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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20
WOLCOTT Correspondent: Alma P. Cole; Telephone 3-2803.
WOLCOTT GRANGE
 HOLD MEETING
Visiting Masters Attend From Beacon Valley, Sey-
 mOur, WatertOwn

Wolcott, July 2O-Visiting masters night was observed at Wolcott Grange Monday night with the following visiting masters present, John Campbell of Beacon Valley Grange, Herbert Roberts of Oxford Grange; John Davies of Prospect Grange; Harold Booth Watertown Grange; Edward Krasnick of Sey- mour Grange; Lyman Burke of Bethlehem: Gordon Beals of Bris- tol and Harlan Crooker, Middle bury Grange. Miss Nancy Good son, master of Wolcott Grange presided at brief meeting and then the visiting masters conducted the rest of the meeting filling the chairs as follows: Master, Harold Booth; overseer, John Davies; lec- turer, John Campbell; chaplain, Edward Krasnick; stewart, Herbert Roberts; assistant steward, Gordon Beals; gatekeeper, Lyman Burke; executive committee, Harlan Crook CT. A committee On a dance was appointed as follows: Horace Read, Sylvia Mignault and John Nor- lund. Mrs. Charles Tyrell was awarded the apron for which chances were sold, the proceeds to be used for a worthy cause. Julia RozdiSki, chairman of the annual picnic held at the Jacklin Club re- ported about 40 attended the picnic which was an enjoyable evening for all present. The program for the next meeting will be in charge of the past lecturers. Refreshments were served after the meeting fol- lowed by dancing with Mrs. Byron Fleming and Robert Wakelee fur nishing the music.
 Red Cross Appeal Made
 Mrs. J. Robert Fulgham, chair man of the local Red Cross branch announces that ladies to sew and knit are needed badly by the Red Gross. If any local. persons will do this work they will get more information by calling Mrs. Full gham.
 We'll Child Conference
 A we'll child conference will be held Tuesday at the South school from 9:30 to 10:30 a. m. Dr. Ru- dolph Damiani will be the doctor in charge. Mrs. Carl Madison is chairman of the conference.
 Sarah Gibbons has returned to her home on Shelton avenue after a two weeks vacation spent at Wildemere Beach and New York City. While in New York City she visited relatives and friends and celebrated her sixth birthday.
 Mrs. Robert Grant of Shelton avenue is patient at the Water bury hospital.
 Birthday Party
 MT. and Mrs. Peter Stangl, ST. of Sheltan avenue, entertained at 8 surprise birthday party, Thurs day for their son Peter, Jr., in honor of his fourth birthday. Games were played and lunch served. Thise present were: George Stangl, Jackie Jay, Lorraine Jay, Rickie LeGeer, Sarah Gibbons, John Gib- bons, Mrs. M. Tellerday, MT. and Mrs. Harry Jay, Peter, Jr., and MT. and Mrs. Stapgel.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20

Park road has as her guest for a few weeks her father, John Russell ot Long Beach, Calf.
 Mrs. Douglas O. Burnham of Nova Scotia Hill road is vacationing in Canada.
 Torrance Lynch. Sr., of Waterbury iAs been the recent guest of his sister. Mrs. Edward Kelly of Scott avenue.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20
BRIDGE INSURANCE MAY BE CANCELLED
Beard of Finance Names Special Committee to
 Study Plan

xns,.-ance on Waterbury bridges raay be dropped following an in- vsssisation by a special committee ST the board of finance, it was Indicated at a meeting of the board last night at city hall. Mayor John C Monagan appointed Commits sicners John F. Brophy, Patrick F Ahea. and Orton P. Camp to study the insurance coyerage on bridges, water systems and dams.
 The present insurance for $11.-
 5000 carries premium payments tf nearly s4,o00.
 It was pointed out the policies were. taken as war measures for protection against possible sabo- tage or .:rnalicious mischief"
 Insurance of water systems and dznls is expected to be continued, and the committee will consider whether the insurance on bridges enould be dropped completely or <DnEinuei partially.
 Two policies are now held. each with coverage as follows: Bridges, f< .500, ,OO0: dams, $21S0,O00: and spildings and dam extentions a.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20
WATERTOWN Correspondent: Mrs. Stephen Canty, p Scott Avenue;
 Telephone 1906.
WALTER M'OMBER
 PRESIDES TONIGHT
Woodward Post Will Name Alternates, Delegates to
 District Meeting

