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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26


 Rev. .. DOnnelIy the United States taken in 1oS6 and published in 1041, the estimated value of the church edifices of the Roman Catholic Church reported was $7S7, 7,00l, ,S57. The debt reported on the Church edifices was $l89,360,73S."
 The net wealth then of the Cath olic Church as represented by It's churches is $597, ,660, ,624, or less than the fortune of any one of our bil- lionaires. And these churches repre- sent the small savings of American Catholics for upward of the two centuries in which they have been building these churches.
 MEASURING INFORMATION
 With these figures before them our agnostic enemies may rest more easily. They might be further re- assured by noting that the endow- ments of three American universi- ties, Harvard, Yale and Columbia, 6 combined total of $336, 728, ,l53, more than third of a billion dollars and almost half the value of all the Catholic churches in the United States.
 It is an interesting topic, this sup posed wealth. Many pastors strug- glirg with debts would be pleased to meet some of 1t: not to speak of the struggling little outposts in distant corners of the land. Those who are sincerely interested should be told of the schools, hospitals, orphanages, homes for the aged and other institutions which have been built by the small contributions of the Catholics of America, many of which are supported today almost wholly by the magnificent charity of these Catholics, and all of which save the taxpayers of America bill. lions each year.
 YCL BECOMES AYD
 The new tactics of the Communist Party, which we wrote of before and which has been adopted through out the world, has most re- gently been applied to the Young Communist League in America. After 2l years this organization has Hluu0 hIl ullAaiAlcAitSN ASP1A sAAS 0fS in its stead has come the American Youth for Democracy.
 Unfortunately, however, 1t seems to be the same old fellow in a new pair of pants. It has come out with . notable advocation of American Soviet youth centers in every city" and it has recommended the study of Marxism and Marzists theories. And Max Weiss. the State Chair D man of the YCL is the executive 2 secretary of the AND.
 THE FIRST OBLIGATION
 Tn Milwaukee judge ordered Q woman who was seeking Q divorce to quit her job and stay home with her children. Her husband, object ing to the divorce, stated that his
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26

ton answers quess tions sent in by readers. One re- gently wrote in to seek ala answer to that very inter- esting question, and Co some very troublesome ques- ton: the wealth of the Catholic Church in Amer ica. The Haskin Bureau gave this answer:
 According to the census of re- liRioUs bodies In
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
WEAETH oE THR CHURCH

Tn many daily newspapers throughout the country the Fred- rick .. Haskin Bureau of washing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26

A The oetuol total cost of ths new dam and pipe line to Waterbury t0xpoyers was $700 900 less thon the estimate. This is largely due to the fact that Congress passed q bill at the instigotion of the administration and with the help of our congressional representa- tive which made Waterbury eligible for FederoI aid.
 fAO The increased water depart ment income as q result of this 0dditionoI w0teF supply, makes it possible to set aside a reserve for the eventual retirement of the bonds issued to poy the bill.
 fAO This is another definite exon- pie of the progressive, modern, eop0ble inteIli- gent, hard work Waterbury people are getting from their good City Government.
 A The photograph you see here shows essentioI WATER being. DELIVERED! This fine City Government is not only DE LIVERlNG needed water. It is DELIVERING (not just promising) GOOD GOVERNMENT to the people of Waterbury.
 AS The only w0y you cen continue to have GOOD GOVERNMENT is 10 rssIeet it when you hove it. And You Hove It Now. So veeIect this Democratic Administration.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-26
YOU CAN'T MAKE BRASS WITHOUT WATER!

Woterburys factories using millions of gallons of wot Without plenty of WATER, they could production Woter necessary brass making human beings.
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Railroad transportation was in- troduced into Japan by Commo- dore Perry in 1852.
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Brown
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that two bills now in Congress
designed to change the method
of calculating parity payment to
farmers would just about wreck
the price control law II passed.
The possibility of these agri-
cultural price changes was the
foundation for pay increase de-
mands which would ruin price
control, Brown declared. He
identified the two bills as the
pace parity amendment and the
Senate bill to eliminate gov
eminent payments in computing
parity prices.
IF we break through the
present price structure, then
the wage structure will newt
ably be broken down too"
Brown said. IF that happens, /"
he asserted, "this country will
face the most dangerous domes-
tic situation it has ever seem
a situation which would equal a
tremendous defeat on the mill
tary front"
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Flames Destroy
Rubber Dump
50 Tons of Tires
Lost in Froser

