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The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1941-05-22
British Foil Naval Thrusts

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e ,ete have been DISPOSED Of by the British navy de-
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12
STOLEN MONEY
 HID IN SHOES
Two Given COntinuanCes For Theft Of Safe From
 Chase Park Residence

Joseph Ricciardi, 27, of Lindwood street, and John James Gomez, 20 colored, of 1739 North Main street were granted continuances to Sat- urday when arraigned on charges of breaking and entering in city court this morning
 The pair was arrested yesterday for theft of small safe containing $200 in cash and jewelry and other contents from the home of Louis Nardello, 183 Chase Park avenue some time Monday morning.
 Lieut.. Joseph Bendler of the local detective bureau, said they recovered about $48 from Ricciardi, who had hid it in his shoes. The safe was found yesterday afternoon when Ricciardi was taken to a lone stretch on Spindle Hill, near Wolcott, to guide Capt. John V. Leary and Lieut. Bendler to the spot where it was abandoned. The detectives said the door had been pried open with a sledge hammer and large chisel.
 The contents of the safe taken from Nardello included three ladies watches, three mems watches, a silver tie clasp with a silver chain a gold chain, a $25O gold piece school ring, two revolvers, and valu- able papers. MT. Nardello report ed that several deeds and insur- ance policies were burned by the accused. The house also was ran- sacked by the youths.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12
Operetta Chosen By
 Holy Name Society
Miss Cherry Blossom To Be Presented March l7th -St JOseph's Choir Selects Cast For Annual Play
BROOKLYN NEWS

by Adele Greblunas. Aldona Bu- kauskas, Marcelle Andrikis, Ste phanie Tutoraitis, Al Jarus, Anthony Bukauskas, Anthony Miklinevich, and Joseph Coskie.
 Tomorrow night members of the local choir will make a trip to Torrington where they will partici- pate in musical program at Lith- uanian hall preceding a lecture by Atty. Stanley Gabaliaskas. MT. Ga baliSauskaS is the Lithuanian refu- gee who will speak at St. JoSeph's hall Sunday, February 16, at meet ing sponsored by the local branch of the Federation of Lithuanian Cath olic Societies of America in com memoration of Lithuanian inde- pendence day.
 L. c. s. Meeting.
 Helen LazdauSkas will preside at a meeting of the Lithuanian Catho- lie Student organization tonight at 8 o'clock at the old St. Joseph's school club room.
 Trip Arranged.
 Members of the Lady of Mount Carmel Church Choral Club will make a trip to Springfield, MaSsa- chusetts, Thursday, February 20, to hear a concert to be given at the Springfield auditorium by the Girls Choir of the Plus X School of Liturgical Music Of New York. Rev. Austin Saunders, director of the club, will accompany the group.
 Drama To Be Staged.
 An Italian drama "Cuor Di Mar marc" ('Heart of Sailor'') will bc presented by the Mount Carme Dramatic club under the sponsor ship of the Madonna Dell'Assunta society of the Lady of Mount Car mel church Sunday, February 23 at Venta hall on Green street at 7 o'clock. A concert will be given after the play, and dancing will fol- low.
 The concert will include songs by Josephine Pane, and Lorenzo Passa- riello will perform as a comedian.
 Salvatore Ippolito is president of the sponsoring organization.
 c. Y. o. Council Meets
 Rev. Austin Saunders, of the Lady of Mount Carmel Church, was mas ter-of- ceremonies at a meeting o1 the c. Y. O. City council last night at the Knights of Columbus hall or North Main street. The Mount Car
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12
Chairman

Chairman
 Dwyer, Francis Fitzgerald, John Gudonis, John German, and Rev. Henry Murphy.
 The new officers of the organiza- ton are: President, Michael Hig- giston; president, James P. Tyrreu; secretary, Francis Mitchell; treasurer and chaplain, Rev. Henry Murphy; marshall, Thomas Quite.
 The ham and cabbage supper served after the meeting was pre- pared by Francis Culinary Fitz- gerald, Michael Gourmet" Kitchen, Henry "Epicure" Donavan and their staff. MT. Kitchen will be in charge of the supper at the next regular monthly meeting.
 Cast Selected. Members of St. Joseph'S choir made plans for their 18th annual concert and play, scheduled for Sunday, February g, at St. Jo- seph,s hall, at meeting last night at the old St. Joseph's school club rooms. The members of the cast of "Vargsas Tadas" ("Helpless Ted'o. a two-act Lithuanian comedy, re- hearsed for their performance. A feature attraction will be a per- formance by Lorraine Medley and Jimmy Navaska, of New Haven, a dance team which performed at a concert of the choir last November and has appeared throughout the state.
 Folk-dancing in native Lithuan- ian costume will be on the concert program. The dances will be simi- lar to those in which members of the choir participated on Lithuan- ian Day at the Worlds Fair last year.
 St. Joseph's Fife and Drum Corps directed by John W. Stokes, and the St. Joseph's male octet will partici- pate, and other local talent will be secured.
 The cast of the play is made ur of Edmund Janusaitis, who has the leading role, Joan Lusas, Joseph Yanosh and Marian Krunglevich.
 The folk dancing will be rendered
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12
CAMPION RENAMED
 BY DRILLMASTERS
Local Deputy Fire Chief Given State Vice=Presi=
 dency For Another Year

