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Evening star., 1942-11-29
Film Director Konin to Wed
Actress Ruth Gordon Here
Marriage License
Application Filed
In District Court

Carson Kanin, top-flight Holly
wood director now private in the
Army, and Ruth Gordon, noted
Broadway star, are to be married
here this week, the prospective
bridegroom disclosed yesterday.
An application for a marriage
license for Pvt. Kanin and Miss
Gordon was filed in District Court
earlier in the day by Marian Green
baum. 1922 street NV, who said
she was a cousin of Mr.. Kanin.
The 30-year-old movie director,
who was hailed as young genius
with his first movie productions,
said he was taking advantage" of
Miss Gordon's appearance here in
Katharine Cornell's Three Sisters"
to arrange the wedding.
eve have known each other for
a long time and this is the first
time we have been able to get to-
gether for the wedding" he said.
Pvt. Kanin was recently assigned
here to special duty with the Office
Of Strategic Services and is staying
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Social Work Officer
To Direct US0 Club

Philip Schiff, vice president of the
National Conference of Social Work,
has assumed the duties of director of
the USO Club operated at Sixteenth
and @ streets NV, by the Jewish
welfare Board. Mr.. Schiff, who sue
ceeds Joseph Bower, will be assisted
by two other newcomers to Wash
ington, Mordecai Bauman and Miss
Marjorie Kropf, both of New York
City.
Mr.. Schiff comes to Washington
from New Orleans, where he was
executive director of the Young
Mems and Young Women's Hebrew
Association and chairman of the
group work section of the Council of
Social Agencies. Prior to that he
served at Madison House in New
York.
Mr.. Bauman, concert singer, will
serve as master of ceremonies and
soloist at some of the club func-
tions. Miss Kropf comes here from
the Department of Welfare in New
York City, where she served as
social worker,
Evening star., 1942-11-29

orary membership on Mrs. Roose-
welt in June, 1o41.
The initiation win precede the
chapters annual dinner at which
she will speak on THE Contribution
of American Women Toward the
Winning Of the War"
Sharing the induction ceremonies
with Mrs. Roosevelt will be four
Radcliffe seniors@Jane Hyde, Sum-
NIT, N. j.: Marietta Roma, New
York; Pauline Berman, Boston, and
Diana Fraser, Cambridge.
Evening star., 1942-11-29
PuroIe Official to Talk
On Wartime Luwbreuker

Wartime Attitudes Toward the
Lawbreaker" will be discussed by
Benedict S. Alper, research assistant
of the Bureau Of Prisons and execu-
tive secretary OF the American Pa
role Association, during the annual
luncheon meeting Of the Bureau OF
Rehabilitation at u: 80 o'clock Tues
day in the YWCA, Seventeenth and
X streets NV.
G. Rowland Shaw, bureau presi-
dent, who also is president OF the
National Conference OF Juvenile
Agencies. will speak on THE Juve-
nile in Wartime"
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Buzuur and Dinner
To Aid Three Groups

A dinner and bazaar, for the bene-
fit of the American Red Cross, the
American Friends Service Commit
tee and the Community Chest. will
be held Friday at the Sidwell
Friends School, 1901 Wisconsin ave-
nue. NV.
A cream turkey dinner will be
held at $50, $50 and 7:30 pm, for
which reservations must be made
before Wednesday, ether at the
school or the Friends Meeting House,
2111 Florida avenue NV. The
bazaar will include plays, movies,
fortune telling and exhibits.
Evening star., 1942-11-29
Mrs. Roosevelt 10 Enter
Radcliffe Phi. Beta Kappa

