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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
Manufacture Of Autos, Refrigerators,
 Washing Machines, Toasters End May 31

2. To use judgment in the exeT- else of rights and privileges, ob- viating the need for government-im- posed restraint.
 3. To develop the willingness and ability to discard chet1shed habits of thought and to adopt new ones.
 we must, to begin with" Nels0n said, ~drop the idea that change comes slowly. Today change must come fast; and We must adjust CUT mental habits % that we can ec- cept comfortably the Idea of gtcp- ping one thing and beginning an~ other overnight. AWe must discard the past r0nklue9. We must instead assume that there ie probably a better way io 1o aIxaoyk everything. aHFe mnst abandon tlie idea that seniority n Nilsg Tnfs ie neither an nH ans wHE rur ' young mana is a ff Haan's NaH nNgA
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
SEVEN JAP PLANES
 WERE SHOT DOWN
American, Allied BOmbers Got After Japs at Fort
 Darwin Yesterday
(NEA Telepiloto)
BY BRYDON c. TAvEs United Press Stan CorrespOndeDtl


 Gen. MacArthur'g headquarters, Australia, April % -- (UP) United States and Allied lighters shot down at least seven Taiding Japanese planes over Darwin yesterday to bring their two-day bag to 18, Gen. Douglas MacArthur said today in 2 connunique.
 Tn raids of their own, giant United States bombing planes destroyed q Japanese transport at Kayieng h tho Bismarck Islands and raided port installations ct the Faisi base of the enemy iIa the Solomon Isl- aIlds, between Australia and the new American bases in Free French New Caledonia.
 Seventeen heavy Japanese bOfnb- CTS protected by nine crack Navy-O fighters attacked Darwin aiTdrcne. Three boInberS and four fighters were smashed by the blazing mas chine guns and cannon Of American fighter planes and were seen to crash to earth or sea.
 The day before, the Allied ayIa- tors had shot down il out of 8 enemy bomberg and fighters which attempted to attack Darwin. Ten out of the Il were bagged by men of a single American squadron.
 Today Lieut.. George z. Kiser, g, Somerset, Ky, shot down two bombers and Lieut.. Donald M.
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Cambridge, Mas, April 2Sr-(UP)
 Manufacture Of nearly all cCnsanl- ers' durable goods from coasters so refrigerators will cease by the end Of next month, War Production Clsiez Donald n. Nelson predicted today. Writing in the current issue of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, NelsOn said orders have been issued Tor some months limiting and shut ting off the production of industries manufacturing familiar civilian goods such as refrigeration, washing machines, automobiles, t0astegS and scores 0g other things.
 sEy the end cf May og this year. z Mele0u forecast. virtually all con- sllznerg durable goods indugtKies-- the industries which have so largely contributed te the bigh American standard ok living Do elose0 g.oNn h 18ee ordexp But Mel- t1n . s a1AESz elIH GIak
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28

the way for conversion to the pro- ductiOn of war goods and that to this step must be added the posi- tive use of the resources SO Te- leased" 'T.hc real conversion we must have is the conversion Of men and their ideas,1 z he said. Material Iy we shall live less well, physically we shah work harder. einOtionally we ehal be under the crOegfire of disappoinfments and alarms, men, tally we shall be wrestling with new ideas and new facts. We khall need tO be tough physically, ena0sicnally, mentally"
 1gelson 6a1d there are three re- sponsibElikies for the many citizens who ask what they eaz oO to help al1e w9r effort. Taege are:
 i. TO understand what We ere EiQmfsms f0y what fs involved iis winning or losing slaab wmKasad lu become maeM ol good WAM W ahan~ z9& ft@ ale
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
MORE INDUCTEES
 BY BOARD l6-A May Total Is Greatest to Be Reached in Any
 Single Month

