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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
CHAIRMEN, CLERKS
 AT CONFERENCE
Officials of SeIective Serv. ice System Lecture on
 Duties, Procedure

Chairmen and clerks of Water. bury selective service boards yester. day attended the state conference in the veterans home at Rocky Hill. A total of 1e0 in all heard addresses by State Draft Director Colonel Ernest L. Averill and numerous other officials In the state selective service system.
 Principal topic discussed by Col onel Averill was Q proposal that lo- cal board chairmen act as liaison agents between returning soldiers, the state employment service and employers, in an effort to secure jobs for the over age inductees who will soon be discharged Tn the event that chairmen are unable to as- sune this task, 1t was suggested that they appoint board members in their places.
 The state head spoke favorably of boards throughout Connecticut, and the work accomplished by draft remarked that a check-up had re- vealed them all to be In excellent condition. After January all clerk ships in draft boards of the state will be placed in civil service.
 Other speakers included Colonel William L. Larash, judge advocate at state headquarters, whose sub- ject was Preparation of Records of Registrants"; Colonel William B. Smith, medical corps, ::'Medical Re- lations"; Lieutenant William B. Pape, U. s. N.. Student Defer ments"; Captain William P. Averill, J. A. c. D., "Civil Service Regula- tions as Affecting Local Boards; Major T. L Harold, U. s. A.; Carl w. Ellison, coordinator, "Adminis- tration"; Captain Edward M. Mo- Mahon, Quota Officer, "The Quota and Its Relation to Your Weekly Reports; w. Harry Byrnes, statisti- cal officer at state headquarters, Reports, Their Value and the Preparation and Use Thereof: and Sergeant Fournier, U. s. A.. Forms for Use of Induction Station"
 The conference was adjourned at 1:l5 for luncheon.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
WORKMEN REPAIR
 HEAVY P. 0. DOOR
Floor Hinges Wear Out Under Daily Grind of
 Business"

Workmen were busy at the post of- flee today, making repairs on the east door of the building. Because of the weight of the outside doors (about $50 pounds each), the floor hinges on which they operate tend to wear out rather quickly. and have to be periodically replaced.
 The heavy doors, of course, re- ceive constant use, especially dur ing the winter time. Postal employ es once counted the number of per- sons entering the building, during the sIackest business hours, ard found that the number was 60 an hour at the very lowest. During most of the day, and most of the year, there is considerably more traffic through the doors than this.
 According to the maintenance crew, the doors. which are of steel within their brass finishing, weigh $50 pounds apiece. Even the glass in each of them weighs 100 pounds.
 With the completion of the pres- ent repair program, 1t Is hoped the doors will be ready to meet the con- stant use which is customary in winter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
FUNERALS
BY RICHARD 0. HoTTELET United Press Stan CorrespOndent)

The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Waite will be held ct the Clark funeral home, 20 State street, to- morrow afternoon ct 2 o'clock. Rev. Francis 0. AyreS, rector of St. Johns Episcopal church will ofl- ciate. Burial will be private. Friends may call at the funeral home from 3 to 5 and 2 to 9 p, m. today.
 The funeral of Mrs. Albert Gold smith will be held at the Clark funeral home, 20 State street, to- morrow afternoon ct S:30 o'clock. Burial will be In Evergreen ceme- tery, Watertown. Friends may call from 3 to s and 2 to 9 p. T1l., today.
 The funeral of Hugh A. .Scallen of West Hartford will be held to- morrow morning at k5 from the sisk Brothers funeral home, l2e Dwight street, New Haven. to St, Lawrence church, West Haven at 10 o'clock. Burial will be in St. Lawrence cemetery, West Haven.
 The funeral of Mss Dorothy B. George of 452 Pennington avenue was held this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue, with Rev: Fran els O. Ayres officiating. Burial was In Riverside cemetery.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Blanche c. Gretter of East Main street, will be held tomorrow morning at II o'clock from the AlderSon funeral home, 70 Central avenue, Rev. James F. Gregg, pastor of the First Congregational church, officiating. Burial will be in South Hampton cemetery, South Hampton, Mass, at 2:3O o'clock.
 Funeral services for Frank J. Brown of 89 Robert street, will be held tomorrow morning at 8:i5 o'clock from the Mulville funeral home, 270 West Main street to St. Michaels church at o'clock where a solemn high Mass of requiem will be celebrated. Burial will be in the family plot in Calvary cemetery.
 Funeral services for pr. Thomas A. O'Brien, a former resident of this city, who died yesterday morning at his home in Brooklyn, N. r., will be held tomorrow morning at 8 o. clock from the Bergin funeral home, 200 East Main street to the Immacu- late Conception Church at g o'clock. Burial will be in the family plot in old St. JoSeph's cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today after 2 o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
OBITUARY

