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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
Stores Enjoy
 Record Sales

What with sunny skies forecast for Sunday and record-breaking crowds storming downtown stores for choice raiment, the Easter pa- rade here tomorrow promises to be one of the brightest the city has viewed in years.
 Local merchants, spent and weary after a rush week, could not predict what modes would lead in the dis play, since fashions are varied and local women bought practically everything on display.
 But one thing is certain. Milady'S Easter bonnet will be the most striking - and unquestionably the most expensive-she has ever worn Though average prices for chapeauX ranged from $7.9o to $15, stores re- ported many women had paid $22 and $35 for their headgear.
 However, as one satisfied cus- toner put it, They're worth it, my dear, for the seasons millinery offers everything a woman could de- sire in the way of an Easter bon net. Small disks covered with roses or violets, large picture hats circled with a variety of brilliantly colored flowers, or two pink birds lighting gracefully on a saucer-like crown.
 The Churchill sailor, an exact replica of the topper worn by the Prime Minister of England, also proved favorite with shoppers. However, just for wee touch ot individuality, Easter paraders will touch off the famous topper sailor, with a bit of yelling.
 Though local merchants have been predicting that suits would
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Free Doto OK Sought

Washington, March 31 - (U.PO- The U. S. delegation to the United Nations Conference in San Francis co will try to get the participating nations to agree on a policy of free access to information.
 Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr., hopes to be able to obtain adoption of the same or a similar resolution as was approved by the recent inter American con- ference in Mexico City. If it is not possible to bring up separate reso- lution at San Francisco, the ques- tion will come up during considera- tion of the economic and social council of the new world organiza- tion.
 Stettinius will assume the leader ship in seeking approval of such policy. He was responsible for passage of the freedom of informa- tion resolution of Mexico City. He spent most of the early days of the conference there getting unanimous support for it's among the delegates.
 The Mexico City resolution adopt ed by the United States and IS Latin American nations declared that "there can be no freedom, peace or security where men are net assured of free access to the truth" The nations resolved to:
 1. Guarantee their peoples free and impartial access to sources Of information.
 2. Abandon at the earliest pos- sible moment wartime censorship and controls of information.
 3. Take measures individually and coperatively to promote free exchange of information among their peoples.
 A.. Make every effort, when juridical world order is restored. to establish everywhere in the world the principle of free transmission and reception of information, oral Or written, published in books or by the press, broadcast by radio or dis seminated by any other means. under proper responsibility and without need of previous censorship, as in the case of private corre- spondence. by letter. telegram, or any means In time of peace.'
 Earlier this month Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, sent
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
Nazis Hope For Last-Ditch
 Stand Whittling Do1vn Fast

on the WeSer but that the Amer ican advance was too swift.
 The officer declared no adequate Nazi defenses remained between the 3rd Army and Berlin. The Elbe River, however, might pro- vide a barrier for some form of resistance.
 In the south the Germans abil- ity to make spotty stand in the mountains apparently had not yet been denied. Counter-attacks on the 7th Army's bridgehead near the Main River would be consistent with plans for such a stand. More over, the Siegfried line, destroyed everywhere else, is still intact from Switzerland to near Karlsruhe, and would provide a firm western flank for a mountain stronghold.
 Chances of remaining German troops in the Ruhr escaping to the northeast Is being reduced with each step of 1st Army troops mov- ing northward and British End and American "th Armies eastward.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
5000 American, British Tanks Crash Defenses
 17O Miles From Berlin
BY BOYD D. LEWIS

Paris, March 31. = (UP)- The fall of Germany's indus trial Ruhr basin and the Weser river stronghold of Kassel appeared imminent today as a great striking force of almost 5000 A1neri- can and British tanks crashed through the enemy's riddled defenses within ITO miles of Berlin.
 Armored Vanguards of the U. s. First Army were racing northward from captured Paderborn over the last 40 miles separating them from Field Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's American and British forces on the Vest phalian plain.
 Montgomery's men were reported officially 50 miles or more east of the Rhine and going ahead so fast that juncture with the first Army appeared only matter of hours. Between the two converging forces, the remnants of five Ger man divisions were reeling back in wild flight for life, raked from ground and air by Allied fire. Patton Runs Wild
 Ninety miles to the southeast, It. Gen. George s. Patton's American Third Army was running wild over the approaches to Kassel, kingpin of the Weser river line where the Germans had planned their next major stand behind the Rhine.
 Patton's troops were only 10 miles south of Kassel this morning and all accounts indicated the thoroughly beaten Germans had nothing left to defend the city. Kassel lies 165 miles southwest of Berlin and it's fall would leave the Germans no defensible line short of the Elbe river at Magdeburg, 105 miles to the northeast and only 60 miles from the German capital.
 A high-ranking German officer
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
Brochure 70 Honor 75th
 Anniuersary or Library

