postwar aviation map for keeps, even if it is surrounded by hun- dredS of miles of second growth timber and is no place near railroad.
 The Canadians and British pio- neered the field with one gravel runway, over trlree years ago. When the United States got into the war the Army Air Forces enlarged it, put in big concrete runways and parking strips for hundreds of planes, hangars and shops and a complete base. The Canadians own the field, under lease from New foundland, but it is jointly operat- ed for the duration by Royal Can adian and U. S. Army Air Forces. WYE TKHER TC EICKEn
 When newspaper correspond ents inspecting NortIi Atlantic bases of the Air Transport Command ar- rived at Goose Bay they found big wide concrete rurwayS more than a mile long, flanked by Snowdrifts four to six feet deep. A few days before there had been many hours of continuous snowfall which had put the drifts up to the caves of the one-story barracks. Goose was closed down tight while the snow
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

Attention, Buddies A joint Army-Navy Discl- pnary Control Board has been established by the First
 Service Command and the First Naval District to handle problems arising from the conduct of service personnel Dn furough or pass in civilian The board will hold meetings monthly and oftener if necessary, at Head quarters First Service Command at the call of it's pres tdent It. Col A. J. Lamoureaux Provost Marshal of the First Service Command. The board will investigate reports disorder prostitution venereal disease liquor violations and other undesirable conditions as they apply to service personnel and will recommend remedial action to the Commanding General and the Commandant. The board will cooperate with civilian authorities in these matters. Civilians who have complaints about the situations to the attention of the board invited to write to the President, Joint Army-Navy Disciplinary Control Board, sos Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, 15 Mass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
WRESTLING IN THE DARK

Chlldress Army Air Field, Tex. (UP)-Flying Q bombing mission over Touion, Lt. James Dc Paola was listening to Q radio broadcast from Berlin. Just as he dropped hls bombs on the target, he heard Happy Days Arc Hero Again ring out. 70 wee funny" Lt. De Faola snld.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

City Budget Director Arnold Furlong insists the city should give expression to little artistry and, as result will issue the final edition of the copies of the 1945 budget estimates in type covercoat Nothing Salvatore Dali about the panS but just transgresSlon from the "otting now the 1914 1ssue colored canary yellow and resembling on first glance the annual report of the Society For Pernlclous DIS eases and Their Effect On the Liver".
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
THE CHRISTMAS HUNT
BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER

Come folks no lalygagging It's now or never to start bagging The Christmas hare and the Christmas hound, Up folks, and at em, with bound Come on now Johnny, Judy and Dick, Early on the scent does the trick Now's the time to look and trade, Get in line for the Christmas parade. Come folks, no last minute business For goods are dwindling, such dizziness! The hunts on, no lallygaggng, It's now neevr to start bagging The Christmas hound and the Christmas bear, Shopping getting heavy now for fair. EM EN-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

Who remembers the good old days when the first junior prom was an event in gals life, said junior previously having formed just bit of the background of the family and school social life? And who remem- bers when the suspicious day finally arrived the day of the mid winter dance, the trip to the hall Tn hired hack with mother and dad accompanying the couple chaperOns later sitting in the gallery to watch the walkers from a favorable vantage point?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

Mighty cold up here in the Tower these days. Pre- dictions of cold, dry winter rumored about Don't % hay-wire on the fuel this winter because there hasn't been the usual talk of shortages Just as tight as ever.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

It's hardship at all times to face medical oper- ation yet few of us give thought to the comforting wonders of aneSthesia, local general. What boon and salvation to humanity has been the earnest under standing research results of the late Dr. Horace Wells of East Hartford who 100 years ago, December dls covered the use of nitrous oxide an aneSthetlc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

Rats were nibbling at the feet and hands of Luis Calyi, when his body was found in a hut near Bue- nos Aires, Argentina, and the cause of his death is a mystery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05
6 Washing Machines Vie With
 U. s. Nurses At Burma Hospital
By JACK QUINN TTmited Press Staff COrreSpOndent

MYITKYINA North the banks of the churnng Irrawaddy through bamboo tcke which not long were monuments to the electric washing machines which for eight hours the American hospital here
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-05

