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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
half OF CITY'S
BUDGET SPENT
Two Departments Expen=
ditures Rather Heavy for
First Six Months

Slightly less than half of the city's
Ro43 budget remains for approprla-
tion during the last six months OF
The year, according to the General
Fund Summary as prepared by the
office of City Controller Cornelius
F. Maloney today.
According to Mr.. Maloney's fig
ures there is $3,O49,39009 available
tor the last half of the year out OF
= total budget of $6,368,824.
Tho controller explained that
neavy expenditures in one or two
departments account for the fact
chat more than SO per cent of the
budget was expended in the 6-month
period from January l through June
30. Expenditures in these depart
ments in the latter six months will
decrease.
He cited j nparticular the Con-
troller, General Financial, item,
where the appropriation was $685.
sos, but only $495, 9O7 remains. This
Is duo to heavy expenditures in such
items as Civilian Defense, state and
county tax bills, bonded debt re-
.lemption and interest and payment
Of prior years bills, the latter already
approximating the original amount
set up in the '43 budget and neces-
stating a transfer.
Mr.. Maloney also pointed out
that In the Department of Educa-
lion, where the total appropriation
was $1,912,421, there remains $841,-
1888, because the heaviest expend1-
lures in salaries occur up to the
end of June. Teachers salaries will
not be paid again until the end OF
September.
The Welfare Department continues
to manifest indications of a size
able surplus in its operating budget
with expenditures of only $83, LA
out of total budget of 1854, 1858, less
than one-third for the six months
Heavy expenditures in the Water
Department, Mr.. Maloney pointed
out, were due to the water bond debt
and interest amounting to over
$4,000 for the first half of the year
IN the last six months such pay
ments will approximate $4,000.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
CITY EMPLOYEES
AIDING DRIVE
Payroll Deduction Plan
Followed in Purchase
of Bonds

The amount Of $2,450.82 Is con
tributed weekly to the purchase Of
War Savings bonds by municipal
employees of Waterbury, it was an
nounced today by City Controller
Cornelius F. Maloney.
The following departments are
contributing 100 per cent to the
payroll savings plan: seven employ
ees in the mayors office; eight In
the comptroller's office; one in the
treasurer's: IL in the tax commits
sioners; three in the budget depart
ment; six, city clerk; one, city
plan; one, city sheriff; one, weights
and measures; four, building and
electrical: six, town clerk; one, pub
lie works; eight, registrar of voters;
%, library; 80, health department;
10, municipal court; our, director
Of purchase, two, dog warden; six,
legal department; four, Brookside
Home; IS, engineering; one, civilian
defense office; Is, educational admin
istrative; SO, park department; Is,
tax collector.
The following departments are
below the 100 per cent mark: 80 per
cent of the ation-maintenance
department.; 83 per cent of the edu-
cation-operation department; 95 per
cent from the bureau of city hall;
81 per cent from the water depart
ment; 80 per cent from the teachers
department of education; SO per
cent from welfare; 80 per cent from
the street department.; rs per cent
from the emergency deartment; "a
per cent from the fire department;
81 per cent from the police.
The foregoing have contributed
the mentioned percentages during
the months of May and June.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
NEW OIL TAX NOW
BEING COLLECTED
Consumers Must Pay
Extra Assessment on
Diesel Engine Oil

AS the result of law passed by
the 1943 General Assembly pro-
viding that the tax on oil burned
in Diesel engines be collected from
the user, the Motor Vehicles De-
partment has sent applications for
users licenses and copies of the new
regulations to more than 300 users
in this state, Commissioner John t.
Mccarthy said today.
The new law, effective July l,
1O43, requires that all such users
of Diesel-engine motor vehicles be
licensed by the department and
that a certificate provided by the
commissioner of motor vehicles be
displayed at all times. There is no
charge for this license. Monthly re-
ports must be filed by the fifteenth
of each month by the user along
with payment of the three-cent-a-
gallon tax.
Reports must be filed monthly
also by the dealers as to whom and
when they sold fuel for Diesel en-
gines. Also, it was pointed out, each
user. or dealer coming under the
provisions of the law must keep for
thre years such record or records
with invoices, bills of lading, and
other pertinent records and papers
as may be required by the commits
sioner Of motor vehicles
An out-of-state user, in order to
purchase Diesel oil in Connecticut,
must obtain a license and pay the
tax.
The law specifies that each user
shall obtain a license from the COM
missioner on or before July l, 1943,
the effective date of the law and
annually. before continuing or COM
mencing to purchase special fuels,
on or before June 80.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
MODEL RAILWAY STOLEN

