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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-27
GAS RATTONINC
UNDER new PLAN
Amount You Get Will De-
pend on Number Of Miles
You "Must Drive"
Nv IoHN NJ. NFecklin

UNITED Press Stan COrresp0ndent)
washington, April T.-(UP)-
The once Of price administration is
considering q plan to ration gaso-
line to eastern motorists on q
necessary mileage" basis, 1t was
disclosed today.
How many miles the individual
driver must drive would be the basis
for determining the amount Of gas
oIine he would get.
Wright M. Gray, director Of the
refining division Of the ONCE Of
Petroleum Coordinator Harold L.
Ickeg, said he had suggested to OPA
experts that the following system
10 used when the rationing pro-
gram starts May IS:
Motorists IN the District Of Co.
lunbia and the II east coast states
affected would be required TO pro-
vide rationing authorities with data
on the minimum necessary mile
age" each requires, such as the dis
lance from his home 70 his job
Each Knotorist would be classified
and Issued ration cards with which
he could obtain enough gasoline for
this mileage and no more.
Authorities would be able TO check
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HUNDREDS Of
CITIZENS ARE
REGISTERING
Total Of 5000 Had Signed
Up By One O'Clock in
the Afternoon
MAYOR SCULLY WAS
IN LINE VERY EARLY
World War Veterans on
List; Many CIergymen
Were Also Included

Waterbury men in the As
to 65 age bracket were flock
ing by the hundreds today to
the schools in their home dis
tricts to register under the
Selective Service Act. Hun
dreds Of teachers and other
volunteers went on duty at
I a. m, to record the l1eces-
sary information. From all
districts came reports Of en-
thusiastic willingness to reg
lister, the older men apparently be-
Ing Just sching for @ chance to do
their BIZ 10 axe the Axis.
ChaI. man Charles Woodl0ck OF
Board l5-A estimated that q total
Of 5000 men had registered up to
D, m, This figure was regarded as
g,irpFislniely high since total regis
tratlOn for the whole day here was
not expected to top 10000. Regis.
tration centers viii be open until Q
OCluCk tUkukuts nt NF
Mayor scuIIy In Lane
Mayor Vincent A. Scully, Just
past the 45-year mark, registered OF
I o'clock this morning at ST. Mar
garet's school. Early.this afternoon,
after survey Of the registration
districts, he said that the enroll
ment was going remarkably well"
Many Of those signing up today
are veterans Of the World War.
Their feelings, II seemed obvious,
were much more belligerent, than
those who had registered In the
first three draft registrations.
The men signing up today are not
subject to combat duty, and will not
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Highlights

Washington, April 27-UP)-
Highlights Of President RoOsevelt's
message TO Congress:
The rise In the cost Of living
during this war has begun TO par
allel the last. The time has def
inltely come to stop the spiral
And we can face the fact that
there must be = drastic reduction
In cur standard Of living.
Profits must be taxed TO the
utmost limit consistent with con-
tlnued production.
No American citizen ought to
have q net income, after he has
paid his taxes, Of more than $SS,-
900 o year.
I believe that stabllixing the
cost Of living viii mean that wages
In general can and should she kept
ct existing scales.
An strikes are at q minimum.
Existing contracts between en-
plOyers and employees must. In
aII fairness, be carried out to the
expiration date Of these con-
tracts.
Most workers IN munitions i'm
Continued on Page q
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JERSEY CITY DEAD
NOW TOTAL FIVE
263 Injured When Subway
Train Jumps Track; Ar.
rest of MOtOrman

Jersey City, N. j., April 27--(UP)
The lnotorman OF the subway
train which jumped the tracks while
entering q station at high speed
last night, killing five persons and
injIiring 263, was arrested todAy
and charged with granddaughter.
Most OF the injured had been
trampled and kicked "a the panic
which Is the almost inevitable after
math Of subway accidents. The
lights went out, electrical Connec-
tons having been short circuited.
sent out clouds Of aerid smoke, and
IN en- instant men and women
locked Ia the cars were screaming
and shouting and ramnling their
hands and feet through the wine
doWs, seeking escape from the car
and from the gfnCke-filled tunnel
To the cir Of the street above.
The charge against Mo.ormen
Louis Austin Vierbucken, ~ ap-
peafed d fOrmailty. Authorities said
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-27
NO BOND CONFUSION SALES

