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Evening star., 1944-06-10
This and That
By Charles E. TraceDeU.

DE nESDA, Mo.
Dear Sir:
Thought you might like to know that
our flying squirrel stayed in the wren
house about six weeks. We could always
tell he was there because he blocked the
hole on the inside with grass.
MY husband could get him, or at least
his head, out by whistling. After good
look at him, and any one else with him,
he'd pop back in and close up the hole.
II have an awful fear that the cat
next door caused the disappearance.
You have spoken several times of the
cowbirds. like them, too, when only
couple of pairs came to the feeding
station.
Cant say don't like them now, but,
goodness, s or 10 pairs kind of run off
the smaller birds.
Last years pair of doves is now three.
I wonder If there will be a steady
increase there?
We have a very odd robin here
call him Ruff1es because every feather
seems to grow the wrong way. He has
been here since early spring, and he is
no better today than when he came.
Il wonder if 1t is disease.
Good luck to you and your nice
column. Sincerely, L. M. A."
Evening star., 1944-06-10
SENATE PRESS GALLERY,

SENA T. FfECo GALLERY,
Dear Sir:
To-day I saw f1edgling robin which
certainly should be elected to Congress.
Despite its mothers frantic attempts
to lure it into the attic groves of the
Library OF Congress- where worms might
be supposed to be abundant and sober
knowledge achievable, this strange
hedging insisted upon strutting up and
down the stone parapet, squawking his
beak off and insisting on getting back
across Pennsylvania avenue toward the
House Office Building.
Six times various passersby ATTEMPTED
to return him to his mother up on the
Library grass, but every time he came
back and started the old strut and
squawk along the low wall around the
grounds
What do you make of that?
Being an old-time bird student, I
decided he was born on the House once
Building side of the Avenue and had
imbibed something from Clare Hoffman,
Martin Dies, John Rankin, or pick your
own nominees.
However, hard shower came up
after Candidate Robin had been put
over on the grass for the sixth time, and
apparently his mother finally persuaded
MIN to better aims in life, and he stayed
there that time.
Or maybe he finally learned how to
put his ear to the ground and detect
political ground swells which have been
having some effect on our loudest politi-
cal squawkers around here lately.
Yours, F.. r. B."
II "
Baby birds can be as stubborn as
mules.
When Lilly Belle, the pet robin, made
up her mind to walk south on the drive
way in the direction where old Tigev
the cat, was sleeping, no amount of
persuasion could make her walk north
You could turn her around time after
time, but each time she headed straight
for the cat. Why she did this was never
explained.
Some one wrote to this column once
about trying to feed raisin to young
robin a dozen times, only to have it
reject food each time They finally had
to go and get fish worm for it.
Robins evidently know what they want
and when they want it.
Stubbornness may be called the chief
characteristic of baby robins.
Startling babies are simply mean.
Song sparrow young are extremely
vocal.
One thing they all have is q big
appetite.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
RommeI Completes
Checkup Of Germans
West Wall Defenses
BY the Associated Press.

by Inc Associated PreSS.
il LONDON, May 17.-European
radios today continued to discuss
forthcoming United Nations Of
fensiveS from the west and east
while Berlin announced that
Marshal Erwin Rommel had
completed what may be his final
checkup of the German Atlantic
Wall.
1t. Gen. Kurt Dittmar, Nazi radio
commentator, acknowledged that
Hitler's legions might be thrown
back on both sides.
I'VE know only too well the ele-
ments of uncertainty that are fac
tors of war;" he said. There is no
such thing as complete prepared
ineSs."
A dispatch from Stockholm said
it was reported there that the Ger
man preparations included the de-
ignation of Field Marshal Gen.
Karl Rudolf Gerd Won Runstedt as
supreme commander of the anti
invasion defenses, with Marshal
Rommel and Col. Gen. Johannes
Blaskowitz heading army groups.
Marshal Rommel previously had
been in supreme command.
Waiting Period Believed Short.
Although Gen. Dittmar said that
"the question of when and where
the blows will fall both east and
west still is evading" as far as the
Germans are concerned, other
broadcasters expressed the view the
period of waiting would not be long.
The German controlled Paris
radio said that I'VE are about to wit
ness the raising of the curtain for
the last act of the play"
Broadcasting from Moscow to the
\ Soviet armies, the Russian COM
mentator, I. Yermashev, declared:
THE Red Army is ready for fresh
battles ready to pursue the
enemy from the east and deliver the
coup de grace in his own lair in
conjunction with the Anglo-Amer-
ican armies"
A German news agency broadcast
said The Russians are certainly
planning a summer offensive" DOS
Sibly starting on several sectors 81
multaneously, and Paris joined in
with the statement the Soviet drive
would stretch from Estonia to the
Black Sea.
Polish Underground Ready.
"1he comparative calm on the
Russian front and the Allied march
on Rome can only be regarded as
the parts of composite invasion
pattern" the broadcast added.
Berlin concluded that the ex-
pected Russian offensive might 'be
a sign for the Allies in the west"
to attack.
In his personal inspection Of Ger
man invasion defenses, Marshal
Rommel was said to have paid par
ticular attention to Normandy and
its Cherbourg peninsula, directly
across from England, where Ger
man dispatches to Sweden declared
the Allies might make their main
assault.
Here in Britain three Poles who
recently escaped from Europe said
at a press conference that a we'll
trained Polish underground army Is
ready to strike at signal from the
exiled government in London.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Waste Paper Salvage
Hits New High in April

