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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
'DRUCSTORES'
 MAY BE RIVAL
 TO BRITISH PUPS

London, UP)-The English pub" center of local social life-may have rival in postwar England. are anxious
 Influential temperance bodies are anxious to see the public-house re- placed by places - somewhat after the style of the American corner drugstore" where people can meet and talk and play billiards and other games in congenial sur- rounds.
 Britons, too, are looking forward to the introduction of the new drugstore" meeting-place. U. S. soldiers in Britain have told them so much about he drug stores back home that they are beginning to wonder if their traditional pubs" are not slightly outdated.
 Energetic advocate of the new center of social life is a minister from Northern Ireland, Rev. J. A. Donaldson of Londonderry, who wants to see one of the new meet ing-places set up wherever there is pub.
 q would like to see the temper ance party in the postwar period create rival to the public-house by setting up not merely a milkbar here and there but places where people can get together not to drink but play games and have a good time" he said.
 Where you have public house put one of these new bars that will not sell liquor tbut will be social center for the working-c -class com munity."
 The new bid to replace the "pub" with the corner drugstore" also has the backing of various bodies interested in the fight against ju- venile delinquency.
 A social welfare worker said: "The idea has our whole-hearted backing We would like to see an end to the custom of parents bring ing their children to public-houses. The drugstore idea wuld certainly tend to reduce the spread of juve- nile crime.
 "A major cause of juvenile crime is the fact that boys and girls aged from 15 to IS frequent public pleasure-lacking London, although there is a law against publican there is a law against publicans serv- ing minors with intoxicating drink. Still it is difficult for publicans to judge ages accurately"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
NAVY CONVERTS
 RUBBER USES TO. 75 PC SYNTHETIC

Washington (Up)-The Navy has now substituted synthetic rubber for 75 per cent of it's rubber require- ments.
 This conversion from crude to synthetic rubber, carried out in CO., operation with the War Production Board and other agencies, parallels the Nays intensive program of rubber conservation and salvage.
 The Navy reported that mora than 2,000 tons ofusable rubber have been reclaimed from 13 wal theaters by its Material Redistrf' button Units. e
 The Navy's conversion from crude to synthetic rubber requirements is. estimated to be 10 per cent greater than that achieved by industry in general. All of its small-sized tires are now 100 per cent synthetic ex- cept for scanning, and its informed fate sizes are approximately 70 per cent synthetic. However, the large. size tires still must be made en- tirely by crude rubber because oj a shortage of high tenacity rayoh COEQ WLlACkl AlStPo AC0uNS CNOACN AAS0h generated by synthetic materials.
 Another interesting item in the list of conversions is that of bullet proof gasoline tanks which now re- quire only 40 per cent crude rub Der.
 Gas masks, protective clothing medical and surgical goods suck as hot water bottles, ice caps anc rubber tubing, and nearly all typel of rubber footwear for the Navy are now made exclusively with sym thetic rubber. Running these goods a close second are wire and cable, with more than 95 per cent conver- sion based on pre-war specifications, and mechanical goods such as hose, packing and gasketing rubber re- quirements which are about 90 pei cent synthetic.
 Flotation equipment submarine battery jars and aircraft magnetoes art expected to be completely con- verted to synthetics by April l.
 Navy Rubber Director Arthur M. Hill of Charleston, w. Va, revealed this significant record in the seIn- annual progress report.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

