‘ V * ' - S A T D K D AT ,‘ DECEMBER 16,1945 AYcragfl Dally drenlatlon T W B L V l ^ . Eugntng Hjgralii Thfl W crUmy Per the Mouth of Novomhor. 1*48 PoreoMt of U. 8. Wouthat Bwoua FENDER AND Local Boy Honored in Hawaii Manchegier 9,016 Conttnued very cold oad (sir About Town Heard Along Main Street Date Book BODY W ORK Mombor of Uw Audit weather tonight and Tuesday. SOLIMENE A PLAGG Buxom of Glieulatlauo Tomorrow INC. Mattchesier^—A City of Village Charm T fi. M a V. •ummerrlU*. Ser- And on Some of Manchester'$ Side Streets, Too Annual Christmas Candlelight •84 Oratot SL TeL lia i : aMMt lltfirv T. Oolamitn, and Oor- service. Center church at 7 ;30. VOL. LXV„ NO. 66 (CfaMolfled AdvertlalBg ou Paga 14) MAT4CHESTER, CONN., MONDAY, DECEMBER 17,1945 (SIXTEEN PAGES) PRICE rURKK OKI Vjarrt O a r i^ K- Burke. alJ of Manchester has had many bou­ blocks are pretty well free of the Monday, Dee. 17 Keebeeter, were on board the pests now, althouKh there are still The Woman’s Club will present M ouaen Mary which docked in quets handed to it In the past, but the gesture Just made by a soldier some spots where the rodents The Mark Twain Masquers of m w y Sa yiterday with troop. 5 boy back from the European Thea­ maintain a habitat. Hartford in the comedy, "Life fn m the European Theater of With Mother," at the South Meth­ ter. deserves a citation from the A few years back It was not un- LECLERC Seaboard Silver Meteor Smashes Info Sun Queen Oparatfcma. Manchester Chamber of Commerce usunl to see rats Scurrying along odist church. Wreck Death Toll basement waits and foraging Annual Christmas party of FUNERAL HOME,. , Death Trap for Jap or our various civic organisations. American Legion Auxiliary, Le­ Members of the British-Amerl- The soldier, in question, was among the waste containers at the 28 Main Street rear of markets. At night it was gion Home. ' can club who desire to have their noticed at the post office last eve­ PhoR8 5269 children attend the Christmas par- ning by a newspaperman who quite the,common thing to see one Tuesday, Dec. 18 Sliced Downward; ■ ty next Friday should sign up st recognised him aa one of the lads rat after another scoot across Christmas party. Catholic La­ t the club no later than tonight. I Main street and go down a storm dles of Columbus, St. James’s hall. located during the war. at the Friday, Dee. t l Leader Set by Navy; Children of members through the water sewer basin or culvert. .State Armory. He knew from hie Kiddies' Christmas party, Brit­ age of 10 years will be enter- accent that he did not come from They were even so bold as to come ish American Club. tained< any eastern state. Asked what he out in the open during the day. Lives of Six Lost was doing here, the soldier replied: For some years the old Rialto Sunday, Dec. 78 BOTTLED GAS Recently elected officei-s of Nut­ “ Seems a bit queer, doesn’t it. theater building. Just recently torn Annual Children’s Christmas meg Forest. Tall Cedars of Leba­ that I should hit this town? Well down. wa.s said to be a real gath­ party sponsoi^ by Mlantonomoh New Installations Now Be­ Two of Seaboard Air Code Secret Facto 'lYibe I.O.R.M. and Red Men’s So­ non. will be Installed Monday eve­ I come from Missouri and before ering place for rats. But when the ing Made. Gas Appliances. Storm Brings ning at the Masonic Temple. Roy workmen were demolishing the cial Club. Tinker hall, 2:30 p. m. Line's Luxury Trains, the war thought that state God's Christmas carol candlelight seiw- Warren will become Grand J"*' building they found nary a rat. Telephone 6859 faire.-rt. Well since the day I enlist­ Ice at 7:30. South Methodist^ Packed With Holiday Cedar and the installing ed I have been into almost every Like the church mice the rats pro­ -B uffalo State Former Head of Nat will be Fied A. Knofla, distrlfl state of .the union and during the bably found the picking so poor in church. Travelers and Home­ Monday, Dec. 81 Leadership Corps Intelligence Relati representative. last year was in Europe with the old theater that they moved out. New Year’s Eve dance, Dilworth- ward Bound Soldiers Patton. Comell Post. American Legloh; at Of Emergeiicv Story; Fearful Japai The Memorial Hospital W®"’* “ Well. sir. in all these places 1 Ther? are many stories about the days when rats were so preva­ Legion Home. Figure in Collision ese Would Learn an's Auxiliary will « never met finer people than I did Tuesday, Jan. 8 XMAS CARDS | Conviction Sought !. further meetings in Manchester when we were lo­ lent In the store area. One pro­ GIFT WRAPPINGS K Blizzard Deposits Up to prietor of a bakery and restaurant Annual banquet. Manchester Di­ Kollock, S. C., Dec. 17.