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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-14

appeared on the point of bursting into tears as he struggled to find words to respond to the queries. At one point, the lawyer asked if Cos cia had slept last night, and the witness shook his bowed head.
 Early in today's testimony Coscia testified that Cyr had once threat ened to kill him. The incident fol- lowed remodeling work which Cos cia had done in his second floor apartment, he stated. An argument arose over some boards and at one time Coscia consulted Mrs. Cyr about them, he said.
 Coscia said that soon after he talked to Mrs Cyr her husband came down to the cellar and said, Don't talk to my wife. Someday I'll give you a good lesson. I'm going to kill you someday."
 Felt Afraid
 The witness said he felt afraid and went upstairs.
 win in the cellar, according to the
 The next trouble arose over testimony. Cyr wanted him to re- move his wine from the basement and told him, If find that wine in the cellar after 7:30 tomorrow morning, I will throw it out" &C., cording to Coscias testimony.
 The accused said he took the wine away that very night, after | talking with his wife.
 Another ecounter was over re- moval of rubbish in the back yard Coscia said He placed the date as May, 1943. At that time Cyr hit | him in the chin, he said, demon- strating to the court how Cyr al- Iegedly punched him. T felt scared" Coscia stated.
 The next trouble occurred over rabbits and manure which Cyr kept in the back yard, the accused stat ed. A health inspector testified yesterday in detail on the com- plaints about the yard, and Coscla today substantiated that testimony He said Cyr told him to mind his own business when he asked him tc listen to the health inspector. At another time, last July ol August, his soldier-nephew, Leon. ard Insogna, was in the yard witf him, when Cyr came over ant started trouble, the accused stated.
 Mind Goes Blank
 It was when he started to tell o this incident that his mind appar ently went blank, and he was un able to continue. Following the spe cial recess, he related the incident
 When the defense lawyer aske Coscia if he worked on Sept. 27, h hesitated for a long time and the asked if he could look at a calen dar to refresh his memory. Afte looking at the calendar, he replie that he worked on that day, tn day before the staying.
 Coscia identified the clothes h wore on the night of Sept. 27, an those he wore on the morning ( Sept. 28. He stated emphaticall that the shirt he put on Sept. had all of its buttons. When tE court took its lunch recess Coscl was examining the shirt to see there were any blood stains on
 The accused throughout his test
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-14
Obey Moral Low Soys Mccormack

Newton, Mass, June IA = (U.PD House Majority Leader John w.. Mccormack, D., Mass, says world peace is possible only if nations recognize and obey the moral law.
 Mccormack said at Boston Col leges 69th Commencement yester- day that:
 ''The law of any nation, treaties between nations, and any plan for permanent peace that does not con- form to the natural law cannot be of lasting nature. It will only be an armistice.
 Honorary degrees were awarded
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-14
Baldwin Renomes EorIe H. Seequr

Hartford, Conn, June 14.-(UP) Gov. Baldwin today re-appointed Hutton R. Kallaugher, Hartford, and Earle H. Seegur, Watertown, to the state housing authority for Interim terms because of failure of the general assembly to confirm their nomina tions.
 He made direct appointments of eight other office holders:
 James A. NeWlands, Hartford !; Jacob Dolid, Bridgeport, and Henry Mcdonald, Middletown, state chem Ets for two years.
 Willard B. Rogers, Manchester and Charles E. Smith, New Haven bo the state development commis- sion for five years.
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(COntinued from Page ) ter of the late James F., and Bes- sic Jane Dort) Breen. She was graduated from the New England Deaconness hospital. Boston, and was a member of the State Nurses Association. She was also member of St. Johns Episcopal church.
 Surviving are brother, John; and a sister, Mrs. Catherine E. Kirschbaum, botn of Waterbury.
 Funeral services will be held Sat- urday at Il a. m. at the Alderson Funeral Home, 70 Central avenue, Rev. Francis O. Ayres, rector of St. Johns Episcopal church, officiating. Burial will be in new Pine Grove cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow from to |9 ?. n
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Mccormack, Vice Admiral George D. Murray, Commander of the U. s. air arm in the Pacific and James J.. Hanley, superintendent of schools in Providence, R I.
 Lieutenant Commander Joseph T. O'Callahan, hero-chaplain of the U. s. Aircraft Carrier Franklin, receiv- ed the degree for Admiral Murray who personally will be awarded It Sunday at exercises in Hawaii.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-14
WICKARD APPROVED

