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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
DEMURRER FILED
in CITY ACTION
Four StratfOrd Residents
Suing City of Waterbury
for $4,000

Decision was reserved by Superior
Court Judge John A. Cornell today
on a demurrer filed by four STRAIT
ford residents against a special de-
tense of the City of Waterbury in
their $1,000 damage suit. The
plaintiffs. Paul and Doris Della
Hunta and Edwin and Doris Mac
Keever. seek damage as the result
Of injuries sustained March 20, 1912
when the car in which they were
passenger struck the traffic stanc-
ion at WATERFOWL avenue and Rob-
bins street.
The City through Corporation
Counsel Maurice T. Healey, claims
1t was performing q governmental
function by maintaining the traffic
standard and therefore cannot be
held liable for any negligence that
might result from the operation.
Attorney william Lawior, counsel
for the plaintiffs. pointed out the
suit was based on charges Of nuis-
ance ard negligence and that gov
ernmental immunity from damages
cannot be claimed for nuisance.
The jurlst queried whether the
Sanction was held 10 DO inherently
dangerous or whether Il became
dangerous because q Negligent
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
I'd r Ponders
Food Message

Washington, Oct. - (U.P0 -
President Roosevelt said today he
would decide this weekend when
to send a food message to congress
where the controversial subject Of
farm subsidies already is being con-
sldered in committees.
Mr.. Roosevelt indicated at his
press and radio conference that his
message would 60 extensively into
the complex problems inherent in
necessity Of keeping wartime food
production high while at the same
time preventing price imitation.
Questioned about the scope of his
message, the president said nothing
had been written yet but he had 10
or is subjects under consideration.
He did not say what they were.
Farm Bloc congressman and Farm
Organization leaders, meanwhile, re-
iterated opposition to subsidies and
left no doubt they would fight war
Food Administrator Marvin Jones'
proposal that the Commodity Credit
Corporation be given $1,000, 00O, 900
borrowing power for an unrestricted
subsidy program.
Edward O'Neal, president of the
American Farm Bureau Federation,
urged before the House Banking and
Currency Committee that the life of
the CCC, now scheduled to expire
December 81, be extended but that
mo funds be provided for subsidies
except to cover necessary losses in
sales to prevent loss of food due to
deterioration"
ONeal said specific limitations"
should be inserted in the CCC legis-
lation to prevent use of funds for
consumer subsidies.
"TheV ital issue is the rollback in
prices, or the question of consumer
subsidy" O'Neal said. The Farm
Bureau is definitely and unequivoc-
ably opposed to this uneconomic.
wasteful and destructive policy. It
will not encourage the necessary
production.
The only effective way to secure
adequate production is to support
prices and to adjust price ceilings
at levels that will take care Of the
farmers increased production costs
In the war emergency"
O'Neal charged that attempts
are being made 10 convert the Com
modify Credit Corporation into
colossal Santa Claus TO distribute
rebates and bonuses to the public
at large whether they need them or
not"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
Elderly American Woman Headed
Amateur Underground In France;
Restored 200 Fighters To Allies

pared to supply Frenchmen TO give
them safe escort out Of the coun-
try.
"At last Monsieur Chancel organ
lied q plan to get them all to Lon
don, so that the French could join
up with deGaulle and the British
with their units.
Father Christian would send
four Englishmen to our house each
Monday and Friday. Chancel would
arrive with four Frenchmen. We
would feed them all and put them
on a train. At the border, they
would be met by peasant who saw
them safely over.
1.-The peasant was friend Of Kit
TVS Acknowledgment that, we chose
our co-workers by intuition. We
would quiz prospects on politics,
and II they sounded decent and hu-
man, we trusted them. That's all.
There was no way to check any
thing, really"
1t took six months for the Ges-
tapo, with all It's resources Of
cunning and might, to find the IN
foreground station behind Eta Shi-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01

