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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Elm Elm

Christmas midnight mass for the Catholic person mel which includes number of Waterburians at Brad- ley Field starting Sunday night promptly at l2OO D. m will be broadcast for the fourth successive year by WTC The complete ceremony will go the air from the Air Base Chapel with Bernard Mullins, the stations chet announcer commenting the service interpreting the prayers and the music which will be rendered by the male choir of St. Justn's Church. Hartford under the direction the Rev. Charles Hewett The celebrant o the Mass will be It. John F. Devn, Catholic Base Chap lain at Bradley Field He will be assisted by Rev. Charles McNernev as deacon and Rev. Richard Dunn as sub- deacon both of St. Marys Church. Windsor Locks Staff Sergeant Thomas C. Conroy of the Air Base personnel will be master of ceremonies Rev. John S. Kennedy, associate editor of the Catholic Transcript and ire uuent visitor in Waterbury, will deliver the sermon Plans for Christmas decorations of the chapel have been made by the American Red Cross Unit of Stafford Springs
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

Who remembers the good old days when came tne day before Christmas you kids got your customary $S Christmas money, started out bright and early n the morning, shOpped the counters from end to end' returning home laden with cOlOred sunset chromo (goOd enough for quarter) for Ma, the traditional tie for Pa hat pin for Sis Jackn the-bOx for Bud, and any number of priceless @ gadgets from the Five and Ten with what left of the two bucks after the highght presents were bought the entire trans action using up less than morning?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

In the Shopping Line With just one more day to go folks still milling around the stores looking for Uncle Henry ribbon to tie up the family gifts the nuts and the hard candy, always dandy. The allOut shopping affray this year like something never before Clerks endeavored to be patient negOtia ing unprecedented sales New help for the holiday rush did the best they could under the circumstances The local stores had plentiful stocks Thanksgiving the shelves look as empty as a New Yorker cartoon and sellers and buyers look like the end of perfect day. Here's praise for mercantile establishments and the patience of those who served the public during the weeks preceding Christmas. And don't forget to stop at the store your way home and get loaf or two of bread to last you a long weekend!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

Good Night.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22

Friday, December 9 (10O:0O p. m., EWT.)
 Paul Taylor's chorus provides the musical backdrop through Albert Hay Mollette's version of the prayer and the scene finds Amos explain ing its meaning to his youthful daughter, Arbadella, as they await the coming of Santa Claus.
 Morton Downey's unit, which B now overseas entrtaining troops, is comprised of Frances Mccoy, rhy- thm singer; Joseph Genell, guitar ist; George Prentice, puppeteer; Joyce Breazelle, novelty acrobat;
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
WALTON AND THE OTHER BOYS

There very many places Where soldier boys must go To train for many battles, And to vanquish the foe They go to Ketchikan, Alaska, And Cape Decision very near, They fish in those salty waters And they eat fish, bear and deer. They view the great big ocean And the rocks and many mountains, Those marvellous all around Can anything more grand and beautiful On this whole earth be found? Let never fail to wish them all that's best And always ask the great One up above In Alaska or wherever they may be To bless all of those noble boys That we and many more may be free.
 DANIEL GILLETTE.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
Good Evening.
ANT IT THE TRUTH!

When the final Christmas package is done up
 And every single card is attached, And odds and ends of paper gathered So the famiy's things look sort of patched Then the time you sit down
 And ponder this gift-giving racket, Which gives you the pre-Chrsmas jitters,
 Wondering-have I forgot a single packet? When the very last decoration is finished,
 The last ball attached to the tree, The last raisin thrown into the pudding,
 The wreaths hung where all can see Then is the time you can rest you
 Merry gentlemen and ladies too, And dream perhaps, about white Christmas
 And sleep 8 couple of nights through.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
TOMORROW

