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 exits and apparently fulfilled the safety code.
 The nursery, one of about 75 in the twin cities of Lewiston and Auburn, was licensed as . boarding house by the Auburn health depart meI1t.
 Other inquiries into the tragedy. which caused the deaths of at least three children of servicemen. were started by the atatR health and well fare commission, the state insurance department. and the Auburn police and health departments.
 Gov. Horace 4. Hildreth, who ex- tended his sympathy to the families of victims and expressed "horor at this tragedy in our state" said he also would look into the fire.
 At Augusta, where the Maine legislature is in session. a petition was expected from a group of Lew iston and Auburn lawyers who said they would ask more strict laws covering the operation of nurseries in the state.
 Present statutes require that any home boarding more than three in- fants obtain a state permit.
 Opinion on the fires origin has divided last night.
 Fire Chief Harndon, impressed by the speed of the flames. thought the bla0e might have started near the cellar furnace and crept through hot air duets, from where 1t burst into rooms almost simultaneously.
 But others, including Dr. Fred erick J. CAron, the nursery's phy- sician recalled that the flames were discovered near q coal stove in the kitchen where Mrs. Blanche Tan quay. sister of the owner. had gone to warm milk for one of the bab- les.
 The first witnesses to reach the home said 1t appeared to be a solid mass of flames. from which came the screams of the children trapped in their cribs. Bremen could not enter until 1t WAS too late.
 Though 1t was first thought most Of the children. all but one less than two years old. were burned to death, Dr. Caron said many of the bodies indicated the babies died peacefully. probably by suffocation
 They lay in their cribs, or where they had dropped onto the fioor their arms Outstretched as fl they were still asleep, he said.
 "tOthers) gave the appearance of having been fighting something They were partially turned onto their sides and their fits were up ir the air" the doctor said.
 Mrs. Ia Coste. whose three young sons were among the survivors, stil was suffering from shock at neighbours home where she wal treated for hysteria.
 She had attempted to carry twC babies, cribs and all. through thu flames but dropped both of then as she fled with arm burns.
 The poor little things. she said "Thsy were so young. so small. tried to get them out. How can ever face their parents again9"
 Besides the La Costes, the onlS other survivors were Mrs. LorettG Fournier. 20, an empioye. who saved her iT-month daughter, Cecilii and yeer.old Jeanne Foisy, art Mrs. Tanguay. who discovered thu fire and gave the alarm.
 The house remained only q black ened shell, through which invOstig' atoFS carefully stepped in their hum for clues.
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 Final Obstacle
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Berlins bomb- wrecked railway sta tiOns.
 Marshal Gregory x. Zhukov's First White Russian Army was driv- ing toward the capital on a 0O-mile front from Beyersdott in the north to Gross Blumberg, on the Big Bend of the Oder 90 miles south east of Berlin, in the south.
 BeycfSd0rf Falls
 Both Beyersdorf, 29 miles inside Germany and 2l miles northeast O. Kustrin, and the railway center of Landsberg, five miles to the east, fell to Zhukov's tanks and infantry yesterday.
 The two towns lie on the north bank of the Wafthe river, which InetYes with the Oder at Kustrin. The Russians were only B miles from the Baltic port of Stettin at Landsberg, but the Naxls said the SOviets already had driven another 20 miles northwest to Boldin, 35 miles southeast of Stettin.
 South of the Warthe river, the Russians engulfed Skampe, Meseritz, SchWiebus and Zullichau, all rough ly 80 miles east and east southeast of Berlin. Skampe is 30 miles east of Frankfurt.
 The Soviet high command said tho Germans ceaseleHsly were march ing up fresh reserves and hinging them into battle without rest in g futile attempt to stem the Russian tide.
 Soviet tropS are stolidly adVanc- ing, routing the enemy and annihil. ating his units after separating them" the Russian midnight com munique said
 More than 5000 Germans were killed and l,70O captured on the ap- breaches to Berlin yesterday alone. the Sov1ets said. In addition, "A enemy tanks, l2O field guns, l,070 trucks. 70 locomotives and eight loaded troop trains were seized.
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 where the babies slept. some of the wrecked cribs still were in place Dolls, tops and other play things still were scattered in the sodden embers.
 Tn the remains of rooms where babies of all ages and sizes once walled or gurgled, the noise was only of winter wind blowing through torn walls or an occasional passing automobile. Passerby. footsteps mutt ed by snow, looked quickly and hur- Yied on.
