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Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
Wiles Sentenced
To Ten Years
On Murder Charges

Lee Thomas Wiles, S5, of Slidell,
was sentenced to serve ten years
in the Maryland House of Correc-
ton by Judges Charles w. Wood
ward and Stedman Prescott in
Montgomery County Circuit Court
at Rockville.
Wiles, through his attorneys.
Donald Bowie, Jr., and Charles
Prettyman, had requested that he
be sentenced to the House of Cor
rection rather than the peniten-
tiary because he hoped to have an
opportunity to work in the dairy
there.
The prisoner was convicted by a
jury on second degree murder in
the killing of Joseph Edward Lar
man, also of Slidell, whom he was
alleged to have beaten to death
with shotgun.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
Emily BlandfOrd
Named As Blood
Donor Chairman

Announcement has been made
that Miss Emily Blandford has
been appointed Rockville district
chairman of the Army and Navy
Blood Donor Project. Miss
Blandford states that volunteers
are needed for the work and
those who desire to donate blood
from this area should call Rock
vile 466. ''It is painless with
no after-effects," Miss Blandford
said, and "only a pint is taken
from men and a half-pint from
women" Miss Blandford has
already donated blood.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
County Defense Activities
Modified In Past Week
State Guard Ordered Out. Test BlackOut
Successful And Civilian Defense Executive
Committee Appointed

Defense of Montgomery County
moved swiftly during the past
week resulting in the mobilization
of the Maryland State Guard and
creation of Civilian Defense Exc
cutive Committee.
Members Of the Maryland State
Guard of which there are three
Montgomery County Companies
were called to active duty early
Friday morning, December IL.
They are now actively engaged in
guarding vital areas under the
Command of Lt.-Col. E. Brooke
Lee, Commanding officer, 7th Bat
talon Maryland State Guard.
Under the supervision of Albert
E. Brault, executive director of the
Civilian Defense Council, an eff
fective black-out test was carried
out in the metropolitan area Mon
day evening and including Rock
vile.
Officials, associates and workers
Of the G. & P. Telephone Company
were warmly commended for their
alertness and efficiency in handling
the many alarm calls necessary.
Director Brault today praised the
1000 afraid wardens, regular and
auxiliary fremen and police, mem
bers of the State Guard companies
and Defense Council officials fol
their work and some $4,000 house
holders who cooperated in the test
By resolution the Montgomery
County Commissioners formed tht
Civilian Defense Executive Com
mittee as follows:
BE 1T RESOLVED that Judge.
Charles w. Woodward and Sted
man Prescott Of the Circuit Court
for the, 9Th Judicial Circuit Of
Maryland be invited to serve al
Co-Chairman of this Committee
both of whom served as officers ir
the World War; and that Thomes
E. Hampton, President of the
Board of County Commissioners, be
appointed Vice Chairman; an6
that the following be also appoint
ed as members of the Committee;
County Commissioner r. w. Far
mer, County Commissioner Walter
P. Johnson, County Commissioner
John E. Oxley, County Commits
sioner o. w. Roby, Park Commits
sioner Lacy Shaw, Alfred d.
Noyes, Chairman of the Southern
Maryland Defense Council, Albert
E. Brault, Member of the Southern
Maryland Defense Council and
Chairman of the advisory commit
tee on Civilian Defense in Mont
gomery County, Mrs. E. Brooke
Lee, Secretary, Southern Maryland,
Defense Council, and Mrs. Ralph
Wells. Executive Secretary South
ern Maryland Defense Council,
the other members Of the South
ern Maryland Defense Council,
Mrs. B. Peyton Whalen, Chairman
Of the Montgomery County Wo-
mems Division Of Civilian Defense,
DR.. Edwin w. Broome, Superin-
tendent Of Education for Montgom-
cry County, DIR. Dexter M. Billiard,
Chairman Of the medical services
for Civilian Defense, Arch Melon
aid, Chief Air Raid Warden for
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
Rockville Christian
Church Bible School

Under the direction of Mrs.
George Wilson and Mrs. Frank
Higgins, the annual Christmas en-
tertainment of the Rockville
Christian Church Bible School will
be given at the Church on Tuesday
evening, December %, at 8 p. m. A
sacred Cantata "Stargleams," will
be presented, featuring Dorothy
Mae Belt as "The Christmas Star"
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
POST OFFICE TO
REMAIN OPEN

