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Walter Winchell
In San Francisco
HOLLYWOOD'S HOLE IN THE
BIO SHOW
T* Mil of the war Id. because o(
•itro-cellulo.se, California means
lolylwood, but April and May of
.MS will be remembered as the
honths when Golden State means
Holden Gate ... As it swings wine
‘•o admit delegations from 46 na
tions there is a wry smile for the
nouveau riche upstart in Southern
California . . . San Francisco which
has taken the bottom spot on a
double bill in census sense, reminds
Itself that it was a cosmopolitan
city for almost a century before
Hollywood crossed Vine . . . Tills
Is not a Hollywood production, «>i
San Franciscos either, but the
world's and, specifically, the State
Department’s.
Even before the death of the
Fresident, Secretary Stettinius de
creed thatt here should be no gla
mor or fiesta in this serious archi
tecting of a better world, so Holly
wood personalities are not con
spicuous at the Security Conference
. . . . Orson Welles is here, not as
a screen actor, but as a radio com
mentator and newspaper columnist
. . . Ben Hecht is here, not as a
screen writer, but as spokesman for
a Free Palestine . . . Howard Dietz
»3 here, not as M-G-M vice-presi
dent but as chairman of the plan
ning committee for films for the
delegates- . . . Claude Lee is here,
not as Paramount executive but a*
motion picture liason with the State
Department . . . Our Government
has its own 150-seat projection room
in the Sir Francis Drake Hotel for
the screening of documentaries of
all nations, with Miss Mary Losey
of the Canadian Film Board desig
nated by our State Department as
film officer in charge of booking
these shorts.
Whal used to be the Alcazar
Theater on O’Farrell Street Is now
the United Nations Theater, thanks
to Charles Skouras, president of
Fox West Coast Theaters, who has
turned it over to the motion picture
industry for the official visitors . . .
It is the world's most exclusive
movie house—nobody can get m
without official credentials to the
Conference. F. B. I. men look you
over carefully as you enter for your
security at the Security Conference
. . . Fay Reeder is operating the
theater for the Brothers Skouras,
and the daily changed programs are
selected by an impartial commit
tee working with Gienn Allvine of
the Motion Picture Producers and
Distributors of New York . . . The
British won the toss on the open
ing day with their submarine pic
ture, ' The Silver Fleet” . . . The
Russians followed with their So
viet feature, “The Rainbow.” The
French nominated ''Harvest" as
their top United Nations film.
Not until these Allied productions
had been screened did Hollywood
show its first picture, the Academy
Award winner, "Going My Way” . . .
Bi)t the serious business of the
Conference has first call and the
delegates' theater does not open un
til 5 p. m. for two three-hour pro
grams ... No stage show, no per
sonal appearances, no glamor in the
flesh—just the film that B. A. Aug
inbaugh of tne Ohio State Depart
ment of Education has called “the
only qualitative gain to communi
cation since the alphabet was in
vented" . . . Just 35 millimeters of
the same stuff that makes explo
sives, but it is entertainment, edu
cation and International undersand
ing when duPont squeezes it out as
a negative—and it is a bombed
out and burning Tokyo when Wil
mington makes it as nitro-glycerine.
Film is right in here fighting m
the batle for the minds of men . . .
* For the Latins (through the co
EXAMINATIONS FOR
YOUNG MIDSHIPMEN
Qualifying Tests for Ap
;; pointments to Be Made
Kings Point Academy
The Training Organization of the
War Shipping Administration an
nounces examinations to be held
during 1945 on the last Saturday of
May, September, November and on
the last Wednesday in July, for ap
pointment as cadet-midshipman in
tie U. S. Merchant Marine Cadet
Corps and its academy at Kings
Point. Application forms and infor
mation booklets may be obtained by
writing to the Supervisor, U. S.
Merchant Marine Cadet Corps,
Training Organization, War Ship
ping Administration, National Thea
ter building, Washington 25, D. C.
Competitive examinations are con
ducted by the U. S. Civil Service
Commission and are based upon high
school courses in English, Mathe
matics, physics, modern history, and
primarily upon the general knowl
edge which a young man should
acquire in attaining the minimum
requisite of 15 high school credits.
