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The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20

Miss Jean McEvoy, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Joseph F. McEvoy of Norton Street, is among the 2l senior students at St. Josephs Col lege, West Hartford, who has been assigned for practice teaching in greater Hartford. Miss McEvoy will teach biology and general science in the Hartford High School
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
PALANGIO-MONGELLUzzO

Miss Elizabeth Palangio is to be married November g at g o'clock in the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes to Nicholas J. Mongelluzzo, son of MT. and Mrs. Anthony Mongelluzzo, Norton Street. She is the daughter of MT. and Mrs. Philip Palangio, Willow Street. MT. Mongelluzzo served for two years overseas with the U. s. Army.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
HILINSKI-LORDAN

MT. and Mrs. Anthony Hilinski, Wood Street, announce the coming marriage of their daughter, Henri etta, to James Jordan, son of Mrs. Bernard Jordan, Christian Road, Middlebury, and the late MT. Jor- dan. The wedding is scheduled for October 21 at A. M in St. Stanis- laus Kostka Church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
HAYFS-CTDET.A

Miss Jeanne Hayes, daughter of Mrs. Lena Valvano, Pinehurst Ave nue, will marry Paul Cidela, son of Mrs. Leo Terrend, Pleasant View Avenue, on October 26 at 8 A. M. at the Church of St. Ann.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
FAMIGLIETTI-D'ADDABBO

Miss Josephine Famiglietti, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Angelo Famlglietti, Howard Street, will De- come the bride of Andrew D'Ad- oaboo, East Main Street, on October 5 at A. M. in the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes. MT. D'Addabbo IS a veteran of approximately four and half years in the U. s. Ma rine Corps
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
CORNELL BRIDGE

COhNELL BRIDGE
 Winners in the Wednesday after noon tournament held under the direction of Mrs. John Moriarty of Linden Street were as follows:
 North and South, Mrs. Dominic Castalano and Miss Lee Garafolo, 9l; Mrs. Joseph Stankus and Mrs. Bruno Vallerand, 9O1a; east and west, Miss Ruby Goodrich and Mrs. Joseph Salndore, 95; Miss Miriam Herr and Mrs. Patrick Ciminero, 94. The official standing: Miss Margaret Bowling and Miss Kay Kane. 182; Miss Goodrich and Mrs. Sandore, 181; and Miss Herr and Mrs. Ciminero, TIT.
 Topscorers in the Wednesday evening tournament were: North and South, Mrs. Ralph Grain and Mrs. James Duncan, 115H; Mrs. James Abercrombie and Mrs. Eu- gene Doherty, 113; east and west, Mrs. Joseph Byrne and Mrs. Pat rick Wallace, 120; Mrs. Thomas Bane and Mrs. Homer Bernier, 115h. The official standing: Mrs. Louis Lougee and Mrs. Joseph Mc- Ardle, 210; Mrs. Joseph Gagain and Mrs. Leon Mitchell, POS; Mrs. Byrne and Mrs. Wallace tied with Mrs. E. J. Nelson and Mrs. Aaron Jacobson, POT.
 Winners in new series of Thurs day afternoon tournaments were: North and South, Mrs. Arthur Sul- nvan and Mrs. John Tynan, 36; East and West, Mrs. George Jack son and Mrs. Irene Miller, 32h.
 Winners in the Thursday even- ing tournament were North and South, MT. and Mrs. George Cor dette, 1261a; Miss Alice O'Neill and John Finley, 124h; East and West, Mrs. Thomas Oliver and Mrs. Mark Margiotta, 127; Mrs. William Tay- Tor and Mrs. Leo Ruggiero, 119. Official standing: MT. and Mrs. Cordette, 2521a; Louis Merrill and Mrs Frank Johnson, 2481s; Mrs. Ruggerio and Mrs Taylor, 241k; MT. and Mrs. Clifford Slater, tied with Mrs. Domenic Guerrero and Mrs. A. T. O'Brien, 2321z.
 Results on the Wednesday evening touAd11leuG ueIQ uLlQer the QlreC- tion of Mrs. William Sherman Smith at The Elton were as fol- lows: Section 1, Mrs. Joseph Kelley and Mrs. William Petitjean 64; John Sutherland and Leo Bettle, 63; section 2, north and south, Mrs. Theodore Breithaupt and Mrs. Ed ward Balthazar, 921a; Miss Frances Cassidy and Miss Grace Wolff, 75; east and west, Mir and Mrs. Robert Stratton, 9112; Mrs. Milton Carl son and Mrs. w. T. Abbott, 30. The standing: Section l, MT Sutherland and MT. Battle, 1311a Mrs Walter Norton and Miss Nancy Norton, 124; section 2, Mrs. Breithaupt and Miss Balthazar, 18612; Miss Mary Russell and George w. Russell, 165.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
Engagements
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of Miss Lydia A. DeMeo, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Vladimir DeMeo, Easton Avenue, to Francis x. Calo, son of MT. and Mrs. Rocco Calo, Ward Street. MT. Calo served with the U. s. Army in Europe.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
Contract Bridge
MANOR BRIDGE CLr-R

