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RUTLAND DAILY HERALD, SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 1, 1944. Scores Stock Up on Luxuries To Avoid New Taxes, Due Today A FLEXAIMC IRA Pfflt ALL LOOK UTTER jfirh School Concert Applauded by 500 audience of about 500 per- applauded a performance of Rutland High achool orchestra, bud and chorus last night at the frigh achool auditorium. The oon-rt. under the direction of Clifford Van Werstine, director of musk, was called one of the most suocess- ful amateur musical presentations Jjven here in recent years. Pro-j will go for badly needed ma-1 tarials toT the music department.

A varied program included or- chestra selections, then vocal and Instrumental number- by smaller -roup including the brass quartet1 Jnd piano duets, and finally the high achool band. If there was one drop of liquid refreshments left in the local state liquor store last night, it wasn't the fault of the mob of people who rushed to the emporium for last-minute stocking up before the new tax increases which were to become effective today. Department stores, drug stores and jewelry stores also had a big day, with women flocking to purchase supplies of cosmetics, jewelry, handbags and other leather articles, also affected by the new taxes. At the liquor store yesterday morning, the doors opened at the usual hour and in rushed about 50 customers. There was no let up after that in the long and crowded lines of thirsty patrons.

It was reported that yesterday was one oMhe biggest, if not the largest, days in the stores history including the usual celebrating days. Handbags seemed to be the most sought-after article yesterday by women who wanted to purchase spring bags before the new tax is added. They also purchased in sizeable quantities powder, lipstick, mascara, creams and fingernail polish. The new tax on furs did not seem to cause any rush and luggage was not sought to a great extent Th big demand for liquor was by no means peculiar to Rutland. Stocks became exhausted by the almost unprecedented demand in some of the larger places in New England, accord-nig to ah Associated Press dispatch from Boston, and many customers left stores empty-handed.

Furs and traveling bags were leaders in big city department stores, which also experienced a rush in sections where toiletries are offered. Jewelry sales were double the normal output in some places. The BRAS'by'FLEXEE? Fighting In Slowed Among the American Cardinal Ascalesi, archbishop son of Mr. and Mrs. Dennis entering the armed services, tiarius Mails of the Archdiocc Years wishes to Alessio standing, third from right, city.

Father Flanagan was pastor at Gilman before of Cardinal Ascalesi is Monsignor Luigi Spinoski, Poeni Father Flanagan received the blessing of the archbishop along with the other chaplains, who are from all sections of the United States. Nazis Occupy Two Positions on Monastery Hill Abandoned by Allies. Have you noticed the sleekly-molded dresses? They and all your other dothes call for the modeled bosom lines you gain in your proper style of Flexatre Bros by Ftexees long known for flexible foundation garments. Flexaire Bras bring you an unconstricted "free-as-air sense 7 of comfort. Styles for Average, Full Bosom, and Junior types.

PtfXAMf 8ANDCAUX In a variety of beautiful fabric'' $1.25 $1.75 $2.00 FLEXEES GIRDLES from 8.00 New Sitdown1 small attacks inside the shattered city without success. Artillery rumbled in the snow covered mountains to the north. Two small enemy raids on the Anzio beachhead were repelled and Allied artillery shelled German positions near Carroceto. Headquarters announced the toll of dead and wounded suffered Wednesday night when enemy bombs fell on a hospital at the beachhead had risen to 85. According to ihfor-mation available at headquarters at 8 p.

m. (Naples time) tonight, 16 not yet nurses or what wounded systematically communications, to the included shipping at above in Yugoslavia line be- WPB Clears Draft Order New Milk Record Set ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Naples, March 31 JP). Ground fighting in Italy slackened almost to zero today following the Allied failure to take Cassino, but constant pressure is being maintained on German positions and the campaign to take Rome and central Italy has by no means been abandoned. The Germans' occupied two positions on Monastery Hill abandoned by the Indian and New Zealand troops earlier this week and made tween Ancona and Rimini. were known dead.

