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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
BY ELMER G.. WALLER
United Press Financial Editor

New Yor..., Feb. 3-(UPJ Stocks
were irregular today in the dull
est forenoon dealings in more than
five months.
Few issues in the main list were
changed more than fractionally,
Only a handful of specialties broke
out of a fractional range.
Wick Chemical dropped a point
to a new 1912 low at 80 IL. J. T.
Case, Budd Manufacturing preferred
cat new low and U. S. Playing
Card were down a point or more.
Mead Preferred B., up 2 to
new 1912 peak at u, was a feat
ure. Lima Locomotive, Pullman
Transue & Williams Steel Forgings
and Union Pacific reached new 1912
highs on fractional gains. Monsantc
Chemical and General Foods were
down fractionally to new lows.
Oils. displayed better under
tone with Standard Oil Company
IN. j. up ga at 40 ga. Bethlehem
had 3-8 gain at SO 7-8 and U. S.
Steel was down 1-8 at SO. Chrysler
steadied on 1-8 gain to 65 "a and
General Motors held at 80 7-8, off
1-S. Directors of the latter declared
a SO cents dividend on the COM
mon yesterday, compared with a rs
cents payment in the initial l941
quarter. Standard Brands again was
the most active issue, holding I'M
changed at a..
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
NO APPOINTMENTS
DUE TOMORROW
Board May Name New
Firemen at Adjourned
Meeting

No action on appointments to the
fire department will be taken at
tomorrow's meeting of the fire
board, Chairman Finton j. Phelan
4said, this noon although he belived
the board would adjourn and prob
ably hold special meeting a few
days later at which time appoint
ments will be made.
Mr.. Phelan said that to his knoWl-
edge the board will be engaged with
the matter of auxiliary firemen for
the civilian defense force and that
the appointments would not be made
Wednesday,
Bids will be opened at tsmorrow's
session for a new ladder truck and
new pumper for the department.
Also scheduled is meeting of the
police board which is expected to
be occupied with receiving notice
that the city purchasing department
has bought IA cruiser cars for the
polite department. The order was
submitted some time ago by the
purchasing agent.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Mrs. Rene Albert
Entertained At Home

Mrs. Rene Albert of North River
side street entertained on Sunday
evening with a shower in compli-
ment to Mrs. Raymond Albert of
Slocum street.
Among the guests were Mrs.
Arthur Albert, Mrs. Madeleine Ger
ullo, Mrs. Joseph E. Lenieux, Mrs.
Harry Higgins, Mrs. Ernest Merlet
of Hartford; Irene Lapoinet, Pa
tricia Donnelly, Mrs. Herye Tontaine
Mrs. Hiram Smith, Mrs. Laura
Ouimet, Mrs Oscar Hager, Mrs.
Elmer Hager, Mrs. Antonio F. Gau-
thier of Holyoke; Helen Wandzell,
Mrs. Albert Langlais, Rita Merlet
of Hartford.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Cat Saves Men As
Flames Burn House

A tabby cat was credited today
with saving the lives of John
FalOffe and Wesley MaluOsky,
woodchoppers, from being burned
to death in a One-stOry wooden
frame bunk house and tool shed
on the farm of FedOre B. Lie
breich, North Main street, off
KimbalI avenue, in the Bucks Hill
area. Fire enveloped the building
while the two men were asleep.
As the flames swept the bunk
house early this morning shortly
before 5 o'clock, the two wood
choppers slept on, but not the
pussy cat whose persistent
scratching of the bed clothes and
meowing finally awakened FalOffe.
Jumping out of his bunk he no
ticed the flames and frantically
grabbed MalOusky. Not much ex-
PLANTATION was required as the
drOwsy man saw the bunk house
in flames. Immediately he was
wide awake and as the flames
threateningly drew near them, the
two bee lined for the door but the
cat was ahead of them in the
scramble for the exit, as well as a
pet dog. As soon as the four, with
the cat ahead of them, had flung
the door open the tabby streaked
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
.LAHEY FAvORS
PARKING BANS
Fire Marshal in Accord
With Police Commission
er's Recent Action

