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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29
SUSPENDED TERMS
in LARCENY CASE
Counsel Informs Court De.
PENDANTS Entertained Too
Royalty Before Offense

Nicholas Apicelli, 80, Of 10 Ridge
street and John Hanley, 26, Of 1913
Baldwin street were given suspend
ed Mx-montll jail sentences and
were placed on probation for year
after they pleaded guilty to lar
ceny charges before Judge John A.
Cornell In superior court this morn
ing. The pair was accused Of tax
ing q trunk owned by Anthony Mar
cues and a valise belonging to Aug
Justine Borces from their rooming
house at 10 River street July 10.
Attorney william Lawlor, counsel
for the accused, told the court the
pair had consumed large quantity
OF Albanian whiskey", served by the
rooming house occupants who had
invited them there after meeting
thin In a tavern, and that the &C
cused were not fully aware Of the
seriousness OF their action. He
pointed to the time and expenses
saved the state by entry of the
guilty plea. Both men had previous
" entered pleas Of innocent.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29
EAGLE LOCK SALE
NOW AUTHORIZED
Stakeholder O. K. Plan for
Consolidation With Bow.
ser and Company

Terryville, Sept. 29-Stockholders
of the Eagle Lock Company Tues
day approved the plan for the con-
solidation of the company with
Bowser and Company, Inc. OF Fort
Wayne, Ind The terms were in ac-
cordance with the amended recon-
mendations of the directors of
Eagle Lock, whereby stockholders
will receive one full share of Bow
ser stock, instead of the one-half
share originally proposed. Stock OF
the Eagle Lock will be pledged as Sc
curity for the bonds of Bowser, one
$25 par debenture bond TO be given
in exchange.
It is now expected that the trans
fer will be consummated about Oc-
tober 8. In the organization of
Bowser and Company H. Lee Muir
ply, president and treasurer, and
r. F. Plumb, vice-president, of
Eagle Lock and S. F. Zavica of the
Hartford Connecticut Trust Com
pany will be added TO the board of
directors Of Bowser and Company.
The name of the Terryville Com
pany, which was authorized by the
last session of the General Assem-
bly,, will be changed to the Eagle
Lock Company. 1t viii be the oper-
ating company of the Terryville
plant under the present Eagle man
agement.
Bowser and Company is now en-
gagged in important war work and
its engineers have plans TO quickly
swing into production OF the COM
pany's regular lines Of manufacture
Immediately upon the termination
Of war. The engineering and re-
search departments Of the company
have greatly improved the COM
pany's standard lines and are pre-
pared to add several new products.
The annual meeting Of stock
holdeFs Of Eagle Lock followed im-
mediately after the postponed spe-
eial meeting and at this meeting
the annual report was presented.
Directors were reelected and &c The
organization meeting the companyu
stan q oMceEs was reelected.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29
Religious Freedom
Sustains Democracy
Dean Of Yale Divinity School Halls Right as Most
Fundamental Of All Principles; Churches Face Duty

New Haven, Sept. 28--"Without'
religious freedom, all other freedoms
are in danger. II men have not
freedom for their highest convic-
tions, they will not care greatly for
those that are lower" Luther A.
Weigle, dean Of the Yale Divinity
school and Sterling professor Of re-
ligious education, said at the OPEN
ing of the fall term Of the school
here today.
Religious freedom Is not spe-
cial which the state accords to folk
Of peculiar temper" Dean Weigle
said. 1T is a right which has en-
tered into the very making Of the
state. It is one Of the basic free
dons in any sound Bill Of Rights.
Historically, logically, and In prac-
tice, 1t undergirds and sustairs
human democracy"
Addressing approximately 270 d.
vinity students enrolled for the 1943
session Of the school, Dean Weigle
emphasized the part which religious
freedom throughout the world in
the postwar era. "There Is no more
imperative duty resting upon the
churches" he asserted, "as they
prepare themselves to participate in
the establishment and maintenance
of q just and enduring peace, than
their duty to reach common url-
Outstanding as to what sort and
measure Of religious freedom they
are ready to claim and to grant"
The religious freedom of the citi-
zen, Dean Weigle pointed out, in
cludes the right to dissent In the
name Of religious belief, reason and
conscience, from an act or require
ment Of the state, and to express
this dissent in action or in refusal
to act as we'll as In speech. This,
he said, is the right Of conscien-
tious objection, and should be ex-
tended to non-helievers or atheists
as we'll as to members Of recognized
churches.
"But there Is a right greater than
that of dissent he said; 1T is the
right of responsible participation in
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29
Inspection of
Birth Records
NouU Restricted