all probability the family would undergo real privation to meet these costs. They might not be able to meet them at all, because there is no provision in the Social Security Act now to protect workers and their families against the risks ot disability and sickness.
 The Social Security Board pro- poses in its Report to Congress that the law be changed to provide so- clay insurance protection against these risks and against the costs of medical care. Here is serious gap in social security today and one that we should close as soon as pos sible. By contributing regularly only small percentage of their wages, workers and their families all over the country could pool their re- sources to meet these risks, so that each family would have financial resources from which to draw when sickness unexpectedly makes de- mands on the family purse.
 Womanlike, Mrs. Smith worries about the security of other families as well as her own. The security of her brother-in-law Farmer Smith. and his hired man are part of the larger concern of the Board in its recommendation to extend insur- ance coverage to all workers and their families. At the present time some 20 million workers are in jobs not covered under the Social Se- curity Act-farm operators, farm workers, small businessmen and wo- men, household workers, employees of public end of non-profit educa- tional, charitable and scientific or. ganiZations.
 With protection for all wage earn CTS against the hazards of unem- ployment, sickness, disability, old age and death, Americas families would be assured a minimum secur- ity in the coming years of postwar readjustment and in the long de- cades ahead.
 We have gone long way toward real social security in the past eight years. We have not gone far enough. We must meet the challenge of our uncompleted tasks - a challenge made more insistent by the worries of Mrs. Smith and the many mil- lion other Mrs. Smiths as peace and its problems draw nearer. Here is the next frontier We must conquer in our march against want and ilI security in America.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

"Theres woman behind every tree on KiSka, but dog looking for tree would go crazy ani die Of dsap pointment' is thumbnal impression of that Aleutan Island gained from enlisted of the 29th Field HoS pita who are recent additions to Camp Bowie, Texas It. Col Albert E. Hermann of Waterbury, Conn.,, IS the commanding officer Cpl Fred White of Spencer, Ind, was busy handing out teegramS at headquarters last week. because lots of the boys had eegraphed home for money to finance 20day furloughs for everybody which began last Saturday Men of the hospital are getting
 much needed rest after five months on Kiska during which they unconed labor unit because there was no need for hospital. They had rough trip from West Coast port to Alaska last August aboard LSTs and moved into KSka with assault troops who surprised beyond belief when they discovered the aps had aband oned the island There lots of cigarettes, soap, and shaving which were items of GI issue and F. H. Mo- 29 had it's miniature PX to save the boys a tiring walk to nearby Kiska Village. One movie house there could seat 800 GIs but he movies were ancient theater being built Playing blackjack and cast ing galloping dominoes principal aerdark recrea- tions Radio reception from the States impossible because of atmospheric conditions but recordings could be picked up from small local transmter at KiSka Vil- lage Beverages stronger than coffee unknown u
 til resourceul GI discovered that drinking juice of fermented rasins provided amazing relief from worry Skis furnished by Special Service made skiing lessons
 popular diversion Old lumber and tin converted frequently into unstable toboggans which dumped sol derders into deep drifts All of the boys are wear ing Pacific-Asiatic Ribbons with one combat star
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
Ethyl MacCarragher has been declared Girl of the

Ethyl MacCarragher has been declared Girl of the young women who can claim to enjoy life with the com- pIete gusto Ethyl does Not only does she feel at home while playing the piano or accordion Beethoven or bOOgiewoOge), but she sings both popular and semi classical songs Only her victory garden or the OVey Dutch tulips she grows a hobby can keep Ethyls mind away from music. But these time-absorbng interests do not prevent her from serving as nurses aide Three nights week she's the jOb and she be-
 eves every should volunteer for some sort of hospital work during her spare time. She has been happily married for the past two years. Although Ethyl originally from Hartford she and her husband have decided to make Waterbury their home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

Potential air crewmen from Connecticut in traln- ing at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Centers bOm- bardier navigator preght school in Texas include two from Waterbury. ArgOrOuS nne-week course includes physical military and academic instruction, and nere cadets will learn the fundamentals of physics, mathe- matics code communication, map and chart reading, aircraft Identification and the handling of small arms. Following graduation from this school the cadets will go to more advanced training at other schools of the Army Air Forces. BOmbardier cadets from the Brass City include George A. Corey of 622 Baldwin Street and Philip l. Kampner of 7l7 Cooke Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