Topscorers in the Thursday af- ternoon tournament held under the olrection of Mrs. William Myers of Hlnsdale Avenue were as follows: Mrs. D. W. Rosebrugh, 46; Mrs. Nelson Squires and Mrs. Clarence Beyers, 42h; official standing, Mrs. Earl Pierson and Asa York, 97k; Mrs. Joseph Reilly, and Aaron Ja- cooson S014 Mrs. Joseph Reilly and Mrs. Joseph Barry, tied with Mrs. Gerard Marcil and Mrs. A. J. Drummond, 741k.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
SHEPARD-GROW

MT. and Mrs. Wilbur E. Shep- ard. Wilson Street, announce the coming marriage of their daugh- ter, Miss Dorothy Mae Shepard, to Howard Edwin Grow, son of MT. and Mrs. William Grow, Jackson, Ohio. The ceremony will be per formed Saturday, Sept. 28, at g A. M. in the Third Congregational Church. MT. Grow is a veteran of 30 months in the Navy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
WISNIEWSKI-GARVEY

Announcement has been made of the coming marriage of Miss Helen T. Wisniewski, daughter of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Wisniewski, Wood Street, to Joseph F. Garvey, son of Patrick Garvey, West Liberty Street, which is to take place October 4 in St. Paul's Methodist Church. MT. Garvey was discharged from the U. s. Army Air Force in February after three years spent in Europe, including one in Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
CEDDIA-DALOISIO

Miss Catherine Ceddia, daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. Matthew Ceddia, Hill Street, will become the bride of Charles Dalaisio, son of MT. and Mrs. James Daloisio, of Beech Street, Sept. 28, at g A. M. in St. Thomas Church.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-09-20
DeMEO-CALO
By William Ferguson

On October at 7:15 A. M., in St. Lucy's Church will be the marriage
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23

Spraying of DOT along the banks of the Jumma River at Del- hi, India. has reduced the number of mosquitoes so per cent in some places and completely destroyed all larvae Of the. area.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
'Snoremeter' Test
 Brings Death Near

Syracuse, Sicily, April 2S-(UP) --Goffredo Galluzzi is one of the best inventors in this town but he admitted today that his "snore- meter" would take a little more testing.
 Galluzzi invented the "snore- meter" for his wife whose hearty snores were keeping him awake nights. It resembled a dogs mug zle with a slender brass blade on the inside, which, activated by heavy breathing was supposed to ring an electric bell and wake up Mrs. Galluzzi.
 With his wife's approval Galluz- zi attached the device for a test and then retired to his laboratory to ponder more inventions. An hour later, surprised that the bell had not rung, Galluzd went to his wife's bedside to find her almost choked to death. He rushed her to the hospital where the surgeon extracted the brass blade from her throat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
 Novel Hand Almost ReoI
 MeehanIsm Works
 On Tension Law;
 Leaves Prints

New York, April 2S-(UP)-The Navy revealed 6 new artifical hand today. It's SO real that 1t leaves fingerprints on whatever 1t touches.
 This prosthetic hand, made of plastic, was on exhibit at the Na- tional Plastics Exposition. The hand is flesh-colored and so life- like that 1t would be difficult to distinguish 1t from its human counterpart at 6 little distance.
 We wish to make 1t clear that this hand is still in the developing stage" said It. Comdr. R. c. Delany of Kansas City, Mo, officer in charge ct the Naval Ordnance Laboratory, Silver Springs, MT. up until now none have been released either to Navy personnel or to the public"
 Operates on Tension
 A delicate mechanism fits inside the plastic form, working on the tension principle.
 When the wearer moves his shoulders, he causes the hand to open or close" Delany said. After while, he'll get to the point where he uses his shoulders without even thinking about It."
 Another Naval officer said that handles Marine had become so proficient that he could pick up paper clips from a table with his plastic fingers.
 Naval ordnance experts developed the hand in cooperation with the Naval Dental School at Bethesda, Md.
 One Problem Remains
 we made l2 metal shells of dif- ferent sizes," Delany explained. When @ patient comes in to be fitted with an artificial hand, the doctors select the shell which is closest to the size of his one good hand. Then they put a plastic solu- ton in the shell, close 1t tightly and dunk 1t into hot oil" Within @ few minutes the outside plastic surface has been formed Following this, the mechanism which gives the hand It's movement lis slipped inside the hand.
 we have one big problem" one officer said, land that's how to make our artificial hand get as dirty as It's mate. If we could do that, you'd never know the dif- ference"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
Striking to Listener
By FREDERICK 0. oTEENGAN