Fire Marshal Dennis ]. Lahey ex-
pressed himself today in unanimitJ
with the action taken recently by
the police commissioner who put
the all-night parking ban into ef-
feet as measure which will elm
mate the hazard caused by streets
being congested which makes 1t diff
ficult TO reach fire.
The fire marshal claims the actor
which the police board adopted anc
which was debated last night in the
aldermanic chambers by many cal
owners, was one he advocated the
past 10 years.
The purpose of the ban, to take
cars off the city streets between
a. m. and Z a. m, will be defeated
if motorists park them in entrance.
and close to buildings. This would
create fire hazards and not solve the
situation.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Compensation
Agreements

Compensation Co m m issiOner
Joseph f. Talbot today approved
the following agreements:
Joseph TocchiO, Waterbury,
against Cudahy Packing Co.. Chi
cago, $500 per week beginning
January 16; sacroiliac sprain.
Stanley Karpovicius, Water
bury, against Thin Sheet Metals
Co., Waterbury, $500 per week
beginning January %; injury to
left forearm, amputation.
Anna CARRIER, WatertOwn,
against Princeton Knitting Mills,
Inc, Watertown, $3.50 per week
beginning December Is; inham-
nation Of left shoulder joint.
Herman Warmer. Winsted,
against Edward b. Gaylord, Win
sted, $1,000 per week beginning
December 16; laceration of the
left middle finger.
John Landry, New Haven,
against Consolidated Motor Lines,
Inc, Hartford, $500 per week
beginning January 49,; hematoma
or the right thigh.
Max Chaunsky, East Bronx,
New York, against william MOos-
man, Inc, New York city. $3.50
per week beginning December rs;
injury to the back.
John Crawl o I'd. AnsOnia,
against Seymour Manufacturing
Co., Seymour, $13.23 per week be-
ginning January 6; injured left
great and second toe.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
CITY EMPLOYEES
CONDITION FAIR

Pasquale Cerasulo, 62, of 232 Oak
street, was reported as fair" this
noon by ST. Mary's hospital attaches
who said his name was taken Off
the danger list. Cerasulo was one
of three street department workers
who were struck while working III
an excavation on North Main street,
near the entrance to Lakewood Park
last Friday. One Of the workmen,
Paradise Giusti, SO. of SO Ward
street, suffered fatal injuries and
died a few hours later at The hos
pital ..-..
The driver of the car, Frank
Polletta, 40, of Saston avenue, has
been released under a $1,000 bond,
pending the issuance of a finding
by Coroner William B. Hennessy.
Coroner Hennessy said Pol.etta's car
struck the men as they were working
after crashing through wooden
horse placed as a guard,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03

out and instantly disappeared.
No hide or hair was seen Of him
this morning, Fire Marshal Den
Lahey and his aide, Eugene Legge,
said when they prodded the ruins
in their investigation for the cause
of the fire. Marshal Lahey and
Legge said the cause of the blaze
was a defective smoke pipe. Four
companies of firemen under the
command of Deputy Chief Martin
J. Campion, battled the blaze in
a vain attempt to extinguish it
and were hampered in their eff
forts by lack of water. The
booster line and the 35-gallon
chemical tank were used, the lat.
ter being sent down to the Bucks
Hill road to be replenished with
water.
Faloff and Malousky, the latter
a Lithuanian, were both searching
for the taby cat many hours after
the fire and when last heard from
were unable to locate it. They
wanted to show their appreciation
with a bowl of milk for saving
their lives. But no milk or any
other Establishment had lured the
cat back to the scene where it al
most persisted with the other &C.
cupants of the bunk house.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03

The board Of education, at its
meeting last night, adopted an
amendment to Chapter 7, Section
"a, Paragraph Of the Rules and
Regulations of the Board of Educa-
ton, which will provide an increase
OF so cents daily in the pay of sub
stitute teachers while at work.
The amendment, submitted by
the committee on rules, and ap-
proved after some disSension, fol-
lows:
Substitutes on the regular wait
ing lists, when assigned to a sub
shutting position in the high schools
for ar entire school year., shall be
paid fifty cents per day above the
regular substitutes pay, such eX-
cess payment to be made at the end
Of the school year.
Substitutes on the regular wait
ing lists, when assigned to Substi-
tuting work in the elementary
schools, shall be paid fifty cents per
day above the regular substitutes
pay for each day of substituting in
those schools during the school
year"
The board also approved the fol-
lowing requests Of the committee on
school activities.
Sprague Parent-Teachers Associa-
ton, use of the Sprague school
cooking room on Wednesday after
moons from 2;30 to 4;3O o'clock for
a course in nutrition.
Wildly High School French Club,
use of the Wildly gymnasium on the
following Friday evenings for
dances: February 81, March 10,
April 3 and oath.
H. S. Chase Parent-Teachers AS
ISOLATION, use of the Chase school
kindergarten on Monday evening,
February 9th for a meeting.
State Board of Education OF the
Blind, permission to hold an exhibit
and sale OF articles made by the
blind in their own homes In the
high schools on February 18th and
18th.
Curtis Art Company, permission
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Additional Society
Former Waterburian
Accepts Appointment

