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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-22
Men To Report

The following lpsllsnu regis
trsnts from Washtensw County LO.
cal Board No. will report for sc.
tive duty Friday IN the United
States Army: Marvin Robinson.
Oscar Lindsey, Clyde S. Wick. Wal.
ter Brown. Charles G.. Venerable,
Leonard l.. Henson. Samuel Z.
Clark. Charles H. kersey; and in
the United states Marine Corps:
Emerson Clay.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-22
NpsiLdnf Briefs
surrenders

Louis Randolph. wanted 90 A de.
sertion warrant from Tulsa. Okla
homa, surrendered 10 police here
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-22
Articles Stolen

Theft Of personal articles from
his room was reported to police
here Wednesday by Claude Muzzy.
104 n. Huron st. An electric razor,
fountain pen, pencil, and new fish
ing reel were stolen.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-04-22
Positions Changed

Mrs. Forrest II. Tefft has sue
ceeded Mrs. f. j. Erickson at the
ration board, So \. Huron ST. and
Mrs. Edward Csdy has succeeded
10 the position held formerly by
Mrs. Tefft
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
BYRNES DENIES
PRESS REQUEST
Reporters, Photographers
Barred From Covering
Wallace=JOnes Farley

Washington, July 1-(UP)-Re-
porters and photographers who tried
to cover the allace-Jones-Byrnes
meeting at the White House yester-
day couldn't get closer than 100
yards to it.
The White House is patrolled
these days by military police and
secret service agents with pistols or
riffs and bayonets. And the new east
wing of the White House where
Byrnes Office is located is forbidden
territory even for reporters and
photographers who hold White
House credentials.
Photographers and reporters for
mally requested permission to be
allowed to stand at the entrance to
the wing and see Vice President
Henry A. Wallace and Secretary of
Commerce Jesse Jones when they
arrived and left the conference. The
request was denied by Byrnes.
So the photographers and report
erS stood outside the ropes on the
blocked-off street that runs be-
tween the White House and the
treasury building
Wallace's car came in from the
south end of the street opposite the
Pennsylvania avenue entrance where
most of the reporters and all the
photographers had guessed he would
come in.
Jones came along few minutes
later, entering from the Pennsyl-
vania avenue end. The, guards were
on their toes, and his chauffeur
driving somewhat dilapidated
Chevrolet, sped on through before
most of the photographers could so
much as get their cameras up for
shot.
One photographer, however, did
spring to the side of Jones car and
click his camera. Another dashed
inside the forbidden area and took
a shot that, by all rules, couldn't
be any good.
When the conference was over,
Jones decided to try the back way,
too. One photographer, suspecting
as much, had gone to the back, and
was waiting. When Jones chauf-
feur saw the photographer, he
opposite side of the street and went
speded up, swerved the car to the
through a stop sign without so much
as slowing down.
Twenty minutes after Jones had
gone, Wallace came along. The one
photographer on the rear side
hadn't given up. AS the limousine
pulled out the gates, the photogra-
pher sprang into action.
Wallace, seeing what was happen
ing, ducked low in his car. But the
photographer reported that his pic
ture was good.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
SUPERIOR COURT
CLERK INDICTED
pames E. Mcknight AS
-sumes Duties; Dawson,
McNiff Also Sworn In

James e. Mcknight took his oath
% clerk Of superior court at brief
ceremonies conducted in the Office
this morning in the presence of
office personnel and Andrew D.
Dawson was sworn in as clerk of
the common pleas courdt in similar
manner.
Miss Lillian Judd, assistant in the
superior court Office for many years,
administered the oath to George
H. Freeman successor, while Miss
Gertrude Miknaitis, assistant clerk
of the common pleas court, offlciated
at the other ceremonies and then
took her oath from Mr.. Dawson.
Miles F. McNiff, Jr., who assumed
duties as county coroner today, was
sworn into Office by Mr.. Freeman
last Monday. Also sworn into office
today was Common Pleas Court
Prosecuting Attorney William j.
Larkin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
+FBI GRATEFUL
FOR ASSISTANCE
Letter Pledging Mutual
Assistance Read to
Police Board

