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Evening star., 1942-05-12
Chrisman Is Nominated
By Gateway Citizens

The Gateway Citizens Associa-
ton last night nominated John e
Chrisman for president; II. Zalph,
vice president; Mrs. Marie Cuth-
bertson Mold, secretary; Walter g
Ahlberg, treasurer; Miss G. l.
Schuldrop, assistant secretary, and
Marion Gilbert, financial secretary
Mrs. Mold and Mrs. Everett Evans
were nominated as delegates to the
Federation of Citizens Associations
and Mrs. j. B. Trittipoe and Mrs.
Vidas Nakarada were nominated
delegates to the Northeast Confer
ence. Ohicers vii be elected at the
next meeting.
L. M. Green reported that he
could no longer serve as a delegate
to the Northeast Conference.
Plans for organizing a Boy Scout
troop In the area were considered
Alvin Minatree, president, said q
Scout troop would be Of great service
to the association.
A second donation was made to
the Red Cross and funds also voted
for the National Symphony Or
chestra.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Brozirs Utmost Rubber Output
In ~ Is To-Day Supply for u. S.

between life and death for an
American platoon?
To produce quickly meant making
rubber tapping profitable for every
rung in the rubber producing hier-
archy. Through years of custom,
rubber tapping in the Amazon now
follows set pattern.
The "seringeiro," the lowly rubber
Taper, hacks his way into the forest,
fighting malaria. bugs and hunger,
finds rubber tree and taps it. He
rolls the lateX-the sap of the tree
Into round ball about 2 feet in
diameter, and sells it to the patron" !"
The patron" is a kind of con-
tractor who travels about the ANA
zon River or its monumental
tributaries buying the rubber balls
from given group of "seringeiros. J"
He in turn sells his harvest to
merchants at Manaos or Belem.
80 Cents, Maximum Price.
The merchant, whose main occu-
patton is selling cloth. groceries, or
hardware, or all Of them together,
sells the rubber to the exporter, who
Evening star., 1942-05-12

If you are one of those unfortunates who have
worked under a strain, failed to eat the proper
foods, have been vexed by overtaxing worries, or
have suffered with colds the flu, other illness
yet have no organic trouble or focal infection and
blood-cells have become reduced in vitality
and number If your stomach digestion refuses to
work properly, then here is what should help you'll
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Costa Rica Broadcast
Closes Series on
The Americas
Radio Project in Schools
Is Praised in Talk
By ContreII

"The Americas" a broadcast sc.
ries sponsored by The Star and the
Junior High School Radio Com.
mittee to further the good-neighbol
policy of hemisphere solidarity
closed yesterday with a program or
Costa Rica presented by the stu
dents of Garnet-Patterson Junior
High School.
Commenting on the series which
has extended throughout the 1912
school season. Lawson j. Cantrell
assistant superintendent Of schools,
declared the broadcasts served an
excellent purpose not only as an
outlet for dramatic ability but as
means of familiarizing a large
Washington audience with the ma
tions of the Western Hemisphere.
1t was q project eminently worthy
of commendation."
Hugh S. Smith, chairman Of the
Junior High School Radio Commit
tee, said In praising the programs
that much outside interest in school
radio work had been aroused and
pointed out that student partici-
pants had reached nearly 1000 in
number. Mr.. Smith also said that a
large portion of listeners had be-
come acquainted with a wide va
riety of Latin music and
added that the progress made in
radio work by teachers and stu
dents alike had proven remarkable
in comparison with previous years.
Participating in yesterdays dra-
matization, which brought out many
salient facts regarding the history
and geography of the Central
American Republic Of Costa Rica,
were Mrs. Gladys M. Edmonson, di-
rection; Miss Mayme Brown, music,
and Margaret Hadley Station, script.
The student cast was comprised of
Clinton Hill, Ophelia Smith. Bar
bara Holmes, Anne Webster, Loretta
Chambers, Maurice Nickens, Paul
Butler, Bernice Byrd, Frazier Miller,
John Brown, Joan Brown and Lydia
Gray. The chorus included Doris
Knighton, soloist; Ophelia Williams,
Lois Patterson, Dorothy Holmes,
Louise Briggs, Martha Luby, Lottie
Lopes, Doris Kenny, Dorothy Bar
bee, Eff1e Hall, Betty Kendall, Lula
Mundy, Irma Johns, Ruby Young,
Louise Cooper. Mary Anderson, Will
helmina Shelton, Ruth Adams,
Evelyn Davis, Rosa johnson, Viola
Bryant and Josephine Chancellor.
Study plans for followup discus
sion of Costa Rica in junior high
schools throughout the city were
distributed. A map of Costa Rica
appeared in The Star OF last Friday,
as drafted especially for the series
by the National Geographic Society,
which co-operated throughout the
broadcast season.
Evening star., 1942-05-12