San Jose, Cal, CUP)-Just as he
was departing for induction into
the armed forces, Alfred Colacicco
was obliged to report to the police
the theft of an entire railroad sys-
tenn, including seven engines and
tenders, 103 cars, three transform
ers and $50 feet of track. The rail-
road was known as the Great Gen.
trail Railroad of Santa Clara VAL
ley Colacicco said he had packed
the railway system, valued at 5000,
into l separate cases weighing 500
pounds, so that he didn't figure the
thief had purloined it by any slight
of hand trick.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
General DeGaulle Accused
OF Playing double Game"
United States, Great Britain May Win War,
Liberate France, But Lose Good Will of
French People - Inside Facts
Revealed in Newsweek.

men around him inclte French
opinion against the saviors OF
France. The British and ourselves
would be foolish to deliver France
into the hands of an opponent, as
de Gaulle,S recent behavior comes
near to establishing him as being.
5. That the British and ourselves
through Giraud, are trying to set up
French puppet. Can anyone, in
GLIDING the French people, imagine
Girauds becoming puppet. Cir
aud is a soldier, not politician.
One might as well think of the
100000 Frenchmen and colonials
who are equipped with American
Arms to fight for the liberation of
France as Anglo-American puppets.
The Nazis would like to have Gil
raud and these men regarded as
puppets" 1t is astonishing to see
the word used by anyone who hopes
for an Allied victory.
The American and British gov
ernments have given their pledges
that the independence of France
will be restored and that the
French people will have the oppor-
tunity to set up government of
their own choosing. They are the
real trustees of France. AS such,
they cannot permit the right of the
French people to be foreclosed or
impaired by the political ambitions
of de Gaulle or anyone else. They
have sought union of all patriotic
French elements. And they have a
right to expect the maximum CO.
operation from patriotic Frenchmen
in the liberation of France. They
have not been getting it from de
Gaulle.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17

Name of local persons selected by
the New Haven county jury commits
sioners as prospective jurors for
common pleas and superior court
civil or criminal actions during
the court year were released to-
day at the office OF the town clerk.
Panels for the various sessions of the
court will be selected by drawings in
New Haven and each panel will serve
for two months, with the first term
to open in September.
The prospective veniremen from
this city are:
George Angle, 1893 Cooke street;
Christopher Aucella, 493 Congress
avenue; Victor J. Baker, 920 Bald
win street; Anthony Beato, $3.50
Country Club road; Homer Bernier
1891 East Main street; Anthony
Biondi, 1854 Oak street; Mrs. ]. Fran
els Boland, 43 Bonair avenue; Mrs
Edna Breithaupt, 100 Highland ave-
nue.; Morgan Burke, II Albion street;
Mrs. Amy Cadotte, 314 Atwood ave-
nue.; Mrs. Catherine Callahan, 81
Coe street; Adam Callan, go Mont
gomery street; Carmine Gallo, 60a
Cooke street; Frank Campbell, 12z
Chestnut avenue; Frank Carney, As
Chapel street, Waterville; Mrs
George Chatfleld, 1855 South Main
street; Mrs. Mabel G. Chapman, $50
Highland avenue;
Mrs. Emma F. Clear, 1873 South
Elm street: Mrs. Elizabeth Coe
Country Club road; Mrs. Catherine
Corcoran, 101 IdylWood avenue; Mrs
Margaret Costello, 1897 East Main
street: Albert Dance, 872 North
Main street, Mary Donahue, % La
val street; Margaret DoWney, %
Henry street; Lura E. Button, 81
Idylwood avenue; Samuel Ershler
495 Cooke steet; Daniel Farrell, lbs
Elliott avenue; David H. Feinn, 12e
Concord street; Edward Fitzgerald
&C Beacon street; Mrs. Margaret
FITZGERALD, lis Chestnut avenue;
Frank Frazier, 1851 Cooke street;
Nathan Freedman, 923 WATERFOWL
avenue; Paula Freeman, 10 WARD
street: Frank A. Clarity, As Coe
street, IDA E. Goldberg, IA Collins
street; Aurero Greco, 43 FairVleW
street: John Crosse, "a Linden
street; Anna Hadden, Springfield, 8
Barnes street; Mrs. Ethel Hadley
500 Cooke street; Mrs. Nellie Hayden
"a Luke street; Gilbert M. Hender-
son. 70 Chapman street; Frank E
Hess, 225 Grandview avenue; Frank
C. Hill, 80 Auburn avenue; Samuel
Holczer, 277 Columbia Boulevard
Mary Karvelis, 25 Congress avenue;
Mrs Sarah Lahey, ITS Chestnut
street; Mrs. Louis Laun, II Faoer
avenue, WaterVllle;
PICK UP 2
Mrs. Helen K. Lauryn, 70 wall
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
GIRL SCOUTS HAVE
TENNIS MATCHES
Monthly Meeting Held
Tuesday at Mrs. Della
Carney's Home
WATERVILLE
MISS ALICE MacMULLEN
20 Chapel Street
Phone 3-7217