A band and delegation Of Nax
officers met Johanna HOfmann,
left, when that pre-war spy, con-
vlcted in the u. s., was exchanged
for Eta Shiber, above, 64-year-
old American woman whom the
Germans had imprisoned for
helping TO smuggle some 200 fug-
tive British and French fighting
men out Of occupied France.
week she was back In another prison.
This time she stayed, until in April
1912 she was told suddenly that she
was to be exchanged for an unknown
German prisoner. The same summer
Mrs. Shiber arrived in New York
still wearing the clothes she had
gone to prison in, Is months earlier
MAKES NEW FRIENDS"
Strangers and acquaintance &C.
quaintances then tried to lionize her
II didn't know how to take sc
much attention" she confesses
Therefore, she stayed quietly al
home, writing book about her ex-
periences. Now the Book-of the
Month Club has chosen her Paris
Underground" and once more there
is the dilemma of being sought
after, praised, toasted
"The Nazi invasion did it-not I,
says Eta Shiber. II was just shell
tered housewife, looking forward I'd
O quiet old age. ! still am"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
SARAH BERCSTR0M
SHOWER HOSTESS
Ruth JOrdOn, Bride TO.
morrow Of Harold Renker
Of Shelton, Feted

Naugatuck, oct. - Miss Sara
Bergstrom was hostess at . green
back shower given for Miss Ruth
Jordan Tuesday evening at her
home, "a Riverside drive.
Those present included: Mrs.
Walter Render, Mrs. George Renk-
er, Mrs. Elliott Harrison, Mrs. Frank
Bergstrom, Mrs. Kenneth kaufman,
Mrs. Margaret Maxwell, Mrs. Patsy
Successful, Mrs. Ida Weyman, Mrs.
Francis Kane, Mrs. Evelyn Cuddy.
Mrs. Bess Dinkle, Mrs. Donald
Crosby, Mrs. Frances Mulcahy.
Also Mrs. o. Reardon, Mrs. 4.
Lynch, Mrs. Ann Essex, Mrs. Neil
Dunlap, Mrs. Mary Stakufn, Mrs.
Mary Fitzpatrick, Mrs. Arthur Nor
gan, Misses Cathy Dram, Helen
Zonas and Jane Fitzpatrick.
Miss Jordan will be married to
Harold Renker Of Shelton. Satur-
day:
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
Why Neighbors Yelp!
20 Dogs in North Main Street House Not Their
Idea of Zone Big, Happy Family
Court Must Decide Issue.

The question before City Court
Judge Charles r. Summa Is
whether or not some 20 dogs In o
North Main street house consti-
ute o public nuisance.
Anthony F. Dempsey, 2157 NO.
Main street, feels they do and
swore out a warrant for Claude w.
'Scoville, 50, Of 2l79 North Main
street. Mrs. Nita s. Kellogg, Sco-
ville's sister -in-law feels they do
not, and Is prepared to carry the
case to the supreme court Of the
United States If need be.
Mr.. Kellogg, who Is a Itch
field county superior court stenog-
rapher, and has seen plenty Of
lawyers come and go, asked for
permission to cross examine Mr..
Dempsey, the complaining wit
ness. A technicality in that
Mrs. Kellogg is not a member Of
the bar arose, but Judge Summa
ruled that she could question the
witness through Mr.. Scoville. The
following resulted:
MIR. Scoville: What Is your
name?
Mr.. scoville: What Is your
name?
Mr.. Dempsey: Anthony r.
Dempsey.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
LOWELL THOMAS
TO SPEAK HERE
News Commentator Billed
at Second Church Forum
Sunday November IA

Forum programs for the 1884
season at the Second Congregation
al church, weekly feature every
Sunday evening at 7:3o, have been
arranged by Rev. DR.. John G. Walk
er, pastor, starting week from to-
morrow.
The speakers for the rest Of this
year follow:
October 10-Dr. and Mrs. John O.
Walker. Subject: New England As
I See It." 1000 feet Of Mrs. Walk
er's distinctive natural colored mo-
ton pictures showing the four sea-
sons and important events and per-
sonalities. Music by Trio Imperial
october 17-Nila Magidoff Of Rus
sian War Relief. Subject: MY
Country And My People" Liu Ling
Mo Of United China Relief. Subject:
"China's Role In The War" Music
by the choir Of st. Mary's Russian
Orthodox Greek Catholic church.
October 24-"Pledge To Bataan,"
O documentary film made in the
Philippines by Adventure Films, Inc.
Something new in the lecture field
sound and color combined.
october 3l-Norman Thomas, one
Of Americas most forceful and elo-
quent speakers. Head Of the Social
LIST Party. Subject: THE Price OF
World Peace"
November 7-Dr. Stephen s. Wise,
Rabbi Of the Free Synagogue Of New
York city, founder Of the Zionist
Organization Of America, author
and lecturer. President OF Amer
lean and Jewish Congresses.
November 14-Lowell Thomas, the
most famous Of all radio and news
reel commentators. Subject: Some
Further Adventures OF A Radio
Commentator"
November 2l-Mrs. Carveth Wells,
world traveller, explorer and author.
Subject: Around The World In
War Time" an illustrated lecture In
full color.
November 28-Father Hubbard,
4LIc N1lhCAcE EILcoL' OUTSTANDING
author on Alaswka. Subject: 1.-THE
Aleutian Battle Ground" with the
latest 16 nm. natural color film.
Lectures at 4 p. m. and 1880 p. m.
The Second Church Orchestra, 700
to 1880.
December 5 - THE Messiah"
Buckingham Hall. Industrial Choir
us.
December 12-Andre Schenker,
news analyst and radio commenta-
tor on VITO.
December ia Christmas Play,
written and directed by William w.
Vosburgh, Jr. Also, dramatic mo-
nologue in costume by John E..
.Hines-"Dickens Christmas Ca
roll"
December 26-Philip Noble, world
traveller, photographer and lectur-
er. Subject: 1.-THE Charm OF Old
New England" 16 nm. Kodachrome
film.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
Probe Help
Situation In
War Plants

