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was not health hazard. He said
bacillus coli is present at all times
In the systems of all animals, In
cluding man, and that emergency
action was taken because the pres
ence of this form of pollution indi-
Gated there Vas something wrong
with the water supply which car
ried an implication of potential
danger" which should be promptly
corrected.
He said the Health Department
has had no instance of any one liv-
ing or working in Southeast Wash
ington who has been made i'll by the
water, and he added that the extra
chlorination measures taken had
covered the present condition, and
that a permanent solution still re-
manned to be found.
DR.. Seckinger reported to the Com
missioners that results of a bac-
terial examination of water sample
taken by the Health Department on
July 8 at the Naval Air Station
showed a positive bacillus coli and
high plate counts indicative of
pollution"
Aqueduct Officials Report.
Almost simultaneously a report
came from the Washington Aque-
Evening star., 1943-09-01
Fight on Gas Rates
Opens Before PUC;
Hankin Hits Legal Fee

Public hearings on consumer
rates of the Washington Gas Light
Co. for the year beginning today
proceeded slowly before the Public
Utilities Commission today with
considerable time being devoted to
questions over various accounting
details.
The morning session was marked
by questions raised by Gregory
Hankin, PUG member, over an s18,-
600 legal expense of the company
during the last test year, sales pro-
motion costs and ALLEGATION of
company rent charges between the
District and nearby communities.
Mr.. Hankin asked many questions
on the subjects while examining o.
H. Ritenour, company controller.
Legal Fee Attacked.
Later Mr. Hankin declared he had
heard no testimony which justified
the payment of fee of $4,000 for
the legal services of the New York
law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell.
He took the same position a year
ago in last years gas rate hearings
when he asserted that if local
counsel of the company were quail
fed legal advisers there was no rea-
son for the company to spend large
sum for additional counsel brought
here from New York.
At that time, the explanation was
that Stoddard M. Stevens of the
Sullivan & Cromwell firm was re-
tanned because he had been engaged
when the PUG was considering
adoption of the sliding scale plan
for annual rate adjustments of the
gas company and had a personal
knowledge of those negotiations.
Sales promotion expenses of the
company for the year which ended
June 80 amounted to $123,30O, or
roughly half the total for the pre-
vious year. About $4,000 of this
cost was for work done in connection
with gas service in war housing
projects; roughly $4,000 was spent
for demonstrations of gas service in
the homes of customers; $4,000 for
advertising agents and copy writer's;
$34,0 900 for advertising space in
newspapers and other publications,
and $4,000 for telephone and mis-
cellaneous expenses.
A part of the advertising program
was devoted to the use of gas in the
canning of the produce from Wash
ington's Victory gardens.
According to the findings of v. A.
McElfresh, chief PUG accountant.
the profits of the company In the
last test year indicated there should
be a reduction in rates amounting to
$37, 900. The company is insisting,
in testimony offered by Mr.. Ritenour
and other witnesses, that the COM
pany net return last year was only
slightly above per cent and that
there should be no change in con-
sumner rates.
Evening star., 1943-09-01
Two Prisoners Escape
From District Workhouse

Two prisoners assigned to the
dairy at the District Workhouse at
Occoquan, Va, escaped early today
in one of the dairy trucks, officials
of the penal institution reported.
The prisoners were listed as Jo-
seph c. Shaw, %, serving a 12-
month sentence for the theft of an
automobile, and Benjamin F. Prince,
20, sentenced to 1870 days for at
tempted housebreaking.
Workhouse officials said State and
District police are cooperating in
the search for the prisoners. The
men were last seen heading south,
It was said.
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capture of which Stain triumph
antly announced yesterday.
Along the coast of the Sea of
Azov, meanwhile, the Red Army
pushed on toward the seaport of
Mariupol.
The triple victories all took place
within day but news of the sue
cesses on the central and northern
front were held back by the Soviet
high command to give Moscow an
unprecedented two-day celebration.
In the north a drive on a 30-mile
front from Spas Demensk to Yelnya,
whose fall was announced yesterday,
threatened the Nazis with one of the
major catastrophes of the summer
Evening star., 1943-09-01