Washington June 14-(UP)-The Senate Agriculture committee by a 11-to-6 vote today approved the nomination of Claude R. Wickard to be Rural identification Admins trator. The Senate is expected to act on the nomination tomorrow.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-14
ABERCORN ASSIGNING

Belfast June IA (UP)-The Duke of Windsor has been proposed un- officially fo rthe post of governor of Northern Ireland, 1t was learned today. The governorship will be- come vacant shortly when the 76- year-old Duke of Abercorn is slat- ed to resign.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-14

truck from Newar kto Greenwich where 45 cases reportedly were transferred to two private cars. The beer was said to have been located later in a garade owned by Ball. The arrest of the others followed questioning of other drivers.
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Women of Glasgow, Scotland, are now wearing smart Victory Hats"
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Berlin Seen As Chat Site

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Elsie Breen
 Auto Victim

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Brunei Fall Not Far Off

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Detroit evening times., 1945-02-25
Breast Tumors I'm Mice Are Inherited
Through the Mother as Shown by These
Genetic Diagrams, Where the Black Mice
Represent the Cancer Strain.

At Jackson Memorial Laboratories,
Bar Harbor, Maine, controlled breed
ing of mice and rats has now made
il possible, for the first time, TO sep
arate into different compartments the
two confusing factors OF heredity and
environment. II used to be that when
scientists gave cancer-cauSing chemi-
Gals TO mice they did not truly know
whether the resulting tumOrS were
really produced by the chemicals or
by some unknown heredity factor in
the ancestry of the mouse.
However today, certain strains of
mice have been bred, that, nine times
out of ten, develop cancer at a GER
tain age. And other strains almost
never develop a tumor.
Because of this selective breeding
through 30 generations of mice, can
Ger research now has a new kind of
experimental tool" in these animals
to test all manner of cancer-causing
and cancerpreventing chemicals. The
latter have not arrived, / must admit,
but when they do come from the
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-25

the foster mother definitely over
comes traits in their hcrcdity.
Finally, just 10 show how environ.
ment can overcome hcrcdity, there
were experiments in which cancer
free mice were nursed as babies by
a foster mother who came from the
cancer linked Strain-the kind that
later will develop cancer.
The baby mice, whose hcredity
forecast a cancerfree life, in this
case came down with cancer and the
cancer-causing factor was transmitted
in the mothers milk.
Please DO not misunderstood me-
Human mothers do not transmit
cancer TO their infants when They
nurse them. Nor should anyorGr /.
ply that, as in the mice eXperiu Its,
human babies should be transplanted,
before birth, TO foster mothers, even
if that were possible.
l cite these experiments only to
make clear that researchers now
prove how cancer inheritance can and
has been overcome.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-25

Ger we know, already, that it is not
inherited directly. And we can hope,
by scientific and medical studies, to
find a way TO overcome any latent
tendencies the individual may have
to contract the dread cancer.
Let me describe animal researches
which show the possibilities.
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-25
unnan planning.

