•M

About Town./

M •^y B uahn ill A uxil­iary, U. S. W. V, V lll »lv* lt« a n ­nual chlldren’a p a r ty tom orrow evening a t 7:«» a t th a A m y and N avy cluW amaa T here will be a tree and It U expected S an ta C lM i will m ake a ylalt. The m em bera of W ard Cheney C am p w ill be gueatf. Mra. Gladya RIdolphi and Mra. M ildred Ted- ford are In charge.

The annual reunion of niera- bera and alum ni of Sock & Biia- k in D ram atic club will tak e place Sunday afternoon, Decem ber 26, a t fou r o’clock a t C enter Church houae. A abort play, "H appy Journey ,” will be preaented by preaen t m em bera of the club. Re- freahm enta will be aerved and a p leaaant aocial tim e enjoyed, Miaa Connie K ehler and Miaa Ruthniar>- W lrtalla a re in charge of arrange- menta.

C enter church CYP elub w ill hnve a C hiiatm aa p a rty tom orrow evening a t . eight o’clock. The m em bera are rem inded to bring g ifta.

T he P rim ary D epartm ent of the Second C ongregational church achool will have Ita annual Chriat- m aa jia rty a t the church tom or­row afternoon a t two o’clock.

Board Favors . Salary Boost

School Hcud Explains DifTiciilty in Securing Teachers for Svsicni.

i i i Wc f tu ir>

I Siiptthe Board of Kdiicatiob laat night Ibat he waa having much trouble

Mi.ia Mae C. Sloan, A.M.M. .Ird ; ---------riaaa, who nearly a year ag o , niinlmum aalary paid tojoined the "W avea," ia home I teachera in M anchealer w a s ralaed furlough from Peru, Ind. She i b i ,^^( $i.joO to *1,200th e daugh ter of Mr. * ''d ' viith the coat of living bonua ofJam ea Sloan of 474 N orth Main i Hdded. Thia waaatreet. and locelved 1 order to aecure teachera.a t . T eachers College, Cedar haim j, A rthu r H, llling reported to Iow a, and Oklahoma A g ricu ltu ra l' ‘ and M echanical College, S tillw a­ter. She Waa form erlyea .sergeant: w ith the local Ambulance T ran s­portation ' unit.

I Temple C hapter, O. K. S., will! m eet tom orrow evening in the .Ma- aonic Temple. A C hriatniaa p a rty , will follow the buaineaa aeaaion i uiKlor arrangem enta by the paat ' m atrona. Meiiibera are rem inded ' to bring a ten-cent artic le for the g ift exchange.

vacanclea in hia a taff, ba- c a u a r o th e r toWna w ere bidding m ore th an waa paid In Manchea- te r.

Satariew 'tfl O ther Towna ’The sa la ry schedule adopted

la s t Septem ber rtf .*1,100 for be­ginners w as found to be much low er than w as pain , in o th er places and he had b e e n 'w a b le to secure six teachera because of this. He pointed ou t th a t In W est H artfo rd the sa la ry .la *1.&60, E as t H a rtfo rd *l,.'’i00, B ris­tol *1,400 and Vernon *1,400. In some of the sm all towna in tjie eastern p a rt of the s ta te the pay w as also *1,400.

U nder such conditions, he said M anche.ater waa in no poaition to bid fo r a good teacher.

He had prepared a Hat of sa l­

a ry changes an d i t ahowgfl th a t the to ta l coat fo r th e ^ncreaae would am oun t to *1,625 more for the en tire year.

The board v6ted to adopt th e ' schedule and as a resu lt two new teachers w ere recom rrvnded by M r .. llling and appointed by the board.

New T eachersMiaa V irginia B radley of W il­

ton. w hof g rad u a ted ta.st week from the D anbury Teachera Col­

le g e waa engaged to teach the see- V»nd grade a t the H ighland P a rk school.

Mlks F rances Holiek, at jMih bury, alap ' a laa t W eek's g rad iia le of the D anbury T eachers . College will teach the ifoiirth gratae In the Uincoln school^ B oth will s ta r t w ith the *',200Wala_r^ which, w ith

Group C of C enter church wom­en, Mra E lm er Wedeii, leader, will hold a C hrlatm ea p a rly th is evening in the parlo r of C enter church house. M em bers a re le- j i , , , .laiiies -Muiisie, Sr., of , w minded to bring gift.* for the has received a let- «grab-bag . | te r from a f . S. soldier in Iran , |W

. . Per.sm. acknow ledging the receip t iThe B ritlsh-A nierican d iih is | of „ cppy of the praye Mrs. .Mun-j

p lanning a good tim e for children had printed in quan tity .sonic i of m em bera up to 11) years, a t Ihe 1 m onths ago, and which has been ^ annual C hristm as p a rty a t the j w idely dlatributed to m others. The g clubhouse on Maple stree t T hurs- poem en titled “A M other’s P ray e r j. day evening a t 7:30, sharp. Those i for H er Soldier Son." w-aa also | a w ho have not a lready handed in | prin ted in th is paper in Septernber, :

children expected, and has reached many hundreds |«

H A L E ’S !

th e IS p e r cen t b o n ^ , will g ive them each *1,380.

Mias SwplKas. o f S ton ing ton , who waa engaged 'a montih ago fo r the th ird g rade Irt the M olllater a tree t achool while engagecket the old r»te. will also be given Itoe in­creased a a la ^ ’. She s ta r ts \n e x t week as will thi* tw o who w ereV n- gaged. laat/.lflght.

^ r d to <tel Koonia A n i^her reason w hy it ia hard tri

get.-teachera to com e to Manchea- teWls becau.se of the trouble in g e t

liing room s and also because It waa rum ored th a t M anchester w as an expensive place to live.

Mr. llling waa given au th o rity to engage o th er teachers as needed when he has the opportun ity Therg are now th ree vacancies and laat n igh t Ihe board voted a leave

of alwence to tw o o th e r teachera fo r the re inainder of the year.

YMCA Notes

Manchester Date Book

T onight6-.15— D inner, R otary.6:30-8:30 p. m .—B asketball—

Boys’ clubs. Club m eetings. 9:00-11:00 p. m.—B adm inton.

.F ire Tbla M orning

C om pany No. 2 of the S.M.F.D. w as called a t 7:30 th is m orning fo r a '^ h im n ey fire in the A tlan tic gasolinb, s ta tio n a t E a s t C enter and Foatb r s tre e t. There waa little dam age asH he fire w as soon ex tin ­guished.

-i

T oidgMA nnual C h ris tm as p a rty fo r

Jun io rs of W om en’s B enefit A sso­ciation a t Odd Fellow s hgill a t 7.

T om orrow C hildren’! p a rty , M ary Bushnell >

Cheney A uxiliary U. 8. W. V. a t A rm y and N avy clubhouse a t T:80.

T hursday , Doc. tS B ritish-A tnerican club C hfis t-

roas p a r ty fo r children a t the club­house a t 7:30.

Sunday, Dec. t6A nnual reunion m em bers alum ni,

Sock and B uskin D ram atic club a t C enter church house a t 4 p. m.

F o r Hm M onth of N ovem her. IV4S

8,537 ‘M em her of th e A udit

B ureau of C ircu latioaa

m tr hThe Wiiatlier

Forecast oi U. S. t t e a u ie r Bnraau

F a ir ton igh t and T hu rsday ; coa- slderably colder to n ig h t; loweal tem pera tu rea aero to 16 degreea; T hursday colder, increasing winds.

M anche»ter^A CUy o f Villoge Charm

(Claastfled A dvertlaing on Paget IS)

I Gift Suggestions for Late ShoppersI

Visit by Marshall Stirs Battle Line;

Jap Fliers Active

IlfllBMIWihHWWIWWMMlWiBWWWWWIWI

nam es of the should do so th is evening a t the la te s t, a t the club , o r through T hom as Conn.

Llnne Lo<lge, No.- 72, K nights of Py th ias, will hold its regu lar m eeting tom orrow evening a t 8 in O range hall. Election of offi­cers fo r th e ensuing term will take place a t th is m eeting.

The L u ther L eague of Em anuel L utheran church will hold a m eet­ing ton igh t a t eigh t o’clock. Everyoi^e planning to a tten d Is asked to bring a 26 cent g if t of an y kind.

The Soroptlm lst Club which la s t y ea r sen t g ifts to children of B rita in and the N ew ington homg, will th is y ear rem em ber inm ates S t th e Town F arm and local con­valescent homes. Miss Lela W eb­s te r and Miss D oris R lvenburg are in charge.

of bova in the service w h o are hav­ing ’The H erald sent to them .

C adet E lm er T hrall, son of Mr. and Mra. F red T hrall of E ast Mid- ule Turnpike, who has been riweiv- ing his basic tra in ing a t Shaw Field, has' been tran sfe rred to the M arianna, Fla., A rm y A ir Fieid fo r advancing tra in ing , and hopes to receive hia w ings in February .

S Si’ooiurs, Kfjj. S5 .98 . . . . . . . . . . .X Mother Loose Pieliires, Rejfi $1 .00 Jt l.’yO Rags of B Io ck s^ R ^ . $1.(M) . . Reg. $ 2 .6 9 Shooting Rifles...............

* Arteruft Paint Sets, large size . . . . .

$ 1 . . ’> 0

. . 7!5c

. . 89e $2.00

.$ 1 .1 9

Range and Fuel I OIL

TICKET PRINTING METERS

Meter prints amount of de­livery op your slip for your protection.

L. T. Wood Co.51 Bissell St. Tel. 4496

P a rty Arran*:4‘tlF o r NewIvwetlsijI I

Mra. C arl KJellson and her daugh ter, Mrs. A lbert Robinson of Ridge s tree t, en terta ined laat n igh t w ith a p a rty fo r Mr. and Mra. Carl W. Johnson, who w ere m arried W ednesday, Decem ber 15, a t the S torra C ongregational church. Mr. Johnson is a grandson of Mr.a. KJellson. and the bride waa the fo rm er Mias B arbara M cIntyre of this town.

T hirty-five re latives and friends from H artfo rd and M anchester w ere presen t. Including the bride­groom ’s paren ts, Mr. and Mrs.F red A. Johnson, of . K ansas City, fo rm erly of th is tow n and Bolton.Mrs. Johnson will spend the holi­days w ith re la tives here, and Mr. Johnson will re tu rn to K ansas C ity tom orrow .

D uring the evening S an ta Claus surprised the ga th erin g w ith a visit, and he presented to the new ­ly-weds a choice coilectlon of china, g lassw are and linen.

I

FancyDOLLS$1.19 to

$6.50A New Shipment of

Effanfoee Glamour Dolls$14.95

i

1

■meym

New Rayon l)ama.sk

LIVING ROOM PILLOWS$ 1 . 9 8

AH coloi’8 and de.signa in lustrous living room pillow.s.

(2nd Flmir).

1)1

$2.39 toThese Ihdis Are Beautiiul!

\

...

uA Fur Coiat

An lilrtil Gift fo r Ghrintmn*' N orthern Buck

Muskrats 498^ to <349=Tax InrliHled.

Black Beauty Beaverette, Black Beaiitv Sealine * i 3 9 a

Tax Included.

tIm JW.HALC COKKMataCHsrrsa Comm*

STUFFED ANIMALS

$1.29 to $8.95

,\H Wo4m1 Shoo Flya . . .............Up to $7.The largest stoek of W heelbarrows in

town .......................... $1 .29 , $1 .9 8 , $ 2 .9 8Hop Cheng Checkers A New Game—Navy BagatelleDrive a Peg Table ami StoOl ................$ 1 .8 9Double Heailer Baseball Games . . . . . $.*>.98Maple ami Hickory S k i s .......... $4.7.'>-$1.3.75invaiier Guns $1 .8 9 . Reg. $2 .29 . ^l>arge Size Play PensDoll C ra ille s_____ ' . $ 2 .1 9 , $2 .9 8 , $ 4 .2 9Bowling Alleys, on legs . . . . . . . . . . $6.7i5Boxing G lo v e s .......... .. $4.2!5 to $15.50Christmas Tree, Lights, T ree Tops Window Camlles and W reaths '.411 W ood Boats to ConslrucT, they float $ 1 .1 9 Xic Raid W arden Sets . . . . . $ 1 .2 9 to $ 1 .6 9Young America Army K i t s .................. 69cAH Kinds of BlocksSuffolk Diiwn H orse Racing Games fo r Adults IJncoln Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 5 c to $ 2 .9 8Effanhee large Nurse K its in Suit Case Checkers, Chess, Backgam m on Games Picture Blocks, Reg. $ 1 .0 0 . . . . . . Sale 89cChemistry Sets . . . 1 . . . ................ '. . . $ 2 .8 9New Gamer-Blackout . . . ; ................... $ 1 .0 0

$1.00.$ 1 .1 9

Electric Baseball and Football Games $ 1 .9 8 A few Sets o f Maple Table and Chair

Sets ........ ............. $6.9.5 to $ 1 6 .9 5TOY DEPARTMENT — BASEMENT.

Dm J W H A K COUM jm a tm w k Comm*

I

ftEWAU-W00£T H I P i R P E C T G I F T F O R E V E R Y W O M A N

i

I

i Railway Lightning Express . . . . . .E Radio Football and Baseball Games

m m m m m K

95

B lankets

glS.95

h /in u tm L M r^latsmd

D O U M E -D U n CASSEMHETwo sissit gdti in one. PisetMsI lee, die cover Veeps feed wsrsi er tm es i t ttpsrsis pis pUls. FoeA hsVc lister in Pyres were — snd Uile beOetl

■V t qeert siie — only § J r

'■ f • .T lA V O R -S A V E irnE tU T ETka most popular now Pyroe diA ovar introducad! Daop wrtk H u lJ adga lo kaap all die joke end Haver ie your piea. Levely design widt clear glaaa M C A kandlaa . . . 10” sine 4 J r

♦

MATCHED MIXING lO W lSPcrIccI for mising, baking, teiv. ing, snd storing! Grand for baking mound cakes. Allraclivc (or strv- ing istads, dotetU. Sal of 3, nail­ed logttliar le save A f A tpaca . . . . . . . only f j r

1

' PYREX CAKE DISHNoOct dia convenient glass |wn- dlasl Bakts perlart layer takes er doubles for mean, vagataWes and olkar baking. Watkas easily. A pair makes t lovely Q f A gilt. Eadi . . . . only J J r

Chief of Staff Flies F i m i SAlong E ntire Pacific Sector, But Only Gen­erals ami Admirals Know W hat He Said;Air Strength Revived.

Urged Join With Labor

MANCHESTER, CONN., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1943

“ Score Card” on L ightning “ Porky IF

(FOURTEEN PAGES) PRICE THREE CENTS

Army Headquarters, Cen­tral Pacific, Dec. 22.—( I P )

The long Pacific battle hne| was tense with expectancy today after a dramatic visit from Gen. George C. Mar­shall. United States Army chief of staff, and under indi- effUons of resurgent Japanese a ir ac tiv ity . M arshnll, p a rtic ip an t in recen t Allied m ilita ry councils held a t C airo and T eheran, flew a long th e en tire line from the Sou thw est Pacific to the C entriu Pacific, b u t only th e gipncrals and adm irals, A m erican and A u stra ­lian, knew w h a t he had said

M arahaii w aa p resen t a t C airo w hen P res id en t R oosevelt, P rim e M inister W inston C hurchill and G enerallsalm o C hiang K ai-Shek pledged to ham m er Jap an in ta u n -

__ _______ tis tttrin

Also 23-Piec6

PYREX GIFT SETS(Boxed).

$ 4 - 9 5 1I

GIFT i UMBRELLAS I

Cannot^ Towel Sets$ 1 . 1 9

L arge b a th sise, guest cloth. H eavy w hite .w ith In blue, pink, gold and green.

52” X tinted

LUNCH CLOTHS $ 1 . 4 9A eolorful fru it p a tte rn in led, blue and green. F a s t color.

52" t 52” Colorful Printed

I LUNCH CLOTHS $ 2 . 2 9Fine q u a lity p rin ts, so eolorful and p ractical. An ideal gifL

Colorful

FACE CLOTHS 6 for 5 9 j

\

conditional su rren d er and to s tr ip It of all w ar-g o tten gains.

Safely Back In U nited S la te s W ith th e chief of s ta ff safely

back in the U nited S ta te s a f te r h is 35,000-mlle global tr ip . Gen. D ouglas M acA rlhu r announced today th a t M arshall had been a t advanced Allied head q u arte rs in N ew G uinea Dec. 15 when the A m erican S ix th A rm y u n its in­vaded N ew B riU in , a t A raw e.

Thla Invasion prom pted Tokyo rad io to com m ent th a t "Japanese q u a rte rs do no t deny the serious­ness of th e s itua tion ." and th a t "R abau l (J a p a n ’s m ost Im p o rtan t Sou thw est Partfle base on New B rita in ) m ust be held under all c ircum stances." — -«

Jap an ese a ir s tren g th , recen tly badly h it and reduced in th a t a rea , showed signs of revival.

South Pacific head q u arte rs said th a t w hen A m erican bom bers and figh te rs a ssau lted R abaul Sunday, doing heavy dam age to shipping, 60 enem v figh ters jum ped th e a t ­tacke rs . The A m ericans and J a p a ­nese- each lost fou r fighters.

M arshall also conferred w ith th e s ta ff of A dm iral W illiam F. H alsey, South Pacific com m ander, and L ieut. Gen. W illard F . H a r­mon. chief of A rm y forces th e re , whose ground, sea and A ir Forces a re d riv ing th e Jap an ese from th e ir la s t Solom ons islands hold­ings. on Bougainville.

The chief of staff stopped for tw o days a t H onolulu to see Ad­m iral C h e s te r W. N im itz. com ­m ander in fh ie f of the Pacific, and U e u t. Gen. R obert C. R ichardson. J r ., com m ander of C en tra l Pacific A rm y forces.

H am m ering Enem y .airdrom esN im itz’a and R ichardson’s A rm y

and N avy u n its took th e G ilbert is lands from th e Jap an ese Nov. 20 and th e ir A ir F orces have been ham m ering enem y a ird rom es and bases in th e M arshall Islands. 300

(C ontinoed on Page Two)

Chinese Show Gas Cylinders

War Production Board Publication Call* for Setting U p Labor- M anagement Groups-

W ashington, Dec. 22- Anoffitia l W ar P roduction board pub­lication today called on the Ford M otor com pany and G eneral M otors corporation to se t up m anagem ent commJUees for "im- proving m orale and inerfaaing v ita l w ar p roduction” In the ir p lan ts.

D irected to H enry kord , p resi­den t of th e Ford M otor com pany, and A lfred P . Sloan, chairm an of th e G eneral M otors board, th a ap ­peal is in the form of an ed ito ria l in th e cu rren t issue o< L abor-m an­agem en t News, published by the W ar P roduction D rive com m ittee of W PB. T he com m ittee 's function is to sp u r w a r o u tp u t through labor-m anagem ent harm ony.

T he editorial, en titled ’’Please Mr. Ford and Mr. S loan” and w rit­ten by Theodove K. Quinn, dlrgc- tor-'general of th e W ar P roductioh D rive com m ittee, says nearly 4,000 w a r p lan ts in th is coun try have estab lished labor m anagem ent com m ittees, and adds:

"U n fo rtu n a te ly n e ither Ford nor G eneral M otors haa-e so fa r seen fit to give m ore th an superficial a t ­ten tion to the p lan .”

C ite C onditions of Ixiafing . C iting conditions in D etro it w ar

p lan ts "of loafing on the job, in-

New Heights Seized By 5th Army Units;

British Battle NazisYank Bombers

Raid Targets In German V

New Attack FoHoms L ighter Blows hy Mos-

lito Planes on Un- spVeUied Ohjeetives

Germans Hit Along Entire

War SectorPartisan!! on Offensive

In Every Sector o f Yugoslavia; a % i s Hit Rock in Grootia.

ami French Attack Two

in 41oun* Sector of

F ron t; Eighth Army Tanks Sing with Nazi Arm or in Streets of Tinv Port Town.

AmericanTroopsVillagestainoiis

pointsblems.planes

Tech. S erg t. O y d e Speck (le ft) of A sbury P a r k N. J .. crei ts ou t a spot on ” Porky H ,” a P-38 L ightning, "'he'-e there isspot

despite the fac t th a t M aj. E dw ard C ragg (rig h t)

crew chief a t a New G uinea a ir ba.se, room fo r additional Rising Sun em-

of Greenwich, Conn., ha.s downed 14 Jap

(C ontinued on Page F our)

Strike Orders Hurt Efforts To Balk Tieup

Non-Operating Rail Em­ployes Set Dec. 3 0 As Deailline to Meet T heir W age Deiiiamls.

Bulletin!W ashington , Dee. 22.— liP)—

I.eaders of five ra ilroad oper­a tin g bro therhoods today com pleted th e d ra f t of a coun­ter-p roposal fo r se ttlin g the ir w age d ispu te and av e rtin g a s tr ik e ra iled fo r Dec. SO. These brotherhoods. w hich orig inally asked a m inim um increase of *S a day, reduced th is to 64 cen ts (e igh t cen ts aq hour) in th e coun ter-p ro ­posal, bu t added dem ands fo r paid vacations, overtim e a f te r 4(L hou rs fo r yardm en, and avN iy-from -hanie expenses for roadm en.

Bolivia Wants To Cooperate With Yankees

Desires Early Settle­m ent 4>f Negotiations Goncerning Supplies Of Tin ami Quinine.La Paz. Bolivia. Dec.- 22--(d*i A

desire fo r "effective cooperation” betw een the U nited S ta te s and Bolivia and an early .settlem ent of negotia tions concerning tin and quinine w as expressed today, by a m in is ter in the new governm ent of P res iden t M aj. G ualberto V illar- roel.

1 bflieve an efTective coopers- lion ought to ex ist betw een the U nited S la te s and Bolivia." a s ­se rted M inister of Econom y Gus­tavo Chacon, "and th a t w ith in the sh o rte s t tim e poa.sible we should face the m a tte rs left pending by the laxne^is of the fo rm er govern- m ent. including tin and quinine. In the in te rest of both countries these m a tte rs should no t be fu r th e r post­poned," ,

IMans R etriliiitive M easures Tlw V i 11 a r r o e 1 goveinitieni,

w hich installed itself w ith a coup d 'e ta t Monday, tu rned its a tten tio n to re tribu tive m easures fo r w hat w as described as last D ecam ber's "C atav i m assacre" in w hich 19 w ere killed and 3.5 in jured when troops fired on s trik in g tin mine w orkers.

The governm ent announced to ­day a decree providing indem nities fo r th e vi|Ctims and said m easures

(O ontinned an Page Two) , \

N a z is M o v e in F r e s h T a n k s A g a in s t R e d s

Fight Desperately to S e C r e C VHold Vitebsk; Large _Forces o f Bom bers, O v C F D a r l a i l S F ish ie r , Be)..x h ,e .l- L i f t e dMoscow, Dec. 22.—

Fighting desperately to hold ^Vitebsk—hub position of the f a th e r W ins P a rtia l Vin«

^ T ear, Sneezing Chem* in Attacks.

/ ;

A lw ays a w an ted g ift. B rig h t de- signs w ith novelty handles. All col­ors.

OTHER UMBRELLAS $ 3 .9 8 to $ 1 0 .0 0

Green Stamps Given With Cash Sales

I

P ackagedpractical.

in a sso rted colors. Solid color clo ths th a t a re ao Storfi Open ToniKht, Wednesday and Thursday Until t P. M.

I.« rft Size Bates Colonial .

SHOPPING BAGS $ 1 0 0 I,A nother ah ipracn t ju s t reeetvad!

(N otlaB D spL)A rea l aueeptable X m as g i f t MiuiCNitnii Comm*

Jans Accused of Using

X^cals\

H \a d q u s r te rs of a Chinese A rm V Som ew here irt N o rth e rn H u­nan P rovince, Dec. 18— (D elayed)__(/PI—iBreen and red m ark ed cy l­inders M te a r and sneezing gas w hich th \ J a p a n e s e a re accused of u sin g on m is fro n t w ere exhibited today to f i l i n g A llied officers and correa)>()ndenta and sam ples g iven to a n \A m e r ic a n m a jp r to c a rry to Lieua, Gen. Joseph S til- well.

A s In te rested > s an y co rrespon ­d e n t w as L ieu t. Ool- P . P . V oronin. a s s isU n t m i l i ta r y V '- ^ ‘=*'* 'Soviet em bassy a t OJiungklng, w ho jo tte d dov,Ti th e com plete d e ta ils in a li tt le b lack notebook as L ieut. Gen. L iang H an-M lng. com m and­ing th is A rm y, ta lk ed ab o u t the cylinders.

A m ong th e sam ples w as a yel­low -m arked . tw o-foot-long cylin­d e r,, resem bling s fire -ex tin g u ish ­er, w hich L ian g ’s chem ical war_ fa re e x p e rt ta id ohee contained m u s ta r.l gaa. T here w as no fla lm how evbr, th a t th e con ten ta of th is p a r t ic u la r cy linder ev er w ere xised a g a in s t th e Chinese.

-S u ffoca tlngm as C sedT he te a r and aneexing g a s w as

used recen tly on th e H unan front, th e chem ical ex p e rt ta id . T he m t» t M olent form of gaa uaed by th e Jap an ese In th is th e a te r , accord ­ing to Gen. H sueh Yeiih, governor of H unan and com m ander of the N in th W ar a rea , and h i t siibordi-

' n a te , L iang , w as iiiffoca tlng gas. from w hich n. fa te litie a w ere rer po rted . T he e ffec t o f th ia gaa is to in c a p a c ita te fo r an ho u r o r m ore.

T ha m u a ta rd c a a ey llnden w hich

(OaathsM d aa Page T fcJ

W ashingtoiri, Dec. 22 — (/P) — S tr ik e orderd" from a new q u a rte r today com plicated W hite House e f ­fo r ts to a v e r t a th rea ten ed tie u p of th e n a tio n ’s ra ilw ay . ayatem , now act fo r Dec. 30.

As conferences w en t fo rw ard to keep 350,000 op era tin g em ployes on th e job. th e leaders of a n even

northwestern Russian front —the Germans moved in fresh tank units and large forces of bombers and fight- ers’ today to meet Gen. Ivan Bagramian’s advancing First B altic A rm y. (O ther d ispatches reported ' the Rus.siana w ith in 15 m iles of V itebsk and the B ritish radio said the Soviets w ere fight­ing in th e suburbs of Korodock. 18 m iles no rthw est. The G erm an com m unique said R u ssian ' a t ­tem p ts to b reak th rough north and east of Vitebsk failed.

W ipe O ut E n tire B attalion (B erlin also declared th a t an

en tire R ussian b a tta lio n waa wiped ou t in th e no rthern C rim ea and th a t violent R ussian a tta c k s again.4't the Nikopol bridgehead on the D nieper and sou thw est of D nepropctrov.sk had failed. The G erm ans said th a t they advanced sou theast of K irovograd jn the D nieper bend a n d th a t strong R is- siari co u n te r-a ttack s w ere repelled n o rth ea s t of Z hitom ir in the Kiev bulge, t

The new spaper P iuvda .said th a t, despite low clouds, fog and snow. R ussian planes In g io iips of 100 had jn e t G erm an ta n k s in.

(lication of Name of University S l u t l e i i l j tack s

Shot by Firing Squa«lA lgiers, Dec. 22—)A*( An an ­

guished fa ther, seeking to c lear the nam e of his son w h i a year ag»j C hris tm as eve ended the life o f A dm iral Jean F rancois D arlan in a flurry of gunfire, has lifted some of ifte secrecy throw n over the death of the little m an who tried to be all th ings to all men.

One y ear of un tiring E ugene Bonnier de la

London, Dec. 22.—lA*! - A m erican heavy bom bers escorted by a fleet of figh ters a ttack ed ta rg e ts som e­w here in n o r t lw e s t G erm any to ­day, it waa announced by the E ig h th U. S A ir fV e e .

The new a tta c k bV the A m erican heavies followed ligo te r blows by R. A. y. M osquito b o r e r s ag a in s t unspecified objectives rn w estern G erm any la s t n igh t and continued the round-the-clock a.ssault on H it- ler'a fo r tre ss foi th e th ird consecu­tive day.

The la te s t M osquito blow was carried o u t w ithout kiss, a com ­m unique said.

B rem en B eing t.'sed F o r Teal M eanwhile, a h in t th a t the U. S.

E igh th A ir Force is using Brem en for a te s t of precision bortlbing in w iping ou t the effectiveness of an en tire city w as aeen today in an official announc>enient a s eallm ates o f th e num ber of Allied planes partic ip a tin g in M onday's and Tue.sday’s m assive a tta c l:s on G er­m any and F rance io.se to 3.000.

C om m enting on the A m erican assau lt on Brem en Monday. In w hich m ore than .500 heavy bomb- fijt partic ipa ted , an announcem ent bv the E igh th Air Force said, " it la pointed ou t th a t sca tte red w ar Industries aupporte<: by a city of B rem en’s size (340.000) best could be eU m inated by a aeries of a t-

Such a te s t of pteclsion bomh- ing would c o n tra s t w ith the "ob­lite ra tio n " bom haidm ent which wiped ou t the neighboring p o rt of H am buig M onday’s a tta c k on B rem en wa.s the fou rth by the E igh th A ir Force siuce the first of N ovem ber and its seventh a n ­nounced a tta c k on th a t objecUve.

Severe D am age Inflicted Reconnaissance p ic tu res showed

M onday’s attack inflicted dam age in po rt a reas snd

I . . . ...I, w ith B d iiec t

London. Dec. 22.—i/Ti—MBishal Josip B roz’s (T ito) pa rtisan Army of 250,000. b a ttling G erm an and collalK irationiat forces tw ice ita size, has taken to the offensive on every sec to r of Y ugoslavia’s ir reg ­u la r ba ttle fro n l, a com m unique from th e Y ugoslav Ai my of L ib­era tion announced today.

The G erm an forces, spearheaded by the G erm an 373rd division s tru c k back w ith large-scale a s­sau lts In C roatia In an effort to re gain the in itiative, the w ar bulletin di.sclosed. but T ito 's 7th p a trio t division decisively th w arted the enem y th ru sts .

40,000 C asualties In Two M onthsW ith Y ugoslavia developing in­

to a b a ttle fro n t of broadening .scope, a recap itu la tion of H itle r’s losses in hia efforts to c lea r hia B alkan flank show s th a t he had40.000 casualties In O ctober and N ovem ber alone. These , figures w ere given in a Moscow broadcast, which said the cnsualtics included16.000 killed and 11.000 prison­ers.

G erm an b roadcasts heard In .Cairn claim ed the cap tu re la.st

(C ontinued on Page Fwo)

Protest Made On Vandalism

III Consulate

Allied Headquarters, Al­giers, Dec. 22.—(/P)—Ameri­can Fifth .Army forces, bol­stered by heavy artillery and mortar fire, captured several new heights and reached the outskirts of San Vittore on the road to Rome today, while the British Eight’n A rm y battled the G crtnana w ith ta n k s and in fan try in the s tre e ts of O rtona .

A m erican and F rench troops along the no rthern m ountainous sec to r of the ’ F ifth Army fro n t w ere reported a tta ck in g the vil­lages of A cquafondata, five m iles weat of F ilignano. and (jard lto , four miles north of A cquafondata, a f te r occupying a high point in th e Mt. Caiiole region in th e ir push w estw ard on Casaino. '

F ir s t D isclosure of LiH’a tlo n The announcem ent th a t the

F rench forces under Gen. P ie rrs Ju in were partic ip a tin g w ith th e F iflh ia a tta c k in th is sector w aa the first diacloaure of th e location of the Friinch whose presence on Ita lian soil w as announced la s t

The French, who have been s trugg ling for the p as t th ree days lo r possession of a v ita l m ountain pass, were reported to have tak en the .southern halt. O ther sh o r t gains in thia area w ere reported .

In the ir a ssau lt on San V ittore, the A m ericans w ere m ethodically

(U untinued on Page |Ciglit)

Flashes!(L n te Bulletliia of ihe i.45 WIr*)

(C ontinued on r a c e F our)

Federal Jury Indicts Ten

Sabutaf;e, F raud , Con spiTaey Charged in Inspecting Cartridges,St. Louis, Dec. 221:—(jC)—T en

m en w ere Indicted y este rday by a F edera l g ran d ju ry w hich re tu rn ed fou r ind ic tm en ts cha rg in g sabo­tage , frau d and consp iracy to de fraud th e , governm en t in connec­tion w ith inspection of rifle and m achine ■-■un c a rtr id g es m ade a t th e S t. Louis o rdnance p lan t.

All th e m en a re em ployes o r for m er em ployes of th e j^plgnt, w hich is opera ted by th e tlrnlted S ta te s C a rtr id g e C om pany, « subsid iary of W estern C a rtr id g e Com pany.

n v H S u it F iled i Follow ing re tu rn of th e ind ic t­

m ents, U n ited S ta te s D is tr ic t A t­to rn ey H a rry C, B lan ton filed a civil su it a g a in s t th e com pany ask ing *2.000 fo r each alleged Ille­gal a c t and double dam ages su s­ta ined by th e governm ent, w hich am otn it is unknow n.

T he ind ic tm en ts , cha rg ed e ig h t o f th e m e n 't in d e r th e w ar-tim e sab o tag e a c t w hich ra i r le s penal^

Black Market Ring Smaslied

Tlioiihamis t>f Cases of W hiskey Offereil at Above Gelling Prices.

(C ontinued on Page Tw;elve)

Treasury BalanceW ashington, Dec. '22.—le) —The

poaition of the T reasu ry Dec. 20: R eceipts, *443,031,268.36; ex­

penditures, *'287.522,788.84; n e t balance, *12,218.890.804.65.

effort by Chapelle,

new spapei'm an has won p a rtia l vindication of the nam e of hi., '20- year-old son. F ernand Bonnier de la Chapelle, h fra il university s tu ­den t who died before a firing squad.

Not C onnw ted W ith .AxisA s the resu lt ol the fa th e r 's a p ­

peal. the Ju s tice m in istry ol the F rench C om m ittee .o f N ational L iberation has issued a comiuuiii- que saying a re-exam ination of the ease revealed th a t the youth had not been connected w ith the Axis.

If leaders of the F rench u n d er­ground m ovem ent have their way, the youth soon m ay lie hailed as a m a r ty r in the fight tq libera te F rance.

G radually th rough the year,these fac ts have ‘ become self-ap- paren t, a lthough the full slo rym ay no t he told un til the m any

(C onthiued on Page E ight)

F urther Clarification of Pofiition of Franco Ex­pected af» Result 4»f Aiiieriean Objections.W'a.shinsiton. Dec. 22 le . F u r-i

th e r clnrificatioi’ of the position-ofS pain ’s G eneralisaim o Francisco

aicn .................. F ranco is exprcteii here a.s a re-fac to ries of the B ogard a rm ored I A m erican reures'entatlonsvehicle w o r ^ w ere se t a Ie. I F a lang ist vandalism in the

A bout ^ v i m a t e l v 3 000 U nited .“t ta te s consulate in Valen- droppod by approx im ately 3 | .Allied p lanes The Incident reported by A m ­in G erm any and occupied k ■ am e ,

th a tsevere dam age nearby ra il yards, h it being scored on w orkshops and o ther facilities in the mam ship yard . Several buildings w ere de.«trove.l in the w arehouse a rea and tw o of the th ree m ajor

M onday , 1 .Madrid, waa the la te s t of a series' of actions ag a in s t Allied repreaeii-greatc.st combined s ir

ever ca rried out in 36 hours I

New York, Dec, 22.-^oF)— Seven men. a rre s ted la s t n igh t when the governm en t cracked down on w hat i t called the la rg est w hiskey black m ark e t to be uncovered In the country , aw aited a rra ig n m en t be­fo re a U nited S ta te s com m issioner today on charges of fonsp lracy to v io late OPA llqupr p rice ceilings,

W illiam E. Dimigan^ a ss is ta n t superv iso r of enforcenient fo r the New Y ork division of the Federal Alcohol Tax un it, announced the a r re s is and the* sm ash ing of a "m illion dollar black , m a rk e t w hiskey ring.

T hausands of Case* ,)IIered"W e consider thia a big r ing .”

h e saidi "T hey offered us thou ­sands of cases of w hiskey sto red in C onnecticut M assachusetts . K entucky and -Vlar.yland.” -

T he raid here coincided w ith sim ilar ac tiv ities by F edera l alco­hol tax ag en ts in, S t. Louis, K an­sas C ity and M inneapolis w here a to ta l of 23 men w ere a rrested .

N ine w ere apprehended in St. Louis and 12 in K ansas C ity in a move to b reak up illegal liquor c ra tio n s w hich officials said b rough t a lm ost *100.000 p ro fit to the S t. Louis group in th ree m onths. A genU seized betw een »125.00() and *150,000 w o rth of w hiskey from a s to re and w are- hou-ses in M inneapolis.' Tw o m en w rre a rre sted .

I T ip F rom H otel O fficialssaid th e a r re s ts here

Army Flying ChristmasGifts to Remote Posts

(Oontliiued on Page rw elve)

Jury Ar(|uits Accused (iirl

ProHeoutor .Ysks O ther ChargeH for Faniily Slavingfi Be Dropped.

ta tiv es in various p a rts of .Spain.The news cam e almo.st .simul­

taneously w ith r M adrid announce­m ent th a t F ranco had decided th a t the F alangc m ilitia la no longer necessary and th a t a conditional am nesty ' would be g ran ted to all .political p riso i.e is except those held for "com n crim es." About 8000 will be freed by Christ,mas, one d ispatch estim ated .

T ea r P te lu res From W alls H ayes .said tw o persons, la te r

identified as F alang ists. ' entered the A m erican eonsulate a t Valen-

X egroes H eld fo r K idnapingBoston, Dec. 'I'Z—*/P)— Two N e­

groes, one a F o rt Dexens sold ier and th e o th er a sh ipyard w orker, w ere ordered held In *50,1)00 ball ejM'h for g rand ju ry action w hen arra ig n ed In D orchester O lstric* , court today on ch a rg es of k idnap­ing, arm ed roWar.v and rape on .Mrs. D orothy .M. Ounn. 36-year- old m other of six children. The pair. P riv a te .Albln B arrow s. 22, and W alter .Allen, 19, of the Rox- bury d is tric t, w ere a rre s ted by Patro lm en .Arthur D ouglas and M aurice .McCarth.v a f te r M rs. Ounn told them she w as d ragged into, an autom obile enriy S a tu rd ay nHiriiiiig a s she w as nearing her home. She said th a t she wan driven about Boston fo r tw o hoiirs liy tw o m en who assau lted her several tim es.

