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Urge Drive Workers
To ‘Speed Up’ Canvass
Red Cross Campaign Progressing Well in Some Sec*
K tors; War Workers Responding Magnificently
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■ Weekend Returns of donations to the Red Cross War
Weekend returns of donations to the Red Cross War
It is expected an announcement of total receipts to date
will be made late this afternoon, Mrs. Frank Kenny, pub
licity chairman, asserted.
The hind* of the Red Croe War
(fund clock on the Green, which
brers moved forward laat Saturday,
register $85,000
In an urgent appeal, Mrs. George
Cowperthwalt, chairman of district
*nd street canvassers, today asked
that the hundreds of canvassers now
at work contacting people in this
area, attempt to speed up the cam
paign as much as possible.
Simultaneously Mrs. Herman Koe
ater announced a 60 mm. film en
titled “Overseas Service" is now
available to organisations who wish
to help In the promotion of the
drive, and may be obtained at the
Red Cross War Fund office, 35 Field
street.
Practically all local factories re
ported donations had passed the
halfway mark. The quota for In
dustries throughout this area has
been set at $70,000.
The Scovill Manufacturing Co.,
which conducted an intenellled
campaign at all its plants last Fri
day and Saturday, has received do
nations from employes totaling 75
per cent of Its quota, set at $14,000,
according to David S. Moreland,
chairman.
At rally will be held this aft
ernoon at the aPtent Button Co.,
at which Mrs. Herman Koester,
chairman of the campaign, and Pvt.
Nicholas Nowle, wounded veteran,
will speak.
Contributions from mercantile
concerns throughout the area are
steadily mounting, and It Is ex
pected that figures will be issued
shortly concerning the amount of
donations from merchants and their
employes, Ralph aPine, chairman of
mercantile branches, stated.
Several radio programs are
scheduled for this week, to stimu
late the campaign In this area.
Alfred Hart, chairman of Indus
tries, will speak over WATR at 5:45
this afternoon and Miss Fay Clark
will interview Mrs. Norman Neale,
chairman of the blood donor serv
ice, over WBRY at 1:30 tomorrow
afternoon.
Thornes F. Moore, treasurer, of
the Red Cross, last Saturday told a
radio audience thta funds contri
buted to the drive would save lives
and greatly lighten the burden ol
the wounded.
Activities of various health organ -
izations of the city were described
by Miss Alice Penh of the Visiting
Nurse association at a meeting of
the Coombs fellowship of the Sec
ond Congregational church yester
day.
A program of Negro spirituals and
Fisk Jubilee Singers at a spc-'ini
folic songs will be presented by the
forum at the Second Congregational
church Wednesday night at 8 o’
clock.
A news spiritual "One Mornln’
Soon” will be among the selections
rendered by the choral group, which
is directed by Mrs. James Meyers.
Lydia Mason is accompanist for the
singers.
Rededication services were held
yesterday at the Baptist Tabernacle
auditorium, which had been closed
for the past two months for re
decoration work.
The sermon at the morning ser
vices at 10:30 was given by Rev.
John Anderson of Bristol. Baptist
Fellowship delegates who partici
pated In the afternoon services in
cluded: Rev. Ernest Olson of Hart
ford. Rev. Milton Saterberg of New
Britain, and Rev. Herbert Peterson
of Meriden.
Rev. O. A. Goranson, pastor, su
pervised the redecoration work.
Animal life was depicted duting
an illustrated lecture by Cleveland
P. Grant at the Second Congrega
tional church forum last night.
Colored motion pictures, titled, 'Ad
ventures with American Birds” and
‘Animal Life in the Canadian
Rockies" were shown.
The lecturer, who discussed gam-j.
song, and sea birds, is a former
president of the Audubon society
of Ohio and the Chicago Omitholo
gocal society and is now extension
director of the Baker-Hunt Founda
tion at Covington. Ky. His wife,
Ruth Grant, assisted him with the
picture projection.
I am quite ready to say 'I be
lieve In the Holy Ghost' stated
Rev. Dr. John C. Walker, Second
Congregational Church, pastor, yes
terday morning in his sermon, ‘We
Believe in the Holy Spirit.'