A new high in waste paper col
lections was established in the Dis
trict last month when 13,438, ,236
pounds were turned in, Charles A.
Appleby, vice chairman of the
District Salvage Committee, an
nounced today.
The collection brought the total
amount of waste paper collected
since January / to 50,164, ,453 pounds.
Last months collection was 618,875
pounds over the previous month.
While salvage officials are pleased
at the increase in collections, Mr.
Appleby warned that under no cir
cumstances can District residents
relent in their all out effort to
salvage waste paper to further the
war effort.
Kitchen fats collected last month
totaled 123,770 pounds and tin can
collections amounted to 155, 400
pounds, the committee reported.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Ban on Divorce Mills
For Film Crowd Sought
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
Representative Poulson, Republi-
can of California proposes a con-
stitutional amendment to ban
"quickie" divorces for rich people,
particularly the Hollywood motion
picture crowd"
The amendment, he declared, Is
specifically aimed at people buying
overnight divorces in Mexico, but
also cracks down on all divorce mills
and easy marriage markets"
Generally it would provide for
home State proceedings and would
serve to make illegal temporary
divorce residences.
II have made this proposal" Mr..
Poulson said, "at the request of a
group of citizens in my State who
are opposed to rich people, particu-
larly of the Hollywood motion pic
ture crowd, being able to buy these
Mexican divorces"
Law or justice has nothing to do
with tiff you have the money you
can get divorce and thwart all the
State laws in the Union" he said.
THE amendment also would do
away with the Reno foolishness."
Evening star., 1944-05-17
R. 5. Gawthrop, 10, Dies;
Pennsy General Solicitor
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WEST CHESTER, Pa. May IL
Robert S. Gawthrop, 10, general
solicitor for the Pennsylvania Rail-
road, a former judge of the Penn
sylvania Superior Court and former
chairman of the Pennsylvania State
Liquor Control Board, died today
IN Chester County Hospital after q
brief illness.
Mr.. Gawthrop was appointed to
the State Superior Court in 1922 to
fill a vacancy. Defeated for re-
election in 1892, he was appointed
chairman of the liquor board year
later by former Gov. Clifford
Pinchot. He was retired on pension
in 1885 and then joined the railroad
company.
A native of Chester County, he
was admitted to the bar here ir
1904.
His widow and two sons, Thomas
and Robert, jr., survive.
Evening star., 1944-05-17

the 156th General Assembly, which
opens May IS in Chicago.
They are the Rev. Drs. George
Emerson Barnes, Overlook Church,
Philadelphia; r. Lincoln Long, Col
lingwood Avenue Church, Toledo
Ohio; Roy Ewing Vale, Tabernacle
Church, indianapolis, Ind, and
Robert B. Whyte, Old Stone Church
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Government Rests Case
In Bothtub SIuyinq
BY the Associated Press

WORCESTER, Mass, May IL
Testimony by the Government
against Jesse A. Campbell, Is, of
Rome, Ga, charged with first-degree
murder of his wife, Irene, "a, of
Leicester, by drowning in hotel
bathtub here January 26, was COM
pleted yesterday before Justice
James c. Donnelly and jury in Su-
perior Court.
The case is expected to go to the
! jury some time today or tomorrow.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
Others may be nomi-