B urlington. Ky., Dec. 2i2 Amid Cheers in a crowded courtroom . Joan Kigw, haired school girl, waa

iA'i ru ra l

jiuburn - s iq u it te d

(C ontinued <in Page Two)

W ashington. Dec. 22 — idh — g a n ta Claus, dressed in olive d rab and flying an A rm y A ir

by a ju ry lasi n igh t " f .) 1 charges in connection w ith the

E ven isolated guh 1 slay ing of her 6-year-old brother,have, received C h ris tm as tVeea, |

_ , food and packages, dropped f r omj A fte r the verd ict. Common-F orces pgggjng com bat a irc ra f t . (w ea lth A tto rney R aym ond L, v’ln-

niane ia bring ing C h ris tm as to C haplain (C ap t.) Andrew ho led th e prosecution, ask-U nited S ta te , tro o p , in icy, b arren peatom of LocH H aven. a n d j ^ j t ^ a t all o ther , fU nited S ta te s v . c h a p la in (F ir s t L ieu t.l k ran c is .p a ih g t the l6-.vear-old .hian. andno rth ern 'X n - b a k e d »» W-a., will ad- ^e r m other, - - — —of Europe th e sun-bak^^^ laies ch ap la inor d n p p ing dim jungle tM aj.) Joseph A pplegate of UiaPacific. renorted A ngeles. Calif., will conduct serV-

T he W ar d ep artm en t rrtX’r i ' a m en in ou tnhsts from

theI (M aj.)

reported A ngeles, Calif

" " r s : - n Z X ' ” ™ . ' ' B . T . r ’' ” ,tons of^ c ig i\re ttes. ran d y Tiake. ra<lio$ Knd recording m ach in e s , pl»h» „

S ais 6 f F o res t Grove, j Ore., to

Diinigan -----

A sto r ofneiaU w ho repo rted beingtiea up Iand *10.000 fine. ^ ^

All were charged with defraud

(CMitlniMd OB Pag* Four) UonUniWd ob PBgB F ou r)

inhave been flown to isolated posts w hich are inaccessiblew in te r except by air.

T he A rm y S an ta CTlaus began deliveries four m onths ago and will continue un til every soldier in the m ost re m o te . s ta tio n haa re ­ceived hia packages.

F ifteen tons of CThristmss w ere moved by air w hen ice b lock­ed surface, shipping.

Win D rop B ags In Snow An A rm y tra n sp o rt plane will

drop m all bags in th e snow som e­tim e th is m onth a t s tiny w i t h e r .station in the B ering sea. I t w ill be th e first m ail th ree ^In fourm unths. - . .

On T hanksg iv ing day. so ld iers in the A ieiitlana ta s ted th e ir first fresh fowl since a rriv in g in the is­lands. They wi^ll, have itChristmas—tu rk b '.—ndth.'hrlm p and rolls, all flow-n In by th e ir A ir Force buddies. ^

Mrs. Jenn ie K iger. 49. be dropped. C ircuit. Judge W ard Y ager g ran ted th e s la te ’s jrequest.

.Aociised of M urder Jo a n arid her m other w ere si'-

cu.sed of m urder in connectioo w ith ' bov.

C.Ky.. vice

the fam ily 's sum m erbleak N univak island, .and p re s­en ts from the Red C ross and dec­o ra ted C h ris tm as trees will he flown to o ther icebound islands by C haplain (M aj.) R alph W heeler, fo rm er P resby te rian m in ister o . A laskan Ind ians, and S erg t. Bill D ouglas of Aberdeen, W ash.

C»rr.vlng C hris tm aa Mall C om bat planes. tran sp o rU and

troop c a rr ie rs a re tak in g C h ris t­m as m all and- packages to the S ou thw est Pacific. The m all haa been reach ing A u stra lia a t th e ra te of several ’ thousand tons w eekly.

T roops on the frqn t lliit g e l th e ir m all abou t a week a f te r i t reaches A ustra lia . F rom th e re i t goes to New G uinea and is tran a- fe rred to o th er planea w hich c a r­ry i t th rough m ountain , PM*** and oyer lagged m oun ta in s

S ')’- .......I th e revo lver slay ing of the ! Je rry , and his fa th e r . C arl

K iger. 49, C ovington m ayor, a thome la.st Aug. 17.

As th e cou rt c lerk announced the ju ry 's verd ict "N ot g u ilty ." Joan excla im ed: <

"I am g lad !”She w aa hugged and ki.ssed by

h e r m any re la tives While, her school g irl chum s, occupying the fro n t row s of the co u rt rpom , w ept.

Jo an testified during the tr ia l th a t she w as aw akened by the sound of shots, ra n to h e r p a ren ts ro o m .an d saw "an in tru d e r" firing a pisto l a t her p aren ts .

M ight H ave H ad “ N lghU u»re She sa id she dashed dow natelra.

ob ta ined tw o revolvere and re ­tu rn e d to the s ta irw ay to s ta r t firing. L a te r she aaid she m igh t have had a "n ig h tm are .”

A fte r the ahooting. Klgwr w as

VoBBlIaBBd BB Page Fear)

F our Held for C onspiracyNew York. Dec. '22—(/PI—; t ie r t

H ans A’on tlo n ta rd , a lias tieo rge firan l. S ', described by. Federal officialH as a grandson of .Adol­phus Busch, la le r S t. Louis .brew - er, and th ree o thers w ere nam ed today in a Federal complBlat charg ing I’onsplracy to keep Aob tio iita rd Irtiiii .iiillitar.v service. N aiiird wi th Von. tio o ta rd In th e lo inp la in t, which w as opened by r . S. Conim lssloner (Ja rre tt H .

I C olter, w ere; F rancis X avier (iro ttano , fo rm er New York d ty

! detective and now a lle iitm an t IB I Army intelllgem-e at t io v e rn o r t

island; Or. .Arni)ld .Aaron H nt- 1 M-hnecker, New York ■

who. was, accused of fak ing medi­cal h istory which won d ra f t d«^ ferm ent for Von (io n ta rd ; and Michael M aiigano, o|*erator of the (i. M. I 'n ifo rm cuinpany, which m akes arihy iinilorm s for th e AA'ai (kqiart mciit.

S a V f t l . 'c a l l s for More k e s t Riaims _ _ _ _ I AA'asliIngion. Dec. 22.— i.Pi — To

N. D .. .A forest Are which had already I „ ' Roosevelt today called

con.sunied an estim ated 1.200 acre.** ■ c a fe te rias , rest room s andof woodland sw ep t ou t of control ] . fa c ilit ie s . He ordered th«today-ileep in the pine belt .south- Uyjjj. N'avv sec re ta rie s and the w est of th is B urling ton county y ,^ rltim e com m ission to rngk* village . .V ' available funds and m a te ria ls nefr

Division W arden B ernard " • to provide th e facilities laB arU etl of the .State F ire service | th e ir Jurisdictionsaid fig h te rs-h ad .saved tw o h a ii- i And, so th a t sim ilar facilities m M lets. F riendsh ip and Sandy Ridge. provided In p riv a te ;»lants, N c ran b erry bog points, yesterday | the AVer H rodurB oiand had ap p aren tly brought the j„ g ra n t p rom pt aliocaUsn*

of th e aecessery m ateria ls .

Forest Fire Raising A<jaiii

S w erp s O ut 4»f - ( ’.oiitro l In New Jersey Uinp B ell; HuiiiletK

blaze under contro l la s t n igh t. Then a sh ift of wind sen t it ra g ­ing off in s new d irection today.

Soldiers -Aid I s F igh t B a r tle t t reported Section Wa r ­

den Joseph Hollow ay of C hals- w orth w as in charge of the 8 8 * ^ ’ aide^ by 2() fire iwrvice men and 50soldiers. ,

E leven o th e r blazes occurred w ith in the division yesterday , two of them th rea ten in g to property.

A t A tsion, a fire w hich consum y ed 900 ac res of woodland dhw a to the shore of A tsion lake.

(O satlaaed aa Paga Twelva)

T ra ile r T n lck B urns (Atafford S prings. D ^ .

A tra ile r tru c k , said by S ta te Pw lice L ieut. H a rris J . H u lbu rt t o w ta in Inflam m able m aterla la . b u i ^ and blew op today on th e HllteM CrtMis h ighw ay 'th a t ■1.500 feet. The d river, A m a a ^ l Osborne, a a em ploye «»f th e E xp ress C om pany o l New H a m . r l told polh*^ frtc tlo ahlew a o a t Bee Ignited th a arte and th a t th a losa w aa a»

,«*8.M«.

A

Qerk’s Plan To Get Names

Town Official Explains Method to Compile An Accurate List.Town Clerk Samuel J. Turklng-

ton has written a letter to the Se­lectmen in which he aska that aomiething be done to aecuie a cor­rected list of men and women of Mancheater in the United States ■ervice.

The letter waa read at the meet­ing held Monday night and while the Selectmen were in agreement with Turklngton on hia desire to ■ecure the names, it decided to watt until later. In the meantime the Selectmen ulll meet with Mr. I^rkington and further study the matter. His letter foilows:Dear Sirs:

The War Record Department of the Connecticut State Library is attempting to secure the collection and preseiwatinn of records of Connecticut's participation in this War.

As the official to whom the preservation of town lecoids is entniated I will probably be asked either now or later to advise re­garding or make a'rungements for th i permanent preservation of our Community's war effort.

Because few arrangements were made locally during the last war for the systematic collection and preservation o f such records, many

were lost or mislaid and the town clerks of the state .were generally faced with great embarrassment when later faced with queries about such records. In Manchester the Town Clerk’s office does not even have a copy o f the local Honor Roll for future reference. >

As a practical solution to . the gathering o f reliable record.s, re­garding members of the Armed Forces and their Auxiliaries. I offer the following suggestions; that when the voters enumeration is being taken in June and'July of this year' a complete enumeration o f the members of the Armed Forces be taken at that time and by the same enumerators. I also believe that as a patriotic gestui;e the enumerators should he willing and glad to make such enumera­tion at a cost not to exceed .d.*) per name: that the work should be done under the supervision of an Honor Roll Committee or how otherwise designated. Since the Town Meeting appropriated $.1,000 for Civilian Defense it would seem that the cost of securing .such per­manent war records could be allo­cated to this appropriation.

This office will he glad to co­operate’ in any way possible in .se­curing permanent, reliable and or­derly World War tecords.

Respectfully suhmitled, Samuel J. Tiirkington,

Town Clerk.

Winners Named Al K. ('. Drawiii"

m M An

Ten lucky persons may call at the K. of G. home on Main street and receive their gifts from the council as' a result of the drawing held Monday evening. The winners arc: Mrs. Thomas Hassett, 829 Main street; G. Sweeney, Porter street; Francis Misaett, 40 High street, Springfield, Mass.; Marlon Lynch, Vernon street; Joseph Hus­ky, 12‘/i Main street; Mrs. D. Mur­phy, 7 Florence street, Manches­ter; Ed Murphy, 76 High street, Hartford: T. Nolan, 19 Cleveland avenue, Hartford; R. M. Davis, 4S9 Park avenue. East Hartford; Hel­en Allely, 51 W. Middle Turnpike, Manchester.

Protest Made On Vandalism

In (]on^iilate(Continued from Page One)

cla .Saturday, tore pictures oK^he walls and ■ made speeches to visl- tor.s at the consulate.

They, were arro.stcd by Spaiiush liolicc. It was the llrsl time, as far as is known nere. that the Spanish government had moved agaihst anti-foreign demonstrations by members ot the Fulange. only ofTi- cial party. ’’

Sonic moiitbs ago Kalangi.slas entered tlie same consutale at Valencia and stole some informa­tion bulletins. The United States prolcsteil St that time, but the culprits were novel- caught.

I Indirect Warning To Spain The unusual publication of Am­

bassador Hayes' report was re­garded as an iniliiect warning to Spain that this government takes a serious view of the disturbances.

Last week, the British govern­ment in a .strongly wordeil state­ment refused to accept the Span­ish answer to Its protest over an insult to the British consul it .Saragossa. Spain had .said the government was not ic.sponsible for the Kalangi.sts actions, but the British said that since they wore uniformed niembcrs of the official party, Madrid should account for them.

The State department has not indicated wfiethcr Spain has re­plied yet to the latest complaint, but it was learned that an apolo­gy, punishment of the two Kalan- gisU and some sort ot assuiance that the incidents would not be repeated were probably requested.

Trying to Appease Generals One source said Franco is ap­

parently t r y ^ to appea.se the generals and antl-Faliingist ele­ments in Spain in an effort to cir­cumvent possible overthrow of his regime.

Persistent rumors o f an im­pending coup have been circulat­

ing and ’ it is apparent that many Spaniards, now convinced of A l­lied victory, are hoping to remod­el their government In lime for the peace conference.

Blue Legion Leader (iiven Military Medal

Madrid. Dec. 22. -(>Pi—Gen. Es­teban Infantes, commander of the Spanish Blue Legion w)iich has been fightiiif, beside the Germans in Rfissia, ba.s boeni a-ivarded the

I military medal, one of the high- ' cst .decorations of the Spanish Army, it was announced today.

The general returned to Spain laat wqek along with a large part of the legion.

The award was disclosed in a long communique covering five .sessions of th«k cabinet over which Generalissimo l^rancisco Franco presided.

Cabinet Approve PardonsThe announcement said the cab­

inet- had approved an unspecified number of "pardons for the Christmas fiestas” and that 3.200 political prisoners had been giVen their conditional liberty.

Franco had decreed earlier that all Republicans imprisoned under the law of military rebellion might be freed If they show "exemplary conduct and absence of malice."

A recommendation also was sent to the Cortes (Legislature) providing for re-establishment of the right of Spaniards to appeal deci.slons of the government.

“ Cerluin Elastli'lty” UrgedThis reform, it was expected,

may follow the lines suggested earlier this week by Jose Luis Arreae, secretary general of the Falange, Spain’s single political party. He urged that Franco au­thorize a "certain elasticity" In the regime mav that the civil war is long past.

Another decree aniiouhccd to­day dealt with reorganization of the powerful Falange militia which, it was indicated by an an­nouncement two days ago. either will be dissolved or iiicoi-iioratcd Ir. the regular Army.

Matter Considered ClosedLondon, Dec. 22—(/Pi —A T'oi--

eign Office spokesman said today there have been "further ex­changes and as.surance.s between Madrid and London over the Zara­goza (Saragossa) incident anJ the matter is considered closed.

Theater Aids ^Waves’ Drive

Picture on Navy Service For Women to Be Shown at the State.With the showing of Uie short

.subject "Chipf Neelyy Reports to the Nation” at the State theater starting Dec. 29 the United States Navy will inaugurate an intensive campaign to interest women here in the "W aves." A representative of the "W aves’ ’ will be in the lob­by of the State theater to an.swer any questions pertaining to the service.

The work of the "Waved" has proved Invaluable to the U. S. Navy and the girls in this service are contributing directly to the winning of the war.

The Navy gives the girls spe­cial instructions that will be a val­uable stepping stone not only in the Navy but also to a successful career upon return to civilian life.

No previous experience is nec­essary to qualify a girl foi special training. In a number of schools "Waves” will study along, side Navy enlisted men. They will take the same courses of training for the Same types of work, with ex- pon.ses paid by the Navy.

Never in history has there been such an urgent need for services of the American woman. This is a total war, a war in which every woman as well as every man must play a part.

"Chief Neeley Reports to the Nation" details the experience , of an old .chief petty officer of the Navy who is assigned to special duty training "W kves" to replace their male counterparts.-^ The film is released by the War Activities Committee of the Motion Picture Industry of which I. J.•Hoffman and Harry F. Sha\v arc chairman and co-chairman respectively of the Connecticut branch.

Operating .Mo<lel Programs

Visil by IVlarsliall Stirs Battle Line;

I

Jap Fliers Active(Continued from Page One)

Hartfiu-d, Dec. 22.—lA’i - .State War Administrator Haiolil F. Woodcock, urging last night the es­tablishment of community recrea­tional programs as a means of lift­ing the morale of w-ar workers re­cently come to Connecticut and of combatting Juvenile delinquency, said Waterbiiry, New Canaan and Colchester were operating pro­grams that could serve as a model for other communities in the state.

. . fOR 0ESI . . . fOR BECl ■

PERCENI

• All 1•— 1“ T ~ r

— 'nN\J V J

I -l.

Lovely holiday items from our southern neighbor, Me.\ico. Each item crocheted in the beautiful colorful tones of the Sunny South.

\ -i. /

r-1

■ ■)

DlllCH CAP ' 19BMAICR MIES m

i -f

Size* 32 to 40

ing at the Taroa airdrome on the Maloelap atoll touched off Arcs and explosions am oilg. hangars and storage depots with 25 tons of ex­plosives. They were met by 30 enemy Zero hghters, downing four and probably destroying five others. ,

While in the Southwc.st Pacifle Marshall talked with Gen. Sir Thomas A. Blarney, Australian general in command o f ground forces in the .iJouthwest Pacific, and Lieut. Gon. George C. Kenney, commander- of Allied Forces in' this theater.

Marshall Aew to the PAcifle sla- tion.s by way o f India, Ce^on and Australia. His stops in India and Ceylon took him Into the new- Southeast Asia command of Ad­miral Lord L^uis Mountbatten, established to prosecute the war against the Japanese in the Burma sector.

The chief of staff was - accom­panied by Maj. Gen. Thomas T. Handy, chief of operations of the U. S. Army; Rear Admiral C. M. Cookem deputy chief of staff for Navy operations: Brig. Gen.Hay­wood Hansell chief of the War Plans division of the Army .Vir forces, and Lieut. Col. P'rank Mc­Carthy, military secretary of Mar- .shall:.

Geriiiaiis Hit Aloiijr Entire

War Sector(('oiitinued from Page One)

miles north of the Gilberts, ever since.

The attacks on the Marshall islands at first attracted little Japane.se aerial oppositlorii but the latest reported. Sunday and Monday. by« Seventh Army A ir Force heavy Liberator bombers, met a heavy enemv air counter­attack and on Monday three -jf the big bombers were lost and others damaged.

The bombers, however, in strik-

Faihioned of soft wool with h flVfS contrasting flow-er buds. u lu i lu

PEPPERMINI SUCK PUAMAS '

Additional Troops Reach Forward Area

Advanced Solomons Ba.se. -Dee. 21— (Delayed) — rAh— Additional troops as well as thousands of ton.» of military supplies and equipment are arriving in forward area.s of the Solomons in the American campaign to capture Bougainville island.

This was disclosed tixlay by Rear Admiral Theodore S. Wilkin­son. Washington, D. C.. command­er of South Pacifle amphibious forces, to provide still another in­dication that the Battle of the Salomons may be virtually over.

(The .Ispanese have .shown signs in recent days of evacuatinc the southern half of ' Bougainville Secretary of the Navy Knox said in \\ a.shmgton yesterday the mi­gration wa.s an obvioii.s Japanese effort to concentrate their forces in the north of the island l.

There ai-e an estimated 25.000 Japanese tnxips on Bougainville which together w.ith little Buka Lsland just off its northern tip represents the northernmost ene­my holding in the Solomons.

The Solomons A ir Force has completed the job of neutralizing enemy airfields and ali-eady has turned its striking power against New Britain. 250 miles from the new American airstrip on the Bougainville beachhead.

American Naval unlU have erected a sea blockade to contri­bute to the successful campaign to sever the 25.2po troops on Boii- Ruinvillc and the 10.000 thought to be on Buka, from the Japanese lifeline to Truk and the empire.

Finally, the amphibious forces have won the battle o f supply— one of the least publicized yet most important phases of the entire northern Solomons opei-ation.

Admiral Wilkinson, In an inter­view, said troops along with thousands o f tons o f niilitarj’ sup­plies and equipment, and food, were arriving in forward areas each week "without serious inter- nipt ion."

Since the Marines landed at Empress Augusta bay Nov. 1. only one transport has been sunk— the World War destroyer McKean. Slow moving landing craft, screen­ed by warships, have arrived at Bougainville regularly to disgorge their Invasion cargo. Treasury i.sland, off the southwest coast of Bougainville, which is In American hands, also is receiving a i^rtion o f the aupplies.

Japs Claim Sinking Of 1 1 Allied Ships

London, bee. 22. — (/pi — The Tokyo radio broadcast an imperial headquarters communique today asserting that Japanese aircraft had sunk nine Allied transports and two cruisers in an attack yes­terday on a convoy off Cape Mer- kus. New Britain.

The broadcast, recorded here by The Associated Press, W'as not con­firmed by Allied quarters.

(Further details of the alleged attack* on the Allied convoys off Cape Merkus, as broadcast by the Tokyo radio and recorded by The Associated Press, said that other transports and warships were damaged by Japanese Naval planea and ^ a t a large number of Allied landing craft were destroy­ed. The irangports and landing craft were destroyed. The trans­ports and landing craft were load­ed with troops and supplies, ac­cording to the broadcast

(The Japanese planea attackeil in four waves, twice in the morn­ing and twice in the afternoon, the Japanese communique said, add­ing that four Allied planes were shot dowrn during the day, while live Japanese aircraft were los t)

Japanese Farcies Cleared From Area South of Lin

Chungking, Dec. 32— (>P)— The Chinese high command announced tonight that Japanese. forces had been cleared from the area south of the Lin river, thus restoring half of the rice bowl to China.

Enemy remnants on the north bank o f the Lin also were said to have been cleared. The Mmmuni* que indicated the Japanese with­drawal was continuing with the Chinese "pursiilng the fleeing Jap­anese on various routes, making considerable progress."

To Dec. 2, the Chinese estimated officially that the,enemy had lost 30,000 killed and wounded.

Sunday of the Bosnian town of Jajee. (iesevibed as T ito ’s head­quarters. The report said Tito and his government were In flight. There was no confirmation of this enemy, beport.

A Tranaorean dispatch, also broadcast by Berlin, took cogniz­ance of the considerable amount of war material being fepried across the Adriatic from Italy to the partisan's when it reported that Hitler’s puppet forces In eastern Bosnia had captured 27 tank); and two anti-tank guns from Tito's forces.

. Tito's Losses ListedThe dispatch listed T ito ’s losses

since the opening of the present Bosnian campaign as 2,926 killed, 4.0(M) wounded and 2.800 captured. Croat (N azi) units In the .same period lost 106 killed, 3,335 wounl- ed and seven missing, the dis­patch added.

\ Cairo di.spatch said that Ivan Kiimr, 26, son of iJk. Ivan Ribar, president of the Yugoslav Na­tional Council for Liberation had been killed by a bomb dropped from a German plane as he was prenaring to leave Yugoslavia to confer with Allied military lead­ers in Alexandria last month. Ivan, the second son of Dr. Ribar to die within a month, was a colo­nel on Marshal Tito’s supreme command.

If ill Have to Regroup Dispersed Forces

Cairo, Dec. 22.— (/iPi—There w ire indications here today that Marshal Josip Broz (T ito ) will have to reg-roup his • partisan forces, which have been badly dis­persed by superior German srtength in Bosnia. Montenegro and Albania, before any major anti-Nazi assault is possible.

It now is known, however, that Tito has been receiving direct support by American and British bombing and strafing plabes and there is a general expectation that this support will be accelerat­ed.

Club DefeiidaulIn .S2.500 Suit

William J. Mullin, employed by L. T. Wood, has brought suit for $2,500 against the Polish Ameri­can Club, Inc., through his attor­ney, Jay Rubinow. The papers w ^ c serc'cd on the officers of the clqk. yeste>-day and property of the club located on Clinton street has been attached.

Mullin claims that he wiis In the club on Oct 2, and when he open­ed a door which he supposed led to the men’s room instead the door led to the cellar. He fell down the stairs and injured his shoulder, arm and elbow, the paper states, and that he has been unable to work. He also spent, he claims, money for X-ray and doctor bills.• The case is returnable to the February term of the Superior court.

.\lcohol Blamed Fur Death

NOW PLAYINGTHERE’S A THRILL

IN THE AIRWALT DISNEY’S ]VICTORY

THROUGHAIR POWER

/# T ie iH H m u tI tsssd ss ihs ssMis slii hsst-silir ,\ MAJOR De SEVERSKY, iPlus; "Lstceny With Music"

STARTS XMAS DAYFOR 4 DAYS

Danbury, Dec. 22.— (/Pj— Police blamed rubbing alcohol for the death of one man and the critical illqess of his companion here. Police Capt. Michael J. Barrett said Sanford Platt, 78. in danger­ous condition at Danbury hospital, told him he and Walter Carpenter, 65, found dead in hia home Ias£ night, drank two bottles of rub­bing alcohol Monday. Dr. John D. Booth, medical examiner, gave acute alcoholism as the cause of Carpenter’s death.

CircleMANCMtSTIH

TODAY AND THURSDAY HEP-CATS — JIYE K IDS! !

Here’s a Swingeroo That’s Strictly In the Groove! !

MMMI'

I iffouWLGy SUMtAJUN K M Tra N( to trn e A ie t H TstsN o x

. i A * B « . l H S « tOaSftCMUUS TM M M C A S m CINMS

atm Ml DM auan « cm'-4

AN D * ------- -------"APPO IN TM E N T IN BERLIN ”

Keep Watehing This Spisre, Folks— The Hetai’s On and

Getting Hot:

MIDNITi SHOW EVIRy FRIDAY

leimjuuswm-EiiD

F n i .S A X k S U N .

S//r S r/ ffaZ/eff /A'rand 4HIS

FAMOUS BANDV I R G I N I A M A X E V PEANUTS H O L L A N D

AL KILLIAN * TPUMMY YOUNG

Sti6ut ZieJAtZJIM WONG TMUPE

OMMAii m m tmtuM m a c t .

ARTHURSCREEN K o y 1IO G C 1ISHANDS ACROSS THE BORDER

Bolivia Wants To Cooperate With Yankees(Continued front Page One)

aimed at determining ^culpability for the shootings would follow.

The Catavi killings have beer the cause of much bitterness in th« country and resulted last August in the resignation of' the nine-man cabinet of Eqrique Penaranda. th« now deposed president, in the fac« of a barrage of criticism directed by the Nationalist Revolutionary Movement and the leftist Revolu­tionary party.

Penaranda BlamedThe NMR, from which most of

the new leaders are drawn, blamed General Penaraiuia himself for the killing.s,

(A dispatch from Arica, Chile, meanwhile, quoted Penaranda os vigorously denying upon his ar­rival there that he had either signed or dictated the re.signation read over the radio Monday by Victor Paz Estenssoro, new fi­nance minister and leader of the revol ution.

( " I have not renounced and I re­fused to sign the documents they brought to me," Penaranda as­serted. He expressed the "inti­mate conviction” that not all the young Army officers participated in the revolution.)

Denies Nazle Tie-UpA t the same time, Villalfoel,

the new president, emphatically denied a charge which Penaranda made at Arica that the revolution was organized and carried out by Nazi elements.

“General Penaranda mistakes the sense of the words democracy and Nazism." said Villarroel. "He states that his oppressive govern­ment, full of . lawlessness, waa democratic and calls us ' fijizia when our most firm intention is to attain full democracy.”

The capital became compara­tively quiet In the wake of the re­volt and international air traffic was resumed, but spokesmen for the government said a state of emergency would be maintained for some days. Traffic police were carrying rifles.

• W ill Not Burden MinesPaz-Estenssoro said the gov­

ernment would not burden the mining industry..-.^oUvla’s main source of wealth, with taxes be­yond its capacity, but added that the Finance Ministry would not bo "a lawyer for the mining com- piynies." The country’s tin ore mines produce a large part of the tin used in making U. S. and British arms.

Spokesmen for the government said the regime intended to desig­nate polling places in La Paz for' presidential and congressional elections In May, 1944, and assert­ed that a provision would be in­serted In the constitution binding the new government to continue its guarantees to the citizens.

Possibility of VetoFaces Revenue Bill

Milk Shortage In Area Ends

Roosevelt Declines to | »C ‘=“SSinr"‘"‘"Say Whether He Holds The bin a i« . would give . con

Same View as Morgen- thau on Measure.By James Marlow and George

ZielkeWashington, Dec. 22— (/P)— Will

tractor who has been renegotiated the right to a new court determ: ination.

Differ on .Amount RecoveredSecretary Morgehthau says 5

billion dollars have been recovered through renegotiation. Assistant Secretary of War Patnersot places the net recovery to the govem-

Enough to Supply All Demands for Next Two Weeks at Least.

- - the net recovery lo uic ruvc*u-President Roosevelt veto the reve- \ at IVa billions, after allowingnue bill Congress has been work- j for taxes which otherwise would Ing on for months? j have been pai<l by ,lL*i

That question came to the fore when Treasury SigereUry Morgen- thau exclaimed at a news confer­ence that as the bill now stands."the Treasury would be better on with no tax bill—but on that basis we’d ^ aw’fully bad off."

President Roosevelt declined vesterday to say whether he shared Morgenthau’a view of thebill. „ *

Principal Polnis ot ArgumentThere are two principal points

of argument:1. Is the bill worthwhile as a

revenue-raiser? “2 Would it, as Morgenthau con­

tended, by changing the law re­specting renegotiation of war con-

’ tfaCts to recapture excessive prof­its, open the door to "truly extor^ Donate profits?"

Secretary Morgenthau still sets his goal 11 10>,4 billions o f addi- t onal revenue next year. The bill, as polished off yesterday by theSenate Finance 12 Isigned to raise an additional275.600.000. „

Morgenthau says this figure onprospective revenue m u s t^ eon- Sidered In the Ught of the fact that postponement of the automa tic doubling of the social security tax (now 1 per cent each ploye and employer) would deprive the Treasury of an estimated »1,-400.000. 000 negt year.

Depends on RenegotlsUonHowever, the question of

presidenUal veto probably depeo^s primarily on the proposed changes in renegotiation.

The changes, if enacted, would narrow considerably the field of contracts subject to renegotiation.

A t present, any contract for more than $100,000 Is subject to revision by the Army, Navy Maritime commission. The bill as it now stands would ban renegotia­tion of any contract involving less than $500,000 a year.

One o f the prime points of argu­ment Is a provision that would exempt from renegoUatlon any contract or subcontract for "stand­ard commercial articles" —defined generally as articles identical to those sold for civilian or commer­cial use prior to Jan. 3, 1940. This phrase apparently would cover vast amount of war purchases. Would Make Exemption Mandatory

AJB the bill passed the House, it contained a provision that the pro­posed war contracts price adjust­ment board would be “authorized in iU discretion" to exempt such contracts for standard articles; the Senate committee would make this exemption mandatory.

Exempt from renegotiation also under the bill, would be contracts for agricultural commodities. The House definition of agricultural commodities, in the words of the House Way* and Means commit tee, "is broad”— and the Senate committee apeclflcally added dairy producU to the list. This particu­lar exemption would be retroactive to April. 1942, leaving the way open for renegotiated firms to sue for total recovery of any amounts paid back In the Interim as exces­sive profits.

Another Senate ■ committee amendment would exempt

\

Morgenthau’s estimate of the bill is that it contains "the seed of a national scandal.”

The Chamber of Commerce of the United SUtes, In iU weekly summary of national affairs, says:

"Still further Improvements in the pending revenue bill, particu­larly In regard to renegotiation, have been made by the Senate F i­nance committee. While provisions ii the House bill were good as far as they went, the Senate commit­tee wisely has decided to apprbach still more closely an equitable re­negotiation statute.”

Granted Divor.ee From Grom well

Reno, Nev., Dec. 22—(Al—Tall, red-haired Doris Duke Cromwell, 31-year-old “ richest girl in the world,” has been granted a default divorce decree from James H. R. Cromwell, former U. 8. Minister to Canada.

But In New Jersey, where Cfom- well has filed a divorce complaint against the tobacco fortune heir­ess, his attorneys said measures would he taken promptly to have yesterday’s decree "adjudged to be null and void.”

Mrs. Cromwell has until Dec. 30 to appear to defend herself in the New Jersey action. The Chancery court there had issued an injunc­tion against the Nevada proceed­ing but District Judge William McKnlght in Reno disregarded the New Jersey suit.

The heiress ia id last night she i had no plans for a New Jersey trip and her attorney, William Wood-

" burn, indicated no appearance would be made in the New .lersey action.

Vfomseii HoiiorMan of G/lass

U. S. Submarine Base, New Lohdon, Dec. 22.— (/P)—LieuLCha,rtes B. Momsen. Jr., U.S.N., 23 years of age, was designated honor man In the class which was graduated from the Submarine o f­ficers school here today and was awarded the L. Y. Spear founda tion prize for standing number one In the class. , -

Lieutenant Momsen is the son of Capt. C. B. Momsen, U.S.N., inventor of the Momsen lung, un derwater breathing apparatus. During the development o f the lung. Captain Momsen, who waa a graduate of Annapplls In 1920 made all the trials himself and, for this display of courage, he received the Distinguished Service Medal.

Lieutenant Momsen has been residing with his wife, Helen C., and their eight months old daugh­ter at - Sharaf street. New Lon­don. He wai a 1942 graduate of Annapolis. Hia parents. Captain and Mrs. Momsen, live at 2436 39th'Place, Washington, D. C.

Boston, Dec. 22.—OP)— The short­age of milk in New England I* over for the present, Samuel W Tator, representative of the War Food administration, announced today.

Tator said that for the first time since Nov. 6. distributors in this region are expected to have enough milk to 'supply all the de­mands for the next two weeks at least.

His announcement followed a meeting of the Advisory committee of producer co- iperative associa­tions and milk distributors.Closing Of Schools' Cause Decline

Tator added that the closing of schools waa one qf the Important factors causing a decline In milk sales during the holiday season.

In a statement the War Food administration authority , said, however, that "for the next two months milk will continue to be relatively short as compared with the demand In New England.

" It la possible that needs will again surpass the available supply when schools are reopened after New Year’s day.

"Unusually cold weather, or storms which delay transportation of ntllk might create temporary shortages during January or Feb­ruary. In the ’ event o f any such shortages the allochtion of avail­able supplies among distributors will be resumed under the pro visions of the allocation agreement which remains In effect until Feb. 29."

Tator said that the shortage was caused "primarily by the tremen­dously Increased consumption of fluid milk In this region as com pared with any previous year.

Inereaae In Production Helps “ The usual slackening of demand

for milk during the holiday season ih largely responsible for the sup­ply catching up to needs. The con­tinued seasonal increase in pixjduc- tion Is also contributing to easing of the situation.

"During the seven weeks in whFch the shortage has existed, the available supplies of approxi­mately 700 distributors In five New England states have been pooled weekly In order that each one could have his fair share of the total supply.

"An allocation agreeinent. ap­proved by the War Food adminis­tration, and entered Into by these 700 distributors, prevented ex­treme shortages In many com­munities and mad* it possible for all consumers in this region to ob­tain milk.”

2 Shopping Days Till CHRISTMAS

Highland Park Club’s ProgramAnnual ChrislmaB Party

To Be Held Tomorrow Evening al 7 :30.The annual Christmas party of

the HlghlaiS Park Community Club will take place tomorrow evening at 7:16 at the clubhouse. The program will consist of reci­

tations, alnging, pt’ano. vioitn and, comet mu*lc, a visit from » n t a Claus and a social time with re­freshments. - , 'I,

Those who will participate In­clude James McKay, Jf.. OConnsU, Paul Rlaley,Hunter. Robert Cross, Richardson, Judith Beer, DM lel O ’Connell, Marilyn Keith. Richard Moquin, Marjorie, Janet, A lw rt, James and Robert Gorman, Vale- rie Hagenow, Richard Bengston, Carol Johnson, Daniel O’Brten, Sylvia Keith, Eugene Moquin, Pa­tricia Fitzgerald, Marsha D«S1- mone. Marcia Albro, Susan Crock­ett, Edward Dwyer, Laura Win­ters, Robert Bowker, NancjC'Cus

ter, James Rlker, Marjorie Cooley. Joan Simons, Gary Dougan, 1 George Rlsley. Barbara Sale, Elis­abeth Caldwell, Sean, Thomas and. Eileen Murphy, Marilyn Johnson, Ruth Bowker, Janet S(ffiaub.

James McKay and hia Boys’ Club will see to the decorations, Mrs. Carl Bengston the refresh­ments, Mr. and Mrs. Cha)rlc8 N. Crockett, the program.

Sir Walter Raleigh is credited with Introducing mahogany Into England, presenting Queen Eliza­beth with a table made of the wood he had found in the New World.

ALIUB COFKAN (Knows Aa Queen AMM);

SPIRITUAL MEDIUM Seventh Ihuighler nl n Seventh Son

Born With n VML Kendlngs DnUy., Inclndlng OonAny. 9 A. M. to 9 P. M. Ot By Appoint* ment. In the Bervieo nf the Pan* pie for SO Tear*.169 Church Street. Hartford. Conn.

Piione 6-50*4

Winchester Tells Of Output Jump

New Haven, dec. 22.—((P)—A 4,765 per cent Increase In the pro­duction of center fire military ammunition Is estimated, for all of 1943 aa compared to an aver­age peacetime year production of Winchester Repeating Arms Co., a division of Western Cartridge C3o., was announced today by Thomas I. fl. Boak. company ex­ecutive. .

A 998 per cent increase In the prerfuctlon of center fire rifles up to now in 1943 and estimated un­til Jan. 1, as compered to an aver­age year of similar peacetime rifle manufacture, was also an­nounced by Boak. The wartime rifle production centers on the Garand rifle and the new Win* cheater carbine.

The caliber .30 cartridge leads the production of center fire am­munition for Army use. Over a year ago the company announced its design of the new caliber .30 carbine cartridge and that It waa In full production or this type of ammunition. The caliber .30 car­bine cartridge preceded the de­sign of the Winchester carbine, which was selected by the Ord­nance department in competition with leading gun-makers, of the country.

ONLY 2 MORE DAYS!

BUT KEITH’S

STII/L OFFERS

PLENTY OF

LOVELY GIFTS

Ol’ EN TONIGHT AND THURSDAY T i l . 9 P. .M,

CI.OSED FRID AY .^UTER 6 P. M. /

WARDS A lt if t CHRISTMAS

) a g e - r ^ i l e nEast Hartford

WISHES YOU

AMERRY CHRISTMAS

H VS}.fk '>

arance SOLID MAHOGANY PULL UP CHAIRS

A. aupeib g ift—in authentic poriiKl dc.sign, cii.'ffom tailor­ed, fine in A In D i

* every dclsil, 1

■MONTGOMERY WARD

■A N

Ask Your Neighbor About Us <

RE-UPHOLSTERING. B y

MacDonaldAssures you A choice selec­tion of fabrics including Friezettes, Denims, Tapes­tries, etc. For Prompt, Courteous Service, Depend­ability and Guaranteed Workmanship.

PhoneHartford 3-4127And Reverse Chargee.

Reduced fo?

clearance!

OUR R E G U LA R l . 9 t DRESSES

.y

VARIETY OF MIRRORSPeriod styles, modem styles, aU plate glass, fully guaran­teed. A g ift of enduring cheer. Prices Q Cfrom ................

1 .4 9

c

FI 1

And l » v ^ MscDonald representative cnil nt your home.

MacDonald Upholstery Co.98.1 MAIN STREET. HARTFORD 2-4127

POPULARFO O D M A R K E T

O U R R E G U L A R 2 . 9 S DRESSES

1 * 8 9 TO 2 6 4 9

OUR RBO ULA R 3 . 9 S DRESSES

2 . 4 9 TO 3 . 2 9You'll .ov. money on these cotton, I They'r. the proeticol loog-weorlno

droue. you hove o dozen u,., fori Neat, sturdy frock, for housework,

morketinfl. wor work . . . ond smort enough for daylong wear nest Spring I All

drosticolly reduced to cleor. Broken size, for juniors, misses ond women.

