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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07
Priests, Brothers,
Serving In Orient
Rev. Joseph and Leo Sweeney OF New Britain Fail to
Send Parents Word in Past Three Months

New Britain, Feb. 6.-The coming
Sunday marks the twenty-second
anniversary of the ordination of
Rev. Joseph P. Sweeney, native of
this city, but approach Of the ami
versary finds the priests relatives
here worried about his safety and
that of younger Brother, since both
are in Japanese-controlled territory.
At the home of Father Joseph and
Father Leo Sweeney's parents at 108
Clark street here last night it was
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07
NEWS

FIRST BAPTIST

AT the morning worship, 10000
clock, which will be broadcast by
WATR, the preacher will be Rev
David P. Gaines. The subject will
be What to Do on Sunday?"
At the evening worship, 7:30 o.
clock, Mr.. Gaires will lead in an
attempt to discover what the Bible
says about war. This will be the
second in a series of Bible studies
on vital subjects. 1t will be followed
by a period for questions and dis
cuSSion,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07

The Chi1dren's division of the
Church school meet at 11:O5. Chill
dren are dismissed from morning
service while the second hymn is
sung. The Young Peoples and Adult
divisions meet in their various
groups ard classes Immediately af-
ter the benediction of the morning
worship. The Woodruff assembly for
men meets in the sanctuary at the
same time.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07
ST. JOHNS EPISCOPAL

Services Sunday, February 8:
800 a. m. Holy Communion
l0:45 a. m. Morning prayer and
sermon. Sermon: Rev. Francis O..
Ayres.
1880 p. m. Evening prayer and
sermon. Sermon: Rev. Francis O..
Ayres.
$50 a. m. Sunday school.
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meet to make plans for the program
the rest of the season. This will be
followed by social hour.
Wednesday, 10 a. m.-The ladies
of the church will meet to sew for
the Red Cross.
Thursday, 1880 p. m.-Miss Lucy
M. Russo will speak on "Groul
Games" in the course of Child Wei
fare and Recreation in the Scout
house.
Friady 4 p. m.-Cub Pack No. %;
7:30 p. m.-Boy Scouts, troop No.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07
BUNKER HILL

Rev. Alan NJ. Fairbank, pastor of
the Bunker Hill Congregational
church, will speak at the II o'clock
worship tomorrow morning on, THE
Mark of a Hero. Boy Scout Sunday
will be observed and the Bunker
Hill Troop will participate in the
program.
Sunday school will be held at 9:45
a. m. and the Young People will
convene at $50 D. m.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07
THIRD CONGREGATIONAL

Sunday school will be held at 10
O'Clock tomorrow morning at the
Third Congregational church. The
morning worship at 10:45 will fea-
ture a sermon by the pastor, Rev.
Conner r. Lewis, entitled, what
Some People Thought Of Christ.
The Women's Get-Together club
will meet at o'clock Monday. The
gym class will convene Tuesday eye
ming at and the Girl Scouts We'd
nesday evening at $50. The sec
tional meeting of the air raid war
dens will be held Thursday evening
at 8.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07
ADVENT CHRISTIAN

Reverence for Gods House" will
be the sermon subject of Rev. Jo-
seph p, c. Johnson, pastor of the
Advent Christian church on Cherry
street, tomorrow morning at 1890
o'clock. A communion service will
follow.
The junior church, conducted by
Mrs. Irlou Wilson, will meet at II
o'clock. Church school will be held
at HAS o'clock with Joseph Scholar
as superintendent.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07

Loretta Dillon, Adelaide Bauby and Rose Foley
have taken it upon themselves to make the annual
semi-formal dance of the Scovl Girls Club huge
success. It'll be event of February Fl at the Wo
mems Club with music being ably furnished by Cliff
Slater and his orchestra. Sampson SegeI of Cooke
Street, senior vice-cOmmander of David l.. Fannck
Post Jewish War Vets, is patient at the Newington
Hospital William Bernstein of Hartford, state
mander of the J. w. ", is coming along nicely at St.
Francis Hospital Hartford following minor operation
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JUNK!

