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BY THE MAN IN THE TOWER
Good Evening.
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Anniversaries being in vogue, as usual, the Water
foury Girls Club hopes to commemorate events of general
Interest to the membership by special programs during
Ihe current month. The Second Anniversary of “Girls’
Club Week” will be observed. Exhibits, church services,
social sessions and other activities are planned. Inci
dentally the Waterbury Girls Club has played a prom
inent part in community affairs of the city for 81 years.
The “Girls Club Week” is something new. . . . Scovill’s
deep-throated whistle was heard yesterday morning. It
tooted 22 times, announcing the sale of as many
$1,000 war bonds. So the whistle might not precipitate a
V-E Day celebration it has been planned to sound the
whistle only on Wednesday mornings. Between blasts
the war workers at Scovill’s will go to town on the home
front and chalk up another big achievement for the
writers of war history to enthuse about. . . . The Polish
American Political Club is meeting tonight. Dr. Joseph
May, president, hopes the confusion over the official
time and place has been eliminated and that the usual
large and representative membership will be in attend
ance at the Polish National Home on Bank Street. . . .
The idea of a police inspection day on the installment
plan doesn’t appeal to us. We still favor a firemen and
policemen’s day, having both departments turn out and
give the public a view of the finest and bravest. A rather
interesting parade used to be a curtain raiser for such an
event in by-gone days. . . . The announcement of the
Young Democrats that “Patronage” would be discussed
at its meeting Friday evening sounds rather familiar.
From all appearances the young ones are out of luck,
pi their trusting way, they waited too long, they missed
the boat, as it were.
Along the Line . . . Stock Company producers are
reported eager to revive the popular performances in
ttaterbury. Jacques Theatre is being considered, also
the Buckingham Hall. The idea of the latter is
presently exclusively that of the new owners. Certain
stage handicaps would have to be overcome to make
present plays calling for any large casts possible. . . .
Jacques Theatre holds the edge in memories, memories
of Gordon Hitchcock. Earle Simons, Frank Wilcox,
Mildred Florence, Louise LeBlanc, Belle Cairns,
Justine Johnson. Jimmy Devine, Frank Lorenz,
Frank McHugh, who played in the recent Academy
Award play — “Going My Way”—and Frank Lyons,
just to mention a few of the favorites of yester-years.
Aes sir, Waterburians saw some splendid plays enacted
by splendid casts in by-gone days when the alibi was,,
Waterbury is far off the main railroad line, to expect
“big plays here”. . . . Stock company went big for
years. They might come back. As far as big shows
are concerned. Waterburians will always be com
muters from all and sundry indications.
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Hi, young feilows and you, too, gals, who are inter
ested in radio broadcasting. Here’s promise of a lift to
fame and fortune, if you have the necessary talent and
perseverance. The University of Wisconsin, thanks to a
flit of 10 grand from one of its distinguished graduates,
is going to lend a helping hand. And incidentally, one
of the four immortal “horsemen” of Notre Dame Harry
Stuhldreher, is football coach out there. Here^s the
official announcement. It is news and it is an interest
ing appreciation of radio work by one who is “tops”
today in his particular specialty: “H. V. Kaltenborn,
dean of American news commentators, has presented a
$10,000 scholarship trust fund to the University of Wis
consin for the study of radio. The scholarship was
donated, stated the NBC analyst, “in appreciation for
the excellent work which has been done by Station WHA
(on the University campus) in advancing and develop
ing radio broadcasting, and to the great University of
my native state, of which I am an honorary alumnus.”
The purpose of the scholarship is to assist deserving stu
dents in the pursuit of education and training in some
phase of radio broadcasting with particular emphasis
on training for the presentation of news and news
analysis. Any student or prospective student is eligible
to receive the annual scholarship if of junior standing
or above in the University. Selection will be made on
the basis of financial need, scholarship, special aptitudes
and interest in some phase of radio broadcasting, and
evidences of planning for a career which includes the
use of radio. Kaltenborn, formerly of Merrill, Wis., was
awaided an honorary doctor of philosophy degree during
the 1939 commencement of the University of Wisconsin.”
May Flowers' . . . “Tommie” McCarthy, well
known druggist, is being featured in the current issue
of the American magazine. He has made an interest
ing, but little known contribution to war work and
humanity and the nationally known periodical tenders
him a bouquet, a photographic one at that, tomorrow.
• • • Threc snappy sergeants meet in Exchange Place.
