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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
EAST END WANTS
 BRANCH LIBRARY

Establishment of branch library in the eastern section of the city will be sought by the East End Com nlunity club, according to action taken at a meeting of the organi- zation last night at the Anderson school gymnasium. The proposal was made by Henry Corden, presi. dent.
 No word has been received as yet from postal authorities in Wash ington on a survey for setting up of sub-branch post office in the sec ton, it was reported by Maurice Donovan.
 It was announced six members will aid in sorting clothing con- tributed to the United National Clothing drive. They are: MT. Cor den, MT. Donovan, Raymond Burke Edward Bergin. Charles Bertucci0 and Joseph Phelan.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
MASS TO HONOR
 ARMED FORCES
Various Local Groups to Attend Communion Serv=
 ices Sunday Morning

All servicemen in Waterbury next Sunday, April 18th, have been in- vited to participate in the Corporate Communion Services being spon- sored locally by the Knights of Co., lumbus, Police and Fire Depart ments, Postal Employes, State Guard and veterans organizations, and men teachers. Services will in- clude Military Mass at 8 o'clock in the Church of the Immaculate Conception, followed by a Com munion Breakfast at the Hotel Elton. Men in uniform will be the guests of the sponsoring groups.
 AS announced yesterday the guest speaker will be the Rev. John Hutchinson, s. J., native of Wa terbury and a member of the fac. ulty of Holy Cross College, Worces- ter, Mass. He will be introduced by John P. Kinney a member of the faculty of Crosby High school Heads of the various organizations sponsoring the event will also be seated at the head-table, including Mayor John s. Monagan, Super intendent of Police Daniel J. Car son, Fire Chief Thomas J. Cava- naugh, Major J. Peter Costigan, Postmaster Charles J. Babin and Grand Knight Thomas J. Bane.
 Invitations have also been extend- ed to member of the Boards of Po- lice and Fire Commissioners to at tend the annual event.
 The line of march will be from the corner of Field and Grand streets to Bank to Exchange Place to West Main, north of Green. As the procession enters the Immacu- late Conception church. Call will be sounded from the steps by Ray Walker of the American Legion The music during the church serv- ices will be in charge of Professor F. F. Harmon.
 Dedicated to the men and women of Waterbury in the armed forces of the nation this annual event has become an outstanding occasion fol the sponsoring groups. The 194s event will mark the fourth such held.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Displaced Germans
 Problem To Allies

evicted from portions of their vil' lages to make room for refugees and it is likely this will become more frequent, MickelSen said.
 He revealed that SFIEAF had rec quested 450 United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration teams of 13 persons each to take over camp administration and sort- ing jobs as the front moves fore. ward. Only 26 UNRRA teams are in the field or en route so far.
 The French military movement for liberation of the Allies has sup- piled 45 teams of five persons each for liberating French prisoners, ac- cording to Mickelsen. He added that Allied long term plans call for about 1,500 camps of 5000 persons eacl1?..
 Mickelsen said all displaced per- sons found west of the Rhine were in remarkable good health and some had fine clothes. E
 I don't know where they were ob~ tained but saw some women in silk stockings and high heels which might be envied anywhere. The dis placed persons were mostly off farms. We didn't inquire about the clothes" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11