Costume jewelry's going out,
The better stuff is staying in,
You soon can't buy the dollar stuff
Because it's made OF tin.
All that glitters you love 70 wear
Made of wood and glass,
All that very bright jewelry
Fashioned Of solid brass
Will suddenly disappear,
SO you'll miss your sparkling
Because the stuff it's made of
Is used in building ship.
Costume jewelry's going out.
That's very sad news, girls,
But they tell us therell be no deart.
OF rubies, diamonds and pearA
Folks, you'll miss those gadgets,
You're bound to feel sort of sunk,
When you can't get all dolled up
In cleverly designed junk.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07

MIR. and Mrs. Frank Whalen are celebrating their
second wedding anniversary today. She's the former
Eleanor MalOney of Washington Street :. Herbert
Greenblatt, of Mr. and Mrs. Irving Greenblatt of
70 Eldrdge Street. observes his Bar Mtzvah tomorrow
so it'll be open house all day MIR. and Mrs. Michael
Mara will have two candles on their wedding anniver-
sary ice cream cake this evening. Before her middle
aisle trip Mrs. Mike was the former Emma DAmbrOsi
of East Main Street Idris Anderson ST. was among
the many Waterburans catching the opening night
performance of the Ice Foes at the New Haven Arena
Wednesday evening.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-07
ITALIAN CONGREGATIONAL

Rev. Lawrence DiFlorio. pastor
of the Italian Congregational
church, corner of South Elm and
Union streets, will speak on the
subject, Where to Look at the
morning worship tomorrow at 1890
o'clock.
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Lutheran
THOMASTON BETHLEHEM
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN
North Main Street at Electric

WV VII 1'1e'1fR h3V1o Wv "V ~
Avenue)
Rev. E. Einar Kron, pastor
Sunday, Feb. 8:
SeXagesima Sunday.
At 1000 a. m. the Sunday school
convenes in the church basement.
At 1880 p. m. Divine Worship will
be held, when the pastor will speak
on Ambassadors of Christ" Church
officers elected at the annual meet
ing will be installed.
Mondya, Feb. 8: Church choir
meets for practice at 1880 p. m.
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WEST SIDE HILL METHODIST

Rev. John r. D. Franzen pastor
Sunday, February 8
HOO a. m.-Morning Worship Grace
Relations Sunday Rev. Mr..
Franzen will speak on the SUBJ
ject: why The Stars In Our
Flag?
The Church School, under the
leadership of Miss Mildred LANG,
meets at GAS in the Parish hall.
800 p. m.-Intermediate Youth Fell
loWship.
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ST. JOHN'S LITTHERAN

O1. JOAN , LUTHERAN
Services will be held at 1915 and
11:15 tomorrow morning at st.
Johns Lutheran church on Cooke
street.
The ladies of the church will
meet every Tuesday from 10 a. m.
until 4 p. m. to do hospital sewing,
until further notice.
The order of worship tomorrow
morning will be as follows:
Organ Prelude, by Miss Emily Wall
Opening Hymn
Kyrie--
Epistle Lesson, End Cor. 11-19.
Hymn
Gospel Lesson. Luke 8, Ais.
Reciting of the Apostles Greed
Hymn
Sermon by the pastor, 1.-THE Parable
of the Sower."
Offertory.
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ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN

Col Cherry Street
Rev. E. Einar Kron, pastor.
Sunday, February 8.
Sexagesima Sunday.
Church school and Bible class
meet at $50 a. m. Roland o. Palm
er, superintendent.
Divine Worship at 10:45, when
the sermon topic will be Freely
Ye Received: Opportunities and
Privileges"
Calendar for week of Feb. 8 day.
light Saving Time):
Monday at $50: Senior confirma-
ton class meets in the church.
Tuesday at 8: Pictures of Sweden
will be shown for benefit of Swe-
dish Benevolent society. Coffee will
be served afterwards.
Wednesday, the pastor will be in
Stamford for a meeting of the
Hartford district.
Thursday at 2: Daughters of Zion
will meet with Mrs. Axel Forsell,
AZ Arden road.
Thursday at 8: Church choir will
meet for practice in church.
Saturday at $50 a. M: Junior
confirmation class meets in church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-13
FATHER, YOUNG
 DAUGHTER HELD Fourteen Year Old Girl, Married, Is Accused of
 Killing Husband

Morristown, Tenn, May l3-(UP) -Fourteen-year-old Matte Pearl Morgan and her father were being arraigned today on a charge of murdering Matte Pearls husband Daymon w. Manning, 35.
 There was great deal about the strange tragedy which had over- taken the mountain family that au- thorities didn't know. They did know, however. that Manning was shot in the Morgan home last Sat- urday and accused his child bride before he died.
 Matte Pearl said, yes, she shoi him but she wouldn't say more. She talked to her father just before she fired the shot and he disposed 0i the pistol later. Therefore, he Waf charged as an accessory.
 She and her father were brought down out of the hills yesterday and put in the county jail here. Tn keeping with the tradition of tho mountain people while they are be- ing "lawed." he said nothing.
 Manning was c house painter who, according to his neighbors iEl the community of Lowland School five miles from here, worked pretty regular" He married Matte Pearl
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MORE CONFUSION
 IN GAS RATIONINC
Registration Slowing Up, With Close Coming by k Thursday Night