The destruction Wednesday
of over so tons of War-necessary
salvaged rubber tires in Fraser
today was blamed on an over
heated stove in a WPA watch
mans shanty.
But so to 100 of the tires
which, before the flames de-
voured them, were piled Is feet
high in 80 feet square pile,
were saved, witnesses said.
Stored in a corner of the
Steffens Lumber company, at
It'll Grand Trunk avenue,
awaiting shipment TO processing
centers, the valuable scrap pool
had been accumulated through
pickups from the South Macomb
district.
So rapidly did the flames from
the shanty spread that the
Waterman, Howard Whitney,
was unable to save even his Of
fetal records although he did
salvage typewriter.
Fraser volunteer firemen
battled the blaze for over five
hours and were able to keep it
from spreading but were unable
to extinguish the blaze which
Spouted thick, Oily curtain of
smoke over the entire COM
munity.
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Rotary
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county boys and girls - maI.y
of them now adults - remem-
Der the camp in Ray township
a. the site where they camped
as Boy and Girl Scouts.
The camp today is far cry
from the wooded unimproved
farmland of II years ago. Mem
bers reduced their waistlines TO
construct the mess shack, since
greatly improved, turned two
barns into workshops and built
bridges to span the river A
concrete dam was built in 1880.
MADE III POSSIBLE
Those same Rotarians paid the
shot for needed improvements.
They dug deep for funds nee
eSsary for two wells, tents, ia
bles, kitchen equipment and
hundreds of miscellaneous fur
niShings.
Lehner, current association
president, gave resume OF
Camp Rotary history at yester-
days meeting and Barck link
ed the camp with Boy Scouting.
Guests yesterday included
Jack Henderson,, Crosse Pointe;
Walter Apps, Roseville; DR.. o.
F. Banting, Richmond; and
Chase Kearl. Albert Schott, Will
Lee and j. NJ. Burgess.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-19
DiMaggio Launches
New Type Of Training

MONTEREY, Calf, Feb. 18-
Up Joe DiMaggio is a S50-a-
month private of Uncle Sam
team now instead of a SAB, $50
a-year outfielder for the New
York Yankees.
Joe, who is %, married, and
has been classified as ga by
his draft board. volunteered for
the Army at San Francisco in
duction center yesterday. He
breezed through the routine eX-
animation, waived the privilege
Of a seven-day furlough and
came here with a dozen other
raw recruits last night.
AT this reception Center Joe
will be fitted out with GIL
clothes and given several days of
primary training.
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Allies Hammer
Jap Shipping
Make Deadly
Aerial Sweeps

ALLIED HEA DQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, Feb 19-(P-
Japanese shipping and airdromes
a Madang, New Guinea, and at
BUN, in the Solomon Islands,
were the targets of a heavy al
lied aerial offensive in the SOUTH
west Pacific yesterday, a head
quarters communique said to-
day.
Catalina bomberS, attacking
from medium attitudes, ranged
for two hours over the Kahili
airdrome, at BUN, destroying a
number of enemy aircraft and
setting explosions that caused
fires in dispersal and dump
areas visible for so miles, it was
stated.
The japanese sent up heavy
bursts of anti-aircraft fire but
all of the allied planes return
ed safely. No enemy craft con-
tested the air.
At Madang, a Liberator bomb
ed the airdrome dispersal areas
and Australian Beaufighters at
tackled the waterfront and de-
stroyed or damaged 300-ton
auxiliary schooner and 3O-foot
launch, headquarters announced.
Another Liberato. laid bombs
on the Finschhafen AWAY and
Havoc attack planes shot across
the Lac Waria area in series
Of 20 bombing and machine
cunning sallies.
Boston bombers struck hard
at four Japanese-occupied viii
lagos in the Lac area, employ
j 5OO-pound and 250-pound
bombs before they showered the
town with gun fire.
An enemy cruiser in the har-
Dor at Deli, Portuguese Timor,
was the target for formation
of Mitchell bombers which
dropped quarter-ton r.issle S
from a medium altitude, in the
face of considerable anti-air-
craft fire from the ship and
from land.
Ground patrols continued act
i've in the Wau- Mubo area with
40 more Japanese dead counted
in the latest fighting, it was
announced.
A spokesman for General
Douglas Macarthur disclosed that
Lieut.. Gen. Walter Kruger had
assumed command of American
troops in the southwest Pacific
arfea, a command to be known as
the Sixth army in an administra-
tive setup which was described
as being without any special
operational significance.
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Russia
Continued from Page ~

