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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-16
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kOOuLlLluSQ 1TOm rage U
 (The transocean news agency broadcast from Rome that flames had broken out in the ruins and that firef1ghting equipmnet was un- able to cope with the bla2e)
 Despite the apparent complete loss of ChriStianity's oldest shrine, the Catholic American soldiers agreed 1t was better to sacrifice 8 building than the lives of Doughboys who had fought valiantly for three weeks try ing to skirt the mount in hopes Of sparing the monastery.
 That was the comment of T-4 Ed ward MajsterSld, Minneapolis, and Pfc. Francis O'Neil. Hiteman. Iowa. but Prov. Carl Wright, Miami, Fla, another Catholic, was bitter be- cause the Allies waited so long.
 we should have blown 1t to hell six weeks ago." he said.
 Corp. Abdon Natalini. of Brooklyn, was not worried about the loss of a church, but rather about the Monks that lived there.
 However" he added. ''I can't sss our boys getting slaughterea in oraer to protect . building"
 Pvt. Whitney Vicknatr. Q Catho. lic from New orleans. La.. salA:
 ''It's just one Oe thoSe things. q the Jerries fight from c m0uaeteFy. then there Is nothing else for ua to do except get the ulonstsvy al0ns with the Germans"
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EDMUND MOECKEL
 PRESENTED GIFT

Naugatuck. Feb. le - A surprise birthday and farewell party was held in honor of Lieutenant (j.g,) Edmund Moeckel. U. 8. N. R., re- gently at the home of Mir. and Mrs, Albert Krampetx, e2 Auburn street, He was presented several gifts and Q purse and received congratula- tons for his recent promotion and Achlevments in naval architecture. Bingo and other games werc play. ed and Q buffet luncheon served.
 Present were: Mrs, Emma Moeckei. Mir. and Mrs, Charles echrull, Ronald Schrull, Mir. and Mrs. Qua Hoppee, MT. and Af5a. charles Moockel, Mir. and Mrs. Id, Daumor. Mfr. and Mrs. Henry Krampsis. Miss Gertrude Moeokei, Miss Helen Woodward. Barry Moeckel. Lieutenant and Mrs. Ed- mllnd Moeckel, and Alr. and Mrs. Albert Krampit1
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 ed one small-scale attack behind a Spearhead of tanks yesterday, but were dispersed by British artillery fire.
 The communique revealed that the Allied air forces flew more than HOO sorties yesterday and last night to give the Germans one of theiT worst poundings of the Italian cam paign.
 While American flying fortresses, Mitchells and Marauders battered at the Monte Casino monastery, Amer ican dive-bombers gave Rome its third raid of the war.
 The speedy A-36 attack planes hammered the Tiburtina and OSti- ense railway yards on two separate missions, Strew1ng 500-pound bombs among some 200 railroad cars lined up in the big marshalling yards. (Rome radio said Allied four motored bombers raided the city yesterday morning, dropping num- erous bombs" on residential sections and machine -gunning street crowds (T'he AxiS-controlled station said several high vatisan authorities went to the scene of the bombing but were forced to take shelter to avoid being strafed. It admitted serious damage had been caused and Saidl at least IS persons were killed and 50 injuFed.)
 Simultaneously, swarms of Allied fighters and fighter-bombers swoop- ed low over enemy targets in the Anzio beachhead sector, while a force of American heavies dumped tons of explosives on Na1 troops massed at Campo Leone.
 The railway yards at Poggibonsi In central Italy also were hammered by American four -engined raiders, and medium bombers struck at Ger man-operated harbors along the west coast. Other fighter-bombers
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attacked enemy shipping off the Jugoslav coast.
 Allied night bombers picked up the offensive after dark, hammering NaA communications lines south of Rome.
 Only minor enemy aerial activity was reported on all fronts, most of the Luftwaffe's planes again concen- rtating on the beachhead area, nine German aircraft were destroyed at a cost of one Allied plane.
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merous historical monuments ''so far as war allows". But he added:
 If we have to choose between destroying Q famous building and sacrificing our own men, then our mems lives count infinitely more and the buildings must go."
 In setting up artillery emplace- Hients in the Abbey, the Germans had defied on appeal by Pope Plus for it's religious sanctity to be oh- served.
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Full Weather Report

