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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
WILEY STUDENTS
 INVEST $1,O56
Lead Rival High Schools in Purchase of War
 Stamps During Week

Wilby high school led Crosby and Leavenworth this week with pur- chases of Sl,056.30 worth of war savings bonds and stamps bringing to s2l,8l335 the total sales since September. High room at Wilby this week was BIO with $757.10. One hundred per cent rooms were Miss Page. Miss Garren, Miss Hazen, Miss Clark, Miss Martin, Miss Eaton, Miss Powers. MT. Murnane, MT. Dowl- ing. Miss Healy, MT. Pronovost. Miss Goodwin, Miss Altieri, MT. Grady, Miss Moore, Miss Walsh, Miss Mar ron, MT. Membrino, Mis- McNif, Miss Schmidt, Miss Leeney, MT. Mambruno, MT. Craig, MT. Fitzpat- rick.
 Crosby purchases this week totaled S56O. 70, bringing the total since Sep tember to $31, ,73o7O. High rooms were Miss Cloudy with $53.75, and J. F. Roland with $52.25. One hun- dred per cent rooms were Miss Connor, Miss Goudy, Miss K. Hayes, Mir. Murphy, MT. Smith, MT. Tap pin, MT. Timberlake.
 Leavenworth purchases totaled $334.20. Room 219 was high with $21.0O followed by room POS with 1870. One hundred per cent rooms were MT. Dillon, Miss Hart, MT. De- Bonis, MT. Synott, Miss Connor, MT. Coleman, Mir Ramon, MT. Rieger, Miss Casey, Miss Mccarthy, Miss Gemmill, Miss Barry, Miss Bowes, Miss Shanahan, Miss Healey, Miss O'Brien, MT. Rourke, Mis- Mulcahy MT. Woodlock, Mir Meyers, Mr. Shanahan, J. Tangney, MT. Mac Niven, Miss Battle.
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The last four of the seven final ists for a Metropolitan Opera con- tract, via the Metropolitan Opera Presents" will be heard on the broadcast Sunday, March 25, at 5:30 D. m.. over Station WATR and the Blue Network.
 They are: Barara Troxell, soprano of Nazareth, Pa; Elizabeth Bollin- ger, soprano, of Lewiston, Idaho; Thomas Hayward, tenor of Kansas City, Mo-; and Robert Merrill, bari- tone, of New York, N. Y.
 Barbara Troxell intended to be a voice teacher and held a Graduate Assistanceship at Pennsylvania State College while she was getting her Master of Music Degree. At the insistence of her teacher, however, she auditioned successfully for a scholarship at Curtis Institute of Music and since her graduation in 1922 has made number of concert appearances, and has been soloist with the Desoff Choirs. Last sum- mer she sang with Sir Thomas Beechams Mozart Opera Festival in Mexico. @F@& WEI
 Elizabeth Bollinger, who for two
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24

into the outskirts of blazing Dan- zig and Gdynia after break through to the sea midway between the two Baltic ports and isolating the respective garrisons.
 Moscow dispatches said it ap- peared that the final battle to clear Gdynia and Danzig was under way. The Danzig garrison was hemmed into a pocket of 300 square miles and that at Gdynia, 75 square miles.
 Second Army troops wedged through to the Baltic between the two ports at zoppot, six miles northwest of Danzig. zoppot itself was captured, along with three mile stretch of the Baltic coast line.
 More than 4,O00 Germans were killed in the breakthrough. Soviet planes added to the enemy casual ties by sinking three warships, a cutter tand a large transport in attacks on evacuation vessels croWding the roadStead.
 Other German vessels were hlt and damaged. Moscow said,
 In upper SileSia. the Russians ad- vanced to the Moravian border on a 45-mile front and virtually iso- lated Leobschuetz, one of the main fortresses protecting the entrance to the Moravian gap through the Sudeten mountains to Prague and Vienna.
 Another column seized Wackenau, four miles east of ziegenhals, key to another pass through the Sude- tens to the Bohemian plain.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Prepare Your Donation For Paper Drive

