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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
Senator Says Nation Has
 

Boston, Now. 19.-(UP)-U. s. Rep Hatton w. Summers, D., Tex, told the second New England war conference today that the nation is suffering from bad attack of 'federalitis" which has reduced the states to the status of govern mental vassals."
 No progress can be made in the postwar period until the power to govern has been returned to the people, warned Summers, who is chairman of the house judiciary E 2 tnittee.
 For too long time we have over emphasized the federal organi- ;C tion in our scheme of govern fi1eht,' Summers said. And yet it is an historically established fact, and in harmony with reason, that after the formative period of a demo- cratic nation there can be no pro- gress in that system except in that direction which moves the power and necessity to govern back toward the people, The IeXaS congressman believed the nation faces a great battle be- tween concentrated power and demo- cratic government.
 Tn this struggle the states must regain control over their sources of revenue which the federal govern ment has tapped and is using to Subjugate the states and their sub divisions by loans and grants from the federal treasury" said Summers.
 Colossus
 Asserting that there has been set up in Washington "a governmental colossus utterly beyond human con- prehenSion or democratic control" regardless of which party is in power, Summers called on conference dele gates representing 200 New England
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
Reualuation or Properties
 UrgedBy7ax Commissioned

A complete revaluation ot all real property of Water bury taxpayers is recom- mended in the final report received today by Mayor John S. Monagan from Wal ter w. Walsh, State Tax Commissioner.
 The report and its recommends tions are the result of the recent survey, made by the Commissioner and his staff, of the Board Of Tax Commissioners and it's methods ot operations in Waterbury.
 Radical changes in the methods used by the local assessors office in determining real and personal property valuations should be instl- tuted, the report states. Scoring the local offices system as being "an outmoded and archaic system of as- sessment the report lists many rec concentrations for revision and im- provement. However, MT. Walsh points out that Waterbury does not stand alone in face of such an 1n- dictment, as the inheritance of such an outmoded system is relative to many towns elsewhere in the state.
 Praise is extended to. Waterbury and it's officials for desiring to "rid itself of such system and gratl- tude is expressed to the local Tax Commissioner and his staff and to the Mayor and taxing officials of the city for their cooperation.
 The survey came about as result of the request made by Mayor Mon- agan to the State office that the latter visit the local office for the purpose studying the methods used and offering such recommendations as they may deem feasible. The re- quest was made July 21st, 1943 and the survey was begun August 2nd, 1943
 Pointing out that the local asses sor's office has made mo attempt to equalize property values the re- port recommended a complete change in this system.
 Other criticisms of practices per- taining to this phase of the local boards work centered on the meth od used of assessments being made by four members of the Board,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
1,000 BIGGEST b0MbERS BLAST NAzIS Russians Close Tn On Doomed GomeI
Boy ries Coffee Making But Gets Gossed

The fire department emer- gency squad and the police ambulance were called to 76 Garden Circle this morning when Swear old Roger Vasello, attempted to make himself some coffee, so it was reported.
 The boys mother, Mrs. Don- aid VasellO, who is a night shift war plant worker, told author ities that she and the baby had been asleep in her room, the boy apparently woke up, went downstairs, and began to ex- pertinent in cooking.
 Awakened by the gas fumes, Mrs. VasellO rushed downstairs to find Roger unconscious on the floor. She summoned police who administered oxygen to the boy and drove him to St. Mary's hospital where his condition was reported as good.
 Patrolman William Grady and John Mcdonald answered the call from police headquar- ters, and Deputy Chief Martin J. Campion and Capt. Eugene Legge answered the call to the fire department.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
Bennett Boy Gets Award

New London, Conn.,, Nov. 19- (UP) - Actress Constance Bennett today regarded the $150,000 settle ment she won for her 14-year-old son from the estate of her wealthy second husband as vindication Of her fight to save the boy from stig- matism as an adopted child.
 Defeated in a lower court action to establish Peter Bennett Plant as a beneficiary of playboy Philip Plant, Miss Bennett appealed and won an out -of-court settlement an- nounced yesterday by Superior Court Judge James E. Murphy.
 "The outcome vindicates the po- sition I took when the appeal was filed for my son. the actress said.
 "He was brought into the proceed ings involuntarily," she added, T said then that I would not stand for anything which would stigmatize my child as adopted"
 Counsel for Plants estate, valued at $550,0O0, had contended that Peter was not the son of Plant, but was an adopted child, and Mrs. William Hayward of New York, Plants mother and his chief bene- ficiary, maintained that he was the son of a London nurse.
 Before Plants death in 1941. Miss Bennett said Peter was adopted, but after her husband died she revealed that the boy was her child and Plants.
 Facts Hidden
 She said Peter was born before her divorce from Plant became final and explained that the boy had been adopted by her because she was advised that such pro- ceedings would make impossible
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
3 May ak Invasion Of Bulgaria

