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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16
BY Margaret Owens,
Associated Press STAFF Writer.

SALEM, N. Y.-Congressional Medal
Winner Francis J. Clark routed an en-
tire company of Germans, killed I'M
counted numbers of the enemy and
saved two or three American platoons
from humiliation, but he can't find
chicken farm.
He sold his farm at wartime prices,
wants another, but won't buy at the
same level, now that he is a farmer
again. prices will come down again."
he says. Il can wait"
Mr.. Clark served three years in the
infantry. That part of his career ended
tremendously when President Truman
decorated him with the Nations highest
award.
Now he is back home with Marguerite,
his 25-year- old wife, working to regain
what he left behind three years ago
100 acres with 1900 chickens, enough
to live on"
He Sold the Place
II finally sold the place" he explained,
when 1 came back from Europe I
thought certainly would be sent to the
Pacific, and I told myself I wouldn't
be coming back"
Frank, as he is known, is 80 years old.
He has broad, lazy grin and an I'M
hurried, optimistic attitude. He puts in
the long summer days with Washing
ton County road crew, oiling and gravel
ing, swinging a scythe. On the side, to
keep in practice, he looks after "a
Rhode Island hens and tends a garden.
That is his idea of taking it easy, and
easy is the way he wants it for awhile.
Frank has farmed as long as he can
remember. His only brother, james,
was farmer and their father was
farmer. 1t was for the young men to
choose, they thought, whether they
should stay on their farms or go to war.
When the war actually got started"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-09-16

Boys often swap articles. For in
stance, one boy might have two saber
chains, and the other an over-abundance
of shoulder patches. They usually make
same kind of a trade so their collection
includes at least one Of everything.
"As soon as you hear an officer has
been promoted in rank, that's the time
to go after him for his old insignia" one
boy said.
Sometimes, however, the kids are too
Evening star., 1945-11-18
Food For Conversation
BY CLEMENTINE PADDLEFORD

weigh slightly over 20 pounds.
That bird came from the oven
bronzed and crustily plump, break
ing apart at the touch of the fork.
What's that honey-sweet taste to
the skin? Before going to the oven
EN- had painted his bird with a
mixture of two-thirds cup honey
made frisky with two tablespoons
of soy sauce and one tablespoon of
tarragon vinegar.
That barnyard Romeo would
have been a tussle to carve, but
EN- had a trick. To keep the bird
anchored. it was placed backside
down in a rectangie made of wood.
Mashed potatoes stood in a
high. light drift. Silvery onions
were awash in a rich cream sauce.
What's in the casserole puffed tall
and handsome? EN- wouldn't tell.
1t tasted sweet, it was slightly
pungent like some ghost-taste of
turnip, and turnip it was, served in
souff1k. Cranberry relish tagged
along with the bird.
Salad was the old-time Waldorf,
beets substituting for oelery. Raw
beets and apples were cut in trim
little sticks, combined with black
walnut meats, mixed with mayon-
naise. The boets should he
soaked an hour in ice water to
keep them from bleeding:
Dessert was pumpkin pie, broad
and deep, this beauty wearing a
whipped cream mantle, sprinkled
with a tablespoonful of finely-cut
preserved ginger and busted with
two tablespoons of soft maple
sugar. But give special gratitude
for the turnip souffk.
T.z.ip ss.aa:
1pound turnips
H cup turnip water
4 tablespoons -four
4 tablespoons melted butter
cup heavy cream
Salt and pepper
l tablespoon grated onion
4 eggs. separated
Cook turnips until tender, drain.
then press through sieve. Add -four
to melted butter and blend with
cream; gradually add this to the
vegetable and cook until thick.
Add salt and pepper and grated
onion. Add to the egg yolks which
have been beaten until thick and
lemon colored. Now fold in the
stiff1y beaten egg whites Pour into
buttered casserole and bake in slow
oven (35O0F.) Is minutes. Serve
Immediately. Yield: 8 servings.
Evening star., 1945-11-18
Feet So Painful,
Hot, Tired, You
Hurt All Over?