Watertown. July 20.-The regu- lar meeting of LeRoy G. Woodward Post, American Legion will be held .n Community hall Oakville tonight at o'clock, with Commander Wal ter McOmber presiding. The post meetings are held in Watertown and Oakville alternately.
 All member are urged to be pres ent at tonight's meeting as dele gates and alternates to the annual district meeting to be held in Goshen Saturday evening, July 28, will be elected.
 Chairman Jack D'Ambrose of the carnival committee will submit a brief report of that office. It may be the business of tonight's meet ing to elect delegates and alternates to the annual state of Connecticut American Legion department con- vention which is to be held in Lake vile sometime in December.
 Mystery Ride
 A mystery ride will take place following the regular meeting of Watertown Grange which will be held in Masonic hall tonight at o'clock. The women planning to attend are asked to bring either sandwiches or salad.
 Guests attending the meeting are invited to go on the mystery ride also.
 Birth Announcement
 A daughter was born at the Waterbury hospital, Thursday. July 19 to MT. and Mrs. Harold Fogle- strom of Oakville.
 Mrs. Fogelstrom is the former Miss Dorothy Bruneau of Westbury Park road. MT. and Mrs. Aimel Bru- reau of Westbury Park road and Fire Chief Victor Foglestrom and Mrs. Foglestrom of Main street. are the babys grandparents.
 It. Reade to Train Flyers
 Lieut.. Edwin G. Reade, Jr., U. S. A. R. F., son of Dr. Edwin G. Reade and Mrs Reade of Main street has been assigned to the base station ct Marana, AriZ., where he will train flyers in the latest methods of ''all weather" instrument flying.
 Lieut.. Reade who returned in January from a tour of combat duty in the Southwest Pacific has just completed the postgraduate" course of advanced instruction in instrument pilot training at the A. A. F. Instructors School, Lubbock Army Air Field, Texas.
 As CAT pilot with the Fifth Ar Force. It Reade has been award ed the Distinguished Flying Cross with two Oak Leaf Clusters; the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clus- ters, and a battle star on the Asi- atic- Pacific theater ribbon. : He is a graduate of Tatt school ard attended williams college be- fore his enlistment.
 PerSonsls t
 Mrs. John Mclean of WestSury
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20
KEEPS sTATIsTICIANs BUSY

San Antonio, Tex. - (UP)-Army statisticians still are trying to get Private E. c. Smith, Jr.'s record brought up to date.
 On March Il, Smith was reported missing in action in Germany.
 On the same date, he was wound- ed in battle.
 On the same date, he was taken prisoner by the Germans.
 A week later, he was liberated by by advancing Americans and moved to an American army hospital for treatment.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
(By United Press)

(By United PreSS)
 President Roosevelt is named Democratic candidate for Presi- dency of the U. S. for fourth time.
 Berlin radio reports assassina- tion attempt on life of Adolf Hitler at his secret headquarters; Hitler was cOnferring with staff of the German High Command when Col. Count von Staffenberg, one of his c0lla boratOrs threw bomb at Hitler; Hitler escaped with bruises and burns; one of the 13 staff officers was killed and two others seriu0sly injured.
 In France, British 2d Army widen it's 11-mile bulge south and east of Caen. ,
 Red Army units drive to within five miles of LwOw.
 In Japan, Admiral MitsumaSa YOnai and Gen. Kuniaki K0iso are ordered to form a critical decisive wartime" Cabinet.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20

These pictures, show the condi- tions under which black mar keteers slaughter cattle and but cher it for the sucker trade. They were taken when food enforce ment officers recently broke up black market meat gang oper- ating from & farm near New Paris, Ohio. At left, Clarence Kohler, Cincinnati food enforce ment attorney, inspects sides of freshly slaughtered beef, hung in the open doorway of a barn. They were covered with flies, which also swarmed over beef hides, heads and hoofs httering the floor. The refrigerator build ing" (above) looked like the stage setting for Tobacco Road" a dirty, tumbledown shack. At right, Robert eYlton, chief OPA supervisor in Cincinnati, looks over the dirty table on which meat was cut I'D.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20
.WATERVILLE Correspondent: Mrs. Gertrude
 Lane; Telephone 3-65ll
CHASE GIRLS TEAM
 BEAT SCOVlLL'S
Wateville Park Scene of SOftDall Game Last Night, Score IA to }

wateryille, July 70 The Chase girls softball team defeated the Scuvill Waterville girls last eve ming at Waterville park by a score of IA to 3. Libby Houlihan the Scovin pitcher received an injured leg when a batted ball hit her on thu shin bone, however she finished pitching the rest of the game. Irving Tucker of Pembroke avenue is seriously ill at St. Mary's hospital. Her condition last night was reported as satisfactory.
 Miss Jane Truelove and Miss Magnuson of Naugatuck are vaca- tioning with friends at Indiana and Louisville, Ky
 Francis Lafferty returned to his home on Thomaston avenue yester- day after spending two weeks va- cation with relatives in East Hart ford,
 Wesley Rood, Sr., of Fort Hill avenue is on the sick list again.
 The Casper s. Davis post, Amer ican Legion, will meet Monday eve- ming at 8 o'clock in their rooms in the rear of the post office.
 Goodwill Lodge Meeting
 Goodwill lodge. 54, Knights of Fythias, will meet on Monday eve- ring at 8 o'clock at the home of Ralph Lane on Suffolk street. The group has been meeting at the members homes since the building CT Boyden street that housed their l-dge rooms was torn down.
 Mrs. Joseph Caron and sons, Roland and Robert, have returned IL their home on Thomaston ave- Lac after spending vacation at Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
 Corp. Albert Caron, U. s. marines, ton of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Caron, Of Thomaston avenue, who has been liospitalized on Okinawa is now back on duty.
 Mir. and Mrs. Ralph Lane of Suf- r,olk street recently entertained Mir. and Mrs. Carl Mudano and Daughters, Connie and Marilyn of Southington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20

MT. and Mrs. Ralph Lane of Suf- r;olk street recently entertained Mir. and Mrs. Carl Mudano and Daughters, Connie and Marilyn of Southington.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20

Mrs. Joseph Caron and sons, Roland and Robert, have returned IL their home on Thomaston ave- Lac after spending a vacation at old Orchard Beach, Maine.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20

Corp. Albert Caron, U. S. marines, ton of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Caron, of Thomaston avenue, who has been llospitalized on Okinawa is now back on duty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20

Keesler Field, Miss, (UP)-PN. Bobby Jones, III. son of the great golfer, is undergoing basic training at Keesler Field, Miss. Pvt. Jones, iS, says he has never bene able to oefeat his father in single hole on the links. He received his first set of golf clubs at the age of six ana by the time he was 13, he was giving the mighty Bobby pretty stiff competition.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20
HIGH COST OF F1REMEN

Boston, (UP)-Firemen in Ice- land receive STA week, reveals Fire man JKjartan Peturson who Is studying at a fire control school here. However, the Iselander ex- plained that the cost of living in his country has gone up 174 per cent since the start of World War II. An egg there costs 25 cents.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-07-20

Mexico now has 1,410 motion pie ture theaters.
Evening star., 1945-09-09

WILL BARrLETr's trouble began on Tuesday
w when the third letter arrived from his boy
Friday for the first time in twenty-seven years, the
News wasn't out on schedule.
If you've ever lived in town OF ten thousand So
YOU know Will Bartlett. He may have different
name, he may own hardware store or lumberyard
instead of the town newspaper, but you know him.
You've seen him in church OF Sunday, uncom-
Portable in tight collar and frowning when he dsa-
grees with something in the sermon. Or in shirt
sleeves with his crones at baseball games in the town
park Or cussng little because he can't find place
on Main Street to park his auto on Saturday night
to do his shopping. He's lived in that town all his
life and his father lived there before him He knows
everyone Chances are, he's got son who figures on
taking over the hardware store or lumberyard or
newspaper when the old goes.
Will BARTLETT was owner editor of the 'Ponahasset
News" and had son, Tommy, who joined up with
the Army Air Forces in January, 1912 Everybody in
Ponahasset was extra neghborly when the boy left
because Tommy's mother had been dead ten years or
more and those two, living by themselves on the old
Bartlett place just out of town on Route IA, had
always needed each other than most fathers and
sons will can't help but take it hard folks said
1t must have been mighty lonesome for man of
htyOne TO 60 nome 10 tndt empty mouse every eve
ning but Will endured it somehow. He even stayed
cheerful Il got other things my mind than being
lonesome he said. I'm aiming to build the News
into the finest weekly paper in this part of New Eng
land. You watch
After while folks caught on to what he was up to.
Tommy wouldn't be boy any more when he came
back he'd be ready to settle down, marry and make
living. Will was fixing to take him into the paper or
even turn the paper over to him.
So he didn't see so much of that empty house. after
all. Lots of nights he worked late and slept in his
office He took good many of his meals at Sarah
Grahams; she was widow and had boarders, and
she had boy in the fighting, too.
Yes, Will Bartlett aiming to hare something tor
Tommy when the boy came home. He put his heart
and soul in it, and talked of nothing else Folks Won
dered what would happen if anything were to spoil
his plans If, for instance, Will got of those War
Department kilograms.
They didn't like to think of it.
l HREE years went by, and every week the News
got better. Then midway through AS, Will got three
letters They were honest letters, from good son to
dad he thought the world of. But in the first, VIII
learned that the boy had been returned to west
Coast hospital wounded In the second which came
while he planning to go out there, he learned that
Tommy had got medical discharge and been offered
an executive job with West Coast air line
In the third, he learned that Tommy was married
to an Oregon girl and had bought home IN Portland
with his Army savings.
You'll love her, Dad" this last letter said And
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Missing Item
BY HUGH b. CAVE
Illustrated by Karl Cod.rin

Just a bit of local news, but
what a difference it made to
the editor - and three others
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
Worst Storm In 81 Years
Paralyzes Buffalo N. \.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 16.-(R)-
A blizzard, described by one city
official as ''the worst Storm in
"a years, ragged in Buffalo and its
environs today, almost completely
paralyzing traffic and depositing
more than 40 inches of snow at
some points in 48-hour period.
In downtown Buffalo, where the
fall varied from "a to 80 inches,
buses, trolleys and automobiles
were stuck in drifts or piled up
behind stalled vehicles.
The New York Central railroad
reported terminal switches and
tracks badly clogged and that no
trains had moved east since late
morning. State police report high
ways closed between Buffalo and
Batavia. Most bus lines were
hopelessly tied up"
The heaviest snow was reported
in a belt from Lackawanna and
south Buffalo to Lancaster where
total fall was reported unofficial
| ly as 46 inches up to 5 o'clock
tonight. There was two inches
on the ground when the storm be-
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
GEN. PATTON WINNING
: PARALYSIS BATTLE
. HIS PHYSICIANS SAY

HEIDELBERG, Germany, Dec.
16-R-Army medical specialists
81 id tonight that Gen. George S.
Patton, Jr., apparently was winning
a battle to throw off the paralysis
which has gripped him since his
neck was broken a week ago in
an automobile accident near Mann
helm.
The colorful American general
slowly was regs lining feeling in his
nurnbed limbs and his broken neck
was well on the way to recovery,
the specialists said.
Mrs. Patton spent most of the
day with her husband while prayers
were said for the General in the
chapel Of the 130th Station Hospital.
The text of tonight's medical bulle-
tin:
Gen. Patton has had g comfort
able day. Temperature 1913 de-
grees, pulse 81, respiration 20.
There has been no change in his
general or neurological condition
since the morning report"
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
Produce Dealer Killed In Blast
:: At Wrightsboro Produce Plant

An explosion that partially
wrecked the Hanover Mutual Ex-
change warehouse, at Wrightsboro
at $40 p. n. yesterday, took the
life of one man Instantly and may
have killed another. .->
D. v. Baldwin, prominent Will.
mington produce dealer and owner
and operator Of the Baldwin Pro.
duce company, on Dock street, was
killed instantly by the blast which
destroyed a section of the ware.
house containing refrigerating
equipment and spread debris over
a large area. 3D.
An unidentified Negro man who
persons in the area stated they
saw enter the building with Bald.
win, who as member of the Ex-
change was engaged on business
had not been located at a late hour
last night and authorities thought
that his remains might still be ir
the wrecked portion of the build.
ing.
b The scene Of the tragedy gave
mute testimony to the violence Of
the blast which reduced the rear
portion of the building to match.
wood, even throwing open the
large front doors, tearing the hasr
Of the lock from the wood.
Produce was scattered through
the building and around it for a
number of yards by the explosion
;(Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
AMERICAN MARINES
STAGE PARADE FOR
CHINESE GENERAL

PEIPING, Dec. 16-.R)-Gen-
eralissimo and Madame Chang
Kai-shek reviewed a parade of the
U. S. Fifth Marine Regiment near
the Legation quarter today and
presented awards to more than a
score of officers and men.
Several thousand spectators
caught their first glimpse of the
Chiangs as the couple rode to the
parade grounds, but the public was
excluded from the field.
Marine police and Chinese secret
service men guarded the Chiangs
as they watched the Marines pa
rade in full battle kit with tank
destroyers and artillery. Thirty
six Marine Corsair planes flew in
formation overhead.
The north wind was so brisk
that it blew one Marines helmet
from his head and sent clouds of
dust whirling. Chang endured it
but Madame Chang took refuge
in the car of Maj. Gen. Keller E.
Rocke3 commander of the Third
Amphibious Corps, along with
Misses Prudence Hemingway OF
New York, Alma burns of Green
witch, Conn.,, and Theodore Nor
gan of Brooklyn, all Red Cross
girls.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
PARTIES SETTLE =,
SINCLAIR STRIKE

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.-lR-
The Navy announced today the Sim
clair Oil corp. strike is settled and
it will release the company's II
government-seized properties at
midnight Monday night.
In New York, H. F. Sinclair.
company president, said in 1
statement that the settlement pro.
vides an 10 per cent pay increase
for a basic 40-hour week to 40,
proximately S,400 employees.
It contains "a clause Earrings
strikes, or work stoppages with
provision that the company may
cancel on Today notice if the no.
strike agreement is violated, he
said. The union may take similar
action in event of lockout.
1t becomes effective when an.
proved by Vice Admiral Ben More.
ell, Navy petroleum seizure officer.
and runs to May 81, 1916, Sinclair
added.
Sinclair said the agreement also
provided that any employe accus.
ed of violating the no-strike pro.
vision shall, upon determination Of
guilt, be Immediately suspended
by the union and discharged by the
company.
1T is the understanding that the
Navy will Immediately terminate
the seizure of Sinclair operations
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
HERBERT McCLAMMY
RETIRED ATTORNEY,
DIES ATRESIDENCE