BY the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 28.-
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt will be
initiated into the Radcliffe Chapter
Of Phi Beta Kappa on December II
at ceremony originally scheduled
for last December but postponed be-
cause Of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Radcliffe College conferred hon.
Evening star., 1942-11-29

q widow. Her age was given as 46.
Pvt. Kanin did not give the exact
date of the wedding which will take
place during the Washington run of
Three Sisters" Justice James w.
Morris will ofiiciate at the ceremony
Evening star., 1942-11-29

at the Washington Hotel. 1t will
be his first marriage.
Miss Gordon, who has starred both
on Broadway and in HOLLYWOOD, is
Evening star., 1942-11-29

BETSY-WETSY DOLL; soft rubber doll with bot.
te layette, dress up and booties Vets and drinks,
2.69
BABY DOLL; says Mama and Papa; l9 inches tall,
has pink orsandy dress and cap; long eye lashe 425
DRESSED BABY DOLL; larse 12.ineh doll with
orsandy dress and cap, booties and socks Cries and
sleeps ------------
INFANT DOLL; real" baby, with soft, lovable
body; long dress, fuzzy cap and jacket boots -298
BABE IN SILK; infant doll with silk coat and hat,
LONG oreandy dress, knitted booties. Ony----398
DOLL BASSINETTE; 2S-inch Maple finished bassi-
nette with drop side. Equipped with casters---259
DOLL COACH; two-tone frey coach with artillery
wheels, rubber tires and folding hood l9.inch wood
ToYLAND-DoWNSTAIRS STORE
The guardian., 1942-02-21
8 p. N. to 2 A. N.

Inc army ana Navy HecIea-
ton Center will change its loca-
tion from 52S Mass. Ave-, tc
378-380 Mass. Ave-, near the
bridge, about the first of April
Bill Howard is making his
home in New York City, He
made the change three weeks
ago.
Living Pictures, Portraits OF
Colored persons who have made
history in the United States, to
be given at 4th Methodist
Church, Rev. S. M. Riley, Jr.,
pastor, Thursday evening, Feb.
26 will be an outstanding event
of the early spring. Beginning
with Phyllis Wheatley, slave
poetresS and continuing with
Harriet Tubman, Sojourner
T r u h, Frederick Douglass,
Booker T. Washington, DR.. Geo.
w. Carver, Paul Lawrence Dun
bar, Flora Batson, Madam Sell
ika, SiSSerita Jones, DR.. Mary
Mcleod Bethune, DR.. Charlotte
Hawkins Brown, Miss Mamie
Burroughs, Miss Maria Baldwin,
Madam C. ]. Walker, Mrs. Mag
gle Walker, pioneer Colored
woman banker, BoSton'S own
William Monroe Trotter, you will
not want to miss this program
and you are invited to come
and bring your friends. Mrs.
Bonello is the chairman assisted
by Mrs. Mary Moore and James
w. Henderson, Boston poet, will
read his famous poem Super
man" at the close of the pic
lures. Mrs. Riley, S. M, will be
the narrator
The Progressive Club presents
the BudrS OperatiG Group in
FIoto,e oneTo nMnrthd'' in con-
cert form Thursday evening,
February 26, 1912, a t Ebeneser
Baptist Church, w. Springfield
ST., Boston, Rep Vim S RdUeneH,
pastor SoloiStS: Lulu McQuit-
ter, Blanche GonsdlueS, Hazel
Berd, Ellen DaItry, IrUing Rid
ley, Ernest O'Banyoun, Angelyn
DeVdughn, Fred Riggs and Albert
Cosby. Performance starts at
BIS o'clock. Subscription so
cents.
Mrs. Martha Robbins who is
now living in Cleveland, Ohio,
came to Boston for the past
weekend, especially to visit Mrs.
Jacqueline Gilbert who is i'll and
at Resthaven, Mrs. Robbins
stopped also in New York on the
way back to Ohio.
E. Alice Taylor will be the
speaker at the regular, monthly
meeting of the Samuel Coler-
dge-Taylor Musical Association,
at 558 Mass. Ave, Sunday, Feb
ruary %, at $50 pm. Among
the assisting artists will be
readings by ]. Milton Arbuckle
and selections by the Alpha
Singers, Ernest G. OBanyoun,
director.
The Inner South End Com
munity Chorus, ClaudiuS J..
Broodfeld, director presents its
postponed Community Night
Choral Program Tuesday, Feb.
"a at $3.50 pm. at the Harriet
Tubman House, Is Holyoke st.
All the cast in the special act
will be in costume. There is
no charge for this concert. It
it Recreation Project sponsor
ed by the Mayors Office. Com
munity Singing at $3.50 pm.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
Sc FLEE FROM
BURNING HOUSES
Elderly Men Believed Fa=
tally Burned; Boston
Blaze Fought in Cold

