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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17
WATERToWN
Board dof EducationMet
 Tuesday, March 14th
Mrs. John Prendergast Was Guest Speaker, Stressing
 Need of Social Workers
Hnty. C0EsspondsnA @ eeSts Avonua TslsDh0nO IOoA

The board of education held its regular meeting March IA in the Watertown high school with the fol- lowing members present: Joseph R. Neill, chairman; Mrs. Rodney Chase, vice-chairman; Raymond Leonard, pohn Lynch, Mrs. Herman Marg- graff, secretary, George w. Shaw, Alfred Travor, c. c. Swift, superin- tendent of schools.
 The resignation of Miss Wilma V. Marshall, instructor in French in the High school during the past twenty two years, was received and ac- cepted with regret. Miss Marshall will retire from teaching at the close of school in June.
 Mrs. Jonh Pendergast, the social worker sponsored by the Waterbury Mental Hygiene Association, who works in Watertown Schools on Thursday afternoons, attended the meeting by invitation of the board. She explained the work and the purposes of social workers, pSychol- Ogists and psychiatrists in the schools after which she answered questions.
 Spring vacation dates, as previ- ously announced, were approved. Schools will close on the afternoon of March 3l at the regular hour and reopen April 10.
 The board voted to tender its thanks to Mrs. Alfred Traver and the Red Cross, which sponsored the project, for the course of instruction In Home Nursing which she has given to eighth grade pupils in the Baldwin school this year and at the South school last year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17
THoMASToN
Mrs. May Cyr Succeeds
 Miss Ella Saunders
Named to Head Auxiliary of Veterans of Foreign Wm
 Other Officers Are Named

Sampson, N. r. and is spending . 14 day furlough with his W1So e their home on Elm street.
 Robert DeVino who has beo@ . patient at New Haven hospital has returned to his home on Htch1lOld street.
 Augustus Lombard who hes been a patient at the Waterbury hospt- tai has returned to his homo on Pine Hill road.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Tin cans are made mostly @ sheet metal and only a little tin.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17
Falcons Plan Parties

The Falcon drilling teams are starting a series of card parties,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

gently into the Alpha Delta Pi. national society sorority, at Brenau College, Granisville, Ga.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17
Water ShutOR

Water ShutOR
 Due to a broken hydrant on East Main street near the home of the late Charles Buckland, the town water will be shut of Sunday at g a. m. for a period of five hours in order to make repairs. Persons are urged to draw a sufficient supply Of water to enable them to meet no undue hardship during the shut down.
 Electa Chapter, O. E. S., will meet this evening at the Masonic club rooms on lower Main street at 7:30 in order that members may attend the St. Patrick's day concert in the high school gym.
 William Moran, letter carrier at the local post office, is i'll at his home on Bristol street.
 Donations Reported
 Mrs. Winfield Wight chairman of the sales of Easter Seals for the benefit of the Crippled Children's Society reports that donations of $286 have already been recevied. She hopes that the sales will continue so that the mark of $400 reached last year will be exceeded.
 Pvt FiscO Dies in Italy
 Word has been received here of the death of Pvt. Edward FiSco in Italy Pvt. Fisco formerly resided here and was employed at the Plume and Atwood Mfg. Go.
 MT. and Mrs. Michael Mozonski Railroad street announce the birth of a son, Michael Gerald at St. Mary's hospital Monday morning. Mrs. Mozonski is the former Sue Krayeski.
 It. q. g.) John Lyons, U. s. Coast Guard, stationed in New York and Ensign William B. Lyons stationed at Georgetown University, Washing ton, D. c. spent the week end at the home of their parents, MT. and Mrs. w. H. Lyons, Bristol street.
 Milford Gilman, U. s. Navy has completed his boot training at gently into the Alpha Delta Pi. national society sorority, at Brenau
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Milford Gilman, U. s. Navy has completed his boot training at
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Private Stanley Zabolusky IS ex- pected home to spend 8 few days He is stationed in Virginia.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Miss Judy Bluestone, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. David H. Bluestone of Meadow street, was initiated re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Middlebury, March 17.-Ned Will kins, son of MT. and Mrs. T. Clar- ence Wilkins of North street, is spending a short recess with his parents from his studies at the Wooster school in Danbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

An assembly took place today at Litchf1eld High school at 2:45. The topic discussed was Rental Care"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Miss Bonnie Lee Nelson of Stan- ford is spending 8 few weeks with her grandparents MT. and Mrs. George Bailey.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Patrick Dwyer, son of MT. and Mrs. Thomas Dwyer of South street, is celebrating his tenth birthday today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Mrs. Edward Jackson of South street. who is the local representa- tive for St. Mary's hospital aid membership drive, will attend the annual St. Patrick's day tea and card party being held at the nurses home today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17
Pvt FIsco Dies in Italy