date Tor the preSluehcy really uOes uo m typIcaI day I've just gone through one with Wendell Will kie Here it is in brief outline:
 Mir Willkie woke up, this particular day in the home of National Committeeman Robert Bur roughs in Manchester. He bathed shaved, dressed, and was downstairs at o'clock. The only other person around was his hosts 8-year-old daughter, who turned on lights and made him at home.
 Three personal friends of MT. Burroughs came for breakfast. Helen Burroughs 13, brought pile of her young friends autograph albums and many sheets of paper, each of which MT. Wilkie signed
 At g. Messrs. Wilkie Burroughs and Lem Jo. press secretary started in MT. Burroughs car at- tended by state trooper in another car, for Con- cord, the state capital They arrived -here at 0:50 Tive minutes late.
 The lobby of the Eagle Hotel was -jam-packed cd. .h politicians, good roads men and others. The ( ,tiidate shook some hands in the lobby, went up na flight to the gubernatorial suite, and at once eken with Mir Burroughs and tate Chairman Harold and Boston reporterS dronned to ask few
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
RAINS COME TO KETCHIKAN

KETCHIKAN, Ala ska CUP)- Rainfall totaling 165.78 inches fell here during 1943. nearly 15 inches above normal. The wettest month was November, with 24.56 inches, about normal for a year in many cities of the United States. (Nor- nal annual recipitation in Seattle is 33.9 inches),
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
Tall Tower
 Topics
Good Evening.

Our congratulations tonight to Victor Mambruno and his bride-to-be Miss Emily Geneva. Both are extremely popular among younger Waterburans Both are graduates of Wnby High School Miss Geneva IS also graduate of Posts Business College and IS pres emily Associated with Sugenhemers. "Vic is employe of the Cost Department of the American Brass Company and is also prominently known as president of the 4ta- was an outstanding athlete So many, happy years of welded bliss to both Vic" and Emily Miss Genova is the daughter of Mir and Mrs. Thomas Genova of Man. han Street and sister Miss Carolyn Genova former society editor of the waterbury Democrat and presently a student in the School of Journalism at New York University "Vic" is the son of MT. and Mrs Edwaro Mambruno of Haywood Avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
A Day In Life Of Busy MT. Willkie
TYPICAL HOURS
 POLITICAL CONFERENCES HAEDSHANG N NEW HAMPSHIRE
* * *
By s. BURTON HEATH NEA Staff Corresnnndent

CONCORD March l-You radio and hear the
 co-fed accents of Wendell Wke explaining to convention of Americans afraid of the future read that speech before.
 Pretty "An he interest that he knows hearand bye and bye if he is lucky, e gets to be president"
 Thinking perhaps you would
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
PURPLE HEART TO 1918 VET

Pekin, Ill. (UP)-More than 2S years after he was wounded at Yer. dun. World War Veteran Ken- meth Guthrie, Pekin, ",ceived the Purple Heart award for wounds sustained as he served with a U. s. Naval battery in France. The medal and citation, signed by Navy Sec retary Frank Knox, stated Guth- rie was wounded Oct. 28, 1928.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
MADE IT roo EASY

Oakland, cal. CUP) = Miss Alta. Brown told police slae hid five $l0al bills in the fingers os a glove aIld left 1t on her dresser. Then she went to show, leaving kaip key te her apartment under t.,e doOrmas When she xetahmed, ripfrw and glove had disaps ed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

Teresa C. Geghan is wearing 25-year ScOvill Service pin. Photograph operator she started as drill press operator during the First World War She iu considered a most dependable, conscientious and trustworthy emplOye according to Earl Ode, foreman of AddresSOgraph She has brother Maurice working in the North Mill Two other brothers Richard and Matthew are former employees of ScOvi.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

Richard Parkinson, member of the welfare board in Naugatuck looking out for his welfare these days in sunny Florida where the thermometer is almost as high as prices Rev Joseph Donnelly fromer assist ant pastor at St. Thomas Church here discussed Cath olc Principles Regarding Labor last night at meeting of St. Anr'S Holy Name Society in Hamden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
POsTMAN sHUgf INFANTRY