April l will mark the seventy fifth anniversary of the founding of the SilaS Bronson library. A spe. cial brochure will be published hon. bring the occasion, it has been an. nounced by Miss Emelyn Barrett chief librarian.
 The local institution was founded by means of a grant established by SilaS Bronson, a native of Water bury. The library has had a varied and interesting career. Its early broad development came abou greatly through the efforts of tht late Homer P. Bassett, second Ii brarian to serve, who remained il! the position for a period of 30 years, retiring just about the turn of this century. He was succeeded by Miss Helen Sperry.
 Under the latter's directorshil' the present industrial reference and research facilities were instituted concurrent with the rapid growth of industrialism in America follow. ing the turn of the 1900's. Miss Sperry, upon retirement in 1920. Weto SNONCCNCo Dy hlAiOolCy 0IOWIlt now librarian at the New Haven library, the latter serving until 1928 when he was succeeded by the present librarian, Miss Emelyn Bar rett.
 Despite the handlcaps of the de- preSsion years, the term of Miss Barrett has proven a progressive and comprehensive one with many modern installations and practices being instituted. These include the music room where records of clas- sical, operatic and modern music may be rented on the same princi. pie as the library's books are rent ed; the travelling library servicing various induStria1 plants and the Waterbury hospital; and the expan- sion of the childrens room and edu- cational programs.
 Miss Barrett, wno recently was unanimously reappointed for an- other year by the board of agents. has urged the construction of a new central library building to offset the
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
DANZ|G BATTLE COST GERMANS
 39,OOO TROOPS
BY ROBERT MUsEL

London, March 31. = (UP)
 The Red Army today closed on Vienna from the south and opened up a fast-break- ing drive to oust the Ger mans from those remnants of the Silesian industrial base still held by the Nazis.
 Moving up from the south, Soviet forces under Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin were crashing through the outer defense circle of Vienna and at points were less than 40 miles from the Austrian capital.
 One report placed some Soviet forces little more than 20 miles fro mthe industrial center of Wiener Neustadt, about 9 miles south of Vienna.
 In Silesia German reports said that the Red Army had burst into Ratibor and Katscher in southern Silesia. Is and 21 miles respectively from Morvaska Ostrava. They also entered Glogau, 80 miles southeast of Frankfurt. Glogau has been en- circled for some weeks.
 The tank forces were racing to- WaGd Vienna under security blackout after turning the frontal defense line anchored on Lake Neu- Siedler with g push across the Aus trian border at Koeszeg, 50 miles south of the capital.
 Another column of Marshal Feo- dor I. Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army group, olso moving under security blackout, was less than 40 miles southeast of Vienna in frontal advance toward the Lake Neusiedler line
 Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army group, on Tolbukhin's northern flank, simul- taneously struck out on 100-mile front for Bratislava, copital of Ger many's puppet state of Slovakia and key to the Bratislava Gap to Vienna.
 Tarno- -Kreti Captured
 South of the Danube, the Second Army group punched to within 30 miles southeast of Bratislava and
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
BY REUEL s. MOORE

Washington, March 31-(UP)- German chances of making last ditch stand are being steadily whittled down by rapid Allied ad- vances and the continued capture of large numbers of enemy prison CTS, qualified military observers in the capital said today.
 These observers said the Nazis' failure to put up any consequential delaying action against the east ward advance of Allied armies on the northern and central fronts was 8 sign of great weakness.
 It was growing extremely doubt full whether the Germans retained the ability to stand on a line ex- tending along the Ems or Weser Riverc and thence through the mountains northeast of Kassel.
 Observers considered entirely logical the remark attributed to a captured German officer who said the Germans had planned a stand
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
Discharged Veteron Sought For Murder