It had been learned here whether were among the casualties, percentage of the dead and were patients. Allied air forces struck at German paying particular attention west coast Targets yesterday the docks and Leghorn, a railroad at Orte Rome, the Imotski airfield and an east coast rail Regulation Dealing With Deferments of Key Men, 22-25, Is Clarified. Thrifties with all cash purchase. OLYPHANT, Pa, March 31 (JP). Weeping bitterly, four small children sat down on the railroad tracks today in front of a train that was taking their father, a volunteer, away to an armed forces induction center.

The train, carrying a draft contingent, was held up while the childrens parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Vandervort, begged them to move. Two policemen finally persuaded them to stand aside, and with streaming eyes they watched the train pull out The children ranged from two to six years old. Their mother carried a fifth child in her arms.

Vandervort 32-year-old mine worker, volunteered for Navy service. Books for gg4 STERNS The Service Store Young Folks 59c each Nancy Drew, Beverly Gray, Dana Girls, Melody Lane and other popular series. Hardy Boys, Jerry Todd, and other series for boys. And for young children. Honey Bunch, Bobbsey Twins.

Burgess Books and many others all at 59c each at Hartfords. Hartfords Bookshop 119 West Street, Rutland Phone 603. Producers in 6-State NY Shed to Receive $3.87 Per Cwt. for March, Blanford Says. NEW YORK, March 31 (JFj Producers in the six-state metropolitan milkshed New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, VERMONT, Connecticut and Massachusetts will receive an all-time record high pool price of $3.87 per hundredweight as their March average, Administrator C.

J. Blanford estimated today. The return, he said, would total more than $18,589,000, compared to $16,700,336.11 in March, 1943. The previous high for the month was $3.56 in 1920, Blanford said. Hie pool price forecast figure, according to the administrator, includes 60 cents per hundredweight in dairy feed payments from the War Food administration.

The estimated volume in the current pool was put at 470,000,000 pounds, a volume figured at 11.5 per cent under March of last year, when producers approved for shipment to the New York area an estimate of 53,967, as compared to the current estimate of 50,100. The pool yield, the administrator said, would be made up of including butterfat and location payments of and $2,820,000 in dairy feed payments. The $3.27 pool price represented a gain of 7.6 per cent of the March, 1943, rate of $4.04, while the increase on the basis of the total $3.87 return amounts to 27.3 per cent. Miss Kellems Is Attacked with company officials to arrange terms of contracts for these new units. South Poultney Parents Learn of Sons Heroism Business Woman Who Refused to Pay Income Tax Linked With Nazi Agent.

SPRINGFIELD COMMUNITY PLAYERS MEET TOMORROW. (Special to The Herald.) SPRINGFIELD, March 31. The Community Players will meet Sunday night in the Community club. Mrs. Richard Dade is in charge of the program, entitled "April Foolishness.

The spring production of the Players will be "Ah, Wilderness, by Eugene ONeill, to be presented April 17 in the high school auditorium. Arnold Arveschoug is directing the play. (Special to The Herald.) SOUTH POULTNEY, March 31. In a letter to Mr. and Mrs.

Richard J. Roberts of South Poultney, Platoon Sergt Vernon B. Debnam of the Marine corps tells of meeting their son, Pfc. Richard J. Roberts in the South Pacific area.

He praised Roberts for his work under fire in the Munda campaign. Pfc. Roberts, 19, attended Poultney High school and prior to his enlistment in the Marine corps was employed in Bridgeport, Conn. HOWARD CO. Jewelers.

1 Center St. "We Give Thrifties. Get Your Week-End Reading Books 39c each Hundreds of newly printed and bound books by your favorite authors, for only 39c each at Hartfords Bookshop 119 West Street, Rutland Phone 603 INTO WOLKS. Truk, Woleai Hit Afresh (Continued From Page One.) WEST RUTLAND SOLDIER NOW A CORPORAL. James McNeil of West Rutland has been promoted to the rank of corporal and is now stationed at Camp McCain, Miss.