State quotas based upon the popu
lation of each state will be observ
ed In selecting candidates for ap
pointment In the order of highest
grades received in the entrance
examinations. Candidates who are
unmarried citizens and who are
16 years and 6 months of age and
not yet 23 may submit application
for appointment as cadet-midship
man deck or cadet-mldshlpman en
gineer. The number of engineer
appointments are normally about
50% greater than the number of
_ deck appointments.
Physical qualifications are based
upon the requirements of the Navy
Department for appointment as
midshipman In the U. S. Naval Re
serve and are the same for deck
•r engineer candidates. No can
lldate will be appointed who falls
-o meet with these rigid physical
’equlrements regardless of the grade
tchieved In a competitive scholastic
examination.
RETAILERS DIVISION
MEETING THURSDAY
Members of the Retailers divi
• den of the Seventh War Loan Drive
; rill conduct their regular weekly
neetlng at The Elton Thursday at
- 11 a. m. Major J. Peter Costlgan,
chairman, and Harry Michaels co
chairman will preside.
la
ordlnator of inter-American at fair*
represented by Fran AUtock and
Jack Connolly with 2 camera crews*
—the Office of War Information
has two cameras shooting from box
es in the opera house and at hotels
where delegates are housed . . . The
Office of Special Services has cam
eramen assigned to rounding out
pictures for a documentary record
of history In the making. These
films will repose In the national
Archives In Washington so that gen
erations yet unborn may hear and
see the men and women who tried
to plan a warless world.
In the Veterans’ Buildnig In the
Civic Center a large room on the
second floor (amply protected for
security) Is lighted for newsreel in
terviews with the Edens, the Molo
tovs and other statesmen .... If
these dignitaries wish to see how they
photographed, they may hear and
see themselves the netx day on the
film developed and edited in Holly
wood by Allan Butterfield of M-G
M (working In the Movietone stu
dios of Twentieth Century-Fox) and
rushed oack by air to the United
Nations Theater for screening . . .
All five of the American newsreel
firms are flying these negatives to
N. Y. for processing.
Tony Mu to (of the Washington
office) heads up the Fox Movietone
crews in San Francisco . . . Joe
Hubbell is up from Hollywood to look
after the Hearst-Loew News of the
Day . . . Joe Rucker of Paramount
Is shooting with 4 newsreel cam
eras, and Frank Vail of Pathe and
Jack McHenry of Universal have
3 each . . . Claude Collins of Wash
ington has 2 camera crews shooting
to supplement the regular newsreel
coverage with additional Ban Fran
cisco locals and special for the
United Nations Theater only . . . .
At the last count the total of news
reel cameras was 26, not Including
the Russians.
There Isn’t room In the horseshoe
boxes of the opera house for 26
cameras, not to mention facillteis
for television, radio, etc . . . That
diplomat of diplomats, Michael J.
McDermott of the State Depart
ment, Is still trying to squeeze
everybody into his favorite working
spot . . . The newsreels have three
boxes off center and elaborate lights
Installed by Pete Mole so they can
photograph the speakers 85 feet be
low on the stage . . . The 20 th
Century-Fox exchange is the re
pository (thanks to Herman Wob
ber) of some 200 cans of film plus
many more films in storage else
where, the greatest concentration
of international film ever assembled
anywhere in the world.
Most of these will be screened at
the Conference Theater operated by
the State Department at the Ho
tel Sir Francis Drake . . . Francis
was the Briton who (while plun
dering the Spanish enemy of his
good Queen Bess) sailed his Gol
den Hinde up to what is now San
Francisco .... Back on that June
day of 1579 Drake called the hill
side Albion, because it reminded
him of the white cliffs of Dover...
Some of the descendants of these
Albions are still here — operating
out of the British Information Ser
vices or. Sutter street. There Dor
othy Magee (the film officer) has
assembled 25 pictures which are a
record of Britain's five years of
war. And in the de luxe hotel that
got its name from the Englishman
who discovered California, all the
world may discover, through mo
tion pictures, the Britain that to
day fights bloody but unbowed . . .