artillery and bomDlng can pc Coh- centrated in small area.
 Eventually the trap will become small enough so the opposition can be ringed like Dunkirk, Lorient. and Bordeaux.
 The remainder of the Allied Armies can fan out in northern, central, and southern Germany, meeting the Russians and isolating cities where Hitler has tried to hold out, and besieging the last ports.
 Almost hourly as we drove around the Ruhr we heard of additional slave labor camps being freed ana V-weapon sites overrun. Last Sat urday two intended long-range V-2 sites were captured intact. They were being prepared for use once Holland was captured.
 Everywhere one passes Russians, Poles, Czechs, French, Belgians, Greeks, Dutch, Italians NorwegianS and Estonians struggling along roads singly or in groups of up to 800 as they try to beat their way back to the homelands.
 It is a heartbreaking sight and one of the most difficult military government problems.
 There are an estimated 15,000,000 of these displaced persons in the Reich. Many are poorly dressed. Lacking shoes, they wrap sacks around their bleeding feet. Most of them are undernourished. Many struggle along on crutches or drag their injured bodies.
 You see them halted at the road- side, watching the German prison CTS being hauled away in British and American trucks eating K-ra- tions and smoking cigarets-accord- ing to the Geneva convention rules.
 German civilians, the men, women and children, ride bicycles, thou- sands of which were footed from France, Belgium, Holland and Den mark.
 The live Germans look fat and well fed but their cities have been killed.
 Take Paderborn. That peasant town at the crossroads of one east ern tip of the Ruhr died in 20 min- utes. The RAF did the job. Coming into Paderborn from the southeast you see fragments of To- comotives, rail cars and buildings littering the shell-pocked country. wide for more than mile outside the town.
 Houses on the edge of Pader- born are roofless, walls cracked from bomb blasts, especially from the six-tonners the RAF dropped. Many houses have huge holes punched ir them by artillery shells or where Sherman tanks poked their shouts through the walls to oust sniper anc bazookamen.
 Along side the roads Germans lie unburied, their skin waxy as show window models,( their eyes starring in skies which rainet destruction Some still clutch potato masher granades or a fule. Bulldozers are trying to oper roads through Paderborn but many of them are piled with debris tt the level of the first floor. Trying to rebuild seems hopeless. It woulc be easier now far easier, to move to the open fields and start over.
 On one street saw people scratching in the rubble heaps try ing to find something to identify their home. They dug, then shifted down the street a way and discov' cred some object which told then this scraphead was theirs. They renewed the digging without joy or hope,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
By SAM HALES

Paris, April 11.-(UP)-The Nazis are driving able-bodied slave work CTS before them as they fall back in to the shrinking Reich, according to Brig. Gen. Stanley R. Mickelsen, United States Army Chief of Staff of the displaced persons branch of Supreme Allied Headquarters.
 So far about 800, 900 displaced per- sons and refugees have been liberat- ed by the Allies, according to Mich elsen. He estimated that the total number of these persons in Ger many may be as high as 1000, 900.
 Military government teams fol- lowing the Allied troops are assem- bling the displaced persons and pro- viding them with initial meals. But German civilians must provide them with food and camp sites af. ter they are assembled.
 In some cases Germans have been
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
BY VIRGIL PINKLEY United Press Vice President for
 EurOpe)

Around the Ruhr, April 11.-(UF) Germanys once rich Ruhr giows like a giant torch. The industrial basin which produced most of Ger many's steel and munitions is aflame from one end to the other.
 It is burning down over the heads of the trapped troops inside It Over and over they try to break out, especially att he northeast and the southeast corners and around Hamm to flee southward toward the mour- tain Redoubt.
 There may be so,oOO combat and 10000 service troops in the giant pocket. 't
 From a staff car, accompanied by Capt. Harry Butcher, USNR, washington, D. C., I saw the hope less position of Hitler'S scattered armies and the pulverized destruc- tion of German cities. Even cross road farmhouses are reduced te rubble heaps because they were used used for defense.
 These. centers of German re. instance were laid waste in a man. moth and systematic job of llied destructive craftsmanship. Tanks down entire cities-and broke every brick twice.
 I've never seen anything in the limited areas of England to equal the total destruction being inflict- ed these bright spring days on tie Reich whose sacred soil," accord ing to Hermann Goering, never would feel the impact of bombs.
 Fanatical, defiant picked units ia- side the Ruhr pocket. plus the prob. lem of supplies, is about all thai is keeping Gen. Dwight D. Eisen. hower's eight armies from linking up with the Russians and begin. ming the all-out assault on Der. lin.
 All long the fringes of the Ruh1 fires glow, marking the effects oi bombing and artillery and the Ger man demolition key points yielded after bitter resistance.
 In some cases where fanatical paratroopers or SS held the base ments of wrecked buildings, the structures would be put to the torch to flush the Nazis and save the lives of American, British, Cana dian and French soldiers. I saw three such fires in Wesel where the American military police said we simply roast these graut b-s till they Quit."
 Most of the generals I talked tc in the last week think the resist ance of the Ruhr will continue fol sometime This means our armies chiefly the Ninth - probably will continue compressing the pocket SC
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
c. OF c. GETS CORSET BILL