KAPACHUS-Wllliam Kapachus, ', son of MT. and Mrs. William Kapachus of East Berlin, died at the Hartford Isolation Hospital on Wednesday. His mother IS the for- mer Miss Nellie AliSauskas of Wa terbury.
 Private funeral services were held at l:s0 o'clock today at 253 Wash- ington street, Hartford. Burial was in Mount St. Benedict's cemetery.
 WARNER--Mrs. Frances (Potter) Warner, widow of Frank E. Wars ner, of ol Ridgewood street, died yesterday following brief illness Ut the Waterbury hospital. A na- tive of Sharon, she was the daugh- te: of Elias B. and Mary tMiddle- hrooks) Potter.
 For the greater part of her l!fe Mrs. Warner lived in this city, where she was a member of the Second Congregational church and the Waterbury Women's club.
 She leaves three sisters, Mrs, Ernest Clyde, Mrs. Richard s. Wood and Mrs. Donald I. Fenn; Q neph. ew, Richard w. Wood, and two niecos, Mrs. F. Graham White and Miss Lucele F. Wood, oil of Wa terbury.
 Funeral services will be held Monday afternoon at o'clock from the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue. Rev, Dr. John c, Walker assisted by Rev. John E, Coombs will officiate. Burial will be in Old Pine Grove ceFne. tery.
 Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow evening from 2 to Q O clock, and Sunday afternoon from 3 to s o'clock.
 FORMAN--simon Formdn, 70, for merly of Waterbury, died at the Mount Sinai hospitain New York city. He had resided here from 1spD to 1920.
 MT. Forman was Q special cloth ing merchant in this city, operating two ladies' wear stores on East Main street.
 He Is survived by 8 sister, Mrs, Lena Welnstein; three brothers, Ben and Leon of New York city and Louis of Schenectady, N. Y.; six nephews, Nathan, Louis, Clar- ence and Jack Freedman, Coleman Tennebaum, all ohthis city and Atty. Benjamin Freedman of New York city, and three nieces. Miss Lottie Weinstein, Miss Ida Freedman and Mrs, William G. Olson.
 Funeral services were held yes- terday afternoon in the Brass City cemetery with Rabbi William P, Greenfield officiating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
Sister Monica, Teacher Here 34 Years, Dies

Sister Monica of the Holy Ghost Order died this morning at the South Main street convent. A native of Clones, Ireland, she was the former Margaret Reddy.
 Sister Monica came to this city In 1907, where she was well known, especially in the Brooklyn section, having been . member of the teaching staff of St. Joseph's school for the past S4 years.
 She is survived by one sister, Mrs. John Smyth, and one broth CT, William Reddy, both of Ire- land; two nieces, both members of the Holy Ghost Order In Eng land; two nephews, both of Ire. land, one g member of the Fsan. Clscan Order; several nleces and nephews.
 Funeral arrangements are in- complete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
TO RECEIVE
 TAYLOR AT ONCE

Vatican City, Sept. 5-(UP)-The Vatican announced today that Pope Plus will receive Myron c. Taylor, President Roosevelt's personal emis- sary, immediately upon his arrival here next week.
 It was believed, here that Taylor will stay in Rome only a few days and then return to the United States. This view was taken despite contrary reports from the United States that Taylor will remain at the Vatican indefinitely.
 Vatican sources thought Taylor will bring a personal message from MT. Roosevelt and that if Taylor goes back to Ameroca immediately he probably will carry the Popes reply.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05