NSOHtiHuCu ihOHi "SS -
dar: Smolesnkaya, 20 miles
south of Krasnodar; and Sevr-
skaya so miles north of the
Black Sea port of Novorosslsk,
the most important exit remain
ing for the German units PIN
ned against the sea coast.
EXPAND GAINS
Expanding their gains in the
Donets basin in their effort to
trap the German army that lost
Rostov, the Russians said that
Red Army forces had captured
90 towns and villages west OF
NoVo Shakhtinsk, took several
towns and knocked out an enc
my tank outfit southwest of Vo-
roshilovgrad, and advance in
the Kramatorsk sector where the
offensive was aimed at the in
dustrial city of Stalino.
1t was asserted that 1000 OF
the enemy were killed and 1900
taken prisoner in the action west
of NoVo Shakhtinsk and that the
Germans were attempting to
whip new units and formations
into hape to halt the Red army
tide.
Our troops inflicted heavy
losses on the 10th German in
fantry division, which consisted
mostly Of wounded officers and
men released from hospitals
ahead of time, and also squads
from Taganrog and other air
dromeS," the war bulletin said
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Meatlegger
New ScOurge
for America
BY JAMES MARROW,
GEORGE ZIELKE

WASHINGTON, Feb. l9-fP)
The meatlegger has brought
the black market, scourage of
war-torn nations, to America in
big way.
A congressional committee has
heard testimony that illegal
dealings in meat illegal because
Of price regulations, civilian
quotas and fake grading) have
become nearly as widespread as
the sale of bootleg liquor in pro-
hibition days.
There have been prosecutions
for illicit trading in tires, gaso-
line, coffee and sugar but
nothing to compare with the
scope of the meatleg trade. OPA
now has nearly 1900 investiga-
tors working full time running
down meat violations.
Production of tires, gasoline,
coffee and sugar is relatively
easy to check, OPA mer say, but
meat ..
Meat on the hoof can be butch
cred on the sly under a tree,
in barn or garage trucked
away at night . and turn up III
butcher shop private home, no.
tel or restaurant.
1t hasn't been government
inspected or graded . and how
can the housewife be sure if
somebody says it's higher grade
and therefore costs more?
Demand for meat is strong,
and the supply is short (about
half is going to the armed forces
and lend-lease) . those are the
basic elements for a black mar
ket, all hands agree.
While OPA says it's trying to
crack down all along the line,
a least part of Washington Off
cialdom apparently looks upon
rationing and public opinion as
the best hopes for stamping out
meatlegging.
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Denies A & B Charge;
Will Face Trial

Charged with assault and bat
terry on a complaint signed by
his wife, Mildred, Joseph Will
son, 20, formerly of 35 Hubbard
avenue, pleaded not guilty on
arraignment this morning before
Justice Frank jeanette. His
trial was set for Feb. 25 at 10
am. He was released on 500
personal bond. The alleged Of
Tense occurred on Jan. 81.
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COP
Continued from Page u

tabled in the Senate yesterday
A b k w a S h of resentmen,
against Leroy c. Smith of De.
troit, LAYERS principal hacker
concededly injured LAYERS
chances, because Smith was
blamed by the lawmakers fol
having been instrumental In de.
feat of the Highway Re-organi.
Zation Bill.
OTHERS IN RACE
Others in the field for the
nomination, whose supporters
said their names would 60 tc
the convention floor, too, are
Fred F. Rogers of Hillsdale and
Allen Williams of Ionia.
The race was no less intense
because of plans to abolish the
office, the aspirants believing
that the winner would be ir
good position to receive an ap.
pointment from the governor il
the reorganization bill is pass
ed.
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Crash
Continued from Page One

