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WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, FRIDAY, MARCH IS, 1945
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Hartford Girl Seeks
Fame In World Of Opera
Biruta Ramoska, Well Known to Lithuanian Residents
Here, in Metropolitan Finals Sunday
The first three of the seven final
late competing for Metropolitan
Opera contracts via the "Metropoli
tan Opera Presents” will be heard
Sunday, March 18, on the broadcast
over the Blue Network, and Station
WATR, Waterbury, at 5:30 p. m„
EWT. They are Pierrette Alarie,
coloratura soprano of Montreal,
Quebec, Canada; Blruta Ramoska,
soprano of Hartford, Conn., and Jo
seph Laderoute, tenor of Sault
Sainte Marie, Ontario, Canada.
Pierrette Alarie comes from a
musical family. Her father was con
ductor of the "Canadian Operetta
Society” and her mother one of the
company’s leading sopranos. Pier
rette made her stage debut at nine
and her radio debut over Montreal
Station CKAC at fourteen, later
having her own program over that
station. For three years she was
leading soprano of the operetta
ELKS’ SECRETARY
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DR. MORTIMER A. O’HARA
Dr. Mortimer A. O’Hara, former
exalted ruler and past district
deputy of Waterbury lodge of
Elks, was elected secretary last
night in a hotly contested election
over William J. Stanton and John
J. Rock. All other elections were
uncontested.
Frank J. Monaghan succeeds
James J. Kelley as exalted ruler;
Thomas Brophy was elected lead
ing knight; Francis J. Mulligan,
loyal knight. William F. Pollard,
treasurer, and Janies F. Phelan,
tiler.
Installation of the newly-elected
officers will be held on April 5.
Dr. O’Hara, who served la the
last war, holds a lieutenant-col
onelcy in the Army reserve, hav
ing acted as chief dental examiner
at the Hartford induction center.
He is also a member of the war
activites committee.
company in Montreal and made her
operatic debut there with a Metro
politan cast in ‘'The Marriage Of
Figaro," under the baton of Sir
Thomas Beecham. In 1943 Pierrette
won a scholarship to the Curtis In
stitute of Music where she is cur
rently studying with Madame Eliz
abeth Schumann.
Of Lithuanian extraction, Biruta
Ramoska made her "debut" in
Hartford at the age of five singing
the folk songs of her people. While
still in her ’teens, she trained and
conducted her own Lithuanian
Choral Club, when not busy taking
vocal lessons herself., Early in de
mand as soloist, she made concert
appearances throughout the East
and Midwest while continuing her
studies at New York’s Juilllard
Graduate School. She toured Can
ada last year with the Montreal
Philharmonic under the baton of
the eminent composer, Oscar Straus
and has been soloist with both the
Rochester and the Kansas City
Philharmonic.
Joseph Laderoute is of French
Indian descent and inherits his
musical aptitude from his mater
nal grandmother, who was one-half
Ojibway Indian. His musical train
ing began at the age of three when
his childish treble interested the
local parish choirmaster. As a boy
soprano Laderoute was the only
featured soloist with the famous
Paulist Choristers of New York,
with whom he toured. He has been
leading tenor of the Philadelphia
Opera Company and soloist with a
number of major symphony orches
tras including Chicago, Cincinnati,
Detroit, Boston under Koussevitsky
and the NBC Symphony under
Toscanini.
Brass President
Noon Club Guest
John A. Coe, President of the
American Brass Company will be the
speaker at the Sunday Noon Club
on March 18 at 10 a. m. in the
Chapel. His subject will be ‘Prize
These Things as Things Worthy of
Esteem.” John A. Coe. in the Brass
Industry, is known as the Chairman
of the Board of Directors of the
American Brass Company, but in
religious circles he is an outstand
ing layman in the Church of God.
The public are cordially invited to
come to hear Mr. Coe on Sunday
morning in the chapel of the Second
Church.
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readings. Hie first device in the
history of navigation to give such
readings, the air position indicator
is about the sixe of a quart milk
bottle and is mounted on the in
strument panel of the B-29.
