Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - February 4, 1942, Altoona, Pennsylvania FINAL The Circulation of the Mirror Yesterday WARMER FACTS ABOUT BLAIR COUNTY Governor Francis R Shunk finally signed legislation for the organization of Blair county on February 26 1846 VOL 57 NO 200 PHONE 7171 ALTOONA WEDNESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 4 1942 SIXTEEN THREE CENTS FREIGHTER SIM OFF EAST COAST if Japanese Are Balked In Attempt to Dislodge MacArthur SURPASS GOAL IN WAR RELIEF FUND EFFORTS Home Is Burned General Chairman Grimshaw An- Drive Is Over the Top Seven Persons Die as Flimsy WILL REVIVE WAR GARDENS THIS SPRING The County Red Cross chapter's campaign fov war relief funds went over the ing to official reports presented by the drive leaders at an enthusiastic meeting last evening at the Alto hotel F G Grimshaw general man of the drive and the vice chairman Daniel B Shea an- that the contributions re- for this worthy cause now total which is beyond the quota allotted to this county by the national Red Cross in ington D C In calling for reports from the campaign leaders Mr Grimshaw j stated that additional funds will be received carrying the total fund further beyond the quota which he said reflects great credit upon those who engaged in the solicitations Table of Figures The official returns received thus far in the drive were announced by Mr Grimshaw as Quota Subscribed Charles Colin Dr Levi Gilbert Harry E ft Carl 3 Bruckner W P Altoona works division iring Spring 1.994 Williamsburg 1.994 Martinsburg Duncansville 245 09.00 Egst Freedom 161 371.80 Bellwood 152 100.00 Newry 105 125.30 McKee 31 27.00 Logan township 50 44.60 By KNOX Feb Seven persons burned to death today as fire de- their flimsy home near Turkey City be- tween Knox and Foxburg The victims were Harry Elder coal miner his wife Dorothy aged 35 their children Jo-Ann aged 7 garet aged 5 Donna aged 3 and Mary 18 old and Ella Louise McKarns aged 17 of Washington Pa a niece of Mrs Elder The only survivor of the early fire Month The war relief drive had its in- ception late in December with a city organization launching into its task at that time while also citizens in the county communities went forth to obtain their quotas Serving as division leaders in this city were Charles N Colin Dr Gilbert Harry E Criswell Carl J Bruckner and William P Gorman The Altoona works and Middle sion were Headed by their respective executives Mr Grimshaw and E C The campaign has been led by 7 Calvin Lang jr Roaring Spring W Donald inger S P Koelle and Elmer G Cowan IT Drew Stroup John Fluke and John Buchanan Martinsburg Mrs H II Lykens IJ M gott East Freedom Russell Claar Bellwood W P and Mrs H R Glass Logan township Taylor McDowell John H Dillen president of the Altoona Trust company has served as urer of the campaign Chairman Grimshaw paid glowing tribute to every one of his aides the campaign citing their tire s efforts in carrying the drive to success Driving On By Unital Feb dispatches today that the Russians to an- an outstanding victory on tlw front west of Moscow within s few lays It was reported at the samp time that Cossack leading an advance on the great Ukranian of were less than twenty miles from that city forward in temperatures low 50 degrees zero Russian statements that a key city on the Moscow front designated only as V hurt been recaptured were supplemented hy a United Fress Moscow dis- patch which said that the tians had made considerable advance the Dvina river and that it would he necessary within a few days to And a new name for what was long called the Kalinin front northwest of Moscow The Dvina river runa through the town of that name 220 miles west of cow and 119 mites north of Smolensk Russia long ago announced the recapture nT Ovina town hut the latest ad- indicated that reil army had advanced bly to the west of it despite fierce German f- hy reserves reported to have been drawn from all over Eu- rope including Greece NEW ATTACK ON BATAAN IS BEATEN OFF morning Elder 14 a son who was cued from the burning lome by an attendant from a nearby pump tion Ernest was burned and his condition was re- sorted critical at Oil City hospital CITY'S SCHOOLS TO CONTINUE ON USUAL SCHEDULE Altoona's public school children will join the remainder of the com- munity in war time observance when it becomes effective next Monday morning according to de- made this by super- visors and principals in a meeting with Gilbert No change had been planned for he parochial schools said Dr F A McNeils superintendent