The ranks Of Waterburlans slafed to enter military service next month were Swclled today by c list of pros- pectlve inductees from Board i6-A. The list, last to Do issued by the four local boards, brings the May total Of inductees to by far the highest total ever reached previously here In c single month.
 Smaller than the list issued by other local boards for May, the 16-A list nevertheless has the names of Q number of weil-known young mon, Among those listed are Michael r. sheehan, former Crosby high school quarterback whose brother was iil- ducted last week; Benedict Benny" Yolksa, City Amateur league baSe- ball player; Carl '. Mistira, former CrCsby athletic star; Francis Hoe gen, Weli-knoWn restaurant man. ager: and Joseph darvcy, athletic director for several st. Anr's parish teams.
 List og Names
 The t0-A list for May follows:
 Joseph Francis GaTvey, S2 West
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
Devastating Raids Crash On Nazi Occupied Centers
CANADA VOTES
 CONSCRIPTION
Every Province, But Que. bee, Came Out Over.
 whelfningly for It
BY NORMAN MACLEOD United PFeaa Staff COrregnOHHdent

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 Ottawa, Ont, April 2e -- (UP9-- Every Canadian province except quebec voted overwhelmingly for conscriptlon for overseas service in yesterdays plebiscite,, returns show cd today.
 Some provinces voted 5 to 1 to release tht government of Prime Minister w. l.. Mackenzie King from c 194O campaign pledge not to draft men to fight outside of Cam ada, and on incomplete tabulation showed that 2,2S9,5e0 had voted "yes", and l,S72,3 ,300 had voted mo"
 quebec, generally expected to dis- approve, did so at 6 ratio of almost three to one. The Ives" vote was o7i,0i6, the mo- vote e40,000. Oppo- sition to conscription for overseas service had centered among the French of Quebec, and opponents had precipitated several minor riots. Quebcc voted against conscription In World War I.
 A simple majority was sufhcient for 6 decision.
 T Mack KenEle King Talks
 King issued this statement:
 'FEcln tho returns thus for re- ceived, it would appear that eight Of tho nine provinces Of Canada he'd given on affirmative najority in the pleblscite. Viewing the country as Q whole, 1t will not Do possible to say until oil of the returns are in how large relatively to the negative the affirmative vote will Dc. There can Do no doubt, however, as to the significance of the vote.
 "T'Ile result is Q national expres. sion of q view on q national issue. It should bc SO viewed in all it's aspects. Tn all of the provinces affirmative and negative votes have been cast. The vote was taken in democratic fashion and 1t will bc recognized throughout the country that, in c democracy, the will of the majority prevails.
 "TIie government asked that it's hands should be free ct 6 time of
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asked Carder to step outside "tc talk"
 Mrs. Fletcher heard three shots and lied through the back door. Carder, m aircraft factory worker. fell with two bullet wounds in the neck. He was taken to Santa Mon- ica hospital. where physicians said his wounds might prove fatal Fletcher drove to his home and called to his housekeeper, Mrs. Dorothy Pate, %. I'm going to fix t this tirne," he said. i've already made a good startr He walked into the bedroom and shot his daughters, Airline, 5, Caroline, 4, and ROse Marie, 20 months. "Taen he came out and wrote q win and forced me to slgn it as c witness Mrs. Pate told police. "He went back to the bedroom and committed suicide z Akrs. Nletcher. who had returned tc taa Roberts home, learned ~ 4lae eIaoolfnGG and rushed to the hos HliAi where her children had seel
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 He will explain in detail the seven-polnt program to hold down living costs which he submitted yesterday to Congress.
 Secretary Stephen n. Early said he will especially "lnvlte attention to the fact that each of the seven points is dependent on the other if the whole program is made to work"
 There was general approval in Congress of points of the program calling for general price fixing which will be announced tonight. But much opposition was developing to the farm price revision and new tax provision. The farm bloc prepared to light what they termed the presi- dents effort to "depress" agricul- tural prices, and claimed the support of the potent silver bloc.
 May Use Every Power
 Early said he expected the chief executive to couple his explanation of She bread economic program with Q pledge "tO use every power ct his command Co See that the whole proRrnEn dcos work" a.A
 He said the tone Of the address would Do "total war, explaining why total efEogt on all fronts ct home ard abroad must he made"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
TWOCONN. MEN
 JAP PRISONERS
Nine New EngIanders Are in Jap Hands; Names of
 Iz4 Known

