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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Henry and Louie Darlington, sons of MT. and Mrs Louis Darlington of 1088 East Main Street, made the New York Journal American Saturday. February 5, as Louis Sobol former local newspaperman, devoted his very newsy column, New York Cavalcade to them and the days when he peddled papers here Sobol wildly re- called the days carrier here how he bought ad- tional routes until he had many he had to hire an assistant Louie Darlington took the on So9o Do1gne @ rngton added to his roster Here's what Sobo wrote of the CarrngtonS
 To the young Carringtons turned the dis tributon and confined myself simply to the collections which took me the twice week-Some GUS toners paying on I on s fIoay reeeg Umy interest in my business I went along with Louie one day. with Hennie the other flung paper or two About three days before Christmas showed little Christ mas greeting had bought in the FveandTen into every paper
 The loot was terrifc-and am pleased to recall that had the good grace to share the Swag with my local employees
 Then one day. Louie was bedded with cold and had to take overland few days later Hennie down with pneumonia-so had the entire route on my hands Unfortunately had acquired taste for loaflng NoW to have to go out in the cold bstery Connecticut aft ernoons. through freeze and bzzards was something that distressed me woefuly.
 Without consulting my father, sold the route one day-for $35. thought it smart deal-$10 profit
 but my father pointed out later that in addition to the $25 had paid for the original busines had expended about $50 in buying up smaller routeS He also did bit of figuring for showing that business yielding between SIP and SIS weekly, was giveaway at pur- chase price of $35. In brief my father thought was fool.
 I've often wondered about those two fine, uncom- pAinng young Carringtons- has become of them? Where are they now? And that paper route-how many have owned it since. And have my successors-a did
 been brazen enough to insert those obvious Christmas cards.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
SPORT PICTURES
 TO BE EXHIBITED
Chase FOremen Also to Hear Selections From
 Gilbert-Sullivan's Opera

Warren Lee Terry, tenor, will pre- sent tales and songs from Gilbert and Sullivan Noperettas at the monthly meeting of the Chase Foremen's Association, Thursday. at p. m., in the CFA rooms on North Main street.
 Musical selections will include songs from Trial by Jury" '"The Sorcerer," "H.MS. Pinafore," "The Pirates of Penzance," Patience" and Princess Ida. MT. Terry will be accompanied at the piano by Al Doddio.
 In addition, motion pictures will be shown of Joe Louis famous fights, including the two Louis-Max Baer bouts, the Louis-Simon fight and the Louis Conn bout. Two other films. Football Thrills, of 1943' and Sports Spellbinders," will also be shown.
 A directors meeting and a busi- ness session will precede the en- tertainment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
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the R. H. Macy department store in New York, on that date. Dialers will get an enticing glimpse of "the kitchen of tomorrow" a super-ef1i- cient room which simplifies the housewife's work unbeliavably it does practically everything but cook by itself!
 Although the sound effects engi- neer generally takes care of any loud, scufiling noises when needed. Producer Oliver Barbour decided to have his actors stage battle, dur ing scene in Fridays Parker Family" on the Blue network. Mich- ael O'Day and Peter Fernandez, the combatants, did a thoroughly real- isitc job. While they went through the motions, Mike was caught off- balance and slid to the floor, fol- lowed by Fernandez. Recapitula. tion: O,Day, one bruised hand; Fernandez, torn jacket.
 Bill Days, versatile tenor of the Groucho Marx Blue Ribbon Town" has been elected president of the Hollywood Photo club.
 It was discovered that Bob Grif- fin, the new Michael West in CBS' Bright Horizon" went to Kansas University several years ago with the publicity writer for the radio show, And, it seems, the publicity writer won Bob's best girl away from himl
 Mrs. Carlton Morse, wife of the T Love Mystery" author. solved a mystery for her husband this week.
 'Where," cogitated Morse, "did leave my overcoat?" His secretary didn't know. She called Patricia Morse, his wife.
 why" answered Patricia, "He didn't take it with him today!"
 Probably unique in radio is the record of Peter Van Steeden, who conducts his orchestra on three leading radio shows and all three on different networksl Van Steeden Is music director of NBCs MT. District Attorney" most popu- lar of all half-hour radio dramas; "Dufly's." highest rating show on the Blue network; and Thanks to the Yanks," one of the better known quiz shows on OBS. Looks as if all you have to do is hand Van Steeden a baton, biuld radio show around him, and you've got hit on your handsl
 Alice Frost, Pamela of the MT. and Mrs. North" mystery duo, has recently found a way to relax from her weekly menu of murder. Locked away in an attic. Alice uncovered some books she hadn't seen since childhood. So now she's catching up on 8 lot of unfinished reading. 'Al1;" eiehs Alice, my innocent childhood = when Q script was a fairy story instead of fairly goryi" Oh; Miss Frost -mlir- -defI < Dinah Shores arranecr-acccla- pauist, Ticker Freeman, who hes beo naseociated with fhs eoue1treas all during her cllfih to fame thle week WaG eccerfea by the ~ z.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
AUTHoR's SKIN BINDS BOOK

