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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-01
NOTICE

STATE of CONNECTICUT. DIS TRicT of WATERBURY, ss, PRO BATE COURT Sept. list, lstL ESTATE of MICHAEL F. MEL LON, late of the town of Water bury, in said district, deceased. The Court of Probate for the District of Waterbury, hath limit ed 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 ate tested, within said time, will be debarred a recovery. All persons in: debted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment to
 WILLIAM DoNAHUE.
 Executor. l79 Congress Avenue,
 Waterbury, Conn.
 Per Order of Court
 Attest:
 9-i-St Asst. Clerk.
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Patton's Troops Take Verdun Record Time
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who succeeded Gen. Paul Hausser as commander of the German 7th Army when the latter was wounded, was revealed to have been captured in the British-C Canadian sector while he was eating breakfast yes- terday. His army already had been destroyed south of the Seine,
 Pattons Srd army scored yeSter- days biggest victory with Its 65-mile advance from Reims to Verdun in less than 24 hours-an accomplish ment that took the Allies four years in World War I and cost them hum dreds of thousands of lives,
 Patton's men lost only few tanks and suffered amazingly light casualties" in their push, United Press War Correspondent Robert Miller reported from the front in disclosing that the Americans now were within 4l0 miles of Berlin.
 There was no bitter fight yester- day for Verdun and the great ring of forts that stopped the German offensive in 1916 as 1t was threat ening to engulf Paris. Miller said. Rather 1t was a grim pursuit with American tanks and motorized jn- fantry hot on the heels of the re- treating Germans.
 Second Column
 The first American spearhead broke into Verdun shortly before noon after crossing the Mouse some miles below the city and attacking from the rear. Simultaneously @ second column speared into the city from another direction. Except for few rounds from German 88 and anti-tank guns that did little dam age, the Germans made no defense of the strategic city, which was found only slightly damaged.
 Only 35 miles farther east lies Metz, outer bastion of the Maginot line.
 The advance to Verdun actually began at 4 p. m. Wednesday from Reims, Miller revealed, and by night had carried into the edges of the old Hindenburg line which re- sisted SO many assaults in the last war.
 Next morning the Americans pushed into the dense Argonne for- est and met only few small knots of disorganlzed Germans in com- parison to the hundreds of thou- sands who defended it 26 years ago. An occasional wrecked German vehicle was the only sign of war The trees, bare and splintered Q quarter century ago, were in full foliage.
 Headleng ROut
 The Germans did not even pause to blow up bridges across the Mouse river as they raced eastward.
 Commercy on the Mouse 29 miles southeast of verdun. fell to anoth- er of Patton's columns that had driven 52 miles east from Vitry-le Francois, overrilnning st. Dizier, half way between the two towns.
 TO the northwest, It. Gen. Court nev Hodges American lst Army was reversing the German breakthrough that toppled France in l94O by driv- ing into the Sedan gap on the Bel rian border from the south.
 Front dispatches yesterday saio the Americans already were across the Mouse river on the approaches to both Sedan and Charlevilles lI miles northwest of Sedan, and ths speed of the advance indicated they may have driven across the Belgian border five and 6 half miles to ths
 ArdennCs Forest
 The advance presumably also car. Tied into the Ardennes forest khronxh which the Germans burs in May ioA0 in the first phase o tne offensive that swept through q ! Inc Knnllsh Ohannel at Abnesllle
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-01
WIFE SUES HUBBY
 FOR UNPAID LOAN

Mrs Andrew SwedN of Cheshire today filed N $2So0 civil action in common vleaS court against her hus~ bpnd, also of Cheshire, She claims she made Q loan of $2,S0o to the de. fendant April 30, 1888 and that Il has not been repa,d, The litigation was filed In the form of a common court writ, and details will Dc fur nished later in an amended com plaiIS, Property valued at S2,500 has been attached in connection with the suit,
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forcing the British evacuation from Dunkerque.
 Laon. 60 miles west of Sedan. fell to Hodges men yesterday after a stiff fight in which three trainloads of German troops attempting to withdraw from the town, were kill. ed or captured. Long before the town was captured, however the Americans had tanned out three or four miles to the no. .h and north- east to within 30 miles or less of Belgium.
 Still another lst army column was closing in on the famed Com- peigne forest. deep in a German salient % miles southwest of Laon. It was in the Compeigne forest that both the Allied German armistice of 1918 and the Franco German armistice of ie40 were signed.
 American patrols were reported to have speared into the forest to within one mile of tine town of Compeigne, possibly overrunning the spot where Adolf Hitler did fancy fig in June l940 in celebration of his greatest victory, the French having signed an armistice where the Germans signed one in 1918.
 The Canadian And army pushed le miles north of Rouen and cap- tured Totes. half way to Dieppe, where the Canadians suffered 5000 to A.000 casualties in August l0a1 il a practice amphibious landing that slnowed tho way for tho invasion oi western Europe lest June 6.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-01
Walter WinCheII
 In Ne1C YOYk