Rockville Postmaster George
L. Edmonds announced today
that the post Office will be open
from 8 a. m. to o p. m. starting
today including Saturday and
will be closed Christmas Day,
open Sunday, December 81, o to
IL a. m. Postmaster Edmonds
urges TO mail early to insure de-
livery. Special delivery and gift
packages will be delivered
Christmas Day.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
Sentinel To Be Printed
Early Wednes., Dec. "a

All correspondents and those
desiring to have items Of news
or advertising in next weeks
issue of THE SENTINEL are re-
quested to have the copy in
not later than Tuesday 5 Pm.
Correspondents are requested
to mail their news letter Mon
day afternoon.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18

men who are active in the daily
routine of business in their re-
spective communities. In the
guard are number of profess
sional and business men whose
call to active service requires a
very real sacrifice on their part.
Without fail, however, they have
responded to the States call and
are even now doing their
Stretch" of walking post. So
long as America has men willing
to make such sacrifices there
need be no great danger of sue
eessful Fifth Colunmnists activ-
ity within our borders.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
All Club Meets
New Members

Meeting at the home of Mrs.
Roy McCathran, local leader, the
Washington Grove All Club girls
greeted two new members, max
ing the membership a total of
sixteen. The club participated in
a muffin making demonstration.
Gurther plans were made for CIV
ing a tea for the mothers, during
the Christmas holidays. 1t will
be held on January 2, 1912.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
Notice

The Orphans Court at Rockville
will meet Dec. % and Dec. % Of
next week and the following week
Dec. 20 and 80.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1941-12-18
Thought of the Week

The choices we make sit in judg-
ment on us. To choose evil when
good is available reflects the
nature of the inner man.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
 Invasion of British at TrOmsO Would Permit Them to Join Russians BRITISH BOMBERS IN
 BATTLE WITH NAZIS Both Sides Lost Several Planes; German War Ace Reported Missing

London, August 2s.-UPJ = The possibility of a British invasion of Norway is keep ing the Germans extremely nervous" and forcing them to build Notifications, a high Norwegian source said today. The informant indicated he was not displeased by this development and freely dis cussed strategical considera- tions which might govern an invasion attempt. The most vul- nerable section, he said, would be in the north, around Tromso.
 An invasion there, it was pointed out, could enable British and Allied forces to make contact with the Russians in extreme northern Fin- land without violating Swedish ter- ritory and, at the same time, cut German supply lines to Finland.
 The people of northern Norway, he said. are "extremely anti German and would aid the invading forces tremendously" He suggested that Allied forces could infiitrate the sSp1tzbergen Islands, northwest of Norway, and establish air bases.
 As for German preparations, the informant said reports had been received that 10 days of anti-invas- ion exercises had been held recently along the western coast of Norway, but only as far north as Kristian-s Eund and Trendheim, which are less than half way up the peninsula. The garrison at Trondheim has been strengthened despite diversion of troops to Finland, he said.
 Germans Were Busy
 The maneuvers were said to have been carried out by the German army, navy and air forces in the same districts where last year they were training for an invasion of Britain.
 we definitely know that the Ger mans are extremely nervous over a possible invasion" the informant said. We have had full reports on anti-invasion exercises from August II to 20. The civil poplation in southern Norway is prohibited from moving about and all radio sets have been confiscated for, if you recall, when Norway was invaded by the Germans we sent out orders by radio. Should an invasion occur now the population, which is pro- British. would receive orders by radio"
 He said reliable reports showed that the Germans had 300 900 troops in Norway before the Russian campaign but now have 160. 900, hav- moved some of them to Finland.
 He claimed that many Germans were deserting and some officers committed suicide rather than go to Finland.
 Air Raids Last Night
 London, Aug. 29.-(UPl-Ten Bri- tish and 10 German plans were de- stroyed during Royal Aid Force Of- fensive operations over northern France, authoritative quarters said today after . great armada of Bri- tiEh bonbers and fighters had
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
Nazi, Soviet Reports
RUSSIA
By HENRY SHAPIRO

