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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
four FREEDOMS
STAMP ISSUED
President Buys ST Sheet
of New One; Center Be.
fore Press Farley
Nv JOHN L. CUTTER

United Press stan Correspondent
washington, Feb. 12.-(UP)--As q
newcomer to washington this corr
respondent had his first chance to@
day to attend one Of President Rooss
evelt's press conferences - and
learned about the trials and trlnu-
lations Of being q short-snortei
Mr.. Roosevelt became q stiort-
shorter on his recent flight to Casa-
blanca.
A short-snorter is one who hes
crossed an ocean by air. At the tiple
Of his first crossing each member
Of the party autographs a dollar
bill The new short-snorter Isua5
never be caught without 1t. If cllal-
lenged by another member and i'm.
able to produce his bill, the victim
must pay 81 to each other member
present at the time.
The president told his press con-
ference that he gets about eight to
10 challenges a day. Although he
didn't say so specifically, some of
them probably come from his wife,
member by virtue Of her war time
flight to London. She has promised
that she Is going to try to catch
him.
The president assured his audi.
eI1ce, however, that he hasn't been
caught yet, and doesn't intend to be.
Otherwise, the president was with
out news. He took up the rest Of his
brief conference telling reporters
about q new one-cent "four frees
doms" postage stamp on the desk
before him. $50
The stamp pictures Liberty hold-
ing the lighted torch Of freedom and
enlightenment. Below are the words
Freedom Of Speech and Religion,
From Want and Fear" Mr.. Rooses
welt, who used these words when he
outlined the detectives Of the war
remarked that naturally he had had
something to say about the design
Of the stamp.
The stamp was issued for the first
time today on the anniversary OF
the birth Of Abraham Lincoln. MIR,
Roosevelt bought q 81 sheet Of the.
stamps from Postmaster General
V0AhS4 . 4OW u1VAAACA4Wo pS4UH0 tk1S
press conference. ,t.
Mr.. Roosevelt and his audience
were in good spirits. The presidents
looked healthy and bronzed, but na-
turally older than when. this corr
respondent last saw him In Chicago
about eight years ago.
It was a pleasant conference, with
the president sitting at his trophys
cluttered desk and about $50 rec
porters pressed into his oval oface.
The presidents constant atten.
ton to the global war was evident.
Behind him was huge globe~of
the world. Across the room was. q
rack Of maps on which he can fol-
low the progress Of American troops
spread all over the world.
AS Is customary, understand, the
conference ended with the president
and most Of the reporters laughing
and a 'Thank you, Mr.. President"
shouted by half q dozen reporters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
SWEATER GIRLS
CAUSE FURORE
Aircraft Co. Employees
Garry Fight to WLB,
Clio on Apparel

