Altoona Mirror (Newspaper) - December 9, 1942, Altoona, Pennsylvania The Circulation of the Altoona Mirror Yesterday SNOW FACTS ABOUT BLAIR COUNTY Eph Galbraith elected register of wills in October 1846 died election day and John M Gibbony continued in office OL 58 NO PHONE 7171 ALTOONA PA WEDNESDAY EVENING DECEMBER 9 1942 TWENTY THREE CENTS TURIN ITALY IS DEVASTATED American Airmen Frustrate New Jap Scheme to Bolster Guadalcanal MISSING IN ACTION JOHN C H SMITH TWO KILLED TWO INJURED MN TRUCK FIRE Occupants of Machine Are Cremated When Three Vehicles Come Tog-ether 10 Mirror I BRDFORD Dec men wore cremated and two others were seriously injured this morning at 4.15 o'clock in o crash of three trucks on the superhighway six miles west of Bedford The dead both said to be dents of were identified by state motor police BB Bernard Swain and A Melvin The two injured and now in the Timmins hospital here arc Albert of Ambridge driver of one truck and Herbert of Hanover driver of another truck which figured in the mishap AH Traveling One Way All three trucks were traveling eastward and Die contents of the trucks was not divulged by slate motor police probably being war material driving a truck of the William Falconer Pittsburgh Express company had trouble and stopped on the highway and ged down Albert to help start the motor coupled his truck to the Rittenhouse truck and after getting the motor ed stopped to uncouple when a truck driven by Wayne Longwell of Mich belonging to the Keeshin Motor Express company of Chicago plowed into ths two for- trucks and both immediately t fire quickly did the fire spread hat the two men in the truck with Tieljen could not be gotten out and were cremated Trucks Arc Destroyed was owned by the Eazor Express com- puny of Bellevue und was i n IT i ed entailing a loss of j Jen suffered deep lacerations of the scalp upper arm right side and back second degree burns of right ankle and leg and general body bruises His condition is listed as serious at the Timmins hospital The truck driven by was destroyed and the loss was placed at fers fractures of the pelvis deep lacerations of the left side and brush burns of the body and face His condition is said to be fair The bodies of the two men were brought to the Pate funeral home here and relatives in were notified of the accident REGISTRATION WARSHIP SUNK NEW ANI OLI REPUBLICAN OF YOUNG MEN THREE OTHERS IS SCHEDULED LEFT AFLAME I Eighteen Year Olds and Must Sign Up With Their Selective Service Boards The four selective boards in and the two in Blair county Torpedo Planes In- tercept Enemy North of Island WASHINGTONfTD C r couny today perfected plans for airmen on OFFICER BELIEVED RILLED IN BLAST Lieutenant senior grade John Casper Henderson Smith aged 25 of Altoona reported missing in action aboard the U S S Wasp sunk Sept 15 In the battle for Solomons was last seen in a tion of the loomed aircraft destroyed hy a magazine explosion it was learned today Lieutenant Smith a gunnery of- ficer aboard the Wasp was well known another Wasp officer from Philadelphia who has toltl his parents that no one serving on Lieutenant Smith's section of the carrier survived the explosion ot the magazine which doomed the ship Known to his many friends in this city as Gappy Lieutenant Smith is the son of Lieutenant and Mrs John Harold Smith now at State College where the father is of the naval trebling grandson of the late Mr H of city He was a graduate of the AltoOna High school class of 1934 and of the United States Naval academy class of He served on the U S S Saratoga and was trans- l sixth registration of men to be frustrated a new conducted starting on Friday and attempt to reinforce their continuing in: three beleaguered troops on that throughout this month i island Thursday by sinking males are in- j a Japanese destroyer or cruiser eluded in those required lo sign up in the forthcoming registration warships afire which will take place between the hours of 9 a m to R p m except Saturday S a in to 12 noon on the setting three other enemy days designated as Registration Dales Those were born i after July i 1924 hut not Aug 31 1924 shall be or The had revealed j that and torpedo planes from canal had intercepted a light enemy surface force Today it announced that the enemy force comprised about Heavy Bombers from hies Rain Upon Industrial Center i For Knockout Blow WASHINGTON D C Dec Davis director of the office of war information said day that chaos is increasing in Italy but that advices to this government indicate there are no immediate prospects of a revolution by the Italian people against their German war allies ending Thursday Dec 17 1 Those who were born after Sept 1 1924 but not i on any day during that at least four of them were hit after- Planes Destroyed j in addition the navy said United the week com- j states fighters shot down ten LONDON Dec hour-long procession of heavy bombers from the British isles branch of the allied offensive rained four-ton bombs on the great industrial center of Turin during the night The major raid came only five days after ican flying fortresses from the north Africa branch of the offensive pounded Naples the great southern rs so