Waterville, July IT The Girl
Scout Club number 16 held their
meeting Thursday evening at the
home of Mrs. Della Carney OF
Chapel street.
Tennis matches were held and the
winning team for doubles was COM
posed of Ruth Batchelder and Hell
en- Barlow.
A number of single games were
played and Ruth Datchelder CANT
up to win these also.
A short meeting followed and
luncheon was served to those pres
ent.
Church Notes
st. Michaels Roman Catholic
Church-Father Falls in charge and
Eath4g Hostile. assistant. Masses
will be at 5:45 a. m, 1880 a. M, 900
a. M, 10 a. m. and II.
st. Paul's Episcopal Church
The Rev. Mr.. AyreS, priest-in-
charge.
Church at 1896 with Mr.. Shan
non as minister for morning prayer
and sermon.
For the months of July and Aug
ust there are no donors OF flowers
for the altar. Anyone wishing to dc
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
VICTORY GARDENS
HERE EXCELLENT

The Waterbury war gardens are
comparable with the best in the
state of Connecticut, announced
Prof. A. E. Wilkinson, vegetable
specialist at the University of Con-
necticut, in his tour of the local
gardens yesterday. Mayor John s.
Monagan, chairman of the war
Council and Bernard A. Mcdonald
and Mrs. Merton B. Allan, members
of the councils gardening commit
tee, accompanied Prof. Wilkinson.
Prof. j. A. Manter of the univer-
sity also toured the gardens and
took moving pictures of the sites
inspected. These will be compiled
for the pictorial records of Connec-
ticut's war gardening.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17

MOnsignOr
dren OF Mary Sodality, and Boy
Scouts. The statue of the Lady OF
Mount Carmel will be carried at the
head of the third group.
Band music will be furnished dur
ing the warren, and band concert
will be held on the church grounds
at the conclusion of the exercises.
The church services in the after
noon will include a special sermon
and the benediction. A solemn high
Mass at IL O'Clock tomorrow morn
ing will open the observance.
The program has been planned
for the special intention of the unity
of the Americas. 1t has been pointed
out the saint, who also is patroness of
men in the armed forces, is loved in
South America and some of the
nations are dedicated to her. Prayers
for the intention of Servicemen will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17

Short calendar hearings are not in
Guided in the compilation of Stats
tics.
Although the docket at the end OF
the year contained only 18 cases
less than it had at the start, the
total disposed of, including old ano
new actions, was 231, or 13 more
than were entered during the year
Mr.. Dawson, who released the re-
port, succeeded James E. Mcknight
now clerk of the superior court, If
the judicial post July l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
w o r L D w A r
A YEAR AGO
JULY II, 1912
(By United Press


Germans announce recapture of
VOrOshilovgrad.
British flyers (using Anchored
bOmbers), raid Lubbock and Flens-
hurg.
American headquarters in China
report Allied air attack on Japa-
nese base of HankOw for the
fourth time.
In first comprehensive report of
Aleutians island action, U. S. Navy
announces that the japanese hold
the westernmOst Aleutian islands
of Attu, Kiska and Aggatu.
Soviet forces reported success
fully cOunterattacking south of
VOrOneZh; Germans continue
sharp advance along the southern
front.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
I&n>4H%4ya~t@
ESTABLISHED 1853

Store closed all day Mondays, through Labor Day,
September six.
Don't Deprive Yourself Of The
Clothes Comfort And Relocation
Due You After A Hard Weeks Grind.
Lounge clothes from 50 to So
That give you the proper setting
and longing for the wide open
spaces under canopy Of blue sky.
All service suit 5000 Check
shirt Of teeo and royon-Convert-
IDLE collar and poteh pockets -
upper fly pIeoted sIoeks Of solid
color tones.
Suit at ST. - Cotton gobordine
convertible collar shirt and match
ing sIoeks.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17

