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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
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(By United RresS)
 November 1-The cigaret short age hit rock-botto1n across the country today, and United Press re- porters in major cities found 1t vir- tually impossible to buy popular brands or, in some cities, any cig- aretS at all.
 A United Press reporter in At lanta asked for cigarets in 19 stores in the business district and found none.
 A tour of Chicago's loop turned ur a few packs of the not so we'll known brands, but no popular ones Of 14 stores along Manhattan's 42nd street, the heart of New York two had few packs of Camels and Chesterfields, eight had no cigarets of any kind, and the rest had tiny stocks of less well known brands
 Tn San Francisco, "No cigarettes today" signs were being displayed by cigar stores through all of the bay aera.
 Boston merchants said the short dSS 1lCtGI 41du OCGA4 0V SNVOAS. A~A~J had few cigarettes, of any kind.
 Periodically, a reporter in Col umbia S. C., bought three cartons cartons, not packs-of well known brand from merchant who had never had seen him before. The merchant had plenty of cigarettes
 A high executive of one of the big five' of cigarette manufactur- CTS told the United Press that . flourishing and growing black mar ket was at least partly responsible It starts with the jobbers who use to sell to -jobbers in a compe- titive field that kept prices low, he said. Now, knowing they can gel almost any price they ask, some iobbers are selling to night clubs and to saloons and direct to retail CTS this executive continued.
 "Their price per case used to pe $72." he said. "Now it runs from SIS to $80 to retailers and saloons and up to $90 to night clubs. We cigarette manufacturers know the
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbors especially Waterbury Farrel Foun- dry Machine Co.,; Waterbury Time Corp, Middlebury; and Waterbury Mfg. Co.,, Waterbury, for floral of- ferings and the expressions of sym pathy and Kindness shown us dur ing our recent bereavement, the death of our beloved husband and father, Theodore Martin.
 (Signed)
 Mrs. LAURA MARTIN (Wife),
 DOROTHY and BETTY MARTIN, 10-31-2t (Daughters)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
CARD OF THANKS

We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbers, especially Waterbury Tool Co.; !n- ternational Association of Machin- ist's Union, Local 1885; Boys of the Shoe Hardware and Shea's Res taurant, for floral offerings sub stantial offerings and the. expres- sions of sympathy and Kindness shown us during our recent be- reavement, the death of our beloved son and brother, Maurice Cashman'
 (Signed)
 MRS. DANIEL EASTMAN
 and FAMILY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
CARn OF THANKs

We wish to thank our many friends, relatives and neighbors, especially Receiving Dept. of the American Brass Co.,, Wtby. Brass Goods Branch: Employees of the Watertown Undergarment Corp, for floral offerings and the expressions of sympathy and kindness shown us during our recent bereavement, the death of our beloved daughter and sister, Julia Barnosky.
 (Signed)
 10-31-2t BARNOSKY FAMILY.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

REED-In this city, Oct. S1st, ls44' Mrs. Barbara B. Reed, of SS Wood- services Thursday at S:sO p. m.. at the Mulville Funeral Home, Z1O West Main Street. Funeral Friday at II a. m., from the funeral home' Burial in Riverside cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Paris Gets Raid Scare

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

CContinued from Page D tain because of the general scarcity.
 Shipments to men overseas, hb- erated countries and the greatly tr- creased public demand has brought about the general condition. Lo- cal wholesalers today bitterly con- demned 'black market operators in the field" and declared such pro- cedure should be fully prosecuted.
 we will see this through, with the aid of the public" the Water bury dealers declared to The Demo- crat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
DIED

MANCANARO-In this city, Oct. sIst 1944. Mrs. Josephine (SuracD Manganaro, of IA Griggs street. Funeral Friday at 8 a. m, from TaPorta Funeral Home, 67 Holmes Avenue, to St. Lucy's Church. Bur ial in family plot in Calvary ceme- tery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01
Supply Of
 Smokes Ebbs

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-01

BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Schools Prepare
For Bond Sales