At yesterdays Police Board meet
ing a letter was read from r. H.
Simons, head of the F'BI office in
New Haven, thanking the Water
bury Police Department for its CO.
operation and asking It to call on
the FrBI at any time for any help
it may desire. "The cooperation by
your department" it stated, "has
made it possible for us to achieve
the coordination requested by the
President. 1t has helped make pos
sible prompt and efficient hand
ling of the many complaints re-
ceived which so directly affect our
defense work."
The board also heard a report
from Comsr. Martin j. Sullivan,
chairman OF the traffic committee,
who said that negotiations were
continuing between his committee
and the bus companies regarding
the location of bus stops and park
ing places.
Permission was granted to Pat
trolman A. o. Chicoine for leave
of absence without pay from August
l to August 81. A letter was re-
ceived from the Scovill Drum corps
thanking the police department for
their cooperation in directing its line
of march during recent parades.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
WITHHOLDING TAX
EFFECTIVE TODAY
New Method OF 20 Per
Cent Deduction Formal
ly lnaugurated

Washington, July 1.-(UP)- This
country's method of income tax COL
lection changes today with inaug-
uration of the 20 per cent withhold
ing tax.
The levy will be deducted from
pay checks or envelopes for the first
payroll period starting after last
midnight. If the payroll period
starts today, the tax will be with
held from the next check or en-
Velope.
The withholding plan, adopted by
Congress after long and bitter
battle, is designed t. put tax col
lections on current basis rather
than on a behind basis as in
the past. Heretofore, payments have
been made on taxes due on the pre-
vious years income; henceforth the
withholdings will be credited to tax
es due on current income.
The withholding scheme works
by having employers deduct 20 pei
cent of workers pay, above Ger
tain specified personal exemptions
and then turn over the deductions
to the treasury for crediting against
what the workers owes in taxes.
The 20 per cent is intended to
cover normal and first surtax brac-
ket income levies and the victory
| tax
Persons whose taxes run above the
first surtax bracket will make sup
Elemental payments each quarter to
cover their additional taxes, on the
basis of estimates on their income
during the year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
News OF Connecticut

dustrieS obtain war contracts and
convert from peace-time efforts,
was abolished today by Gov. Bald
win and its functions turned over
to the Connecticut Development
commission.
Gov. Baldwin said that. the work
of the commission had been an
outstanding success" until October
1941, when the War Production
board was set up and made Its fur
ther operations unnecessary. Later
the Small War Plants corporation
came into being, he said, and set up
three offices in Connecticut, plac-
ing the commission in the status OF
a duplicating agency.
In abandoning the commission
the governor said the state would
save more than $4,000 year.
He said the commission director
Harvey L. Hooke, West Hartford en-
gineer, had resigned, and that two
other members, Maurice Mayo ano
Sidney Eckstein, would be trans
ferred to the Development Commits
o4OAA W SACoAA ny POAiA1Ae AAeAVVSAo.
Darien, July 1 -(UP)- Coast
guardsmen saved a boy and a girl
and two other persons swan hall
mile to shore as their small sail
boats capsized in rough waters Of
Long Island sound late yesterday.
A patrol boat picked up Elizabeth
Poltrack, Is, and John Hess, 16, both
of Darien, a mile off Greens Reed
lighthouse as they fioated about in
their life preservers. Both were
treated at Stamford hospital for
shock and immersion. They had
been in the water about an hour
before being rescued.
On the same reef, a 12-foot dinghy
overturned and flung Mrs. Joseph
ChOate, %, Noroton, and Joseph
Thorndike, Jr., 20, New York city,
an editor of Life magazine, into the
pitching sea. They were exhausted
when they reached shore, where
they were treated by the sisters at
the Sacred Heart convent. Coast
Guard recovered the boat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

Charles w. Elmstedt, son of Mr..
and Mrs. Gustaf A. Elmstedt, Bris-
tol, was graduated last week from
a school for overhauling of aircraft
engines conducted by the Army Mir
Forces Technical Training Com
mand at Stewart Technical School,
New York. He is now corporal.
Pfc. Elmstedt Is a graduate of
Bristol high school and was employed
as screw machine operator until
indicted into the service Janua.y
81. 1t was also announced that
he will receive instructions at a
supercharger school in Lynn, Mass,
commencing Monday.
Charles S. sherwood, "a, son Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles sherwood 4J
Chestnut avenue, was graduated
from the U. S. Army Air Forces
Flexible Gunnery school, Kingma..,
Ariz. He was indicted September
2, 1912 and is now sergeant. He
is a graduate of New Bedford high
school, New Bedford, Mass.
Pvt. Merwin r. Wilson was re-
lieved from duties with a service
unit at the Army Air Base, Ephrata,
Washington, to spend furlough
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. r. T.
Wilson of Bristol.
Sergt. Tech. Joseph Angelello's
furlough with relatives ir Naugatuck
has terminated and he is back with
his Army post in Florida.
Anthony Tire,.di, yeoman second
class, USNA, of 145 Easton avenue,
stationed until recently at the U. S.
Maritime Service Officers school in
New London, was selected by his
commanding officer to attend Trim
ity College in Hartford for a two
year course as an officer candidate,
leading to a commission in the
Navy. Yeoman Tirendi reported for
training today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

