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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
CERTIFICATES FOR
FIRST AID CLASS
Members Requested to Call
at Red Cross Office for
Awards

First Aid certificates may be called
for at the Red Gross Office, 35 Field
St, by The following students who
successfully completed the Junior
First Aid course under Miss Leona
Keavaney at Wildly high school in
June: Mary Ciccomascolo; Elizabeth
Dezinno; Patricia Goodale, Alice
Kruska, Shirley O'Brien, Lorraine
Pronovost, Marcelle Pronovost, Rose
Spina, Arlene Marine, Marie Ted
esco, Bertha Vysicko, Dorthy Bur-
bee, Philomena Digliani, Ida Di-
Rupo, Marie Gugliotti, Florence
Gursky, Mary Hychko, Madeline
Jamele, Jane Jenner, Margaret
Morrissey, Geraldine O'Connor,
Rose Perrone, Anita Poll, Shirley
Russet, Katherine Vann, Jean An
derson, Doris Cabana, Carmela Clip
riano, Mary Clapp, Emma DiManno,
Theresa Fortier, Dorothy Grady
Edith Jones, Florence Laurinaitis,
Josephine Miele, Beverly Meyer,
Mary Opalak, Jennie OstroWski
Carmela Russo, Jean Score, Eileen
Walsh, Ruth Wendleberger, Gloria
Muscle, Betty Atherton, Bernice
Damsker, Lorraine DeSena, Mary
Frost, Nellie Kaslauskas, June Lee,
Marie Lerose, Thelma Lynch, Mar
garet MAR, Frances Olshefski, Mary
Overton, Barbara Reilly, Anne
Rigon, Alicia Roberts, Johanna
Rossi, Doris Struzinski, Mary Tuck
er, Lenora Whedbee, Elaine Wilke,
Agnes zickus, Dolores Zukauskas.
First Aid Certificates can be called
for at the Red Cross office, IS Field
street by the following students who
successfully completed the Junior
First Aid course under James w. Lee
at Wildly High school in June: Nor
man Fallstrom, Bernard Adler, Mar
vim Albert, Anthony Angelicola,
William Behr, Richard Capozzi,
Eugene Dwyer, William Hadley,
Alan Liskenstein, Edward Pimental,
Ralph Warner, Eugene Eschenko,
Earl Larriviere, Harvey Parsons,
Walter Phelan, Pearl Beere, John
Carroll Samuel LaRosa, William
Murray, Russell Whitaker, Jhon
zastko, Jean Guilbert, John Gillette,
Cecil Obar, Edward Piel, Samuel
Swirsky, John Stango, Louis Lom-
bard, Paul Frey, Francis Nelligan,
Claude Squires, Edward Gilchrest,
Thomas Salamone, John Lodarski,
Edwin Kreidel, Louis Biolo, Ralph
Dehillo, Steven Donofrio, William
Knuchel, Nicholas Lombard, Jr.,
George O'Rourke, Evo Quirici, Ed
ward Williams, William Sullivans,
Raymond Wright.
First Aid certificates may be called
for at the Red Cross office, IS Field
street by the following who sue
cessfully completed the standard
course under Herbert L. Woodcock
and Wilbur r. Stone on June 3,
1913: Josephine Burgio, William
Clapp, Mrs. William Clapp, Alfred
Guidita, John Pinto, Louis Rich
ezza, Josephine Szantyr.
First Aid certificates may be
called for at the Red Cross office,
IS Field street, by the following who
successfully complete thed standard
course under Dorothea E. Schuster
and Mrs. Helen J. Bormolini, June
Is, 1913: Emile Claus, Thelma Ell
bin, Barbara Gedraitis, Dorothy
Hamilton, Helen johnson, Ruth
Maier, Mrs. j. o. P. Manherz, Dor
othee Mayo, Helen Schienda.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
boy GOVERNOR
OF MICHIGAN
SERVED AT 10
BY JERRY RIDEOUT
United Press Staff Correspondent