School chilcren throughout I'M
perial county prepared Monday to
play their usual stellar roles in the
present war bond drive.
The national Schools-at-War pro-
gram this time calls for a Name
Your-Weapon campaign the schools
selecting which type of weapon they
wish to buy and decorate with the
name of the individual school.
Mrs. Florence Finney, deputy
county school superintendent and
head of the SchoolS-at-War cam
paign in Imperial county, said she
plans to visit schools as rapidly as
possible to familiarize herself with
the arrangements and plans each
school has made.
Bard school in the eastern part
of the county will buy an ambulance
this time, selling enough bonds to
finance the purchase between Sep
tember 18 and February l. The cost
is $3.50 and the children in Bard
school already have sold more than
5000 worth.
Mulberry school will buy gas
tank truck for $3.50.
Selections of pupils in other
schools have not been made as yet
but will be made soon, Mrs. Finney
said Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Main Fortresses Seized
Along Six-MiIe Front
yank Advance Presses on at Rate
OF Mile and Half a Day as
Final Battle for Key City Opens

PARIS, Nov IL. (UP)-Emerlcan assault forces storm
ed the ring of Metz Notifications from the south
mile front Monday and captured Fort Verny five miles
below Metz and four neghborng in advances rang
ing up to a mile and a half.
Fort Verny the first Of % ribbed orresses around
Metz to fall into American hands, by Major Gen
eral Stafford rwins fifth division of the U. S. Third
army soon after Lieutenant General George S. Patons
troops opened the battle of Metz key baston of the Ger
man defenses in France.
The town of Veny 800 yards south of the fort Cony
on the Mosee 5I2 miles southwest of Metz; Pommereux,
62 miles south and Lienon, 7 miles southeast also
swept up in the first frontal push against the sprawng
maze of Metz Notifications
United Press Correspondent Collie Small reported from
the Third front that the doughboys entered Fort
Verny in few minutes after They found the Ger
mans had withdrawn from the underground bastOn and
three giant easements comprising the fort
The gap between the prongs of the American pincers
clamped Metz still about IL miles apart Small
trying to get out.
Late front dispatches said unidentified fort the
east bank of the MOsee river at ThOnve. at the north
of the Third front surrendered Monday afternoon
to the fifth division.
The fort up the white flag after Commute artil-
ery barrage Other said the Americans had cap
ured nearly all of Fort Thonvle key to the defnses of
the of the name, but it not clear whether
this was the fort that gave up.
Other Third army units slugged their way forward an
other mile from the MCenigsmacher brdgehead near the
Luxembourg border, attacking five-mile front
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Illness Seizes
First Lady
OF the Theafer

NEW YORK, Nov. 13. CUP) =
Ethel Barrymore was taken from
the home Of her daughter to a
hospital Monday suffering from
pneumonia and a cardiac condition,
DR.. Louis Rene Kaufman, her
physician, announced.
The temperature of the first lady
Of the theater was l03 and her
heart condition at $50 am. was
fair" Kaufman said. He called DR..
Thomas McGavack into consultation
and said that a second bedside bull
letin lWoulc be issued at pm.
Miss Barrymore, IS, was forced to
cancel a Broadway engagement for
the first time in so years on Friday
when illness prevented her appear
ance in the star role of "Embezzled
Heaven" at the National theater.
Ethel Barrymore Colt, at whose
home she was staying, said that
her mother had grippe.
Kaufman said that Miss Barry
more showed apparent improvement
Sunday but developed a pulmonary
congestion during the night.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
METZ BARRIERS FALL TO PATT0N'S FORCES
Berlin Scouts
ports Of
HitIer's Death

LONDON, Nov. Is. (UP)-
Berlin spokesman, struggling
to counter worldwide rum
Ors that Adolf Hitler is i'll,
dead, or insane, declared
Monday that he is in excel
lent health but carefully re
Trained from disclosing the
whereabouts of the mysteri-
Ously-sil'ent fuehrer.
Taking cognizance for the first
time of the recent flood of specula-
ton caused by Hitler's prolonged
silence, the German Transocean
news agency broadcast a statement
by competent German quarters"
denying that anything untoWard had
happened to the Nazi lea6er.
Transocean cited the Hitlerian
language CT the proclamation read
to the German nation by Gestapo
Chief Heinrich Himmler yesterday
as proof" that the fuehrer was
alive and functioning as leader of
the Reich.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Russians Speed
Heavy Siege
Against Budapest

MOSCOW, Nov. 13. UP)-Soviet
armored forces. pushing along a 25-
mile wide front, stepped up their
offensive against Budapest from
the southeast Monday, with one
salient threatening the big COM
munications center of Jaszbereny,
81 miles east of the capital.
CThe Berlin radio said strong
Russian forces had entered Jaszbr-
eny, indicating that the fall of the
big rail and highway town was i'm
minent)
While the lull still continued along
the siege line four miles below Bu-
dapest, other forces of Marshal Rod
ion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrain-
ian army were converging rapidly
on the Hungarian capital from the
southeast and northeast.
"a London broadcast, recorded by
CHS, said a German commentator
bad described the Russian drive
southeast of Budapest was ION a
big scale" across a completely flat
country favorable for Soviet tank
forceS.)
More than 80 towns or inhabited
places were captured by the Red
army troops as they hammered out
galns up to l3 mics in one day and
Killed or captured 210O more Ger
mans and HungarianS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Court Reprimands
Father Of -Four
On Drunk Charqe