Dr. Walker said in part: "The
difficulty with the use of the word
"ghost'' lies not in original and
proper meaning but in modern
usage and connotation. "Ghost” is
a sturdy, old, Anglo-Saxon word
that meant “spirit.” "the vital,
psychical principle." The Holy
Ohost then is the vital principle,
the essence, the inmost spirit of the
divine. But you and I are well
aware that with the passing of the
centuries this fine old English
word, “ghost,” has acquired some
unhappy associations in our common
speech, one of the saddest of which
is the suggestion that the ghost
of a smile or on idea or a person
is the mere semblance or shadow
of some thing real and vital. There
fore Instead of simply saying, that
we believe in the Holy Ohost, we
think we shall be better under
stood if we say. “We believe in the
Holy Spirit of God, and that God
by His Spirit comes into our hearts
to restrain us from evil and to in
spire us to goodness and truth."
Participation in church activi
ties as a hobby was urged by Rev.
N. A. Honnold of Waterville in an
address on the subject The Chris
tian's Tools” at a meeting of the
Sunday Noon club at the Second
Congregational church yesterday.
The church hobby would be en
joyed through ymns, the bible and
personal testimony as tools, the
speaker, a retired Grace Methodist
church minister, stated.
Major and Mrs. Milton MacMahon
of the aSlvatlon Army divisional
Fire Record
Three companies of firemen re
sponded at 4:48 this morning when
hot ashes caused a minor blase In
the apartment buildint at 45 Cen
ter street.
Yesterday firemen rot their first
call of the season to pat oat grass
fire, this one at Cooke and Grove
streets. On Saturday, firemen ex
tinguished a slight fire at the
home of Mrs. Robert Scanlon, •
Sparks street.
ST. PATRICK’S DAY
PROGRAM PLANNED
Community Club to Spoil’
sor Annual Show; Com*
mittee to Meet
Washington Hill
St. FYancLs' parochial school re
sumed sessions today, after vaca
tioning since February 22.
Religious Instructions for the
grammar school children of the par
ish will be held on Thursday after
noon at 2:30; Saturday morning at
10 o'clock, and after the 8:30 o’clock
Mass on Sunday morning.
Instructions for the high school
pupils will be held Thursday eve
ning at 7 o’clock, In the basement
of the school. A meeting of the C
Y. O. will be held Immediately after
the Instructions.
There will be a meeting of the
committee for the Washington Park
Community club St. Patrick's day
celebration Tuesday evening at the
Community house at 8:15 o'clock.
Miss Marguerite Tierney Is general
chairman, assisted by F. A. Mc
Grath, W. F. Kelly, W. Fltioell and
George Lynch, Patrick Wallace,
Jack Cuddy and John Dalton, Mrs
Loretta Brick. Mrs. E. Plankey, Mrs.
F. A. McGrath, Mrs. Helen Talbot
and Mrs. Anna Johns.
Incidentally, the show promises
to be a fine evening's entertainment,
featuring such Irish airs as “Irish
Lullaby," “Come Back to Erin”,
“Where the River Shannon Flows",
“When Irish Eyes Are Smiling”, and
living models working with some of
the prominent numbers. There are
specialty dances by Misses Peggie
Parmalee, and Barbara Bums, Mar
ylln Pepin and Helen Carroll. The
opening and closing choruses are
old Irish airs, familiar to everyone.
Troop 9, Boy Scouts of Washing
ton Park. Community Club awarded
four of the members of the Wolf
patrol official boy scout watches,
the prize for bringing In the pre
scribed amount of scrap paper .Yes
terday was the deadline for the win
ning of thep rlze-winners were
Qregary Lynch, Robert Reilly, Ro
bert Egan, and Alfred Schandelmelr.
They are also eligible for the Oen.
Eisenhower medals awarded to in
dividual members bringing 1000 lbs.
of paper each. Edward Herbert,
Junior leader is also eligible for the
Elsenhower medal.
The seventeenth session of the
Earbenders "45" tournament ended
with the following scores: Grimes
20 vs. O’Donnell 22; Fitzmaurice 23
vs. Murphy 19; J. B. Cuddy 23 vs.
Reynolds 19.
The season standing to date is,
Fitzmaurice 370; J. B. Cuddy 365;
Grimes 364; O'Donnell 358; Rey
nolds 348 Murphy 337.
The schedule for Sunday March
11th is; Grimes vs. Cuddy; Fitz
maurice vs. Reynolds; O’Donnell vs.
Murphy.
KNIGHTS ARRANGE
TO STAGE DEGREE
Members of Sheridan Council,
Council, Knights of Columbus, will
hold a regular meeting tomorrow
evening at ■ o’clock. Plans will br
completed for exemplifying th*
third degree in this city, Sunday.
March 25th. The first degree wtl'
be staged on March 20th and the
second on March 23rd. The major
degree will be an event of state in
terest at the Wilby High school
gymnasium two days later.