united PreSS STAN correspondent
Detroit, July 19CUP)-At Is, Har.
old E. Stassen of Minnesota carries
the distinction of being the nations
youngest governor. But Michigan
once had a chief executive who
could spot him at least decade and
still win hands down.
He was Stevens Thomas Mason.
who was acting governor before he
was old enough to vie and officially
became the administrative head of
the Michigan territory at the age
of "a.
Actually, the hoy governor" as
he is known in history, came into
power when he was 10 years old. AS
one paper commented editorially,
1--WE are left in a rather novel predi-
cament. We have one judge and
one acting governor who, If he
lives until next October and no &C
cident befalls him will be 81 years
of age"
Governor Resigned
Mason was born Oct. q, 1911, near
Leesburg, Va, the son of John T.
Mason. The family moved to Ken
lucky shortly after the hoy gov
ernor" was born and came to Mich
igan in 1880 when the elder Mason
was appointed secretary of the ter
ritory by President Jackson.
Shortly after taking up his secre-
tarial duties in the territory, John
Mason resigned to move to Texas
ostensibly to assume ownership of a
large tract of land he had acquired
there. Some people, however, be-
lieve he was sent there as a per-
Sonal emisSary of the president to
lay the groundwork for annexation
of Texas, but this has never been
proven.
President Jackson named young
Stevens Thomas Mason secretary of
the territory to succeed his father
in July, 1881. The same month, the
governor of the territory to succeed
his father in July, 1881. The same
month. the governor of the terri
tory, Gen. Lewis Cass. later a candi-
date for president, resigned to be-
come secretary of war in Jacksons
cabinet and the youth became act
Ing governor.
Drew Opponents Praise
He executed the duties of chief
executive until Aug. 6, when jack
son named George B. Porter of Lam
caster, Pa, governor. Porter was
here only two months, however,
when his business necessitated his
return to Lancaster and young Ma
son again became acting governor.
Despite his youth, Mason did such
a creditable job that even his OPP
ponents, the champions of Henry
Clay and members of the Anti-Ma-
sonic party, praised him for his
work.
He ordered out the militia to help
put down the Blackhawk Indian war
but recalled the troops when fed
eral soldiers were sent here. He
also led the fight to get the state
admitted to the union and was
elected the first governor under the
constitution of 1885.
He was officially inaugurated gov.
ernor Nov. 8, 1885, fewer than five
months after his Oath birthday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
NAVY ISSUES
new MAP,0F
ANTARCTICA

Washington, July 10 - CU.P) -
A new chart of Antarctica and the
southern polar regions. covering g.
000, 900 square miles and in prepare
ton several years, has been issued
by the photographic Office Of the
Navy Department.
Combining all published inform
alton and much data of the area
never before seen on map, some
Of 1t collected by the U. S. Antarctic
Service under Rear Admiral Rich
ard E. Byrd, the maps creation
was supervised by Commander r. A.
j. English, who commanded the
polar survey ship The Bear on
Byrd's first trip to the region.
Antarctica is almost entirely
within the Antarctic Circle. 1t has
an area of nearly 100000 square
miles, almost equal to the COM
bined areas of the United States
and Europe. Its coastline of $4,000
miles is almost complete known.
but by far the greatest part of An
tarctica has never been seen by a
human. Unknown coastal sections
include the southwestern limits of
the Weddell Sea and q portion of
the cost of the Roosevelt Sea.
One mountain is named for Sec
rotary of the Interior Harold L.
1ckes, and tremendous glacier has
ben given the name of Cordell Hull.
secretly of state.
The chart also gives aceonic
depths of $500 fathoms.
Almost all the shore of Antarc-
tica touches the sea in high ice
cliffs which rise steeply at short dis
tances inland. The polar plateau is
about 10000 feet high. Mountain
ranges have peaks which tower to
$4,000 feet, and several volcanoes
have been observed.
There are few good harbors or
safe anchorages, and exploratory
vessels have been forced to moor to
ice foes, with steam up at all times
SO that they can be moved quickly
if weather or ice conditions should
change.
Details for the map were sup
piled by the U. S., and ships of the
British, French, Australian, New
Zealand, German and Norwegian
countries.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19