II your feet make you almost frantic from
exertion or fatigue-rub them with DIR.
Schoirs Foot Balm Feel how blissfully
relieved you are from foot aches. that
soreness or tired feeling-hOw wonder
fully soothing. refreshing DIR. Scholl's Foot
Balm is for your feet Jar lasts long time
Evening star., 1945-11-18
Here's a traditional
Thanksgiving dinner,
with some new touches

TIME best Thanksgiving dinner
We ever ate was cooked by a
man. Emery Herrett spread the
feast and he's no professional chef,
either. EN- just likes to cook. Fix
ing food has been his favorite
pastime since World War l when
he was made ships cook, there to
discover his latent talent.
This war needed good cooks,
and again EN- volunteered, this
time to direct food preparation for
the Pan American air bases located
in North Africa, later to be stew
ard for the naval contractors in
Bermuda. after that as steward on
Liberty ship. But where he cooks
best is in the big kitchen of his
2OO-year old farmhouse at Dover
Plains. N. Y. 1t was there he
cooked this Thanksgiving dinner.
1t was the traditional all-Ameri-
can meal but every little dish had
a twist all its own. Oyster soup for
the takeoff. made about as every
one makes it. The Herrett touch
was a little pinch of fresh mar
ioram buds and a flick of paprika.
Crisp. P.fssd czaesezs
The soup came partnered by a
plate-load of crisp crackers. pufed
to split their seams, golden of
cheese, spicy of caraway: Take
soda crackers, soak in ice water
until chilled, arrange on a cookie
sheet, tickle with beaten egg
whites, sprinkle with grated cheese
and caraway seeds. Into a hot
oven to puff and to brown.
The turkey was a young Con-
necticut Tom, a walking mountain
of white meat, pen-fattened to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
As Injured,
One Dead In
Train Crash

Rochester, N. Y, May q U.P)
- The locomotive and eight cars of
the New York Central's crack pas
senger train Wolverine" left the
track on a curve here today killing
the engineer and injury As persons.
The eastbound Chicago to New
York train was rounding a curve at
an overhead bridge near Oak street
when the locomotive tore loose and
plunged down a 20-foot embank-
ment into house.
The locomotive overturned and
sheared off the side of a nearby
frame dwelling, pinning Cannon
Pietrantoni. 70, in his first floor
bedroom. Pietrantoni was freed by
firemen and taken to General hos
pltal. He suffered a fractured leg
and shock.
William A. Skimin, So, Niagara
Falls, the engineer, was killed in
the crash. The fireman, Nelson
Grant, As, Buffalo, suffered head
and chest injuries.
Three mail clerks were injured
when the mail car followed the To-
connective down the embankment.
Forty passengers in three day
coaches and four pullman cars were
injured. Five were treated at the
scene for shock and minor bruises.
The others were taken to nearby
hospitals and all but ten were later
released.
The coaches and pullman cars left
the tracks but came to rest against
a row of trees along the right of
way.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
D0EN|Tz GUSTS RIbBENTR0P
NaZiS Almost Set To Write off Berlin;
All German Forces In italy Surrender
Brain Hemorrhage Evident.
In Hitler's Death, Claims
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower.
BY PHIL AULT

London, May 2. - (UPi -
General Dwight D. Eisen-
hover said today there was
some evidence that Adolf
Hitler had died of a brain
hemorrhage instead of a
hero's death in battle as the
Nazis claimed.
CA high British source at
the San Francisco Confer
ence told the United Press
Saturday, that Hitler had
suffered a stroke and could
not live more than "a hours.
That raised the possibility
that Hitler's death might
have been covered up by the
Nazis for two or three days
to give them time to build up
a legend of a hero's death).
Himmler admitted that Germany
was finished, Eisenhower sid IN
the official confirmation of the
Lubbock conference. Bernadotte
SAID n Stockholm yesterday that he
could make no disclosure of ms
activity as the reported intermedi-
airy in Nazi-Allied negotiations.
Same Allied Plans
Eisenhower said the radio state
ment by Admiral Karl Doenitz, an
nouncing Hitler's death and pro-
claiming himself as his successor,
represented an attempt to drive .
wedge between the Russians and
Anglo-Americans The attempt
was doomed to failure, he said,
because nothing can change tne
agreed operations of the Allied
armies
Doenitz was reported already TO
have ousted Joachim Won Ribben-
trop as foreign minister in what
may be the first move toward tr5-
ing to save Germany from further
battering.
In the House of Commons the
question period passed without any
statement by Prime minister Chur-
chill on the war situation or Hit
ler'S reported death. He was
present during the question period
and answered few queries on do
nestle issues.
At the same time, London circles
with excellent sources circulated q
report that Propaganda Minister
Paul Joseph Goebbels probably had
died in Berlin with Adolf Hitler.
Radio Hamburg, voice of the new
Doenitz government, said the adj
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
Truman Asks
Budget Cuts