London, Nov. 19. (UP)-Military observers said today that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin probably will discuss an Allied invasion of Bul- garia when they meet-and Wash irgton dispatches to London news papers indicated that will be soon.
 (The German transocean agency said Bulgarian authorities had be- gun to evacuate the capital, Sofia, as result of the American air raid early this week, while radio London quoted a Turkish broadcast as say ing that the Germans were in no position to defend SofiaD
 Talk of a possible thrust into Bull garia coincided with growing in- dications that the Balkans will prove the weak link in Adolf Hitler's European fortress and that Turkey was about to decide whether to throw in its lot with the Allies.
 The success of the Red Army'S drive through the southern Ukraine toward Rumania has created a vio- lent state of jitters in Hitler's prin- cipal satellites and the belief was growing that the Allies may decide to strike against the Balkans.
 Can Cripple Armies
 It long has been cleard that Ger man armies everywhere would be crippled if the Allies should cut Hitler's vital Danube river supply route and seize Rumania's oil fields.
 Originally it was hoped that the Anglo American attack in Italy would be so successful that the fifth and eighth armies could jump across the Adriatic and join Guer- rilla patriots in thrust across the mountains to Budapest, but these hopes have faded in recent weeks as the Anglo-American campaign begged down in the mountains and mud.
 If Turkey could be swung into line, Bulgaria might offer a greater chance of quick success, throwing German forces in Southern Russia into 8 panic and enabling Red Armies to deal mortal blow.
 Any campaign against Bulgaria pre-supposes the use of Turkish air and ground bases and possibly the opening of the DardanelleS to AL lied warships.
 British and possibly American forces in the Middle East could be moved through Turkey to the Bull garian border for an overland as sault, or land from invasion barges on the Black Sea coast under, pos sibly, the guns of the Russian fleet.
 Striking Points
 From Bulgaria, the Allies could
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
NARROW NAzI ESCAPE ROUTE
 TO THIN GAP

Moscow, November 19. - (UP) - The Red Army clamped a strangling grip on Gomel today, narrowing the German escape corridor from the White Russian base to a thin gap and threatening the momentary entrapment of the garrison isolated 50 miles behind the Soviet vanguard.
 Southwest of Gomel in the Ukraine. Soviet spearheads spurted westward from captured Kofosten to within less than 50 miles of the old Polish border.
 A year to the day after Marshal Josef Stalin launched the Stalin- grad counter offensive which turned the tide of the war in Russia, his troops were advancing on the ap- breaches of Rumania, old Poland and the Baltic states.
 GA German communique reported fierce fighting in the area of Koro- sten, the capture of which Stalin announced yesterday, and claimed that the Germans recaptured 8 number of villages in the "Kiev bat tie area"-the broad arc through the northwest Ukraine)
 Front reports on the capture of Rechitsa made it plain that the German position at Gomel was of catastrophe import. The Russians were hammering the city from three sides and on the verge of springing the trap which would break the last tenuous German held line to the northwest.
 Tattered Remnants
 Tattered remnants of the German garrison which escaped from Rech- itsa managed to recross the Dnieper and flee into another trap set by the Russians around Gomel.
 In the last stages of the bitter battle for Rechitsa the Nazi com- 1nanders tried to keep open the northern exits. But when they tried to get their men out of the city to the north, they found the Russians had reached the river bank.
 The Germans then began a panicky flight across the river in barges, boats and dinghies under a rain of bombs from Soviet planes. Only a small proportion of the
 boats succeeded in running the gantlet. They started eastward-a wrong-way without realiz- ing the Gomel likewise was tottering
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
Committee Seeks To Cut Further Gout. Spending