Boston, April 2e-(UP)-Nine New EngIanderg were included today in the first official list of American sailors and marines taken prisoners by the Japanese.
 Names of 120 prisoners were flr- fiisiled to the war department by the International Red Gross and inc ciudcd men captured ct Wake Is- land and sailors aboard the U, S. gunboat Wake, which was stationed in Chinese waters. They included:
 Maggachusetts--Afred Joseph V. Herbert, boatswairl's mate, Walthain, William Henry Manning, Jr., seaman ist class, Boston and 1st It. Wood- row M. KesfsIer, Athol.
 Maine Wilbur D. Ballard, water tender, North Anson,
 New Hampshire Howard q. burn, pharInacist's mate, PortS- mouth; Ray King Hodkins, Jr., sea- man, 2nd class, ClaremOrlt.
 Rhode Ig1and-Pvt. Armand E. Benjamin, West Warwick.
 Connecticut Corp. Herbert N. Pearce, Mystic and William B. 0anci chief radioman, Canaan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
SEVENTY DEAD IN
 TORNADO RUINS
300 Injured When Pryor, Oklahoma, Was Devas.
 tated Yesterday
ny ERNEST Nf. MILL

UAAte0 fFUSS BtAH UOEFeSp0muentD
 Pryor, okla, April 2s - (U.P) - Rescue workers digging through the tornado wrecked buildings of this war boom town had recovered 70 bodies today and expected to find more tn Q two square mile area which had not yet been searched.
 Authorities estimated that 100 persons had been killed. The Red Gross said that at least 300 persons were injured and that 5000 persons were homeless.
 The business district was leyeled by the tornado which struck dtir- Ing the evening rush hour yester- day while hundreds Of construction workers employed at the Oklahoma ordnance plano were in the streets.
 Doctors were summoned from towns. Trlickloads of food and tools were sent into the area, and Red Gross workers were summoned from ag far as St. Louis and Okla huna City.
 T1ae tornado swept through Pryor ct A:SO D. m. The shifts had just changed at the eeO,OO0,O00 Oklaho- ma Ordnance Plant.
 Most of the residential areas and the ordnance plant were skirted by the storm.
 Business Section Ruined
 Buildings in the business section were collapsed into mounds Of brick and wood. A shuttle train operating between the plant and nearby town of Villlta had just pulled into Pryor The locomotive and 15 cGrg were brushed ofk tho track, and many of the passengers were killed or iii- 1tsred.
 Pryor .iaad 2 population cfsaround @,OOO before tae defense emergency. This figure had jumped recently to ebOub D,O0O with tho arrival Of cons
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/ COMMISSIONER IN
 RUSSIA IS DEAD

Boston, April 28-- (UP)-CoTn- munism in Russia has been dead since l03O4, according to PltiTim Sorokin, head of the Harvard so- ciOlogical department an done-time secretary to Alexander Kerengky.
 gcrokin told the 1nterfaith .Fel- lowGhip yesterday that his state- Sient was borne out by the change to text books used before the Tevo- lutlon and by the fact that Ire. iiglon, which was persecuted, Is now free, permitting worshipperss to ate tend any church they desire"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
Cologne, Rhineland, Naval Base at TrOndheim Are
 Battered Heavily
BRITISH IN ANOTHER
 ATTACK UPON FRANCE
Fires Still Burning at ROstOck as People Flee
 From AirpIane Center
BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS Limited Press staff Corrnspsndsns)

