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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
EIETHODISTS PLAN
SEYMOUR MEETING
Borough to Send Delega-
ton to Afternoon and
Evening Sessions

Naugatuck, Jan. IA delegation
from the Naugatuck Methodist
church will attend the New I-aven
District meeting at the Seymour
Methodist church, Sunday after
noon and evening. Those planning
to go include: Mr.. and Mrs. Her
bert Johnson, Mrs. Edna Gladding,
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Roge's. Mr.. and
Mrs. William Titley. M and Mrs.
John Huff, and Mr.. and Mrs. T.
Bradley Longstaff. Speakers at
this meeting starting at 2:30 p. m.
include: Dadley o. Os:erheld. Esq,
Miss Dorothy Mcconnell, DR.. Ed
ward c. Perkins, Professor Liston
Pope, and Bishop Francis J. Nc
Cornell This a. Annual District
conference presided over by DR.. AL
bert II. Marion, district surerinten-
dent.
The church school board Of edu-
caticn will hold its regular meeting
at tie home Of Marshall Long, su-
perintendent, IS Dayton road, Mon
day at p. m.
Tax Payable Feb.
Mailing Of some of the old age
assistance tax bills is expected to
start shortly, Mrs. Theresa Wilcox,
assistant borough clerk, who is pre-
pairing the bills, announced today.
The tax Is payable Feb. /, and resi-
dents have until March to make
the payment. An extra dollar will
he aided after that date.
The tax must be paid at the Of
flee Of Tax Collector James F. Fitz-
gerald.
The number due is believed to be
close to $500 which we're due last
year, Mrs. Wilcox said. Although
many residents have entered the
service during the year, influx Of
persons from out Of town has caused
little change in the total, she ex-
planned
327 Calls In Month
Red Cross nursing calls last
month totaled 327. Miss Mary c..
Claffey reported today. There were
"a new patients and rs patients dis
missed.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
Time Quickly Dims Memory
Of Once Popular Officials
Out Easter Grieves at Absence of Former Asso-
ciates at Memorial Services = Eulogizes Life
Achievements of Late Mayor Scully,
Judges Slavin McGrath.

knew him; he was interested in
us, and he guided us upon many
occasions by his sound advice and
counsel.
Martin Scully and his able son,
Vincent, are both dead, but they
shall live in the memory of the
Out Easter for the rest of his
life.
And then We attended the serv-
ices as reminder of the death of
Judge Of Probate Dennis ]. Slavin
and Judge John F. McGrath only
a month ago. Judge Slavin was
dear to many; he handled thous-
ands of estates and advised and
counselled all of the people or
kin Of these estates. And his adj
vice was always willing, and help
full to those concerned. But we
looked about for many we used
to see coming in and out of the
probate court. not the ones who
were there only once in while,
and had work to go to, but others
who had the time, but who failed
to be present. We could never
forget the good heart Of JUICE
Slavin; we never wish to. We
want to remember him as he was,
the judge with the quick step in
his walk through the street. and
the friendly salutation he gave
each and all of us.
When the Mass was sung for
Judge McGrath, we expected
nearly every seat would be occu-
pied. But they were not, going
to again prove that while We are in
death, many of the friends OF
yesterday forget all about us. Per-
haps that is the proper thing to
do, but not to some of us who were
brought up to always cherish and
recall the good deeds Of man, even
after removal by death. Johnny
McGrath was prosecuting attor-
ney of the police court before he
was made judge. He was in a
position to perform many favorS.
And he so did when the ends OF
justice were met by little bit OF
action that did away with news
paper publicity, and everyone sat-
isfied with the judgment and idea
of the prosecutor or court. We
know personally of thousands OF
such favors, when the offense was
really minor, and when Judge Nc
Grath did not wish court record
entered against some young per-
son for a misdemeanor OF the
night before.
There is much in the under
standing of the human. No one
understood better than Johnny
McGrath. He seemed to get at
the bottom of all trouble, and
Strengthened matters out without
any flare OF trumpets, and with
out injustice to any one.
Good Judge McGrath. How we
miss him; how we miss his hearty
laugh, how we miss him at the
banquet table. a jovial and love-
able soul, endeared with heart
that has never been equaled, we
think, by any other judge we have
observed doing out or handling
minor cases.
If we could pray, as we should
have learned many years ago, we
would gladly beseech our Good
Lord to remember the ones We
have mentioned. in the Hereafter.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
Paper Collection
Dates Designated
Street Department Trucks to Work Three Days; Red
Men Install Officers Thursday

