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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Old School Building
Leased toGovernment
Eight Housing Units to Be Established in Hamilton
Avenue Structure; Complete Sale Favored By Board

Eight housing units will be created at the old Hamilton
school, according to plans submitted to the Board
of Education last night by Charles Murphy local leasing
agent for the National Housing Administration and
approved by the education commissioners In voting to
lease the premises to the government at the cost of
dollar year for years. the board specified that the
contract should be sanctioned by the mayor and corpora
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

Of the lease will be faced by the
government.
The ACCESSIBILITY Of turning ov0
the building to the Board Of Alder.
men and letting it take final actioF
on the lease was discussed, but thu
board voted its approva! Of the leas
directly when the government agent
told Of the urgent need Of ths
project. The commissioners indi-
Gated, however, that action may b.
taken later in removing the building
from control by the education board
and giving it to the aldermen for
possible sale after the governments
surrenders it.
DR.. Thomas J. Condor, superin-
tendent of schools, said 1t does no,
seem likely the building viii ever
be needed for school purposes again
Several commissioners stated sincA
it will become an apartment house
it should be taken from their control
and turned over to the other city
board for later management, but
final action on that point was post
poned pending execution Of the
lease.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
LEGION ENJOYS
BENEFIT PARTY
Davis Drum Corps Col1ec.
ton to Be Used to Buy
American Flag
WATERVILLE
MISS ALICE MacMULLEN
% Chapel Street
Phone 3-7217

Waterville, July 20. - The Casper
Davis Drum Corps held their party
last evening. They collected enough
to purchase an American Flag.
During the evening games were
played and dancing enjoyed. The
boys ordered a few pieces such as
when Irish Eyes Were Smiling
Honey Boy and "Oh, Gee, Oh
Gosh, Oh Golly".
A luncheon was served to those
present who included the following
E. Lester Plat, Rose Mary Murphy,
Erna Schell, Bella Brickett, Louisa
Modem, Betty Ericsson, Jeanette
Wright, Anna Kaiser, Lois Plat,
and Alice MacMullen. Also Herby
Severson, Russ Severson, Charlie
Brickett, Bill Brickett, Bud Ericc-
son, Henry Modem, Norman Mi
dette, Girard Midette, Maurice St.
Pierre, Walter Montambault, and
Richard Barnoski.
Briefs
Private Russell Williams Is visit
ing his parents on DoWnes street.
He is stationed at Fort Fisher, North
Carolina.
A second anniversary requiem
high Mass for John Byrnes will be
held Wednesday at 8 a. m.
James Chick" Sullivan of Homer
street has returned from a weeks
stay at Wells Beach, Maine.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Cosgriff re-
turned from vacation at Atlantic
City.
Mrs. Arthur Kramer and daughter
of Bonair avenue are spending two
weeks at MooduS, Conn.
Nellie Falls of Patterson Court is
spending the summer in Maine.
Mrs. George Porch of 81 Harvard
street and Mrs. Scolley of 80 Har-
yard street have returned from a
two weeks stay in New Mexico.
The playground will have cos
tune show Wednesday evening at
7:30 o'clock.
The doll show will be held Friday
at the park at 1880 o'clock.
Earl Ericsson Of Chapel street
has returned to work after three
weeks absence following an
operation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
FEW CONTAGIOUS
DISEASES HERE

Infectious diseases continue to re-
main les sprevelent in the City of
Waterbury, according to the week.
ly health report ending July IT.
The report indicates that five
cases of measles and one scarlet
fever case were reported from this
city for that week.
The state total of measles drop
ped from 1874 cases to &C. Other dis
eases reported through the state are
20 cases of chickenpox. 80 cases of
German measles, q cases mumps.
one trichinosis, 20 tuberculosis, 10
gonorrhea and 80 syphilis. Menin-
gococcus meningitis dropped from
seven to S cases for the past week.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