Connecticut State Fire Depart ment Drillmasters association yes terday afternoon reelected Deputy Fire Chief Martin J. Campion vice president at Hartford fire head quarters.
 Also chosen were: Chief John s, Pachl of the New Haven annex de- partment. president; and Lieut. George Graham of Bristol, secre- tary.
 Included on the executive com mittee are Chief Thomas H. Don- nelly of West Hartford, chairman; Deputy Chief Henry Thomas of Hartford; and Herman s. Hall, state supervisor of trade and industrial education.
 Discussions as to the various methods of fighting fires under con- ditions of war were held. Termites were also brought up with a view to- ward including material in regional schools.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12

Washington Park Community Club held their regular business meeting with the new officers for the year 1941 last evening. Some of the mem- bers remarked that it was a banner meeting and commented on the number of old faces who were back to lend a hand again. A large dele gation was on hand to give Presi- dent John Cuddy a lift and from all accounts the year 1941 should be a "hum-dinger"
 The club voted to send two mem- bers to the testimonial which is be- ing sponsored by the West End Community Club for the Rev. Neil Doyle, curate at the Blessed Sacra- ment church who leaves shortly to be Roman Catholic chaplain of the 169th Infantry early in March.
 The club voted to sponsor the dance for the draftees who are leav- ing Waterbury, Feb. 18th to be held at the Community House, Saturday eveing, February 18th in conjunc- ton with the Waterbury Selected Service Committee. who have mem bers from every organization in the city represented.
 Mulcahy ScOOl Graduate
 Father Doyle is graduate of Mulcahy school and has many friends on Washington Hill. A larger delegation from the Community Club would like to attend this cele- bration but owing to previous en- gagement to attend installatio of of- ficers at Platts Mills, which are for the same evening.
 Mrs. William Sutton and Mrs. FL len Scadden were appointed to rep resent the club.
 The committee to take care of Saturdays farewell reception was named from the floor and consisted of chairman of refreshments, Frank A. McGrath, James Gladney, AbneT Richardson, Mrs. William Sutton, MT. and Mrs. Arthur Frageau, Am prose Scully, Mrs. Ellen Scadden, Mrs. Joyce; Mrs. Dzick, Mrs. Eliza beth Shea, Miss Katherine Shea. MT. and Mrs John Cuddy, John Dalton, MT. and Mrs. John Whelan, MT. H. A. Hayden, James Carroll. Edward Goggins, John Dzick, Mrs. T. O'Don- nell and Mrs. Jospeh Kendrick.
 Contacts
 The club also recommended that the different boys from this section who were entering military service be kept in touch with, sending them papers, magazines or other things to make them feel they were not for gotten.
 Committees were also named for
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12
Community Group In
 Enthusiastic Meeting
Delegations To Attend Priests Testimonial Dinner-Miss Frazier Recovering
WASHINGTON HILL

the St. Patricks Day celebration, to be held at the Community House. March 18th, Saturday night, with President John Cuddy and John Whalen as co-chairmen. Others to assist on the committee were John Dalton, James Carroll, Ambrose Scully, w. F. Kelly, F. A. McGratll, Arthur Frageau, Edward Goggins, Henry Hayden, James Gladney and Abner Richardson.
 Recovering
 Miss Margaret Frazier, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Arthur Frageau is a patient at St. Mary's hospital. The numerous friends of the Fra geau family will be glad to learn that Margaret (Toddy) is coming along nicely after a serious opera tion. Miss Frageau works in the of flee of the Worden Dairy, and is very popular being a member of quite few organizations in the city.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12

