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Laurel outlook., 1945-10-17

Mrs. David Greco and son Rich
ard returned last week from Clear
mont, Wyo., where they we're
guests of Mr.. and Mrs. Dick Greco.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rynold Frank were
hosts at dinner Sunday to Mr.. and
Mrs. Edward Thaut and Carl Thaut
of Shepherd, PFC. Jake Krug of
Sacramento, Calf, and Miss Esther
Krug.
Mr.. and Mrs. George H. Frank,
Sr. have received word that their
son, PFC. Herman Frank has been
transferred from Leyte to Japan.
Laurel outlook., 1945-10-17
German Ordnance Had "a
Mile Shell, Yanks Find

CHICAGO. - In examining Ger
man secret weapons, army ord
nance experts have discovered a
new type of ammunition designed for
ranges of "a miles, according to Col.
John Steak, chief of the Chicago
Ordnance district.
Investigators have uncovered a
German = developed gun about 80
inches in diameter and capable of
firing a 5-ton shell.
Ordnance officers, conducting in
vestigations at Hillersleben and Bad
Blankenburg, large German re-
search centers, also found a pro-
jectile which, though fired from a
gun, becomes rocket-propelled after
leaving the gun.
Laurel outlook., 1945-10-17
Scientists Are Planning
To Check on Atomic Bomb

WASHINGTON. - U. S. scientists
who developed the atomic bomb
plan to investigate the wrecks of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki as soon as
possible after American occupation
of Japan, it was understood re-
Gently.
They are eager, it was believed,
to determine the truth or untruth of
Jap reports that fatal radio-activity
fingered at Hiroshima for weeks
after the first atomic bomb exploded
over the city August 6.
Laurel outlook., 1945-10-17
Haw OF N. P. Argues
For Farm SURPRISES
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necessity for constant heavy i'm
ports of food and fibres in COM
petition with an outside world
normally poorly fed and clothed. In
the other case, we must come to
grips with the problem of surplus
disposal in some years on some
crops to avoid prices depressed be-
low profitable production levels.
Decision on this question must
be made soon because the alarmist
cry of impending agricultural sur
pluses is unsettling to established
farmers and discouraging to return
ing service men skilled in farming
who desire to return to the land
for a livelihood"
Laurel outlook., 1945-10-17
Rail Trip From Milan
To Rome in 33 Hours

CHIASSO, SWITZERLAND. -
Daily train service from Milan,
Italy, to Rome will be renewed
August 25. The trip is expected to
take 33 hours as compared with
6 hours before the war. Impair
ment of equipment and rights of
way will require the trains to
make a lengthy round = about
trip.
Laurel outlook., 1945-10-17
Painters Speed
Vets Recovery
Artists Give Portraits Free to
The Soldier or Sailor
Hospital Cases.

NEW YORK. - On the walls OF
many a modest American home
there hang original portraits of CT.
Joes by famous artists whose work
ordinarily would command impress
sive prices. However, these portraits
cost their possessors nothing. They
were given free to the soldier or
sailor s~itters, as part of the contri-
button which American artists gen.
orally have been making to the war
effort, says the Chicago Herald
American.
The "studios" for this particular
hospitals, and the models are wound
ed veterans to whom the expert
enc comes as a welcome break in
the tedium of convalescence.
Sponsored both by the Red Cross
and USO-Camp shows, the expert
ment has proven to be a singularly
effective morale builder.
Many of the artist volunteers are
nationally famous. Others are rela-
lively unknown. But, noted or OBJ
scure, they get an equally cordial
reception from their soldier eli
entele.
Typical Art Session.
Typical of these hospital art SeS-
sions was a recent one in a traction
ward of the army's Halloran gen.
eral hospital, Staten Island, N. Y.
WELDING brush and pencil were
Dean Cornwell, famous muralist;
Dan Content, noted magazine artist;
and Paul Frehm of King Features
syndicate, whose newspaper and
magazine illustrations are familiar
to a host of readers.
On the same day, patients at Ma
son general hospital, Brentwood, |
N. Y, sat for portraits by Arthur
William Brown, president of the So
ciety of Illustrators, Roy Prohaska, |
equally noted as an illustrator; and
Bettina Steinke, portrait painter.
The resultant sketches, auto
graphed by the artists, were given
to the models. All said they would
send theirs 'home to the folks" AS
an additional service, the Red Cross
and USO-Camp shows make photo
graphic replicas of the portraits,
which the subjects can distribute
among friends.
Subjects at Halloran included
army casualties Erwin H. Becker,
1~9-year-old infantry private from
the Bronx, N. Y; Cpl. Edgar G.
Steinecke, %, of Scranton, Pa, and
John F. Kraus, 81, of Brook
Patients Interested.
Becker's leg was fractured by
Shrapnel after he crossed the Rhine,
and he was dragged to safety by
medical corps men.
A blast of mortar fire hit Stein
ecke in both legs as he advanced
With fellow infantrymen in the
Nazi machine gun bullets tore into
10th Kraus' legs during the "Battle
# the Bulge
All these men have been hospital =
PATIENTS for long and painful
months, their wounded limbs immo-
in casts.
Dinner was over, and ordinarily
uey WOulu nave IdceQ nree more
ours of hospital tedium until lights
ut.
The arrival of the artists con-
erted those three hours into a high
pot of pleasure. ;
No model was interested in just
is own portrait; he wanted to see s
hose of his buddies. There was a 3
IT of ribbing back and forth-re- B
larks like, "Say, he's got you al '
lost as ugly as you are!" and
Look, don't make Ed that hand
ome-his folks won't know him."
The faces of the patients were
right and interested, as contrasted
18th apathy shortly before, and they
their satisfaction as they
their own nortraitS.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
SETTLEMENT MADE
 IN AUTO TRAGEDY
Father Had Filed Suit for Sl5,OO0 for Little Daugh=
 ter's Death

