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The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27
Many Tree Hangings
In Occupied Greece
Terrible Conditions There Blamed on New System of
Organized Terrorism Adopted By Germans

Recent dispatches reaching the
Greek government in Cairo from
occupied Greece show the terrible
conditions which exist there as the
result Of the system Of organized
terrorism adopted by the Germans.
On the pretext Of discovering
wounded guerrillas, the Germans
swoop down on villages and towns
at night with armored cars, sprink-
lie the houses with inflamable sub
stances and set fire to them. The
unfortunate inhabitants are then
labor, or hanged on trees, where
hey are left for days as examples.
In mo- -1tsinous areas, the Ger
mans use planes, routing the inhab-
ltantS from their homes by incendi-
airy bombs and then machine gun
ming them as they flee. A great part
of the Greek countryside can be
considered totally destroyed. Those
peasants who were fortunate enough
to hGE eScap~~ have fled to the
mountainS with their families, and
all attempts at agriculture have
been abandoned.
In provincial towns, on the pre-
text Of SABOTAGE aiding guerrillas,
German terrorism has reached I'M
heard Of proportions. In Levadia,
Tflebes, Sparta and other cities,
many prominent inhabitants have
been hanged from windows on the
main streets of the town, and their
bodies allowed to remain for forty
eight hours.
In Kalamai, the whole male popu-
lation between eighteen and sixty
years of age, totalling about four
thousand, was arrested. OF this
only a very few freed. The rest, in
Guiding judges, teachers and public
employees, were made to march, I'M
der escort, on foot to Athens. The
halfnaked, starving men, walking in
bitterly cold weather, took fifteen
days to reach Athens. Many died or
were left for dead by the roadside.
On arrival they were taken to pris-
on where their hair, moustaches and
eyebrows were shaved off; then they
we're given prison clothes and put to
hard labor.
The number of hostages taken by
the Germans is constantly increas-
ing. In the Peloponnese, one tenth
of the male population of every town
are held as hostages, and the Ger
mans have warned that in the event
of any sabotage these hostages will
be shot nd ohter hostages taken. 1t
is rumored that thousands of hos
tages are to be sent to Germany
and Poland.
The Gestapo has been greatly in
creased in Greece and has institut-
ed system of provocateurs pre-
tending to be ENJOYS of secret pro-
Allied organizations or to lend
money to persons attempting to es-
cape to the Middle East or to the
mountains to join guerrillas. AS a
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27

Anxious fear always involves the
misuse OF the imagination. Even
when fear is physically induced,
as in delirium tremens, its terrifying
power lies in imaginative pictures
that occupy the mind. Anxiety as
humans experience it is possible only
to a highly developed organism en-
dowed with the gift of fantasy.
Animals suffer cruelty, but they
do not, 20 far as we can tell, lie
awake at night picturing difficult
ties that make them panicky about
tomorrow. Such apprehenslve
dread is tribute to one OF mans
supreme Observation-Disclosures.
Upon this endowment all inven-
tive progress depends, for whatever
man creates he first imagines; up
on it all ethical life depends, for
the beginning of serious goodness
lies in mans imagining himself
in another PERSONS place; upon 1t
all spiritual wealth and development
depend, for no values ever vitality
belond to us until they have cap
tured our Imagination. 1t is equally
true, that upon this endowment
all ruinous anxiety depends.
The best and the worst in human
life spring from our use OF this
faculty.
Our picture making capacity can
fill our minds with visual images OF
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27
DR.. CHITTENDEN
SUCCUMBS AT 81
Retired Director of Yale
Scientific School Leaves
Son, Two Daughters