AO1NON D DlAKN WANUD BOOIA
 The Boston Anthenaerun once exhibited 8 book bound in the skin of its, author, a notorious highwayman. The book was pub dshed in 1887 and is titled Mar ratiye of the Life of James Allen, Alias George Walton, Being His Deathbed Confession to the War den of Massachusetts State Prison. !"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Gustave GrandeI of 1S9 Hill Street. associated with the Waterbury Manufacturing Company the past S5 years will celebrate his 18th birthday today at family gathering His real natal day every four years He has four children eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Uncle Sam insists that Gus must have 65 birthdays to qualify for old age benefits they will come due in the year 2132 and he will have to be 260 old Co collect
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Mir. and Mrs Stewart Crichton of 78 Orange Street have decided to christen their daughter of February 2O Patricia. The proud father, better known as Stewie and Red, is former speedban pitcher of City Anna te Baseball League fame His better half is the for mer Catherine CarOlan of Ridge Street. They're the parents of three other children Mary David and Jean
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Mrs Raymond Burke of this city, the former Georgia McFeeley of Derby, is undergoing observation at St.. Mary,s Hospital Robert w. Nichols of Horton Ave nue. Cheshire, has completed three months of physical conditioning and ground school work as Naval Avia- fon Cadet at the U g. Navy PreF1ght School at Ahens Georgia Now he has been assigned to Ottumwa, Iowa, to begin progressive flight training preparatory to join ing combat unit
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Patsy Brown of Chestnut Avenue, proprietor of the Silver Chalet on West Main Street, has Boston Terrier he fOreSees champion. Named F. Us News boy the dog will make its initial appearance at a toned show his first birthday, March 12 in all breed competition at Providence R. He's offspring of F. J's Riding High, champion Pat was really proud to own.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Dolly Dellacamera of 122 Wolcott Street, popular employe of the U. S. Rubber Company in Naugatuck, celebrated another natal day last Saturday Peter J. Silvestro is Army private somewhere in England. The former local barber writes he recently enjoyed
 five day furlough in London It's the ghost that walks payday, but it's the collector who haunts you
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

David Madden who first played in Waterbury in November Of 194O and then again last faI performed af Town HaIl New York, Saturday afternoon. The volinist nov seventeen years of age, received eood otices from the critics who found his technique Swcepfianal Maiden played here with the Civic Or 6bs1ifn conducted by Mario QiCecco.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

MT. and Mrs Frank K Keefe of Al Keefe Street boarded rater yesterday afternoon for New York City Later they entraned from the Grand Central for Florida where they'll vacation few weeks before Frank returns to his civil service assignments at the local post office
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29
06oi Evening.
- . - LAST CALL FOR HEATING
us3s BY TEE MAN IN TD TOWER

Last day of February,
 And some Ladies leap; Not so bad on the looking
 But a bit slow on the leapl
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Dinah Shores arranecr-accons- pauist, Ticker Freeman, who hes be6 naseociafed with fhe eone1treas all during her clInab to fame. tilIe Week Was nccerfgd by the ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

the R. H. Macy department store in New York, on that date. Dialers will get an enticing glimpse of "the kitchen of tomorrow" super-efh- cient room which simplifies the housewife's work unbeliavably it does practically everything but cook by itself!
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-02-29