Seeking to contact every home in the city, 15O volunteers manning 40 trucks will start out at 10 a. m. tomorrow morning to collect waste paper fin what is intended to be the largest single paper collection drive ever undertaken here.
 Street Superintendent Herbert Scott Smith will direct the activ1- ties of the days campaign which has a goal of a minimum of 100 tons of the vitaIIy needed scrap paper. Mir. Scott Smith, as in the past, has urged that all residents securely tie all bundles and place them out on the curb before cOl- lection time. All loose papers such as old envelpes, circulars, etc.. should be placed i'm cartons for easy handling.
 Supervising weighing of all bun- dies, at the state police scales, South Main street, will be William Dunlavey, city seaIer of weights and measures, and Albert Francis, sheriff. Red Cross canteen work CTS will supply coffee and dough- nuts for all volunteer collection crews.
 A volunteer group from the Bunker Hill section of the city will supervise the curb collection In that area, while the West Side Methoflist church will handle West Side collections.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
Four Contestants In
 Metropolitan Finals
Ambitious Opera Singers to Be Heard Over Station
 WATR, National HOOkup Tomorrow

years worked on the graveyard shift at Lockheed Aircraft in Los An geles, has received her musical edu- cation literally from coast to coast. After high school in Lewiston she went to Ward Belmont in Virginia to major in art but soon decided to concentrate on her voice. She continued her vocal studies at the University of Idaho and received her Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern Califor- mia. Last Summer she won the Hol- lywood Bowl contest for Young Artists and sang with the Los An- geles Philharmonic in the Bowl last August.
 Tenor Thomas Hayward has also done his bit for the war effort. Mustered out of the army in 1943, he came to New York to find out if his voice was as promising as hG friends told him. Before entering the army, he had sung with the Kansas City Philharmonic and been a staff artist on Station WDAF. But singing was incidental to his defense job, of making 50- caliber machine gun bullets. In New York, he has sung two seasons with the New York City Center Opera Company.
 Tn the last year Robert Merrill has become one of the busiest young baritone in the country, filling con- cert, opera and radio engagements A native New Yorker, Merrill has been studying voice for nine years In 1943 he began his radio net work career over NEG, singing on as many as four programs week He was soloist with Erno Rapee at Radio City Music Hall for nine con- secutive weeks and this season, in addition to concert tour which covered twenty states, he has made a dozen operatic appearances in the east.
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OBITUARY

She leaves cwo sons, Harry of Cam bridge, Mass, and Arthur of Mid- dlebury; her daughter, Mrs. Horn becker; two brothers, Herman Morse of Meriden and Eric Morse of Newington; one sister, Mrs. Anna Arnold of Merlden and four grand children.
 Mrs. Weir was a member of the Second Congregational church and Naomi chapter, Order of Eastern Star Funeral services will be held Monday at ? D. m. at the Alderson funeral home, 70 Central avenue, Dr. John c. Walker of the Second Congregational church, officiating. Burial will be in Walnut Grove cemetery, Meriden. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow from 3 to and to g p. m.
 WHEELER-William H. Wheeler, 89, retired Vermont and Connecti- cut newspaperman, and late state editor of the Waterbury American, died Thursday in Los Angeles, &C., cording to a recent announcement. Funeral service will be held in Los Angeles, with burial there.
 MT. Wheeler was born in New York state and came to Waterbury during the middle seventies. More than 30 years ago he moved to Vermont. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Martha Wheeler, and daugh- ter, Mrs. Frances Palmer, Red Cross field director, aboard a hos pital ship in the Pacific.
 JOHNSON-MrS. Rita Johnson, wife of Elmer M. Johnson of 237 Woodtic road, died yesterday after noon in Meriden hospital after a lingering illness. She was born in Waterbury, daughter of Bridget (DoWney) Sullivan and the late James J. Sullivan, and was grad uate of Sacred Heart grammar and high schools. Mrs. Johnson was en- ployed in the X-rod department and the Mill Production office of the Scovill Mfg. Go. She was a member of SS. Peter & Paul church.
 Besides her husband and mother. she leaves a daughter, Marita; a son, Andrew; four brothers, James J. and Daniel F. Sullivan, both of Waterbury, Cpl Arthur s. Sullivan, U. s. Army in Germany, and Joseph F. Sullivn, seaman 1c, U. s. Coast Guard stationed at Jersey City, N. J.. two sisters. Miss Mary Sullivan and Mrs. John L. Smith, both of this city; and several nieces and nepheWs.
 The funeral will be held from the Mulville funeral home. 270 West Main street, to SIS. Peter & Paul church for a solemn high Mass of requiem. time to be announced. Burial will be in new St. Joseph's cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home from 2 to 10 p. m. today and tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
FUNERALS