Applications for the Fourth De
gree are being received by State
Master William J. Mulligan ot
Hartford. April 3 is the Anal day.
FISH, GAME GROUP
MEETING TONIGHT
Joseph Pow, president has an
nounced that officers will be chosen
at tonight s meeting of the Water -
bury Fish and Came Protective As
sociation at club house on the Che
shire-Waterbury road. Discussion
of bills before the General Assem
bly will be conducted.
Sportsmen are urged to be present
Tuesday at 1:30 p. m. in Room 417
at the Capitol in Hartford when
a hearing on hunting and fishing
bills will be held.
CHILD CARE COMMITTEE
TO REPORT TOMORROW
The annual meeting of the Child
Care Committee will be held to
morrow afternoon at 5 p. m. at the
Kingsbury Center, Prospect street.
Annual reports of all officers will
be submitted to the chairman Miss
Marion Hunt.
beaduquarters in Hartford will be
speakers next Sunday, when the
club will mark Salvation army day,
it was announced.
heldrreaJ i-x
Leads 9th To Rhine
Man behind the rampaklng
Ninth Army's plunge to the Rhine
opposite big industrial city of Dus
seldorf is Lt.-Gen. William H.
Simpson, whose latest photo ap
pears above. Ills men were lint
to reach river.
Landlords In State
Penalized $64,000
Conecticut landlords who vio
lated rent control regulations
during 1644 have already paid
nearly $64,000 in refunds to their
tenants and the ‘U. S. Treasury,
James Thomas Sullivan, State
OP A Rent Executive, revealed to
day in an annual round-up re
port.
These protective beneiits ac
crued to 593 tenants, he said, on
the basts of a study of 27,632
complaints.
Regarding ifle disparity be
tween the number of complaints
and the number of settlements,
the rent head explained that "a
large percentage of the former
dealt with minor violations, such
as the temporary cessation of a
service, which were quickly cor
rected by interviews with the
landlords.”
On the property owner's side of
the ledger, OPA pointed to 6,080
MERCHANTS MEET
TO DISCUSS PLANS
Committees to be Formed
for Seventh War Loan
Drive
Major J. Peter Costigan chairman
of the retailers division of the forth
coming Seventh War Loan Drive has
called a meeting of the committee
fur Thursday March 8 at 11 a. m.
The Elton. Major Costigan will be
assisted by Harry Michaels as co
chairman, well known local mer
chant.
No local or state quotas have yet
been nsslgned to the city for the
forthcoming campaign which is
scheduled to be held from May 14
through June 30.
James E. Moran will again act as
chairman of the campaign assisted
bv members of the War Finance
Committee and Publicity Committee
Civic groups, fraternal and religious
organizations will all participate. In
dustries are again expected to form
the spearhead of the drive.
Hospital
Bulletins
Nellie Reilly, 332 Grove street,
was reported in fair condition this
morning: at St. Mary's hospital
where she is under treatment for
injuries received when struck by
an automobile while crossing Wil
low street near Johnson street
on saiuihay. The driver, Thomas
Truelove, 244 Willow street, was
not held.
Thomas Farrell, 47, 21 Aetna
street, city dog warden, was treat
ed at W'aterbury hospital last night
for a dislocated shoulder suffered
when he fell down the steps at 34
Judson Circle as he was carrying
a dog in his arms, according to
the hospital report.
Mrs. Gertrude Gabriel, 1026
Baldwin street, was treated at 8t
Mary’s hospital yesterday after
noon for a laceration of the hand
suffered while cleaning a dis
pan.
ROBBERY REPORTED
AT MOHICAN CLUB
One hundred and ninety dollars
in cash was stolen over the week
end from the Mohican club, pos
sibly by a patron who concealed
himself at the Saturday midnight
closing time and later emerged to
rifle the cash register, Chief In
spector Joseph R. Bendler said this
morning.
Lt. Edward McElllgott and Sgt.
Joseph McCarthy who conducted
an Investigation said that no forc
ible entrance of the premises had
been made, and the door had beer,
locked.
The Mohican club was in the
news recently when after a police
raid on a Sunday night, the stew
ard, Michael Toma, was fined $160
on a charge of selling liquor after
hours
petitions filed for rent increases,
with 4,071 granted.
Most of the rental adjustments
in favor of landlords were allowed
because of major capital improve
ments of property or additional
services and equipment, Sullivan
said.
A decrease of services, however,
was among the reasons for reduc
ing rent in 1,755 instances, al
though other facts also contribut
ed to this, it was noted.