Word has been received here of the death of Pvt. Edward FiSco in Italy Pvt. Fisco formerly resided here and was employed at the Plume and Atwood Mfg. Go.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

The canvassers for Yale and White avenue have about finished solicit ing for the Rd Cross and up to yes terday have collected $l2l.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Miss Kay Forman. student at the Gardner" school in New York City, is spending this week with her par ents, MT. and Mrs. Walter Forman of South street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Micheal Hychka. Jr.. of Washing ton Drive, who recently completed his boot training at Sampson, N. Y, has been spending a leave with his wife and child here returned yesterday to Sampson.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Frank Miller, 3d, a student at Choate school in Wallingford is spending short recess with his parents. MT. and Mrs. Frank Miller 2d of South street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Mrs. Harland Crooker of Yale avenue, left this morning for New Bloomfield, Pa, where she will att tend the parents week end festivi- ties at the Carson Long school where her son is a student.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

Miss Aida Bloodgood, senior at Denison UtiverSty, Granville, Ohio, was one of the 116 students honored at the annual mortar board dinner held recently. Miss Bloodgood is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Alonzo Bloodgood of Breakneck Hill.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Army Estimates
Punching Power
OF Air Forces

Here ID the ofiicial estimate Of
the 1914 punching power" Of the
Army Air Forces, taken from the
newest War Department air iilm:
The AAF dropped about 100000
tons Of bombs In 1s43-they win
drop about 100, 900 tons on the Nasis
and the Nips In 1914.
Army airmen new $4,000 sorties
last year-they VIII fly l,5oo. 900 In
1914.
Exhibited at the Pentason, the
new Aim, Army Air Forces Report, !"
will be shown only In war plants
throughout the country starting
june Is, to spur war workers to even
greater efforts.
Based on the recent oficial report
OF Gen. Henry II. Arnold, the nlm
tells the dramatic story Of AAF ex-
lpansion from Pearl Harbor 70 the
present bonbingS over Berlin. It
was produced BY the Once Of Stra-
lteeic Services.
Gen. Arnold, In his remariEs at
the introduction Of the picture. gives
the war workers . graphic idea Of
AAF expansion In two years. from
seventh to flrst place among the
worlds air forces. 1T u the largest
and mightiest air force In the
world" he says, accomplished By
the viii and energy Of the entire
lprople Of the United States-a great
achievement Of 4 democratic people
and q democrats government"
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Company B Winner
Of 81. John S Drill

Company B, commanded by Cadet
Capt. Jesse Myers, won silver
loving cup as the best company in
the 9th annual competitive drill
at st. Johns College yesterday
Company G was second and Com
tpany r third.
Cadet 1t. Col. Elmer Bergen won
top honors In the officers sabre
competition. and Cadet Sergt. Will
liam Evans was first in the enlisted
mems rifle competition with Cadet
Sergt. James Mccarthy second.
Capt. Marlin s. Reichley, COM
mandant of the Army Specialized
Training Unit at Georgetown Uni
versity, and Second 1t. Andrew D.
Jordan, attached to headquarters OF
the Washington military district
were judges.
Col. Stewart M. Grayson, retired
and Col. Henry F. Rhodes Of Sc
lective Service headquarters were
special guests.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
AFGE Council Studies
US. Service improvements

A comprehensive program Of i'm
provements for Government serv-
ice, including uniform leave regu-
lations, is under consideration by
the Executive Council Of the Amer
ican Federation Of Government EN-
ployes, meeting at the Statler this
week end.
The council went on record In
favor OF uniform application Of
night di1erential pay throughout
the service, payment Of actual time
and q half rates for overtime work,
establishment OF q health program,
and retention Of the United States
Employment Service as Govern
ment agency after the war.
More liberal application OF leave
regulations was asked by the coun-
Gil, which urged annual vacation
leaves and restoration OF holidays
as soon as military conditions per-
NIT. Many discrepancies In pres
ent regulations were cited.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Assai|ani Of Policeman
Found Guilty, Fined SIS