Under the recently estab-
lished state statute, Section
$40, Public Acts Of 1913, all
records IN the local Office Of
vital Statistics pertaining to
births will, no longer be open TO
public use, effective Friday, Oc'
tOber LIST.
These records will likewise be
closed TO all personnel In that
office except those directly in
charge Of such tiers, as well as
to such sources rs courts, etc.
In addition the fee charged
for an issue Of q certificatiOn Of
birth will be raised and for
those formerly costing csc THO
charge will now be SOC. For a
certified copy, formerly priced
at 80 c the fee now will be S1.OO
This statute which applys to
all such records all over the
state was passed by the last leg
isIature, and all regulations and
prices relating to the above are
subject 10 its authority.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29
ALBERT SHELTON
AT BUTLER U.
Dwight Street Resident in
Indiana Studying to Be.
come Air Cadet
WATERVILLE
Barbara Burns, Correspondent
Telephone 3-8231.

Waterville, Sept. 20 Mr.. and
Mrs. Albert Shelton of Dwight street
have returned from Indianapolis,
Indiana where they visited their
son, Albert stationed at Butler Uni
versity, where he is studying to be-
come an Air Cadet.
He enlisted May 1, and was
sworn in May IS. He received his
basic training at Jefferson Barracks
in Jefferson City, Missouri.
DiPaOla Funeral
The funeral Of Mrs. Philomena
(Durante) Di Paola of los Middle
sex street, was held this morning
from the home at to st. Michael's
church at 8. Burial was in Calvary
cemetery.
The Girl Scouts of Troop Is held
their regular meeting last evening
at the home of their leader, Mrs.
Frank Carney of Chapel street. The
meetings have been changed from
Thursday to Tuesday evening.
The Auxiliary Firemen held a
meeting Monday evening in the Wa
terville engine house. Due to brief
illness, Chairman Charles Rasmus-
son was unable to attend.
Prayer Meeting
A weekly prayer meeting was held
last evening at 1880 p. m. in the
Gospel Hall on Thomaston avenue.
Miss Katherine DVbay, S. Downes
street. leaves this week to take up
her new duties in the infirmary at
Storrs University of Connecticut.
Seth Fredrelckson Of Oakville has
returned 10 work at the iirehouse
after spending two weeks vacation
In North WindhaEl, Conn.
Joseph Sullivan Of Thomaslon
avenue Is spending two weeks vaca-
ton from his duties at the fire
house.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29
Ask Rebuke
To KinSeIIo

Boston, Sept 20. CUP)-Former
Asst. U. S. Atty. Gen George r.
Farnum has called on Secretary of
Navy Frank Knox TO either reprim-
and Boston City Council Michael
L. Kinsella or admit the truth OF
Kinsella's charges Of manpower
waste at the Boston Navy Yard.
Kinsella, who is employed at the
navy yard, asserted that there is q
surplus Of labor and that at least
one-fourth Of the day workers are
idle. His remarks were made Mon
day during the city councils discus
sion Of VINO plans to declare Bos-
ton o labor shortage area.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29

the making and executing Of public
policy. The religious freedom Of the
citizen includes his right to hold
the state itself responsible to the
moral law and to God, and the right
to labor to this end through appro-
pirate judgments, witness. and con-
structive participation in the .activ-
tiles Of citizenship"
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29
GOODS TOGETHER

When Ella Raines reported 10
Paramount 10 play the heroine In
"Hail the Conquerlng Hero" she
found two girls. Jean Heather and
Marion Hall, who had been IN plays
with her e. the University Of wash
inslon, undor contract there.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29
CLOSE FRIENDS

Fsanchet Tones stand-in on
paFamount's The Hour Before the
Dawn" Bob Davis. IN one Of the
stars best friends. bob. who q
heen with Tone seven yeara
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-09-29

Jean Heather. who makes her illm
debut IN the romantic feminine lead
Of PaFamount's "0olng MY Way"
with Blng Crosby and Rise stew
ems. Is . recent graduata q the Uni-
FeEniiy q washington drama school
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22

3 FAMILY HOUsE-1s rooms, all Improvements. Income $75O. Price $4,50O. Tel. 4-7189 or 3-9923.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22
521 PEARL LAKE RID.