Cleveland. Others may be nomi-
mated.
One presbytery has requested that
the retiring moderator, the Rev. DR..
Henry Sloane CONN Of New York,
continue in ONCE for another year,
but ofncials said no moderator ever
has been reelected in the church's
155-year history.
Evening star., 1944-05-17
a Presbyterian Pastors
Named for Moderator
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, May 17.-Head-
quarters Of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States announced yes
terday that four clergymen have
been Endorsed by their home pres
byteries for election as moderator OF
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-06-20
Legal Notices
NOTICE

DISTRICT Of WATERBURY, IS.
PROBATE COURT, June 18th, A.
D. 1914. ESTATE OF ANNIE, aka.
ANNA NAPoLITANO, late OF
WATERBURY,, in said District,
Upon the application of FIoRE
NAPoLITANo. praying that letters
Of administration may be granted
on said Estate, as per application
on file more fully appears, It Is
ORDERED, That said applica-
ton be heard and determined at the
Probate Office in Waterbury, in said
District, on the 26th day of June
A. d. 1914 at IL o'clock In the
forenoon, Eastern War Time, and
that notice be given of the pend
ency of said application, and the
time and place OF hearing thereon
by publishing the same one time in
some newspaper having a circula-
ton in said District, also by leav-
ing with or by mailing in regis
tered letters, postage prepaid from
STEPHEN A. HOM1CK, ESQ, as he
Is Attorney for Andrew Napolitano.
and to all parties interested and re-
siding without the Probate District
OF Waterbury on or before the goth
day of June 1914.
Attest:
MARGUERITE NJ. FAHY.
6-20-1t Asst. Clerk.
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NOTICE

DISTRICT Of WATERBURY,, Is.
PROBATE COURT, June nth, A.
d. 1914. ESTATE Of VITO YER
RASTRo, late Of the Town Of
Waterbury. in said District, de-
ceased.
The Executor, having exhibited
his account with said estate to this
Court for allowance. and made APP
plication for ar order of distribu-
tion Of said estate, 1t Is
ORDERED, That the 9Th day Of
July, a. d. 1914, at 1890 O'Clock,
in the forenoon, Eastern War Time,
at the Probate Office in Waterbury,
be and the same Is, assigned for a
hearing on the allowance Of said
account. and application and the
Court directs the Executor, to give
notice thereof, by publishing this
order In some newspaper having
circulation in said District, and by
leaving with, or by mailing in reg
istered letters addressed to each Of
the persons interested, and residing
without the Probate District OF Wa
terbury, a copy OF this order, all at
least ten days before said day Of
hearing.
Attest:
MARGUERITE NJ. FAHY,
6-2O-1t Asst, Clerk.
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NOTICE

DISTRICT of WATERBURY,, SIS.
PROBATE COURT, June 18th, A.
ID. 1914. ESTATE of DANIEL NJ.
COSS, late OF the Town of Water
bury in said District, deceased.
The Executrix, having exhibited
her account with said estate to this
Court for allowance. and made APP
plication for an order of distribution
OF said estate, II Is
ORDERED, That the 26th day of
June, A. D. 1914, at $500 o'clock, in
the forenoon, Eastern War Time, at
the Probate Office in Waterbury, be
and the same Is, assigned for a hear
ing on the allowance of said ac-
count. and application and the Court
directs the Executrix, to give notice
thereof, by publishing this order in
some newspaper having a circula-
ton In said District, and by leaving
with. or by mailing in registered
letters addressed to each OF the
persons interested, and residing
without the Probate District of
Waterbury, copy of this order, all
at least three days before said day
of hearing.
Attest:
JOHN ]. HOWARD.
6-20-lt Clerk.
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Legal Notices
NOTICE

STATE of CONNECTICUT, DIS
TRLCT Of WATERBURY,, IS. PRO
S 5Aa ~, COURT, June 18th, 1914.
REAULT, late OF the town OF
Waterbury, in said district, de-
ceased,
The Court of Probate for the Dis
trict of Waterbury, hath limited and
allowed six months from the date
hereof for the creditors of said
estate to exhibit their claims for
settlement. Those who neglect to
present their accounts, properly at
tested: within said time, will be de-
barred n recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate are requested
to make immediate payment to
The CITIZENS & MANUFACTURER
NATIONAL BANK Of WATERBURY
Executor,
Waterbury, Conn.
Per Order Of Court
Attest:
MARGUERITE M. FAHY,
S-1S-3t Asst. Clerk.
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WORLD WAR II
A YEAR AGO
JUNE 20, l943
(By United Press)

my OHAscu EEcSSD
American Liberators Of the 9th
u. S. Air Force in the Middle East
drop lbs tons Of demolition and
incendiary bombs ON the south
Italian bases Of Reggie Calabria
and San Giovanni night Of june !.
Japan loses ~ out Of IS planes
in attempt to raid Darwin In Aus
tralia.
Russia claims destruction Of 256
enemy planes as against - Of
their own last week.
Chinese capture four more towns
near city Of Shanshi in attempt
to push the Japanese ont Of the
Yangtze Valley in Hupeh Province.
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NOTICE
LIQUOR PERMIT
NnTTGE nE APPLICATION