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TALEs oFATOWN

ThereS . tiny antique shop in midtown where the slSyscrapers hug the tenementS-not far from the sector known as Dead End The owner is an auction fan. He attends nearly all of them and buys at bar gain fees He then peddleS the odds and ends for Q good profit in his two- by-four shop At one of the auctions he picked up & pair of candlesticks for only SIS !. You're lucky" said the auctioneer. These candlesticks are worth lot more than you bid. Besides the estate from which they came always considered them very lucky pieces" The auctioneer hadn't exag- gerated Shortly after the new owner displayed them, he realized a handsome profit 4 newly welded pair bought them for $40o.
 Seven hundred and hirty days tumbled from the calendar before the married couple returned with the candleSticks They had ac- quired a new home, they said |. And while the candlestickS were very nice. they didn't fit in with the new decorative scheme . . Would you buy them back?" she asked. "You said they were lucky and they are-for you. Sell them back to you for half!"
 The antique man bought them. He put them back in the window, and lucky they were for him indeed s. An hour later woman said: I've been admiring these candle stickS-how much?" well, this is war time, you know" he told her, "and they are difficult to find these days. Let you have them for $500" She agreed Z. And paid him in cash "I'm going shop ping" she added. Would you please send them?" "YeS, madam" he replied, "and you will find they are very lucky" The purchaser was Patricia Lonergan Her youthful husband goes on trial for her slay- ing soon-the weapons being the lucky candleSticks.
 These are the times when the little fellow and most saleSgirlS no longer fawn on customers In one shop the other day. for instance, a woman was trying oil frockS (. The salesgirl hovered lovely in
 The salesgirl hovered over her eff fusively 'Oh, modom," she ex- claimed, you look simply lovely ill it. You look like Greta Garbo. In fact. when you walked in said to myself that you look just like Garbo!" Then, turning to an- other salesgirl, she said: Look. May. Who does this lady look Ake2"
 Lizzie Dilling!" replied May.
 Two ingenueS were coking at 8 Times Square fountain You know what?" said the first. We hunt acting jobs the wrong way! Nowadays girls gotta write their own parts. Ruth Gordon, for in- stance, wrote her new show herself. Mary Orr. who sold 'Wallflower' to the producer, put herself in the cast. I guess ShoWmen want girls to bring in their own roles.'
 "Oh, I dunno" diSsented the other. When & producer chases a gal around his desk he's not try ing to overtake any manuscript!'
 The legend that Japs destroy themselves rather than surrender was hemmed- and -hawed at by some war reporters yesterday One, hohwever, was sure the episodes in the movies were not exaggerated. :. That the average Jap does kill himself when captured he gets the chance And takes with him
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After the ship broke up, the bow section drifted off in a northerly direction, then drifted back and grounded again. The stern section drifted away and apparently sank. Survivors said the sea was filled with wreckage for miles around.
 Haagensen said he swam around for 20 or 30 minutes before climb ing aboard a raft. He said other survivors were clinging to debris and that the ships chief steward clung to a heavy piece of planking until he was rescued.
 Survivors said waves more than 50 feet high hampered Navy and Coast Guard vessels on the scene in their rescue attempts.
 Second Officer J. F. Olsen said he could not swim, and therefore took the last life raft when the
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trols in the central area of the state. but no official statement on the 0. I. O. attitude has been made, the c. !. O. leaders indicating they will wait until alter tomorrow's meeting with the governor.
 The Hartford conference will De the third and final one os . series which opened here last week. 1t was reported today. Dlrectives from the state WHO office, putting c new controls system into operation is expected to follow shortly.
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Walter WincIaelI
 To NezO YO9-k