of seaboard States out to the middle
of the ocean. The air is simply the
greatest of all oceans and naviga-
ton in the air is exactly like navi-
cation on the oceans.
A States police power could never
adequately deal with the problems
of regulating air commence. Before
hypothetical State police airplane
could get warmed up the violator
of air commerce rules would be out
OF sight and across State lines.
When flying thousands of feet in
the air, many States, even some of
the larger ones, seem hardly more
than counties, and it would be hui
manly impossible for persons en-
gagged in air commerce to know
when they cross theoretical State
boundary in the clouds.
AirplaneS now actually being
flown have suc speed that if one
of them started from the center of
the largest State in the Union, and
another started from the center of
the largest adjacent State, and
they flew directly toward each other
at presently realizable speeds, 1t
would be possible for them to crash
in less than twenty minutes. In
credible as this may seem, many of
our aviators are today learning
that such speeds are commonplace.
And there will be only a few years
before the speed of flight will be
able to approach the speed of
sound. When that day comes even
the sound of State police whistle
or siren will be outstripped by the
speed of aircraft.
In circumstances such as these
it is hardly realistic to provide for
State regulation of air commerce.
Only through the federal govern =
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
FINAL EJACULATION
F.. ON SEAL CAMPAIGN

Easter Seal sale returns from
Waterbury that have been tabulated
to date amount to $1,9785O, accord
ing to Miss Gertrude NorcroSs,
executive secretary of the Connec-
ticut Society for Crippled Children
which sponsored the sale. This rep
resents a 528 percent increase over
the amount received from this area
last year. Cheshire's returns indicate
sales totaling $330.70.
The total amount for the state
shows a so per cent increase over
the 1912 sale. Returns still continue
to come in from various parts of
the state.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
NEWS OF MEN IN THE SERVICE

Dyersburg, Tenn, July 1. - Pri-
vate Arnold c. Kaufman, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Kaufman Of
Shepard avenue, Hamden, Conn,
having been approved as an avia-
ton cadet will report to Keesler
Field for Pre- Aviation Cadet basic
training, it was announced here to-
day.
Kaufman is graduate Of Ham,
den High school and attended
Emerson College, Boston, Mass.
He has been working in the med
ical department at this base.
Philadelphia, Penn, July 1.-Priv-
ate Howard T. Larkin of South
street, Middlebury, Conn, Is one
of 400 student trainees, enlisted men
of the Army, who arrived at Drexel
Institute of Technology last week
to study engineering under the
Army Specialized Training program,
according to an announcement by
DR.. George p Rea, president of the
college.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Vincent A..
Miller of this city and Woodbury.
has been requested by the Univer-
sity of Glasgow to give a series of
lectures. Colonel Miller has been in
Great Britain for the past year as
member of judge advocate generals
department. 1t was revealed that
the lecture will touch upon Amer
lean law, American Army organic
alton and American life in general
After furlough here, Private
Vito Rollo of 81 Burton street re-
turned to his post at Fort Adams,
R. l., A brother, Private Diego
Rollo is stationed at Fort Bragg, N.
G..
Private Howard Parsons, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvah Parsons of 211
West Main street was recently adj
vanced to the grade of corporal at
Miami Beach, Fla, where he is with
an Army Air Corps ordnance unit.
He enlisted in the corps in April.
Mrs. Parsons, the former Ruth
Dwyer, recently returned from a
visit with her husband.
Staff Sergeant Robert A. Parsons,
brother of Corporal Parsons, sta
toned at Fort Dix, is spending a
few days leave with his wife at
Plank road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
RETURNS SQUIRREL WHISKY

San Diego, Cal, (UP)-A Federal
Court jury returned to Tom X.
Choy, Chinese. with thanks, 20 gal
Ions of squirrel whisky" and freed
him of all charges Of illegally rec
tifying liquor without federal Ii
cense. The whisky contained as in
griendiens, often by immersion
only, squirrels, lizards, snake rattles
and herbs. Choy said he had
started making it after it was nc
longer possible to import 1t from
China. None of the juorsr volun-
teered to sample 1t.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
BUILDING PERMITS

The following building permit
was issued today at the office of
Building Inspector John L. Hart
ley:
Grace M. Jameson, rebuild one
car garage, 88 Elliott avenue. Cost
$50.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
RABBI STEINHORN
NAMED PRINCIPAL