(Special to The Herald.) MONTPELIER, March 31. In order to clarify the regulation affecting men between men 22 and 25, inclusive, the War Production board in Montpelier said today that manufacturers engaged in essential programs may select one of several agencies to sponsor their deferment request to state Selective Service directors. The urgent and critical programs, participation in which will warrant manufacturers seeking aid in special deferments are: Army list: Ducks; tires and tubes (aircraft, combat and heavy duty), including necessary tire cord, fabric and molds; radar; rockets; critical components for trucks, heavy and light heavy (two and a half ton and heavier) including truck trailers and Class 1 and Class 2 tractors; research and development work specifically assigned by the technical services; airplanes. Group 1 through 4 by plants and by planes a list of which is being prepared. Navy list: Landing craft, rockets, submarines, aircraft carriers, high capacity ammunition, radar, maintenance of ships and aircraft for the fleet, airplanes Group 1 through 4 by plant and by plane, a list of which is being prepared.

Maritime list: All tankers construction; combat, loaded cargo and transport ships. Also synthetic rubber, high octane gas and high-tenacity rayon for war production. Any manufacturers on these programs or any component manufacturer whose products goes into these programs including sub-contracters, part-manufacturers, and tool, die and jig fixture shops making tools, dies and jigs for these particular programs, may ask that one agency be responsible for certifying deferment requests Form 42-A special for the age group 22-25 inclusive. The agencies which the manufacturer may select, as sponsoring these deferment requests, are the War Production board, the Army, the Navy, the Maritime division, the rubber director, the Petroleum Administration for War, the Office of Defense Transportation, the Solid Fuels administration and the War Food administration. To avoid duplication manufacturers should select only one agency to consider all their deferment requests for employes with the age bracket The agency selected should be the one whose representative or representatives are in the best position to consider the entire operation of the plant concerned, and should be immediately notified, as the consideration of deferments in this class must be completed by April 10.

Only those employes between the ages of 22 and 25, inclusive will be considered who are actively engaged in work in the named listed programs which require an extreme or specialized skill or knowledge, or a high educational or specialized qualification and then only when the employe is irreplaceable from other less urgent within the firm, or by recruitment Drinks to Cost More, With OPA Permission NLRB CERTIFIES CIO AS CLAREMONT AGENT. (Special to The Herald.) CLAREMONT, N. March 31. The National Labor Relations board has certified the United Steelworkers of America, CIO, as the bargaining agent for both the plant watchmen and the shop payroll clerks at the Sullivan Machinery company here. Board action followed elections among the employes involved here March 24.

James F. Hanley of West Rutland, international representative of the union, has asked for a meeting IGHT COUCHS tie to without "dosing. VISIJ APPROVED BY 2 GENERATIONS WASHINGTON, March 31 Kellems, Westport, Conn, war contractor who advisfed busi nessmen not to pay income taxes, was described in Congress by Representative Coffee (D-Wash.) today as the sweetheart of a Nazi agent in Argentina. Coffee read to the House love letters he said she exchanged with a German count in Buenos Aires, told his colleagues Miss Kellems possessed war equipment blueprints of inestimable value to the enemy, and demanded that the justice de partment put an end to this incredible conspiracy. Without disclosing how he obtained it, the lawmaker said one letter from Miss Kellems to Count Frederick Karl Von Zedlitz in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was signed all my love sweetheart, Vivien.

I say that Vivien Kellems is a menace to the American war effort, Coffee shouted. This woman, who is in constant touch with our hated Nazi enemy this woman, the lover of a Hitler Fifth Column spy in Argentina, admits by her own statements, that right now in Connecticut, she is engaged in work for the armed forces of a highly restricted and confidential nature. Miss Kellems, whose Connecticut plant makes signal corps equipment, announced in January she had skipped her December 15 income tax payment and would use the money to set up a post-war reserve for her firm. She made speeches urging other businessmen to do the same thing, bringing from Secretary Morgenthau the remark: To advise citizens to refuse to pay taxes particularly In time of war smacks of disloyalty. In turn.

Miss Kellems charged that the government had squandered billions on "boondoggling. Coffee said Von Zedlitz was on the British black list as an enemy agent, and said Miss Kellems speech advising businessmen not to pay income taxes was made after she received a communication from Von Zedlitz. Miss Kellems was en route to Toronto, Canada tonight and could not be reached for comment on Coffees House speech. The Time of Year to Look Your Best I island, 60 miles southwest of Woleai, i also were bombed by the Catalinas. In the Admiralties, dismounted troopers of the First Cavalry division landed Thursday on Pityilu i island, in the chain of isles guard ing the entrance to Seadler harbor which touches Manus and Los Negros islands.

