New York, The eliinax of the* Christnias' name is being announced by Mr. Gen. Ivan C.\Bagramian’s Baltic at one of his mediation confer- Maryland. Missouri, Oklahonva, Fire WreekS’'^ Biij*iiiexs Celebration wiU come at midnigtit j j at the Church of the Nativity' Army were storming the outer der Dover, Deal and Folke- Block NeBr Yale in (Continued on Page Eigbt) Attack Brings Destruc- fenaes of Vitebsk today as Mos- j with a special mass and a ponlifi- , - stone Targets of Artil- cal priK CHsion to the grotto where | tion of Capital Near cow dispatches reported that a New Haven 1'o4lay. (.'linst was born. powerful two-day-ol4 German tank I Tour Hallowed "\\a.> of Tuln” ^ lery Set Up ill France. "\aU union leaders conceded the they then can proceed to reor- Three - (Quarters Mark. offensive along a 400-miIe front to New Haven. Dec. 2l i.-Pi — A I By the aiores, the Amcmaiis emplo.vea probably would work ganize the Senate with parly the south had been stopped in its London, Dec. 24— — The members as chairmen of all com- general jiiarm fire that cast a ' coming from all war tlieaters in. Flashes! I^ondon. Dec. 22- great tracks. for the government and an actual , I Hus half of the world entered the j German high command announced interruption of transportation; mittees. He noted also that vic- heavy shower of sparks over a - (Ijite Bulletins ol the i/Hi Wire) fleet of R.A.F.«)ombers gave Ber Berlin admitted new breaches In old walled city and toured the hai-1 today its Naval shore batterie' thereb.v would be. avoided. . j tories in 11 of the contests would large 'section of Yale dormitories liJv its seventh b i r a tta c k In flv German lines to the north and had shelled targets at Dover. Deal give them control if Senator'La- lowed'"wav of pain." which begins! weeks last night, with a loss of no southeast of Vitebsk after “heavy, The president issued the an- i and caused damage estimated at Sub (irayling Presumed Lost and Folkestone, across the chan- F'ollette I Prog.. Wi.s.) chose lo go Washington, .llec. 24.—i/Pi—l»ss more than 17 planes, the lowest fluctuating battles.'' Front reports nounremenl after three of the five about $750,0(Hl w recked a tw o and ((dnt.iniied on Page Eight) nel froni Nazi-controlled FrWee. operating unions rejected his offer along with them, or if they elect- a half story busines.s blcK-k at of Ihr Hiilimarin- Grayling, the . toll yet for a major operation Translations of the Berlin ia- ed a vice president. 'fen new- sixteenlh .Xinericun suhniarine re- The' at attack probably brought Continued on Page Eight to referee, the dispute and the 15 York street and, Broadway here ' dio’.s first account of the action non-operating groups backed away seats would put the Republicans farl.v today. ported overdue and presumed los^, destruqtion of the German capital 4n the position of needing the near the.thrSe-quarters mark. had led to belief the Germans had from his proposa' without aitually Only the fai t tliat the Yale since Hie Sturt- of the war waa an- votes of both LaFollette and the New Threat The day-before-Christmas delvige announced use of “rocket shells," saying no. Management spokes- buildings across the street from iiouiieed b.v the Navv today. but a recheck showed the phrase V reciinedpesshrd gf bm cmebbb of high explosives and Incendiaries Neariii" Tmvn men and. two of the operating Hie blaze w.erc of fire-proof stone > Where the' Grayling operated on once more started great fires rag- employed by' the Germans— vice president. construction, Fire Marshal Jerc- ; her lust war patrol was not dls- “leucht-granate”— meant "flare Despite the.se claims. -Senator Of Reprisals J ing through the w m ldi (txmtinued on Page Eigbt) miah Dunn said, prevented a gen- • losed, but the l,47.>-ton subma- largest city. It emphasized that shells'.or tracers.- Guffey (D.. Pa ), chairman Of the eral catastrophe. I rine presumably was one of those Of Sarajevo Democratic Senatorial Campaign the Allies are not going to Leucht-granate is a phrase Yale's famed Sterling .library which have lieen shattering Japn- sonal sentiment interfere with in- which could reasonably be trans- Treasury Balance committee, declared he was con- with Its millions of volumes, niaq.v Gprniuiii* Broiulcasl .Vr- nese siippl.v lines In the PaelAc. lated "rocket.” but in the sence ceding no .seats to the-Repiibli- of them rare works; ia near the valuable bombing weather in tio ii to B p 'I'ukpn which to pave the way for the final Partisan.^ .Also Occupy of a distress rocket. Because Washington Dec. 24.~(yPt The tans next year; Moreover he scene, and ■ officials planned to Krl(lge|Hirt Man Shoots Self » check today to determine if any Invasion-drive. ^ Area Close to Breza; of current talk 'abroad Of alleged position of the Treasury Dfc. 22: said he thought that at least one .-i^iuiii.st A riiiv Flippf. Brldge|H>rt, Oec. 34.—(yPi— German plans to use giant rocket Receipts $351,868..369.17; expen- — now held by Senator Davis (R-, smoke damage occurred there. ______( harirs ('Rollhouse) Richards, $7, 14.vltch ra u a l T a d ic s The giant four-engined planes Blast Power Plant. guns lo shell London, listeners ditures. $291,686,396.65; n et bffl- Pa,)—would be regained by the Mory’s. the Yale ea-ing club re- I was found dead at 2:15 a. m. to*. here, made their original transla- ance, $12,357,016,500.95. Democrats. nowned in song and story, is even New Vprk, Dec 24 .T A , dny about tt» leet Iron: the risar Bwitcliing their usual tactica for tion in this connection. nearer the scene, but it too es- new German threat to try cap- | ,,f '),|, fioiiie on Charcoal Hill rMd, onalaughts on the Reich capiUl, London, Dec. 24—(iP>—Pressing caped damage. flew Wer the North sea at mid- There have been many Allied lured American and Biytush air-j'i,v tkiward P. .Xikiiiaii, a nelgh- “successful offensive operations" Lose V aluable .SliwU men iws "war criminala" in repris-1.1,1,r, KU-hardt who had been in ill night instead of following the in eastern Bosnia, Marshal Josip air attacks on .ji. section of tha ■'Tlic heavy loss .w as accounted usual southerly routes. Previous Fiench coast whieft has come tp ar for the, Kharkov atrocity trials • health for some lime, and who Broz’ partisans today reported for In' part by the fact that two w as voiced fk.st night by the Berj- | uiidiTuent a m ajor operation last R.A.F. attacks generally have been their units closing' in further be known as the •“ropket , gun Holiday Crisis at Hospital book and cui ior stores weie in the in early evening. coast" because of supiioaltion that lin radte. ' Xiigust. hud shot himself through around the -town of Sarajevo, wrecked building and lost valuable "Cixilly and objectively. German . the mouth with a .22 caliber rovol- First German reports of the rqid where the First World War was emplacements for such guns may Manchester Memorial Hospital facca a holiday crisis. Two stock. Other business establish- said workers quarters had been hit. be located there. things have combined lo make this crisis sudden and diajnnatic. juUges will examine witne.saM. ' ver, ncoording to Sergt. Chariea touched off. The communique was ments wiped out or heavily dam- both British and American pilots | H artlej. State Policeman laiplB The broadcast asserted a consider- broadcast by the Free Yugoslav No Dannage Announced One haa been a continuing flow of patients into the hospital. aged included a restaurant,' a and mothers and children of Ham- -lackniaii and Chariea .McCarthy able number of the attacking radio. No damage from last night’s The other has been a critical assault of Illness on the regular clothing shop, the office of a laun- burg,” a broadcast by Edward who Investigated. bombers were shot down by Nazi While the Berlin radio claimed over-.channel shelling wss an- nuraing staff of the hospital. . dry company, other business of- fighters and anti-aircraft fire de- Roderick Dietze declared. that all organizec: guerrilla resist- nounced. The hospital had. as of this morning, 103 patients, closp to fices, shoe repair shop and a con- I nre Ufstruvs Storage Barn spite the change in R.A.F. strategy. ance in Serbia had ceased, Tito’s German sheila that struck the “Will Be Able to Stale Orders" .Xiilford, Dec. 24— lA*)— F ire dn^ Catted "Terror Attack” u war bulletin reported that in the Dover-Folkestone coastal -area its capacity. . Occupants of furnished rooms m I ' public trial the British and The German International In- neighboring province of Bosnia, But of the regular nuraing staff of 44. a total of 15 nurses American pilots will be able to I stroyed the .Associated Seed Grow- were "ho different from the shell-' the building, routed from their ers storage born and wqrkabog formation bureau said the raid was partisan forces had occupied terri- Ing we’ve had down here before.’’ are unable to report for duty. beds', were sheltered at a fire state what their orders were and a "terror ktUck" made “in t|ie tory between, Breza, a town on a however, said Associated Press This means that on the 3 to 11 shift this afternoon and.,, in what manner they carried them today, including three tractors, an house near the scene. Some alarm auto, a' Uirenahing mnchlne and early hours of Christmas eve." branch railway 15 miles north of Correspondent Carl Crowehurst. evening, there will be only four regular nurses for 103 patients. was caused during the, height of out. In the last heavy blasting of Sarajevo and Varea, northern ter- who has witnessed, practically "Bfilish and American papefs. other farm implements DnnMgd The hospital is therefore forced to Issue an emergency call the blaze when residents of the wae estimated at S25,000 by eog|^ Berlin on Dec. 16 the. R.A.F. lost minus of Jie line. A power station every cross-channel shelling of the tor ouUide help. It can come ftrom private day liurset. regis- bulldlnj said two elderly men were which in recent (fays have been 30 bombers wblle dropping 1,500 was blown up and 50 Germans publishing reports of that Bolshe- pnny olliclala. Flremea ffnni war, tered nurses reUred. and from nuraea’ aides. Some ol, these unaccounted for. but fire officials Milford and Orange fpoght IB* long tons of explosives. were killed In this action. •British long-range guns fn the have already been reached, and have responded. But more declared no one was trapped in the .wik mobster mock trial at Khar- Other partisan columni already flames. Even before today's raW It had Dover area opened up shortly after .help is needed thkn the hospital itself knows how to secure. building. kov. will therefore, in due course, « • • been estimated the German bapital were reported approaching Bara, 8 p. m. last night, and hurled Miss' Anna Sampson, chairman" of the -Volunteer Nurses TTie fire, its cause and origin have ample opportunity., to pub- . was half destroyed in six big raids jevo from the south. Tito asserted. lish reports of trials in Gerroanv Influenza Deaths Decline shells acroes the strait for an Aides, this morning appealed lo_ members (if that unit t(J re- undetermined, i.roke' out shortly carried out by the R.A.F. at a coat Turn Bark Nazi Attacks of Britlsn and • American war Ixindon, Dec. 24—(i¥H-A , hour and a quarter. spond'. •’This real emergency," she said, "is w:hat we have befori midnight and was pro- dine la Inlluenia dentha la of 184 bombers. The Yugoslav communique said The rocket gun principle la well criminals." In the tampalgn to obliterate the partiaana were on the offenaive been training for.” nounced under control at 1:38 a. land and W'alen waa known to scientlsta. But despite m. although still burning fiercely Three German and a , Russian this so-called “king of Urgeta” the In all othei parts of Boanla. turn- If you can give as little as two houra of your time, call to(My by the Ministry af Hi some German claims that their at that time. traitor were hshge^ a^ Kharkov British had attacked in great foi.ee ing back numerous German at- Miss Gaudet. supervisor of nurses, at 5;31. after military court trial on Tba total of 1,108 In ImtSm tem pts to crack their lines and In monster guns can throw 20-ton Second i( Fire Of W eek th e nIghU of . Dec. 2. losing 41 It Is believed that, in moat cases, transportation to and from charges of coramittihg atrocitits. 