GAY HASSOCKS\ ■ in^qmart modem designs m endui^lng leatherette. Varie­ty ofxaizes and shapes and colors.\Prices Q Cfronv . ; . . . . vP A

M E N ’ S

B L A N K E T - L I N E D

W O R K J A C K E T S

CLEARANCE MOYEITY APRONS

2 9 c »1 .1 9

k n e e h o i .e d esk s

Yes! We have them. ‘ Au­thentic 18th Century design with rope carved edges, 7 drawers, authentic hardware,

T,..<..... $39.504

REGULARLY 59c ta I.9S■ !■

j 1855 MAIN STREET RUBINOW BUILDING

Fruit and Vegetable Specials ''

BANANAS

13c lb.SEEDLESS OBAPEFBUR

6 for 19cMclNTOSH APPLES

3 lbs. 3 lcI e n d iv e and ESCABOLB

2 lbs. 35e

FLORIDA ORANGES

25c dox.f a n c y m ix e d n u t s

59c lb.ONIONS

3 lb*. 22cf r e s h to m a to e s

29c box

FORMERLY A . A f . e . Y O U SAVE M

A warm, servkeabls jocket you'll find yourseM depending -

on every day. The outside is sturdy cotton twill in a prac­

tical gray-green herringbone pattern that's slow to show seill And->fuHy Tsied in wed and cotton plaid blanket

cloth ! Two roomy pockets, convertible neck. Sove now I

Ward

k ■BUY

K 'd g iW M P .y

So pretty you'll buy them in two’s and three’s I Thsy'r# th# msrry Tittl# oprons

you've wonted . . . yours at low prices 1

/ Also reduced for quick clsoronee:— Spoctol group of robot ond drossy housocoolsl Hstffyl

A l

.ontgomery824.828 MAIN ST. TEL. S W l MANCHESTER

ontgomery824-828 MAIN STREET TEL. 5161 MANCHESTER

f ir e s c r e e n BRIDGE TABLES

Superb full color decorations.,,] Acta as firescreen or sturdy bridge table.Complete Q Kwi t h s t a n d . . . .

KEITH'SMato itreet. Manehestor |

OPEN TONIGHT, t h l 'b k d a y t i l 9 P. M. .

(OloMd At 6 P. M. Christasoo ^EvgJo

1RCRd Herald Advi*,

W A M JH fcS T E K B V E N IW U

Gifts to Go To Children

North Ehd Firenien Do­nate Presents to Home it Newington.

gueBt» who attended the Unquet and Chrletmaa party giv- S by the Manchester Fire Depart­ment last Sunday evanlnif wonder­ed what an the packages under the lighted Christmas tree were doing there. The firemen at the North End were not anxious to have any publicity attend this part of their action so when the party ended the presents were still there.

This morning, however, Erling Larsen took time out from a busy day to load his car with the pre.s- ents from the fire department and take them to the Home for Crip­pled Children in Newington. There were upwards of eighty packages to bring some Joy to the unfortun­ate kiddies this Chri.stmas.

Apparently this has been a prac­tice for some years and today Chief Roy Griswold would not say much, nor tell who was behind the Idea. In previous years most of the presents stayed right here in Manchester. Inasmuch as there W'as an exceptionally small list here in 1943 the bulk of the pres­ents. donated by the members, have been d fllvered to Newington.

Jack.snnville, Fla , Edward Turner, about oO, said by Dunigan to be owner if the yuartcraeck Club in Miami. Ala., and Arthur Lom­bardi, 45, of New Haven. Conn.

Federal Jiirvliidiets Ten

(Continiied from Page One)

Ing and conspiring to defraud the government by switching labels on graded ammunition and by 'caus­ing to be packed and shipped to the War department ammunition which had not been inspected ac­cording to terms of the govern­ment contract with the company.

Production Hidden by SecrecyThe plant's production is hidden

by wartime secrecy but It was dis­closed last fall that more than .3,- 000,000 roiinds of .30 and ..50 cali­ber ammunition had been pro­duced there, since December. 1911.

Those indicted were Paul Eu­gene Thaller, 27; George Joseph Graef. 35: John Benton Slaneri34; Edmund Peter Becker, 26; Glenn Terry Cromwell, 31; Mlro Brda. ■11; Amos Bruce Phelps, 33; George John Wuick, 47; Irvan Ste­phan Cohen. 49, and Otto Albert Skinner, 38.

Jury AcquitsAccused (iirl

Black MarketRing Smashed

(linnOniMd fraoi Page One)

approached by a group of men of­fering to supply legitimate liquor at black market prices. ^

The prices quoted, Dunigan add­ed, were Mfi a caae for Scotch which has a $43 ceiling price; $76 a caae for bourbon, and $66 a case for rye.

An unidentified agent posed as an assistant buyer fqr the hotel and devised a fake $43,000 deal, Dunigan disclosed. Three of the men were arrested when they came to the hotgi to collect pay­ment. The others wer- apprehend­ed later.

Thoae arrested were identified by Dunigan as Morris Schpenfield, 38, and J. O. Hearty, 48, both of New York; Philip'Peters, 28, and William J. Regan, about 55, both of Detroit; Harry Novick, 48, of

(Continued from Page One)

found dea(J in his bed with five bullet wounds. Jerry, in another room was dying with two wound.s. and Mrs. Kiger' was shot in the hip. Fifteen bullets were fired from t’hree revolvers.

Polifie found two of the guns In a cistern under the porch at the Kiger home. Mrs. Klger handed the other gun to officers saying that Joan had given It to her.

Fighting the "nightmare theory,” the prosecution argued that the slaying of Kiger was com­mitted with "malice’' and that Jerry was killed because "he was big enough to talk.”

Parents of Twin Boys

Putnam. Dec. 22—(jn— Mrs. T. Emmett Clarle, wife of the Dem­ocratic minority Jeader. of the state House of Representatives, gave birth last night to twin boys at the Day KlmbaJJ hospital here. Clarle. aX attorney. Is also the father of A small daughter.

Ailto FirmsUrged Join

Willi I^bor(OoitHnned from Page One)'

sufficient work, slow moving op­erations and general Indifference,'/ the editorial did not Identify tXe plants as Ford or General Molqrs.

These conditions, the editorial said, were "recently disclosed In hundreds Of letters to a Detroit newspaper," and added that they "actually exist in too many In­stances,

"We know this from our own In- ve.stlgatlons." the editorial con­tinues. "No good American In­dustrialist, worker or unionist can he proud of them. And so long as industrialists make no move to­ward the kind of plant teamwork developed by the labor-manage­ment Xonunlttees, I t i.s useless to place the blame elsewhere*’

All of Evidenee Presented

Hurtford. Dec. 22— uPl —The Greyhound Bus Lines, Inc., com­pleted the presentatior of its evi­dence yesterday at a hearing on Its petition to the Public Utilities Commission for permission to car­ry intrastate passengers on cer­tain of it."i_route8 In Connecticut for the duration. The commission will hear opponents of the petition. Including the New Haven railroad, the Connecticut Company, the New England Transportation and the New Haven * Shore Line Rail­way Company, when the hearing resumes Monday.

Salt water fishes, including sharks, tarpon and swordfish, are found in the 'reah water lakef, Nicaragua and Managua, ■ in Cen­tral America.

Poane Street Chicken M arket,‘}7 Doane St. Tel. 2-1402

Plenty of

Large Roasting ChickensFor Chrbtmas

WE’RK OPEN EVER¥ NIGHT-UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

^ ‘

MEN PREFER HANDSOME GIFTS FROM KELLER’S

Something he needs. . .something that will last a long tim e.. .:>omothing to boost his morale — you'll find Jhem all here.^

- KELLER’S- HOSIERY

Famous Buffer Hosiery by Wilson Broth­e rs .. .iTlnforced for extra wear. Short or legular lengths.

LISLES A M ) WOOL MIXTURES40c Pair And .More.

- KELLER’S- SHIRTS

‘ tk

AVOID INFLUENZAIf You See a Fellow With a Cold, RUN!— Or Your^,

Nose Will Run Later

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF

Influenza is contagious, you shoukj;

You "catch" it from some one else. To protect yourself

Keep away from sick people.Keep away from houses where anyone is ill with a cold, influenza, pneumonia or other disease.Keep away from crowds during an outbreak.Avoid food, penclla, chewing gum, candy, horns, whistles and other objects that have been in contact with the mouth of some one else.Avoid drinking cupe and eating utensils used by another until they have been properly washed and aterillzed.Wash your hands before eating.Avoid fatigue. Keep up the resistance of your body to disease germs by regular habits, clothing enough to avoid chllUitK, moderate eating, driiiking plenty of water, adequate sleep and rest.Go to bed at the first sign of a cold. It may be Influenza. Call a doctor promptly, and follow hie advice.Slay at home till you have fully regained your atrength to avoid the hazard of a relapse or a complicating pneumonia.

HOW TO PROTECT OTHERS

You can give influenza to others, you should:

If you have a cold or symptoms of influenfiia

Stay at home. Do not expose others. ' /Cover each cough or sneeze 'with a cloth or handkerchief that will eaten dropIeU or mouth spray. * -Destroy all discharges from the nose and mouth. / /Do not stand close to people when you talk. You may spray them.Wash your han^ before handling food. / ^Do not spit! Spitting spreads disease.Stay at home till the doctor is sure you do not have influenza, or have passed the contagious stage.

PROTECT OTHERS

AS YOU WANT THEM TO PROTECT YOU!

PR. D. C. Y. MOORE,Chairman, Board of Health.

Shop^flarly . . .Open laiexThursdsy evening (Dec x 3 )' but we will close 'Nday evening (Dec 24) vp ihai we, too, can spends Christmas eve at home

WHOLE 01 EITHER HALF

Wilson Brothers ShirtsHe'll look and feel his best in a Wilson ' Brothers shirt cut full" through chest and shoulders. Regular and other col­lar styles. /

$ 2 . 2 5 — $ 2 . 5 0

TIE WELL C H C N E Y WEAR WELL

Game Bird Seriesas advertised in “Esquire”

L^uriout new fabrics and distinctive patterns in Bird jH?’ ***. *i2*,*"'i?**' Pf«"«titing nosv a brand newedition of this Game Bird line . . . Hsndsonier than ever.

hTHER NECKWEAR 55c to .$2.00

Radiant W ith Magic Christmas Cheer and Sparkling Colors For

Family - - For Friends

THE PERFECT GIFT

i

i

The Christinas Emblem Plant THE P O I N S E T T I A B r i g h t Red Blooms — Park Green Foliage.

Other Christinas Plants Azaleas, Begonids, Kalanchoes, DIah Gardens.

\ /

Corsages /Gardenias, VloIet«k Sweet Peas, Or­chids — priced according to flowers used. , -

<•

HoUday Cut Flowersi

Roses r— Short or medium. Roaes — Long and fancy. Carnations.

Boxes of Assorted Cut Flowers Other Masonable Cut Flowers, in­cluding Snapdragons, Pompons.

I

COOKED HAMS t i C .X .35‘\

|\S p t i . Q Q Ci H * - l b O O

WHOLE or EITHER H A LF.

SMOKED HAMSWHOLE or EITHER HALF

Whole 01 Bull Shank Hall

FRESH HAMS GEESE PORK LOIHS LAMB LEGS SAUSAGE OYSTERS

Whole or Butt 4 p t t . Shank Hall 2 p t t .

FANCY FATTED NO POINTS NEEDED

P ilS H - W H O L E or EITHER EN D -4 p t f . GENUINE SPRING

GRADE A - 4 p o in t s PURE PORK LINK

i.29‘;.38‘LB<i \ 4 p o in t s

^ H L Y OPENED-FOR STUFFING NO POINTS NEEDED

FRESH-LEAN PORK SHOULDER, LAMl-Gen.Sp(ingGradeA2pts.PICNICS IP... 1.27'’ SHOULDER »2S*

PINT I

YOUR CHRISTMAS TURKEY MAY BE THOUSANDS QF MILES AWAYI

le cheered by the fact that Uncle Sem nay be sarving yow turkey to our boys evefseas wherever they nay be Our Mpply ef fanous Pilgrim Tnrkeyi is axtremaly short... However, we can oHar a ch<Hca salection ef chickans, geese, cooked and fresh hams, pork loins and other fresh and smoktd pork products. Point values ere very low on pork, toe.

Bi(j Selection of Holliiaij Fmit< and Vei]etuble<;

4 '.. .There's tender,, young iqusd), onions, celery, sweet potatoes, rosy applet and luscious grapes ... and specialties like cranberries and nutsi Thay'ra teeming with goodness.. . rushed to you at peak flavor from leading farms, orchards and vineyards. And prices are satislyingly lowl

CALIFORNIA ICEBERG mSIZE 60's HEAD | A

GIttPEFRUIT * s’zfTot 3ro,20‘ ORANGES »oz59*

LEHUCE

DOZi' IR A tPKG 3 4MIXED NUTS

CELERY CRISP WHITE or PASCAL ICH 15*YaLOW TURNIPS m. .4*n l l F R GALLON l-p eU l l l d l iOWSE-NEW ENGLAND Incl. Jug 3 0

APPLES DELICIOUS WESTERN 2 LBS 19*,M Tnii

ISiuffWI POR THi RIRD WITH

5 points " M f POUND

15 points I T 3 LBS ^

SNDLANO FRUIT CAKE zz oz A acCAKK M r

RAISIN POUND CAKE 'c*u?28*CUT12 dz

CUTWINE LOAF CAKE■A B |||t 4 " d atco ''—Slain or ■ U nU lw a suoAN—a SLAIN ocHMVEL aLlcco** IREAD

25«

SweUM Ho im COOKIES

FRESH EROS S ? r . r A ooz49*1 L .

All orders delivered in bright Christmas wrappings.

W e Telegraph Christmas Flowers.

ALL PURCHASES•»»A T r R A C T IV E L Y

GlhT BOXED

Keller’s M sn’s W ear"As Individual A.s Your F in ^ r Print”

887 MAIN STREET - NEXT TO FEDERAL BAKE SHOP

Greenhouses, and Flower Shop15S ELDRIDGE STflEET TELEPHONE t48fl

Advertise in The IIerald-~-ll .Pays

CRISCO5 points A A i POUND

15 points K W r 3 LBS

PURE LARD a VcirNTa' CTN CIOAREnES VzANoa lo aaoa 1-50 CRANBERRY

JU ICE— N * NO. a e a e aalaf* AM a»e CAN I VGRAPEFRUIT

Stiffed Olives MiiceMeat M anul«le Nectar V.V0V Tea G reeale iis aciiNTa'* *cai? 14«

ANN ^AOt

TAsneiiNATIONAL

OITAUS

•ao? 1 5 « * j i : 3 5 ' v : 29'

ID '

GINGER ALEVUNOPI-e^AU DRY II or GOLOEN>-edfite.

29 oz ' BOTS

Raked Beaas ANN PPQC 10 POINTS ‘V H P

laiaPeacket "^ ‘*23*

itR V I A K P (OFFHA (u',) 0* i et'dvr ng *6 ‘'v.-.Lfloy s9<i jn

E vap.M llk»r:.'A 3 NatleyOlet Faailly F le ir Cake F la ir l l l • l • l l • tV ailllaExtm t ANN PAOf

Kelligg'i a'ittii P lant lattir Prapkla A4 H—ION Pit

‘e W S T * Vn‘: i 7« •aiS 25'V n°o‘ 2 0 «‘nn‘ 5 it * •ao7 29'

1 1 ' ‘AS* 1 8 '•ULTANA t LO f t t a r t U ,*AI» 0 1 ”

"SaL M I '

M A EQ A a iN Ia aoiNTa auNNvaMLO

ENNICHED

auNNvaiiLD CNAHAMa ar aALTiNfa

Tht Gnat Athalk t Fidfic Tm CsmpmnfA ll o r la M auataet ta m a rk e t ehantea.

W « ra te rva lh a r ia h t ta lim it guantltlaa.

D K C E M B E H 22,

Big Mortgage Lifted Today

News Had Been Re­leased on Dec. 11 by Cheney Bros. Official.

General Chairman

The Reconstruct:ti€&N Finance Corporation today filed wltx Town Clerk Samuel Turklngton a re­lease of a million dollar mortgage on the properties of Cheney Broth­ers. Henry Mallory, treasurer of Cheney Brothers, released the In­formation on Dec. 11 at a banquet of the local T. W. U. A. No. 63 held at Tinker Hall.

Mr. Mallory reviewed the condi­tions at the plant during the past year and reported that the firm had been able to pay off this mort­gage. He al-so stated then that the firm had plans under considera­tion to modernize tht machinery and equipment as soon as the mortgage had been filed with the town clerk’s office.

The release filed today climaxed a long, hard struggle on the part of the firm to regain Its former position ir the textile world. That, also, according to Mr. Mallory was almost a fact and would pro^ ably be -ealized within a short time.

Ho8{>iC‘il (Notes

Admitted yesterday: ArtJjurHempstead. 109 High street; Mrs Minnie Robbins. Summit street; Mrs. Luev Weed. Torrington; Pa­tricia Hassett. 212 Center street: Joseph Skinner, 58 Chestnut street; Mrs, Stella Gozdz, 37 Pur nell Place.

Admitted today. Mra. Elnorah McNeil." 22 Hudson street; Mrs Lavlna Fish. 47 North Elm street; Vincent CarablUo, Hartford.

Discharged yesterday;: William Mlddlebrook, 14 Dover Road; Mrs David Fleet, and daughter, 21 Hor­ton Road; Mrs. Emmons Fales and daughter, 138 North Elm street; Mrs. Rose Hatak. Sheridan Apart­ments, Mam street.

Discharged today: Robert John­son, 176 Center street; Patricia Hassett, 212 Center street.

Births; Yesterdayr a son to Mr. and Mrs.v Walter Barnett, 718 North Main street, and a son to

Rev. S. i . Szczepkowakl

Rev. S. J. Szczepkowakl, rector of'St. John’s Polish church on Gol- way street la general chairman of the committees arranging for the annual New Year’s Eve party. The affair will be held In Pulaski hall. North street, Friday evening, December 31, and will be under the auspices of St. John’s Polish societies. Music will be furnished from nine o’clock to 2 a. m.. New Year’s day. There will be a gjand march and the Polish banquet at midnight. A Jolly time Is assured alt wjio attend and anyone Inter­ested will be welcome. It U by no means confined to people of Polish ancestry. TlckeU will be In the hands of members of the cooper­ating societies.

Mr. and Mra. Norman Turner, Hartford.

Death; Mrs. Rose Northend, 55 HoU street.

Burglars Feed Watchdog

Oakland. Calif.—(>P)—Duke, the watchdog, enjoyed the burglars’ visit to his Uvern; they threw him meat from the Icebox. And when the owner and police arrived, Duke snapped viciously at the police Inspector’s pants.

Snakes generally dislike sun- lighti become active at night.

Strike Orders Hurt Efforts To Balk Tieup

(OontinaMl from Pagtt One)

larger segment o f rail workers— the 1,100,000 who perform the o f­fice, shop and track work—^ t Dec. 30 as the deadline ter'm eet­ing their wage demands.

Counter-Proposals Expected NegoUaUons with the five op­

erating brotherhoods (Engineers, Firemen, Conductors, Trainmen and Switchmen) were expected to move today Into counter-proposals providing ter paid vacations, a lib­eralized overtime formula, and ex­penses away from home.

The operating groups last night rejected a plan put forward by President Roosevelt which would have given them a 4-cent hourly Increase In the form of overtime pay or expenses, in addition to the straight 4 cent rate increase rec­ommended by an emergency board.

The operating brotherhoods would settle for the supplement­ary 4 cents (a total of 8 cents) as a straight rate Increase, one offi­cial said, but to call It overtime, or anything else, he argued would impair their future bargaining position too much. That Is, If they are going to sell now their claims to vacations, expenses, ^ind better overtime, they feel the compro­mise rate should be better than 4 cents an hour. One brotherhood chief remarked,, "They, want to trade us a Jackrabbit for a thor­oughbred mare.”

Would Violate Federal Policy President Roosevelt’s stablliza

tion advisers contend that the supplementary 4 cents, given as a straight "ate Increase, would vio­late Federal wage policy. Vaca­tions and e: penses could be allow­ed within the stabilization pro­gram. There Is some controversy whether a change In overtime rates would be violative.

Railway employes are specifi­cally exempt from the fair labor alandards act' under which moat workers In intei-state commerce receive time and a half after 40 hours a week. Rail workers have overtime formulas, but they vary among the different crafts.

The operating brotherhoods’ ci'iginal demands were a 30 per

day,cent increase or $3.00 whkshever was higher. /

A settlement o f the ^>{^ratlng workers’ demands wouIX not mean an automatic end ^ the dispute Involving the VS( nonoperating unimis. The "ndn-ops” now have vacations. ‘They do not Incur lay­over expexMs like the roadmen who are away from home a half- dozen/times a month. They do want overtime rates to begin after AO^nours, Instead of after 48 or 'more, but they say President Roosevelt had promised them that as a separate and distinct conces­sion which was not to be confused with their basic wage demands.

Sliding Scale Approved Originally they asked an In­

crease of 20 cents an hour. An emergency board recommended 8 cents. Stabilization Director Fred M. Vinson vetoed that, but ap­proved a sliding scale o f 4 to 10 cenU which the 16 unions say would wreck traditional rate reW- tionshlps. T^e carriers sigiied contracts to pay the 8 cents/and thus the 15 unions have no dispute with their employers.

Results of a strike vote taken last month were withheld until yesterday when the Iff chiefs an­nounced that 98 peiz cent o f tfle ballots favored striking.

“ For more than/ds mohths," said thelf stetement, “ these employes have patiently, sought to secure reasonable and long overdue in­creases In wgges but have been un­able to effect an adjustment.

"The heads of these unions today granted permission to the employes to carty out their decision to strike at 6 a. m., Dec. 30, 1943.”

Averts Troop Tram’s CrasH

German-Born Ai Citizen and Find Tree oii' Tracks.

< _____ — t.Camden, N. J«/T)ec. —A

large number ^ American sol­diers were sgie today due to the efforts of «' German-bom Ameri­can citlzon who prevented their troop twin from plunging Into nearby,/ Pennsauken creek last n lghV

^ r l y last night Eugene Haider, 3 9 /o f Pennsauken, N. J., who said he suffered through the lost war ■inside , Icrmany, and his visiting nephew, 15 - year - old Eugene Schneider, set out to buy a Christ­mas tree and took a short cut along the Pennsylvania railroad tracks in the direction of Camden,

Approximately 100 feet from a trestle crossing the south branch of the Pennsauken creek Haider and his nCphew discovered a 55- feet long oak tree, three feet thick at the base, lying across the Lr&cl(s>

Police said the tree, rotted and weakened by a grass fire that swept an adjoining field earlier yesterday, must have fallen on the tracks Just before Haider and his nephew arrived at the trestle.

Knowing that regularly sched­uled trains use the track Haider and Schneider walked to Maple Shade, N. J., before they could find

There they notified police called nearby stations and

Mamed that a troop train was headed In the dlrecUon of the fall- en tree.

Policemen then returned to the scene with Haider and his nephew only to find the train already ap­proaching. They ran along the tracks /ith red lanterns and flash­lights, and the train screeched to a halt about 500 feet from the fall­en tree.

"The train would have been de­railed If I had hit It," Engineer E. J. Weldon said. “Some of the cars surely would have toppled from the trestle.

o —Tomorrow Night 8 O’ CIock, 0«M Fellows Hall

30 SPONSORED BY WNO DAVIO IXJDGE, L O. O. F._ GAMES^ ----------------.............. ............... M-00 Prize Per Gama

iioiir Prize flIO.OoV S|)e<'ial Cards 10c Each.

All Bingo Players Are Invited To Attend!

‘i& G am es............4 S|)cclal Games 1 Siieclal Game.

'd -------- --------------------------------------- X

I

i

1 Last AGnute Gift SuggestionsAll Occasion

Handbags /

V

ft

ft

CHRISTMAS FLOWERS

A Large Assortment Of

POINSETTIAS$1.50 to $3.00

AZALEAS — ORANGE TREES DISH GARDENS A SPECIALTY

ORDER YOUR CHRISTMAS CUT FLOWERS CORSAGES NOW!

XMAS WREATHS AND TREESDelivery In Malfthester and Greater Hartford.

i

s

* \

Diamond Rings ............... $27.50 and upGents’ Black Onyx R in g s ...........$17.50Gents’ Signet R in g s ...................$15.25

GENTS’ EMBI.EM

RINGS

$14.00

sAND J

II

DEPIETRO’S I

1 Forbes St. Greenhouse |1006 SILVER LANE CORNER FORBES STREET

Opposite the Trafiic Light. “e a s t HARTFORD TEL. HTFD. 8-3301 ^

Flowers Telegraphed Anywhere. j|(

And upLadies’ Stone Set Rings ; .$6.00 and up Ladies’ Cameo Rings . . . .$11.50 and upLadies’ Black Onyx R in g s .............$9.25Tie S e t s -^ .^ ........ ............$1.00 and upWaldeman Watch Chains $1.65 and lip Children’s Ring

Crosses and Chains...........$1.65 and npLockets and Chains . . . . . .$5.00 and upStone Set Pendants $6.25 and up

identifleation Bracelets . $6.00 and «pStone Set Bracelets...........$7.00 and upStone Set Bracelet Sets . .$15.50 and apBelt Buckle Sets . . . . ----- $3.50 and opPlastic Compacts............... $4.00 and up

5 f lowers k b ^JEWEL

Umbrellas

sturdy fabrica, atrongly made. In pretty ahadea.

Handbags with an exciting present and a promising fu­ture! Simulated leathers, fabrics, cords,” suede . . . wear-well bags poised for any occasion.

98c to $3.79 DON’T FORGET GLOVES

98cSee our collection of nice fti colors to blend with any o Btart.at........................

:ift gloves. In outfit. Prices

$ 4 .1 9 to S 5 .29

*nMi

W E FIGHT THAT THE SPIRIT OF

CHRISTMAS SHALL LIVE TO GUIDE

THE HOPES AND DESTINIES OF MEN» '

Our enemies Would destitoy this but the tide is turning--^in their ruthleiMness our enemies are being destroyed. ■ ^

' We will continue to fight and work. Our sons are driving back the forces o f despotism — the spirit o f Christmas shall live to guide the hopes and destinies o f men.

y

Of What There Is Available . . . .

Your Last Minute■ r

For MenDo

Gift Shopping Here A t H O U SE’S

Y o u ,may not be able to buy what you wont but what you do s e le c t c a r r i e s House's stomp of quality qnd satisfaction as usual.

■ V ■ ' ! .Footwear For The FamiiY.

iWURBOnS

f S S »ISOMS

The Savings Bank' , . ’ ^

' of ManchesterA Mutual Savings Bank

Buy W ar Bonds aad More War Bon^t

C£HOUSe^SONINC

'TW STO R EO FQ U A Lrrr

- T- - .......... .......... ....................................................... ..................................................

Tiff-*

Manchoifipr Evening Herald

PUBUHHUU BY THB HERALD PRINTING CO. INC

l i BUsel) Straet UaoohMttr, Conn.

THOMA8 PBROUSON Osnaral Unnatar

'^Poonded Oetobai 1. I l l )

Pobtllbad Bvery Bvaninc Bzcapt ■uodairi and Gnltdaya Entered at the Poai Oltlce at Mancheater. Conn., aa Second Claaa Mall Martar.

SUBSCRIPTION r a t e sOne tea t *>Y Mall

HoSingle CoptPer Honth by Hall

py ............Oellvared one Tear

..ll.o «

. .» 71

..t 01

. .to.ooMEMBER OP

THB ASSOCIATED PRESS The Aaaoclaied Preaa ta ezclualva-

ly entitled to the naa of rapabllea- tion of all nawa dlapaichea credited to It or not otherwiae credited In thia paper, and alao the local nawa pnbllahed berei..

All rlKbta of rapubllcatlon of apeclal diapatchea herein ara alao reaarrad.

Pull, aervica Service Ina

client of N. B. A-

Publlabara Rapraaaniativaai The Jullna Mafhawe Special Aranoy—

— ■ Detract andNew Toric,Boston.

Chleaso..

MEMBER . ODIT BUREAU OP Cl RCULATlONa ________

The Herald Prtotlns Company. Ino. aaaumaa no floancTal raaponsl- blllty for typosraphleal arrora ap- ps^rtns Id *dv#rtli*rn*nt* In T m Mancheater Evanlng Herald_______ _

Wednesday, December 22

Time For Orderly RetreatIf, as seema wrong but certain,

the railroad unions are going to be awarded more Income as a bribe not to give a victory-bound America a stab in the back from which It might not recover, that wUl be the second breaching of the anti-inflation line in the de­partment of wages.

Just as government yielding to John It. Liewis inspired the rail­road men, so the success o f the railroad men will inspire other la­bor groups. The result, sooner or later, will be a general increase In American wage standards. I t will be an Inevitable part o f this that there shall also be continuing in­creases allowed on farm prices.

The really vital question may be, then, whether we are going to do this by distressing make-shift and hodge-podge strategy, or whether we are going to do it cleanly.

In giving Lewis bis pay in­creases, the government stooped to the odious subterfuge o f pre­tending that the miners will work part o f their former lunch period.

In his proposals for settlement o f the railroad wage question. President Roosevelt himself is suggesting equally tricky subter­fuges by which wage increases can be granted without legal vio­lation of the Little Steel Formula. . The fact remains that the Little Steel Formula was violated in the case o f the miners and that it will he violated In the case of the rail­road unions.

Eventually, then, it w ill also be violAted for any group which chooses to point a pistol at the government.

.In such a situation, there is only ofle way fo r the government to retain some control of the situa­tion. That is to conduct a gener­al retreat. This would mean re­vising the Little Steel Formula another notch, not only for the two labor groups which are now cracking it for their own beneflt, but for all labor, or it might mean establishing a brand new formula It would mean moving the whole anti-inflation Una back another flye or ten points. I f such a retreat were well done, it would emerge with some definite balanc­ing formula between wages and prices, a balance which, could be questioned by no one, a balance which would apply to all, a bal­ance which the government would pledge itself with new freshness and determination to maintain.

This would mean a partial de-* feat in the battle against inflation. But we are taking that defeat anyway. And when we take it section by section, salient by sali­ent, we are running the danger that we will sbon have so line at aU to try to hold.

In short, if the railroad wage situation is handled as it .should be, it will be handled not by .some tricky subterfuge, but by some eeneral formula which can be .ap- pH ^ to all future wage questions.

will lose the Trea.sury another bil­lion. '

U so happens that the social se­curity tax should be frozen at its pre.sent level, not because we do not need additional revenue, but because the social .security tax should be kept for one purpose and not made a general tax. It is adequate for social security pur­poses at its present rate.

We need to have that billion taxed from us, but it sl^ould be through other taxes.

Nevertheless, the arithmetic in the situation Is clear. Congress, asked to provide ten billions in ad­ditional revenue. Is actually on Its way to providing less revenue than the Treasury would get If no new tax bill were passed. That la the measure of Congress’ fail­ure, clear Indication that Congress la fighting thLs war the soft way.

until we can manage imother op­timistic jump into the future and start thinking about iieeds.B^di

RockvilleLewis M. Chapman

Mtt. Rockville

Council Holds ( inal Meeting

Rockville OfficialH W im I Up AITairrt o f the OhI Year; Other N cwm.

Walsh Raps War Profits

To OppoHC (Ihangek in Contracts Renegotia­tion Section of Tax B illWa.shington. Dec. 22 Sena­

tor Walsh (U-Mits.si. declared to­day the American people will be •'sbocked’' when the. profits on war contracts are distloHeil.

He made this statement in an­nouncing he would oppose .several of the proposed changes in the war contracts renegotiation Iiiw when

the tax bill- which carrlea them la debated In the Senate.

Walsh's pointed criticism ot partfi of the $2,275,600,000 revenue bill followed a sharp exchange on the same subject between T rw u ry Secretary Morgenthau and 'Chair­man Oeorge (D-Ga) o f the Senate Finance qemmittee, which cleared the bill yesterday.

Indicating he might join other committee members in a minority report, Walsh sAld:

"In my opinion' there will never be another period more favorable for obtaining from the taxpayers a larger contribution to ;he costs of the war.

"Outside of the white cqllar and fixed Income groups, there Is more' earning, more spending, and:, less sulTerlng .as a result o f the '^ ’ar effort, than at uny other perlodIV

Morgenthau previously had d^.

nounced the tax blU as antlraly ta- adequate, but George in a blister­ing news conference reply . last night eald be had "no apology" for failing to reach the secretary's goal o f $10,600,000,000 additional revenue.

And as for Morgenthau's asser­tion that the proposed renegotia­tion changes "hold tha seed o f a national scandal," George said "Mr. Morgenthau knows nothing about the renegotiation pf con­tracts act and less about how it is actually administered."

Walsh said it is no secret that he opposes several o f the amend­ments accepted by the Finance committee and considers one of the most dangerous to be exemp­tion from renegotiation of ail, con­tracts for "standard commercial articles." >

"The renegotiatlpn law la, to be

sun. arbitrary, and only juatifled In time ot war," he said. "But so is the drafting of human life and citiMita with families an ar­bitrary action.

"Personally I feel strongly that we owe it to our fighting forces t o eliminate as far aa humanly possible excessive war profits, aa well as to remove the possibility of a new crop of war profiteers.

“Profits outside of what are reasonable and legitimate and necessary to prevent impairment o f private Industry after the war, ate Indefensible.

"When the record of profit making on war contracts Is dis­closed, the American people will, in my opinion, be shocked.”

'ITie four-homed antelope of Burma is the only living animal that does hava four horns.

Deaths Last Dfighi

New York—Emupuel S. Uft-^ mann, 83, known aa the "dean nf the fur trade" throughout the in­dustry, head ot thi fur orokerage firm of E. S. Gllmann-Alliei' Co., Inc., and fou.' le and former president of tht Fur Brokers As­sociation of America, Inc. He was born in St. Pam. Minn.

Los Angeles— Dr. Lewis Thurbor Guild, 80, autlior, publisher and Methodist minister for more than^ SO years. He was born near Dea Moines, la.

New York— Brian C. Bellows, 59, director of toit facilities of the Bell Telephone laboratories in New York City. He war a native of Mandan, N. D.

Rayburn's Average American" I am An average American

citizen, no better, 1 know, no worse, I hope, than the average. I have no son to give to this war or to the reconstruction of a sad and stricketi world after it is over, and I am in the .same position a.s at least 50 per cent of the men and women. I am wondering what sacrifice I have made, and I can­not think of a single one. Maybe I have been slightly inconven­ienced. Like the average Ameri­can, I have had all the coffee I needed to dri/ik and plenty of sugar to go Into it. I have had enough gasoline to transact my essential business. .1 have ekten well and plenty, as has every oth­er American citizen, 'and many of them are eating better today than they have ever eaten before. Of course, I have bought some bonds, all I can afford to buy. That Is no sacrifice. I will get my money back with interest, if these boys who are fighting and dying over there win this war for you and for me.

"W e in thia country would not know that a war was on if we did not read the newspapers, hear the radio, and see the vacant chairs in the homes o f the country.”

The foregoing was the confes' Sion—and a public one— of a rath­er notable American—Speaker Sam Rayburn o f the House. It was part of his now celebrated plea for unity, a pica which was obviously so sincere and deeply felt that very few Indeed have ventured to ascribe to It any par' tlsan political motive.

Speaking aa an average A m c lean, Mr. Rayburn was not far from describing accurately the average American’s contribution to this Yvar. Most o f us have g iv ­en so little, so very little, that it is nothing at all in comparison to what men in the front lines are giving every hour of every day.

"When 1 think o f the sacrifice clT“these people," Speaker Ray- ttum went on, “I would despise iayaelt i f I complained about my little inconveniences.”

There, tt would seem, Mr. Ray- bum departed from his true Inter­pretation o f the average Ameri­can. For many Americans, being as well off SB they sre, are com­plaining more than they certainly would be If they had Indeed suf­fered and sacrificed more. Some of those who complain the most arc, aa Speaker Rayburn went on to say, those who have actually improved their position during this wjar.

But we would all complain a lot less if we hesitated, once in a while, to measure our own sacri­fices realistically against the real sacrifices that are being made. A speech like that of Speaker Ray­burn does start some of us think­ing that way. We need more such speeches. We need less ’’gimme” speeches from people who ought to be deeply thankful that the war has spared them to the great ex­tent it has sfkred them. We need

Lirto regain our self-respect as people at war.

Actually A Revenue Ijoss

The true nature of the job Cun" gress has done on the new tax bill to date is illustrated by the fa,ct that the Treasury Is likely fb lo.se revenue if it is passed. I t is true that the tax bill as It has been shaped in Congress is labeled one o f increase, although an Increase o f only two billion dollars as com­pared to the- Un billion the Treas­ury asked. But actually, so fsr as revenue is concerned, the gov­ernment would lose by paissage of this so-called increase. This is so because destruction of the govern­ment’s renegotiation process would remove at least a billion end a 'half o f industrial war prof­its from possibility of government Mtwpture, and because freezing tlw social security tsx at its pres- in t rate, instead o f letting it take

scheduled advance on Jan. 1st,

Crisis FastThi-s dcijaftment's annual sigh

of relief over the recession of the "shortest day of the yeAr” is now in order. It isn't sensible''to feel very good about it, for it doesn't mean that all nature is on our side again. I f it is true that sun and time have once more begun to work for ua instead of agalhst us, nature ' has other vengeful cross purposes, and these fre ­quently rule the weeks lying im­mediately ahead. .The winter par­adox of longer days but colder days can be a pretty savage and cutting paradox. - We know it. and yet we feel good about the whole thing, simply because we know that the long trend which '■ will eventually be wholly in pur favor has started at last.

By another week, the day will be at least a minute longer, in two weeks six minutes longer. In an­other month more than half an Kour longer. We think that’s pret­ty wonderful. We think so about this time every year, and the thought keeps us in good pheer

Rockville, Dec. 22 (Special)-^ The final meeting of the year for the present Common Council was held last evening with Mayor Raymond E. Hunt presiding. There are three members who did not seek reelectlon whose terms expire Dec. 31, Alderman at Large Paul Menge and Aldermen Ra­phael Fahey and Ernest Shindler.

Mayor Hunt expressed the ap­preciation of the citizens and of himself as mayor for the services of the three members, and pre­dicted that they would be mi.ssed during the coming two years.

Alderman Menge in responding said that he had served under four mayors and two city clerks and that he valued highly the friendships that resulted from his contacts with the other members of the Council. Alderman Fahey spoke of hiB term of office as an education In municipal govern­ment and expressed regret that conditions do not permit him to continue In office. The third re­tiring member, Alderman Schind­ler was absent from the meeting being at home recovering from the grip.

But little business was trans­acted at the meeting with the ex­ception of the a^iproval of the bills for payment. Mayor Hunt stated the next meeting will be held Monday evening, January 8 at which time the new members and those who were reelected will be sworn into office.’

tiohn F. Maeheoek John Frank Machecek, 69, of

174 East Main street, died Tues­day afternoon at his home. He was born In Czechoslovakia De­cember 22. 1873 and came to this country 48 years ago. He had lived in Tolland 22 years and in Rockville for the pa.st 17 years. He was a member o f St. Joseph’s church and o f St. Anthony’s Slo­vak society. He was a retired farmer.

