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Milford chronicle., 1944-12-15
MILFORD NECK


The regular meeting of the w. S
G. S. will be held in the church
this Friday evening. Mrs. Allie
Webb, president, will preside. She
is very anxious to have a good at
tendance, especially everyone who
will in anyway assist with the
Christmas program, as prepara-
tions are being made. Come and
bring the whole family.
The regular correspondent from
this section to the Milford Chroni-
Gle has moved to Cedar Neck. She,
having become the wife of Mr.. Da-
Wis Watson. has not only changed
her residence but also her name.
We. the people of this section.
are sorry to lose her as she was
a good neighbOr and a real church
worker. Her influence among us
will be greatly missed, yet the we'll
wishes of this community go with
her and we all join in wishing
them long and happy life.
Mr.. and Mrs. Paris Kirby. Mrs.
Jack Willis and Mr.. and Mrs. /.
Donald Jester are attending the
10th session of the Delaware State
which is being held in New
ark, Del. Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence
Jester, Past State Master and wife.
together with Mr.. and Mrs. Davis
Watson. will attend the banquet to
be held on Wednesday evening in
honor of the 10th anniversary,
Much moving is going on in this
section. Mr.. and Mrs. David
Green and family are moving to
their new home on Lake View Ave
nue.. Milford; Mr.. and Mrs. James
Wiley will move to their recently
purchased home in Lincoln. All
these folks will be missed from
his section.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-15

Mrs. Harley Hastings. Mrs. Ru-
dolph Hastings and Miss Iris Hast
ings spent Thursday in Whining
ton, Del.
Mr.. George Nichols. Mr.. Frank
Nichols, Mrs. Harry Nichols and
Mrs. Reuben Moore, Sr., attended
the funeral of Mrs. Herbert Hitch
ner in Chester, Pa, on Tuesday.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-15

Misses Charlotte and Genevieve
Spry spent Saturday in Philadel-
phia, Pa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rodney Larrimore
spent the weekend with Mr.. and
Mrs. Jack Sammons in Rehoboth.
The w. S. C. S. met Thursday
night at the home OF Mrs. Walter
Eskridge.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-15

The Count-On-Me Club met at
the home OF Mrs. Irene Dickerson
in Laurel on Wednesday evening.
MIR. and Mrs. Cecil Wright spent
a part of last week in Norfolk, Va
Mrs. Rudolph Hastings, OF Stock
ley, Del, spent a part of last week
with Mr.. and Mrs Harley Hast
ings.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-15
BETHEL

Mrs. William Smith. of Sails
bury. Md, spent the weekend with
relatives here.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harvey Spence
spent Sunday in Greenwood with
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Prettyman.
Milford chronicle., 1944-12-15

Our finest makel
Water-repellent plaid
twill fiber with hand
some sim u1ated
leather panels. Rich
brown with red and
ivory plaid.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Sub SeowoIf Moy Be Lost

Washington, Dec. 28. (UP)-The 1,450-ton submarine Seawolf is over- due on Pacific patrol and presumed lost with its crew of at least 62 men, the navy announced today.
 This was the 34th U. s. submarine to be lost from all causes in this war and the 239th American naval vessel lost. U. s. submarines, how ever, have sunk 934 Japanese ships.
 Skipper of the Seawolf was It. Cmdr. Albert M. Bontier, White Plains, N. Y. He was a native of Caney, Kan.
 The Seawof was commissioned on Dec. l, 1899. This was the second submarine bearing the name Sea- wolf to meet disaster. The first ran aground on an island off lower Cali fornia in 1920 and sank during salvage operations.
 Although the navy did not disclose the war record of the second Sea- wolf, it obviously had had dis tinguished career. Its first skipper, Cmdr. Frederick B. Warder, earned two Navy Crosses.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
B-25 Crashes In Long Island Areo

Northampton Beach, N. F., Dec. 28 = (UPO = Military and Civil- ian police searched this Long Island area today for four members of a BPS bomber crew who may have parachuted from the plane before It crashed in a swirling snow storm carrying seven others to their death.
 Lieutenant Colonel George Logan, commanding officer of the Suffolk Army Air Field here, announced that the bomber was on a combat training mission from Westover Field, Mass, when it crashed at 6:20 p. m. yesterday 12 miles northeast of here.
 Eleven men were aboard, Logan said. Unofficial sources reported that seven bodies were removed from the wreckage which was strewn over several acres of woodland near a farm on the outskirts of Matti- tuck, N. Y.
 Army officials withheld details of the crash pending investigation.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Retailers E Bond
 Sales Under Quota

Sale of "E'' bonds by local retail CTS during the Sixth War Loan Drive in amount of $1,200, ,345 fell just short of quota of $1,300, 900 in this class bond although a total of $1,597, ,745 in all type war bonds was sold by the merchants Third Army. The announcement of re- suits was made known today at the final meeting of retailers conducted by chairman Major J. Peter Cos tigan.
 No final figures were released to- day by war bond officials as to whether the city has surpassed its 'E'' bond quota of $4,250,000 but it seemed possible that this latter goal may have now been surpassed.
 The city has surpassed it's gen. eral quota of $18,636, 900 and its Se- curities Division quota of SPA, ,120,O 900 but Jagged in the sale of "E' bonds although leading the state in the latter type sales up to last week.
 The Sixth War Loan Drive gen. orally encountered the obstacles of heavy Christmas buying and the general holida yseason and perhaps presented more difficulties than any previous War Loan Campaign. For this reason the current efforts have been adjudged as stemming from an all-out effort on the part of the majority.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Bullets Miss Churchill Bv Thirty Yords
By JAMES E. ROPER 'nited Press War Correspondent

NOmteu freSS war correspondent
 Athens, Dec. 28- CUP) British sources said today that machine gun bullets believed fired in an as- Sassination attempt missed Prime Minister Churchill and other Brit ish authorities by 30 yards yester- day, but wounded a Greek girl prob- ably fatally.
 It was the second time in 24 hours that Churchill has missed death in Athens. On Tuesday, nearly a ton of dynamite was found fused in a sewer beneath the Great Britain hotel, British and Greek govern ment headquarters.
 The latest incident was disclosed as negotiations among Greek poli- tical leaders seeking to end the civil war reached temporary stal- mate. However, 1t was believed that King George might pave the way for solution by setting up 8 re- gency.
 Fighting still ragged in Athens and northwest Greece. Additional areas of southeast Athens were cleared during the morning and a British armored force was sent 16 miles south of the capital to round up 150 members of the rebellious ElaS.
 British informants charged that machine-gunners "u n u bted1y" were aiming at Churchill, Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, Supreme Allied Commander for the the Mediterranean theater, and It. Gen. Ronald Scobie, British com- mander in Athens, when they open- ed fire yesterday.
 They conceded, however, that the snipers might not have known that Churchill was in the party which was entering an armored car in front of the British embassy. The short burst felled a Greek girl 100 yards away and struck an ad- jacent building 30 yards from Churchill.
 It was believed the first time that the snipers had used machine gun in the embassy area, though they previously had chipped the front of the building with rifle fire.
 Eye Witness Account
 British informants said they ob- tained an eyewitness account of the shooting from Scobie. They suggested that the machine-gun might have been set up on 8 fixed line toward the embassy entrance.
 Scobie annuonced in a communi- que that the process of clearing Athens and Piraeus of insurgent forces was progressing slowly, but satisfactorily"
 Heavy fighting was under way just south of Omonias Square. The
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Refornaatory Youth Says
 His Detention Illegal

The boy. who claims through protasevich (aiso known as Cypryan Prociewicz) that he has been con- fined without cause. was sentenced to the reformatory Dec. n at the Winchester town court ct Wlnsted on the charge of taking e motor vehicle without permission. The sentence was imposed by Judge Haelelgh H. How'd.
 Counsel for the applicant will have until next "Wednesday to file further pleadings and give the basis of the complaint. The papers filed ln the court Co date do not give details on the boyt clnime,
 Tho hearing was scheduled ~ Watc1buEiy pEoznmo1ly hoeaE1e e the noarneas io a|| FAFlI11 AnI infgo n& tho Common E'N1e Court oF EnnEI|1f E10ft 10es NI.|F
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Chino, Indio Supply
 Route Almost Set"

Chungking, Dec. 2S.-(UP)-Lt. Gen. Albert 0. Wedemeyer. com mander of American forces in China, said today that the new land supply route between China and In- dia-success to the famed Burma road--was almost cleared".
 Tn his first press conference since his return from Q three-week trip to the Yunnan border in southwest China, Wedemeyer said he saw American road engineers working day and night to push through the road and gasoline pipeline.
 Chinese forces at recently.recap. tured Cherfang and Mangshih on the Tengchung- -Myltkyina shortcut were in "good nplrits," he said, and "know they can lick the Japs."
 "They are going to make fur. ther advances" he said. "The Japa seem to Dc fighting Q rear.guard action"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28

A Torrlngton youth who claims he is illegally detained ct the Che- shire Reformatory was brought to the Common Pleas Court today for habeas corpus proceedings. but Q continuance on the hearing was ordered Go Wednesday ct ii .. m. by Judge Miles McNih to permit entrance of further pleadings.
 George Erskine, superintendent Of the reformatory was ordered by the court to bring the i0-year-old boy, Emil Proclowicz. to the court today, and the pair appeared accompan- led by another roformatofy official. Attorney Hynan Silver Of Torring- ton. who appears for the applicant. Wae not present cad the hearing Wns continued. Assistant states Attorney walter VI, Hymih arponF@ ed lor tho state ano la1 HlreI'r= IaMaN
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Rubber Go. Puts Soldiers On Job

ChicOpee Falls, Mass, Dec. 28.-(UP)-Sixty- seven of 14O soldiers on f0urlOugh for 90 days were at work today at the United States Rubber Co.'s Fisk Tire Division plant here and the remainder of the group, all former rubber work CTS, were expected to arrive by tomorrow.
 The ,servicemen were re- leased temporarily under 8 new army plan to aid critical war industries.
 Plant officials expected that the number of sOldier-wOrkers would be increased early next year. Originally, they said, 200 were sought in an effort to increase production 4 per cent.
 The plant also was seeking 700 additional civilian em- plOyes.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Demos OK Senote Bills

Hartford, Conn, Dec. 28-(UP)- The 21 Democratic Senators-elect, who control the upper branch of the General Assembly which con- veneS next Wednesday, were in agreement today on an eight-point program incorporating many of the platform pledges of the November elections.
 The group, at a State Capitol caucus, also nominated Former Sen. John L. Sullivan, New Britain, for the $S,50O job as Senate Clerk by a vote of Il to 10 over Cornelius J. Driscoll, Branford, who had the backing of State Central Commit tee Chairman Adrian w. Maher.
 The legislative program includes support of bills creating a state Labor Relations Act, four-year terms for minor court judges, con- solidation of the State Develop ment Commission and State Post war Planning Board, construction of state hospital for inebriates, authority for the state and muni- cipalities to make direct purchases of federal surplus war properties, prohibiting officers and employees of the State Judical Department from engaging in politics, and broadening benefits under the State Unemployment Compensa- tion fund.
 Approved Fin principle was the establishment of 0 state adult pro- bation system, although no specific recommendation were proposed.
 The caucus voted in favor of Joint rules and joint committees during the l945 session, but reserv- ed the right to make separate re- ports on any measures in which the party found itself in disagreement with the Republicans.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
New Pacific
 Jop Attacks Seem Likely
BY WILLIAM B. DICKINSON United Press War Correspondent

United Press War Correspondent
 Allied Headquarters, Philippines, Dec. 28-CUP)-New enemy naval attacks designed to disrupt the American timetable in the Pacific were expected today following an abortfve bombardment of Mindoro in which three Japanese destroyers were sunk and battleship and a cruiser damaged.
 The Japanese repeat tedly have said they believed the battle of the Phil ippines would go long way toward determining the length of the Paci- fife war and they appeared ready to gamble a major portion of their dwindling sea and air strength on sralling the American liberation of- fensive.
 Their hit-run foray against Min doro Tuesday night came to grief in a hail of bombs and shells from American heavy, medium and fight er-bombers that sank or damaged all but three destroyers in the ar- mada.
 It was the first time that Japan ese surface forces have ventured from their bases in any strength since the American Third and Seventh fleets sank "A Japanese warships. probably sank 13 others and damaged 21 in the second bat tie of the Philippines Sea in late October.
 Despite mounting damage from attacking American planes, the Jap
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Glare Soys War To End By 1946

Rome, Dec. 28 = (U.P0 = Repree sentative Glare Booth Luce, R. Conn, predicted in a radio hroad% cast short-waved to the United States last night that the war ii Europe would end before aTlotheR Christmas.
 She described the Italian front a "a short-changed theater" in which the American Doughboy could d0 with a whale of 8 lot more fellows like himself"
 'The American infantrynaan ln Italy is bitter that any American, particularly any American at home. should think that he (the infantfy~ man) is or has been on an inactive front" she said.
 ''He is proud because he kueN1 hundreds of platoons which have gone into battle 120 strong hapo come out perhaps 10, got rerlaea~ ments and repeated this b1oe35 arithmetic as far as Bologna
 "He is proud because he is szfN going ahead in spite of it."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
ArmoredU Unit Aids Trapped
 U. 5. Garrison
putnam for the War Picture Pool.
BY ROBERT RICHARDS United Press War COrreSOndent)

Bastogne, Belgium, Dec. 27-(UP) An American relief column has lifted the week-long German siege of encircled Bastogne, but the res cued DoughboyS aren't overjoyed about 1t.
 The column which relieved the Bastogne garrison has knocked out an estimated 200 German panther tanks in the last eight days. The men of the famous American fighting unit-its designation may not yet be revealed-are a little eeved that others are going to horn in on their personal fight with the Germans.
 Of course, we ain't talking about armor, mind you," explained "A Dominic J. Pochetto, g, of Spring Valley, N. D., we're always plenty glad to see the armor and the air corps, but we don't need no infan- try help right now
 Rochetto and four buddieS told us what it was like fighting inside the pocket while they leaned against IIlC1 Id1 d44NAo HI OA1C 0AAaAVW V4 O shell-lasted building.
 American tanks had officially lifted the siege at 5:1O p. m., yes- terday with their arrival at Bas- togne's outskirts. Trucks, jeeps and other vehicles rumbled into the bat tered city in force today.
 Rochetta was soaking again.
 ;.al l.. the snow and the cold. God Bless the C-47s (air tranSports) and thunderbolts. They really kept us going when things got tough.
 There were times when we had to ration our ammunition, but we just shot straighter and made it last"
 We didn't have too much trouble
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Lord Guilty In Car Death

Raymond Lord of Finch road, Wolcott, is found criminally negh- gent in the automobile death of John Coscia, 76, Wo,cott road, on November g, in a finding released today by Coroner Stephen A. Hom- ick.
 Coscia was fatally injured when struck by Lords car after he alighted from bus and started to cross Wolcott street near the in- tersection of Sti1son. road.
 The finding reads in part:
 Apart from Lord the speed of his car was variously estimated at from 35 to better than 40 miles per hour at the time of the accident.
 Lord testified that he saw the deceased in the center of the road when his car was about 20 feet dis tant from him and that he, trav- cling 25 to 30 miles per hour, ap- piled his brakes and came to a stop on impact.
 'The following are undisputed facts: the evening in question was dry and quite dark. The lights of the Lord car were lighted and on the down beam. Immediately be- fore the accident there were no
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28

SEIAEF reports indicated the most advanced Nazi penetration was now seven miles from the Mouse east of Dinant, push-back of thre0 miles achieved in heavy battling east of CelleS.
 Here strong American forces had surrounded large enemy force in a pocket between Celles and Roche~ fort, ten miles to the southeast. Several hundred prisoners were taken and a large number of Ger@ man tanks and other ar1nored fight~ ing vehicles were captured.
 800 Prisoners
 A front dispatch from United Press war correspondent Jack Fleischer placed the number of prise oners at 500 in one sector.
 The news was the most encour~ aging since the start of Field Mar- shal Kar von Rundstedt's offensive. No German gains were reported at any point and NaI armored 4oru1a@ tions were going over to the defen~ sive at various places, digging in their tanks and erecting road blocks.
 However, for the first time since last week -end the bulk of the Amer ican tactical air force was grounded during the morning by fog, flying only 102 sorties compared with the 300 or more reported each day pre- viously this week up to noon.
 On the southern side of the Nazf salient the Americans were puncI1- ing hard along a 35-mile front from Bastogne to Echternacfl.
 The relief of the Bastogne gar~ rison, manned by a famous A1neri- can fighting outfit which still can not be identified, and the capture of the little town of ManLay, just outside Grandmenil on the north~ ern edge of the flank, created c narrow waist in the middle Of the Nazi salient It is only 20 miles wide and if further penetrations can be made by American forces moving south from Munhay and north from Bastogne they would threaten the western half of the salient with being cut oil.
 The Americans on the south Hank were chiselling into the German po@ oAbAOA4C Cdob O4 odoOOS41C, C4lo1xkk AI to the rivers Sure and Clerf in Or@ der to create . broader base for the still narrow corridor into Baz~ togne.
 In this area they captured Lie. frange in thrust that took them four miles north of Arsdorf.
 Fierce battles still ragged in the Grandmenil area where the Amer jeans were making slow progress against heavy opposition. Front re- ports said that American troops were on the edge of the town.
 At an unSpecified point between Grandmenil and Marche, IA miles southwest, 8 German counterattack was smashed and several tanks de- stroyed and others surrounded.
 Weather Bitter
 Bitterly cold weather reduced acc ttvity on both sides. The tempera ature was about % degrees above zero with a brisk wind and snow and ice covered all roads.
 The first Allied airborne army re- ported that in the largest supply mission which it carried out in be- half of the beleaguered Bastogne
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Government Seizes M-W In 7 Cities
By ARTHUR GUNDERSON

United Press Staff COrrespOndent)
 Chicago, Dec. 28-(UP)-The fed era1 government under orders from President Roosevelt took possession of Montgomery Ward & Go. facili- ties in seven cities today.
 Maj. Gen. Joseph w. Byron, di- rector of the Special Services divi- sion of the Army Service Forces, seized the plants at 10:50 a. m. EWT.
 The executive order covered war properties in Chicago, Detroit, Jam- aica, N. r.; St. Paul, Minn.; Denver, Colo; San Rafael, Cal, and Port land, Ore.
 The move was the second seizure this year of the firms Chicago prop critics by the government seeking to enforce WLB directives on wages and maintenance of membership.
 The plant was seized first April 26. The next day Sewell Avery, TO- year-old chairman of the board of directors, was carried from his of- flee by two soldiers after he refused to cooperate with Wayne c. Taylor, Department of Commerce official who operated the plant for the gov- ernment.
 The Commerce Department oper- ated the plant until May g when it was returned to the company at
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
130 Trucks Idle As 200 WuIk Out

Bellows Falls, Vt., Dec. 28-(UP) About 139 trucks and 200 drivers for Gays Express, Inc, serving routes in Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and New York, were idle today following a walkout of 65 operators.
 The tieup began yesterday when the 65 drivers, attached to the firms main terminal here, demand ed that pay rises granted last July and retroactive to January be paid operators who subsequently, left their jobs. The men are members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehouse men and Helpers of America (AFL)
 Company officials said all perish able food in transit was transferred to other transport concerns.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Bishop Brody Guest Preacher

Boston, Dec. 28,- CUP.0 - Arch bishop Francis J. Spellman of New York and Archbishop Richard J. Cushing of Boston will officiate next Wednesday at the conservation here of the Most Rev. Edward F. Ryan as Bishop of Burlington, Vt, 1t was announced today.
 The conservation and solemn high Mass will be offered at the Cathed- ral of the Holy Cross by Archbishop Cushing while co-conSecratorS will include Archbishop Spellman and Bishop Francis P. Keough of Prov idence, R. I. The sermon will be preached by Bishop Elect Matthew P. Brady of Manchester, N. H., who held the See to which Bishop Ryan has been appointed. Twenty other Archbishops and Bishops as well as 40 Monsignori will attend the cere- monies.
 Bishop Ryan will offer his first solemn Pontifical Mass January at the parish church in Roxbury where he was pastor for 12 years. He will be installed February at Burling- ton by Archbishop Gushing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-12-28
Gas Shortage Nozi Worry
BY CLINTON B. CONGER

BY CL1NION b. CONGEh United Press War COrrespOndent)
 With Seventh Army on Western Front, Dec. 28.-(UP)-Five press releases from the Seventh Army Public Relations office suggested to- day that the German army may be out of gasoline by the middle of January.
 The releases were based on cap- tured documents, statements of prisoners and information reach ing headquarters.
 One quoted a captured chemist and oil man as saying that at the end of September the gasoline re- serve equalled only six weeks con- sumption but that acquisition of Slovakian stocks might have been adequate for another two months.
 Another prisoner, who had been in supply regiment, said the regi- mental truck company could handle only 60 tons of supplies daily and that frequently the trucks ran out of gasoline and had to get help from passing vehicles.
 A second release described Q cap- tured order issued by Field Mar shal Karl Won Rundstedt for the western theater operations on "con- servation of fuel"
 The order was aimed at elimina- tion of all non-esSential trips and decreed that no motor transporta- ton should be used where railroads were available. It further decreed that essential trips where railroads were not available should be made in Diesel propelled or charcoal burn- ing vehicles, reserving synthetic gasoline strictly for combat.
 The third release quoted @ re- cent message from supply section to a German division ordering ex- treme conservation of fuel and giv- ing priority to tanks and anti-tank weapons. IL also included an ob- servation from prisoner that due
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