Officers of Natatuc tribe, Improv-
ed Order Of Red Men, were installed
Thursday night by Deputy Great
Sachem Edward Reisch of Cheshire
and staff.
Elective officers indicted were /:
Sachem Walter H. Painter; senior
sycamore, Walter Perkins; junior
sycamore, Norman w. Sears; prop
het, Howard Dick; chief of records.
Carl w. Thompson; keeper of wam-
pun, George N. French; collector Of
wampum. Mr.. Thompson; trustee,
WILTON T. Conroy.
Bond Sales Less
School Supt. Harold E. Chittenden
announced today sale of war stamps
and bonds in local public schools
this week totaled $1,123 40. This is
less than last weeks total but well
over the weekly average of about
$500.
Purchases In schools follow; Salem
1924; Central avenue. $245 80; Pros
pect street, $l85.35; high. $134.80;
Rubber avenue. $75.70; Oak street,
$64.40; Hop Brook, $62.40; Grove
street. $30.85.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
BY THE OUT EASTER

The Out Easter went to church
several times within the past
week. He went there to memorial
lie friends of day when the men
for whom the mass was celebrated,
were among the living, and with
whom he was personally acquaint-
ed. And while he was in church,
he thought of these men, and
outlined to himself the good and
kindly deeds and actions of these
persons when they were on earth,
and were able to talk and COM
municate with all of us. But they
are now dead, and we shall never
hear their voices again.
First we attended the service
to commemorate the first ami
versary of the late Mayor Vincent
A. Scully. The year has passed
quickly to many of us, and the
coming years, no doubt, will pass
along faster or until a day when
we ourselves will be no more.
Good Vincent Scully, keen OBJ
server, a thoughtful man. an hon.
est and industrious mayor, ard one
vitality interested in the success
of Waterbury and its people at
all times. The church was well
filled with relatives and some
friends, but not the many that
should have been there. Not only
did we think Of Vincent. but we
looked back to the days when his
fine father, the late Martin Scully,
was at the head of the city gov
eminent ard conducted the af-
fairs Of the city for period OF
four years. No better soul ever
lived than Martin Scully. We
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
Women Book Female BarriSter

ent Of schools, announces.
The talks are part Of the school
safety program. They relate not
only to auto safety but to safety in
homes and schools and are intended
to stress the need for exercising
constant care to avoid accidents. Mr..
Cowing viii complete his talks next
week.
Honor Roll
Borough Engineer Charles c. Cur
tisS has completed plans for the
erection of the honor roll.
The return of Warden Leo j. Bro
ply to approve the plans is awaited
before construction of the memorial
to veterans Of the present war will
start.
1t will be erected in a circular
fashion on the Green so that all
names can be plainly seen. The
quota has not yet been achieved
and further donations can be sent to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
PUPILS ENJOY
SAFETY TALKS
Clarence COwing, Commits
sion Supervisor, Visits
Borough Schools

Naugatuck, Jan. 14LClarence j
Cowing, field supervisor of the Con-
necticut Traffic Safety commission
has given talks on safety in most OF
the local grammar schools this week
Harold E. Chittenden, superintend-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
Mr.. DAILY or Edward q. Ldngenheld
New Class

A series Of prenatal classes spon-
sored by the Red Cross started to-
day at p. m. at the local chapter
house, Church street. Miss Mary
Claffey, Red Cross nurse, started tn
series. The course will give tnfor-
nation on care during the prenatal
period, the baby's layette, bathing
the infant and keeping him wei.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14

Mexican motion picture pre-
ducers are protesting that Argentine
studios are offering record salaries
to induce Mexican screen stars to &c
to Argentina and make pictures tina
will capture the South American
film world, and movie-world war
is threatened.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14