Investigation Of employee utiliza-
ton at three local factories has
been ordered by the Navy Depart
ment and probe has been UNDER
taken by the War Manpower COM
mission to determine whether or not
the plants are hiring more workers
than they need, 1t was learned to-
day. The revelation Of the local In
vestigation followed an attack
against "lobar boarding" made yes
terday by State War Manpower Di-
rector William ]. Fitzgerald in
Hartford.
Mrs. Mary M. Dewey. area VINO
director, said today that four Sc
parate studies Of employe utiliza-
ton have been completed here and
others are in progress. She said one
recent meeting with an employer
group, Navy officials, War Man
power consultants, and Representa-
tives Of the U. s. Employment Serv-
Ice was "highly successful and that
many helpful suggestions for secur-
ing greater utilization were approv-
ed.
appointment Of a regular utiliza-
ton consultant for the waterbury
area is expected to be made by the
Civil Service Commission shortly,
but meanwhile conSultarltS from
New Haven and Bridgeport have
been working here In cooperation
with the area VINO director, 1t
was reported.
Mrs. Dewey said the investiga-
ton so far discloses that some local
plants are not fully utilizing" their
employees, but stated the situation
could not accurately be called
boarding" She said some plants
have expanded so greatly that 1t
has been hard to match the expan-
sion with the help Immediately. The
purpose Of the consultations and
studies Is to make suggestions and
offer constructive criticism TO en-
ployers so that filler utilization will
result.
The three plants specifically
named for investigation are ell
holders Of Navy contracts, 1t was
reported. Others are expected TO be
added to the government list, but
the area VINO director stated the
local studies will eventually cover
all plants here.
Charges that some factory work
ers do not have enough TO do have
been heard here for some time and
employers have been known to pro-
test that while they need additional
help severely other concerns have
more workers than they can utilize.
1t has been pointed out that at one
time employers hired more workers
than they needed because they an
ticipated loss Of regular help due
to the draft and other considers
lions, but labor officials believe the
scarcity Of labor here has pre-
vented "over-hiring" for many
months.
Mr.. Fitzgerald stated that nix
investigators have been assigned BY
the state office to study conditions
at state plants and revealed that q
number Of factories have greatly
reduced their demands for help on
learning that consultants would be
sent to view the situation.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
LOCAL TEACHERS
FACING CHANGES
kindergarten Personnel to
Be Affected BY Boards
Vote Monday

An extensive shake-up In the lo-
cal kindergarten teaching personnel
may result Monday night when the
Board Of Edudcation is expected to
fill two vacancies, IL was indicated
today. Positions are vacant at Mill
Plain and Watervtlle, and IL has
been reported the B. W. Tinker and
woodrow wilson schools will be
among those affected by transfers.
DR.. Thomas J. Condor, superin-
tendent Of schools, when asked
today II there was any basis to re-
ports on the pending changes, re-
piled, Possibly. He admitted what.
ever changes may be made will be
revealed at the board meeting Mon
day night at Crosby high school.
Requests have been made by sew
eral kindergarten teachers for trans
fers and 1t is believed they may be
among those assigned to new posi-
tons. No indication has been made
where the new appointeeS will be
assigned.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
~ NEA Service

