The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-16
Registration Slow In
City, For First Day
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since the October Is, 1910, registra-
ton, were discovered waiting for
the opening of the aldermanic
chambers.
All Report SlOwness
Reports from the other 81 regis
tration places within the city limits
indicated that enrolment was also
proceeding slowly elsewhere. Mr..
Moran pointed out, however, that
much of this was due to the fact
that many factory employees would
(, be unable to appear until their
lunch hour, and that various plant
shifts, released in the afternoon,
would contribute to late hour rush.
The first local man to sign up
this morning at the city hall was
Lester Louis Hassel OF "a Bank
street. MI. Hassel, an employe of the
Scovill Manufacturing Co., is forty
years old.
He was followed almost immedi-
ately by George Brown of 48 Cen
ter street, a veteran of the First
World War. MI. Brown who is forty
two years Old, works for the Conn
ecticut Light and Power Co., and is
a native of Glasgow, Scotland. Dur
ing the 1914-i918 conflict, Mr..
Brown, seventeen-years-old at the
time, served with the 9th division, a
Royal Scotch regiment, for 10
| months.
Both were enrolled by Deputy
Registrar Amelia Gumpper, nurse
in the health department.
The earliest member of the twenty
and twenty -one year old groups to
appear was James O'Brien, 81, of Is
State street, a craftsman at the
Waterbury Tool Company. He is an
engineering student at New Haven
college.
No Father, Son Combine
No father and son combinations
were reported at the city hall this
morning, although it was considered
almost certain that many such cases
would occur throughout the city be-
fore the 9 p. m. deadline. The wide
scope of the present registration
makes it highly probable that faith
ers under the forty -five-year maxi
mum age, and sons twenty and
twenty-one years old, would pre-
sent themselves together for enroll
ment.
Among those who filled out the
green registration cards In the al
dermanic chambers this morning
were two Japanese.
Municipal officialdom, too, found
itself included largely in today's re-
gistration.
City office holders who registered
were: John P. Fitzmaurice, execu-
| tive secretary to Mayor Vincent A.
Scully; Joseph Shea, city clerk;
James Curtin, chief air warden and
superintendent of parks; j. Gregory
Lynch corporation counsel; Thomas
Conlon, city controller; Serge Bel
anger, city treasurer; Clayton Briot-
ii, city sheriff.
Others were States Attorney Will
liam B. Fitzgerald; president of
the Waterbury Bar Association,
Walter Torrance; City Court Clerk
Carmine Cipriano, and Deputy
Sheriffs Albert Francis and George
Burns.
Among those who registered for
the second time in their careers
today were Joseph Carney, NUM-
ripal court officer. and board of
education commissioner Parry Graf
cerstein. Atty. Graicerstein served
for two months during the first
World war, and was 10 years old
at the time.
Chief Registrar Moran, occupied
with the business of supervising
others in the aldermanic chambers,
suddenly remembered that he, too,
was subject to the present regis
tration. He was signed up by one
of his deputy registrars.
Frank S. Hogan Signs
Waterbury-born Frank s. Hogan,
recently elected to succeed Thorn
as E. Dewey as New York's district
attorney, registered yesterday in
New York city. He is 80 years old
Working in three shifts, chief,
assistant and deputy registrars,
forming small army of 989 work.
ers, will enroll registrars through
out the 'ty today. The first shift
was employed from z a. m. to II
noon, this morning. At noon they
were replaced by others who will
work until o'clock this afternoon.
The final shift will take over un-
til closing time at 8 o'clock TO-
night.
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