ing workers were feared burned
in the rubble of ashes and bricks.
A thorough check of their resi-
dences last night showed all to
be missing. Hoba's son, Fred,
was among them.
The Boeing company, attribu-
ting the crash and the holocaust
that followed to "a fire which
developed in an engine in the
course of a regular test flight. >"
disclosed that the crippled craft
kept in communication with the
landing field up to its final ira
gic plunge.
FIRE SPREADS
1t said the crew reported a
fire started in one motor and
was extinguished momentarily
by automatic carbon dioxide
equipment, but it flared up
again and spread over one wing.
The bomber lost altitude,
sheared through two high ten
sion wires to cut off most of the
city's electrical service, and
crashed into the plant. If the
crash had come 10 or Is minutes
later it would have caught doz-
ems more workers in the build
ing as they returned from their
lunch hour.
Many workers were believed
trapped in an elevator by the
crash, and plummeted to their
deaths by the severing of the
hoist cable. Screams of burning
animals added to the pandemon-
ium. Dozens of workers barely
escaped with their lives-dash-
ing through smoke-filled rooms,
smashing out windows, leaping
to the ground or clinging outside
windows until rescued.
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Tunisia
Continued from Page ~

NCOntlnued from rage IL
front of the Mareth defense
works.
SMASH FORWARD
A Berlin broadcast, going even
further than the British war
bulletin, said the 9th army was
attacking beyond Medicine.
In the American defended
sector, 1870 miles northwest o.
the Mareth line, Remmels
smashing 66-mile advance spear
headed by heavy new Mark vi
tanks appeared to have come to
a standstill.
Gen. Alphonse JUN, the
French commander-in- chief, said
the Nazi drive had been "broken
after decisive action Of Amer
lean tanks" and German large
scale tank attacks have been
warded off by good shooting of
British artillery
An Italian communique, how
ever, declared that local oper-
ations in central Tunisia are
still in progress and asserted
that the axis had captured 2,876
prisoners and seized or destroy
ed 1859 tanks, 95 armored cars,
SO mobile guns and 66 other
guns.
These figures we're not con-
flrmed by allied sources, al
though it was officially admitted
that American losses were
heavy.
REPULSE ALLIES
The Fascist communique also
reported that axis forces had re-
pulsed an allied attack in the
northern sector, where Lieut..
Gen. x. A. N Anderson's Brit
iSh 1st army has been operat-
ing.
A testimony to American val
or in their first about clash
with Rommels veteran CAM
paigners came in a front-line
dispatch from Harold V. Boyle,
Associated Press war cores
pondent, who wrote:
The bloody battlefields, lit
tered with broken vehicles
marked with the cross Of Ger
many as well as the star of
America, testify that the Nazis
had no margin in courage.
LAS one who watched for three
straight days as American tank
men threw away their lives in
a gamble TO stem the onward
avalanche of the German arm
ored force. | for one couldn' t
question the decision to with
draw"
Boyle said the Americans,
who were reported equipped
with only 28-ton tanks against
German 60-tonners, fell back in
good order without any sign Of
panic.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-19
Raj Staiiers
.LeihaI Load
iIheImshoven
Feels Sting

LONDON, Feb. 10 - (R) -
Raj bombers roared back to at
tack Wilhelmshaven, German
Naval base, last night and other
Allied aircraft attacked rail
lines on the continent and ship
uing off the coast, the Air Min
istry said.
Seven planes, including four
bombers, were lost in the nights
operation, the ministry said.
The attack on Wilhelmshaven
was heavy as the bombing run
was made in good weather, it
was said. The last previous at
tack on the Naval base was Feb.
IL.
Railways and canal lines in
France and Belgium were the
continental targets.
A medium sized enemy sup
ply ship was hit off the Dutch
coast and set on fire, a Ministry
communique said, but results
were difficult to observe as
coastal command aircraft sought
shipping targets in that area.
Besides the four bombers lost.
two fighters and one of the
coastal command craft failed to
return, the Ministry acknow-
lodged.
The raid was the 18th night
attack on Germany this month.
"a German radio broadcast
recorded by the Associated Press
in New York said that six enemy
planes were shot down and that
casualties were among the civil
ian population.)
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-19
Droft Boord Rejects
Lonky I'D Cage Stor

DETROIT, Feb. 18 - (P) -
Center Lee Knorek, whose l67
points have led University of
Detroit to II basketball victor
les in IA games, is back on the
team after receiving AZ CLASH
fication fro mhis RoSsford, Ohio,
ication from his RoSsford, Ohio
Coach Lloyd Brazil Wednesday
that the Board ruled his six foot,
seven inch height an inch above
Army specifications.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-19
STAYS i'm Bed