Wv ANGfA 5GNANCG
New York, Sept S0-'TTains carry
ing one American and one German
prisoner Of war met at Spanish
border town. Eta Shiber, shabblly
dressed American housewife Of "a,
peered through her window, She saw
9 pretty red-haired Mata Hari type,
30 perhaps stepping gaily down to
the platform. Uniformed Nazi off,
GERS moved forward with bouquets
Of roses, and q band played. Watch
ing, Mrs. Shiber wondered: "Can
that be the prisoner I'm being
snapped forl"
Safe at home here now, Mrs. Shi-
Der still feels q little wonder, ex-
claiming, '"The redhead was my
opposite number-and she was Jo-
hanna Hofmannl"
But 1t wasn't an uneven ex-
change, at that.
Holman, the professional spy,
was caught by the FBI In 1888. A
former hairdresser on the liner
Europa, Holman had helped a
ring Of informers who were after
American gun secrets and other
military and naval data.
Is MONTHS IN PRISON
Mrs. Shiber, widow Of a news
paper man, saw Paris fall and
somehow found herself helping
British soldiers from Dunkirk. and
Frenchmen, to escape to fight again.
The Shiber house became an anna
teur underground Railway station.
Two hundred men took shelter there
on their way cut of Axis-ruled
France before the Germans found
Mrs. Shiber and imprisoned her for
10 months.
II didn't stop to think when
helped the first ore-Maybe I did
It because he looked like my broth
err" Mrs. Shiber says.
It happened on the clogged South
road over which so many Parisians
we're going and coming in chaos as
their beaten officials fled and
fawned before the Germans. Mrs
Shiber had started to flee, but had
turned around. With her was anoth-
er middle-aged woman, Kitty, who
kept a dress shop. They stopped
their car before an inn to have cup
Of tea on their way home. AS they
started to drive off, the inn-keeper
ran out and told them an English
soldier from Dunkirk was hiding in
back room. Wouldn't they take him
along? The soldier came up and Mrs.
Shiber looked at him.
NOTHING ELSE TO DO
I'VE took him. There was moth
ing else to do she observes,
scarcely aware that this simple
human response, multiplied many
thousands of times rs the invaders
advanced, largely accounts for the
existence, today, Of an heroic I'm
foreground Of huge proportions.
At that time there were on organ
lied escape routes. Had there
been, Mrs Shiber would not have
known how to contact them. But
she and Kitty had a friend, Mon
sieur Chancel, and he took in the
Englishman and escorted him across
the border
Soon the three Of them heard Of
q T-year-old French priest, Father
Christian, feeding soldiers hiding
In the nearby woods; and from this
priest more English boys started
coming to Mrs. Shiber's house The
Britishers said the priest was pre-
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
Court Denies
Noxon Bail

Pittsfield, Mass, Oct. 1.-(UP)-
John r. Noxon Jr., socialite lawyer,
will try to convince q district Judge
today that he should be released on
bail pending disposition OF murder
charge In connection with the al
legged mercy" electrocution Of his
subnormal infant son.
Unless Judge Charles L. Hubbard
grants the request NoXon probably
will remain In jail until the Berk-
shire County grand jury meets in
January.
The wealthy 46-year defendant
was seized on the murder charge
Monday after investigation alleged
ly had indicated that he killed his
6-month-old son, Lawrence, Sept. %
by wrapping live wire around his
arm. Noxon pleaded innocent when
arraigned Tuesday.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01

Mr.. Scoville: Isn't It true that
your name Is Dambrowskip
Pros. Hummel: Objection.
Judge Summa: Question Is ir-
relevant and ruled out.
Mrs. Kellogg: II the court OBJ
jects to our line Of questioning,
Of course we cannot continue.
Mrs. Kellogg then took the stant
and testified that she owned the
dogs and had a license for them in
Wolcott. Asked by Judge Summa
why she did not take them out
there she replied that as an Ameri-
can citizen she could keep her
dogs where she liked as long as
they behaved themselves. She
offered to produce a number Of
neighborS in court to prove that
her dogs well well hammered.
Judge Sunma continued the case
for two weeks.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
TOWN ELECTIONS
SLATED MONDAY