Miss Lucie Cunningham, former
ly of this city, who now resides in
Forest Hills, Long Island, had re-
ceived Federal appointment in the
Chief Counsel of the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue for the Second Dis
trict of New York. The appointment
was made through competitive ex-
animation.
While living in Waterbury Miss
Cunningham was employed as a
secretary at the law firm of Bron-
son, Lewis, Bronson g. Upson. Since
served for eight years as secretary
moving to New York, she had
at the firm of Strange, Myers, Kinds
& Wight of New York City.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03

olution, Watanabe declared, is TAX
ing place among the second-genera-
ton citizens. The elder Nisei, along
in their 30's, may be generally loyal
to the U. S., but many have kept
strong economic ties with Japan and
they have helped retain the clan
nish,, introverted ways of life which
have made them distrusted by most
Caucasian Americans.
The younger Nisei, said Watan-
able, are the enthusiasts who want
to break all bonds with tradition,
scatter the colonies and establish
themselves individually In what
ever places they can win in Ameri-
can life. This is no time for any
half measures" he declared. 1--WE
know where our future lies"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
81 MEN ON
BOARDS CALL
l6=A Roster for Next In
duCtiOn Is Issued
.. Today ..

Local draft board 16-A today an
nounced that the following 81 men
will be indicted into the U. s. army
on the boards next draft call: An
thony j. Stasiunas, Jr., $50 Geddes
terrace; Warren l.. Schoeck, % Rol-
and street; Leopold D. Pannoni.
1909 Bank street; Wilfrid G.. Labrie,
986 South Main street; James F..
Griffin, 118 South street; Rocco A..
Ranaudo, 103 Cranky street, Bronis
Zakarauskas, 10 Porter street; Mil
ton C. Jackson, 81 Lounsbury street;
william G. Langston, 40 Chatfield
avenue; Joseph v. White, 275 Wash
ington avenue; Joseph E. Kailukai-
tbs, 995 Bank street; Omer Gagne,
rs West Clay street; Joseph M. Girls
ka, IS Charles street; James w. Cur
boy, 154 Charles street; Elias j..
Amorin, 126 York street. New Haven,
Conn; John j. Driscoll, CT Louns-
bury street; Lucien Collin, 318 Will
low street; Joseph v. Cicero, 81 La
fayette street; Mario P. Scionti, 431
Piedmont street; Alfred G. Man
gini, 26 Bond street; Albert P. Val
tekaitis, 944 Bank street; Anthony
M. D'Angelo, IS Charles street; Har-
ry M. Pugliese, 146 Charles street;
Leonard j. Villemure, 602 South
Main street; Edward Klimak, 80
Winthrop avenue; William E. Fen
nelly, 81 Lafayette street; Camille
j. Boisvert, So Union street; Walter
A. Schienda, 1882 South Main street;
Frank x. Salc!to, 1856 Baldwin
street; Angelo Sica, 70 Burr street;
Roland A. Anctil, 444 South Main
street; Vito M. Congero, 80 Railroad
Hill street; Michael M. GuZzardi, Is
Pond street; John j. Drumm, 1901
South Main street; Frank A. MOTTO,
81 Bradley avenue; Louis J. VOL
cite, A East Dover street; John P.
Kennedy, 1877 South street.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
YALE GRADS MEET
FRIDAY EVENING

The Waterbury Country club will
be the scene of the annual meeting
of the Yale Alumni association of
Naugatuck Valley Friday evening at
6:45 o'clock.
Election of officers for the COM
ing year and reports of the various
committees will be given at bust
ness session after dinner.
Included among speakers from
Yale University will be DR.. Ernest
F. McGregor. The singing program
will be led by Spicy WinkS.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
BUNKER HILL MEN
ENJOY S. E. PARKER