Snappy and neat in apppearance and a credit to any
police department — Sergeants “BUI” Feeley, “Bob”
Phelan and “Joe ’ Reilley. They have good records for
service and what’s more important, the men of their
platoons speak well of them as fellow comrades and
“bosses”. . . . Captain Ellis Phelan and “Johnnie”
Bnckel, charter members of the 304th Infantry Asso
ciation, YVaterbury’s Own of 1917-18, are doing their
bit in focussing the spotlight on the efforts of leaders
to revive the old, enthusiastic interest in the outfit.
And they are succeeding-The names of State Repre
sentative Daniel J. Mahaney and Maurice Tangney,
chairman of the local Democratic Town Committee, are
being frequently mentioned for the post of county
commissioner. We suggest that the party leaders, if
they are particularly interested in finding berths for
such well deserving members, give the situation
another once, over and find suitable places for both.
Neither is anxious to be considered a rival of the other.
servei* their party well and if recognition is
In the offing, there is no necessity of cieating a spirit
of antagonism.. Time is approaching for the 45th
session of the Grand Court of Connecticut, Foresters of
America, and “Bill ’ Dunlavey, Grand Court Treasurer
and Past Grand Chief Ranger, is preparing reports for
a. general session or war-time meeting of the organiza
"* i.°n* _^aJph Brandely o' W’aterbury (well, Oakville,
If you insist) is present Grand Chief Ranger and several
other local members hold grand court positions with
privUege of voting on all business matters.
Good Night.
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-—THE SECOND OF A SERIES OF 3 ARTICLES
The Rise And Fall Of Adolf Hitler
^ ^ ^
Double-cross Marked Adolf Hitler’s
Rise From a Bum To Chancellor
Corporal Adolf (1919) . . .
By S. BURTON HEATH
NEA Staff Writer
In 20 years, to the exact day,
Adolf Hitler talked and double
crossed his way from the Austro
German equivalent of a Bowrey
bum to dictator over one of the
world’s great nations.
On August 2, 1914, when World
War I started, Hitler was existing
in the squalor and degradation to
which laziness, egotisfn and the
complete lack of an constructive
talent had brought him.
On August 2, 1934, he declared
himself complete dictator of the
Reich, and made good his pre
sumption.
Hitler has boasted that history
will remember him long after it
has forgotten all his predecessors.
Probably that is true. It will re
call him as an egotist who raised
the double-cross to an art which
nobody else in the world's history
ever achieved.
Alois Hitler, illegitimately born
Schicklgruber but legitimatized
by one George Heidler, described
his son. Adolf, as “good for noth
ing.” The description was apt
from the day of his birth, April
20, 1889, to the outbreak of the
first World War.
Adolf Hitler lived in Vienna,
in a sort of flop house, from 1907
to 1913. His fellow roomers gave
him- crusts of bread and bits of
horse sausage, which he supple
mented at a free soup kitchen. He
Ludendorff, left, backed Hitler . . . Hindenburg, right, had to take him.
earned a little doing the drabbest
sort of pseudo art work, carrying
bags for travelers, and for part
of a day shoveling snow on a
Danube bridge.
In 1913 he went to Munich, where
he continued his low life until the
Germans marched on Prance. His
war service was ordinary. He won
the Iron Cross twice, was wounded
twice and gassed once. The huski
ness that underlies his shrill tones Is
a permanent effect of that gassing.
DOUBLE-CROSSED ARMY
He got into politics by double
crossing the first employer who
ever made him happy, the Ger
man Army. In July, 1919, he was
assigned by the Propaganda and
Espionage division, which used
him as a snooper, to observe a
•'meeting” of the German Work
ers' Party, consisting of six men
devoted to pan-Germanism and
certain quasi-socialistic dogma. He
joined them, on the spot, and there
after combined politics with his
' military” duties.
Hitler never was able to earn
an honest living by conventional
constructive methods. But he did
have what the German people
wanted at that moment. His plat
form of pan-Germanism, anti
Versaillesism, anti-Semitism, ap
pealed to enough persons to con
vince him that politics was his
forte. In April of 1920 the party
had only 30 members, but Hitler
was so optimistic about its future
that he resigned from the Army.
Then came the foundation for
another piece of double-crossing.
A pervert named Ernest Roehm
had raised a large secret army.
Hitler, through Roehm’s friend, the
newspaperman Dietrich Eckart (one
of the six original party members)
was made public spokesman. When
the Allies forced that Army under
ground Hitler adopted it as the
Gymnastice and Sports division of
the Nazi party.
An ex-military flier named Her
man Goering lent Hitler money and
joined the party. A year later he
was put in command of Roehm’s
army, the brown-shirted S. A.
Nor was that all that Roehm ,
contributed to Hitlers' rise. In 1923
the Nazis and other strong-arm
groups held a Congress of some 100.