Rabbi Louis A. Steinhorn, son of
MI. and Mrs. Max Steinhorn, 205
Cooke street, was recently made the
rabbi and named principal of the
Educational synagogue center, New
York city. Rabbi Steinhorn was
graduated from Crosby high school,
the Waterbury Hebrew school, the
Herzlian Hebrew Teachers academy
and in 1886 received his bachelor of
science degree in education from
New York University. During the
installation, Morris Siller, Y Eliz-
abeth street, spoke in the name
Of Waterbury Jewry while Ben
damin Teitelbaum game his grand
son the priestly blessing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
MUSIC SCORE STARTED

George Stoll has started conduct
ing and recording the musical score
for Girl Crazy" with Mickey Roo
ney and Judy Garland.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01
Post War Plane Speeds Create
New Air Traffic Problems
BY CLARENCE r. LEA
CONGRESSMAN. California

state lines
provides all
exclusive jurisdiction Of the federal government.
There would be
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

Fifty thousand Finnish and Nor
Wegian children now receive aid
through relief organizations In
Sweden.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

Congressman Clarence F. Lea Of
California, Chairman of the House
Committee on Interstate and For
eign Commerce and veteran legis-
latOr of 26 years, Is a key figure in
postwar civil aviation. He is CO.
author of the Lea-Bailey Bill
which, among other things, pro-
vides for exclusive federal regula.
ton of all air navigation and air
commerce.
ment, as provided in the Lea-Bailey
bill, can air commerce be effective
ly or properly regulated in the air
age upon which America is entering.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

Robert, II, and Daniel, 10, sons
of Daniel Ferrari of Jas North
Main street are serving with Uncle
Sans Navy, having enlisted in
the service in March. Robert is
stationed with the Pacific fleet as
a gunner, with the rank of first
class seaman, while Daniel is
second class seaman, is awaiting
assignment to aerOgrapher school
at Sampson, N. Y.
Robert M. Ranslow of 70 Citizens
avenue recently completed his pre-.
liminary training at the Sampson
N. Y. Naval training center.
Donald E. Cruess of 157 Madison
street, stationed at Fort Monmouth
N. j., is now wearing two chevrons
on his sleeve.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

United States agricultural ex-
perts will aid Peru in solving its
production and distribution of food
crops.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

Hartford, July 1--(UP)-The Con-
necticut War Industries commission,
created by former Democratic Gov.
Robert A. Hurley TO aid small In
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-07-01

New Milford, Conn, July 1.-(UP)
Anton Track, 95, widely-knoWn
musician, died at his summer home
here yesterday.
Track was the inspiration for the
play, 1.-THE Music Master" in which
David Warfield starred. He was a
native of Vienna, lived in this coun-
try for 60 years, mostly at Brook
lyn, N. Y. Two sons and three
daughters survive.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-25
NSERlAL STORY
 THE TERRIBLE EYE
.:a ,coPya!cMT:. 'e..1.a

was as if something, @ presence, were with him in the room.
 "Geez," exclaimed the Cracker, and, unconsciously, he reached up and felt the hair on his own neck. In so doing, his hand inadvert- ently brushed against Q knob on the cameralike machine that stood on the low, table. But the Cracker didn't notice. He was enthralled by Douglas Cotterby and some. what befogged with Old Smoky.
 At that juncture the Cracker glanced at the title of the book. Through the barrage of mist that Old Smoky had laid before his eyes, he made out the words: CAN THE DEAD RETURN? The late Mrs. Calvin Meggs, dabbler in spiritualism had spent many happy hours boring over this volume.
 Joe the Cracker shifted uneasily and turned page. What he read next was not reassuring.
 The windows had been closed, against the storm. Yet-incred-
 ible circumstancel one of the long dark curtains was moving, ripping. And suddenly a dry
 scream tore itself from the back
 of Douglas Cotterby's throat.
 Something white and inSub-
 stantial, like @ ghostly feeler,
 was emerging from behind the
 curtain. It seemed to leap across
 the room, wavering tenuously
 in the uncertain light from the
 fireplace. Douglas Cotterby. his
 face ghastly, could only watch
 as, slowly and inexorably, the
 thing resolved itself into a spec
 tral and reaching hand
 Joe the Cracker gasped, and grabbed for old Smoky. He took a prodigious drink. But, about to set the bottle down. he paused. His vision was cloudy and his brain slightly benumbed. Even so, he was aware of light in the room. more light than could come from a partially blacked-out pocket torch.
 Wonderingly. the Cracker turned his head. The next instant he gave a hoarse yell and leaped up. A special hand was reaching toward him.
 Like the tabled lotus. old Smoky had the power to induce forgetful- ness. The libations that MT. Slync- niski had taken had obliterated from his mind all memory of the movie screen; of the camera on the low table. Further. he was quite tn- aware that his hand had brushed a little knog in the camera and set in operation the working model of . device known as the Terrible Eye. And he could not. Of course, have been expected to know that the Terrible Eye. strangely enough. was bringing lli . picture Of the arm and hand of Miss Meath, stretching knakily for Q ea0000 tiara from be. hind 2 curtain in the den of Henry L. Charming.
 None of this fnFmed part Of Afr. Hlyncnihki's working knowledge. An he knew waa that the same thing that had happened 70 Doug les CoifeTbY. adept with a meat cleayeF. was nov happenlng tuo' ElanflaliY Co hiIn. And tlleff seemed but ore thing 70 1o about G. That, in tle words of xipline. waa to arise and Eaf hEnee.
 tlr. a'1Htals had aIfln1I asfNn. #1H he se[ H4E1I
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-25

