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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-02
French Children Suffer Most From Malnutrition During Nazi Occupation
By ROSETTE HARGROVE NEA Staif Correspondent

Paris, Jan. 2.-The Germans sue ceeded all too well in their sinister design to undermin the French na- tion's general health. This was fully confirmed in n report recently submitted to the Academy of Medi- cine by two doctors, Edmond LcSne and Ribedeau-Dumas, ap- pointed by the rationing committee and by one of Frances most emin- ent medical men, Prof. Pasteur Vallery- Radot.
 Four years of restrictions and a near-Starvation diet have un- doubtedly left their mark on the great majority of French people, according to Professor Valery-Ra- dot. The lack Of essential foods. due in large measure to mass German acquisitions which absorb ed nearly 90 per cent of Frances foodStuffs, has seriously endangcr- cd public health.
 HEAVY TOLL ON YOUTH
 Flrthermore, the toll on the youth of the country has been very heavy, particularly on infants. "To- day 64 per cent of children under two suffer from rickets," Prof. Vallery-Radot says. Infant nor tality has risen from 2.46 per cent in 1889 to 468 per cent in l94l. The consequences of an unbal- anced dict suffered by Parisian children during the last four years shows in tha marked decline not rHNlty ANN Inlnl.t H,,k i,, age weight. Moreover, children arc suffering from all sorts of ail- ments directly traceable to malnu- triton"
 Another grave danger is tu- berculosis, which has shown marked ascendency during the last four years in adolescents between the ages of l5 and l0 and in adults between 20 and 24 During l94l-the hardest of the four years of German occupation from a nu- tritional point of view-the rise was something like 25 per cent and there were innumerable cases o: incurable acute tuberculosis. Most men returning from forced labor in Germany, from prison and concen- tratlon camps, were found upon examination to be suffering from the dreas disease On the other hand. people living in rural dis tricts had better chance of sur vival becouse of easier food condi- tions.
 LOSE WEIGHT
 Middle-aged and old people lost as much as 20 pounds a month, workers were not only unable to work a full eight-hour day but were constantly fighting fatigue, newborn babies were all under weight. and women became sub 1ect to all sorts of nervous dis orders, because of calorie de- ficiency. Even the privileged few who were able to buy in the Black Market did not escape entirely be- cause even they could not rely on regular supplies of essential foods.
 Almost aS great a hardship for the French people of all classes as the lack of meat, fats sugar and vegetables was the disappearance of wine and coffee from the aver age table Normally the working man drank pint of wine with his meals. He could better have borne n much-reduced diet had he been able to fall back on his favor lte drink.
 Professor Vallery-Radot is hope ful of the future, however. "It is not too late to nurse back to TO- bust health those children who started life in such unfavorable
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-02

circumstances. Our doctors strug- gled heroically during the last four years to limit the ravages caused by lack of certain foods, and there Is no reason why the situation should not improve. Now that the Ger mans are no longer robbing us of practically everything we pro- duced. there will be more than enough to go around and in a short time Frances health should show definite signs of improvement"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-02
NOTICE

STATE of CONNECTICUT, DIS- THlCT of WATERBURY. ss. PRO BATE COURT, Dee. 2Sth, 1914. ES r A T r. of AWKENCE j. PRENDEIiGAST, late of the town of Waterbury in said district. deceased
 The Court of Probate for the District of Waterbury, hath limited and allowed siX months from the date hereof for the creditors of said estate to exhibit their claims for settlement, Those who neglect to present their accounts, properly attcsted, within said time. will be debarred h recovery. All persons indebted to said cstate are request ed to make Immediate payment to
 FRANCIS r.. FEELEY.
 Administrator. 49l Meadow St., Waterbury, Conn. Per Order of Court
 Attest;
 MARGU ERlTE NJ. fAIIY, 12-3O-3t Asst. Clerk.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-02
SURPRISE FOR RAIL MEN

Tague. Tex. - CU.PD - The Bur- lington Rock Island Railroad s streamlined train doesn't have lic- enSe to hunt deer, but nevertheless 1t has one to tits credit. Shortly after the train left Houston for Dal- las and Forth Worth 1t struck a nin-point buck thta leaped on the track. The carcass was not badly damaged and railway employees had 'n VcniSon dinner.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-02
FROM TILES TO WATERS