— Code Being Cracki January 7. On that date the an­ cated here. So while we were bat­ vision, Connecticut Sportsmen’s Big Assurtmei|t! X nual meeting will take place and tling over there I got to thinking some years back called a police­ (A^)— The death toll in the 4 8 Incbra of Snow Political Argumen] man to have him look at the Assoclatidn, at the Sheridan. J a RTHUR DRUG STORESjJ 600,000 Members De­ all groups will meet at the same where I’d like to locate when this Saturday, Jan. 78 wreck of two of the Seaboard colony of rats he had discovered ^843 Main St. Rublnow Bldg.X In City;i Large Part Koiloye Death Precedes Hearing time. thing was over and I decided on Ladies’ Night, South Mnnchestei in the cellar. The policeman went Air Line’s luxury trains pack­ scribed as * Brain, Back­ Manchester. So when they asked Fire Department. Sports Center. into the cellar. The rata were com­ ed with many holiday travel­ O f Country Sbivers Witnesses Todaj me where I wanted to get my dis­ $ - - bone anti Directing charge so as to be nearest home I ing over a pipe that led from an ers and hpmeward bound ■ sol­ Powerful Blow Gut ” village. Mr. Gates asserts. B«‘11o w 8 Field. Oahu, Hawaiian maintain Bellows Field for fighter said Devens. That sure is near adjacent cellar. They were evi­ pilots in final overseas training. diers was revised downward Bulletin! Arm of ISazi Party' Washington, Dec. 17.- SIMOIVIZING That was known aa the Blythe I.slands. - - Corporal Eklmund H. Columbia. Mi.uouri. isn’t it. dently attracted by the smell of Shields. 153 Birch sti-eet, accepts These crewmen later fiew against Buffalo, N. Y „ Dec. 17—<>P) — Vice Admiral Theodore the bakery goods. As the rata house and is now occupied by the today. The division head­ To Japs’ Ruler The Body Shop Method friend the Honorary Ser\ ice Key to the Japan from Iwo Jima and Okinawa —BunaloTi transit facilities, Nuernberg, Dec. 17.— {/P) Wilkinson related today tl came through the hole In the cellar Peckhanv family. quarters of the railroad at paralyzed since early yester­ Mr. Gates says that the cotton new Enlisted Men's Ser\’lce Club at the height of Western Pacific Norfolk. Va., said a recheck dis­ — American prosecutors to­ he set a death trap for Ja; SOLIMENE « FLAGG, Inc. A new idea of birthday cakes wall the policeman swung with his at Bellows Field from Command­ fighting. TEXACO CRYSTALITE day by one of the worst bliz­ with candles came to light this billy, conking each one swiftly and mill burned in 1875. His mother closed that only six persons lost day called on the Internation­ May Have Profound Re­ nese Admiral Yamamoto •S4 Oeiiler St. Tel. 51«1 operated a boarding house that ing Officer Lieutenant Colonel A 1939 graduate of Manchester zards In tho city’s history, week. The local branch of Alco­ surely. Before the rata stopped High Xchool, and former assembler RANGE OIL NO. 2 FUEL OIL their lives when the Florida- Six persons were killed and more than fiO Injured when the Seaboard Railway’s "Silver Meteor" al Military tribunal to con­ spite fears that the Japanfi stood opposite the mill, he iwrltes. , Ronald F. Wilson, at the opening bound "Silver Meteor," streaking were beginning to run again holics Anonymous had a party this coming through there was a pile ceremony. The new club, which with the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft today aa the city continued In ploughed Into the line’s northbound “Sun Queen” near Pollock. S. C. The Sun Queen was pulling Into vict as war criminals 600,000 percussions in Im­ In his Inquiry to The Herald. Per through the morning mists, would thereby learn that tl week we are told, and two of the about three feet high on the floor Corporal Slilelds helped to open, Corporation, In East Hartford. Cor­ a state of emergency. The In­ a siding and four cars of the train had not cleared. The engineer of tite Meteor was one of those killed. members of the Nazi Leader­ A young fellow of high school Louis Hertz of Scar.sdale. N. Y.. ploughed into the northbound (AP wlrephoto). • perial Household as United States was crackil members were given birthday mentioned Charles and Bing Irish. features ping-pong tables, billiards, poral Shields has been in the serv­ 7 C Gallon 7 7-lOe cSSn ternational Railway company age was also said to be snoozing ice since August, 1942.