124 in n th ar large c4U«i M planes and dropping 1,500 tpna ef particular an enemy thruat aimed shells all the way to London Fir# cajlef Paul Heinz’s lirtimate weak ended Dee. Ig wna M at the town of Jajee, Tito’s head- there have been no. Indlcatlona the hoeplUl can be provided. exploUvea; Nov. 28, losing $2 (Oonttnaad en Page Bight) th«a the aravteas waak’^ .. lanee in unloading 1,000 tons; (OaaRatwd en Pag* Eight) (Oatinoefl M r«c« Eight) Slev. 28. Nov. 22, and Nov. 18. f (OontiniMd on Page Ugkt) . Ji» TO TKiSE the direction of G. Albert Pearson. the Old Year?” will be the sermon Fevr Restaurants Open Following the service caroling by Sundzy Schtw: Leffson Young People Xmas Drama Locates Local topic of the Rev. George W. Wise- Here on Christmas Kiwanis Ends the Emanuel Choir for the benefit Red ’ >■ man at the 9:30 morning service of 6f aick and. shut-in folk. Jesus' Adinonilion to ‘Be Perfect' the Quarry-Villa Methodlat.>church AH places that sejj liquor, Day After Chrlstmaa Stage Pageant To Be Given Cross Hero’s Grave on Sunday. which Include most of the Year Monda) Churches 9:15 a. m.—Sunday School and ^ diaago Opening pate eating places In town, will be Bible Claases. Links Life of Man With That of God Notes ® A communication from A. H. closed by law tomorrow. This The Center Chiircli St. James’s Ronter CuthoUo 10:30 a. m.— Memorial Service “Secret of the Star" to Illiiig, superintendent of the is going to be hard on the Ministers: W’ntson Woodruff and Rev. WiUbun J. D“""> P***®' honoring .those members of the Talrottville Oiiirch to DeAcriplion of Sgl. Far- New Officers to Be In' Rev. Edmund Barrett, Assistant B.v -Wniiam E.' Gijri y, D.Ui'^ ware subject to the laws inherent in Be PreseDted This Eve- OSloe, 95S Mala SL—Tol. MS7 schools in Manchester, reads; "The many roomers who take their Browne Barr Emanuel church who have died have been | the universe and in human life. Have Speria] Services ringtoii'is Burial For- public schools’of Manchester, with meals at restaurants. From stalled; Cliffoi:,d to Eii during 1943. ’ The lessons that we God’s great love and His gift the exception of Manchester Green Masses Christmas day same as 5:00 p.,m .—Presentation of the ning at Citadel. / Production— Closed until Jan- the Center south there seems You are most cordially invited studying in the Ten Command- are for all. “Whosoever” is a On Suntlav. warded to Mother. school, will re-open, on Tuesday, to be init two places_where 9 ter Servict; Tuesday. to visit’ Center church and to wor- or Sunday. 5:30, 7, 8:30, 9:45. with Sunday School Christinas pro- ments, Intcrpteted in the light of broad and Inclusive word. The uary 11. Dec. 28. instead of Monday as pre- person can get a meal tomor- ship at ita services. A nursery high mass at 11. Masses upstairs gram. A pageant entitled "Ad- “Secret o( the Star,” a cantata- Surgical Dressings — Watch for adults, downstairs for children. their fulfillment in Christ’s new democrady of God’s .kingdom is Chrietmuji service* will be held The Red. Crosir Home Service is viously announced Manchester row. The next Monday meeting of tin school for children is held during vent,” will be given under the more vital and real than that Of pageant will be presented by the for re-opening date. Green school will re-open on Mon- The grill In. the Odd Fellows the church hour to enable parenta direction of Misji Grace Benson and commandment of love, emphasiz- Salvation Army Young People’s at the Talcottv Ic Conjfrcgattonal Blood Donors -Mobile unit here the direct link between the service Manchester Kiwanis club will b< St. Bridget’s R. C. ing what we owe to God and man, any democracy of man. The poor, church Sunday, both at the 10:45 day. December 27.” building' around the corner on to attend church. her committee. The program will the lowly, the .orgotten, the neg- January 21: call Mrs. Swanson, man and hjg/family, and, here in Bolton Sirhoul Open .Monday East Center street will t>e the last meeting 01 the year am Sunday, December 26 Rev. James E. Timmins, Pastor be in charge of Clarence Wogman, find their flttfhg climax in this choir and the Sunday achool this worship hour and in the evening 2-1442. Manrhc.stcr aluno, dozens of cases every riiomber i.i urged to be prjs Re-v. Francis Breen, Assistant Christmas less./O on what God has lected, are as much the recipients evening at seven o’clock. Misa Lil- at aeven o'clock when a Chrlstmaa George O. Rose, chairman of the closed. The Center Luncli. cut. Earle Clifford, the first Selec 9:30 a. m.-/-Church School class- supcrintcndcrit. The public is in- of God’s grace as the rich, the ' Nurses Aides j-New daytime are liunctled each month. Bolton Board of Education, states Sheridan, Princess, Lurich Rev. .Marshall Filip, Assistant vited to this very fine “Bible Pa- done for us. * 1\an Kittle is directing and Miss drama "ChnVttmaa I* a Miracle” class starts in January; call ofTice' tive Service inductee of th< The New Testament never learned, and the distinguished. will tie presented by a cast of wliich solve many ^)roblenlS for the 1 schools Irf Boltpn will reopen Cart, and the Garden restau- Kiwanis club, will be on hand. H> 11 a. m.—Morning servica of j geant” and program. In tact, the humanly great are Rh'oda Hall will be the accom- or Miss Sampson. 4554. ' on Monday, Dec. 27 as origiiiany lant art closed all day. The worship. I V Masses on Christmas day 6:30, New Year’s Eve makes any separation betivtcn God panist. , ' CKCCTincS about 25 characters, under the di- • Nurse recruitment Mrs. M,y- man or his family, and often re- i.s leaving to enter the service 01 Prelude—“Serenade ’ ...... Wider 7 30, 9, 10 and 11, high mass. I and man. The life and character of so apt to feel theli se.lf-suffl rection of Mias Lucy Welles.. planned. Center school. North State Lunch will be open in Tuesday. ' A special watchnight service will ciency and their lack of depend- The Chriatmas story will be told haver, B214. lieve the mind of a man far away ■school. South school and Birch the morning and until 2 o'clock Antheifi—“While,* By My Sheep” Masses on Sunday at 5:30, 7:30, be held New Year's Eve at 11:30 I man are always linked with the impressively by the aid of read- At the morning service the choir Production Notes and worried shout a problem at In the afternoon and again in The new officers for the coming 17th Century Carol 6, 10 and 11 a. m. life and character of Goil, and the ence on God that His love and His A Very Merry Christmas will sing the anthem, "BirthtlHy of Mountain school will resume ses- year will be installed . The speak p. m. gifts are often most app opriated ings. music and tableaux. The The Production staff acknowl- hhnie. sions on Monday, Dec. 27. the evening from 6 o'clock on. Anthem—“Sleep, Holy Babe” \ Klessed Christmas rule'of the Christian life is that Young People’s choir will provide a King"'by Niedlmger. and "O Lit- edges with deep appreciate the Among other things. Home Ser- The Tea Room will be open er will be Sgt. "Abe” Ostrlnakj Snow Second Congregational Churc:h men should be “godly” In being by those who feel most their weak- Bolton Briefs who has just returned from th< To the Herald Sta^f. Us publish- the musical setting: while other tle Town of Bethlehem” by Davis. very generous gift from the Mona vice can often help a family find all day. Anthem—“Carol of the Bells” North Main and North Street* er and its readers the Emanuel like God. Jesus admonishes His ness and their need. So true la Hits members of the Sunday school will And A Happy New Year The paston. Rev. Thomas Street Ypres post of British War Vet- out about a boy. Some time after Word has been received of the Italian front. The attendance prizt Ukranian Carol Ferris E. Reynolds, Minister Lutheran Church extends its best disciples to be “perfect, even as that Paul dwelt upon God’s choice will take for his sermon subject, will be fumi-shed by Elmer Weden Miss Elsie Newcomb, Church of the weak, th' despised, and "the fill the roles of the Biblical charac- erans. the death, on Munda, of -Sergt. death of Mrs. Howard Clack of Sermon—“Wiae Men Follow Stars wishes for a Happy and Blessed your Father in heaven is perfect.” ters. "ForRotten Characters of Christ- Don't forget that the Center la Hugh E. Farrington, hia mother, Auburn, N. Y,. on Dec. 18. Mrs. There,will not be a meeting of School Director Christmas! He makes God’s forgiveness of thinRs that are not’’ (1 Corinthians mas ’ ITndrrM'ores Exreption Mis-s Emily Hanna and Maynard ^ To All Our Friends and Customers officially closed until January 11. Mrs. Delia Farrington, who - Uvea Clack'was the mother of Mr*. this CYP Club this Sunday night. us parallel with our forgiveness of 1:26-31). Clough will read the descriptive At Evening Service although there will be cutters and on Birch street, Manchester, asked George H. Rich. Nurses’ Aides The W’eek ■Everyman’s Class at 9;15. Churrh of the Nazarenr others “ForKlve us our trespasses So, God’s Christmas is for Los Angeles— (/4b ’—Coxswain church School at 9:30. everybody. The Babe of Bethlehem, passages leading up-‘to the finding The choir will sing again at the others working at various times the Red Cross if there was any Mr. and Mrs. Paul Maneggis are Monday, 7:15 p. m,.—Troop 25, 466 .Main street, Manchester as wc forgive thosi ’ who trespass of the babe in the manger. Special evening sendee, the first part of way in which she could find out the parents of a son born Saturday Henry B. Fournier, on a Navy Bov Scouts. Nursery at 10:45. whom the Wise Men and the shep- during the vacation period. cruiser in the Pacific, wrote he’d Rev. James A. Young, Pastor against us.” lighting effects and the manger which will consist of the reading • Visit from MIsa Gilbert whether her son had received at the Manchester Memorial hospi- Dinner Party ’Tuesday, 2:30 p. m.—Watch- Morning worship at 10:45. Ser-- herds sought, is the Christ who Is be unable to be home for Christ- Night Service Committee will mon by the minister on the sub- In overything man's duty and near to us all—the babe who grew scene as arrangid on the platform of the story of the play. The Acene -Miss Gilbert, Field Director for Christian burial. A letter was im- tal. Mrs. Maneggla is the former Sunday services: privilege arc established in God’s will make the story more beauti- Johnson Brothers Best Wishes For represents an old church on mediately sent to the Field Direc- Miss Jane Tedforo. The couple mas. So his pretty wife, Beverly, m eet in the Robbins R—Fire broke out Friday, The Second annual New er. birth of Jesus, but the whole sig- This is the vision granted to chine-gun fire on July 15, 1643, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Merrill of Wednesday, at 7:30 p. m.— Forest street, or with Mr. San- while bravely assaulting an enemy decorations consisting of CHirist- in George Imperial’s Bronx tav- Year’s Eve Family P-rty will be The Week Prayer and Praise servict with the nificance of that birth and of GodA Nickie. son at the State theater. South Bolton. Russell Merrill was mas greens, tiny individual Christ- ern. He threw pitchers of watei held in the church. Eddie Nadell of Monday at 7 Boy Scouts. The second part of the pageant pill box on the Munda Trail. pastor in charge. Choir will meet greatest gift of !ove is summed up It is planned to carry Christ- inducted into the armed forces on mas trees at each place and a bout- on but the flames burned on. ’Ther Boston, well-known teacher and Tuesday at 7 Girl Scouts. for rehearsal at the close of this in-the words in John 3:16 “God sd- represents the first Chnotmas eve. mas cheer, not only to those who "You may assure Mrs. Farring- Wednesday. Dec. 22; ’* Episcopal Church cities and towns. Max Hulx"!. 60- awarded a Manchester Aide for FOR 4 DAYS Rev. Charles G. Johnson, Minister 10 a. m.'—Sundaj -school. a New Yfirk (A>i - Police head- rington's grave is four rows down Bolton is now responsible for Rrv. Elllarin F^ Marvin, Deacon- 11 a. m.