Stratford, Conn.,, Feb. 12.-(UP)-
Seventy five sweater girls in the de-
Hector department Of the Vought-
Sikorsky Aircraft Company, reluc-
family climbed back into their
Stacks and Jackets today while a
labor management conference
weighed the all-important feminine
question whether the wearing Of
Lana Turner-type pullovers were
dangerous to the war production
effort.
The rs girls, who were sent home
from their Jobs for appearing in
sweaters in violation Of company
rule that they must wear Jackets
with their Stacks, agreed to return
to their places on the production
line while the conference wrestled
with the problem.
The company commended that the
jackets were prescribed ITO protect
the women" and that the workers
were "unjustified" in hating pro-
duction by defying the rules.
The girls, reluctant to believe
that the no-sweater rule was form
ultaed solely for their protection
from being entangled in their ma
chimes, took their grievance to the
War Labor Board. The WLB quickly
shifted the controversy to the C1O
union which turned 1t over to Its
shop committee, which asked for a
conference with the management.
The girls, meantime, consented 70
leaving their sweaters OF home until
the conference announced Its deci-
sion.
Objections to the Jackets were
many:
"aow much do they care for pro-
duction II they stop 1t for something
like this" complained one girl.
"The plant has too many rules
It's more like q style factory" said
another.
From O third: cts too cold to
come to work without o sweater
The Jackets are too bulky and eX-
pensive, and you can't roll up the
sleeves to work easily" 60
"What about the men? They can
wear sweaters"
Union President John Robinson
bearing the complaints to the con-
ference, said "the girls claim they
want to look halfway decent when
they work. They claim they have to
spend from "a to SO for Jacket and
It's too expensive. Sweaters are
cheaper and easier to keep Clean"
And then someone pointed out
there was no rule against wearing a
sweater under the jacket.
The conference will thresh that
out too.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
LABOR DRAFTING
WINS SENTIMENT
Economic Stabilize ito n
Board Members Endorse
Selective Service
BY LYLE G. WILSON
UNITED Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Feb. ~ -(UP)-
There Is strong sentiment within
the administration for drafting Ia
Dor to meet the manpower emerg-
ency, the United Press was in
formed on good authority today.
Labor, management and agricul-
tural interests generally are count
ed against a labor draft. In the
current Harper's Magazine, Bernard
M. Baruch is quoted this way:
ITO attempt to draft labor is i'm
possible and dangerous"
The question of meeting the man
power emergency on the Selective
service principle arose in an early
winter meeting of the economic
sterilization board of which James
F. Byrnes is director. It was not
in the concrete form Of the Wads-
worth-Austip bill introduced in
Congress this week to use the Sc
lective service machinery to draw
upon women from IS to SO and men
from Is to IS.
The United Press was informed
that of those present, all but one of
the government members endorsed
the selective service method and all
the non-governnient members OPP
posed it.
The government members include
four cabinet offlcers-treasury, agri-
culture, commerce and labor-and
four other top non-cabinet officials.
The private members represented
labor, agriculture and management.
Some of those who opposed the Sc
lective service-Or ft-principle
Of recruiting emergency labor con-
slider the administration new 4e-
hour-work-week order to be q step
toward compulsory system.
A report uncondrmed but well
supported was that the admins
tratlon was preparing some kind OF
labor-dFaft bill when the Wads-
Worth-AuEttn measure was intro
dueed this week. Some congress
slonaI veterans privately expressed
the belief that Rep. James w.
WadswoFth, r., N. X, and sen
Warren n. Austin, r., w. IN some
degree were representing the nd.
ministFati0n when they offered
their bill. IN that connection, y
rs recalled that Mrs. Eleanor
Roosevelt had endorsed the princi-
pie Of drafting men and women foF
emergency war work.
The war Manp0Wor commle'
ion's management and labor aas
ylsoFy committee a scheduled e
meet today with Chairman PAU v
n9elantt. me committee 3 CON.
imiated q solution of the mnnpoHs
nY pfnhleln on q voluntary basil
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
Mayor Selects War
Housing Committee
City Controller Cornelius MalOney Appointed Chair.
man; Group to Cooperate With Federal Agencies

group will cooperate with all federal
war agencies In the preparation Of
its report.
The mayor said that he under
stands that a most important re-
quirement in a major center Of wal
production is enough housing facil-
tiles. He said that the city admin.
istration and the defense council
wish to do everything possible 70
relieve the situation.
The rent situation In waterbury
has suffered for the past three
years. This situation became more
acute two years ago as defense ord
ers brought a demand for more de-
tense workers. This in turn,
brought a large flow Of workers
from other cities TO obtain Jobs
in the enlarging industries.
Last January the board Of alder
men attempted to ease the housing
problem when 1t repealed a section
Of the coming rules for the duration,
thus allowing home-owners In class
A residential zones to rent rooms
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
5000 WOMEN AT
TRAINING SCHOOL
Waves, 'Spars' Arriving
at Hunter College for
Primary Training