By far the largest reduction SIS, 3,163, ,519,0O0--wa made by the war department in the $59034, ,839,- 673 appropriation congress authoriz- ed for its use in the 1914 fiscal year !n,.u additional $750,000,0O0 was ef- fected in deficiency estimates of the navy department several weeks ago. The navy investigation still is un- completed.
 Huge Slash
 The huge slash in anticipated army expenditures was announced last night in an informal report to the house of chairman J. Buell. Shy der. D., Pa, of the military appro- p,iations subcommittee. He account ed for it as follows:
 1, Reduction in military personnel strength from an anticipate 8200,000 officers and men to total of 7,652,- OOO--$1 ,945, ,039,0 ,000. 2. Curtailment of the armament and equipment programs $8.262,- 759,OOO.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
Rabbit Gets
 PIone Priority

Chicago, Nov. 19.-(UP)- A rabbit with a plane priority was flown today to Johns Hop kins University at Baltimore.
 The Pathology Department of Michael Reese Hospital here had specimens of a cancer type which the Johns Hopkins Sur gery Department needed for re- search, and so the tumOr- bear ing rabbit was given space next to the pilot to be flown east.
 Because of its condition the rabbit could not safely endure a longer trip, hospital attend ants said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19

Stockholm, Nov. 18.-(UPo- The newspaper Svenska Dagbladet reported from Bern today that Marshal Henri Philippe Petain re- signed as French chief of state last Saturday after Pierre Laval prevented him from making a radio speech announcing the con- vocation of the Chamber of Depu- fia<
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
People Have Much Money

Washington, Nov. 19.-(UP)-The Office of War Information said to- day that during the second quarter of 1e43 there was $2,60O,00O,000 in "unspent and unemployed" money in the United States.
 That was $900,000,000 more than the $1, 100000 in the same quar- tel of 1942.
 The report, the OWIs first quar- terly report on economic stabilize tion, said that excess income over taxes ard spending during the sec ond quarter of this year was $8,- 7CO, O,OOO,O00 compared with $6,100,0O0,- 900 in the same period of 1942.
 Here's the division of money dur ing the second quarter: Total income-$34, 500, ,000, ,000.
 Total personal taxes-$3 ,5U0, ,000,- GOO.
 Disposable jncome-$31 ,OOO ,O00,- 900.
 Spent on goods and services-$22,- 30OOOO,O00. Excess income-$8,700,0 0,000,000.
 U. s. Government Bond purchases -$4, 200 100000. Savings deposits and other savings ~-$2OO, 100000. Total investment of savings-$,6- ! 1O0,000,000.
 Quarterly addition to inflationary pressure-$2 600, 100000.
 "The second-quarter total of un- spent and unemployed money-$2, 500, 900, ,OOO, as against $1,700 100000 in the corresponding quarter of 1942 brought the all-time total of cash and checking accounts accumulated bv Americans to 800.000000 Gin cluding money lost or destroye0 7 OWI said. "This represents an in- crease of 115.6 per cent over the 1886 total of $33, ,300, ,010,000"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19
Largest Air Armada Of War Rocks Berlin
 And Ludwigshafen
London, November 1

London, November 19. - (UP) - The mightiest air armada of the more than 1000 of Brtain'S biggest bombers laid waste vast sections of Berlin and Ludwigshafen last night and American Flying FortreSseS followed through in daylight today with another attack western Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-19

Taxes! Join Federal Tax Class Wed. 1880 P. M. Phone 4-S772. Post Jr. College, "A Central Ave.
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Evening star., 1943-12-15
Spirit of Elderly Florida Priest
|Guides Italians to Freedom
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

SICILY (By Aerial Courier TO
bare cell in Florida monastery, a
major element of the, new Italy
which is struggling to arise turns
now for leadership.
There, in far from monastic re-
tirement, dWells Don Luigi Storza,
now a feeble priest in his late 70s,
who more than 20 years ago was
Mussolini's most powerful opponent
and has remained Fascism's most
active foe throughout the world. He
was the founder and leader of the
Christian Democrats. This party
constituted a sort of right-wing
socialism which embraced Southern
Italy's most liberal Catholic elements
as we'll as very large agrarian con-
| tingent.
Because of the religious phase,
which appealed deeply to the Italian
peasant, the Christian Democrats
were the hardest of all the opposi-
ton parties for Mussolini to over
come. But eventually he succeeded.
Don Luigi was forced into exile.
First he joined the large group of
anti Fascist refugees in London,
where he wrote several books di-
rected against Fascism. About 10
years ago he went to the United
States, chiefly to oppose the growth
of Fascist sentiment in the large
ItaNan colonies there.
He made his home at monastery
in Jacksonville but has constantly
travelled over the United States and
Canada, addressing large Italian au-
diences. He has fought not only
against his political foes in Europe
but an even harder battle against
Evening star., 1943-12-15