Anderson, Ind. -- U.PD - A lo- cal manufacturing plant diverted use of it's pcacetime production machinery into strangely related iild where War-time restrictions on materials necessitated conversion. The National Tile Company is turn ing out compressed cocoa waters for GIs instead of compressed wall and floor tiles for domestic use. V. M. Alexander. general manager. said the company decided to produce D and K field rations for the quarter master corps overseas.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-04

fully Note the thrifty prices the
Ans quality .. the wide voristY Of
big birthdaY values awaiung youx
sslectionI You'll agree with thousands
-. that for good eating at modest
cost II pays to turn 10 A6pl
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
Citizen Darst

Bishop Thomas c. Darst of the Diocese OF
East Carolina, has completed forty years Of
service in the Episcopal church and is today
a private citizen of Wilmington. His one re-
greet, as he told .worshipers at St. Johns
church in Fayetteville, where he conducted
his closing services on Sunday, is that he is
not just starting, instead of terminating, his
ministry.
No person who has enjoyed his friendship
and benefited by his council can fail 10 know
that the conclusion of his official pastorate
will not end his service to humanity or lead
him to lose touch with this part of the world
where he has exercised such great influence
for good Improved in health, and now able
to rest from the arduous tasks imposed by
his office, Bishop Darst will be free to take
more active part in the life of the COM
munity and mngle more among the people
of Wilmington who cherish his leadership and
guidance.
If the church has lost bishop, Whining
ton has gained new values in the citizen
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
Beyond Understanding

It becomes harder and harder to under
stand the fanatical zeal with which Germans
continue to die in the useless and militarily
senseless defense of the Reich. When this
was written (and Berlin may have fallen
since) $4,000 Germans had been killed o.
captured in the doomed capital. With the vet
Grams of Stalingrad leading the attack, the
Russians are bound to complete their job,
if it requires the determination of the last
German in the city.
Any civilized force would have surrendered
long ago, in the name of humanity. Obvious
w Hitler. or whoever is heading the defense,
is completely mad. 1t is not difficult to be-
lieve recent reports that the Nazis. in their
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
MussOlini

+ Mussolini, the Italian peasant who became
dictator and told the people to live dan
gerously,' is dead-a coward Before a firing
squad OF Italian partisans his last words were
mo No -
1t is regrettable that he was executed on
the sentence Of drumhead court martial
He should have been held until the Allies
got around to his case and passed sentence
upon him. By this means he would have
taken his place among the war criminals and
been dealt with in more regular, if equally
fatal, way.
Mrssolini was a strange combination of
bravery and cowardice. Sought for minor
infraction Of law as a student he was found
hiding in swill barrel, yet he went to Jail
seven times for his beliefs. In the First World
war he fought bravely and when wounded by
hand grenade, suffering ninety-eight body
hits, he looked on without an anesthetic
while surgeons did their work. In the march
on Rome, when the fascists were about to
take over, he rode at the rear of the col
umn, but once in the Eternal City and called
by the King to form a government, he took
his place at the head of all movements and
forthwith developed his pouter-pigeon pose
for which he was famous throughout his twen-
ty-odd years as II Duce.
When the fascists finally rode him out Of
office and placed him under arrest it is said
that when Hitler's paratroops came to rescue
him he covered before them in fear for his
life, supposing them to be an execution squad
Then came the last scene of all-his attempt
ed escape into Switzerland with his mistress
and group Of still loyal followers, which
ended in capture of the entire party and sum
mary sentence Of execution. OF the eighteen
in the group, Mussolini alone cried out mo!
No!'' as the rifles were leveled at his hear,
and promised his executioners IAN empire
if they would spare his life.
He had courage of a kind, but only at the
head of a multitude, before which he coulc
strut. He did not hesitate to stab France
in the back when France was PROSTATE un.
der German attack. He did not hesitate tc
send his legions into Africa to fight foolish
war in Ethiopia when Halle Selassie was DOW
erless to defend his kingdom. He did moi
hesitate to join Hitler in the Berlin Rome
axis when Hitler was riding high But wher
he came to die he was as craven as the
poorest specimen of humanity.
Exhibited in Milan's streets with his mis-
tress, there is none to pay him homage
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
Your War; With Ernie Pyle