For the Britons—like the Russians
and other Allies—are putting their
best film footage forward.
.*— *
Local Red Cross Assisting
Servicemen, Ex-Servicemen
To assist the home service
branch of the Red Cross with
the dissemination of information
concerning the status of service
men or their relatives. The Wa
terbury Democrat is publishing
answers to the most frequent
questions received by that branch
of the local chapter of The Am
erican Red Cross. This is the
eleventh installment.
Q. My son is stationed overseas
at a remote location. He does not
receive the packages whicli we send
to him. We are particularly anxi
ous that he receive a gift from us
for his birthday. Can this be
handled through Red Cross?
A. We are sorry to say that Red
Cross has definite restrictions in
handling requests for purchase of
gifts for servicemen. When serv
icemen are overseas the facilities
for purchase of gifts of any de
scription are, naturally, extremely
limited. The demands of the Red
Cross are so great that our Red
Cross Field Directors would be un
able to handle this type of service.
Q. My husband is in the Mer
chant Marine. Am I entitled to a
family allowance?
A. Men in the Merchant Marine
have the status of civilians. Their
dependents are not eligible for
family allowance where the gov
ernment pays part of it as depend
ents of men who are in the Army
and Navy, Coast Guard and Ma
rine Corps. Your husband can
make arrangements to have the
steam ship company which em
ployes him send you a regular
monthly amount from his pay.
Q. My husband is a first ser
geant in the Army. Am I not en
titled to free maternity care under
the Emergency, Maternity & In
fant Care Program?
A. The wife of a first sergeant
is not eligible. According to the
Program free care is provided for
wives and Infants of men in the
four lowest pay grades.
Q. My husband was killed in
action. I am the beneficiary of his
National Service Life Insurance.
Can I expect the Insurance to start
from the day he was killed?
A. After your papers are com
pleted in applying for the type of
payment, the monthly installments
will become effective as of the
month in which your husband was
killed. Home Service will be glad
to help you with necessary papers
to be filed with Veterans’ Admin
istration pertaining to the Insur
ance payments.
Q. My son who is in the Navy
has written me that he Is planning
to marry an English girl. Will he
be permitted to marry her?
A. No members of the Navy.
Coast Guard, or Marine Corps, who
are on duty in any foreign country
or possession can marry without
the approval of the Senior Com
mander of such forces. This, ol
course, docs not apply to the
Navy Personnel who marry within
the continental United States while
on leave or otherwise.
If you have any problems or
questions regarding servicemen,
contact the Home Service Office at
35 Field street.
FORMER JAP PRISONER
TO SPEAK AT RALLY
A war hero will visit the plant of
Waterbury Companies Thursday
afternoon at 2:30 to speak in be
half of the war effort. He Is elec
trician's mate 3-c Charles Clay
bourn, who fell into Jap hands at
Corregldor, and later escaped from
a Jap prison ship after 29 months
of captivity.
Press Aide
Charles O. Ross, 59, above,
Washington correspondent for
the 8t, Louis Post-Dispatch, will
be President Truman's press sec
retary, effective May 15. Earlier,
J. Leonard Reisch had been ap
pointed but pressure of being di
rector of three radio stations pre
vented his accepting the Job.
FOR DEMOCRAT WANT ADS DIAL 4-2121
WATERBURY EVENING DEMOCRAT. TUESDAY, APRIL 24, IMS
PAGE IK
The President’s Desk
L
This It the desk of the President of the I'nlted States. It was photographed from the same an«le during
two administrations. Top photo shows the President s desk during the era when Franklin D. Roosevelt occu
pied the White House. Lower photo shows the desk as It appears today, with Harry S. Truman at the helm.
Reds’ Banner Flies
Over Nazi Capital
The following dispatch is the
first eyewitness story from inside
blazing Berlin. It was written ex
clusively for United Press by the
famed Russian war reporter, Ro
man Karmen. Veteran reporter of
the Spanish and Chinese Wars.
Karmen has followed the Red
Army through every big battle,
including Leningrad, Stalingrad,
and Warsaw.)