of schools but the conditions will be studied in the first several days of the daylight saving time next week and any action will be based on the results of observations Members of the city school board at their meeting Monday evening approved the recommendation of Dr Gilbert that grade school dren report a half-hour later than has been customary and continue their school day by the same period It was thought that such a change might aid the children With the city's high schools con- tinning the regular reporting time muter the daylight saving plan however it was found that many of the grade children who are to school by older brothers and sisters would lose that against traffic Other were discovered also when the plan was more fully discussed City Highway De- Will Plow Ground for Participants War gardening will be revived in this community this year In view of conditions that arc arising with reference to foodstuffs requiring the largest possible production along all lines except cotton and wheat interest is being revived and it was announced today by man Frank M Hunter that the highway department would plow ground that been lying unused and which will be- allocated for gardening War gardening received able impetus during World war No 3 but the peak of interest came during the period of the depression when it was carried put on a rather extensive scale Altoona with the aid of federal and city government In discussing the subject today Mr Hunter said that he wanted all plot owners who have ground which they want to turn over for the purpose to apprise his office so that the plots may be listed and ments made for the plowing just as soon as the winter is over and be- fore the department will start on its regular program of street and other construction programs Will Tractors Much of the ground that is likely to be offered probably has not been used for a number of years anc tractors will be used in the plowing operations It was Mr Hunter's recollection that the last supervised gardening was done in 1935 Mr Hunter will appoint a com- shortly to have general over- sight of the program and this group vill look after the allocation of the ground after it has been plowed The department will only plow the ground those to whom the plots are allocated will complete ts preparation for planting It was Continued on pace 2 column 5 LODGE MEMBERS GIVE SUPPORT TO WAR RELIEF DRIVE PLAN TO REBUILD TYRONE PROPERTY RAZED BY FLAMES The Wilson Court building at Pennsylvania avenue and Eleventh street Tyrone and de by fire yesterday morning will be rebuilt according to present plans of the owner George C son jr who returned to his home I in Tyrone last night from a i ness trip only to of the erty loss While the area the i ing has been roped off due to dangers from possible falling i hris work the walls and likely will be started within the nest i days j Eight families who were made homeless when the second anc third floor apartments were de include Mrs Phoebe j berry Edward Merrills Mr and i Mrs Robert Miss Dorothi Harper Maurice Igou Mrs W O i Miss Naomi Kelly Clair Edmonson and daughter Evelyn i Misses Myra and Ruth Griffin and 1 Mrs Harold The entrance to the El Patio theatre and the Wilson theatre TJ S Torpedo Boal Delivers Blow at Enemy Warship In Manila Bay By EVERETT R Stan Correspondent WASHINGTON D C Feb m e r i c a n and Filipino troops who are ng aided by a battalion of United States marines and bluejackets have sharply repulsed ed Japanese attacks along the west coast of Bataan peninsula in the pines it was announced day Striking back against re- Japanese efforts to drive his forces from the island of Luzon and back Fort Corregidor in Manila bay General ias MacArthur was said in a war communique to be mopping up tattered of crack Japanese troops in the regions of lower Bataan Day-and-Night Battle The war department com- indicating a constant day-and-night battle on Ba- taan reported that the main Japanese blows were being di- against MacArthur's left the west coast Continued on 2 column 4 UNITED FRUIT COMPANY SHIP VICTIM OF SUB Members of Altoona aerie No lie Fraternal Order of have given their staunch support to the war relief of the Kerf Cross by contributing to the worthy cause The tion took place last night as shown left to Daniel B Shea vice chairman nf the George A Melson anil John J Kearns trustees of the Eagles General Chairman F G shaw and It H Gable president of the Eagles li I PARK PLANS HALF FAMILY HEADS TO SINGAPORE GUNS PRICES THIS YEAR SEE ARMY SERVICE i ARE TRAINED ON FOR ARMED