To deliver the first Mariner pa-
troll bomber to the Navy. engi-
neering put in 100000 man
hours. One engineer, undertaking
the OBJ alone on 40-hour week.
would have had to start back in the
year 1917.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
1852 Divorces Granted In Local Courts Within Year
Procession Arranged
For Feast Day Event
Ceremonies to Be Held Tomorrow Afternoon at Our
Lady of Mt Carmel Church; Plans Announced

Three divisions of marchers have been organized for
the procession to take place in the Town Plot section
tomorrow afternoon when the feast day of the Lady OF
Mount Carmel observed at Our Lady of Mount Carmel
church. The procession, which will form at p. M, will
precede church services route of march will take in
Clarmoun Avenue Wilson Street. Bank Street. and Con-
gress Avenue The first division will be composed of the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17

oTdCc NCtHUuiSt SuuC vi
The Rev. Allen BergWall in charge.
The regular service will be held at
100 a. m.
The Epworth leaguge will attend
the camp meeting on Sunday after
noon of the New Haven District
Young People held at Plainville.
This camp has been open all Of this
week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17

committee members, the Scovill
Drum Corps, and altar boys. Con-
tingents from st. Lucy's and Our
Lady of Lourdes churches will fol-
low. The third division will in
clude representatives of the church
Holy Name Society, Holy Rosary
Society, ST. AIMS Society, the Chill
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17
Grace Methodist Church

nate flowers is asked to phone Mrs.
Clark, 3-8785.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-17

The regularly scheduled meeting of the Waterbury
"The Piers
State President Kune the Todd road
general discussion OPA regulations closing hours
President Stephen GrOsch will
preside the
following William membership
publicity Clndo DiNapi;
William
Evening star., 1943-10-13


intent on fighting us in italy to
permit the moving OF any portion
OF the much depleted Luftwaffe
to punish the Portuguese govern
ment for having lived up to its
centuries-old agreement with
Britain.
The advantage Britain and
United States will get out OF the
loan OF the Azores Is inestimable.
Ever since we entered the war
the American general staff has
had an eye on these islands,
which would make an ideal air
base from which to wage our
tight against U-boats.
We welcomed the action Of
British diplomats in busting off
the old Portuguese British treaty,
which enables the British and,
by inference, the United States,
to establish air bases at Funcal
and other parts of the Azores
and thus defend our North
Atlantic sea lanes.
Bases Vital Now.
The establishment of antisub-
marine air bases has become of
vital Importance now at time
when the United States is rushing
large conveys of ships with men
and war material to the armies
of the Mediterranean and in
preparation for the grand offen-
sive in Western Europe.
The renewed activities of the
U-boats, which have been giving
our high command a good deal
of concern in the past few weeks,
will be jeopardized seriously by
the establishment of Allied air
bases l, 900 miles from the Iberian
Peninsula.
The Azores are the most i'm
Evening star., 1943-10-13
The Great Game of Politics.

rival candidates next year, there
would not be much room for de-
bate between them. The view of
the practical politicians at this
time is that in the Democratic party
there is slight chance of Mr.. WAL
lace being nominated, even If Mr..
Roosevelt does not run again and
wanted him. In the Republican
party the feeling is that the odds
are against Mr.. Willkie. One rea-
son for these beliefs is that both
are so hotly crusading for true
liberalism" that the practical poll
ticians not only do not understand
what they are talking about land
are not sure that they do), but are
unable to get them down on a level
where they will listen.
carrying a Torch"
A short while ago, the politically
astute Mr.. James F. Byrnes, trench
antly remarked that you can't
negotiate with fellow who is car
rylng a torch" While he did not
intend to apply this either to Mr..
Willkie or Mr.. Wallace, it does
apply to them both. Each Is Ger
tainly carrying torch, and it seems
to be the same torch.
OF course, the politicians have
often been wrong in the past and
easily may be wrong now. In their
diagnosis they probably are right
in eliminating Mr. Wallace as a
presidential possibility (and, some
think, even vice presidential pos
sibility) next time. For he has been
greatly Debated since the day, a
year and more ago. when he was
being extolled by all the left-wing
writer's as q second Lincoln, on the
basis of rather ridiculous speech
which they undertook to compare
to the Gettysburg Address and of
which the Owl wastefully and fu-
tilely sent more than 1000, 900 copies
abroad.
That speech, more highly prop
agandized than any other New
Deal utterance since the New Deal
began, now has been almost en-
tirely forgotten, and the notion that
Mr.. Wallace should be considered
seriously as a possible President is
cherished by a greatly diminished
and discouraged group of advo-
Gates.
In brief, Mr.. Wallace is sunk. He
tried to cover so vast a territory
in so Olympian a way that he be-
came engulfed in his own verbiage.
1t is rather pity, as he Is man
of many admirable personal traits.
What he seems to lack is a sense of
proportion.
AS to Mr.. Willkie, the politicians
may be as wrong about him this
time as in 1910. Then, he made a
remarkable fight, in which the pol
iticians were mostly opposed and
the odds heavy against. But he
won. This time he has the same
kind of fight within the party and
has privately avowed the intention
of going over the heads of the
leaders" to the people"
This means that he will enter
every primary where there is the
slightest chance Of success and then,
regardless Of the primaries carry
his fight. as he did last time. to the
convention floor. Who can tell the
result of that?
Evening star., 1943-10-13