BY ROMAN KARMEN
Written for United Press
(Copyright, 1345 By United Press)
Berlin, April 23. (Correct)—
(UP)—The deeper we penetrate
Berlin the more fiercely the battle
rages.
But already the victorious Red
banner flies over the Nazi capital.
I am writing this inside Tank
T-34, which the command placed
at my disposal to enter Berlin with
the vanguard units.
We rode across the suburbs oi
Blankenburg and the Malkhov and
Wcisensee districts on Berlin streets
cleared of the enemy. On Relcken
strasse and Berliner Allec heavy
enemy artillery and mortars pound
lncassantly.
The streets are deserted. Our in
fantry, clinging to the house fronts,
advances chainwise. Furious bat
tles rage in neighboring streets.
We run into a group of captured
Volkssturmer unescorted. Our as
sault units, consisting of a tank
group, anti-tank guns and self
propelled guns together with sap
pers, smash toward the center of
the city, storming each house, cel
lar , and balcony turned into
fortresses.
Barricades constructed from the
wreckage of houses block our way.
TTiere is heavy cannonading from
the northern eastern, and southern
districts.
We run into three young tankmen
—the first motorized patrol which
entered Berlin. They are Guard 2nd
Lt. Kirillov. Guard Lt. Leonov, and
Guard Capt. Yurkevich.
These are unforgettable minutes.
It is a long way from the grim days
of the battle of Moscow. I remem
ber famished, besieged Leningrad
and Stalingrad.
We marched and fought four
years on battle-scarred roads, pro
foundly confident the day would
come when the Red Army would
hoist its victorious banner over the
Nazi capital. We have just done
that.
The tank unit which X am ac
companying battled ahead 15 kilo
meters in ousting the enemy from
several fortified villages in the way
to Berlin.
Before retreating the Germans
hurled against us huge artillery and
tank forces, counter-attacking on
each defense line established on
favorable terrain. Our tank units
were compelled to build their own
bridges and roads.
Our advance was a continuous
mass of material relentlessly sweep
ing ahead like an avalanche.
Thousands of motorized vehicles
were rolling on several lanes on a
dozen parallel highways.
Around the clock hundreds of
fighter, bombers, and assault planes
swept the skies. Fires blazed every
where. The artillery carinonade did
not cease for a single minute. Mo
tors roared over our heads carry
ing tons of deadly gifts westward.
The luftwaffe also was active,
dropping parachute flares over our
lines. But they dared to fly only
at night, our air superiority being
so overwhelming.
There was great enthusiasm
among our soldiers as they drove
within sight of their four years’
goal. Their lips burned with one
word, "Berlin."
Two days ago at six p. m. i stood
on the eastern edge of Bernau. In
the course of that night Bernau
was cleared and our tank forces
were ordered to proceed.
The next morning v/as rainy and
foggy. Aircraft were grounded but
the tanks smashed on without air
support.
I rode a jeep right behind the
tank column which entered the
northwestern city limits or Berlin.
The whole way Panzers burned like
torches and heaps of German corp
ses littered the roads.
At practically each halt there
were heavy barricades, which tank
borne sappers demolished under
murderous enemy fire. All the roads
and fields were densely mined.
I inspected Colonel Grekov's bat
tery. which opened Tire on Berlin
at 12:30 p. m.. shelling bridges
spanning the Spree and the Stet
tin northern railway stations.
At 12:40 I was told the Van
guards had broken into the north
eastern limits of Berlin in the
Weisensee district. Tankmen re
ported by radio that practically
every step of Berlin s central streets
was barricaded. Germans were fir
ing intensively from the houses.
On high buildings dominating the
capital’s skyline, ankmen unfurled
the Red flag.
I saw the massive preparations
which preceded the Berlin offensive.
In the past few days, I witnessed
great masses of military equipment
streaming to the Oder river.
In the area of the projected mow
were concentrated hundreds of
giant Stalin and some Sherman
tanks and an extraordinary quan
tity of artillery. Thousands of mo
tors roared at the Oder crossings.