OF food. Last year, for instance
they grew and processed more than
is per cent of the entire country's
supply Of canned tomatoes.
This year their troubles are grow
ing with each succeeding crop. Peas
weren't so bad, even with almost all
their usual sources of resident and
migrant labor gone to war or to
war industries, because most of the
picking and canning is done by ma
chimes. String beans were worse,
and the grief encountered in get
ting in that crop is expected to be
multiplied when the peak of the
tomato season begins within the
next few days. Farmers in this sec
ton expect a yield equal to last
seasons 100000 tons, and Wicomico
County alone anticipates an excess
of 100000 baskets over its Gamer
les full capacity. But no one ex-
poets this capacity to be reached,
for tomato picking and canning are
largely manual operations. Amer
lean ingenuity has yet to design a
machine that will successfully peel
a tomato, and this year there aren't
enough hands to go round.
GET LITTLE HELP
What worries eastern shore far
mers and Gamers most is the recol-
lection of the response they got to
their calls for help when the bean
crop was ripe. They aappealed to the
Army, but found that men in near
by camps were in combat status"
and couldn't be released for farm
work. The Coast Guard at nearby
Ocean City, could only send eight
men for a limited time.
Just outside Salisbury Is a camp
for IS conscientious DIRECTORS. VOL
unteer pickers were called for there,
and SIS responded. Soon after they
started work, however, they found
that the farmer for whom they were
picking had a contract with the
government, and that some of the
beans they picked might eventually
find their way to Army mess kits.
So they staged a Shutdown strike
between the rows until the farmer
sent them home.
The county agent then hunted
up a grower who was selling in the
open market, and appealed to the
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19

General Henri Honore Giraud's
official story of how he defied ar
rest by going voluntarily into
enemy territory and personally
refusing the Nazi demand that he
return to Germany's Koenigstein
prison, from which he had made
a sensational escape. is told for
the first time in Golfers Weekly
by Paul Bringuier, member of
the Generals personal staff after
his arrival in North Africa.
Bringuier first obtained from
the General the authentic story
of his defiance of the Nazis and
the leaders of Vichy France dur
ing a two-hour period of leisure
forced upon the mustachioed war
rior by an Axis air raid on Al
giers. Giraud told him, shortly
after he reached unoccupied
France via Switzerland from Ger
many, he was called to Vichy to
see Marshal Petain.
During their conference Pierre
Laval, the French collaborationist
entered and told Giraud that
what you have done is .unpar-
donable you will have to go
back to Keonigstein."
"Giraud gazed in stupefaction
at this strange Frenchman,"
writes Bringuier' Under the
steady gaze of this true soldier,
Laval merely sneered and lowered
his eyes. Giraud saluted the Mar
shall and left the room'
After three more recalls to Vichy
Giraud finally agreed to accom-
pany Laval and Admiral Darlan
into the enemy's territory for a
meeting with Otto Abetz, Nazi
leader of occupied France.
Here's Giraud's version of the
exchange of conversation at that
meeting, as he told it to Brin-
guier:
Your escape is a scandalous
and deplorable affair."" said Abetz.
I'm the interests of future Fran
co-German collaboration you will
have to return to Koenigstein. If
you do so, we will set free $4,000
French prisoners, perhaps more"
what guarantee will you give
me that this promise will be kept
if I do return?"
THE word of Germany" re-
piled Abetz.
1T am afraid I have no con-
fidence in Germany's word" was
Giraud's answer.
Abetz rose, his face livid with
fury, and told Giraud:
II do not believe that we have
anything more to say to each
other. You are disregarding the
interests of your country, Gen.
eral."
He then hesitated but, instead
of ordering Giraud arrested, gave
him the Nazi salute after shaking
hands with Laval and Darlan and
disappeared, writes Bringuier who
adds:
"A manned German general
who had accompanied Abetz ex-
tended his one remaining hand to
the French general, as if to say
CndC lie SOJDleT, was dSOdIueu
Of the attitude OF the NaZl
chief"
Back in unoccupied France Gil
raud, although constantly sha-
dowed by Laval's police, managed
to see a group of patriots who
had been smuggled from North
Africa and agreed to accept
leadership" in the fight to liberate
France. During the subsequent
months of planning Giraud moved
several times, finally ending up
In Marseille from which he de-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
INVITE GOVERNOR
TO E. EXERCISES
Bristol Company Arranges
Interesting Program for
Presentation

The employees and management
of the Bristol Company will be
honored by the presence of Cover
nor Raymond E. Baldwin at the
presentation ceremony of the Army
Navy 'E' Thursday afternoon, July
20, and Congressman Joseph E. Tai
bot as master of ceremonies.
Commander Edward N. Parke, U.
S. N, holder of the Navy Cross and
two Gold Stars for his activity In
the naval battles of Guadalcanal
Badoeng Straits. will make the
presentation. Howard H. Bristol,
company president, will be the hon.
ored recipient.
Captain G. o. Waetrling, U. S.
Army, will present e. pins to four
employees representatives at the
ceremony. Walter H. Roberts, oldest
employe in point of service, will
speak on behalf of the employees.
Employees to accept the pins are:
Mr.. Roberts, w. H. Booth, Miss
Olive Marshall and Miss Marion
Rose. After teh ceremony, all en-
loyes of the company will be given
"E" pins.
The color guard of the Nauga-
tuck Rangers, Connecticut State
Guard, will preside at the raising
of the flag. The national anthem
will be led by Miss Betty Maher
and the Recorder Club band. The
Invocation will be delivered by
Rev. John c. Walker of the Second
Congregational church and bene-
diction by Rev. Francis M. O'Shea,
pastor of the Immaculate Concep-
ton church.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
COP. COMMITTEE
MEETING TONIGHT
Discussion Slated on Pro-
pOsal to Reduce Primary
Filing Fees