Turkey hes started the construc- lion Of oo-mlle railway from Narn
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-13
Even Bang-Tails
EVacuate Miami
BY f.. v. w. JONES

MIAMI, Fla, April l3-(P)
- The headache curve rose
sharply in Miami this week as
approximately 1900 race horses
Joined the human contingent in
an undiminlshed post-season ex-
odus.
wners of thoroughbreds
a m ore d for instantaneous
transportation for their four-leg
ged breadwinners as soon as
Tropical Parks spring meeting
ended last Saturday.
Were taking them on a
first come, first serve basis, and
an aspirin tablet for all that's
left over" the Railway Express
Agency reported. 1--WE couldn't
put 1900 horses in the first few
cars available, so the uproar
was rather terrifying"
An average of six cars are be-
ing loaded daily, with II to l6
horses to the car. They are
bound for New York, New Eng
land, Chicago and Detro
tracks, mostly.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-13

FIT. CUSTER, Mich, April 13
Up Veteran ring observers
report Sgt. Joe Louis boxing
ability improving with Army
life, but Corp. Billy Conn says
the Brown Bomber won't have
his heavyweight crown very
long after the war ends.
"I'm dead sure l can beat him
next time he boosted last
night. He refereed a boxing
show here between his squad
from Wright Field, Dayton,
Ohio, and the Ft. Custer team.
Conn, who held the edge on
Louis before being knocked out
in the 18th round of their bout
in 1941, said he was pleased to
hear the champion considers
him the No. l contender after
the war. Louis, now on a tour
of u. S. service camps in the
British Isles, listed Conn as his
first item of business on his
postwar calendar, and said he
believed the Pittsburgher should
get the first crack at his title.
I'm only 26 years old, you
know" Conn remarked. Joe is
going over the 30-mark this
year and no matter how good
they are age will get EN-. l saw
Joe go few exhibition rounds
at jefferson Barracks, Mo, six
months ago and he isn't as fast
as he was.
you know I took him last
time, but l got too fresh. You're
not supposed to let him hit you
and l won't let him do it again"
Looking in the pink of condi-
ton, the handsome contender
said he now weighs 1877 pounds,
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-13
Meeting SET
for 100 al
City Fire Hall.
Eieht-Teom Senior
Circuit Hoped for
by Organizers

First steps toward the forma-
ton of soft ball leagues in the
city will be taken by the De-
partmcnt of Recreation tonight,
when managers and sponsors get
together at 1880 p. m. at the
fire department clubrooms on
Market street. All managers or
sponsors contemplating on en-
tering a team in either the jun
Tor, senior or tumble league are
asked TO be present.
Despite the shortage of play
ing talent, it is hoped that an
eight-team senior circuit can be
organized So far two teams,
Hubarth e. Schott and Miller
Bros. Creamery, have definitely
applied for senior league fran
chises. The former won the city
championship last year.
League competition probably
will get underway early next
month, depending on weather
conditions and how rapidly the
leagues can be organized.
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Burns Called 'Chump Among
Champ; Champ Among Chumps

wide in all sort of vehicles,
mostly drays loaded to over
flowing.
Squires, sparsely matched and
trifle on the heavy side, was
an odds-on favorite. The fight
was to go As rounds.
Squires bulked huge along
side Burns. Boshter Bill came
out majestically and assumed
pose patterned after the po-
sition of Tom Figg.
THE AUSTRALIAN OUNCE
Burns skipped curiously about
him for a few seconds, appar-
emily puzzled, then suddenly
sprang in and Topped a haymak
er against Bills temple. Boshter
teetered bit, then flopped I'M
gracefully flat on his kisser.
The startled crowd waited for
the giant to rise and smte
the pygmy Burns into the dust.
But at the count of 10 the Mar
rabri giant was still a-slumber
Baffled customers hurled seat
cushions, brought in expectation
of a long sit, into the ring un-
til Boshter was completely bur-
led.
Burns took Bill Squires on a
world tour as spare in case
there was dearth of other
suckers.
But ever thereafter Boshter
Bill was known as the Austria
liam Ounce.
Tommy Burns squeezed him
dry.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1944-04-13
Gasoline Heads
CD LeaguerS