During the year. OPA handled
2,867 eviction requests front land
lords and certified 2,503, 95 per
ce'nt of which were cases where
the owner had recently acquired
the property for his own use, Sul
livan stated.
"All in all,” he added, "it was
a busy year for the rent control
program in Connecticut and 1 feel
the results clearly show the im
partiality and fairness with which
we treat each case.”
BUILDING
PERMITS
The following building permits
have been issued by Building In
spector John T. Hartley:
Carmine Covallo, chicken coop
on Cushman street, $50.
Peter and Mary Genovese, ad
dition to 150 Maple street, $100.
Harry S. Coe, demolition of
building at 506 Country Club road.
Germon Oil
Plants Hit
I/ondon, March 5—(UP)—A 1,000
plane fleet of American bombers
and fighters dealt a double blow to
day at German transport and oil
in attacks on refineries at Harburg
near Hamburg and rail yards at
Chemnitz, and battered Saxony
stronghold lying before the Red
army.
Lt. Gen. James T. Doolittle’s fly
ing Fortresses and Liberators round
ed out three weeks of dally attack.',
on Germany. The heavy escort of
Mustangs and Thunderbolts was
sent along as a precaution against
German fighter opposition, which
has flared violently at times re
cently.
The big rail yards at Chemnitz,
southwest of Dresden, have been
bombed repeatedly in support of
the Russian forces battling in Si
lesia to the east.
With Dresden hard hit and report
ed by the Germans to have been
entirely destroyed, Chemnitz had
become tire main distribution point
for the German forces opposing the
advance of Marshal Ivan 6. Konev’s
Red Army.
3 Brockton Wor
Workers Killed
Bridgewater, Mass., March 5 — |
<U.P.) — Three Brockton war work- |
ers were killed and two others In
jured today when their automobile
crashed Into the rear of a parked
truck on the Bedford street hill
near the Bridgewater-Mlddleboro
line.
The victims were bound for a
New Bedford shoe factory where
they were employed.
The dead were:
Prank H. McLeod, superintendent
of a New Bedford shoe factory and
operator of the vehicle.
James F. Buckley, former Brock
ton shoe manufacturer who had
been serving as an army shoe In
spector.
Miss Margaret Perkins.
The two Injured were hospitalized
at Mlddleboro.
VETERANS GROUP IN
CONFERENCE TODAY
A meeting of the housing com
mittee of the Veteran's Advisory
and Reemployment Committee will
be held today at 6 p. m. In the cen
tral office, city hall. Discussion of
proposed plans for the new site on
Central avenue and Grove street
will be conducted.
Six cities in Australia report
$3,528,000 worth of building opera
tions In two months.
Women Recruits Sought
Here For Medical Corps
All Necessary Information on Requirements, Training,
Ratings May Be Obtained at Victory House
S-S«t. Bonnie L. Troy and T-3
Dorothy I. Burnes of tha Women s
Army Corps will open their recruit
ing headquarters today at the Vic
tory House on the green and will
be on duty there for the next four
weeks, to enlist women for service,
particularly in the Ahny Medical
Corps.
They announced that present
plans call for a company of WACs
from this state to be organised as
a Connecticut unit to be sent to the
Oliver Oeneral Hospital in Augusta.
Oeorgia, and the McOulre Oeneral
hospital In Richmond. Vt. Women
enlisting at this time will be given
the opportunity of choosing either
of the above-mentioned hospitals for
their initial assignment.
Thousands of casualties are plac
ing a heavy burden on Army hos
pitals. making It imperative that
overworked doctors and nurses re
ceive help at once. The kind of help
they need Is the kind that any in
telligent, healthy and earnest wom
an can give. Although it Is skilled
help, no professional training Is re
quired. Most of the work consists
of performing general hospital dut
ies, releasing doctors and nurses for
dispensing professional care to a
greater number of patients.
At this time the most urgent need
is for medical and surgical techni
cians. Women with six months of
nurses training, or who have com
pleted the Red Cross Nurses Aide
Course, may enlist for direct assign
ment as either medical or surgical
technician upon completion of their
six weeks of basic training. Those
women who have completed two
years of high school or Its equival
ent. and who do not have previous
medical training, may take advant
age of one of the excellent courses
offered at the Medical and Surgical
Technician's Schools; and be as
signed to one or the Army hospitals
upon completion or their training.
The recruiters will be on duty
daily at the Victory House from 9
to & :S0. and women who are Inter
ested. but who are unable to be In
terviewed during the regular hours,
may telephone for an appointment.
S-Sgt. Troy and T-3 Burnes will
also be available for speaking en
gagements at all clubs, churches
and fraternal organization::.