Good Nlellk
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
Coast Officers
Seek Slayer
Of Three Women

HOLLYWOOD, June 26. (UP)-
Police Monday continued their
hunt for Alvin Oscar Arnsen, alias
Harry Fischer, now wanted for
questioning in connection with the
mutilation murders of three women.
Arnsen, a radio repair man also
known as Steven Joseph Vernon.
has been sought since June 10 when
the nude, horribly mutilated body
of waitress Georgia Elizabeth Cas-
taneda, 80, was found in room
assertedly rented by Arnsen.
Police said the hunted man had
long prison record, having escaped
from Missouri state penitentiary in
1888 where he had served six years
of a 45-year term for first-degree
armed robbery
He also is wanted for questioning
regarding the murder of Mrs. Katie
Brady, IS, whose torn, almost life
less body was discovered in an alley
Oct. 8, and the murder of Mrs.
Loretta Robinson, "a, waitress,
whose nude body was found Aug.
in hotel room.
Arnsen was described by police as
having "a way with wcmen.'
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
War Bond Drive
In County Loss

Bright and early Monday morn
ing the wife of an officer ait the
Ell Centro Marine base appeared at
the Ell Centre chamber of commerce
and quietly negotiated the purchase
of $1,000 in war bonds.
That's a good omen and a fine
spirit for the opening of the third
week of the. fifth war loan drive
declared Ira Kinsey, Ell Centro
chairman.
The Standard Oil company an
nounced ALLEGATION of $4,000 dis
tributed among the valley cities as
its share in the county campaign.
Herb Fawcett, county chairman, in
announcing that the drive is lag
ging, found encouragement in this
patriotic woman's purchase. If
that spirit would spread to every
nook and corner of the county we
soon would be over the top with
our $3,l00,O00 quota" he observed,
and added, why can't it spread?'
Chairman Kinsey announced that
the central sales booth on Main
street will be in operation by We'd
nesday. A group of volunteer Wom-
en- is organizing to attend the booth
and will keep it open daily from
10 a. m. to p. m.
Two special events are scheduled
in Ell Centre this week to boost pur-
chases.
Tuesday afternoon at the United
Artists Theater a film will be shown
especially for children and Tues
day evening at the same theater
will be the big premiere, Two
Girls and a Sailor" for adults, with
admission in both instances-a war
bond.
Chairman FaWcett called aten-
tion to the drive lag, in announcing
the sales Monday had reached only
Al per cent Of the goal. He also
reported that at the end of the
first two weeks of the Fourth loan
drive the county had totaled 4S
per cent of the goal.
These are the cold facts" he
said 1T is plain to everyone that
we must redouble and then redouble
our efforts if we are to reach our
quota this time on schedule"
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
Mother, II, Faces
Jury on Charge
Of Drowning Babe

Jurors were being selected in I'm
perial county superior court Mon
day in the trial of Mildred Shelton,
19-year-old mother, on a charge of
numbering her baby girl by throw
ing her in the Colorado river near
Winterhaven.
The court room was packed with
prospective jurors as the selection
began. Judge Elmer Heald pre-
sided with Deputy District Attorney
Luray Mouser handling the prose-
cution and j. Fred Hoover appear
ing for the defendant.
Mildred Shelton, whose calmness
has puzzled law enforcement Off
GERS since she announced May 10
that she threw her baby in the river,
was calm when court convened
Monday morning. Clad in red, she
sat at the counsel table staring
straight ahead. Beside her sat her
mother who hurried to El Centre
from ST. Louis, Missouri, to be with
her daughter Also in the court
room was the defendants great
uncle.
Court attaches expressed the
opinion that the selection of a jury
would be long process.
She entered two pleas to the
charge, not guilty and not guilty
by reason of insanity. Two alien
lists were appointed by Judge Heald
to examine her and testify as to
their findings and conclusions.
On May 19 the girl telephoned
the Yuma county sheriff's office
that she had thrown her l0-months-
old daughter in the river because
Cpl Robert Nell Of the Yuma air
base had refused to marry her as
he had promised when her divorce
from Enoch Shelton, now in the
service overseas, became final.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
Saipan harbor
Point Falls
To Yanks' Fire