miserable. the United States has
promised to provide $4,000, 900 for
sanitation. Malaria Is the worst
scourge Of the Amazon. Obviously
no man can work efficiently when
shivering with fever. Equally OBJ
vious is the fact that $4,000, 900
isn't going to clean malaria out of
a region about as big as the United
States, East of the Mississippi
River. But the money will help,
and according to the theory, if the
"seringeiro" feels better he'll tap
more rubber.
Theoretically, there's no limit to
Brazilian rubber production. Brazil
has an estimated 500 ,0O0. 900 trees, OF
which 300,000,000 are in the Amazon
If each tree was tapped, yielding
a low average of five pounds, Brazil
would produce 1,250000 tons.
Copyright, 1912, by Chicago Daily News)
Evening star., 1942-05-12
H. |. McCabe Elected Head
OF HiIIcresf Citizens

The Hillcrest Citizens Association
last night elected Henry L. McCabe,
president; Edgar Leapley, first vice
president; Mrs. Theodore Entwisle,
second vice president; Mrs. Clyde
Stiegelmeier, secretary; Philip A.
Willis, treasurer, and Donald q.
Gunter and Frederick G. Thruelson,
delegates to the Federation Of Citi-
zens' Associations.
On a motion by Mr.. Willis, the
group favored q new 16-room school,
equipped with an auditorium gym
nasium, to be erected on the site
where the Stanton School now
stands.
Mr.. Willis said that at present
some Of the children of the COM
munity had to go outside of the
area for education.
The meeting was held at the East
Washington Heights Baptist Church.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
By ALLEN HADEN,

BY ALLEN HADEN,
| Foreign Correspondent of The Star ant
Chicago Daily News.
RIO DE JANEIRO (By Clipper
May 4-Despite all the brain work
and muscle being lavished on
producing rubber in Brazil, supplies
of raw rubber during 1912 will only
make a pinhead impression on the
gigantic demands Of the United
States armament industry.
Brazilian rubber production dur
ing 1942-with luck-will approx
innate $4,000 tons or Today supply
on the basis of United States con-
sumption of 100000 tons per year.
But this will represent 9,000-ton
increase over 1941, or about 80 per
cent.
Because each pound Of rubber is
valuable, some of the best brains in
Brazil are working with experts
from United States industry and
Government Departments to tap
every possible wild hevea Bragiliensis
that can be reached in the Amazon
Valley, Acre Territory and Matto
Crosse.
The reason is that each pound Of
natural rubber combines with 2
pounds of synthetic to give needed
elasticity. UP to the present chemists
have not developed a synthetic rub
ber that will Jump back" after
stretching without generating self
destroying heat. =
Big Program Under Way.
The Brazilian government has
leaped into the rubber production
problem with both feet. With
United States assistance of money
and experts in rubber production
and sanitation, Brazil has three
fold approach.
/. A separate department Of the
government is being organized, pat
termed on the existing Brazilian
coffee department. to buy all raw
rubber from tappers. make alloca-
tions to Brazilian industry and ex-
port the balance to the United
States.
2. A gigantic mass colonization
scheme is being worked out to supply
labor to the sparsely populated
Amazon.
8. How to produce more and better
rubber is being scientifically studied.
These studies center around the
work of DR.. Feilsberto c. Camargo,
director of the Institute Agronomico
do Norte, located at Belem Para),
at the mouth of the Amazon.
The United States Treasury has
earmarked $4,000, 900 directly to fos-
tering rubber production in the
Amazon. II this amount is added to
the cost of salaries, travel, and ex-
penses of high-bracket experts from
the American Agriculture Depart
ment and the United States Rubber
Reserve Co. and this total divided
by the number of pounds of rubber
produced during 1912, the cost of
each pound would be fabulous.
Aim Is to Get Rubber Quickly.
But that's not what either the
United States or Brazil is getting at.
Both countries, through their rep
resentatives, see the rubber problem
as double-barrelled; one long range
and the other short range.
The short range program is to
produce as much rubber as quickly
as possible. The cost is no object
now. for what price rubber If the
needed elasticity in b set OF tires
on q jeep will mean the difference
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Gen. Reckord 10 Direct
Civilian Defense in Crisis
By the Associated Press.