Heavy tanks and self-propelled
guns blanketed the jumping of!
place on a small patch of land on
the west bank of the Oder. The bat
tle for this bridgehead raged furi
ously for many days.
At some points the width of the
bridgehead did not exceed three
kilometers. Pacing us were numer
ous rifle and tanks divisions pro
tecting the Nazi capital.
Suddenly an unparalleled barrage
loosened the enemy positions. Hun
dreds of planes simultaneously
dropped their bomb loads. Guns of
ail calibers standing hub to hub
covered the field as far as I could
see.
I saw the first group of prisoners,
all of whom told of the hysterical
appeals of their commanders to
fight to the last drop of blood and
under no circumstances admit the
Russians to Berlin.
The characteristic feature of this
offensive has been the secret con
centration of forces, the skillful es
tablishment of overwhelming super
iority, the seizure of initiative, and
the develapment of propressivcly
stronger massive blows from land
and air.
All men and officers today smash
ing i. ' o Berlin know Allied troops
also are uninterruptedly marching
eastward.
The more fiercely the enemy guns
thunder, the more savage the oppo
sition, the more passionate is their
dsire to end the war.
I
WORLD WAR II
A YEAR AGO
By United Press
Nearly 2,000 U. S. planes raid
aircraft factories in Friedriehs
liafen and airfields in the Munich
area; 38 bombers, 17 fighters, re
ported missing.
Great Britain orders all overseas
travel halted from midnight of
April 27 “until military considera
tions permit"; only representa
tibes of the U. S., Britain and the
Dominions on business of national
importance will be exempted.
Russian bombers sink seven
transports evacuating Germans
and Romanians from Scvastapol.
In New Guinea, General Mac
Arlhur's troops capture Hollandia
and two adjacent villages; also
seize islands off Aitape.
In India, glider-borne reinforce
ments arc landed by the IJ. S. Air
Commandos 200 miles inside
Burma in an attack on Japanese
communications.
A campaign against Sunday
dances has been started in North
ern Ireland.
SANITATION AT
CAMPSIMPROVED
Inspections, Cooperation
Result in Higher Ratings
Being Given
Sanitary ratings of Connecticut
summer camps have greatly im
proved in reei i it years due to the
cooperative efforts of camp man
agements and the continued pro
gram of routine camp inspection,
declared Warren J. Scott. S.B., Di
rector of the Bureau of Sanitary
Engineering, in the March Issue of
the Connecticut State Department
of Health bulletin.
Each camp was checked in re
gard to water supply, sewage and
refuse disposal, eating and drinking
facilities, sleeping quarters, milk
supply, medical and nursing serv
ice and general cleanliness. Accord
ing to the Connecticut Sanitary
Code tlie management of each sum
mer camp must register annually
with the health officer of the local
ity in which the camp is situated.
The management of each organized
camp must provide a safe drinking
water supply and sanitary sewage
and refuse disposal systems. Camps
are also required to maintain sani
tary eating and drinking facilities.
For many years the Connecticut
State Department of Health has reg
ularly inspected summer camps in
cooperation with local health offi
cers. In 1944, final figures Indicated
that 14,614 children and adults were
being accommodated in the 144
camps inspected.
The State Department of Health
forwards copies of camp inspection
reports with ratings and recommen
dations for improvements to both
camp managements and to local
health officers. Unsatisfactory con
ditions are followed up in coopera
tion with local health officers.
ODD FELLOWS PLAN
MEMORIAL SERVICES
Dr. John C. Walker, pastor of
Second Congregational church, will
speak at memorial services for for
mer members of the Nosahrogan.
Townsend, and Winona Rebekan
lodges to be held May 26 in Odd
Fellows’ Hall, It was announced
last night at a meeting of the
Townsend lodge.
A new class of Townsend candi
dates will be initiated May 7, it
was announced. Noble Grand
Wallace Race, presided.
ISLAND FOR EACH DAY
Portland, Me. — (U.P.) — Down
East residents boast that Casco
Bay on the Maine coast contains
one island for each day of the year
—a total of 365.
Lampshade Made .[m
From Man’s Skin
BT ANN STRINGER
Buchenwald, Qermany, April 22—
(UP)—The lampshade was made
from the skin from a man's chest.