—Morning wor.ship AAANCHESTER DRY CLEANERS | quarters three cats Petty Lar- year-old scholarly president of the from the flag and eight graves to the completion of 500 hours of In-Charge I. R. C. C.. explained today. In the fpurth Wednesday afternoon of service beyond the original 150 5:30 Christmas Day—Matin ceny. Grind Larceny and Assault the right facing the Rag. It is des- each month. Boltonites who served December 25, Christmas Day Damage Eslniated .-Vt S’J..->00 ' , 93 WcHs S tree t j| addition to its large Geneva staff, ignated as Plot 11, Row 4, Grave 8. hours pledged per year by each servied. Special music by the and Battery—have had a fore- the committee has 92 delegates in November included; Mrs. Isolds choir. Duets’by Misses Nelson and taate of the Christmas banquet •'In the center of the white cross Paggioll, Mrs. Inez Lombardi, Mr#. Aide. Us award to Mrs, Weller by 8 a. m.—Holy communion. FWWJVWWWntWISSWIWMtWMMWWWMItfS travelling in 67 countries to aid marking his grave is a metal plate Miss Anna Sampson, chairman of Carlson. The minister will give Hartford, Dec. 24 .-(i4*)- Fire planned for them. The four- Margaret Rich, Miss I.stura Too- 10 a. m.—Holy Communion. Marshal Herny G. Thomas esti- months-old cats caught a rat— war prisoners and civilian in- with the following; the Volunteer Nurses Aide Service, December 26 the Christmas message, taking as ternees in 2,000i individual deten- mey. Those who were on duty was greeted by an enthusiastic his theme. “Cihristmaa mated the damage in a fire yester- their first. Sgt. Hugh E. Farrington Wednesday, Dec. 22 Included: 1-3, Feaat of St. Stephen, Deacon Quality tion camps. 20150553. round of applause. Mrs. Weller had and Martyr. The regular Church Christ Brought to the World. A day at an Altyn street building fy> Your Norfte Tile 1. R. C. C. is the largest and Co. G.. 172nd Inf. Mrs. Nella Merrill, Mrs. Hannah further contributed to the occasion School session will be omitted to- cordial invitation is extended to hou.Sing a mu.sic supply store and PEARL’S Furniture moat impartially humanitarian “At the top of hia .cross is fast- Merrill: 3-5, Mrs. Isolda Paggioll by making a miniature clay model day. Pupils are to attend the 3 the public. State OPA heamiartcrs at 2,500. Dealer agency of a W'orld at war. Because ened one of the two metal identiii- and Mrs. Lillian Hutchinson. of an Aide in uniform at work o’clock afternoon service. 6:30 p. m. Christmas Day— Stairway exits were blocked by the sufTering caused by war is . catron tags the sergeant was weaf- Grange Installs Officers tending a patient in a hospital bed. 10:45 a. m.—Morning Prayer Christmas tree and exercises as smoke and flames, and 35 OPA girl boundless. Its is great. Be- ' ing when he fell. ^The other is InstallaVon of officers of Bolton Many of those present expressed and sermon by the Rev. Ellison F. follows; ^ , clerks were carried down ladders cau.se the orgarhzation is a neu- buried with him. It contains his Grange for the coming year was the hope that this might be put on Marvin. The Senior Choir will The Manger Cradle—Rika Carl- by firemen. tral among belligerents, the Job is name and the name of Delia Far- held on Wednesday evening in- public display at some future time. sing. son, Walter and Alfred Olson. id delicate. rington and her address. stead of Friday which this year The entertainment program was Processional Hymn ”0 Come, All Greetings—Bobby Wldham. Baldwin Extends .Greetings JU.ICE COFRAN ‘'Mail is our chief pi-oblcm.” he “On November 11. a ceremony would be Christmas Eve. State made up of a number of amusing Ye Faithful” Here for Christmas -Gcoy»e (Known As ((ueen Alice) said. ‘Wc sometimes get 100,(KK) SPIRITUAL MEDIUM was held at the cemetery fh honor Overseer Fi ancii Roberts and Mrs. games and contests; the most pro- Offertory Anthem—“Birth^y of Markham. , , „ Hartford. Dec. 24)—i/Pi--Gover- ■ „ \ X ' letters daily, so you ace I can't an- of those who lie buried there. RoborU were the InsUlllng offi- ductive of strangely varied results ‘a King” Ncidlinger Christmas Carols—Nancy Long nor Baldwin, declaring "wc are Seventh Daughter of a Seventh Son swer ail of them.” During 1642. Major General Wing, our Division cers. Mrs. Roberts and Jrs. Kee- being the one which called for the Hymn—”0 Little Town of Bethle- and children’s chorus. proud of everyone ot you, for your Rom Wltb ■ VelL the I. A. C. C. cleared 16,000,000 Commander, paid tribute to the ney Hutchinson acted as marshals; drawing of a picture of Santa A Blessed Thought—Richard proven courage and ability in Reading* OaUy, Inclndlng Sundny. incoming letters for pri.soners of gallantry of Sergeant Farrington Thoroa> Daly and Keeney Hutchin- Claus with needle and thread. Recessional Hymn—"Hark! The Rosendahl. places of danger and difficulty." .» A. M. to 9 P. M. Or B.V Appoint- war. 20.000.000 outgoing from mil- and hia comrades without wliose son as regalia bearers and Eleanor Christmas carols were sung and Herald Angel* Sing ^ „ Christmas Garden—Teddy John- yesterday extended the state's i-ient.' In the Service of the Peo- itary prisoners, plus 6,000,000 civil- there wai a grab bag exchange of 3 p. m.—Christmas Carol Festl- son, Mason Markham. official Christ 1 as greetings to ple for SO Venr*. HAVE YOUR BATTERY CHECKED NiOW! braver.v the campaign could not Hutchinson as emblem bearer. Mrs. ian messages. gifts. "x'al Service and Pageant. (For tae What Can 1 Give Barbara Ros- Connecticut men and women in the 169 Church Strcel. Hnrtlord, Coon. have been succesaful. A copy of George Shedd was pianist and Phone d-2024 The organization dispatched this address will be mailed to Mrs. sang two solos during the Installa- 'The committee for the party un- entire parish). Come and sing the endahl. V ^ armed forces. ‘ 250,000.000 pounds in packages Farrington. General Wing has der the chairmanship of Mrs. Doris trsdiUonal Christmas Carols. Thank You Heavenly Father-- br A* Very Merry Christn^s and 1,000.000 books for war pris- tion. Keeney Hutchinson who had also ordered tMat photographs of been elected treasurer for the com- D’ltslia, included Miss Mildred The Week Anita Johnson. Reliable reports show lhat 2 out of every batteries in service oners. It operated 6,000 freight Truex, Miss Jennie Wlnd^ Mrs. A (Thristmas Message—Haniett ;viiM iteK**ikSksi*<3W *i*tw******Rte***********6 tnicks travelling between Geneva the cemetery be sent to the next of ing year withdrew and the ensuing Monday, 3:30 p. m.—G. F. 8 . need re-charging. Don't take chances with YOUR batt()0’, let kin of all those who are buried election placed Thomas Daly in Ruby Van Slckel, Mrs. Rita Wilke Candidates. „ „ „ . , Widham. , ^ and various ports and also oper- there. From my description I be- and Mrs. Virginia Flavell, pre.si- Small Folks—Burton Johnson. us check it for you now—before hard starting and wintyr driving And A Happy Mew Yea/ ated 12 ships sailing all the oceans that position. Tuesday, 7:30—G. F. 8 . m e e t- Piano Selection—Bobby Wid- lieve she will be able to pick out Officers installed were: Master dent of the corps. ing. 8 p. m.—Senior Choir rehear- \ North Methodist Church | to collect and delivee ftxxl, clothes, her son's grave on the picture. It conditions put extra strain on it. It’s better ec«)i)^y to SAVE and medical supplies. LJlUan Mack; Overseer, Norma flsl- ^*A Glad Farewell—Jean Rosen- ■■ may be some time before she re- Tedford; Lecturer Joseph Mack; 'The first Insurance company in mUl ( Wednesday. 10 a. m. to 5 p. m. I . NORTH M AIN STREET a battery than to REPLACE a battery! , . / ' ' / Best Wishes for a Vc|^ Mr. Huber believes that the I. R. ceivea this photograph but you the U. S. was organized in Phila- —Red Cross Sewing (bring lunch) dahl. . ■ » C. C.’s greatest accomplishment Lady A-ssistant Steward, Enea GILSTftATTDN Awarding of Prizel, may Inform her that it is forth- Peace; Assistant Steward, Maxwell delphia in 1795. for the aid of 12-12:10 p. m,—Intercessions for 1 since the outbreak of the war has coming. clergymen and their widows. 'RAGS’ RAGLAND Victory and Peace. 3:15 p. m. Duet—Miss Avor Anderson and. a CANDLEIJGHT CAROI. SERVICE GEORGE k. GRAZIADIO been the development of facilities Hutchinson; Steward,, Roger 7 p. m.—Boy Mrs. Edward Anderson. \ Real Estate and Insurance IHerrv Xmas aii^ a to help civilian internees. Al- "We hope it will be some com- Jewell: Treasurer, Thomas Daly; NANCY WALKER Brownie meeting. Cantata—By Cradle Light and ^ Adult Choir under direction of Mrs. David M. Bennett. ^ fort to Mrs. Farrington to know, Secretai;y, Hazel Pinney; Pomona, adTOMMV DORSEY Scouts. though they are not covered by that her son’s courage haa been a Thursday, 6:30 p. m. — Girl Tree Lights. _ 109 HENRY STREET TEL. 5278 any international conventions, Mrs. Roger Jewell. and hit Orchetirs Sunday morning. Dec. 2.0, ^ .lunior Choir under direction of Mrs. Ward Krause. ft Viclorious Year. they now enjoy the same status as source of inspiration to those who Tht dining room was attractive- .Scouts. For^ Dependable Battery Service knew him. All of you at home will Saturday, 10 a. m.—Confirma- Church school at 9:30. j 'A CHRISTMAS SERVICE OF WORSHIP IN MUSIC ft war prisoners in ail belligerent be proiid to know that we have ly decorated In (Thristmaa style tion” cia ^ ‘”for boy* and girls. Adult Bible class, 9:45. countries. with a unique center piece contain- Morning worship at 10:45. Ser- "This enables the International men like Sergeant Farrington car- ing a cross surrounded by CJhrist- mon subject ”Our Admiration for H SUNDAY EVENING AT 7:30 » Red Cross Committee to extend rying the flght to an enemy that is South Methodist Look for the Sign of the Edison Battery Dealer.. concealed and strongly dug in maa greens, miniature animals arid — ON THE SAME SHOW — Main Street and Hartford Road Christ.” Special music. relief to a class of war sufferers flarixed on either side by two large STARTS TODAY The Wednesilay evening service ^wwxwwiw*'******’**'*'******'**'**'**” **”*****^ BECK'S for whom nothing was done.s.pre- thrbXighout the dense jungle At Rev. W. Ralph Ward, Jr„ Minister great risk to themselves they take red candles. The pot luck supper Misa Anna M. Wilbur. Director of will be omitted. _ 81fi Main Street:!’ viciusly. although mainly women, provided the following menu; bak- Saturday, business meeting ana Hi . children, and old people were in- the lead in seeking out the enemy ReUgtous Education. Manchester and saving the lives of all who fol- ed beans, salads, Parker House watch night service. volved. 1 rolla, cake and coffee. The next he’s selected because he knows his business and To you all: Merry Christmas! low. Morning worship a/ 10:45 a. m. PATRONS *T shall consider it a privilege to meeting will be heU on Jan. 14 and The Memorial Chimes played by Manehetder Methodist t'hiiri-h "God Bless Os Every One!” will feature 'games in charge of IDSt/ North Main Street Christmas Day Service • can be relied upon to prot^cj: the rejiulation of OF /LONG - STAND- be of any further service to your Frederick 1. Rogers. Bex, EnrI H. Furgenon, Minister cha{>ter on .behalf of Mrs. Farring- Joseph Mack and'stunts in charge Organ Prelude—"Tocoata In “the greatest name in electricity.” ^ ‘ ING/ AND TO NEW9 ton. Yours very truly, James B. of Maxwell Hutchinson. TODAY: WALT DISNiJY’S C Minor” ...... Theodore Duboia Bolton Nev nboys 6:39—Church School 9:30 Christmas ^loniiuft ~ A,-' , I COMERS TO MAN. Gilbert, Field Director.” "Victory Through Air Power” Processional Hymn—"Angels. This fine letter with its message Another year has rolled around - from the Realms of Glory”.. 