POLICE REMEMBER
‘FORGOTTEN MAN'
Recollection of Previous
Record Brings Jail Sen
tence of 30 Days
The much-heralded Forgotten
Man" so often extolled “in mise
rere" by Henry Wallace made Ills
appearance in city court today in
the form of a bedraggled, woe-be
gone individual who sat glumly
and dazedly in the detention pen of
the court room.
So forgotten was this "Forgotten
Man" that upon conclusion of pre
ceding cases the city prosecutor in
formed Judge T. E. Conway that
no further business was before the
court, whereupon spectators, wit
nesses and officials arose for ad
journment.
Officer Joseph Garvey who has
an ever-warm heart for all "For
gotten-Men" hastily Informed that
Jurist that the individual was still
in the pen, case untried. Adjourn
ment proceedings were rescinded
and a recess called instead.
With the true stoclsm and long
suffering philosophy shown by all
members of his dismal fraternity
the "Forgotten - Man" remained
seated in the detention pen,
throughout the proceedings unper
turbed, unexcited perhaps concern
ed only with the baffling wonder of
who had hit him last night with
that soft axe.
Judge Conway remanded him to
jail on a drunkenness charge and
ordered a psychiatric examination.
SEEKEXTENSION
ON APPEAL TIME
Public Defender Files New
Motion in Zukauskas
Case Today
A further extension of time for
perfecting an appeal to the State
Supreme Court of Errors in Hartford
was sought by Public Defender Ed
ward T. Carmody in a motion filed
in superior court today in behalf
of Francis Zukauskas, condemned
slayer of Mrs. Stephanie Plungis.
The defense attorney asks for an
extension until March 27 to file a
draft-finding, a request for finding,
and the transcript of evidence. The
deadline originally was Feb. 22, but
an extension was later given until
tomorrow, which also is the day as
singed for a special hearing in the
high court on a request for use of
state funds.
Public Defender Carmody and
State's Attorney William B. Fitz
gerald are scheduled to appear in
the high court tomorrow at 10:30 a.
m. to present arguments on the de
fense motion for tuking the appeal
at the expease of the state. It has
been indicated the prosecutor will
not oppose the request.
The uncertainty on funds to take
the appeal has been given as a rea
son for the delay in completing the
papers.
Zaukauskas was convicted Feb. 8
on a first degree murder charge
for the slaying of Mrs. Plungis on
Nov. 1, and was sentenced to die
April 20 hi the electric chair at
Whethersfleld State prison. Mrs.
Plungis’ bullet-ridden body was
found Nov. 4 in a shallow grave near
a Middlebury bridle path, after Zu
kau.skas confessed the slaying to lo
cal police.
The three judges who conducted
the trial. Judge Frank P. McEvoy,
Judge John H. King, and Judne
Howard Alcorn, will rule on the mo
Hoo for extension of time.
GRAY TO ADDRESS
SUPPER MEETING
Carl D. Gray, author of the Gray
[ plan, and chairman of Oov. Bald
win’s committee for aiding return
veterans, will speak at a supper
meeting of the Men's league at First
church tomorrow night at 6:30. Mr
Gray is president of the Granby
Mfg. Co.. Plainvlllr.
Speaking on “The Magic of Cour
age". Rev. Dr. Ralph W. Sockman
pastor of Christ Methodist church.
New York City, and radio preacher,
will conduct the fourth tenter serv
ice at the First church on Thurs
day at 8 p. m.
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Hale To Succeed
Missing General
Pearl Harbor, March 5 — iU.P.>
—Major General Willis H. Hale, vet
eran American airman, has been
named commander of the Army Air
Forces In the Pacific Ocean areas
and the Pacific strategic Air Forces
and Deputy commander of the 20th
Air Force.
Hale, who succeeds missing Lieu
tenant General Millard Harmon,
will function In those commands
pending formal action by the War
Department, It was announced by
the Army Air Force headquarters
here.
A resident of Washington. D. C.
Hale formerly was operational
deputy to Harmon, whose plane was
YOUTH HELD FOR
SUPERIOR COURT
Bonds of $2,000 Set By
Court; 15-Year-OM Ac
complice in Custody
James 0’Bri«-n, 30. 483 West Mu In
street, was bond over to superior
court under a $300 bond after a
hearing before Jurge Chari*? R.
Summa In city court Sat’uday.