UNDER NEW PLANS INVADING JAPS BIG PROGRAM OF PLANTING TREES BEING ARRANGED That a large program of tree planting on the city's watershed ands will be carried out the com- ing spring by the water ment was indicated today by tor John C who stated that within the next few days he will contact the representatives of the state nurseries and place an der taking as many as he can get Last year of the transplants were set out The department has set tip in the budget a fund sufficient to pay the which is comparatively small from the standpoint of curing the trees while it is ex- that as usual the WPA forces will lead assistance in the work of planting The WPA forces are back on the job today after the extremely cold weather and engaged in clearing the lands around the reservoirs and on the watersheds of under- brush and dead trees by way of preparing for the planting tions Mr Culhoun stated that it was his intention to remove the old trees along the channels and plant pine trees in their place The catalpas have out- lived their usefulness and they arc rotting All the WPA crews are on duty today Additional help provided to rush the job along Rusk in drive Fortieth street to Halleck place in order to clear dp the traffic situation existing while the work is under way Another crew is in laying the line along South Twelfth street Polk lo Pleasant Valley avenues ADJUSTMENT FOR NEW STREET ROAD BEING MADE Pending for an extended period an adjustment now is being city authorities and the Ivory Lumber company for an exchange of ground at first street above Sixth avenue which win make it possible to com- plete the plans for widening the street and making a satisfactory intersection where Sixth and avenues join The city's plans were formulated and blueprinted and J C Ivory head of the building company afternoon conferred with Councilman Prank M Hunter who turned over to him all the papers and prints for study Meanwhile the work of walling Mill run along the way is ing but the time is not far away when it wilt be necessary to close the agreement so that the ground will be available to carry out city's plans To the Ivory company it is an issue of much importance for it will involve the relocation of the planing mill and other buildings anti that means a considerable outlay The city will give the Ivory com- on 2 column 3 Special for members of the armed forces anticipation of increased trolley travel to the park because of the ages in automobiles and tires and of new features at amusement center this summer tured the annual election meeting of the Park Citizens Advisory council last William McVicker assistant to the works manager of the sylvania railroad was added to the park council being elected for a three-year term Unanimously to the council for another year was Frank M Hunter city councilman Other officers reelected First vice president and administrator B Allen second vice ident V P Schmidt third vice president John Woodcock fourth vice president C E Mehaffie park administrator B J Bigley VV H Fields secretary-treasurer vene members at large A J Sabathne George E Sweet and Mrs Edgar M Meek These three were previously Two others M Faust and George S Fay were to servo three-year terms Chairmen of special committees named Winter sports R M Chamber of Commerce G Stanley Ruth county ers Herbert S Bolger publicity J Virgil Taylor of he Altoona Continued on page i column 7 FIREMEN INJURED AS GARAGES BURN One garage building was de- and another damaged by fire near avenue and first street last evening and Captain H S Jenkins of No 2 company suffered a severe injury of the left eye when a splinter from the ing building pierced the optic The flames destroyed by the was owned by George P Moffitt of Beale avenue and loss there was estimated at The damaged garage was owned by P U Johnson of 4038 nuc whose damaged estimated at Captain Jenkins was treated in Mercy hospital dispensary for his eye wound and then referred to ar eye specialist A general alarm from box 427 was sounded at 7.47 o'clock last evening and callet companies Nos 5 6 and 7 and truck B Two hose streams were used extinguishing lite flames War Summary ALLEN IS NAMED i Special to BEDFORD Feb was j here this morning that Charles W Allen has been named building were damaged in the fire acting postmaster at Bedford He while also the Winter music store aulo store suffered and losses WEATHER WASHINGTON D C Feb ing temperature today warmer night Freezing rain beginning in west portion this afternoon changing to rain early tonight and freesing rain or snow in