S. E. Parker spoke last night on
Connecticut forests at meeting OF
the Bunker Hill Mems Club in the
Bunker Hill church. The speaker,
connected with Pleasant Valley state
forest as district forester, held a
forum discussion which was pre-
sided over by Gordon r. Weaver,
president of the club.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Change In Rules For
Substitutes Pay Made
School Board Adds so Cents Per Day Where Job Is
for Entire Year in High School; Payable Year End

to take group photographs of the
graduating classes of the public
schools.
Van Wrinkle Basketball Team, use
of the Abbott gymnasium on Mon
day evenings for basketball practice
Rebels Basketball Team, use OF
the Anderson gymnasium on Sunday
evenings for basketball practice.
Silver Knights Basketball Team
use of the Barnard gymnasium or
Friday evnings for Basketball prac-
tice.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
FURNITURE FIRM
FILES FOR LEASE

Application to lease for three
.-ears promises situated at 1864-1874
East Main street to the Community
Furniture Co., present lessee, was
lied In superior court Monday by
Walter Perry, bank commissioner,
md successor receiver of the Mer-
shaats Trust Company. The appli-
cation requests that the ere and
oce-half story brick building be
leased at 1925 a month for the first
year of the contract, $13750 month
~ for the second year, and 500 a
month for the third year.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
VETERAN NEWSMAN
DIED TODAY

Wakefield, Mass, Feb. 3-(UP)-
Ernest A. l.. Hill, 70, Of Reading,
a newsman more than a half-ceL-
fury, died here today at GONZALES
cent home after several months ILL
ness.
A native of Boston, hill started
as a newsboy, butchered candy on
railroad trains ard beat his way
across the nation to California to
begin his wohk on the Los Angeles
Herald.
During his career he worked on
the Boston Traveller and the Boston
Herald before joining the Bostno
Globe more than 80 years ago.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
ALIMONY, CUSTODY
ASKED IN SUIT

Alimony and custody of two minor
children are sought in divorce suit
fled in superior court today by
Laurette Gamache Burke of Water
bury, against George Lewis Burke,
also of this city. The petitioner al
leges intolerable cruelty. The couple
married in West Haven, February
10, 1884.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03

been badly rewarded by jobs as
house servants and vegetable market
clerks.
A sharp tongued young writer
named George Watanabe made the
boldest and clearest statements: A
revolution now is taking place
among japanese Americans. The
Issei are tragic, but unimportant
factor, with most of their power and
influence gone. (The suspiciously-
regarded Japanese language schools,
he said, actually have been less of
link with the ancestral past than
a social haven in which American
lied kids have escaped some of the
grim and reproachful atmosphere of
their own homes. Few of the Nisei
really can speak Japanese.
OLDER NISET KEPT
TIES WITH JAPAN
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
''Big Three" To Get
Pay Raise Demand
Clio Unions Plan to Follow Up Locally 6-Cent Incre,s
Granted $500 Bridgeport Brass Employees

On the heels of an announcement by the Bridge
Brass Company of general increase of six cents be
for its $500 employees c. O. unions here today announc
plans for drivers to pay increases from the "F1
Three of local industry, the Scovi Manufacturing Con-
pany the American Brass Company and the Chase Brass
md Conner Connnanu
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Market Had Dullest
Forenoon In Months
Few Issues in Main List Met With Any Changes; Onl,
Handful of Specialties Broke Outside Fractions

tmand at mostly s1.o2 to SIG
secured basis including the duty
Graded fine territory woods OF aver
age to good French combing length.
were moved at $1.1O to $1.13 secured
| basis.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Wool Market

Boston, Feb. 3-(UP)-There were
more inquiries for woods in the
Boston market following the an
nouncement that some of the new
government contracts for wool goods
had been awarded, the U. S. Agri-
culture department reported today.
Spot lots of Australian 64-70's
topmaking woods were in good de-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03