ANNAPOLIS, May 12.-Gov.
O'Conor reported yesterday that
civilian defense organizations auto
matically would be directed by Maj.
Gen. Milton A. Reckord, Sd Corps
Area commander, in the event Of
emergencies arising from enemy air
attacks.
The Governor said 1t. Gen. Hugh
A. Drum Of the First Army, COM
manding the eastern military de-
fense area, advised him all corps
area commanders have been charged
with "the planning for local pro-
lection of localities not defended BY
frontier forces assigned to sector
commanders.
Gen. Drums message followed
Gov. O'Conor's request last week
for clarif1cation OF the Army's posi-
ton with regard to civilian defense
authorities if Maryland cities and
counties were bombed.
Evening star., 1942-05-12
Judge Advocate Officer
To Address Lowers

1t. Col. Erwin M. Treusch OF the
judge advocate generals Office here
will be the principal speaker at a
joint session of the Committee on
Military and Naval Law of the Fed
eral Bar Association and the Ameri-
carf Bar Association at pm. to-
morrow, at the Mayflower Hotel
The weekly luncheon meeting OF
the Federal Bar Association in the
Harrington Hotel. Thursday, viii be
addressed by Harry Newton Clarke
specialist In executive management
Evening star., 1942-05-12

This is the first OF three arti-
cles on BraziPs efforts to produce
rubber for United States markets.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06

Continued from Page y
Is possible because the new time
will be effective throughout the
territory served by the railroad.
No New Timetables
Because railroads and the public
will observe the same time, it Will
not be necessary for the New Ha-
ven to issue new timetables since
all trains will be operating on times
conforming to those shown in cur
rent timetables. For example, a
commuter who customarily boards
an 800 o'clock train every week.
day morning will continue to board
this train at 800 o'clock; and ref
erence to the timetable will show
that the train leaves at o'clock
The only exception to this will
be experienced by passengers aboard
trains which are speeding along
the rails when the time is changed
early Monday morning. Such trains
will arrive at their destinations one
hour later than shown in current
timetables. To illustrate, the Hell
G tie Express" leaving Pennsyl-
vania Station, New York, 100 a. m
Monday, Feb. 9, will arrive New
Haven 4:20 a. m. instead of 1920 a.
m. However, after this one night
alone, such trains will operate ex-
actly as shown in current time
tables-that is, the Hell Gate Ex-
press" will continue to leave Penn
sylvania Station 1880 a. m. and be
due New Haven 1920 a. m.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06
Interstate Sanitation
Compact Working Well
n Sewage Treatment Plants in Operation; Four
Times as Much Pollution Removed

Submitting its fifth annual re-
oort to the governors Of New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut today
the Interstate Sanitation Commits
sion summarized its accomplish
nents to date as follows:
Seventy seven sewage treat
ment plants completed and OPP
Grating.
Seven additional plants under
construction.
The commission estimated that
four times as much pollution Is be-
ing removed from the Sanitation
district, which embraces practical
'iy the entire metropolitan area, as
there was in 1886.
In presenting survey Of the
work accomplished during the past
year the commission said:
'The abating of pollution from
New York harbor and adjacent
waters Is a huge task. The Inter-
State Sanitation Commissioners
at the very outset encouraged
municipalities to undertake the
necessary work for the treat
ment of sewage rather than is
sue peremptory orders. Various
means have been adopted to urge
these municipalities to proceed
and 1t has been the commits
sioners' aim to make use Of the
authority vested in it only as
last resort. 1t is with great sat
isfacti0n that we can report
great strides toward the ultimate
goal without a single court ac-
tion In the five years of the COM
missions existence"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06
FUNERALS