Col CAElea ROmNlo, who helped NtaeArthWr and oNeEon escape Col Australia, didn't know that persons addressing cOngress must noe do 50 ln uniform, He has been M his army uniform for years ,, An hour before he spoke M the House ehe other day RoMOlo was informed that he must wear elVVteS tor the event , His staff hastily borrowed civilian apparel ,, On the way Go the Capitol he realized he wNS wear Mg his army SON, He pNled , VI am wearing the wrong soNl" he eXe claimed, oh my goodness, wotM I do" His 0irl Friday solved matters right there on the Capitol steps lie wore her bobby SoNl
 The current Life Is empelllShed by a picture of a lovely girl tn Q bNth~ ing suit Mike Levelle was the phos logger -, She wiN set the biggest euNa-up since Chili Williams was introduced Co the nation tn Q polRa- dotted swlmSulG The newcomer Is Frances Vorne Of New York, She lS URranian, Her friends, who call her The shape, would have you bee lieve Frances has never been tM 0 night club or stayed up after mide night Her bathing trunks and bra were made from . captured Nasl parachute sent by her sweet- heart
 A New Yorker just back from Ar gentinN alleges that the majority of the people there are not anti U, s, or pro-Nasl, =, Most Of the people, said our informant do not even take the government leaders seriously and openly QNlp; "Tt I thought my son would ever grow up to be President of Argentina, I'd have sent him Co school"
 Frank Fay bested another hecklet again at the Copaeabana last night , A pest in the rear interrupted FOy'S act with N tlappaney -, Y don't expect my critic" said Frank, "to demonstrate his courage by standing up and letting us all see him, And so I request that you folks scatter near him take a very good, long look ct him" ,, The heads of those in the vicinity turned and stared at the heekler, tipping oil his location,
 Now that you have seen hin" i" continued Fay, you all have Q very good idea why we have birth con- trolV
 Our eavOrite newspaper story deals with the new gazette in a metro~ politan city, which offered SS,0o0 m cash to help name the new daily ~, The contestants had to send along a S0-word reason why the name should be used One man Sug' geSted the new paper be called The Truth ', , "ReeauSe," he pointed out, every time anyone came to buy a paper, the newSeoy would say 'Wha6dayR want
 The Truth or The TrihuneC
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Many Robot
 Bases Taken
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French residents of the area, he said, were continually in danger from both Allied bombing planes and the robots.
 '"There is a local saying that the English should start a collection for improving the flying bombs in order to save French civilians" he added.
 The mayor said the Germans be- gan dismantling and blowing up their robot bases in the Rouen area about IA days ago and expressed the belief that most of the ramps west of the Rouen-D -Dieppe line now were unuSeable.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-01
MARRIAGE INTENTIONS

The following marriage eerti1i- cates have been filed with che bureau of vital statistics:
 Loguay w. Bolsvert, 2i Yer. mont st., and Maritime A. LeBel. 3el So. Main St.
 William Baldmc, s2 Manila St.. OakvIIIe, and Philemena Iannuc- of. l5l Gedaese st.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-01
MOTIFS on A NRwsrAPERNIAN