Gasoline, champion of the La
dies Civilian Defense League at
Bowl-O-Drome, closed its sea-
son in fitting style yesterday by
scoring a shutout over Sugar.
The sweep enabled Gasoline to
finish eight points in front of
its closest rival, Foods. which
halved its match with Fuel Oil.
In other matches, Tires took
three points from Automobiles
and shoes won by the same
margin from Stoves.
Individual honors on closing
day went to Ida Baldwin who
had 1874 in SOL, second high Sc
ries of the season.
The standings.
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Samson kesIers
Forging Ahead

Samson Fish kept its cham
pionship aspirations alive Tues
day in the Defense League at
Bowl-O-Drome, turning in 81
victory over Clinton Bar-B-Q
as league-leading Kraft Machine
won two from Rose Chevrolet.
With three weeks to go, Kraft
holds a five-game lead. Servo
Vacuum Service chalked up the
only slam, banking DeGrand-
champ Distributors. In other
matches Petch Tool G. Die No.
2 defeated Greyhound Lines No.
2, Petch No. | won from Shep-
pard Service and Greyhound
No. l outshot M. r. Anderson.
Len Williams and Leo San
drowski tied for high series, SAT,
while Mac MacGregor had 234
for high single.
The standings.
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Colma, Calf, July 4, 1907, in
the biggest travesty on a heavy
weight championship fight ever
held.
Squires came here from Mar
rabri, N. S. W., ballyhooed as a
second Bob Fitzsimmons, his
record otp-heavy with K. O.'s.
Boxing writers throughout the
country went all out extolling
his proves, and Sunny Jim
Coffroth scored what he thought
a ten = strike in nabbing the
match with Burns.
A street car strike tied up traf-
fic the day of the fight. Auto
mobiles were rarity, but ia
matte fans came from far and
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Pepsi, Stewart
Are b. Rivals

With only one more w e e k
Of play remaining, the cham
pionship of the b. League at
Mount Clemens Recreation will
go TO either Pepsi Cola or Stew
art Sales. Stewart moved into a
tie for the No. l slot Tuesday
by winning four out of six games
as Pepsi lost five out of six.
Phelan's Upholstering retained a
mathematical chance by winning
five games, taking three from
Howell Roofing and two from
Fisher Tower. Another five
game winner was Eagles which
copied three from Pepsi and
two from Jock e. Meldrum.
r. Woods had 500 for the
best three-g game count. He also
had 237 for high single.
The standings:
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The Monitor-Leader
THURSDAY APRIL l3, 1914 PAGE

marked play last night in the
Big II League at Bowl-O-Drome.
Rene's victim was j. G. j. Mu-
sic. The other sweeps were scor-
ed by Gilberts Cut Rate over
league leading Lambs Recap
ping and Bell Lumber over
Sheriff Theut. The remaining
three matches were 2-1 affairs,
Miller Bros. Creamery winning
from Leos Hi-Speed, CARING S
from Kraft's Hi Speed and
Kreiner Grocery from Johnnie S
Bar.
Winnie Hazard Of Rene's again
set the individual pace with a
sci series. Johnny Kraft and
Harold Koth tied for high sim
gle, 215.
The standings:
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Gasoline BoWIeYs
10 be Honored
Banquet Planned
on April rs

Ladies of the Gasoline team,
which topped the Ladies Civil
ian Defense League this week
at the Bowl-O-Drome, will be
honored at banquet in the
Medea Hotel at 6 pm, Wednes-
day, April 26, league president
Mrs. James Curran announced
today.
The banquet will follow
sweepstakes party scheduled for
2:30 pm, at the Bowl-O-Drome,
and all 40 ladies participating in
the popular league are expected
to attend both events.
The Gasoline team is COM
posed of Capt. Mrs. Max Ken
drick, League President, Mrs.
James Curran, Mrs. Donald r.
Westendorf, Mrs. Leonard Will
liams and Mrs. Ralph Moore.