Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - July 17, 1942, Altoona, Pennsylvania t The Circulation of the Altoona Mirror Yesterday FACTS ABOUT BLAIR Martinsburg's council in Blake Jacob Graffius John Getty Kissinger Joseph Shaffer J W VOL 58 NO 29 PHONE 7171 ALTOONA PA FRIDAY EVENING JULY 17 1942 TWENTY-SIX THREE CENTS ROMMEL'S OFFENSIVE CHECKED State Is Preparing for Total Blackout Tests Every 10 Days STiTK r fin MIT i DP I n STATE SETUP FOR DEFENSE MILITARIZED New Reserve Corps to Take Place of Home Police and Rifle Battalion That the whole defense setup in Pennsylvania will be placed very largely upon a military basis is the word brought back by city and county defense officials who at- tended the series of conferences held yesterday in Harrisburg j This particularly to home i defense police and the First company as established in Altoona county which are by Governor Arthur H j James who informed those in tendance at the conference that disbanding the local organizations I a new Pennsylvania reserve defense i auxiliary corps would be formed in i which the men in the corps may enlist County Herbert S i Bolger and Mayor Rhodes the re- chairmen of the Blair county and the Altoona defense councils headed the delegations in attendance at the conference Air Bolger stated today that the military authorities will send of- to this county and city shortly to make a survey to mine the local with reference to the size of the organization of the new carps that should he formed here Blair Well Represented The county and city were well represented at the conference the county in addition to Mr Bolger there were Joseph A Dickson tive Director Harry C Smith John E Rhodes salvage director Gerald Sheedy chairman of the volunteer registration service Carl C chester Attorney Robert B Smith and J J Kabella The city was represented in tion to the mayor by Executive Director William G Koush cilman Frank M Hunter and cense Tax Officer J Burton Wynn chairman of the city salvage com- All the problems relating to the war defense effort were given consideration at the conferences Governor James attended the after- noon conference which was held in the hall of the house of over which Dr A C Marts slate defense director pre- sided Blackouts lights control centers warning systems and in fact every i phase of the defense work were gone over and many questions were Continued on pane 2 column 6 ADALENE MIM Whitesel daughter Mr and Mrs Owen F Whitesel of US avenue luw In women's army auxiliary corps OF MACHINE IS IN JUNK PILE Serbs Active By July uid today that General i were in battles the Italians alone the six miles from Italy and that men had carried out three night raids against near Trieste Italy Trieste is twenty-five miles from the Jugoslav border at the nearest Both and Trieste are in ern Italy The Italians ing to report reaching London nave increased their army of occupation in Croatia along the Kalian frontier to well over men General it was said is concentrating the part of his Jugoslav army in Croatia which reportedly de- an intense hatred tnr the Italians for stealing thing eatable or movable As a result a food shortage was Becoming critical in atia and some sources said the natives of Dalmatia were dying by the hundreds was said o have situation in so well in hand hat the afraid to venture from their fortresses Hundreds were reported ing to his army which now was striking in widely separated places in an effort to spread out Italian occupation forces In efforts to meet the nightly threat of guerrilla raids Italian Here reported ing the towns of Ljubljana Olje Kovac IM nice and wilh barbed wire and machine gun posts and lishing heavy guards of sentries Polish guerrillas were said 41 have killed Wald ical gestapo chief of dis- il pitched battle on he af Lublin slopped his automobile with a barricade and snot him and the agents with him The proverbial strong arm of law descended upon a machine this morning in the ment of the Blair county house when that arm had within its hand grasp a sledge hammer the arm being that of Sheriff John E Harvey With several well directed blows what once stood out aa a machine where the unsuspecting dropped in his nickels in the hope of a draw of the jackpot was reduced to junk resembling a small pile ot kindling wood a few screws knobs hinges and cunningly de- vised copper wiring and a jackpot in which were i a few nickles The reducing operation was di- by an order of the court but Monday and was witnessed by District Attorney Chester B Wray Harvey Smith of Hollidaysburg and Robert McClain rapher This machine was seized by an Altoona constable in a store room in this city Whether or not the machine came under the category of a gambling device was shown by operations after the seizure and in accordance with the law Judge George G Patterson ordered the machine destroyed The money if any was to be turned over to Altoona canteen committee However there will be little to turn over since the pot contained less than one dollar Continued on page 2 column 5 LONDON SOUNDS ALARM LONDON July air alarm sounded in London this afternoon The alarm was the first in time since March 16 when a single raider penetrated the j Thames estuary sector but failed to i appear over the center of London iThe last night air alarm was June 13 but no bombs were dropped Alarms are no longer normally sounded in London if only one or a few reconnaissance planes are in the