Greenfield, Mass, March 31 -(U. P.) - A discharged veteran ot the present war was sought today in .he Geath of Mrs. Fay Kimball Goering 25, who was shot at her home last night wLjle her baby slept nearby.
 Police said the suspect and Mrs. Goering had been seen together often. The victims husband. Rus sell, has been in the Coast Guard about a year and is assigned to the Corpus Christi (Tex) Naval Air Station.
 The suspect was described as 29-year-old Greenfield man with prematurely white hair. Police said that he was 5 feet inches tall and weighed about 160 pounds.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
Coscia Murder Case
 Heads 16 On Docket

Sixteen criminal cases, headed by the first degree murder Gharge against Domenic Coscia, have beer listed for the superior court Apri criminal term which will open Ur Tuesday morning at 10 o'clock be- fore Judge John A. Cornell. Coscia, who is accused of the staying of his brother-in-laW, AdolpE Cyr, last September 28, is sched- uled to face a jury trial May g Cyr died almost instantly from shotgun wounds inflicted while he stood in the kitchen of his first floor home at 419 Washington ave- nue.
 The accused, whose wife IS Mrs Cyr's sister, was occupant of the second floor of the property, which is owned jointly by the sisters. A quarrel between the two men in the cellar of the home preceded the shooting which occurred at about 7:3O in the morning.
 Trial of the murder case is ex- pected to take at least six weeks oNCOl ulllS CO PlSoCllo CoOAAiAeAeCo. "A total of 175 veniremen will be called for examination, and polling of the jury is expected to take two weeks time
 Originally the case had been scheduled for trial in February, but a continuance to the present term was granted by Judge Frank P. McEvoy on a request from De- fense Attorney Edward Mascolo, Coscia meanwhile is confined to the New Haven county jail.
 States Attorney William B. Fftz- gerald who will prosecute the charges is scheduled to be at his office in the country building to- day and Monday morning for con- sultations with counsel for the vari- ous accused. Assistant States At torney Walter w. Smyth will assist in the prosecution.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
RUhR BASIN FALL IMM|NE MI Hitler Reported Favoring Armistice; Russians Drive On BratiSIava, Vienna
HCOMMAND SET TO START
 NEGOTIATIONS
BY w. R. HIGGINBOTHAM

London, March 31. - (UP) - European reports said Adolf Hitler and the German high command agreed at a dramatic all-night meeting ending early today that Ger many should seek an armis- tice, but apparently delayed action when the NaziS re- fused to give up the govern ment immediately.
 The high command in- formed Hitler that it was pre- pared to negotiate for an Armistice if the Nazi govern ment would quit, a Stock holm Tidningen dispatch quoted by the Exchange Tele- graph Agency said.
 The staff officers were said to have contended that continuation of the war was impossible in view of the Allied breakthrough in the west and the Soviet threat in the east.
 Counter Proposal
 Hitler countered with proposal to abandon his position as sole leader in favor of "Fuehrer's Coun- ell" headed by Marshal Albert Kesselring and Colonel General Ferdinand Won Schooner, com" manders on the western and eastern fronts. Tdningen said. E4 .
 Members of the council ufidcf Kesselring and Won Schoernel would be Hitler himself, Reichs" marshal Hermann Goering, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler and Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz.
 Hitler was said to have told the generals they could open negotia'' tions with the Allies while he and Himmler answered for internal or der.
 Tidningen said the general of the high command rejected the pro" posal. The final result of the con" ference, which lasted from midday yesterday to early this morning, was not known, Tidninger said.
 The meeting was said to have taken place at Hitler's headquarters. A Zurich dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Agency said Hitler fin" ally conceded at the meeting thaE Germany had lost the war.
 "At the end of the meeting" the Zurich dispatch said, Hitler him" self faced up to the fact that the high command possessed no means to deal with the overwhelming AL. lied onslaught"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
Forts Attack kyushuAqoin
BY FRANK TREMAINE