United Press Staff Correspondent)
 Moscow, Aug. 29.-(UP)-The waters of the broad Dnieper river third largest in Europe, flooded over hundreds of square miles of the Lower Ukraine today, 8 formidable barrier to the Germans, as Marshal Semyon Budenny organized his army for a new stand on the east bank with the hundreds of thou sand of men he had safely with drawn from the western side.
 Tn vivid testimony to the Spartan firmneSS of the scorched earth pol- icy, Russia had blown up the great power dam, built at the cost of five years of labor and $11O,0O0,OO0 in money, after the last of Budenny's men had crossed, leaving nothing but stripped fields and leveled fac- tories for the Germans.
 In all, it was indicated, the Rus slams destroyed about, <250, 900. 900 worth of property in the Dnieper Dam area, for they blew up not only the dam and the power plant but the big aluminium, ferro-man- ganese, electric, chemical and metal lurgical factories linked with themi and the great bridge across the rap- Ids just below the dam. Some prop erty was removed.
 An American engineer, Col. Hugh Cooper. was the chief consultant in the building of the dam and power plant. Many Americans worked on the project. The dam locked the foaming. turbulent Dnieper between walls of concrete 2,500 feet long and ITO feet high.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
Mrs. Louise A. Marsh Probated Today
Requests Amounting to Sum of $33 100 Are Listed in
 Will, With COdicil; Local Groups, In- l diyidnals Remembered

, Requests totalling 4S3,lUO are listed in a will and codiciI left by the late Mrs. Louise A. Marsh of this city, widow of the former su- peEior court tselexk saEaGsel sJs Mas.zlas and admitted to probate today bg Judge Patrick Healey.
 Two local organization, Of which the deceased was Q member, the Waterbury Woneuss Club and the AAellicent Porter Chapter of the D. A. R., are each beneficiaries in the amount of $2O0O. Tn both instances the sums are to be held in trust by the Colonial Trust Co. as s'The Louise A. Marsh Fund.- the income derived from investment of the amounts to be paid seni-annually to the societies.
 Other institutions named in the document are the Waterbury Visit ing Nurses Association, which is to resolve $2yOOO in cash sum, and the Northf1eld Seminary of East Northfield. Mass.. a like figure, in memory of the husband of the de- ceased, Samuel J. Marsh. The River side Cemetery Association is be- quested $500 as a perpetual fund, the income derived therefrom to be used for the care and upkeep of Q lot, monument and markers in the cemetery. and for covering the graves with evergreen in the winter.
 Individual Bequests
 Individuals, among whom are cousins and friends of Mrs. Marsh, both in this city and elsewhere, re- ceive the greater portion of the estate. Recipients of 5000 each are Helen Jones Wyks and Kenneth Jones, both children of Percy c. Jones of WeStwood, N. U, and a cousin, Lotta A. Husted of Green wich. Conn. The testament stipu- lates that in tine event that Lotta A. Husted pfedeceases Mrs. Marsh, the amount willed to her shall re- vert to Helen E. Secor of Greenwich, who is also named . legatee in the sum of $2,0OO, and is Q cousin of the testatrix.
 Bequeathed $i, 900 each are the following friends of Mrs. Marsh: Nellie ]. Downes of Waterbury,
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
GERMANY
RY CL1NroN B. CoNGER

United Press Stan Corresp0ndent)
 Berlin, Aug. 29 = (UP) = Ger man land, sea and air forces were reported officially today to have cap- tured the Estonian cities of Tallinn and Paldiski and fought closer to Leningrad by smashing strong Red army positions south of the city and crossing at many points the rail line to Moscow.
 In an important advance on the front between Narva and Luga, which lies southwest and south of Leningrad, the official news agency reported that German forces had reached objectives at all points and taken about 5000 prisoners.
 Twenty three tanks, 45 guns of all calibre, many machine-guns and much other equipment were taken or destroyed, the agency said, des- pite Russian efforts to concentrate a large part of "the remnants of the Red air fleet" in defense of Lenin- grad.
 The Russian achievements failed and the Germans crossed the Lem ingrad- Moscow railroad at unspeci- fled points, presumably pressing eastward for gain of some 70 miles from the Novgorod sector in the en- circlement of the second city of Russia.
 Would Be Hard Blow
 The cutting of the railroad, if confirmed, would be one of the heaviest blows yet struck on the northern front as it would mean the breaking of the direct link be- tween the capital and Leningrad
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
HARRIMAN HEADS
 MOSCOW MISSION
President Names w. A. Hartman to Lead Group of Five Men