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Barry Fitzgerald’s After-hours Hobby Brings No. 2 “Oscar”
By NEA Service
A hobby started at 42 has won a
coveted Academy Award "Oscar''
for puckish, twinkle-eyed, lantern
jawed Barry Fitzgerald for the best
supporting role for actors. He re
ceived the award for his outstand
ing co-star performance with Bing
Crosby as whimsical, lovable Father
Fltzgibbon hi "Going My Way.”
At 57, he is near the zenith, of
his dramatic career. Despite the
lavish acclaim heaped upon him
by critics and fans, he remains
shy and unpretentious.
He still wears a beaten-down old
cap, pulls on his favorite old briar,
and spends his spare time in his
little backyard garden. A bachelor,
he lives with his standin, Ous Tal
lon, in a modest hillside bungalow.
Fitzgerald was born in Dublin
and began his acting career with
the famous Abbey Theater. He
played bit roles as an after-hours
hobby, continuing to hold a civil
service job until it was clear that
he was destined for a theatrical
profession.
With the Abbey Players, he made
three American tours in addition to
his appearances in England. The
turning point in his career came
when he went to Hollywood, at 48,
to create his Fluther Good role in
"The Plow and the Stars.” He has
been in Hollywood ever since.
HIGH COUNTRY
FORUM THEME
Dr. Alfred M. Bailey Sec=
ond Congregational
Speaker Sunday
Dr. Alfred M. Bailey, director of
the Colorado Museum of Natural
History, Denver, Colo., will be the
speaker at the Forum of the Second
Church on Sunday evening, March
8 at 7:30 p. m. His topic this year
will be "High Country”—the Lanr
Where Sty Meets Mountair Top.
The high mountains of the west
are places of beauty throughout the
yeai. Dr. Bailey, with his camera,
spends each spring roaming out-of
the-way places between eight and
fourteen thousand feet in altitude.
DR. ALFRED M. BAILEY
His all color film shows Denver’s
winter recreational spot, Berthoud
Pass, with the skiers at 12,000 feet
and the beautiful ptarmigan chang
ing from their winter white to the
mottled feathers of spring. The sage
grouse on their dancing ground, jack
rabbits, ground squirrels, and other
animals of the sage coi’ntry are
shown; the bluebirds, sapsuckers.
and black bears are portrayed in the
aspens and lodgepole pines; and the
white-crowned sparrows, pileolated
warblers, and the pine grosbeacks on
their nest in the Englemann forests.
Then as spring advances to the tops
of the high mountains tw and a
half miles above the sea, photo
graphs are taken of tht great fields
of alpine flowers, coneys, ptarmigan,
and the finest of all game animals,
the American elk. Finally, w'hen
autumn colors tinge ths hills the
film is concluded with the beautiful
mule deer and the big horn moun
tain sheep. This is a filrr designed
for those who enjoy the out-of
doors; it is for those who like to
fish, to hike, and to breathe fresh
air.
Dr. Bailey was a member of Biol
ogical Survey Expedition to the
Hawaiian Islands and for two years
was Alaskan representative for that
Bureau; he was leader of the Col
orado Museum of Natural History
Expedition to Arctic Alaska and Si
beria, and was a naturalist on the
Field Museum Expedition to Abys
sinia and the Egyptian Sudan. He
has photographed and collected
specimens in every state in the
Union, in Canada, Mexico, and the
Bahamas, and has published many
articles. Among others, Dr. Bailey
has been on the programs of the
following organizations; The Na
tional Geographic Society three
times in four years, American Mu
seum of Natural History, five suc
cessive years, Field Museum of Na
tural History, five successive years
and the Academy of Natural
Sciences in Philadelphia for twelve
successive years.
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Just three years ago Barry Fitzgerald added piano-playing to his impressive accomplishments as an actor
(top left). One of his favorite roles on the stage, where he began his career with the Abbey Players, was
that of Captain Jack Boyle, in “Juno and the Paycock” (bottom left). He won the supporting character
Academy Award for his portrayal of Father Fitzgibbon, right, in “Going By Way."
Flying Field Dedicated
To Lieut. Gordon Lewis
Hard-Boiled Dive Bombers Who Have Brushed
Against Wings of Death in Tears at Services
for “Buddy”—Local Youth Eulogized
by Comrades.
By Captain Ned Thomas, Marine
Corps Public Relations Officer,
formerly of the Santa Paula,
Calif., Chronicle.