A settlement out of court has been reported in the $15,000 civil action based on fatal injuries sus- tained by nine-year-old Shirley Chase of Waterbury last March 6 when she was struck by a car oper- ated on Willow street by Alfred G. May of Woodbury.
 The case originally had been scheduled for jury trial this week, but was put over. A motion to com promise the suit has been filed in the probate court, and a hearing on acceptance of the settlement offer will be held some time next week. 8
 Negligence was charged against the defendant in the civil action for failing to signal the approach of his car, for using excessive speed, and for failing to apply the braking equipment. The claims were made by Paul R. Chase, father of the girl and administrator of her estate.
 The girl was playing near 109 Willow street when she was struck by the car. The accident took place at 12:45 p. m. and the child died early the next morning.
 Attorney William B. Fitzgerald appeared for the plaintiff in the action, while Attorney Walter E. Monagan represented the defendant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05

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 All public utilities, electricity, wa terworks, sewage, municipal trans port, hospitals, food stores, and bak- cries have been ordered to resume service. The personnel of those or ganizations are required to remain at their jobs.
 Until further notice the previous rationing system remains in force. Owners and managers of banks are forbidden temporarily to engage in any operations. Their strongboxes and safes are to be sealed and inn mediate reports submitted to con- mandants. All employees of banks are categorically forbidden to re- move any valuables.
 The population has been ordered to surrender to the commandant all arms, ammunition, explosives, motorcars, motorcycles, and radio equipment. All printing shops are sealed.
 The population has been warned it is fully responsible for any hos tile activity against the Red Army or Allied troops, and culprits will be court-martialled.
 Soviet troops can billet only in places selected by the commandant. Red Army personnel is forbidden to remove civilian property or search private citizens without orders of the commandant.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
CONTESTS SLATED
 IN DIVORCE SUITS
Judge John A. Cornell to Preside at Hearings in
 Superior Court

Several contested divorce actions are among the cases assigned for hearings before Judge John A. Cor nell Wednesday, when court hear ings will be resumed. Four civil &C., tions have been assigned for Tues day, when jury assignments will terminate.
 Cases assigned for Wednesday are: Elvira R. Manthey against Ed ward R. Manthey, Susan DelGobbo Grasso against Daniel Grasso, Mich aal Guerrero against Lucy Mangini Guerrero, Lawrence J. Lezotte against Cecile Lezotte, Marion Har- man Windebank against William Ernest Windebank, Jessie Agnes Borst against Frank David Borst, and Helen Adanlski against City of Waterbury ct als.
 The civil action listed for jury hearings on Tuesday are: Paul De- Lahunta ct als against the City of Waterbury, Irene Murteza ct al against Edward F. Grady, Edward Thompson against City of Water bury, Leo Chevrier against Frisbie Pie Company, and Bertha Gaug against Metropolitan Life Insurance Company,
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
PROTESTS VOICED ON Z0NING LAWS
Waterville Residents Seek Amendment; New Own=
 CTS Object to Change