The latter islands already are under the control of the cavalrymen. On the northeast coast of New Guinea, the Allies tightened the two-way squeeze on Japanese holdings in the Bogadjim-Madang area, Australian troops advancing through the mountains south of Bogadjim reached a point only 10 miles south of that objective Wednesday, coming in contact with the enemy. To the east, on the same day, strong American patrols from the Saidor garrison leading elements of the main force reached positions only 13 miles from Bogadjim. In Thursday raids on enemy installations north of Australia, Liberators hit Langgoer airdrome with 47 tons of bombs, starting largtaf fires, and Dutch-manned Mitchell medium bombers attacked Penfoei airdrome on Timor. Allied bombers dropped 34 tons of explosives on Tadji airdrome at Aitape, on the northern New Guinea coast, and struck at enemy shipping and camp areas around Wewak, farther east.

The communique said a PT boat recently was lost in an attack on Japanese barges near Wewak. A Japanese destroyer in Keravia bay, at Rabaul, New Britain, was strafed by Solomons-based fighters Wednesday. An explosion was observed aboard the warship. Medium and light bombers meanwhile dropped 70 tons of explosives on Rabaul airdrome and supply areas, silencing nine heavy-caliber aircraft guns. One Allied fighter was missing after the attack.

Other fighter planes from the Salomons attacked a 2000-ton enemy TIE cream of the crop the pick of our stock is presented to you here for your must fashion purchases for the new season. Reflecting the newest in silhouettes the most flattering colon and the most effective detail, these are truly styles for the sun to shine on, Easter morn, and long after. MRS. MARGARET FERGUSON -TO ADDRESS NAVY MOTHERS. Mrs.

Margaret R. Ferguson of Madison street, representing Rutland County chapter, American Red Cross, will speak at a monthly meeting of the local unit of the Association of Navy Mothers to be held at the Italian-American club hall Monday night at 8 oclock. Plans will be made for sending boxes of non-perishable food and useful articles during June to men in service. Refreshments will served. be New ceiling prices on beer, wine and liquors sold by the drink, made necessary by the increases in federal taxes which become effective today, have been announced by the Office of Price Administration, with permitted price boosts limited to two cents or three cents per drink on hard liquors, depending on quantity served and the proof, while beer and light wine by the glass may go up by, probably, one to two cents, depending on the amourj served.

4 I The beer and wine tax increase is passed to the bar or restaurant by to freighter at Simberi island in the Tabar group, off New Ireland, Wednesday and forced the ship onto i LIVE BUTTERFLY FOUND the beach. ON WEST RUTLAND PORCH. 10.95 Mrs. John Baganiski of die Castle- the supplier and OPA requires the MID-VERMONT ARTISTS I ton road in West Rutland is the dispenser to pass on no more than TO MEET WITH MRS. BRUCE.

proud possessor of a large live but-1 his own increase, divided as nearly Mrs. Norman Bruce of 19 Charles terfly which she found recently on as possible by the number of drinks street will be hostess at a monthly her porch when she went to bring served from the wholesale con-meeting of Mid-Vernvont Artists to in her morning milk. She states the i tainer. be held at her home tonight at 8 1 butterfly is very lively and is en- For spirits of 80 proof and over, oclock with Mrs. H.

A. Kretzsch- joying his new home in a glass jar. i two cents more may be charged for mer as co-hostess. Stephen a drink containing not less than one- Frankiewidz will be guest speaker MIDDLES CRY SOLDIER half ounce, up to an ounce; up to an and will discuss church interior 1 ARRIVES IN ENGLAND. ounce and three-quarters per drink decoration and murals.

There also (Special to The Herald.) rates the top permitted increase of will be a discussion of current MIDDLEBURY, March 31. Mr. three cents. Other liquors, below 80 events relating to art and Mrs. Harry Cushman have re- proof, and the stronger wines, ceived word that their son, Willis, should not cost over two cents per Eire government officials are seiz-U Member of the Anti-Aircraft drink more, with at least an ounce ing all bacon not cured legally.

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