10:45—Morning Worship. CHESTER . . . A of assurance meant much to Mrs. and this is the newsboys edition Of Plus: “Lurceny^ With Music” ...... Smart Prelude—”0 Holy Night” Adam At the A battery is an clectricjil device, so if replacement Duet—"The Infant King” ...... • [APPY CHRISTMAS Farrington, and she was willing to the Manchester Herald. Perhaps CaVoi—(itaVian). “Gesu Bam- share its beauty. .It Is a source of more than any other year the peo- bino” ...... Plerto Yon is absolutely nece.s.saiy, remember ple ot Bolton are coiiwlou* of their (Mrs. George Sh^d and Mrs. 5 Second Congregational Church | AND THE .TOLLIEST pride to Home Service to be able Baptism of Children. Richard McBagan) )F NEM YEAR’S! to do its share in’ this and all other paper boy. Tiirie was when k car ■Reception of Members. ^ e s brought to its attention for rolled to a stop in front of each WIDNl Tt SHOW Christmas Hymn—“There’s * oir.jcp, ^ - * hDip. home and triere was a copy of The EYTRY FRIDAY Song in the Air” ...Harrington SpeViuI Chrlsliiias I^Iiimic Riid Carols Herald, portage of gasoline cur- Offertory Anthem—Carold (Free Address...... Rev. Wayne Womer tailed all^house to house deliveries' French), "Sleep. Little Dove.” Postlude—’'March of the MaK‘ By the Reglilar Church Choir and the Junior Choir and it was the newsboy who step- Old French (“Dora, ma co- Kings*' ...... Dubois The 'Youth Fellowship will meet ped ill to fill the gap. More than , lombe") . Christinas Fantasy ...... Kohlman WILROSE PRESS SHOP Bolton one/iamily has felt that isolated Sermon—“Keeping the Christmas at aix o’clock and will Jiear k les- son given b> Rev. Mr. Womer. The There Were Shepherds...... Mrs (ilyde ■ ManhaJI fei^lug when they were mthout Hope Alive”— Arise, Shine ...... ’. J * ® j 597 MAIN ST. HOTEL SHERIDAN BLDG. PbfBe 4052 their dally paper. Our paper boys Rev. W. Ralph Ward, Jr. South Methodist Youth Fellowship You can always rely on an EDISON Reccaslonal Hymn—“As With will meet with us. . Hallelujah Chorus ...... ' ■/ are to be commended on their A /candlelight carol service with Morning services and church faithfulness ano their willingness. Gladness Men of Old*’ .. aKocher Organ PoStlude—"Finale” from both the adult and junior choirs CHRISTMAS SERMON BY school will be omitted at the ^ 1- A Merry CJiriatmas to each of will be held at 7:30. The special ton Copgregatior,al church on Sun- them. Symphonic 11 . . . . .Louio Vieme DR. FEKRIS E. REYNOLDS. MINISTER 9:30 a. m.. Church achool. Christmas offering will be received day. A- candlelight service and at this service. carol sing will be held at 4 p. m. There are how 69 land-grant Classes for all ages in Bible Study. ,* “Christmas In Onr TiDie" 10:45 a.-m.. Church Nursery. The Week See Your Nearest Edison Battery Dealer Tmlay For Battery Check-l p In th^ church and it Is hoped that colleges in the United Slates COLU Thursday, 7:30—Meeting of the which receive partial support from Parenta are invited to leave young OBSERVE CHRISTMAS’ APPROPRIATEI.Y. all members of the church school children in the Nursery whUe at- choir. > ‘ i-'.w will plan to attend with their par^ the federal |(ovemment. Friday, 7:00—Meeting of the attend CHURCH! . j^ROCKVTLLE— ents. and IS tending the mottling service of MANCHESTER— worshipr Mrs, Alton A. Hall and Boy Scouts. ^ ALL ABE WELCOME! „ ^ FRED’S §£RMCE STATION , . ' A few of the yo'ungest members Miss Barbara Hall will be in 80 Oakland St. of the church school wijl present FAMOUS B A N D BRUNNER’S Cor. Union & West Sts. I VIRGINIA MAXEV charge Sunday morning. Golwby street ******* scents from a quaint old English 6 p. m., Hl-Leagiic in the Young Rev. 8 . J. SzczepkowsUl 288 Center/St. OLENDER’S SERVICE ST.ATION Windsor Ave. Nativity play, dating from the Greetings and Best PEANUTS H O L L A N D Walter Grzyb, Organist THE CENTER SERVICE 13th century. The set at forty- AL KILLIAN * TRUMMY YOUNG People's Room. URSIN’S SERVICE STATION 24 West St. Wishes from All to 6:30 p. mi. Senior Epworth l^a COOK’S SERVICE STATION Manchester Green' eight plays of the so-cailed York gue. 12:00 midnight, Friday, Oirlst- Ciycle. of which this is one, were you The Week mas eve. named from the city in which JIM WONG TROUPE 9:00 a. m.—Saturday, Christmas GRISWOLD’S SERVICE STATION 289 Main St. BOLTON— Dances Omitted Xmas Eve CHMAii aset naata* acr Monday. 4 p. m.; (3irl Scouts in they were performed. These plays the Scout room. day, second mass. . • WISHING YOU GOWDY’S FILLING STATION were originally given in the chan- At & of C. HalU HifrtfonI: ALSO ARTHUR Tuesday, 3:30 p. m.,‘Brownies In 10:30 k. m.—Third mass. HOWARD OIL CO. 134 Oakland St. I cel of the cl.urcb, Xmas Day At Lejfion Hall, SCREEN m o r « o G c i i S - the Etast Side Recreational Cen- ' 9;00 a. m.—Sunday, first mass. : The cast for Sunday:Joseph, 10:30 a. m.— Sunday, second ELLINGTON— OlERRSf CHRtSTOMS Cromwell ;& HkKDS ACROSS THE BORDER ter. ALI. THE BEST MAIN STREET SERVICE STATION 575 Main St. Maple St. James Massey; Mary, Kay Bar- V * *.,.4/ ; . * , a • AY V 7 p. m., Boy Scouts In the Scout mass. THOMPSON’S G ARAGE bara Maine: AngeL Helen Rose; room. 8:00 a. m.—Monday, mass. MAPLE SUPER SHELI. 9-11 Maple St. Ihreu Kings, Balthasar, Michael New Year's Eve 'Wednesday, 7:45 p. m.. Board of St. JohnTi Polish societies will FOR THE Allen Toomey: Jasper, Calvin Education meetmg In the church have b New Year’s eve party, De EAST HARTFORD— . Best Wishes For A Very Merry cember 31. In Pulaski ball from 9 McCANN’S SERVICE STATION 630 Center SL Hutchinson; Melchior, Russell Big Barn Dance oarlor. holidays TOM McMAHON’S SERVICE ST.\TI0N Please Accept Our Best Wishes Tucker; Three Shepherds, Myles '•dfflRiiialalHMii' p. m. to January 1, 1944, with ban- 633 Burnside At *. Christmas And A Happy New McDonough; Stuart McDonough, Favors — Noisemakars and COU/ SHIA ri CTUSi quet St midnight. Tickets are In MANCHESTER MOTOR SALES Fun Galore! . Ziou Evangelical Lutheran the hands of member* of the so- For A Very Merry Christmas Bruce Maine; Screen Shifters, ITS ALL FIRST RUNI ' \ ’ Church AND FOR 1944 512 West Center SL ANDOVER— - ^ . George hose, Hugl Carter Maine; Cooper and High Streets. ciety. The rector is general t;halr- Year To All Our Friends , ^ man of the committee. GRENON’S SERVICE STATION Andover Center And A Happy New Year Readers, Mrs. John C. Collins, K. of C Hall STAKTINO MONDAY Rev. Paul G. Pmhopy, Pastor DON WILLIS GARAGE , 18 Main St. Miss Emily Gage. Horttord And Customers Familiar carols will be sung .be- Mlrtb By ROCHESTER 7 tonight—Sunday School and Emaquel Lathen^a Church tween the scenes, and It Is hoped •:00 P. M. . 2:00 A. M. .Mdody By FREDDY MAR’TIN C^^:regatlonal ChristmasI eve ser- Thoraten A. Gustafson, Pastor that the entire aut-ienoe will join Admission ...... $1.10 Rhythm By ANN BOLLER la theee. The hour of the service Service Personoel A TeerUc Show All Around! 8 ». Ota—Christmas day. Chrlstmaa Day BUY BONDS AND STAMPS INSTEAD OF A NEW BATTERY DONNELLYS has been set so (hat entire family la Valfonn ...... 56c ‘^What’s Buzzia* CoiiaUi?’* 10 a, m.—Second Christmas day 5:30 a. m.—JulotU (Oirlatmaa kARSEN'S Art Webster's Dance OrdMstra. Matins). iBoth Swedish and Eng- groups will be able to attend. Hank Post, Prompter. And *Tlorabcd Moon” Wltb service, Dec. 2$, In th* German a | DEPOT SQUARE JEWELERS AT THE CENTER Quarryvlllc Methodist Geo.-Montgomery • AhnabcUe language. No Sunday school, De* lish languages used. Special sing- TEL. 540« “What SbaU We Let Go With lilt|i!V!Dl!il I. I. ■ . I---- '----OOtb. ing by the Emonusl Choir under -l. PAtiB ijS5iTS5bldHK8TKR, o >n «. FRIDAY. DECEMBER 24, 194»
class, U. 8. Marine Corps Reaerva. Powers, M Admiral strMt, New each member of the vflre section, 4 Haven. V. orked unceasihgly to maintain * Stale Marines Wounded. Parenta,' Mr. and Mrs. Mother Gets Joseph Ceccarelll, 221 Swanson Zook. William W., private, U., S. communication with the forward Marine Corps. Wounded. Father, echelon. In addition to your as- avenue, Stratford. Listed Wounded Healy, John C., Jr., private, first Jocteph Zook, 138 HIU atreet, Wa- tomobiles killed 11 persons in Con- signed duties you often volunteer- terbury. necticut during the first 21 days Son’s Citation ed to carry water and rations to class, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve. of the present month, equalling front line troops during short perl- Wounded. Wife, Mrs. John C. Hea- \ the number of automobile fatali- *"ods when you were not engaged in Washington, Dec. 24—(A'l—The ly Jr„ 142 Charles.street, Bridge- One Army tank depot now pre- Mrs. Henry Zimmerman names of 22 New Englamders are poft. pares more military equipment for Abfiiirfl People M|I8| ties for the same period last year, Perrell and Clenney line maintalnance. included in a list of 121 casualties despite the combined efforts of the 3. For your meritorious conduct Po^vers. Edward F„ firtvate, overseas duty in one day alone Be Warned to Ke1 Traffic Toll Low. executives throughout the state. Driving Record. Private Frank Gochee. announced today by the Navy de- country, I commend you, and de- partment. 4’ I JOffOUS, * Lovett and Adani!>on "All of us here In Connecticut Mrs. Henry Zimmerman, mother sire that entry hereof be made in Publication of this additional Hartford, Dec. 24 -i/P}—Justice must be especially careful during It was announced today by Earls your military record. C. Doebner. genet nl manager of of Private Frank ,E. Gochee, a list brings to 32,911 the totel num- c Wr .ist it ibs' Continue Story of Lo* Japs Terrorize Haiiehesler Fighters Arthur F. Ells of the State Su- the coming year-end holiday sea- Leonard F. Wing, ABEL’S SERVICE STA. son,'' Justice Ells declared. He ex- Perrett A Olenney, Inc., that ac-' member of Company K of the ber of dead, wounded, missing and 26 Cooper Street TThe Ben.son’s Wish To Thank preme court declared today that cording to records compiled by the Major General, U. 3; Army prisoners of war announced by the cal Soldiers’ . Exptejri*- III plained Lia. 15 persons were killed 169th Regiment, which left Man- Commanding. Attuck oil Munda, New Georgia "it sdems absurd that the people of by automobiles a year ago In this Traveler Ins. Co., the ollowinj no- Navy since Dec. 7, 1941. All Their Friertds and Cus- ences in South Pacifir; Connecticut must be urged to keep slate during the nene-d^y holiday accldent awards havo been made chester In March 1941 has received The New Englanders and next of kin Iflclude from Connecticut: tomers for Their Generous Jerry L<>vett, in his series written in cooperation with Wil- traffic deaths below 20 this month, perfod. Christmas eve through ti company drivers as fellows: from him the citation granted for Before Pearl Harbor the United Tell How Boys React* liam "Red” Adamson of 105 Bissell street, Munda veterans, New Year’s day. ' Men who have driven for three his work from July 7 to July 20, States had 23 battleships. Ceccarell! Edward, private, first Patmnaife During the Past • tells of a trick used by the Japs at night. Uyjng to completely when in most cases proper precau- years without an accident: Wil- 1948. It comes from Majo. General ‘ ed Uuder ' Boinhing. tions and common sense would liam Connelly, Edward J. Mack, Leonard F. Wind. Year and Wish One and All—A unnervt. our boys fighting for the airfield. ^Lovett tells of onb Bomber tSiUBea $110,000 Damage C H R ISTM A S incident on July 16, 1943; • prevent most of the accidental Franklin Hoarle, Nell Pierson and In addition to the citation a note Editor's Note: Sorgeant •'It was a dark night and we had dug our fox-holes That Ernest Pohl. To A ll O ur Friends is added by Lieut. Col. W. J. Mul- MERRY CHRISTMAS Jerrj- Lovett and Private Wil- deaths.” Wilmington, Calif.