What your wife ought to do to
YOU the next time you get drunk
is to sew you up in a blanket and
beat the living daylights out of you
with a barrel-stave."
This was the reprimand admins
tered to Robert Durand, Ell Centro,
ty acing Police Jucge j. E. Simp-
son, when Durand was arraigned
before him on a charge of drunken
ess Monday morning.
Durand was arrested Sunday after
neighbors in the 300 block on Mag
nolia street had called police twice
to send an officer to compel Dur
anc to stop beating his wife, police
said.
Have you any children?' Judge
Simpson asked.
-Four" replied Durand
THAT was pretty ugly show to
put on before your children, wasn't
it?" Judge Simpson asked. For
them to have to see you beating
their mother I think you had bet
ter stay sober after this"
Informed that it was Durand's
first appearance before the court,
Judge Simpson gave Durand the al
tentative of SIS fine or 7ia days
in the city Jail.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Mother and Son
Die of Burns
In CaIexico Fire
Court Blaze Victims
Raised to Four;
Two Are in Hospital

CALEXICO, November 13.
Victims of the Armistice
Day fire in Palm Court
reached four Monday when
Mrs. Walton, 81, and her
seven year old son. John
Preston, died from burns
suffered in the blaze which
cost the lives of two other
children.
Two more of the Walton children
are in the county hospital suffer-
ing from severe burns. John Ray
mono Walton, AZ, the husband and
father, who also was burned, was
able to leave the hospital Monday.
Erma Jean, 2, and Tells, IL, still
are in the hospital
Funeral services for Mrs. Walton,
John Preston, Joanne, IL, and Dar-
row, 4, were not complete Monday.
Meanwhile James B. Brazie, CAL
eXico fire chief, continued his in
veStigations in an attempt to ascer-
tain the cause of the fire which
destroyed the Walton home at a.
m. Saturday.
CaleXico firemen rushed to the
scene of the fire anC were success
full in saving some of the children,
1t was made known Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
B-29 Spoilers
Seen Over Jopan

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.
iUP)-Tokyo reported that
American B-29 Superfort-
resses, spotting targets for
an expected major aerial of
fensive against the japanese
homeland, extended t h e i r
aerial reconnaissance Mon
Gay to the Nagoya area, Japan's
biggest aircraft center.
The official Japanese Domei agen-
cy also asserted that an undiScloSed
number of American warships had
bombarded Two island in the Vol
cano group, only 700 miles south
of Japan proper, Saturday night
for the second time in little more
than three months.
Official American sources declined
comment on both Japanese reports.
Domei said a lone Superfortress,
apparently from a United States
base in the Marianas. flew over the
west coastal area" of Ise bay short
ly after 10 am. Tokyo time Mon
cay, fingered nearly half hour and
then flew off without having DROP
ped any bombs.
Use bay cuts into southern Hon.
shu, largest of the Japanese home
islands, and at its head lies Nagoya,
site of the big MitSubishi aircraft
factories, textile plants and other
industrial works. Nagoya is 16C
miles west southwest of Tokyo.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13

Adolf Hitler has never read proc
lamations in person, but always had
them read by his minister the
agency aCded in answer to one ru-
NOR that he had been unable to
deliver the address personally.
Earlier, Berlin radio commen-
tator reiterating Hitler's boast that
the Nazi regime would not repeat
the surrender of 1918, admitted that
the fuehrer had been compelled"
to turn over to Himmler and other
party leaders the task of rallying
the German nation for the final
phase of the war.
The Berlin commentator, Rudolf
Semmler, told the German public
in nationwide broadcast that the
decisive hours of the war are at
hand, with the mysteriously silent
fuehrer still absent.
Within a measurable space of
time he said, "the question will
arise: Do we capitulate in front of
superior enemy ocds in men and
material, or will they capitulate as
they see our unshakeable determina-
tion?"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Nozis Fire w
Bombs on yunks