Naugatuck January IA. - The Naugatuck Woman's
Club will hold regular meeting next Monday afternoon in
Masonic Hall at o'clock This is the first meeting in the
New Year Nominating Committee will be named. A
new president first vcepresdent second vce-presdent
and registrar have to be selected this year.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
CAR RUNS INTO
POLICE PATROL

Naugatuck, ina. 14.-Edward A.
Ploss. 80. of "a Gates avenue, was
fined $50 by Judge Thomas Neary in
borough court this morning. He
was found guilty of evading re-
sponsibility. Last niglAt his ausc
struck q motor patrol as 1t was
rked on Bridge street. Union City
and occupied by Traffic Officer
George Smith and Patrolman John
I.anley. In court, they said Ploss
auto crashed into the left rear
fender and kept on going. He was
chased to Hillside avenue. The fen
der and bumper were considerably
damaged. police told Judge Neary.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
GAME CLUB PLANS
SUPPER THURSDAY

Naugatuck, Jan. l4.-Grain for
feed for birds will be provided by
the Naugatuck Fish and Game asso-
citation. Memoevs can secure II
from Walter Gesseck at time to be
announced. The club has made
final plans for its game supper next
Thursday night Hunting and fish
ing pictures wall be shown.
Officers were installed Wednes-
day night. They are: President
Fred Baker, first vice president. Ar
thur Frlendl second vice president
Roland Klobedanz; secretary, DR.
Joseph Star; treasurer, Joseph Va.
Inches.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14

Mrs. Donald Brennan Of Maple
street. who has been Ill with pneu.
mOnia for the past few weeks Is Inn
proving.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14
Frances Roth
OF New Haven
Monday Guest
Authority on Child Welfare and Juvenile Delinquency
First 1914 Speaker; Nominating Committee to Be
Named; Food and Bakery Sale to Be Conducted

Correspondent, Larry shepley-PhOne Nausasuck ss4s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-14

Robert M. Shepherd, chairman Of
the first aid and water safety COM
mittee, Naugatuck chapter, Ameri-
can Red Gross, announced today
registrations are now open for first
aid classes to start the first week
Ia February.
Residents Wishing 10 take the
courses are requested TO call the Red
Gross chapter houaA
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-27
SideIights on The News

T. story OF two field hospitals,
one German, the other American,
operating side by side in French
hospital at Draguignan is a curious
sidelight OF the German rout in
Southern France.
American doctors used German
equipment TO operate on L. 5.
wounded. On some occasions they
called ? non German surgical uu ses
10 assist In emergency operations.
At other times. the two STATS, each
of which shared a half of the hos
pital building, merely nodded po-
litely as they passed in the hall.
ways.
Use Nazi Equipment
In the press OF the Seventh
Armys lightning advance up the
Rhone Valley, an American field
hospital moved into thel French
hospital at Draguingnanl on the
road TO Lyons. II was ALREADY oc.
cupied by a German medical staff.
captured together with its pa
tients and what was declared TO be
an impressive outlay OF surgical
equipment.
Five American nurses were de-
tached from another hospital 10 fill
In until the original feminine COM
plement arrived They used Ger
man dressings, thermometers. nee
dies and those drugs whose names
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-27

they could read The dressings, OF
heavy linen-like texture, impress.
ed them most.
Veterans OF Tunisia, Sicily. Cas-.
sino and AnZio the nurses found
this brush with an enemy medical
team their most interesting exper-
fence overseas. They are First
Lieut.. Eleanor Gosline. Endicott.
y. Y; Second Lieutenants Grace
Beeder, Akron, o.; Frances Backer
Summit, y. j.. Marjorie Frosh, Co
lumbus, o.; and Myrtle Costello.
Washington, d. c.
Share Same Kitchen
1--WE got the biggest kick out OF
sharing the same Kitchen" said
Miss Gosline. American nurses
watched with interest when their
German counterparts conve ted
crushed field biscuits into Cruel
with boiling water.
The German nurses wore blue
and white uniforms and were de-
scribed as "big girls, all blondes
and pretty. Most of them had
long hair
Although functioning under the
immunity OF the Red Cross, the
stan was under guard and not rer-
mitted TO leave the hospital. Their
attitude was pleasant and unlike
that Of the Usual sullen one OF a
captured prisoner.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-27