Tonight's meeting of the Republi-
can town conventions special COM
mittee will decide on the conven-
tons request that the filing fee for
delegates in primaries be decreased
from $25 to SIS district.
The committee, however, has the
controlling rein to make any recon-
mendation it wishes to at the next
meeting of the town convention
which will ltake place at the
YMCA, Monday evening, July 26.
During last Mondays meeting OF
the convention the Young Republic
can clubs request that the present
party rule which requires that each
candidates in a party primary file
with the Republican town commit
tee a fee of $25 for each of the 80
voting districts in which he runs
was discussed.
However, the convention didn't
act upon it; instead recommended
at the fee be lowered from $25 to
SIS. Others want 1t lowered to $40
The members of the Subcommit-
tee which viii Inject tonight are:
Walter T. Smethrust, Albert j. Hum
mel. j, Warren Upson, Cora Ross
and Lillian Prescott.
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assignment for vacation. But
local Boy Scout troop did an excel
lent job, and will be used again
during the tomato season.
At the Dulaney Packing Co., near
Salisbury, G. H. Mezick, the super
intendent of production, pointed to
a machine at which several women
were sorting beans. Those women
over there have been with us for
years. We have been with us for
years. We don't get any help from
the bridge-playing housewives.
Those that have maids won't even
give the maids any time off to help
us out"
LOSE MIGRATORY LABOR
The canneries are even harder
hit than the farms. Besides those
workers who have gone into service
or to better paying industrial jobs,
many others have gone back to the
farm. Agricultural workers are
draft-exempt, but food processing is
still considered a non-eSsential in
dustry.
In past years these six counties
leaned heavily upon migratory la
Dor. but plentiful industrial work
with good salaries has dried up this
source, too. Where workers from
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
WATERBURY MEN
DISCOVERED BODY
Leon G. Smith, Hotchkiss
School Employe, browns
in Lakeville Lake

Funeral services will be held at
Lake Placid, his former home, for
Leon Garfield Smith, 38. employee
of Hotchkiss school, who was found
drowned in Lake WononScopomuc,
Lakeville Lake., on Saturday af-
ternoon.
Medical Examiner DR.. Clark Peter
son ascribed death to accidental
drowning. 1t was understood that
Smith, whose body was found fully
clad by Stanley Moriarty and Sergt.
Makarewich of Alder street, Water
bury, coul dnot swim. He had been
missing from his home since Thurs
day.
Smith is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Smith OF Lake
Placid; three brothers, Ellis, Lake
Placid, Kenneth, Rochester N. Y,
and John, stationed with the Army
at Fort Dix, N. j., four sisters,
Mrs Barbara Higgins. New York
| city, Mrs. Daisy Jackson, Hartford,
Mrs. Bina Caffrey, Glens Falls,
N. Y, and Mrs. John Tasjian, Lake
Vile
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
DRUGGISTS HOLD
SUMMER MEETING

President Stephen Grosch pre-
sided at the meeting of the Water
bury Druggists Association yester-
day at the home of Past President
Paul Kunkel on Todd road, VOL
colt.
At the meeting, the druggists dis
cussed the action of the state legis-
lature in passing a law allowing the
employment of boys over IA in mer-
camille establishments and on farms
while forgetting to repeal law for
bidding such employment. 1t was
decided to obtain legal opinion to
see If such hiring would be legal.
The meeting also discussed other
legislation and OPA regulations af-
fecting Drug stores
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19