under him in the Mediterrans,.
Antiaircraft fire killed man ~
side him in a plane over Morooos
He had gone on many invas;onS 49,
He was in Casino. He was .,h ,.,s,
at Two Jima. He was certai,Iv w.
ing on borrowed time. To manv - .
seems unfair for him to die w.
saically. And yet.
The wear and the wesrines. =,
war is cumulative. To MANY No. ~
in the line today fear is not s az
much of death itself. but fear -,
the terror and anguish and ut.er
horror that precedes death in ba,
tie.
I have no idea how Fred Painto,
would have liked to die. But SONS,
how I'm glad he didn't have 10 On
through the unnatural terror of dy.
ing on the battlefield. For he v-ss
one Of my dear friends and | know
that he, like myself, had come ia
feel that terror.
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The Literary Guidepost

this country that, whatever the
motive may have been, tried by
all means to prevent U. S par
ticipation in this war and are
still obstinate apologists for Ger.
many and Nazidom.
In particular they criticize
America first which the
Bund urged its members to Join
-. . and which they claim still
exists underground; and they at
tack Peace Now, which had the
rare distinction of winning the
praise of Tokyo radio hardly
year ago.
The Germans for whose future
the authors charge some Ameri-
cans are unduly solicitous are
pictured in official and eye-wit-
ness accounts and authenticated
letters and diaries as bestial and
depraved. Sayers and Kahn docu-
ment formal Allied charges OF
slaughter of Jews, maltreatment
of some war prisoners and muir
der of others, including Ameri-
cans, and depopulation schemes
against subjugated countries,
This brutality is regarded as
part of an overall German plan
for conquest. The authors claim
the Germans don't intend to aban-
don it even in defeat.
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nose. his loud and friendly nasal
voice, his British Army trousers
and short leggins were familiar in
every campaign in Europe.
He took rough life as it came
and complained about nothing, ex
cept for an occasional bout with
the censors. And even there he
made no enemies for he was al
ways sincere.
There were a lot of people Fred
didn't like. and being no introvert
everybody within earshot knew
whom he didn't like and why. And
I have never known him to dislike
anyone who wasn't a phony.
Fred and have travelled through
lots of war together. We did those
bitter cold days, early in Tunisia
and we were the last stragglers out
OF, Sicily.
We both came home for short
furloughs after Sicily. The Army
provided me with powerful No.
air priority, while Fred had only
the routine No. 3.
We left the airport at Algiers
within four hours of each other on
the same morning. I promised Fred
would call his wife and tell her
he would be home within week.
When 1 got to New York I called
the Painton home at Westport,
Conn. Fred answered the phone
himself. He had beat me home by
three days on his measly little
priority He never got over kid
ding me about that.
AS the war years rolled by we
have become so indoctrinated into
sudden and artificially imposed
death that natural death in a COM
bat zone seems incongruous, and
almost as though the one who died
had been cheated
Fred had been through the mill.
hie hin was tornedoed ont from
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
MAY DAY PLANNED
AT new BERN HIGH
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Press War Analyst

NEW BERN, April 30. - Miss
Rose Mary Harkey, New Bern
high school student and daughter
of MT-Sgt. and Mrs. H. j. Harkey,
of Cherry Point, will be crowned
May Queen Tuesday afternoon at
the First May Day festivities to
be held here in years. The crown
will be placed by Col. P. E. Con-
radt, commanding officer of the
Marine air station at Cherry Point.
Miss Harkey won the highest
number Of votes in local popu-
1arity contest sponsored by the
junior class of the high school and
the City Recreation department.
The runners-up will form her
court of honor: Virginia Boyd as
maid of honor, and Audrey Rich
ards, Ruth Rawlins, Patty Ship,
Kathryn Maxwell, Anna Lancas-
ter, Kitty Ewell, Lib Kennedy,
Anne, Delgato, Delena Hughes and
DORIS brlnSON.
The exercises will be held at the
Woman's clubhouse, in honor of
the visitors here for the State
Garden Club meeting. A tradition
al May Pole dance will be pre-
scented, under the direction of local
leaders. Miss Kay Montague, of
the high school faculty, is in
charge of the programs, with the
assistance of Mrs. A. ]. Flowers,
Jr., Of the city recreation depart
.nent.
Adelaide Frances Hart will be
crown bearer. Other attendants
will be Frances Hussey and Caro-
Ign Nelson. Trainbearers will be
Billy Cooke and Blackwell Stith.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
Daily Prayer