Washington, May 2!(UP)-Presi-
dent Truman recommended budget
reductions today of more than ST.
600, 100000 for 10 top war agencies
of the government.
This was part of the prepare ton
for transition from a two-war to a
one-war basis.
In rapid succession the President:
1. Recommended that congress
cut the funds now available to the
maritime commission for ship con-
struction by more than $7000,000,-
000
2. Recommended a reduction of
more than S80,0oO0O0 in the 1916
budget estimates of eight agencies.
This included proposals for sharp
slashes in the funds of the Office
of War Information. the War Pro-
duction Board, the Office of Censor
ship and the Office of Defense
Transportation.
3. Ordered the abolition of the
Office of Civilian Defense by June
80, withdrawing its proposed budget
of $369000 for the next fiscal year.
The cut recommended in maritime
commission shipbuilding funds left
available to the commission $2242,-
100000 for completing the present
ship building program and $6000OO,-
600 for possible future ship con-
struction, reconversion of vessels
and restoration of shipbuilding IA
cilities.
Starting a sweeping economy cam
paign geared to changing war con-
ditions, the President recommended
elimination Of some war agency ac-
Continued on Page, A.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
British Delay Approval On
Uncle Sans Island Plans
BY LYLE C. WILSON

San Francisco, May q (UP) -
British delegates to the United Ma
tons conference today delayed,
pending further advice from Lon
don, their approval of American
plans to take over certain Pacific
Islands as permanent defense air.
ports.
Soviet delegates also were report
ed awaiting word from Moscow.
But China was understood to be
ready to go along with the United
States.
The method and machinery for
handling such areas seized from the
enemy is expected to be the next
major issue to attract world atten-
ton here. Although there are some
differences of opinion among the
Big -Four on peace time methods of
administering such areas, there is
considerable hope that they will be
able to get together on a single
plan.
If the Big Four - United States,
China, the Soviet Union and Great
Britain - are unable to agree,
others here may move in with a
variety of plans of their own. That
could lead to considerable debate
and disagreement.
,Plenary Sessions
The conference itself still is in
dulging in talk today after two
plenary sessions yesterday in which
heads OF delegations continued
their routine opening addresses
Cuba, Luxembourg, New Zealand
and Venezuela were heard from
last night and there will be another
plenary session for speeches at $3.50
p. m. PVT. today. Last nights
plenary session, began at $3.50 and
adjourned at l0:14 PVT.
Belgium, South Africa, Norway
and Venezuela have been named
respectively, to provide presidents
for the four commissions among
which conference work is to be div
ided. These commissions are:
General provisions of the proposed
Organiza ton, Gen.
eral Assembly, Security Council
and the judicial organization.
The four commission presidents
will meet today to organize for
business which Secretary of State
Edward Stettinius, Jr., promises
will continue from now on. 4.le
is working against time
now with Hitler and Mussolini re-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
New Feuhrer
May Be Boxed
At Wismor
BY BOYD ID. LEWIS

Paris, May 2-CUP)-British Sec
ond army troops were reported to
have slaShed to the Baltic at Wis
mar today, isolating the great ports
of Hamburg and Kiel and reaching
within some 80 miles of a junction
with Russian forces sweeping west
ward along the coast.
Lightning advances by both Bri-
fish and Russian troops appeared to
have undermined the entire position
of the Nazis in northern Germany
where Admiral Karl Doenitz, the
new proclaimed Fuehrer, and
the German high command were be-
lieved holed up.
A United Press dispatch from the
Canadian First Army front quoted
a German prisoner as saying Doe
nitz had ordered the German forces
to cease fighting the western Allies
and withdraw eastward"
The apparent collapse Of the Ger
man pocket in the north conceded
with the onrush of two U. S. armies
wedging deep into the Bavarian
sack and racing over the last 40
mile stretch before Berchtesgaden
against only spasmodic resistance.
The British Second army thrust
spearhead to the Baltic in a
squirt Of 30-odd miles,
sealing off Denmark and the Sch
heswig- Holstein finger of Germany,
a British correspondent reported.
On the Seventh army's western
most flank, the Americans advanced
southwark into Fern Pass within 20
miles of the italian frontier.
Supporting infantry forces follow
ing UP the Seventh army's tank
spearheads overran big German
prison camp near Lake Plan, south
of Munich, liberating 80 prominent
French generals and former gov
eminent officials, as well as nine
political leaders.
The Americans also captured
Field Marshal Karl Won Rundstedt,
deposed German western front
commander, along with his wife and
son, at Bad Tolz, % miles south OF
Munich.
Front dispatches said the Ger
mans were putting up virtually no
resistance in the path of the Third
and Seventh armies. Tank spear
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
Nozis Open
Holland To
Yonk Ships
(NEA Telephoto)
BY BRUCE w. MUM