521 PEARL LAKE RID. This is Groom, practically new one-family house overlooking Pearl Lake. It's a very pretty level loca- ton, lots of breathing space. Cts really suburban), and transportation right at the door. No garage, but a plot 240 1t. deep and 75 it. wide. Plenty of take of and landing space for helicopter you'll probably be buying after the war. ThereIl be state highway adjacent to it one of these days-promised not guar anteed-which really doesn't make any difference, because if the above mentioned helicopter thing gets go- ing, they'll make state roads obso- lete and unnecessary. Either way you can't lose. It's a carefully plan- ned, honestly built house. paint, plaster, plumbing and all; not a phony item in 1t. $8.400 rings the bell. H. W. heat and lots of it.. There's garden too, which seems to be sprouting lustily and achiev- ing results. The owners are Florida minded, which explains why they are willing to take almost a $l,0O0 loss.
 LEOJ. CURLEY
 5l West Main St. 3-5l6S
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22

SHORT ORDER COOK and wait
 ress wanted from to evenings.
 c. & c. Restaurant. 894 Bank St.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22

CHESHIRE -O Old Orchard Drive, near Honey Pot Golf Course, one- family house, practically new, 4 bed rooms and 2 baths. $11, ,000. Shown by appointment. James A. Munro, A Church St., New Haven, Conn. 6-26l6.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22
Employment
Women Wanted

RELIABLE MAN-Also girl or wom- man to work and learn florist trade. Good position with excellent pay and chance for advancement. Phone Southington 380.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22
For Rent Real Estufl

72 Apartments & Tenements HIGHLAND AVE-, 578-Five rooms, sun-parlor. hot water heat, first floor. Middle-aged couple only. Call at second floor in evening. No telephone information.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22
$500 DOWN $36.8O PER MONTH

THE MONTHLY PAYMENT PAYS TAXES, INTEREST, FIRE INSUR- ANCE AND ALSO PAYS OFF THE MORTGAGE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22

BEAUTIFUL Duplex house, and rooms Ex- cellent condition. Fine location in Northwestern section. Price $12,000. NUHN and NUHN Al Bank St. Dial 4-2l49
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-22
Horses, Vehicles
Business Service

5l Business Services Rendered
Evening star., 1943-06-07
Asks Mercy for Officers
In Uniform in Summer.

In Uniform in Summer.
To the Editor Of The Star:
An officer of one of the military details
which recently have Joined as civilian
watched me for few moments the other
day as I sat at my desk with coat and
vest off and sleeves rolled up. You
lucky thing, you,'' he said And I really
was lucky, because I could roll my sleeves
up and work comfortably. This bit of
wartime comfort is, as I learned from
the officer denied to the military on
duty here in Washington
1t occurred to me that I had seen
pictures of warriors in the Solomons,
Africa, the Philippines and other con-
secrated places where our officers wore
far less than their shirts. They were
dressed for comfort Could not those
here at home who are doing valiant
work day after day (despite critics. be
allowed little leeway in Office when
not in constant public view? Surely,
when August and September come
around its going to be pretty tough on
many an officer who cannot even loosen
his cuffs
Somebody ought to give the fellows a
break-at least for the duration.
IRVING M GREY.
Evening star., 1943-06-07
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.