Middlebury, Oct. Town cleo
tons viii be held on Monday and
polls in the Town Hall win be open
from Q a. m. to Q p. m. A library
election dinner. sponsored by the
library committee viii be held from
IL O'Clock noon until i:30 p. m.
Proceeds win 60 for reading ma
terial for the twon libary and the
libraries in both Bradleyville and
Center school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh Curtiss, have
with them, Mr.. and Mrs. Ohio J.
sabin OF Falls village.
Miss BeEnadstts BURY. Of Chase
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
RICHARD MORGAN,
CORPORAL, FETED

Wolcott, Oct. 1--Mr. and Mrs.
Charles @. Rogers Of Boundline
road entertained at q surprise party
at their home Saturday night for
Corporal Richard Morgan who was
here on q short furlough from Fort
Wayne. Indiana. Games were play
ed and luncheon served at midnight.
Those present were Mr.. and Mrs.
Edward Manning Of Watertown,
Mr.. and Mrs. Firth Pickles. Mr.. and
Mrs. Edmund James, Mr.. and Mrs.
Thorn Slater. Miss Elizabeth Kent.
Miss Helen Duffy, Miss Betty Ste
vens, Miss Helen Stevens, william
Clarity. Arthur Rogers. Corp. Nor
gar and Mr.. and Mrs. Rogers.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
WHAT PRICE EDUcATIONY

During the 18TH century. Oxford
students who were short Of money
for their studies. were allowed 70
beg IN the streets or sing at the
homes Of noble and rich patrons.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01
WINE WISDOM

Dry wines are those which con-
tain little or no sugar, ard fcrti-
fled wines are those IN which the
proportion Of alcohol and sugar e
higher.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01

construction, and the plaintiffs
counsel pointed out the location Of
the standard and It's construction
was such that II constituted = nuts
ance.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01

Parkway, who will be married in
the near future to Flight Instructor
Daniel E. Lasky Of Middlebury was
honored recently at q shower given
by Miss Jean Doran.
Mrs. George Lasky recently en-
tertained at q miscellaneous shower
for Miss Barry.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01

Howard Z. Bronson has announced
that IN connection with the Third
War Loan Drive $4,000 In war
bonds were purchased in Middle.
bury. No quota was established
here. $4,000 worth were purchased
by the Middlehury Cemetery Assoc
citation and eS.e76 by members Of
the Middlebury Grange.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-10-01

Mis- bernadetts BURY. Of Chase
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19
George Carver
Subject Race
Relations Sermon

George Washington Carver,
Scientist and Christian Gentleman"
was the subject Of the address by
DR.. Earnest G. Parish (white) in a
race relations service in the Cen
trail Park Methodist Church, st.
Paul. last Sunday evening, Febru-
airy ID.
DR.. Parish paid a glowing trib-
ute to the late DR.. Carver. He
quoted DR.. Carver as saying that
81 am grateful that there was a
Christian College (Simpson, a
Methodist institution in Iowa)
which was ready to open its doors
to an ungainly and unpromising
Negro boy, that he might have i'm
planted in his heart and mind the
Christian ideal of service" DR..
Parish said that DR.. Carver never
revealed the name of the college
tnaC had accepted his application
for entrance, only to refuse to ad-
nit him when he, a Negro, ap-
peared. Dr.. Parish pointed out
what great loss might have been
sustained by the nation and world
if DR.. Carver had been refused en-
trance into the second college, be-
cause Of his color.
The Central Park pastor made
a plea for full citizenship rights
for Negroes in this country. cit is
my conviction" he said, "that the
boys and girls of America, regard
less Of their color or slant Of eye,
are entitled to q full opportunity
for the development and use of
their talents and abilities"
The Camphor Methodist Church
choir sang.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1943-02-19

he would have gone far in his class.
We definitely believe he is one Of
the boys the fight fans should
watch"
Champion Hammond retained his
flyweight title by flooring John
Wittrock of Mankato twice in the
semis for a decision and then 60
ing on to outpoint Loren Longmore
of Coleraine in a speedy title bout.
Of this years champs, Jackie
Graves and Hammond are consid-
cred outstanding, and it is a lead
pipe cinch that Matt has improved
over the last years form and I'M
doubtedly will go further in Chi
cago this year than he did last
anyway, here is hoping-and may
this lad have best of luck in the
future
Basketball fans in the Twin
Cities will have an opportunity to
compare Badger" basketball with
Gopher" basketball this weekend
The highly touted Urban League
Basketball team of Milwaukee will
invade Phyllis Wheatley floor Fri
day night (Feb. 19th). This prom
Uses to be one of the game classics
of the season. The Wisconsin Gag