received. Mr.. Downs was suspended
August 10.
AS result of several complaints
received by the Water Registrars
Office relating to meter readings in
connection with the recent billing
for water service for the northwest
county section" investigation was
made and officials reported Mr..
Downs had recorded fictitious read
ings" in the route books, which were
used in computing bills.
This development came as spe-
cial board of District officials was
nearing the end of the thorough
investigation of the operations of
the Water Registrars Office in
stituted by the Commissioners after
many sharp criticisms of the division
were outlined in report by Con-
troller General Lindsay Warren.
Evening star., 1943-09-01
Water Meter Reader Dismissed
On Fictitious Records Churqe

one OF the District water meter
readers was discharged from his Job
with prejudice" today by the Com
mlssioners after they had been ad-
vised "he had confessed" to report
ing fictitious readings of meters on
which water bills had been rendered.
The discharged employe was listed
as Martin E. Downs. Recommends
tlons for his dismissal were sub
mitted by Humphrey Beckett, Water
Department superintendent, and by
the Endorsement of John B. Gordon,
the District sanitary engineer, and
Engineer Commissioner Charles w.
KutZ.
Water Department officials said
Mr.. Downs had been given an op-
portunity to present reasons why he
should not be dismissed with
prejudice and that no reply had been
Evening star., 1943-09-01
For pelvety ialcn NEXT year :. sow
SCOTS GRASS SEED

Follow notutes way and plant in the foil Scotts will
build thick, green turf hot will revive your one lawn
cover bare spots be Joy to behold spring.
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was vague concerning his where
abouts the evening of the woman's
death and could give no coherent
account of his actions. He admit
ted meeting her in restaurant late
in the afternoon but said they
parted after leaving the place.
DR.. Richard M. Rosenberg, dep
uty coroner who performed an au-
topsy on Mrs. Groome's body, would
not say positively whether she had
been criminally assaulted. He said
she appeared to have been assault
ed but that he had not made a
definite decision.
The surprise witness was 15-year-
old Charles Hamilton de Zavellos,
Wilson High School student re-
siding at Mclean Gardens, who told
of seeing Morton in Rock Greek
Park after dusk the night of the
crime.
Describes Meeting.
Young De Zabellos said he and
some friends accompanied a man
uS1lfCluls llOWSIS dIlu tIldU bE1elT
car broke down on Tilden street
en- route home. He said they were
going west, uphill, toward Connec-
ticut avenue when the trouble hap
pened, and the driver let the car
drift backward into the park, where
the party awaited the arrival of a
repair mechanic.
While waiting, the boy said, he
saw man come down the path
from the cabin near Pierce Mill
He pointed to Morton as the man he
saw. He said Morton, who passed
within five feet of the group, waved
to him. He told the jury his shirt
appeared to be bloody at the time
although another boy thought it
might have been muddy.
Kitty Smith of 1884 Fourteenth
street NV, told of seeing Morton
come in to the place where she is
employed and sit down with Mrs.
Groome at table. She said Morton,
whom she knew as Martin, was
asked by the bartender to move.
The witness said the bartender
thought Morton was annoying Gus
toners, but Morton explained he
Evening star., 1943-09-01

night and that the Germans were
bringing artillery into position in
the city's streets. No further de-
tails were available.)
German troops were reported
guarding key railway depots and all
motor. traffic was banned except for
military purposes and by physicians.
Some refugees said Copenhagen
gave every appearance of being a
besieged city. German soldiers
could be seen at nearly every street
corner and mobile guns had been
wheeled into position in the city's S
most important squares and inter-
sections.
Food Situation Critical.
The food situation suddenly be-
came critical Monday when the
breakdown in transportation pre-
vented supplies from reaching the
cities. In Copenhagen citizens
searched in vain for bread.
A wave of passive resistance be-
gan to slow down all production.
Workmen in the principal indus
tries led in the movement and one
engineer who reached Sweden said
that on Monday industrial plants in
Copenhagen used only one-third Of
the amount of electrical power con-
sumed on the previous Monday as
the machinery remained partially
idle.
Three army officers who eluded
Nazi patrols and spent seven dan
gerous hours crossing the narrow
3-mile water passage to Sweden in
rowboat brought additional de-
tails of increasing tension through
out the country.
One refugee said that in one sec
ton of Copenhagen alone German
soldiers on Sunday killed II Danes
and wounded nearly 100 others. One
Nszi guardsman opened fire on
three small boys who threw rocks
at him, he said.
Evening star., 1943-09-01
$4,000, 900 Sought
In HurIem Riot Suits
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Sept. Property
owners have filed approximately 800
claims totaling about $4,000, 600
against New York City for damages
during the August Harlem disor-
ders, Norman l.. Marks, counsel for
the Uptown Chamber of Commerce,
reported today.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-30
The Heavens In December
Mars Shines Brightly at Opposition - Sun
Reaches Winter Solstice
BY JANE S. DAVIS, Staff Editor
Amateur Astronomers Association, New York City