New Haven, Conn, Dec. 27-(UP)
DR.. Russell Henry Chittenden. 81,
retired director of the Yale Shelf
field Scientific school and professor
of physiological chemistry at the
university, died at his home Sunday
after long illness.
DIR. Chittenden was a widely
known nutritionist and toxicologist,
and was responsible for the extern
sive development of the scientific
school of which he became director
in 1898 and served until his retirde-
ment in 1922
He was pioneer in the investi-
CATION of the chemistry of life
processes. and his knowledge of
toxivology made him an expert con-
sultant in medico-legal cases.
He was former member OF the
Referee Board of Consulting Sciien-
tific Experts, and of the Inter-
Allied Food Commission, to which
he was named in 1919. He also was
the author of numerous books and
papers on nutrition subjects.
A son and two daughters sur
viVe.
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ton to return to isolationism after
this war. 1t will shrink this globe
to the size of baseball.
Already, say the airmen, these
coming events cast their shadow;
before. The Allies are winning
the war through three factors
Russian manpower, British meri'
can seapower and American-Brit-
ish-Russian air-power. In the phase
now approaching, the last will bt
decisive. Already airpoWer has en-
abled us first to defend our coasts
and Australia's against Japan, Their
| to penetrate her outposts, while
weakening German industry anc
morale, crushing Italy and menac-
ing the Balkans.
LOADS ALREADY INCREASED
We have proven the terrific power
of daylight bombing, with an in
credibly accurate bombsight and
by the worlds best heavy bombers
The Fortresses and Liberators are
being so equipped for extra winter
loads that, though they may fly
less they will bomb more. They will
be escorted unprecedented distances
by long-range fighters. And their
bases are edging ever closer to Ger
many-as are those of the Russian
air force.
But soon, too, these giants will
be dwarfed to medium size. They
may even become, as General Ar
mold has said. "the last of the
small bombers." Right now prep
arations are being made for an
event to occur probably early in
1914 which all airmen await in
awed suspense-the first attack OF
the B-29 Attack, not raid, is the
Word-for the B-29 is our new
bomber, unequalled in the
world. 1t is more heavily arnored
and armed than any other plane
1t can carry heavier load higher
and faster and much farther. 1t
can, on official word, 'carry half
carload of bombs across the At
lantic and return without STOP
So we may launch this thunder
bolt from Newfoundland against
Berlin. or from Midway, Hawaii,
the Aleutians or Alaska against
Toxic and boomerang like, it will
return to be launched again. 1t
will need special runways, supply
and maintenance facilities, but
those can be provided even while
the inevitable bugs are being
worked out of mechanism so vast.
TREND NOW RECOGNIZED
Airmen believe the great new
bombers will bring new era in
global strategy which must reck-
on with wars that come winging
from continent to continent, with
out warning. For any power with
enough super-bombers and bases
and enough gas, oil and industry
to sustain them. can attack vir-
tually any other power with a
suddenness and devastation to make
an old-style raid" resemble
3quibbling f1recracker.
Global strategy, which formerly
ivoted upon sea-power, soon will
,ivot primarily upon aid-power. In
reasingly, naval warfare aims at
eizing air-fields. The Army says
pefcially: 1.-The gaining of air su-
)eriority is the first requirement
OR success in any major land oper-
2tion." That shows the trend. but
lot the eventuality. Presently one
nation may crush another through
the air entirely, without moving q
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27

Inauguration ceremonies as pro-
vided by city charter whereby
Mayor John s. Monagan and
other city elective officials viii be
sworn In to serve a two-year term
will be held at $3.50 a. m. New
Years Day.
Full ceremonies will be held in
the aldermanic chambers with q
color guard Of members Of the
police and fire department to be
present. 1t is expected Atty. WAL
ter E. MOnagan, uncle of the
mayor will swear in the chief ex-
ecutive while City Clerk Joseph E
Shea will preside In the same
capacity for the remaining Off
Gals.
The ceremonies are being held
early in the day so participants
may attend the IL o'clock memo
rial Mass at the Immaculate Con-
ception church. Previous to the
last Inauguration Of the late
Mayor Vincent A. Scully the cere-
monies were always held after the
first of the year, usually the
fourth.
The Mayor is now working on
his annual address to be delivered
after the Inauguration ceremonies
are concluded. 1t is expected he
will review the past accomplish
ments of the administration and
will set forth plans for future
municipal operations.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27
Litigation In
Local Courts

Claiming that a lid from a refuse
barrel struck her when she was on
a stairway at AS Meadow street
Dec. %, 1912, Anna Clark of New
bury Port Massachusetts, a former
local resident, has filed $4,000 civil
action in common pleas court
against Mollie Kampller of Water
bury, owner Of the premiseG.
The writ states the refuse barrel
was placed on a landing at the
three-story tenement house. The
plaintiff alleges she sustained in
juries to both legs and to Ter head
when the barrel lid slid and dropped
on her. She claims her legs have
been permanently disfigured.
Damages OF $4,000 are sought by
Edgar Gary of Waterbury in a suit
filed in common pleas court today
against William Mitchell, also of
this city, as the result of an auto
mobile collision which occurred Dec.
20, 1912 at Warner place The plain
tiff claims his face was lacerated
and he received other injuries.
Withdrawal papers were filed in
common pleas court this morning in
two civil actions brought by local
residents.
In one case Margaret Perrotti
sought $40 damages from Joseph
Pesce, ST., and Joseph Pesce, Jr., as
the result of an accident which &C.
CURED on Christmas Day of last
year on Baldwin, street. The plain
tiff claimed her car severely dam
aged by a car owned by Joseph Pes
ce ST., and operated by his son. The
writ stated the plaintiffs vehicle
was parked in front of her home
when it was struck. Terms Of settle
ment were not disclosed.
The other case involved commits
sion claims made by Isadore Kramer,
doing business as Kramer's Agency
against Elway Jones, also known as
Carlin, of Torrington. The plaintiff
claimed the defendant owed him
1925 for negotiating sale o. property
of $500.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27
PHILIP SHAFFER
WINS DISCHARGE
Green Street Resident Is
Freed of Charge of Gre.
ating Fire Hazard