Heredity does govern to a large
degree what and who and how you
are. But today we know that environ
ment-the kind of food you eat, the
place in which you live, and the op-
portunities you possess-all leave
profound marks on an individual.
In the case of the disease of can
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-25

The kind of a body
constitution you pos
Scss does govern
your chance of get
ting this disease
which, yearly, strikes
down more than 16O,-
600 Americans.
Yet cancer re-
search scientists are
beginning TO discover
ways of circumvent-
ing a predisposition
to cancer that may
be h a n d g d down
from f a I h er and
mother to son or
daughter.
These cancer ex-
perts cannot expert
ment with human
beings, but they have
proved in animals
like mice and rats it
is possible to over
come the traits of
herodity and cause,
or prevent, cancer as
they wi S h. Expert
ments along this
hopeful line conquer
the fatalistic think
ing which heredity
tends to produce in
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-25

Inen, lCO, we Know lIlal
mice Of the cancer strain
can be born non-Canccr-Is
II they are transplant D
a cancer..-ce mother M .>o
before birth. They were
conceived by a cancer
mother and, by inheritance,
ought TO develop the cancer
Gus growth which has been
bred into them.
But somehow, and in some
way not yet completely
understood, something hap
pens 10 them as they enter
the new environment OF the.
foster mother. They are
born cancer Tree.
Here a dread tendency 10
inherit cancer has been di.
rectly overcome.
In other experiments
along this same line sCien-
fists have been able 20 trans.
plant mice which have five
vertebrae 10 mothers that
possess six Vertebrdc and
have the babies born with
six-not five-units in their
spinal column. Here again
environment and the kind
Of nntritinn the mice get in
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-25
BY DIR. CLARENCE c. LITTLE

Manager UrectOr The American Oancer Society
FHRS cancer inherted?""
No question is asked more often in the
] thousands upon thousands of letters which
we have received at the American Cancer Society
in the last two decades.
The answer can be short, but not simple It is:
mo, cancer is not inherited in a direct sense
from your parents in the way you inherit brown
or blue eyes or blond, brunette or red hair"
We do know, however, that tendencies
Detroit evening times., 1945-02-25

Two Salger's
Etching Death
Takes "a Holiday" Sym.
bOliZed the Victories of Sci
enco Over Cancer by the X-Ray.
Now Medical Research Is Discovering
Ways TO Prevent the Disease That Yearly
Kills 100000 Americans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09

would indeed be burdensome upon industrial and individual taxpayers. We have an opportunity here in Waterbury. A great increase in business activity, which is expected to be maintained, should be bene- it to us and not threat if we are prepared to meet the challenge.
 A large part of the responsibility necessarily falls upon our industrial organization, including both labor and management. Certain duties fall to the municipal government. + isw ith these duties that I am necessarily most concerned. Our responsibility is to make Waterbury a better place in which to live and work.
 Physical Assets
 We must continue the improve ment of our physical assets. We must catch up on the deficiencies which have resulted from the de- mands of the war effort. We must continue to work for improvement of every municipal service, in par ticular, those which contribute to ASS3Coo4OAA a4A0 41CdAtAA. we 1AuoI protect our competitive position in transportation by accepting our re- sponsibility in regard to air travel facilities. We must, in brief, viz orouSly promote program which will make Waterbury a community in which people will really want to live and work and in which indus try can operate prof1tably. If we dc this, I believe that we need not fear the future.
 In what position do we find our- selves as We prepare to meet the challenge of the future? I think it is fair to say that long strides have been made toward establishing a firm basis for progress.
 Including this year. since Janu- ary, 1940, our total overall funded public debt has been reduced by $2,772,500. We have reduced the tax rate from 32A to 30 mills. We have placed our municipally owned water system on sound basis both by physical development and by improved business management. We have had operating surpluses for the past five years averaging about $220, 900. Our improved cash posi- tion has reduced our annual tenn rorary borrowing requirements in anticipation of tax collections by almost 506. We have accumu- lated and set aside in special re- serves for postwar construction the sum of $700, 900. We have given in tensive study to our financial struc- ture so that the new borrowing which was done in this period and which will be done in the future is
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calculated to avoid any undue bur- den on the taxpayer.
 Although these results are being achieved, we have not been satis- fled and we have recently taken important steps further to fortify the Soundness of our financial con- dition. One of the weaknesses of this city, weakness shared by most other communities, has been a fail- ure to modernize it's tax system to keep pace with shifting economic factors and changing values through the years. We have now in progress a complete revaluation of all tax able property in the community. We have likewise established a modern5zed and stream-lined as- sessors office so that the revaluation will be installed under an organiza- tion which can maintain the fair ness and equity of our tax assess ,nents year by year.
 It should be stated that our defi- ciencies in this respect have been no reflection on the individual eff forts of those trying to operate an out-dated system common to most Connecticut cities and still main- tained. We should realize, however, that our new departures have not only corrected deficiency but have placed Waterbury well in the fore front of communities throughout the country in taxing methods.
 Pension System
 It should be noted further that we have faced another problem which threatens the financial soundness of most communities. This administra- tion has approved legislation which will place its pension system on a sound and permanent basis. This legislation was passed by the legis- lature following study by a com- mission appointed by the legislature and independent of our administra- ton. This commission made an hon. est endeavor to establish fair and equitable benefits for municipal em- ployes and to secure the permanen- cy of these benefits and the financ- ial integrity of the city. This means the payment of an adequate annual contribution to cover the accumu- lating liability. Although this will result in a considerable immediate cost to the city I have fully and willingly endorsed the principle that the time to take out insurance is before the house burns down. We have, therefore, employed expert assistants to determine the amount necessary to be paid under this legi- station to effect its purpose. In this way, the taxpayer will be protected from unreasonable demands in the future, and the beneficiaries will be sure of the payments to which they are entitled.
 The improvement of our financial condition has been necessary pre- liminary in the launching of pro- gram of general progress which will keep Waterbury in its accustomed place as one of our leading indus trial communities. This is no time for snug complacency, but believe that it is a time for determined op- timiSm. If we move with foresight we can face the future with confi- dence.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09

