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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27
EPWORTH LEAGUE
TO OFFER COMEDY

'"The Road Back" a three-act
comedy, vii lbe offered by the Ep-
worth league of the First Method
list church Friday evening at 8
o'clock, featuring cast made up Of
E. W. Nelson, George w. Belcher,
william Kane, Thomas Boyd, Ruth
Bellmay, Dorothy Kenyon, Ardith
Ferris, Ruth Belcher, Verna Powell,
John Mcknight and Richard Rosen-
grant.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27
Pertinent facts.

Pertinent facts. Waterbury's first church was
organized in 1891 and the year big and disas.
flood visited the then tiny settlement causing
great many of the residents to go back to Pennington
whence they had come. The first church was built
the present site of the Green just about what might
today be the middle of it, 1t used by worshippers
in 1902 second structure built to the east of
the original in 1929 and still third building in
1897 at the east end of what is now the Green This
last one was to become rather historic Waterbury
building and went under various names, the most
famous of which was Gothic Hail. 1t finally was moved
to Phoenix Avenue. The first road built into Water
bury from Pennington and followed the line Of
East Main Street. the old Cheshire Road to East Farms
across from there to the present Meriden Road.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27

DR.. Collier has conducted his ex-
periments.
DR.. Collier began his experimental
work about a year and a half ago.
It was then that a German doctor,
now in the submarine service, came
to Siam from Africa with the theory
that the eating Of taro, starchy
tropic plant, and other sapotoxin-
containing foods weakened the re-
sistance to Infection Of leprosy. He
had observed that q tribe that ate
the tuber root had a much higher
incidence Of the disease than one
which did not.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27
GREAT BIG HAT WITH A GREAT BIG sRM
By THE MAN m THE TOWER
Good evening.

GREAT BIG HAT WITH A GREAT BIG BR1M
Mary bought wide brimmed hat,
She wore 1t in the Easter parade,
Guaranteed the best Of straw
And against the sun good shade
It set high, wide and handsome,
Almost mile round the rim,
It really was quite feat
To find Mary meath Its brim.
She wore it out one rainy day,
Perched at an angle chic,
Up and OF into the gutter it went,
It happened just so quick.
Now Mary's gone back to small close hat'
To heck she says, with style
And now when sallying down the street
Her lid won't blow mile.
EN-. EN-.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27
Jehovah's Witnesses

''Will you be one Of the persons
Of coed viii to survive ArInaged-
dousR will be the topic discussed to-
night ct 7:3O O'Clock ct the weekly
Etsidy Of Jeheyah,s Witnesses ct 1eD
Esst Main street.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27

Patricia DOnneny is smilingly telling all of her
victory over Kid Pneumonia Pat is concentrating
on regaining some of the weight lost in the battle
Joe ParlapianO weIliked hurler in the local amateur
leagues has struck out MIR. Flu in recent contest
Joe is greeting old friends again after long
absence from his workshop at Chase Recreation Alleys
Jack "The Beast" Crane and Paul "Snub" CrOnan
are back in town after long weekend drive to Florida
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27
CroSS-glanceS.

Cross-g lances Fairfield County in Connecticut
and Westchester County in New York show effects
Of that March hail and ice storm than the Naugatuck
Valley does Down there the tops of trees have been
SHARED off as hit by big Shells Whole trees spin
cred and everywhere anges of tree branches where
workmen have been busy cleaning up the debris The
Queen Elizabeth, largest ocean liner aoat now, is far
from pretty picture at the Cunard White Star Line
docks in the Hudson River The sombre color of the boat
lack of life ETC., make the great vessel grim picture
of war brought to this country Even the Normandie
pier away gay by contrast although She to- is in war
Dress South Britains oldest church has Christopher
Wrenn steeple. The present cold snap will make the
1910 maple sap crop one OF the best in good many
years.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27

ing towns. Founded by the Presby-
terrain Board of Foreign Missions, it
has the support of both American
Mission to Lepers and the govern
ment Of Siam.
SCIENCE BAFFLED
IN SEARCH FOR CURE
For centuries this dread disease
of the ancients has batfled attempts
of science to find cure. Now claim
ing some 100000 victims through
out the world, leprosy thrives best
in tropical lands, like those where
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27