LONDON, Feb. - - (P) -
Prime Minister Churchill. con-
fined to his bed by a cold, has
acute catarrh Of the upper res
piratOry passages, statement
from No. 10 Downing street an
nOunced today.
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DETROIT, Feb. 10 - (P) -
Jim Thorpe, famed Indian ath-
letc who suffered heart at
tack a week ago, left Henry Ford
Hospital Thursday. Thorpe. 54,
is employed as plant guard at
the Ford Motor Company.
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Bruneel
Continued from Page One

deserve the support accorded
me by the public. The numerous
telephone calls and letters |
have received urging me to seek
a second term has decided my
action in entering the race. If
the experience l have gained
can prove useful to the commun-
ity want 10 make sure that it
does So.
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Bingo
Continued from Page One

Continued from Page One
son ordered them to get out
and stay out"
Sicily and Sprott were freed
on $50 bond pending their APP
pearance at the prosecutor Of
flee.
The raid was the second con-
Quoted in ST. Clair Shores in two
days by troopers from the Cen
ter Line post.
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NORMAN, Okla, Feb. 19-(R
This general order Is posted at
the Norman Naval Training sta
ton:
Holding hands. hugging and
other displays of affection arc
proper only when a lady admits
she is the sailors mother"
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Victims
Of Plane
Accident

SEATTLE, Feb. 18-(R-Thc
list of missing and dead in to-
days crash of a four-motored
bomber into the Frye packing
plant here stood as follows to-
night:
DEAD
Edmund T. Allen. Pilot
Robert Danefield, CO-Pilot
Ed Wersebe
Fritz Mohn
Charles Blaine
Harry Ralston
Barclay Henshaw
Robert Maxfield
Vincent North
Thomas Landlord
Ray Basel, all crew members
August (Gus) HOba, Frye en-
ploye.
The following Frye employees
were listed as missing:
Fred A. Hoba, son of the first
identified Frye victim
F. Kern
Philippe LeBeau of Ronald,
Wash.
Oscar Tuft
A. Ricci
A. ]. Fowler
Dominic AMBROSE
John Skorpen
August Lingholm
Richard Faulkner
Mrs. Mary ROsella
Sam OvensOff
Frank Lopez
Harry Fargin
Joe Hoy
Herman BurnisOn
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-02-19

Worlds largest fig tree stands
18 miles west of Kingman, Ariz.
1t is so feet high.
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Texas has nearly 1900 miles
OF railroads and leads all states
of the Union i'm this respect.
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Eyewitness


Of value that we couldn't take
The Germans won't find enough
food left to feed a canary. or
enough fuels to keep a cigarette
lighter going.
I'VE don't like to move back.
We want to fight. We can't win
war by moving back and we
want to get back at them as soon
as we are given the word"
Evacuated along with Higgins
was Sergeant, a five-months-
old pup, which he bought from a
French family for one dollar. II
has been through 38 Stuka raids.
PET HIDES, TOO
He comes into the machine
gun pit with me during air raids
and doesn't like moving back
any more than / do" Higgins ex-
planned. Another evacuee was
Sergeants sister, "Hester" own
ed by Private Tom Reed, 10. a
truck driver, of Springfield, Ky.
Capt. Edward E. Cotter, 81, of
Corning Ia, led an infantry
group which made l5-milc
trek TO safety. Resting on q rock
he observed cheerfully. I'VE
came through with all our men
and with no trouble but sore
feet"
Corporal Merle Bierman, %,
of Des Moincs, Ia, grinned even
more chccrfully-he made the
trip out in quarter-ton peep
which is much better than
walking.
The withdrawal was orderly
and without any signs of panic.
1t began two nights ago and
continued as American tank, ar
tillery and infantry forces held
the Germans from a major
breakthrough. These outfits then
withdrew themselves, still en-
gaging the enemy.
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GOebbels
Continued from Page IL

or even farther west.
It noted tina. drawing back to
the Dnieper would mean loss OF
the Crimea, give Russia control
of the Black Sea and raise the
problem of "hoW the Balkan
states will conduct themselves
at the throwing back of the Ger
man front close to the Rumanian
border"
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German pilots in prison
camps are being taught the art
of rig making by British
women.
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When gathering nectar, bees
usually visit only one kind of
flower on each trip.