It was a great day for the Tar zans. And it was quite a novelty for us to have an audience climb trees.
 Between acts I chatted with Capt. Mas Gilstrap and It. Hank Long, advisory editor of the Ger 7 man edition of Stars and Stripes. Everywhere you go in Europe you f1ndVguys reading one of the five editions of s and S and every where we find they've a lot of respect for it. Along with all the other tourists over here, this en- listed mans paper is our only contact with what's going on at home and in the rest of the world. It's 8 good contact. They do a fine job of reporting. The Ger man edition alone now printed on the presses of the once famous Frankfurter Zeitung, runs off 100000 copies for an edition and gets them all to the GIs the same day they're printed. Their of fees are over big brewery and they have to have a man standing by every morning to blow the suds off the first 300 copies. Had to send Hi1dy, our Daschund mas cot, back to the guys at Schwein- furt this morning. We were get ting very fond of each other but when I woke up she was having breakfast on my suitcase (she was crazy about cardboarO. I'd bet- ter halt now and get in line for a bath before the ring around the tub gets so thick there's no room for water. What grimy little we've got.
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TT SAYS HERE By BOB HOPE

ERLANGER, Germany, Aug. g. We're putting up here in a little random hotel that reminds me of my vaudeville days. There's only one bath in the whole place, but it's really a godsend because there's hot water and, that is a very rare phenomenon in Ger many. Everyone here really is ready for that treatment that you need when your best friends won't tell you, and Jerry, Jack, Roger, Mike, Cullen and a couple of char acters who just wandered in of the street are all trying to get in the tub at once.
 We left Bad Kissingen this morning after spending an extra fifteen minutes trying unsuccess- fully to get Olga, cute 2O-year- old Russian who works at a sani. tarium, to take some money for doing big stack of laundry for us. But she wouldn't touch it. She just kept saying, T do it for the fine artists" Guess it was a pretty smart idea at that, telling her our unit was the Don Cos sack chorus. She really did swell job with the laundry, though. But I still can't figure out how she could get her iron to scorch a picture of Stalin on all our shirts.
 We flew to Darmstadt for our first show which was just like some we'd done in the South Pacific. It was back in a huge forest and we went on for them in clearing for the 415th P-61 night fighter squadron, with guys hanging from trees all around us.
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Australian fighters ben1r1 4 strafed enemy troops a,i11 and gun positions along tho N4 coast of Borneo. They also guor1r ed Australian ground 0peratiSns 'f the Baiikpapan area, on the islonE E eastern side.
 Seventh Fleet and Australian A'4 Force planes, in widespread 1I= tacks in the East Indies, destroyed or damaged IS cargo craft in t'ae Makassar Straits and the Molncef Sea.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
ArmyJeeps Classified As Truck"
 CiviIion-Owned
 Military Cars Given
 New Stotus