Robert Jean Short, ~, Of 122.
Mount oivet road NE, was finee
SIS yesterday, after q Municipa
Court jury found him guilty OF as.
saulting a policeman In a free-for.
al May 10 in front OF 2400 Six.
teenth street NV.
Policeman Louis Lozupone Of Pre-.
cinct l3 testified that Short as.
saulted him when he attempted tx
break up tight and arrest Short
for drunkenness.
Policeman r. J. Wagner testified
he heard Sergt. Edward p. Burns o.
Fort Meade, who was turned ovel
to military police say, "The Marine.
took them downtown and wen take
them uptown" Policeman Wagne,
said Burns was referring to ths
ce-Marine tight on Fourteenth
street several days before Short.
assault on Policeman Lozupone.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
On the Other Hand
Writer Points to Difference Between
Lons.Haired Theorist and Bureaucrat

Compiled IN every Government
agency.
Whether a majority Of all these
men are Democrats or Republicans
nobody seems to know. There's the
story-it happens to be true-of q
conversation between the President
and General Knudsen, former pro-
duction head Of General Motors
now a wartime bureaucrat.
BILL" said the President, "aren't
you slipping? They tell me one OF
those II men you're asking me to
appoint Is a Democrat"
That's all right, Mr.. President,
Knudsen replied. Hes q Democrat,
but he voted against you"
Evening star., 1944-05-27
FEPC Fund, Approved
By House, Is Facing
Fiqht in Senate
By the Associated fress.

/ BY the Associated freSs.
| Saved from abolition by q four
vote margin in the House late yes
terday, proposed new funds fol
President Roosevelt's Fair Employ
ment Practices Committee headed
today for the Senate and a new
challenge from Southern legislators
Most controversial item in the ST.
033, ,358 1857 omnibus bill which car
ries funds for almost a score OF
home-front war agencies for the
fiscal year starting July /, the $780,
900 FEPC fund was tentatively kill
ed by the House by q vote of 141 to
l03 Only to be rescued an hour later
by count of 1913 to 119. Both votes
were by teller, individual votes being
unreccrded.
Southern Democrats led the fight
against the agency they claimed
was promoting racial disunity and
provided most of the SO votes cast
against the entire bill on final pass
age. Not q single item in the
overall measure was changed.
That the FEPC would encounter
almost as rough going in the Senate
as it faced In the House was indi-
Gated by the fact that on March ~,
when it passed the independent Of
fees supply bill, the Senate tackled
on a rider denying funds to any
presidentially-created agency In
existence IL months or longer and
not expressly authorized by statute.
The Senate move, aimed primarily
at the FEPC, now is the subject of q
conference report being drafted by
a joint Senate-House committee.
The conferees are expected to ap-
prove the move.
Southerners accused the agency Of
discriminating against the white
race, Of seeking to promote the prin-
ciple Of social racial equality and
Of meddling In problem primarily
Southern and being handled by the
South to the satisfaction Of both
whites and Negroes.
Aside from the FEPC fight, only
two other amendments were Of
fered and both were voted down.
One, by Representative Dworshak,
Republican, Of Idaho, would have
cut $5,50o.000 from the $58,625, 1857
owl fund. The other, by Repre-
sentative Keefe, Republican, of Wis
consin, would have trimmed $780,
100 from the War Production Boards
allotment.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
Syrian Rioters Stone
French Officers Club
By the Associsted Press.