FUSTTAN SEHEl4EE M FE4F 4EsAL
 Topeka, Kan. (U4 -s When R. T.. Ketcherside, Topeka, p9stmalt yas drafted recently, he had otfly ogg wish-to stay out of tka infsntIt4 Ketcherside got the habit of WhisG ing constantly as he wake hrosinl on his mail route, and he eiERig the sergeant wouldn't undFfstanq.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

Alice Kenny is having another birthday today. But don't worry, AL we won't tell the crowd how many candles will be that birthday cake which mother mas made (and how she can make cake). Alice is soph at Wby and is the only daughter of John and Theresa Burns) Kenny of Homestead Avenue and has one brother, Jackie, now somewhere in the Pacific
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

Earl ROss of 25S Bishop Street is very ill at St. Marys Hospital with double pneumonia He slated to sing in two minstrel shows this week, if you fail to hea his tenor voice at either you'll know the reason why. Corporal Harry BOyinO military policeman has returned to Monterey, California, after a pleasant furIOugh with his parents Mir. and Mrs. Matthew Bovine of Crown Street Harry was given 20 days at home after recently returning from l6- months stay overseas. He's former emplOye of the American Brass.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
Burning Pain In Stomach
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 When excessive gas becomes locked In the stomach and bowels. it often causes a burning pain at the pit of the stomach or occasional grlping pains in the abdomen. especially on the left side. In many cases the gas pressure ia responsible for heart palpitatIon, difficult breathing or an irritated, anx. Ious feeling.
 Prompt relief from such distress. when due t0 gas, can generally be oh. tained by taking Daalmann's Gas Tabs lOte, which have been used for this purpose for more than 30 years.
 Satisfaction oP Nlo Cost
 The maker of baaImann's Gas Tabs let's guarantees to refund your money if you are not satisfied with results after taking one bottle. Get . bottle on this liberal guarantee at any good drug store. Use only as directed. On Aaad at ApothecaFies Hall Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15

Burroughs Chairman Then reporters dropped questions
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
MOB LYN(HE5 FORMER JAIL
 HEAD IN ROME

ROME, Sept. IS = An angered Italian mob dragged the former Roman jail director, Dr. Donate Caretta into the courtroom, beat him to death and then threw him into the waters of the Fiber.
 The mobsters strung the body feet first from the window of the prison from which the prosecution declared that he had turned 50 hostages over to the Germans.
 Caretta was to have testified for the state in the tr1al of Pietro Caruso, former Police Chief of Rome, but the growing mob was prompted by Allied military gov ernment officers decision to post pone Caruso's trial, and the lync1- ing followed.
 Caretta, mauied and beaten, was thrown into the river and finally killed by men who pursued him in a rowboat and beat him with oars.
 Caruso, Police Chief for the first four months of the German occupa- tion of Rome, is on trlal for life He is the first accused Italian col laborationist to come before the tribunal for punishment of Fas- cist crimes.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
Eastern Ofensiue IS Started by Russian Army
NATIONAL DEMO VICTORY LOOMS,
 SAYS GRUENING
Declares Election in Alaska Barometer of Trend
 Due in November

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 18.- AS goes Alaska so goes the Ma tion," Gov. Ernest Gruening said in statement, asserting the Territory has taken over the place formerly held by the State of Maine as the Nations most reliable political bar ometer.
 Returns from last Tuesdays Ter ritorial election showed Democrat was elected as Territorial represen- tative in Congress and all Territorial officers.
 Gruening predicted that at least 34 of the 40 members of the Terri torial Legislature will be Democrats, showing that Maine is false pro- phet. He also said that Alaska in 1886 and 1940 accurately foretold the National vote, keeping the Ter ritory's record as a forecaster clear.
 Gruening asserted this years sweeping September victory of the Democratic ticket is an "augury for the National election in Novem- ber."
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
DEWEY IST0
 GIVE SPEECH
 IN SEATTLE
Republican Presidential Nominee 10 Outline
 Views on Labor Laws