Herbert McClammy, 80, well
known in Wilmington and through
out the state in law circles, died
Yesterday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock
at his residence in Forest Hills
aher long illness.
Born October 9, 1868, he was the
son Of Major c. W. and Magaret
fennell McClammy.
During his career he was a mem
Der OF State Legislature and served
wilmington as City Attorney and
eAalrman of the Board of Educa-
uon' He retired from practice, in
winch he specialized in criminal
law, In July 1913.
surviving him are his wife, Mrs.
s s Leach McClammy; three
daughters, Mrs. Harry Bone, New
lOfk City, Miss Margaret McClam.
1AA city, and Mrs. Celeste M.
Logan, Salem, Va; one son, Her.
VI vett McClammy, Jr., Flushing, N.
- and one sister, Mrs. Mary
N0ulSe Lodge of this city.
funeral arrangements will be an.
h ,wullce later by Ward Funeral
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
LAND: MAY BECOME.
!. alta PRESIDENT

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 Up :
Vice Admiral Emory S. Land
chairman of the Maritime Com
mission, has been offered the
presidency Of the Air Transport
Association, employees of the or
ganization, were told yesterday by
Stuart G. Upton, general counsel
and acting president.
Upton indicated that the fina
decision rests with President Tru
man, to whom the Commissioner
must resign. He left the impress
sion that, he expects a favorable
decision by. Jan. l..
The. presidency at Alta, com
prising % airlines, has been vac
ant since the death: Of Col. Edgar
S. Gorrell last March S.
The Alta recently hired Rep,
Robert Ramspeck (D.-Ga., as exc
cutive vice president, new posi-
ton. Ramspeck will resign from
Congress to join the Association
Jan. /. 80 -.'-.'-.
Tipton's announcement, made al
an Alta staff (, meeting, was the
first official disclosure Of the offer
to Land, though it had been report
ed with the industry for sometime
that he would take the job.
The position is one of the most
important in the aviation industry
It has become increasingly import.
ant with the entry of domestic car
riers into the international field.
People in the industry have sale
the salary probably is n less thar
$4,000 a yearf 1 Land' salary as
Maritime chair1 Ian. is $4,000.
His SELECTION as top man in the
Alta cause some surprise ir
the industry, inasmuch as he sup
ported the proposal that steamship
companies be permitted to operate
airines.> i sf r. -.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-17
MIXMASTER CREW
JUMPS TO SAFETY
Worlds Fastest Bomber
Crashes After One Engine
Fails Over Maryland

WASHINGTON, Dec. 49, B =
The War Department disclosed to
night that the B-42 plane, known a:
'"The Mixrnaster," which last week
set a transcontinental record. -haf
crashed at nearby Oxen Hill, Md.
The War Department reported
that three men aboard the ship hae
bailed out and landed safely, near
by. They were identified as:
1t. Col. E. J.. Ascani, the pilot;
1t. Col. J. M. Laney, and Major
C. L. Hayduk.
The plane had taken off from
Boiling Field, Washington, at 4 p
m. Eastern Standard time-ane
the crash occurred about thirty
minutes later. The War Depart
ment said the mishap was at
tributed by the crew to an engine
failure.
The Douglas Army bomber
propelled by twin propellors in its
tail, flew eastward across the coun
try Dec. 8 in S hours, II minutes
which the National Aeronautic AS
ISOLATION is recognizing as a RECORD
between Long Beach, Calf, anc
Washington.
The plane averaged 432 miles ar
hour for 1926 miles. 1t was han
died by two Army pilots who re-
ported the trip was without in
cident and smooth.
The experimental bomber has
no counterpart among familiar
military types. 1t has two Allison
12-cylinder in-line engines inside
the fuslage. They transmit pow
err to two Curtiss propellors
through long drive shafts.
The plane was completely
streamlined, having no engine
nacelles or external gunturrets. It.
Widespread was 70 feet, 6 inches;
it's length SO feet, 8 inches, and i
weighed 1919 pounds empty. 1
would carry up to four tons o:
bombs as far as 5000 miles.
Due to the design, the plane wa:
equipped with special emergency
arrangements for bailing out.