Charges that Philip Shaffer, %. Of
l42 Green street. created o fire
hazard by failing TO remove piles Of
wall paper from q cellar at II
Newell Place were dismissed by
Judge T. e. Conway In city court
today after the accused testified the
owner would not permit him TO en-
ter the premises.
Shaffer was brought into court
on q warrant issued by Lieut.. Eu-
gene Legge Of the fire marshals
office on complaint Of Mrs. r.
DickStein, owner Of the property.
She claimed the accused placed
bundles OF wall papers and other
combustible material in the cellar
creating dangerous condition.
Testimony in court today showed
that Shaffer mad negotiated rental
of tenement at the premises sew
eral months ago and had brought
the material there preparatory to
moving IL. The rent deal fell
through, IL was indicated, and SHAFT
fer testified he was not allowed enc
try to re-possess his property. He
testified he had complained to
police about the matter but had de-
| cided to let the paper and other
material remain and to abandon his
claims. The court ordered a dis
charge.
Other cases were disposed Of as
follows:
Brony White, So, of 631 Washing
ton avenue, drunkenness and
breach of the peace, nolle; Ocley
Byrd, 81, of 1873 North Elm street,
drunkenness and breach of the
peace, nolle; Edward Sinkevich. SO,
of 267 Pearly Lake road, reckless
driving. continued to Jan. 10: Thorn
as F.. Langston, "a, colored Of GO
Pearl street, evading responsibility,
reckless driving, and failing to no.
tify a change of address, continued
to Dec. 81; George Gary, Is, Of
10 Pearl street, operating motor
vehicle while license is suspended
continued to Jan. IL: Anthony r.
Verzino, 26, of 112 Hawthorne ave-
nue., rules OF the road violation
nolle on payment Of IS.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27
LEYLAND STEVENS
ORDERED TO DUTY
Naugatuck First Lieuten-
ant to Join Medical Re-
serves in Near Future

Washington, Dec. q - (SpeciaD
- The War Department has an
nounced the temporary promotion
of the following Connecticut Off
GERS:
Major to Lieutenant Colonel
Fairfield - Charles Clement
Smith, Cd, 239 North Pine Greek
road.
Second Lieutenant to First
Lieutenant
New Haven - Peter Christopher
Krist, AGD, So Elliott street.
Shelton Andrew Robert McIn-
tyre, Infantry, 1875 Myrtle street.
Taftville - William Graham Col
kowske, AC, 225 Norwich avenue.
Westport- Walter Bramhan Eager
AC, 572 Imperial avenue.
Appointments
North Haven Shirley Snow,
Second Lieutenant, ANC, Poole
road.
Stamford Roslyn Elise David
off, Second Lieutenant, ANC, IA
Pierce Place.
Seymour Alberta B. Miller,
Second Lieutenant ANC, As Garden
street.
West Hartford - Ruth Rice Ben
edict, Second Lieutenant ANC, 16
Lexington road.
Westport - Adlee NJ Ball, Sec
ond Lieutenant ANC, 20 Gorham
avenue.
Ordered to Active Duty
Hartford - George Hugh Birney,
Jr., Oh 1st Lieutenant).
Naugatuck Leyland Edwards
Stevens, First Lieutenant Med. Res.
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A steady rain that descended on
Waterbury late yesterday afternoon
and continued until early this
morning froze into a glaze covering
over the city's streets resulting IN
many minor accidents to automo-
biles and pedestrians and sharply
curtailing all bus and routine traf-
fic.
No serious injuries or damage
were reported and the majority OF
the accidents to automobiles COM
prised bent tenders resulting from
the careening wild flight Of the cars
as they went out of control on icy
corners and slopes.
A Connecticut Railway and Light
ing bus skidded out of control this
morning as it came down the East
Mountain Road and crashed down
slight embankment, shaking up
the passengers none of whom re-
quired medical attention. A tow
car summoned to the scene aaso
skidded approaching the accident
and overturned, it was reported.
The driver was not injured al
though severely shaken up.
Various pedestrians were report
ed to have slipped and fell on the
iy streets resulting in injuries. Mrs
Anna Wells, 60, 1T Bank street fell
this morning on the ice in front Of
the old Scovill street fire-station
receiving injuries to her skull and
left-arm. Mrs. Paul Blum, % Oak
wood avenue, fell while walking in
front of her home resulting in in
juries to her left shoulder. Both
are confined to the Waterbury Hos
pitaI for observation.
Local bus traffic was delayed this
morning in all the hilly sections Of
the city and many factory and Of
flee workers were late in arriving
at work. c. r. 81 Y. officials stat
ed today that cinders were spread
on the more treacherous sections of
the routes and schedules were ex-
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REAL PERSON
BY DR.. HARRY EMERSON FOSDlCK
The Best and Worst Spring From
The Use of Our Imagination