Amateur astronomers who gaze
Skyward this month will see much
to faScinate them, for the winter
consultations contain more bright
stars than those of other seasons.
Auriga
Looking toward the northeast at
mar time we see Auriga, the Charlo-
teer, characterized by a well-defin-
ed pentagon of stars. This conStel-
lat1on contains 20 stars from the
first to the fifth magnitude inclu-
sive. Alpha Aurigae, Capella, is best
located by producing a line through
Delta and Alpha to the big Dipper
westward till it hits very bright
star, which shines in the heart of
an imaginary kid carried by the
Charioteer in his left arm. This star
is of special interest because 1t is
spectroscopic binary, which means
that it consists of two stars so close
together that even a telescope can
not separate them. Only a. spectre
scope--an instrument for separating
out the component wave lengths of
light -csn accomplish this by reveal
ing the periodic splitting of their
spectroscopic lines, caused by their
rapid revolution around a common
center Of gravity. 1t is interesting
that the spectrum of the larger OF
the two stars Is almost exactly like
our suns.
About on straight line with
Capella, and directly east Of it, is
the second -magniture star Menkal-
imam, or Beta Aurigae. Menkalinan
indicates the upper part of the right
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Milky Way Galaxy. Wonderful
photographs of he Pleiades have
been made, showing them to be en-
bedded in a mass of nebulous ma
terial, invisible to the unaided eye.
Eriianus
Just east of Cet,1s which we To-
Gated last month. and west of Rioel
in Orion flows the River Eridan7,s
It winds westward from Rigel and
occupies all the snace between Orion
and Cetl1s. After reaching Cet,s II
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AUTO OVERTURNS
in SOUTHlNCTON
Youth Who Stole Car
Later Nabbed By Cops
Emerging From Woods

Southington, Nov. 30.-Sought for
several hours Monday after he fled
from a stolen car which overturned
while it was being chased by Bristol
police, Stanley Nelson, 16, Of Null
berry street, this town, was arrested
by Policeman Edwin Gushing who
spotted the youth after he slipped
out Of wooded area in which Bris-
toll and Southington police were
searching for him.
Nelson faces charges here Of TAX
ing an auto without permission and
driving without license, while in
Bristol he will be charged with
evading responsibility and reckless
driving, police said.
Martin Rich of 30 Eden avenue,
owner Of the car, notified police
that It had been stolen from Bristol
street, near the Southington rail-
road station. Other police depart
ments were notified and the car was
spotted in Bristol by Policeman
Timothy Lambert who gave chase.
The driver of the stolen car, it
was reported, nearly forced the
police cruiser into ditch when Of
ficer Lambert attempted to draw
abreast of him during the chase.
On South Mountain road, Bris-
ID, the youth jumped out of the
or and as he dashed into the
woods the machine Swerved into
ditch and overturned. The hunt
through the woods, pressed by Police
Chief Edmund S. Crowley of Bris-
toll and several of his officers as
well as by Southington policemen,
ensued.
Officer Gushing and another local
officer were detailed in cruisers to
watch roads In the area of the
wooded stretch and Nelson was sub
sequently seen crossing West street.
Of1icer Gushing said he overlook
and captured him without difficulty.
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RECOGNIZE RIGHT
TO FORM UNIONS