000 persons in Nuremberg and
formed a German Combat Union.
Roehm maneuvered so that within
a month Hitler, who had wangled
dictatorship over the numerically
small Nazi party, became political
head of the whole combat union.
On May Day, 1939, Hitler’s S. A.
men stole weapons from the Reich
swehr barracks, undeterred because
Roehm had arranged that the
guards would not resist. And in No
vember, 600 S. A. men kidnapped
the entire government of Bavaria
in the celebrated beer hall putsch.
Here, again, double-crossing was
the order of the occasion. Wilhelm
Frick, official who on previous oc
casions had ordered his police to
close their eyes to Hitler's gangsters’
activities, did it once more. The
ample guard at the beer hall did
nothing, though it outnumbered the
S. A. contingent. It was only Gen
eral von Seekt's orders to the
Reichcswehr. after the conspirators
thought they had won, that put an
RECORD NUMBER
OF REPLICANTS
Taft School Scholarship
Examinations to Be Held
Next Saturday
■Watertown, May 3 — Forty-five
candidates are expected to take the
competitive examinations for the
four full day scholarships offered by
the Taft school to students in the
Waterbury, Oakville and Water
town areas. The examinations will
be given Saturday, May 5th at 9 a.
m. at the Taft school.
All scholarships are awarded on
the basis of competitive examina
tions, personal interview, and
recommendation of the principals of
the various schools. Students in the
graduating classes of the Baldwin
school and St. John’s Parochial
school in Watertown, of the South
school in Oakville, and of all grade
schools in Waterbury are eligible to
compete.
The number of applications re
ceived to date surpasses the num
ber for any previous year and in
cnides many of the leading students
from these schools.
FOREMEN TO HEAR
TALK ONVETERANS
Supervisors in Local In=
dustrial Concerns Invited
to Session May' 10
A panel discussion on 'Returned
Veterans in Industry” will comprise
theh program of the Industrial Fore
men’s Club meeting to be held at
the Leavenworth Street auditorium
of the Conn. Light & Power Com
pany next Thursday evening at 8
o’clock.
President Cyril F. Cross has an
nounced that the panel of speakers
will include: Sergeant George E.
Houghton of the State Selective
Service System; Paul M. Andrews,
of the personnel department of the
Corbih Screw Corporation, New Brit
ain; Major Raymond Hagedorn, Vet
eran's Advisor of the Departure
Company, Bristol; and Paul S. Par
sons, manager of the United States
Employment Service in Waterbury.
All supervisors in industrial con
cerns of Greater Waterbury are in
vited to hear the speakers and to
participate in the open forum which
will follow. Admission is free.
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Capturing Germany’s
Secret Weapons ‘Tough’
Ordnance Troops Ordered to Bag Famous 50=Ton
Panther Tanks; Dangerous Mission Achieved
Springfield. Mass. May 3—Tough
er than bringing jungle animals
back alive is the Army Ordnance
task of capturing Germany’s secret
weapons all in one piece.
An Ordnance Heavy Maintenance
company, for example, was ordered
to bag the latest model German
Panther 50-ton tank. Within 3 days
FOOD PROBLEMS
PROGRAM THEME
Professor Cowgill of Yale
to Broadcast Address
Sunday Evening
New Haven, Conn., May 3—
George R. Cowgill, Professor of
Nutrition at Yale University, will
discuss current food problems in a
talk entitled "Food Shortages Im
peril Feeding of Europe” during
the "Yale Interprets the News”
program over Station WTIC at
6:15 next Sunday night, May 6.
Professor Cowgill has made num
erous contributions to the science
of nutrition during the more than
20 years in which he has done re
search on vitamins in relation to
their function in digestion and nu
trition.
He is a member of the Commit
tee on Pood and Nutrition of the
National Research Council and has
been called in frequently as a con
sultant on problems affecting the
national health of civilians and
men in the armed forces.
He has served as consultant in
nutrition to the Gorgas Memorial
Laboratory in Panama and to the
Institute Finlay at Havana, Cuba,
and he is the editor of the Journal
of Nutrition.
WILL SHUT V-E DAT
Ketchikan, Alaska (UP)—Bar
tenders in Ketchikan are mindful
of the rip-roarin’ frontier spirit of
Alaskans. "V”-signs are posted on
all local bars, stating that they will
be closed on the day the war in
Europe ends.
after receipt of the order, the com
pany had seized two heavy enemy
tanks in almost perfect condition
and had started them on their way
to ordnance experts in the United
States for thorough testing.
Here’s how.