mencing Friday Dec 18 1942 and i enemy planes Three of our ending Thursday Dec 24 1942 j were lost Those who were horn on after Nov 1 but not after Dec 31 1924 shall be registered on any day during the period com- mencing Saturday Dec and ending Thursday Dec 31 1942 The enemy ships undoubtedly were attempting to bring needed supplies to the Japanese land forces scattered over canal's hills United States patrols slowly mopping up small the 18th anniversary of the day of their birth provided that If such anniversary falls on a day or a legal holiday their tration shall take place on the day hanl burglar alarm system BOY'S SKELETON FOUND NEWPORT Pa Dec services held today for old Glenn Smith Mifflin who was drowned eleven months ago when lie broke through the ice while skating on the river The boy's skeleton was found in a pile of driftwood along Hie river bank yesterday about a mile cast of here Nazis Uneasy SchwarM publication of S S guards yave the first tion today that nazi officials wern uneasy over the presence in Germany of lions of foreign workers ed from occupied countries The according to the radio pointed out that foreign workers owe no to Adolf Hitler and therefore not every crack in Germany's borders is stated Against enemy countries The dispatch coincided with reports of new unrest find further in occupied In Poland a German troop Irain was derailed at causing more than WO tics while guerrilla forces cut the railway line Zagreb Jugoslavia and blew up fons on he line In anil in- were to render small arms and inu guns well us tion A Minilar order had issued in France but the Vichy radio the regulation not apply to persons who owing to the nature of heir duties arc lo the risk attack The ian newspaper re- ported that a new wave of V nari demonstrations in Oslo trains resulted in that civilian police- wouW all trains arresting anyone an attitude tions and other essentials Last week's engagement raised the Japanese ship losses In the southeastern Solomons since Aug 7 to fifty-two sunk four probably sunk and seventy-nine damaged f 626 American losses in the so far have been ships sunk and an undisclosed to Offices Tf tllis tne registrants will IS BUMPED OFF required to go lo the selective service board offices in their re- districts as i The navy said that the enemy Local Board No 1 Seventh i suffered the following dama While plumbers were doing some work in the basement of the Central Damage Done ui nii Trust company building at 10.40 j and Thirteenth A cruiser hit by two o'clock last night they accidentally ot Station 1408 Fourth bombs bumped a water pipe to which the Altoona Another cruiser Local Board No pound bomb hit by a and an alarm was sounded ant Fifth place of A destroyer or cruiser hit hy two The police responded and for roon twenty minutes all traffic was kept under surveillance Meanwhile Regis of 2103 Eleventh avenue night janitor was contacted nil XI and he informed the that it No 315 new torpedoes building Altoona j Another destroyer or cruiser Local Board No Ninth sibly hit by two torpedoes Twelfth and Fourteenth On the next day in page column 1 was a false alarm resulting from the cause stated At police headquarters all officers were contacted at the first sound of the alarm and all the men on duly kept a sharp lookout for sible burglars NOW WAK WASHINGTON D C Dec one-man Arthur W of is a Japanese prisoner of war The war department disclosed that credited with handedly killing at least 116 nese and capturing many more ing the Philippines campaign is in a Japanese prison camp PROBE THEFT OF SUGAR RATIONING AND TIRE PAPERS Parked in the lot at Tenth and Fourteenth street the automobile of Mrs vin Martin of 613 street was ransacked hy a thief last night and six sugar rationing certificates and a tire registration certificate taken from the glove compartment The were made out in the names of six children in the Martin family tion is made hy the police to chants dealing in sugar that they keep a lookout for the certificates to the end fiat it may he possible to catch the thief Mrs Beverly Brant a guest u he Mil tier hotel reported to police last night that her room been entered some time on day night and a portable radio Continued on 2 3 ALARM SOUNDED At o'clock this morning a firo alarm was sounded from box No 323 at the Pennsylvania road South Altoona foundries There was no fire in the plant An error made in sounding a lesi alarm at that hour Company No A responded lo the call and rin ar rival round that it was R test ol the alarm system son of kfr and Mrs Irvin Dively department of public safety ni i ing from the entrance of N Johnston dairy and food inspector of the health bureau into the ed forces became effective today The appointments were made last CLAYSBURG YOUTH CHANGES MADE IN FATALLY HURT IN CITY DEPARTMENT FALL FROM TRUCK i OF PUBLIC SAFETY This photo transmitted hy phone from Mo to Xew York Harrison E of towa unanimously chairman of the Republican national to succeed Joseph Martin of Massachusetts Spansler was Die after of Wendell f haii in two ballots in slopping the election VV Chicago lawyer Italy port with a tremendous load of bombs and while the Italian government was frenziedly trying