Funeral services for Gustave Hu- 20 Grandell, 40 Elizabeth St., will be held today at p. m. at the All derson Funeral Home, 70 Central Ave, Rev. Dr. John J. Snavely, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in new Pine Grove Cemetery
 The funeral of Mrs. Katherine Oxley, 36 Grandview Ave, widow of James w. Oxley was held from the home today at 8:30 to the Church of the Blessed Sacrament at g. Burial was in new St. Jo- seph's cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs. Margaret Lyons NIoynihan, wife of Thomas F. Moynihan, will be held Monday at 8:3O from the Bergin funeral home, 29O East Main St., to St. Francis XaXvier Church for a sol- emn high Mass of requiem at g a. m. Interment will be in the fam ily plot. new St. Josephs Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home today nd tomorrow alter noon and evening.
 Funeral services for Mrs. Eileen Bellmay, 2O6 Wadhams Ave, Tor rington, will be held today at | D. m. at the Clark Funeral Home 20 State St. Rev. Francis O. Ayres, rector of St. Johns Episcopal Church, will offlciate. Burial will be in new Pine Grove Cemetery.
 The funeral of Robert Mackle' 7e. Hitchcock Lake, will be held to- day at 3:30 p. I'll. at the Alderson Funeral Home, 70 Central avenue Rev. Dr. John Walker, officiating Burial will be in Riverside ceme- tery.
 Funeral services for Joseph Bay CT, IS 3 Alma St., former employe of the Waterbury Clock Co.,, will be held Monday at Il a. m, at the Alderson Funeral Home, 70 Gen. tral Ave-, Rev. Samuel A. Budde vicar of Christ Chapel, officiating Burial will be in old Pine Grove cemetery. Friends may call at th' funeral home today from ' to 9 D. m and tomorrow from 3 to 5 and to p. m.
 The funeral of Giovanni Mancin1 69, of 18 Henry street, will be hel' from the Maiorano funeral home 95 Willow street, Monday at g a m. to the Church of Our Lady o Lourdes for solemn high Mas of requiem at 9:45 a. m. Burial vii be in Calvary cemetery. Friends ma call at the funeral home today an Sunday from 2 to 10 p. m.
 Prayers will be held today a 1:3O D. m. at the Clark funers home. State street, for Mrs. Elf Roosa Leach, wife of Ellsworth ( Leach, RidgeWood avenue, Oakvill' followed by services at 2 p. m. 3 the Oakville Congregational church Rev. Oscar Locke, pastor, will of ficiate. Burial will be in Ever green cemetery, Watertown.
 The funeral of Mrs. Julia Ken naugh Whelan, wife of WilliaI Whelan, IT Maple avenue was hel from the Bergin funeral home, 2s East Main street today at 8:15 the Church of the Immaculate Con ception at 800. Burial was in Cal vary cemetery.
 The funeral of Mrs. Nellie Va Hoff HaineS, wife of Charles Haine of Orangeburg, N. Y. will be hel Monday at the Blenders funers home, Nyack, followed by burial 1 Oak Hill cemetery. that city.
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Continued from Page D sections. One man is in charge of each small section. Other men are in charge of larger sections.
 If anybody in the 10-house sec- tion doesn't cooperate or doesn't contribute to the war funds, the men in charge will"
 Here the priest drew a finger across his neck.
 Bishop Olano who lived 25 years on Guam, was taken to Tokyo in January, 1942. after protesting the Japanese military system of kill. ing Guamians without trial.
 After his internment in Tokyo the Spanish ambassador there ob- tained his release to a procuration house of the Jesuit Society in Tokyo There the bishop was under con- stant observation but was free tc go abroad in the city.
 The department stores were empty of goods, he said. All decorative metal had been removed from the city. Iron fences had disappeared.
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RIGHINI-Fulvio Righini, II, of 174 Mill street, died yesterday af- ternoon at St. Mary's hospital. He was born in Italy, and had resided in Waterbury for 38 years. He was a member of the Holy Name soci- ety of Our Lady of Lourdes church.
 Surviving is a daughter, Mrs. An thony Barbieri of this city. The funeral will be held Tuesday at 8 a. m. from the Maiorano funeral home, 95 Willow street, with a sol- emn high Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes' church at g. Burial will be in the family plot, Calvary ceme- tery. Friends may call at the fun eral home tomorrow and Monday from 2 to 10 p. m.
 WEIR-Mrs. Louisa Morse Weir, widow of Arthur Weir, died this morning at the home of her daugh- ter, Mrs. John Hornbecker of Kelly road, Middlebury. She was born Jan. 8, 1873, in Germany, and was a former resident of Waterbury.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
.LUDDY BROTHERS
 LOCATE BISHOP
Spend Visit With Most Rev. John O'Shea in
 China !; In Good Health