According to a report received to
day by Brig. Gen. G. H. Drewry,
commanding the Springfield Ord
nance district, from First Army
Headquarters, 35 German tanks
broke through our lines. Some of
them were Panthers. The attack ;
was beaten back and the Germans j
left five tanks behind—shoe up or j
stuck and abandoned. Their crews j
had no chance to destroy them
completely.
While the smoke of battle still!
hung thick over the area, Captain 1
Clifton O. Vaughan of Shreveport, j
Louisiana, and a reconnaissance
party studied one of the tanks and
decided that it could be removed,
even though the front line was but
a thousand yards away.
Ordnance crews started retrieving
that tank and another, working
steadily for 36 hours. German guns I
sprayed the area and continued to j
make trouble until an American ar
tillery battery zeroed in on the
Germans. Enemy machine guns
opened up and German planes came
over to strafe the area.
To complicate matters, thermite
bombs had been set off in one tank
by the Germans in an effort to de
stroy it before American ordnance
men could recover it, but the ex
plosive had failed to ignite. Still
dangerous, however, it was nullified
only after two volunteers doused it
with sand.
The enemy tanks were evacuated
at night on mammoth M-25 tank
transporters. Before the ordnance
company turned over the tanks for
shipment to this country, they re
paired them to almost perfect con
dition with parts salvaged from a
few other knocked out Panthers.
One was graded 98.7, the other 94.3.
Examination of one tank showed
that it had been in service on both
the Italian and Russian fronts be
fore assignment to the western
European front.
WORLD WAR II
A YEAR AGO
By nited Press
In Italy, the Nazis inundate
the Pontine Marshes between the
Allied Anzio beachhead and the
Cassino front.
Red Air Force raids Lwow, Pol
and, for second straight nignt,
destroying more than 90 ground
planes.
In China, Japanese troops drive
from the north and south to gain
complete possession of the Pei
ping-Hankow railway in Honan
Province.
British armored columns cap
ture a number of Japanese strong
points around itohima, and other
British units smash north from
Imphal in drive to link the two
bases and deal a knockout blow
to the invasion of eastern India.
Two U. S. anea and two FT
boats were destroyed April 29 in
.he Southwest Pacific when Am
erican forces failed wo recognize
identification signals and fired
on Mas ** 1
LEGION'S GIFT
PROVES WORTH
Police Ambulance Answers
7,080 Calls in Period of
Three Years
Supernumerary Patrolmen Wi.
liam Deeley, 31 Coolte street, ana
Vito Nole,, 802 Hamilton avenue, j
were made regulars at yesterday's j
meeting of the police board.
Lucian Larrivee, 429 South Main
street, was promoted from Grade C
to Grade B patrolman. Applications
for the police supernumerary force
were received from Frank J. Sai.niz
zaro, 27. 384 North Main street, and
Joseph Staselunas, 28. 1154 Bank
street. The applications were placed
on file.
In a report to the board. Supt
Daniel J. Carson revealed that »Va
terbury's police ambulance donated
to the city by Corporal Coyle post,
American Legion, had traveled
763 miles in responding to 7.080
calls during the past three years.
The statistics were submitted by
Patrolman John McDonncil for the
period from June 14, 1942 to April
26, 1945.
Thirty-eight persons were over
come by illuminating gas. with 30
of the victims revived by the use
of the resuscitator and inhala-or in
the ambulance, the report showed.
The ambulance responded on 26
attempted suicide cases and 4C1
emergency calls which included
heart attacks, weak spells and
other emergency sickness whcie a
doctor or hospital ambulance was
not available.
The 160 automobile accident* in
cluded pedestrians struck by autos
and persons injured while lining
in motor vehicles.
Also listed was the case of the
five-year old girl who had swal
lowed her tongue and had stopped
breathing before she was revived
after 40 minutes by the resuscitator.
Other type calls included:
Welfare cases, including cases
lo state sanitoriums, convalescent
homes and hospitals, 149; injuries
sustained at home, 98; falls or, city
streets 56; calls that local hospita'
were unable to handle, 43.
Maternity cases, 79; to state hos
pital, Middletown, 14; members ot
armed forces to Army hospitals, 11;
bicycle accidents, children, three;
coasting accidents, 1.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
TO BE INSPECTED
At suggestion of Mayor John S.
Monogan, the Fire Board voted to
hold an inspection of firemen at its
meeting yesterday afternoon. The
inspection will be on Freight street
at 2:30 p. m. May 19.
Although a question arose on a
possible danger in gathering all the
city's fire apparatus together at one
time, it was pointed out that radio
communication facilities would
make it possible to dispatch pieces
Immediately to any part of the city
in case of a blaze.
Henry David Cooke, 27 Harker
avenue and John Kenneth Rug
giero, 4 Grove street, fire depart
ment callmen, were made regulars
at yesterday's meeting.