east portion tonight changing to light rain by morning By JOR MORRIS P Foreign Armed forces of the united tions battled to hold their Far eastern defense line today until re- in for cements especially from America can turn the tide TO BEDFORD POST j Assured that aid from America's j vast arsenal is flowing toward the Lwar zone the Dutch were reported bi ng Ja pa ncse in- vasion armies on Am bo in a and Borneo islands while British ar- tillery and bombing planes tered enemy concentrations pre- paring for new thrusts at Singa- pore and the Burma road American and Dutch airplanes were scouring the East Indies waters in search of new Japanese invasion fleets and aircraft carriers Dispatches from the fighting fronts artillery shells Japanese troop concentrations and invasion barges on front along strait nf Johore guarding Singapore island fires a tar Led by will succeed Harry E Cuppett who lias been postmaster here for nine years Mr AllcH was a member of the legislature in Harrisburg from to 1039 He is a of the first World war and was commander of Hie Bedford American Legion post in 1934 It was announced that Mr Allen will assume liis duties on Feb 15 to serve until a permanent ment is made and confirmed at Washington bombs battled in Singapore city Burma RAF and pilots blast Japanese seeking to cross river of Moulmein and small boats at- tempting o get a foothold on taban gulf Heavy enemy casual ties reported fighting strongly for Amboina base Tokyo claims was captured and ii Balik Papan sector of Borneo toll of 10 per cent of seventy Jap anese planes raiding shot down press lacks in Desert near Msus south east of Benghazi in effort to hal axis drive reported ing under orders to stand or die against red army planes re- turn lo Port Moresby on New Guinea island 380 miles north of Australia following raid on pang capital of Dutch Timor Continued on 2 column 3 By DAVID Correspondent HARRISBURG Feb han a men in chiefly family heads because of dependency will eligible for induction into the forces under a plan being by national selective cc headquarters today for early submission to congress The plan explained to a committee by Brigadier eral B Hershey national draft director will require service men to allot for family support part of their pay which the government will match or more than match While amounts will differ the program will he similar to he World war 1 law which granted government allowance of half the army pay but not more than a months plus 510 for the first child and for each additional child total not exceeding Colonel Benjamin F Evans state selective service chief said men were given dependency up to last September He said no grade statistics have been compiled since that time but admitted there were sub- more in dependency categories now Up o six weeks ago when new censorship rules became effective and prohibited revelation of on page 2 column 7 TIRE BLOWS DRIVER NOT HURT John jr aged 21 of 1913 East Seventh avenue Juniata escaped serious injury shortly be- fore 2 o'clock this morning when a front tire on a sedan he was ing on route No- 220 blew out sent the car careening off the roati on the left side The sedan hit a tree head-on and landed in a field The machine was reduced to junk Horon suffered a laceration of the knee and a con- of the head The accident happened near greenhouse near Four Members of Crew Inj ured When Torpedo Strikes By HAROLD Staff Correspondent SINGAPORE Feb 4 Sin artillery opened a heavy bombardment of Japanese across the narrow across the strait today and nese planes kept up ati almost con- bombing attack on this island It was believed that the guns were blasting not only at Japanese troop truck columns moving into the Johore Bharu area directly across the causeway but at invasion craft which the Japanese were reported on the Johore shore A general headquarters nique There is no change to report in the Our artillery engaged transport at Jo ho re Bharu Enemy aircraft made a ber of raids on the island causing some damage but few military Our anti-aircraft defenses in the period between Jan 31 and Feb 4 shot down two enemy aircraft for certain and three probably Japanese planes flying sometimes in smaller formations than is the case returned to the at- tack on Singapore this mornin and bombed the city area Despite the dive bombers which Continued on i coin inn CHRYSLER GETS BIG WAR CONTRACT CHICAGO Feb General William Knudsen ed today that a contract had been awarded the Chrysler Motor cor- for construction of a bomber engine plant at cago said construction