This is to give notice that I.
Desiterio Gasparri, OF 263 Harper's
Ferry Road, Waterbury, Conn, have
filed an application dated June 10th.
1914, with the Liquor Control Com
sale Of alcoholic liquor on the prem
Uses, 38 Union Street, Waterbury,
Conn. The business is owned by
Eugene Gasparri, Of 263 Harper's
Ferry Road, Waterbury. Conn.,, and
will be conducted by Desiterio Cas-
parri, OF 263 Harper's Ferry Road.
waterbury, Conn, as permittee.
DESITERIO GASPARRI.
Dated June 18th. 1914. 6-20-26
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NOTICE

WILLIAMS o. POWERS, also known
as William Z. Olson, OF Water
bury,
CATHERINE b. KENNAUGH POW
ERS, formerly OF said Waterbury,
but now of parts unknown.
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ORDER OF NOTICE

STATE of CONNECTICUT. NEW
6 6PoY' T Tqns 1 coMP 4 P as' a. the
said WILLIAM o. POWERS. pray
ing for reasons therein set forth
for a divorce. made returnable be-
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days successfully, commencing on
A. d. 1914, by some proper officer
who, with HIS doings thereon in
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STATE of CONNECTICUT, CoUN-
TY of NEW HAVEN, S., WATER
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copy of the original order of notice
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service.
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The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-02
Campus Events
Gay Halloween Parties For
Students at Normal College

A Halloween party at Goodison
Dormitory met with nigh favor by
the Goodison girls.
The recreational room was pack
ed with girls in various costumes
and prizes were given for the fun
niest, the pretties and the most
grIesome. Helen Mueckler. Luding.
ton, dressed as Hairy joe, receiy-
cd the prize for the most grue.
some; Ernestine Wilson, Ann Ar
Dor, dressed as a bum" won the
prize for the funniest, and Mariet.
Ia Jones, as an Indian princess,
won the prize as having the pref.
test. Decorations OF pumpkins and
organ and black crepe paper. and
black paper cats were placed about
the room.
The decoration committee was
headed by Eugenia Morse. Jack son,
her committee included: publicity,
Barbara Teeple. Dearborn, Rose lie
Osgood. Mt. Clemens, Eunice Ford
and Jean Jackson, Detroit. Esther
Silver, Flint, and Jean Butler, De
troit: decorations, Marjory Jacka
and Joan Meyer, Crystal Falls, and
Jean Wills, Capac.
Blanche Paynter, Ferndale. an
nounced the program. Betty
Smurthwaite Scott taught the
group two dances 10 the tunes OF
"Alexander's Ragtime Band" and
IL Danced With Dolly With a
Hole in Her Stocking" Lois Wise
man. Dearborn. played a piano solo
OF "Malgerina". Imogene Bunch,
Detroit, sang two solos. 1T Could
Happen to You, and I'm Get By
Kathryn Stable did a tap dance
called the Buck and Boogie". Flora
Hawkins played piano solo OF |
Surrender Dear, she then played
while Doris Case sang Cow Cow
Boogie" and "All the Things You
Are. Two girls crawled across the
stage. complaining OF being weak,
then the announcer, Blanche Payn-
ter, said that 1.-TWO Weeks Past.
The two girls were Jerre Halliday,
Clinton, and Patricia Harrison,
Pontiac. Jean Butler, Detroit gave
an excerpt from white Cliffs Of
Dover" and the program was con.
cluded by a barber shop quartet
composed OF Jean Willis. Capac,
Eloise Duriez, Trenton, Lois Wise
man, Dearborn. and Ruth Layman.
Detroit. sang Sweet Adeline", BE.
cause God Made You, You Wore
a Tulip.
Refreshments OF cider and dough.
nuts were served by the food COM
mittee. Mary Stevenson, Pontiac,
chairman. Mary Dillon, Jerome, AL
berta Robson, Saline, Kathryn
Long Monroe, Kathryn Simmons
Detroit, and Helen Coatta. Dear
born. Patricia PETIT, Dearborn,
was in charge OF the party.
Betty Bush, Flint, was in charge
Of the King Dormitory Halloween
party. Other committee members
were, publicity, Virginia Back
decorations. Gertchen Trap. Den
yer, Colo, Carol House, Fowlerville,
Patricia Sparrow, Detroit. and Lois
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-02