U. 8. Army transport planes are
being converted by the Australian
National Airways for use on a civil
air route linking Perth and Mel
bourne
. . . Chancellor Hitler (1934)
end to the coup and sent Hitler to
prison.
Throughout this turbulent period
General Ludendorff was used as a
tool by the rising Austrian gang
chief. Hitler used him on the theory
that, when the time came for vio
lence, the Army never would fire
on its hero.
From 1923 to 1933 was a period of
growth in Hitler's fortunes and those
of his party. Both were supported
by contributions from big industri
alists who were very frank about;
their interest. They approved Hit
ler’s opposition to the Treaty of j
Versailles, his desire to gather all!
Germans of the world into a great- j
er Germany, his anti-Communism. j
Like him, they hated the Republic
ar.d the Social Democratic party.
PRO-NAZI JUNKERS
And finally, among the factors
which made the Nazis strong even
when they were weakest, and paved
the pay for more double-crossing, I
there was the military caste. The
Junkers thought they were using \
Hitler to promote their own ends
and woke up. much too late to dis
cover that Hitler had done the using.
The stern repression which the
Allies attempted against the de
feated German Army caused great!
hardship to a large class of young
officers, from majors down, who
saw the doors to promotion closed
to them forever. They were glad to
give any sort of assistance from
votes to actual mutiny, in support
of the pan-Germanic. anti-Versail
les program that Hitler was push
ing.
Industrialists, money, militarists'
assistance, pulled Hitler through
one tight spot after another until,
in 1CJ2, the conservative von Papen
felt obliged to offer him a seat,
which he left Munich to take, only j
to be brought back by Goerir.g and
Gcebbels in the nick of time.
The advice of those two lieuten
ants. to hold out for all or noth
ing, proved wise. On January 30,
1933, senile President von Hinden
burg asked Hitler, as chancellor,
to form a new government.
TOMORROW: Bloodless Con
quest.
Gl IN GERMANY
FINDS PEOPLE
LOVE TO BOSS
Ithaca, N. Y., May 3—(UP)—Th«
German people in Allied-occupied
areas of their homeland are onct
more busy either “trying to shovi
somebody else around, or obsequi
ously being shoved around.”
Forecasting occupational prob
lems faced by the Allies, a former
Cornell University student writes
that "the most impressive and irri
tating characteristic of the Ger
mans is their almost complete lack
of democratic feeling.” And, eves
the terrific destruction and disrup
tion of war hasn’t changed them
says Cpl. Donald A. Sinclair o)
Highland Park, N. J., who has beer,
inside Germany for nearly the en
tire period of occupation.
For example, he describes “a lit
tle bunch of tattered, forlorn-look
ing men doing some kind of pick
and-shovel work." Select, he says
“the humblest-looking one of tlv
lot and put him in charge, and thi
first thing you know he is- strut
ting around officiously, waving hi:
arms with an air of high import
ance, and coldly snapping orders at
the others."
mis haugmy sense oi import
ance also colors contacts between
the Army and certain appointed
German officials, but usually, Sin
clair remarks, "all one has to do is
to snarl at them or treat them a
bit .arbitrarily to put them back in
their place."
The one-time Cornell language
student also finds a great tenden
cy among the Germans to ration
alize and convince themselves intc
believing that they never likeo
Nazism, anyway.
"They now recall every little in
convenience or irritation caused bj
the Party land they were plenty),
and they are well enough pleased
to be released from the power ol
the Bonzen," Sinclair continued
He also said the German peopit
were blaming the party for delay
ing capitulation and were inflamec
over high - handed evacuation
measures ordered by the Nazi lead
ers.
■ For a variety of reasons," Sin
clair said, "they were not very will
ing to be evacuated, preferring
even to take their chances with the
barbarous Americans, who would
rape the women and cut off every
one e’.se's head’."
The Party has become the scape
goat for the nation's failure, he
added, and the people, uneasily
aware of German atrocities, "re
gard themselves indiviually as in
nocent bystanders in no way re
sponsible."
24 NEW VOTERS MADE
BY BOARD YESTERDAY
Town Clerk Mrs. Mary C. Kilrnar
tin and the board of selectmen yes
terdav enrolled twenty-four ne?
voters on the city's lists. Pour regis
tertd as Democrats and one as :
Republican with the remainder de
clining to name any party affilia
tion.
Although 67 persons were natur
alized here Tuesday few (appeared a>
yesterday s session to be made vot
ers. Electors are sworn in the firs:
Wednesday of each month by th
town clerk and the selectmen whi
comprise the Board of Examiners.
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