Dear Sir:
LAS a constant reader, and grateful
pupil Of your column, wonder if you
would be so good as to answer, through
it, the following questions, the answers
to which I feel sure will be equally ap-
preciated by thousands OF others.
a. How does the marvellous song OF
the wood thrush, so eloquently described
by you the other day, compare with rhat
of the nightingale?
%. Is not the song OF the nightingale,
which I have never heard, greatly over
rated?
49, How does the song of the wood
thrush compare with that Of the hermit
thrush, superlatively praised by Theo-
dore Roosevelt?
a. Am I correct in concluding that
the mockingbird is fiat failure when it
tries to mimic the wood thrush?
IS. Has the nightingale ever success
fully been transplanted to Florida, or
elsewhere, in this country?
Sincerely yours, E. MacV."
The European nightingale IS a thrush,
and so it may be supposed that he sings
very fine song. indeed.
According TO the best information, the
nightingale has not been over-rated as
singer.
AS to whether 1t is finer music than
the song of our CWn hermit thrush, that
is matter of opinion.
Birds of America" states.
There are candid and competent
critics who contend that in purity and
sweetness of tone as we'll as in technique,
the hermit's phrase is really finer than
that of the celebrated English bird
Another authority has written: The
nightingale has most wonderful COM
pass, and is the greatest of all bird vocal
lists, but with less individual and ex-
quisite genius than our wood thrush"
The song of the wood thrush, while
beautiful, is not as much so as that of
the hermit thrush, according to those
who have heard both
The writer here has never heard a
hermit thrush except on a phonograph
record. 1t was rot good recording, so
tllt IlSleltI tllu NOT ltel l1dJ ne really
had heard a good representation of the
bird.
The true beauty Of the hermit song
lies not only in its marvellous sustained
song. and construction but also in sort
of Ginning effect. 1t is this, we believe,
from all We have heard, which gives the
spiritual quality to its music
The wood thrush has much simpler
song, consisting of a song pattern almost
! as basic as that OF some of our Hawaiian
songs.
Simplicity, OF course may be great,
too. This is shown when Beethoven uses
the notes of .he cuckoo, two in number
in the brook scene in his Pastoral SYM
phony."
Hahler uses the cuckoo very effectively
in his Symphony No. II
Beethoven also used, in the same move
ment of his "Pastoral' or symphony
Evening star., 1943-06-07

to the Russian utopia by that dear little
man, the President of Russia, an even
better substitute. The farewell scene be-
tween Ambassador Davies and this Presi-
dent is breathtaking in its spiritual de-
nouement. Turning on his heels to CO.
Mr.. Davies is stayed drama tically by the
entrance of none other than the High
Lama, Stain, and then is related the
conversation of their first meeting Even
Stain, I feel sure. would gag over the
way this spot was handled.
But permeating and transcending even
the spiritual note lent to the film by
Stain, is the voice of our own President
Roosevelt merely voice and quite all
by himself) which brings up what is to
me the most Objectionable point in the
fllm. In this country where minority
opinions can exist alongside those of the
majority, and for which diverging views
there is an arbitrator in the person of
President who is elected to protect and
represent the voices of all, is it consistent
that the present President should be
represented in the public reaching man
ner of this picture as lone figure, con-
stantly athWart of and frustrated by
stupid, pig-headed representative of the
people? If one succumbed to the mood
suggested by the scenes of the film relat-
ing to this point the inclination would
be to conclude abolish Congress! Get
rid of those nitwits" Is that what the
movie is suggesting? 1t is preposterous
to think it is, but that, in its clumsiness,
is what it inferred.
Some of the other ridiculous notions
are: That Japan sent low-grade moron
to Russia as it's Ambassador; that the
British Ambassador had only one interest
in life (billiards), while the all-consuming
passion of the French Ambassador was
his wine cellar.
The picture, to my average mind, is
not mere failure, but it is a stupid
blunder, adopting and applying, in re-
verse, the methods and techniques used
by the Nazis in their propaganda. BY
all means, give us the opportunity to
view Russia in its true light, but it is
stupid to counteract propaganda by more
of same. Surely, We don't have to be
coaxed or persuaded to be just when un-
vanished facts are presented. If we do
we need enlightenment of different
kind. GWYNETH THOMPSON.
Evening star., 1943-06-07
THIS AND THAT
BIZ Charles E. TrdceUeU.