London, April 23 - (Up) - Thir- teen red-faced and elderly members of the Ancient Society of College Youths climbed the tower of St. Paul's. They shed their coats, looS- ened their ties and grasped l2 ropes, one of which needed two white. haired youths because 1t was hard to pull.
 The warden gave the word with Q grunt, and across London Town throufh ruin and unscarred build. ing alike reVerberated the Easter paean of Britain's central church.
 The mighty cathedral stood there in Q little park of grass and jellow jonquils, hardly clipped except for the ruined choir loft by the bombs which had wrecked block after block of buildings around 1t. The worship pers streamed in, wearing their well-hrushed and well-worn Sunday best in answer to the hronze. voiced call the college youths have rung each Easter apart from the war since 1887.
 The deans verger, a cheerful little man in black cassock, said he was sure the members of the ancient society would be delighted to have an American newspaperman observe their. artistry at close hand.
 Sight Unforgettable
 He summoned the sexton who led me through a maze of granite tun. nels and then up and up and still up the circular stone stairs until we were high above London. The sound of the bells so close made Q pleas. ant tingling on my skin.
 Do not move," the sexton said, "Sit quietly here in this chair, be- cause the slightest distraction might take the minds of the gentlemen of their work"
 The sight in the octagonal cham Der was one I shall never forget. Upon l2 stout oak platforms stood 12 youths, ranging in age to 06, deep in concentration, laved in sweat,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23

Stone played center on the Amherst football team. When Valance re- minded the Chief he was one of his former students, Stone gave his whimsical smile and said he had learned " a good deal about law since then" The three men left impressed with his vigor and drive"
 Rugged for 7S Years
 During his last days, no physical ailment impeded the rate at which Stone drove himself. This was shown by the five opinions he had prepared to read ct yesterdays ses- sion. They totaled nearly 15,000 words, the length of short novel. They were written during the courts recess of the last three weeks.
 Unusually rugged for a man of 73, Stone never so much as hinted when he might retire. He could have done so three years ago, at his full salary of $20,500 annually. To all queries, he replied, I'm doing business at the same old stand"
 Stone was not particularly friend- " to neWsmen. He never granted interviews for quotation or gave public statements on his birthday or other occasions. But he was con- cerned over the poor press" he sometimes felt the court was getting In recent years. He considered the courts decision more worthy of newspaper space than personal cleaVages among the justices.
 Rulings Were for Lawyers
 A Stickler for legal interpretation, Stone never discussed the courts decisions, before or after they were rendered. He privately express cd the view that Supreme Court rulings were for lawyers-not the public. Once written, 1t was up to lawyers to draw their own conclu. sions, and pass those on to the peo. pie consulted by them.
 Stone was not averse to an occa- sional mild oath. He sometimes Sur- prised even his own secretary, Miss Gertrude Jenkins, with the sharp ness of his views.
 Not so long ago the court was pre- pairing It's decision which upheld the Army's death sentence against Jap. anese General Yamashita. Stone was just beginning to dictate his opinion when Miss Jenkins inter. rupted to ask, what are you going to do with this man, anyway"
 Hang him, of course" Stone re- piled and went on dictating.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
Westbound Flight
 Times To Be Reduced

More than IF hours will be cut from westbound flight times be- tween Hartford and all major West Coast cities by United Air Lines when 1t inaugurates summer sched- uleS April 28. according to s. w. Nelson, district traffic and sales manager.
 Under speeded up operations United Mainliners will arrive in Chicago from 20 to 30 minutes ahead of present schedules, over an hour earlier at Denver and ap- proximately IF hours earlier on the Pacific Coast.
 United currently is operating three daily afternoon and evening flights from Hartford to Cleveland and Chicago, connecting there with 4-engined 44-passenger Mainliner 23O's and twin-engined Mainliners for the Pacific Northwest and Cali fornia
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
By RUTH GMEHNER