OF charges against Louis kaufman,
. defendant from Newark, N. J.
Joseph M. Schenck, former board
chairman Of 10th Century-F Fox Pic
lures, was the last witness for the
defense. He testified he transferred
100000 to William (Willie) Bioff
former executive of the Interna-
tional Alliance Of Theatrical Stage
Employees. He said the transfer was
made through promissory note
made out to Schenck's nephew, Ar
thur w. Stebbins, at BiofiS request,
to conceal from union members
Biof1's possession of such sum.
Schenck, who said he agreed to the
deal because he was afraid OF Bioff
testified the money was returned to
him in cash by Bioff.
Were you afraid of Bioff after
1887" Boris Kostelanetz, special
Assistant United States Attorney
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Testimony Completed
In Film Extortion Trial
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Dec. 15.-Defense
and prosecution rested yesterday in
the trial of seven men charged with
conspiring to extort more than
100000 from the motion picture
industry, after 10 weeks of testi-
mony during which the Govern
ment pictured magnates of the in
dustry as covering in fear from
threats Of a convicted labor rack
eteer.
Federal Judge John Bright said
summations would begin tomorrow,
after denying motions for dismissal
Evening star., 1943-12-15
Chilean Wheut Increases

Chile today has II per cent more
wheat acreage than during the pre-
ceding season, government reports
at Santiago reveal. Chilean wheat
acreage now totals 2,048, 300 acres
official figures show.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-02
Chrysler Loses Over
4 Points In Week
Heavy Profit. Taking Comes Into Rails; New Haven
and Hartford Preferred Drops Point

New York, March 2.-(UP)--
Stocks sold Of fractions to more
than q point In moderately active
dealings today in extension Of the
reaction which got under way In
the previous session.
Chrysler again led the setback
selling Of 6-8 to 70 3-B and rum
ming It's loss for this week to more
than 4 points. General Motors, how
ever, met support at AZ Ia. of S-8
and lower.priced motors were &C
tive near their previous .closings
u. 8. Steel led It's section down
with q point decline 10 So 1-8. Beth
lehem was down Ia at 90 "a.
Ailis Chalmers, food machinery
Pan American Always. Westing-
house Electric and Du Pont also
sold OF o point or more each.
Heavy profit taking came into
rails and Union Pacific lost 2 points
while Santa Re and N. Y, New Ha.
ven a. Hartford preferred dropped
almost o point each. Norfolk &
Western was UP ! 1.2 against the
trend. Lowest-priced issues In THU
group were active ct minor conceS-
glons.
The Brooklyn Manhattan Transit
and Brooklyn q Queens issues agaiil
were the most active stocks on the
board the former easing ia to 1 3-t
and the latter firming 3.l6 TO O new
high at 1915.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-02
CITY ABATTOIR
MAY Be CLOSED
Business Declines Figures
Indicate /; OPA Restric.
tons Big Factor

Cattle slaughtered at the munich
pal abattoir Is on the decrease and
II Is likely that the slaughter house
win have TO be closed for q short
period. Or. Edward J. Godfrey,
health officer, said last night in
answer TO Questions concerning the
closing Of the municipal abattoir In
Bridgeport.
OPA regulation forbids any
butcher 10 slaughter more cattle
during any quarter Of this year
than was slaughtered during the
corresponding quarter in l04l.
The doctor said that three local
butchers have already stopped
slaughtering at the municipal plant
because they have reached their
quota. They will not be able To
commence butchering again until
June.
ne added that II Is doubtful
that the abattoir will have to be
closed entirely since one butcher
who uses the house slaughtered
$780, pounds Of beef In 1041 and
he "a still well within this quota
80 far this year. A few Others are
also within their quota.
OPA inspectors visit the health
once and abattolr almost every
day 70 check on the amount each
butcher has slaughtered, and II the
amount Is over his quota for the
same quarter OF 1o41, he Is directed
to stop until the following quarter,
said Or. Godfrey.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-02
SCOVILL WORKERS
MAY REPEAT SHOW