would start immediately and the plant probably will be in operation iu nine months The plant will turn out Wright cooled engines which de- scribed as biggest motors we AIR FLEET OF Preas LEWES Del Feb The United Fruit company freighter San Gil was torpedoed and sunk last night by an enemy submarine off the land coast killing two member of the crew disclosed on ing here today Four other members of the crew also were injured when the vessel was struck by one torpedo oh the port side Launch Life Boats The crew and one ger immediately launched three lile boats the survivors said They no sooner had struck the water then the sub- marine began shelling the ship About fifteen shells were fired but only four struck the ship before it sunk The San Gil was the vessel attacked by Ger- man since they began their recent raiding in coastal waters from Nova Scotia to Florida Fifteen of the ships were sunk and only the tanker the Malay succeeded in ing port The San Gil survivors who spent seven hours in the open lifeboat were picked up by a coast guard cutter with the aid of several private craft from Ocean City Md The two victims were Beaumont Barbe aged 26 Antwerp Belgium and Castro aged 36 duras Crew Is Rescued The ship of Panamanian tion was under command of Cap- tain Walter W Koch aged N Y Most of the crew were from Honduras The four Hildebrande Hall aged 19 duras hand injuries Irvin H Dimon aged 30 on page column 6 ALTOONA INDICTED PITTSBURGH Feb Morris Gett Altoona Pa was by the federal grand jury today on a charge of violating the selective training and service act by failure to register under the act Oct 16 1910 JAPANESE HITS AT BASE ON JAVA By JOHN R Staff BAT AVI A Feb Indies forces arc fighting strongly and successfully in n fierce battle with Japanese forces on Amboina island the eastern Netherlands In TO BE USED FOR SUGAR RATIONING iKy WASHINGTON D C Fob Special stamps each good for one week's allotment be used in rationing sugar to consumers Uie office of price administration said today I The stamps will he issued by local j dies naval and air force base i rationing boards probably in book Netherlands Indies communique i form A book of stamps will cover said today least a three-month period There communique released the Netherlands Indies Dutch forces also are resisting still in the region of Balik on the east coast of Borneo where Netherlands and United States planes and warships were reported launching a new hunt for Japanese invasion ships in the Macassar strait The through News agency said eight Japanese fighter planes and two bombers were believed shot down out of a Continued on page column Thermometers at he railroad test department building recorded 13 degrees as the low temperature last night 22 degrees as the high afternoon and 20 degrees as the temperature at 0 o'clock this morning The low reading for this date locally is 3 above zero recorded in 1018 while the high is 54 degrees recorded in will he n separate book for each individual user of sugar Thus a family of three would receive three books While the exact amount of sugar which will be allowed each in- dividual not been settled as yet OTA Administrator Leon derson said Jast month that it ably would be approximately twelve ounces weekly The sugar stamps would be sued when members of a family register with local rationing boards which already are new tires to certain specified civilian such as doctors and Stamps will be issued for n War Briefs By United RANGOON Burma Feb American and British fighter anil bombing planes hare made a devastating attack on nese invasion groups at month of the river im- mediately northeast of unofficial advices said day VICHY Feb by British and can broadcasts that Vichy Vica Premier Joan Francois Darlan has an agreement with he axis for French ships trt carry war material to Nazi in Libya are fairy laics an source said today CAIKO Feb em- pire forces arc a now in thr Insert cast and northeast nf Mis us ninety miles east of Benghazi closely ported by the royal air forve n middle eastern command said today PATTON MAN PITTSBURGH Feb Asbmy aged 71 of Patton Pa vas to a year and a day m a form n mount regardless of whether federal penitentiary by Judge R M an individual is n child or an adult Gibson today when he pleaded OPA officials said i guilty to four stolen Under the proposed pton a checks totaling ily of four including two burg was returned here from tivo children could obtain three pounds weekly if the ounce estimate is finally adopted ne had ft tence on bad check charges eral agents said