Central Luzon, Phillipine Islands
—(Delayed)—“And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth; for the
first heaven and the first earth
were passed away.”
Nearly 100 grim-faced Marine
pilots, gunners and ground crew
men stood in a tight liotle circle as
the chaplain read from Revela
tions. It was a memorial service
for a buddy who had gone down
in flames.
He was First Lieutenant Gor
don R. Lewis, 23, of Waterbury,
Conn. He and his radio gunner,
Corporal Samuel Patrick Melish,
of Cincinnati, Ohio, had been shot
down 13 days before by Japanese
anti-aircraft fire during a dive
bombing strike west of Clark
Field, Their bodies were not at
the services. The plane had crash
ed in enemy territory.
"And I heard a great voice out
cf heaven, saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
and He will dwell with them, and
they shall be His People.’’
Lieutenant Abram G. Kurtz,
Navy Chaplain from Scranton,
Pa., was conducting the Protestant
service just off the taxiway at the
airstrip which had been rice pad
dies two weeks before. As he read
the scripture, sturdy little blue
Dauntless dive bombers—the kind
in which Lieutenant Lewis and
Corporal Melish had met their
deaths—settled onto the runway.
They were returning from another
strike. It was dusk.
Lieutenant Lewis’ father, the
Reverend Gomer R. Lewis, is a
minister. He and Mrs. Lewis live
ac 529 Highland avenue, in Water
bury, where the Reverend Mr.
Lewis is pastor of a congregation
al church. Corporal Melish, a
Catholic, had listed his sister. Miss
Jean Melish, of 925 Egan Hill
Drive, Cincinnati, as his nearest
of kin. He would have been 21 if
he had lived 18 more days. A pri
\ate Mass had been said for him
the day he was lost, by Lieutenant
Adrian I. Dwyer, Catholic Chap
lain from St. Louis, Mo.
“And God shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes; and there
shall be no more death, neither
sorrow, nor crying neither shall
there be any more pain."
The little knot of men stood now
ai the edge of a patch of bamboo
trees. They were silent. Their
heads were bowed. Their eyes were
wet.
They were members of the “Fly
ing Eggbeaters" squadron. Most of
them had been together ever since
the squadron had been organized
18 months before at El Toro, the
Marine Air station near Santa
Ana, Calif. They had been over
seas together for 17 of those 18
months.
These two men, who had flown
together as pilot and gunner all
those 18 months, were the first
men of the squadron to be killed
in combat. They also were the first
casualties suffered by the “Diving
Devildogs of Luzon" as dive bomb
er pilots of the First Marine Air
V/ing are being called here. Lewis
had picked out some Jap rolling
stock as his target and had gone
after it in a shallow dive. He had
dropped his bombs and was about
to pull out when a 20 mm. shell
hit his plane. The plane crashed,
exploded immediately, and burst
into flames. It was four miles west
of Fort Stotsenburg in Pampanga
province.
Second Lieutenant Robert W.
Kirkpatrick, 24, of Lundale, W.
Va., his wingman and tentmate,
sav- him go down. They had been
as close as any two men could be,
living and flying together at
Bougainville, Emirau, and now
Luzon. When Kirkpatrick returned
fro mthe strike he was crying.
Lewis had been heading a sec
tion of three planes in the forma
tion. His division leader was Cap
tain Ernest Zalay, 25, of Indio,
Calif.
He too had lived with Lewis and
had had him as his wingman for
nine months before Lewis was
made a section leader.
“And He said unto me, These
sayings are faithful and true; and
the Lord God of the holy prophets
sent His angel to show unto his
servants the things which must
shortly be done."
Six days after the crash Colonel
Lyle H. Meyer, of Dear Isle, Maine,
commanding officer of the group
to which the "Plying Eggbeaters”
are attached, issued a special or
der; "Effective immediately, the
area occupied by this group will be
known as Camp Lewis, in honor of
First Lieutenant Gordcn Rhys
Lewis, killed in action January 28,
1945."
Major Lee A. Christoffersen, of
Centerville, S. Dak., squadron
commander, who led the "Flying
Eggbeaters" on the strike which
was Lewis' last, said: "He was one
of the best guys I ever knew. He
was quiet, conscientious and
cheerful. He was a good pilot."