Atty Michael Ciano representing the Precision Screw Machine Prod ucts Go. last night appealed to the zoning committee of the board oi aldermen not to change the zoning in the Homer street section of Wa terville from an industrial to reS- idential area
 As reported here yesterday about 70 residents of Homer, White, Dwight, Dixon streets, are protest ing the proposed erection of two factories in the area by the Pre- cision Co.,, and by the Polymetric Mfg. Co., The area has been zoned industrially since 1928 and the firms together with the Cashin Dairy pur- chased the land with that under standing. The residents claim po- tential depreciation of their land if the factories are permitted to build and ask for zoning revision.
 Atty William K. LaWlor repre- sented the resident petitioners and stated his clients were of the belief that the factories would constitute ia nuisance which would drive the residents from their home. Atty. LaWlor said that the homes of his clients totaled a million dollar val uation and it was not decent to in- convenience these residents because of minority.
 The purpose of zoning laws, MT. Ciano declared, citing a Supreme Court decision, is to stabilize prop erty. He said change would be counter to this ruling.
 He further declared that the rea- son houses were never built on the North Side of Homer street was that a railroad runs through the section
 It was the noise and soot of trains that kept people from build ing houses there, he said.
 He said trains created more noise and soot than would be caused by factory.
 Speaking also against the peti- tlon were Harry x. Cashin, and William J. Cunningham, president and vice-president of the Cashin Dairy Inc. which has a plant in the area.
 Martin Tehan, chairman, Ed ward Lasky, Martin Sullivan, James Abercrombie, and William Gerardi, were the aldermen who heard the pleas
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Nazis Think Hitler
 Dead Since July, "A f I
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tors. I talked with staff officers sergeants and privates. Sometimes they gave me sauSageS and cigar cites. One day I tried to buy a bot tie of Schnapps from French dis tiller and offered him Allied occupa- tion money in payment. He finally took it when some of my German captors told him:
 The Americans will be here in two days or so.'
 I knew then that the Germans knew they were licked.
 My captors finally broke out of the Allied trap and then I was shut tied from place to place. In these travels I came into contact with all types of Germans from officials of the foreign office to victims ot Gestapo torture. Almost all of them were blaming Hitler and the Nazi regime for their troubles and the remark that was made most often to me was:
 We are victims of our leader ship
 one day last November I was taken into the office of Dr. Paul Schmidt, head of the press section of the German foreign office. Ob- viously he was trying to get in formation out of me, but in the course of our conversation he let out some interesting information himself. What he outlined to me was Germanys grand strategy for the remainder of the war.
 He said quite frankly that Ger many had no chance to drive the Americans and British back out oi France into the sea. But he in- sisted that the German army could keep the western Allies out of Germany through the winter and, ill the spring, start a tremendous offensive against the Russians.
 This offensive he said, will shatter the Russians propaganda front line and roll up thelr last ditch army. Then we will force England and the United States mo compromise peace
 They clung to that hope until January. Then the Russians made their great break-through and threw all of eastern Germany into chaos.
 The onrushing Red army gave the lie to such propaganda. Then the tide really began running heav- fly against the Germans. The Al lies crossed the Rhine. The Rus
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Rotary Club In Tribute To "Father Val"