Guam, March 31. (UP) - Tokyo said more than 100 Super Actresses bombed the Japanese home island of Kyushu for two hours today in support of huge fleet softening up Okinawa, 330 miles to the southwest, for invasion.
 Battleships and other warships were hurling ton after ton of shells into Okinawa, naval ard air base island midway between Japan and Formosa, for the ninth straight day a Japanese communique said.
 The Marianas-based Superior tresses struck Kyushu, southern @0st of the Japanese home islands, H5eWeen 10 a. m. and noon (Tokyo Gne), concentrating mainly on air. aaAds and airf1eld installations, the Tokyo Domei .'.gency said.
 The raid was the third in less than A hours on Japan by the giant B-29s. A small force at- tackled the aircraft center of Nagoya in daylight yesterday and Tokyo said part of the formation also swung west to bomb the Kure naval base.
 Still another formation dropped fire bombs on Japan's inland sea and adjacent Bungo Strait areas between 12:30 and 2:30 a. m. today. Tokyo reported. Bungo strait lies between Kyushu and Shikoku.
 The B-29 raids presumably were designed to smash or tie down Japanese planes and warshipS which otherwise might try to slip out or the homeland to attack the huge naval task forces off Okinawa.
 'It is believed that the raids by B-29s will be further intensified against Kyushu to support the enemy attempt against O. aawa'" radio Tokyo said.
 A Japanese imperial headquar- +ers communique reported that the naval bombardment of Okinawa' midway between Japan and For. mosa in the Ryukyu island chain was continuing on furiously."
 Carrier planes from the fleet, eSti. mated variously by the Japanese at from 100 to 2,OO0 ships of all cate gories. broke off their attack last night. however, the communique said Bad weather may have inter- fered with air operations.
 A Pacific fleet headquarters com m,Inioue confirmed that the air and sea bombardment of the Ryukyus still was continuing yesterday and reported that 1T counter-attacking Japanese planes were destroyed by the guns of the fleet Wednesday and Thursday.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-31
Destroyer to Honor Memory.of Kennedy

Washington, March 31-(UP)-A destroyer to be launched in Sep tember will be named Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., in memory of the son of Joseph P. Kennedy, former am- bassador to Great Britain, Sen. Da- vid l. Walsh, D., Mass, announced today.
 Young Kennedy was awarded the navy cross posthumously after be- ing reported dead in February, 1945, following action in the Europ- can theater of war.
 Either his mother or his sister is expected to sponsor the new vessel.
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Detroit evening times., 1945-05-17
May t74S
STATE 10 Expand
Ad-to-Nef Plan

LANSING. MAY rs JPl-eN-
pansion OF Michisans pioneering
Fetersns rehabilitation program
Eill be mapped tomorrow ~ =
Ieries Of meetings expected 10
pttract national attention
Gov. Kelly announced he wuuid
60 10 Washington nest =~e'k 10
review the expanded Michigan
program with federal officials
lie said he would be accompanied
by Col. Philip &. Pack, director OF
The state Office ef peterans-aiiaiFS-
The additions Ia the present
veterans program. already Il
months old. viii be discussed
tonight at-a- meeting -oi- the
state veterans advisory council
Recommendation viii be pre-
sented tomorrow 90 the state
administrative board for final ap-
pCoyal.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-17
Cross. liable Dancing
Forbidden in Bars

LANSING. Nav 16 Drinking
establishments today were notified
THAI thctr premises must be
'hrtEHtiy fiThtrd during business
hoaf~ and thst efe>~-tahit- dane
ine t. forbidden
These ruics were pul !nlh effect
after complaints that .servIcemen
were making -''untOrtunate ac-
auaiHtances The commission
also notified the bars that women
cannot be served after 5 p M, cX-
Eept at-tahles-
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-17
Open Aeehen Schools

NEW YORK. May 16 UNS)-
The first German school to be
opened under American occupa-
tion will be in Aachen. 1t will
use reprints of pre-Hitler- text
books from the library of Column
bia University.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-17
Brake Test Drops
State Auto Deaths

LANSING. MAY Is CUPl-
Michigan traffic fatalities dropped
32 per cent during the first 10
days Of the nationwide brake
test program. state pollce RECORDS
showed today.
last year There were ~ fatal
4Eaffie accidents during abe Pc
riod from April l5 10 30 while
this year there were only 2S.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-17
ADVFRTIsENENT
HIT THAT RHEUMATIC PAIN
WHERE IT HURTS.
And look at the SiIUer Lining
in those Clouds of Pain

The big idea is that you want to feel
better. When pain eases, your mind
eases. You get rest that means deliver
ance. So use something that gets at the
pain. C-2sai brings YOU pain-relieying
help. Now YOU will feel as good as
others who enjoy its help, too. 6oc, and
ST.. Caution: Use only as directed. First
bottle purchase price refunded if you
are not satisfied. Today, get C-2723.
Detroit evening times., 1945-05-17
Firms, Reds Sign Pact