@ many of his caHeors as possible In Dutch HarhOr not more than two months ago the Navy came across one Jap, who had been hide ing for a long time after the Navy won the spot The Americans took him to Q shack nearby for questioning He was stripped to make sure he wasn't secreteing any weapons All he was left with was his male "G-String" to keep things respectable Then he was escorted to a corner of the hut while the officers prepared their papers before questioning him Once their backs turned-the Jap (who apparently hid 1t in that "G- String') flung grenade The only survivor was sailor, who had just let on an errand Five of- ficers died with the Jap.
 Our Allied counter espionage agents are like this fellow, which is why the Intelligence Services have accomplished so much to date One naturalized American, who proved himself worthy of trust, won an assignment to Norway on a special mission The British put him ashore in town where his family dwelled He hadn't seen them since the NaziS invaded Nor way - but his orders were SO strict he was warned he couldn't re- veal his movements even to his kin. And so to make sure they would not unintentionally tip off any of the underground workerS-the dis guised agent passed his house and saw his grandmother sitting at the window sewing {. He took 8 quick glance And then kept going.
 Robert Rpley's exploiter reports that Ripley is the researcher on 1t e. That Herr Goering's first name, Hermann, came from Jewish doc- tor, Herman EppStein, of Tyrol, Austria Goering's father was governor of German East Africa. A widower, who couldn't take along his infant son - so he boarded him with Dr. Eppstein The physician raised the boy - sent him through school in Bavaria and paid the tuition until he graduated as a lieutenant Dr. Eppstein passed on in 1895 No. Nal Goering attended the funeral When he entered the synagogue, he paused at the door and asked if he should wear or remove his hat . Ripley adds: Tn case you didn't know, the name Wincheu in German means divining rod-the instrument that detects the truth"
 Newspapermen last night were re- calling anecdotes revolving around William Allen White Once, they recalled, the great Republican edi- tor was attending a Democratic Na- tional Convention A Senator, smiling, announced Tn looking over the delegates fail to recog- nize any clergymen, and so shall call upon my good friends, William Allen White, to open the conven- tion with prayer
 MT. White arose. Stahbing the Senator with glare he Saccasmed, You will have to excuse me. I'm a little out of my element, and the fact Is, I prefer the Lord does not know am here!"
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CANNIBAL FISH

The piranha, fish seldom more than a foot in length, is man eater
 It rips its victim to ShredS and can do away with g. large body in an incredibly short time. The smell ot blood seems to drive the fish mad.
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The first male white child born In Kentucky was the son cs Daniel Boone. N
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
BY ALICIA HART
NEA Staff Writer

Put childish things behind you
cute" effects in clothes, junior miss
hair-dC s, daring makeup-after you
celebrate your 30th birthday At this
age you've gained your estate as a
lady and can now make capital of
your beauty assets.
Your best bet in clothes, say smart
looking Hollywoods exponents of
the soignee lcok-good example is
Mary Astor Meet Me in st. Louis"
star-are classics: the best tailored
suit you can find and ditto dresses.
Trick outfits look charming on the
very young, but a lady with a few
years to her credit looks better in
shrewdly simple clothes, according
to Miss Astor, who also has definite
ideas about hair.
Gather yours up, she says, into a
compact Golf, either short bob
gently waved-curlicues are out-or
a long bob put into a net or coiled
into a chignon.
AS fer makeup, this actress
thinks it should be restrained and
complexion tints should swing to-
wards tawny dark-not confection
pink.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25

At the Floyd A. Burger home for
the holidays are their daughters,
Miss Beverly Burger and Mrs. Ar
mold Silsby 1t. Silsby having gone
overseas recently.
At the John Hunter home are
Miss Mary Lou Hunter, Mr.. Hunt
er's sister and family, Mr. and Mrs.
Ray Demick and son David of Los
Angeles, and Mrs. Hunters niece,
Miss Katherine Biggerstaff of San
Bernardino. Pfc. John Jr. is still III
a hospital in the Pacific.
Christmas breakfast was enjoyed
at the Forrest Kutz home by Mr..
and Mrs. John Kepley and Mrs
Kepley's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ver-
non Asbury of Ell Mont, the latter
being home. Christmas dinner was
planned fer the Kepley home where
the Asburys are houseguests.
Private Neal Macurda arrived
day furlough with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Malcolm Macurda and sis
ter Audrey. Pvt. Macurda finished
basic training with the infantry
at Camp Roberts Just in time for
the Christmas holiday.
Four generations are gathering at
the George Bucklin home with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. N. Bucklin,
Specialist &c Alvin Bucklin and his
three daughters, Vicki Diane, Sharon
Lee and Sandra Lynn. Young Buck
lin expects to bring a friend with
him from his navy station at Bar
stow. Also present are Staff Ser
geant and Mrs. George Newland.
Miss Geraldine Johnson arrived
home Saturday to spend the holiday
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Duke johnson. Also expected Satur-
day was 1t. Ted Olson, who has just
returned from two years in the Pa
cific with the navy.
Gatherin at the Johnson home for
Christmas dinner are also Mr.. and
Mrs. Walton Johnson, with Darrell
and Jacqueline, Mr.. and Mrs. We'll
don Jones and Judy, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ben Jones and Norval Johnson.
Mrs. Cecil Gillett received the best
Christmas present of all when 1t.
Gillett arrived unexpectedly Friday
night. With their son, Luckey, and
Mr.. and Mrs George Damron they
left to spend the holidays with DR..
and Mrs. William G. Wcodman in
Los Angeles. Mr.. and Mrs. Addison
Carter and son Jimmy and Mrs.
Joe Bruner will also be present at
the family gathering Monday.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25