The first Of the thousands Of
WAVES and sPARS who will re-
ceive preliminary training at the
new Naval Training School, Wo-
mems Reserve, Hunter College, the
Bronx, will start coming into New
York next Wednesday. Some 800
girls from all over the country will
arrive that day. BY Friday, 1900
will have been established at the
boot" school to receive their first
instruction in the ways Of the Navy
The indu0tees will arrive In
groups Of 1000 every two weeks un.
til 5000 are there. BY that time
the first 1000 will be sent out tt
Navy Specialist Schools to study fol
their Navy ratings, and the number
Of girls at the school will be KEEP
constantly at 5000. However, the
school has facilities to handle twicC
that number, and as the WAVES
and SPARS program is expanded
and the need arises, the figure will
undoubtedly be increased, according
to Captain william F. Amsden, U
8. N, commanding oflcer Of thu
school.
The course for the first group o.
WAVES and SPARS will be fol
four weeks, and the training fol
all subsequent groups will be fol
six weeks. The curriculum will stress
principally Naval organization, Ma.
val history and physical education.
The academic subjects will be di-
vided into Naval Organization an6
Administration, Ships and Aircraft
and Naval Personnel. The Ships
and aircraft course will include Ma
val history. The WAVES and
SPARS will have three classes O
week in g ach subject, according to
present plans. The remainder Of
their time will be occupied with
physical education and drill, med
ical examination and uniform 1T
ting.
The Naval ratings open to girls
In the Women's Reserve include
yeoman, storekeepers, bakers, ships
cook, radioman, pharmacists mate
aviation machinist's mate, aviation
metalsmith, photographers mate
and parachute rigger.
More than fifty officers and en-
listed men and women Of the per.
manent staff Of the school have ar
rived and are now working out the
details for the opening.
Among recent arrivals Is Com
maiader Herschel A. Smith, u. s. N.
the executive officer. Commander
Smith has just returned from the
Pacific, where he saw duty since the
outbreak Of the war with Japan
aboard an aircraft carrier.
Commander Smith entered the
Navy in 1918 and was graduated
from Annapolis in 1922. He has
served on battleships and cruisers
and is qualified Naval aviator. He
was wounded in action last year.
Commander Smith is q graduate
Of the Naval War College, and was
commanding officer Of the Aviation
Machinists' School at Norfolk, Va.
from 1885 to 1898.
Another recent arrival Is Com
mander Thomas M. Arrasmith, Jr.,
(M. o., U. s. NJ, the senior medical
officer. Commander Arrasmith
comes to the school from duty
aboard cruiser in the Atlantic. He
has been in the Navy II years. He
was graduated from the University
OF North Carolina and received his
M. D. at Jefferson Medical College,
He is a member Of the American
College Of Surgeons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
BOMB EXPLOSION
FAST AFTERMATH
Three Killed in New Delhi
as Demonstrations Rage
Over Gandhi's Plight
By JOHN r. MORRIS
UNITED Press Far Eastern
ManaNerl

New Delhi, Feb. ~ - (UP.) -- A
bomb explosion, q student strike, at
tempted demonstrations and SYM
pathetic fast were reported today
as M0i1andas K. Gandhi, National
ist leader, entered on the third day
Of his fast at the Aga Khan's Pal
zee ct Poona where he is tnterned.
Two peddlers and a porter were
killed when q bomb exploded on a
railroad station platform at Gavin
pore. Students at o Lahore college
went ON strike In protest against
Gandhi's continued detention, the
reason for his fast. Eleven person:
were arrested In Delhi, the old part
Of the capital, for taking part III
demonstrations in violation Of ar
of1acial ban. Students at various
colleges adopted resolutions urging
intensiflcation Of Gandhi's CAM
paign for mass civil disobedience
without violence or sabotage.
Several shops and some principa
markets remained closed In Delhi
Is o RroteSt against Gandhi's deten.
tion.
At Wardha, Qandhis usual head.
quarters, Professor Bhan Sail, O
member Of Gandhis personal en-
tourage, started O sympathetic fast
at noon yesterday. He had aban'
doned q "fast unto death" in Mid
January after ending 63-day fast
December /.
Gandhi was reported cheerful and
well on his diet Of water mixed with
fruit juices. DR.. Bidhonchandra Roy
an eminent physician Of Calculus
and leading Nationalist, went tc
Poona at Gandhi's request to attend
him during the fast. Present also
was Miss Shushila Magyar, Gandhi's
personal physician and sister Of his
private secretary. The government
sent one DR.. Glider, a Nationalist
physician recently under internment
and o former Bombay health min
iSter, to be present also.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
UNION CITY MAN
ORDERED TO PAY