The points which MFR. Roosevelt
said may well be called our pres
ent national economic policy" are:
TAXES
Taxes to keep personal and corp
crate profits "at Q low level" A &25,-
600 ceiling on personal net incomes
after payment Of taxes. Congress to
decide what constitutes q fair corpo-
ration profit, and all excess to be
taken In taxes. Income from all
government securities SHOULD be
subject at least to surtaxes." This
part Of the program requires new
legislation.
RATIONING
I'VE must ration all essential com.
moditieS Of which there Is q scar.
city, so that they may be distributes
fairly among consumers and not
merely In accordance with financial
ability to pay high prices for them.
Mr.. Roosevelt was confident not
many basis necessities would have
to be rationed. The ONCE Of rrice
Administration viii issue the xa-
tioning orders. adding IS necessary
to the present orders for rationing
Of sugar and gasoline.
WAGES
I'VE must stabilize the reniunerA-
ton received by individuals Tor their
work." The war labor board, how
ever, twill continue TO give
due consideration TO inequalities ed
the elimination Of suhstandarda 6
living" In deciding wage contr0veR-
sizes. No legislation needed, as the
president viii instruct the VILE as
to the policy to be followed.
PRICES
Ceilings will be fixed ca prices
paid by consumers, retailers, whole
salers and manufacturers Ter The
things they buy: and ceilings viii
be fixed on rents ''in ell areas AFFECT
ed by war industries" The OpA Is
expected to issue this order Tuesday
night.
FARM PRICES
The ITO per cent Of parity Mni-
tation imposed BY existing law on
ceilings for agricultural product
MtN .-~~
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clearly that Hitler was, going to give
Germany another blood purge which
would make the one of June 1884
against high party leaders seem Hike
q rehearsal.
But most encouraging to the
United Nations, was Hitler's plain
intimation that he expected the
German army to be fighting IN
Russia next winter. In forclosing
the possibility of victory this sum
mer, he seemed to acknowledge that
in the winter just past, Of an unpre-
cedented intensity, he said, the Nazl
Hordes had escaped disaster by the
barest margin.
Part Of the time speaking as If
he were tired, Hitler gave his usual
denunciationS Of the United Ma
lions and their leaders including
the United States and President
Roosevelt,
But the high spots, for the out
side world, were those directed
solely to internal morale, and II
was capped by the resolution which
the Nazi Reichstag passed when he
finished.
Given Many Titles
This resolution called him:
"Fuehrer of the Nation, Supreme
Commander in Chief of the Armed
Forces, Chief of Government In
vested With Supreme Executive
Power, Supreme Judge and Leader
of the Nazi Party"
Field Marshal Hermann Goering,
president Of the Reichstag, called
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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-27
AIR WAR MOVES
over WIDE AREA
Europe, Pacific Sectors
Are Seeing United Ma
tons in Real Battles
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS

HNAASAbGNAA " AGYA n NAUA& N &GhN4ky YET
The air war slaread over wider
areas OF Europe and the Pacific to-
day. including the strategic French
Island OF New Caledonia 300 miles
east of Australia, with the Allies
holding the top hand.
The Pacific battlefront was ex-
tended eastward to New Caledonia
lying astride the U. s. supply
lines to Australia and New zea-
land--as Pierre Lavai's pro-Nazi
regime In Vichy announced q pro-
test to Washington against occupa-
ton Of the Island by American
forces.
American war planes based on
New Caledonia were revealed to
have gone into action against jap
anese planes attempting to carry
out reconnaissance flights, perhaps
in prelude to an attempted sea-
borne invasion.
On Australia's northern flank
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Seven Point Program For
Wartime Economy Control
Heavy Taxation, General RatiOning Of
All Scarce Commodities; Net Income
of $4,000 for Any Individual
BY MERRINGAN SMITH
UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent

Washington, April ~. - CUP - President
Roosevelt today sent to Congress seven-point pro-
gram of wartime economic controls including heavy
taxation general rationing of all commodities
and sterilization of wages He proposed that the net
income of any individual be limited to $4,000 year
after payment Of taxes.
ONLY TWO POINTS LEGISLATION
Only two points his program according to the Pres
ident require legislation:
Taxes-TO keep the cost of living from spiraing up
ward must tax heavily and in that process keep per-
sOna corporate profits at reasonable rate the word
reasonable being defined at low eve Farm pricesTO
keep the cost of living from spiralng upward must
stabilize the prices received by growers for the products Ct
their lands"
OVERALL PRICE CEILINGS
His program wartime design for living, the fore
runner to forthcoming acton-prObaby tOmOrrOwtO fix
overall price ceilings most American goods He asked
that Congress take action to suspend present provisions
Of law requiring overtime pay for work in Of 40 hours
week sNOst workers i'm munitions industries working
far than 40 hours week. and should continue to he
paid 1t time and half for overtime he said Othersse
their weekly pay envelope would be reduced"
NO BOND CONFUSION SALES
Rejecting pleas of Of his advisors for compu
sorry purchases of savings bonds Mr. Roosevelt said he
wanted to keep such sales voluntary basis as long
possible" President said that he had issued the
sary the price regulations which Price Administers
tor Leon Henderson will prOmulgate later this week. prob
ably Tuesday night.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-27
SMART HEADS TO
WORK FOR your

Heads with initiative and
originality; Level, good judg-
raent heads. The kind that
executives choose 10 make
themselves greatl
These are the heads that
make fortunes for their eril-
pl0yeys.
Most Of them have Jobs, but
many Of them are arnhi-
tlously seeking greater OPP
pcrtunlty through DEMO
GRAF WANT ADS.
FOf over 50 years the Help
wanted columns OF the
DEMOCRAT have been re-
lied Upon 70 find smart
workers, Phone your vi 70
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AErNIMUN WAGE JUNE !

Hartford, Conn.,, April IT. CUP
Labor Commissioner Cornelius q.
DanaheF said today the el6 q week
minimum for workers IN the retail
establishments q the state would 90
into effect June !.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-04-27
LAST SUGAR DAY
FOR WAR DURATION
Money Alone Can Buy It
Today; Sugar Sales End
at Midnight
By HITLER KRTEGHBAUM

ny AKAA1A1Ak1AS AAASAHN ~ .
United Press stan Correspondent
washington, April 2T.-(UP)-To-
day Is the last day for the duration
that money alone viii buy sugar.
Retail sugar sales will be sus-
pended at midnight and consumers
will not be able to buy again until
May 5 when they will have to have
war ration book No. / stamps. They
will register for these books on May
4, 5, 8 and 7 and may start pur-
chasing sugar at 1901 q. m, on May
S. The flrst stamp will be good for
pound of sugar between May 8
and 16.
(Continued ON Page a
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Hitler Controls Life,
Death Of Every German
Makes One OF Strangest Speeches Of His Career;
Solemn KneIl of Doom for Germany's Hopes
of Victory Implied By His Words
BY EDWARD w. BEATTIE
United Press staff CORRESPONDENT

London April -UP)-Adolf Hitler after one Of the
srangest speeches of his strange career took unto himself
today the personal power of life and death over every in
dvidual German His speech to the Reichstag yesterday
was greeted in Great Britain and Russia solemn kne
Of doom for GermanYs hopes Of victory and Implying
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war service Cor women AZ goea pay.
Enrele N0Wl Post Junior College
u CpmneFce.
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Little Temperature
Change Tonight
run weather Report Pag !
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29

less, Russian pursuit stopped at the Me
men river. Hitler, invading. at the same
time, carried not merely column into
Russia, but front from the Baltic to
the Black Sea. He, too, advanced with
success, but failed to take Moscow or
Leningrad. He, too, was overtaken by
winter and retreated, losing considerable
quantities of material.
But there are differences that seem more
important than the similaritieS. For in
stance, by January 10 it was all over with
the Grande Arrhee, whereas it is now late
January and the German line is only now
falling back on Smolensk, roughly the
halfway point. Their line is not broken,
and though no one any longer believes that
the retreat is strictly according to plan,
nevertheless it is not rout; no German
army has been captured or removed from
the fighting; no complete break-through
has been accomplished. The disaster to
the German armies, though severe set
back is in no way comparable with the
almost complete destruction of Napoleon's
Grande Armee.
Further, those who draw the Napole-
onic parallel forget to carry it through
far enough. They forget that though his
Russian expedition was a complete fail
ure, and it's army almost completely de-
stroyed, Napoleon threw up the whole
thing personally in early December, left
his army to its fate, and rushed back to
Paris to raise new one. BY early the
following spring, 1913, he had brand
new army of 100000 moving eastward.
That was easy for him to do because much
of the loss in Russia had been sustained
by his allies, just as much of Hitler's loss
in Russia is in Italians, Spanish Ru-
manians, Hungarians, and other dupes.
People who like the Napoleonic analogy
because it suggests Hitler's downfall, for
get that Napoleon was back again the
following spring almost as strong as be-
fore, and had to be beaten all over again.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
Distance Changes Perspective