PEARL HARBOR, June 26. (UP)
American troops captured tower
ing Mount Tapotchau overlooking
Tanapag harbor on Saipan, a front
dispatch reported Monday, and
high ranking officers with the in
vaSion forces expressed confidence
that the entire MarianaS group,
less than 1900 miles from Tokyo,
will be seized
The japanese attempted a coun-
ter attack before dawn Monday
morning, the dispatch said, but the
assault failed as the Americans
held firmly to positions on the
mountain, one of the prize targets
on Saipan and focal point for new
drives against the enemy in the
northern part of the island.
Additional reports of the big bat
tie east of the Philippines last
Monday revealed that another jap
aneSe aircraft carrier and two more
cruisers were damaged, bringing to
l8 the number of enemy warships
sunk or damaged in two days of
naval and aerial action west of the
Marianas
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
Robots and Raj
Exchange Blows

reported that Allied bombers were
over the Vienna and Danube areas
again this morning, and said they
were engaged in violent aerial COM
bats.
Although there were no reports
from the sections hit by the Nazi
robot bombs Monday, some casual
ties and damage were caused by
pilotlesS planes which dropped into
southern England before the black
out Sunday night, breaking lull
of IA hours in the attacks.
Resumption of the robot bomb
attacks came after Allied bombers
and fighters carried out four sepa-
rate raids Sunday on the launch
ing platforms and more than -
power stations scattered throughout
the nest of bomb bases in northern
France
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
British Speed
Italy Drive

ROME, June 26. CUP)-British
Eighth army troops broke through
the center of the German line north
and west of Perugia after three
days of bitter fighting, while Amer
lean forces on the west coast cap
tured the pert town of Piombino
and swept on to within 38 miles of
Livorno Geghorn), the second larg-
est italian harbor left in German
hands, a communique said Mon
day.
Hard fighting was continuing
alor 25-mile front from the
Perugia area to the west shores of
Lake Trasimenc and down into the
city of Chiusi, but official reports
said the Germans we're being ham,
mered back relentlessly by British,
South African and Indian armored
columns.
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
Ernie Pyle
French Villagers Bring
In Many Nazi Prisoners
When Yankees Take Over

BARNEVILLE, Normandy (By
WireleSS) Prom this picturesque
little town you can look down upon
the western sea. In the center OF
Barneville is sloping, paved court,
a sort of public square except that
ii is rectangular instead of square.
At one end of the square AN army
truck was parked. Scattered around
the square were half dozen Amer
lean sole ierS standing in doorWayS
with their rifles at the ready. There
are a few French people on the
streets.
We went to the far end of the
square, where three local French
policemen were standing in front
of the mayors office. They could
Mt speak any English, but they
said there was one woman in town
who did, and little boy was sent
running for her Gradually a crowd
of eager and curious people crushed
in upon us, until there must have
been 200 of them, from babies to
old women.
Finally the woman arrlVeo-a
little dark woman with graying
hair, and spectacles, and big smile.
Her English was quite good, and we
asked her if there were any Ger
mans in the town. She turned and
asked the policemen.
ALL TALK AT ONCE
Instantly everybody in the crowd
started talking at once. The sound
was like that of machine that in
creases in speed until its noise
browns out all else.
Finally the policemen had to
shush the crowd so the woman
could answer us.
She said there were Germans all
around, in the woods, but none
whatever left in the town. Just
then German stuck his head out
of a nearby second STORY winooW.
Somebody saw him, and an Ameri-
can soldier was dispatched to get
him.
Barneville is a fortunate place,
because not shell was fired into
it by either side. The lieutenant
with us told the woman we were
glac nobody had been hurt. When
she translated this for the crowd,
there was much nodding IN approval
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26

MOSCOW, June 26. (UP)
Russian storm troops bat
tied through the streets of
encircled and tottering Wit
ebsk Monday, chopping down the
survivors of its $4,000 to $4,000 trap
ped Nazi defenders and hoisting
the Red banner atop one of the
biggest buildings in the White Rus
sian stronghold.
The Red army's general summer
offensive was spreading along a
285-mile battleline to clamp a
Stranglehold ON Vitebsk, outflank
Orsha, and threaten Mogilev and
BobruiSk, keystones of the defense
of White Russia.
BREAK NAZI WALL
I'VE have broken the So-called
German defense wall for White
Russia" a front dispatch said.
Panic is spreading among the
German officers"
(Nazi broadcasts acknowledged
that the Vitebsk garrison was cut
off, that the Russians scored a
rather deep penetration" in the
BobruiSk area to the south, and had
gained more ground southwest of
BobruiSk and east of Mogilev and
on the Vitebsk 'front.'
Highlighting the offensive launch
ed against the strongest German
hedgehog systems on the entire Rus
sian front was the assault on Wit
ebsk, climaxing a brilliant thanking
maneuver in which two Soviet arm
les slicec in behind the big base
and sealed it off for a battle of
determination against the Ger
man garrison.
White Russian dispatches said
the assault forces were blazing their
way through the streets of Vitebsk
and swiftly disposing of remnants
of five German divisions.
FACE NEW TRAP
Some German elements which es-
capped from Vitebsk before the trap
closed were reported falling back
along the highway toward Orsha,
At miles below VitebSk. But with
Orsha itself in imminent danger
they encountered a new threat.
The Red army attack was de-
signed to smash the entire German
network of defenses protecting
White Russia, setting the stage for
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26

of our good wishes.
We must have stood and talked
for an hour and a half. 1t was a
kline of holiday for the local people.
They were relieved but still not
quite sure the Germans wouldn't be
hack. They were still under a re-
straint that wouldn't let them open
up riotouSly. But you could sense
from little things that they were
glad to have us.
A little French Shopkeeper came
along with a spool of red, white
and blue ribbon from his store. He
cut off pieces about six inches long
for all hands, both American and
French In a few minutes every
body was going around with a
French tricolor in his buttonhole.
Then a ruddy-taced man OF mid
die age, who looked like a gentle
man farmer, Grove up in one of
those one-horse, high-wheeled work
carts that the French use.
BRINGS IN PRISONERS
He had a German prisoner in
uniform standing behind him, and
another one, who was SICK lying ON
stretcher. The farmer had cap
tured these guys himself, and he
looked so pleased, with himself that
expected him to take a bow at
any moment
French people kept coming up
and asking us for instructions. A
man who looked as if he might be
the town banker asked what he was
supposed to do with prisoners. We
told him to bring them to the
truck, and asked how many he had.
To our astoniShment he said he
had 70 in the woods a couple of
miles away, 100 in a nearby town,
and 40 in another town.
AS far as I could figure it out
he had captured them all himself.
NEED MEDICAL SUPPLIES
Another worried-looking French
man came up. He was coctor. He
said he had 26 badly wounded Ger
mans down at the railroad station
and desperately neec,Hd medical
supplies. He wanted chloroform and
sulfa drugs. We told him we would
nave some sent
One character in the crowd look
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Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
BY WALTER CRONKITE

LONDON, June 26. (UP)-Nazi
robot bombs hit southern England
Monday afternoon in the first day
light attacks since Friday as hun
dredS of Allied warplanes swept
across the channel to renew their
assaults on the battlelines and en-
emy concentrations in France.
The daylight raids followed wide
attacks over the continent Sunday
night when Allied planes hit Ger
many and occupied territory from
the west and south.
RAF bombers pounded industrial
targets in the Ruhr valley and mill
tary installations in France, while
Italian based heavy and medium
bombers raided Budapest, capital
of Hungary.
The German DNB news agency
Imperial Valley press., 1944-06-26
GRAND CANYON, Ariz.,

GRAND CANYON, Ariz.,
June 26. (UP)-Two army
lirmen were marooned atop
the rocky and inaccessible Tonto
Plateau, 500 feet above the rushing
waters of the Colorado river and
almost a mile below the north rim
of the Grand Canyon.
The pair parachuted to the craggy
foothold from their disabled bomb
er last Tuesday, army officials said.
National Park rangers originally
reported they had spotted one man
on the plateau. In response to a
message by plane along with food
and water, however, the sighted fly
er moved his chute twice to indicate