NOTES or A NEWsRARERNtAN
 M cOngresswOmAM ClAEe LNce were a New Dealer perhaps she would feature this M her speeches
 2s 70 ever saw print outside the 5Ona 70 Cong. Record, N eladed NN Vf ua Republican senator VAnO atnherg ln the Q, 9 eenNteS "1 rcN mind tAe able Senator from New Mexico that tt lS exceeding danger bNs W 90 back Into the yesterdays and take ancient words from Melr place ln history and give them lso~ lated interpretation Ns og today, he may quote former platforms oe Che Republican Party which Ia his view were never validated, But ! glVe him Q very pointed example ot the danger and perhaps the utter lnN Justice in any such process, I give AlEn the example of the statement made by President Roosevelt on Che eve Of the lea0 election, "f tell you fathers and mothers of America again and again and again that your sons wlll not be sent Into foreign war
 T have never thrown that States ment back ln the Presidents teeth, am not doing So now CiTcums stances alter eases, Pearl Aarbor created O challenge which no Prest. dent and no citizen could Ignore"
 Damon RunyOn and the Assoc elated Press apparently disagree on the hobby of some Americans who enjoy telling QulpS on well~known Mir Runyon, In his column, complained ;"ft is always bad taste for people Go sit around and make odlous remarks about any national leaders of respeetabllity and integ. rity" The same morning a re- speetable New York newspaper fee- tured an AP report dn a eoS) quot- ing c Washington columnlSt ., , The story dealt with the argument; "Who Was the Strongest President" One arguer said hineoln--ee. cause he split rails, Another said WAshington-beenOse he tossed . dollar across the Potomac, But FDR wae declared the strongest He threw the U, 8, Treasury across both oceansl"
 Governor Dewey knt immune from the jokeSmith these days The current Qulp has him suffering from fierce insomnia which keeps him up all night pacing up and down under his bed" ., The New Dealers go into spaSmS over that one, But it was funnier 20 years aKo when Al Jolson told it after an overnight trip from Boston -, "t didn't sleep a wink" he groaned, "One of Singers midgets drank some eofsee and paced up and down his upper eerthl"
 70 happened In Che White House not long ago, Two statesmen were working on a paper FDR was to sec and approve, one of them (not Mir, HulD was A proved enemy Of Sum~ ner Welles, whose removal from of- flee he had helped engineer. The President corrected the paper and slgned lt, Then addressing both unen he said T would like to be St, Peter just long enough to receive two people, The first would be sum neP Welles. I should say to him: You arc sometimes an awful Tool and you mage silly mistakes, but you have great ability and you have served our country well, Come on linp
 TO the other man FDR continued: 'You were born with money and talent, You have used some Of your money and Q lot of your talent de- stroying e better man than yourself, You can 90 to he'll"
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They ShoII Not
 Pass Reversed

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The advance presumably also care Tied into the Ardennes forest. fhronwh which the Germans burst in Nav ioa0 in the first phase Of tna offensive that swept through to tho Nnsliah channel at Abneyille,
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Obids News

Rev. S. S. GRAPHICAL, of Ores.
ton, was elected pastor of Obids
Baptist church in regular con
ference last Sunday.
Prof. Frank Coward made Z
business trip to North Wilkes.
boro last Saturday.
Miss Frances billiard, of Eliz'
'abethton, Tenn, spent the week
end at home.
Miss Blanche Burgess has re-
turned to High Point, after
spending a vacation with her pa
rents, MIR. and Mrs. II. H. Bur.
CESS.
Rev. A. c. Ashley, of Crumpler
will preach at Obids Baptist
church next Sunday night, July
9.
Mrs. Minda Marsh has return
ed home, after spending some
time with her daughter, Mrs. Ell
mer Mock, at Advance.
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have shoes to wear.