He leaves his wife, Mary (Roz- man) Machacek; two sons, Frank and John, and a grandchild, all of Rockville.

The funeral will be held Thurs­day at the Ladd Funeral Home with services at 9 a. m„ at St. Joseph’s church. Burial will be in St. Bernard’s cemetery.

Mark J. FlnlevMark J. Finley, .59, of 16 Chest­

nut street, died Tuesday at his home. He was born In Rockville, January 17, 1884. He was a lather by trade. He leaves three broth­ers, John and William of Rock­ville. and Vincent Finley of Man­chester; two sisters, Mrs. Virginia Thorne and Mrs. Nellie Burke, both of Rockville. The funeral will be held Thursday at 9 a. m.. at the Burke Funeral Home, and at 9:30 o’clock at St. Bernard’s church. Burial will be in S t Ber­nard’s cemetery.

Meetings Dlsoontlnned The Mothers club has discontin­

ued meetings until after the holi­days. The next meeting ‘ will be held January 6th.

Trinity Past Grands The Trinity Past Noble Grand

Aasociation will meet in Foresters Hall today. There will be a Cflirist- mas party, exchange o f g ifts and buffet Slipper. The meeting of Mayflower Rebekah Lodge will follow and these members will join with members o f Rising Star Lodge I.O.O.F., for a Christmas party.

Father and Son DinnerThe Camp Wooilstock club will

hold a father and son supper this evening at 6:30 o’clock at the Ma­ple street school, with Mrs. Eliza­beth Miller o f the school cafeteria in charge.

In addition to the members of the club those who attended Camp Woodstock the past summer are attending. Mrs. Raymond Rams- dell is in charge o f the attendance with other members as follows: Burke McCarthy, Allen Middleton, William Patten; program, Leroy Ludwig, ichairman, AU^d Kabrlck, Robert Reinhold: publicity, Rob­ert Kieman. chairman, Duncan Green and Richard St. Louis; din­ner, Raymond Ramsdell.

Election of Officers The W.S.C.S. of the Methodist

church will hold a meeting this 1‘vening preceded' by a supper at .•six o'clock. There ^11 be election of officers at the business session. The members will enjoy a Christ­mas party ■ with an exchange of gifts. ’’

Knights of Pythlss Damon Lodge, Knights of

Pythias, will hold a meeting this evening at which time there will be election o f officers.

Rubber Company Plau^ Addition

New Haven, Dec. 22—(ffl— President James A. Walsh of the Armstrong Rubber company an­nounced today that his concern would erect a four-story building by the sU rt of 1944 comprising 89,430 (Square feet o f floor space.

Ground was broken In Novem­ber for the new 'wing on the main plant. Completion is scheduled for spring.

In addiUon, which wlU occupy a ' space heretofore devoted to parking o f automobllds, is part o f a nation-w;ds i^rognm o ( expan­sion o f tbs rubber tire industry re­cently Inaugurated by the govero- ment to meet present and post-waii needs.

Open tonight and tohmrrow night until 9 o’clock

__ ' \

Even if you’ve waited to the last minute--.

Gifts of WatkinsFurniture

have that “ carefully chosen” look

Check ListDesk ChairsLeather OiairaOccasional ChairsBoudoir ChairsCricket ChairsLounge ChairsChaise Lon$;uesDrop-lid DesksFlat-top DesksSecretariesBreakfront -CabinetsNests o f TablesTier. TablesEnd TablesCoffee TablesOccasional TablesLamp TabiMT ilt TablesConsole TablesReading TablesCommode TablesSewing TablMSmokeraf CablnstsPedestal SmokersEasel MirrorsMantel MirrorsConsole MtrroraBullssys MirrorsMspls MirrorsScatter RugsW all RacksCurio CabinetsShadow BoxesBookcasesMagazine RackaTabla LampaDesk LampsBoudoir LampsNight TablesDressing Table BenchesPoster BedsChairback BedsExtension Ooosols TablesExtension Drop-leaf TablesSilver CablnetaLiving Room ChestsBachelor's CheatsServing TablesFoot StoolsPicturesPortraits

D Don’t let your last-minute shopping get you down. One of the nice things about Gifts o f Watkins Furni­ture is that, no matter what you pick,

it has that “ carefully choBen” look . . . as though you had given it weeks o f thought! There’s a reason for this "well-selected” qualification. Someone here at Watkins store did your Christmas shopping for you in advance.. .and really did it carefully I

The fact that this is a War Christmas... when every penny not used for a useful, practical g ift should go into War Bonds and Stamps.. .makes Watkins Gifts so appropri­ate this year. Here are things that serve downright practical purposes, yet sre so beautifully designed and finished they’re thrilling to receive 1

So come to Watkins for your zero hoar shop­ping. No matter what you pick it will be in good tastel

Solons Return Home to Have Holidays Rest

Will Reepmvene Jan. 10 To jKome GripsW itk Questions Affect­ing Nation’s Economy.

Washington, Dec. 22.— (fl*iMembers ot the 78th Congress went home today to celebrate the Christmas holidays and to re­charge their political batteries tor the opening of a presidential cam­paign year.'

They will return Jan. 10 lo come to gripa with a batch of questions directly affecting the country's wartime economy, of challenges to President Roose­velt's method for holding the in flatlon line, of Issues centering around taxes, wage increa.ses. subaidica and appropriations.

Little Hope of Peace As the final gavel fell yester­

day to end a session which saw the administration give ground m turbulent battles over home front policies, there appeared little hope of peace between the executive branch and a coalition of Repub­licans and southern and farm state Demo<-rats.

In the final days. President Roosevelt's Capitol Hill stalwarts won a tempi rary truce in some oi the pending fights, hopeful that a "cooling off” period would shift sentiment that the constituents back home would rally to their support.

TWO of those questions—subsi­dies and taxes— await Senate at- tenUon; a third, that o f wage sUbiUzatlon, resU In the House. Here Is how they were left;

Agrae to Postpone Showdown Subsidies— The House and Sen­

ate agreed to postpone until Feb. 17 a showdown on the question of outlawing consumer food subsi­dies. Ths truce was reached by extending the life of the Commod­ity Credit Corporation until that date. The subsidy ban was attach­ed to another bUl, passed over­whelmingly by the House, w h l^ granted CCC a conUmiance untilJuly, 1945. ■

Wages—The House IntersUte Oommetos committee sidetracked a measure to give 1,100,000 non­operating railway employes an swross-the-board, eight-cents-an- hour pay boost until after the re­cess. The Senate passed the bill by a vote of 74 to 4, despite the ad­ministration’s protest that it would wreck the stabilization ma­chinery. . ..

Taxes— In the final minutes, the Senate Finance committee okayed a measure calling for $2,275,600,- 000 In nsw taxes, leas than 20 per cent of ths amount the administra­tion described as necessary to drain off ’ ’surplus” money and combat inflaUon. The bill awaits Congress’ return.

Marked for quick attention when the holiday Is over are t v » issues

affecting servicemen. House action has been scheduled ■ for January on a measure to provide musterin;^ out pay for servicemen. The Senate alread> ha sapproved a bill provid- already has approved a bill pnovid- pay ranging from $200 to $500, de­pendent upon the length of service.

Meanwhile, an effort is being made to work out a compromise on legislation to give soldlets a vote in the November elections, one which will satisfy both those who claim the Federal government should make errangements for the balloting and those who maintain it should be handled by the statea

Adjournment on Somber Note In quite contra.st to the hl-jinks

and hilarity typical of peacetime windups of Congress, yesterdays adjournment came on a somber note, a prayer that the New Year would bring victory and peace.

During Its first year this Con­gress has:

1. Gone on record for Post-war International cooperation to main­tain a just and lasting peace.

2. Continued for two years the lend-lease agreements.

3. Extended the administration’s authority to write reciprocal trade agreements.

4. Voted appropriations amount­ing to $114,000,000,000, about 96 per cent of which was earmarked for war purposes.

5. Adopted a modified pay.-as- you-earn tax bill, abating approxi­mately 75 'per cent of one year's assessments for the natlon'.s tax­payers.

6. Enacted the stringent Smlth- Connally war labor disputes acts to curb strikes by providing a “ cpoling off" period.

7. Increased allowances for de­pendents of servicemen.

8. Revamped the selective serv­ice law in an effort to slow down induction of fathers.

9. Nullified President Roosevelt’s executive order limiting Indlviduar incomes to a maximum of $25,000 after taxes. \

Clerics Attend Film’s Premiere

Hollywood, D^c. 22—(>P)— The news from Hollywood today con­cerns no movie beauty, no hand­some leading man. The news is that "The Song of Bernadette” premiered at the Carthay Circle theator last night and it has given this flippant town a topic o f con­versation which holds no traca- of flippancy.

"The Song of Bernadette", a 20th C«ntury-Fox picture, was shown before sn invitational au­dience that numbered not only the usual film celebrities and writera but also scores of clerica of all faiths. It was preceded by the aupierlluous pomp and fanfare of all premieres, but the audience went away thoughtfully, probably for the moat part reverently.

Cadet Naezkowski Completes Course

communicatlona, aeamanahlp, gun­nery U)d flrat aid.

For physical conditioning ha en­gaged In many competitive sports, among thbm awimming, boxing, wrestling^ football, basketball, hand-to-hand combat, tumbling ai\/l gymnastics, mill,iary, track and soccer.

As part of the St. Mary’s Pre- Flight graduation ceremonlea, Cadet Naczkowakl participated In a regimental review which was reviewed by Commanding Officer Clyde W. King.

No Loss CausedBy Grass Fire

brought out the Manchester Firs department which quiokly brought the blaze under control.

Chief Roy Gritwold reported no damage to the property Involved.

A bad gra.ss fire, at Galway and North School street, threatened a number of small buildings and a chicken coop at the home of Mrs. Rose Campbell, of North School street yesterday. A still alarm

Aztec Indians utilized cocoa beans by grinding them with corn, then adding water and seasoning the resultant aoup with chili, apices and herb*.

.iodemeyer Burial Today

Danbury, Dee. 22.— ( ^ — F'uneral services for John R. Rodemeyer, retired editor of The Greenwich Newa-Graphlc and dean of Con­necticut newspapermen who died Sunday at the age of 85. were held here last evening. The burial serv­ice takes place this afternoon in Canaan where Rodemeyer started i.ls 60-year newspaper career aa a printer's devU on 'The Connecticut Western News.

i HERE’S AN A-1 CAVT SUGGESTION! {t ft

HERE’S AN A-1 CAVT SUGGESTION!

BEAUTIFUL S PIECE

CARD TABLE SETS

U. S. N avy Pra-FUght School,' St. Mary’a Collega. Callf„ Doc. 21. i —John J. Naczkowikl o f Manchea-' ter. Conn., has auccesafully com­pleted his three months ground school, military and physical con­ditioning course at the Navy Pre- Flight School at St. Mary’a College snd will be transferred this week to the Naval A ir'S tation at Nor­man (Okla.), it was announced to­day by Commander Clyde W. King, Pre-Flight commanding officer.

A t St. Mary’s Pre-Flight, Cadet Naezkowski took an academic course that Included celestial navi­gation. essentials of naval aervica, advanced aerology and advanced recognition of ships and planes. His military arU courses Included

The nursery gaxde'r meer and Boakoop In _ consifiered the most uni woric because the hedgn clipped Into the shapesdogs, ships, spirals.

anchors, vase and

IF YOU WANTHELP

for planning any sort

of a banquet or cater­

ing occasion then sec

or call

ARNOLD PAGANITelephone 3902 or 5790

THE SUM of a nation’s power la the suns o f Ita Htlseaa’ FA ITH . Without Individ­ual faith, a na-

rrumbles.

P ito t ie T A 9 ?

'T w raT iiro ivo f \ NgnONAl MORAtf AMD SPONSORED

BY

5 Folding Chairs and Plain Fiber Top Table. A gift that keeps on s a y i n g “ Merry Christmas.”

ONLY

$29-95enson's

Sn o a T o t tuns ss ••II M easht D oat borrow unnecetsmrllY, but If a leaa Is

to your sdvsnug*- t* t it (roes ‘Fsrsoasl’ with a minimum of delay.

Just coma In. Or batter atlll, apply by phone—call ut, ttien maks ons visit to tign and pick up ths eaeb. a tb s r way you'll get the eame Courteous, prlvata attention tha t baa helped to make 'Par-

' sonar America’s lat choice loan eamponp. Loans ara mads hart on your stgnaturt

alone. Tou pay only tor tha tlssa you keep the monay. A loon c( $100 eoalo 020.00 whan promptly rapald in 12 month­ly consecutive intiallmanta a t $10.05 each. $30 for 3 weeks costs 42e. Coma In or phone today.

ThtAonalfflnlF Thrntvr lllilv.

n. n. Rrnwn. %lcr.

FINANCE CO.F'toor. PlifiM# 2I4M

« ------ T I l 'T I f t M A IN f T A i l T |

^MNCWWWWIICNCMMfSkSKflfMWSIMKMWWMdKWBfMWnMMMfBM^

I Christmas SpecialsI HORSMAN MAMA D O L L S ...................... S2.98 and upS STUFFED T O Y S ......... ............................. *2.25 and up8 LARGE PAND.\S .................. *4.959 XMAS SEALS. TISSUE. ETC......................... 10c

HARD CANDY (Limited quantity) ...................lb. 39c_ GIFT MIRRORS ............ SLOO8 GAMES, BOOKS AND .MODELS...............10c to 11.00 |I MIRROR CHESTS WITH FANCY CHOCOLATES, $4.95 II MORIARTY’Sft On The SquareJ 203 NO. MAIN STREET MANCHESTER

niMEMtHCKgiftiiMMSMn luiiCMsnft

ft a>ne«att> CAiIMKIf

^ Maaa

iMATTHEWiWIOR

----- JEWELER —977 MAIN STREET

jl TELEPHONE 5214

☆

hETEtitr our men and toomm are sertriuj

abroad or at home, their thoughts notti

turn to ClwiBOiias, to farailg tits, loot, alftttion and

friendship. . . Chtiotmas tomts to t h t jp t front ton.

3to prestroation is an obligatisli that fsho on nl^s.

Vvt through oB the ttiotk, tDortg and darkness, t h c ^

At HALE’S Self Serve and Health

I

No. 8 Can Ooraet

Turkey Soup Can

All Kinds of Campbell's Soups At Low Prices.

All Kinds of Maraschino Cherries and Cocktail Cherries.

No. 21 'l Can Burt OInoy

Pumpkin or Squash cnlScBI ueberries for Pie Can 29c

All Kinds of Stuffed, Plain and Ripe Olives.

So. X C a« Burt Oloey

T ender Sweet Peos Can 1 #GNo. 2 Cun Burt Ohioy ^

Golden Bantam Corn /j 4 c

No.^5 Can CampbeH’s /

Tomato Juice / Can/

Preoto, Svraasdown or fioftaollk

Cake Flour / Pkg. 29cGaraatlon. SboflMd or Van Camp’s''

Milk ______3 Cana 27cCranberry Sauce Jar 18cNo. 2 Can

Applesauce Can 14cDeLMonte or Sunsweet Rdisins

ond Curronts.Lb 55cBest Citron

Diamond Walnuts Lb.

Fancy Apples in Syrup for Dessert Pt. Jar 25c

Diamond Ginger Ale 3 large botfles 25c

(Contonto)

Bakov’s Dol.uxo

Dutch Cocoa Lb. 25c

HEALTH MARKE'In spite of shortages or inconveniences, we hat

much-tiY-be thankful for. Ours can still be a Christi o f freedom and joy. Our sympathy goes to thoae i have already lost heavily, but the majority of us shouM^ feel grsteful— not complaining,

POULTRYWe have a selection of l^titlve snd Wester* Rosstkift

, Chickens— all sizes.

PORKRib Pork l^ost. Special at 29c lb* Also Loi^Roast and Fancy Center Chops/^resh Shoulders and Fresh Ha r^ re popular pork cuts for the h^fidoy table.rtAM,Ready Cooked, whole ham, 39c lb« Tenderized, whole 35c lb.

These are under ceiling prices! May be had in Whole or Holf.

SAUSAGE - The Popular Bag Sau­sage or Links.

CO LD C U T S - A fine choice for quick meals during your heavy shopping or work days.

All Kinds of Quality Brands of Coffee and Tea.

All Kinds of Cigarettes in Cartons and Tobacco in Pound Packages.

Full Variety of Heinz and Silver Lone Pickles.

Fon^y Block Mission and , . California Figs

FRESH FRUIT AND VEGETABLESFresh Celery Hearts 25eLargw. Fnak Bsmch Bes*

Californio CarrotsLargu >48 Maw

leebero LettuceFrewk

JW .H A UM A h C H S m i l C o H W

Soup BunchesF*$rii Tallow CUoto

Turnips

U. C. Denies Local Appeal

' ;:lS9r€r T^ne Bn* Co. Asked to Extend Its Lines in Town.The petition preeented to the

Public Utllitiee CommUnion by the Silver Lane Biie Oo. on A u ^ s l 11, asklnK that It be allowed to evten.l Ita line* through atrecta In the eastern part ot the town- has been denied.

TTie Bus company asked that the r-xtension he granted as far as Highland Park and supported the claim by a petition signed by 379 residents of t..e territory. The signers claimed to he war workers, hut the commissioners, in their finding, report that after n.sking the necessary permiaaion from Washington aiu. being denied, it decided to turn down the petition.

5th Ariiiv Sfizc's '|y. - ’New Hi^h Points;. British in Buttle

(OrnHnned on Page Two)

wiping out the numerous pillboxes the Germans had built around the town, using every’ house and every natural obstacle to slow the Allied advance.

Tanka Battle In Streets' Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgorn- ery’a Bight Army tanks, mean-

§'‘ wMle, slugged it out with German Mark IV’s In the streets of Ortona.i'

f,;tlny port town between Termoli' ^ and Pescara on the Adriatic coast,'

which has beei the northern anchor of the Nazi line.

Fierce engagements were fought In the running street battle.

(The United Nations radio in A ltera said the BIghth Army held almost the entire Ortona-Orsagna

(•. highway. The Ge. mans counter-at- tacked a force of New Zealanders

Ij with the Eighth, the broadcast Padded, leading off the operation 1 'early this morning with a barrage

ot flamethrowers and tanka in an attempt to dislodge the New Zea-

V landers from the vital highway.!' mfp Southwest of Ortona, British

troops made slight advances after Ssf reirulalng two desperate German

coOnter-attacks.The British assault on Ortona,

spearheaded by Canadian troops, waa preceded by a heavy artillery

' bombardment.S w a rm Over Togoalav Coast

In the air war. Allied flghter- ^Iw m bera awarmed over the Yugo>

Mav coaat and attacked German L ' poattlona in support of the parti- Ix^aan forces of Marshal Josip Broz

(Tito).Fighters ana fighter-bombers

ranged over the battle area anu near Rome, blasting transport and eommunicatlons. Medium bombera also struck at Terracina, 58 miles wnftbeaat o f Rome.

One enemy plane waa destroyed !£ flor a lose o f one Allied aircraft.

Naval communique said that m otor. torpedo boats cap-

two German schooners off the Yu^Mlav coastiDec. 19, taking ^ e ir crenrs prisoners.

Returning: from the attack on the Importmtt Terracina highway Junction, SergfXJamea Hanley, Jr., New Haven, Coiuu, engineer-gun­ner on a Mltcljellx bomber, said. **We blocked that rOgd all right.

. I aaW a lot o f our bqmbs land ,■ right In the middle o f| ^ e road.

Otl)ers hit the cliff above the road 'ttirowing rocks and debris into the air."

‘T don’t think there will be any. traffic along that road for a long time," was the terse comment from Second Lieut. R. H. Sping- ler, Brooklyn.

Some Secrecy Over Darlan’s

Death LiftedV

(Continued from Page.O»«e)

persons involved in the plot . are dead:

1.' The fierce emotional idealism of the yming student, who w.as an ardent follower of Oen. CTiarles de Gaullr. was used by older men who never have been broucht to trail.. 2. The.se men supplied young

Bonnier de la Chnpelle with a gun, and the opportunity to shoot Dar- ■|an.

.3. The .youth was tried hurriedly and stint within 18 hours of the a.'.sassination.

4. A story spread around Al­giers. to the efTect that the assassi­nation was a royalist plot to In­stall the Prim e of I'ari.s, a Moroc­co pig farmer, as the king of North Africa, was a smoke screen raised to' confuse the situation.

One-half hour before the young student was led into the prison yard at dawn the day after Christ- niaa to be shot, ho wrote a letter tp his father in which he said:

"If I must die, it cannot be help­ed. The chief thing is that we must be certain fhat It Is not useless. I feel that If now my erime seem* to be stupid. It will be found later on that it war'inspired by the finest sentiments.”

In the swift-changing political events that followed, the gray­haired father, who w’on the Croix de Guerre in the last war at 17, remained silent, but early last month he addiTsaod a letter to de Gaulle, Gen. Henri Giraud, and French Minister of ju stice Geor­ges Catroux.

I.a-tter Cites Communique This letter cited a communique

put out by Gen. Jean Marie Ber- geret. then Darlan's chief assiat- ant, and now chaiged with trea­son by order of the National com­mittee. The communique stated that Darlar was a victim of an as­sault Inapired by those who did not pardon him for taking up arms against Germany.

Bonnier de la Chnpelle protested strongly against the implication that his son was a tool of the Axis,

I knew all that was false," he wrote.

Asking that his son's name be restored to a place of honor, the father outlined the youth’s life;

Fernand as a Boy Scout had helped In the— ambulanc e —eorp* during the fan of,France, and aft­er the Germans occupied Paris ne Joined the French underground students’ movement, first in Paris and then in Algiers.

Helped Allied Landings He joined the Chantlers de la

Jeunesae, a youth organisation which helped the Allied landings of Nov. 8. 1942.

"For his country, he was ready to do anything," the father wrote. He said that last December Fer­nand "placed himself at the dis­posal of the resistance move­ment."

Referring to the military trial, the father declared “ further evi­dence asked by the defense

court was rejected. Grace of only, ,T few days waa refused. \

“I know that a few Weeks after the <u(ecutl6n of my son an In- quedt waa opened ag:ainst«- high personalities," the father said in his letter. "This inquest was much more minute and took much long­er than the one of my son. The re­sult of this Inquest was a return­ing of ’no billa.' ’’

'The hearing he referred to was one which eventually’ released Henri D’Astier de Vlgerle and a priest who were arrested shortly after Darlan’s death ami held for many weeks. The former was as­sistant to Jean Rlgaud. minister of the interior under Darlan. and brother of Gen. Bmmanucl D'As- tier de la Vigerle, a de Gaulle fol­lower.

Rigaiid had charge ot the ar­rest and .subsequent trial of do la Chapetle. He rias disappeared from Algiers and was last reported liv­ing in Morocco.

Lodjje Elects Its Officers

Obituary

Deaths

WeddingsCominK MarriaRC

Savino-D raRhiAnnouncement is made of the

coming marriage of Miss Eva J. Draghi.-daughter of Mr. and Mr*. Joseph Draghi^ of 47 Summer street, to Private Daniel Savino, son of Mr and Mrs. Joseph Savino of 168 Maple street. The ccremonj’ svill take place Monday, December 27, a f nine o'clock in St. James'*

: c hurch.Private Savino I^ft town with

.Company K, in March 1910, and I has only recently returned to thi.s tcoimtry from Gu.idalcana! He is I home on a 30-da , fiij'iniigh.''on the 1 completion of which he will return 1 to Texas.

Al>oiit TownCompany No. 4 of the S.M.F.D.

Iwas called at 12:03. this afternoon Ifor a gtass fire at 219 School iRreet. There waa no losa.

A dreaa rehearsal will be held at r a e Salvation Army hall this eve­n in g at 7 o'clo* k for the entire Itaat and choir, taking part in the ■oantato-pageant. "The Secret of l|he Stars," to be preaented Christ-

eve In the citadel.

Mrs. Civile C. Bec’kwith I* New Noble Grand O f Sunset Rebekahs.Mrs. Clyde G. Beckwith of Trot­

ter street la the newly elected noble grand of Sunset Rebekah Lodge. She succeeds Miss Grace Hatch, who has been the efficient head of the lodge during 1943. Other elective officers are: Vice Grand, Mabel Dowd: secretary, Beatrice Manning; financial secre­tary. Edith Smith; treasurer, Emily Klssmann; trustee for thvee years, Mrs. Emma L. Nettleton. TTiese officers,, together with the appointive officers, will be installed at the meeting Monday evening, ■lanuary 3.

Sunset Rebekah Lodge and King David Lodge of Odd FellowB held?, joint Christmas party and enter- alnment in the banquet hall of the

Odd Fellows building Monday eve­ning. Under the direction of Mrs, Kissman, a Christmas play was presented. Christmas carols were sung under leadership of John T. Munsie. Miss Pauline Beebe play­ed the piano accompaniments for the chorus singing. Gifts were dis­tributed by Santa Claus, who was none other than Mrs. , Beatrice Manning. Mrs. Minnie Smith as­sisted. Refreshments xvere served by Mrs. Emma Dowd and her com- mittee and consisted of sand- wlchea, coffee and popcorn balls. Mias Hatch made Christmas horns of plenty In pink and green and filled them with popcorn.

.Mrs. Knsella T. Northend•Mrs. Rosolla (Tolerton) North-

end, widow of Joseph. C. Northend, ilied this ffiornlng, at the Manches­ter Memorial hospital. She had ;>ren a patient at the institution lor eleven weeks. For the past live yours .she has m.'idc her home with her niece, Mrs. John F. I’icklea of .'').5 Holl street, and previous lo that had spent many years in California and Florida.

Mrs. Northend was born in Al- tianec. Ohio, and was a graduate of .Mount Union College in that city, and a meniiier of Delta Delta Delta .Sorority. She was a talented artist and studied with noted teachers, and instructed pupils In miniature, china and other forms of painting She was a member of the Methodist church in Alliance.

Mrs. Norlheml leaves a brother in Ohio, Howard D. Tolerton, and several nieces and nephews.

Funeral .services will be held at two o ’clock P'riday afternoon at the Thomas G. Dougan Funeral Home, 59 Holl street. Rev Browne Barr of the Center Congregational church \vill officiate. Friends are requested to omit flower*. Later in the week the body will he removed to Alliance, Ohio, for burial.

daughter, Mr*. 'Thomaa Moriarty^ 9 Stricklamd street, and f't St.‘ Bridget’s church at nine o ’clock Burial will be in S t Bridget's cemetery.

Mrs. Hayes waa the widow of Edward Lee Hayes, a tobacco grow er, In Buckland. Since his death she has lived at 148 Malr. street. She leaves two daughters. Miss Jessica Hayes and Mrs. Thomas Moriarty. She also leaves two grandchildren and a sister Mrs. M. J. Coughlin of this town also several nieces and nephews.

Repair Bridge On Local Tip

Railroad Structure Be- .iii'g Strengthened to Piievent Disaster.

Marcello PollonoThe funeral of Marcello Pollono

will be held Thursday at 7:45 from the John B. Burke Funeral Home, East Center street and at 8:00 a m. from ,St. Bridget’s church.

The body will be placed in the vault in St Bridget’s cemetery for burial later.

Hospital Gets Gift of $1,000

Money Made at the Recent Benefit Ball Is Turned Over.

Mrs. Margaret B. ZeitlerMrs. Margaret (Becker) Bender

Zeitler. who died at her home, 5 Walnut street, Monday, after a brief illness, was born June 10, 185(i in New York City, and had been' a resident of Manchester for the past 11 years, coming here from Hartford.

Mrs. Zeitler leaves a son, Alan Bender, of 98 Martin streift, Hart­ford, a daughter, Addie L. Ster- rett, of Berkeley, Cal., and a son- in-law, Owen E. Reilly of 45 Wal­nut street. She also leaves four grandchildren: June Sterrett of Berkeley, Cal., Craig Bender of Hartford, Sheila Reilly of this town, and Mrs. Larry Hinds of New London.

, Funeral services will be held to­morrow ah 2 o ’clock from Morri­son & Johnson’s Funeral Home, Albany avenue and Vine street, Hartford.

Close Relatives , Hospital Visitors

The hospital office requested to­day that due to the prevailing flu epidemic, only two persons, pref­erably close relatives of patients, visit each day at the hospital for the duration of the epidemic. It is requested that only relatives visit

atduring the current emergency.

David FordeWord was received here this

morning that David Forde, former­ly of Manchester, had died at his home in Dover, New Hampshire. The deceased lived here for many years and was at that lime em­ployed by Cheney Brothers. He is survived by one brother. James P'orde of this town, a son Walter, in the United States Army, and one daughter Lillian, with whom he lived.

The funeral will be held in Dover, N. H... .Sunday afternoon from his late home.

The Board of Trustees of Man­chester Memorial hospital re­ceived $1,000 at their meeting last night from the Women’s Auxiliary of the Hospital, representing the net receipts of the annual Thanks­giving Ball held in the Hotel Bond. Hartford. The amount- will be used as the nucleus of a fund for the purchase of a new Nurses Home for the hospital, a neces­sity.

It was reported to the trustees that a new operating-room table, provided to the hospital through the sale of wa.ste paper in the cur­rent waste paper campaign, will be installed within 60 days.

A new resuscitator, also a gift to the hospital by the Womrtj’s Auxiliary, has been received by the hospital.

Acting upon information fur- ni.>ihed them by a local person last fall regarding the condition of the concrete base of the central pier that carries the N. H. R. R. over the Hockanum river, just west of Manchester, engineers of the rail­road found conditions to be as rep­resented, if not worse, and today men arc doing the preliminary work in preparation for making repairs on the base of the* pier.

First a cofferdam will be built around it out of heavy planking. Then the old concrete is to be thor­oughly cleaned, all bad sections re­moved and an enlarged base will be poured about the old one.

There are places where the scour and deterioration have cut back over 18 inches under the pier. This has been caused by ice action and acids In the water passing around the pier.

The condition is not apparent to the eye only at odd periods of low water in the river because the flow of the Hockanum is so dirty that one cannot see into It at any depth.

Hospital StaffChristmas Party

The professional staff o f the Manchester Memorial hospital held a Christmas party last night in the clinic rooms of th* institution. Sants Claus was present and pre­aented gifts to the staff members. Refreshments were served and the members sang Christmas carols. Members of the board of trustees attended the party after the close of their regular meeting.

ASBESTOS SIDING INSULATION

Expert worknuMahlp. All work guaranteed. Reaaonable Frices. No obllgatloa for an estimate. Write.

Burton Insulating Co.ISO Oxford 81. Hartford

Phone Hartford S2-451fl

A Feature o f the New

SHERIDANRESTAURANTBUSINESS MEN’ S

LUNCHEON

75cTry It Tomorrow!

gwawHdataftu guwiwt w n stawMiHiHiHitwfauaMiBSMiMu

Last Minute Gift Suggestions

PICTURESBeautiful Reproduction*

and Originals.

MIRRORSWe Still Have An

Excellent Selection!

i DESKSGovernor Winthrop MahoRany Secretary Desk

— in Hand Rubbed Maple.

Court Favors Railroad Plan

No Recompense for Holders o !^ Common And P referm l Slock.

i

RUGSHand Hooked Canadian Scatter R urs.

selection o f 9x12 Broadloom.

RADIOSYes, We Have a Few Left!

Philco Console A t ......................................Philco Chairside A t ...................................

Crosley Combination.

Rood

. $69.95

. $89.95

New’ Haven, Dec. Y2—I'D—A. plan for reorganization o0.ttc New York, New Haven * Hi^tford railroad which provide* no rkcom- pense for holder* of the road * ctmmon and preferred stock been approved by Judge Carroll Hincks of the United State* Di* trict court.

The plan approved in a decision filed late yesterday was the third that had been submitted by the Interstate Commerce commission since the New Haven undertook reorganization proceeding.s eight year* ago, and it hud been before the court *ince last July.

A public hearing, at which the plan was supported and opposed with equal vigor by various groups of creditors, was held early in October.

.Add sk’venil CorrectionsThe court added several correc­

tions to the plan before approving it Chief among these was an in­crease in the price the New Haven

is to pay for outright purchoa* ofthe Old Colony .ailroad, which it operate* under 99-year lea*e. The ICC had propo*ed payment of $2,289,600 in new fixed lntere*t bonds and $2,467,200 in Iqcome bonds, but Judge Hincks increased these figures by $1,631,327 and $1,223,495. respectively. ,

The plan wipes out the equity of the Old Colony stockholders a« well as those of the New Haven.

It approves acquisition by the New Haven of the Boston ft Provi­dence railroad, a leased line of the Old Colony. ,

The capital structure of the re­organized road, according to the plan, will be $376,000,000, com­pared with lU former structure of $500,000,000. The new caplUl structure calls for $143,000,000 in common stock, $60,000,000 in pre-

iri ed stock, $88,000,000 in Income bJmda and $95,000,000 in fixed In- te m t bonds.Beared Creditor# to Got Bond#

in abeyoncf until ooma Uma after ‘Lhc war, argtilng that until then It would be impossible to determine the road’* normal earning capac­ity. Insurance company and bank groups holding New Haven bonds urged immediate approval of the plan.

The plan now goes to the ICC which will submit it to the New Haven’* creditor*. Barring on ap­peal from the court’s decision which probably would delay pror ceedings indefinitely, it waa ex­pected that it would take about six month# for the road to be re- leased from the court’s control and to resume Independent operation.

Refuses lo GiveBurus Pairilou

T h^^ew Haven’s secured cred ! itors w ^ ld be given fixed interest ' bonds, income bonds and preferred stock whilv new common stock would be given the general credit­ors.

At the October hearing stock- t older groups 'opposing the plan SB id the New Havem iU traffic swollen by the war to an all-time high, was realizingVbou* $26,000, 000 a year, giving the stock con­siderable earning power. They urged that reorganization is held

Atlanta. Dec. 22—(>P)— The State Pardon and Parole board yesterday rejected Gov. Ellis Ar- nall’s request that it grant a par­don to Robert Elliott Burns, es­caped convict who becaifie fam­ous after writing the book "I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang."

The board said it could not take action in the case until the New­ark. N. J., business man "returni to the jurisdiction of the state of Georgia."

Special Music On Christinas

Second Congregational T o Hold Services Sat* nrday Morning at 9 :3 0A special Christmas morning

service will be belu at the Second Congregational church, Saturday at 9:30 o’clock. Chrlitmoa music by the Miiior and junior choirs will be featured. The minister, Rev. Dr. Ferris E. Reynolds will give the Christmas message, taking as his theme, "Christmas in Our ’nm e."

Miss Geraldine Tenney, pianist and Organist Samuel Rammette will play duets, including the pre­lude and postlude. Miss Tenney has also been training the junior choir

for thla oorvlo* and they will alng two Chrlatmo* carol*.

To Sing Two Antbonla The *enlor choir will alng^ two

anthem*, ’"n»er* Wer* Shepherd*," by Vincent, and "Arize and Shine,’" by Maker, and the "Hallelujah Choruz" by Handel.

Mrs. Fred Pohlman and her az- aoclates on the flower committee will decorate the auditorium. The nursery will also be open on Christmas morning for young chil­dren.

A cordial invitation Is extended to all to attend thiz special Christ­mas day servi.:*.

Named Archbiebop

auxiliary blobop of Birmingham, succeed* Cardinal Hln*l*y, who djed lost March.

Meat consumption In German- occupied Holland has declined from an average of a pound and three-quarter# a week before the war to two and one-quarter ounce# a week.

London, Dec. 22—(/P)— Pope Plus XII has appointed Rt: Rev. Bernard Griffin, 44, as archbishop of Westminster, the apostolic del­egation in London announced to­day. The prelate served in the last war in the Navy and Air Force and since 1938 has been

ANNOUNCEMENTDR. C. C. SHERWOOD

D«ntistof 869 Main Street

ManchesterIs Slow Associated With

DR. J. H. FAGAN of 33 Asylum Street

Hartford Telephone 6-6510

HIHAIN O NN THUMOAY IV IN n N W m . 9 R Ik UMTICn I P. M .-0L0 IID ALL DAY lAYUfiBAR

\ P L IA K flHOe lAflLY

Jfirat Kattimal #torM^Vi(t*«h* la amaMldl a S m t< anil a

FIRST NATIONALSUPER-MARKETS

Ties

fD R T O N D. P E A R L ’ 5

599 M A IN -HOTEL SHERIDAN BLDG • PHONE 7590

FnnerulsMrs. Mary L. Hayes

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary I.,acy Hayo.s will be held tomorrow morning at 8:30 at the home of her

Gifts From Textile Store Always G et A

Warm WelcomeThoughtful, Practical Gifts That Realty Strike Home for Christmas. See These Charming "Pick-Ups” Tonight!

W Blankets Beilspreacls Pnffs

PacMe Mill* Fine QiiaUty PercaleSHEETS 8 4 x 1 0 8 ......... , . $2 .25Piliow Ca.ses To M atch................. 59c each

PQTATOESiH d ck Your W'intw Supply * Now!

jBREVN MOUNTAINS i l -M Bu. At the Farm.

idloe«k Bros.S 8 f m m tm rn R om i

le 7693

G IFTHANKIES

PRINTED

25cImported

llaiidkerchieffl

29<GUEST AND TURKISH TOWELS— FINE GiFtS

GIVE

DAINTY DOT

HOSIERY

Rayon Damask

PILLOWS8ay, plump pillows to fit any color scheme.

9 8 c to $ 1 .9 8

MARTEX AND STAR-TEX

DISH TOWELSRed. Blue, Oreea Ikrdera.

Pkg. o f 4 . . 98e

SHOWER CURTAINS

$ 2 .9 8 to $ 5 .5 05

Curtains — Draperies Lace Dresser Scarfs

BRIDGE SETS

4 Napkips and 86 In. Cloth. All Colon.

$ 1 .9 8

TABLE COVERS AND 6 NAPKINS

$ 2 .9 8 to $4 .98

PRINTED TABLECLOTHS

$ 1 .9 8

T extile Sto reA . L. SLOCOMB, Prop.

918 MAIN STREET, NEXT TO THE BANK

$AMT/I KMOMfS

€ ^ 9•

faxkCraW

C T T | D | S C h r is tin a s S to r el 9 J I J L j J D n F o r A l l T h e F a m U y

TAKE ALL NEXT YEAR TO PAYG iv e W e a ra b le s T h is Yeal*!

•\

IT S THE TIME FOR SENSIBLE GIFTS, THAT AFFORD LASTING iSATISFACTlONl SELECTIONS AT SILBROS ARE SURE TO PLEASE AND PRICES HERE

S ^ T * R * E - T * C - HY o u r C h r is tm a s S h o p p in g $

GIFTSFOR MOTHERAND SISTER

O ' '• COATS• DRESSES• FUR COATS• BLOUSES• SKIRTS• SWEATERS• SLIPS•SPORT-WEAR •REVER8IBLE8 In Widest Varitty

GIFTSFOR FATHER

AND BROTHER' e .