Washington, Aug. 29.--(UP)- President Roosevelt announced to- day that he will name w. Averell Hartman to head the American mission to Moscow for conferences with Great Britain and Russia on war aid plans.
 The President said that 1t might be assumed safely that Hartman will go as head of the mission, and that his formal appointment would be made next week.
 He said he was uncertain as to the number of persons who would comprise the mission, but did say that he supposed 1t would consist of about half dozen men.
 He gave no indication, however, as to how soon the mission would leave for Russia. Hut he made clear that his appointment yesterday of John D. Biggers as minister to London and aide there to Hartman was step preliminary to departure of the mission.
 Hartman since last spring has
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
Laval's Condition akes Turn For Worse Today
Surgeons May Operate to Remove Bullet Just Beneath Heart; Marcel Deat Is in Even Worse COn-
 dition; France Still All Excited
BY RALPH HEINZEN

(UnlCeO ETeSS SLaI1 COFfeSpOm0enGJ
 Vichy, France, Aug. 29-(UP)- Pierre Laval, wounded by an as- sassin at Versailles Wednesday, took a sudden turn for the worse to- day .and surgeons, at a bedside conference at the Versailles Civil hospital, considered the advisability of removing a pistol bullet lodged one inch beneath his heart.
 Marcel Deat, LavaPs collabora- tionist aide, whose abdominal wall was punctured by. bullet, was in even worse condition.
 Both were denied visitors todly after surgeons had re-examined them.
 Surgeons admitted that it would be most difficult toremove the pull let from Laval. The bullet which wounded Deat had been extracted, \ Here, where Frances Repuhli- ,es1A uarli nent has risen from the grave ell9 for ft sa al lcEiy govz 1ernnlent to organize uiited opposi4 ton to the regime, an official de- cree was promulgated today order ing all members of the senate and chamber of deputies to leave Vichy and make their headquarters st the mountatnSide resort of Chatel Guyon, 25 miles away.
 Seek New Suspects
 Vicny government police swept into provincial cities of occupied
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
TRAIN WRECK IS
 INVESTIGATED
Two Engineers Died at South Kent Yesterday;
 Children Were Lucky
-NEA Telephoto.

South Kent, Conn, August 20. = (Up A three way iaavestiga aticxi began today into tne cause of . Il yestaTaay which took the lives of two engineers, eragely injured a firsnnan, but spared 25k children re- turning to New York from New Eng land summer vacations
 The State Public utiliEies Com mission, state police, and officials of the "New Haven" Railroad were conducting simultaneous investiga- tions of the accident. However, no reports will be available for a few days, it was said.
 Authorities hoped to question Fireman Otto Klug, 34 Danbury, who was reported in a flair" condi- tion at Danbury Hospital. Klug was pinned beneath one of the coaches which plunged into Hatch Pond. The front end of the coach crushed his leg, but he lay half in and half out of the water for more than two hours while workers frantically sought to extricate him. He didn't cry out once.
 Klug's leg was amputated at the hospital, where he was said to be in better condition than when he was admitted late yesterday"
 Killed in the accident were the two engineers, Theron Dixon, 55, Danbury, who railroad officials said was operating the train, and Harold McDermot, West Stockbridge, Mass.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
Killer, Who Protested When Widow Of Victim Tried To Save Him, Dies Today

Cal. became fast friends in death rpw. They talked Of their sins and the hereafter with the Rev. Henry Ohloff, their spiritual adviss CT. He taught them psalms to re- cite on their way to the death chain- beE.
 LlningeF. an N'plscopailan, per- suaded Hawk to embrace his faith, and he became eager for 6 "now ilfess.
 szhere is somothlng better ahsad. . he aslG. Hf don't uant io mign it. I wont live lny lie ln pgls0n and ig { am released III continue rpy criminal Me. ' am ret Holna to wait any lon9eF e fansh fh0 hetteE iifs { know 6 hhaad ei me-
 slzs neefnt want la mlas llAat.n .n negs Hff. 0lloll, oaif. tlne B ncl cEaw.s
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
HARRIET GREGORY
 DIES SUDDENLY
Well Known Nurse Strick. en With Heart Attack at
 Her Home Today