SEATTLE, Sept. 18-Gov. Thomas E. Dewey declared today the time had come for the establishment of a national labor policy so that in the future, the needs of labor need not depend on a single political party or the caprice of some in dividual.
 Arriving here to make a major campaign speech to labor tonight, the nominee told the crowd of sev- eral hundred persons gathered in the railroad station that he fa- vored equality of the East, Mid- west and West in reconversion from war manufacturing to peace-time pursuits.
 Later at a news conference at his hotel, Dewey said it seemed apparent to him that If the New Deal was reelected the East would reconvert first. In a new admins tration the East, Midwest and West will receive equal treatment. Con- version will be a difficult problem and require degree of compe- tence never shown in this admin istration"
 Dewey says he intends to outline a definite labor policy in tonights speech at 7:30 D. m. PWT). He told reporters its time the labor policies of our country were ex- amined with great care so that as we approach peacetime operations the labor people of the country can be brought closer together and the rights of labor more clearly and permanently established so they don't depend on single political party or the caprice of an in- dividual."
 The nominee disclosed that he will discuss island bases in a later speech and added he expected to obtain first hand information dur ing his West Coast visit on the problem of returning the relocated Japs to this section of the country.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
ALLIED ARMIES
 SLOWLY ADVANCE
 IN NORTH ITALY
Bloody Battle Is Being Fought for Village of
 San Mdrfino;

ROME, Sept. 18.--Powerful as- saults by both the Fifth and Eighth armies against the heavily fortified German lines in Northern Italy made scant progress yesterday.
 Fierce fighting continued to rage along the broad front, Allied head quarters said, on the Adriatic coast. Canadian and Greek troops fought their way forward few hundred yards to reach the northwestern corner of Rimini airfield, scarcely more than two miles from the southern limits of Rimini itself. On their left a bloody battle is being waged for the village of San Martino.
 On Monte Labate, German para chutists, strongly supported by Tiger tanks, contested every British attempt to gain ground. The Eighth Army bridgehead over the Marano River was widened from six and a half miles to eight miles.
 Allied headquarters gave warm praise to the Brazilian Expedition ary Force that had gone into action with the Fifth Army and had ad- vanced more than mile to take the town.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
ICKE5, PERKINS
 TO BE FIRED IF
 DEWEY ELECTED

COUER D'ALENE, Idaho, Sept. 18.-At a conference with newsmen here last Saturday, Gov Thomas E.. Dewey said Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins will be high on the list" of Government officials to be busted if the Republicans win in November.
 The Republican nominee said that he is impressed so far on his Vest ern tour by the fact that the New Deal has been deserted in the West and added trade agreements and not tariffs may be the answer to future international economic interchanges.
 Noting that the United Mine Workers convention had adopted a resolution condemning the New Deal Administration and praising Dewey, Tom Reynolds of the Chicago Sun, asked the nominee: Do you well come support of John L. Lewis?"
 q didn't know had it," shot back Dewey. "The dispatch said Lewis had not endorsed any Presidential candidate" said the nominee.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-09-18
27 GERMAN FIGH TERS
 SHOT DOWN

LONDON, Sept. 18-A great ar mada of bombers and transport planes fed supplies to the Allied Airborne Army, which invaded Aol- land vertically, and destroyed 27 of 60 German fighters that tried to interfere. Two Mustang fighters were lost as enemy planes fell.
 Around 250 Liberators and hun dreds of transports and gliders par ticipated in the supplying of Brere- tons First Allied Airborne Army.
 The Germans intercepted in the Maastricht area, but Fortresses ana escorting Mustangs flew on all the way across Germany and dropped needed supplies to patriots figh1ms in Warsaw. The Fortresses then flew on past Warsaw, but the fighters wheeled over the city ana came all the way back to Eng land; one of the longest round- trip fighter flights in history oi aviation.