0S tuc Abb0cl8te0 EJeS9s
CAIRO. May 27.-Beyrouth dis
patches reported today that Syrian
rioters stoned French ofiicers' club
In Damascus during . milk fund
charity ball last week end In os-
tensible protest against the attend
ance Of unveiled Moslem women.
Prevented from forcing an en-
trance into the club, the mob was
said to have forced It's way into
. movie theater fun Of Moslem
women. Hurting stones, firing pls.
tolls, they threw the place into 4
panic. e3r Fl ur
A number Of women were wound
ed and one policeman and & boy
We're killed before police succeeded
in driving on the rioters, the dis
patches said.
Evening star., 1944-05-27
ZX&;:iTS' ZX%.; :. s
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DRAMA.
"Sing Out, Sweet Land" presented
by Catholic University Theater
Players, Catholic University, $3.50
o'clock tonight. Admission by pur-
chase of 500 War Bond only.
EXHIBITS.
Maritime exhibit, Com m er c e
Building auditorium, 10 am. to
pm. daily through June s.
Canadian Army art show, Cor
coran Art Gallery, 2 to pm. tomor-
row. Noon to 4:30 pm. Monday.
weapons of War" show, West
Potomac Park, 2:3o to 10 pm. today
and tomorrow.
"El Charro Negro" Mexican West
ern, Pierce Hall, o'clock tonight.
HIKES.
National Capital Parks: Bird walk
through Kenilworth Aquatic Gar
dens, meet at garden Office, Kenil-
worth avenue and Douglas street
NE, 1880 am. tomorrow. Hike along
C. g. o. Canal towpath, meet at
Stop 33 on Cabin John streetcar line,
10 am. tomorrow.
Wanderbirds' Hiking Club to
Harpers Ferry, w. Va, leave Union
Station at 10 am. tomorrow.
Center Hiking Club: Beltsville to
Millbrook Pond, Md, meet at end Of
Mount Rainier streetcar line, 1915
am. tomorrow. Bring swim suit.
TRIPS.
Potomac Area, American Youth
Hostels. bike trips to: Great Falls,
Va, meet at Rosslyn Circle. 8 am.
tomorrow. Shaw Lily Gardens, fol-
lowed by wiener roast at Gallaudet
College, meet at 472 Indiana avenue
NV. ! pm. tomorrow. Bring own
food.
National Capital Parks horse
drawn barge trips on G.. g. O.
Canal: Upstream trips, leave Thir-
tieth and M streets NV. at o am
and 2 pm. tomorrow. Downstream
leave Brookmont Preached by street.
car to Cabin john, at IL 80 am. and
4:30 pm. tomorrow.
FUR SERVlCEMEN.
Stage Door Canteen, Belasco
Theater. tonight: Bud Gilbert pre-
sents Novelties" Silver Spring
Neighbors Variety show and Casino
Royal show.
USO variety show, USO, Eighth
and Pennsylvania avenue NV, 8
o'clock tonight.
Of1cers' Service Club dance, May
flower Hotel, 8 o'clock tonight.
Peggy LIE Baron, former Broad
way singing star, guest at Service
mems Club No. i, 306 Ninth street
NV, 10 o'clock tonight.
Service men and women may OBJ.
tain additional activities by calling
the United Nations Center, National
5000, or any of the following use
numbers: Republic 1927, Nationa
o6l4, National 3431, Executive o42s
or, for Negroes. Decatur 1864. <
Evening star., 1944-05-27
u. 5. Participation
lin Talks May Decide
DE Gaul|e's Role
BY the Associated Press

LONDON, May T.--American
participation In the talks to take
|place when Gen. Charles de 0aulle
comes to London at the invitation
LOT Prime Minister Churchill Wal
expected here today to play an I'm.
|portant part. In deciding the role o1
the French Committee Of National
| Liberation.
Those who criticize Mr.. Churchill
lfor opposing recognition Of the
committee as provisional French
government have attributed his DO
Isition partly to influence Of Presi.
dent Roosevelt. These criticisms i'd.
lnlittedly are tempered, however, by
hope that some new agreement maj
be reached during Gen. de Gaulle',
visit.
Expected to See Eisenhower.
The French leader appears Ger.
tain to meet immediately with Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower and the su.
lpreme Allied commanders civil af.
fairs stan to perfect plans for gov.
Ierning France after Allied troopl
launch their assault on Europe.
Already It IL planned that O. soor
as any section Of France is Liberated
Gen. De Gaulle's representative VII
take over functions Of the govern.
ment, assisted by Gen. Eisenhower
civil affairs army teams.
It Is significant that Foreign Com.
missioner Rene Massigii, the com,
missioner for liberated territories
and the commissioner Of interio,
are the French officers expected K
accompany Gen. De Gaulle.
Churchill Sharply Critized.
The sharpest criticism yet to ap.
pear here Of Mr.. Churchills addres,
to Commons Wednesday was carriee
In the Economist. This weekly pub,
lication bitterly attacked what i
called Mr.. Churchill's quite mex.
plicable references to spain," ane
added:
IF Mr.. Churchill had addresse,
to France and the French Commit.
tee one 1.-THE Of the effusions he de,
voted to Spain, every Frenchmal
would have faced the coming o
British troops with warmer hope,
and reader friendship.
" - Mr.. Churchill did not orl!
miss = great historic occasion, /
may well be that he also made ,
great historic mistake. . I
must be regretfully recorded that OF
the eve Of the invasion Great Brit.
aims captain-general has sent ou
his forces to meet their allies Will
the wrong words ringing in thet
earSn
Evening star., 1944-05-27