Nothing is quite so misunderstood
right now as the position of Fire in the
current battle of the Democratic powers
of Great Britain and the United States
against the Axis Her position has be-
come all the more difficult through the
prompt announcement of Prime Minis
tey canon DeValera over the landing OF
American troops in Northern Ireland.
He has protested this invasion,
although it might be considered a mild
protest But in so doing he has certainly
more than made it clear why Fire has
taken neutral position and why it hopes
to continue the same.
Here in the United States too many of
us are quick to criticize this stand. Being
right in the midst of the war we don't
see how anyone else can stay out of it or
why they should not want to do every
thing possible to wreck the ambitions OF
the totalitarian powers No doubt Mr..
DeValera and thousands of Irishmen
feel much the same way towards Hitler
as we do, but that does not constitute
cause for war When you come right down
to It,. why any Irishman should manifest
love for England or desire to help her
out, even in world crisis, is hard to I'M
derStand.
Just going back to the last World War
the present Irish position becomes all the
more clear. That was war for de
mocracy to make nations independent
and to give their peoples the right to a
determination of how they should be gov
erned. It never was the signal for par
tition of a country which has always
been one geographically, racially, and in
all other ways. Yet of Ireland's thirty
two counties, six were set apart and have
continued to be set apart despite only
minority support for the same.
Thus the very things for which we
Americans fight today are violated among
our allies and what protest have we
ever uttered against divided Ireland?
No, we fail to see why Fire should be
criticized, condemned, boycotted or other
wise subjected to harsh treatment pc
cause she withholds herself from this
conflict to which we now give our all
Shabby treatment long accorded her has
finally come a cropper.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29

little area of life, the reverse comes
in another area and 1t seems that
we are just where we started.
But this is not true - 1t only APP
pears to be true. With all the kill
ing going on in the world today,
this age in which we live is better
and more hopeful than any which
man has ever known. In the throes
of war, the possibilities of centuries
of peace are being born. Though
stupid and selfish leaders may try
to grasp some immediate good and
cast away the ultimate by SO doing,
God always picks up enough frag--
ments to build little more OF that
eternal structure which he is fash
ioning amid the ruins of human
folly.
God is not being defeated, and
let us never believe for q moment
that He is. We may be casting
eternal values aside and joining in
vicious onslaught against Gods cita-
del, but God is not thereby defeat
ed. His will Is Interchangeable. At
the very moment it seems to be frus-
trated, 1t Is completing itself glori-
ously.
All Rights Reserved Babson
Newspaper Syndicate.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
Skidding on the Parallels

Drawing historical parallels is like
sliding down the front walk on frosty
morning - it's fun, but it's dangerous
The parallelism between the present Ger
man retreat on the Russian front and
that of Napoleon in 1912 is so attractive,
so neat, and so alluring to Wish-thinkers,
that great deal of good white paper has
been spoiled in exploiting it. Look how
easy it is.
Napoleon and Hitler each invaded Rus
STA at almost the same time of year, hop
ing for quick campaign. which would
lay the enemy low before the rigors of
winter Napoleon took Moscow in early
September, but the city was burned and
he had to withdraw. His retreat, dis
rupted by poor discipline and bitter
weather, harassed by Cossacks and army
pursuit, became disastrous rout, and an
army of more than 100000 men had been
pulverized to fewer than $4,000. Neverthe-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
Press Comment
THE WEATHER EARS"
(Hartford Courant)