LONDON, Nov. 13. CUP) = A
censor-delayed dispatch from the
continent disclosed Monday that the
Germans have fired their big W.
explosive rockets against American
First army troops in Belgium.
The date of the dispatch had been
deleted by the censor, but it re-
ported that the flying torpedoes
up to that time. lat least, had not
hit any military targets. The only
target in Belgium which the Ger
mans have named is Antwerp. which
the Allies hope to open soon to
supply and troop ships.
United Press War Correspondent
Jack Frankish. with the First army,
said the rockets demolish any build
ing they may hit, but penetrate so
deeply that their blast causes vir-
tually no damage to adjoining
structures.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
L-eyte
Battle
Mounts
yanks Slash
Way Through
Isle Jungle es

ALLIED IIEADQUAR-
TIERS, Philippines, Nov. 13.
(UP)-American tanks and
bayonet welding infantry
hacked their way closer to
the Japanese stronghold of
Ormoc on a 46-mile front
through jungles, mountains
and mud Monday in savage fight
ing reminiscent of Guadalcanal and
Tarawa.
japanese re is tance increased
steadily as at least four American
divisions frightened their siege arc
arounc perhaps $4,000 enemy troops
penned in an 800-square- mile pocket
in northwest Leyte.
In the main drive down the Pima
mopoan- Ormoc road, Major Cen
eral Frederick A. Irving's oath divi-
sion was making what he called
satisfactory progress below Limon,
19 miles north Of the air and sea
base of Ormoc.
Other 24th diVlSlOn troops ad-
vancec three miles south from bit
/ terly-contested Hill 1928 and seized
2350-foot Mt. Catabaran, slightly
more than a mile east of the Ormoc-
Pinamopoan road and dominating
the northern enc OF the Orinoc cor
ridcr
Dismounted troops of the first
cavalry division three an6 a half
miles southeast of Mt. Catabaran
reached Mt. Cabungangan, seven
and half miles northeast of the
main japanese airfield at Valencia
and l3 miles from Ormoc.
Farther south, the American 7th
and Goth division were report
ed officially to te closing in on
Clmoc from positions l8 miles east
and IL miles south.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Capacity Crowds
Attend Rodeo

The widest rip raringest rodeo in
, history came to successful close
at the Imperial fair grounds after
dark Sunday in the last act CT the
Armietice Day celebration sponsored
nv Rovce Aten post of the American
Legion
More than 2600 packed the grand
stand Sunday, screaming wildly as
the Brahma bulls spilled cowboys
all over the lot, climbed fences and
chased horses and men with un-
precedented abandon.
Servicemen and civilians jostled
good naturedly for places to sit
while rodeo managers begged the
crowd to 'move over and make room
for just one more"
Alex Barron, the beloved clown,
once again delighted an Imperial
Valley rCdeo audience with his
oniics. This amateur clown gets bet
ter all the time and adds more and
more to his act He changed the
routine Sunday by waving a red
shawl at Brahma bull and at
tracing his attention Just in time
to prevent him from goring a cow
hoy thu animal had just tossed off
his back.
The crowd at the fair grounds
Saturday totaled 1851. Averages CT
the two-day rodeo contests will be
announced Tuesday, rodeo man
ayers said Monday.
The rodeo program on Saturday
was pre- faced by spectacular pa
triolic and cowboy parade which
wound through the streets of Ell
Centro. FL Centro's popular school
band and the Central Sergeanettes
We'd with the navy. marine corps
and ma inc reserves, and the Le-
Gionnaires for the bulk of the ap-
plause from the crowds which lined
the streets along the parade's line
of march. More than 200 hors es
were in the cowboy section of the
parade.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13

Frankish said the warhead of W.
was believed to contain 1000 pounds
of explosive as compared with 1000
pounds carried by the smaller vi
jet-propelled robots. However.
Prime Minister Winston Churchill
told commons last week that V-2
carried approximately the same
weight of explosives as VII.
From the German radio came a
claim that another revenge weap-
on'-V-4-has been introduced on
the battlefield 1t was described
as a tank which can be sent by
remote control against the enemy
lines.
Once in position, the tank fires
a charge almost as big as itself and
then returns to the German lines
under a cover of smoke screen,
Berlin said.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
y AMBlINe
~ EpoRTER
ROdeO Reflections