have shoes to wear.
Before the war with Japan
much of our tanning materials
were made in the East Indies and
Philippine Islands. Japan now has
those ports closed against us and
the only materials we have to
use are tan bark and chestnut
wood, and chestnut wood, as we
all know, is almost a thing of the
past, the trees being dead, but can
be used yet if sound.
The government has made cell.
ing price of $1,000 for 100 cubic
feet delivered to shipping point
or mill, and the Wilkes Extract
Works at North Wilkesboro are
now paying that price delivered
at their mill any day except Sum
day and will take any quantity.
cash payment as soon as deliver
ed.
Folks who have chestnut wood
ought to take advantage of this
opportunity to get this wood to
market now while they can get
this price for it. Lumber and other
timber products will have mar.
ket years to come after the war
is over, but not so with chestnut
wood. The war needs gives it this
price today but when this war
need is owed the market for chest
nut wood will be over. So get Il
to market now-do your country
a good service and some good
business for yourself at the same
time. Advt.
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She sat down and loosened her
coat. ''This was a good idea of
yours, Simon"
Happy"
Terribly"
$50 am I. Hello, here come the
other two"
Simon rose to his feet as he
spoke. Cherry turned to find
John and Valerie threading their
way through the tables toward
them. "Sorry we're a bit behind
you," said John. eve lost our
way getting here. Can you beat
thatw
1--WE were so busy talking"
said Valerie. "John was telling
me what he did to the fourth
Messerschmitt."
IT wasn't. I was telling you
what the fourth Messerschmitt
did to me-"
The waiter put cocktails before
them. They toasted one another.
They toasted Johns miraculous
escape: There had been a tele-
phone message for Cherry the
day they had lunched at Dorking
and gone on down to the cottage.
Mrs. Greene had come to them as
they were sitting in the garden
after dinner. cts one of your
young ladies, MN, on the tele-
phone. She said she thought you
might be here, and she wants
particularly to speak to yoh."
It had been Valerie who want
ed her, with the news that John
was safe. He had been picked up
by a trawler that had only that
moment put in to port. The news
had been telephoned to the air.
drome. And now they were all
dining together.
Tell Simon and Cherry what
happened, JOHN" Valerie said.
John made a deprecating ges-
ture. 1T was nothing"
Rubbish, that's just your mod
esty," said Valerie.
Actually they already knew.
Cherry suddenly set down her
glass. It had struck her that
John Harrap wasn't the only
hero.
"Simon's joined up, you know.
He's going into tanks. And what
he's going to do to little old Hit
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Square, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wells Ham, Of
Chasdsford, Pa, are visiting Mr.
and Mrs. Ira Hart.
Mrs. Elmer Elliott, who has
been ill for some time, is now
improving, her friends will be
glad to learn.
Mr.. and Mrs. Vance Phillips,
and family, of Reading, Pa, re-
turned to their home, Saturday
after a weeks visit with his
mother, Mrs. Alley Phillips.
Miss Ruth WEIGH, of Smeth-
port, was the Saturday night
guest of Miss Mildred Elliott.
Mr.. Riley Ham, of Kennett
Square, Pa, is now visiting his
family.
Mrs. Edward Hart, and child
rem, visited her father, of Apple
Grove, who is ill, recently.
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Horse Greek
News

Pvt. Hunter Stansberry, of the
U. S. Army, is now spending a
short furlough with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Stansberry.
Mrs. Kennith Roland spent the
week end in Charlotte, with Mr.
Roland, who is in the Coast
Guard, stationed in Alabama
She was accompanied by Mr.. and
Mrs. Vaughn Eller, of Jefferson
Misses Helen Rupard, of King
sport, Tenn, has been visiting his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert
Rupard.
Mrs. Eta Stike returned home
last week after a visit with her
son Joseph Stike, of Kennett
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Still, if you'll just wait minute
I'll go and see for YOU"
Cherry. waited, her heart
pounding. There was prayer in
her heart. In few minutes Mr..
Delroy returned, bearing a ledg-
err in his hand. Cherry could
hardly breathe.
All here we are! Yes, I believe
this is it"
He turned the heavy red leath-
er-bound book so that Cherry
could see the entry. Zone ring
(copy of Originally two pounds
ten," and beside it the name and
address: Mrs. Simons. Lindon, 43
Ashdown Mansions. But more
important than all this, there was
a drawing of the ring, and against
it an exact description of the
stones. Tears sprang in Cherry's
eyes. The relief was so over
whelming that she couldn't speak
for moment.
"That's the ring all right, Miss"
said Mr.. Delroy. "Of course that's
the original you've got there"
eyes, Thank you" Oh, how
absurd he would think her. She
must pull herself together. No,
of course she mustn't fling her
arms round his neck and thank
him. What ridiculous notions
there were in her head these
days! THANK you," she said
again.
Don't mention it, Miss. Only
too pleased"
But now he was speaking to an
empty shop. Funny, he thought,
wonder what it was all about, and
why she shot off in such a hurry?
He sighed as he took the ledger
back again and stored it away in
the safe in his sitting room. His
heart was heavy. Seeing his
brothers handwriting it had
brought it all back again. Still,
it didn't do any good to be miSer-
able about it. Some people were
bright and happy enough. That
was a comfort. That young lady
who'd come in just now about
that ring, for instance upon
his soul, he'd never seen anyone
look so radiant!
In the hotel Cherry was trying
not to blurt it out to suddenly.
| She must wait just little while,
Simon had said he wanted to talk
to her particularly, indicating that
there were things they must dis
cuss. They had a drink in the
lounge and then went to the din
ing room. Simon gave their or
der. He put down the menu
with a smile as the waitress NOV
ed away.
mot a very exciting lunch, I'm
afraid. The usual roast beef"
It'll be all right for me. It'll
be a change from the cook-house
lunch anyway. It was wonder
full how she was keeping her voice
steady. Inwardly she was bub-
bling with excitement. She felt
breathless, eager. She was long
ing to tell him her news, and yet
she was holding it back just a
little longer.
Then Simon was saying, "You
remember the last time I saw you,
Cherry Pie?"
"Oh, yes, Simon. Of course I
remember"
IT tried to put things right be-
tween U.S."
eyes, darling, I remember"
'I'm afraid I did it terribly
badly. I left out something of
great Importance"
She looked up and met his eyes
across the table. What was that,
Simon?"
He hesitated a moment. 81
should have apologized to you,
Cherry. That day you told me
there was a doubt that Denise
was dead Darling, can you
ever forgive me for the unfair
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CHAPTER XIII