"Hallelujah, for the Lord God,
omnipotent reigneth.”
The field music sounded taps.
The little group of Khaki-clad
figures walked slowly away.
STAMP SALE NETS
STUDENTS $232
Pupils at South School
Participate in Regular
Sale
OAKVILLE
Correspondent: Alice Stafstrom
—Phono 6*8—
Oakville, March 16—Total sales of
War Stamps and Bonds equaled
$290.85, Thursday at South school.
War Stamp sales amounted to
$232.75 and Bond sales amounted
to $58.10.
Rooms where all the pupils par
ticipated in the purchase were:
Miss Goldie Gordon, grade 3; Mrs.
Mae Eggleton, grade 7; Muss Cath
erine Scanlon, grade 6; and Miss
Alice Briggs’ morning kindergarten.
Rooms having above 90% partici
pation were: Miss Mary Kilbride,
grade 7, 96%; Miss Helen Sepples,
grade 1, 92%; Miss Sylvia Katz
man, grade 1—2. 92%; and Miss
Ann Scanlon, grade 2, 90%.
The Young People's Fellowship
of All Saints Episcopal church will
go to Christ Chapel Saturday eve
ning. March 17th for bowling and
dancing.
Italian Society Holds Special
Meeting
The First Italian Society of Oak
ville, held a special meeting Sun
day, March 11th, at the Oakville
Community house.
Armand Marc Anthony was elect
ed trustee for the unexpired term
of Vito Capone, who resigned to
devote his entire time to other dut
ies. It was also voted at this meet
ing to donate $10.00 to the Red
Cross and $5.00 to the Oakville Li
brary fund. Other routine business
was discussed. The next regular
meeting will be held April 8th at
the Community hall.
Woman’s Auxiliary Meeting
The Woman’s Auxiliary of All
Saints church met at 1:00 o'clock
Wednesday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. Lester Tomillnson. Plans
for an Easter breakfast to be held
Blaster morning were made. Next
week an all-day meeting will be
held at the parish hall.
Members attending were Mrs.
Alex Earley, Mrs. Lester Tomlin
son, Mrs. Harry Parker, Mrs. Bun
Sage. Mrs. Emile Bussemey, Jr.,
Mrs. Loren Chase, Mrs. Fred Hol
lister, Mrs. Bertrim La Vigne, Sr.,
Mrs. William Windebank, Mrs.
Stephen Halloway, Mrs. J. J. An
drews, Miss Carrie Woodruff. Mrs.
Raymond Beach and Mrs. Clifford
Glenning.
There will be a Polish priest ai
Saint Mary Magdalen church next
Saturday to hear confessions from
all those who speak the Polish
language. At this time the Polish
speaking people will be given the
opportunity to make their Easter
duty in their own language.
BLOOD DONATIONS
With blood donations reaching a
figure of 5,371,664 pints of blood
during 1944, tha American Red
Cross Blood Donor Service exceed
ed its quota for the fourth straight
year. The 5.371.664 pints of blood
donated was 371,664 pints over the
figure the donor service estiii ted
wculd be procured during 1944.
MILL LLtliltll
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Wheeled Young Post Heli
Annual Election of 0f=
fleers Last Night
Wheeler-Young Post, 201, Veter
ans of Foreign Wars, elected Wil
liam P. Cahill, commander at
meeting in Florio Post rooms lai
night.
Others elected include Nichols
Mancini, senior vice-commandei
Harold Johnson, junior vice-com
mander; Irving Delaney, chaplain
Major Peter Costigan, judge advc
cate; Arthur LaBelle. quartermas
ter; Dr. Mortimer O’Hara, po;
surgeon; Colonel William Shanaha
patriotic instructor; Walter Rac:
cot, post historian; Daniel Ms
haney, legislative officer; Franc
Cullen, trustee.
Delegates named to the Nc
Haven County council were Haro!
Johnson, Henry Hamel, Israi
Greenblatt, and John Moriart;
with Albert Reilly, Raymon
O'Neill, Alfred McGee and Thee
dore Schroaider a* alternates.
Commercial air lines In Argentlr
carried 38,524 passengers In the fir
six months of last year.
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