Desert lilies to all those response
BILE for making the American Legion
rodeo success. 1t was good enter
tainment.
An especially nice bouquet to the
inimitable Alex Barron. Boy is he
gooC clown.
We noticed that Sheriff Robert
w. Ware and Brahma bull almost
tied in getting through gate. The
sheriff won the race by a hair,
huddling behind big post while the
bull butted it.
Didn't Chief of Police Ronnie
Voyles cut dash on that Palomino?
We also noticed that Bert Manley
hasn't been a branC inspector for
nothing. He was pretty snappy with
some Of those catches.
1t wouldn't be a rodeo in Impe-
rial Valley without Bud Gilliland
Continued on Pg. 6, Gel. q
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Treasury Denies
Changed Plan
On Bond Cas|linu

Herb Fawcett, War Bond county
chairman has received a telegram
from D. w. Bell, undersecretary of
the treasury at Washington in
which Bell sale the treasury has
no intention of tightening up on
war bonds redemption.
Denial followed a press dispatch
cut of Washington to the effect
that the present plan of immediate
redemption would be suspended be-
cause lit increased the number of
recemptions.
According to the present set-up
bond holders may receive the cash
upon presentation of the bonds at
any bank within the federal reserve
system. The plan replaces one where
a considerable time was required to
acquire cash on bonds.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
County Reaches
War Chest Goal

The annual War Chest drive end
ed officially Monday with Imperial
county over the top.
Some communities, however, were
still slightly under their quotas so
donations still were being accepted
in orcer to get every city out of the
red
Several cities were so far over
the top that the county had COM
pleted its quota, County Chairman
Warren ICurrier announced. How
ever we are still accepting dona-
tions so that there will be nothing
left in the red column as far as
this county is concerned"
Currier said grand total and
the total collected by each city will
be announced as soon as all of the
cities complete their drives.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Americans Blow
Up Air Base
As laps Move In

CHUNGKING, Nov. l3. CUP)-
The l4th Air Force announced Mon
day destruction and evacuation of
its most valuable remaining East
China airbase at Liuchow last Tues
day under pressure of fast driving
Japanese columns.
Loss of the LiuchoW air field, the
last American base in KWangsi pro-
vince. virtually threw the l4th back
upon its Running base, with only
small fields at Kweiyang and Nam
ming from which to carry on support
of China's ground forces.
(The japanese claimed they cap
tured both Liuchow and Kweilin.
capital of Kwangsi province, last
Thurs day.
The decision to blow up the Liu-
chow base was reached when the
apanese established themselves
within three minutes flying time of
the field. This close proximity had
deprived the weary 14th pilots, who
were carrying out two and three
miss ions daily of even a few min
utes warning of japanese attacks.
Even with the field mined for de-
struction, planes continued to take
off for strafing and bombing mis-
siorS until The last hour. The crews
lived in hCstels stacked with gaso-
line di ums awaiting the order to
apply the torch.
That order came late Tuesday
afternoon. Throughout the night,
explosions shook the earth as the
l4th wrote off base built with
American dollars and the sweat of
thousands of Chinese coolies.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
Fish, Come Unit
Maps Expansion

SACRAMENTO, Nov 13. CUP)-
Plans for an expanded state fis h
and game program. highlighted by
use of airplanes and radio in law
enforcement and by projected state
purchase of land for public shoot
ing grounds, were disclosed Mon
day in budget estimates submitted to
the state finance department.
The fish and game commission,
the figures showed, plans to spend
$6,075,644 in the two years begin
ming next July 1, nearly $3.000,00O
more than actual and estimated ex-
penses of $3.353,672 during the cur
rent two years.
Included in the estimates was an
item of $674,000 for land for shoot
ing grounds. OF the amount, STA, LOO
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13

would be spent fer a site in the
Merced area and the remainder at
undisclosed sites.
The commission also hopes to pur-
chase seven airplanes for patrol
work and to equip 100 game war
dens and other enforcement officers
with two-way radios, the estimates
showed. Budget provision is made
for 81 new employees and for the
rehiring of 58 men now in the
armed services.
Finance department officials
pointed out that funds spent by the
commission come from license fees
and ether special levies, and said
the commission has a sufficient
surplus to finance the projected ac-
tiyitieS.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-11-13
France Prepares
10 Make Demand
For German Area

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. (UP) =
France, in her new role as one of
the big four planning the future
OF Europe, was expected by in
formed diplomatic sources Monday
to make an early official bid for
permanent annexation of most of
the German Rhineland.
General Charles DeGaull'e rep
resentative to the European ad-
visory commission is expected to
attend his first meeting of the
commission in London soon and to
take with him French ideas on
surrender terms for Germany as
well as French plans for postwar
treatment of the Reich.