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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

Deputy Coroner Miles McNiff started an investigation immediate ly after the accident. Sergeant Charles McWeeney and Motor Pa- trolman Vincent Begg also investi- gated. Mrs. F1orian was released on her own recogniZance.
 The two women had been visiting with Mrs. Celia Daskum of 103 Chestnut avenue and Mrs. Marietta Sage of 153 Willow street and were enroute to the center to meet Mrs. Florian's daughter, Miss Mildred Florian.
 The pole was snapped at the base. Police believe that Mrs. Florian was frightened by the steepness of the First avenue grade at Hillside avenue and stepped on the gas pedal instead of the brake. The accident happened about 4:l0 o'clock yesterday afternoon and Mrs. Platts was dead at 4:30 o'clock.
 She had been resident of Rey- holds Bridge for 23 years and served as a teacher at the Reynolds Bridge school.
 She was born in Eldred, Pa, e daughter of Eugene K. and Lucinda (Allen) Neff. She was 6 member of the Methodist church and the Society for Christian Service.
 Surviving her are her father and husband, two daughters, Mrs Wal lace Smith and Miss Danna Platts of Reynolds Bridge and son, George R. plattS of Pound Ridge, N. Y. She also leaves 8 grand- daughter, Jean Audrey Smith of this place.
 The body was taken to the Hotch- kiss Funeral Home, Thomaston Funeral arrangements are incorI1- plete.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
STATE OR FEDERAL
 EMPLOYES WARNED
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have maintained legal voting resi- dences in their respective homes for many years despite efforts at times to remove them from local voting lists on the grounds of non-resi- dence.
 The certificates to be filled with Registrars of Voters this year and in future years also must be sub- scribed and sworn to before @ Mo- tary Public or other officer commis- sioner to administer oaths under the law.
 The law further requires that such certificate of residence, in this in- stance as in others where there may be doubt as to residence, must be filed at least r days prior to elec- ton day.
 Waterbury, as well as other Con- necticut cities, has @ large number of voters, resident in Washington who will be affected by this law at the coming state and national elec- tions. ..-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
TAX LIEN FILED
 AGAINST HOSPITAL

Frank w. Krae4ner, deputy col- lector of internal revenue, yesterday afternoon filed in the town clerks offlce federal tax lien against Mrs. w. Louise Fitzgerald, of the Con- necticut Children's Hospital, Water- town avenue.
 Listed in 1t were unemployment taxes for 1888 through 194l, federal insurance contributions for 1887 through 1941 and the first quarter of this year. According to the lien they are allegedly unpaid.
 Penalty and interest on the taxes were computed at $696.83.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

(Continued from Page D Savings Bank as follows: $2l5092; $7,493.63; and $1,28l.s4; Colonial Trust Go. Checking account) $6341.- 66; and Colonial Trust Go. (under will of Charles Miller) $7470.39.
 Bonds listed include: City of Bridgeport. 5 per cent, due July !, 1946, $4610 plus interest $21.l1; City of Bristol, due Nov. 1, 1852, $3885 plus interest $4O.S3; City of Water bury Isolation Hospital, $7350 plus interest $26.39.
 Other assets are 1927 Packard sedan, $50; 6 1884 Packard sedan, $65; househould furniture and ef- fleets; jewelry and furs and cloth ing. The latter three items have had no definite value determined and a nominal value of $1 each Is listed in the inventory.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
% x WhatHo~R|yW1M
 WAR B0NDS

The amphibian tank or tractor is . product of modern warfare and It's function is to convey supplies and reserve troops from transports to the battle scene after the initial force has established a beach head or base of operations ashore. The tractors ability to navigate from land to water obviates the necessity for transshipment of supplies at the waters edge, process formerly in- volving great risk of life and equip. ment loss.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
BY EDWARD w. BEATTTE Limited Press Staf4 Correspondent