Editor, Tall Tower Topics: That problem in rail
road track crossing which prOpounded in your col
is allowed to go outside the city limits. tried your
suggestion of cutting down Sheffield Street by driving
up Sheffield Street first to if crossed the tracks or
the tracks crossed the street It's the latter way,
unless you discover beaten cOwpath through
the woods above Watervlle it's impossible to get from
the east side of the RR tracks to the west without going
through an underpass know, because used lot of
good gasoline trying to unite the GOrdian knot Yours
for easier problems in land navigation, Marco Polo, Jr
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27

England's biggest slot machine
owner Is reported to have made as
high as $3.50 week.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27

Dan Daily, Jr., marks his screen
debut in 1.-THE Mortal Storm"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1940-03-27

Walnut Hill kernels Al Kosky, popular selectman,
is taking reducing exercises Fritz Cramer 2nd is get
ting in shape for the golf season at practice range
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Reardon have returned to the hill
after lengthy vacation. Mr.. and Mrs Dyson Hem
ingway will celebrate their seth wedding anniversary
soon. Tom Claffey, popular salesman was greeting
the Easter holidays George Lowney is rated "tops
as concersationast He can converse fluenty on any
Mona both had birthdays recently Charles JOY popu,
lar North End bowler going to Detroit next month for
two weeks sojourn. Mrs. Paul Daniels is missed by
her bowling teammates All hope for her speedy recov
cry from illness. Beatrice and May Hopkins Katherine
Meafsh, Genevieve Joy and Florence Humphreys are
enjoying banner year on the bowling alleys and boast
high averages Paul Daniels, who holds the record
for the most noise the bowling alleys senced last
week-Sore throat!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02

NNOklLAk1OS0 1IUIu q dSC 4y a broad program of farm legislation. which included new milk control act, expansion of rural electrifica- tion, establishment of regional mar kets, reorganization and coordina- ton of the states agricultural divi- sions, and extension of agricultural educational facilities.
 Hurley said he would follow the New Deal example of using farm surpluseS for the relief of under nourished and urderprivileged school children" and attributed $16,O00,- 900 increase in Connecticut farm income since 1882 to the policies of the Roosevelt administration. Republican State Treasurer Jo- seph E. Talbot, seeking reelection charged Hurley with citing IA inac- curacieS in recent speech accus- | ing the state of wsnton spending. 1 Hurley said that he was able tC save $30O00 for the state on coal through economies in his own de partment- public works division and Talcot bounced on this asser- ton to declare he had examined the records for 16 years and "the highest coal bill we could find was one for $l6,000. If MT. Hurley car save $30,OOO out of a $16.O00 bill, hs is pretty good"
 Both major parties found little tt encourage them in the annual Col. chester election. The town retained its Republican complexion, with { lighter vote than two years ago. Tha decrease in ballots was about evenl, distributed between Republicans arG Democrats.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
JUDGES VERDICT
 FOR FITZPATRICK
Damages Allowed in Cross Complaint Filed in
 Superior Court

William J. H. Fitzpatrick, Jr. was awarded a judgment of $S2i .38 against John Creel in a nlemoran- dunn of decision handed down by Judge Alfred c. Baldwin in superior court late yesterday afternoon. The judgment was entered on a cross complaint filed by Fitzpatrick after Creel instituted an accounting suit against him. Issues were found for Fitzpatrick in the accounting action.
 Creel, in the case which was tried last week, alleged that Fitzpatrick had given him an oral contract un- der which he was to have been paid so per cent of the net profits of a used car automobile business.
 The magistrate in allowing dam- ages on the cross complaint stated that Creel borrowed $305 from Fitzpatrick and this, plus interest of $16.38, is due.
 Attorney Harry Spellman repre- sented the defendant and Attorney David Goldstein the plaintiff.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02