Rev. j. Donnelly reviewer does not
ike 1t for many reasons, among
them because the characters have
been robbed of their picturesque
obscenity." A revealing reflection on
p. M.
This almost three hour film of a
four day period of war has been
placed by the Legion of Decency in
Glass B because brutality and de-
liberate murder are rampant in the
film. Suggestion of justification of
homicide. Excessive brutality and
suggestive situation" are the rea-
sons given.
POLAND'S LOSS
The death of General Sikorski,
killed in an airplane crash off Glib
raltar, is one of the gravest losses
the Allied cause has sustained. Gen.
eral Sikorski, Prime Minister of the
Polish Government in Exile, enjoy
ed the complete confidence of the
leaders of the Allied cause and
even acted as liaison of good will
between some of them and the
problem child of the alliance, Pre-
mier Stain, who has little conf
dance and less love for most of the
leaders of the United Nations but
who strongly found General Sikor-
ski acceptable. An exemplary Cath
Ole leader of Europe's great Cath
Ollie country, General Sikorskis last
public appearance in this country
was at the special Mass for Poland
/ in st. Patrick's Cathedral a few
months ago. Shortly before that he
had received an honorary degree
from The Catholic University in
Washington.
What Stain plans for Poland is
not yet clear. In December 1941, he
and General Sikorski signed docu-
ment stating that: THE Govern
ment of the Union of Soviet Social
list Republics recognizes the Soviet
German treaties of 1889 as to terri
torial changes in Poland as having
lost their validity"
Poland is the test of the Allies
conscience. The famed letter of
Ambassador Davies trip to Russia is
supposed to have been concerned
with the question and to have re-
ceived a satisfactory reply. Six and
a hals million people in Poland have
been victims of the war. And as
General Sikorski told the Overseas
Press Club in New York City:
Every fifth man, woman and child
in Poland has either been murdered
or driven from his home, taken to
concentration camp, tortured or
taken away to forced labor in Ger
many"
Ministers and ambassadors OF six
teen Allied and other nations at
tended the requiem Mass for Gen.
eral Sikorski at the National Shrine
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
MOTION PICTURES
FORLOCAL CLUBS

Moving pictures OF fishing trips
will be shown by Lawrence V. But
terrified of the American Oil Co.,
Bank street, at the luncheon meeting
of the Kiwanis club tomorrow at
The Elton.
Joseph F. Mulville will show NOV
ing pictures at a meeting OF the
Lions club Thursday noon at The
Elton.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
CROCERS ORDERED
, TO DISPLAY CARDS

Aaron Paur, office manager at
the local ration board headquarters,
has announced classification cards
which all retail grocers must dis
play may be obtained from the
price panel. The cards designate
the class of the establishment and,
according to OPA regulations, must
be placed in view of customers, so
that ceiling price lists for the par
ticular classification might be
studied when sales are made.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
PATTERSON ATTENDS
COP. CONFERENCE

The Republican Postwar Policy
association meeting was attended
yesterday in New York by Russell
L. Patterson of Torrington, chair
man of the state liquor control
commission, and George l.. Benedict
of Winstedf, member of the Repub-
lican state committee.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
IDA BOBS OUT

Ida Lupino will wear short hair
cut for her role in Warner Bros.
In Our Time" marking the first
time Ida has consented to having
her hair cut really short for picture
purposes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
BERLIN TURNS ACTOR

Although he has been associated
with show business for 80 years Irv-
ing Berlin faced a motion picture
camera for the first time when his
This Is the Army" was filmed by
Warner Bros.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
FLYNN AS DANCER

Enrol Flynn sings and dances for
the screen for the first time in War
ner Bros Thank Your Lucky
Stars" He says he hopes 1t is also
the last time. Screen fights are less
nerve wracking.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