Miss Harriet Gregory, well known nurse, died suddenly this morning following a heart attack at her home at 214 Woodlawn Terrace. She was born on April 18, 1863 in Kent, Conn, the daughter of the late MT. and Mrs. Edgar Gregory.
 Miss Gregory was a graduate of the Connecticut Training School for Nursese of New Haven hospital, class of 1890. Since that time she has been prominently connected with every activity concerning the welfare and advancement of nurses in the city and state. She was an organizer of the State Nurses asso- citation, and of the local Graduate Nurses club. .9
 She took an active part in the legislation work of Nurses Registra- ton, and during the World War participated in many phases of Red Gross work. For a few years she was in charge of a .convalescent home on Wilson street.
 A number of years ago Miss Gregory organized and has since conducted the Physicians Service Bureau. She was a member of her Alunnnae Association and of the waterbury Quota Club, having held offices in each of these organiza- tions.
 Miss Gregory was a member of the Second Congregational Church. She Is survived by three sisters, Ms. Catherine Eaton of Oakville, Mrs. Edith Segear and Miss Winifred Gregory of Kent; several nieces and nephews.
 The funeral VIII be held from the Clark Funeral Home. 20 State street, on Monday, sat q time to be a1l- nounced. Burial will De in new Pine Grove Cemetery. Friends may call At the Funeral Home on Saturday from 2 to g o'clock and Sunday from 8 to s o'clock.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
Qualifications Of Norway Are Being Strengthened
Colored Man In Washington Makes
 Confession He KilledSeven Women
Police Believe That Many Other Murders Will Be
 Traced to Slayer

Washington, August 29. = (UP) - Jarvis Roosevelt Catoe, 30, Negro servant and former undertaker's assistant, confessed early today that he had strangled two pretty gov ernnent clerks, a New York ma tron, and four Negro women.
 Though he had thus confessed seven murders, police suspected that he had been guilty of more and, after a brief respite, were to ques- tion him about a series of sex crimes here, many of them involving the murder of the victim, which date back to 1894.
 Police, announcing his confessions, said they had solved the wave of sex crimes this spring and summer which caused Mrs. Franklin D.. Roosevelt to warn the thousands of girls who have come here to take government jobs, to be careful and inspired such an outcry in Con- gress that the police department was subjected to shake-up.
 Murders He Admitted
 k1S Eu1A4SSScu, POAlCc Sd4Os CO U41eSc murders:
 Betty strieff, g, Q pretty girl from Des Moines, Iowa. who came here last spring to take \ clerksliip sif asd alssI ansardered June ass.
 Evelyn Dorothea Anderson, 26, of New York, whose body was found in a Bronx borough street where 1t had been thrown from an automobile on August 4.
 Mrs. Rose Abramowitz, 9, form erIy of St. Louis, the bride of a social security board lawyer, who was raped and murdered March 8.
 Four Negro women raped and murdered = Ada Fuller, January
The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29
UNITED STATES,
 JAPAN EMBROCLIO
Both Nations Are Discuss ing Problems That Now
 Keep Them Wide Apart
BY ROBERT BELLAIRE Limited Press Staff Correspondent

Limited Press Staff Correspondent Tokyo, August 29 - (UP)-The cabinet met in emergency session today to consider American -Japa- nese relations in the light of a new attempt to examine the cause of trouble ;n the delicate situation be- tween Japan and the United States"
 This new attempt, statement by the government information board said, was the basis of Premier Prince Fumimaro Konoye's message to President Roosevelt delivered by Ambassador Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura.
 It was aid that Konoye's mes age outlined the attitude of the imperial government toward the Pacific situation and attempts to analyze the causes of tension be- tween Japan and the United States.
 The cabinet studied the KonOye message.
 In addition to the full cabinet, the following were present: Maj. Gen. Akira Muto, director of the military affairs bureau of the war ofSice; Rear Admiral Takasumi Oka. director of the naval affairs bu- reau and Taro Terasaki, director of the American bureau of the for eign office.
 News Agency Reports
 Dcmei, the offlcial news agency,
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