John Sampugna, 51, of g Union street, was fined $50 without costs after hs was found gu;ity of keeping liquor with intent to sell without a permit before Judge T. E. Conway in city court this morning.
 Lieuts. Patrick Moylan and Pat rick Hobart of the vice squad, who raided the accused's store, found a gallon of wine, dozen beet bottles, a sealed quart of alcohol in front of the store and quart and half of alcohol in the rear, said to be 190 proof. The rear of the store is used by the accused for his liv- ing quarters.
 Coffee Royal
 Defense Attorney John Membrino asked for a discharge saying that no evidence was produced that the man sold the liquor but that he used it for his own purposes. The court, however, did not entertain that mo- tion, and stated that such large quantity was not required for such purposes, after Attorney Membrino stated that the man cut the alcohol and thereby showing that more was added to the quantity.
 The defense counsel stated that his client used it in his coffee as he had no chance to leave his store.
 John Alanskas, 25, of 108 Wood street, received continuance to Saturday, when he was arraigned on a charge of keeping whiSkey with intent to sell without permit.
 Alanskas was arrested yesterday by members of the vice squad, Lieuts. Moylan and Hobart, who said that they confiscated about three quarts of liquor.
 Alleged SpeedSters.
 Three men were arraigned on speeding charges after the police renewed their campaign against motorists exceeding the prescribed speed limits, within the city. The
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12

During the past five years approxi- mately 197 new airports have been built, 317 fields have been rebuilt or improved, and 1O88 other airport buildings rebuilt or improved.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12

the local Girl Scout council, was visitor at the meeting, and Mrs. Frank Wilson, troop committee chairman, was present to help di- rect the ballad performance.
 Joan Rice, Virginia Adams, Jan- ice Jannetty, and Madeline Vail are on the committee arranging the in- vestiture. Other members of the troop are Marilyn Brown, Margaret Crochet, Genevieve Dzilnidas, Nancy Edwards, Irene Kinnane, Ruth Mill Ter, Bernice Miscavage. Marjorie Pooler, Amelia Walsh, Nancy Vita relli. and Sylvia Wilson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12

mel c. Y. O. unit acted as host to the council which is made up of leaders of all parochial units throughout the city.
 Plans were discussed for retreat in March in which members of all the c. Y. O. units will participate. Father Saunders contributed sev- eral piano selections to the enter tainment. Theresa Tremaglio, solo, ists, entertained with songs, and tap dances were performed by Mar garet Coviello. Refreshments were served after the entertainment.
 c. Y. O. Meeting.
 The Mount Carmel c. Y. O. will hold its regular weekly meeting to- morrow night at 7:30 in the parish hall. Plans will be completed for a bowling party which will be held Sunday. February 16, at Sena's al- leys, reports will be given by the various leaders of the club, and the group will determine the date for a religious quiz with St. Lucy's c. Y. O.
 The leaders of the organization are Anne Raimo. who is in charge of religious activities; Mary Ra- naudp. social leader; John Rossl' cultural leader; Tom Thomas. ath- letic director.
 Cookie Sale.
 At q meeting Of the Girl Scouts of Troop l2 at the Third Congrega- tlonal church parish hall yesterday afternoon plans were discussed for the annual cookie and candy sale which will begin February i7, c rec port was given by hte committee in charge Of the inyestltnre cere- monles which will bc held neSt month, and dramatizaiion Of the ballad "Thrce Pirates" was started. Miss Deaver, field representative ot
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12

St. Patrick's Holy Name society met Monday night at the Lyceum to further plans for an operetta, Miss Cherry Blossom" which the group will sponsor March IT, St. Patrick's day. New officers of the society were inducted into office by George Mccormick, and sup per was served after the business meeting.
 Thomas Fitzmaurice, who is chair man of the general operetta con- mittee, will be assisted by Michael Higgiston, Edward Conlon, Edward Loftus, Francis Mitchell, James Tyrrell, Thomas Quilter, William
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12
GULF TRUCK MEN
 SET NEW RECORD
Awards Presented At Safe= ty Dinner At Hotel Elton
 Last Night

Officials and drivers of the Water bury area, of the Gulf Oil O., at a safety dinner last night at The FL ton announced that the trucking of nearly a million miles by the firm over period of five years was accomplished without an accident, establishing a record.
 An award is made each year of a presidents cup to the division of the Gulf Go. with the best no-acci- dent record. The tank-wagon area of Waterbury is one of three in the New York division of 96 districts that has a perfect record thus far.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12