• SUITS I• OVERCOATS• TOPCOATS• SOX• HATS• SHIRTS• TIES• PANTS• lA fX E T S• SWEATERS• MACKINAWS

GIFTSFOR THE KIDDIES

• BOYS’ SUITS• BOYS’ COATS• MACKINAWS• JACKETS• BOYS’

REVERSIBLES• GIRLS’ COATS• GIRLS’

REVERSIBLESGifts That WiU DeHufit

the Youncsters.

OPENTHURSDAY

andSATURDAY - EVENINGS

Until 9 O’clock

THE FINEST GIFTS UNDER THE TREE, COME FROM

OPEN A

CHARGE ACCOUNTSILBRO

ClDTHlhC COMPANYm m S

Fo» g*n»toHowt Regol Titi kov* $••# iIm Styl*-S««(*r( in ntckwMr.

Fomein (or qvolity and conitfuc- Hen, th*y *r* mod* In btouliful (obtici, gergtevi poilctm and. vnuwol coteiihgr.

Coma la and wo our omoetiyo’^ collocHen o( irripoi, plaidr, ftguitt, end lolld eeton.Tht i i f t $ifl for trtry o«aiiom.

FLEECE-LINED

GLOVESYou can’t go wrong if you give Him something warm . . . like these fleece-lined giovCs. ,

$ 1.95

HERE

WASHABLE PLAID

S P O R TS H IR T S

Bdmething for hi* leisure mo­ment* that be can knock around In as be pleases . . . because they’re woehoble.

$ 2*49C O R D U R O Y

S H IR T SHera’a a shirt that’s worm and saaort looking, too! Nice qual­ity, soft cordnilby In moat woat- eflohadeo.

* 4 . 9 #

907 MAIN STREET

THC

SPIRIT

/

\

P Want io^make him happy?i

Give him

Van Hensen ShirtsYou just know the Mntleman in the sketch is wear­ing a Van Heusen & rt— he couldn’t be that happy (Mberwise. He’* enjoying the matchless conafort of * collar othudly wovtn on m curve to fit bh neck. He know* that this collar will look neat and fresh all day without wilting or wrinkling. He knows that Van Heuaen custom-type uiloring makes him look r i^ t aa well as fed Make him happy withVan Heuien*.

\ 2 .2 5

FOR BOYS . . .. . . AND FOR GIRLS

CorduroyS p o rtC o a ts

Soft, free - draping corduroy aport ooota that o n making auch a kit with girls and hoy* alike. Nicely tailored, In eye- fllllng color*.

» 1 0 y 4SAME COATS IN SIZES FOR MEN, $12.95

M E N ' S S H O P S

WELDON BUILDING

Wind up your shopping in a blaze of glorious gifts to make this a merrier Christmas for all on your list. At ARTHUR’S you will find ever so many practically per­fect ideas for perfectly practical gift assortments that will solve your last minute problems to perfection . . . quickly, easily and economically.

Pandas........ $3.25 to $7.95Xmas Tree Holders . .$1.89

Compacts . .$1.00 to $16.98

Shaving Sets, .98c to $4.50

ElectricCorn Poppers............ $1.49Fountain Pens . . . . . .$1.98

Photo Albums ........ $1.25

* •*!

WlSETS In

g4.T9 *•

Fresh Stock o f

XMAS CANDY

JUST ARRIVED! £\

Desk Pens with Stands .$1.89

r e d u c e d r a t e s

X - i » T t - .......... ” “

T h e n n M H e a t in g

Comb and B n » h

O F

$1.96

$2.29 ta $I* 3*

Arm or3 ^ Bad* -SIw viBg D rw w re

BH4.F0r.DS 9«c to $9.29

IK

You can do constdeioble lo*t minute shop­

ping, here. Look over the merchandise we

hove 'and *eo if it won’t help you. Store* , .m*-- %

open tonight and Thursddy'iintil 9:00.

CHICKENSFor Roosting-4 to S Lb Averag*

NO POINTSABOUT

TURKEYSV hcU Sem hot

been e big buyer of turkeyr ibis y e t. We hare nal been able to buy any. wkere near the quantity we did o yeor ogo. If you eoHuet get one, we' know you'll undertlond. The boyt m Ikt Armed Poreet, both an lond ond tea, will get a lot of com< fort thit Chriitmot eating the Turheyi that we were not able to buy for youl

A ll SIZES-NO POINTS

LI

WHOLE or EITHER END-4 Brawn Paint*

FOWLWHOLE Of EITHE

PORK LOINSFRESH or SM OKED-2 Brown Point*

SHOULDERSWHOLE or EITHER HALF 7 Point*-5HANK END 5 Poinh

HAMS — ’ 37«

WHOLE or EITHER HALF 5 Pointi-SHANK END 3 Point*

HAMS u 33’

u

ORANGESJUICY FLORIDA

2 0 0 's -2 1 6 's DOZARIALVALUl

DI-ANJOU PEARS EXTRA LARGE SIZE 3 (OR 25* CRANBERRIES fresh c a p e cod ti 89cICEBERG LETTUCE 60 COUNT 2 HDS 28c ICEBERG LETTUCE 4$’C0UNT 2 HDS 2 7 c

CRISP CELERY LARGE WHITE LGE BCH 19*FRESH TURNIPS YELLOWP. E. I LB 4 c

BROCOLLI FRESH-CALIFORNIA BCH 2S<HUBBARD SQUASH («sh lb \a£

BROOKSIDE-LARGE SIZE ST R ia iY FRESH-GRADE A

Wm ELLIOT-MEDIUM SIZE STRICTLY FRESH-GRADE A

DOZ

DOZ

OUrUtmM tUeUFRUIT CAKES

A Practical Christm as OHt ’H io t A nyone W M Woteama.

DARK FRUIT CAKE 35 -LIGHT FRUIT CAKE >« * « l o*FRUIT STbLLEN_________ 2 3 -

Sm um mUuUdumm M iU U aok 3iaU

inm bafnd m* J f piidmtfi

GINGER ALEOUTSTANDING QUALITY PRICED FOR SA V IN G S A LSO ROOT BEER ANDM ANY OTHER FLAVORS AT THE SAME LOW PRICE

BIG28-OZ

BTL

'■ ■ iiil

NIBLETSNIBinS

ASPARAGUS SPEARS 18 GREEN POINTS ’’ h 'O Z TIN

M E X I C O R N ^to G R E E N P O I N T B ■ - O I T ' N

FLOURnnoat ■road

KYBO COFFEE(reshlyGROUND 2 ’-|'Bbags51< RICHMOND COFFEEpopui- pm«.2' b.,*41*PANCAKE FLOUR WHiTt SPRAY 20-OZ PKG

BUCKWHEAT FLOUR

■%v|

PEANUT BUTTER 42*5-lb bag ,

LARD or OLEO

VLB PKG

1-Lb Jar 2 4 *

C A K E F L O U R s p r a y ta o z p k g 2 1 *

M ARV O 5 (JOINTS#LB 3-LBCTN 62* t-lbCtn22* M ILK Ivingolin# |v*p.-1 Pt l*eli 3 (*H‘®*t*"*2T* ORANGE JU ia TREESWin n-OZ TIN 15* FRUIT COCKTAIL RICHMOND 90-OZTIN 32* RAISINS SMdleu 40r*«t PM U-OZ PKS15*

SWAN SOAP6 - 3 » m 2 9 ’

MEDCAKE

SPRYS BROWN POINTS A IB

34J 4 $ . 2 4 *

SUPER SUDS•ox

I B P W — 40m D aB B O *mW, >ww«* IlM M U Vn* QUUMW*

SWEETHEARTTOM ? SOAP

2 <ss 13* $ s 11’rnmmmmmmummmmm

A# rm» I

fE I t M A N l 'H E S r t R E V E N IN G H E K A L U : M A N C H E S T E K , C O N N ., W E U N E S O A I , O E L E M E E KM MANCkESTER, CokN., W^DNe IbDAY, DECEMBER 22,194» . BAGS E U IY I^

Extra PointsGiven for Pork

Wubln[fton, D«c. 82— —With »«aaon and with unintentional Thyme. OPA ha.n made spare ra­tion stamp No. 1 good for five points worth of spare riba—or a^ equal value of other pork prod­ucts. , t

Poik la glutting the market. The OPA explained that the tom- porarv validation of a special stamp In Book Four provided the

J "simplest and most effective man­ner for getting the unexpectedly large civilian supply of pork into

’ the hands of the housewife.”The extra ration Is good only

' **'until 12;01 a. m. Jan. 2. Agency W,8iu’veys show that the average

person spends between 11 and 12 i / o f hia 16 weekly ration points

for meats. With the loins and ■ other choice cuts of pork at four

points, a family of live, using the " Tlew spare stamp, temporarily will

b»’ able to buy at a rate of about 20 {xuinds a week. Of the cheap­er cuts, .such as shoulders, the

family could buy about 40 pound.s a week.

Soil til rovtMilrvstaff Sergeant Herbert Kelly.

4 son of Thomas Kelly, stationed in '• England with the Army Air . Force, has received a citation for

» participation In successful mis­sions over Bremen. Germany, on Oct. 8, over Gdyna; Polan<i. on

*■ Oct. 9, over Koesald, Germany, on Oct. 10. and over Schweinfurt, Germany, on Oct. 14 He has been

' engaged In combat duty as an - aerial gunner, having been in

England since .September.Owing to illness of the Rev.

Charic.s D. Bi-oadbent, the speak- * er at the Congregational church < on Sunday morning was the Rev. 4 Leon H Austin of North Coven- f try. Mrs. Broadbent assisted in " the service and took charge . of

the Junior sermon. In the evening a vesper service was held. The

S' singing of carols by the choir and ■ congregation was inter.spersed

.- with readings from "The Story of

the Other Wise Man” by Mrs. Evelyn Bioadbcnt and Mrs. Evelyn Beebe Snyder. A White Gift service followed. The offers Ings this year, by request, were largely of money, which will go to the fellef of war vlcUma and to war sfervlcee. through the Congre- gational-Christlan committee.

The anfuial Christmas party for the children, of St. Mary’a parish, of South Coventry and Eaglevllle, took place last Saturday after­noon In St. Mary’s hall, in charge of the Rev. Charles M. Kelly.

J. LeRoy Schweycr entertained the officers and heads of depart­ments of the National Silk Com­pany at a birthday dinner at hia home on Saturday evening.

Mr and Mrs. R. B. Bennett Leave today for Wa.shington, D. C., to spend the hpllday season with their daughters, Mrs. Sey­mour J. Sindeband and Mrs. R.ob- ert Richard.

C. I^rry Little has returned to his home from the Windham hos­pital, where he w'as a patient for sevclal weeks following amputa- |kfn of his foot resulting from an Occident while at his work v ith the Sterlitc Fiber Prmiucts/ Inc., at Coventry station. /

Mr. and Mr.s. A lbert/^udreau and family of Lakeview Terrace left today, to spend tl e remainder of the week with refatives in Bos­ton. /

Dr. C. F. W'}Mcy of the Univer­sity of Oniiecucut w'as the speak­er at the niteting of the Men’s Club Monday evening In the Con­gregational church vestry, hia topic being "What Price Peace?" The election of officers which waa to have taken place at this meet­ing has been postponed until the Jamiary meeting. 'The date of the monthly meetings has been ehanged from the third Tuesday in each month, to the third Mon-

■day.

Tell Holiday Driving Story

MacArthiir Trip Slurv Disbelieved

Sydney, Australia, Dec. 22——The commonwealth government does not take serioiislv any re­ports General MacArthur Is plan­ning a trip to the United States next spring.

IThe Indianapolis Star has quo­ted "persistent reports of reliable persons returning, from Austra­lia,” as saying MacArthur is mak­ing tentative plans to return to Washington next March for a ae­ries of conferences.)

It was officially stated today Prime Minister John Curtin knows nothing about the reports and it Was • emphasized Australia would be coiijjulted first because it is a party to MacArthur’s military di­rective and the general is partly responsible to the commonwealth government.

s of Interest to Local Women

I

Hartford, Dec. 22—(>P>—Motor Vehicles - Commissioner John 'T. McCarthy announced yeaterday he would have nothing to say this year about holiday driving except to present figures which "tell the story better than any comment of ours.” The figures- 15 people kill­ed and 329 injured in 582 traffic accidents in Connecticut between Dec. 24. 1942, and Jan. 1, 1943.

Holiday GreetingsFrom

FOSTER'S94 OAKLAND STREET TEL. 7386

FOR FINE FOODS -

We have the finest selection of foodstuffs for your Holiday feast that we hove hod in o long time. It will warrant your inspection.

Store Open Thursday Until 9 P. M. Store Open Friday Until 7 P. M.

COME ON OVER!

A Merry Christmas and o Happy New Year Jo All Our

Customers and Friends.

Chinese ShowGas Cvliinlers

Between the Neighbors

ingAdvertiaement— Advertlaement— Advertlseinent-r

(OintlnDcd from Page One)

also will be taken to General Stii- wcll, waa seen to drop from a Jap­anese plane last May . long the Yiina river, Maj. F\i Heg-Yu. the chemical expert, said. It was emp­ty when found, he added, but he as.serted that mustard gas had been usjd by the Japanese on oth- ei fronts. The exhibits will be taken to Lieutenant General Stll- wcll by Maj. Rankin 3. Roberts, public relations officer at Stiiwell’s Chungking headquarters.

Liang disclosed yesterday that this Army had taken only 10 Japa­nese prisoners since fighting start­ed Oct. 29, but estimated that his forces had inflicted 3.500 casual­ties on the enemy.

Not Easy To Take Prisoners Asked about disparity between

the casualty claim and his report on the number of prisoners, the general replied simply, "It’s not easy to take Japanese prisoners." On the other hand, he said there was no evideiue that the Japa­nese committed hara-kiri in any great number.

Accepting these statistics, this seems to suggest that In at least one sector of the northern Hunan front, the Japanese retreat waa well organized, although the cas­ualty figure would rcprc.scnt more than a 10 per cent logs hy the Japanese force, estimated at 30,-6oo.

(This dispatch did not indicate whether "casualties” referred to killed OP wounded or both.)

Liang's figures have been includ­ed in the overall statistics given Dec. 13 by General Hsueh at head­quarters of the Ninth War Area which includes approximately 120 square miles of the sector of their Army. Hsueh’s figures were 11.000 ca.sualtlcp for the Japanese and 14,000 for troops of the Ninth War area. He had given no figures for prisoners, saying they were still in the forward area.

Liang said that his Army had not taken much booty in their pursuit, of the Japanese when the Changteh keystone gave way to a Chinese counter-attack,

CIO Union Winn Election

Splee Tlim By Cronhy (iaige

Doing holiday baking? Make a fresh plump loaf and spice it with fennel- or dill seed and citron. Caraway seed’s beginning to reap­pear and does f.ne here. t o o . . . . Plenty of potatoes—plenty of orc- gan or Mexican sage. Use it to season scalloped potatoes or get a similar effect with easy-to-buy poultry aeawining. . . . Nutmeg and a few droplets of lemon juice do nice things for chunks of baked squash about to go to the table. For mashed aquash. too ...,T h ose chocolate chips can be had a little more easily now, too. or chip your own off a cake of bitter chocolate. Add them to bread pudding with a quarter of a teaspoon of ground ginger. Fine for cold weather and a filler-upper strong on the nutri­tion side. if,you use enriched bread and milk.

o .QHELLO THERE:—

i THE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT PPIACE ON EARTH, GOOD1 WILL TOWARD.S MEN—may seem an empty phrase this Christ­

mas, but as long as we hold it up as our Shining goal, it will come true again. So may "Judy" light a Christmas candle in all your hearts for as Merry a Christmas as is possible this wartime year. Let’s hang high the holly and the mistletoe, fill tiny stockings and trim trees at least in happy preparation for those who will share Christmas with us here at home. MERRY CHRISTMAS, EVERY­ONE! •---------------------- r----------------------------

Art

Bridgeport, Dec. 22—()P)—The United Electrical. Redio and Ma­chine Workers of America (CIO) replaced the Mantling, Maxwell and Moore independent union as bargaining agent for employes of the Manning, Maxwell and Moore

ompany yesterday in an election won by the CIO union, 582 Votes to 433.

0

! Quality I \ Occasional Furniture \S The Gift That Lasts , |

i

Fire K az^ Woodland

Niewtown, Dec. 22.—(^) — Fire believed to have started from an incinqratQr at the Flat Swamp school in Doclingtown swept througl) 40 acres o f woodland on the estate of Dr. Walter Molander of New York city yesterday, heavi­ly damaging a stand of spruce, pine and hemlock. /

Cinnamon Is S<'areeCinnamon, both stick and ground,

is very short in the market and iri some areas is vtrtuslly unobtain­able. Until further notice we sug­gest you substitute 3-4 tsp. of all­spice for each tsp. of ground cin­namon called for in a recipe. 1 t-sp. whole allspice berries approxi­mates 1 stick of cinnamon. Aniae seed, nutmeg, gingei, mace, cloves or even cardamon seed may all be used in most recipes calling for cinnamon.Spire For the Holida.vs— .\nd .\fter

We’ll make up in flavor what we may miss in fancy foods this holi­day season, according , to the American Spice Trade Associa­tion’s latest bulletin on spice sup­plies. The ne- z augurs, well for good cooks over.ywhere. We are even told to turn to the delicate mace (previously scarce) if wc find our nlitmcg supplies a little off. Mace, the fragrant membrane that embraces the nutmeg In its peach-like fruit, is a true holiday spice. Rich Ir esiaential oil, it should be Used more sparingly than nutmeg. The finest cake sea­soning extant, mace has the virtue of accenting the rich flavor of chocolate, of chee.se dishes, of chicken and seafood in cream sauces.

Stews Are Sl.vlishStews as stews or dressed up as

casseroles, meat 'pies or meat shortcakes, lead fall food fashions.

Real bargains are stews, being low in both ration points and cost. Low-point beef, veal and lamb cuts, variety meats and leftovers are "makings ” for a good stew. One pound of boneless meat In a meat and vegetable stow serves six.

Here’s a gooii basic stew recipe that is as good for meat pie as for stew with dumplings. Beef, veal or lamb is equally good in it.

Versatile .Meat Stew1 (lound beef, veal or lamb stew

meat2-4 tablespoons lard2 cups water2 teaspoons salt2 tablespoons parslc,\'6 carrots, diced6 onions, diced6 potatoes, dicedCube meat and browtyln hot lard

in a heavy kettle. Ado water, salt and parsley, and csjok slowly for one hour. Add c&yrota, onions and potatoes. Add more water to pre­vent burning ^ d to keep two cups stock. C ove^ n d cook slowly until vcgetables/are tender. If mixture is used tar meat pie, thicken stock before/^putting into casserole. S e rv ^ 6.

Material— Splendid for Christ mua

All kind^ of artist’s supplies — oil sots. $1.48 to $13.98; Watercol- ors, 15c to $5.98: Crayons, 15c to $2.35; Instruction Books, 25c to 98c; Pastels. $1.10 to $1.98; Specdball Pen sets, 98c Including, instructions; Artist’s brushes, l()c up; Palettes. Palette Knives; Eas­els, Canvas Boards in all sizes; | Sketch Pads In all sizes; W ater-; color Paper and Bristle Boards. They still have a few more of those intriguing Purple Cows in the form of ashtrays and cunning dogs in cute poses, 98c too — where? McGill-Converse, 645 Main street. And. they want to wish you A Merry Christmas also.

'here were 5,981 additions to he American medical profession

in 1942.

■An Old-Fashioned Tune Every- time You IJft the Cover

Just an old-fashioned music box -b u t what an’ instrument of

charm for Christmas. Potterton’s at the Center have reduced all their music boxes, the powder and cigarette boxes. 20 per cent. With 20 per cent off the original cost you’ll be surprised how little it costs to buy one of these in­triguing music boxes for Christ­mas and they have a fine selec­tion. A Happy Christmas to you from Potterton’s too!

LooGentlemen axe preferring

jackets and slacks as never be­fore. Victory gardening, more walking and acting the part of chief handyman calls for cor­duroys, cottons and novelty rayons in informal color com­binations. Mix-match costumes are getting the votes, and sav­ing wear and Lear on business and dress clothes as weil. . A suggestion for Christmas giv­ing.

together, covered, about 2 hours, (until meat is quite tenden). Mix flour and curry powder. Add the cold water slowly,juat sufficient to make a smooth paste. Stir into the meat gravy. Cook, stirring con­stantly until gravy is rich and creamy. Poui into casserole or baking dish. Arrange cooked hominy grits around the edge (like a pie crust). Reheat in oven, if necessary. Dust edge with paprika, garnish with parsley. Serve piping hot. Serves 6.

CuttingCorners

.A Hint u SantaBowling Alleys for the whole family to enjoy this Christmas and only $2 98 —a real bargain at Benson’s. Huge Ted-

dybeafs at a special price of $6.98 and a tine value in Rocking Horses for $4.98. Benson’s wish all their customers and friends a- Happy Christmas.

There’s Still a Huge .Assbr't Of Toys y

Santa is stocking up ajf Mar­low’s with toys, dbil^’ . drums, games, doll clothes, ^Udly toys and mechanical toya^tc., to give the kiddles a Christmas.Marlow’s wantsy% take this op- portunit.v to w|m all o f ' you a Happy Chris’ a s . too

Twinkle TwinkleDiamonds can now be cut with

40 extra facets to intensify the color of the atones and Increase the brilliancy. The new multi- facet diamond having 98 facets instead of the usual 58 is consider­ed the most important advance In a century of diamond cutting ex­perience.

The Seaaon’s Best to YouThe Dewey-Richman Co. want

to wish all the readers of Judy’s column 8 pleasant Christmas an^ the Season's Greetings.

Uhrlsti))as Trees and WreathsA t t r a c t i v e wreaths, baskets and siiraya for doors and for the cemetery, 75c, at McConvillc, t h e Fioriats. 823 Mam St. Also Christ­

mas trees, $1.00 up. aijd lovely potted plants, Poinsettias. etc.,50c up. Call 2-1059. McCjonville'swish you the Season's Greetings!

add your own Ingenuity for illu­sive seasoning.

There .Are Still a Few Lighters •Available

At Matthew Wior's, 997 Main St., there is still a nice choice )f Cigarette Light- ,?rs. $3.95. Thoseg r a n d waterproof,' shockproof, sweep

second hand, radium dial watches for service men. BeautjTul dia­monds to make "her” diappy at Christmas and wrisUdvatches for both men and women. Matthew Wior also wishcs/all the readers of Judy’s colunui A Merry Christ­mas ! /■

Cocoiiufe^Surprise is something special <and Chef .Wiolet, at the Hotel^New Yorker, New York City/f gives us his recipe.

Coenniit Surprise (Six servings)

Three medium coconuts, 1 quart milk. 1-2 pound sugar, l » g g white.

Remove liquid from coconuts and set aside. Cut coconuts in half. Scoop out the meat and save shells. Peel the outer -edges of the coconut meat and shred very fine. Boil milk with sugar until sugar is dissolved, then re­move from heat: add the shredded coconut meat. Allow to cool, then acl<l roConut liquid. Strain.

Place In ice cream freezer. When half frozen, add beaten egg white and continue freezing. When mixture is hard, remove from freezer and fill coconut shells. Sprinkle top with remaining shredded coconut sweetened with a little powdered sugar.

Cookery Hint Save all stale bread and’ crack­

er crumbs for stuffing^/meat ex­tenders, and scalloMfd dishes; store in rcfrlgerato^/Save ail veg­etable Juices tad liquids for soups, sauces. gj>avics and for the liquid In braisM meat dishes and stews.

Raincoats for ChristmasFory t last minute thought but

a prActical one do look at the stpkrt Pall Mell Gabardine rain­coats at Montgomery Wards. They are weather sealed by Impregiiole and water-repellant, also spot stain and perspiration resistant. In sizes 12 to 18 and only $4.98 and $6.98. These are In belted and straight models and so good-look­ing. Montgomery Wards also wish you A Merry Christmas.

v :

Ha^ Every thing —

Solid Maplp and Mahogany Pieces That Ar« Sure to Please.

^DRTON D. P E A R L 'S

5 9 9 M A IN - HOTEL SHERIDAN BLDG • PHONt 7590 856412-42

Today’s pretty apron has every feature the atyle-mlnded could want—a acalloped round yoke top (very flattering to the face) a neat, anug* walatllne, a pleasingly flared aklrt. For a quick, laat min­ute gift, make the tle-on apron thia pattern offera, with rufflea at the hem.

Pattern No. 8564 la la aiaea 12, 14, 16, 18. 20; 40, 42. " 1 « 14, blh- top atyle, takes 1% yards 32-inch material; tie-on atyle 1% yarda.

For thla attractive iwtteni, tend 15 cents, plua 1 cent for postage. In cedna, with your name, address, pattern number and alSe to The Manchester Herald Today’s Pat­tern Service, 106 Seventh avenue. New York 11, N. Yi

Have you seen the hew iaaue of •’Fashion,” o u f 52-page guide to new sewing atyles for fall? Order a copy today. The price la 25 cents.

PIn-Up Oiri CtuiUengrr

Chicago — '((P» — “Tifoae star- spangled, red. White, and blue patriotic symbols which led the field In calendar themes this year are threatened with replacement by the waving skirt of a pine-lip girl in '1944. The new challenger for leadership in calendar art la described by James Dow, an officer of a large halendar company, as vthe athletic type, in a close-fitUng sweater and a scant akirt." Pin-up themea; Dow aaya, wUl make up 60 per cent of his company*^s art.

Bridal Uarmenls Left Behind —

Chicago—(d^— Lester Smith re­ported to police that his truck had been stolen. Soon it waa found. Thieves had atolen averythmg in the cargo except 17 Urge cartona which were pushed aside and left undisturbed. The cases contained

..burial gaiteanU.• - t, '

We read: \Stuffing Styles ^

Be it King Turkey, (juecn Duck, or little Miss Chicken, it is the stuffing that makes the dish reghl fare. The stuffing you choose is a matter of taste. What do you like? Tte sage and onion dressing your grandmother made? What does your lord and master praise? A stuffing stuffed with oysters? Anyhow, why always the same? The birds can’t be changed, so why not their dressings? Perhaps a change in the texture, from a fluffy moist kind to one dry and crumbly? Nuts, walnuts, hazel nuts, pecana in small quantities add differentness. In old New England days com bread was the basis of the - turkey’s stuffing, sometimes united with chestnuts or oysters, or sausage. Old-fash­ioned bread stuffing, too, may he enriched with cooked giblets, chopped apples, raisins, nuts, or

And once more Merry Christ­mas! W’e think you'll like this Christmas Carol we found in ’The Woman” magazine:

Christmas CarolO stricken, world look up and see The God who died upon a tree Is bom a laughing babe again To bring new hope to weary men.

Here is a legend never old— Neither the dark nor the bitter

coldCan stay His coming once a year To heal the sick and cast out fear.

Bring Him your hunger, bring your thirst.

The blind and crippled shall be first.

The most dejected and forlorn Shall lie upon His breast this morn.—Helene Mullins, from the Times.

G’bye now.

If you are planning some New Year’s Eve festivities, Gaynor Maddox suggests a few comers you can cut to make it as little work as possible. Such as:

Toy balloons, greens, a cloth made of cheap muslin, with festive decorations cut from colored pa­per and applied to the cloth, can-t dies and a large Victory New Year’s greeting printed and hun over the table, make colorful tr exciting decorations for the party.

Have plenty of protein oif the buffet. If you can get u r o ^ , such as lamb, shoulder of vesCi, a ham or perhaps a turkeyj/Uiat’s fine. Otherwise, go in for^ell-seasoned ireat loaves, served sliced cold, s. usage, assorted cheeses, and some egg dishM Nothing neeo be elaborate, but the ’’eats” should be plentiful, ^ bstan tia l and- easy to handle.

uffet Supper MenusAlefiu No. 1: Cold roast leg of

lapib, potato and dill pickle salad, 'adishes, celery, olive-i, buttered

Parker House rolls, chicken and veal and muahrooni loaf, sliced, assorted cheeses, crackers, peanut cookies, frosted chocolate squares, fruit bowl, coffee.

Menu No. 2: Hot black bean soup with lemon slices, soda crack­ers, beef, veal and hap loaf, sliced, watercress sandwiches, assorted buttered rolls, raw carrot sticks, celery, sliced bologna sausage, cottage cheese witli chives, fruit cake, coffee.

Attmetivr ArmngemenUArrange all your foo« on the

buffet at once. Place different foods where they can be easily reached. Arrange plates and sil­ver and napkins conveniently Have coffee and punch on separaU teble, surrounded hy cups and glasses.

The hostess and one or two friends can serve the food onto dishes, which the men of the party take to the other guests. If possi­ble, have enough small tables so that all the guests can sit down to ert. It’s more pleasant for every­one. ___

Here’s a hint—donT delay serv­ing substantial food tso long. And have plenty, but keep it simple.

.A Happy ChristmaH to YouA Happy Chriatma.-! to evei-y

reader from Glenney’s Men’s Shop.

Curried Lamb Pie is surely in­ternational, with its Near East use bf lamb and. curry and the pure southern touch of hominy gi’its. But it works, and is surely a dish for a gourmet.

Curried Lamb Pie 2 lbs. lean breast of lamb, shoulder

or neck2 tbs. fortified margarine or drip­

pings3 cups boiling water talt and pepper v ,Bay leafPaprika 2 small onions2 stalksXcelery /1 tsp. miheed parsley 1-4 cup flour1 tsp. cuny powder (or to taste) Cold water \ '2 cups cooked hominy grits

Have meat cut into servin„ sizepieces. Brown\iti hot fat. Add boil­ing water, salt, bay leaf, onions and celery thinly aliced. Simmer

Not tiofld Enough Excuse

Fort Leavenworth. Kas.—(/P)— A draftee gave this reason. In writ­ing, foii.^sking deferment; "Con- valsecing from a traumatic per- rosynovitis of the flexor digitorum subblimus in profundus muscle at the metacarpsophalangeal joint.” The Army said no, a sore finger wasn’t a good enough excuse.

MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL

T

VICTORRED SEAL

KEMP’S, Inc.FufTiitur# and Music

763 MAIN STREET MANCHESTER

EM'S GfiEllNBS»

flUrry CbristMM

10 ONE AND ALL LOOM %

\urton 8841 Main St., Manchester

Phone 5658

IS THESINCERE WISH

OF

THE LILY BEAUTY SALON

Maude Turkington, Proprietress.

527 Main St. Cal] 7484

MAY THE PEACE AND JOY

OF CHRISTMAS I ABIDE WITH YOU ' ALL THROUGH

THE YEAR 1- . • ■ . '

Gustafson'sBroyvnbilt Shoe Store

705 Main SL ManchesterIn the Johnsen Block

MAY THE LIGHT OF CHRISTMAS

FOREVER SHINE TODAY AND ALWAYS

MAY YOU IV^VE aiRISTMAS JOYl

Cheney Brothen Remnant SalesroomHAaTFORO BOAD ' " MANUHCSTOI

§mi-.lw Hi ; w . V ’

W T 10-t080Vt’URU— ISSO Today *8 Radio WNBO-1410

Boatera War Hnw

v4:00— w n c — Backstage'V’DRC — Broadway Matinee; News; WNBC — Blue Frolics.

4:15 - WTIC — Stella Dallas;WNBC — Jan Savitt

4:30— w n c — Lorenzo Jones; WDRC — Ad Uner; WNBC — Time Views the News.

4 45— W .nC — Young Widder Bro-x-n; WDRC — Ad Liner; WNBC — Vaughn Monroe.

8 00—WTIC — When A Girl Mar­ries; WDRC — News; Four Way Minstrels; Ad Liner: WTHT News; Music; WNBC — News.

6:15—WTIC — Portia Faces U fe;WNBC — Dick Tracy.

5:30—w n o — Just Plain Bill; WDRC — News; Sports; WNBC —Jack Armstrong.

5 :45—w n c —Front Page Farrell; WDRC — American Women; WTHT — Superman; WNBC — Captain Midnight.

Evening«;00— w n c — News; WDRC —

News: WTHT — News: WNBC -Terry and the Pirates.

6:15—WTIC — History in the Headlines; WDRC r - To Your Good Health; WTHT — Sports; WNBC — News.

B :00—W n C —Gulden Serenaders WNB(3— Feed Bag Frolics.

<5;4,5_WDRC — News; WTHT — Music; WNBC .—Freddie Mwiin.

7:00 — WTIC — Fred Waring: WDRC — I Love A Mystery: W-t h T — Fulton Lewis, Jr. W'NBC — News; Adventures of the Falcon.

7:15-15’n C — News: WDRC — Harry James; WTHT —Memory Lane.

7:30—'W nC — Wings for Tomor row, WDRC — Easy Aces; —

P. A. Keep Slate Clean in Rec ueWTHT — Mdaie; WNBC —Lone Ranger.

7:45—WTHT—Carol Bing.8:00—w n c —Mr. and Mrs. North,

WDRC—Sammy Kaye; WTHT— Sam Balter: WNBC—News.

8:15—WTHT — Pulton Oursler; WNBC--Lum and Abner.

8:30—w n c Beat the Band;WDRC—Dr. Christian: News; WTHT—National Tuberculosis Association; WNBC— Battle of the Sexes.

8:45—WTHT—Music.■ 9:00—w n c — Eddie Cantor;

WDRC — Lionel BariTrmore; WTHT — Gabriel H e a t t e r - ; ■WNBC—Dunninger.

9:16—WTHT—Oracle Fields. 9:30—WTIC—Mr. District Attor­ney; WDRC — Japk Carson Show; WTHT—Carol Sing from Bushnell; WNBC — Spotlight Bands; This Thlug Called Love.

9:45— WTHT—Musi c.10:00—w n c —Kay Kyser; WDRC

—Great Moments in Music;1 WTHT — John B. Hughes;

WNBC— Raymond Oram Swing. 10:16— WTHT — Concert Hour;

WNBC—Listen to Lulu.10:30—WDRC — Cresta Blanca

CamivaP WNBC— Star for a Night.

11:00—News on all Stations.11:15— WTlC — H a r k n e s s of

Washington; WDRC—What Is It? WTHT—Hawaiian Music; WNBC—Music You Want.

11:30—WTIC — Author’s Play­house; -WDRC — Invitation to Music: WTHT—Music.

11:45— WNBC—Chez Paree Or­chestra; Newz.

12:00—w n c — News; Rambling in RhyOun; WDRC — News WTHT—News.

12:30—w n c —Design for Danc­ing; News.

Bronco Nagurski May Get Revenge . In Title Contest

Bears' Great Fullback Retired Under Sting Of Defeat by Skins Seven Years Ago at Wrigley Field; Will Meet Baugh Again.

Stagg Heads Sports List

Of Comebacks

Transportation No Problem

British Evacuee Children To Converse with Parents

New York, Dec. 22.—()P)— Brit->and Basil Rathbone is to take the ieh evacuee children In this coun- part of Scrooge in the CBS SUrstry and Canada who haven’t seen their folks since before Pearl Har­bor and American and Canadian kiddies whose fathers are service men overseas 'are to exchange Christmaa greetings with their parents in a Sunday broadcast via CBS and Britlab radio.

over Hollywood drams at 12:30 p. m. Saturday. Tonight at 9 on C M comes the first broadcast, when Lionel Barrymore appears In the drama for the eighth time.

Programs tonight;______ _______ NBC—7. Fred Waring; 8, Mr.T7»e regular 12:30 p. m. Trans- and Mrs. North: 8:30, Beat the

Atlantic call Is being turned over j Band quiz; 9, Eddie Cantor; 9:30, to them, with a three-way hookup! District Attorney: 10, Kay Kyser a r r a n t to link New York, Lon- i hour.don and the Canadian cities of CBS—7:15, Harry James band; Toronto, Montreal and Quebec. 8, Sammy Kaye orchestra; 9:30, Bob Trout will handle the broad- ja ck Carson show; 10:30, Morton cast as five children come on Gould carnival; 11:30, Invitationfrom New York and six from Can­ada. The parents will be in the London studios of BBC.

Before the United States enter­ed the war, NBC had conducted a monthly series In which British children talked to their parents under a similar arrangement.

With CBS the latest to be add­ed. King George’s message to the Empire as the concluding feature of the annual BBC Christmas Day broadcast Is to be relayed by ail networks. MBS will carry the en­tire program, starting at 9 a. m. and including direct and recorded pickups from all parts of the em­pire and the fighting areas.

The other networks come on at 10 for the king. . . Charles Dick­ens’ Christmas Carol will be avail able twice on the networks Christ mas in addiUon to a midweek transmission. Child actors are to joresent It in Bob Emery’s Rain­bow House on MBS at 10:15 a. m.,

to Music, "Messiah."BLU—7:30, Lone Ranger; 8:30,

Battle of Sexes; 9. Paul Lavalle orchestra; 10:15, Branscomoe Choral tenth Christmas program; 10:30, Star for a Night, amateurs.

MBS—7:30, Halls of Montezu­ma; 8:30, Xavier Cugat orchestra; 9:30, Soldiers with Wings; 10, New commentary by Royal Arch Guiinison.

By Bucky O’Oonnor Chicago, Dec. 22—(fl*)— If ever a

setting was built to order, the Sun­day pro football title game here between the Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins was made for Bronko Nagurski.

Prior to hlB roaring comeback this season after an absence of five years, the Indestructible Bronk’s last football appearance was the 1937 championship game at Wrig- ley Field against the same Red­skins.

It was Sammy Baugh’s first sea­son o f leag;ue play and his side whipped Bronko and the Bears 28 to 21.

Now after a layoff of five years, the Bears’ battering ram who lug­ged the ball for an all-time league record o f 3,947 yards from 1930 to 1937, again encounters Baugh and Co. in a tiUe game.

A lot of football history has been written since Bronko bid adieu, with Slinging Sam the Texas man authoring much of IL The freshman of Nagurskl’s first farewell has become one of the greatest forward passers of all time.

But as far as the Bronk is con­cerned that doesn’t count, for Sammy’s reputation sprouted while Nagurski was sitting It out on his Minnesota farm. So Bronko will be In there Sunday particularly anxious to reverse that 1937 resulL After all. at 34 a fellow can’t be expected to go on indefinitely. Who knows but wbst this may be an­other Nagurski farewell. The Nag, being sentimental about such things, wants to assure a happy ending.

On paper, at least. It appears as though he’ll have his wish. Statis­tics show the Bears are superior on offense and only slightly less efficient defensively than Wash­ington. The Bears have scored 4.3 touchdowns per game compared with Washington’s 3.3 and have rolled up a 10 game total of 4045 yards by rushing and passing ftt the Redskins’ 2925.

Veteran Coach I» Only 5 Points Ahead of Patty Berg; Mention Harmon's Escapes.

What to expect Thursday; ' ' NBC—9 a. m„ Mirth and Mad­

ness; 1 p. m„ Sketches in Melody: 6:15, Serenade to America.

CBS— 12 noon,. Kate Smith; 4 p. m., Broadway Matinee: 6:30, Christmas 1943, verse drama.

BLU—12:30, Farm and Home' program; 2:30, Ladies Be Seated; 4. Blue Frolics music.

MBS—2:30, Nashville Varieties; 3:15,’' Reading ’’Night Before Christmas;” 4:30. St. Xavier nun’s choir, 150 voices; 6:15, Chicago Christmas carols.