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 Carols 10: :00-Musical Autographs 10:30-The Man Called x II 1:0O-Yankee Network News 11:15-Shady Valley Jamboree 12:00-Sign Off
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-22
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 5:30-Jack Armstrong 5:45-Santa Claus program 6:00-Yankee Network News 6:15-Music for Dining 6:30-News: Interlude 6:45-Pleasure and Profit: News 7:00-Happy Island / 7:30-Phone Your Answer 7:45-Waltz Time 8:00-Stars of the Future 8:30-Famous Jury Trials 9:00-Gangbusters 9:30-Spotlight Bands: Christmas 10:00-Earl Goodwin 10:15-Community Sing 10:30-The Doctor Talks It Over l0:45-String Ensemble 11:00-Yankee Network News 11:15-Ray Henle 11:30-Pages of Melody 11:55-News 12:G0-Sign Off.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

ously deserves a prize. This book
actually got one.
DR.. Zenzes claims that she not only
wrote il for her boss but also sub
mitted ii in his name to a CORE
spondence school and-guess what?
1t earned him a doctorate of philos-
ophy. too
Lacking apples, maybe he thought
the best way TO keep the doctors
away from him was to become a
doctor himself.
DR.. Zenzes also found time to keep
a diary, which, with a Boswellian
gesture, she sprang on the court.
Many of its entries allegedly give de-
tails OF the army's futile courtship of
the doctor-baron. For instance:
Read a book on Alaska in connec-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

told the court, an attempt to instill
in her employer a love of military
service; the supervision of his wine
list; the redecoration of his apart
ment; the sending of flowers TO CLAM
our girls. as well as cash to his di-
vorced wife, and finally, the writing
of a thesis.
The thesis was entitled, she said,
"The Sexualization Of Metaphysics.
Anybody who can do that TO meta
physics-and get away with it-obvi-
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

ton with proposed military service
by defendant tit's not clear whether
she foresightedly called the Baron
defendant in the diary or inserted
the word later.
From z p. m. till 1 a. m. con.
ferred with defendant and skiing ex-
pert regarding teaching defendant
TO ski so as to join Alaska forces of
ski troops"
This Arctic conference may have
given him cold feet, for, she testified,
he later told her "he would never
join the Army-the Army is for com
mon, ordinary people"
Of the $1,000 demanded in her
damage suit, she was granted $2,102,
but the Baron has appealed.
Things went awry between Cert
and Gertrude after his divorce from
his wife, the Baroness Lucia, who
once described him in court as "a pro
Queer for diversion. an author by in
clination. and a philanderer by in
Stinct and' profession"
Lucia is a former German screen
star. appropriately enough, her mis-
adventure with DR.. Wiesbader in
volvcd a number of tried and true
cinemaic devices, among them a raid,
a slight case OF amnesia and, at the
end, dazzling nudist display under
electric lights.
According TO her story, she had
dropped in on the physician at her
husbands request TO deliver some
champagne. First, they discussed
her marital infelicity, and then, she
testified, the doctor offered her some
wine, which brought on a sort of
mental blackout.
That same evening her husband
and raiding party found her clothes
less in the doctors clothes closet,
while Wiesbader, also negatively at
tired, looked on, the court was told,
from behind a screen.
The Baron sued, and having freed
himself from his wife, allegedly went
on to stage the threeyear campaign
to free himself from induction, which
ended in his arrest along with that
of DR.. Hutschnecker and several
others, charged with being co-plotters.
All pleaded innocent.
Meanwhile, the Baron had acquired
another wife, Hildegard Lederer Guth.
an AuStrian-born nurse who minis
tered to him while he was in Dr.
HutSchnecker's care. AS his nurse,
she might have been called TO take
the stand at his trial. but as his wife
the government evidently considered
her of less value, and passed her by.
Recently, Cert is also said to have
acquired a Connecticut estate, where
he may at last get around to the ex-
tensive growing of apples.
THE AMERICAN WEEKLY ,
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

the diagnosis was a fake; the doctor
said no, il was correct.
st AWAY. the Baron was arrested,
a& recently had to stand trial as a
draft evader.
His difficulties with the Ph.D., Ger
trude Zenzes. had previously taken
the form of suit for $4,000, repre-
senting her estimate of what he
owed on an alleged promise to pay
her $50 a week for life.
She also tossed in a 5000 bill for
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18
By CHARLES ROBBINS

If, as tney say. an apple day keeps
the doctor away, playboy Baron
y Cert Won Gontard would have done
- 10 buy himself an orchard.
~Secause doctors have been bad luck
for the Baron, very bad indeed. Not
only the medical kind. but even one
feminine doctor of philosophy.
Born in Germany. the son Of
genuine baron. Won Gontard Is now an
American citizen. He settled here
soon after the NaZis came TO power
II was a logical move, for his ma
ternai grandfather was a wealthy ST.
Louis brewer. and most of the huge
family fortune is invested in the
United States.
But for the doctors, who seemed 90
give him nothing but headaches, his
sojourn in this country might have
al cIr
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