Walter Gaugler of Union City
was ordered by Superior Court
Judge Frank p. McEvoy yesterday
to pay $40 a week for the support OF
two children of a former marriage
through the local probation officer,
following q hearing on contempt
proceedings instituted by his for
mer wife, now q resident Of Hart
ford. He also was ordered TO meet
back payments Of e45 or face the
alternative Of q 30-day jail sentence,
Both 0augieF and his former wife
have married again since their d.
vorce was granted In 1887.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
IM'DONOUGR May
ESCAPE PURGE
Republicans to Make Ex.
ceptiOn in Shakeup; Nc
Neil Seeks Reduction

While the Republican.dom
legislature has continued the policy
Of replacing all Democratic Judges
with Republicans In the municipal
courts, this policy viii not be used,
completely, in the naming Of COM
mon pleas court judges, It was re-
ported today.
The contention in legislative cir
cles Is that John F. McDonough Of
Naugatuck, Judge Of the Waterbury
common pleas court, viii be reap
pointed. Many were Of the opinion
that he would not be reconsidered
because he Is O Democrat. He was
named by Gov. Baldwin two years
ago, and his term expires this year.
Sen. Joseph Neill Of Watertown
wishes to introduce o bill which re-
quires the dropping Of two more
common pleas court judges by July
!, 1945. The legislature has already
dismissed one Of the authorized IA,
but passing the bill which numbers
the amount to 10.
Reliable authorities said that
should Sen. Neill's bill pass, 1t would
not affect either Judge McDonough
or Judge Miles F. McNiff Of the
waterbury common pleas court.
An effort to Offset the Neill bill
Will be made in the judiciary COM
mittee. This procedure would neceS-
state all common pleas court judges
to act as judges Of the superior
court as such time and at such
places as declared by the chief JUS
tice Of the state supreme court, for
two months Of the year.
Court officials and legislators adj
nit that the increase In the num-
Der of common pleas court judges
authorized by the last legislature
was unwarranted-there are now
more than are necessary for the
work designated.
However, the superior courts Of
the state are overstaffed. In ap-
pointing common pleas court Judges
to assist In such cases, the pressure
for reducing their number would be
lessened, 1t was reported.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12

Critical housing conditions caused
Mayor John 8. Monagal1 to appoint
q war housing committee which Il
headed by City Controller Cornelius
p. Maloney, chairman. The CONF
mittee win operate as o unit Of the
Civilian Defense Council and VIII
probe into all the veins In order
10 find some manner In which to re-
lieve the present predicannent.
MIR. Maloney announced today
that a meeting viii be held next
week to decide which course Of ac-
ton Is to be taken FIRST. Members
Of the committee are: Miss Ellen M
Davies, personnel director Of the
Waterbury Mfg. Co.; Joseph De-
Lauretis, treasurer Of Chatfleld &
Chatfield, Inc; Frank j. Kenney,
secretary treasurer Of the Morris
Plan bank; Lester Young, president
Of the Waterbury Real Estate board
and Charles w. Hennion, secretary
Of the Carpenters Union.
Mayor Monagan said that other
than concerning itself with priorities
Tor the purchase Of critical mate
rials to permit private home build
ing, two important activities Of the
group will be to determine the
necessity for additional govern
ment war housing units similar to
those on Hamilton avenue and Long
Fill road and to study and make
nI1vrastions comparative to the gov
eminent plan for converting large
units into apartment and fiat
dwellings. The mayor said that all
available facilities suitable for
dwelling units, which might even
include ONCE buildings, will be
studied.
He asserted that Mr.. Maloney's
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
FOOD Professors
MAY Be LICENSED
Black Market Traffic in
Meat Amounts to Mil
lions a Week"
BY FRED BAILEY