A decision by the state supreme court on motions to delay appeal aranments until late November was expected momentarily today by counsel for the IA men appealing convictions in the Waterbury con spiracy trial. Motions to postpone the hearing of arguments from oct a to a date in November were heard by the court yesterday.
 The defense counsel argued yes terday that they find it physically impossible to prepare their appeals by Oct. 22 and "do the job right" The court also heard motions to rectify the trial records to show how long the jury stayed out before giving a verdict, and to show what was termed the hostility" of the crowds surrounding the courthouse during the trial.
 The supreme court justices who heard the motions were Chief Jus tice Maltbie, Associate Justice Avery Associate Justice Brown, and Asso- ciate Justice Jennings. Speculation as 10 whether ASSOCtdbC J uoViSS A'lA0 may disqualify himself arose when Justice Els. who resided here be- fore moving to Litchfield, walked out when the conspiracy trial argu- ments began.
 States Attorney Hugh M. Alcorn opposed any further delay in the appeals. He pointed out that his statff is much smaller than the de- fense staff. MT. Alcorn did not oo- feet to the motion to rectify the rec ord in regard to the time the jury deliberated, but objected to the inl clusion of the alleged hostility ot the crowd. He pointed out that the defense at no time asked to have the trial taken out of Waterbury into another county.
 Asked by Chief Justice Maltbie why the time element should be included in the records, Attorney John H. Cassidy pointed out that the trial jury deliberated only six hours, or 10 to F minutes for each defendant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
BRITISH FLYERS
 CONTINUE ATTACK
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While the British bombers were raiding Berlin, other points in Ger many and German bases in France and Holland the attacks on channel ports, possible invasion bases, were seen from English shores.
 Second Night Of Raids
 Last nights raids marked the sec- ond consecutive period of intensive attacks on German military object ives inside the Reich and in occupied countries. The day before the British struck not only at Berlin but at widely scattered points in Germany, including factories, oil plants and communications. Gun emplacements on the channel coast also were att tackled in the Monday Tuesday raids and these objectives were bombed again last night.
 Watchers at Dover reported that explosions shook both sides of the Strait of Dover during a big British raid on the French channel coast and that vivid flashes of flame lit up the French coast like sheet | lightning.
 It was belived, watchers said that Boulogne and big gun emplace- ments near Cape Gris Neg were at | tackled.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
BUND HAS 10000
 MEMBERS IN U. 5.

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 A slogan painted on the wall, he said, reads:
 "One race, one society, one leader"
 Asked what that meant, he said:
 "By that was meant that all the German Americans should combine under one leader and that was the purpose of our organization. We felt we could get somewhere under a united leadership"
 He then testified that the Bund had 10000 members, and that 20,- GOO 1000 persons were eligible.
 Representative Jerry Voorhis, Democrat, told up the questioning
 with that many people under one leadership in your organization it could dominate the politics of the country" he said.
 "We never want to dominate any, thing" Klapprott replied. If we had that many we could keep this country out of war. How could they dominate when there are 130,0OO,OOO or more other people?"
 That's just it" Voorhis said. "They are not organized. That's why this inquiry is important"
 The witness said he was born 1n Germany in 1906, came to America in 1927, and was naturalized 1r 1884. In 1887, he became eastern department leader of the Bund, the post he still holds.
 He joined the Bund, he said, tc fight the boycott on Germany goods in this country.
 Klapprott said his eastern depart ment covered the eastern seaboarc from Main to Florida and has about 20 units. There are none in New England, he said, about 10 in New York, four in New Jersey, and one in Pennsylvania. There are none 1T Deleware, Maryland, West Virginia Virginia, Washington, D. C., Nortf and South Carolina, Florida ane Georgia, he said.
 Members pay $1 month dues, O which 60 cents goes to nationa | headquarters, he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
LOCAL SCHOOLS TO
 BE USED OCT. l6
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7 (Continued fr0m Page D
 Approximately half of the cities and towns in the state have already submitted their nomination for draft board members, it was ar- nounced by Adjutant General Regi- nald B. DeLacour.
 If an official decision to close the schools the 16th is made, special meeting of the board of education may be called to vote formal ap- proval. Steps will also have to be taken to secure teachers to act as volunteer registration workers.
 It is estimated that more than 10,- 900 young men between the ages of 21 and 36 will have to register in this city.
 Sheriden Council, Knights of Co., lumbus, voted last night to offer to the city the use of its hall to the city on registration day. The colln- cil's quarters, at 79 North Main street, would be available either for registration or for an office for classification and indexing of cards
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02