Paris, May 2 - U.P0-The Ger
mans opened Holland to Allied food
trucks and ships today under a mys-
teriously-arranged truce agreed up
on by both sides to provide imme-
date relief for the famine-ridden
Dutch people.
Hundreds of Allied trucks, piled
high with food and relief supplies,
began rolling through the Canadian
First Army lines into German-oc-
cupied western Holland at seven a.
m. today, when the local truce went
into effect.
No Interference
The convoy brought in an esti-
mated 1000 tons of food to be dis
tributed by Dutch authorities with
out interference from the Germans.
Official spokesman said it was hoped
to maintain this tonnage daily by
road, augmented by whatever food
could be dispatched to Holland by
sea and air delivery.
Dispatches from Canadian First
Army headquarters said the first Al
lied relief ship is now enroute and
is expected to reach Rotterdam
shortly.
At the same time, Is Allied med
lcal teams were standing by behind
the Canadian lines, ready to enter
Holland Immediately with equip
ment for scientific feeding if neces-
sary to aid those Hollanders in adj
vanced stages of starvation.
The truce, promising immediate
help for some 100000 Dutch men,
women and children in imminent
danger of death from starvation,
was agreed upon at a hitherto-se-
cret meeting of high Allied and
enemy officers Monday.
The conferees, headed by 1t. Gen.
Walter Bedell Smith, chief of staff
to Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, and
Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi COM
missar for Holland, met in an I'M
named Dutch villege to arrange the
relief deliveries.
Headquarters spokesman said high
(CoptiOlIad m, poon AZ
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
Reds Claim Hitlers Death Maxi Trick Hero s Death
Story Contradicts Himn1Ler, Says Gen Eisenhower

members of the -Hitlerite coal
ition."
1t can be reasonably assumed that
until the Russians actually see
Hitler's body they will not be con-
WINGED he is dead.
The Statement by Eisenhower was
the first from any Allied official to
shed light on the mystery of Hit
ler'S reported death.
Eisenhower said the enemy claim
that Hitler died fighting the Rus
slams in Berlin was lin contradiction
OF facts" given by Heinrich Him
mler at conference with Count
Folke Bernadotte of Sweden at Lue-
beck eight days ago.
Himmier and General Schiller
burg, who accompanied him to the
conference. said Hitler had brain
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
REDS STORM
RAMP ARTS OF
CHANCELLERY
BY ROBERT MUSEL

London, May 2. - (UP) -
The German high command
admitted today that the sur
vivors of Berlin's garrison
had been splintered into iso-
lated fragments in the gov
eminent district of the dying
capital.
Soviet reports said Red
Army shock troops were
storming the ramparts of the
German chancellery where
the Nazis said Adolf Hitler
died at a command post yes
terday.
The brevity and despair of
a German communicates re-
port on Berlin indicated the
Nazi command might be
about ready to write off the
capital. 1t said:
Remnants of the brave garrison
of Berlin continue to fight doggedly
in the government district, split up
in isolated battle groups"
Northwest of Berlin in Mecklen-
burg, the German command said,
the whirlwind sweep Of Marshal
Konstantin K. Rokossovsky's second
White Russian Army had carried to
the area Of Rostock, last major Bal
tic port short Of the neck Of the
Danish Peninsula.
Moscow dispatches said Russian
siege armies had driven many
wedges deep into Berlins innermost
redoubt, apparently splintering it
into a few isolated nests OF resist
ance.
Red Army troops were converging
from three directions on the spot
where the German radio said Hit
Ter went down at his command post
and observers specialized whether
the Russians would find Hitler's body
or some other evidence to support
or refute the report of his death.
United Press Correspondent
Henry Shapiro reported from Mos
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
RAFCo Ptures
Nozi Convoy
By J, EDWARD MURRAY

Rome, May 2. (UP)-The Fifth
Army smashed within IS miles OF
the Austrian frontier today and I'M
limbered its arctic equipment for
a drive into the Bremen Pass.
Fifth Army units also were with
in IS miles of the French frontier
on the west, while the British
Eighth Army was streng.. hening its
junction with Marshal Tito's forces
in the east.
Tito meanwhile announced that
the italian port of Trieste had been
cleared by his Yugoslav Army.
Allied force headquarters ar
nounced that an enemy convoy Of
80 enemy ships off Trieste surren-
dered to Raj Hurricane pilots.
When the fighters roared in to at
tack, the ships hastily ran up white
flags.
With the fighting in Italy all but
over, General Mark w. Clark's arm
les were ready to join their allies in
the north in the general drive into
the Austrian Alps.
1t was disclosed that winter cloth
ing and pack mules had been issued
to mountain troops at the northern
end Of Lake Garda, on the Bremen
Pass route.
In the area of Lake Garda, Fifth
Army mountain troops were within
Is miles Of the Austrian border and
% miles Of Bremen itself. Their po-
sitions were improved by the clear
ance Of the whole west shore of the
lake and another amphibious cross
ing to the east side, the third such
In recent days.
Farther east other Fifth Army
units captured Feltre, So miles from
the Austrian frontier. To their
southeast the Eighth Army took
Udine, SO miles west of Yugoslavia.
In the west Fifth Army forces
driving along the coast of the gulf
f(s01tfn1Yed m raoa Az
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
Defeat On
Assessors
Bill Seen