— (/P) — A Men who have driven two years len who writes! "I am pleased to night big enough for three men. Suddenly, at about 8 p. m., The jurhit, who serves also as G R E ETIN G S AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR liam “Red" Adamson, Man- there was heard the loudest and most blood-curdling screams pilotle.ss Army bomber went out Without an accident: Leonard J. and Patrons add my commendation to that of chester boys, veterans of the i and yells from the enen^ fiont human beings ever heard. It chairman of the State Safety com- of control, hit an apartment house Ferrett and men who have driven Major General Leonard F. Wing And Best Wishes touKh scrap on Miinda air- sounded a.s though there was a very heavy force of Japs ready mission, made the comment in an and cau.sed $10,0(W damage—al- one year without an accident: for a job well (done." hase. New (Jeorgla, South I to make a night attack. We steeled ourselves for a busy interview concerning the present though the plane's wheels never Thomas Blevins, Chester Cardi- M ERRY C H R ISTM A S Tbe Commendation >■ For The New Year Pacific, tives a realistic pic- night. We had plenty of grCnadas and ammunition. \ state-wide drive to keep such ac- first,, it broke free from its tow nalli, Anthony Drozd. Ronald Mc- The commendation reads as fol- ture of Jungle fighting In this, cidental deaths this month below truck. A.ullen, William Weber and Jo- lows; the concluding Installment of "After awhile it .s*emed to me that the screaming X^nd seph Zamier. A n d A Headquarters 43d Infantry Dlv. To All Our Friends. their epic stor>". Both men are yelling was too smooth. There weren’t any breaks in It: it A.P.O. 43 c-o Postmaster now convalescing fron. ma- sounded all the same. The Japs kre up tc^ their old tricks New Ye ar” of He alth San Francisco, Calif. laria at the netcher (Jeneral with phonograph records, I .said. October 25, 1943 MR. AND MRS. Hospital, Cambridge, Ohio. “So we rigged a machine-gun pointing in the direction of ROOFING Subject: Commendation. Uie yelling and let go a few bursts. The screaming and yell- and Happiness To: Private Frank E. Gochee, BUEL C. GR.\NT “As he went into action on Ren- ing slopfied at once. We found the phonograph In the morn- ASBESTOS SIDING 20129069, Headquarters Company, Advertise in The Herald— It Pays dova, Company K was led by the ing. Thaj's the kind of trickery we were up against at Munda. l69th Infantry Regiment. (Thru: Our ears and good judgment saved us needless worry over a CO 169th Infantry Regiment.) following officers: Capt. Roberi j po.sslble large Jap force advancing on Us.” INSULATION 1, It has come to my attention Fleischer. Hartford, Conn., com- j NOTICE! Expert workmanship. All work that during the period from July G R E E T IN ^ f ROM YOUR manding; 1st Lieut. William Reed-1 guaranteed. Reasonable Prices. 7 to July 20, 1943, you performed er, Texas, executive officer; Lieut. No obligation for an estimate. your assigned duties as a member Work, Tennessee, 1st platoon; Renduva and fof two days before on and then blasted Hell out of Write. 01 a Regimental wire section in a we jumped off. the artillery poured them the next morning. That was Th e A rm y and N a vy Club PRINCESS RESTAURANT most meritorious and efficient Prescription Pharmacy ONCE AGAIIV— AS IN EVERY YEAR ieut. McDonald, 2nd platoon; the stuff they didn't like, and we eut. Paul Morton, 3rd platoon; steel into Munda to soften it up for “Where Good Food Is A Certainty” manner. hut. Shinn, tth platoon. our invasion. Our artillery did a were more than willing to' give Burton Insulatins Go. 2a. While your regiment waa at- SINCE 1911— IT IS OUR PLEASURE ^ h e third batUlion (including swell job: their gunnery waS ac- them all v/e had. We had. grenade Will N o t Hold Its Regular 180 Oxford St. Hartturd MAIN STREET AT PEARL STREET tacking the enemy along the. Mun- I K colwpany) embarked on LCI’s on curate and effective and paid great battles nearly every night. We Pbone Hartford 32-4518 da Trail, it was necessary for you July iv After two days’ of ocean dividends for us out there In the could tell when a Jap was making to lay wire continually from rear TO WISH YOU ALL A----- South Pacific. tp throw a grenade. In order to Bingo On Christmas N ig h t, tc front, through thick jungle. It COULD BE SHOT travel, V e were chased by Jap de- stroyers at night but we outma- July «, 194S throw a Nip grenade, and in order was necessary for you to retrace neuvered yiem by pulling into ‘This is the day! Company K to operate the mechanism, the your steps time apd time again as Wickham’s Anchorage, which was landed on Munda on this date, Nips had to hit a small button on But Will Continue On N e w the enemy kept-butting the lines, \ PLEASE NOTE! V E R Y a fine haven-tfor safety. The con- July 6. 1943, seven miles fr6m the the grenade on his helmet. When P O TA TO E S or they were blown out by enemy voy of fiveOLCI’s anchored in that point where we landcci qn Rendova. you heard that metallic 'pop' of TO ALL OUR FRIENDS fire. You ^ not hesitate In your WE’LL BE OPEN CHRISTMAS DAY harbor for 12 hours and while we We embarked on that morning In the grenade on the he|met in the. Ye ar's Nigh t. Stock Your Winter Supply oiEimy duty of maintaining the vital com- were there a large formation of Higgins boats and after disem- dark—look out. A Jap grenade Now! AND PATRONS . . . munication lii^e despite the fact 9 A. M. TO 1 P. M. AND 6 P. M. TO 9 P. M. M ER RY C H R ISTM A S American planes flew over us. barking we donned jungle "Zoot" waa coming^ t h ^ lt meant repairing and laying ^ombisd Ahead, Behind suits, cam ot^ged against detec- Japs Bemoved Bodies . GREEN MOUNTAINS undet machine-gun, mortar CLOSED 1 TO 6 P. M. FOR WASTING PATER “We were in a dangerous spot tion from the enemy. After our "We often killed many Japs at M erry Christm as . and small arms fire. $1.80 Bu. At the Farm. b. During the period from July AND A HAPPY, HEALTHY NEW YEAR for Jap bombing if they eyer spot- equipment was In order and am- night, but In the morning all of the And A Happy New Year war plants are shut down because w« ted us as Wickham’s was only a muni^h for all had been passed bodies would be removed. The Japs 9th through July 12th, when your haven't any regular waste paper collec- uhort distance away from the out. we set out into the jungle. always picked up their dead an< regiment was subjected to night IN GERMANY OR JAPAN Not a wo.*d was said by anyone. woundeci ao that we couldn’t tell harassing from machine-g;un, mor- tion methods. Munda air base. We finally re- Sedlace k Bros. Fruit and Vegetable DepL^ tar and grenade fire, you wer>. de- ceived orders to pull out for Ren- This was orders. whether they were officers or just They know the value of .this precious For those you love, who ate,fighting dova. already in our hands. "We advanced Into the Munda plain aoldiers. They removed the 336 Hillstown Road prived of much needed rest. This, w ar material. “The channel was small and we jungle with extreme caution, keep- bodies, yet, but the blood all over however, did not detej you, even this wai for you, start your own waste- Telephone 7693 Popular M ark e t though you were nea exhaustion, And nobody over there throws away could only get two LCI's up to ing our eyea and ears wide open the ground in the morning told a CHRISmiAS Rulihiow BuiMing paper-ssving drive. TUro it in regularly shore. That was July 4th. As we for surprises. One mile we trav- mute story that our. fire had been from keeping in vital communica- I W e l d o n Dr u g C o . old boxes, cartons, bags, newspapers. landed we reallaed that the place ersed without incident, or meet- effective In the darkness. tion lines over most difficult ter- . . . a bundle a week. rain. MARLOW'S They don’t darjei had been heavily bombed Just a ing any Jap resistance. We then "On July 8th we carried rations I 901 MAIN STREET Start taving today! short time before. bivouaced in the jungle and dug and replenished our ammunition. c. During the period from July MERRY XMAS 13 to July 20, you with the help of &l»*HW**lBl»*l*MBIlHW*HBlB»*H»***i*l*HB»*i:*l***HB*li**W$ I All are ^t«fully saved, bundled and "The place was covered with two-men fox holes. In these one That night and the next and the turned ft* make weaponsi equipment big 500 Jap bomb craters and man was to keep on guard while next the Japs kept up their night I To All Friends and Patrons -t. BUNDLI A WIIK there had been a lot of fatal cas- the other slept. It was an all- infiltrations and blood-curdling vi" and peW wrappings. ualties. It wasn’t a pretty sight around defense. tactics, 'ne 8th brought death to But right now on out home front, 25 SOMI BOY’S^Liri to look at on that July 4th. Bodies "The Japs didn't bother much a lad frdm WilUngton. He was SAVE!: lay all around the beach and doc- the first night. But we could knifed by a Jap who also cut two GEORGE’S tors and corpsmen were still at- hear them talking In plain Eng- other boys. riLUNO STA'nON s "tending to the wounded and pick- lish in the jungle ahead of ua. It "We advanced on the 9th and ing up the dead. It looked as If was weird; we could hear the. 10th but after that other units took Cor. Main and Bissell Streets S-' they had been hit hard and we slightest noise, yet th^ first night over our immediate front and Com- apparently just missed the bomb- passed without incident or acci- pany K acted as litter bearers and WE WILL BE CLOSED dent. ammunition carrying parties. It L’N T I L C^oinpany started digging •‘Tlie sun came out hot the next waa a tough job carrying the AN OLD FASHIONED MONDAY MORNING trmches as soon as the. Company morning. It was really hot—1 wounded back across the swamps goi' organised ashore, for we mean. Company K started its and the Munda river, but we did a Ait didn’t know when the Japs mignt advance at 10 a. m. We had good job at this. ^ For Many A Merry come ^ulc with more bombs, as advanced about 100 yards when Advanced Four .Miles /MERRY CHRISTMAS their alTMrt was only a short we ran into our first Japs. The "By July 14th we hsd pushed \ flight awgy from us. I dug my slit fighting had started and bulleta the Japs back about four miles trench. as\did every man who were now flying thick and fast. from the point of our original Christmas To Conte \ came asbor\ that day. We pushed the Japs slowly back- meeting with the enemy and the LandlngXParty .\tlacked NoV in the Sense of Custom. ward, but soon we ran smack into casualties In all our outfits were Aloijy - But With a Genuine^ a:’ “The company cooks had pre- three Jap machine’ guns which increasing. We could sec our Appi'A’iation of Oui Pleasant Invest In A Home Of Youf Own At pared a fine dliiner for us and no held us up for awhile until our bombers flying overhead to bomb As.sociations During 1943— If Yo u Live in the' Southe ast Section A s sooner had we finished eating 60 and 81 mortars got the range the Jap. A A batteries located on We Extend To All Our Very than the ‘conditiqn red’ , signal and did they do a sweet job on Munda Airport and every day and Best Wishes for a Good Old was given that the Jap bombers those Nip machine guns! night our own artillery was firing Fashioned .X . GREENBROOKE Outlin e d BeloWy Have Yo ur W a ste Pa were back again. Now it appeared Jap Ouna Blasted over our heads into the Jap lines. We salute YOU, American servicemen and civil- J that K Company was to get its "One shell dropped directly In We could hear the shells whistling first hea\"y Jap bombing—500 and back of a Jap in a machine gun over the tree tope. We had ians, for your part in helping to bring ha^pinesa 800 pound bombs. and he folded up like' a pretzel. mighty good artillery liason offi- MERRY CHRISTMAS to the entire world. We salute you with a holi- per R e d d y for C o l l e c t i o n O u t A t the "The Japs came over and what We wiped out the remaining Japs cers (observers! with us as they a bombing! Those bombs would who were now, running aroimd the directed the artillery fire on a AND A NEW YEAR day wish heartier than ever before. dig holes in the beach 10 feet nests crazy-like, from the effects large hill beyond pur lines where deep, the .bomb shrapnel cutting of the mortar shell concussions. the Japs had made a stand. OF HEALTH AND HAPPINESS Curb off palm trees in half all around We passed on. "That hill caused our battalion us. Every man was in his slit "Captain Fleischer was wounde.l severe trouble and many casual- M ERRY C H R ISTM A S I trench, the best protection from at this point and a private from ties, but before it was over our bombing. the South waa killed. Captain artillery blew that hill to pieces "Our A A got busy on those Flelaher died of his wounds later. and those Japs caught up there bombers and our AA and machine There were also a number of wei-e eliminated from further ac- Monday^ Dec. 27 guns blasted away at the bomo- tion in this war. At *he foot of :r * ‘ ers as they came into range. We wounded in this first encounter. the hill, when we reached it. we counted 18 Jap bombers in that . ’‘Advancing in the jungle ‘JOO found where the Japs had been raid and not one of them got or 300 yards is a lot of territory burying their dead, proving that home. No better record than that to take in this kind of warfare. wc had been inflicting night caa- ?ER OHOP Unless Inclement We ath er Prevents Collection \w as ever made in the South Paci- But Company K never failed to ualtles on them. GARDEN RESTAURANT advance in any kind of going, no fic by any AA outfit—and that A Night of Horror Leatling Florists Since 1912 AND GRILL Was our own. matter what held up the advance at any time. Jap snipei-s kept "The night of July Iflth waa the •‘Some of the men. opened up on worst that the 3rd battalion suf- 8 Elast/Center Street Odd Fellows Bldg, the Jap bomber.s, with automatic picking us off but we kept right fered at Munda. The entire bat- 840 Main Street Near Montgomery Ward’s weapons they came in so low. 