 No mass funeral services were planned.
 Most of the children were placed with Mrs. La Coste because one or both parents were working in Lewis- tons and Auburn's War-buAy mills, some to eke out additions to federal military allotments.
 The nursery. which Auburn Health Ofilcer Shirley Davis said was "well-run' and "a good home" charged about $8 week to board the babies on @ week to-week basis Many of the children were taken home week ends.
 Mrs. La Coste began operating the home about three years ago. after 1t was founded by two registered nurses in 1885.
 As usual. fate entered the tragedy. saving some lives and taking others.
 Eight-month-o twins Ronald and Gerald LandreWlle of Lewiston were not scheduled to enter the nursery utnil yesterday. They were brought day early - the night be- fore the fire-and both perished.
 Another child, Edward Albert, was taken from the home Satur- day when his father was discharged
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taan in that hopeless earlier strug- gle.
 "A Tokyo broadcast recorded by FCC Monitors said strong American naval units in Bubic Bay were bombarding the northwest portion of Batasn Peninsula. The units included more than ten battleships cruisers. destroyers and several other unidentified ships, Tokyo said)
 The OlOngapo naval base at the head of Subic Bay and Grande Is- land at its entrance were occupied without opposition Tuesday by units of the newly-landed American Eighth Army. and MacArthur's s communique said elements of the U. g. Seventh Fleet already were operating from and rebuilding the base.
 Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Walter KruegSrs Sixth Army veter- ans were closing in swiftly over the last miles before Manila after col lapsing the last defensibla Japanese line on the Pampanga river at Ca lumpit. 2S airline miles north of the city.
 Tanks and infantrymen of tho 37th (Buckeye) Division were re- ported well past Calumpit today, moving rapidly down highway three in an apparent bid to enter Manila within the next few days and fore stall any Japanese attempt to des- troy the capital.
 The 37ths advance was facilitated by another American gain far 10 the north. where doughboy columns sealed off highway i've, the only other main road to the capital. with the capture of Munoz and TalAvera 74 and 66 miles above Manila.
 Cabanatuan, seven miles below Talavera and the control point for the highways leading to the north east coast of Luzon, also was be- lieved in American hands, barring any possibility of Q Japanese flank ing threat to the Manila -bound 37th.
 Observers believed the columns on highway i've might swing down from Cabanatuan to race the 37th into Manila.
 Exultant CTS experimenting the 37th's advance were no longer talk ing of possible fighting on the road to Manila but of the expected vic- tory parade through the city. and the only question among the troops was whether they could prevent its destruction.
 All available reports indicated tho Japanese do not have suf1icient forces in Manila to make a finish fight of 1t in the city's streets, anC 1t was believed they would eVacu- ate after destroying their ammuni- ton and equipment wherever pos sible.
 On the basis of their past per formance6 in the retreat through Tarlac and the Clark Field area observers looked for the Japaness to destroy only the buildings holls- ing their military stores, leaving thu bulk of Manila undamaged.
 While the sixth AFmy's maiT forces drove for the capital, othei units pushed out to the southwest toward the base of the Bataan Pen. inSula and a juncture with Eighth Army troops advancing eastward from Olongapo.
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the prisoner, telling him, Keep your chin up"
 Of1lcer Dunn told of seeing Cor oner Stephen Homick and Alderman Edward IAsky in the cell block, talking to zukauskas the evening of Nov. 3.
 Prefers Local Jail
 Ofiicer Moynihan said he talked to Zukauskas "as a friend" after he finished duty at 3 a. m. on Sat- urday, Nov {. T asked him how he felt and if he was getting used to the bed" the witness stated. He said he was" He disclosed that ZukauskaS expressed desire to stay in the local jail rather than go to New Haven. because he could See his family here.
 Offlcer McElligott on cross-exam- ination denied he told Zukauskas Inspector Joseph Bender could get him a good job at states prison through his connections. Asked how he started to talk to the prisoner Friday. Nov 3. at II p. m, he stated T told him knew all the WNAN AtSAAtAH WbNAV Stephie was, but that wasn't go- ing to. because knew he wouldn't tell me"
 Sergeant Mccarthy told Defense Counsel Gager he heard no conVer- sation about the prisoners wife and denied any statements were made in Zukauskas' presence about pick ing up his wife
 Reference was made in Sergeant McCarthys testimony to a paraf1n cast taken of Zukauskaa' hand Nov. I3.