UNITED Press STAFF Correspondent
Washington, Feb. 12.-(UP)-Food
administration officials may attack
black market operations in food by
licensing food professors, 1t was
learned today.
Food officials estimated that black
market trafflc in meat alone amounts
to millions OF pounds week."
Health officials warned the black
marketing Of meat is o serious threat
to public health. Strengthening meth
DDS used by black market operators
are seldom sanitary.
zone thing is certain" one food
official said, I'VE are going to have
to act quickly before the situation
gets out Of hand. 1t already is worse
than most people know"
The exact course Of government
action Is not known. The Once of
Price Administration has asked
agriculture department food officials
to cooperate.
OPA's establishment Of specific
dollars and cents ceilings prices on
butter sales by creameries and
wholesalers was expected to reduce
black market trading in that COM
modify. The retail price Off butter
In some black markets has been re-
ported as high as 70 cents q pound
It should range between Sc and SO
cents o pound.
The system being considered for
meats Is understood to provide for
federal licensing Of slaughterers,
plus q requirement that wholesalers
and other distributors handle only
meats slaughtered under license.
The agriculture department would
cooperate through It's county war
boards and other agencies by urging
farmers not to sell livestock to UNI
licensed operators.
Odicials said meat rationing un.
der dollar and cents ceilings sched-
ulcd to begin in about six weeks may
eGse the meat shortage by O more
equitable spread Of supplies but that
more direct action Is necessary to
stamp out black marketing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
FOOTLICHTS LOSE
VALUABLE MEMBER
Mrs. E. HOcket, Founder
Of Popular Group Leaves
for Washington, D. G.

Mrs. Eleanor Hockert, one Of the
founders Of the Footlighter's Dra-
matte club leaves for Washington
D. G., soon, to become a permanent
resident there. She has been active
in the Footlighters for the past six
years and has been the main stand
by Of her favorite group.
The Footligbters have lost to the
armed forces Lestre Shapard, Xavier
Galgauda, Bob Ashton, John Cole,
and Wilfred Colby.
During the past year the group,
which has come to be the dramatic
club of waterbury, has built its
membership up to almost double.
The clubs new production "All
Roads Lead to Hollywood" will be
presented on Friday night, Feb. 20,
194S, at the Waterbury Women's
c1llh.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
NAILS FORTIFYINC
NORWAY INTERIOR
Germans Prepare in Case
Allies Invasion Hurls
Them From Coast
BY JOHN A. PARIS
United Press Staif Correspondent