Alongside were book bindings,
bookmarkers, and other ornamental
pieces—all made from human skin,
too.
I saw them today. I could see the
pores and the tiny unquestionably
human skin lines.
I touched the lampshade. It felt
smooth, and clung to my touch. The
skin was about one-sixteenth of an
Inch thick.
The lampshade ar.d other articles
had been made from the skin of
prisoners In this notorious Nazi hell
hole on the orders of the wife of the
camp commandant.
“She was a great admirer at tatoo
work." said a Dutch engineer tech
nician who had served twelve
months here. “She would have
prisoners with tatoo work on them
line up shtrtless. Then she would
pick a design or marks she partic
ularly liked. That prisoner would be
executed and his skin made into an
ornament.”
The lampshade was about two feet
in diameter at the bottom, about 18
inches high, and made of five panels
each about nine inches wide. It
was a delicate cream color. Some of
the panels were tatooed with nude
figures: the others were plain.
Another “item’ ’which apparently
was used merely as a wall ornament
was an entire male chest, completely
plain and undersigned. I could see
clearly the nipples and navel marks,
which made tiny marks in the
smooth surface, somewhat like knot
holes in a wood panel.
“This is not at all unusual,” said
the Dutchman. “It’s just another
Instance of the lack of value the
Nazis put on human life. They used
humans as guinea pigs in experi
ments on typhus treatments, on re
storing sight and hearing, and in
treating burns.
They'd destroy the hearing at a
prisoner, or put out his eye, sad
leave him like that for weeks. Then
they'd try to restore his sight or
hearing. Sometimes they failed,
sometimes they succeeded, but the
experiment always ended with the
victim's execution.”
"Sometimes," the Dutchmen con
tinued, “they would put acid pow
der on a man’s arm, letting It burn
him to the bone, then experiment In
treatments for it.
“They also experimented In steril
ization. In one camp section they
kept a group of girls for these tests.
They always were well-fed and well
treated and had every comfort and
luxury they could want. But about
one hundred of these girls died every
month from the experiments.
‘The Nazis permitted prisoners to
have children because they were
making experiments In twins. Many
of the children were killed because
they were "nuisance.” But they al
ways cared well for twins, for their
experiments.”
CHURCH SOCIETIES
DONATE CLOTHING
Collection of clothing for the Na
tional Clothing Drive was conduct
ed at the old St. Joseph’s school
last night, with scores of parishion
ers of St. Joseph’s church contri
buting. Yesterday was designated
by the national headquarters as
"Lithuanian Day” for the drive.
Alexander J. Alexsls, president of
branch two of the United Lithu
anian Relief Fund, reported that
large donations were made yestei
day. He pointed out that Lithu
ania will be allotted a portion of
the clothing collected In the na
tional campaign.
Know the Enjoyment of
Tea at its Best
"SALADA"
TEA
In Packages and Tea Bags at Your Grocer's
“Maybe my mother
didn’t need to die...”
Have you ever thought
that your Life is valuable
to others . . .?
Guard those you love . . . you owe
it to yourself ... to your children.
Don’t disregard danger signals —
It Isn’t Fair To Them!
There IS something YOU can do
about Cancer — 6 EiveS Ccttl
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is
i CANCER
I CONTROL
I MONTH
YOUR GIFT MAY SAVE YOU
... OR THE LIFE OF SOMEONE DEAR
Send your check now. as generous as you can make it to Cancer
in care of local Postmaster or Charles F. Lewis. Treasurer,
Connecticut Cancer Society, Waterbury, Connecticut.
First Federal Savings
and LOAN ASSOCIATION of WiUrbunj
50 LEAVENWORTH ST. PHONE 4-2126
FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF DETECTION CL'NICS
An army sergeant overseas wrote to
the American Cancer Society:
"I read your startling statement in the Reader’a
Digest that by education alone death from cancer
coutd-be cut in half. My mother died of cancer lag
June. Maybe ahe didn't need to dir. Here is a
month’s pay to help keep some other boy’s mother
alive.”
RESEARCH
EDUCATION