Members of the Waterbury Rotary have adopted a resolution of sorrow over the death of Rt. Rev. Mon ,ignor Joseph M. Valdambrini, pas ,or of Our Lady of Lourdes church and an outstanding figure in civic fife for many years. The tribute fol- lows:
 FATHER VAL
 We first met Father Valdan1- brini years ago at some long for gotten gathering and liked his warm, friendly smile. Because we had little difficulty with his Roman accent we formed the habit of listening intently when he spoke, to be sure that we would know what he was telling us. Mayoe this habit of ours helped our friendship, because Father Val was very human and we hu- mans absorb attention. But We were attracted to the man by the warmth of his personality, his friendly. smiling greetings he'd cross the street to tell us of a friends good or ill-fortune, or ask after our own-his broad interest in worthwhile Water bury activities and most of all by his tolerant outlook on life and all mankind. We visited his church and enjoyed it's warm, Latin color ing, the lovely altar lighting-he once corfded to us that he had special permission to use the altar candles we'd admired-and the Sunday morning music. And so we came to know Father Val well and the better we knew him the better we liked him.
 Later we noted an unusual in- stance of his loyalty to his friends. When the Waterbury world turned on it's idols of yestsryear, and the street mobs jeered the men they'd often cteered. Father Val stayed loyal to old friends even though their world had tumbled down around them. And down to the udyS Ol HIS ldSJ lIlllCSo lIlCy i4uN reason to know that Father Val was living proof of the truth of the Biblical words-"A faithful friend is a strong defense; and he that found such an one hath found a treasure" An ancient philosopher once said that pros perity makes friends but diversity tries them. Father Val's friend ship was never founded on his friends prosperity; it thrived with their diversity.
 And so, to this friendly, tolerant man of God, who practiced each day the tenets of his great faith and whose life was shining in spiration to believers and non- believers alike, we say Farewell. The world will not forget him. Nor will Rotary. His smiling greeting, his outstretched helping hand. the daily eXemplification of a real belief in the brotherhood of man which his magnificent tol- erance evidenced. will be missed
 Requiescat In Pace.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
OBITUARY

STRAUSS-Leslie Strauss, 51, for merly of BIO Pine street, president of the Strauss Hardware Co.,, Inc. 395 East Main street, died Thursday night in New York city. MT. Strauss who was in the hardware business for 26 years, had been ill for sev- eral months and had been residing at the home of his mother in New York city.
 Funeral services will be held Sun day from the residence in Water bury followed by burial in Melchi- zedek cemetery, time to De an- nounced.
 Surviving, besides his mother, Mrs. Camilla Strauss, New York city, are his wife, Mrs. Dora (Mos- kovitz) Strauss; a daughter, Miss Gloria Strauss: and a brother, Sid- ney Strauss, New York.
 MARRO-Carlo Marc, 51, 20 Lawrence street, New Haven, died Wednesday after short illness Among the survivors is a son, An thony Marc, Waterbury,
 The funeral was held today from the Lupoli brothers funeral home, 576 Chapel street, New Haven, to St. Donato's church at 10. Burial was in St. Lawrence cemetery.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Nazis' Equalization
 Awaited "Any Hour
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move through Sweden to Norway, or even sending her own army against the Nazis.
 In the southeast General George s. Pattons Third Army fast was closing on the Danube river fortress of Linz, third city in Austria, in a bid to link up with the Red Army and complete the encirclement of Bohemia.
 The Third Army advanced as much as 38 miles in the past "A hours. The Americans were within three miles northeast, five miles north, six miles northwest and seven west of Linz. More than 2O,- 900 prisoners, including four lieu tenant generals, were captured along the Third Army's 5O-mile front yesterday.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05

dispatches said, all German forces throughout Denmark laid down th1lr arms without incident.
 Included in the surrender terms signed by Germany were all naval ships in the great naval bases of Kiel, Willelmshaven, Flensburg and Copenhagen. It was likely, however, | that all Warships in SeaWorthy' con- dition fled to Norway before the surrender was signed.
 Swedish dispatches said negotia- tions for the equalization of the German garrison of Norway, where the Nazis had hoardet, 200 to 300 submarines for possible final foray against Allied shipping, were in pro- gress.
 Norwegian sources in London said the Germans appeared to be playing game of come and get us They believed the enemy would surrender immediately if the Allies sent any sort of force at all to Norway.
 They might give in if Montgom cry sailed Slofjord in cruiser" one OllIGld1 Sdlu.
 Should the Germans decide On a last ditch stand, six or seven Allied divisions could defeat them in three weeks or less in an amphibious in- vasion, Norwegian general said.
 The Norwegian underground re- ported by radio that Reichscommis- sar Josef Terboven had returned to Norway after a conference with Doenitz, presumably on whether to surrender Norway at this time. It was assumed that Doenitz and pos sible, Gestapo Chief Heinrich Him mler also went to Norway.
 Calmness Urged
 A possible clue to German inten- tions was seen in a broadcast by the Quisling party radio in Norway calling on members to maintain calmness and discipline ito prevent Norway from becoming battle field"
 With this end in view, We are prepared to collaborate with all forces willing to do so," the broad cast said.
 The Swedish foreign office was understood to be playing a major role in negotiations in Norway Sweden could hold a big stick over the Germans in Norway by threat ening to permit Allied troops to
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05