Boston, Feb. 21-(UPl-An elder
ly man was burned perhaps fatal
ly and SO persons, including wrest-
Ter Ted Germaine, fled or were
rescued ove- ladders shortly after
dawn today when a three alarm
fire swept four wooden duplex
houses in South Boston.
The fire, controlled after a 1h
hour battle, caused about 10000
damage.
Rescued by firemen, John Doher-
ty, 76, was hospitalized In critical
condition.
Germaine, well-known in wrest-
ling circles, and his wife were
among those who escaped unassist-
ed and unhurt.
Ralph LaFavre, 80, guard at the
Bethlehem Steel Co.'S Fore river
shipyard in Quincy was eating
breakfast when smoke seeped into
his third-floor apartment.
Grabbing his 3-year-old daughter
Edith, he ran downstairs with his
wife Harriet, but they soon found
their escape cut off by flames. They
hurried to a third floor porch and
LaFavre climbed a post to the roof
His wife passed the child up to
him and then was assisted to the
roof by her husband. The couple
ran along the smoking roof to that
of an adjacent roof where they
broke q skylight and descended 10
safety. None Of them was hurt.
Wind-lorne sparks ignited a
house across the street but the
blaze was quickly quelled.
Firemen were Handicapped by
exertme cold which iced the streets
with frozen spray.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
BROWNS CHARTER
NOW IS AMENDED

Providence, r. l.. Feb. 21--UP)
Brown university's historic char
ter of 1854, first amended after the
American Revolution to remove re-
quirements for allegiance to Great
Britain, today was purged of all re-
ligious requirements for trustees
fellows and faculty members.
The University corporation voted
unanimously at a special meeting
last night to ask the Rhode Island
legislature for a charter amend
ment which would abolish the l78-
year-old provision that the trustees
and fellows should include a ma
jority of Baptists. The charter, as
it stands now, also imposes certain
minor religious restrictions on fac
ulty members.
President Henry NJ Wriston sale
present conditions defeat the orig
inal liberal purposes and design o
the charter and 1t is no longer nee
essary for the corporation to con
sist Of a majority Of Baptists ant
specific number Of Episcopalians
Quakers, Congregationalis6 or o
other Protestant faiths"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
OBSERVANCE OF
HOLIDAY MONDAY
Stores, Office Public Bldgs
to Close for Washing
toms Birthday

Though Washington'S Birthday
falls on Sunday, the general observ-
ance will be delayed in Waterbury
until Monday when downtown stores
Offices and public buildings will be
closed. Several patriotic organiza-
tons have commemorative exercises
scheduled for tonight, tomorrow OF
Monday night.
Upsetting custom Of years
standing, mail carriers will work as
usual on Monday, making one full
delivery, Federal Offices in the post
Office building will be open for bus
mess, as will the U. S. Employment
Service Office on Bank street.
The City Hall will be closed for
general business, but the tax collec-
tors Office will be open until ! p. m
for receipt of old age assistance taxes
and Mayor Vincent A. Scrlly will be
in his office to supervise civilian de-
Tense work.
The county building will be closed
as will all banks. Defense plants
will operate as usual despite the
holiday. Most downtown Offices will
be closed.
Some school children and teachers
will enjoy holiday, giving them
only a four-day week before the
mid winter Week-long recess begins
next Friday.
Hundreds will take advantage Of
the long weekend by enjoying brief
vacations in New York and at win
ter resorts.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
Federal Grant and Lower
Costs Bring Down Esti=
mates OF Controller
BONDED DEBT TABLE
NOW BEING REVISED
Contracts for Pipeline,
Reservoir Awarded at
Price Below Estimates