Hairnets Face L6pp Leaders

Provideiwe Plays Caps Tonight on Red Ice; Bears Out in Front.

Bruins Beat Maple Lc'-af

Cowley Increases His Scoring Edge Three Points Last Night.

By The Associated Press Cellar clubs in both divisions of

the American Hockey league ap pear on home ice tonight In a two-

Manchester Evening Herald

ClassiUed AdvertisementaI'ouui SIX averail* wora* lu k liee inilials, oumberi and abbreviatlobk

•acb <M>unt as a word and oompoond words os two Words WlnimoiD eoet I* one* of three lines

Line ruee oet day tor traneieni ■ da BXeetlwa March IT. (KIT

C ash U harxe• Conecoiitlvc Uaye ...| 1 otei » dts I CopSeoutlve Oaye ..I I otelll ateI Day ......................... Ill ou jlt ci»All, orders tor Irraxolar iDscrtione will be ebaraed al the one time rata

Speelal ratee tor Iona term a ry ‘ay advertlsina allieD vpoa raqnaat.Ada ordered oancallad before the Ird or itb day will be eharaed only II tit

game, program of pre-Christmas action.

The Pittsburgh Hornets, who have lost their last six in a row, take on the Eiaatern Division lead­ers from Hershey. In five earlier meetings the Hornets have been able to score a total ot only four goals against the Bears in losing each start Hershey boasts a 12 point lead over second place Buf­falo and is in the midst of one of ita frequent win streaks.

Providence, the Eastern half cellarite, has won its laat , two starts at home and haa a win, loss and tie with Indianapolis, to­night’s opponent on the Reds’ tee. The Capa from Indiana who are unbeaten in their last six games have a chance to move to within four polnU of first place Cleveland by a victory.

Two From State Among Wounded

Washington, Dec. 22— (8*)— Th* War liepartment today made pub­lic the names o f 161 United States soldiers wounded in action,, includ­ing 12 New Engianoers.

The latter, and their next of kin

■ume* tb* be rs't

d isp lay lin es not

to i eba aoiu al number ed appeared. o b a ra lP t axr'-ed but not a low en ee oi rainnqe cab b e m a d * Ob c lz im e ads stooped a fte r the fifth day

No "ttU fo r b id ^ : aold.

T h e M araid w ill not be responatble to r m ore th an one in o o rreet'ln a ar- tlon o t any advartiaem aot drdared fo r m ore than one time.

T h e Inadvertent em iaaion of in- aorreet pobllontloo o f ’ ad va rtla io a w ill be raetifiad on ly by enneallatlon a t th e obn rae m ade fo r th e aarvioc randarnd.

a l l advartlnem anta m ost oontorm in etyln , oopy and typ o arap b y w ttb rean tatlon a aatoread by tb a pnbiiab- era and th ey raaerva *b« rtab t to edit, roviae o r rataet any oooy eoo- aidarad ob jaetlo n ab l*

C LO eiN O HOURS— Olasaltted ada tu be pnbllahed sam e d ay oiaat be received by 1$ o'eloob noon, S atn r- daye Id N .

I'elephonc Your Want AdsAue Are ecccp ied e«ei be tele*

ph-'ii* at tna CU AH U si R..111. a ivan a b u 'v a t a cobvenienoa to advar- t lc . ■ ■ bui I be CASH 'it/ . Cb w ill •*€ aoe- i-'ed a s FU LL PwTMlANT It

’•italci at 'b e bosinesa oflioe on or be­fore tba- e ae e o ta day to llo w in a tb* ilrnt Inaertlon o f ea«*. nd. otbarw ta* rhd C H A R O B R A T B w ill be c o lle c t­ed. No roepnnalblliiy foi arrn rt ir. (*t*uhoned ada w ill he a**unri»(t ann th eir aoearaay a a n a e t be a u n ra s-

inclpde;European Area;Oonhecticut:Kuban, Sergt. William J.—Mrs,

Elizabeth Kuban, mother. West Norwalk avenue. Darien.

French, PvL Arthur L.— Mrs, Mary A. French, mother. Nod road., Ointon.

By The Associated Pre^s | Seems like It’s going to be quite

a bhore for anybody to blast Bos­ton Bill Cowley out of the leader­ship in the National Hockey League scoring derby.

Official figures released today, including last night’s Toronto- Boston battle, show Cowley enjoy­ing a five-point edge on teammate Herbie Cain. Cowley last night added three goals and an assist to three earlier points to add seven points to his total which now is 40. Cain, who leads the loop in goals scored with 19, placed sec­ond in total points with 35.

Trailing the leaders is Lome Carr of 'Toronto with 32, Bill Mo- sienko of Chicago with 30 and Doug Dentley of Chicago with 28.

Just ny way of comparison, ,a year ago today Cowley was second with 27 points to Toronto Syl Apps’ 28. Thus; despite the free scoring of the season, the leaders are only a few points ahead of the 1942-43 pace.

Mike McMahon of the league­leading Montreal six' continues to, the bad man with 40 minutes in the penalty box, two minors more than Murph Chamberlain of the Canucks. Pat Egan of Detroit ranks third with 34 minutes in the cooler.

Babe Pratt received . a minor and match penalty last night for arguing with - Referee Norm Lamprt as his Maple Leafs were going down before the Boston Bru­ins 8-5. The Boston six, who with Montreal are the only teams un­beaten on home ice this year, es­caped defeat for the ninth straight game.

For the first time this year the league has actio.i on a W ^nesday with Detroit scheduled at Chicago iiythe only game tonlghL

By Harold ClaaseenNew York, Dec. 22— (/P|— Amos

Alonzo Stagg, venerable football coach at the College of the Pa­cific, today was named the person who staged the greatest comeback during 1943.

And while Stagg was engaged in a rugged vote-hattle with golf­er Patty Berg for the honor, vir­tually every one of the 77 sports editors who competed in the an­nual Associated Presa toll men­tioned the two Comebacks of Lt. Tommy Harmon.

Harmon, former AU-America football, player at Michigan, twice came back from almost certain death in a pair of aerial incidents during the year in his new career as one of Uncle Sam’s flying nephews. ^

But in the voting restricted solely to sports, Stagg triumphed’ over Miss Berg by a mere five points although the young golfer, now a lieutenant in the Marines and already voted the year’s out­standing woman athlete, drew 16 first place votes to 12 for the vet­eran coach.

Stagg’s College of Pacific team, bolstered by Navy lend-lease tal­ent, banged its way through the first half of its schedule without a defeat. Then It lost to the Southern California eleven, 6 to 0, in a game surrounded by national interest. The outcome still is being debated on the West coast

Miss Berg returned to the fair­ways in June after being side­lined for almost 18 months with a fractured left knee suffered In a Texas automobile accident. long layoff didn’t keep her from regaining the Western Open title

Bronko Nagurski, former Min­nesota and Chicago Bear fullback, ended a five-year athletic hibernS' tion at h)8 International Falls, Minn., home to bolster the talent- shy Bears through another na­tional football league season and gained third place among the

^ comehackers.S The New York Yankees, vic­

timized by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1942 world aeries, regained the laurels in the 1943 classic and grabbed fourth place in the poll with most of the praise for their comeback going to Manager Joe McCarthy. Luke Appling, vet eran Chicago White Sox short stop whose 1943 fsaU included winning the American league bat­ting title, was fifth.

Henry ' Armstrong, former triple champion boxer, was the1942 winner with Golfer Craig Wood the 1941 king.

Leaders in the poll to deter mine the greatest comeback of1943 with their first place votes shown In parenthesis:A. A. Stagg. football

coach .......... ......... < 121 65Patty Berg, golfer. . . . (16) 60Bronko Nagurski, pro

football .................. . (7) ,, 38New York Yankees,

baseball ............... (7V 3®Luke Appling, base­

ball ......................... (3) 3JBeau Jack, boxing------- (3) 2JSchoolboy Rowe,

baseball ................ (2) 11New York Giants. *

football ........... (4) 11Joe Gordon,. base­

ball ................... (8)Henry Armstrong,.

.boxing ........................ (3)Great Lakes, football . . (3)Rip Sewell, baseball... (2)

Smooth Clicking Amerks Triumph;

' Fairfields Win

ODT may be cracking down on Tropical Park, but transporta­tion is no problem at Mexico CIt y ’s Hipodromo de las Americas, where charros take advantage of bridle paths leading to track.

-H

\

By Hugh Fullerton, Jr. <*’gro■T

Jap guards decided *'o get in on the fun. . . . Royal Arch Gunnison, the Foreign correspondent and rh- dlo commentator who recently re­turned on the Gripsholm after ayear and half of Internment, tells softballs or bats. The Japs never what happened. As a member of objected _to our spoyts— except the camp committee. Gunnison when they interfere .With their had to arrange the ball game. . ] work projects. They tried to make

us work for them, setting up

andNew . York, Dec. 22— The ] heavyweight.

Juniors Set For Opening

Play at RecIntermediate Teams at

East Side Tonight; Junior Loop -411 Set For Tomorrow Night.

Grocers Pul) Upset in Victory Over Favoured W ol veri nes; HilinskiLeads McCann’ s Over Plant J Quintet Final Contest.

in

a Fillplno-American They were "pretty

Americans and British in the Cha- ] good” k nd so well matched that pei Internment Camp near Shang- ■ the verdict always was in doubt....hal had a pretty good time playing \ ----------against each other In softball (the Silwttor of TimingAmericans generally won) and I “The JapW didn’t make It hard soccer (the Britons won), so the j for us to ket equipment for

..................... . . . — explained. "Fre-

Pan-

vs. Cav-

sports,” GunnI; quently somconh had to go into Shanghai to biiW extra food or medical supplies, itpd they’d usu-

' ally let us stop and buy a few

Page Mr. Webster \The Japs, proud of their base­

ball ability, insisted on playing against an all-star team and they brought in some 30 or 40 officials from other camps to see them win.

. After the first inning the score was about 27-0 in favor of the Aihericana and the internees de­cided that they’d be > r not win too easily or they might lose the few privileges their captors al­lowed them. . . . So they beg.m muffing easy files, hot ting ground­ers and making wild throws. . . . That only made things look worse and the Japs were losing ’ ’face’’ faster than you can lose your bankroll in a crap game. . . . The score waa about 1^-12 "xfter si> in­nings when the Captain of the Guard, a big, hard-bgilod husky who waa playing center field, ap­proached Gunnison and suggested: “Maybe it -nore better that we do not keep score, that we just piay this game for sportsmanship,”

fences and constructing camp buildings. We could play seven Innings of softball at twilight, but somehow we’d get a post-hole half dug and It would be too dark to finish.”

Nettled In Advanc* Gunnison also managed to get

a look at ths sports activities of the Japanese troop*.. . ’’Sumo” wrestling was one of the big events. It’s a special kind of wrestling between big, bulky fel­lows who twist their hair into heavy pads and butt one another around...The pattern sounded fa­miliar. for they ’’traveled around in troupes and put on regular acts” at various cam ps...H e also saw a track meet involving a Jap Army team, a team of Koreans, some Italian Marines and some Nazis, .. "The Italians were best Gunnison added, "but the Japs

17

Heat’s OnSports played an Important part

in providing entertainment both at Chapel and the Santo Tomas University camp at Manila where Gunnison waa first confined, but between the heat, scanty food supplies and danger of Injuries, the internees didn’t dare let their activities become too strenuous. .. Softball and soccer, played at twi­light, and boxing were the princi­pal sports. Basketball was tried occasionally and some touch foot ball, which was dlsrarded as too rough. . . . Boxing shows were staged about every ten days at Chapel and a regular feature was a tussle between an American Ne-

Last NighCs Fights

New York—Johnny Colan. 176‘-», U. S. Coast Guard, outpointed Bud­dy Knox. 207. U. 8. Army Airforce (8).

New Bedford, Maas.--Leo Sa-wicki, 147'3. Worcester.' Mass,

147,knocked out Verne Atkins,New York. (6).

Jacksonville, Fla.-^Blll Wilson, 205, Wilmington, N. C., stopped Jim Bowden. 202, Jacksonville (7).

Jersey C?ity, N. J .-J o e y Haddad, 144, Pater.son N,.. J., outpointed Leroy Saunders, M l. New York ( 8 ) .

Director Howard Brown has completed the first round sched­ule* of the Rec Intermediate and Junior basketball leagues. Some of the games have been completed and these have been omitted. The Juniors are requested to have their teams ready at the time designated in the schedules listed below. This i* absolutely neces­sary in order not to interfere with other actlviUez. The sthedulesfollow; ------

FIret Round.Dec, 21

6-7 Cavaliers vs. Royal Blues. Dec. 22—

6- 7 Falicon* v*. Raiders7- 8 Center Billiard* vs

there8- 9 Allies vs. Suicides

Dec. 28—6- 7 Falcon* vs. Jokers

I Dec. 29—I 6-7 Center Billiards

allers7- 8 Suicides vs. Raiders8- 9 Allies vs. Panthers.

,Jan. 4 —6-7 Jokers vs. Raiders

Jan. 5—6- 7 Allies V*. Falcon*7- 8 Panther* vs. Royal Blue*8- 9 Center Billiard* v». Sui­

cides Jan. 11—

6-7 Royal Bluas v*. Raider*Jan. 12—

6- 7 Center Billiards v*. Joker*7- 8 AUtea V*. Cavallere8- 9 Panthers v*. Falcon*

Jan. 18—6-7 Center Billiard* v». Royal

Blue*Jan. 19—

6- 7 Suicide* v*. Falcon*7- 6 Alllea ra. Joker*8- 9 C*vall*r* v*. Raiders

Jan- 25—6-7 Suicide* ▼*. Cavaliers

Jan. 26—■6- 7 Allle* V * . Royal Blue*7- 8 O n t ^ Billiard* v*. Raid-

•ra8- 9 Panther* va. Joker*

Feb. 1—6-7 Panther* v*. Cavalier*

Feb. 2—6- 7 Allies V*. Raider*7- 8 Suicide* va Joker*8- 9 Falcons v*. Royal Blues

Feb. 8—6-7 Panther* r*. Raiders

Feb. 9—6-7 Center Billiard* v*. Fal

con*T-8 Suicide* T*. Royal Blue* ,8-9 Cavalier* v*. Jokers

Jimler League First Round

Dec. 23— ••6:15 Phantom* v*. Ranger*

7:00 Rover* va Buckeneer*' 7:45 FlghOng Irish v*. Sea-

hawk*Dec. 30—

6:15 Rover* vs. Fighting Irish Seabawks va Pha’ntom* Buckeneere vs. Ranger*

A smoothly clicking PoUsh- American basketball team had little trouble in handing th* Sol­diers a bad pasting at tb* East Side Rec laat night, 39-S. Th* P.A.'s box score Indicates that the team has no spectacular play­ers as the baskets were evenly ciistributed. That, also, can b* truly said of the Soldier* who managed to dent the winner's de­fense exactly four times from the floor,

i Grocers WinJim Murphy and his Fairfield

Grocers pulM a surprise last night by handing the Wolvsrinea of East Hartford a trimming, 30-20. Incidentally Murphy M the attack against the East Hart­ford gang with 12 pojnta'aiid wha ably assisted by Smith and May. The first half was close with the Grocers on the long end by on* point. But the last half waa a walkaway for the Grocera who applied the pressure and wom go­ing away.

Oil Men Top*McCann's had an easy tUn*

with the Plant J team in th* final. The losers, however, staged a real spurt in the final quarter but were unable to head off tb* win­ners who bad piled up a nloa lead In the early part o f the coateat. J. Hlllnski was tops from the floor with 12 points and Serrtr right behind with six. Tb* scorea:

PAACB. r .

R'isti, rf .•#••••>••*• S • •ff ■••*••*#a* 1 • 1

tf •**•****• 1 • 8Zwiclif If •****••**• ^ • 4WaluUk, • ................ . I • 2Toot* a ..■•*•**••** 5 • 4I\ iaYzbiclcl( ••*••• 3 0 4ICosak* Ij) ■■•****•** 4 • tGraon, ^ 1 TKurlowica, ! ( ••*«•** % • •

!• 1 M

B. F. ' T.A)l6m, If 0 • . •

If #•**#•»••• ^ • ' 8Oorttar* c ••*«•#•*••• 3 • 8'Phllllpat fb *•••••■••• ^ • 8Pralda* Ig 1 • 1SaplMM. Ic • B •

4 8

Ciivaliers Stop Blue Team, 34-29

Small Schools Top Big Ones on Court

7:0(0 7:45

Jan. 6-- 6:15 7:00

7:007:46

Score at half time. Referee. BycholSltl.

Feirtleli Or

Smith, rf May, IfRetmer, If ..............Samuelson, e . . . . . .Petenron. e . . . . . . . .Murphy, rg . . . . . . . .Hedlund, Ig ,•••..• Tedford, Ig

Total* ..................E. H. WoUveriae*

B.Curtin ,rf 1Bujak, rf .......... 1Tarya, i f ................ .. *N. Smith, c *•***•# * ’Owens, r g ................ 1Woods, ig •H. Smith, ig ........ 1

16-6 . PAAfik

Buckeneer* v*. Seahawk* Phantom* v*. Fighting Irlah \Rover* V*. Rang(sr»

Buckeneer* v*. Fighting IrishSeabawks vs. Ranger* Rovers va. Phantom*

volunteer ' blank — Bl-OOD DONOR SERVICE Manchester ChapUr, 1'he American Red Croaa

1 Want To Donate Blood for the Army and Navy. . *

N&ni0 . . . e e e e o e e e e e e e e e e e e e e a o * *•• e o e e o e e e e e o e o e o o

Address •eoooeooeoee . eeee #**•**••••••• •■•••••••^*»**

Phone........... Age, 18-20.... Age, 21 -60....Check hour you prefer appointment : ;12-1.. i . . 1 -2 .. . , . 2-S.----- 8-4.,

Fill in and mail to4-6....

American Red Cro88, House & Hale Building

The Cavalier* trounced the Royal Blue* dt the East Side Rec in an Intermediate League game, 34-29. The Blue* could not get un­tracked after the flrtit period and were never able to- get up with a 22-14 deficit at half time. The los­er* staged a spurt In the final quarter that brought them within five point* of the winners when the whistle ended the game;-The score:

CavaliersB. F. T.

Naezkowski. rf . . . . 2 1 5Preaton, if .......... .’ . * ® 12Tournard, c ........ 1 1 3Vince, rg ------ . . . . . . 1 ® 2Giangrave, Ig ........ « 0 1*------ ■ i. Tg ___ 0 0 0Mllikowaki,

Totals 34,................ 16Royal Bluea

B.Rufini, rf ................. 3Thompson. I f .......... 2Jones, c ................... dKing, rg .................. *Clifford, ig ............... 3

Totals .................. 72 5 29Score at half-Ume. 22-14 Cava

liere. Referee. Vice.

The pit viper derive* it* name from the pita on it* fa c^ .

Bv Harry Grayson NEA SporU Editor

New York, Dec. 22—Small col­leges, or th;we the athletic repuU- tlons of wWch are hardly of na, tional dlmenalon*. fireqtiently run away from bigger schools in baa- ketball. Western Michigan College is upholding thl* tradition thl* winter. ’ . ■

If you had to name the best col­lege team in the land at this writ­ing. you would have to *ay West­ern Michigan. <

The Kalamazoo Giant Killer* crashed the sporU headlines by edging Notre Dame in the Irish home court, 46-42. coming from behind, oiiUcoring the boys, o f the golden dome in the second half, 22-9. Smacko!

Western Michigan served defi­nite notice that it ranked second to no college squad by putting on a Garrisbn finish that topped an Otto Grahamles* Northwestern,47- 46. The difference Automatic Otto makes in the Wildcat* wa* ■tTCMMd when, with ita pecrles* aU-around * tu on the firing line, the Purple won from Notre Dame going away in Chicago, 48-32.

Western Michigan wasn’t stop­ping with Notre Dame and four in a row, however, for the Bronco* next apiUed another supposed mid­west power rsther easily and on its home floor when Michigan fell,48- 88. ■" ■

Western Michigan apparentlywas caught rather flat-footed in ita opener b y the Bunker Hill Na­val Aviation Base team of Peru, InA. which prevailed, 43-34:

1 That’s Um «a lr Weatera IfieliigaB

Vgame on the debit aide, and make* the Flyer* look pretty good, which th>y are with three veterans from last season and Mlaaew, who waa the center of the profeaaipnal De­troit Eagles.

Western Michigan has averaged 50 points in a half dozen engage­ments—a dizzy pace. The opposi­tion ha* an average of 38.

W’hlie Western Michigan’* court renown ha* been local. the,_Bron- epa have long bpen known for brilliant basketball., Western Michigan has veteran lettermen In Del Loranger and Riiss Maspn; Rolla Anderson, a Marine who performed two sea­sons at Southwestern Missouri; Marv bylsma, a Navy reserve who got in two campaigns a t ‘ Calvin College of Grand Rapids; and Dick Bowman, a Marine from Montana. The squad changes almost every game as men on the various Intra­mural squads move up. Reserve* are plentiful. Western Michigan used 12 athletes against Notre Dame, 16 in belting Fort Custer, 73-34.

Evidence that Buck Read had more- than an advance Inkling of Western Michigan’* potentlallUe* 1* seen in the fact that be arrang­ed tee Notre Dame and North- weaten- appointments, two each with Michigan and Toledo and that he will also take the combi­nation to Madison Square Garden for a meeting with (Jlty College of « a w York, Feb. 23. Th* tatter would hardly be done Juat for thetripWestern Michigan ha* aome- tbing to show, 1* aoa**4RlBg.t# •■*.

All-Easi Squads Wav Below Par

Totals .................. "Score at half-time: 77-10 FMr-

field Grocers. Referee: Bycholalo. ]

J. Helinski, rfMcDowell, i f ........Donahue, c ..........Server, c . . ...........S. Helinski, rg . . . W. Vlttner. rg - . . .Packard, i g ..........Cowl€."i. ig ............F. Vittner, i f

San Francisco, Dec. 22- (yP? — Hi* 1943 east All-Star team, in the opinion o f Coach Andy Kerr, is "probably among the worst” in 17 years of East-West footballgames. . u wSaid Kerr with tongue in cheek:

"This squad is not by any stretch of the imagination the ‘greatest ever to come out of the east’ as I have read. Mote prob­ably, it i* among the worst.”

Kerr, and his co-coach, GporgC Hauser, of Minnesota explained it was difficult to round up a 24-man team in the face of military orders and travel reatrlcttons. Charley Avery,.i Minnesota halfback, was due in today to complete the 24- n.an squao after missing a train in^'Chicagp. A

While all ot the Easterners are civilian*, Orin (Babe) HoUlng- bery”* wcat outfit include* a score of regular meat-eating military, including five player* of the Pow­erful March Field’ fourth Air Force player*. ’Hie western line win bv- ersge 215 pound* per men.

Totals ............r , - .Plant J

Boyer, rf ......... •Sargi. rf .. .. .• •Pockett. i f ........Ceraaso. if . . • .‘»Lc.si. c .............. .Donahue, c . . . . . Sapienza, ig . . •Stone, ig ...........Mordovski, ig . .

Totals . ..............Score at half

Cann’a.Referee. Bychotaki.

B.B. F.^ T.5 2 720 2 ' 8|0 1 73 . 0 60 01 0 3|

. 0 0 61 0 2

. 1 0 2_: —- 1M 8 8T

B:-. -F . T.. 1 .0 2. -1 (K 8. 1 1 ' 2. 1 • 1 ’ *. 0 6 ' 0. 0 0 6|. 0 0 6;. 1 1 F. 0 6

. 8 3 7Ble, 14-7 Mc^

Spot

FsrmersvlUe, Oailf.—(F)— Men* Romos’ automobll* skidded, knock­ed down a' ^ e and aU the dty light* went out. In itarknem Romoa scrambled Uuough a tan^e o f wlret and went for help. Re­turning, he learned the wire* he d waded Um ugk ao calmly carried UAOOin Mw

^ C T C B

BUYUNlTBf»(STATSIKj

M-'

/ , i

TWELVB IffANCHKBTE.'K EVENING HEKAI^O. W AN U W ESIEH. CONN.. W E tHShfeSPAT, P E CEMNER f t , 194

fO B . SALE

fo rRENT A City's Wants Classified ForVbur Benefit

Lost and Found 1j^OST— 3 KEYS somewhere on Main street. Finder please tele­phone 2-Cj4S. Reward.

IX>ST— PASS BOOK NO. 52958- Notice Is hereby given that Pass Book No. 529.53 issued by The Savlngi Bank of Manchester ha-s been lost or destroyed, and «Tit- ten application has been made to said bank by the Person In whose name such oook was issued, for payment of the amount of deposit

. represented by .said book, or for the Issuance of a duplicate book therefor.. ’

LOST— PASS BOOK NO. 38366- Notice Is hereby given that Pm s Book No. 38366 issued by The Savings Bank of Manchester has been lost or destroyed, and writ­ten application has been made to said bank by ti Person In whose name such hook was issued, for payment of the amount of deposit represented by said book, or for the Issuance of a duplicate book therefor.

AnnouncementB

Automobiles for Sole 41936 CHRYSLER 6 * door sedan, $295, terms.and trades. $5 weekly. Brunners, open evenings. Tele­phone 6191.

FORD DELUXE 1941 tudor tour­ing s^an, radio, heater, spot light, fog lights, driven omy 15,- 000 miles, $995. Terms, $12 week­ly. Open evenings. Brunner’s, 80 Oakland street. Phone 6191.

CASH FOR YOUR C A R -A n y 35 to ■*! High prices paid. Drive over now to 80 Oakland street. Brunner's. Open evenings until 9. Saturdays 6. Phone 5191—4485.

1939 FORD 4 DOOR sedan, radio and heater, $595. $8 weekly.Terms and trades. Brunner’s. Open evenings. Tel. 5191.

W r s a l e — 1 ^ MODEL A FV>rd, 4 new recapped tires, good cohdltfoh. Inquire 24 Foster street between 3 and 7.

1934 BUICK SEDAN, $.50; 1933Pontiac >upe, $65; 1936 Ply­mouth .se^n; 1937 Ford club coupe; 1934' Dodge sedan, $125. Brunner’s. ^ I . 5191. Open eve­nings. \

W ANTED —RIDERS to Fuller Brush Company. Working hours 7 a. m. to 6 p. m. Inquire 114 Char­ter Oak streeL

W ANTED —RIDERS TO Aircraft, East Hartford. 7 to 3:30 shift.

' Call 6604 after 6 p. m.

W ANTED— RIDE TO Hamilton Standard Propeller, 7:30 to 4 shift. Call 4696. __________ _

Automobile* For Sale* 4

1939 PLYM O U TH f* door sedan, 1937 lymouth 4 ^oot sedan, 1938 Wlllys sedan, , 1937 Chevrolet sedan, 1936 Poptlac sedan. We buy cars for gash. Cole Motors. Tel. 4164

Garasrra— Sorvlce— Storager 10

FOR REn’TT—TWO W E LL Insulat­ed single car garages. Reasonable. 14 Arch street. Tel. 3989.

WILL BUY ANY GOOD

REAL ESTATE 1

Fair Prices

Wm. F. JohnsonBuilder — Real Estate Telephone 7426 or 4614

Motorcycles— Bicycles 11

Business Serrlce* Offered 13

ASHES AND RUBBISH removed. Call 3444.

W ANTED — ELECTRIC wiring and repairing by licensed master electrician. Phone 3976 before 7P ro-

Moving— 1'rucklng— Storage 20

THE AUSTIN CHAMBERS CX)« local and long distance moving. Return load system, furniture, storage. Dial 6260.

Repairing 23PIANO T tlN IN G AND repairing, player piano specialty. jJohn Cockerham. 28 Bigelow street. Tel. 4219.

SBWINO MACHINES, vacuums, Irona and all small electrical ap­pliances repaired. Genuine parts, expert workmuisbip. Parts for all makes. A B. C Ftxlt Oo., 21 Maple street. I'el. 3-1575.

NEW IXJNVERTIBLE TOPS. Cel­luloid replaced In curtains, all kinds of leather work. Chas. talk­ing, 90 Cambridge street. Tele­phone 4740. '

W ANTED TO TUNE, repali and regulate your piano or player piano. Tel. Manchester 2-0402.

Help Wanted— Female 35

FOR SA LE —MAN'S bicycle, like new, ridden one mile. Inquire 31 Delmont street.

Bu> tne8s Service* Offered 13

STORM WINDOWS and doors in­stalled. rooting of all kinds, asbes­tos side walis wood shingling, gutters repaired, general repair­ing, workmanship guaranteed Write Box W, Herald.

AS 1 '-M NOW U V IN G I” your vicinity am able to take or con­tracts for building, remodeling and odd Jobs, Including masonry. No telephone at present. For con­tact write A. Charon, Box 451, Manchester.

W AN TED — W AirRESS . Apply Center Lunch, 50C Main street.

Poultry and Supplies 43FOR SALE 6x10 CHICKEN coop. Inquire at 35/ , Branford street.

FOR SA LE —1500 BROILERS and young roasters, live weighL-H. A. Frink, Wapplng.

FOR SALE —ROASTING chlckpn.s. Inquire at 24 Homestead vtreel.

Article* for Sale 45WE S’n L L HAVE a limited sup­ply of handy compact sewing kits, generously ntted with sew­ing necessities especially priced today. Kemp’s Inc.

FOR SALE -N IC E portable pool table. Also 2 nice hard wood wagons, these would make nice Christmas gifts. See at Jonhs Furniture Store, 31 Oak street. Tel. 8254.

HbuMhold Good* 51FOR SALE— TWO BURNER Kalamazoo living room stove. Tel. 2-0897.

FOR S A L E - SEPARATE Flor- ence oil heater, brand new, with chromium pipes. Telephone 7061.

PU T A PICTURE over her fire­place. We still have a fine selec­tion to choose from. Kemp’s Inc.

TAB LE LAM PS — All sizes andtypes. Come in ahd make your selections. Kemp’s Inc.

SEWING MACHINES. Godd sew- ing condition. Open Thursday evening unti 9. A. B. C. Fixit Company, 21 Maple street.

Machinery and Tool* 52

W ANTED —CAPABLE saleslady, permanent position, good salary. Apply Sllbros, 881 Main street.

W AN TED —SOMEONE to care lor baby In own home from Dec. 23- 28. $3.50 per day. Box C, Herald.

—W ANTED- -WOMAN to do plain cooking and general housework for small family. Salary $100 per month. Write ^ x Y, Herald.

FOR SALE—CHILD S, tridycle. In good condition. Telephone 2-0833.

TOYS, IN EXCELLENT conditiolT, doll’s maple bed. $1.98; 2 highchairs 98c each: electric stove. $2.98;’doll $2.50; bureau, $98c.; 2 sets of dishes, 98c each; books sold at 1-2 price; genuine maple bookcase, $9.98. Call at 140 Pearl street.

FOR S A L E -G IR L ’S white shoe skates, size 8. Telephone 6270.-

FOR SALE—G IR L ’S BICYCLE, boy’s bicycle, skooters.' wagon. Also doll’s cribs and all kinds of metal toys. 468 Hartford Road.

FOR SALE— LARGE EXPRESS wagon, excellent condition. Tele­phone 2-1145.

EXPERT RADIO service. Call H. Meade. Telephone Manchester 2-0898.

RANGE BURNERS cleaned and serviced. Call 2-1309 between 10 a. m. and 6 p. m.

NORTH END SECTION o r MANCHESTER—

6-Room' Single. All Im­provements. Garage. Small b*m and chicken coop. 8. P. $8,200. D. P. $1,000. 1.M-MEDIATE OCCUPANCY.

OFF MIDDLE TU R N PIK E WEST—

5-Roum Single. All im­provements. 2-car garage. Large, lot. S. P. $6,000. D. P. $1,200. IM.MF.DI- ATE OCCUPANCY.

EAST WINDSOIt—10-Aore Tobacco Kami with

5-room single (plus one un­finished room upstairs). 1- car garage. Chicken coop. Lean-to barn. TobiMcn shed ( I acrel. S. I*. $,*).mi0.

LOST!Canvas Rain Blanket. South End. Reward if returned.

SEASTRAND BROTHERS 91 South Main Street

Help Wanted— Male 36

FOR SALE— HOT A IR furnace 24” complete with pipe. In good condition, combination green and Ivory coal and gas range. 1500 watt light plant. Alfred Chagnot, Brewster street. North Coventry. |

FOR SALE — NEW ELECTRIC” 1 Lionel Illuminated passenger train, $20. 67 Oak street.

NEW M ANURE SPREADERS, milking machines, disc harrows, cement mixers, sawrlgs. Dublin Tractor Compuny, Wllllmantic.

Room* Without Board 59

FOR RENT— ROOMS, private en­trance. Call 2-0759.

FOR R E N T—ROOM for 2 or 3 gentlemen or man and wife, with private entrance. Continuous hot water and shower 101 Chestnut .street.

Wanted— Rooms— Board 62W AN TED —BOARD for 1 o r . 2 weeks, for 10 yua old boy. Write Box P, Herald.

Legal Notice* 78

Apartment*, Flats, Tenements 63

FOR REN T— FOUR room tene­ment. Inquire a 71 .Starkweather street, second .loor.

Musical Instruments 53

FOR RENT— FOUR room furnish­ed apartriignt for adults only. Best of references required. Jones Realty, 31 Okk street. No Infor­mation what soever g;lven over telephone.

W ANTED — SAXOPHONES, piano aocordians, ciartnets, trumpets. Call 5709 or write Chester OsosKy. 89 Union street.

I ’L L BE HOME for Christmas. Bing Crosby’s newest recording. Just received a special shipment. Comt in and get yours. Kemp’s Inc.

Wearing Apparel— Furs 57STILL A V A ILA B LE at Wards. Limited supply of men's twelve and sixteen inch hi*cuts. Assorted styles, but most sizes from seven to twelve. Montgomery Ward & I Co. 824-828 Main street. I

4 ROOMS AND BATH. Continu­ous hot water furnished. Stoves needed for heat. Large garden space. $40.00. Write Box D, The Herald.

Suburban tor RentFOR RENT— FIVE ROOM mod­em heated apartment, on bus line in Vernon. 41 Main street. Tel. Rockville 341-2.

NORTH COVENTRY—4 ROOMS and bath, modcin. Available Jan. 1st. On main highway. Mrs. A. S. Flske, North Coventry, Conn.

AT A 4.M)UUT o k PUOHATK H K U > al .MatichoBirr w'Uhln and for ilie Plstrlrt of .Manuh’HNtor, on tlie 181U day of Deoomher, A. D.,

Prusent W IL L IA M 8. HYD L,Jnd»re.

l*>ta!o of .loNppli M<*('artan late of .Manohustrr. In Bald lUatrlct. d certa od.

On Minllon of .lohn .McCarinn of .«*ald .M.inohuNtur Kxeculor.

<mr>r. ItKT):—That six months from Ihp IMh flay * I h'l'pinhpr A. IL. I L t he amt the aamr are limited and allowufl f»»r the 4T*'ilitfirs with­in which to hrinK In their claima aealnat said catate, and the aaid |•*xecuto la ffirectefj to $flve pulilic •notice to the. creditors to hrlriK In their claims within nald time nllow« ed hy pontlriK « copy Y»f this order on liie piiMIc sljfn post nearest to the place where the deceased last dwelt within said toW'n and by pub­lishing the sa»ne In some ne*Ws- paper h.'t\in$i a circulation In said firohate district, within ten days from the date f»f this order, and re­turn make to this court of the no­tice fcjlven.

WILLIAM a. HYDK Judffe.

n.l2.22-4S.

Wanted— I'o Buy 58USED FURNITURE and atovea, bought, aolo and exchanged Hlgheat prices paid Jones Furni­ture, 31 Oak atroet. Tel 8V.54.

W AN TE D —M D D LE AGED man for ;,.ctory work. Steady work, good pay. Apply Tober Baseball Mfg. Oo., Elm street, Manches­ter.

W ANTED —AUTOMOB$LE me­chanic, pood pay. Sollmene and Flagg Ipc., Dodge & Plymouth Dealers, 634 Center street.

YOUNG MAN W ANTED full or part time, nice hours, excellent salary. Sec Mr. Lltchman, Arthur Drug. Riiblnow Building.

Dogs— hirds— I'ets 41

Notice

High Street. 8-rmim sin­gle. All lnipro\ements. Hot­air heat. -Attractive buy. D. p. $i,om).

ftlnrtgages .Arranged In ’Manehesler and

Wlllliimntie Vicinity.

Alien Realty

958 Main Street, Manehester - TeUqihone 330t

All Kinds of Insurance ' Written By

ALLEN & HITCHCOCK, INC.

. Alanehester Ottlce:953 MAIN ST. TEL. 3301

\Mlllniuhtlc OMIw:.824 5IA1.N ST. TEL. 1935

Oilloe Open 8:30 A. M. To SUIO P. M. Dally .Except Sun­day. Also 7 to 9 P. M. Tbamday Evenings.

Zoning Board of AppealsIn conformity with the require­

ments of the Zoning Regulation* of the' Town of Manchester, the Zoning Board of Appeal.s will hold a public hearing in the Muni­cipal Building on Thursday eve­ning. December 23. 1943. at 8 p. m.. on the following applications;

Application o f the Sheridan Corporation OT 821 Main Street for permission to use the entire lot at Main and Pearl streets. In­cluding 10 feet on Pearl Street In a Residence B Zone, for business purposes.

Application of Louis Bayer of 54 Stephen Street for permission to convert the existing building at 102 Norman Street into a two- family hbii.se although it is near­er to the street line than the zon­ing regiilations permit.

Application of Perrett and Glonncy Realty Company of Per­rett Place for pcrmis.slon to use the existing bulldit.p on Perrett Place owned by Edna Taylor Vletz of Meriden, Conn for business purposes in a Residence B Zone.

Application of Vaifro Grand! o f 82 Foster Street for permission to keep chickens at the above ad-

i dress In a Residence B Zone.Application b f Vincent W .

Dynas of Br.ckland Road, for the Hollywood Service Station, for permission to deal In used cars and to do general automobile re­pairing at 342 Ea.st Center Street.

Application of Samuel S. Glan- grave o f '86 Rus.sell Street for. per­mission to build a garage two feet from . the prope.’ty llnci at the above address in a Residence B Zone.

All persons Interested in the above applications may appear at this hearing. ,

Zoning Board of Appeals, Richard Martin,

C2ialrman. Martin E. Alvorjl.

Secretary.

C AN AR IES—CHEER Your hoiuse this Xmas with an Edgewood singer. Seed, cages. Turn right over wooden bridge at Bolton notch rotary Sign at house.

FOR SALE -CANARIES. Young, also cages. Nothing better for a (!lhristmas g ift thaii a beautiful singing bird. Phone 6467, 195Henry street.

FOR SALE -ALM OST N E W Red Fox jacket; also a Universal man gle. Phone 7991.

HASSCXTKS IN LARGE and small sizes. A good supply still avail­able. Kemp’s Inc.

FOR SALE— GIRL’S S ID EW ALK bicycle, boy’s bicycle, small metal autos, wheel barrows, wagons, peddle kiddle cars, Irish mall, doll carriages, 4 sleds, doll’s cribs, several other small toys. 468 Hartford Rond.