to pre- vent vital war workers from fleeing industrial centers It was believed that a knockout blow had been RUSSIAN FORCES SEVENTH JAP MOVE SMASH POSITIONS TO REINFORCE NEW HELD BY By jr S HANDLER Slaff Correspondent MOSCOW Dec Russian forces smashed German today southwest of Stalingrad and on the Rzhev front northwest of Moscow where the axis forces were reported to contain special ments assigned to shoot any soldier abandoned his post Front dispatches reported that Germans were rushing forcements by train truck and plane to all fronts especially the Luki triangle where The their casualties were very newspaper Pravda snid prisoners reported that special dis- detachments had been sent to the front miles northwest of Moscow to shoot soldiers who attempted to retreat before the fierce soviet onslaught Soviet communiques reported thai upwards of German had been slain in the last two days The soviet mid-day communique reported several now German had been repulsed GUINEA SHATTERED By TAVES Slaff Correspondent GENERAL Mac ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS Australia Dec delivered to Turin last night in the sixth raid in less than two months and that like Genoa it could be marked off the allied bombers calling list while at- tention was given to such other industrial cities as Milan Last night's blasting the American attack on Naples and Monday's pounding of Reggio on the Australia Dee f heavy bombers on the j southern tip of Italy gave new emphasis to the Minister Winston Churchill on Nov 29 attempt to reinforce the that Italians must decide whether to get out of the war al Bulla undergo scientific thorough and continuous enemy garrisor announced today Medium bombers at he same time went back to Lae main fighter base ou New and gave it another battering I TO ASK I ing from both England and Africa One Bomber Lost Today's allied communique said Japanese planes had violated the rules of war since Nov 27 hy re- attacks on field hospitals CHICAGO Dec and dressing stations i lives of the big In ground fighting Americans road brotherhoods announced today that hey wilt serve notice on all the I railroads for a TO cent wage increase or ft minimum Japanese attempts to wipe out an allied spearhead between Buna lage and the Buna mission Forty enemy dead were counted after the i of a for men who fighting The heavy bombers caught a Only one bomber failed to MORE A DAY return from Turin last night indicating that German forcement of Italian craft defenses promised by Premier Benito Mussolini last week so far was not effective Perhaps to keep the help from arriving the RAF on the nation's trains j Sunday night bombed German west of the enemy Charles Paul Dively Changes in personnel in the city of met instant death at 5.30 o'clock last evening when hi apparently fell from the rear of a truck operated by his uncle Jesse Eicher of Claysburg The body of young Dively was found lying along a highway ing from the boy's home to hurg by Ralph M of 2507 Eleventh street an collector His death was due to fractured skull The youth was riding in the truck bed with his uncle and aunt Mr and Mrs Eicher seated in the cab of the truck The other were unaware of the acci dent until they received word later of the boy's death with Mr and Airs thinking that the boy had gotten off the truck to join band of skaters on a pond the road as the victim had his skates with him Coroner Chester C Rothrock an 1 the stale motor police investigated the accident From their Continued on pace 2 column MEAT HONK BOSTON Dec out- signs were posted today hy ton's only wholesale dealer in horse meat Manager David of the Clinton Beef Co which ed in the sale of horse meat here reported that this original ment of pounds was ed in forty-eight hours but that he expected another 30.000 pounds day or Saturday MUST KK CKVSHKQ CHICAGO Dec C Grew former ambassador to Japan said last night thai Japan's new order in intended to embrace the whole world and is premised upon a devouring militarism of such proportions that only its extermination can remove Us perpetual menace to free peoples week by Director Jacob Weber and confirmed by city council following civil service examinations Roy E Mitchell who has been secretary and clerk serving all the bureaus in the department since Jan S 1910 assumed office as cessor to Mr Johnston for the ration of the war as dairy and inspector while Miss Mary F Kelli her succeeds Mr Mitchell jn the secretarial office Mr Mitchell is the fourth man to hold position of inspector The post was created when the Continued on papc 2 column n losing 400 men killed Six man field guns eight and six trench mortars were de- Heavy fighting was also at Stalingrad where a Russian unit drove axis forces from for- positions southwest of thn city and killed more than 200 enemy troops German motorized infantry ported by tanks launched a attack on another sector southwest of Stalingrad striking at the flank of a Russian detachment Four tanks fifteen trucks and upwards were s Announcement of the strong Japanese destroyer convoy at Karlsruhe off St George New Ireland j of 750 local nf and Pforzheim on the main the between New Britain the five brotherhoods convened lo i