Export Import Bank president Warren Lee Pierson long had his
 eyes on South America. which could mean only one thing.
 Pierson reported these things back in London, but nobody was interested. Washington was even less interested.
 Pierson's job, however, was not that of c military observer. He was out to study world business, and he did. Tn 1887, he went to China to see what he could do about stirring up trade with the potential 400 million customers there. The Japanese invasion temporarily kicked that in the hat, but Pierson Is still Q firm be- lever in China trade and 1t Is his opinion that 1t is one big post- war market for the American super charged production effort of today He came back to the United States and he got the Idea that the only place to develop any actual trade, under present conditions, was in South America,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
MAY GET INCREASE

Providence, R. I, Sept. 5-(UP) Joseph W. Knapik of New York, national president of the Federa- tion of Dyers, Finishers. Printers and Bleachers (CIO), announced here today that more than l5.000 workers in Rhode Island, Connecti- cut and Massachusetts bleaching and dyeing plants will receive @ seven -cent -an-hour wage increase, effective Sept. a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05

have the AdVanVaBe OI CtllS PoWCE~ full striking force. To simulate war conditions as closely as possible, each side Is kept guessing when and where 1t will be faced with a sur- prise tank attack.
 BY RICHARD 0. H0TTELET United Press stan COrrespOndent)
 With the Second Army in Arkan- sas, Sept. s - (U.P0 = The nobil- ity of the triangular division and the striking power of cavalry and mechanized cavalry have proved so effective in the swampy Ouachita river bottoms that the second army command was forced today to retard an advance by red attack lns, force, lest 1t imperil 8 tactical withdrawal of infantry.
 The red force is made up of the fifth and sixth infantry divisions, the second cavalry division from Kansas and the fourth horse mech anized division from South Dakota. The blue forces, comprising the 27th 33rd and 35th square infantry divi- sions, plus the 18th field artillery, are withdrawing into Louisiana to escape a pincers movement.
 (There are three brigades in a triangular division; four in a square division).
 Because the reds have advanced so rapidly, staff officers have been forced to slow them down, If the blues are not to be outflanked and stopped.
 Streamed Across River
 The red fifth and sixth divisions streamed across the Ouachita river yesterday into the flank and rear of the withdrawing forces.
 It was smooth performance. Shortly before dawn, assault boats crossed the river under an overcast sky and established bridgehead for foot and pontoon bridges. They met feeble resistance and captured 0 few prisoners.
 The fifth division occupied" Gam den and the sixth division set up headquarters at Quinn while the main body of the blues crossed Into Louisiana.
 The second cavalry division cross. ed the Ouachlta during the after noon and last night 10 miles above the Louisiana Arkansas line. With the completion of this operation, the entire red forces were west of the river and in position to drive deep into the blue positions, If the high command reScinds an order against serious action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
Marriage Intentions

The following couples have filed marriage intentions at the office of the town clerk:
 Gregory A. Boulanger, Wood- tick road, and Ismay R. Wrogg, l26 Maple street.
 George E. Burr, 30 Donald tcr- race, and Helene S. Forgue, 1O1 Westwood avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
KILLRn M ACTION

Chester. Mass. Sept. 5-kUPl- Jacob Kivella,, 30. former Chester granite cutter, was killed in action on the Finnish-R Russian front July 2S, according to word received py relatives here today. Wounded in the previous Finnish Russian war, he had been recalled to service early this summer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
EXPORT IMPORT BANK HEAD TOOK JOB NOBODY WANTED
Pierson Foresaw Wars Effect on the Americas

Washington, Aug. 3o--One man who foregaw how vital were United States commercial interests in Latin Arnerica-and did something about it-is Warren Lee Pierson, president of the Export-Import Bank of Washington.
 The bank was organized in the first years of the depression to see what could be done about restoring world trade. The answer seemed to he Not much" One story in Wash. ington is that when George Peek stepped down from the presidency of the bank in 1886, Jesse Jones said to his lieutenantS, "Who wants to be president of Export Import? Does anyone here want the job?"
 STARTED MOVING M BEFORE THE WAR
 Warren Lee- -Piergoa, who had been counsel for the bank, thought 1t had possibilities and he took over. Pre- viougly, Pierson had been in Com- modities Credit Corporation and from that experience he knew what a sad state the cotton export mar. ket was in. He went to Europe to see If he could sell some surplus cotton, on credit If necessary.
 He worked out c deal for Ger many, but 1t didn't 90 through. He worked out 6 deal for Italy and 1t went through, and though most people don't know 1t, Italy made good on that loan, paid 1t all off, the final payments being made after Italy was in the war. Similarly, q loan to Poland is still being serviced, though the Polish government has been driven from It's homeland.
 All through the fall and winter of 1886, PierSon travelled over Europe. His wife went with him, and ln the innocent guise of tour. ists they got a car and drove all over Germany. Everywhere they went they saw roads damned with troop-laden trucks and the countryside filled with maneu- vers. German industry, too, was turning out armament ct a rate
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
ROY KTK.LED