FOR SA LE —HEYWOOD Wake­field English conch, good condi­tion. Phone 2-1086.

^IRWING MACHINES, vacuiims, any electrical appliance Regard­less of condit on. Estimates in your home. A. B. C. Fixit Oo. 21 Maple -street. Tel. 2-1575.

-------------------------------1---------------

Nazis Use Fresh Tanks in Battle

(t 'nntlnued from Page One)

Booms Without Board 59FOR R E N T -F U R N IS H E D room, near Main street. Gentleman pre­ferred. Tel. 6908.

FOR RENT—ROOM. Inquire'at 61 Cambridge street. Telephone 6746.

FOR SALE - S ISKU-CANARY, Hybreads young birds, first time offered for sale in Manchester. Good singers. 61 Winter street. Phone 2-1554 after 5 p. m,

CANAR IES FOR~SALE. Guaran- teed singers. Can be seen at 174 Cooper street. Tel. 7121, R. Grlm- ley.

FOR SALE • BE/,GLE hound piip- ples, may be seen at Zimmer­man’s'Barber Shop. 22 Birch St.

FOR SALE— NICE PtTPPIES $5 and. $6. Donald Miller, Bolton Notch Pond. ,

FOR SALE PUPPY. 4713.

Telephone

FOR S A L E -T O T FOX terrier, chlWren's pet. Telephone 2.1262.

FOR SALE— IRISH SHTITER, 1 l-2^years old. Very obedient, a good watch dog. Has a pedlg^ree. Want someone to give him a good home. Tel. Hartford '8-3301.

Live Stock— Vehicles 42FOR SALE— THOROUGHBRED Guernsey cow and calf. Just freah- ene^- Sam Dunlop, ^ u tb Ro^d,

Bolton.

Poultry and Supplies 43FOR SALE— 100 BARRTO Rock chjckgns, 3 moiiRis old. Telephone 3608. ‘ v

FOR s a l e :— ROASTING - chick­ens for Christmas. Donald (3ehr* tng, telepbons 8758.

RABBITS O F jA L L KINDS. Also meat rabbits cleaned and dreoo- ed, 35c lb. live weight. Phone 8152.

FOR SALE--W ESTERN Electric Audlphone.\Practlcally new. Tele­phone 6438.

2 PA IR S BLACK shoe skates In good condition, sizes 3 and 4. 23 North Elm street. Tel. 3024.

FOR RENT— LARGE MASTER bedroom, and living room eom- bincU, .suitable for one or two peo- j highway, pie, near shower and bath, nice p “ .section, on bus line. Telephone I 7305.

the Vitebsk area and concenlraled on baalc defenae points. , The Russian airmen were under com­mand of Lieut. Gen. of Aviation Niolai Papavin and flew Il-Two and Stormovlk planes.

The most severe fighting ap­peared to be north of Vitebsk on a highway leading to Nevel. Most of the road is in Russian hands. The Russians also were reported fi,ghting hard along the Vltebsk- NevH railroad, the laigest portion of which also has been seized, and to the west of the White Ru.ssian city where the Soviets were threatening to break through to the Vitebsk-Polotsk railway and

AT A CeUMlT IIF ritOBATF HKI.P ilf .Mpinelipstrr within aiul for tite Dlslflrt of .Mptto'liestor. on thr 18th (Ihv of ncrf'mlHT. .\. fi.. I!*i.l.

i ’ r.-HPnt WIU.IA.M S. HVPI'., Ksi|., Judgr.

KstHto of Krtltli M. IVrkIns late of Mancliemer. In said I'lstrlct, de- cea.**rd.

The Adniinislrator Tinvlng ex- hllpited hl.s admlnliitratlon acooiint with said eatale to thia Conn for allowanee, it la

OHDKKKD:—Tlial the 27th day of December, A. D., 1943. at 9 o’clock (w. t.) forenbitn, at the Probate office, In aald Manrheater. be and the aame la aaslgned for a hearing on the allowance of aald adnilnlatra- tlnn account with aald eatate and jisp','rtainrnetit of lieira and thia Court direrla the Adminlalrator to give puldic notice to nil persona In­terested therein to appear and he heard thereon hy puhilahlng a copy of this order In some newspaper liavlng a circulation in said District at least five days before aald day of hearing and return make to this I'ourl,

WILLIAM S. HYDK Judge.

11-12-22-43.

1,/eKal Notirph

AT A COUHT OK I’ lPJBATK HKI.D at Mallch^Btfr wiihln amj for tli»* D lslrlci.of MunctieBtcr. on Ihe tS.lli day of D«>ounil)i»r, A. IJ., I!Mn.

Proa#*iit WIMalAM «. IlYin*:, Ksij..

Kstat#* of VhoimiB V. HoJdrti Imp of ManclirNUr, in iialit IMRirlct, du- ooa}*ud. 9

Tho Kxeruirlx liavin$; cxliiiiit* ri lior . admlniHtralirtn m‘<rount u llh aald uatnte Iti tlilH (*onrt frj,r allow-, amv. it Is

nMm:UKn:—That th* 27lli d.iy of A. !».. at o*i*lorkMV. ffirunoon. at llip l*rijl*afpofflCH. in Hiilii ManrliuHiur. be and tlic* name aaRlKtU'd fi«r a liearlnK on tiu* allowatico of aald adminis­tration aorount will* saiti estatp, and tliin Court dlr»M'tx f lu* i*.x» rut rix .to public notice to al) perxiinnintereflteil therein to nt>t>ear and l*e heard thereon by publiMhinK a cojiy of thia order in some ne\vi«|iat>er having a clrctilalloti in salil District at least five days licfore said day of iicarinK and return make to tliis Court.

UIMJAM 8. HV!»i: Judge.

M-12-22-48.

COME IN AND CHOOSE your youngster a Ducky lamp for his room. Special today al $1.95. Kemp’s Inc. ;

Electriral Appliances Radio 49

FOR S A L E —GOOD USED radios. Call 2-1186 or Inquire 16 Laurel Place. •*

FOR RENT—ATTRACTIVE mas­ter bed room for two gcntlen’en. Clean, warm and comfortable, twin beds, 1 block west of Main at Strickland. 124 Oxford street.

'■XJR RENT — COMFORTABLE, (jiilet convenient room. Electric grill allowed. Defen.se worker pre­ferred. Call 6951.

I..ct;al Notices 78

FOR s a l e :— ONE 10 TUBE A ir­line radio, good tone, good condi­tion, $35. Write Box S, Herald.

Houaehold Good* 513 ROOMS OF Modem furniture complete In every ..detail, includ­ing a combination stove. „Keasati- able. Albert's Furmture Co.. 43 AUyn street, Hartford.

WINDOW SHADES— VENETIAN blinds. Owing to oui very low overhead, get our special low prices on high grade window

, shades and Venetian bUnds com­pletely metalled. Samplee fumlab- ed. Capitol Wmdow Shade Co„ 241 North Mom street Phone 8819. Open evenings

BUY YOUR STOVES now. As Old Mon Winter is just around the comer. See Jones. He bos e large variety of stoves. New and used. 31 street TeL 8254.

A BEAUTIFUL assortment of ime taffeta covered pillows at Kemp’s. « ; I

FOR SALE— UNIVERSAL elec­tric refrigerator, breakfast set, kitchen cabinet, mapl«t- .b«droom auite, kitchen range with oil at­tachment and many oJLher arti­cles. Leaving town. Coll after 7 p; m. evening at 61 Foxcroft Drive. Telephone 2-0511.

HOSPITAL BED FOR SALE er rent, fully odJusUble. Kates res aonable. Gall 'Keith Furniture. TeL 4189.

AT A O i r i t T OF PRO BATK IIKI.D ;U MHHuhesfer IMiln nnrl for the IMsirift o f Mufiehewtur, on t!ie.2lNt tlav o f fU'frinlior. A. IV, Ifiin.-

WILUAM MVI»K. Ksfi.,JiulKe.

'fni.'il KAtaie u-u »»f SathanH H. I'ard late nf Marirliewter.^ In naif!r»li«l rlct. fl«ivea$i» f1.

Tlie TruJ lue having exhiMteil it» Bunujil account witli satfl extate to this t’oiirt for nllownnre. It ')**

tMlDKItKI):—'riiat the ;»7ih i!ayof r’ecembrr. ,\. 'H. .Ifi4n at I* fVrlbck

t.) fiirenoon, at the Kroitnte Offloe, in said Manchester, be and the same Is assigned for a hearing on the altowan^e nf said aemiint with said estate, and tills ('oikrt directs the Trustee to give public notice to nil persons interested tlierein to ap­pear and lie heard tiiereon hy put»- ilshtng a copy of this order in some newspaper having a circulation In said District at least flve days be* fore aaid day of hearing and return make to this Court, and by mailing on or before December 22, 1943. a copy of this order addressed to Mrs. Miller Card. B4 Wolcott street. Brls*- tol. Conn.; and Mrs, Lucy Smith, 48 Central Avenue. Waterhury^ Conn,

Wll,J^IAM S. HYDE Judge.

H-12-22-48.

a t a c o u r t o f p r o b a t e h e l dgt Manchester within and for the District, of. Manchester, on the lis t dav of December. A. D„ 1943.

Present WILLIAM S. BYDE. Esq.. JudgeV

Estate of James Ruddell late of >Yanchester, in said District, deceas* ed.

The Executrix having exhibited her administration account with said estate to this Court for allow* ance, it Is

ORDERED:—That the 27th day of D*^embe.r A. D„ 1943 at 9 o’clock (w. t.) forenoon, at the Probate Office. In said Manchester, be' and the same is assigned for a hearing on the allowance of said admlnls* tratlon account with said estate* and this Court directs the F.xecutrix to give public notice to a l persons interesfed therein to appear and be heard thereon by publishing a copy of this order In some newspaper having a circulation in said District at least five days before said day of hearing and return make to this Court.

WILLIAM 8. HTDR Judgf.

H-ie-92-48.

MICKBY tlNN Th* WiiUMT LANK LEONARD

Baltic Army Advances Another Fire Miles

London, Dec. '22 iJPi- Thy Ru-ssian Baltic Army, surging forward unchecked, has advanced another five miles and now stand only 15 miles from the Nazi for­tress city of yiteb.sk, Reuters re­ported today from Moscow.

Encirclement of this enemy slj-onghoid thus became hourly more imminent.

Thus thrust and a companion drive toward the important rail junction of Polotsk. 60 miles to the west, threatened the stability, of the entire German line defend­ing the Baltic states.

A Russian communique earlier had reportiwl the forces of Gen Ivan C. Bagramain within 20 miles of Vlteb.sk from the ' north through capture of Gribali and less than 25 miles away to the cast.

Blast Way Through GapHis troop.s, storming down from

Nevel yesterday, blasted their way through a 50-mile gap in deep German defenses, capturing more than 100 villages and leaving 1,600 German dead in their wake.

Other columns, swinging out to the west, were within 35 miles of Polotsk, fail o f which would seri- iously weaken communications be­tween. the German northern and central Armies and possibly force reitirement o f the Nazis’ left fiank along the shores Of the Gulf of Finland from the Leningrad area.

A t the extreme southern end of the 800-mile long battlefront, meanwhile, Russian Armies liqui­dated the Nazi bridgehead on the south bank of the Dnieper oppo­site Kherson, near the river’s mouth, and dispatches said a full- scale attack against the city Itself was expected momentarily.

In the centier o f the line, the Germans were said to be counter­attacking in three key sectors. The Moscow war bulletin said the Nazis struck in the area between Zhiobin and the Berezina river In White Russia, south o f Korosten in the Kiev bulge, and in the Kiro­vograd sector in the Dnieper river bend.

!a II Attacks RepulsedA ll attacks were repulsed with

heavy losses, Moscow reported.During liquidation of the Kfier-

aon bridgehead, more than 2,000 Qertnans were kilted in a three- day battle, Moscow said, and 21 enemy tanks, 78 field gwia and enormoua atocka of war gear were destroyed. Prison cages were, filled to capacity, the communique added.

Kherson'a capture would render untenable the German position in Nikopol, manganese center in the Dnieper bend, Krivoi Rog, and Nikolaev, northwest of Kherson on the Bug river, together with large German forces scattered through­out the area. Freezing of the Dnieper along the southern front was expected to facilitate the Rus­sian advance, advices said.

Some of the heaviest tank fight­ing of the war was reported rag­ing as the Germans vainly tried to regain the initiative In central occ- tofs. The Naois were aald to be

using as many as 2.000 tanka in seme areas. Moscow announced that 112 tanka were destroyed in Monday's fighting alone. Berlin said 412 Soviet tanks were Ictiock- ed out Sunday and Monday.

Port of Varna Closed from W orld

Istanbul. Dec. 21— (Delayed)— iflh—The Bulgarian Black sea port of Vaina was closed from the world and its residents were con­fined to their home under penalty of instant death from early Sun­day morning until noon Monday.

'The news reached here from Varna radio broadcasts before, during ana after the blockade.

The, first announcement said the people of the town were blockaded for ‘ ‘reasons of security” and warned that they would be shot if they tried to leave their homes or even leaned out of windows and doorwavs. Later the Varna radio said the ’’investigation” was pro­ceeding well. At noon Monday the radio said the restriction had been lifted ind “ the investigation has been a success.”

The reason for the sudden devel­opment in Bulgaria’s second larg­est port was not known. It is pos­sible the police made a house-to- house search for Communist or revolutionary elements, or that the port was used for disembarkation of German units evacuated from the Crimea.

AT A COITBT OF PROBATK HKl.O at .Manchfstpr. wllliln and for the district of .Miinolicsirr, mi tlie t8lh tlav of I'iccrmili'r. A. O., I!tl3

Present WILLIA.M S. MYOK, K'.|, Judee.

Ksiate of Timm-i ■, .1. OiRUo nf.Miwicliester in said district, mtiioi

ITpon the application' of Wllliel- mtna B. tllslio. tluardlan of the es­tate of said .minor, ttraying for an- tliorlty to comiiromisc a certain douiitfiil and distniled claim wliicii said minor has aitainst MathSW Utiastamachio as per application on file, it is .

ORDKllED;—That the for-SoItiK applieatlon be heard and detcrtnln- ed at the Probate Office In Manclies- ter in said District, on the 27tlt day of December, A. D., 1943, al 9 o’clock (w. t.) In the forenoon, and tliat no­tice be Kiven to all persons interest­ed in said estate of the pendency of said, application and the time and place of hearlnic tliereon. hy puh- llshing: a copy of this order In some newspaper huvIiiK a circulation in said district, at least five days be­fore the day of said hearInB, to ap­pear if titey see cause at said time and place an,d lie heard relative thereto, and make return' to ' this court,

WILIJAM ». HTDF-JudB*.

H-12-22-43.

Forest FireRugiii" Again

(Ceintinued from Page One)

but the firefighters saved the bun­galow colony with a last-ditch de­fense. Thirty Marines joined the fight against a blaze which advanc­ed on Lakewooo from the aame di­rection. as a 1941 blaze which burn^ 54 houses In the communi­ty. Yesterday’s fire was stopped after it covered 35 acrM o f w oc^ .

Yank Bombers Raid Targets

In Germany(f tontiniieid from Page One)

against any country since the war began.

Hundreds of British and Amer­ican bombers made massed day­light attacks Tuesday on military targets -possibly "secret weapon" installations-in the area of I'a-' de Calais. The R. A. F. iUi:u day night used a force which lit- London Telegraph aaid pos.siniv was 800 to 1,000 planes to I’.il Frankfurt and the twin cities Mannheim and Ludwigshalen .ul- lowlng the 500-plane American blow on Bremen.

Record Fighter EscortThe Bremen bombers had a rec­

ord tighter escore, it was an­nounced. Leaser daylight sweeps Monday, in addition to this heavy escort, probably accounted 1,000 planes.

Twelve mmdred tons were dropped on Bremen and 2,000 on Frankfurt, it was disclosed. The London Herald said 800 tons prob­ably were dropped on the Mannr helm diversionary target and the remainder was dropped in Tues­day's sweeps.

The Germans continued their raids over London and parts of east and soutbea-st England last night, but caused, only slight dam­age and a small number of cas­ualties. • .

for

Dutch church bells confiscated by the Germans have beeri re­placed by two pieces of railroad steel, which, when struck, cr- he heard for a mile.

Lacy Ruffled Doily

By Mirs. Anne Cobot^

sort of crocheting. Starch it rather stiffly when finished—stand back and admire It’s white pret- tineas!.

To pbtain complete crochetingdirections for the Stqrched Buffled i todays the price is 16 oenta

4

IhadD odtO h^ (D o JU j P th lMBy FAITH BALDWIN c e s v iiM N T , i s o a

MBA aBRyie*. me.Some people don't have to hava

a doctor to tell them to stay Iji bed.

"Tomorrow . .Chapter XXVIII

Riding through the cool night with lU lingering smell of burn­ing brush she said, suddenly, that she was thinking of leaving Cran­berry and going to Boston.

He said, "You’re crazy, you’re

fclutched the yellow paper of th* wire in her pocket. She wo* so happy she could laugh, shriek, cry. She couldn’t sit shut up at home with her happlneaa. The walla would close in on her. She had to push them out- She said, "The

I roads are clear, the ploughs were

DoUy CPattem No. 5478) send 10 A sweet little piece o f' "pick- cents in coin, your name and ad-

up” work for crochetera who like i dress and th^patUru number t*fluffy, ruffled dollies. This one Herajd, 106 Seventh Avenue,measures just 12 inches across— j york 11, N. Y. Enclose 1one 400-yard bail of crochet cot- cent postage fo r each pattern or- ton will moke the delightful little : dered.treasure-piece. It'e the eiraplest: A new Anne Cabot Album 1*

ready today! It features an in­spiring ‘'Gift Bazaar” section you’ll wont to *ee and gives s scries of free patterns which will delight you. ■ Send for your copv

He aaia, xQurc j j road* are clear, uic piouniis wwrwneeded here. By your paUenU — | through and it haan’t anowed hard they’re used to you, attached. By geveral days. No Ice even. I ’ve the office and—the rest of us,” he to so with vou, Jim

-added, “ your fieople, me!” iShe said gently: !“ You ll get along.”Driving through the darkness,

the cool crisp night, silent, think-1 mg. I f it could be like this always, if you coiild maintain the illusion, two people'alone, two people to­gether, (lilt of all the world, doing tiieir job together, loving each other very much. .

He said. slowly> "Don’t go into anything in a hurry; will you? ’

•’No.”On their way home he said, dif­

fidently;• ’T v e been wanting to tell you soinelliing, hut I'm a little scared.

“What about? ” She thoiiglit, it can’t be Nancy, lie's always dis­cussed Nancy with me.

He said. "The housing conditions at the Edgar mills. I ’ve,started trouble. Your dad will back me up, but it’s my show really. I ’ve been talking out of turn, to members of th. medical society, to some of the city officials, I might add. In Jan­uary Sellop will retire from the Board of Health. There’s every likelihood that Jameson will take his place. Jameson is all right. The Edgar interests can’t intimidate him. Jamesor believes he’s under

* obligation to me, top. . . . You know, when your dad went to Bos­ton for that last meeting and his kid had the accident and they railed me. in consultation. Any­way. wlial witli one thing and an­other. 1 think pressure will be put on Carter to do something about tlie houses. . . . I just wanted you to know tliat it may moan trouble with the Edgars— ”

"Meaning Frank?” said Emily ” Ycs. But. ” he added hastily, ” he’ll see reason, you can make him. I don’t want to 'throw any monkey wrenches into your per sonai affairs, Emily.”

'•Don’t worry about Frank.”• But,’’’ he said. ” if you and

he— ?”"That’s nonsense.”"Nancy said— ”"Nancy doc.sn’t know,” ^he said

firmly:"But if you’re in love with

hint? ” he persisted.■Tin not. Would I be conlcm-

plaling going away to work if L were?” ' , . ,

"That’s right." He chuckled. ” I ’m glad. You don’t mind, do yon ? Not that he isn’t a good egg and all that. He added gravely.; "Your mother’s going to be sore, | if any estrangement arises be- cau.se of this. She’s very much on the Edgar side."

"'V liat does father sa y " ’/H e said. 'Go ahead.’ ’

•'’ "Wcll,” said Emily, er t< you.” ,

He took a hand off the wheel and touched her shoulder. He said wistfully.

" I wish-you’d stay home and see me through this. Why do you want to go. Em ily?"

Because I'm in love with you, she thought, because it’s unendur­able. being with you. because I can’t bear to look at you, when Nancy’s nearby -or watch her . . . amusing herself, with making you jealous . . .

Aloud she said."Restless perhaps, tired of be­

ing in one place.”"That isn’t like -you, ” he said

soberly."W eil,’ she -said lightly. 1

haven’t decided— yet.”

got to please.”

Slie stood outside the garage door and lifted her arms. She put them' around his throat and stood on tiptoe to kiss lilm. She kissed him because she could have kissed the whole world, she could have kissed lepers, beggars, Idiots. She was brimful of kissing. Because she was happy.

“Nancy?” he held her closely "Nancy— you don’t mean— ”

" I don’t mean anything. Hurry . . She scurried into the garage ahead of nim. "Where we going?”

"The Hanson baby has the croup.” he explained. "No one is home except the grandmother. The parent.s are in New York for the weekend.”

The Hanson house, a small frame cottage, was on the out­skirts of town. Nancy waited In the car holding fast to the slip of yellow paper in her pocket.

She was saying to herself. To­morrow I ’ll see him . . . tomorrow.

(To Be Continued)

QuotationsOur one objective is to get

across the narrow strip of charmel water, land on the continent and dc so as quickly as possible. I dis­like delays but it takes time, care­ful planning, transport and a vast amount of equipment and trained men.

— Lieut. Gen. Ja<'«h I.. Devers.

It would be ridiculoui. to be sat­isfied with the progress we have made toward freedom from want and toward opportunity for every­one— but we can hav ' the satisfac­tion of knowing tnat our progress has been greater than that of'any other country.— A. T. T. t T. Presltlent W aller S,

Maryland.

A boy went to the city against his father’s wishes and the old man preiUcted disaster for him in the big town. Evidently the father was wrong, for in the first letter home the boy wrote:

" I have a fine position with a good company; that’s a feather in my cap.”

Later he wrote:" I am breaking into society and

have been put up for a good club; that’s another feather in my cap. ”

Again he wrote:" I am engaged to the most

popular girl in town: that’s still another feather in my cap.”

There w ire no mors letters for a time, until one day the father re­ceived a telegram collect, reading;

"Please telegraph ms railroad

far* horns. I am broke.';To which the father telegraphed

back; -"Nothing doing. Take the fea ­

thers out of your cap, atlck them on your back, 4nd fly home."

Good Looking A ir Force Cadet— What Is home without a mother?

Sweet Young Thing—Well, 1 am tonight. '

The Perfeol WifeIn the eyes of th* average hus­

band the perfect wife is one who: 'Gets up first in the morning,

closes the windows and turns on the heat.

Makes sure that breakfast Is on Urns and busies herself pouring coffee and superintending the serv­ice while he reads the newspaper.

Spends the morning carefully planning meals for the day and going to the grocery to make a

personal selection of meats, fruits, and vegetables.

Inspects the house and, when necessary, qalls iff plumbers, car­penters, and electricians.

Exaiiilnea his clothes for suits in need of pressing, for shirts and collars to go to the laundry, for missing buttons and holes in socks.

Devotes an hour or so to writ­ing letters of thanks or of con­solation snd including him in them.

Gets a bit of relaxation and fresh air by taking a brisk walk to the post office to collect the mail.

PuU coal on the furnace, so that the house is nice and warm when he gets home.

Drives to school to bring ths children home snd, if possible, drops in for a call on his parents dr other relations.

Tidies the living room, arranges her hair, and puts on a becoming

dress In anticipation of his return horn*.

Greets him at the door and In quires If he is tired. Retires to the background while he looks over the afternoon paper.

Makes sure dinner will be on time, listens with rapt attention to anecdotes of his childhood, and spares him the ordeal of hearlrig of domestic tragedies.

And, at last, when dinner is over,. collects the darning and works in silence on it. \ooklng u)i now and then to admire him and to rdngratulale herself tipon hav­ing him. while he sits engrossed in the dsy’s hews,

Man ((in drug store) —I want a tablet.

Clerk What kind of a tablet.. M a n -A yellow tablet.

Clerk—What’s the matter isfith you?

Man-. I want to write a letter.

moat important . . . I f you want your dreama to come true, don’t oversleep . . . A bor* is a man who opena his mouth and puts his feats in It . . . I f you have an hour to spare next year, don’t spend it with someone who hasn’t.

You can run Into debt but yon have to crawl,'out.

EVERYTHING

Shorts . . . Of all the things v>ou Wear, your expression is the

We've got to Win, and pay for the winning, before "Peace OnEarth, Good Will Toward Men" comes true.

.Award .Money Dia*pp*4ir«

Los Angeles - (iP)— Theater Manager Larry Sharp stood up­stage explaining the keeno game. Fifteen hundred patrons thought the hand, reaching through the backdrop and lifting something from a stage chair, was part of the show, Sharp turned to ths chair for the $200 award money. There was no money, no hand and no one backstage.

M i l"A ll this talk about stopping in­

flation worries me!”_

FUNNY BUSINESSRED RYDER

VJHAT 103 WE HAUUNJ'

AND HORRI

C4»vsring Up BY FRED UARM'AN

•i-1*/,

' /M2

,w.

t»»t.8y Wts fifSiiKf 7 «« MC G • O** •

'lxPla 'N T ' t o □'■•JCt.E iA r v s TO 4 I'VSRwHXt .TO l) fo o l-

\'0HO’ tV ‘irAU5'E RIDER rMCsH) CONVINCE TH' L.\V>J

HE RC AULT FOUND OUR COUNTERftlT .'\ON£T-

AND WHERE r

/~'\

//:

DON'I \v’E*v NOTHIN

uET

TOh e r e

EXOTEO'THIDE"

eO T

2-22 I 8

BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES Caught BY EDGAR MARTIN

aOiKtO TO HKvA.OQ VV\. WkXIVO TWl TtlA^OM VOWV scvxyet '1'* tWtSAivWi* TWA. *«oVAASor» v W.OVAS ••• r

*1 had il malic s|)ccial 1 use il duty'"

Itir a jiipc wlicii I’m olV

I f you don’t put happiness into life, you won’t get happiness out of it, no matter what you do or who you are.__Harry K. .MacLean, Canadian

industrialist who goes on money-posslng-out spree*.

Northern lights have bean seen as far south ns Singapore.

SIDE GLANCES BY GALBRAITH

"more pow-

/ ’:/ '

V

1

V

Winter came early that year, early snows, high windg, severe cold, relieved by short spells of clear, freezing weather, skies like black ice. pierced with the frosty swords o f starlight.

Jim, going to coll, teas aston­ished to find Nancy muffled to the ears in sweaters, scarfs and a shaggy fur coat waiting for him.

“ You don’t want to go this sort of a night.” he expostulated.

" I heard the ’phone ring. Do take me. I ’m bored stiff. Emily s buried in a book. Mother and Dad went to thy'charily concert. I've been frantic.”

"W hy?” he inquiret^^The ground was hard, it crack­

led under their feet as they cross­ed toward the garage.

“1 don’t know.” Her hand

F.\er Hatch ■nli go after a liltlr pile of eugar ipilled *n the floor”? First one comes, then an­other. and soon there's a steady stream. Tliat’s the Hay the “ Squander Riigo’ ' go after your money—a nickel here, a dime there, until they’re devouring your dollara—more and more of them. War Bonds are tlie deadliest iiiseclieide.

11SU sv as* ssaviet. sie. r at sag a a a*T. ss». /Z-li

OW, - WAWl WA COMAA W - iOWlTOCVi TWAAA Twwy*A

osaQAa. »*■( c o « - a

ALLEY OOP The Khun’a Treasurt BY T. T. H A M L m

, b u t GREAT _ / ^ O F R V . 'X NEVERT f PREAMED THEBE

VVAGTVtt* MUCH ..UNLESS

JK EMSTEMCE.^

r TWt» OC VAUU- IG GticOE© W TH* RNER.. .1 BETCHA THEV COULD DEftTROV TH' VJHOLE WORKD BV JUST PRESSING A BUTTON.- AHf

IN AVflNK.W HOO&H/TI^, PLACE VvOULD BE n O O O ^ •fOTH ’ BRlIH/ —

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

rM E uo ! 1 WAS woMDeaiNfl ip 'O u’o „mind SB4/lNe A BUTTON ON A SHIRT. PLEASE’^

“You must think the sergeant is serious about Irene—idn’t I hear you ti------------------------ =----------- 'lots you’ve been

didn’t rhear you trying to interest him in one of Ihwe n stuck with since the war started?”

I'OONERVILLE FOLKS BY FONTAINE FOX

T/,

Where There's a Will— By Mi^RRILL BL06SEB

<5t.A0 TO--IUSf TOSS IT O N E R .^

O m.BOV—THE ce 18 BRO<EM Find *ae A SHIRT WITH A BUTTON OFF IT !

I mavemt GotA SHIRT WITH Abutton off it-—and NEITHER HAVE

1 MAVS N O W ir

a« ms ssasiiCi; *»- * asc..u._A

W ASH TUBBS Closing In BY LESLIE TURNER

Im u s ic T e a c h e r a n p t h e 'O u s t b e f o r e C h r is t m a s ' r e n p it io h

Private swimming hols; Keep Out. That's the implied sign the J.ip<i have posted. 'Ihis Amtrlean It V is gambling his life to arosa an iirmamed jungle creek.

Before Pearl Harbor the watch­word was, "Prepare!" Today tt Ir "Action.”

Put your money Into action. ' War ■e*d i, (/.$.7>ssmyPsgsi

a y

0

' TAKE TOUR MtHTOTHE OTHER StOE Of T/e ^ N P ME AP OFF the spies, SEB6EANT

! S

■ as*'« a esT eff ./

A S lASV ANP gaUNNER^ ---------- ------ --tn j UNPEHOROtJNPBAPtO CAVE,THE NAllS CUTOFF e v e r y p a t h OF ESCAPE FROM THE FOREST |

OUT OUR W AY

=0

< 3

HrNiiugM S)»4ir«l».

BY J. R W ILLIAM S OUR BOARDING HOUSE MAJOR HOOPLB

/ HERE S TH i=APERSC»u T mat CAMPO' m o CmE Bu l l •Re^uSTBATON =>e.DlC)«EE Bit-v. OF 9A^E AJsf SO FOCT«,«

I I I 3 0 v OVER

XF'EO ;1 S«O tv Tn tSE \ OBEa St • Sack . ' 1

Ov=>l a CEvEB t h e / >l a C E ^

iO O O 50SH .' a l LTHET p a p e r o n OfsjE BUU-.* <mmv E iTHEO O ’ t h e m OL BOtS COUlD rt-aJvOLE A < "'■lOuBANtO Bu l l s w it h o n e h o r s e • ■ Bu t COULDN’T

hAjmc>l E On e Bu l le.iTH A "T-tOuSAJ-jD

V Sh e e t s a p a p e r .

■»h E PEjm • 'P u n Cx CRS

WELL, M M O R .I 'M LEWMIMG

T(51»4‘iGWT, GO HOvN ABOUT OFPER. POR SOUR 9PERK- ING SPARROVN?-^- 6ETTER G R A B

’ THE * 5 0 BEFORE TK E O ARIBTM W E SPIRIT VNEARS. OPF A h iD X etS E SOD A BALE OF HAS UAETEAO/

SE"IM DEEO SOO A R E LE A S iM G ,MR. EROMP t «

. © l a o e t o i^e J-BOLSED S O U R G M O O T fA <5CrtEME TO P U T T H E B iR O Ohi THE R A D IO AT W iOO A hJlGHT- " ' ' EGAD.' THE S U LE 9 P iR 'T Ihi ALL TH AT G W E & ,SOU A ■DRUBSiFiG

C v

THOSE'b o m d e ISURE:

U P , aE R U «K 3 .

[?RCOfAP G E T S AHCrWAERl K tM D O Fb v r o

r. I -

Manchester Evening ileroi ■ T z r

About TownTherp will be a special m eeting

fit King David Lodge I. O. O. F. Krifiay evening, Da«. 24., a t which lim e the degree team will- aonfer tw o decrees on a apaclal candidate who m ust leave for service w ith Oie colors early next week. All of­ficers are requested to be on hand a t 7:30 sharp.

Andrew Torrance, of the Sea- bees, Camp Perrv . Va., Is at his home, 104 Middle Turnpike Kast. pn a lh-(1ay leave.

The M ary Cheney L ihrary will close a t .3 o'clock Friday, Dec, 21, and reopen Monday morning a t B o'clock. The W est Side branch uill no t open ,»t any tim e Friday,

Fred C, Stone, son of Mrs Kliz- abeth Stone of 7F Eldridge street, is home on a 17-day furlouph . He has been in N orth Africa and took p a rt in the invasion, of Sicily.

Pfc. L aurm ce B Perry. ,li . ha.s re tu rned to Fort Jackson, a f te r spending a lo-day furloupli w ith his parents, Mr. and M is. L. B. P erry of 48 School stree t. He has been sta tioned there since last M arch .

Ladies’ Night Well Attended

Exchange ("liih C.hrist- iiias P a rlj Drawn Over 6 0 to the Sheriilaii.

I

Behold Augutimt Trumhle A tarry tight teat he

Until he took m tumbleAnd bought himtelf m UEE

le:W A T E R /^ L O C *

T S‘ERFECT GOi"’• M iniature H at In

i i t t Box w ith a G ift C erti- and let him select hla

own st3'le ,^nd alee.

$5fg .M — |T..V> — and IM .M

KELLER’S \MEN’S WEAR »

887 .MAIN STKEKT » x t To F edera l B ake Shop, !

Xm ds TreesFresh Cot Sprue*

Z^Bi9Cvnl«

Any Tree On the Lot

$1.25118 Aiitiiinn St.

2 8 0 W ooilhriilge St.Open eckdays 4 to 9.

The. annual I.adie.s’ N ight and C hristm as p a rty of the Manclic.s- te r E xchangt Cliib.yva.'i lield last niglit a t the Sheridan. Charle.'i h'el- ber succeeded S tu a r t S egar as president for tin- next term of six m onths. O tlier officers installed w ere; lln ro td III ed. vice presKteiit, and H arold Suits as se< re ta ry and ti'easurer. The Board of Control niemhei's w.’re al.so sea ted by \3'il- llain Spi'.His ol M iddletown and are as follows: .Vrthiir Bedor. S tu a r t Segar. .lolin W olcott. H arold R ich­mond, Colin Davies, and Charlea Fergii.son.

.Stages Splemlid Slim*C.eorge Itowe, from a H artforjl

radio sta tion , staged a title show from am ong tliose present. He called it "T riitli and Sequences" and for over an hour showed w hat goes on behind the seencs of the big [ in v ram s. He al.so toW some in teresting experiences in lYie lives cf radio announcers. M any people criticize the announceri but never .sign th e ir nam es. O thers do the sam e and are quite frank about the ir observations and do sign th e ir names.

«slU'W wound *ip a the re tir in g presi- egar. The ex-presi- the m em bers fo r cooperation during he had been in th e d the sam e, kind of e Incom ing p res i­dent, c n a rie s Felber.

T here w ere 60 m em bers, th e ir w ives and gue.sts a t th e las t ses­sion fo r 1943.

U lysses Bnshey. of H artfo rd , aa m atron of honor; Miss Irene N ick of th is town, as bridesm aid; N a­than Kies, b ro ther of the bride- grooTrn; best m an: and l,.puia L it- m an of H artford , usher.

The bride w ore a princess sty l* gown of w hite slipper satin , w ith insertions of Chantil ly lace and full length tra in . H er finger-tip veil of Illusion w as a ttach ed to a cap of net and orange blossoms In halo effect. ,4he carried a p rayer book w ith orchlil mariner.

The m atron of honor wore a period gown of rose ta ffe ta w ith Ixniffant sk irt. Her bonnet of n a teh in g net w as in sw eettieart shape and her atim bouquet wa.s of yellow roses.

The heaven tiliie ta ffe ta gown worn by the Inidesniald w as al.so in pei ;oi| stvie, Uei bonnet of blue net w as sim ilar t i th a t of the m a­tron of honor. The m o th e r of the tiride wore soldier blue w ith g a r­denia eritsage.

Tlie rer-emon.y was followed by a re iep tion at the Sheridan R es­tau ran t in th is tov*n. W hen the couple left for an unannounced wedding tr ip ttie briile wore a tw o-tone blue dreas \*ith black ac- ces.H'iries. squirrel coal and orchid cor.sage

YMCA Notes

WeddingsKies-Bieu

The m arriage of Miss Lc-na J . Bleu, d au g h te r o f Mr. and Mrs. A ndrew Bieit of 40 Campfleld road, and Corporal O tia M. Kiea of Rockville, now sta tioned in C alifornia, w as solem nized recen t­ly In St. Joseph 's C athedra l, on F arm in g to n avem te, H artfo rd . Th* bridal a tte n d a n ts w ere Mr*.

FOR TOP VALUE IN A NEU HOME

See the Ones Ue<nK Built By

GREENBROOKE HOMES, INC.On Walkei Street

F o r fn rtlie r iB form ation call a t A lexander J a r r ia Co. oHIce on C en te r a tre e t o r a i 7h A lexander a tree t.

Phoneai 4112 o r 1275

Tom orrow3-5 p. m, .Marching drill,, boys

and girls.6 : . 3 0 - 7 p . in tlvm for boys. 6:;i0 m. - B anquet, N orton

E lectric.All bowling alleys tak en by

W ednesday N ig h t League.

Praise Given To Principal

School Board < -oni- iiieiids Head of Green .Sehool f«>r Hi(*r W ork.

Manchester Date Book

A. le tte r copnplimenting the principal and teachers of the .Man­chester flreen school for the w ork tliat they ciid following the fire cm Decemiier 4. is to be sen t by the j .School Board. ;

A t the last m eeting of the board the m anner in is'liith the change WH.S- Iiiade from the single to clou- hle sessions so th a t hut tw o days of school \*ere lost **as m entioned. It w as then decided to th an k .Vlr. Illiiig for it. This, he said, ixas not due to hi.s efforts alone, hu t lo the m anner in \vhich the principal of the school handled the aiUiation. Before noon of the day of the fire, hc‘ said, she and her teachers had met and w orked out th e ir p lans and then s ta r te d to move the hooks of each pupil to the desk to which lie o r she w as to be assigned when sc hool reopened cm the Monda.v fol­lowing the fire. It w as carried out perfectly and Miss E sth e r (tran - .strom and her teachers were en­titled to all of the credit, Supl, Illm g declares.

T he B oard of E ducation is .ilso to w rite C'hief F'oy of the South •Manchester fire d ep a rtm en t th a n k ­ing the m em bers o f the dep artm en t for the good w ork done in p reven t­ing the sp iead of the fire through the arhool.

T onightC hildren 's party ,- Mary Bushnell

Cheney A uxiliary , U. S. W. V., a t A rm y and N avy clubhouse a t 7:30.