The funeral of Mrs. Marion Kirch-
berger will be held tomorrow after
noon at 2 o'clock at the HickcoX
funeral home, 1876 Main street, Wa
tertoWn. Burial will be in Bethle-
hem.
The funeral of Miss Edith Rim
kus will be held tomorrow morning
at 3.45 o'clock from the Mazaika
funeral home, 10 Porter street to st.
Anthonys church, Ansonia, where a
requiem high Mass will be sung at
10 o'clock. Burial will be in Mount
st. Peters cemetery, Derby.
The funeral of Mrs. Thomas
White was held this afternoon at
80 o'clock from her home, 438
Meriden road Rev. Matthew G.
Madden, pastor of the Mill Plain
Union church, officiating. Burial
was in new Pine Grove cemetery.
The funeral of Mrs. Agnes Col
we'll of Derby was held yester-
day from the Colwen funeral home
Derby to st. Mary's church, Derby
at 8 o'clock, with burial in Mount
st. Peter cemetery, Derby.
The funeral of Vito Bochicchio
of 272 Bishop street will be held
tomorrow morning at 9:15 from
the Colasanto funeral home, 932
Bank street 70 Our Lady of Lourdes
church at 10 O'Clock. Burial will
be in the family plot, Calvary
cemetery. Friends may call at the
funeral home today from 2 to II
p. m.
The funeral OF Hiram Abel will
be held tomorrow afternoon at 2:30
at the Mill PLAIN Union church, Rev
Matthew G. Madden officiating
Burial will be in old Pine Grove
cemetery. Friends may call at the
Anderson funeral home, TO Central
avenue today from to 5 and 7 to
p. m.
The funeral of Mrs. Hannah Gal
| vim was held this morning at BE
| o'clock from the Mulville Funera
Home, 270 West Main street to the
Church of the Sacred Heart.
Rev. Albert Callahan celebrated
the solemn high Mass Of requiem
at 9 o'clock, assisted by Rev. Frank
lin Corrigan as deacon, and Rev
John Dial as Sub-deacon.
The honorary delegation, repre-
senting the Rosary Confraternity
of the church, included Mrs. Ernest
Parmalee, Mrs. John Howard, Mrs
William Colina, Mrs. Carrot Casey
Mrs. William Casey, Mrs. Nora Bar
rett, Mrs. James Carroll and Mrs
| John PearSall.
The bearers were Patrick Calvin
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06

Created by compact. adopted by
the legislatures of the signatory
states, as authorized by Congress
the commission represented only
New York and New jersey for the
first four years. Connecticut con-
Cured in the compact last year
and became a full-fledged partner
In the war on pollution in June
1941
Commission members represent
ing the three states are:
New York: Joseph P. Day, DIR. E
S. Godfrey, Jr.. william NJ Hof-
mann, J. Noel Macy, jeremiah D
Mcguire.
New Jersey: william P. Cope. J
Lester Eisner, Joseph N. Fowler
J. Spencer Smith, George c. War
ren, Jr.
Connecticut: Daniel F. B. Hick-
ey. DR.. S. H. Osborne, Francis A
Pallotu, Andrew Radel, Sanford II
Wadhams
The officers of the commission
are: Honorary chairman, Joseph P
Day; chairman, jeremiah D. Ma
guire; vice -chairmen, J. Lester Els
ner, Daniel F. B. Hickey; treasurer
J. Spencer Smith: executive secre.
tary, Seth G.. Hess.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06
$4,000 DAMAGES
ASKED IN ACTION
COmpulsion in Oral Agree
ment Also Sought in
Same Suit

Damages of 5000. a court order
compelling the defendant to per-
form her part of an oral agree
ment, and an injunction restraining
her from interfering with his pos
session of property on Stone street.
are sought in a civil action filed
in superior court today, by Fred
erick Sarro of Waterbury, against
Mary DeRosa, also Of this city.
The plaintiff charges that on last
June % the two entered into an
oral agreement, according to which
Sarro was to buy the property from
the defendant at a purchase price
: of 1850. Payment was to be made
by means of an $500 mortgage, $3.50
in cash, and the remaining $3.50 at
such time when the plaintiff should
ref1nance the real estate and secure
new first mortgage.
Since the date of the agreement,
Sarro alleges, he has improved the
premises, spending more than "a 900
towards that end.
Last November /, according to
the complaint, Sarro paid $3.50, Of
fered to pay for the $500 mortgage,
and requested a deed The defend
ant, 1t is alleged, declined to accept
the money or furnish the deed. Her
refusal, Sarro contends, threatens
him with loss of the property.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06
Labor Importation
Causing Difficulties
u S. Employment Service Head in Connecticut Conn
plains of Manufacturers Tactics