: CAdy. Mt. Clemens; refreshments,
Betty Thorshy, 81. Charles. assist.
ed by Dorothy Henry. Ferndale.
Devoune Branstetter. Trenton. and
Shirley Burg entertainment Emily
Travis, Pontiac. assisted by Pau.
line Fisher, Wyandotte. and Mary
Mossar. Dearborn; cleanup. Sally
Davis, Ypsilanti, chairman. assist.
ed by Margaret and Cynthia Ever.
EFT. Flushing.
Pauline Fisher Wyandotte, gave
reading, there was a grand march
and prizes were given for the best
costumes.
Refreshments OF cider and cook.
les were served and the party was
concluded by group singing OF sew.
eral songs as "Shine on Harvest
Moon" and by the Light OF tho
Silvery Moon. Several rounds
were then sung by the group.
The BOYS from, Munson Hall
small in number but mighty in
voice, came out to the court be.
tween the dormltories and before
the parties started serenaded the
girls with several songs. Few Hal.
loween pranks were played, The
only disturbing one was that sticks
were placed on the steering wheel
of one OF the cars near the dormi-
tories around midnight and the
girls were disturbed by the horn
blowing until the car owner sue.
ceeded in turning 1t of.
Receives Ring
Miss Beryl Kuehne, senior stu.
dent and fine arts major. has re-
ceived an engagement ring from
Nicholas Preketes, student at
Whittenburg College, Ohio.
Work Postponed
The work party scheduled for
the Christian Youth Fellowship
group for Saturday morning. has
been postponed until further notice.
The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-02

ways recognized that, in case or
war, the bay is our weak link. It's
the second largest bay on earth,
and it's not an arctic sea as so many
people think-it's no farther north
than London or Berlin. It's waters
are navigable the year roun
with long cruising bombers, the
Germans could paralyZe the nerve
centers Of all eastern Ameriea-
provided they could find suitable
places to base along the bay. That's
what Doves been working on, and
that's why tell you want him as
badly as you do. He probably has
more complete set OF pictures Of
the south shore, with its landing
possibilities, than we have. And l
can't let those pictures reach the
German High Command"
Haven't they already?"
Bowling shook his head. 81
doubt It. Those midnight trips to
meet the reconnaissance plane
would mean that Doves job isn't
quite finished"
The Colonel leaned forward.
Whats your idea about that
plane?"
1T came from the south-maybe
Winnipeg, or the United States.
Wherever 1t came from, believe
it would start out innocently
enough, as if on a pleasure trip or
a hunting trip, and when it got to
their meeting place, Dove would
help refuel it and install the
cameras. On its return, he would
take out the cameras and film, and
the plane could go back in perfect
security and land at any Canadian
or U. S. airdrome. But he knew he
had to hurry, for the United States
is cracking down more and more on
private planes"
"Then Dove kept the photo
graphic equipment here in Lear
month"
Colin nodded. ain a secret room
that he built himself at the school.
He had drums of film, developing
pans, chemicals-everything."
Bowling laid his hand on Collins
knee. "And Dove would have got
by with it, too, except for you"
"And Blair Benedict" Colin
added. "She did more than l."
The officer glanced at his watch,
then peered out the window. Steadi-
ly the winter sun sank until it
touched the lake, turning the great
expanse of ice to softest opal.
At last Colin pointed toward the
northern horizon. cup there is
where Blair and landed. We're
about seven miles from the air base
now. and it's not safe to go much
closer. You'd better come in low"
A word from Bowling to the
pilot, and the three planes began
spiraling downward. 1t was almost
dark when they landed in the spec
trail twilight of an arctic night. The
men busted themselves making
ready for the night. No fires were
allowed, but they heaped up mounds
of snow and laid their sleeping bags
behind them, while Bowling gath
cred his squad leaders about the
rough sketch map Rae had drawn.
Timing is the important thing"
the Colonel cautioned his men. "You
pilots give us two hours start, then
come over low. Try not to destroy
their bombers unless they resist or
take off. If they do-riddle them ="
Bowling drew his eiderdown
closer about him and settled himself
for the night.
(To be continued)
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