Confusion on the part of many car owners about gasoline ration- ing provisions was slowing up regis tfation today as additional thou sands Hooked to the city's grammar schools to secure ration cards. From many teachers and other volunteer registrars came word that appl- cants had apparently not given the instructions a careful reading, and the registrars, in many cases, had to serve as information clerks.
 Hationing headquarters at lie West Main street, ig charge of Chairman George J. McDnGf of the rati0ning board, was sWamped with inquiries ell day long. There were complaints from some motorists eilat they had not received the cards to which they gre entitled, Tlae confusion and complaints were all the more marked because Of the contrast with the smoothness el tle sugar EAtiOning registration 'As' week.
 das registration will end tom0F'
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-13
German ''Nerve Gas" Is Similar To Gas" From CoebbeIs Propaganda Machine"

would make person dopey and not kill him. But 1t would be lgn- possible to use unless a vast army of troops could be concentrated and then sprayed with carbon monoElde, It all sounds impractical Rs saF as ! ean conceive t."
 DF, othello LangwoFthy, another Johns Hopkins neurologisl, said
 If there has been such . ges created, ! have never heard of t, ! don't know . great deal about waF gas but thls Rilegedly new product scarcely sounds plausible to me"
 It was recalled that similar stories Of nerve gas were disseminated from Europe in the spring Of leg0 when the Germans captured the Belgian fortress of Ehen Enael iIl q space Of hours. Military author tiles attributed the capture Co per- feet preparation, teamwork and timing rather than hy now tech. nlquas eg 'socrst wenpona'
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-13
Fifty-Four Miners Die In w. Virginia Disaster
zI Bodies Were Taken Out Shortly After Explosion Yesterday-33 More Were Discovered This
 Morning by Rescue Crews

Morgantown, w. Va, May 13- (UP)-Rescue crews reached the bodies of 8 men in the Christopher Coal Go. mine No. 3 today, raising to 54 the death toll of an explo- sion which ripped through the mine late yesterday.
 The finding of the bodies con- firmed the fears of mine officials that none of the men near the blast had escaped, although rescue crews tlnneled desperately through the debris-filled workings all night in the faint hope that some had survived.
 The bodies of 2l victims were found soon after the explosion.
 While relatives and friends of the victims, and several thousand cu- rious looked on, the work of bring ing the bodies to the surface was started.
 The victims were found several miles inside the mine, in sections one and one and one-half, where the explosion occurred at the change of shifts yesterday. The remainder of the l23-man day shift escaped.
 The mine. Q drift working, is sit-
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make aulsk decisions, but was not poisonous, The gas described as one Of two new and improved weapons" which the German high command reported 1t was uslR8 iD the Kegch offensive,
 Two nerve specialists at Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore, Md supported the War Departments attitude by expressing disbelief,
 pr, Prank Ford, associate pFoles. s0T in neurology, said he could not conceive e any gas that would af' feet tho nerve eenteFs oT ktuplty . mans power to make quick dsci- ki0lls.
 'The FeguiaP anaesthetle would have such Rn effect but st must DO administered diFestiy t0 the sldlvids uai,s said Dr. Ford. "yt would be necessary e catch the people and give them RnAesthetics OF gedaiiyes such co are known e nuilisy the nerves,
 acarbOn monoxids ln amaIl dosas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-13
SERGT. BYRON WRITES HOME FROM PACIFIC Copies of Waterbury Dem- Ocrat Eagerly Sought
 by Lads at Front LETTER WRITTEN TO
 WALLACE J. NGLIS Sergt "Midge" Byron Is Soldier of End Battalion,
 l02d Infantry