and alternate lines into an alternate lines into Italy Turin has been the target of the last four raids against Italy from Britain The last three were all concentrated with the large Fiat motor and airplane works as the targets Triple block buster bombs loaded with pounds of explosive Continued ou page 2 column i of a company of infantry destroyed before the German 15 iur convened lo and New Ireland 400 miles i of Buna Heavy bombs were spewed l lo that already lo around the ships The leading the hy was hit and another was j brotherhoods representing listing badly from near misses as KM employes the convoy fled This attack ran to twelve the T Japanese ships sunk or damaged j I I A I V since I in unsuccessful j 1 1 ft u i tempts to reinforce the Buna and j Gona garrisons Ships sunk include one cruiser i The convoy may have come from Rabaul Other forces beaten off recently have been caught in the Huon gulf off and in the German thrown back northwest of grad where more than 100 enemy on pi 3 S Dec can members of the state house oT representatives determined to ry out Governor-elect tin's wishes for a short like session fixed April IS as tentative date of adjournment of the 1913 legislature treacherous Vitiaz straits northwest of IN TUNISIA BEATEN BY TO HALT FLIGHT OF WAR WORKERS lly W Staff Press BURN Dee measures in Italy to cope with disorder the light of industrial workers from likely scenes of allied air raids were reflected today in of- fascist government decrees Premier Benito Mussolini's order for civil mobilization of nil in- 1 lowed by orders all schools i Dec to Feb ton to the evacuation of children front and to save War Summary By Staff Allied pressure on mounted royal air force ment ot northern trial triangle The new attack was directed chiefly or in three ecks It tame at a moment when allici nir power in the Mediterranean south of showed evidence of a steady increase both to the east and Hie west of the axis positions in Tunisia and Planes from the allied Africa forces struck at on Italy's southern lip at Italian and objectives in the while the RAF long rangu RAF raid on Ilic site ot some Italy's big war plants bombers were mining high ex- plosives on northern Italy The attacks were expected to spread further terror ness in an Italy already stirred by the imminent prospect of hemming an active war A whole of drastic new de- crees have been promulgated in Premier Mussolini in -in cl fort lo restore calm and preprint the country for the increasing lied pressure Italian workers were placed der a drastic civil mobilization de- cree under which they are liable to be shot if they absent i Tourists were ordered LONDON Dec artillery at s j blasted back axis forces the hills back of today to reports from front and nn re- twenty axis tanks have been destroyed African reported wit of ho the mite and mountain ureas to make room for children women and aged persons evacuated j from industrial cities Perhaps to prevent workers from running away from their jobs jn nir raid target areas the announced that net tickets would bt sold without sr that the nazi tanks wore I cial travel out in the hard battle of Sunday when the Germans were striving fiercely to blast American and AU ministerial offices except those nf the armed services were ordered lo at p m to selves from their jobs Schools were ordered closed from Dct lo Feb 15 lo facilitate the tion nf children from and to conserve furl All civilian rail fic was by Continued on page 18 column 5 ish out of their strong electric current and fuel positions in the The death penalty was ordered triangle j for robberies during air I I and prison terms for the destruction of three more during were emy including our brought i doubled down Hi Loss of civil allied planes was reported but pilot of one was safe The communique indicated activity in the last hours had died down somewhat with extensive croe provided that any lus post without sood reason would be tried by special tribunals in 1C rMl Thermometers at Die railroad On the Fence i Dec circles believed that Franc Franco has made plain that he desires to keep Spain neutral in Kif war That was the interpretation placed on Franco's address hu council which was privately as lip to the axis It was believed here that Franco hail to continue the fence as he has done since start of war im- forced hy armed action by nne side or the other to take a positive stand There was no com- on the here and was until text had closely studied However it was noted that Franco position armed nf both many and Italy and that he has always stated his public port of Hie axis One source that similar lip to the axis might be from Spanish leaders up to the moment of Knal defeat hitl that this did not alter the fart that Spain to out nf and F o it Diplomatic circles that Franco well succeed in his ambition of poing through on the lines yesterday However from Africa said that the allies had won fi lighter grip on their positions will aid nf Continued on page column 4 building recorded as the low temperature 19 as the temperature yesterday afternoon and 11 degrees as the temperature at 9 o'clock this rooming IX C Dec Western snow tonight in portion early tonight rather