ny AbO A AA ANAVAA4AANA1A0
 United Press Stan CorrespOndent)
 Washington, April 23 - Tt is not the function of this court to disre- gard the will or Congress in the ex- erciSe of its constitutional power.
 Those were the last coherent words that Harlan Fiske Stone spoke from the Supreme Court bench as Chief Justice of the United States. A few minutes later, SeiE- lre clouded his mind and voice. Six hours later he was dead.
 No one in the courtroom guessed as Stone read that last opinion a biting dissent-that 1t marked the end of his 2l years on the Supreme Court. He faltered occasionally. There were long pauses but this was not unusual. The Chief" habitually lost his place.
 Stones death came as e distinct shock to all who saw him yesterday to his family, offlce stan and visitors. There had been not one break in the justices rather rigid routine.
 Day Began as Usual
 He arrived at his chambers in the stately marble court at the unfaling hour, between S:46 and 9 Q. m. He called in Court Marshal Thomas E. Waggaman for the customary court orders. They had Q pleasant little chat", and WaggaInan went about his duties, unaware of the fateful event the day held in store.-
 William R. Valance, 6 State De- partment official who studied law under Stone at Columbia University before World War I, was his last visitor. With two Peruvian attor- neys, he called on the Chief Justice only half an hour before the noon session.
 They talked of the days when
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
Striking to Listener
 London Resumes Easter Paens on Bronze Bells

pulling the ropes attached to the 100 pounds of musical bronze above them. The ringer of the big- gOst bell had his assistant on the floor to give him a hand when the pulling got the toughest.
 The grips on the ropes were red, white and blue plush, the attitudes of the college youths were deeply reverent, and the music of the bells was SO beautiful that I shut my eyes and decided l would make no attempt to describe 1t.
 SOCiety's History Recalled
 When finally after an hour this most impressive concert of any l have ever heard was finished, the l3 youths wiped their flushed faces, resumed their black craVats, put on their coats and gathered round to talk about Nie ancient society. I wish I had he space to describe them oil, but perhaps Henry Lang don, business man the other six days a week, will be typical. He was white of hair and stopped of shoulder, dignifled, kindly, and proud indeed of the golden bell he wore in his necxtie.
 For 47 gears Langdon has been Q member of the ancient society. l exclaimed at that.
 T am but a youth at the bells," he said seriously. Many of the ohers have been at 1t much longer"
 There are about 1000 members of the society. In 1887 they were all college youths, ringing London's first musical bells.
 But they all grew up, and their sons after them," Langdon said. T
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23

was . young. man, too, when I be- gan it."
 Offered Ringers Job
 The college youths then began talking excltedly about their art, ap, parently the most complicated method possible of making music They looked me over carefully aS q possible bell ringer and said that | I practiced seriously every day and developed the proper grace and rhythm, l might possibly become c third assistant butler of the ropes in i've years.
 Tt Is not 6 matter of strength" ," Langdon said, "but one of music and beat and skill. I am very grateful to help ring the bells of St. Paul's."
 The bell ringers then scurried down the stairs to hurry to their next church. They had five Easter concerts to ring, and theirs was 2 schedule that could not be broken. I scrambled down with them and shook their hands, and Langdon said If I were interested in c musical bell career he would be delighted to assist me. He was sincere, but no more sincere than I am when l say that I wish I could accept his oner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
JudeeAsks Mcfarland BeSpored
 JuFISt Wants
 Truman To Spare
 Killers LMe

Knoxville, Tenn. April 23 - (UP) Jupvenile Court Judge H. H. Web- ster who once sentenced Earl Me- Farland, sex killer, for stealing candy took the blame for his crime record today and asked President Truman to spare his life.
 Webster sent Mcfarland to his first place of confinement ten years ago when the young man, now in death row of the District of Colum. bia jail, was a boy in Knoxville,
 McFarland recently made a Sen- sational escape from the jail and was later caught here on informa- ton provided by his Guadalcanal Marine Corps buddy. He had been sentenced to die for the rape slay- ing of a government girl worker in Washington.
 T have no criticism of the court that tried this boy because I made the mistake in early life," the jurist wrote MT. Truman. Tt appears that failed this man whom I tried in his youth.
 T recognize the boy who is brave enough to join the Marines and offer his life as Q sacrifice for the freedom of his country is, in the words of the immortal Lincoln, far to previous to be sacrificed"
 He appealed to the president 'as a father, as judge of Q quarter of a century, to commute this boys sens tence from death to live iInpFison- mert."
 Webster also wrote Sen. F. D. N. Mckellar, D., Ten, and Rep. John Jennings, Jr., D., Tenn, asking them 70 intervene on behalf Of McWar. land.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
Capitalist Hit By yMosozine
 Russian Monthly
 Says Employment
 In .. $. Critical