SHOES


Ration boon ., 31rplane Stamrs
l, 2 and 3, good indefinitely for one
pair rationed shoes each.
CANNED GOODS
Book 4EBlue AS to rs inclusive
and AS through rs leach good for
20 points,, valid indefinitely.
MEAT, BUTTER. CHEESE
Book 4-Red stamps 448 to z8, A5
through SIS (each good for 10
points, valid indefinitely.
Grease Bonus Butchers will
give 2 red tokens and 4 cents fol
every pound of salvaged kitchen
fats feceived)
SUGAR
Stamps Nos. 80, 81, 80, 33, 81 in
Book No. 4 each valid for five
pounds, expiraticr date not set
Stamp No. 40, FIVE pounds sugar
for canning, valio thrcuh Feb. %
Send spare stamp No 81 With
application for additional canning
sugar certificate to uour local va
tioni1S h,ard.
GASOhtlvr
Ala coupons valid Friday, De-
cember %, through March 81, 1945.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
Parents Favor
War Trainino,
Poll Indicates
BY RUTH MILLETT

A recent poll shows that 63 per
cent of the American people believe
there should be some kind of ma
tional service plan whereby all able
bodied young men would be called
to serve one year in the army or
navy in peace time.
That such a plan is now favored
by the American people shouldn't t
surprise us. Fer the American ideal
has always been to give our children
better preparation for life than we
ourselves have had.
The parents of the young men
now in service thought they were
preparing them for life when they
gave them as good a preparation as
possible for making their way in a
peace time world. They thought that
getting ahead in the world" was all
that young man would be called
on to do-and so they did their best
to give their children educational
and social advantages. If possible
they lived on the right side of the
tracks, and they worried over their
characters.
But the kids suddenly faced war
something their parents never
thought they would have to face.
And the parents worried plenty
not just over their safety-but their
ability to take it.
A BETTER CHANCE
They are proud of the courage
and daring American young men
trained for peace-have demon
strated in war But they are alarmed
at the number of young men turned
down by the army and navy be-
cause they lacked the physical or
mental requirements.
They want the next generation to
be better prepared in case war
should also strike them. They hope
1t won't-hut they admit now that
It might. And true to the old Amer
lean dream of giving the kids bet
ter chance than their parents and
grandparents had-they want them
to have some preparation for war,
if it should happen again.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25

Mr.. ana Mrs. Stlllman Badger are
the holiday guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Jasper Travers.
A white Christmas is the hope of
the w. j. Thornburg family, who
have gone to their mountain hCme
at Pine Valley for the holiday.
Mr.. and Mrs. p. L. Moore are en-
joying having their daughter Janet
Hope home from her studies at u. c..
L. A. Mrs. Moore's sister, Mrc. B. F..
Francis and MI. Francis of Yuma,
with their daughter, Mrs. d. P.
Schlaeger and daughter Sharon CT
San Jose, are houseguests.
Sharon and Patsy McNeece are
home on vacation from Our Lady of
Peace Academy in San Diego with
their parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. B.
McNeece. Their son, j. B., is taking
a navy radio course in the San
Francisco bay area.
Among the Ell Centrans planning
to spend the holidays in Pine VAL
ley are Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Scheni-
man, who will have as their guests
Mrs. Scheniman's brother, Dr. and
Mrs. d. E. Filmer of Pasadena, and
Mr.. and Mrs. William Machdanz
and family of San Diego and Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Bugenhagen of San
Diego.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
CTS SEE DOUBLE

WINCHESTER, Ind, Dec. 25
UP)-FirSt 1t. William r. Macy,
30, writes home of the constant
surprise GIs express on their faces
when they walk into their 18th
AAF overseas base and see him and
his twin brother, Sgt. John R. Ma
cy, sitting next to each other.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
Society
Clubs
FL Centrans Hold
Open House
Through Two Days