Chief Inspector Joseph R. Bendlei
said the accused and a IE-year-old
boy who has been turned over to
Juvenile authorities admitted break
ing into the Irving Auto Bodv and
Radiator Co. Brown place, and fak
ing tools valued a >380, as well
as forcing entrance into three gaso
line stations. The pair was arrested
by Detectives Paul Mo.vnihan and
James Stack who observed them
I acting suspiciously on Judd street
Thursday night. Inspector Bendler
! said.
Also bound over to superior court
«-a* Ralph Nicholas, 25, 20 Bank
street. Bond was set at $2,500 on a
breaking and entry charge. A $100
fine was Imposed on an additional
count of driving whlleu nder sus
pension.
Motor Patrolmen John Deeley
and John Dolan testified they saw a
truck driven by the accused zlg-sag
into an Iron electric light pole on
West Main street near St. John’s
church Saturday morning. The
truck Iso wned by A. DLstasio, 537
Congress avenue
Other cases: Theodore Nowasal
ski, 40, 109 Oarden Circle, driving
a car with 1944 Inserts, $C for a
nolle; James C. Walton. 32, 154 Rail
road Hill street, operating a car
while under the Influence of liquor,
continued to March 15; Wallace
Springer, 38, 41 Sheffield terrace,
breach of peace, continued to March
31; Carmine Mancinl, 38, 47 Irion
street, road rules, nolled; Patsy
Spina, 19, 92 Llnwood street, speed
ing, nolled for $15; John S Dalia.
39, 35 Main street. New Haven rood
rules, nolled for $6; Edward Larrow,
41, 28 Washington street, violating
city dumping ordinance, nolled for
*6; Roger Lancaster, 28. 38 Crescent
street, parking violation, $5 bond
called.
juryTverdkt
LIKELY TOMORROW
Evidence Heard in Auto
! Fatality Case; Divorce
Decree Granted
A Jury verdict is expected tomor
row in superior court in the $15,000
civil action brought by Albert E.
Chase as the result of fatal injuries
sustained by his wife, Lillian, laat
October 27. when she was struck by
a car on South Main, street. De
fendants are Francis Fitzgerald,
owner of the car, and Paul Fitz
gerald. his nephew, the operator.
Final arguments to the Jury were
started last Thursday and will be
completed tomorrow morning. The
jury will start its deliberations fol
lowing a charge from Judge Frank
P. McEvoy.
A divorce judgment was handed
down today by Superior Court Judge
Frank P. McEvoy for Emily LeOere
Godin of Waterbury in her suit
against Henry Joseph Godin, form
erly of Waterbury and now of parts
unknown to the petitioner. The
couple married June 3. 1909, and
the petitioner claimed she was de
serted May 31, 1930. A hearing In
the action was held March 23.
A divorce action was filed In su
perior court today by Yvonne Gill.
Lefebvre of Waterbury against Eu
gene Lefebvre of Manchester. N. H
The marriage was performed June
18, 1938, at Manchester, and the
plaintiff claims her husband be
came intolerably cruel the follow
ing July 1. She seeks permission
to resume use of her maiden name
McGINNISS STARTS
SECOND TERM TODAY
Joseph P. McGlnniss Democratic
member of ttie board of Tax Com
missioners who was reappointed to
a 5 year term last week was sworn
Into office today by city clerk Jo
seph Shea. This will be Mr. Mc
Ginniss's second consecutive 6 year
term.
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS
The following persons have filed
marriage intentions at the bureau
of vital statistics, town clerk's of
fl<e:
William Munson. IT. S. Army,
Woodbury, and Albertine Skrtdu
lis. 58 South Elm street.
Robert William Purcell. IT. 8.
Army, 43 Northfleld road, Water
town, and Bernice Foster, 40 Riv
erside street.
MERLE TRACT DIES
New York. March 5. (UP) —
Merle Elliott Tracy, 85. former
Scripps-Howard columnist, died
.suddenly yesterday at Bellevue Hos
pital.
Tracy, who was bom at South
west Harbor, Me., became blind
shortly after he was born. An oper
ation performed when he was eight,
months old restored extremely limit
ed sight.
HUNGER STRIKE ENDS
Port Hueneme, Cal,. March 5. —
i UP — One thousand Negro Seabees
of tile famed 34tli Construction Bat
talion were back in the meas hall to
day after a two-dav hunger strike,
the Navy announced
The strike was in protest against
alleged race discrimination in the
awarding of ratings. Norman O.
Houston of Lott Angeles, investigator
for the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
claimed the strike was continuing.
He said his information came from
men in other battalions leaving the
naval base.
lost while coming in to Hlckam field
from a forward base.