the Tai Mahal at pace that would have shamed Mac- Mitchell. He skinned over the grass like an outsize in hedge- hopping swallows. He put dis tance between himself and that ghastly clutching hand. And then, he, made a fatal mistake. Like Lots wife, he turned.
 Something white was moving behind him.
 (TO Be COntinued)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-25
,BY EDWIN RUTT
GHOST OF OLD SMOKY
 CHAPTER XVII

Inside the bottle there was Q lsQuid known as Old Smoky, dis- tillation much in vogue along the Brooklyn waterfront. Its effect was not unlike Q tap on the jaw from Joe Louis.
 The depth charge improved MT. Elyncniskis outlook vastly. He began bumbling about the grounds of Wildover.
 He arrived presently at a pe- cnliar- looking building. Even in the gloom the place had the ap- pearance of an extravaganza in hot dog stands. The structure offered sanctuary from the mild chill of the night. He tried the door. To his qualification, 1t was unlocked. MT. Slyncniski entered. The room in which he stood was well-furnished. There were easy chairs, rugs and, at one side, R bookcase.
 someone, Mir. slyncniski per- ceiyed, had set up small movie screen. And across the room, on q low table near the bookcase, was 6 queer looking cameralike machine. It differed from a cam- era, however, by virtue of small set Of coils at one side of 1t.
 Mir. Slyncniski was born tink- erer. Shielding his fiashlight with one hand, he advanced to the the cameralike arrangement. He twisted a knob here, a gadget there. All at once, the coils gave of a tiny shower of blue sparks. Light appeared on the movie screen. Hastily MT. Slyncniski turned of the machine.
 The simple pleasure of home movies denied him, MT. Slyncniski sank into a chair. But he could not relax. Then. suddenly, he thought of the bookcase.
 Tn the main. Mir. Slyncniski es- chewed reading. An occasional dip into Daily Racing Form was enough to satisfy his literary craving. But nov time hung upon his hands. Covering his torch with one great paw 90 that only a trickle of light emerged. he selected a book at ran dom.
 without glancing at the title, he opened 1t in the middle and forthwith, laboriously, began to read.
 That a manifestation of ecto. plnGua, Q white vaporous sub- Nlnnce not unlike mist normally nrecedes the return of Q de- parted spirit is accepted by the E|giest authorities.
 Many such instances have been Izgonded. But perhaps the most NDfetacuIar of ell is the case Of f'anaIas cotterby. Q farmer living Mtag Q lonely moor in the west
 England.
 N64slas cottaEby vas alleged to NNNN MuK6gFed his wife, Anasta.
 NitA n meat elsaveF. But at
 |NeMI Maatzaa e jury. consider.
 a|E a*fdnues Insufficient. re-
 M eHSaset of not guilty.
 |aN GoEtaflv WAlked out Q
 1a fan huhf" muttsred
 sa1ff. more |n'NTngied nov
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 00AI14IIe e'.a|es
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-25

To us, a blackguard means a ruff fan or scoundrel, but. originally the word described Q humble ser- want riding in a wagon at the rear of a noble's train and watching over smoke -blackened pots and pans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-02-25
FTLLERS-
 HAS TWO LUCKY BREAKS

Berkeley, Cal. = (UP) - Mrs. Grace Harris feels that she got two lucky breaks in a single wartime day. After standing in line for an hour she succeeded in securing a pot roast for the Sunday dinner. That was lucky break No. 1. Then she went to a shoe store and pur- chased two pairs of shoes at 5:59, a minute before closing time on Saturday. The next day. shoes were rationed. That was lucky break No. q.