Copies of The Waterbury Democrat are eagerly vel comed and avidly read by soldiers of the second battal- ion, 102nd Infantry, now on duty somewhere in the Pacific, reports First Ser geant George J. "Midge" Byron in a letter received today by Wallace J. IngliS, chief of the local division of the aircraft warning service.
 Though copies of the paper are q month or two late, says Sergeant Byren, "they are read and reread unt1 they are unreadahle, since of course, we pass them from one to another and even the boys not from Waterbury read them" One man ship brought him 70 different copies Of The Democrat.
 The letter discloses that Lieut. Richard Scully, well-known in thi; city, is Catholic chaplain for tho battalion. T have never yet seer a chaplain do so much for his boys," says Sergt. Byron. "He is on the go all the tine."
 All We'll, Happy
 Sergt. Byron asks Mir. Inglis, ar official of the city welfare depart ment and veteran of the World War, to inform the folks at home
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lO7 MORE NAMES OF CASUALTIES
Residents of Maine, Mass IncIuded--NOne Report
 ed From This State

Washington, May Is - (uPl - The War Department today Te- leased for local publication the names Of i0T United states soldiers wl0 were killed in action or died Of wounds ln the Philippine Islands,
 TOday's list included 2s 0llleeFR and a4 enlisted men, ft brought to 22e tho number Of army casualties ln tho philippines announced 70 data by the War Department Since the attack en Pearl SIaFbog the denartment has released the names 0f bli soldiers killed oIl all fronts,
 soldiers from ls states are in' cluded ln today's llst, In aecofd' anea wlth war department policy, publication of array casually llals ls restricted to the names 0f inal' viduals resident ln the area noP' lnally served hy the nAwspapege nubllshlng tho list. Residents ol Maine and Massachusetts are las ellfaea ln the annoulaeenleiak
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-13
TWO CONN. MEN
 SAVED FROM SHIP
Ne London, Windsor Sailors Rescued After
 Ship Was TOrpedOed

Norfolk, Va., May Is-(UP)-- 4 torpedo attack on 6 mediuIn-slzed American merchant ship off the west coast Of Africa early tn April Killed nine members Of q 6bslnail African training crew, survivors sa'd today,
 A i0th member os the African crew dled oD the WRy to port,
 ThiFty-glg members 0f the crew and, eight nevy gun ereWmen ar. rived here ln & passenger vessel which also carried . numbeF 0l United States missionaries and eth' eT Americans from Africa,
 The torpedo struck At night but aid not slIk the vessel immediately eRnt, T1lTllef ~, GelneRs, Brooklyn N, Y. sald, The ship, he added, sllp' pod quietly to the bottom April after he and the eFeWT1en sought g0g several hours after the attaek q keep lt afloat,
 After the torpedo struck, . Easeni Vaasel t0Gk the men aboard aglf stayed in the vicinity while aelnasl made llp Q boarding pagtvs VIC saif they tried s0 tew the khip t0 Q near, by haFbog, but tllat he finally er. deEed the egew to abandon it fol good,
 The eFaw members rescued in' eIilde6 samuel VI. Theme, ehlef Og. fseeF, address lishn0NlH; Andrew mtollreF, JF., New London, Conn, Glen Fisher, RddEea unknown 5olln DonOhle, addFass unknown clarence mlnith, Boaton, Ho91g " Dasamtal, AtfleborOs Macs; Joslu ' naREm. miIiaFiea, A1aaA; and AleK' aaseF q Elakst'a. #'naaeT. Qann.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-13
Jap Invasion Fleet Is Reassembling For Blow
Japs Await Heavy Navy Endorsements at Island Bases Northwest of Australia-Key Units of
 Jap Fleet Are Intact
BY DON CASWELL

United Press Stair COrreSpOn0entD Melbourne, May l3.-(UP)-A Japanese invasion fleet is reassem- bling at island bases northeast of Australia, awaiting heavy naval re- Inducements for & new offensive thrust, dispatches from Allied ad- vanced bases indicated today.
 Warships and transports were re- ported at these bases. The main striking force had been scattered by the American-Australian naval vic- tory in the Coral Sea but 1t was believed to be virtually intact, in- solar as key units went. It was apparently only awaiting reinforce ments to strike & new blow which many beIeived would give Australia. and the United States and Allied forces their supreme test.
 Activities of Japanese ships, re- ported by American and Australian reconnaissance planes, and Of the Japanese air force absed at Rabaul in the Bismarck islands and Lac on the north New Guinea cosat' indicating that enemy reinforce ments were arriving steadily,
 Bad Weather for MacAEthur
 For the first time since the battle of the Coral Sea started May {. bad weather interrupted the offen- slye activity Of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthurs air force yesterday.
 However, it was understood that limited reconnaissance work was continued and the United Nations command and the United States south Pacific naval command would receive the usual reports of enemy
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"CAS LOOPHOLE"
 FOR CONCRESSMEN
Price Administration Says Inaccurate Interpretation
 Has Been Made