The debt burden of the City
of Waterbury will be greatly
eased as a result Of federal
aid and lower bids than ex-
pected in the water supply
system expansion project,
Controller Thomas NJ. Conlon
said today. He is now engaged
in revising bonded debt esti-
mates which were based on
an assumption that the city
would have to issue all OF
the 100000 in bonds authorized
by the 1941 General Assembly.
1t had been estimated that con-
struction of a second pipe line and
erection of a new dam and reservoir
on the West Branch would cost
close to $4,000, 900, each project cost
Ing about $1,000
Contracts Lower
However, the contract for the pipe
line went to the Lock Joint Pipe
Co. of New Jersey, for a bid of less
than 100000. The reservoir dam
contract went to the DeFelice &
Sons Co. of New Haven for bid OF
less than 100000. Nor was this all
The government has agreed to adj
vance $4,000 toward the dam and
reservoir cutting the cost to the city
for both jobs from $1,600,0O0 tc
$1,1e0,000.
To finance the pipe line, the city
late last year sold 100000 in wa
ter bonds. The amount needed fol
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
GERMAN DEFENSES
SAID TO BE BROKEN
Russians Claim They Have
Pierced Lines in Lenin=
grad Sector

London, Feb. 21-(UP)-The Rus
slams were reported in British dis
patches today to have made de-
cisive break through German de-
lenses in the Leningrad sector after
week of ferocious battles.
A dispatch to the London News
Chronicle from Stockholm said
Russian heavy tanks, with an UNI
brella of planes. followed by in
fantry divisions thrust through the
first and second lines of German
defense southwest of the fortress OF
Schluesselburg, east of Leningrad.
The Keeling Germans were desper-
ately struggling to hold on to their
last defenses. Dispatches from Mos
cow said the Russians were carry
ing all before them"
The News Chronicle Stockholm
correspondent said that violent So
Wet attacks on four fronts had in
creased in fury during the last few
days, confirming the impression OF
neutral observers that the stage of
big battles has succeeded prepare
tory patrol work and light flank at
tacks.
Besides terrific blows on the Len
ingrad front, the Russians have
driven deep wedges into enemy lines
around Smolensk, he reported, and
spread troops and guns well beyond
Kharkov, now passed and partially
isolated.
The Soviets were also said to
have gained big, new successes in
the Crimea and German counter
attacks had roved fruitleSs.
At Taganrog, the News-Chronicle
correspondent said, another Rus
sian army had entered the suburbs
and street fighting was in progress
with the Red air force supporting
infantry by heavy bombing.
Other reports reaching here told
Of action costly to the invader along
almost the entire front. In The
Leningrad sector, detachment o,
Spanish volunteer ski troops thai
moved up to relieve German uni
was almost annihilated, 1t was said
On the Kalinin front. Russian
units were reported to have crosset
a river at night and driven wedge
into German lines despite iolen
counter attacks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21