The Army jeep now being manu- factured for civilian sale is classified as a truck and not as a passenger car, District Manager Frank V. Richo, of the Office of Defense Transportation reported today.
 In other words, unless buyers are eligible for a certificate to purchase new truck, they will be unable to buy one of the new civilian jeeps. The new civilian vehicle was classi- fled as truck because it is essen- tially a property carrying vehicle, MT. Richo explained.
 Allocation of the new vehicles will be limited to persons contributing directly or indirectly to the prescott tion of the war. Those eligible in- clude farmers, MT. Richo added.
 However, MT. Richo said, these restrictions do not apply to surplus military jeeps sold through the sur- plus property board.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
Training In Waves

Training In Waves ; Miss Mary E. Garrity left this morning at 8 o'clock to begin train ing for the WAVES at Hunter Col 1ege, New York City. Mary makes the fourth member of her family to' join the Navy. Tom and "Teck" are with the Navy in the Pacific and Eleanor is with the WAVES at In- dian Head, Md. Another brother Charles is with the Merchant Mar ines.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
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By HUGH CRUNPLER (TTnskAH Rrann VUap Cmruaer.0v,Nn n

lUniteu Press War COrresp0ndentl
 Manila, Aug. g - (UP) = Far Eastern Airforces planes, ranging throughout Asiatic waters, smash ed today at strained and dwindling enemy transportation lines after having destroyed or damaged 59 Japanese vessels in a 48-hour at tack.
 American aircraft, sweeping from Korea to Malaya on Sunday and Monday, shot up virtually every thing that moved on the calm wa ters below them.
 Sink Ships
 B-25 Medium Michell Bombers, concentrating on enemy traffic in the Straits between Korea and Jap an, sank one gunboat and four small freighters ranging from 200 to 1,200 tons. They left a 6,000-tonner listing badly. and damaged two small cargo ships and large sailing
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vessel.
 American Asiatic night patrol planes bombed installations ct Shanghai, while others of southern Korea hit industrial targets on Mankino Island.
 Seventh Fleet search planes wrecked a freighter transport, four river steamers, and il cargo ships of southern Indo- China.
 Along the Malay coast 12 freight CTS, with eight still in slipways, were destroyed or damaged.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
DETECTS CRACKED JARS

Schenectady, N. Y.- (UP IA photoelectric crack detector for in specting glass jars and bottles has been developed by the General Electric Co. The instrument auto matically singles out and rejects glass containers which contain mil mute cracks or surface irregular ities that might prevent airtight sealing and result in spoilge of the contents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
MONTANA RIJYs BONDS

Helena, Mont. (UP) - Montana men serving with the armed forces have purchased $647,000 worth of Evbonds during the seventh war loan which will be credited to the treasure states quota.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-08-09
Fife and Drum Corps Meet
 Planned

The Casper s. Davis Drum Corps met Tuesday evening in their club rooms in the rear of the post office. Plans are going forward for the Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps meet being held in the Sprague school gym on Saturday, August 18th from 3 o'clock in the afternoon until mid night. Invitations have ben sent to the various corps around the state to compete. There will be a parade, but the time and line of march will be announced at a later date. The bass drummer of the Corps, Charles Brickett. leaves for the army next Tuesday.
 Pvt. Joseph vignaii is spending . furlough at his home and has been visiting friends around, town.
 The weekly Bible Meeting will be held at Gospel hall at 8 o'clock to- morrow evening.