War and most of
the immoral Incl
dents SO carefully
d e S cri b e d b Y
Hemingway have
been toned down.
T h e D a i ! y
w ork er, yer y
angry at not find
ing h e picture
another prop "a
ganda coup as is
Warner Brothers
Mission to Mos
COW, con d e m ms
the the film as
unfaithful to the
book. And P. M
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

for maintenance and inspection OF
the building and that cost will be
eliminated when the government
project is undertaken, it was pointed
out. All expenses during the period
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

THE telephone man knew he was in
i tight spot. Maybe he should simply
say, Yes and recommend adding the
twenty telephones and the switchboard the
president Of the company wanted. The
War Production Board would probably
approve the recommendation - and it was
his job to see that important war calls
were not delayed for lack of proper tele-
phone equipment But there was still that
insistent doubt.
The telephone man took deep breath.
Sir, give me just two weeks to prove my
point" he said. I'VE would like to make a
study of your business. This may show we
can serve you better by making the old
equipment do"
The president looked at the telephone man
curiously. With higher taxes and expenses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
Guest of Honor
SOUTHBURY SEEKS
DEFINITE RULING
Guest of Honor

Members of the Southbury ration
board met last night with state
OPA official and were assured that
specific regulations for out-of-state
car travel will be made shortly
Cases of several New Workers who
are charged with violating the ban
on non-essential driving for motor
ing to their summer homes in South
bury are still pending, and the
OPA spokesman said Interpretation
of regulations will be standardized
as soon as disposition of the cases
results.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
THE BELLS TOLL

We are agreeably surprised that
the filming Of Ernst Hemingway's
For Whom the Bells Toll'' is only
moderately distasteful. Paramount
has attempted to keep out the politi-
cal implications of the Spanish Civil
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20
STATE SECRETARY
HERE NEXT SUNDAY

Frances Redick, secretary Of the
state, will be the honored guest at
tn emeeting of the Young Colored
Republicans of Waterbury on the
lawn of Jackson C. CaretherS, 1872
Plat strete, Sunday afternoon at 4
Ernest Bush will also. be a guest
speaker.
The following are officers of the
club: Hampton Stuart, president;
William Clapp, vice president; Willis
Harvey, secretary; Lacey Names
treasurer.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

Cotton fibers, impregnated to
make them durable, are now used
to manufacture house screens.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

Sweden is increasing the capacity
of its hydroelectric plants.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

wouldn't the telephone company like the.
income from those twenty telephones?. heb
asked
Yes. sir. OF course But the equipment you
want will use hundreds of pounds of scarce
metals = and it's our job to save every
ounce we can - to build guns and planes
and tanks - to build the very things you
are making here in your plant
You win" said the president. a. "A
A month later, the president called the tele'
phone company. The study Of his business
had been completed and its recommends
tions carried out. Our telephone service is
better than ever" he said enthusiastically.
and We didn't add a single bit Of netp
equipment"
Without doing little figuring, we could
not tell him the end Of the story then. But
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-20

We can ten him now Because rs Is VlDe!
ingly cooperated to avoid the installation,
of new switchboard and twenty tels-
phones, he helped to save the rubber for,
four army gas masks, the iron and steel
for ten machine guns, the copper for 1000
bullets, and in addition, large amounts Of
lead and zinc and nickel. x"
This is just one small example Of the nizng
ways telephone employees are working
with customers to save materials for VIC
tory. There are many ways you can help
too by making only essential calls to dis,
tant out state points, and by being a
good telephone neighbor if you have party,
line service. ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
MILLDALE MAN
 FATALLY HURT