easily recognize the road which
crossed the tracks almost at the
depot as Cross St.. grandmother
house was probably on Huron st.
although II might have been east
OF the depot, the cluster of red
brick buildings was the Normal
College where Pitkin's mother had
studied music and shown great
promise before her marriage, and
the rooted sidewalks or covered
sheds OF the main street which
were demolished by city council
action in 1899.
Great-aunt Nan Dickinson built
for herself wee cottage near the
tracks OF the Michigan Central
Railroad, where they bend gently
around low hill east of the sta
ton. Here the youthful Pitkin
earned his first wages by picking
Aunt Mans strawberries at one cent
box. Aunt Nan was a pioneer
woman who came in a covered wa.
gon from Connecticut to the pleas
ant Huron River Valley" and
somehow she bought a small farm
on a southern hill slope some two
miles from the village called Ypsi-
lanti."
Who In Ypsilanti has records OF
the pastorate OF Grandfather Pit;in
who was the Rev. Elnathan Atwater
Pitkin. former missionary out in
the white pines Of Michigan, then
colporteur riding his horse through
the wild and selling and giving
away tracts to cheer the pious and
warn the imp!ous, and finally pas
tor OF a church in Tpsilanti whi~h
retained him until he grew too old
20 preach? Author Pitkin says
his grandfather "beFan preaching
in 1892 and kept 1t ~ more or less
continuously until 1873" He does
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-27
Local Color
BY HUE HEMER


How the village OF Ypsilanti ap.
peared to boy Of four is interest.
ingly but briefly sketched by
Walter b. Pitkin in his recent book
"On My own. Pitkin Is best
known by the public from his best
seller Life Begins at Forty. He
was born in Ypsilanti February 8,
1878. His father was connected
with the Ypsilanti Commercial and.
according to the author, the father
had an interest in the paper His
brother Walter was also employed
in the job printing end OF the bust.
ness. The panic OF 1873 "flattened
out the business" and in 1880 when
Walter B. was two years old the
family moved to Detroit. At the
age of four the father. Caleb,
brought the boy to Ypsilanti on
business. On the screen OF the
child's memory we have the pic.
ture as recorded 60.odd years later:
81 see the slow curve OF the little
road up the hill TO my grandmoth-
er's house. The road crosses the
railroad tracks almost at the sta.
ton. The garden (grandmoth.
er's) sloped easily toward the rail-
way tracks but stopped midway.
eye the rooted sidewalks OF the
main street. The shade Is pleas
ant. We walk later around a hill
which, TO an adult, might have an
inperceptible rise, and look at a
cluster OF red brick buildings. Ny
father says something about my
mother having gone there =. but 1t
makes no sense"
From this childhood picture We
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-27
NORTH To Danger

: We're getting close to the trails
end"
Carefully, Colin laid the map in
place. IF I'm not back here by noon
tomorrow, come to my cabin and
wait for me until dark. If I'm not
back by then, go straight to Selkirk
and the mounties. Tell them every
thing. Tell them a plane is making
reconnaissance flights south of the
bay, and it's working with Jonathan
Dove"
"But Colin, what's Il meant"
Something | couldn't make my
self believe-somewhere up on the
bay the Nazis are getting ready to
strike America from the air."
Faced with thought too CHASTITY
to accept, they stood silent; then
Blair whispered, "Where are you
going? ?"
Colin raised the hood Of his parka,
and replied, after Dove"
Kneeling beside his toboggan,
Colin frightened the dogs harness
and slipped off their bells-the work
ahead could be done better without
a sound.
At the lakes edge, he stopped and
circled until he found the fresh ice
scratches that told Of Doves pass
ing straight north. With shout to
his dogs. he started in pursuit.
The wind felt warmer and. look
ing up, he saw that the stars were
gone. A bad sign. Warmer weather
might mean snow and the oblitera-
ton Of Doves tracks.
The dogs themselves caught tn.
scent and, with claws clicking on
the ice, they trotted steadily, lap
ping snow as they ran.
Still warmer. BY two o'clock,
Colin felt the touch Of wet snow
fakes on his cheek. Flashlight in
hand, he began running ahead Of
the dogs to urge them on. He saw
traces of blood where the crust had
cut the feet of Doves dogs. From
his toboggan he took FIVE sets of the
small canvas moccasins that trap
pers make for their dogs and, slip
ping them over the feet Of his ami
mails, tied them securely above the
ankle. while understandingly they
licked his hands.
BY four in the morning Colin
stopped and led his dogs a half mile
into clump of spruce. Here, with
snowshoe, he scraped away the
snow and, cutting down few hand
fuls of boughs, made camp for his
team. Five bushy tails wygged as
the dogs crowded around him ex-
pectantly, but he shook his head.
mo fish, old fellows" he apollo
gized. "It's no grub for all Of u.s."
Tying them securely, Colin made
his way back to Doves trail, and on
jutting point Of rocks took up his
vigil. II Dove returned the way he
had gone, he would pass there be-
fore dawn in order TO reach Lear
month under cover of dal kness. To
continue farther would be to risk
the chance of meeting him head on
and the quarry for this night was
not Jonathan Dove. Time for that
later.
The only hazard lay in Doves
discovering the tracks of Collins
toboggan. but this was negligible.
for Dove would be facing a strong,
snow-laden wind; and, following his
own tracks in the darkness, he
would st be likely to look, for signs
OF pursuit.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-10-27

him, a sound as Of dripping water,
ard sharply he knocked on the door.
Instantly the light went out.
Colin spoke in an undertone.
This is Colin Rae, DR.. Benedict.
Open the door,"
Dead silence. Again Colin spoke,
this time louder. an give you half
a minute to open that door-then
I'm coming through"
Only blackness and utter quiet.
Colin took a step back. Heavily his
shoulder struck the door, making
every board tremble, bringing down
from the rafters q shower of pow
derry dust
And the echoes Of that blow had
not died when the words came,
wait! Please wait"
A light clicked on, and slowly the
door swung open. Under the soli-
tary light DR.. Benedict's face had
aged ten years. The little room was
even more crowded than before.
The radio set still stood in the oppo-
site corner; dozens of ten-gallon
cans lined the farther wall, and on
them Colin read the words grain
alcohol'-the source Of smuggled
liquor TO the Crees?
One open crate held a huge air
plane camera, and all about it drums
Of film were stacked high. Three
trays filled with strong-smelling
liquids were on the table, and be-
side them photograph enlarger.
But Collins interest was centered
on a large map spread out on q
packing case. 1t had been made by
piecing together a number of pho
TO prints, and for a long time he
studied II with lowered head. Then
he raised his eyes to Benedict. and
spoke.
$50 you picked the one sure way
to break Blair's hearth"
The physicians face went gray.
Colin, L"
Savagely Rae cut him of. "we
haven't time for talk. Blair's COM
ing up here. don't want her to see
you the way you look now. Get down
to the hospital and stay there"
Benedict grasped Rae's arm.
Colin, I swear l didn't know Dove
was smuggling furs!"
Incredulously, Colie's eyes
searched Benedict's, then again he
satd, Get down to the hospitalw
The old mans hand frightened on
Collins sleeve. "But what can
do?"
"You can do one thing-tell no
one, no one at all, that I was here"
He pushed Blair's father toward
the door.
Alone, Colin fell TO studying the
map, until he heard Blair running
up the stairs.
Fathers down in the hospital"
she whispered.
81 know"
"How did you get in7" she asked,
but Colin was pointing TO the map.
what do you make of this7" he
asked her.
She needed only a second. ats q
mosaic map, made from an air
plane. Look-here's a shoreline.
You can see the curve Of the bank
and 1t was taken from high UP.
What's it mean, Colin?"
at means you're looking at de-
tail map Of the south shore of Hud-
son Bay. That crescent-shaped inlet
where those arrow marks are drawn
is the country east of the Beaver"
He pointed - the pile Of photo
graphs on the table. Look. There
must be dozens Of prints here-most
OF them conferred about that inlet.