(Contlnued from Page D tal's streets, singing and cheering.
 King Christian, once more in full control of his country, was sched- uled to broadcast to his people this morning, after which the new pre- mler, Wilhelm Buehh, will present his new government of nine veteran politicians and nine members of the resistance movement.
 (FCC monitors said the Danish home radio reported that Christian would speak at 6 a. m. EWT. The Nazi radio at Kalundborg, Den- mark, said Danish forces of the in- terior took over responsibility for maintenance of public order in Denmark at o'clock last night.)
 Danish patriots were stormi1g the strongholds of Hipomen with machine-guns and automatic pis- tols. Whole units of the regular German army joined the patriots. Fighting was heaviest at Knipples Bridge, connecting Copenhagen and Christianhavn.
 The Hipomen seized the bridge last night and fired wildly at crowds seeking to cross it. A Dan- ish journalist was among the wounded. Hipomen also ambushed pedestrians elsewhere in the capi- tal
 Crowds halted an automobile in which the Japanese minister to Co., penhagen was attempting to escape from the city. When patriots dis covered he was hiding a machine pistol in the car, they forced him to leave the vehicle and walk home.
 Copenhagen. five-year blackout ended spontaneously. Big ware houses, office buildings, newspapers and private buildings switched on floodlights and unfurled Danish flags in their glare despite cen tury-old tradition that the banner should not be flown at night.
 Thousands of persons converged on the royal castle. They carried flags and flowers and sang the Ma tional Anthem and Allied war songs.
 Despite the clamor of the crowd, Christian failed to appear on the balcony. An aide appeared in his place and explained that the king was too deeply moved to appear personally"
 He thanks you for your splendid enthusiasm and asks everyone to go home peacefully" the aide said.
 Other thousands crowded city hall square and watched the lights Illuminating the clock in the city hall tower go on again. Multi colored rockets crossed the spring sky in all directions.
 Bonfires were made of blackout paper in some districts. Street cars were crowded with sinPing youths.
 Crowd finally began thin out about a. m. But celebrations con- tinued inside Danish homes. Bot ties of champaCl c, wine. beer and liquor had been hoarded many months for today.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
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sians rolled up to the Oder Secret weapons which had been promised to the German soldier never dp- peared. But as late as three wees ago an SS agent, who claimed to be Swiss doctor, was circulating g through our prison camp at Luck enWald, trying to persuade Amarl- can and British prisoners to sign a round-robin letter renouncing the Red evil'. Shortly before the Russians arrived he disappeared.
 Now the German panic is on. The fear of the Russians has caused groups of armed Germans. number ing as many as 100 to try to sur render to American prisoners of war who still were deep inside Etus- slan-occupied Germany.
 Today the woods of Germany are full of German soldiers who are sneaking WestWard-away from the Russians and toward surrender to the western Allies.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
Nazi Factory Living Hell
Continued from Page D

used by the Americans as hospital building. The former hospital build ing was so filthy, Hall said, that he and Kunkel got lice just walking through it.
 Hall said the guards in the camp were well fed and healthy in ap- pearance as were "all the German civilians I saw"
 'The little villages of Germany are barely touched by the war" he said, The fields are plowed and ready for the spring planting. The people are healthy, but the women look at you like they could kill you Only the roads show the strain. In every possible conveyance the Ger mans are on the move. They are fleeing, but they don't know where to go to escape. They are just mov- ing"
 Hall also visited Nordhausen where a huge Vi and V-2 rocket factory was built inside mountain. He said slave labor was used to man the assembly line and that the priS- oners were worked until they were no good and then thrown into the yard to die. No laborer. he said, came out of the rocket factory alive to spread word of the secret weapon.
 That underground factory was completed m 1938," Hall said. That fact alone should make all Ameri- cans realize We are dealing With a willy and dangerous foe. It is now up to us to see that never again the Germans are permitted to start on such a road of horror"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-05
POLICEMEN OBSERVE
 10TH ANNIVERSARY

Today is red letter day for IA Waterbury policemen, marking the 18th anniversary of their appoint ment to the force. Appointed May 5, 1919 were Deputy Supt. Frederick Hickey, Captain William Duggan. It. Bernard Burns, drillmaster Will liam c. Dwyer, It. Joseph McEvon, patrolmen Charles Klauberg, Albert Lacey, Patrick Kennedy, Matthew Noonan, Michael Carroll, Harry Martin, John Donahue, John Fal- vey, and Walter Hayes.