William Joseph Barry, 40, of the Meriden- Waterbury turnpike, Mill dale, died of a broken neck shortly before noon yesterday when the tractor he was driving in the rear of his home overturned and pinned him beneath it.
 The body was found by MT. Barry's son, Paul. His mother sum- moned neighbors who with the aid of an automobile pulled the tractor of the body. Dr. William T. Nagle, medical examiner, said death was caused by a broken neck. MT. Barry was resident of Mill dale for the past IA years. He was employed as a steam filter at the New Departure Manufacturing Go. in Bristol.
 Besides his wife, Mrs. Mary Leach) Barry, he leaves four sons, John and Paul Barry and twlrs David and Donald Barry, all of Milldale: two brothers. James Barry of Waterbury and Rev. Edward Barry, M. s. of the LaSalette Mis- sion Order, stationed at Altamont. ". F.: four sisters. Miss Mary and Miss Rose Barry. both of Hartford. Mrs. Helen Turner of New Britain and Mrs. Anna Marcella of Water bury, and his mother, Mrs. John Barry of Hartford.
 The funeral will be held Wednes- day at 8:l5 q. in. at the Hallahan funeral home. 20B Meriden avenue. Southington. with requiem Mass ct st. Thomas church at 2 .. m. Burial will be in st. Thomas cem- etery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
WARTIME HEALTH COLUMN ---- Inadequate Diet Of Child May
 Cause Adult Physical Defects

upheld if children in families 50 economically stricken are to have their chance at e healthy adulthood. VALUE OF VITAMINS
 Many industrialists who do not feel in a position to equip their fac- tories with satisfactory restaurant facilities have become interested in supplying vitamins to workers in concentrated form. This practice has no basis in fact as to improved health or performance. as food is still the most complete source of vitamins, and commercially pre- pared vitamins are not iilexhaust- ible in quantity, and should be con- served for those who can get them in no other form.
 If children of today are to be strong, competent adults in the fus ture, without nutritional defects, safeguards must be taken How to insure them of an adequate diet. Iii- struction by voluntary agencies, planned food distribution, and nied- teal check-ups may combine to it children for the heavy tasks of the future.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11

Tn reclaiming and helping them to correct their defects, cornmunity facilities are organizing on Q scale that may point to e higher stand. ard of nutrition for the future.
 An Interesting survey of rejected draftees, made in Hagerstown, Ma. ryland, in i94i, reported ct least one significant observation. The school examination medical records. Of these men who had been reject. cd, showed that Q close correlation existed between childhood state of nutrition and the development of defects l6 years later which dis qualified the adult for SelectiYe Service. Here was another example of falling in peacetime to prepare for war.
 DIET IMPROVED
 Very definite strides have been made in the American diet since the last war. Tomatoes and the citrus fruits. the sources of 50 many vitamins, are a commonplace in the diet of nearly everyone. Milk-con. sumption has risen markedly, espe- cially in So-called good" times. There has been, however, until World War IT, a tendency to rely too much on refined grain products, sugar, and fats. Sugar and fat- rationing have been the answer to a nutritionist's prayer, and enrich. nent of milled cereals with Vita min B complex is being constantly more current. GuavaS, papayas, and black entrants have in other countries been found excellent sources of aScorbic acid (Vitanin O, and we, too. shall seek substi- tutes for many shortages and find them as good as or better than the things we sought them for.
 Unfortunately. people in the low CT income brackets exist today as well as in 1883. These are for the most part on fixed incomes, or re- ceiving some sort of public assist ance, and the general paper pros- perity of wartime employment has not helped them in the face of ris- ing food-costs. The practice of school lunches, developed during the depression. must continue to be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
ARMY TAKES OVER
 YALE BUILDINGS
TrumbuII College Latest to Be RequisitiOned for
 Training Units