CINAA aAA OlSA bAtA sohAhAANos
The trouble started a
few years ago. when a
fashionable Fifth Avenue
gynecologist. DR.. Hans
Wiesbader. became over
~ attentive 10 the petite,
blond Baroness Lucia
Won Gontard.
The Baron got a di-
vorce, but apparently did
not lose faith in doctors
with Germa an names.
Soon afterward he en-
gagged DR.. Arnold Aaron
Hutschnecker as his per-
sonal physician.
According TO the FBI.
Hutschnecker diagnosed
his wealthy clients trou-
bic as an allergy TO Draft
Boar s and furnished
him with gall bladder
disease history that
helped keep him out of
the l.. S. armed forces.
The government said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-06-18

services actually
performed dur
ing the Gig h I
years she acted
as his secretary.
T h @ services
In dad che
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Beaverdam

Mrs. Cynthia Elliott of Cleveland
visited the past week with Mr.. and
Mrs. Delmer Beery and son.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Amstutz of
Pandora, Mr.. and Mrs. Calvin
Amstutz of Elmira were recent visit
ors of Mr.. and Mrs. Wm.~ Amstutz,
Mrs. Gideon Steiner Jr. and son.
Mrs. Charles Gebert of Ecorse,
Mich, spent the past two weeks
with Mrs. Besse Hanna.
Warren Durkee resigned his
position as principal at Sunnyside
School in Washington c. H. and has
accepted a four year contract as
principal at Reading High school
near Cincinnati.
Kenneth Younkman of Dayton,
William Armour of Florida and
Joline Shaffer of West Unity were
Wednesday evening dinner guests of
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Younkman and
grandson.
The members of the Vesperian S.
S. class were entertained on Wednes-
day evening at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Wolfe. Those
present were Mrs. Harmon Downey,
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Pugh, Mrs.
Everett Rowland, Mr.. and Mrs. G..
Arnold, Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Amstutz,
Mrs. Lille Anderson, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Cook, Mr.. and Mrs. A. J. Lut-
terbein, Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Trout,
Mrs. Gideon Steiner, Jr. and son, and
Ruth Durkee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Reeder and
daughter Irene, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Lewis were Friday evening dinner
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Lewis and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Daniel Younkman
and family of Clyde are spending
the week here with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Shaffer and
daughter of West Unity spent the
past week with Mr.. and Mrs. John
Augsburger.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merrill Arnold and
son Frederick entertained group
of relatives on Sunday evening in
honor of the birthday anniversary of
Mrs. Ella Yant. Those enjoying the
party were Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Bowers and daughter, Mrs. Margaret
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Yant and son of Lima, Mr.. and Mrs.
Roy Arnold and son of Cairo, Mr.
and Mrs. Willis Arnold and family,
Mr.. and Mrs. Grant Barber and
daughters, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Arnold and family, Mr.. and Mrs.
Harry Yant and grandson, Mr.. and
Mrs. Kent Amstutz and family, Mrs.
Ella Yant.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mort, Mrs.
Dora Young and Mr.. and Mrs.
Delbert Neuensehwander and sons of
Lima were callers the past week of
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott Lewis.
Rev. and Mrs. Bryce Nichols of
Piqua We're Thursday evening din
ner guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Oscar
Weaver. The Nichols had spent the
past week at Lakeside. Mrs. Nichols
is Springfield District Director of
Children's work and children's
Secretary for the w. S. c. S.
Miss Doris Binkley of Lima is
spending the week with her grand
mother Mrs. Emma Bassitt.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Unbeaten Triplett Softball Team
Wins Over Findlay BY so Score

After garnering seven runs in the
first two innings, the undefeated
Triplett softballteam added another
tally in the fourth to slug out an s
to victory over the Point Service
team of Findlay last Monday night
at Harmon field.
1t was the Bluffton crews eighth
successive win of the season, and
they turned in one of their best
defensive performances of the year
as they held the visitors to one
lone hit.
Wildness of Davidson, starting
hurler for the Findlay crew, mixed
with timely hitting by Bluffton's
sluggers, set the stage for Mondays
victory in the early part of the
game.
Three bases on balls, interspersed
with two hits gave Bluffton three
runs in the initial stanza, and two
walks, an error and three hits were
good for four more tallies in the
second.
After Leist took over the mound
assignment for Findlay in the third
inning, however, Buttons hitting
attack was checked except for the
fourth stanza when more runs came
in on two successive hits, the second
of which was a double by Bert
Swank.
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to see what whoppers were bought
by the club.
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Richland Center