The local division is hopeful the cup will go to them this year, the fifth successive year without an &C., cident in the Waterbury vicinity.
 Speakers at the dinner were Supt. of Police William J. Roach, Lieut.. William Schatzman of the Beacon Falls barracks of the state police; Edward Light, superintendent of operations of the company; c. G. Collingwood, district manager, and w. A. Washburn, Jr., agent in Wa terbury of the Gulf Oil Co.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12
Personal Use" AIibi
 Discarded By Judge
Union Street Store Proprietor Convicted In Police Court Today, Fined S5O-SecOnd WOIatOr Held

men are Frank Bilecz, 29, of GA Spring street, Union City, who re- ceived a continuance to tomorrow; Harry SegeI, 24, of Brooklyn, N. Y., who failed to appear and had cash bond of $1O forfeited in court; and, Philip Salerno, 9, of Burwell avenue, Southington, who had his trial deferred to February 25.
 Samuel Macantonio, 30, of 6l Yale Parkway and George V. Kirby, 32, of 190 Delaware avenue, both charged with violation of the road rules, were arraigned in court. Marcan- tonic received a nolle on payment of $5 while Kirby was granted 8 nolle without payment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12
A. o. H. AUXILIARY MEETING TOMORROW

The Ladies auxiliary of A. O. H., division five, will hold a regular meeting of the organization tomor- row night at 8 p. m., at Mechanics | hall.
 Mrs. Nora Doyle, president. re- quests that all members attend, be. cause of the likelihood of important business to be discussed at tht meeting.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-02-12

The famous Boeing Flying For tress' has a range of 4,00O miles, and a speed of over 300 miles an hour.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

A BOUT two years ago Hendrix
- Van Vleet, a prosperous bust
ness man of Amsterdam Hol-
land, had trifling argument with one
Hans Groot, a man with whom he had
had a casual acquaintance.
Shortly after the episode, to which
Mr.. Van Vleet attached no Importance
he began getting mysterious and an
noying telephone calls The voice on
the other end of the line was always
insulting and invariably called after
midnight.
little private investigating on the
part of Van Vleet soon revealed the
culprit. 1t was Mr.. Groot, who prom
ised to stop his michievous tricks.
Then more serious trouble came to
Hendrix Van Vleet. His bank notified
him that his checking account was
overdrawn when he knew that he
should have had plenty of money on
hand. Again the man went to work
on his own and did not call in the
police to help him find out who had
been forging his name on a series of
relatively small checks.
Instead he called upon the author of
the midnight phone calls who, again,
admitted his guilt. He was given a
serious lecture on the penalties for this
sort of Joking" and was warned that
any more of it would land him in the
hands of authorities.
For a few weeks thereafter Mr.. Van
Vleets life went on more or less nor
mally-until the day he received an
official-looking document in the mail.
@ 1871. by American Weekly. In
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Using Wild Geese ASFarn1flandS

it is necessary to keep down grass,
and that's where geese come in.
After the plants grow so large that
a goose can't step over them, the whole
flock is headed down the field goose
to each row of cotton. The birds will
stay in their own rows eating off all
grass until they reach the other end.
James Conover. a South Missouri
planter, has farmed $500 acres of
cotton and has employed as many as
5000 geese. From one to two geese
an acre will keep the field in good
condition for a remunerative cotton
crop"
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

~ EESE as cotton field hands
~ sound unique, but Roy Godsey,
~ survey expert for the Missouri
State Board of Agriculture. tells how
they really do assist planters. He says:
1T is a common saying among cot
ton growers that you can accurately
estimate the number of acres farmer
will have in cotton the next year by
the number of geese around his door
the Winter before.
LAS soon as the cotton is planted
grass also starts up. so the geese are
turned into the field until the cotton
plants appear. To raise good cotton
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

document was a clever
forgery and that the
authorities had no
reason for asking him
questions about any
thing.
With a brand of
tolerance that almost
matched the Biblical
patience of Job, the
now thoroughly
arouse d Dutchman
paid another call on
the casual acquaint-
ance with whom he
had what seemed to
him a mild difference
of opinion-and gave
him one final warn
ing. Mr.. Van Vleet
was fed up and he
did not int n d to
tolerate any more of
Mr.. Groot's distorted
and savage humor.
The pay-off came
the other day when a
reporter from one of
Amsterdam's leading
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