 Early in the afternoon Coroner Homick completed reading Of state ments made by Zlikauskas Nov, 3. Tn those statements Zukaukas traced his meeting with Mrs, Plungis Nov. 1 at l0:30 ?. m. and told of taking her to his home to treat her for a scratch" Homick said Zukauskas claimed he drove with her to sunnyside avenue and North Riverside street and then got out Of the car and walked home while she drove aWay,
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from military service.
 Year-oId Coger Michaud broke his arm in . fall at the nursery week ago. He was hmpitaliEed when the fire broke out.
 Another of the victims. lS-month- old Frances Ferguson, had just taken her first steps the day before, Mrs. La Coste said.
 For Private Roland SiroiS, . hap py furlough was turned to tragedy. Sirois saw his 8-month-old daugh- ter Carmen. born eight days after he was inducted into the army, for the first time Saturday. He saw her for the second and last time the night preceding the fire.
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ably will remain in the city until the last possible moment.
 Moscow dispatches also reported that Red Armies had completed the encirclement of Konigsberg, cap tured five sixths of East Prussia, spread out through the Polish cor ridr toward Danzig and expanded positions north and south of Bres- lau preparatory to 8 full-scale as- sault on the 6ileSian city.
 The doom of Hitlers l,000-year Reich remains a matter of weeks. not months" jubilantly proclaimed the Russian army organ Red Star. The whirlwind Soviet offensive does not give the enemy Q chance to rally to prepare effectie counter blows in the eastern areas of Ger many"
 KonigsberE EnyeIOped
 Red Star said Konigsberg, capital of East Prussia, was enyeloped in flames, touched off by Soviet guns and Nazi demolition Gquadds. Pri- soners captured in the southern suburbs were quoted as saying con- fusion bordering on anarchy reigned inside the fortress city, crowded with l5O.000 efugees.
 German positions east of the Oder, from Stettin in the north to below Breslau in the south, were crumbling rapidly and there seemed little prospect the Russians could be checked cen temporarily before they were established firmly along the entire length of the rier, Mos COW said.
 Ernst Von Hammer, German DNB Agency commentator, said the Maxi garrison of Landsberg. 67 miles northeast of Berlin, had fought its way back" 28 miles to the east ern edge of Kustrin, where he claimed the Soiets were halted.
 The thrust to Kustrin, If con- firmed, would represent an advance of 2l miles beyond Beyersdorf, 03 miles northeast of Berlin and clos est point to the capital confirmed by the Soviet high command to be in Russian hands. Kustrin lies on the Stettin- Frankfurt railway at the junction of the Oder and Warthe rievTs.
 Won Hammer also claimed that German attacks had halt ed or repelled" 3oiet tank spear heads northeast of Berlin in Pom eTania. The Germans narrowed 6o- iVet bridgeheads across the Oder north and south of Breslau, he said
 Other German commentators said the Nazis would defend Berlin along tho Oder on a fortified line an- chored on Kustrin and Frankfurt and asserted that a Na1 counter offensie was imminent"
 Swedish reports said sporadic gun flashes already were visible in Ser lin from the east and the rumble of gunfiTe was audible. Members of the Volksturm home guard were said to be mining buildings in tho eastern portion of the city for des.' truction in the event of Soviet breakthrough across the Oder.
 Street barricades were being thrown up. travellers reaching Swed" en said, and there was every indica- tion that the Germans intended to defend Berlin, house by house, fl necessary.
 The city was said to be jammed with refugees from Silesia, Bran denburg and Pomeranta. Thousands were living, eating and sleeping in
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BY GAYNOR MADDOX NEA Staff Writer

Midwinter meals need brightening up. Lots of fresh greens and fruits are important particularly when so many other vitamin and mineral rich foods are in short supply.
 Start with grapefruit sections, sa- lad greens and your favorite dres- sing, or add your choice of the fol- lowing additions to your basic sa- lad:
 Mixed fresh or canned fruit {; chopped nutmegS and grated cheese; raw vegetables chilled and dipped in French dressing; cottage cheese and minced green pepper; avocado slices and picked beets; cubed cooked or raw vegetables; i; salmon. shrimp, crabmeat, chicken, meat and diced celery
 Tangerines. now at the peak of their season, are colorful and i'm portant food.