Indianapolis, Ind. (UP)-The In- diana Chamber of Commerce found out where the $10 corest charged to them came from. One of the secre- taries there purchased the article, and when asked her address, gave the Chamber of Commerce as that where she received her mail. She said that the clerk probably mis- understood her and charged it to the Chamber instead. She was very embarrassed about the publicity so was the Chamber.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
POLICE OFFICER
 GIVEN DISCHARGE

James F. Peters, Torrington po- lice department member who had been fined $100 in the Torrington city court on a charge of evadin(; responsibility, was given discharge yesterday by Judge John F. Mo. Donough following an appeal hear. ing in the Litchf1eld common pleas court.
 It had been alleged Peters failed to stop his car after striking the fender of 8 parked car on Wolcott street in Torrington, Feb. 10. The court held yesterday that the state failed to prove the police oflicel knew his car had struck the other vehicle. i
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
WORLD WAR II A YEAR AGO
BY United Press

O4 OAAAUCU 11OSS
 Nine hundred RAT planes drop an unprecedented 4,000 tons of bombs on Hanover and railroad targets in Belgium and France night of April 10; nearly 1000 American planes strike at aircraft and other plants at Oschersleben, Benr- burg, R0stOck and Arnimswalde; 126 German fighters shot down; Americans lose GA bombers, 16 fighters; RAF loses 22 planes. Russians capture Kerch and Dzhankoi in the Crimea.
 In Italy, Allied troops squelch two light, German attacks.
 U. S. forces seize four more atolls and one island in the Marshalls.
 In India, Japanese threaten to cut off British from the road north of KOhima.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Ruhr Fires Glow
 Like Giant Torch
By CURT RIESS Copyright, 1945, NEA Service, Incl

Back from a 1,400-mile tour of all western fronts inside Germany, including staff car trip all the way around the Ruhr pocket, the European vice president of the United Press reports in the fol- lowing dispatch the full extent of the damage that is being inflict- ed on Germany.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
Gas In Stomach
 and Bowels
RELIEVED OR NO COST

Every person who is troubled with excessive gas in stomach and bowels should get package of 6aalmann's Gas Tablets and try them for quick re- lief of the distress.
 Sharp pains in the abdomen are often due entirely to gas pressure. Many sufferers occasionally have burning pain at the pit of the stomach. called heartburn. Others complain at times of palpitation, labored breathing. sour risings, nausea, bloating. head ache or dizziness, any of which may result from gas pressure.
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
YEARS OF PROOF

A man must be habitually drunk for three years before his wife can obtain 8 divorce on the grounds of habitual intoxication in New Hampshire.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11
LONGEVITY FAMILY TRAIT

St. Johnsbury, Vt. (UP) Mrs. Christine Mclean, whose father lived to be 101 and whose grand father reached the age of 10F cele- brated her 101 st birthday r Gently.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11