produ ction Dorothy Thompson.
effectively delivered. But they
are worried about the British,
and suggest that a good deal is
being put over on us. The
British, they find, are better
traders than we are and as for
the Russians, our Lease-Lend
isn't fully appreciated by the
Russian people.
They've told their story to the
rest of the people on the Hill,
and there are signs that a claque
is forming. Senator Allen j.
Ellender has let out a blast on
the old theme that we are the
worlds suckers and charity dis
pensers. The question is raised
what we're going to get for all
this. Are we, for instance, to
have permanently as our own. the
air bases we have been building
all over the world on other
peoples land?
Struck by Temerity.
An old reporter is struck by the
temerity of the five Senators.
Every correspondent, establishing
headquarters in a foreign coun-
try, knows that it takes several
months before he can feel his
way into any angle of a situa-
ton. Our Senators have had
sixty days to come to a conclu-
sion about the globe.
In that time they have found
out that the British are estab-
lished practically everywhere, and
the Americans aren't. The au-
thenticity of this discovery is
indisputable. The British EN-
pire has been going concern for
more than 200 years. Until after
the last war 1t was a free-trade
nation. World trade rather than
domestic trade, together with
marine transportation and finan-
cial services, has been a chief
source of its livelihood. The
British have been the greatest
distributors of the worlds goods.
In the course of some 200 years
Of doing this they have built up
an enormous commercial ap-
paratus all over the globe. This
has involved training hundreds
Of thousands of commercial
agents, civil servants, linguists
who can speak Kiswahili and
Urdu, for instance. They have all
over the world what is called In
business good will"
Drawn Out Of Selves.
In the last $50 years the
United States has been concerned
with building up an empire be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific
and developing domestic re-
sources and trade in a contiguous,
Evening star., 1943-10-13
This CHANGING World

portant strategic point In the
North Atlantic for submarine de-
fense. It is true they are made
quate for use as naval bases.
No major repairs Of damaged
ships can be performed there.
But they will offer adequate
facilities for supplying our sur
face ships and in addition they
will provide vital airflelds from
which we can effectively control
the Atlantic over an area Of sew
eral hundred miles.
These new bases will release
for duty elsewhere some of our
carriers now operating in the At
lantic as conveying ships.
Portugal eventually may be-
come a member Of the United
Nations, If the government de-
cides that it is to the best inter-
est of the country to declare war
on the Reich. But this develop
ment is not expected in the near
future. For the time being,
Portugal will seek to remain out
Of the war, although it Is un-
likely that Berlin will continue to
regard her as a neutral now that
a portion of her territory has
been willingly yielded to the
Allies.
Air Attack Possible.
An air attack on Portugal
might be expected-and such an
attack would bring that country
automatically into the war-if
the British government decides
that in defense Of Portugal Brit
ish air bases must be organized
there.
The creation of British air
bases in Portugal itself is likely
this year. Besides Offering need
ed protection, the Allies could
reach Southern France easier
from Portugal than from North
Africa.
For the time being only tech
nicians. together with modern air
equipment, are likely to be landed
In Portugal to assist the govern
ment in organizing its air
defenses.
Although the agreement for
the use of the Azores is confined
to Britain and Portugal, the
United States will benefit. Our
planes are cooperating in the
defense of the Atlantic sea lanes
and they will have the same ad-
vantages and prerogatives as the
British have obtained. This, Of
course, will apply only for the
duration of the war.