nOur e&iuer UQal1 u8uhl IlS CHa &c
his hair cut before he goes to tn,
ONCE. Since the barber shop ISM
open when he gets there his theor.
is exploded. But your long -hairee
theortst Is persistent. He has an
other theory, which Is that he car
duck into q barber shop during hi
lunch hour and get his hair cut
He finds the barber shop crowded
with other customers and again h
remains 0 long-haired theorist
Finally he develops the theory thai
some evening he will get through
work in time to get his hair cut
before dinner, but that evening nevel
comes and he's still a long -hairee
theorist. And bureaucrat.
Bureaucrat Described.
A bureaucrat Is one who exercises
Government authority over you,
private affairs, who tells you you
can't do this or you must do that
He touches your life in all sorts OF
unpleasant ways-from the cradle
to the grave, as the orators remind
you. The shoes you wear and the
shirts and the shorts; the food you
eat and the liquor you drink: the
gas that propels you and the rubber
you roll on. All, everything, con-
trolled by some bureaucrat.
What do they look like, these
bureaucrats? Well, they look great
deal like other people and it's hard
to describe them. But II you know
the president Of big electric COM
pany, or the sales manager Of big
department store. or the production
head of o steel corporation, or any,
body like that, try to imagine how
he would look If he needed q hair
cut and you will have q fair idea
Of q Washington bureaucrat.
The real bureaucrats In Washing
ton are those In the temporary agen-
cies that have most to do with your
everyday living. The War Produc-
tion Board, for example. Here's who
some Of them are:
Chairman, Donald M. Nelson,
executive vice president OF Sears,
Roebuck 81 Co.
Executive vice chairman, Charles
E. Wilson. president Of General
Electric Co.
Vice chairman, Donald Davis,
president of General Mills Co.
Vice chairman, Arthur Whiteside,
president OF Dun and Bradstreet.
Vice chairman, L. r. Boulware,
Celotex Corp, Chicago.
Vice chairman, william L. Bait,
president Of SKI Industries.
Deputy vice chairman, A. c. G..
Hill, jr, Guaranty Trust Co.
Rubber director, Bradley Dewey,
Dewcy-Almy Chemical Co.
Aluminium and magnesium direc-
tor. Arthur Bunker. Lehman Corp.
New York.
Conservation director, Howard
Coonley, former president of the
National Association OF Manufac-
turers.
Salvage director, Herbert M. Faust,
Curtis Publishing Co.
List Is Long.
The list OF these tard-workins
men could be continued at great
length, down this column and up
the next. Similar lists could be
Evening star., 1944-05-27
l7-MiI|ion Bond Quota
Given U. s. Workers

The 263, 900 civilian Federal work.
ers In the District have been as
signed Z quota Of $17 900 900 In
Series = War Bonds, or half Of the
District quota for these peoples
bonds" Leigh =. ore Of the Inter-
departmental Committee for the
Fifth War Loan, explained yesterday
ct I meeting Of 30 radio program
directors.
John A. Reilly. chairman Of the
District War Finance Committee
outlined plans for achieving the
Districts total quota OF $107, 600 ,ooc
ct the meeting held ct the May
flower Hotel.
Mr.. Ore said there are now some
2,l16,000 Federal civilian employees
throughout the country buying War
Bonds at . rate Of Isl ,000, 900 q
month through payroll deductions.
Tbs number Of employees, he said,
represents Z little less than 90 Der
cent Of the Federal roster ana their
purchases averaged . little more
than 10 per cent Of their pay last
March.
Mary L. Sper1y. chairman Of the
utilities section. has sppointsd II
assistants for the drive. Robert @.
DIVERS win be vice chairman Of the
section. Other members are: Her
bert Ford o. American Airlines, Z.
G. Giddings Of the Capital Transit
Co., =. q. Baiss of the Chesapeake
q Potomac Telephone Co., J. A.
McDiarmid, Eastern Air LineS;s w.
@. Beard, 0reyhoslHd Llnes:o w. 4,
Finn, rennsylvania I Central Air
Lines: william L.eJeneA Pepco, n
"a. YoumAns, TWA.:, ,W.,M ASfrow,
washington Gas Ei6fit Co... b. l.
Altman, W. III. q ~ Rotor Lines
and Henry g. Catucct. Western
Uninsa. s
Evening star., 1944-05-27
indiana Armor Plant
Will Close Today
By the Associated Press.

% thS AccoClAtcu 1I0o&s
CHICAGO, May 27.-The Gov
ernment-owned cast ar,nor plant at
Indiana Harbor. Ind, erected in
1912 at a cost Of approximately
$26, ,000, 900, will cease operations to-
day, Brig. Gen. Thomas s. Ham
mond, chief Of the Chicago ordnance
district, announced.
Gen. Hammond said the demand
for the type Of castings produced
BY the plant had been greatly re-
Tduced by "the ever-changing re-
quirements Of war" and eft Is now
possible to close the plant COM
pleteay.y sq sfrr,fF3 a.
Oliver Mount, vice president and
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF American
Steel Foundries, said the plant en-
ployed from 1900 to 1900 workers.