Moscow, April 2c-(UP) --Smena, monthly Illustrated magazine pulp lished by Pravda, ridieuled the oap- italist system today in a double page spread on unemployment in the United States which said that vic. tory and peace had brought Sorrow and privation to millions of people in America"
 Smena appears in the same for mat as life, and the story was ac- companied by two large pictures, each showing man sitting in des- pair.
 Speaking of the employment prob- lem in the United States, the mag azlne said the situation of thou sands and thousands of soldiers of yesterday has become tragic. After the misfortunes and experiments of war they could not even be certain that they would have jobs on their own soil"
 Cite Tnvalids
 War invalids," according to the magazine, "are in particularly dif- ficult condition. Eeighty- eight per- cent of war invalids cannot find work. Employers are trying not to employ men who partially lost their working capacities.
 "The Army of unemployed is in- creasing al lthe time. In January, 1946, Minister of Commerce Wall lace said the number of unemployed was 5,000,0OO.
 "The number of people who can't find jobs and who are doomed to in- activity and pitiful existence is growing in the United States. The Army of unemployed is increasing by tens and hundreds of thousands" the magazine continued.
 The article was signed by M. Les kov. Referring to barrons, "the or- gan of American bankers" LeSkov said the publication "cynically" termed the concept of mans right to work as "one of the most absurd Ideas of our time."
 Bankers Played
 The same bankers and indus trialists who are throwing thousands Of men and women into the street. declare that real equality and personal freedom exists in a cap- italist society,"" Smena said.
 Ten years ago when talking with American journalist Roy Howard" the article said, "conrade Stalin said tt's difficult for me to imagine what personal freedom an unem- ployed mn may have when he walks hungry and doesn't find a job. Real freedom exists only where there s no unemployment e poverty l"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23
Mental Test Set
 For Aged Slayer

Argyle, N. F.. April 23-(UP)-- A mental test was planned today for Giles Davis n, who police said confessed he killed his 7e-year-old wife by crushing her skull with an axe.
 Davis said his wife, Bertha, had threatened to leave him, and that they exchanged blows with e piece of firewood. He said he hit her with the axe in self defense.
 Davis was booked on a charge of first degree manslaughteF.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1946-04-23

SPEAKING OF FIFTH AVENUE
 Fifth Avenue, the teeming boule- ward which runs the gantlet from l south to 2340 north in the heart of the worlds most important Treasure Island, Is the Avenue FOF the Americas. Tn 1918, during th' first World War, 1t was for a time called the Avenue of the Allies which fooled nobody. With a past as Rlamorous as Camille's, 8 pres ent as active as the dollars, ttS future is as bright as radar'sl
 Come Sunday, the city fathers oi the good old days shut the Avenue off so that Sabbath worshipperS could have absolute quiet. Nov it's almost necessary to rope off the glittering store windows so that the Strollers can't have free reinl
 The Avenue is an international hodgepodge of everything: Toy fac tories, two art museums tthe Met ropolitan and the Frick), famous cathedrals, churches and syna- Rogues, the Empire State (the worlds highest, widest and hand somest), architects and stock broK- CTS, haberdashers, interior decora- tors, women's apparel specialists, Radio City (which gives natives their largest Christmas tree and an outdoor ice skating rink), a party favor house, swank restaurants banks. and mansions filled with ghosts.
 The Public Library, designed by Carrere and Hastinugs, cost almost nine million dollars. Its Winter warm and Summer-cool recesses house scholars, eccentrics, the poor the young and the lonely. Just behind, in Bryant Park, there are flocks of pigeons whcih have never read Q book, and bench-holders who have never done the same, Those six figures above the library por- tals represent Poetry, History, Dra- ma, Romance, Religion and Phi losophy.
 The first Fifth Avenue Hotel six stories high tor can you stand it?)--Was opened in 1859. It tea- tured a novelty, New York's first vertical railway. Whats tnatP Why 0 passenger elevator-you dope Elevators along Fifth these days are such elegant affairs that operators are likely to look down their shafts at ordinary pilots of the Air Forces.
 Washington Square Arch was the hub of the hubbub of the Avenue in the old times. At first 1t was set up temporarily with money fur. nished by William Rhinelander Stewart. MT. Stewards neighbors liked 1t SO well that e popular sub- scription of Sl20,000 mare possible the familiar one designed by Stan ford White.
 The famous old Vanderbilt man. slon-movie firms bought hunks of the furnishings ct auction recent ly-was built on ground first oc- cupied by Isaiah Keyser's frame house and vegetable garden. He sold his produce to Avenue residents, also peddled ice and cattle.
 Fifth Avenue divides the atmo- sphere of Manhattan dining places into east and west the way no geography book will tell you, and never the sheep and goats shall meet On one side the patron finds the hot neon of Fifty-Second Street