BY SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS United Press staff COrrsspsndent)
 London, April 28. - (UP)
 - Britain, on the sixth straight night of it's greatest aerial offensive of the war. sacrificed 17 of it's forty mo- tored bombing planes ao make devastating raids on Cologne, Rhfneland indus trial center, and the heavily fortified German naval base of TrondheiYn on the NorWe- gian coast, 1t was announced today.
 swarms of British bombers. flalit. CTS and fighters equipped with spes clal bomb racks continued the of fensive by daylight today, 1ightfa1x q wind of great force Co bomb An machine gun French occupied teE rikory.
 wai IlsBSssa aissl prlnHe Ell ] aTB taken refnge aA Trondheifa, which directly men aces the British. United stats EI ply route to Russia and has bgH|s fortified by the Naxis in fear of ail Allied invasion.
 Tho "day shift of British raidsrs. Btreaking across the channel al dawn with 6 heavy fighter esco1t attacked targets igi tho @t. CEneE region Of northern France, awnsrs heavy antialrcraft fire but wlsl1ollt q challenge from a single German plane.
 More than 90 lsaM fighters wore sighted, the air ministry said. but they avoided battle. An antl~alr craft ship and c coastal patrOi vo9s sel were "siot ip," 1t was eaid.
 An airdrorle in Holland wnA bombed. with direct hits on Als hangarg.
 Tn night raids, as Royal Air Wofrs bombers raider Germany and Trondheifn, coastal command plnxfA attacked alrdrOfies in occupied AeEa ritory. One fighter failed to return.
 American made Hudson b0nh9fs made the ship attack.
 Docks ct Dlinkirk on the French coast and aivdrcniea over a WaNe area were attacked, aasd fFesh mines were laid in enemy Waters so adA to the hazard Of any attempt of German fleet to break to the op sea.
 The air ministry, in its colnmun que on the night raids, sRid HNe fires were left burning at Coao2ma and other targets ifi the Rhfne1a4d
 The weather WIS clear, with bright @bomber'e moon" aiid pilots were able to sec their Rlaiue1aE6 targets plainly, the ministry sasd.
 But it added that the effect 08 the raid on Trondhelrl, Ninleh zIlA derTnans have been anxiounIY zoS' lying for months ifi fear of [ uzi invasion attack, might not l known for some time.
 M0sE0ek Badly Ozk
 The ministry asserted that EeaQn flaigsance bad established that dlIfs ing the four straight nlxht atse on Rogtock, the main sse sheds of the great Heiukel mlR works and many subslalafy bNNl had been damaged
 Fires were stiil burning ak Na tOck at noon Monday, the nAi11I1 said. Some of them he'd been eizke last Thursday night ig the glTst oY four devastation raids.
 It was understood that kEsudE of planes had engaged h last nlak attacks.
 It was the fOeth Britign red battered Cologne.
 It was made known that fs'e raid was in force In tho Inst x@l1 March s. moro than 80 ssnnt giAFe6 hurled hundreds 0f tons of on CclCgnes var factories
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28

Waterbury residents from Mayor Vincent A. scully down signed up yesterday in the fourth or "U" reg. istration. Among those registering were clergymen, business leaders, city officials, war plant workers and many more. School teachers and others who served as volunteer registrars agreed that sentiment among those registering yesterday was far more belligerent than An previous registrations.
 Registration figures for men in the 46-e6 age class who signed up yesterday in hospitals and ct home were being completed today, but were not expected to have any great effect on the final total.
 Seievtive Service Board officials were wondering today when orders would be Issued for the next draft registration Still to come, under aTnendments to tic original Selec- tive Service, act, is registration of youths in the 1e-ie age class.
 Mayor GFatihed
 Mayor Vincent 4. scully last eve-
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PRICE FREEZING
 WILLBE DECIDED
Retail Wholesale Figures, Rent Control Plan to Be
 Announced Tomorrow
BY HILLIER KRIEGHBAUM


 (United Press Stan COFFespondent) Washington, April % --lUP)-- Price Administrator Leon Hender- son issues an order late today that will freeze virtually ell retail and wholesale prices and establish rent control in several hundred cOnl- munities.
 This overall price ceiling wiII fx prices on approximately 5O.OOO ccln- moditieg at their highest March prices.
 Henderson will announce details of the price fixing program ct q special presg conference and the 0r- der will be publialed tomorrow. OPA officials said there were no immediate plans to extend the rs~ fionlng program which h9r. 6OOse- velk told the nation yesterday # could expect. Those oeIlcials said they w6nted 70 aF0E6 ratlCnirlg wherever possible ard expected the program 10 be confined Co ratlOniEg of food and eioshin9 and other goods eeenklal either to tlae war ef-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28

6lV1s beoaus1 elI9 D0lllleIa11g nave eIHein sSaKea 90 badly 1hex won't volunteer, What we need lg every. body lm fhe game pitching hlB best am 6st8ae aSM@8, a1l& e wouldn't. ReauAEe drafting Bs lae heekleFg sgsMIA Iay eAs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
UNCLE EFF

Some @E We ardent New Dealers have been trying for years Co make | appear dis graeegut te De k m Q " a ae e haDlnesB Hamns And m0W D0sav aid Nielsen says he mag need q BaW to enable hlm Co draft ht6Ni inaaa aMeesi~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
President Talks To Whole World. Through Radio
Takes to Air at 10 O'Clock Tonight to Tell American Citizens, Everybody Else, He Expects to
 Enforce Seven.POint Program
BY JAMES R. sHEPLEY United Press staff Correspondent