woodmont. Conn, Sept. 6(UP) -Six-year-cld Eugene Potter was killed late yesterday when struck by a Connecticut Company bus while crossing a street on his way home from school
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
DIED
MASSES

BEANGANARO-A 1st Anniversary solemn Mass of requiem will be cell ebrated Saturday morning at 7:00 o'clock, at St. Lucy's church. for the repose of the soul of the late Saverio Manganaro.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
Red, Blue Forces Are Having War Of Nerves 
Commanders of Opposing Fighters of Third Army Are
 Keeping Each Other Guessing as to Thrust

have the advantage of this power- full striking force. To simulate war conditions as closely as possible, each side Is kept guessing when and where 1t will be faced with a Sur- prise tank attack.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
INK BLUE

With business up, here's the pre- ferred color for fall "a velvety- smooth color!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-09-05
s45 and up
See them
 in these favored-colors
TOWN BROWN

Here's a new dressy brown. It's neutral cast makes it becoming to most men.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-22
THE MOTE IN
OUR OWN EYE

Folks in Imperial Valley have done
as much worrying as anyone else about
the starving people of France, Belgium,
Holland and the other Nazi occupied
countries of Europe And, like most other
folks in most other places, we've almost
entirely overlooked the need of some of
our own people for nourishment.
1t is easier to think of the starving
children of France, possibly because they
are massed in numbers and victims of an
aggressor we detest. But it is more I'M
portant to think of the children at home
who don't get enough to eat, or who don't
get enough of the proper things to eat.
There are some people who will tell
you there aren't any children here who
fall into the same category.
They ought to visit the crippled child
clinic held at the Imperial county court
house this week. They should see the
emaciated bodies barred there to the exam
lining eyes of specialists. Then they would
have the living proof that we've got a
problem at home that ought to be solved
before we eXpend all our energies on help
ing somebody across the sea.
1t is tragic but human that we are
prone to neglect the miseries and wants
that are right under our eyes, even while
we put forth our greatest efforts to al
leviate similar troubles in distant land.
Yet it would take so much leSs-becauSe
there is so much less to take care Of
to solve our home problem.
Truly, charity begins at home.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-22
PRODUCTION AND DEFENSE

The other day William S. Knudsen,
director general of the federal office of
production management, appealed for an
"all-out performance of American ingen-
uity, backed by every machine and piece
of equipment available" to supply the
needs of the defense program.
On the same day he made his appeal,
agents of labor and the Ryan Aeronauti-
cal company at San Diego were engaged
in a seemingly hopeless wrangle, against
the background of a threatened strike
over union demands for higher wages,
among other things T. Claude Ryan,
head of the company, blamed a lack of
unified policy on important problems
of national defense for the Industrial
strife in San Diego.
What kind of "all-out" exercise of
American ability is this?
Our national policy, as far as it is def
initely formulated, calls for sacrifice
from industrial management in the inter-
est of national defense. AS time goes on,
it will call for more sacrifice. Why not
call for unselfish sacrifice from industry
as a whole, for industry includes both
management and labor?
About does not mean "half-out."
Defense is only as strong as its weakest
point, and today labor strikes are that
weakest point.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-22
DEBT
WITHOUT LIMIT?
Christian Science Monitor)