Gust Basinger is patient in
Lima Memorial hospital where he
was taken Sunday after a weeks
illness at his home.
Mrs. Fred Dobson of Ann Arbor.
Mich, is spending this week with
her mother, Mrs. Sam Kohler and
daughter.
Gene Hochstettler of Detroit spent
the past week at the Walter and
Andy Hochstettler homes.
Mrs. Rolly Moser and infant son
was removed to her home Monday
from Community hospital. A Miss
Snyder is doing the house work.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz, Mr.
and Mrs. Reno Gratz and daughter
spent Sunday afternoon with Mr..
and Mrs. Richard Core and family
of Col. Grove.
Mrs. Walton Alderfer and daughter
Shirley, Mrs. Donivian Gratz and son
Brett, Mr.. and Mrs. Otto Amstutz
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Harvey Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah Finke, Mrs.
Sarah Finke, Mr.. Dan Badertscher,
Mrs. Martha Kenermeyer, Jerry and
Ronald Ranke of st. Marys spent
Sunday evening with Mr.. and Mrs
Sam Badertscher.
Mrs. Lemon of Springfield, Mr..
and Mrs. Rhuel Kohler and sons
called Sunday on Mrs. Sam Kohler
and daughter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur Miller and
family were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Steiner
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Earl Crawfs, Mrs.
Alma Bixel and son Bobby, Mr.. and
Mrs. Peter Bixel, Mr.. Levi Mellinger
were Sunday dinner guests of Mr..
and Mrs. Andy Hochstettler and
family. Supper guests were Mr.. and
Mrs. Lester Lehman and family of
Berne, Ind, Wanda and June Hoch-
stettler accompanied them home for
a week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Marquart and
son Melvin spent Sunday evening
with Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Leiber
and sons.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilford Gratz, Mr..
and Mrs. Russell Schaublin and
family were Sunday dinner guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Schaublin
and daughter Rachel.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul Rusmisel visited
relatives near Hume, Ohio, Sunday.
Mrs. Sam Kohler and Mrs. Memo
Geiger spent Wednesday and Thurs
day with Adam and Albert Lugin-
buhl.
Karen Zimmerman is spending
several days with Carol Jean Frantz.
Past week callers at the Robert
and Amos Gerber home were: Mr..
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and Mrs. Frank Burkholder, Mrs.
Jess Amstutz and son Bobby, Mrs.
Henry Green, Mrs. Waldo Hoffstet-
ter and daughter Esther Louise, Mr..
and Mrs. Franklin Bower, Miss Vera
Amstutz, Mr.. and Mrs. Sam Bame,
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion HochstettIer
and daughter Emily and Rev.
Schultz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest Gratz called
Sunday evening on Mr.. and Mrs. J.
L. Gratz.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Luginbuhl
and sons of Cleveland are spending
this week with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. |.
Luginbuhl.
Past week callers at the D. II.
Strunk home we're Mrs. Charley
Stratton, Mrs. Gerald Hilty and son,
Mrs. John Althaus, Mrs. Ezra
Basinger, Miss Nettie Dodge, Miss
Lucille Steiner, Mrs. Kenneth Wise
ly and Mrs. John Steiner.
Mrs. Fred Dobson of Ann Arbor,
Mrs. Sam kohler and daughter
spent Sunday night with Mr.. and
Mrs. Chas. Friedley of Lima.
The Bluffton news. [volume] (Bluffton, Ohio) 1875-current, 1944-08-03
Ton of Fish Released