NO negligence on the part OF An
thony Cairelli, Is, of 234 Congress
avenue, operator of the boat, was
found by the coroner in his investi-
cation of the case. .
TIL coroner relates in his finding
tina on August "A the three young
men were riding in an cupboard mo-
tor boat near Sandy Beach when a
wave caused by a larger motor boat
upset their craft. The wave, eighteen
or twenty inches high, struck against
the side of the Cairelli boat, throw
ing the trio into the water.
The finding states, Cairelli and
Turzzo were unable to swim. Fan
ucci was an expert swimmer. Fan
ucci was injured when the boat
turned over ard sank. Turzzo who
had his arm in the life preserver be-
fore the boat tipped over, lost the
life preserver when he was thrown
into the water and Caireili was able
to seize it. Cairelli was hauled into
a paddle boat by the two occupants
of the paddle boat who came from
nearby. The other two occupants,
Fanucci and Turzzo, were downed
and their bodies were recovered on
August 81.
"Cairelli did not see the passenger
boat, did not see the wave until after
he made the turn and was not Grim
inally responsible for the mishap.
Il find that the deaths of said
Anthony Turzzo and William Fan
ucci were due to accidental drown
ing, but that said deaths were not
due to the criminal act or omission
of the operator, the said Anthony
Cairelli."
Coroner Hennessy said the follow
ing appeared as witnesses at the in
quest: George Barnes, 70 Prospect
street, Waterbury; Hugo L. Bohlin,
Naugatuck; Anthony Cairelli, 234
Congress avenue, Waterbury; Walter
Folgman, Middlebury police depart
ment; John Hadzega, 318 Scott
street; Naugatuck; Jack Isbell and
Victor Olson of Naugatuck.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
HARVARD SHARES
in NEWTON ESTATE

Cambridge, Mass, Feb. dup
Harvard university, the Smith
sonian Institution at Washington
and several Buf1alo, N. Y, charities
and institutions today were be-
queathed the bulk of the estate of
the late Prof. Arthur Michael, SO, of
Newton.
Under the will filed here late yes
terday in probate court, Michael,
Who died Feb. 8 in Orlando, Fla,
left a valuable art collection to
Harvard, where he once taught.
A collection of old silver was
willed to the Smithsonian Institu-
ton. The University of Buffalo was
left several sets of chemistry books
and $4,000 to be used to purchase
other books.
Half of the income from Michael's
Buffalo real estate was left to his
brither Edward a resident of that
city, and the remainder plus the
income from trust fund will be d.
vided among the Children's hospital
the Buffalo Association for the
Blind. and tie Crippled Children's
Guild, all Of Buffalo. The value OF
the estate was not disclosed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
RADIO ARTIST
DIES OF HURTS

Quincy, Mass, Feb. 21-(UP)--
Miss Zelma LARSON, 81, Boston re-
dio artist and clubwoman, died at
hospital here early today of in
juries suffered Thursday in an au-
tomobile accident in which COM
panion was killed almost instantly.
The accident occurred when the
car In which Miss Larson and
Harry johnson, 36, an Arlington
contractor, were riding hit a tele-
phone pole.
Miss LARSON had conducted q
Scandinavian musical program from
Station WMEX at Boston TO two
years,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21

The senate, at the end of turbu-
lent night session, approved a mo-
ton early today repudiating three
hour speech by a government spokes-
man which opposition members in
terpreted as a threat that the ma
tional election set for March %
would be postponed or Cancelled.
Soon afterward Gen. Julio A. Rol-
ETH resigned as defense minister in
the cabinet.
Parliament Dissolved
Gen. Baldomir asked Foreign
Minister Alberto Guiani to take over
the war ministry for the present, in
addition to his own Office, and at
once dissolved parliament.
Police reserves were moved into
the legislativ palace and the cleo
toral college.
At a.. IN. 100 police from the
Montevideo headquarters occupied
the palace and strong guards were
posted at all public buildings.
1t was reported at first that SOL
diers had been put on guard duty.
Emergency session
Gen. Baldomir called the cabinet
to meet in emergency session at
noon today and arranged to address
the nation by radio at p. m. so
he could explain the action he had
taken and the reasons for it.
Authorized informants said that
it was expected that the cabinet
would resign in order to give the
president wider latitude in solving
the political crisis.
The city was quiet and there was
no censorship ana no restrictions Of
normal personal liberties.
1t was emphasized in government
quarters that the posting of guards
at public buildings was a purely
precautionary measure.
A reorganized electoral court met
Continued on Page q
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
MAYOR TO HEAD
N. H. DELEGATION
Local Democrats Going to
S25=a=Plate Dinner MOn=
day Night