In keeping with the friendly
Christmas spirit, many Ell Centrans
held open house Christmas Eve and
on the holiday, while several other
groups gathered to attend in groups
the many church services held Sun
day night.
Al j. Griffin, manager of the Bar
bara Worth Hotel, was host to many
of the hotels friends at the annual
cocktail party Sunday afternoon.
Poinsettias and a Christmas tree
made an appropriate background for
the affair, while refreshments were
served at a table decorated in the
Christmas theme.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry H. Hcvey
and their daughter, Mrs. Robert
Kinder, held open house Sunday
evening for about as of their friends
at the Hovey home. Refreshments
were served at a table decorated
with red tapers and pyracantha.
MIR. and Mrs. Earle G.. Davis en-
tertained a group of their friends
Sunday night at an informal gath
ering, after which they attenued
midnight mass at st. Paul's Epis-
copal church.
Following a tradition of many
wears, Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Hulse held
open house Christmas Day for their
many friends, who annually call to
offer holiday greetings. The table
was attractively decorated in a
Christmas theme. while pyracantha
and other Christmas flowers and
greenery were placed about the
house.
Other informal gatherings were
held at the c. w. Heinecke hcme
Christmas Day. the w. G. Outlook
home on Christmas Eve and the O..
l.. Davis home Christmas Day.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
COMPLAIN OF
ASSAULT ATTEMPTS

Victory, Frank and Manuel Singh,
residing on the Fauje Singh ranch
north CT Meloland, complained to Ell
Centre police Sunday night that a
number of bows tried to gang them
at Sixth and Main streets, Ell Centre
they said they took refuge in their
car, locked the door and that then
one of the boys broke the glass in
the door
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
EIGHT DIE IN CRASH

HARRISBURG, Pa, Dec. 25. (UP)
State police announced that an
army CAT transport crashed early
today on Reeses summit-promon-
tory one mile west of the Harrisburg
airport. Although army investigators
Oh the scene have not revealed de-
tails of the crash, an undertaking
establishment in nearby Steeltcn,
Pennsylvania, said it had been or
dered to bring in eight bodies from
the Wreckage.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
OJrARREL ENDS IN DEATH

OROVILLE. Cal, Dec. 25. CUP)-
Joseph Shallett, 45-vear-old emplcye
of the Western Pacific railroad,
Monday was held for investigation
in connection with the fatal shoot
ing of Jim Nesbitt, 35, a fellow
worker. Nesbitt was found mortally
wounded at Pulga. California, 30
miles east of here He had been shot
five times with a small automatic
pistol. He died in a hospital here
seven hours after he was in quar-
rel
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
Families and Friends @ ather to Celebrate
Christmas Day in Good Old Fashioned Manner

Another white Christmas has been
planned at Pine Valley by the w
A. Tondro family who will have
their two daughters, Mrs. Jack
Frankish and Gail and Brian, and
Mr.. and Mrs Felix Milstead of
Yuma with Elizabeth and Jay. Mrs
Frankishs mother-in-laW, Mrs
Hugh Frankish with her children
Mit5 Ruth Mary Frankish and
Leonard Frankish, all CT Ontario,
are present for the week end, as are
Mrs. Brooks HollingsWorth of On
tario and Miss Margaret Kerr of Los
Angeles. Major and Mrs. Lyman
Tondro are unable tc get away from
Major Tondro'S station at San Luis
ObiSpo.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bratton and
Laurie Ann are in Riverside as
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. r. R. Snow
former residents, with whom Mrs
Gertrude Linekin now makes her
hcf1e. Mrs. Linekin's other daughter
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Shannon and son Roger of Studio
City, are also present.
Mr.. and Mrs. John jackson have
as their week end guests Mrs. Jack
sons brother and his wife, 1t. and
Mrs. Ben Jones from Phoenix. Also
present for Christmas Day are Mr.
and Mrs. Earl Edgar of Baker, Ne
vada.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
Methodist Choir
Cancels Concert

Plans for a concert at Mitchell
Convalescent Hospital for the serv-
icemen over the HOLIDAYS have been
cancelled by the Methodist choir,
according to Mrs. Eugene Water
man, director.
The group will hold regular prac-
tice at 7:30 o'clock Wednesday night
instead.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-25
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