CEAkA1 4GO ALI
"No, of course, Simon, they
can't refuse you," she said again.
,''Well, that's all there is to it.
Except that this war seems to be
boiling up rather unpleasantly. l
don't want to be sticking at home
in an office in Whitehall and oc-
casionally being sent off on some
perfectly safe mission"
II see." Her voice was low and
it shook little. But the momen-
tary panic passed. She wasn't go
ing to be any less able to take it
than all those other women. "Of
course, Simon, I see your point
entirely. I think you're quite
right, too"
It wasn't really what she want
ed to say. She wanted to say,
''Simon, darling, don't leave me.
I'm going to be so scared all the
time. I'll go crazy with anxiety.
/ don't think I've understood un-
til this moment how terribly lucky
I've been. Now, too late, I'm ap-
preciating it." Then she knew
that really, even if she were free
to keep him at her side, she
wouldn't do so, that whereas she'd
always loved him deeply and full
ly, now there was pride added to
that love. Oh, yes, he was right
in following his own instincts
She wouldn't say a thing to de-
ter him.
He looked down at her and
their eyes met. "Bless you, my
darling. I knew you would take
it like that. And, Cherry :"
what is it, Simon"
He hesitated. perhaps we'd
better talk about it after lunch
But my joining up is one of the
reasons particularly wanted to
see you today"
Astonishingly quickly they
reached the little country town,
turning into the main street
where they drew up outside the
White Lion hotel.
"Since you spurned Burlord
Bridge" said Simon, II suggest
we lunch here"
She got out and there was the
shop facing her, almost next door
to the hotel. James Delroy
Jeweler." Her heart pounded
against her side. She glanced al
Simon. He was busily locking up
the car. She said quickly, It'll
join you in the hotel in a minute,
Simon. just want to go into that
shop" -s'>,.= r~r~ 20
She was gone before he could
answer.
An elderly man was behind the
counter.
II wanted to speak to Mr.. Del
roy, please, said Cherry.
I'm Mr.. Delroy."
Cherry looked in her respira-
tor. She found the ring and the
bill.
Il understand some things from
your brothers shop in Blatton
Street were sent down here before
it was blitzed. I went there be-
cause I wanted to trace a piece of
jewelry that he copied for a friend
of mine. I found, of course, that
the shop was gone, but I saw a
postman :" She handed him
the bill and the little case con-
tanning the ring. ooh, please, if
you'd be so kind as to look up
this bill if you have the ledgers
of your brothers shop here. 1t
means so much to me. I want
to know if that ring is the one he
copied"
The man took the case and
opened it. He looked at the bill.
January, nineteen thirty nine
That's a good long while ago, isn't
it Yes, it's true I've got some of
my brothers books here, but
whether I've got any dating as
far back as that I couldn't say.