London, Oct. 2-(UP)-Forty -four of the destroyers which Great Brit ain acquired from the United States have been given names common to both the United States and Britain, the admiralty announced today, and the other six have been given names common to both Canada and the United States.
 Two of the ships now bear names common to the United States, New foundland and the United Kingdom St. Albans and St. Mary's. Names of six are common to the United States, the West Indies and the United Kingdom-Bath, Brigh- ton, Charlestown, Georgetown, Ham ilton and Peterborough.
 Twenty eight have names of v1l- liages common to the United States and the United Kingdom-Belmont Beverly, Bradford, Broadwater Broadway, Burnham, BurweL, Bux- ton, Lancaster, bennington, Leeds Lewes, Lincoln, Ludlow, Mansfield Montgomery, Newark, Newmarket Newport, Ramsey, Reading, Rich mond, Ripley, Rockingham, Sails bury, Sherwood, Stanley and Wells
 It had been announced August II l that eight of the ships would be named for the following towns anc villages common to the Unitee States and the United Kingdom Churchill, Caldwell, Ca m CT or Castleton, Chelsea, Chesterfield Clare and Campbelltown.
 The remaining six of the 50, whicf are being manned by the roya Canadian navy, will bear names O villages and towns common to Can ada and the United States-Annap oils, Columbia, Niagara, St. Clair, St Croix and St. Francis.
 Vichy, France, Oct. &(UP)- Official French sources received
 advices today that severe casualties and damage had been inflicted by British bombing attacks on French ports along the English channel,
 especially at Le Havre.
 At Le Havre alone 94 French
 civilians were reported killed and 200 wounded in addition to heavy
 German military casualties in the
 past two or three days.
 British bOmbers were said to have inflicted greater damage than
 in past raids because they have
 ceased bombing merely the docks
 and commercial port and have att
 tackled other Objectives. The port
 at Le Havre was described as bad
 ly damaged and blockaded by
 sunken ships.
 London, Oct. 2-(UP)-Military in formants asserted today that the Gel mans apparently had taken charg of Italian military operations an added: There is no reason why re ports of German troop movement
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02

Heart church. Burial was in new St. Josephs cemetery with committal services by Father Dial. The pall- bearers were: Martin J. Tehan, Mar tin J. Sweeney, John Holian. John McMahon, James F. brennan and Bart F. Healey.
 The funeral of Miss Illumanita Cianciola was held this morning at 8 o'clock from the Maiorano fu- neral home, 95 Willow street, to Our Lady of Lourdes church where a solemn mass of requiem was cele- brated at g o'clock by Rev. Joseph Valdambrini assisted by Rev. Edward Farrell and Rev. Rocco Nadile. Burial was in Calvary cemetery with committal services by Father Nadile.
 Funeral services for Clarence R. Stephens were held this afternoon at 2 o'clock at the Clark funeral home, 20 State street, Rev. Webb Wright of the South Federated church, officiating. Burial was in the family plot, old Pine Grove cem- etery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
NO ONTO IN Hi

New Haven, Conn. oct. 2-tuP) --The cltlzens military training camps will rot be operated nexs summer, Judge John |. Gilspn, state civilian aide to the secretary Of war, vas advised to-day. They will bo discontinued because Of possible conflict with the training of cofis scripts under lho draft Jaw. oonnee- lIcut has sent aboua 600 youths every year e fiVn training camps throughout New knglnna.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02

Taking new precautions in the face of rising U. S.-Japanese ten sion federal authorities will break up a Japanese fishing colony of some 5000 members, long suspect ed of being an espionage center. It is located on Terminal Island, Los Angeles harbor, half a mile from a strategic naval air base. At right: A few of the fishing vessels" some valued at as high as S10O,0OO. Some of these have been caught taking coastal sound ings and conversing in secret code
 with shore radios.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
GERMANS ATTACK
 LONDON FIERCELY
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was hit by high explosive bomb but there were no casualties.
 Northwest England suffered most damage during the night, and there were casualties in four towns in the area.
 There were casualties in a town in the Liverpool area last night when high explosive bombs were dropped as townspeople were leav- ing movie houses. One incendiary bomb only was dropped on Liver pool and it did no damage.
 An air ministry-home security ministry communique said that bombs were dropped at numerous points in southeast England anc that number of homes were de- molished. There were some casual ties in an Essex village, it was said but it was asserted that elsewhere damage was slight and casualties were few.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
FUNERALS