BY EDWARD w. BEATTTE
 United Press Staff COrTespOndent)
 London, June 20 = (U.P) Ger many had @ seizure of invasion jit- ters today as 1t watched with evi- dent interest the talks at washing ton between President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill. It reported that Britain was clear ing a big area of Eastern England which would be a logical concentra- ton point fof invasion troops and warned that 1t was sowing gigan- tic mine field to close of the entire Skagerrak, entrance to the Baltic Sea.
 The Berlin radio reported that persons Living within certain dis trict in the heart of East Anglia were to be evacuated with all their belongings by July 20 by order of the British war office.
 "The area in question is to be taken over by the British army" Berlin said. Discussion of the meas- ure is forbidden in Britain"
 East Anglia is that part of Eng land north and east of London di- rectly opposite Holland and Bell gium, an area in which hundreds of thousands of troops might be mass ed if 8 big scale continental inva- sion were undertaken.
 The only word here regarding the area was a war office announcement that 1t had bought several farms" in East Anglia to be used for train ing areas" and Q spokesman ex- plained that naturally the area would be evacuated when training" began.
 The German announcement of new mining claimed that the entire outer sea from southwestern Norway to northeastern Denmark would be mined to a width of from l20 to 75 miles SO as to close the Skagerrak.
 The mine field is to extend 120 miles from the Lister Light, on the southwest Norway coast, to the Tyboroen Channel on the north- west Denmark coast, and extend irl- to the entrance to the Baltic.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
METAL HOSE SETS
 UP NEW COMMITTEE

According to the War Production Board the American Metal Hose Company of this city, branch of the American Brass, has set up a labor-management committee, one of six additional ones recently cre- ated throughout Connecticut.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
HIS BEST ANGLE

Jack Carson turned to Ida Lu- RiKo on the set of "The Hard Way" 70 Warner Bros, and said, .1da, watch me closely in this next scene. Agy real artistry comes out; I play Nilh my back to the camera
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

Amphibian tanks in some cases may be used as an assault weapon where rivers or streams must be crossed on the battle field. It is heavily armored, carries a compile ment of guns and costs approxi. mately $6O,O0O. Our Army and Ma rine Corps is using these new war implements and needs hundreds of them. Buy War Bonds every pay day and you can help pay for them. Help your community top It's War Bond Quota. U.S. Tssassgy Dsbs,,msnt
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
JOHN T. SULLIVAN DIES

Lakeville, Mass, June 2o-(UP)- Rep. John T. Sullivan CD Cam bridge died at Q sanatorium here yesterday at the age of ST, after several months illness. He was serv- ing his second term.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
Woman Passenger In
 Local Auto Accident
Mrs. Frank PIatts of Reynolds Bridge, Victim; Mrs:
 Clara FIOrian, Driver, Released By Coroner

Mrs Frank Platts, 61, of Waterbury Road Reynolds Bridge died yesterday afternoon at Waterbury Hospital
 result chest injury suffered when the car in which riding crashed into pole at 27 First Avenue The car was operated by Mrs Clara Forian, 50 of 89 High Street. Thomaston librarian at the Thomaston Public
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
BRITISH PLANES
 SMASHED EMDEN
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ton raids. caused Air Marshal Str A. T. Harris, commanding the bomber command, to send out fleet of anywhere up to 300 planes for an attack on Germany.
 It was only when the planes had reached their objective, according to reliable informants, that they found the weather so bad they had difl- culty in finding their targets.
 Conditions were so bad, 1t was said, that the air ministry consid- cred the advisability of withholding a formal announcement that the raid had been made.
 Usually British bombers which can not find the targets charted for them, return with their full bomb loads rather than waste them in indiscriminate bombing along the German pattern, which causes civ- ilian damage but does nothing to harm the enemy's war effort.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

tank attack while parachutists landed in the British defense area.
 A British military commentator said that 1t seemed likely the Axis forces would regroup but that it was not yet clear whether they would essay an attack on the main British line along the Egyptian
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

ANASS@A@~~B eSSSg-SsA 9 a. n.-Rigistration of supervisors 9:30 a. 1n.-Opening remarks -
 James J. Curtin, Superintendent
 of Parks.
 1000 a. m.-"First Aid On the
 Fairgrounds" J. Carroll
 Knibbs, American Brass Com
 pany.
 Afternoon Session
 200 p. m.-"Importarce of Good
 Leadership on the Fairgrounds
 William K. Schofield, Crosby
 High school faculty.
 300 D. r1.-"Playground Regula-
 tions and Programs" = William
 J. Derwin assistant supervisor
 of recreation.
 4 D. rn.-Assignment of staff.
 4:30 p. m.-Dismissal.
 Playground Appointments, 1942 Girls - Mildred Bruzas, Alice Buckley, Mrs. Mary Byrnes, Gladys Claps, Anne Colangelo, Ann Cam pion, Betty Collins, Rosemary Day Mary E. Donnelly, Mary B. Farrell Mrs. Kevin Fitzpatrick, Jeanne Greenblatt, Lois Holcomb, Caroline Hayes, Florence Jenusaitis, Velma Weefe, Evelyn M.' Kenny, Eleanor Krugelis, Claire Lee, Mrs. Elizabeth Luddy, Edna Lazdauskas, Margaret McGrath, Mary Mccormack, Jean O'Rourke, Mary Riordan, Mrs. Ellen Reidy, Yvette Robitaille, Eda Si- monson, Jewel Sullivan, Shirley Weinberg, Claire Heyniger.
 Boys-John Bergin, Richard Cum mings, John Barley, Peter Garrity, Howard Gilland, James Hanraha1l, William Hayes, O'Dell Hale, Fran cis Kelley, John Kieley, Frank Kar- velis, Ted Kobrin, George H. Noo- nan, Robert Palmer, Raymond Pal- mer, Chris. Kelley, Robert Ray, Ste- phen Rock, Joseph Smith, William Thompson, Walter Valunas, Richard John Marinara, Albert Au- dette.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