quarters where he re-
vealed the whole silly
and annoying series
of tricks played by
Mr.. Groot, who was
promptly jailed.
An investigation
brought out that the
game-playing Groot
had not confined his
Jokes" TO Mr.. Van
Vleet. He had been
trying similar stunts
on several of his rela
tives whom he dis
liked and had made
his habit of annoying
others a full-time job.
An eminent psy-
chiatrist had a long
talk with the prisoner
and finally advised
the police not to go
to the trouble Of
bringing him to trial.
The man was OBJ
viously off his nut"
and was sent to an
institution.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

read because they are smudgY.
The F.B.I. knew about a Mr. John
Dondero, head of the FaurOt Identified
ton Laboratory. They thought he
might be able to help Mr. Meancy work
out a practical way of identifying dogs.
So Messrs. Meaney and Dondero got
together. They talked and talked
and suddenly they had the inspiration
of taking a dogs noseprint.
Their first print was made on the
snOut of German Shepherd dog
belonging to MIR Bunderos secretary.
1t came out in clear detail. They made
a second print and it was an exact du-
plication of the first.
Then these gentlemen noseprnted
another German Shepherd to see if
its noseprint was different. 1t was.
And for two years this team expert
mented. They made over 1000 nose
prints of big dogs, little dogs, thor
oughbreds and NUTS. No two nose
prints were alike and each of them
was a certain means of identification,
The outgrowth of this long and
careful scientific study of dogs noses
led to the formation of an organization
which is called Noseprints, Inc. With
the cooperation of veterinarians and
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

1t seemed to be from the Amsterdam
Chief of Police and was a summons to
appear at Headquarters for question
ing. The reason for the interrogation
was not mentioned.
Mr. Van Vleet, being a good citizen,
lost no time in contracting the limbs
of the law" who informed him that the
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27
Joked His WAY Into the Insane Asylum

dailies rang Mr.. Van Vleet's doorbell
The newspaperman inquired whether
Mr.. Van Vleet had recovered conscious
ness and, If he had, he was ready to
take his death-bed confession.
The newspaperman was invited in
and produced letter 1t read: Dear
Editor - Hendrix Van Vleet, the old
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

hypocrite is shortly to pass out.
am an old friend of his, and he has
asked me to have you send a man
around to get his death-bed confession
because he doesn't want to die without
unloading his conscience"
This was the last straw. Van Vleet
hustled the reporter to police head
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

breeders all over
the C oun try it
hopes to establish
several ce n t e RS
where noseprints
can be systemat-
ically filed and be
instantly avail
able to dog own
ers when one of
their pets wan
ders away or falls
into the hands of
a racketeer.
AS the photo
gra p h a b ov e
shows, it is a sim
pie m a t e r TO
make slides of
the nose prints
and project them
on a screen for
close study. OF
the thousands of
dogs nose printed,
only a few OBJ
jected to having
a record made of
their very moist
shouts.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

" ~
This lin G OF
reasoning event.
ually brought Mr..
Meaney around
TO the subject of
fingerprints. No
two, he knows,
are alike. Why
not try paw
prints? NJ a y b c
they are as dis
tinctive as the
whorls and cur
licues on the tips
Of human fingers.
So he made paw
prints hundreds
Of them.
He took the
best Of these to
the experts in
the r c q er al
3 u r c a u o (
investigation TO
find out If they
thought that
dogs could really
be identified in
this manner. The
gentlemen Of the
F.BI were cour-
teous but dis
C o u r a & in z.
Il might be pos
sible, they said.
But a dog s paw
IS his most vul-
nerable extrem-
ity likely 10 scar
and caIlOus as he
grow s o q @ r.
Besides the hair
between the dog s
toes make paw
prints hard TO
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

about the noses Of his guests
and their yapping ilk. He
also was pondering whether
something couldn't be done
to cut down the increasing
racket of dognaping the
stealing of thoroughbred
pets for resale or ransom.
Mr.. Meaney knows that in
cities and towns all over the
country thousands of dogs
are lost, strayed or stolen
every week.
"If there were some posi-
tive way of identifying dogs,
and a central dog registry
could be established" said
Mr.. Meaney to himself, "a
lot more people would lose
many fewer dogs
The working head of the
Bide-a-Wee II o m g knows
that there were two methods
Of Identification which might
be worth consideration-the
so-called Bertillion System.
which is supposed to identify
animals by their size. shape.
markings, etc; and tattoo
ing that is, putting the
dogs name and license num-
Der somewhere on his hide
--.Lt- Inn ILL
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1941-04-27

Enlargements
of Doggy
Noseprints
Reveal That
No Two
Canine SHOUTS
Are Exactly
Alike, and
That They
Are a Positive
Method of
Identification.