Rev. Francis M. O'Shea, perma- nent rector of the church of the Immaculate Conception, received good news yesterday from two for mer parishioners, S-Sgts. Peter and James Luddy.
 The twins, who are the sons Of Mrs. Elizabeth Luddy, 89 Willow street, who have been serving in the China theater for the past few months, informed Father OShea they had been in contact with his brother, Bishop John "A. O'Shea, DD. of the Vincentian order, whose whereabouts has not been known for some time.
 The Vincentian headquarters in this country recently informed Father O'Shea that they had learned this bishop had escaped capture by the Japanese, but could offer no further information con- corning the missionary priest.
 The letter of the Luddy twins to the parish priest said:
 "A missionary priest Sald Mass at our base one Sunday recently" wrote Peter Luddy, and when l asked him if he knew the where abouts of Bishop O'Shea, he told me he was some distance away. My brother, Jim, buddy of ours from Bridgeport and I made plans to see him, and we finally caught up to him in China. I could tell he was Bishop O'Shea before be- ing presented to him. He looks just like his brother, our pastor, Father O'Shea.
 we found the bishop in good health and out of danger. He has a fine sense of humor and proved great host. He made our visit one of the things I will always remember about China"
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 ket by early August at a slightly higher cost to housewives.
 The British statement declared that world food production and shipping facilities are stretched to the limit" yet "the demands keep on piling in"
 A spokesman explained that the hundred million figure. represents roughly the population of Euro pean and Pacific areas liberated by the Allies. He said that while gen eral responsibility" for feeding these people will fall on the Allies many will supply some of their own needs from domestic production.
 The British statement said the recent slash in lend-lease meat ship ments to Britain may result in a possible cut in the already small meat ration of the British people" "
 It said the ration now amounts to 23h cents worth of meat day per person. of which meat from the U. s. makes up 31s cents worth.
 The rest of the Britisher'S meat ration is obtained from these sources: Domestic production, 8 1-3 cents worth; South America, 2 1-2 cents; Canada 5-6 cents; and southern dominions, 1-3 cents.
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tar fire.
 On southern Luzon, the 125th combat regiment clear d the enemy from Cuenca and Mt. Macolod, southeast of Lake Tall, and pushed on to Dita, two miles northeast Of Cuenca. ,-..
 Mitchell medium bombers hit Cebu and Negros, adjoining Ameri- can-controlled Panay in the central Philippines, for the second straight day "wednesday. Ninety tons of bombs were dropped near Cebu city and on Negros. oo
 Liberators unloaded another 8O tons of explosives cn Formosa while Mitchells maintained the blockade of Japanese shipping through the China Sea. A seven-ship northbound convoy was intercepted off 1ndo-China Wednesday. Two Japanese destroy CTS. a minesweeper and two freight CTS in the convoy were sunk ana four of 10 intercepting planes shot down. One American plane was lost
 Other American bomb-rs on the same day sank or damaged SIX other freighters along the China | coast
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
HOSPITAL STAFF TO
 STUDY RATION PLAN

The plan to ration private duty nurses at Waterbury hospital was submitted to the ohspitals medical staff at its regular monthly meeting yesterday, Aida E. Greer, hospital superintendent announces.
 Miss Greer said that the plan was discussed by staff members and placed in the hands of a sub-com mittee for further study and rec- ommendat1On.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
DIVORCE ACTIONS
 FILED HERE TODAY