The working man, in most in
stances, has an obligation to form
unions, declared the Rev. Joseph
Donnelly of the Diocesan Labor In
stitute at the Waterbury Catholic
High school last night Catholic So
cial teaching, he said, declares the
right Of the workers to form unions,
but even further it teaches that
since all men have the obligation,
binding at least In charity, to aid
in building more just social order,
1t can readily be established that
workers have the obligation to form
a union to help formulate a more
perfect society.
This right, Father Donnelly said,
it rooted in the impulse whichc God
has implanted in man to secure his
utmost needs through association
with his fellowmen.
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sky at the end OF the month.
Venus. still a morning star. is in
tire gisbous phase and a magnitude
minus SO.
Mars rises In the east at sunset.
On the fifth Of December II reaches
opposition with the sun and SHINES
With its maximum brilliance for the
year.
Jupiter begins to retrograde on
the l4th and passes close to. the
moon on the 18th OF the month. OBJ
servers in Europe will see 1t occult
ed.
Saturn shines with a magnitude
Of minus 03 at opposition on De-
cember 10.
On December % winter begins in
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arm Of the Charioteer. Like Capella
this star is spectroscopic binary
though Of much shorter period. The
Charioteer's right foot rests on the
tip of the northernmost horn OF
Taurus, the Bull, so that the Sec
ond magnitude star Ell Nath, or
Beta Tauri, is shared by the two
consultations in common. North
west of Ell Nath shines the third
magnitude star Iota, in the Chario-
teer's left foot. The three stars Ep-
silon, zeta, and Eta, forming a
small triangle little southwest Of
Capella, mark the left hand of the
Charioteer, which holds the kid.
Theta, a third-magnitude s'ar, di-
rectly to the south of Menkalinan,
and forming an approximate right
angled isosceles triangle with It and
Capella, indicates "the Charioteer's
right hand as it rests on his right
knee. He holds a long, verticle whip
whose wind driven thongs are re-
presented by diffuse group Of a.
bout six faint stars. The head of the
Charioteer is marked by Delta Aur1-
gaze. a fourth-magnitude star. The
lower half of Auriga is in the Milky
Way, Capella being just on its
northern edge.
Taurus
Just below Auriga shines Taurus,
the Bull, with its two famous cluSt-
ers, the Hyades and the Pleiades.
The Hyades decorate the head OF
the huge, charging Bull, who threat
ems Orion with his long horns, while
the PleiadeS hang ON his shoulder
like a sparkling banderilla. The
brightest star in Taurus s Albeba-
ran. It is a first-magritude star,
and marks the Bulls right eye. 1t
is located at the top Of the eastern
arm Of the capital letter "V". which
Is formed by the stars the group
called the Hyades. They have always
been associated popularity with the
weather, especially rainy weather.
probably because they rise at the
time when stormy weather usually
begins. To the Greeks the, were
known as the "clo 'dy divinities."
The Hyades are automatically sig
nificant as being the first stars
shown to move parallel to each other
and thus as constituting a group.
The smaller, fainter and more COM
pact group of the Pleiades is even
more famous than the Hyades. They
comprise one star Of the third mag
nitude (Alcyone), one of the fourth.
four Of the fifth or sixth. and one
less than the sixth. This last is
sometimes called the lost Pleid."
Alcyone Is famous for once being
considered as the center Of revolu-
ton Of the heavens. Astronomers
now, however, have identified the
constellation Sagittartus. the Arch
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Idea Of a boat afioat In the River.
Other relatively conspicuous stsrs in
the northern streams are Nh west
Of Cursa; the pair Of omicrons.
northeast Of Zaurak; Delta, above
and slightly west Of Zaurak; Epsilon.
west OF Delta: Zeta, west OF Ep-
silon: and Eta, west Of Zeta. Though
nearly 300 naked-eye stars have
been catalouged In Eridanus. the
ordinary stargazer cannot see more
than 30 or 20. The lower Of the two
Omicrons Is actually a triple star
in the telescope.
The Solar System
Mercury can be seen only with
difficulty In the evening twilight
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In order to provide the necessary
funds for the as removal work the
Boards Of Finance an Aldermen
will be requested to reduce the edu-
cation departments budget item on
coal, wood, and oil by $3.50 and
transfer that sum to IT, item on
carriage Of ashes and rubbish. Only
81, 600 had been requested previous
ly by the department for The item.
Request Transfer
Transfer Of $275 from other items
to provide for additional expenses
in removal Of ashes and rubbish
this year also will be requested. 1t
was pointed out that three school
buildings were converted from use
Of oil to coal after the original es-
timae for this year was made and
consequently additional funds were
needed. The transfers will involve
5000 from the maintenance salaries
item and $75 from the funds set
up for open air class salaries.
A coal stoker at Slocum school will
be installed for $2,025 by tn. Water
bury Automatic Coal Burner Com
pany, the only bidder for the job.
The Terminix Cmpany of New
England was awarded a contra"t
for 81 ,28O for the determination and
control of termites in Wildly High
school. A bid for $2,4,8 had been
received from the American Ex-
eliminating Company.
Other transfers in appropriations
for this year were approved as fol-
lows: $3.50 from administration sal
aries to classroom supplies, SIS from
graduation supplies to supplies for
continuation school and freight,
carriage and express, $25 from temp
orary wages for mending garments
at open air school to maintenance
of motor vehicles. The changes were
requested in order to provice nee
essary operating expense for the
balance of the fiscal year.
Endorse Equal Pay
Letters were received from the
Quota club and Waterbury branch
of the American Association OF
University women, both registering
support of the propcJG to equallze
the pay schedule so that women
teachers will receive the same COM
persation as men who perform sim
lar duties. The letters will be placed
on file in accordance with requests
made by the organizations.
An invitation will be extended by
the Board to new commissioners to
attend the December Is meeting, the
last for the present board. New COM
1nissioners will assume duties on
January l.
Names of Mary Bowes Farrell and
Marguerite Louise Weidorn were
placed on the grade school waiting
list. Both women graduated from
Teachers College in New Bri-
tain this year, receiving B. S. de-
grees.
Permission for transfer to other
school districts was granted as fol-
lows: William Mccormick of Boy
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sented by scoutmaster Sol. Bern
stein 70 Allan Goldman. Marvin
Deutch. Martin sternfels and Rod
dy KaSs.
A message OF congratulation "
the troop which rs celebrating IS
fourth anniversary. was sent from
Mayor John 8. Monagan. Speaker
at the banquet we're Or. Harry
Levin. chairman Of the troop COM
mIttee; Mr.. Babson. District Coms1
Milton Persky. Rabbi william p
Greenfield Of Beth Ri Synagog aEc
Scoutmaster Bernstein.
Other members Of tie troop com.
mittee at the banquet were Ber
Strachman, Kick Aaronson cnc
Max CARRIER.
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TROOP q MARKS
4TH ANNIVERSARY