$n Thy witholders and in Thy be-
stewings Thou art alike our wise
and loving Father, o God Eter-
nal. We bow submissively beneath
national reverses on the battle
field and beneath private griets
in our own hearts. It is Thy hand
that bestows all, and we humbly
say, "Thy will be done" Yet we
may pray for an ending of this
war, and a cessation of human
ity's sufferings. Send Peace in our
time, o Lord. And send us that
spirit which will make possible
godly and an enduring peace.
Open our eyes to our responsible
ty for justice and mercy. Increase,
we entreat Thee, the dimensions
Of our souls, that we may be ade-
quate for any emergency. In all
that Thou sendest or taksst away,
let us see Thy love. Amen.-W. T..
f
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
BY w. G. ROGERS
"THE PLOT AGAINST THE
PEACE" by Michael Savers
and Albert E. Kahn Dial; S2.75)

PEACE, by Michael SayerS
and Albert E. Kahn dial; $2.75)
The diligent authors of this book
have assembled an extraordinary
array of facts to show that Ger
many was Internationally aggres-
sive before World War l, continued
as a trouble-maker unremittingly
from 1918 to World War II, and is
laying plans right now for World
War III.
If some of their information mas
been divulged before, it has not
been put to this particular use.
Sayers and Kahn note the Yalta
declaration of the Big Three: ut
is our inflexible purpose to destroy
German militarism and Nazism. Z"
The authors fervently hope Nazism
will be rooted out, but they won't
bet that it will be.
They cite Northumberland
cartel and banking ties which
they say persist hackstage while
Americans fight Germans at the
front and which, on the Nazi end,
are in the control of men infected
with the Junkers' most unscrupu-
lous ambitions. They list numer-
Gus persons and organizations in
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Overhaul Furnaces Now

May may convince us more than April did
that spring has come. And in the normal
course Of the seasons summer and autumn
will follow with another winter afterwards
That is the way it has been for some GEN.
turtles and there is no reason to think there
will be any change now
1t would be well, then, for home owners
to take the advice of the WPB and check
up on heating facilities, as there is little
likelihood that new equipment will be avail
able when cold weather next sweeps out of
the north.
AS spring is proverbially the season for
housekeeping it would be wise to include the
furnace in that operation. The WPB suggests
that home jewellers completely clean out the
combustion chamber and be sure that all
faces of the metal. 1t also advised check
for leakage OF gas fumes. This can be done
by burning some material that gives off con-
siderable smoke.
Boilers, too, ought to be overhauled, says
the WPB, with all rust removed, and the
water drained-more than once if sediment
does not clear up on the first draining In
hand-operated coal boilers, see that all CRATE
bars are properly placed, and not warped
Also, stove pipes should be taken down, thor
oughly cleaned and oiled, wrapped in paper
and stored in dry place.
This done, the householder, should enjoy q
comfortable feeling, even if the summer is
exceptionally warm, and the fuel prospec
does not improve. At least household duty
will have been performed in accordance witt
WPB recommendations.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
BULLDoZERs AND PEOPLE

The peculiar genius of the American people
makes them masters of energy, and master
builders OF the things that energy can pro-
duce. But what about man himself, by and
through whom such things are done? We do
not seem to improve ourselves in proportion
to our inventions. We dabble in great variety
OF things, many of which are inconsequential
and are inclined to lose sight of the solid and
substantial values of life. Mechanically we
are far ahead of the ancient Greek civilization
but morally and Intellectually we seem to be
behind it. All the bulldozers in the world won't
make up for that - Northern Virginian Daily
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
BY ERNIE PYLE