Gene Lockhart has a diamond ring which was presented to him by Q person unknown to him either by sight or name.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

Tommy Radzevich, secretary to (songressman-at-Large Lucien J. Adnciora and former Representative from Torrington in the General As- Ger1nly has been commissioned an Ensign in the Naval Reserve and is nov on active duty in Washington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
DIED

sTAsELUNAs-In this city, June 18th, 1942, Mrs. vinc%nt EtAhiApnss' of SC Congress Ave. Funeral Mon day morning, at S:45 o'clock, from Dellniks Funeral Home, F Con- gress Ave, to St. Joseph's Church. Burial in Calvary cemetery. sCHLEGEL-In this city, June 18th, 1942, Mrs, Mary Sophia Schlegel, of Randolph Ave. Funeral to be private. Burial in Riverside cetne- tery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

The Great Lakes constitute half of the fresh water supply in the world.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and nelghbors, for floral offerings and the ex- presslong of sympathy and kind. ness shown us during our recent the death of our be- loved wife, mother and sister, Mary Scott Splettstosher.
 (Slgned)
 ROBERT c. sPLETTsTosHER
 and SON, ROBERT, JR,, MRS. HAROLD SLAIN, si-,,.s
 (Daughter)
 MRS. HELEN Mckay,
 (Sister) ., LOUIS SCOTT, ls
 (Brother)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
ROOSEVELT TALKS
 WITH CHURCHILL

Continued from Page D consequence until they are trars- lated into action.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
AIDES CHOSEN
 BY PARK DEPT.
Official Playground Open- ing Scheduled for
 Tuesday

Waterbury's parks, playgrounds, and other recreational facilities will be thrown open to the public offi- cially Tuesday morning with com plete and competent staffs in charge, according to an announcement this morning by William T. Derwin, supervisor of playgrounds.
 A list of appointments was an- nounced by the Park Department today, as well as the schedule for the annual Playground Institute program which will be held all day Monday.
 For the benefit of the thousands of defense workers in Waterbury, many of them newcomers in the city since year ago Park Depart ment officials pointed out the ad- vantages of the city's two swimming pools at Chase and Hamilton Park, the facilities of which are available, free of charge, every day in the week, including Saturday and Sum- day.
 There will be fourteen play grounds, two pools, two wading pools, and 18 tennis courts in use this summer. The tennis courts have been in operation for some time past, but the remaining facil- ities will be opened on Tuesday.
 Weekdays these recreational fa- cilities will be available from 9 a. m. to g p. T1., except Saturday and Sunday. On Saturday they will close at 5 p. m. On Sunday they will be closed, except the swimming pools.
 Speakers at the Playground In- stitute this year include J. Carroll Knibbs of the American Brass Com- pany, William K. Schofield of the Crosby High School faculty, and MT. Derwin.
 The program for Monday is as follows: ..
 One Day
 Playground Institute Program
 Hamilton Park Pavilion
 Monday, June 22, 1942
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
MISS MARGARET
 MILLER ESTATE

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

The board of fire commissioners probably will be asked tO grant leaves of absence to two more fire men who are planning to enlist in the navy. This will require clarifl- cation of statements by board members that future applications for leaves would be rejected when permission was granted Private Timothy DOwd to leave his post and enter the navy. The two who are planning to enlist are subject Co early induction through selec- tive service channels. Apparently the board members intended by their statements to discourage ad- dltionaI enlistments Of firemen who might be in deferred cIassifi- cations It is not believed that tke board would take an arbitrary stand to prevent . man from choosing his branch of service.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
HITLER IGNORES
 LOSSES IN MEN