Hartford, Conn, Feb. 6.-Leonard
]. Maloney, director OF the U. S.
Employment Service In Connecticut
today charged that some manufac-
turers were adding to housing diff
ficulties and creating confusion in
the labor market by the importa-
ton of unskilled and semi-skilled
labor from outside the state.
He stated, further, that labor was
being recruited by fee-charging en-
ployment agencies on behalf of these
local concerns and that the situa-
ton was particularly bad in New
Britain and Hartford. A large num-
her of the workers are brought from
she middle west and from the other
New England states. One New Bri-
tain firm has been dealing with a
Manchester, New Hampshire fee
charging employment agency which
has been sending in large num-
Der of unskilled workers, charging
them each $12 and upward for the
job.
1.-THE effect of this type Of labor
the loss of job openings to Con-
necticut people who are being laid
off as result of material shortages
and the change-over from civilian
to war production. The employ
ment service has been trying to keep
the labor market balanced by di-
recting those laid off to war indus
tries that are expanding but with
uncontrolled migration the whole
problem becomes more confused"
1.-THE employment service has ask
ed the Connecticut Manufacturers
association to take action and has
furnished to the association the
names of the companies engaged in
importing labor. Connecticut en-
ployers may not realize it but be
securing labor in this manner they
are Fastening the day of complete
federal control of the labor supply.
The Connecticut Employment Serv-
ice has striven to prevent absolute
federal control of labor supply and
1t is for this reason that the infor-
nation in our possession has been
furnished the Manufacturers asso-
citation so they cam correct the
thing themselves"
Another sidelight on the present
labor situation" Mr.. Maloney said,
was the reluctance of some manu-
facturers to hiring more than one
member Of a family, preferring to
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06
SOL SHILLER
GIVEN NOLLE
Grace Wigglesworth Hurt
in Baldwin Street Acct.
dent Yesterday

Sol Shiller. 40, Of l66 Fulton Park
avenue. was given nolle In munich
pal court today on payment of IS
when his case was called before
Judge John L. Gaffney on charge
of road rule violation following an
accident in which Grace Wiggles-
worth, is, of q Madison street, sus-
tanned slight laceration of the left
eye.
Miss Wigglesworth was a passen-
ger In an automobile operated by
Edward Mardue Of 13 Baldwin lane
which was travelling north on Bald
win street yesterday when 1t COL
liGed with car operated by Peter
Hanlon of Depot street, Watertown,
Motor Patrolman George McElligott
said.
Hanlon was driving his automobile
south on Baldwin street when it was
hit by Shiller as the latter swung
eft into Baldwin street from
Louns0ury Damage to all three cars
was slight.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1942-02-06
CALLAHAN FACES
ROAD VIOLATION
Waterbury Driver Was in
SouthingtOn Crash; Mel
vim Jones Also Arrested

Southington, Feb. g. Robert CAL
lahan, IS, of 1853 North Main street,
Waterbury was arrested Thursday by
Policeman Edmund j. Foley on
charge of violating motor vehicle
laws after his car struck one driven
by George Welk Of 1873 Grove street.
Meriden on Southington Mountain.
Mr.. and Mrs. Welk were treated for
decorations at Meriden hospital.
Melvin T. Jones, of "a Pearl street,
Waterbury, was arrested Thursday
night by Policeman Edmund j. Foley
on a charge of violating motor We
hicle laws after truck he was
driving on Cheshire road allegedly
skidded into a porch of a building
owned by Vito Grasso OF Meriden-
Waterbury road. The porch was
moved back several feet by the i'm
pact. No one was hurt.
Janet Baye, 10, of Terryville, was
treated by local physician for cuts
on the legs Thursday night after she
was struck by car driven, by STAN
ley A. Marciniec of 101 Summer
street as he turned into High street
from North Main street. Officer Fo-
ley is investigating.