vicinity LIMITED SERVICE i MEN BEING CALLED BY LOCAL BOARDS COMMITTEE HEADS NAMED BY RED CROSS Period Brings About Big Increase In Work of Blair Unit The increased ity of the Blair county chapter American Red Cross was in reports brought before the executive committee of that at its meeting last night in the war production rooms of Pennsylvania railroad building at Ninth avenue and Twelfth street Names of committee heads who will further thai activity in ing year were announced by D Brumbaugh executive chairman who presided Among heard The disaster preparedness com- work was related by At- Leo Mullen Mr Mullen discussed preparations for any exigency or otherwise which may arise in this county Lcn director of aid spoke briefly on Hcd Cross training program for first aid and water safety His report showed adults qualified for standard and advanced first aid certificates boys girls qualified for junior first aid certificates or a of standard and advanced first aid certificates and junior first aid per cent of the chapter population Paul Morse chairman of water sniety reported swimming classes are in progress at pool days 10 to 12 a and 7.30 to 9.30 a m Lakemont pool Tuesdays 10 to 12 a m Memorial pool 11 to 12 a m life-saving classes Lakemont and Prospect pools daily with a class to begin at Memorial pool next week a water safety instructor's course Aug 10 for the Blair ter with Robert Zubrod field of the national as instructor The home nursing committee re- port was given by Mrs T L lam In her report Mrs Mallam told board she had 585 cards for persons j Continued nn page 3 column SI WESTFALL CENTER IN FIRST PLACE The attendance at he play cenlers or cily during week lias been it was at the weekly conference held by Robert E Wolfe witli the play leaders at City hall this ing center led with lowed by Adams with and Prospect with Pet shows were heM on a number of the grounds this week and hikes were ar- ranged for all the grounds Next week a track meet will be held on each ground Standing broad jumps short dashes and shol puls will he the chief events A freckle contest is being arranged for the week of July 27 CARRIERS DUE TO ARRIVE IN CITY TOMORROW Soviets Smashing Defense Lines at Voronezh By Staff Correspondent MOSCOW July Russian troops have smashed through iwo German defense lines in one tor of the Voronezh front seized I lie initiative in others and ped the enemy in the rest with a defense red communiques said today COUNCIL MAPS PLANS IN NEW DEFENSE MOVE manned Bell cobra lighters which were credited with bringing down thirty-eight German planes in sixty hours To tile south In Don valley where the enemy advancing and las Boston were in tion Facing he full fury of a German offensive in one ot the fiercest battles ot the war i the Russians at Voronezh were more than holding their own j Special dispatches reported by their the sians had stopped the enemy and were even making progress In clearing up the ten-mile battlefield between the Don and the Voronezh A special dispatch to the army Action Designed for Protection Against Bombers ini at Any Moment They were aided hy newspaper Red Star said the sian had been so successful that the now were trying to hold in the 1 enj and central while they sought to develop momentum for I in the southern j Voronezh battle the thirty-eight planes credited to the a new offensive outskirts of the HO IIP In addition to Continued on i e 2 column 4 CITY ZONING POLICY CODE SHAPED I MAY BE BASIS FOR PASSAGE At a conference held in he cil hall at City hall this morning attended hy the mayor councilmen planning commissioners and bers of the hoard of zoning appeals the city zoning code was whipped into shape and it is ready TO PEG WAGES By Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON D C July Details of governor's plans to form new defense corpt iary throughout the slate will br found in news story on 15 BULLETIN HARRISBURG July state-wide tice blackout of a hour duration was dered by the state council of defense day for the night of July 22 The exact starting time will not be announced By DAVID Staff Correspondent HARRISBURG July MAJOR U H His plane ablaze Marine Major H Henderson of dived his cratt down slack of Japanese aircraft carrier in KaUle if BRITISH HOLD FIRM DESTROY Defenders born ly Resist Nazi Forces at Alamein Front PARACHUTISTS BEING SOUGHT IN N Y STATE now for final passage at the Jan 1 expected today ular meeting of council on next to form at least basis of come at any moment Tuesday morning new program Speaking at a state-wide anu The high spots resulting from dent Roosevelt may be planning conference of army officials of the city officials send lo congress national state and local de- The labor new wage stabilization instead ers as 4 general rule to 15 per cent more wages than they had on N y July j heavily armed federal slate and j started plans today to prepare searched r woods and brush of Dutchess ing battle on the central BULLETIN CAIRO July British tanks today re- pulsed renewed axis at- tacks in heavy fighting on the central sector of the desert front west of El Alamein and poured an artillery rage into enemy posi- tions on the northern coastal flank By KAY Staff Correspondent CAIRO July ish forces have knocked out many German tanks in a fierce and still Pennsylvania for total out tests once every ten days j county today for six or seven create of once a maximum t j i parachutists reported to have