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

ID date two candidates have been annOunced-Mayor William A. lsatten of Torrington who un- occasionally can go before the convention with the ma jOrity of Lltchfield county delegates sewed up; and Larry Kenny, a Water burian who would be capable of putting on an enthusiastic and tsorng campaign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20
MRS. WILLIAM J.. z
 SCHLECEL DEAD

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-20

All of which brings us around to the political battle which will be most interesting to folks in this neck of the woods-the battle for s&ongressman from the Fifth District.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
MoiherIess Girl,
IS, Kills Father
Shotgun bIost Ends
Many Abuses

VALLEY VIEW, Pa, March
13-(R)-A motherless, 15-year-
old girl who tearfully complain
ed that her father haI. abused
her once too often shot and
killed him last night, state po-
lice reported today.
Private H. E. Bell of the state
motor police said Peter Peoletti,
44-year-old farmer, had been
killed by a shotgun blast in the
back of the head.
With Schuylkill county detec-
tives Louis Buono and Bruce
Clayton, Bell related that Peo-
letti's young daughter told them
that her father had beaten her
frequently. She was taken into
custody by the detectives but no
charges have been filed.
Bell reported that father and
daughter had lived alone on a
little farm in an isolated section
near this eastern Pennsylvania
community since Mrs. Peoletti
died. Last midnight, he said the
girl told him, Peoletti tried to
abuse her again. She snatched
up a shotgun and fired, later
fleeing to the home of two
brothers living nearby.
The officers said the brothers
also told of i'll treatment at the
hands of their fathe'.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
Famous State
Detective Dies
Heart AiIment
Claims Cy Hutson

EAST LANSING, March 10
(P)-Detective Lieutenant Philip
L. Hutson of the state police,
famous in Michigan as crime
fighter, died of heart attack in
Springfield, ILL.,, yesterday.
Hutson, widely known as
"Cy," won 10 citations for his
exploits in solving bank robbery
and murder cases in Is years
state police experience. He had
an important part in tracking
down and planning the cleanup
of the notorious gang of bank
robbers known as the Bentz
mob, after they had robbed a
Grand Haven bank and made
good their escape in blaze of
gunfire.
The Lieutenant, who was as,
was in Springfield with Sheriff
AL Hastings of Berrien county
on an extradition case when he
became i'll yesterday afternoon,
returned to his hotel room, and
died within a short time.
A native of Niles, Mich, he
was assistant chief of police in
that city before becoming a
member of the state police staff.
He was a veteran of overseas
service in the first World War.
In the State Police he was
known as an apostle of good
we'll" policy toward povuce Of
ficers, and generous in sharing
credit with them in the solution
of crimes. Criminals feared him,
yet he was known as detective
with a heart" who was quick to
sympathize with and assist the
ones who tried to Ito straight"
after they had finished prison
terms.
Hutson, who was unmarried,
is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Minnie l.. Hutson; a sister, Miss
Ruth Hutson of Niles, and by a
brother, Thomas of Detroit.
The body is to be taken to
Nile for funeral services.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
U.S.. bProuide
Families

WASHINGTON, March 13 -
Up Families of civilians who
are killed, disabled or captured
by the enemy in American out
posts will receive temporary
benefit payments ranging from
$50 to S85 a month, the Secur-
ity Administration announced
today.
A widow or wife without chill
dren will receive between $40
and $45 monthly; with one child
between $40 and $50; with two
children between $50 and SIS;
and with three or more children
between $50 and $85. The scale
is based on monthly earnings
of the persons affected by enemy
action.
The benefits are restricted to
families of civilians affected by
enemy action outside the con-
tinental United States.
Under another program, an
nounced last night, civilians in
America who are injured by
enemy action including sabo-
tage, will be given free hos
pital treatment.
Temporary treatment will be
furnished by casualty receiving
hospitals, presumably in cities
attacked, and later by emergen-
cy base areas outside of cities.
These hospitals are now being
selected.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13

WASHINGTON. March 10
R>-The office for Emergency
Management is still" trying to
find out what happened to all the
pots and pans donated by house
wives in the aluminium salvage
drive nearly seven months ago.
The information division of
the office has telegraphed the 20
aluminium smelters which handl-
ed the scrap asking for the exact
status of utensils still at the
shelters or already in ingot
form.
Some of the questions which
DEM has been unable to answer
in the face of repeated inquiries,
are: How much aluminium, IL any
has not yet gone to the smelters?
How much aluminium collected
during the campaign actually
has gotten into war production?
How much of it was bought by
the RFC Metals Reserve COM
pany and how much of it was
sold by the shelters direct to in
dustrial users?
One war production board
spokesman said comparatively
little of the aluminium reclaimed
from the pots and pans went into
plane production because of it's
inferior quality, but that the
campaign produced a highly val
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
See Milk
Control
Necessary