The Quebec provincial gcs-ern-
ment built 1910 BRIDGES between
1908 and 1899. N-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Bx PAUL HARRISON
EA Service staff Correspondent

iNEA Service staff Correspondent
Los Angeles. Feb. 3.-About 30
young people OF japanese blood we're
sitting around the big living room
Of one OF those genteel old man
sions which have been left behind
by the expansion Of city. A lighted
Christmas tree still stood in one
corner, with heap Of toys, and at
the opposite end was a handsome
case displaying Oriental porcelains
and Jade.
This is a newspaperman," said
Roku Sugahara, chairman OF this
meeting OF the Anti-Axis Commit
tee Of the Japanese-American Cit
liens League. HE said he wanted
TO write an article about what's
happening to the Nisei and Issei
in America, and I said he could
learn about the problems here"
"You may find the problems as
hard to define as they are to
solve" someone remarked.
And that's about the way 1t
worked out. In this corner of the
American melting pot has appeared,
as result of the war, beWildering
racial muddle involving some $4,000
people, old ties and new loyalties,
little treachery, much suspicion,
and considerable economic tragedy.
Two-thirds (about 100000 of all
Japanese-Americans on the con-
tinent live in California, $4,000 of
them in Southern California, 10000
in Los Angeles. The Issei (Ee-say)
are the elder, Japan-born immi
grants who are denied U. S. citizen
ship by law and now automatically
are classified as enemy aliens
They are outnumbered two-to-one
by the Nisei (Nee-say), their chill
dren, who are native-born U. S.
citizens.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
POWERFUL GROUPS
ARE WIPED OUT

At the beginning Of the meeting
that this writer attended, there was
a discussion Of immediate needs.
Sugahara reminded the members
that their committee is about the
only one still active. Wiped out
were the powerful japanese Central
association, the Japanese American
Chamber of Commerce and actually
hundreds of smaller commercial
groups when alien funds were frozen,
foreign trade halted and 219 local
produce brokerageS closed. An esti-
mated 500 of the local Issei, most
Of them business leaders, were
rounded up by federal authorities
and informed.
Nearly everyone has some saw
lngs," said the chairman, but
we've got to plan now to help all
these people eventually. There are
The families Of the thousands of
fishermen of Terminal Island and
San Diego and Monterey who are
not allowed to go out in their boats
anymore. And there are the fam
lies of the people who are informed
Also the families of the 500 teachers
in japanese schools now closed,
and"
Presently the talk got around to
a radio program to be prepared by
club of yuong Nisei writers. 1t
would open with an alien father
and mother receiving the news of
Japan's aggression; then their son
and daughter would give the atti-
tude of the Nisei
A writer suggested the parents
reaction should indicate sorrow at
what has happened, bitterness at
Japan's government, and hope that
America will win. The son and
daughter could talk more about
what the Nisei are doing
Aren't there about 300 in our
army now? Everybody is volunteer
ing for civilian defense work. We
gave our gymnasium to the Cali
fornia State Guard. The women
the in the Red Cross and aux
iliaries. And all the buying of de-
Tense bonds"
After the meeting I talked with
several individuals and found no
pretense among them that all sec
ond-generation Japanese Americans
are wholly loyal to the U. S. The
Anti-Axis Committee has an intelli-
gence division which, 1 was told,
already has turned in to the FBI
nearly a dozen japanese sympa-
thizers and active enemy agents.
In Little Tokyo and smaller COL
onies there still may be a few mem
bers of old secret societies such as
The Followers of the Black Dragon
and the Imperial Comradeship asso-
citation.
Agents of Japan, it was said, are
known to have been working in CAL
ifornia to sWerve Wavering loyalty
with tales of persecution. The
enemy allen Issei naturally are most
susceptible to this talk, along with
certain disgruntled Nisei whose
struggles to advance themselves
often with COLLEGIATE h0nrrs-have
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
Loyal Japanese-Americans Form
Own "FBI" To Spot Enemy Agents

WITH TREACHERY OF FEW PUTTING ALL ON BAD SPOT
RESIDENTS OF "LITTlE TOKYO" TURN IN SUSPECTS
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-03
OLDER NISET KEPT
TIES WITH JAPAN

The real social and economic rev
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1942-09-04
"CALS SNUB Us"
(From the Motorman, Conductor
and Motor Coach OPERATOR

In the last World War there was
considerable agitation for the hiring
of women on the street cars. Some
companies actually did employ women
as conductors
This time there has been some talk
along the same lines, but little has
come of it so far. In the first place
the cities where two-man operation
still exists are considerably fewer than
in 1918 and most managers agree that
women are unsuited for one-man car
operation and bus driving.
However that may be, the women
themselves seem to have answered the
question. They simply aren't inter
ested in the jobs, if any. This was
indicated recently in San Francisco
when the municipal civil service COM
mission announced that applications
would be taken from men and women
for platform jobs with the Municipal
Railway. Two thousand eight hundred
and seventy-four men applied - and
only 247 women.