The ton of fish on order from
Lake Erie fish house for restocking
in the local quarries became a
reality last Friday when a fish truck
from the conservation division ar
rived in town loaded with approx
mately 5000 Lake Erie channel cat
fish.
The fish were in excellent condition
and ranged in size from II inches
to II inches in length. Fourteen
tubs full of fish land we mean
heaped up tubs with no water in
them) were released in the Buckeye
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present to aid in the work of re-
leasing the fish. Some carried tubs
filled solid to the brim with squirm-
ing catfish, others took pictures of
the action. In handling the critters
some of the fellows were wounded.
Aldine Kohl went around with his
thumb squirting blood after having
been snagged by the fin of big
catfish. Several others were wounded
in the fracas before all the fish were
all released. Manages was so over
whelmed with the size of the fish
that he carried dead specimen, that
had succumbed on the long journey,
over to Triplett Plant 2 for the boys
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sistant Supervisor of the game and
fish department of the Lake Erie
conservation district, was at one
time a resident of this community.
Mr.. Brown was much interested in
the progress of the local club and
urged us to keep up the good work.
He remarked on the large member
ship of our club and stated that If
we were interested in procuring
ton of crappies arrangements can
be made through the division. The
total cost of the ton of channel cat
fish came to $4,000.
A good many club members were
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Roger Berky and Bert Swank
were pace-setters of Buttons hit
ting in the contest. Berky cracked
a three-run homer and two singles
in four chances, and Swank got three
hits, including a double, in the same
number of trips to the plate.
Maynard Geiger, starting pitcher
for Bluffton, gave up no hits in six
innings and had men on base only
in the fourth and fifth when he is
sued two bases on balls. Timer
Spaeth, who took over in the seventh
continued to pitch shutout ball, and
gave up only one hit.
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quarry, four tubs full in the National
quarry, and better than a tub full
were released in the body of water
back of the Harmon field dam in
Riley creek
This is the first shipment of fish
for restocking purposes to be receiv-
ed by the club this summer. Later
on this fall additional shipments of
bass, crappies, and blue gills will
arrive for distribution in the local
quarries.
The fish were seined from Lake
Erie by the Gold Creek Fish Co.
located at Venice, Ohio. The truck
driver Curtice Brown, now the AS
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Pot Likker

"Pos ikker" is the juice of ham
or fatback cooked with turnip, poke
or collard green's. The late Gov.
Huey P. Long of Louisiana claimed
that corn pone Ia cross between
hoe cake and corn bread) should be
dunked in pot likker, but Georgians
issued an indignant denial, contend
ing that the pone should be "crum-
bled" into the pot likker.
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Fishing Improves

flSning improves
Even before the big shipment of
catfish arrived George Stepleton
showed the local anglers how to
catch them by "horsing in" 90 inch
catfish on cane pole at the Buckeye
quarry.
Jess Manages will without a doubt
win the championship this year. Jess
sure knows his stuff when it comes
to fishing and even though this
writer practically leaned on Jess's
shoulder, fished within an inch of his
line, used his bait, set the same
depth, spit on the bait in the same
manner, Jess caught the fish and
your scribe caught none! There
ought to be law against showing
people up. Manages snagged two nice
bass right under our noses. (Ye
scribe had an audience-they sup
piled the additional noses.)
But then, the worm turns they
say, and last night this old boy
(meaning me) really hit lucky
streak. No less than three bass
were caught Zone was even legal
size-12 inches to be exact) and
four of those brand new channel
cats released the other day. The
old fly rod really got workout and
some fish even got away-we have
not yet completely mastered
Manges's technique. This exciting
episode happened at the Buckeye in
the evening Just at dusk and min
nows were used for bait.
Oh yes, some others caught fish
also. Harold Crawfs landed nice
bass at the Buckeye and another
fellow (could not learn his name)
also snagged nice one.
By the way Jess Manges has
caught at least so bass this year in
local waters. Who said fishing is
not good in the Bluffton quarries!
Just week ago Manages landed 3
bass. Two were IA inches long and
the other 10.
Harl Mann had thrill the other
evening just watching the fish in the
reservoir above the Riley creek dam
by Harmon field. Chop says those
big "cats" we released in there
would swim back and forth under
the bridge like a bunch of sheep
running in pasture. He noticed a
good many other kind of fish also
churning the water.
81 Diller says "By the size of the
crowd attending the Fourth of July
Rodeo and the mob that turned out
for each showing of the motion
picture "Home in Indiana" at the
Star theatre, it looks like Bluffton
people really go for horses.
Bow and arrow hunters this fall
may roam over all of southern
Michigan in search of deer, the State
Conservation Commission decided
recently. The commission approved
the game divisions recommendation
to open all southern Michigan coun-
ties to the gunless sportsmen,
previously limited only to special
Allegan County season. The new
season will run from Nov. / to IA.
Game experts have reported deer
in every southern Michigan county,
with a sizable herd in Livingston
County where farm crop damage has
been reported.
The commission also approved the
request of the schooicraft county
board of supervisors to remove pro-
lection for bear in that county.