LANSING, March 13-(R-
A special mediating commission
seeking to settle issues still re-
naming from last winters De-
troit milk strike informed Gov
ernor Van Wagner Thursday
its investigations established a
need for state regulation of the
milk marketing industry.
The commissions report said
litigation might be required to
settle the big point at issue in
the dispute and recommended,
meanwhile, that "all parties
keep the natural flow of milk
into the Detroit area during
this war period"
Governor Van Wagner, ac-
cepting the report, said he fer
vently joined in that recon-
mendation, describing protec-
ton of the milk supply as of
equal importanc, to protection
of hospital and public utility
services. 1T just can't be al
lowed to be disrupted" he
said.
The chief issue, the commits
sion reported, is existence of
an "equaliza IN committee"
composed of members of the
Michigan Milk Producers Asso-
citation. A rival organization of
farmers, known as the United
Dairy Farmers Union, contests
legality of the equalization COM
mittee which controls the ma
chinery through which the price
paid to farmers for their milk
is computed.
The Producers Association
has denied the u. D. F. repre-
sentation on the committee, and
deals with SO per cent Of dis
tributors in the Detroit metro
politan area, who distribute
about 80 per cent of the milk
sold there, the mediation COM
mission said.
The commission, headed by
Thomas J. Donahue, chairman
of the State Labor Mediation
Board, declined to pass judg-
ment on legality of the arrange
ment, holding this was mat
ter for courts to decide.
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13

NEW YORK, March 13-(P)-
A highly trained staff of Associ-
ated Press new smen, headed by
c. Yates First to arrive-last to
leave) Mcdaniel, is on the job
around the clock in Australia,
speeding the latest war news by
wireless and cable to The Daily
Monitor md the 400 other A
member newspapers.
Long before the situation in
the Western Pacific became cri-
tical the Associated Press COM
pleted plans for comprehensive
coverage the news that SEEM
ed certain TO develop in and
around Australia. Those plans
were put into effect and a bur-
eau set up in Melbourne, where
Mcdaniel is ably assisted by Tom
Yarbrough and Vcrn Haugland,
both experienced reporters. In
addition TO these staff correspon-
dents, there are many special AP
correspondents spotted at stra-
tegic places through Australia.
ONE OF GREAT STORIES
Grave and prematurely gray,
Mcdaniel was the first American
correspondent to arrive in Sing
apore and the last to leave. His
Goodbye to Singapore" story,
front-paged by new aper
throughout the country, was-in
the words of a managing editor
Zone of the great stories of all
times"
Sitting in a Singapore hotel
room, Mcdaniel watched waves
The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-03-13
UnmerciMlS SUB
Crew Sinks 2
Lieb0Qts

PHILADELPHIA, March 13-
(P)-The tale of an unmerciful
submarine crew which first sank
a tanker by shellfire and then
ran down and smashed through
two lifeboats and liferaft was
entered today in the evergrow-
ing sea legends of the second
World War.
1t was told by four survivors
of a crew of 38 aboard a med
ium-sized u. S. tanker which
went down in the Caribbean sea
February %.
For more than a week they
drifted on two small RATS after
the submarine, striking without
warning, fired about 200 shells
into their ship. 1t was not tor
pedoed, they said, but sank with
in five hours after the attack.
The quartet was picked up by
another ship on March 5 and
landed here Tuesday night.
The navy confirmed the ships
loss yesterday, but under a new
policy, did not make public its
name. It's sinking has been re-
ported in earlier dispatches from
a Caribbean point, however, and
the Navy announcement did not
increase the Axis submarine toll
1t was indicated that from
other sources at least 26 sail
ors had been saved and put
ashore in Caribbean ports al
though a naval spokesman was
without official information re-
garding the fate of the captain,
|. j. Nielsen, and the 33 others
The survivors landed here
are third mate Garland John
son; first assistant engineer Will
liam l.. Alden; third assistant
engineer Howard c. Brady. ali
of Fort Arthur, Tex, and wiper
Joseph Ivy Dupuis, GRANVILLE
La.