AS the weatherwise must have no.
ticed, the brief forecasts that most
newspapers publish in one OF the
front page "ears" are even less
loquacious than they used to be-
That for December was a fair ex-
ample Of what they once We're:
Light showers, clearing, colder,
Saturday; fair and much colder
Sunday" That for last Tuesday
was typical of the war forecasts:
Little change In temperature" 1t
proved to be true enough as far as
it went, but certain other meteoro.
logical phenomena that in peace
time would have been regarded as
essential to the forecast were
omitted.
How one misses those luxurious
pre-war summaries of the weather,
with their detailed predictions for
each of the New England States
their long summaries of conditions
in every other part Of the coun-
try and their breath taking weather
maps. The Weather Bureau was
the butt of many jokes; how I'M
deserved they were we are now
learning. More literally than most
organizations to which the proverb
Is applied, 1t was prophet without
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29

A 38-year old water project has just
been completed down in the Saugatuck
Valley of Fairfield County. It compares
somewhat with Waterways own water
system up in the Morris Hills which will
reach point visioned long years ago with
completion late this year or early IN
1943 of third reservoir and a second
pipeline. The Saugatuck enterprise was
really started back in 1904 when the
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company bought
factory site in Weston. Tuesday noon
the gates in the new Saugatuck Valley
dam we're closed and by next summer
the huge reservoir will be two-thirds
full. The final fight to place great sec
ton of the valley under water was long
drawn-out one, exceedingly bitter, but the
courts upheld the water company right
down the line and it proceeded with the
Job it set out to do so many years ago. This
new man-made lake, incidentally, Will
be 4, IL miles long and 1OO-feet deep
in some places. 1t drains watershed OF
some 33 square miles.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
A Costly Buiness

A couple of large Connecticut cities
are still shaking their heads sadly over
the bills incurred in fighting the 4-inch
snowstorm that blanketed the state early
this month. We haven't yet seen the
cost of tackling the same here in Water
bury, but no doubt it is propOrtiOnate
to those in Hartford and New Haven. In
the latter community the cost of remov-
ing the snow and sanding the streets for
several days after the storm has been set
at $4,000. 1t was just about the same
in Hartford, too.
The Elm City officials are bit down.
hearted because that sum represents
almost so per cent of the total amount
set up for snow removal in the budget
And with February and March ahead we
don't blame them for being just a bit
pessimistic. Many of us lose sight of the
fact, too, that the snow removal item
must carry through the late fall months
when SO often we get sudden snoWstorms
of considerable depth.
Snow removal is becoming more and
more a problem and an expense in the
large CITY, All the work there has to be
shouldered by the municipality, whereas,
in the smaller towns many of the streets,
particularly the main ones, lie in the path
of the State Highway Department plows.
Even with tire rationing, no sale of new
cars, and threats of gasoline curling there
aren't fewer cars on the roads this winter.
And when they continue to roll the streets
must be kept open, no matter the ultimate
cost to the taxpayer We demand such
services, often forgetting that they have to
be paid for.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29
Also Reward the Good

The reformer usually thinks of i'm
proving life in terms of eliminating the
evil things in it, seldom stopping to think
that increasing the number of good
things is an equal improvement. In the
same way, we usually try to curb law VIC
lation by Furnishing the violators, seldom
by reWarding the observers.
Detroit police are trying the unusual
course, the American Municipal Associa-
ton reports of giving reward tickets"
when acts of special courtesy and con-
sideration on the road are observed by
those same cops whose usual duty 1T IS TO
hand out only traffic tickets. The plan
is in a formative stage, and it is hoped
to develop system OF windshield stickers
for careful and courteous drivers Why
not? It's likely that quite as much has
been accomplished by rewarding good as
by Furnishing evil.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-01-29

The center of attention in war is still
at the fighting lines, despite wars spread
farther and farther into every nook and
GRANNY of life. Yet war takes it's toll IN
every circle and Carole Lombard and
Mary Ann Kovacs were equally its VIC
tins. Carole Lombard, film star known
to millions, died in plane crash as she
was returning from meeting In winch
she had sold war bonds Mary Ann
Kovacs, little Cleveland, Ohio, girl OF y,
was known only to small circle. she
died beneath the wheels of an automobile
as She was pulling little wagon in the
street in search of waste paper for the
war salvage program Both were doing
their duty as it came to them to be done.