Henry Morgenthau, Secretary of the
Treasury, got mingled reaction to his
proposal in November that the public
debt limit for the United States should
be increased to S65 5,O00,0 900, 900. Now Pres
ident Roosevelt has suggested in his bud
get message that the institution of debt
limit be discarded altogether and that,
in a manner of speaking, Congress SIM
ply make its debts as it goes.
This in general was the procedure until
about the time of the previous World
War. Yet if a statutory debt limit serves,
in the Presidents phrase, only as ga fis-
cal MONITOR that is something to be
said for it in time when the national
obligation has risen to more than S45,
000,000,000 and is due to go up rapidly
by reason of the defense effort.
Mr.. Roosevelt says that if Congress
after authorizing a certain fixed amount
of borrowing makes appropriations which
require the treasury to borrow in excess
of that limit, sit has, in effect rendered
that prior limit null and void
This thesis, however, is open to ques-
ton. For example, suppose Congress
made appropriations which would eX-
ceed the limit set for issuance of bonds.
Without new authorization the Treas
ury could not legally borrow more money
to meet these appropriations and main
tain its necessary working balance. 1t
would seem to be the duty of the EXecu-
tive in such case to scale down eXpendi-
lures even within the appropriations so
as to keep inside the debt limit. This
would have the practical effect of giving
the President an item veto or authority
to reduce congressional appropriations
power which Congress has always jeal-
ously regarded.
Such situation would compel the leg
islative branch to face squarely the stu
alton it had created. 1t would have either
to retrench in expenditures or conscious
ly to authorize new borrowing. 1t would
have to think once about making appro-
priations and again about raising the
debt limit And that is exactly the pur-
pose of the debt limit-to make the gov
ernment think twice about spending.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-22
INCOME TAXES
(Chico Enterprise)

Even if you never before made an in
come tax return, you may be required
to make one in March, so get ready.
Only the 100000 people who made
returns in 1910 will receive blanks from
the treasury department But another
100000 will have to file returns this
year, though they never did before and
therefore will receive no blanks. 1t is
up to them to get the blanks themselves.
The more-than-doubled number MAX
ing a return is due to the fact that this
year every individual having a gross in
come of $500 or more, or married people
living together with a combined gross
income of $4,000 or more, must file a re-
turn.
Hitherto the figure determining whe-
ther one filed a return was a net figure,
now it is gross-all income regardless of
exemptions Probably less than half of
the 100000 people expected to file a
return this year will have to pay a tax
when exemptions are taken and calcula-
tions are made. But the return must be
made nevertheless.
Most of these newcomers in the income
tax club don't know all the angles as
yet. The deadline is March Is, let us
remind them, and it's not too soon to
begin getting together their information
and preparing to get the blank, fill it
out, and file it.
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-22
NOTHING ELSE TO DO

Uncle Sam couldn't do anything but
apologize.
The United States navy sailors who
tore Nazi swastika flag from atop the
German consular building at San Fran
cisco deserved the punishment they got
Whatever harm they did was not done to
Germany 1t was done to the United
States. They forced their own nation
to humble itself in an apology to the die
detest.
The civilian who creates an interna-
tional incident, the scope of which he
cannot possibly realize, is bad enough.
The soldier or sailor who does the same
is worse, for regardless of his ignorance
he is representative in minor degree
of the whole country
Imperial Valley press., 1941-01-22
by Paul Harrison
Hollywood S Fads, Fancies and FoibIes

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. GA covcy
of New York models has been dec
Grating some of the sets of The
Road to Rio" and it's a good thing
Director Irving Cummings doesn't
mind visitors. BY mid afternoon
you can hardly move without bump
ing into a million dollars worth
of play-bcy.
The gal who has done best is a
lithesomc dish named Bunny Hart
ley. who has been out with Alfred
GWynn Vanderbilt. Pat Di Cicci
has been a regular caller at Stage
6. saw even Prince Mike Roman
off trying to crash the gate the
other day Among actors, Franchot
Tone has been the steadiest visitor.
One CT the models wears a bracelet
given hcr by George Raft.
Seasoned HollyWoodsmCn = -
daily deal in beatty, or - :, o3-
pCsito il, 3ccm to be as much at
tract2d as outsiders by these sta
tucsque mannequins. 1 don't know
whether their size is q desirable
distinction, o. what, but they're all
too tall to be actresses. Maybe it's
their bored aloofness: between
scenes they just sit around and
stare at themselves in mirrors with
a Narcissean fascination. Or per-
haps the men-about- Talkietown like
to be seen in public with them be-
cause the models are better dressed
than any stars.
ENTER
MIRANDA
On the first day they were to
appear. as scenery, in a few scenes
at 20th-FoX, one of the models
wandered in little late, coolly
glanced around the large set and
inquired of nobody in particular: