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The union times., 1944-05-06
Electricians Win Vacation Appeal

Paid vacations in wartime are even more necessary than in the more set tied days of peace, the National War Labor Board held this week.
 The WLB acted on an employers s appeal from ruling by a regional board. The Intl. Brotherhood of Elec- trical Workers had won its contention for a 2 week paid vacation for 55 members in the Fulton Iron Works at St. Louis, Mo-, in the regional board order, the management ap- pealed, claiming that the pressure of war work was too great to permit va cations.
The union times., 1944-05-06
Fine Of $5l5,OOO Paid By Mars Co.

KANSAS CITY-Marking a mile stone in the struggle to enforce price control, OPA collected $515,OOO from the Mars Candy Co., of Chicago at the end of lengthy suit in district court here. The decision gave OPA the largest payment ever collected in a price ceiling court case-and assured children of getting their nicke1s worth of candy again.
 The company, maker of Milky Way, Mars. Dr. l. O., Sniclers and For ever Yours, was accused of violating price ceilings by reducing the size of its candy bars while charging the same price. Both the eighth circuit court of appeals and the US. supreme court upheld the OPA's suit. Dam ages finally paid here give OPA more funds to increase enforcement else where.
The union times., 1944-05-06
Fr. Donnelly Named To Mediation Board

In shift of board members of the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration, the Rev. Joseph F. Don nelly, chaplain of Highland Heights, was appointed as alternate by Gov. Raymond E. Baldwin. Fr. Donnelly will fill the unexpired term of Bur ton H. Camp, who was made full member of the board following the recent resignation of Norman j.. Ware of Middletown.
 Fr. Donnelly, who is director of the Diocesan Labor Institute and hearing officer of the New England region panel of the War Labor Board, will serve as alternate until April 16, 1949.
The union times., 1944-05-06
Now They'll All Buy Silk
 Shirts, French Champagne

SHREVEPORT, La. = Through the good offices of the National War Labor Board the 1900 laundry work CTS of Shreveport are now guaran- teed a minimum wage of not less than 20c an hour.
 The 2Oc rate was unanimously af- frmed by the WLB which decided that 20c an hour was mot conflict ing with the wage stabi1ization pol icy of the WLB." The old rate was 18c minimum.
The union times., 1944-05-06
As We See It
 by THE STAFF

HERE'S another of those hOneys that come from trying to write headlines on suburban correspon- dence which appeared in the Wa- terbury Democrat:
 JOSEPH PROULX
 PROUD FATHER
 Son Born to Wife at Wa
 terbury hospital; Mrs.
 Clara Blakeslee Resigns r THANKS to the efforts of unions on the home front, returning sol diers will in nearly all cases come back to better jobs than they had when they departed. A typical in stance of this was cited this week by President Max Zaritsky of the A. F. of L. Hatters' Union in an "Open Letter to a SOldier.''
 He pointed out that in the hat trade during the past year, the union had secured higher wages, vacations with pay and other gains, and is now negotiating for health and accident insurance for all hat workers, the cost to be paid by the employers.
 "We want you to know, Zaritsky added, ''that when you come back from the service, you will find standards of employment and wages much better than when you left them."
 DESPERATE measures being taken to obtain hOusekeepers in a war-congested community were ex- emplified in the following classi- ed ad in the San Diego Gal Tribune-Sun:
 "A GOOD HOME for a good, fairly young, single employed woman who can cook for single man in trailer two rooms, two beds.''
 One answer was received. 1t was from man who wrote: Please supply me with names and addresses of all you turn down."
 ALL LOCAL unions will have until July Is to file income tax re- ports under the notorious Smith COnnally Law. Forms will be fur nished the 10000 locals affiliated with the A.F.L. This is official.
 AN ASSOCIATED Press story in the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Es- dniiner read:
 when .................... came home for the first time in four years, he also saw, for the first time, his five-weeks-old son, Amos IT,"
 UNION LEADERS are voicing confidence that the foes of labor have over-reached themselves fin the last few months and that pulp lie sentiment has taken a friendlier turn toward organized workers.
 The earlier barrage of propa- ganda to the effect that strikes have crippled the war program has
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The union times., 1944-05-06
Biz Oil Profits

Profits of Standard Oil of New Ter sey in 1943 were 50 per cent larger than in the previous year, report isued this week disclosed. This was after paying taxes and other charges and laying aside $6,OO0,OOO for post war contingencies"
The union times., 1944-05-06
KILCORE BILL ENDORSED

CHICAGO-The Chicago Fedora tion of Labor has indorsed the Xiii gore bill setting up an Office of War Mobilization & Adjustment, to pro- vide for efficient war management on the homefront and maintenance of production and employment in the postwar period.
The union times., 1944-05-06
Green Condemns
 ''War Profiteers"
Emasculation Of Price Control Bill Is Real Aim Of Gougers Who Seek To Wreck Act By
 Amendments, Says Labor Chief

AFL President William Green this week urged Congress to extend the Emergency Price Control tect consumers from prOteering and postwar
 Appearing before the Senate Committee Banking and Cur Mr. Green of postwar danger zone in which prices for the necessities of life may shoot yg the last world unless Government controls are enforced
The union times., 1944-05-06

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
PAPER INVENTORY
SURVEY STARTLING
031,O46 Pounds Believed
Idle in Waterbury Base
mentS, Attics

Urging the people of Waterbury
Ito bundle up their waste paper
and send 1t to war the executive
committee of the Victory Waste
Paper Campaign in a telegram re-
leased forwarded to The Democrat
today announced recent inventory
survey Of waste paper lying idle in
atticS and Easements in American
households and farms indicates
there are 931 ,046 pounds in Wa
terbury households.
Revealing $4,000 tons of this
waste paper remins uncollected in
the country the city's figures were
based on an average of 3S.5 pounds
per family here. The average house
hold in Waterbury. the survay re-
veals has l7.3 pounds of newspapers.
14.2 pounds Of magazines, 3.8 pounds
of bronw grakt paper and 80 pounds
of waste basket paper now idle and
uncollected.
Collections are increasing general
ly, the survey reveals, but demands
for waste paper are also increasing
due to urgent war needs. Surround
ing farms" the survey reveals" havx
approximately SIS pounds of waste
paper per family. These figures
prove that although waste paper is
number one critical war material
there is plenty still to be had and We
should maintain our regular collec-
ton schedules to get the million
tons needed this year for essential
and civilian needs.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
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esIAsLisHED sssS

When We Stort A Job I'VE Finish
live Know QuoIity In Clothes
Begins At $45 And Whot A Job
We Do In Mems Good Clothes At
SIS.
Hand done - hand teiIored to
the last stitch - Good oil wool
fabrics s. Good to the lost thTeod.
These ore speeioI $4S suits thot
do more then toe the quoIity mark
- The style ft Shape rstoinins
hond tailoring end good sppeor.
once 10 worked in to stoy the life
Of the suit.
All in ell - they're good suits -
ToiIOred to make good in every
way -oE we will.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
CHURCH COUNCIL
RENAMES HESS
Ruth Liebeck Retains Post
as Secretary; Leroy
FOOte New Treasurer

Frank E. Hess was renamed presi-
dent of the Waterbury Council of
Protestant Churches Monday eve
ming in st. Johns Episcopal church
parish house.
Rev. william c. Northcutt of
London, England was the principal
speaker. He stated more than 1000
churches have been destroyed or
damaged in England during this
war. He was INTRODUCED by Rev. David
P. Gaines, First Baptist Church
pastor.
Ruth Liebeck was reelected Coun-
Gil secretary. New officers are Rev.
Francis o. Ayres, vice-president and
Leroy w. Foote, treasurer.
Those elected by the council at
large to the board of directors in
clude the following church repre-
sentatives: Rev. John ]. Snavely,
DR.. Joseph o. Harvey, Rev. iona
than Reed, Rev. Robert A. Hey
denreich, Dr. John c. Walker, Rev.
E. Einar Kron, Edwin c. Northrop,
Rev. T. Lowry Sinclair, Levi Will
cox, Frederick r. Book, Mrs. John
H. Foster, Leslie H. Coley and
Rev. David P. Gaines.
Elected to the board of directors
from the community at large were
John A. Coe, Mrs. Nelson A. Pom
eroy, Mrs. John H. Goss, Herbert
S. Smith, Elton S. Wayland, Stew
ard D. Cook and Frederick S.
Chase.
Chairmen of committees elected
by the board of directors include
Rev. Alan M. Fairbank. young
peoples work; Rev. B. Kenneth
Anthony. weekday church school;
Arthur L. Purinton, adult educa-
ton. Rev. Daryl E. williams.
teachers training school. Rev. M.
Webb Wright, vacation Bible
schools; John c. Bradley, finance
committee and Rev. Francis O..
Ayres, appeals from the churches.
Members of the executive COM
mittee include the officers, Mr..
Bradley, Mr. Coe, Mr.. Gaines, Mr..
Sinclair and Mrs. Goss. Members
of the nominating committee were:
Herbert S. Smith, chairman, Mr..
Fairbank, Emily E. Merriman,
Adrian L. Mulloy and Thomas S.
Smith.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
IA Tragic Deaths
Mar Observance
nfHoiday In State
nv limited PreSs)

The four-day holiday period in
Connecticut claimed the lives of
IA persons thorugh violence, with
automobiles accounting for five of
the deaths.
Additionally, two were killed
in airplane accidents, three per-
sons drowned, there was one &C
cidental poisoning, two slayings
and a railroad fatality.
Early today, Vincent Latusek, 40,
WilImantic, allegedly confessed
shooting his wife, Glenora, 48, as
they sat In their parked automo-
bile because he suspected she had
been unfaithful. He was booked
on murder charge.
On Memorial day, two persons
were killed in motor accidnets.
Christobel E. Garfield, 20
months old, was crushed to death
under the wheels of a truck while
playing In a driveway at Water
town. Lucien Arlington, SO, Of
Oakville, driver, was held under
5000 bond pending a coroner's in
vestigation.
Philip Weisner, Jr., l6 Norwalk,
one of seven high school students
riding in a car operated by John
J. Farrell, Jr., 16, was killed when
the car colllded with another ma
chine. Weisner was pitched from
the car and landed in flower bed
Is feet away. Farrell was charged
with operating an automobile so
as to cause death. The driver
of the other car, Jerry Di Meg
lilo, 26, Norwalk, was charged with
reckless driving.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
|IIT1.I 1 1|II1.|
VII. sEIR|||'y'|1Ic EI1|

Six waterbury men have arrived
here on leaves from the Naval Sta
ton at Sampson, N. Y, where they
recently completed recruit training.
All holding the rating Of seaman,
second class, they are: william J.
Sweeney of 81 Rose street, Harvey j.
Roberts Of 80 WATERFOWL avenue,
John Blk of 81 Bonair avenue,
Roderick A. Macdonald Of 81 Birch
strete, Domenic F. Malaspil1a Of 512
Wilson strete, and Royal ]. Martin
Of 215 Chapman street.
Marine Sergeant Frank w. Ber-
nisky Of Pearl Lake road has been
awarded the Purple Heart at his
post in. the Pacific, according to
word received here. He is in Ma
rine division which took part in
recent action at Kwapalein atoll
in the Marshall Islands.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
FOUR DIVORCE
ACTIONS FILED
Lawrence AtchisOn of Mid
dIebury Among Plaintiffs
Recorded Today
EDWARD PACE

Lawrence Atchison, Jr., Of Middle
bury filed a divorce action against
Marion Senchuck Atchison of Brfs-
toll in superior court today, five days
after his wife withdrew divorce pro-
ceedings she had started. The case
is one of four divorce actions
brought by ment today.
The Middlebury plaintiff claims
his wife has been intolerably cruel
since the marriage which was per-
formed Aug. II, 1910 at Woodstock,
vt. He seeks custody of their minor
child.
Harold E. Strever of Waterbury
seeks a divorce from Lena Bishop
Strever of Winsted on the ground
of cruelty. The petitioner, who
seeks custody of three Of their four
minor children, claims his wife has
been cruel since the day OF mar
riage, Jan. 3, 1920.
Margaret Patasius Stocknow Of
Waterbury has been named de-
PENDANT in a divorce action insti-
tuted by Charles Stocknow of Wood
bury. The plaintiff claims his wife
deserted him Jan. Is, 194l. The
marriage was performed Oct. 30,
1910 at Bel Air, Md.
Thomas Montiero Of Waterbury
also makes charges of desertion in
his complaint against Justina Cruz
Montiero listed as formerly of Eng
lewood, N. ]. The couple married
April 10, 1923 at Atlantic City, N. j.,
and the husband claims he was de-
serted Sept. /, 1880.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31

The driver was operating the
car while tired and exhausted after
having worked consecutively for 10
hours without proper rest" the
plaintiff states In making charges
of negligence against the operator.
He claims the defendant was speed
ing, did not keep a proper lookout,
and gave no signal Of his approach.
The litigation papers, which were
drawn up by Attorney Alfred L.
Finklestein and served by Deputy
Sheriff Albert Francis, states the
plaintiff was walking on Freight
street to board a bus when he was
suddenly struck by the car and
thrown down to the highway.
A compound fracture Of the right
leg, multiple decorations and bruises
about the head, wrenching of the
back and right shoulder, and other
injuries about the body and limbs
are listed. The plaintiff points out
he was confined to a hospital until
last January 20. There will always
be deformity and bowling Of the
right leg and limp as result Of
the injury, the complaint states.
The plaintiff claims further that
he will never again be able to do the
kind of work he did before he was
injured, and when he does resume
employment he will have to take
Light work at wages greatly lower
than those he had been receiving.
His weekly earnings were listed at
$65.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
AIR RAID WARDEN
SYSTEM In FORCE

The aircraft-spotting tower atop
the city hall will be deserted from
now on following the Army order to
discontinue all such activities
throughout the country. AS re-
ported here Monday the order came
through to local headquarters and
was announced by Wallace J. 1nglis,
head Of the Waterbury system.
Since curtailment of the activities
of this form of defense some months
ago a ghost watch from 2 to 5
.. m. every Wednesday was the only
activity at the tower Mr.. Inghs
stated that no plans had been made
concerning the platform built atop
the city hall.
James ]. Curtin, chief air raid
warden. pointed out that this dis
continuance does not affect the air
raid warden, the warning district
setup, or alert system.
Egypt proposes to build a $685.
900 railway tunnel under the Suei
Canal after the war
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
Tired War Worker Named In $50, 900 Suit
|DEADLINE NEARS'
ON TAX PAYMENTS

Tax receipts amounting to about
80 per cent of the years anticipated
revenue may be collected by to-
morrow 1t was revealed by city tax
collector Humbert e. Mangini. To-
morrow night is the deadline for
payment Of the first half INSTALL
ment Of the individual taxpayer,
without interest accruing. The Sec
ond half is due in October.
No exact figures were available
today as to actual returns as a
considerable amount of this revenue
has been received through the mail
which as yet has been unrecorded.
City authorities anticipate at least
a revenue Of $5,2l6,400 for 1914 and
as Of a week or more ago $2,565, 900
had been collected Lines forming
at the tax window stoday were but
a continuation Of similar lines ap-
pearing for the past week. Many
Of these taxpayers, particularly in
these times make full payment on
their assessment and by so doing a
rebate of four percent per annum.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31

American technicians have veri-
fed the existence of bauxite ore in
eastern Venezuela.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31

First Lieutenant
Ellie E. Davenport, son Of Mr..
and Mrs. Everett Davenport Of
Middlebury, has been promoted to
first lieutenant at an Army Air
Borce base in England. 1t. Daven-
port received his pilot wings at
Blytheville, Orkansas, June 30,
1913.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31

Private Felix A. Cipriano of 10
Glenwood strete has completed a
course at the quartelmaster school
at Camp Lee, Va.
Sergeant Michael Stance of Oak
vile has completed course at the
gunnery school at Laredo Field,
Texas. He is the son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rocco Stance.
Sergeant Charles H. Cosgrove has
reported to Fort Mcdowell, Calf,
after spending furlough here. The
son of Mrs. Emma CoSgrove of TIC
Frost road, and the husband Of
the former Marguerite Orlando of
205 Plaza avenue. he is veteran
of invasions on the Marshall Islands.
Edward Nolan of 9l6 Baldwin
stTete has been promoted to corporal
at the Marine station at Cherry
Point, N. c.. where he is now serv-
ing as an instructor.
Corporal Russell E. Roberts of
Highland avenue extension is serv-
ing in Italy as a cook in an ord
nance company of an infantry di-
vision.
Private william Rogers of 1877
South Main street is serving with
a medical unit at Camp Van Dorm,
Miss. The son of Mrs. Alice Rogers,
he was employed by the American
Brass Co., before he entered the
Army about a year ago.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31

Private Felix A. Cipriano of 10
Glenwood strete has completed
course at the quarteimaster school
at Camp Lee, Va.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31
Charge Of Negligence
Made By Plaintiff In
Detailed Allegations
Driver Without Proper Rest Following 10 Continuous
Hours of Work Claims Victim; Latter Pain
fully Injured in Mishap

Blaming the fatigue of worker for the accident
which caused him extensive injuries Feice Forino Of
court against Margaret c. Fak and her husband Edward
H Fak both Of Waterbury The suit is based injuries
sustained when he struck by owned by the woman
defendant and operated by her husband last November
10 on Freight Street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-05-31

Morgan's famous Confederate
raiders had their camp paper too.
1t was published intermittently on
capture.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15
Civilians Flee Aachen
Athens Siezed
By Allies
Piraeus Also Falls
in Sea-Air Drive

ROME. Oct. IA GNS)-Athens.
the capital Of Greece and the
cradle of western culture, was
occupied today along with its
port OF Piraeus by an expedi-
tionary force of British and
Greek Seaborne and airborne
troops, thus ending a German
reign of terror and starvation
that lasted three and half years.
The final liberation of Athens.
portending imminent deliverance
of all Greece from the NaZi yoke.
was announced tonight in a spe-
cial Allied communique which
declared that American planes
and pilots played leading
part" in the stirring drama by
transporting Births airborne
troops 10 the scene.
The announcement was issued
several hours after regular
.communique had disclosed the
occupation Of Corfu Island.
The blue and white Greek flag
was hoisted over the Acropolis,
principal monument toSthe an.
cient glory that was Greece" as
the hungry and ragged people OF
the city surged out into the
streets and squares in tumultous
demonstrations of joyous welcome
TO their liberators.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15
A(Quit So(id|ite
In Youth S Death

SALINAS. Cal, Oct. II GNS)
Mrs. Frances Andrews, Carmel
Valley socialite, was found not
guilty late this afternoon of the
murder of Jay Lovett, 19-year-old
farm boy.
The jury of eight women and
four men deliberated about six
hours.
A packed courtroom in the
Monterey County courthouse of
Salinas heard the verdict with
mixed emotions as the jury fore
man uttered the words.
I'VE find the defendant not
guilty.,
Mrs. Andrews herself. who had
been accused of shooting the boy
TO death in a Jealous rage be-
cause of his attentions to an
other Carmel Valley woman. did
not so much as flicker an eyelaSh
at the verdict which set her free.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15
Regents Accept.
$4,000 for M

ANN ARBOR, Oct. 1.-the
University of Michigan board of
regents today accepted gifts total
ing SCI 900 and approved engineer
ing research contracts for post
war developments totaling $4,000
in its monthly meeting here today.
Largest of the gifts was SIT 500
from the w. K. Kellogg Founda-
ton for postgraduate dentistry
work. Others were $6,618 from
the estate of the late DR.. Andrew
p. Biddle of Detroit for post
graduate medicine and $1,000 for
an engineering scholarship fund
from the estate of the late DR.,
Mortimer K. Cooley, nationally
known engineering figure and for
mer head of the university's col
lege of engineering.
The engineering research con-
tract calls for low cost housing,
skyScraper construction, new type
meat cutters and slicers and new
and revolutionary methods" of
other types, university officials
said.
The engineering department
has done more than 100000
worth of research for military
purposes since Pearl Harbor, il
was pointed out.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15
Won Wieeand Says:
Won Weeand Says:
Candidates Symbols
OF Americas Ideals
BY KARL ii. Won WIEGAND

This election comes at most serious and
solemn moment in the history of America
1t calls for sober thought and reflection.
The vast majority of voters, influenced and
actuated by their emotions and feelings, their likes
and dislkes of this or that personality of face or
radio voice or by party allegiance see only two men
before them.
The thinking voter knows that those two are little
this time than the personifed symbols of powerful
political theological economic social and spiritual forces
ueashed by the great and that those forces
tending for the very soul of America
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15

Thirty years ago another Demo-
cratic president, Woodrow Wilson.
with the aid of crusaders and re-
formers, launched the movement
to "Americanize the world"
There was tor much impractical
idealism in the movement. The
grim realism and pracucalism of
an older world based on many
centuries of experience with hui
man nature, Machevilian intrigues
and the secret diplomacy of Eu-
rope which has so marked the
craftsmanship of the presen {
Democratic administration, de-
feated those idealistic aims. And
they will do so again.
The plan TO Americanize the
world boomeranged. Inste d.
America has been brought into
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15
Goering Warns Germany
Reich Is Fighting for Life

LONDON. Oct. IA INS)-
Reichmarshal Herman Goering
warned the German people today
that they are fighting for their
very existence.
Speaking at a newly-constructed
arms plant in central Germany.
according to the Berlin radio he
declared that Germany Is facing
the hardest test any country ever
had 10 undergo.
"If We pull through" he
added. "it will show for all time
that Germany cannot be ami
hilated."
Germany must fight on, Goering
emphasized.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-10-15
King Kidnaper's Husband
Seeks Attorney for Defense
Eleanor Smiths Confession. Page 81

Mrs. Ella Taylor of $3.50 Lovett,
mother-in-law of Mrs. Smith, said
today that "she still cannot be-
lieve" that her sons wife is a
kidnaper
"She II a highly intelligent
and educated girl" Mrs. Taylor
said. "She was never the type
who appeared to be concealing
anything, and could look you
directly In the eye. She never
displayed any peculiarities that
noticed or acted ueerly In my
presence.
II never discussed her pre-
vious life with her and was
surprised at her statement that
she IL the mother OF two chill
dren," Mrs. Taylor said.