'Pha on and left the .snipers to the na- talian had bivouaced on a hill for explosions were terrific. They tive trirops. who wVre good at the night, having relieved a com- ■r shook, it seemed, the whole island. such tactics. pany which had preylouely cap- It was the loudest Fourth of July "This fighting occurred on July tuied the knoll. It started to ram celebration that I ever lloard. That night we bivouaced again early in the night. It waa a cold • But the Jap., ran smack into in the jungle, thl.. time cmly \ t began to ra “ ^^^^ jir n m m m m m m tin d t m M m M A iM m m m A it d iitm m u it u A tm im iin iim m ir heavy AA fire and they j » and heavier. It was about. 8 flying .so low that ttie tir.st volley | flesi jnet the .laps. T he night of o'clock when artillery fire raked caught one boiiihcr .squarely. July ^wa.s a night 1 will never for OPEN get. The Nips really bothered us all of that hill. We didn’t know peeled off and took another bohiber where the shells were cdnllng With it. The bombs had set ' our tl\at night. They screamed at the top of their lungs, asn ! gasoline dump on tire, also an am- IKS. That'.s why I am here in the munitipii dunrp. While all Uii.s was lin'g screams a.s man ever heard. I They called out our names, one by hospital with someUltng I never going on. you may he auie wc had b»-foie. I. w'on'tX. disclose my made oursclve.s a., small a target one. and if you don’t think this is a' mind-wreaking experience—try injuries.. \ as po.s.sible "That night shelling on July Jap. St rale the Beach it soniettme. Imagine, hearing the enemy ailing your name out there I6th caused fatal casualties and "Jap planes started strating us in the inky blackness of the New wounded in Company K. The next and I could hear the machine gun Georgia jungle! day Adamson and I were sent to bulleta hitting the cocoanut trees Nights of Terror the rear —our fighting days over \Md the beach all around and above "The Jap.s beat the ground with for all tiifie. But Company K car- Tfij' trench. 11 was hell on that is- sticks, imitating the .beating of ried on and after wc left they ware limd for an hour, believe me! our buddies. 'They crawled to and In on the capture of the Munda ‘ "It was a great show to see one into some of our fox-holes, then Airbase a few daya later. More Value. See These aftei'Ninothcr of those Jap bombers directly out again; Buddies in "The night of'July 36, 1943, goes sliding down, afire. Into the sea. those fox-holes. knifed each other down in our books of memory as The gunnels were making the Nip.s in their excitement, sometimes the worst in our lifetimes out there . . s A N D BEST WISHES pay fui that last raid. Oilier planes killing each other in nervous fren- on Munda, New Georgia. Per Cubic Foot Houses Before crashed into the jungle beyond lis. zy. It has happened, up there in It took 80 ruunijs of A A ammuni- the jungle. FOR A tion on all guns to do that job on ‘The Japs cried out to us to 'go Than Rnywhere You Buy the Japs. ' back before it is too late.’ ’’ They (Jiristiiias Party "We-had casualties in the bat- used perfect English. They’d tell H A P P Y NEW Y E A R D o n't Le t Winter Gremlins G e t T o Work O n Yo ur talion from that raid, but K Com- us how the ydrove taxis in ’Frisco Of Wilrose Shop Else! Anywhere pany had none, fortunately. One and New Yprk and that they ex- K Company lad loal the stock of pected to go’back to the states af- C a r. Bring It In dnd Le t Us Tu n e If U p and Win his rifle, which was smashed all to cter -the war. One of them even said Mr. and Mrs. William Kronick of ' pieces by Jap machine guns in the that he knew what we were call- tVilrose Dreu Shop played boat STORE HOURS t erize It N ow! As Low A s^^O Down ■traflng. ing him under our breaths. He was last night to all their regular and "After the all clear was sound- right. Msny of us called that Nip part-Ume employees at a Christ- CHRISTMAS DAY Tear ear may ba oaa of the latest aioSala er .TH ESE ITEMS ARE IMPORTANT K e e p U p the Good W o r k . M o r e and ly-.gd, Company K moved to higher ‘you slant-eyed Son of e Gun.' ” mas Party held at the Sheridan I It may ba oae of tbs earlleat. b«rt ao matter •AND NEED ATTENTION: Bond For Deed f.? ground as the island was a quag- "We also listened to a Jap Restaurant. Open 9 a. m. to 1 p. m. 6 p. m. to 9 p. m. whieh yoa hava, aU eara aeed carol Wc will get to Imow year earfli faolt* aofl wa wUI ear- *6000 rnlre -a regular mud-hole after the phonograph concert that night in A delicious dinner was aarvad CRANKCASE CHASSIS rains. after which dancing was enjoyed tact them for yoa. Olve aa tba ebaaca to gat F. H. A. MORTGAGES ARRANGED THROUGH THE MANCHESTER TRUST CO. the Munda jungle. The pieces play- Closed 1 to 6 p. m. TIRES BATTERY More Tonn a g e Is Being Collected W h ich “On the night of July 4th. the ed were "Home. Sweet Home," and for the rest of the evening. A gen- aeaaalataS aaa wa will aave aot oaly moaay SALESMAN ON THE TRACT DAILY 9: 30 A. M. TO 6 P. M. Havy shelled the Munda air base, “Auld Lang Syne," At about mid- erous (Thristmss 1>bhks was pre- bat tha Ufa af yaar.ear. Yaa maat taka propar LIGHTS SPARK PLUGS R:find we watehed the 'oig ships pour night they would call over and ask sented to each employee. aata at year ear aaw If yaa expeet 8a hava tt ^ ’■..ateel Into the. Jap's landing atrip us how they drove taxla In 'Frisco perform for yoa * BODY FRONT WHEELS Me ans, More Mon e y for the Hospital. ’’^jMEoas on New Georgia. The at- nice cold beer ?' ” They did every- Speedtsi^ Froin Sailor ‘ ck lasted two hours. The next thing imaginable to harass us and Inc. July 5th. our artillery opened Los Angelea—(JP)—Yes, ahe was GREENBROOKE HOMES, to keep us awake. If our boys were ' on the airport to. clear the way not -careful, this propaganda speeding, Josephine Lice, night ALEXANDER JARVIS, Pres. • troops which had landed below would work severe effects on their club check girl, told the Judge, DEPOT SQUARE GARAGE airfwt and were working and nervei. but—Only to prsvmt freak Mllors ERNEST ROY, Prop. FULL DETAILS CAN BE SECURED AT: MODEL HOME ON WALKER STREET. PHONE 2-0545. OUR OFFICE ON CENTER Paper Ma nuf acturers and Users of Manchester "'Jng their >»ay through the i, We...... stood-r— .. up...... well-B against --— —all from leaping on the running board. 'l STREET, PHONE 4112, OR 26 ALEXANDER STREET, PHONE 7275. kinds of Jap trickciy. They raved .The court thought It over, then 241 NO. MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 5112 K waa then SUU on i all nirht Innr and we let them rave 1 fined her 885. , ^ MBaMBaMsawaM w a «Mi
.'.I' -V. .iv. jW. It®:-' miHftrn would be "Wide open’* hda tieen ww i d iw looo Allied bombers deMv- that he Isn’t a prettJ^pirlInI-1 much dtacuseed. Manchesleh vsort of thinker. Manchester Clothes D r ^ Pallotti Rules Agenda AUeady M ^ t t o d WE EXTEND OUR some 7,obo or 8,000 tons of Connecticut Comment The Legislative cOuHbil already The t e l i a s S p i t Evening Herald Hon the enemy. Date Book On Authority has submitted to the governor an f l u SINCERE WISH THAT This may be Allied bombing After All Goes Over Toi agenda which jt euggested he use PUBUBHED BT THB . YOUR X Js Zkc Spirit cf (fiviup power close to the peak which haa From The River Road Well, I kaid^hls woidd be short. In Bummonlhg a special session. % *BBKAIntb by Mail ...... j IJ a great show of attacking sup- Xhls is going to be short. .’rhe'*>qulte certainly can pass the buck bring to. my friends in Manchester Pension Plans I whoto livrt havr been derkened by tho Copy ...... haa accumulated of Christmas "o v e / the top" by 25 per cent. to call a special aeMionr of the three prodeceaeors, Govetnors «d Ona Taar ...... tt.OO posed, rocket gun emplacements warmth and cheer goes to him, commentator or columnl.st Who to his colonel, the colonel to the and vicinity—some of them aery The allotment for Manchester Leglelature-^somethlng everyone Hurley, Cross and Trumbull, all A nd A H ap py New Y e a r $hodow of umr, for their lost is our lose calleil special sessions at one time MEMBER o r on the French coast. Our air com- and all to him. Yet, curiously can't talk about Christmas toda]^ brigade or division general, the dear—ail the solace, comfort .aHf was 6,000 pounds and yesterday it expects Governor ^fdw in to do and the nation’s. Not Yet Ready was'reported that 7,500 pounds or another which considered only P O T T E R T O N ' S THB associated PRESS mand and the Nazis both know enough, for all its seeming priva- might as well keep still arid listen general to his corps commander, happiness to be derived from the next month—is t ^ t the session I T o A ll Tha Aaaoclatad Presa la exolualva* cy, we think it will accumulate had b e ^ collected. must be held in/Hartford. topics specified by the govemorlin At The Center ly antitled to tha uaa of rapublloa- whether such emplacements are to tho.se who can—If they have the latter to the head of the par- sublime lessons taught by Him All of the clothing was taken to the call. tion of all nawa dlapatohaa oraditad additional and enthusiastic sign- >tal S u m N e e d e d f o ^ Thia, in eff^ t, warn Attorney I O ur Friends and Custo m ers 539 MAIN STREET TEL. 3738 to It or not otharwiaa oraditad IP really our objective, or whether ers as It goes along its way, and anything to say. And, to tell the ticular army and the army chief to whose coming Christmas day the dry cfeanurs and repaired. General Frubla A. PalloUi’s an- thia papar and alao tha local nawa we are beginning the task of whatever warmth and cheer it truth, rhapsodizing over the date to the all-highest, Adolf the Vile. IS dedicated. mn Employees H^s Later It will V sent to New York swer yeeterMy to a request from pnbllahed barai... provides it.self will be amplified where the bundl^ will be boxed All rlEhta of rapnbllcatlon of clearing an Invasion path, but all December 28 because it is as- Thus, If the obediei^e-to-orders M. M. the governor for a memorandum ANNOUNCEMENT u r k e © apaolal dlapatchaa harain ara alao nnri regenerated b.y warm N o r ’B e e n C o m p i l e d . listing^Jitatutes and opinions about we can lio is apeculate. Other thoughts from many other peo- sumed to be the birthday, anniver- plea were allowed to get a start Niantic River Road, X, raaanred. ------the ^ ief executive’s powers in rer DR. C. C. SHERWOOD j cslft -'I. Hlsll. . bombers fly against Balkan ob- ple. sary of the Savior bf Mankind Is there would be no punishing more Waterfofd, Conn. The piaikto have a voty'taken jBimnCHe Diet Oohvf^iies gard to a special session. Dentist , KEMP'S. Inc. Pull aarvica ollant of N. B. A These additional signers will oe I jectives, warning Nazi \8atellltes a fairly tough assignment, espe- this month ok t) ?