New Haven, Conn, Oct. ii.- Army training units at Yale will take over Trumbull College, now occupned by civilian freshmen, at the end of the current, Col William r. Howe, cornmandant of Army Specialized Training Profram at Yale announced yesterday.
 This will end the use as living quarters of the University. .owne6 buildings at 3i0-3i2 and 32S-321 Temple street, and Vernon Hall, where trainees are now quartered temporarily, Col. Howe said.
 The freshmen living at the pres' ent time in TrumbuIl will move inte the two other civilian colleges. Timothy Dwight and Jonathan EdS wards, where raooms will be made available through graduation of the senior calss. ASTP traineeS have al. ready taken over the dining facils ities of Trumbull, with but eS civilians now eating there daily. No civilians VII eat or be quartered there after Nov. 1, however.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
War Collaboration
 Only Victory Hope
Rev. Dr.. John C. Walker Claims Without Moral Prin-
 ciples Cause of Peace Will Be Lost

other peoples on the earth, arc members one of another. What we need to learn is that economic pros- perity in the United States bears Q direct and not an inverse ratio to that of other countries, That is to say. as the standards of living rise in China and the Far East, we can expect a rise in the standards of living ii1 this country as 6 direct re- suit. If the neighbors on the borders or on the other side of the world suffer economic depression, iIifla- ton. national bankruptcy, we must expect part of the penalty to fall on us. The great hope of the future is that we shall build together, that we shall rise together, that we shall prosper together.
 The third pillar suggests that "The peace must make provision for an organization to adapt the treaty structure of the world to. changing underlying conditions" It becomes all too evident that in times past the ordinary way to make changes was by force of arms or by threat of force. If force is the sole arbiter of change wars are inevitable and modern wars spread like panic in a stock market. This time then we must not only secure as just peace as may be humanly possible, we must provide the courts, the assem- plies, the procedures, by which fu- ture changes may be made.
 We live in world of change. We have seen vast technological change in the last twentl-five or thirty years. It seems altogether probable that we will see many more changes in the next genera ton. I remember hearing a man in Hartford. not much older than my self, say that as a boy he used to spend his summer on his grand fathers farm in Wethersfield. His grandfather depended on a team of oxen for at least some of his trans portatiOn. A day or two before this man spoke he had taken a plane from Hartford to New York and looking out of the window of the plane he had notived the shadow of the plane falling on what had been his grardfather'5 farm, now a sub urban area of Greater Hartford. Now whether towns and cities are going to continue to grow may be very much of question. It may be that we are to see a period of de- centralization. Be that as 1t may, change will go on and at an in- creasing pace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
BRASS EXECUTIVE
 FOREMEN'S GUEST
C. Donald Dallas of New York to Address October
 IS Meeting

c. Donald Dallas, president of tils Revere Copper and Brass Company of New York will speak on Part ners Tn Victory" at the October IS meeting of the Y. M. 0. A. Indus- trial Foremen's Club at the Wom- ems Club auditorium. He will be introduced by John A. Coe, c...aiE- man of the Board of the Amer1etn Brass Company.
 MT. Dallas was at one time a member of the sales force in the Chictga office of the American Brass Company. Tn i008 he became secre- tary and treasurer of the Dallos Brass and Copper Company. Tn 1918 he became president of the same concern. Tn 1928 the Dallas Com- pany was merged with five other large brass and copper companies to form the Republic Brass Cor pOration which year later became the Revere Copper and Brass Com- pany, in honor of Paul Revere, the first roller of copper in the United States.
 The club meeting will open with Q musical program at 9:30 o'clock. The speaker win Dc introduced at 0:i5, thus avoiding any confilrla with the Community and War Chest Campalgn dinner which opens at the x. M. Q, A. at 6 o'clock. and V expected 70 close well before s:oo o'clock.
 President Allen ". Rockwell Wlll be "A ellaHae oi the NaFeinen't Club meeting et ihe Wcment cInh.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
BREACHES AND PRACTICES. roo

Joan Leslie. pert young Warner Bros. star who is practically the only star ln Thank Your Lucky Stars" who doesn't play herself--slle plays Pat Dixon. Q hopeful young song writer from the Midwest = ls great believer in her own sales talks.
 After completing a recent bond selling tour in which she helped sell eo|010o00 worth of bonds, she returned q SIS coat her mother had chosen for her, end bought one nt haif the price.
 T Haut 70 pil the difference n another bond. Eas her explanation