Divorce actions have been filed in superior court as follows:
 Helen Theresa Ogren Delaney of Watertown against William Edward Delaney of Waterbury; intolerable cruelty charged; married April Is, 1888 at New York City; petitioner seeks custody of minor child, and alimony and support allowances.
 Anna Chirir Palmieri of Ansonia against Ralph Palmieri of Derby; desertion since Aug. 31, 1888 claim ed; married Feb. l, 1925 at Ansonia.
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Neck Estate
 To Daughters
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Continued from Page D that firm, including good will of said business and all stock, mer- chandise and fixtures were valued at $14,515.
 Insurance benefits received from the Aetna Life Insurance Go. amount to $7,500, and another benefit re- ceived from the Order of Herman Sons amounted to $48287.
 Appraisers of the estate were George A. Baronian, realtor, and Attorney George Lynch. |,
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Bishop Olano spoke venomouslS of the Japanese execution Of Gen James H. Doolittle's flyers who raid ed Tokyo while he was there.
 When Doolittle came, the Japa- nese suffered their greatest humllia- ton. They never expected the Allies to come. They thought at first the planes were Japanese.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
OVERFLOW OF OIL
 CAUSE OF ALARM

Firemen responded last night to A minor fire caused by an overflow of oil, at the home of Mrs A. Marino, 151 Charles St.. last night. and to a false alarm at Tudor and Hillview avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-24
CARD OF THANKS
MASS

First anniversary Mass of requiem will be celebrat- ed Tuesday morning, at 7:S0 o'clock at the SS Peter and Paul Church, for the repose of the soul of the late Mary Fitzgerald.
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An outbreak of anthrax has hit Honduran cattle, which provide that nation with its third greatest export business.
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Food Problem Now Critical

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Politics
 -M- Passing

Considerable interest was evinced Ehr0ughout the city this past week fin the announcement of the state mens of 1914 budgetary operations by City Controller Cornelius F. hfaloney. In accordance with the method of determination of profit or less set up by Budget Director Arnold E. Furlong the 1914 figures did not attempt to reflect unex- pended balances in departmental appropriations. This is in accordance with good accounting principles and at the same time takes into conSid- eration whether or not the municip- ality obtained favorable or unfav- orable results from budget opera tionS. The report, as published showed that revenues exceeded ex- penditures by $297, 7,591.91, which is about the same figure as in the past several years. Increasing this figure, though, is the surplus the city used to finance the 1944 budget and which was not used throughout 1944. The combination of these two fig ures is obviously the true surplus for 1914. In addition Waterbury had an- other surplus which it had not used either to finance the 1914 budget or transferred into the reserve fund for capital and homecoming ex- penditures. This further increased the surplus or call 1t what you like
 Waterbury Day at the Legisla-
 ture this past week passed off
 without incident. The Finance
 Committee seemed to listen with
 interest to what local officials and
 taxpayers had to say about the
 several bills under consideration.
 Differences appeared solely on the
 sO-called assessors bill. As far as
 the bond bills are concerned it is
 reliably stated that all will be
 brought out with favorable reports.
 Although there was strenuous
 COP opposition to features of the
 assessors bill, the committee acted
 as # 1t might accede to Mayor
 John s. MOnagan's wishes in re-
 spect to 1t.
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Jops Lack
 War Fervor

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And still another Waterbury Day is scheduled for late April when the various pension bills are heaRd. These will probably produce the liveliest session for local of fici0ls as there are all sorts of opinions on what constitutes a good pension act. Considerable speculation has been heard about how the pSnsiOn commission will act on the proposed measures. Actuafly this commission no long, CT exists, but individual members have voiced opinions on pension needs and the bill they wrote and which will undoubtedly be the basis for the pension act that is fi- nally passed.
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90,O0O Reds Across Oder

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Police Entry Age Reduced

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Jops Flee
 Into Hills

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Another Waterbury Day is sched- uled for next Tuesday at Hartford before the Cities and Boroughs Committee. At this time officials will ask for number of technical charter changes which will make the charter and common practice by departments conform. For number of years audit reports have been pointed out variances between the practices in certain departments and the charter requirements The re- volving funds in the Park Depart ment are an example. The city will now ask that the establishment ana use of such funds not be contrary to charter by amending those sec- tionS which specifically forbid them.
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Planes Ruke Okinowo Isle

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