More than 40 persons attended a
father and son banquet Of Boz
Scout Troop % in Bethel Syna-
gogue auditorium last night.
Three new Scouts, Larry Grace.
Jerome Griner and Richard Finkle-
stein were presented registration
cards and tenderfoot pins by Scout
Executive David Babson.
Advancement awards were pre-
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dent street extension, Webster
school, grade 8, to sprague school;
Marcella Mccormick, Boyden street
extension, Bucks Hill, grade 3, to
Sprague school. All three children
live in the Bucks Hill school dis
trict, but since the school has no
eighth grade the older children
were attending Webster school
Transportation difficulties were the
basis of the change made in their
case, and the younger child was
transferred so she could be accom-
panied to school by the others.
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NO MORE APPETITE

Blytheville Army Air Field, Ark
CUP)-Hungry CTS hastily read the
menu board in the Mess Hall and
licked their lips when they read
they were to have Juicy hot dogs
with gravy" But their appetite died
as they read what was written di-
rectly under the days menu: Lost
One dog, q Cocker Spaniel. Re-
ward"
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Ash Removal Contract
Awarded Last Evening
School Board Commissioners Fail to Act on Proposed
Equalization of Women Teachers Salaries

Removal of ashes and rubbish from school buildings
and school yards next year will cost the city $780,
according to contract awarded last night by the Board
OF Education to the Massmo Coal Company The bid was
by the board when It drew up its budget Two other
tract 1aSt NIGHT
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the northern hemisphere OF the
earth when our sun enters the con-
ISOLATION Of Sagittarins at 1890 p.
m. eastern standard time.
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Only four nerved horses have run
In Maryland this year. as result Of
the rule requiring owners to de-
clare them before entering . race.
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er, as the center of rotation of our
sphere, and invisible from ATTITUDES
north of 80 degrees. is the brilliant
first magnitude star Acllernar.
Gamma, or Zaurak, the southern
most star In the northern stream,
and located halfway along it, seems
to have been associated with the