Drawings found on the rock face of Flinders Range gorge in South Australia suggest the work of an extinct race.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11

 assignment NEA Service and The Waterbury Democrat
 CURT RIESS
 1945 NEA Service Incl
 Berne, April 11-Here are some things that widely discussed everywhere in Germany, where almost nothing is secret any longer.
 ending March 2 less coal delivered Of eight large rail- systems connecting with the Germany six either occupied bombed Thus stopped peely.
 sOOO miners without work Many followed Esenhow the Reich Most le1t join volkssturm Others have gone under itself doing active sabotage work
 industries has changed Hitler himself Heavy loco priority most rolling stock was system has reached "DeuSche Schifts building immediately
 BOOST MORALE
 beginning 19 locomotives had first place on the prior first artillery for the Atlantic for synthetic gasoline plants then locomotives highest prior March 2.
 particularly in the west, constantly Hnmler has formed socaed Aufae enghenng companies composed Of dependable party ordered to strengthen the fighting spirit or
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-11

books German internal affair." unOcupied Germany to obtain exclusive he sfts facts and selecting this inside report Ress in Europe asnEment NEA Service and The Waterbury Democrat
Smyrna times., 1945-04-26
SMYRNA AND VICINITY

"Our Country Cousin, a new
play of rural life, by Charles H.
Fleming, will be the attraction at
the Opera House tomorrow night.
The scenery is realistic and there
are some exciting scenes. There
is a railroad scene in which real
switches, telegraph poles, a der
rick, etc., are used, while a train
200 feet makes its fight across the
stage in six seconds. In the farm
scene a threshing machine is intro
duced which adds to the realism of
the play. Frank Jones, the origin
al 81 Perkins, is inimitable as
Jason Wheatley, the country cous-
in. He is ably supported by good
cast.
The boys are reviving the old
time pleasure of walking on stilts.
1t cannot compare with the bicycle
as a means of locomotion, but in
cheapness it beats all other modes
of locomotion except the natural
leg and feet movement.
The moss bankers" have made
their ascent of the bay to the dis
may of the shad fishermen, and
Monday those at Bombay Hook
pulled up stakes and beat a re-
treat up the river.
Belmont Park" is having its
first adornment in spring bloom in
the lururiant purple magnolia, for
sythia and japonica.
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months, made a visit home Thurs
day, prior to taking position Fri
lay with Wanamaker & Brown,
9th and Market Streets.
DR.. E. Dawson, of Baltimore
has been visiting his daughter
Mrs. w. d. Hudson.
Mrs DR.. Ashcraft returned yes
terday from visit in Camden.
]. w. Jones and wife are making
a visit to Philadelphia.
Miss Eunice Anthony returned
to Woman's College, Baltimore, af-
ter a short visit to her parents.
Miss Bertha Bailey of Kenton
has been the guest of Miss Mary
Anthony.
T. ]. Armitage of Bowie, ND, is
making his mother a visit.
Mrs. Theodore Malven, of Phila-
delphia, is visiting her sister al
Short Landing farm.
Robert Mason, son of Mrs. Sarah
P. Mason, was in town Monday, or
his way to Dover.
Rev. ]. P. DuHamell, D. o., who
officiated at st. Peters Sunday
was the guest of VIM. H. Janney
Rev. Mr.. Dame, the rector, is ex'
pected home from Atlantic City
for next Sunday.
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PERSONAL AND
SOCIAL ITEMS
People Who Come and Go,
Visitors To Our Community
and Former Smyrnians
HOME AND CLUB PARTIES

Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Williams,
corner of Commerce and Union
Streets, have moved to the house
formerly occupied by Edward Geb-
hart on Delaware Street. They
are followed by John P. Herbert,
Jr., and family. Mr., Herbert is a
member of the State Highway Po-
lice force.
Mr.. and Mrs. William w. Eley
of Ingleside, Nd, have moved to
Smyrna and are now occupying a
house on w. Mt. Vernon Street.
Mr.. AMI Mrs. L. H. Collision, for
mer residents of Smyrna, now of
Marydel, Md, are receiving con-
gratulations on the birth of a son
Sunday, April % at Kent General
Hospital in Dover. The baby has
been named Andrew Charles Colli-
son.
Miss Martha Burrous, member
of the graduating class of Della
ware Hospital School of Nursing,
has been a guest the past week of
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
A. Burrows.
Alden F. Robinson, S lie, U. S.
Navy, Newport, R. l., spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. George Robinson.
Miss Kathleen Bennett of Fair
mont, West Virginia, has been a
recent guest of Miss Mary Marie
FAIRIES and Mr.. and Mrs. Ralph G..
FAIRIES.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Cooper and
son Robert of Boston, Mass, have
been spending several days with
his mother, Mrs. Brady Cooper.
Lieut.. Mildred Taub, U. s, N. R.,
of Brooklyn, N. r.; Ensign Franc
es Dempsey, U. S. N. r., Washing
ton, D. c.; Cpl. James Jones, U. 5.
Army, of Charlotte, N. c., attend
ed the funeral of their grandmoth-
er, Mrs. Mary Dempsey on Mon
day.
Mrs. Christine Lutz of Cynwyd,
Pa, has been a recent guest of
= Davis H. Bell.
Lieut.. John Mood, U. S. Army,
Mitchell Field, N. Y, spent the
weekend with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Mood, Sr. Mr.. and
Mrs. Mood will have as their
guests for some time their daugh-
ter, Mrs. Theodore Rohman and
son, Ted, Jr. Theo. Rohman, &c
u. S. Navy, is now on duty at
Wildwood, N. j.
Mrs. Howard R. Jones is the
guest of Mrs. Homer D. Hudson,
at Greenville, Del. She will also
be a guest of Mrs. Helen Huxley
of Wilmington before returning
home.
Lex FAIRIES, S &c, u. S. Navy,
spent several days over the week
end with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
j. Wells FAIRIES. He left Tuesday
for the west coast.
Mrs. Harry Schuyler of New
York City, has returned home af-
ter spending two weeks whit Mr..
and Mrs. Walter Eley.
Pfc. Wayne Gems, U. S. Army
and Mrs. Gems of Washington, D.
c., spent the weekend with their
grandparents, Mr.and Mrs. George
Robinson and Mr.. and Mrs. Edw.
T. Porter.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Homer Smith,
who have been spending the winter
months at Miami Beach, Florida,
have returned to their nome mere
Mrs. Rixstine and Miss Ada
Raiser are spending two weeks
with friends near Philadelphia.
Mrs. Ralph L. FAIRIES of Islip,
Long Island, spent the weekend
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. H.
G.. Webb.
Mrs. Clarence B. Raymond and
Miss Cora c. Tschudy, who have
spent the winter in Florida, have
returned home.
Walter C. Deakyne, S &c, U. s
Navy, now at Newport, RI, spent
the weekend with his parents, DR.
and Mrs. w. G. Deakyne.
CHH.D COLONY
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DEATH RECORD OF WEEK

CONTINUED from Pare One)
sisters, Mrs. Sue M. Wieland, Phil
adelphia, and Mrs. Ida Vandegrift,
New Castle, and one grandson.
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Thurs, May 3, 1915
Beginning at IL O'Clock A. M.
RAIN or SHINE

The following described personal
property, to-wit:
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Death of Mrs. Mary e. Dempsey

Death of Mrs. Mary e. Dempsey
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary
E. Dempsey, age so, of Smyrna
were held Monday afternoon at
the home of her daughter, Mrs.
William G. Smith at Leipsic where
she had gone for a visit. Rev.
Robert E. Green, pastor of Asbury
Methodist Church, Smyrna, was in
Smyrna times., 1945-04-26

death of her husband, Charles E.
Prettyman, eleven years ago. She
was born in Lewes, the daughter
of Henry and Mary Ann johnson
and was the last of a family of
eight children. She is survived by
one granddaughter, Mrs. Mary
Hynson Fleming of Smyrna.
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PUBLIC SALE