T om orrowB ritish - A m erican Club C iirist-

m as p a rty for children a t the club­house a t 7:30.

A nnual C h ris tm as p a rty of H ighland P a rk C om m unity, Club a t clubl.ciuse a t 7:30.

Mimday, Dec. «6Annual reunion m em bers a lum ­

ni, .Sock anc;! B uskin D ram atic Club a t C enter C hurch house a t 4 p. m.

Police CourtTwo of th ree local g ills charged

w ith danger of falling into hab its of vice, were com m itted to the S ta le F arm for W omen in Town C ourt th is m orning following the p resen ta tion of w ritten .state­m ents and study by Judge R ay­mond R. Bowers.

D isposition of a th ird caae w as w ithheld pending com pletion cf a rran g em en ts incident to proper living conditions of the girl in­volved. The case will be reopened on Ja n u a ry 5,

Ju d g m en t w as suspended in the ca.se tif F rancis B ritich of P o rt Road S tation , W arehouse Point, rharged w ith violations of rules of the road, a t C enter and Middle T urnpike W est.

Local Soldier Escaped Death

Glipstrr Kosuk Wu.o on Boat W hirli ('apsizetl Wlipii 2H Drowiieil.C hester Ko.sak. a soldier, whose

w ife is living w ith her folks, a t 46 B irch s tre e t, for the du ration , re ­ceived w o:d las t evening th a t her husband had escaped in ju ry w hen a boat capsized on Lqke P on tchar- ira in , Im iiisiana. lil'st F riday . T w enty-five sold iers w ere drow n­ed in the accident. The local m an w as one of 7,5 persons on th e boat bound from th e ir cam p for m aneu­vers a t Slidell, I.a.

M rs. Kosak. when she read, of the d isaster, began to w orry about her husband as shr* knew th a t he w as sta tioned a t th a t cam p, and th a t he had w ritten her abou t toon

to s ta r t , on m aneuvers. H av ing visited him th is sum m er she knew of th e lake n e a r th e cam p. She a t once sen t a telegranr inquiring if he had been on the boat.

L a s t evening a te leg ram cam e from th e ctagarde G eneral hospital saying th a t K osak had been on the boat, had been rescued, b u t 'h a d been su ffering from shock and ex­posure and th a t th e te leg ram had ju s t reached him .

4*CAR HARD STARTING?

E lec trica l mad C a rb n e to r C hecking an d B c|in ir

n Speeinlty

ABEL’SSERVICE STATION

!(d C ooper S tre e t

Read Herald Advs.

OLDRECORDS

.Must be ta m e d In for aal- vage It you ivant to keep playing th e new ones.

'j '/jo each pnM lor old rec­ords Irre sp ec tlw ol q u an tity .

KEMP'SInc.

768 .Main St. Tel 5680

Read “THE SATURDAY EVENING POST”

D ecem iier 2 5 lh Ism ie

P a g e 1 8

^ The Power Shortage That DidnH Come^^

By Phillip S. Rose

TTic Manchester Electric Division

d m oomrmamooT wwwm oomt Ainr in Mala ItiaH Usmtkmtm,

Shop HALEYS for Last Minute GiftsH A L E ’ S 'I

I DressesSeo4>lers, Reg. $ 5 . 9 8 ..........................M ttlher Goose Pielures, Reg.150 Rags of Blocks, Reg. $ 1 .0 0 . .Reg. $ 2 .6 9 Shooting R if le s ..............\r le ra ft Paint Sets, large s i / .e ..........

$ l..50

• Spun ravoti.<t in lovelv pastel . 8 9 c 5 colors. New low, rounded

o n 1 necklines. Striped chambra.%' $Z.OIt j trim. Ravon ier.'<e.\;.5 in large

floral designs. Size.s 12 to

■X4

$ 1 .1 9Fancy Dolls $ 1 .1 9 to $6 .50 2

tl 44.

Range and Fuel OIL

TICKET PRINTINGMETERS

\Miller prints amount of de- liver,v on your slip fo^your protei^tion.

L. t. Wood Co.51 Bi.ssell St. Tel. 4496

Tonight’s The Night!

BINGO \

\ New Shipment of

Effanbee Glamour Dolls$2.39 to $14.95

The.se Dolls .4re Beautiful!

Stiifled Animals . ...................$ 1 .2 9 to $8.9.5.411 W ood Shoo F l y s ................ .U p to $ 7 .9 5The largest stock o f W heelbarrows in

t o w n .......................... $ 1 .2 9 , $ 1 .9 8 , $ 2 .9 8Hop O ieng Checkers .A New Game—Navy BagatelleDrive a Peg Table and Stool . ............. $ 1 .8 9Double H eader Basiehall GamesMaple and H ickory S k i s ..........Invader d u n s .$1.89. Reg. $ 2 .2 9 .I.arge Size Plav PensDoll C ra tl le s____. . . . $ 2 .1 9 , $ 2 .9 8 , $ 4 .2 9Rowling Alleys, on legs ........................ $ 6 .7 5Boxing G lo v e s ........................$4>25 to $ 5 .5 0Christmas T ree, I.ights, T ree Toph,Window Candles and W reaths

5

I $12-98I BABY SHOP

DOOR SWINGSF o r B aby!

S tu rd y Hwings to hang ju s t w hets m other is w orking.

$2 .98

s ROSEVILLE POHERY8 We .still have some choice piece.s in Roseville Pottery.

I $1 .98 to $6 .98« ■ ■ ■ ■ ................................................................. . - - ....................

y Will Your Chimney Be Clean Enough for Santa Claus?

\ BY USING “ CHIMNEY SWEEP”U 2 9 f ^ to $ 1 *00 size boxesII you not only keep Santa’.s nice red .suit clean, but aav* K precious fuel.

iI FIREPLACE GRATES For Coal

............. $ 5 .9 5H R egular $ 1 0 .0 OGrate n o w .............J Tem prex Grates, regular $7 .9 5 , now $ 4 .9 8

. . . . . '$ .5 .9 8 « $ 4 .7 5 -$ 1 3 .7 5 «

Kelrav Spunlo

RAYON UNDERWEARPanties and Step-ins with ela.s-

tic waistbands. Tailored gar­ments in Tearose color. ea. 5 9 ^ 1

CANVAS CARRIERS*. For Fireplace Wood

S9f^ and $2 .25

Large S ize s ..................... ................................69c each COAL BUCKETS IN CANVAS• 52” X .52” Colorful Printed

{LUNCH CLOTHSR S m a rt colorful clotha in all typea of dvaigna. 52"x52

$1.69»$1 .49 and $2 .25

Colorful

\ -

ST. BRIDGET’SCHURCH BASEMENT

I Other Printed C loths..................... ..................89c to $4.95.VII WoofI Boats to Coiistriiet, they float $ 1 .1 9 j

AirRai.nv„r.™ so...^...,i;29.«*i^9|New Cork PLACE MAT SETS!lO ling Ameriea Army K i t s ..................... 6 9 c j |

PRINTED LUNCH SETS$1 .49 boxedtl 36" p rin ted cloth w ith 4

X napkina in paatel color*.V -

Other Lunch S e t s ............ .11.19 to $10.93

set $1 .98All K inds o f BlocksSuffolk Down H orse Racing Games fo r AdultsLiiie(dt\Logjii ..................... . .■...35c to $ 2 .9 8F]flauhee large Nurse Kits in Suit Case O ieekers, Chess, Backgam m on GainesPicture Blocks, Reg, $ 1 . 0 0 ............. Sale 8 9 c { G h a t h a n %

a o o o H '

4 Place Mal.s 4 Coasters

L am inated p rin ted tppa w ith fine cork back*.- 8-piece set. S m a rt floral and f ru it design*.

Other Cork Mat Sets ....................................... ............*1.19

Embroidered PILLOW CASES$2 .98Mr. and Mrs.

All WhiteP a ir

BoxedGood looking Caae* th a t will m ake an exceptional g ift.

IN PRIZESPI. VYING STARTS AT 8 :1 5

'• • • •

Chemistry Sets . . . . . . . .New Game—Blackout . . . .Railway Lightning E x p r e s s .............Radio Football and Baseball Games

$ 2 .8 9$1.00$1.00$ 1 .1 9

TWENTY

GAMES

TWO.00

GAMES

Electric Baseball and Football Games $ 1 .9 8A few Sets o f Maple T able and Chair

S e t s ........................ .............$6 .9 .5 to $ 1 6 .9 5TOY DEPARTMENT — BASEMENT.

KWSEMWiaWMMACWaUaMCIICMMMWMMUIMMKMIlCWtaMiK;

Tfci JWHAU CORKM A M C H itT H i Co m m *

\«I«

.1H 28% Wool — 25% C otton — 50% Ravony C hatham b lankeU m ake ideal C hriatm a* gifU . In ruse, cedar, g g reen gnd blue.

sunoN72” X 84” Size

I

Beautiful Wool Filled *

FINE SATIN COVERED PUFFS$ 1 2 .9 8Real quality Puffs, printed

•atine tops and plain bturks.

IStevens Pure Linen

DISH TOWELSDUNDEE TOWEL SETS

$1.01H eavy nolid color ba th towel, g u es t tow el and face cloth.

A real p rac tica l gtU . H eavy pure ' . Mlinen diah toa-ela wUh colored bor- g > n g » h S

S et

Boxed

II a«aUK«UIMKWa<WWWaUKW«UICIK«4«flKllf«WW«MK«MWIR Green Stamps Given With Cash Sales

F o r th e M oatli o f N ovem ber, 1945

8,537, M em ber of th e A udit B n reM of C treointtona

mattr(CInaailled A dvertiatng on P age 19)

Manche$ier-~-A Cky o f •Village Charm...... ................ . I ............... ' ............

MANCHESTER, CONN., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1943 (TWELVE PAGES)

the WeatherFeraenet of U. 8 . W entber Bureau

F a ir and eolder to n igh t; lowest tnm pem tareit ie ro to flve degree* lielow; F rid ay fa ir and continued lioM. '

PRtCE THREE CENTS

Rocket Glin Coast Bombers’ Target; Four-Day Assault

Airtericans Aid Victifn o f Ngzi W rath

Both British and Am er­ican Forces Throw n Into Attacks; Pas de ('.alais Area Inces­santly Battereil byPlanes Since Momlay.

\lVazi Rocket Bomb Fails

To WorryLondon, Dec. 23.—(/P)—

Both British and American bomber forces have been thrown into attacks against the ‘‘rocket gun coast” of France, it was disclosed to­day, with the R.A.F.’s heavy raider fleets for the first lime diverted from such tar­get* »■ B erlin for *ma»he* a t t a r ­get* in no rth ern F rance .

Im p o rtan t T arge t* Sp«»tted An R .A .F. a tr ike a t thi* coast

la* t n ig h t made it ev ident th a t ta rg e t* o f g re a t im portance had

'been spo tted and m arked fo r de­stru c tio n in no rthern F ran ce and along th e coaat. Today a big force of high-flying bom bers s tre ak ed across th e B ritish *outh- e a s t coaat ap p aren tly bound for d ay ligh t blows a t the sam e ta r - gpt*-The P as de C alais a rea , the p a r t of th e F rench coast neare-sl E ngland, ha* been b a tte red inces­san tly since M onday and the day ­lig h t forces evidently w ere B tretching the offensive into a four-day affair.

T he R .A .F .'s a rm ad as h it t a r ­get* in w estern G erm any las t n igh t, a s well a s in no rth ern F rance , and suffered no loss.

ObJectIvM N ot Identified The A ir M inistry did not idcnti-

fv the ob jectives of the n ig h t ra id ­e rs th a t lashed o u t a f te r a th ree- day haminoering of the fo rtinca - tion-»ludd$d P'rench coast and a pow erful A m erican heavy bom ber blow by day ligh t y este rday i" t" n o rth w es t G erm any.

M ines also w ere laid in enem y

All thi* Allie-d p lanes havebeen ham m ering N azi in s ta lla ­tion* in no rthern F rance m p rac ­tically day -long assau lta , b u t tp - p a ren tly th ia w a* th e th e R .A .F. heavy bom bers had tu rned from g re a t N azi such a s Berlin to join m th isdrive. . ,

Some q u a rte rs in London be­lieve th e boasted G erm an rocket gi.m em placem ent* in F ran ce a re th e objective o f these co n cen tra t­ed raids. , .

T he g re a t fo raya by day andn ig h t y este rday 4 000 or m ore p lanes th e Ing force th a t h as b a tte re d Nazi ta rg e ts in th e la s t th ree days.

Down 58 G erm an F ig h te r*The F o rtre sses and Libel a to rs

— strik in g an undisclosed lo c a t i^ 'in no rthw est G e rm a n y - s h o t d o i^38 G erm an flgb ters w hile lo » 'n f heavv bom bers and fou r fighters. C rew m en said they h it th e tlves on the nose despite clouds and in tense cold of 50 J " ® ,

A t the sam e tim e, fo rm ations of th e R .A.F. M osquitos, B o s to n

.and Tvhpoons w ith figh ter esco rt hopped the channel In g re a t s tre n g th to h it "m ilita ry objec­tives '' in F rance . F o u r p lanes

(Oontiniied on Page E ig h t)

Strike TimeWeek A wav¥

M inute Progress Being Made Tow ard Set­tling W age Rispiite.

Bulletin!W ashington , Dec, 25.—./P —

A Joint com m ittee of ra ilw ay m anagem en t an d re iire sen ta -

■ tlve* of th e o p e ra tin g b n ith - ' erkoods— w ith a s tr ik e dead­

line a w eek aw ay — reported lo P sealdent Roonevelt todaiy th ey had been unable to reach an ag reem en t on th e w o rk ers’ w age dem ands. A Joint con- ferenow hefnre noon .w as con­tinued litt le m ore th a n a h a lf hour. spokesm an on oneside rem arked “th e conference lias te rm in a ted .” A m em ber from th e o th e r side o f th e tab le said th e conferees w ere rep o rtin g " fa ilu re” to th e P res iden t.

Average Person in Eng land IS’ot Much Con cernetl A bout Possi­bility o f Attacks.

London, Dec. 23.—(fP)—The average person In E ng land Isn 't much concerned abou t the possi­b ility of a G erm an rocket bomb crash ing down on him.

The G erm an p ropaganda cam ­paign on the rocket bombs w hich is pi-obably in tended to , console the G erm ans as much as it is to w orry the A llies-, h a sn 't aucceed-

(Contlniied on Page Trvo)

Bitterly Against Nazis

111 Tiny PortOrtuiia Being Turned in­

to M iniature__Staliii-grail as Street Battle Enters T hird Dav.

Resistance SmashedBy Yanks at Arawe; Burma Action Flares

Sfioradie Clashes o l Pa­trols and W idespread Air Fighting hy Both

' American and British R eported; G u r k h a Troops Storm Japan ­ese Positions .\stritle Im portant R o a d .

A tearfiii. f rg h te n e d Ita lian w om an appeals to L ieut. Louis Ochoa of Laredo. Tex., to give m edical aid to her hu'shand on the s lrcU h er. B n ila llv heat n bv the G erm ans fo r p ro testing ag a in s t th e ir looting c.f '.lis home in Lngone, Ita ly , he wa* tak en to a U. S. field hospital fo r trea tm en t. (U. .S. S ig­nal C oips R adiotelephoto from N EA .i

Allied H eadquarters, A lgiers, Dec. 23. -i>P>— E igh th A rm y tan k s and in fa n try fo u rh t b itte rly in the s tre e ts of O rtona fo r the th ird s t ra ig h t day w ith G erm an forces who ivere tu rn in g the tiny A dria­tic p o rt Into * m in ia tu re S ta lin ­g rad , ■ an Allied head q u arte rs a n ­nouncem ent said today.

On the F ifth A rm y fro n t to the w est, A m erican troops cap tu red snow -covered 3,000-foot Mt. Caval- lo, th ree and a ha lf m iles n o rth ­w est of V enalro and n ear Viti- ciiso, and F rench forces advanced in a m ountain pa.ss w here a s tru g ­gle had raged for. .several days.

O ther A m erican 'in fan try a t ta c k ­ing in the ra in seized a hill near Monna Casale.

F a ll To Re«-apture M ountainSw arm ing ii, the slopes of Mt,

C avalio in a d renching rain, the A m ericana now overlooked the vil­lage of V’iticiiso, e igh t miles east of Gasaino and placed it under shell and m o rta r fire. The G erm ans tried to recap tu re the m ountain, bu t failed.

The sy s tem atic cleanup of pill­boxes around San V ittore, a heavi­ly fortified village six miles south of .Cassino, \con tinued . b u t there w as no in d ic^ io n th a t a full-scale a tta c k had yet been launched on th is s tro n g position guard ing the road to Rpme.

The heaviest figh ting surged back and fo rth in O rtona w here C anad ians have been fig h tin g the G erm ans in the s tre e ts f o r th ree days.

P a rach u te T roops In B a ttleT he G erm an T en th A rm y th rew

new p a rach u te troops, figh ting as In fan try , in to the b a ttle in a des­pe ra te effort to re ta in its hold on th is anchor to th e p resen t line across I ta ly . O rtona guards one of the m ain roads leading no rth to P escara , and its c ap tu re by the A llies .would cu t th e G erm an’s ;

k-

Deficit Slasli Spurs Senate

Cut ill Taxes

Nazis Open Gigantic New Tank Offensive

Finaiif’c ('.piiimilUM’ Saysj Dt’dsion 4iiflii(‘iu'(‘i r i By Builgel B ureairs. Revision of E sliinales.,W a.siiington, Dec. 23 i.Vi The

S enate F inance conim iUee .said today its decision to seek le.ss th an | one-fourih of the additional j revenue deniandeil by the T reasu ry in the new tax bill w as "inthienc- ed '' by the B udget bu reau 's action ill ciiUiiig ^n.uuO.uuu.uOO off esti­m ates of th e cu rren t y ea r 's deficit.

F o rm ally repo rting th e $2.27.'),- 600,000 me.asure during Congre.s.s' holiday rece.ss, the con ih iittee a s ­se rted th a t the widely discu.ssed "in fla tionary gap" is jikely to be reduced by a tap e rin g off in w ar

I m aterie l o rders and increased [ production for civilian use.[ D iscussing the T reasu ry 's re- I quest fo r a bill th a t would bring

Mitasril Russian Arlillerv ami

.(O on tlnued on Page E igh t)

Three Labor Leaders Hit

den in nd, blu* sad graan. Buy War Bonds and Stamps

• W aaliington. Dec. 23—(5’)—W ith a ra ilro a d a tr ik e dead line a w eek aw ay, the c a rr ie rs an d th e flve . ip e n t in g b io therhooda w ere m a k ­ing m inu te progreaa to d ay tow ard gettU ss th e ir w age d isp u te ...

T he governm en t m eanw hile pur- lued a w ait-and-see policy to w ard the dem ands of ,th e I.IOO'.OOO, non- ip e ra tin g w orkers, w ho a lso have llireat'ened to s tr ik e Dec. 30.

A pi-ogres* re p o r t cam e From y este rday 's n eg o tia ting aeaalon on .'o iinter proposals advanced by th e iiien w ho o p era te th e tra in s , and u io th e r jo in conference w as aa t for t o ^ y .

W iniBg To Coneade S om ath lngTTia e a rr lf ra a re now under-

(C oattaned oa P ag e S ix )

(C ontinued ^ n , Page E igh t)

Veterans Have Choice of Jobs

D o N ot H ave lo T ak e W a^ ^ 'o r k I f T hey D esire O th e r P o sitio n s

Accused by Reil P u b ­lication o f Atili-SovicI Acts; Raps Lewis.Moscow, Dec. 23 — (Ah _ The

Soviet labor publication "W’ac and th e W orking CTaaa." in a discus­sion of labo r's sp lit In the U nited S ta te s , h as accused th ree A m eri­can F edera tion of L abor leaders of an ti-S ov ie t acU tending to su p ­p ress “hopes of the m asses fo r na tional and in te rn a tio n a l un ity .’’

T he artic le , published yesterday ,, also re fe rred to John L. Lewis, who h as led h is U nited Mine W orkers ou t of the CIO and is now try in g to re tu rn lo th e A FL, aa " th a t F a sc is t aec ta rlan ."

L isted a s ’’reac tio n a ry leader* of th e A F L w ere M atthew Well, A F L vice p residen t; W illiam L. Hutchin!W>n,-prealdent of th e A FL. Placed In th e .same ca teg o ry w as David D iibinsky. in te rn a tio n a l p residen t of th e Ladles G arm en t W orkers lin lon . which, re tu rn ed to th e A F L in 1940 a f te r a period as a n Independent union.

W Uliam r . G reen. A F L preal- d e n t who is a m em ber of the So­ciety fo r Sovlet-A m erican friend-

(Coatlauad oa P a s s Twa)

W ashington, Dec. 23 •— JiPi — M anpow er C hairm an P au l V. Mc­N u tt, declaring th a t re tu rn in g v e t­e ran s m ust be given "every poe.si- ble aa.sistance,’»’ madi it e lea r to ­day th a t honorably d ischarged se r­vicem en don 't have to ta k e w ar Jobs if they don’t w an t to.

R egard less .o f local m anpow er p rog ram s w hich give essen tia l w ar p lan ts f i rs t call on w orkers, the v e te ran s w ill be helped to find ; jeb s to th e ir liking) he said. , 1

T h a t goes for bo th m en an ilj women. A bout 100,000 now arc b e 'i ir.g d ischarged every m onth . I

" I t can be assum ed th a t th e | m a jo rity of re tu rn in g v e te ran s will p re fe r w ar job4 b u t no res tric tio n ipus t be placed on anyone w ho chooses to accep t o th e r w ork, p a r­ticu la rly w ork .p fom ising g re a te r perm anency ,”" M cNuU said.

^ 1 1 offices of th e U. S. Em ploy- n.en Service have been in s tru c ted th a t , on the request of a ve te ran , I they shall re fe r him to any job In ; w hich he is in terested , and fo r | w hich he is qualified, ,

Sam e Choice fo r 60 D ays !The sam e freedom of choice con­

tinues fo r 60 days a f te r th e v e t­eran lias accep ted his f i r s t civilian Job. In o th e r w ords, if he doesn’t like th e ttrs t Job, he h a s the priv i­lege. fo r 60 days, of socking Other w ork.

T he W om en’s A dvisory com m it­tee of th e W ar M anpow er C om m is­sion called meanwhile, fo r positive and specific p lanning $c preserve

(Continued on Pnge Two)

H f i i v v

.Mohih- Fichl (illll^ Blazp Away .4l A n iiom I Assaults.

Bulletin!Moscow, Dec. 23,—(iT*)—

Gen. Ivan Bagramian’sBaltic Army is fightin);: its way through thick barbed wire entanglements forming the northernmost defenses of I Vitebsk and at the same time! is reaching westward for a ' stranglehold on the Viteb.sk/-j Polotsk railway, Soviet dis­patches from the front said today. Cutting of the rhilway

ito Polotsk would sever Vitebsk’s main communiea-

; tions to the west.

Moscow, Dec. 23.—(A )— .Massed Russian heavy arlil- Icr.v and big nioliile held guns lila'/.ed away today against a gigantic new Germarf tank offensive, described as one of i the war's heaviest armored j assaults. The large-scale ene­my attack was sprung yes- torday on a 400-mile fron t .stretch­ing from W hite R ussia to the D nieper bend, bu t fro n t rep o rts .said Red A rm y forie.s w ere hold­ing film on ah se r to rs and th a t concen tra ted a rtille ry fire had de­stroyed a t least 148 of th e a t ­tack ing tan k s ^during Ihe^day.

Itiissiiin P ressu re -increases .The 'new enem y co u n te r-a ttack

cam e aa an l l l h hour effort as Ru.ssian pre.ssiire increased- on the N azi V itehsk-Polotsk defense wall fu r th e r no rth w here Gen: Ivan B ag ram ian ’s F ir s t B altic A rm y

Exiled Rejiifime Of K iiiii Peter

Loses RightsY'^oiiiijf Monarc’h ‘For-

biilileii' to Rptiirii Un­til Yiijfoslavia E i i t i r e l v Lilipratril.

(CVintlnued on Page E ig h t)

Treasury BalanceW ashington, Dec. 23 lA'i- The |

po.sitlon of the T reasu ry Doc. 21: | Receipts, $471,073,037.18: ex- i

pe^d itu ies . ' $304,244,735.15; net [balitnce, $12,311,904,128.67*. ‘

London, Dec. 23. iJ*' Denounc­ing the "hostile a ttitu d e " and ac ts of k in g P e te i'a Y ugoslav govern- m cnl-in-fx ile, Mar.shal Josip Broz' (T ito ’sI Council of L ibera tion ha.s ordciod P e te r 's regim e deprived "of all its right.**■’ and has "forb id­den ” the young king to re tu rn home until a f te r Yugoslavia is en- U icly liberated.

The strongly-w orded decla ration cam e as the .\llie i were giving niilit.li> aid to T ito in hi.s w kr ag a in s t the G erm ans and a t te m p t­ing to se ttle differciwcs betw een the two Yiigo.slav favtions.

A fter Y iigorlavia is freed, "the prolilem of the king as well as the question of the .m onarchy can he decided." decla-ed T ito ’.s council, recen tly established w ith in the s tra te g ic B alkan nation.

The council’s sta tem en t, b road­cast b> the 'F’ree Yiigo.slav radio, leveled th ree accu.sations again.sl P e te r 's governm ent s itt in g in C airo:

Of "m ain ta in ing a hostile a tl l- tude tow ard the s tru g g le for liberation in which the Y ugoslav people have been heavjly engag ­ed” :

Of abusing the hosp ita lity of our Allies by spread ing lies and Slan­ders . bout the s tru g g le of the Y ugoslav Arm> of L ibera tion":

Of organ izing , th rough W ar ,Minis;er Gen. D ra ja Mihailovic, "civil s tr ife in Y ugoslavia and th rough him and his Subordinates

; concluding a las ting ag reem en t” I w ith the G erm ans and the ir satel- I lites.

I t therefore declared ''null and

New Delhi, Dec. 23,—(/P)— Sporatlic cla.shes of land pa­trols, from the Sumprabiita area of northern F>urma to the niiddle Cliin hills, and widespread air fighting in which both American and British forces partkipated were announced hy the South- »ast A sia com m and today. In the Tidvelm area G urkha troops, sup­ported by field gun ' hauled ny hand over jiinglf tra ils , s to rm ed Japanese positions astride an im ­p o rtan t supply road and drove them back for m ore th an a mile, inflicting heavy casua lties *)n the enem y. The G urkhas then w ith ­drew to the ir orig inal positions.

Surp rise .V tiack Repulsed Japanese groun*i forces launch­

ed a su rprise daw n a tta c k ag a in s t a fam ous B ritish reg im en t of the lino on the A rakhan fron t jn east-

-ern B urm a w here R A F. form a- fions have been strafing enem y villages fo r the past two days. The a tta c k w as repulsed, w ith the Japanese leaving 24 dead on the field.

N ative levies carried ou t a n u m ­ber of successful ra ids in the Knlam area in the niiddle Chin hills and fa r th e r no rth they de­stroyed th ree m ad bridges near S iin ip iabum , a t the no rthern end of the Kiinion iiioiinlain range.

In the air, honibeis of the E a s t­ern A ir com m and w ere active over a iw o-day period beginning Dec. 19. R. A. K. bonibei'S hlaslcd o h - iectives a l Mnvmyo in cen tra l B ur­m a on the night of Dec. 19 and the next dav a large form ation of A niericaii m e d i u m honilicrs dm |ipc(l 30 tons of explosives on enem y ga.saolinc sto res and o tiicr ta rg e ts a t Monya, s ta rtin g large flies R A. F, bomliers con tin ­ued the a tta c k th.-it night, hla.st- ing railw ay tnstalln tions to s ta r t add itional fires.

F ig h te r s , f lg h te i -b o m b e rs and d iv e -b o m b ers of bo th th e A m e r i ­c an a n d B r i t ish A ir F o rc e s w e m ac t iv e d u r in g th e 48-h o u r i>enod, th e coiTftniiniqiie said.

Support G round Troops Supporting ground troops, the

A m ericans bombed and sho t up enem y colum ns and supply concen­tra tio n s near T aipha Oa and Ka- m alng and s tra fed the busy Ka- m aing-Shadiizup enem y supply highw ay. Medium bom bers again a tta ck ed the M yitnge railw ay bridge south of M andalay.

R. A. K. fighters, m eanw hile con­tinued th e ir sw eeps aga in s t .lapa- ne.se com m unication lines on land and svater. dam aging locom otives

High Losses Seen Within Ninety Days

Prediction Made by Offi­cial , Cnsunltics Will M ount Three - Fold; Spccniation S t i r r e d .

Patrols Enlarging Outer I*eriineter of Invasion Front Virtually Un* niolesteil; Killing Few Jap Stragglers in Coral <’aves Along Beaches; American 'Casualties To Date Are Light.

W ashington, Dec. 23. lA’i Offi­cial W ashington w as ja rred to its heels today by a .w a rn in g from a highly-placed though anonym ous source th a t trem eiid^fis A m erican b a ttle casualties m ight, be expect­ed in the next 90 days.

The w arning w as lossW into an off-tlie-recopd co .iv e rsa tii^ w ith new spaperm en by an official whose position m akes ' i privy to m any s ta te secre ts bu t who stipu lated th a t he was not to be quoted by name. He predicted th a t to ta l U nited .States w ar losses will m ount three-fold in the nex t three- montiui. T h a t would boost the p resen t 132,000 casua lty toll well past the half-ir.lllion m ark.

The s ta tem en t, coming as it did in the m idst of a wide varity of rum ors spring ing from the T eh­eran and Cairo conferences, caus­ed an excited flurry in governm ent quarte rs.

Hour* a f te r the rem ark was out,

(C ontinued nn Page Hix)

Anti-Tank Unit Plays Bi" Roie

Minns ArmorFiglil. ^ l a n r h e M l e r l h > \ >

An Rifle ('om paiiy Up: To (^ p liire o f 4I(iii(la' .Yirport; Defend Point i

By Robert EunsonWith the American Sixth

Army at Arawe, New Brit­ain, Dec. 23.—(/P)—Organ­ized ground re.sistancc in the Arawe sector has beer smashed and American pa­trols are enlarging (he outet perimeter of their eight-day- old invasion front virtuall.v imniolestod. The main beachhead consists of the A raw e peninsula, on the southw est of New B ritain, from Cape M erkus to a position a few miles inland beyond U m tlnga- 111 village. ' which w as captured .several days ago.

P a tro ls are digging into coral caves along the beaches, killing the few Japanese s trag g le rs stiU tn the vicinity.

(T his is the first d ispatch dl- . rcetly from the beachhead ainct the A m erican landings of Dec. 15, when. Eunson rode in w ith the first Wave.)

A m erican casualties to da le have befell light. P rig . Gen. Ju lian C unningham , com m ander of the A m erican T ask Force, told us.

>\ight^ Bombing H eavyS illing in bis hcaiiquarter* ten t,

C unningham declared th e only re ­m aining difficulty seem ed to be the Japanese-, night- • bombing which has boon -very heavy.

We spent m ost qf T uesday n ig h t deep in a foxhole while enem y raicler* swooped o,ver the tin y peninsula one a l a tim e in abou t 15 sorties. \

rh a l \ iU 8 h l low-flyiiig Japanese hoiiilH-rs cam e in iiiimrt)ested and executed a j ia t te rn bombing. Pileo and A iaw e-'jslands. ju s t off th e Anieii(:an heW hhend. also have been heavily ik^nibed.

(G eneral M ac)\rih ((r 's com m u­nique said nearly TOO enem y dive-

(C ontinued on P ^ e E ig h t) '

(C ontinued nn Page E ig h t)

Super-BomberWill Hurl Foe

AI a It a in a Rippresenta- I R efu ses lo G iveliv e

Details o f New

U, S. Arn>y H eadquarters In Uvp South Pacific (D elayed !— You don 't have to have tanks to get an an ti- tan k com pany into action.

Thia Was proved in the recent New G eorgia cam paign when the 169lh In fan try reg im en t's a n ti­tan k com pany, which w as built up from M aiichesti-’-'s a n ti- tan k p la­toon. w ent all th rough the b a ttle w ith New Engl ind 's 43d In fan try division w ithout encountering a single Jap lank .

The com pany.^ led by Capt. G eorge W. E ilio tt 2.'il .McKee s tree t, and Fir.s S ergean t H arley F. Newcomb. 30 .North School s lie e t. M anchester, w ent into ac­tion four days a flc i the cam paign s ta rted , fonch t w ith the icgimeivt as a rifle com pany up to the <ap- Uii-e of ,MHilda a lip o il, and then took over the defense of the im- {aiilan t a ir a trip until the cam- partji* w as over.

S an S pectacu lar , \ l r OefenaeThe .M anchester men made their

landing a t Reiidova a t the sam e tim e as the Jap s sent 18 boinbers ovei the island to drop the ir loads of destruction And the Manche.s- te r men saw one of the most

FlasheSi< I j i te B ulletins of th e {JC) WlriO

I’laiip I

((.'ontinued on Page Two)

Annual Newsboys’ Edition Tomorrow

Heralil newsboys will receive their itofiies of this new.s- jiaper free tomorrow. All the profit from thp .sale of The Herald tomorrow goc.s t(> the carriers.

This is in appreciation of the service the newsboys have yiveri in the delivery of The Herald throughout the past year. ,

W ashington. Dec. 23.—(/P)-—D f- velopnient of a new suiier-bom ber w as disclosed today by Rcpro.sen- ta tiv e S parkm an i D.. O la.), r h a i r - ' m an of a House M ilitary .Aviation subcom m ittee, on his re tu rn from a 10.000-mile inspection to u r of av ia tion p lan ts and A rm y Air Force insta lla tjons in e igh t s ta te s .

O ther than th a t it will "surpri.se and h u rt" the eneinv and soon will be in large scale production, Sparlctiian said he could' disylose no deta ils of the new h o m t^ r be- •cau.se the A rhiy itse4f has ho t yet m ade announcem ent about it. I t p robably will be used extensively in the Pacific th ea te r, he said, be­cause of its long flying range.

“ Surp rised" A t H eadw ayS parkm an said the flve com ­

m ittee m em bers w ho accom pan­ied him on th e tr ip w ere “p lea san t­ly aun>rised’’ a t th e headw ay be­ing m ade by the av iation industry in m eeting and exceeding produc­tion schedule* and by th e th o r­oughness and rap id ity w ith w hich th e A rm y 1* tra in in g com bat crew*.

The A labam an said he felt c e r­ta in . a f te r ta lk s w ith p lan t execu­tive* in G eorgia. A labam a, Texas, L ouisiana, C a lifo rn ia .'U tah , M ichi­gan anB K ansas, th a t com bat plane pfoducUon, now averag ing 9.000 un its p e r m onth , he said, will reach o r exceed 10.000 In 1944.

“Some of the la rg e r p lanU are ju s t reach ing top speed and effi­ciency," he declared in an Inter-

(I 'ontln iied on Page Si»)

Poles Invited To Join Paet

BeiiPH D csctUm’s 'Frcaly Willi Riifisia a.x Pari O f Spciirilv SvHleni.

(CoBttaued OB P age rw o )

Moscow, Dec. 23.— AA — R ussia and C zechoslovakia, linked in a 20-year friendship pact, “sincei-e- ly believe ' they can liconie to a .settlenient and an a.ssurable peace w ith Poland." P residen t Edouijrd Benes of the Czech govem m ent- in-exile declared las t n ight.

Ho de.scribed the new agi-eement a s p a rt of “a genera l system of security ." and said “the IntenUoiis of the Siwiet union tow ard Poland are the sam e as they w ere to u s— to see an indeiK ndcnt couhtry s trong and dem ocratic, and in full coopftratton."

“ In r ita t ln n To Poland”A protocol to th is pact, leav ing

it open to any neighbor nation, w as " a n inv ita tion to Poland." Benes said, and a rapprochejnent of Poland and Ru-ssla “ is a ques­tion of th e n e a r futuix*.’

He added, how ever, th a t a recon- cUiation of the two. w hich have broken relation*, would be an "ex­trem ely delica te job."

(A Moscow broadcaat recorded

(CoBUBiwitf'OB Page Two)

546 l,ost F ilers Prisoner*Miwihington, Uec. 'IS.—lAl—TCh*

W ar O cparln ien t announceil today th a t of 581 a ir crew- meinbeiw re­ported m issing when 60 l-I.ring F o rtresses were lost In the heavy honihing . of Industrial p lan ts a t S<-h\velnfurt. tiem ian y , 346 a re alive a s prisoners of w ar. E lgh l-

j eon crew memliers, a t first listed 1 as m issing, now are reported o(fl- 1 d a lly to have lieen killed. rhetr i nam es w ere not disclosed (rending i not m eat ion of next of kin. Un- ' -accounted for a s yet a re '117 men. The W ar O eparln ient said, how- (*%er, th a t reports still a re being rr.-i-ived and th a t It Is ex|M*cted m ore of tli/'iii m ay he listed a s w arprisoners . • • sW a r r a n t Otflcer Seiiteiu-ed

tleorgetow n, Del., Dec, *25.—(.-D__C arl “ Frciichy" .Mnullnle. 58-vear-iild .-Vrniv w a rran t officer s ta ­tioned. al nearliy F o rt Mites, w as senteiK-ed lo 18 nioiiths In prison todav on a charge of Involuntary imiiisl-.iiighfer in the shooting of. Ills close IrlVnd. W arran t Officer .lohn II. W orthington, in the la t-

' le ris Rehoboth lieach home last ! Nov. 4. Chief .Instlce Daniel *1.

I.aytoii pronounced the sentence a t a thp C'OUPt of

(O ver and Term iner In which Mnn- liiile w as co n d c led Oec. 5 a f te r tr ia l o n a charge of m urder.

Escapes I'rison -Vt KloinAlgiers. Dec. 23— i.-Pi— lien. Jean

d r I .a ttre de T asslgny. e o m n ^ d e r of the “ Iron division" In the bB lP f of R ethrl In F rance In 1940, hM arris ed In .Algiers from Ixmdon * l- e r jrsi-aping prison In RIom. the French C oum iiltee of N atinnw IJhera tinn announced today. He Tasslgnv w as sentenced to to " years for his a tte m p t to orgaaizo arm ed res istance to the N azi o ^ cnpalion of southern F rance IB Novemlier, 1942. T he com m ittee said he has “placed him self a t t ^ disposal of tienera l do Oaullo to resum e the tight."

E n te rs Inmn-ent P leaAA ashlng toh C ourt Houae, 0|»

Dec. 38—(5h —Jam e# W. CotlaH , 60-.vear-old prosperous f a r t a y pleaded innocent today to d ra t d ^

murilci* tr ip wslayings T hanksgiv ing ev#

and Common Plea* Ju d g e Ha ir yM. R ankin se t Feb. 14 aa U s date. C ollett, w earing hi* p laaW collar w ith chin *upi»ort, aa tM resu lt of a a aid aseJt ta jy y « answ ered a calnt, “ ^ea,* a t e * Judge R aakln naked him If h» sired to plead laaoeea t M a k U ^ , by bl* chief defense c o u s s a i Ja a M :-(N, U a to a . ■