Washington April 28 -- (UP) - President Roosevelt in his address tonight will emphasize to the American people the need for total effort" in the wagng of total war; the White House said today The President will speak to the nation from 1000 to 10:30 D. (EWT) on all radio networks His address will go by short wave to all rkc nR Ann Hnnrld
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-28
12,5O5 Registered In Waterbury Yesterday
Loyal Citizens From 45 to 65 Joined Seective Serv-
 ice Enrolment; Men of All Trades, PrOfes- ts5 siOns Were on That List isir

A total Of i2,6OB men from % to e6 registered yesterday in the 46 to 68 SelectiVe Service enrolment, ace cording to official figures announced today by Waterbury's four Selective Service boards. The figure is ex- pected to be augmented consider. ably by addition of the names of local men who registered elsewhere.
 0fiicial rglstration totals are as f0lloWR.
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Warmer Weather
 For Tonight un weather . RpsEt Rass 8
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-20
KNIGHTS TO HEAR
BUILDING REPORT
Committee May Recom=
mend Purchase OF New
Home For Council

Discussion of the knights Of Co.
lumbus Catholic Center is expected
to be one of the important matters
taken up at a meeting of Sheridan
Council, "a, K. Of c., scheduled for
this evening in the Columbus Club.
A report will be submitted by the
Permanent Building Committee,
appointed by Grand Knight Patrick
j. Wallace last July. 1t is believed
that the committee may offer
suggestions or recommendations to
the council relative to securing
home for the order here in Water
bury.
1t is known that several central
sites have been investigated by the
committee during recent months
and only recently the name of the
Knights of Columbus was linked
with the sale of the Notre Dame
Academy property on Church street
Officers of the council were re-
luctant to discuss the matter toda,
other than to admit that tn,
Building Committee had been active
of recent months and that report
from this group was expected mo-
mentarily and might be submitted al
tonight's meeting.
One officer did state, though, that
he was of the opinion that positive
steps were being contemplated tt
procure and develop a large homt
for the K. of C. with definite com
munity interest.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-20
SAND AVAILABLE
TO WATERBURIANS
Each Family Entitled To
Quota For Defense
Purposes

Mayor Vincent A. Scully tdoay re-
minded householders that sand
placed at 20 convenient locations
about the city is for public use. Each
family, he said, should take two
pals of sand and store it in a place
where it will be easily available in
the event that incendiary bombs
fall on the city.
The mayor, who is chairman of
the Waterbury Defense Council,
said he is anxious to have all house.
holders sec their quota of sand.
Sand is one of the best extin-
gushing agents for incendiary
bombs and It the suggestion of the
State Defense Council, large boxes
OF sand have been placed about the
city. People are urged to take the
sand, in pals or other utensils and
keep in convenient places at home
Police have been instructed that the
sand is free and it may be taken at
any time. The only restriction is two
pals per person.
Sand boxes have been placed at
the following sites:
Duggan school, Bank street and
Washington avenue.
Town Plot school, Highland ave-
nue. and Congress avenue.
Washington school, Washington
and Baldwin streets.
HopeVille school, playground in
Cypress street.
Anderson school, East Main street
and Southmayd road.
Chase school, Meriden road and
WoOdtick road.
Slocum school, Walnut street eX-
tension an Division street.
Mary Abbott school, Hill street
and Greenwood avenue.
Columbia boulevard, near Rose
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-01-20
Scouts I O Mobilize
For Book Collections
All Troops Requested To Be On Hand Saturday To
Participate In City=wide Victory Campaign


the local council have already col
lected more than 100 tons of waste
paper for the salvage campaign in
Waterbury. according to The Smoke
Signal. council publication. Off
Gals of the city's scout movement
urge that every unit in the city
which is participating in collection
of old papers donate some of the
PROCEEDS to the Red Cross or the
U. S. O., or purchase defense bonds.
Mattatuck councils, 1912 financial
campaign will be launched on the
night of February IL. with the an
nual dinner. to be held at Temple
hall. Chief sneaker for the occasion
will be Perry A. Lint. scout execu-
tive Of New York CITY. A compre-
hensive papeant of scouting activi-