 Tangerine Salad Mold
 One package orange gelatin. l cup boiling water, cup cold wa ter, IA cup grated cheese, l cup tangerine sections. cut in halves,
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LENTEN DEVOT1ONS
 AT 7::3O TONIGHT
Prayers Held Most Essen tial During Present Cru=
 CiaI Days
PROSPECT Mrs. Edmond MOrin. COrre- SpOndcnt--TeIephOnc 5-OS57

Prospect. Feb. 27 - St. Anthony'S Roman Catholic Church - Lenten devotiorS tonight al 7:30 D. III.
 Daily Masses are at s a. m. during Lent.
 Prayers are essential, especially at this time when the world $ so filled with hatred, with human Suf- fering and deSolation, It is a good time for men to lift their minds and hearts to God. For never has de- pendence Of man upon his Maker been more apparent than in the midst of so vast war. Never has there been greater need of divine assistance than now. when men are striving to frame the peace.
 During tn past five years man has gasped 10 see so many of the ma terial things which once seemed to him the only real things vanish like smoke in one land after another.
 He needs the enduring things of the spirit to give him the con- fidence he needs to renew his faith in the future.
 He will find stability. balance and inspiration to true brotherhood in earnest and humble prayer to the Almighty God
 Mrs Sterrie Wellman and Lyn
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} McKENNEY
 ON BRIDGE
By WILLIAM E. MCKINNEY Americas Card Authority

received today's interesting hand from Thomas H. Givan of Rixford, Pa, and 1t is a rather un- usual grand coup situation.
 The opening lead was won by North with the king, the ace cashed and the small diamond re- turned, which was won in dummy with the queen. The king of spades was played and North jumped right m with the ace and returned the .en of diamonds. MT. Givan trump ed the trick with the five of spades put South er-trumped with the zen spot, forcing him to ruff in dummy with the queen. Now. you can see that it looks as if MT. Givan will have to lose another spade trick to North's nine spot.
 At this point, a heart was led to the king, a small heart was played to dummy's ace and the seven of hearts rutfed with the six of spades. The queen of clubs was overtaken in dummy with the ace and the ten of hearts was trumped
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spoken. digni-
 fled girls do find husbands. But 50 do many of the pert little mink. es" men inStinctively whistle at - which the marriage specialist sayo aren't the type me marry.
 And so do many of the breezy. outdoors girls find husbands. And the efficient, trim, business-wom- an type, as well as the glamor girls whose main interest in life is at> tracting masculine attention. The jitterbugs don't seem to find 1t im- possible to find jitterbugs to mare ry them.
 VARIABLE TASTES
 Even the loud, boisterouS women seem able to get married if they want to.
 There doesn't seem to be any type of girl who can't get married if she puts her mind to 1t. For men seem to have as variable tastes in women as in everything else.
 If this weren't so, why would we so often hear the question that never gets 8 satisfactory answers T wonder what he sees in herr" to have as variable tastes in women
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clean piece o1 an
 old white tablecloth that was soft and absorbent. She dipped the linen in the soda water, wrung it out slgihtly and wrapped it firmly around the burned hand, being care full that each finger was wrapped separately. Then she covered the dressing with several thicknesses of waxed paper to retain the moisture. SECURE BANDAGE
 To hold the waxed paper in place Mrs. Dickson applied a triangular bandage. made by folding a square floursack dish towel diagonally from corner to corner. To apply it she first placed the triangle on the table Then the injured hand was laid on it, palm down, with the diag- onal fold beneath the wrist, and finger tips at the center of the triangle. The tip of the triangle was folded back over the hand to the wrist. The long ends were brought up and crossed over the back of the wrist, carried around in front, crossed again and returned to the back where they were tied a safety pin was put through the bandage at the wrist so that the tip could not slip out.
 Another square dish towel was used to make sling by which the injured hand was held up against Helens body and supported in a comfortable position during the long trip to town.
 Mrs. Dickson felt greatly relieved when the doctor told her she had given the best possible emergency care to the injury.
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DRAPES

Hollywood Nobody can deny that Mpureen OHara is really draped i'll her new RWO Radio Technicolor production. "T'he Spanish Main
 A: the Viceroy of Mexico's daugh- ter and reigning beauty of the Spanish Main. Maureen wears F elaborate costumes of tine period. Ordinarily these costumes would have been made Of fine, imported French brocadeS.