disaster, possible and impossible, I'M
til many of us spend our lives bear
ing troubles, most of which never
happen. From hypochondriacs, ex-
hibiting infinite ingenuity in mag
ing their various ills, to families
where habitual anxieties about one
another range over the whole field
of credible and incredible possibil-
tiles. such misuse of imagination
curses daily life. AS another put it,
"An imaginary worry may be un-
real, but a worried Imagination Is
very real"
The clear recognition of the fact
that We ourselves are creating this
disaster in ourselves by the mis-
use of one of our noblest faculties
can get, in many cases, a long step
out toward freedom.
For one thing, most OF us car
exercise considerable measure o.
control over our imaginations. X
be sure, visual images rise unbid-
den, but all chronic Worriers can
if they will, recognize the pet reels
of moving pictures which they ha-
bitually run through their minds
to stimulate anxiety.
A cowboy, enraged at the vii
lain in a cinema, began shooting at
the screen where the figures moved
instead Of at the protector where
they originated. So we, tormented
by the creatures of our Imagination.
center our attention on the mental
screen where their visual procession
moves rather than on the inner
faculty where we ourselves project
these obsessive and abhorred, yet
selfcreated fantasies.
One of the sovereign cures for
unhealthy fears is action. DR.. Henry
C. Link gives this illustration of a
mother of six children:
"As a young woman I was troubled
with the fear of insanity. After the
birth of our first child, these fears
persisted. We soon had another
child and ended up by having six.
I had to Go all my own work. When
ever started to worry about myself,
the baby would cry. Or the children
would quarrel. Or'I would suddenly
remember it was time to start din
ner, or that I must run out and
take in the wash before it rained,
or that toe ironing had to be done.
My fears were being continually in
terrupted by worries about my fam
ily most of which were fears into
which I had to put my back. Grad
ually my fears about myself diSap-
peared, and now look back on
them with amusement
This furnishes one explanation
of the prevalence of nervous and
emotional ills among prosperous
and leisurely people. They have
time to sit around, feeding their
imaginations. In wartime they can
listen over the radio to every news
broadcast and commentator until,
unlike a healthy soldier who is in
the thick of affairs and who has a
job to do that he must practically
tackle, they weller in the whole
worlds worries, become morbldly
distraught over dangers concerning
which they do nothing practical,
and end by adding to maniknd's
general hysteria without contribut-
ing any useful service. In ordinary
peacetime such people are the prey
of endless imaginary woes. so that
it is commonly true that those worry
most who have least to worry about.
TOMORROW: The feeling Of
being mo good.
(Harper and Brothers,
New York, N. "
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lev Streets Cause
Many Minor Mishaps
Bus Skids Out of Control on East Mountain Road,
Crashes Embankment; Tow Car Overturns