The death of Morris Green takes from the midst OF
Waterburys business of the finest and farest
that fair city will know The life of Morris Green
reads like of Horatio Ayers visions of what young
man can do and did reach the pinnacle of
in his chosen field Simple and humble from the begin
ming was loyal and grateful to his customers his
friends and his fine family. His knowledge not the
type you extracted from the halls of UNCOVERED collie
gate buildings Yet with what he acquired through the
road of hard Knocks he managed to do much for many
used to like to meet Mr.. Green-either the street
he aunted along quite ary with his Malacca cane
behind the counters of his beautiful streamlined
store which has assumed Institutional proportions since
moving into the building. He was ever ready for
phlosophic discourse analysis of the economic sit
uaon and his thoughts very hastily decorated with
good common and sound Judgment He loved his
family - that he could be mighty proud o. - and
they returned the affection in small portion While
death is sad and certain to ALL it has compromising
virtue 1t gives the living chance for sober evauation
the contribution of the departed to the world he has
Just left behind. Truly, indeed, in the of Morris
Green, it be truhully written without fear of
tradction, that his contribution to this world
bounteouS He has monuments in many places that
bespeak the magncence of his daily efforts His home,
his family his business and friends but few of these
tangible mementos. Bigger and better still, is the
donabe spirit of honesty fairness and Kindness which
has left heritage to his good wife and children
Things that far enduring and present in
the hearts and minds of his loved they mediate
his deep loss to them. May they draw much consoa
ton from knowing these things full well and the thoughts
that here that anyone may be proud Of Peace
to his ashes and deepest sympathy to his loved
in their great loss.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
EQUAL PAY FOR
WOMEN WORKERS

Miss Katherine Grant, former
Naugatuck woman, now coordinato1
of vocational training of the Phila.
delphia. school district, had a mum.
Der of comments to make Saturday
on the subject Of women in indus.
try. Miss Grant is visiting relatives
here.
Miss Grant believes that 1t wouls
be wise for foremen In war produc.
ton plants to explain to new women
workers just what the parts they
are producing are used for, thereby
helping her to take more pride in
her work. She advocated rest per.
iods for new women workers who
are unaccustomed to standing eight
hours a day at work. She said thai
women are entitled to equal pay
with men, that they are potentially
as good factory producers as men
and that they will be glad to go back
to their homes as soon as they are
no longer wanted in war work.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19

the South used to pour into Mary
land at harvest time, the packers
and farmers are now going out in
search of them. One Gamer sent
several trucks south to try to round
up the $50 workers he needed to
operate at capacity. The trucks
came back with nine Homen.
NEGROES ARE PROBLEM
Last season the peninsula en-
ployed about 5000 migrants. This
year it will be lucky to get 200o
Included in that number are 1900
Bahamian Negroes brought in by
the government, their services al
ready contracted for by few big
growers. Earlier in the season there
were several hundred jamaican
workers in Maryland, but their gov
eminent requested that they be
moved above the Mason-DiXon line
They we're excellent workers, and
Maryland farmers hated to see
them go. But the Jamaicans would
neither associate with American
Negroes nor submit to the Southern
racial discrimination that their
dark skins invited, so it was thought
best to move them while the threat
of double trouble was no more than
a threat.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
TOWNSPEOPLE GIVE LITTLE AID
IN MARYLAND'S CROP CRISIS
Even Harvesting Imported Boonons
Are Small Part Of Needed Migrant Labor
BY JAMES THRASHER
NEA staff Cnrresnnndent

Salisbury Md, July
eastern nothing
them to do They almost in
millions dollars them
unless help getting those tomatoes
quickly
be
This
Maryland
don of general problem peaceime
wholly
And what happens in
country for these six small counties
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-19
BANDIT LIKES" HOTEL

Los Angeles, Cal, (UP)-If there
is anything in the world that John
F. Kraft, clerk in a local hotel, de-
plores, it is the matter of habit.
He told the police he had been
robbed three times in succession by
the same bandit. The last time,
the bandit stuck revolver in his
ribs and relieved him of $183.07
The bandits parting words were
II like it here. I'll take the 7 cents
also for carfare. Toodle-oo."
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conscientious DIRECTORS again. This
time % answered the call. They
worked five hours and picked GO
bushels. And that was the extent
of their contribution.
5-AND-10 GIRLS HELP
1t wasn't all that bad. The Sal
isbury five-and-ten released one
shift of employees in the mornings
and another in the afternoons to
help with the picking. But an ap-
peal over the salisbury radio sta
ton for 1000 workers brought only
IS responses. In all, Salisbury con-
tributed 100 townspeople a day for
three days, although farmers were
paying SO cents hamper to pick
ers instead of the usual 80 cents.
One group of boys picked one
hamper apiece and then went SWIM
ming. Another group was i'm
ported from Baltimore and was
sent home after two days when it
turned out that they mistook their