The proposed Waterbury assessors
bill seems destined for defeat from
current indications the more i'm
mediate of which is yesterdays &C
ton of the House in re-committing
the bill to Finance Committee.
An almost unwritten rule of the
Assembly is that bill, once re-
turned to the committee from
whence it was reported out favor
ably, is doomed for defeat if the
return was predicated upon the re-
quest for radical revision.
Republican sources are now said
to be supporting the opposition
shown the Bill by The Waterbury
Democrat for the past two months,
the alter consistently opposing the
proposed measure on the basis of its
being too stringent and deviating
from rule by the people.
The proposed bill would abolish
the commissionerships in the asses
sors office and replace them with
one chief assessor and two depu-
ties would likewise withdraw the
three man board of tax review from
an elective position it now has and
make the entire board appointive
subjective to appointment by the
Mayor only. The Democrat opposed
the latter measure particularly de-
claring it to be Dangerous" to the
security of the city's government.
Opposition stemmed from the belief
belief that some future Mavoraluy
appointment might possibly ABUSE
such power by appointing men who
would in turn abuse the functions
of their office.
The Democrat went on record as
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
British Lond
Burma Army
BY HUGH CRUMPLER

Calcutta, May 2-(UP)-British
invasion forces stormed ashore in
Southern Burma only 20 miles
South of Rangoon, capital of the
occupied British colony, today.
The landing clamped a three
way pincers on Rangoon and
brought the liberation of Burma
and its supply roads to China to
the climactic stage.
The troops went ashore on both
sides of the mouth of the Rangoon
River in daring amphibious
thrust deep into Japanese-held
Mataban Gulf.
Paratroops paved the way for the
landings. They jumped from low
flying transport planes yesterday
and knocked out defenses covering
the invasion beaches, a special
Southeast Asia command COM
munique revealed.
A British naval task force also
supported the invasion with heavy
air and sea bombardments OF
Great Nicobar Island, CTS miles
southeast of Rangoon, and Port
Blair in the Andaman Islands 425
miles southwest of the occupied
capital.
Battleships, including the French
Richelieu, as well as cruisers an0
destroyers participated in the bonn
Continued on Pare ~
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02
Rundstedt
Captured
BY MALCOLM MUIR. JR,

With Seventh Army in Germany,
May 2. - CUP An American
tank crew surprised Field Marshal
Karl Won Rundstedt at his dinner
table and captured the man who
had battled the Allies from Nor
mandy to the Rhine, it was an
bounced today.
Won Rundstedt, twice commander
OF the German armies in the west
since the Allied invasion, was taken
at 10 p. m. last night at Bad Tolz,
a resort town south of Munich
He was having dinner with his
wife and son, Hans Gerd, when a
tank commanded by 1t. Joseph
Burke hometown unknown) rumbled
into the hospital grounds at Bad
Tolz. Won Rundstedt, who was TAX
inng health treatment, was living
In house attached to the hospital
Ven Rundstedt said he had not
expected the Americans until the
next morning. He told his captors
he last saw Adolf Hitler on March
18th.
Pfc. Herman Jobe, Warrensberg,
Ind, who drove Won Rundstedt and
his family to the prisoner of war
Continued on PAGE u
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-02

hemorrhage and might not live 48
hours, Eisenhower said in a state
ment issued through supreme
headquarters in France.
Even though this version of Hit
ler's death was based on Nazi in
formation, it + ! the merit of COM
ing to Eisenhower through Berna-
dotte, a neutral. Observers were
inclined to put more credence in
the Himmler version than in the
melodramatic account broadcast by
the Hamburg radio yesterday.
Other recent events also caused
considerable skepticism here over
the authenticity of the report.
Some sources pointed out that the
report was made even more sus-
picious by the fact that not only
Hitler. but Reichsmarshal Her
mann Goering. Propaganda Min