A meeting Of the committee
which made arrangements and the
cast which scored such q splendid
success In the presentation Of the
program Of entertainment ct Buck
ingham hall last Saturday evening
will be held tomorrow night IN
Doolittle Alley Hall. The commit
tee and cast are employees Of the
Scovill Manufacturing Company.
The show was staged by members
Of the chucking department and
attracted such large attendance
that hundreds were disappointed
on falling to gain entrance TO the
hall.
An invitation has been extended
TO the cast TO present the show
ut the windsor Locks air base. The
question OF accepting II and the
incidental transportation problem
will be considered tomorrow evening.
The committee. including director.
stage manager and business man
ager. Is still receiving congratula-
tons on the success Of the show.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-02
AMERICANS BOMB
COKTEIT VIADUC1

New Delhi, March 2-(UP)-The
10th United States Air Force In Its
communique today said the Gokteit
viaduct, one OF the engineering mar.
wells Of the Far East and vital link
In the Mandalay-Lashio railroad.
has been attacked by American
heavy and medium bombers.
The last raid was on Feb. "a, the
communique said, and direct hits
and near hits with heavy caliber
bombs were reported by the crews.
Japanese fighters intercepted the
American planes enroute home and
q Commute running battle followed.
One enemy plane was listed as
probably destroyed and another was
damaged. All American aircraft re-
turned,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-02
300 HAVERHTLL
WORKERS STRIKE

Boston, March 2 - (U.P.) - The
International Fur and Leather
Workers Union (CIO) has appeal
ed 10 Governor Leverett Saltonstall
and Chairman william H. Davis Of
the WLB to intervene in the walk
out Of 300 employees Of the l.. II,
Hamel Company OF Haverhill.
Union Secretary Treasurer Isador
Pickman wired Davis that the COM
pany was "arrogantly defying the
National Labor Board and other
federal and state agencies" In re-
fising to recognize or consent to O
union election.
He said that 800 Of the plants
employees walked out last Tuesday In
protest against the Wholesale flr.
ing" Of 10 others He requested an
immediate investigation and asked
that the government take over the
plant II necessary.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-02
FOOT SUIT SEEN
AS JAIL TICKET
I2O Arizona Sharpies Ar
rested; Stuff Cuff and
Crime Related

Phoenix, Arlz., March 2-(UP)--
Local sharpies shed their drape
shapes hastily today as police, SUR
missing IA psychological relationship
between the stuff cuff and crime
instituted @ "zoot suit roundup"
The police had become fashion
arbiters, and a zoot suit had be-
come q one way ticket TO jail. More
than 100 Mexican youths, wearers
Of the glad plaid, the dressed vest
and the swell lapel, landed behind
bars yesterday.
Police said many would be charged
with carrying concealed weapons,
mostly razors and knives. Others.
they said, would be questioned
about o recent outbreak Of petty
crimes, including robberies and as
saults.
A stuff cuff was enough TO hold q
youth on suspicion. A drape shape
and watch chain you could skip
through was q sure ticket to jail.
Captain Of Detectives Lea B.
Hornbeck said he intended to get
every zoot suffer of the streets.
"The reave sleeve and right stripe
are through In this town." he said.
whether It is the clothes that
cause the crime or the crime that
causes the clothes, we're going to
eliminate the fellows who sport the
sharp apparel"
Most Sharpies were around 10
years old, although they ranged
from IS to SO.
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-03-02
AUGUST SANCRET
PAYS FOR MURDER

London, March 2.--(UP)--Augusi
sangert, 20. a Canadian Army phi
vate, was sentenced 10 death today
for the murder OF his "wigwaTn girl.
l9-year-old Joan Pearl Wolfe.
II was brought out during the
trial that Sangret and the girl had
lived together In Wigwams near
Army camps In Great Britain. The
prosecution charged that Sangret
an illiterate and part Indian, had
killed her when she became preg-
nant and asked him TO marry her.
The jury delibeFated two hours. II
strongly recommended mercy for
sangret who said after hearing the
verdict, II never killed that girl"