- adoption of pen- /O nly Person With Authority Sanrica Ina than one German for all the un- i Furniture and Music B all'those in Stamford and in Fair- that their time is short. cially when the date itself Is a told millions of incredibly cruel sions for towi^empioyees will not New York, Dec. 24— The Judge PallotU’a memorandum of 869 Main Street Publlabara RaprasantatWaa Tha field County and throughout the be possible and'^m ay be late next Japanese Diet convened in Tdkyo emphasized that ^e governor I 763 MAIN STREET i jQlIttS Matbawa SpaoM Asancy— That there, may be .something guew)...and most likely a bad one civilian deaths suffered by victims Concludes Hearing Of Charges Manchester * Naw Tork. Chloaso. Datroll and .state who knew the kindliness, month before acitpn is taken. today, according to Japanese himself was the only person with more than routine challenge in the decency, the modest workman- 1 —and man right now faces the SaAseaMHi: Boaton. of Hun savagery in this war. Last month theS^pension plan dlo and press reports recorded b.V the authority and the right to say Is Now Associated With these operations is suggested by ship of Martin T. Kane, until a job of saving himself rather more Fairfield, Dec. 24.—(jP)— The committee met and T^d .the work U. S. government monitors and that an emergency requiring a MEMBER oorr BOREAO o r Which is unthinkable—and sheer ClRCUl^TIONS. the fact that Nazi defenses, fight- few days ago managing editor of desperately than ever before. jelly-fish mawkishness into the Fairfield Board of Selectmen con- so well along that allNhaf' seemed reported to the OWI. The read- special eeaaion existed; DR. J. H. FAGAN the Stamford Advocate. We know cluded its hearing of charges necessary was the w a g^ p a id and ing of an imperial rescript from Although the attorney general \Tha Barald Printins Company. er defenses in particular, are re- Lots of folks talk about the bargain. 'djd not touch the topic, several of- of 33 Asylum Street aaaumaa no flnanclai raaponal- they will be many; we can’t pre- against Arthur J.''Bennett, .sus- the length of service of the differ- Emperor Hlrohlto on the conven- foT typosraphieal arrora ap- acting more fiercely than has sume to speak for themi all, or for "spirit of Christmas;" I think We in this" country have fallen pended police chief, with a three- ent town employees. ThisNvas to ing of the Diet was In order for '^ a l a voiced the opinion informal- Hartford- ly tb it since the governor wad the ag IB advartlBamantn In Tba been their habit during past the variety of reasons they have probably there is rather more of into the bad habit of hair-splitting hour session last night at which be submitted for further study and today with the actual formal open- Manehaafar Eaanins Harald ____ for turning friendly thoughts In over 50 persons, including clergy- from this the total amount Nthe ing ceremonies scheduled for Sup- sole judge as to whether there Telcphone 6-6510 a months. that sort of talk in German litera- in behalf of criminals; a habit we his direction. The myriad goods a town would be asked to vote fhr, would be a special aesaion, It fol- Friday, December 24 Although it is the smaller share men and Po.ice Chief William B. day. good newspaperman caii do In the ture than anywhere else. If I ever inherited from the nation's British Nichols of Stratford, appeared as was to be figured. lowed that^he alone would have It Is Our Wish That Each Succeeding E R of the Allied bomb load which is course of a working. lifetime can get really pepped up over the forebears, and have enlarged up- character witnesses for Bennett. Charles. S. House, chairman of Some snekes have heat receptors the right to ^ what'subjects the Legislature wofild consider while The Light And The Shadow going to the Japs in the South only be catalogued directly put of "Christmas spirit” it wil) be when on. In this business of scalping The board said it would hold a the committe, said last night that lat enable them to detect the Christmas May See 0ur Friendships A m I Pacific, the results there are more the minds. and hearts of those meeting to study the case as soon the figures hao not as yet been presence of warm-blooded animals In special session^ . , I For several days we have been who" received them. W’e person- Americans, and a lot of other peo- the German wolves we must get For several weekdxtoe question immediate and spectacular. as a transcript of the testimony compiled and that was holding up ano^o strike and kill in total dark- IF Y G U W A N T More Firmly Founded. exploring thoughts for this Christ- ally can remember two or three ples, put- less effort into propagan- rid of that hi^it. Else we shail could be prepared. the matter. ness. of whether the special session mas editorial. Our first and most The toughness of the Jap does occa.slons when this man Kane dizing for a certa^p spirit for one tangle our foot in it a'nd be would limit Itself to conUfieration came out of nBwhere'fo say and only of the matters listed lay the frequently recurring Instinct haa not extend to the Jap-in the air. day in the ^ear anif more into liv- thrown for a loss. Ws rule the skies of the South, do kind things to us. We suspect chitf executive in bis call, , or A M E R R Y been to make a clean, unshadowed he is one o f a limited number of ing and promoting, for 365 days, H ELP Pacific as we do not yet by any \ break with the particular nature individuals who have helped us to- a Certain spirit which forgets that Cold Calculation means rule the skies o f Europe. CST UJISMC ' AndA , o f these days and times and write ward a suspicion that this Is a second syl^bie and translates it- The ordinary American who planning any tort Although it is a battle area of kind world after all. o f the best of Christmas as it has self into the "spirit of Christ.” A happens to glance through the Doane Street wide spaces and deep jungles,' the But let that pass. It is easier always been. to tell what the working press, brotherhood of man. A life of un- advertising pages of any one of of il^anquet or cater* H A PRY N E W Y E A R places for which men fight are Chick en M atket ^or 'A M erry Christnrias Such an Instinct leads us into that fictionally hard-boiled Judge sislflshness. A spirit of unostenta- the various periodicals catering to small and well-marked. We bomb and jury of all the world, - thinks TO ALL a shining world o f cheer and kind- tious helpfulness. A genuine ad- the patronage of the Heavily 37 Doane St. Tel. 2-1402 of Martin Kane. Tearing him ing occks^on then aee .A nd A H ap py N ew Y e a r ness. There we see the same mag- them practically as we please, herence to the Golden Rule. down to size, he was no blow-torch monied class must be astonished \ " ical look on all fac?s—on the probably with the finest accuracy mastermind, no pastepOt world- I could get pretty epthusiqstic at the magnitude of the prices Plenty of or call NEW MODEL LAUNDRY faces of tha shoppers hurrying of any bombing yet done in this shaker, no big type maniac. He over a Christmas day on whiph quoted on many. articles of jewel- and with sudden, last-minute, exalted, war. wasn’t romantic looking, and even ^ M c G ill - C o n v e r s e ? Inc.— everybody but the fools and thbx ry, furs and the like. ’Two, three, tension, on the remembered face Such operations are driving Jap when he tried to look tough bis Larg e Roasting PAINTS — WALLPAPER? eyes betrayed him. It was a lucky five or ten thousand dollars for a MANCHESTER COAT, APRON AND air power back. It Is becoming purposefully evil of every ligtion ARNOLD PAO^NI MAIM a n i E R o f Tiny Tim, on the faces of all thing for him he never had Holly- j^eled bauble la mentioned In 645 MAIN STREET more and more certain that where sincerely dedicated himself to liv- Chick ens i TOWEL SUPPLY the children whose Christmas Is, wood ambitions. the most matter-of-fact way. Fur Telephone 3902 or 5790 Jap air power can be driven back, But if he missed such glory, it ing • for such objectives, thereby SUMMIT S’TREET TELEPHON* MT* though assured, still lui wonderful .coata nmnlng into the thousands For Christmas the Jap fleet cannot venture, nor was because he was, in these days, making ten thousand times cer- tM was his, on the faces o f the au-e made to soimd like a dime even Jap land forces long remain, one of the rarest of all things. tain an everlasting peace on adults who watch. It la the world Sports writers are always telling doz^. It all haa a striking re- aa witness the present Jap retreat earth. ' where the Magi always sec that of some player who does his job semNuics to price-listing in Roar on Bougainville, well In advance so smoothly and so modestly and the right gift comes from the And so, I fancy, could count- Ing CdmP- You’d think that the of aidual land pressure from us. well that he never gets the heswl- heart* It is the shining world of less millions of other human be- Whole liqtlon was simply rolling At Christmas time it is fitting that we count our What we are doing in the South linesr and they pay him the com- voices lifted in Christmas hymn, pliment of saying that he’s a ings to whom “Christmas day,” in money and there was no rea- ntany friends and recall tlie happy relationships Pacific to date is to hop from one f-SUent Night,” "O Holy Night." "ballplayers’ ballplayer.” That's with all its momentary good feel- son in the Svorld for not spending air field to another. Such hops do what Martin Kane has been of the past. To have served yon has been a It is the world of a star which ing, Its carols and its "merri- it on any luxury that happened to not always end the fighting, but through some 40 years of addic- ment,” now—and particularly just never falters, and of human ten- tion to our trade, and what< he appeal to the individual, no mat- pleasure and a privilege, and I wish you all the they do determine its ' eventual now—haa a slightly hollow sound. derness which, however it may will continue to be in spirit—a ter how extravaglant ita price. ipee blessings that Christmas time can bestow. have faltered for twelve months outcome. Our air umbrella is be- "newspaperman’s newspaperman.” That’s all. Obviously, too, the advertisers past, is suddenly pure and baah- ing pushed forward; the Jap, with It’s the highest compliment that can go to^any ballplayer or news- are doing business In Uiese wildly ANNE SWIFT fidly fervent, like a star. It is a all his jungle tactics. Is finding paperman. Hair Splitting priced luxuries. They’l l not pay- 7, 696 E. Colorado, Pasadena, Cal. OUR ENTIRE ORGANIZATION world of greens fetched from this a modem war after all, and We want to tell him, speaking ing the high space rates just for \ / ncer Individually Designed Supports God’s woods, and laugh-making ha hasn’t got planes or men good for many, that however modestly I wish there were not, both in the fun of it JOINS IN WISHING mistletoe, and the first stocking enough to win it. he lived and worked the rest of Britain and to a lesser degree in his life, he can’t retire without a Why? I think a good many of for a new citizen. Good, shlnipg, ’Thus, after many months of this country, so many rather A VERY MERRY CHRI^MAS little fanfare. spineless people who are inclined ua have been puzzled by that one- i^ppy world! production and training, the Al- So we bespeak the Christmas word question.. Why do people go TO EVERYONE! And we would like today, to be lied air war is truly coming into fecntimcnts of the working newS' to find fault with the execution of out of their way, as It were, to writing solely o f such a world, and its own.. Its power, and Its effec- papermen of Connecticut, and our three Germans and one renegade sentiment to him is not that of purchase ao many and such big o f nothing else. tiveness, so far aa we can esti- Russian for the mass murder of mc w u mu k* the CJifl*t'T>«8 season alone, but large numbers of the citizens of diamonds, such* riotously expen- It isn’t quite possible." ’The mate It, are both thrilling. They one of respect and affection for a sive furs, etc.? la It just a mani- “—OAK GRILL dark edges of another world will not grrow less. The enemy is whole career. Kharkov while the Huns held that "WHERE GOOD FELl OWS GET TOGETHER" R IL E Y C H E V R O L E T C O . make their claim, and it is not just beginning to know what air now almost ruined Ukrainian city. festation of “ flush-times” excite- ona that can be dented. It is a war really Is. I suppose most of them get that ment? I don’t think ao. I think it D IN B / A M D D A N CE Incorporated world of brute strength which is Cut ill Newsprin t way because they are atlll afraid