OKINAWA- by Navy radio) -
This is a column about Fred Pain
ton, the war correspondent who
dropped dead on Guam a short
time ago.
Fred wrote war articles for Read
er's Digest and many other mag
azines. He even ,gambled his future
once writing piece for the Satur-
day Evening Post about me.
Fred was one Of the little group
Of real oldtimers in the European
war. He was past 40 and an over.
seas veteran Of the last war. His
son is grown and in the Army. Fred
had seen great deal of war for
a man his age.
He was just about to start back
to America when he died. He had
grown pretty weary of war. He was
anxious to get home to have some
time with his family.
But I'm sure he had no inkling
of death, for he told me in Guam
of his postwar plans to take his
family and start on an ideal and
easy life of six months in Europe,
six in America. He had reached
the point where life was nice.
Fred Painton was one of the
modest people; I mean real down
deep modest. He had no side what
ever, no ak to grind, no coy am
bition.
He loved to talk and his words
bore the authority of sound COM
mon sense. He had no intellectual
isms. His philosophy was the prac'
teal kind. He was too old and ex'
perienced and too wise in the
ways of human nature to belittle
his fellow man for the failures
that 60 with trying hard,
Fred didn't pretend to literary
genius, but he did pride himself
on a facility for production. He
could get a thousand dollars apiece
for his articles and he wrote .
score of them a year. And his
pieces, like himself, were Away:
honest. I've known him to decline
to do an assignment when he tel
the subject prohibited him doing i
with complete honesty.
Fred's balding head and crooked
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maniacal fury, have actually said II they
cannot win they will see the Reich destroyed.
What is happening in Berlin is largely dup
Heated wherever Allied troops are in action,
with the difference that German soldiers,
knowing the hopelessness Of their situation
are quitting in droves. Now comes word that
another peace feeler is forthcoming from
Himnaler, head of the home defense and chief
slaughterer 1t will be acceptable only if the
offer bears the stamp of the German High
Command, as the Allies have made it clear
they will not deal with the Nazi party lead
ers of whom Himmler is one, and includes
the three major Allied powers, America, Brit
ain and Russia. The previous feeler, eminat-
ing from the same source and acknowledged
by Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great
promptly rejected.
The fact that any German leader would Of
fer the surrender Of Germany to two, and
not all three, powers that have dealt the fin
ishing blow to German power in Europe, in
dicates lingering hope among the surviv-
ing Nazis of driving wedge between the
eastern and the western Allies and so gain
ing an advantage in peace negotiations This
has been their goal for long time. That
they persist in it is additional proof that they
have lost the power Of reasoning.
No peace offer can be acceptable that does
not include Russia and unconditional surren-
der The quicker this is done the better for
what pitiful remnant of Germany remains
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
Local Weather Bureau
Announces Job Opening

Paul Hess, official in charge of
the local U. S. Weather Bureau.
yesterday announced that there will
be a vacancy in the near future in
the position of assistant observer
at the office.
The salary offered is sl.44o per
annum, plus approximately Is per
cent overtime, it was announced
The position will continue for al
least six months after the war snd
it may be permanent.
Anyone who is interested is in.
vited to communicate in person
or by telephone with Mr.. Hess at
the Weather Bureau in the Gus
toms House
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
LIFE OF MARIE ANTo1NErrE

The life of Marie Antionette is perhaps the
most signal example in history of the way in
which destiny will at times pluck a mediocre
human being from obscurity, and, with COM
mandlng hand, force the man or woman in
questio-- to overstep the bounds of mediocrity
Stefan Zweig: Marie Antionette.
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LOOK OUT, POsTERITY

sociologist has declared that If no man
would marry a woman he didn't understand,
posterity would be immeasurably better off -
In an odd and negative way, he may be right
there wouldn't be any posterity Cincin-
natti ENQUIRER
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
NEW CAMP CHAIRMAN

CAMP LEJEUNE, April 30. -
Col. Thomas G. Thomas G. Nc
Farland has succeeded Col, e. J
Farrell as camp inspector and 1t.
Col: p. L. Thwing as chairman
1t the Cerr,, J ei~',oo -.s-e,1 he.-d
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-05-01
COMMENT
FINESSE

It's wise husband who brought his wife
such fine china for Christmas that she won't
trust him to wash the dishes!-Wan Street
Journal.
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TOP % THE MORNING

The old writer who said that, each
day should end with look at the stars
h d deep insight into the needs of the soul.
To the poets imagination the stars ever
sing "The hand that made us is divine"
To all of us they are reminders that He
whose hand made the stars has heart of
love for those who walk beneath them.
McElroy