 With these materials unavailable, Designer Edward Stevenson bought rich domestic drapes. Ee als- made Erocades by embroidcring ribbons in square crosS-sections and setting them with jewels and by tracing intricate designs on velvet.
 Fifty women worked six months converting the materials and mak- ing the costumes.
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Here few of the modes lectiOns of leading Paris Marcel events dress of scarlet left with dramatic by black detachable collar ROe HaOve fashion editor in the the first shown by leading of
 BY ROSETTE HARGROVE
 NEA Correspondent PARIS Feb 2A preview of liberation" collections which shows the soberng influence which conditions had on life in general
 Outrageous devoid however that fantasy which model fabrics yardage either.
 The alocation of all transport ng of oodstuffs has caused tremendous delays
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MISS FAY CLARKE
 GUEST OF WOMEN
Talk Planned Tomorrow Evening on Our Neigh
 bOrhOOd'; Drive to Open
MlDDLEBURY Correspondent: Nancy Riley
 Telephone 4-6410

Middlebury, Feb. 27 The Red Cross Drive in Middlebury will open on March 1st with the quota this year $7,500 Canvassers will call at each house to solicit for this drive.
 Old Age Assistance Taxes are due and payable by March 1St and all persons between the ages Of 2l and 60 and residents of Middlebury, as of October l, 1944, must pay this tax by due date or be assessed an extra dollar. Mrs. Bernice Stevens. collector, will be at her office every afternoon and evening to accept payments.
 Miss Fay Clarke will address the members ol cnc Junior Women's Club tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock at their club rooms Mrs. Clarke's subject will be, Our Neighborhood.
 Private George Schuster, Scott Field, Illinois, is spending furlough with his parents, MT. and Mrs. George Schuster, Townsend street.
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looks as for her eflciencqy by The B. F. Goodrich Company.
 Her makeup trick is to dip her fingers first in a toning lotion-pale strawberry ping and non-drying- then into her jar of foundation cream to blend on a veil-hke layer which is not obvious but packs plenty of protective ingredients.
 Over the foundation goes a sheer topping powder, which Marilyn says gives her makeup that enhances skin values yet at the same time keeps soil safely on the outside.
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TOMORROW'S MENU

BREAKFAST: SteWed prures, oatmeal, raisin toast, butter or fortified margarine, coffee, milk.
 LUNCHEON: Potato soup with croutons, watercress sand Wiches, tangerine nodded sa- lad, gingerbread, tea. milk.
 DINNER: Creamed dried beef on noodles. buttered beets, grapefruit and romaine salad. rye bread. butter or fortified margarine, prepared chocolate pudding, coffee, milk.
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BEAUTIES HINTS
BY ALICIA HART NEA Staff Writer

Best face saver in a war plant, say the girls in dungarees, is a cosmetic cover, which can be as sheer a yelling as forgotten nylons and still keep soil on the outside.
 The trick of achieving a sheer makeup is to thin out your powder base. Using that method and willing to confide her technique is tire builder Marlyn Soule from Medina, O., who is often cited for her good
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Hollywood - Though Rita Corday has celebrated birthdays in Tahiti, Switzerland, France, Tunisia, China, Italy, Java. India. Sumatra, Indo- China, New Guinea and the United States, she enjoyed her first birth day party when she celebrated her 23rd birthday while appearing with Boris Karloff in RKO Radios "The Body SnatcherS".
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with the seven of spades. This left East with the jack and eight of spades and North with the nine and deuce.
 MT. Givan won the next trick in dummy with the ace of clubs and now led 8 club, which North had to trump. MT. Givan over trumped and won the last trick with the jack of spades. making niS contract.
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1-2 cup chopped nuts. pinch of salt. Dissolve orange gelatin thorough ly in boiling water, add cold water and divide among g individual molds. Mix other ingredients and add to gelatin. Place in refrigera&- or to set. Serve on lettuce with mayonnaise on the side.
 Tangerine Tarts
 Fill individual tart shells with tangerine sections. Mash currant or cranberry jelly until smooth; spread over tangerine sections.
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BEAR HUG

Hollywood-Mike Mazurki, profes4 sional wrestler, doesn't know his own strength. Mike, who weight 24O pounds, threw his arms around Binnie Barnes. 130 pounds. in g. rought and tumble scene for RKO Radios ''The Spanish Main" cracked two of her ribs and tore several fragments in her right side.