PUBLIC SALE
OF STOCK AND IMPLEMENTS
The undersigned, having no furth-
er use for said property, will offer
at public sal on the "Hurlock Cor
ner" Farm, between Massey and
Sassafras, Nd, on
Thurs, May 3, 1915
Beginning at IL O'Clock A. M.
RAIN or SHINE
The following described personal
property, to-wit:
6 Young Horses
nice size, all quiet and broke to
1 Black Mare Colt, IL months old.
80 HeiferS 4 Bulls
consisting of 20 Heifers, two years
old, either fresh or close springers;
13 yearling Heifers, 6 Bulls, four
large enough for service. Most of
these have been inoculated against
Bangs and most all are Holsteins.
All have been T. B. and Blood
Tested.
HOGS-Five Brood Sows, 25 Pigs.
One large HOG TROUGH.
FENCING AND WOOD = 100
Locust and Thorn Posts, $50 White
Oak Posts, all new. Four rolls of
new Page Wire, some Barbed
Wire. Two lots of Stove Wood,
sawed short.
FARMING IMPLEMENTS, sc.
One set International tractor
plows, 14-in., two-bottom; l York
carriage, 1 corn shelter, two-hole;
1 McCormick-Deering riding culti-
vator, new; 1 Ontario drill, for
horse or tractor hitch! 1 farm
wagon, McCormick-Deering now
er, in good order; 1 drag roller, 1
set Fairbanks platform scales, 6
new work brides, 4 new head halt
ers, 1 pair new leather lines, 1 set
leather new wagon harness.
Fifty bushels of Black Wilson
SOYBEANS. Pile of Old Iron.
Terms of Sale CASH.
WILLIAM H. MOFFETT
Eugene Racine, Auctioneer
Julian HURT, Inside Clerk
]. Hazel Price, Outside Clerk
LUNCH will be served.
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CHILD COLONY
AT STOCKLEY
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CONTINUED from Page One)
F. johnson, Dover; Mrs. Huldah
Willis, Milford; DR.. G.. w. K. For
rest, Wilmington; George w. Butz,
Jr., Wilmington, and Paul D. Low
EFT, Wilmington.
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SMYRNA. DOINGS
OF so YEARS AGO
Notes of Marriages, Deaths
and Matters of Interest
of Half Century Ago
so YEARS AGO THIS WEEK

Taken from our old files of
corresponding week, as near
date Of this issue as possible
Fifty Years Ago. This column,
now a regular feature of the
Times, will call to mind people
and events of the older genera
ton.
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Gard of Thanks

The family of Mrs. Clarinda
Tweddle wish to thank their many
relatives and friends for their kind
expressions of sympathy and beau
tiful flowers, during their recent
bereavement.
Smyrna times., 1945-04-26

charge of the services. Interment
was in Odd Fellows Cemetery. She
was the widow of William H.
Dempsey and for the past three
years had made her home in Smyr-
ma with her daughter, Mrs. Roland
Deamer. Surviving are two sons
and five daughters as follows:
Clarence Dempsey, of Dover; Leon
Dempsey, of Smyrna; Mrs. Her
bert Wright, of Dover; Mrs. Fin
ley Walker, of Odessa; Mrs. Will
liam G. Smith, of Leipsic; Mrs.
William Hoffecker, and Mrs. Ro-
land Deamer of Smyrna. Twenty
grandchildren, seven of whom are
in the armed forces, three serving
overseas, and five great grandchil-
dren also survive.
Funeral services for Mrs. Anna
Prudence Prettyman, 81, were held
at Adkins Funeral Home in Lew
es, Wednesday afternoon at 2
o'clock, with Rev. w. H. Revelle,
Sr., officiating. Interment was in
Lewes Methodist Cemetery. Mrs.
Prettyman passed away Sunday
night at the home of her son-il-
law, Frank H. Hynson of Smyrna,
with whom she had lived since the
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troubles. To-day the troubles of
the people are the responsibilities
of our Christian faith. We invite
you to bring your troubles to the
church. Life can be made whole
again."