.NEI-XuRk- NayIE-ENS4-
Finland and the Soviet Union have
signed a commercial treaty pro-
vIdrnE- tor exchange OF essential
commodities. according 20 a Hell
Slnki announcement.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
Crowded Herbors
ADVERTISEMENT

The author Continues
The proud cities with crowded
AnuTprTGEAEE.Nr
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
Lake Erie---
Intimate and Wayward
Bv IRENE HAWKINS
Detroit Times WOmen's Editor

harbors and teeming lake COM
merce are on the United States
side the recital OF their
names sounds like a Walt Whit
man chant.
'Uncounted numbers Of diSas-
ters. tragedies and shipwreckS
have overtaken the men who
have sailed over her blue sur
face but with all her moods
and whimS. Lake Erie remains
the most intimate and happy of
all the Great Lakes, ready alike
for a gala weekend holiday and
for the tremendous burden Of
bulk commerce of the workaday
world.
See what | mean E. cold, his
toric facts told in a manner
that makes their reading as de-
hghtful as the lightest of novels.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

AT LAST, the last of the series
"a of the Great Lakes books
Lake Erie" by Harlan
Hatcher. published by Bobbs-
Merrill.
Maybe it's because I'm a little
punch drunk from the dawn Of
peace this being written on
that beautiful morning OF Aug.
- but it does seem TO me
this Is the most wonderful OF the
lakes series.
To my dazzled mind, il ripples
along like a poem -. starting
with:
Lake Erie is intimate and
wayward. OF the five Great
Lakes, Erie is fourth in size. for
only Ontario is smaller. Cool.
deep Lake Superior is the Anna
zonian one Lake Huron,
wild and iSland-studded is next
and Lake Michigan with
her gates of gold at Mackinac
and the silver finger of Green
Bay TO break her regular coast
line is third
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
Most Interesting

Lake Erie" will probably be
the most interesting OF the
series TO Detroiters, because it
contains so much about us =.
and points round with which
most Detroiters are familiar ..
Put-In-Bay. Cedar Point, Cleve-
land, Buffalo and others &.
names of lots of people YOU
know as the automobile industry
comes into view.
What a wonderful conuibu-
ton 10 q library o.. these five
books under one title Tho
American Lakes Seric, -. all
about the five great lakes
first. Lake Huron by Fred
Landon next. Lake Mich-
gan by Milo NJ. Quaife
Lake Superior" by Grace Mute
Lake Ontario" by Arthur
Pound and now Lake Erie
the entire series under the cd
itorship Of Milo NJ. Quaife, sec
retary of the Burton Historical
Collection and author of several
books,
Harlan Hatcher, you may also
recall is the author Of a volume
published some months ago en-
titled. The Great Lakes, in
which all five of the lakes were
covered in one book.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
Stirs in a Bowl

"Erie'S waters stir in a shall
low bowl. Perhaps saucer is
more accurate than bowl. Or, if
we think of its shape as well as
Of its ShallownesS. il is more
like a terncher of the era of
Hawkins and Drake. The water
from Lake Huron pourS hur-
rledly under the International
Bridge at Sarnia and Port
Huron, 1t flows down the ST.
Clair River, widens lazily out
into a lake in the st. Clair Flats.
then gathers itself together
again at Windmill Point TO be-
come the Detroit River.
1t moves down the 2S-mile-
long channel past Detroit and
Windsor, flows around the
islands in the river, and spreads
lmperceptibly into the long mar
row basin that confines Lake
J'fsio -
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19
Water Phlox

PHLOX IN the garden will
bloom better if given plenty of
water during the Towering pc
riod. A spraying of the leaves
occasionally will keep red spider
under control.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

row-after only a few hours you'll
have the Rumba or latest Fox Trot
down pat. How you'll enjoy tapping
up compliments at your next party.
Arthur Murray, 1909 Washington
Blvd. at State Street. CA J377.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-19

The busiest people take time out for
lessons az Arthur Murrays. Why
don't you! Exercise and relaxation
make good pretexts =. but learning
the new steps with our charming ex-
perts is grand fHH, too! Start tomor-