heen i protection against bombers which may dropping near President Roosevelt's Hyde Park estate The army announced It was in- but did not reveal the of its inquiry at the conference this morning are Beauty parlors be classified the same as stores and other retail The reaction of labor and in- i ne cji laoor and in- dustry to the policy it authorities believed may determine whether i tin assistant to John James M been taken for been shot yesterday at across river during picnic but sector of the Alamein front it was announced day Field Marshal Erwin Rommel threw his main armored forces into the parachutes had I central sector at dawn asco j in an attempt to other retail win suggest Landis head of the United establishments and barber shops controls over wages and salaries j nf i L J and will be permitted in business forth civilian defense j he had not heard of any such st night in ils decision in the sald new call for the Sheriff dislodge districts only while existing parlors if will not he dis- The life of all building permits issued will be for six months at end of that period an extension of time will have to be obtained In all building construction the inspector must first make an in- of the sile and point out to the builder just where it may be erected Automobile junkyards or yards as they are commonly called will be permitted only in the heavy industrial districts of the city In tho erection of roof signs and signs hose erecting them will last night little steel case which ordered for a wage in- crease of 44 cents a day union maintenance of membership and a minimum daily wage scale The stabilization policy the board was designed to maintain outs in Pennsylvania Dr A C workers purchasing power at Marts slate defense council chief nary 1941 levels 1 emphasized A surprise blackout in Chairman William H Davis Mid it any given week must be given ad- would lead to a terminal for the was an assumption lhat the air raid drills broadcast an alarm Patrols along the Hudson No Surprise Blackouts river stopped all automobiles and Under strict war department each thoroughly Police ders however there will be no nil ami and out complete surprise he required to file a bond proposal Continued on page 5 column S Continued on 2 column vance publicity he added race between wages and ing to first interceptor command Implicit in the decision instructions That followed i lion of a Berks county the employer members ot that despite two carefully staged blackout drills there we the imperial troops from their newly won dominant ridge and it was indicated to get his Afrika korps rolling eastward on a new suspicions persons walking along I for state highways and back roads Alexandria ana Suspicious persons were ordered the Nile held until definitely identified The state living would not rise any I the hoard in a opinion I 11 Tanks Knocked Out parachutists in Numerous enemy tanks were Continued on page column 3 j knocked out in the first phase police were requested to watch for are kidding lie urged out and out tests to develop real protection AMERICAN AID TO ALL of the fighting the que said It added that British I losses were not yet known Repulsed apparently in the morning and afternoon RATION HEADS TO STUDY REQUESTS Although no definite check has been made of the total number WARNS OF HEAVIER TRAFFIC ON RAILS Voicing Laudis tin lauded the commonwealth's fBy Pr DENVER Colo July 17 De- 1 civilian defense system for going forward with remarkable hilt urged an intensified program of practice drills and blackouts to prevent wholesale loss of life in bombing raids Go ahead with your community war service recruiting until you reach your goal of f Martin urged In axis WASHINGTON D C July President Roosevelt announced mel the attack in the day war aid on pace a column 8 ed hy the United States in June amounted to the est monthly total in sixteen months of the lend-lease The June lend-lease total i on figures of June 10 represented a sizable increase over the 000 000 total for May j The president said total amount of lend-lease aid extended i to the united nations and other 1941 when the program began to June 10 amounted to 000.000 supplemental applications received Transportation Director for gasoline rations B in a me united nations and o Kation Chief Paul T Winter to a meeting of railroad j eligible countries from March mated today that there were here today congratulated toward winning proximately 10.000 to such re- management and labor for the War y y m quests in the county of which markable record of moving troops Continued on paer a fi came from and and war goods in the face of township creasing transportation difficulties n I find All Mr Winter said thai Ewlman speech was read to the R iURR QN PRESS RFP TON rationing officials will meet late conference of the 1 I i U 1 Vll morrow ami Sunday the Altoona ot Railway Clerks by Otto school building to begin of the division of i of individual quests The various local personnel City and selective ice boards for the first time un- der the service law will induct a of men classified for service when filling their August quota it was learned The men are those fied ns fil for limited service i probably through some physical handicap Members i of boards were warned in a j recent conference with selective i service heads that such a call would be issued in the near future Local board No 3 located at the Miller school building will have one volunteer