No. g." the notes OF the quail, and also
a trill from the nightingale.
The song OF cur wood thrush is SO
entirely different from that of such
singers as the nightingale and the mock
ingbird, and the thrasher and the cat
bird, that there is no real way to COM
pare them.
In human music for instance, how can
you really compare great symphony
with some simple folk melody?
Anti yet the latter, in it's way, may be
just as great, as folk tune, as the SYM
phonic work is as symphony.
We do not feel that the mockingbird Is
fiat failure when it tries to mimic the
wood thrush.
1t is true that the ones we have heard
doing 1t have not done it very we'll, but
then it was far from being fiat failure,
in any real sense.
AS matter of fact, we have heard
real wood thrush attempt 1t with less
pleasing results. Not all thrushes, by
any means, are expert singers. Maybe
some of them have to learn how to sing.
We recall one thrush. several years
ago, which we called the rusty thrush"
because his notes had quality which
made the listener think that they needed
oilng.
His notes were just little bit off,
That is, they were off-key, sour, any,
thing you wished to call them.
Certainly they were not pleasant to
listen to; if mockingbird had tried to
mimic that thrush he would have
achieve result much less than perfect.
Those who have studied the songs of
the various thrushes from a strictly mu-
sical listening point dwell upon the fact
that these birds have a real musical use
of their marvellous instruments, led and
conducted by genuine musical mind.
The wood thrush is held to have at
tanned certain very satisfactory mu-
sical level, but the hermit thrush, as
musician and conductor of his own
music, has advanced beyond him.
Theodore Roosevelt said. I'm melody,
and above all in that finer, higher melody
of eternal sorrow, it Ohe nightingale
cannot rank with such singers as the
wood thrush and hermit thrush
The serene, ethereal beauty of the
! hermit song. rising and falling through
the still evening under the archways of
hoary mountain forests that have en-
| dured from time everlasting; the golden
| leisurely Ginning of the wood thrush
sounding on a June afternoon, stanza
| by stanza, through un-fecked groves of
tall hickories, oaks and chestnutS-wth
| these there is nothing in the nightin-
| gales song TO compare
Introduction of the nightingale into
| this country has not been very sue
| ceSSful
| After all, why do we need nightin-
| gale, as long as we have wood and
hermit thrushes, and mockingbirds and
catbirds and an our other pleasant
| singers?
Evening star., 1943-06-07
Furnishing Pleasure Drivers

There is one factor now with which
the OPA authorities will be dealing,
in connection with apprehension and
punishment of pleasure drivers"
that was not so apparent in the past.
That is an aroused and rather bitter
public resentment against the mi
nority of automobile owners who so
obviously are wasting scanty gasoline
supplies for their own selfish pleasure
or convenience When a citizen
stands on crowded loading platforms,
after hard days work, then submits
himself to the tortures-in this
weather-of riding home in packed
streetcars and buses, the sight of
some fellow citizen comfortably en-
joying the luxury of automobile
driving on errands of doubtful neces-
sity makes him see red
John L. Laskey, chief attorney for
the District OPA, is nevertheless ex-
ercising every precaution against
unjust action against suspected
OPA's original policy of considering
every pleasure driver guilty until he
proves himself innocent, and has
gone back to basic legal concepts of
placing the burden of proof on OPA
inspectors or policemen who prefer
charges. Every suspect will be given
two opportunities to defend himself
first, in an explanation by letter
to the authorities, and, second, if
this is not considered adequate, in a
hearing before his ration board. The
preliminary screening" of the list
d of suspected pleasure drivers at OPA
headquarters had already eliminated
some 108 out of 637 names examined
through Saturday. Since that time,
however, additional lists of names
have sent the total number of sus-
poets to well over a thousand
The method of trial of these sus-
poets evidently will take the form of
hearings, and Mr.. Laskey has rec
commended that they be open to the
public, before local ration boards or
special panels. No punishment of
the guilty is contemplated now be-
yond penalties in the form of reduced
ration allowances. If this method of
enforcement proves to be salts
factory, it will certainly have been
fair to the accused. But if it should
result merely in gestures of rebuke,
the general public will demand less
lenient procedure and really harsh
penalties. For the majority of people
are doing their best to conserve pre-
cious gasoline and have demon
strated fine spirit of cooperation
in complying with conservation meas
ures. This majority will have no
sympathy for the minority that in
sists, for purely selfish reasons, on
privileges that cannot be generally
shared.