London, Feb. 12.-(UP)-The Nor
wegian government in exile report
ed today that the Germans were
building Notifications in the interior
Of Norway, in case an Allied inva-
sion hurls them back from coastal
areas. e
The Germans apparently were
convinced that their coastal FORTH
cations are not impregnable, and in
tend to try to hold on to inland areas
and mountain passes, a spokesman
said.
The Germans also anticipated at
tackS by numerous allied airborne
troops, he said. German ski troops
patroled daily the vast HardangeI
Vida, hundreds Of miles inland, and
German officers had forbitten any
soldier to leave his camp without
full equipment, whether on duty OF
OF. Nazi troops in northern Norway
were said to be undergoing exhaust
ing maneuvers.
simultaneously, In preparation fol
an invasion Of the Balkans, the Ger
mans were trying to eliminate Gen
Draja Mikhailovitch, JugoslaviaT
guerilla chief, and his forces, q dis.
patch from Istanbul said.
Strong German units, reinforced
with tanks and heavy ARTILLERY, were
reported to have been sent against
Mikhailovitch. They forced him Il
retire from two towns, but his troops
we're reported retreating in goot
order.
Other reports reaching Londor
said the Germans were making wide
spread arrests In the Balkans, In {
frantic effort to eliminate all pa
triots capable Of undertaking poll
teal leadership when the Allie
strike,
Adolf Hitler was reported TO havl
entrusted Field Marshal Fritz Ericl
Won Manstein and Col. Gen. Maxi
milan Won Welchs with defense O
the Balkans. One report said Gen
eral Krenslgy, who had been sent o.
q defense mission, had been recalle'
10 Berlin because he reported tina
prospects were unfavoFable for de
tending the Balkans against an Al
lied landing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
$1,000 in CASH
FOUND ON ALIEN

Daniel F. Curz. IS, Of I'll Bridge
street, began the journey back to
his native Portugal today $4,000
richer than when he came to the
country. That sum was found on
Curz by police who searched the
man when he was brought In to
headquarters last night BY local po-
lice at the request of the federal
immigration department. He was
picked up by Lieutenant Ernest
Pakul and Joseph Cayanaugh Of the
police department and Inspector
Taper of the federal immigration
department and said he had been
working In q local factory. Hildretll
Jones, q Canadian, was also turned
over TO immigration authorities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
EXCEPTIONS MADE
IN SHOE COUPONS

Ration coupons will not be re.
quired for work shoes supplies by
plants, but private purchases Of spec
cial work footwear will involve q
coupon transaction Mrs. Charlotte
Root, ration administrator, has an
nounced. Workers who use their cou-
pons to buy specially constructed
shoes for employment may be al
lowed another ration for general
wear shoes, 1t was indicated.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
NO INTERRUPTION
OF REVENUE STAFF
Two Offices Utilized as
SHOWING Day" Plans
Near Completion

Numerous income tax returns were
made to the local internal revenue
ONCE at its new headquarters at II
Leavenworth street today on the
oh1cisk opening of the larger quar-
ters! During the moving process
yesterday staff members served both
at the new headquarters and at the
old Office in the post Office building,
offsetting interruption Of work.
Although the staff has been kept
busy for the past few days receiv-
ing returns, the real rush is expect
ed to start the early part of next
month. The office hours will be ex-
tended then to accommodate tax
payers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
COURT SANCTIONS
CHANGE OF NAME

Agnes Alexander Maksimavicius
Of Waterbury was granted permits
sion by Superior Court Judge Frank
p. McEvoy yesterday to change her
name to Agnes Alexander. Difflculty
in pronouncing the former name
was given as the reason for the
change.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
TREASURY BALANCE

washington, Feb. 10 (UP)-0ova
eminent expenses and receipts Tor
the current fiscal year through Feb.
10th, compared with q year ago:
This Year Expenses Last Yeag
$43,769, 460,4S1.6S $l5,217,030tS70.0&
war Spending
$40, 1893, s1s,6S2.42 sl1,S1S,67esIse.0
$ s.sss. sOo.Oss.is S.O7s.Bto.iso.sa
$s4. s7s, Oso. 1856 si0.oeS. Oss. sss.S4
Cash Balance
8 7,O11,671.61s.So 8 2,s24,e7s,e3S.eS
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-12
HOSPITAL BULLETINS

EIilda AFmiatFang, "a, e. 10
KlngHbuFy street. was treated last
nleht at WaisFbusy hospital feF
ahEaslens of tie face received
while q heg weFk 81 ths water.
bury Tooi &c.
lee We1Eig. e 0sk a1Eeat. Vas
admitted q WafeEbHlE hsnD'laI
yesterday with 81 inIaEea F'ghi
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