The funeral of Francis X. Thomp- son will be held tomorrow morning at 8:15 o'clock from the Lunny Flu neral Home, 25 Central avenue, to St. Ann's church at 9 o'clock. Bur- ial will be in the family plot in new St. Josephs cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home this after noon and evening.
 The funeral of Mrs. Maria Bre- dice will be held tomorrow morn ing at 8 o'clock from the Colasanto Funeral Home, 934 Bank street, to the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel where a solemn high mass will be celebrated at g o'clock. Bur ial will be in the family plot, Cal vary cemetery.
 Military funeral services for Lloyd E. Snagg were held yesterday at the Trinity Episcopal church, Rev. Roger B. T. Anderson, rector. officiating. Burial was in Pine Grove cemetery. Members of the firing squad were Corp. George F. Byron, Corp. Joseph Benesvich, First Privates Joseph Salerno, Robert Conway, Charles Bagley, Paul Beaudry, and Privates Joseph Iadarola and Thomas Tro- land. First Private Paul Beaudry was bugler. The bearers, all mem bers. of Corp. Coyle post, American Legion, were Comdr. J. Peter Cos tigan, Charles w. Melville, Joseph l A. Hackett, Daniel J. Mahoney, Wal lace J. Inglis and Charles G. Weiss
 Funeral services for Andrew C.
 Rock were held yesterday at the Anderson Funeral Home with Rev
 Martin Lorenz, pastor of the First
 Lutheran church, officiating. Burial
 was in Riverside cemetery. Alex
 Anderson, soloist, sang. Beautiful | Island of Somewhere" Bearers were
 Richard Crawley, Leon Hudobenko 1 Claude Wildman, George Dobkins
 Anthony DeJoy, and James Mur-
 chitto.
 Funeral services for Ralph Rug l gles, Jr., were held this afternoon
 at 3 o'clock at the Mulville Funera
 Home, 270 West Main street. Buria
 was in Calvary cemetery.
 | Funeral services for Dayton W Flagg were held this afternoon d 9 o'clock at the Bailey-Snyder Flu. . neral Home, 94 Willow street. Rev Francis O. Ayres of St. Johns Epis 2 copai church officiated. Burial vii } be tomorrow in Milton, Mass. The funeral of Mrs. Timoth
 O'Connor was held this morning a S:15 o'clock from the Mulville flu neral home. 270 West Main stree r to the Sacred Heart church wher , solemn mass of requiem was cele . brated at o'clock by Rev. Franklin
 Corrigan assisted by Rev. John Dis and Rev. John Callahan. A musics . program was rendered with Williaf
 O'Brien as soloist. An honorary del { egation was in attendance from tn i Rosary confraternity of the sacre
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
MEETING ARRANGED
 BY MEAT INSTITUTE

R. H. Woodwrd, of Boston. acting manager of Swift & CO. in this city was guest speaker at meeting sponsored by the American Meat Institute at the Bunker Hill Church hall last night.
 The meeting, attended by more than 100 persons, was designed to spread useful information about meat products. It was arranged by packers of this district under the leadership of John w. Tice of the Armour Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-10-02
OBITUARY

DERWIN-William Derwin, a na- tive of this city, died yesterday at the United States Veterans Hospital, Washington, D. C.. He is survived by one sister, Mrs. Theresa Connor of Cherry street. MT. Derwin was a Spanish-American War Veteran and has been affiliated with the United States Army for the greater part of his life.
 Burial will be in Washington, D. O., on Friday morning.
 COSTIGAN- Edward CoStigan of 223 Bank street died Sunday at St. Mary,s hospital after brief illness. He was a native of North Canaan, Conn, the son of the late Thomas and Mary Dalton Costigan and had made his home here for a number of years.
 MT. Costigan is survived by one brother, Thomas of Springdale Conn.
 The funeral will be held from the Bergin funeral home, 290 East Main street tomorrow morning at 8:3( o'clock to St. Patrick'S church where a solemn mass of requiem will be celebrated at g o'clock. Burial will be in Calvary cemetery.
 Friends may call at the funeral home from T to 10 o'clock this eve ming.
 NARDELLO-Mrs. Concetta Mar. dello, 22, wife of Joseph Nardell' died last evening at St. Mary's Hos pital. A native of this city she hat made her home here most of he life residing in Naugatuck for tn past two years. She was 8 forme employe of the U. s. Rubber Com pany in Naugatuck.
 Besides her husband she is sur vived by an infant son, Robert Jo seph Nardello of Naugatuck; he parents, MT. and Mrs. Patrick Long of this city; one sister, Miss Carmeli Longo of this city.
 The funeral will be held on Fri day morning from the home 54 South Main street, Naugatuck to Sl Francis Church Naugatuck ct Q tim to be announced later. Burial wi be in st. James cemetery. Nauea tuck. Friends may call ct the hom after 2 o'clock this evening.