for Broup a man who had the fortune to lose an eye but who has been attempting for months to get into active service in phase of the war effort The quotas given the local boards for August arc comparable 2 column 5 I OUTLAW WASHINGTON July IT The house naval affairs committee voted unanimously lo report a lo outlaw payment of contingent fee commissions lo agents of navy contractors after Chairman Carl Vinson D la snid the profits of such agents were shocking country Advance guard of the 500 or more members of he Pennsylvania Rural Letler Carriers association together with the auxiliary and the juniors who meet here Sunday Monday and Tuesday morning for annual state tion were begin ar- riving in the city late tomorrow afternoon and evening The Blair county association host lo convention afler it moved here from Erie was ready for the invasion of their friends after the past week was spent in making final reparations for the to meet the demands of during Die war Official program for tion was issued today and carried a complete program of events as out- lined in yesterday's edition of tho Altoona Mirror Registration of delegates will start Sunday after- on 6 column S FORECAST WASHINGTON D C July Pennsylvania Somewhat warmer and continued warm tonight Scattered showers and thunder storms along Lake Eric today Eastern Moderate temperature tonight will be staggered during tomorrow and Sunday in order to Believe the tremendous burden of checking the applications No definite dale has yel been set Continued on page 2 column 2 transportation lODT j He said the railroads have done promptly and well all that they have been called upon to do and in of the conditions it has been a remarkable record But he warned that further in- on 3 column 1 NEED OF YOUTHS FINLAND TO GET IN ARMY FORCES OUT OF AXIS CAMP War Summary Ry JOK 1 P Foreign The twin offensive toward 1 the toward the lower Don river a key to northern Caucasus Our mobile formations are the Near cast oil fields re- enemy casl of riverain the direction of the lower Don the German high command i claimed while the Russians merely said they were withdrawing in face of superior numbers i The railroad line from els basin starling at Kamensk BULLETIN WASHINGTON D C July velt said today it was not likely that any decision would be made soon on the drafting of youths of 18 and 19 for military service in major batiks on the Egyptian desert from and ward the lower Don river in sia Red army by squadrons of American built airplanes making enemy advance a costly one and on the northern flank at Voronezh the Russians broken into two axis defense lines seized the initiative on some and resumed a bloody and still undecided battle in and around city But the main was aimed southeastward through the Donets basin toward Rostov Stalingrad and the nazis claimed that they had pushed into the sector only miles from Rostov in wide drive By K -Ir WASHINGTON D C July Members of the senate and house military affairs committee today demanded an estimate of many would be needed to win he Stalingrad has been crossed Mobile war and proof thai an adequate and infantry formations led by army cannot be raised within planes are advancing on a 20 lo 45 years age limits H O WASHINGTON D C July The United States in addition to cancelling consular representation wilh Finland has restricted further movements of Finnish Minister iml his jt was learned has been advised he and of legation obtain permission from the slate department lo travel in the United It was indicated that such permission would be increasingly difficult for them to obtain That action emphasized the for- mal announcement last by slate department that all ican consular activities in Finland would he suspended and the order lo Kindlaud lo close its consulates in this country by Aug front and enemy flank and rear Numerous enemy and in of age should not be that youths of IS sions greatly diminished and confusion arc attempting In break through lo the cast The communique thai the main weight of the German of- fensive had moved southward fifty miles from lor had push on pate ed eastward past ovg ad lo n noint of iu last night and Thermometers at railroad lest department building recorded n high of 82 degrees yesterday afternoon a low of to of Kamensk on on column J ing 1 After months n cautious ling of relations wilh the on column X PROSECUTION WASHINGTON July Major of military commission j living the tion against four fended MM U BERLIN July broadcast recorded hy V P in sunk ten ships totaling tons the mouth ot Mississippi river and the ma canal the Herman news agency said in a Six of Ions moving in a strongly pre- British convoy also were off he xest coast of Africa and a transport of Ions was sunk in the Arctic the communique said TOKYO July broadcast recorded by U P at San The Tokyo radio reported today that an American submarine on July IS sank a ship and that all aboard were killed including Australian raptured in WMIK Inly Italian broadcast by V f in tank units in Alamein area were thrown balk with tho loss of clowns of Units Italian high com- mand Farther south the British also attempted to attack hut offensive was broken by axis fire Nine British wern shot dou n by axis planes and another British plane wan by anti-aircraft fire in a raid at AN KAST COAST July vessel rescued of K daylight Caribbean than xn hour after small Dutch ship hail sunk ago 3rd naval reported today crew of M