la because there are ao many quite . . . . A N D “ S O L O N G ” of the Germans and 'fear reprisals rich people who, convinced that 191 CENTER STREET both attacking and defending our The One Gift right to a world of tenderness. It Su p p ly Confir m ed by the mad Hitler. But on the we are facing a period of runaway —/ T O N IG H T — is a world in which good human Whether or not, as individuals, face of their argument that the Inflation, are bually engaged la a / To the Lilting Tb^ of we havs all kept memory and beings suddenly go stiff and still, confesacd slaughterers were not new type e t hoarding—changing DON MAC AND HIS RHYraM MASTERS friendship enough to send Christ- Washington, Dec. 24—(/f)— The fr4e agents becauae, as they huge amounts oC Ozsh Into com- in which a life must be given to War Production board has offl' DELICIOUS FOODS — MODMT PRICES! I get a life, a life must be given to mas gifts or sentiments to those dally confirmed its announcement claimed, they were simply obeying moditiea which, they fondly-Imag- save a life« It is a world so ex- men and women who serve us, earlier this month that newsprint the orders of their superior offi- ine, will prove to be far more there is one mass gift that can be for papers and magazines during tremely at odds with the kind of cers, these apologists for the kill- profitable aa Investments than the the first quarter of next year will world Christmas Inspires that sent. It would be good at this ers are headed toward the for- war bonds which moat o< the reat late, date, welcome whenever it be approximately three-fourths giveness of all Hun atrocities to men in the thick of it sometimes. the 1941 rate of use. of ourselves ' are straining our- every German eave one>—Hitler V O JiB e T I N G S In sheer inner rebellion, lift them- might be delivered. This common A 2,500-word order issued yes- selves to buy. ‘T m Leaving N ext Tuesday himself. •• • • selves out of it for a moment and gift from the American people to terday, fixes a sllding-acale for After all, the fact that a man reductions In allotments. In fig- in that moment see the holy trav- the defenders of America would, If a German private bayoneta, may be able to pay for a twenty- MAY YOUR CHRISTMAS BE A in turn, have to be made up out uring 1944 first quarter tonnage esty of ’The Christ in-- No Man’s quotas, the basic 1941 tonnage Is without compunction, a Russian tbouaand-doUar necklace for bis T o Enter T he Service lan d. One glimpse of Him, and of individual I resolves. But it first figured. No reduction in the baby 'imd justifies himself by the wife tor Christmas—which will go MERRY ONE AND YOUR could be so madevup, and it could men lunge toward wie smother first 25 tons used is required. The fact that his captain ordered the into the safe deposit box when the NEW YEAR BRIGHT AND HAPPY! again. One anguished, soul-sav- be so sent. If enough of us hap- tonnage between 26 and 125 tons atrocious act, then' the captain bank opena on Monday—is no pened to feel this war deeply must be reduced four per cent; ing vision of God. and then mur- between 126 and 250 tons, eight CLOSED ALL DAY CHRISTMAS DAY. O f U ncle Sam” der is still their business. enough. per ce n t;' between 251 and 500 There are these two worlds, and What could be sent to the men tons, 12 per cent, between 501 and Make Reservations Now for Our there is no man who has moral and women who are In the front 1,000 tons, 20 per cent, and all Gala New Year's Eve Party. tonnages over 1,000 tons, 24 per right to consider one and not the line's for America is simply this: Best W ishes For \ ^ an assurance that we at home are cent. ' u... 30 OAK STREET TEL. 3894 , \ Sther. The order provide for adjust- Considering them together, backing them, and that, doing so, ments for certain Increases In net Fine Wines — Liquors and Beer M erry Christ m as . there comes a somewhat religious we have no time or heart to be circulation in 1942—not 1943— over 1941. thought. For nearly two thou- fighting among ourselves over k • \ how much we are going to get A n d A . H ap py N ew Y e a r sand years, men have been carry- \' •ngr these two kinds of worlds for- out of their front line sacrifice. VVe could send them no word that The Poet's Column ward with them. For these same / I 'kings are different thig year! To )M wuold hearten them more; no years, men have talked and talked 1 Wofi’t Be Home For Christmas DEW EY-RIC H M A N C O . X sure we wiah you all the aame, aincere of making it possible for one more convincing testimonial of LEAVE m.v busihe.'i.s in good .w orld to conquer the other. Men the fact that we are thinking of But mother don’t you cry, jewelers .STATIONERS , 'oraCIANS Merry Christmas and Happy New Year as I loose my earthly wings, tonight. ^ have talked of it. and lived by them; no more precious'gift is \ hand.s. My ’.vife . . . Raymond, within our power. And, as a mat- And that’a the reason why in other years. B|ut, now we have a deeper the hope of it, and yet, when It 'That I won’t be home for Christ- Rockweilf and Patt.v Dowd will be here came to actual deeds and deci- ter of fact, imless we can and do mas, realization than ever before of what your sions and complete loyalty, ques- send that one gift, sometime soon But mother don’t you cry. FLOWERS continued patronage an d /cood Will have “ A t ^'our service.’’ You’ll find the same tioned whether it was practical. in the course of all those individ- I tried so hard to make the grade. But the enemy was stronger than A Large Assortment Of meant . . . and W?ILL mean .... to the very “ Famous Name’’ \merchandise on the That is the world’s shameful ual and group actions which s4d V. up to what America at home is L ' shelves as always in aH a.ssortment as and historic doubt. How shame- X prayed for you each night and existence of this business. WTien I leave doing, we will never have the ful it is we know when we see *day. POmSETTIAS Manchester hext Tuesday it will be heart- large as warrtime conditions will allow. how “practical” the alternative is, right to stand with them In the That I and you would meet In the sweet bye and bye. GREETINGS warming to know that ao many of you will Under these conditions I take my leave When we assess the price we pay hour of their victory, w'hen their hands, though bloody, shall be But I won’t be liome for Christmas, to play whatever humble part may be ' tor it. But mother don’t you cry. $1.50 to $3^00^ continue the loyalty to Clifford’s Men's and clean, and their hearts, though May I extend to you my sincere It has always been time to turn I’m now among the angels, FOR A GAY^CHRISTMAS Boys’ Shop that you have been so geperous assigned me in t|ie much bigger job of from meiv talk and hope of. tried, shall be pure with com- So fir, ao far away. wish for a Christmas full of AZALEAS — ORANGE TREES t ' pleted, unquestioning sacrifice. And God has given ma wings a t / with in the past. , ^ 1 winning the war. I’ll be happy, I can v Christ’s principles toward practi- cheer and a New Year that ful- piSH GARDENS A SPECIALTY lal world acceptance of them. How shall ours be? We are hoping that your Christmas wiU be gay and delightful aeeure you, if one year from today you With those wlnga I now must stay. fills your fondest hopes. Now, more than ever, it is such I won’t be home for Christmas, as were the childhood Merry Christmases spent at Grand- ORDER YOUR CHRISTMAS CUT FLOWERS AND A M erry Christ m as and think a i kindly of Clifford’s’ai you haVe ' time. And now, more than ever, ’Two Earthqiiakee Recorded But we’ll meet anothsr day. CORSAGES NOW! B theVe possibility that something Elizabeth Clifford. John G. Pentland inthepaet. Pasadena, Calif., Dec. 24— __ North Coventry. mother's farm.’ Today, as then, may the gladness of Christ- lafilAS WIREATHS AN D TREES A H a i ^ y N ew Y e a r may be done about it^ n o happy, Califomia-lnatitute of Technology ' (Chappie) yesterday recorded two earth- foyoua, carefree leap into aome — “ Slar b tiM Kaat” — mas force all other thoughts from your mind, and may tho. pclivfxy In Mandisfter and Greater Hartford. BBllenlum. but hard-fought, oon- quakes, one of them termed a ma- Never can be a night so dark To A ll O ur Custo m ers and Friends jor temblor about 6.200 miles E A R L E CLI F F O R D tidered progress toward a reason- With wrack of storm, wild war- coming years o f peace bring you happiness that is complete. away, probably in the Southwest ring- winds; ably b e ^ r world in which, if we Pacific. It started recording at A lonely road ao rough and steep, D EPIETR O ’S lucceed at all, there may be no 12:13:14 p. m., p. w. L Another Noisome and Slow In clingii^ PENTLA N D ihadow across the lifted face of quake strong enoufeh' to*a5 con- mire; lay Christmas child. siderable damage, and believed Pilgrim ao spent, ao buffetad. THE FLORIST Forbes St. Greenhouse centered in the West Indiee, be- Dragging o* fo o t, with falling 1006 SILVER LANE CORNER FORBESRTREET W e s t S i d e D a i r y gan at 9:04:43a. m. , heart; ' BANTLY OIL COMPANY Oppoaite the Traflk Light. - Air War Hits A Peak But he can lift hla weary eyes. Joaeph Trueman ft Son* il mill A t full throttle, the Flying Behold that Star of Uvlng Light, 155 CENTER STREET TELEPHONE 5293 EAST HARTFORD TEL. HTFD. 8-3301 It Is grittlag ao that, taking al- Fortress consumes nearly 500 gal- And follow It. and reach the goaL Flowera Telegraphed Anywhere. 52 McKEE STREET V TEL, 7706 any; average day of round- lons of gasoline an hour, about Katharine De F. Hardy, Advertue in The Herald— It-Pays ^aarorid epcratkms, you can find twice Its consumption at cruising 42 Maple street, Dec. 22, 1943. ~ , ^
U FRIDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1948
Sf f l t e R E V E N I N G HERALD, MANCHESTER, CONN., ^^ID A Y , DECEMBER S4, IM S BTGHtV- and Southwest Pacific areas, the Mrs. Ursule Danauskas, mothler, rtreet into a two family bouse was car, took an appeaL A t W** the action, which resulted In the Four From, State War Department announced today. 165 Droher avenue, Waterbury. tabled until he is able to present Givien $15,000 The New Englanders and next Peck, Pfc. Frederick A. —Harry Appeals Board plans showing the changes asked. declnon yesterday and/(he Increas- 8th Army Seizes Yanks Thr6ng^ No Herald Three Seized ed judgment. , .’yT Among Wounded of kin Include from Connecticut: Peck, father, 28 Edwards street. KNOFLA Rockville People of Bethlehem, Pit.' The request of Perrett and Olen-., Mediterranean Area: New Haven. is Admit ney to convert a building on Per- L Judgment Vezzani in Drive; Tomorrow \J)enie8 Pleas rett Place l)ito a buslneee building Arre, Pvt. Thomas P. Mrs. L«n1s H. tlhapman Shrine to Pay After Battle Mary Detommasoy mother, Old BROtHIRS 84». l&ekvHle Plan to Work Christmas was also tabled, because the’owner ticked a ^ e s t Washington, t)ec. 24—(P)— The Water is lued in airplane en- Dig Out Germans Turnpike road, Southington. General ContracKUB Request to Engage in was not present. Local Resident Was in- nam u of 24 New Englanders are Bailey, Cpl. ITrancls J. Walter gines to increase speed. An in< Bethlehem, Pa„ Dec. 24—And hundreds of doors are ojien Chpist Honor No issue of the Hanches- Police Detail in Gun The Sheridan (Corporation wa* 8sed Woman included In 6 list of 311 United BraUeiy, father, Rpxbury road, jecUon device in combat planes given permission to use the entire jured in Auto Accident Jobbluf and In Defenses Gray amoke ' belches from the to tl^e Army men in training at (Continued fifoin Page One) f ter Evening Herald will Used Car Business Is States soldiers wounded In action Bast Lyme., shoots water into cylinders when Final Session stacks of the „ steel mill th a t, Lehlf^ university and the Navy i Fight in Motor Trans- lot at the com er of Main end (Continued from Page One) tn the European, Medlterrsnsan Danauskas, Pvt. Joseph X. — bursts of speed are desired. General Repairing sprawls along the Lehigh river,' trained at Moravian college, communique, the American troopa be published tomorrow. \ Turned Down. Pearl street for business purposes, Here in 1940. Obc) port Company Plant. York, Dec. 24—