Mayor Vincent A. Scully will head
delegation of local Democrats to
New Haven Monday night for the
Democratic state central committee
Washington Birthday dinner at the
Hotel Taft. Gov. Robert A. Hurley
and U. S. Senator Francis T.
Maloney will be the principal speak
ers at the $25-a-plate affair.
Among those in the local group
will be Controller Thomas M. Con-
lon, Corporation Counsel J. Gregory
Lynch, a member of the state cen
trail committee; eX-State Chairman
j. Francis Smith, Daniel T. Far
rington, Jr, Town Chairman Maur-
ice F. Tangney, Town Committee
Secretary Neil Maloney, Probate
Judge Patrick Healey, Attorney
Frank Healey, Attorney John S
Monagan, Commissioner William
Verriker, Charles Rosengarten
Joseph H. Robinson, and Raymond
j. Fitzpatrick, The Democrats poll
teal reporter.
ivy. 11u1lCy duuACoo 1loS SouHlN
the keynote for the state election
campaign this fall. The states
chief executive, who will be can
didate for reelection, defeated Gov
Raymond E. Baldwin (R) who will
undoubtedly be the G. 0. P. can
didate again this year, in 1912.
Proceeds of the dinner will be APP
piled toward paying off the debt
outstanding against the Democratic
national committee since the sue
cessful presidential campaign Of
1910.
The dinner, which replaces the
Jackson Day dinners of former
years, will be one of 1948's most
important political events in the
state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
ALLIED BASES IN
JAVA ARE BOMBED
Heavy Dutch, U. S. Coun=
ter=Attacks Take Toll in
Invaders Ships

Batavia, Java, Feb. 21-(UP)--
Japanese air squadrons, using pre-
invasion tactics, smashed at Allied
air bases on both ends of Java island
today despite official disclosure of
heavy American and Dutch naval
counter attacks that boosted to II
the total of enemy warShipS and
transports sunk or damaged off Bali.
Both American and Dutch war
ships went into action Thursday
against the japanese forces that in
vaded the little island of Bali, just
mile east of the main United Ma
tons stronghold OF Java. Naval &C
ton around Bali and Java was. re-
ported still in progress.
At least two cruisers and two de-
stroyers in the Japanese feet pro-
tecting the invasion forces were
damaged by the Allied counter-at-
tack, in addition to three enemy
cruisers and one or two destroyers
blasted by American flying fortress
ses, Liberator bombers and dive
bombers. Three transports also were
hit by air bombers.
The Allied air and naval blows, in
which submarines took part, failed
to prevent the japanese from land
ing strong forces on Bali, most of
which was reported in the grip OF
the enemysdespite brave resistance
by the Dutch all day Thursday and
Friday.
At the same time, the Japanese
forces that invaded Sumatra on the
west of Java had pushed southeast
ward from Palembang and were just
across the Sunda strait following
evacuation of Dutch and British de-
tenders to Java.
CA Tokyo broadcast reported that
five Allied warships had been sunk
or damaged in the East Indies naval
fighting, including two Dutch de-
stroyers sunk off Bali. A third de-
(CnrfipvaJ oyp paoa o.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-02-21
TWO SOS CALLS
HEARD in CHILE


Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 21-CUP)-
Chile's Antofagasta naval radio sta
ton heard SOS calls from two
American freighters today, appar-
emily appealing for aid agains ia
German submarine attack in the
Caribbean.
The calls were heard at $3.50 q
M, Antofagasta reported. The posi-
ton of the ships was not deter
mined.
The Chilean Valparaiso naval sta
ton radio had heard distress calls
from five ships yesterday, appar-
emily as they were under submarine
attack. No positions were given but
it was reported unofficially that
the ships were In the Pacific.