It was the second time Hale had
stepped Into the shoes of a former
commander. In 1942, he succeeded
Major General Clarence L. Ttnkei
as commander o( the Seventh Air
Force after the latter was lost dur
ing the battle of Midway.
Youths* Story Wins 1
Discharge In Court
| Explantation That They Went to Rescue of Unknown
Man Convinces Court; Two Others Fined for Assault
Tiro men who told Judge T. E
Conway in city court this mom In*
i that they became Involved In a
brawl on Bank meadow atreetc Sat*
| utvinv night when they came to the
tin of an elderly man won a dls
’ charge on breach of the peace
counts and a commendation from
• the court
, The men, John Jones. 17, Mlll
t vllle. Naugatuck, recently Inducted
i jailor, and Lewis W Shank 24. 81
! Hoadley street, said they saw Walter
F. Banasewski, 32. 9 Chase Park
avenue, and Alfred N. DlBartolo
| .new, 22, 200 Fairfield avenue, knock
1 down and kick an unidentified per*
i son. When they went to his aid,
; they said, Banasewski struck Jones
and D1 Bartolomew hurled an iron
| pipe through the windshield of
! Shank's car.
Patrolmen Joseph Kendrick and
| Edward Hurley, arriving on the
I >cene, stopped the fight and ar
I rested three of the participants.
, Bartolomew fled but later surren
' dered at police headquarters.
I Judge Conway Imposed a fine of
| *50 on Banasewskl after Prosecutor
! ?bederick W. Palomba stated that
| the accused had a long record. A
tine of $60 was Imposed on Bartolo
mew, $35 of which was suspended
on condition he paid for the damage
to Shank's car.
John Brunduge, 47, Prospect, who
'■ last Friday pleaded guilty to a
i charge of currying a concealed
j weapon, told the court that he has
I since retained Atty. Edward Mas
colo. Atty. Musculo received per
mission to withdraw the plea of
guilty, and enter a not guilty plea
and waive examination. Brundage
was then bound over to superior
court under a $300 bond.
William Plnevlclus, 57, 652 North
Riverside street, won a discharge
on a charge of keeping liquor with
intent to sell. Detective Sgt. Joseph
McCarthy and Detective Oeorgc Me
I Elllgott told the court they found a
plut of whiskey behind the counter
of his grocery store In a raid on
February 18. Plnevlclus maintained
that he kept the bottle for his own
use, and Judge Conway granted At
torney John Tobin's motion for a
discharge.
William Sutherland. 62. and his
niece, Ella Ellington. 26, both of 102
Pearl street, received suspended 30
day Jail sentence on charges of as
sault and breach of the peace placed
several week* ago after Sutherland
received a laceration of the hand in
a quarrel with Miss Ellington.
Four more drivers were arraigned
on spedenlg charges as the police
campaign against speeders continued
unabated. Donald Hoffman. 17, of
210 Echo Lake road. Kenneth E.
Blake, 28. 203 Bdln street, and Car
roll Wrisley, 26, 796 Bank street,
ecah paid $15 for nolles, and Paul
Duba. 25, Woodbury, received a
continuance to March 19.
Other cases: Carl Eagersky 33,
Piedmont street, ext., dumping,
Bombs Kill
Five Swiss
Iiondon. March 5.—(UP)—Official
reports from Switzerland revealed
today that at least five persons
were killed and uncounted dam
age was caused at Basel and Zurich
yesterday by bombs dropped from
unidentified planes.
The Swiss radio charged that some
of the bombs definitely were British
incendiary "sticks”. The broad
cast said it appeared the incident
at Basel was a precisely aimed
bombing and not an accidental re
lease of bombs by a crashing plane.
A United Press dispatch from
Zurich said it was announced offi
cially that 20 Incendiaries from
one plane fell into Basel, starting
12 big blazes, of which all but two
were extinguished.
One person was injured at Basel,
where the bomb hit the Wolf freight
yards and destroyed 50 boxcars.
Five persons were killed and three
were missing at Zurich, which was
hit by bombs fro mstx planes sev
eral houses were destroyed and 2C
others heavily damaged. Twelve per
sons were hospitalized.
One Swiss broadcast estimated the
bombing caused damage of at least
8.000,000 Swiss francs ($1,868,000)
at Basel.
FOREMEN’S BOARD
MEETING TONIGHT
A dinner meeting of the board of
governors of the Industrial Fore
man’s clubs will be held tonight at
6:1* p. m. at the YMCA. Cyril F.
Cross president will preside.
The dinner meeting will be ad
journed by 7:30 p. m. so that mem
bers may attend the veterans forum
held at the Second Congregational
church under the auspices of the as
sociation.