Washington, May B. = (UP) - The Office of Price Administration today blamed an inaccurate inter pretation" of the gasoline ration regulations for the Supposed loop hole" giving congressman ration cards for unlimited amounts or motor fuel,
 A congressman's rights are the same as those of any other person the OPA said.
 Joel Dean. chief of the fuel ra.. uoning branch of OPA. said that Tho one is entitled to K Unlimited amountl cards because of his posi- ton as a government employe, A government workers or a congress- man cannot obtain an K card TOT & car which he uses for driving 10 work and for pleasure driving"
 But that interpretation came et the end of the first days regis wa' ton during which, according to pre- llminary reports, more than 200 cons gTessmen obtained K" cards merely by explaining that their cars were used for official business.
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SMALL. l. TOWN !! IN GIRL AS DECOY
Madeline Webb Is Branded By PrOsecutOr-Her Life
 Is Demanded
(NEA Telephoto)
BY MARTIN KANE

Limited Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 New York, May 13-(UP)-Mad- cline Webb, sulky Oklahoma bru- nette, slouched between two CO., defendants-one of them her sweet heart-today and heard & prosecu- tor brand her as a murder decoy and demand her life for the staying of an elderly woman.
 With an expression of amazement on her thickly powdered face, Miss Webb, who hoped for Broadway fame but gained notoriety instead with her capture in Bronx board- ing house. heard Assistant District Attorney Jacob Grumet tell 8 blue- ribbon jury that the state would prove "the defendant, Madeline Webb, acted as the, decoy" in the first degree murder of Mrs. Susie F. Reich, wealthy refugee.
 The 2s-year-old Miss Webb. whose eyes were red and swollen when she walked past the jurors to the de-
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Hitler Headquarters Says Five Day Fight Is Won
 Russians Licked MILITARY EXPERTS
 SCOFFED AT REPORT Germans Are Throwing iD Masses of Tanks, Dive
 BOmbers, Artillery
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign EditOr)

(UnAteO EFeSS EOrelgn EuhbVEl
 The battle of the Kercll Peninsula at the gateway to the rich Russian Caucasus continued along a narrow front today with both Ger mans and SovietS claiming initial successes. Adolf Hit ler's headquarters issued 3 communique claiming that the five day old battle run already has ben decided" that the Russian forces have been ever run and encircled and are fleeing back upon the city of Kerch after suffering heavy losses, including 10000 prisoners.
 But the NazI claims were ciaal- lenged in advices from Moscow which, although acknowledging that the Red Army was being hammered heavily by masses of enemy tanks, dive bombers and artillery, i1ldi- cated that thus far the Germans had made only slight headway.
 Battle Not Decided
 It appeared despite the German claims that the battle has not been decided and that formidable Soviet resistance must still be overwhelnl- ed if the Germans are to storm Into Kerch, which they abandoned last December, and strike on across tis@ Kerch Straits toward the oil Of the Caucasus.
 A Russian commun!que said that at least 250O Germans had been killed on the Kerch front and re- ported that the Red air force car- ried out destructive attacks aIcng and behind the Nazi lines, battling waves of German dive-bomhers and bringing down a total of l02 enemy planes in 48 hours.
 Ilya Ehrenbourg, one of Russiae outstanding war corresponds said in a dispatch to the United Press hat the masses of German troops, planes and tanks were at- tacking along a front only two miles long and that "the air is as c0ll- gested as the land"
 Tanks are the principal weapon of the German drive, led by one of Hitler's ablest generals, Fritz Erich von Manste.n, and against them are being thrown new British tanks and triple-turret tanks from the United States.
 May Be FOrerunner
 The German drive upon Kerch in the Crimea may be the preliEll- mary to the long -heralded German big offensive in Russia but so far it appears to be a purely local a:- tion, military observers in London said. The irresponsible Vichy radio said that the Germans are expected to launch an even bigger drive to the north within few days"
 According to the Vichy repogt. which intimated that the Kerch ate tack may have been merely 8 diyeF- sion assault to tie up Russian strength on the southern front. Hit Ter is preparing to attack Rost0y and move upon the caucasus from the north above the Sea Of Az0y.
 Far to the north, in the Arctic Ocean, another struggle of inp0g~ tanee to Russia's resistance was de- Veloplng - the battle of the Allied supply route. CaInoufiaged AgneFi- can fTeighters and tankeFs are ply ing the Arctic route to MuFmansk under protection of British warsliipH and any day American waFshlpg may appear ln the zone where sev,
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