pected to be in order by late this
morning.
Street Supt. Herbert Scott-smith
stated today that the full compile
ment of ely trucks were in acton
sanding the streets where traffic
was tied up. Particular care was
given, he said, to cement highways
around the city where the galze-
like ice covering was particularly
solid and heavy. Out of town bus
traffic was completely tied up dur
ing the night and New York to Wa
terbury buses were stopped at DAN
bury by state police. Trains were on
schedule however as holiday return
ing civilians and servicemen pack
ed the cars.
BY noon today all traffic was
again on schedule although numer-
Gus reports of minor accidents con-
tinued to pour into the police de-
partme...t, .prabs.bIy the worst tie
I'D and traffic confusion took place
just over the city line into Oak
vile where motorists unable to
make the steep grade tangled in all
angles resulting in more than 100
cars being stranded along the high
way. Once the hill was sanded
traffic proceeded.
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result, many persons have been
trapped and arrested.
On October 18th, the employees Of
the Bank of Athens gathered In a
hall to commemorate their comrades
killed in the o-Italian war. The
Gestapo was notified and arrived
with armored cars and machine
guns. In the ensuing fight two bank
employees were killed and nine
wounded. The remainder were held
in the hall without food until the
next morning and made to stand at
attention with their hands up for
five hours. Finally, they were sent to
prison. Thirty were held for SEN
tence, including the pro-German
governor Of the bank, Tourkovas-
silis.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27
New England Death
Toll 81, State IS


Machado, At, of Fall River; John
Desrot, SIS, Of Ipswich; and 49,
month-old Anna Helm Of Maynard.
George Better, So, of Portland and
Andrew F. Curran, go, of Chelsea
died of injuries suffered in falls.
Three persons died of gas fumes
they were Vladis Rasulis, Sc, anG
lis wife Anna, So, of Haverhill ant
thomas F. Hurley, 40, of Somervilie
Brenton A. Griffin, 80, OF Port
md died Of gunshot wounds. The
ody of Miss Helen Turner. 81, O..
loxbury was found in her home
there she was apparently victim
If poisoning. An unidentified man
was killed by New Haven train at
Canton.
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Boston, Dec. 81. (UP)-The holi-
day weekend violent death toll in
New England stood at 81 today with
10 deaths recorded in Connecticut,
II in Massachusetts, six in Maine
and one in Vermont.
Five persons were killed in auto
mobile accidents. They were Law
renee Curt, SO, of Gorham, Me !;
Tell Rowland, IS, of Limestone, Me. ;
Miss Bridget Magoon, SIS, of Rox-
bury; Patrick Walsh, 81, OF Wake =
field: and Wallace G. Bessette, Il
of Enosburg Falls, VT.
Burned to death in dwelling hous'
fires were Daniel Kerwin, So, anc
his 7-year-old grandson. Donald
Jones, of Portland, Me-; Mariana S.
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HARTFORD Girl
BADLY INJURED
TraiIer.Truck Skids Into
Auto; Five Other Oc-
cupants Shaken

Shrewsbury. Mass. December 81.
- (UP) - A 7-year-old Hartford,
Conn, girl was injured critically
her brother was slightly injured and
five other occupants were shaken
today when a trailertruck skidded on
an ice-covered highway and struck
an automobile.
Patricia Lowery was hospitalized
with critical head injuries and her
2-year-old brother Peter was treated
for abrasions. Shaken were Arthur
Lowery, driver of the car and father
of the children, his 3-year-old son
Arthur, Jr., and his wife Addie. The
family resides at SO Barker street.
Hartford.
The other two occupants Of the
car were Mrs. Mabel Beecher and
her son Jack, 4, of Cambridge. The
truck driver, Stanley Kkak Of Pas
sale, N. j., was unhurt.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27
GIRL SCOUTS PLAN
JANUARY DINNER

Adult members of the local Gil.
Scout organization will hold then
annual dinner meeting January 10
at the ballroom of The Elton. A re-
view of the years activities will be
presented at the business session
which will start at $50 p. m. Din
ner will be served from 6:45 to $3.50.
Mrs. Tenant Edwin and Mrs.
Norwood Webster are co-chairman
of the event.
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FOUR CHRISTMAS
BABES BORN HERE

One boy and three girls COM
prised the quota of Christmas
babies born in Waterbury at the
local hospitals.
An infant son was presented to
Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Volpe of 1873
Melbourne Terrace, Naugatuck, and
infant daughters to Mr.. and Mrs.
Clifford Pearson of Wolcott and Mr..
and Mrs. Benjamin Bond, colored,
of SO Abbott avenue. All were born
at the Waterbury hospital.
At st. Mary's hospital daughter
was born to Mrs. Evelia Webb, of
SIS Spencer avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-12-27
BOARD OF WORKS
MEETS WEDNESDAY

Special meetings of several city
boards may be held this week to
complete end -the-year transac-
lions, such as transfers and ap-
prevails of bills.
Scheduled for Wednesday night Is
a meeting of the Board of Works,
while it is expected that the Board
of Finance may meet the following
day.