Sgt. George E. Houghton will be
principal speaker at the church
event with his topic to be "Reem
ployment Rights of the Veteran.”
JAIL FUGITIVES HELD
Boston, March 5 — (UP.) — Two
Iowa Jail fugitives are being held
here in $50,000 bail for a hearing
March 17 In connection with a
series of crimes that allegedly ex
tended from the mid-west to Maine.
The men. Edgar Cook, 31, and
George W. Stubblefield, alias John
Giles. 37, both of whom escaped
from the Council Blufls, la., jail,
were captured Friday by FBI agents
and police in Concord, N. H., with
in a few hours of each other.
HONOR HERO
Bath, Me.. March 5 — <U.P.» —
Lieutenant Robert M. Hanson of
Newtonvllle, a Marine fighter pilot
who was credited with 25 enemy
planes before he was killed over
Rabaul, will be honored Sunday
when a destroyer bearing his name
is launched at the Bath Iron Works
Corporation, yard here.
LATE REALTY NEWS
The following real estate deeds
have been filed In the office of
Town Clerk Mary C. Kllmartln:
Annie E. Nichols to Leo Ogonow
ski. property on Pearl Lake Road.
RELEASE OF MORTGAGES
Waterbury Savings Bank to An
thony Solomlto.
Waterbury Building A Loan As
I soclatlon, Inc., to William J. Foley.
nolled for $10; John Smith, 4$, at
Oom street, assault and breach at
the peace, continued to April I;
Clarence Hematock, 44. New Haven
road, rules violation, nolled for It;
William Kosersky, 30 Stephana
Lane, parking violations, nolled for
$10: Sam Oreenfleld, 40, 11$ Oak
street. Josephine Rubio, 34, 137 Oil
vision street. Michael Cappuclettt,
34, 303 Tudor street, parking viola*
tlons $5 bonds called; Edward 8ege(
38. 31 Irving Place, parking viola*
tlon, nolled.
i
Long Illness
Claims Bryan
Lincoln, Neb. March 5—(UP)—
Former Oov. Charles W. Bryan,
brother of the late William Jen*
nines Bryan and Democratic can*
didate for vice president In ISM,
died yesterday at his home. He ns
78 years old.
Bryan had been 111 for several
months.
Schooled In politics by "the
great commoner.” who was seven
years his senior. Bryan's political
career stretched across a half cen*
tury. He started as secretary to his
brother when the latter won the
Democratic nomination In 1888. He
managed the two subsequent presi*
dentlal campaigns for his brother.
Bryan was konwn as "bother
Charlie,” during the early days of
his career, but he subsequently be*
came a political power In his own
right and was elected governor of
Nebraska three times.
He first was elected governor In
1923 and the following year waa
nominated for vice president on the
ticket with John W. Davis. *
Bryan was born at Salem, IU.4
Feb. 10, 1867, and attended Illinois!
college and the University of Chi-/
cago. He married Bessie Loulsdj.
Brokaw, his childhood sweetheart!]
at Salem in 1892. M
Surviving, In addition to hie
widow, were two children, a daugh-fc
ter, Mrs. Wm. E. Homsberger, Ash—
hand. Neb., and a son, Silas Millard*
Bryan, Minneapolis. e*
ALBERT H.GAESS 5
WILL PROBATED
The will of the late Albert H.
Gaess of Country Club road, wha
met with accidental death from A
leaking gas main near his home on
February 9, was admitted to probata
court today.
The will, dated ApTil 16, 1937, be*
queaths the bulk of his estate to
ills widow Mrs. Minnie Bertha
Gaess the later also named execu
trix.
The late Mr. Gaess waa president
of the Gaess Manufacturing Com*
pany, located on State street.
As result of his death consider*
able action has been taken by au*
thorlties to eliminate the possibll*
ity of further deaths or near-deaths
from such cause. At present a bill
is before the General Assembly
relative to the matter.
Compensation Agreements
Compensation Commissioner John
J. O'Connell today approved the fol
lowing agreements for weekly pay
ments during disability:
Mike Barzcivs against Eastern
Malleable Iron Co., $26.53, Injury to
left heel.
Louis Spallenza against Eyelet
Specialty Co., $25.87, strained shoul
der and occupational bronchitis.
Charles Anderson against Edward
Hickey's Sons, $11.66, fracture ot
right wrist.
Shirley Detlefsen against Lu*
Clock Mfg. Co., $19.82, injury to left
index finger.
Nazzareno Angeletti against Marl
ani Construction Co., $22.06, injury
to right great toe.
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