Bradford Era (Newspaper) - August 20, 1941, Bradford, Pennsylvania Weather far Today with moderate Cooler at wanner Detailed Report on Faffs 7500 ABO Net Paid Oldest Newspaper In the Rich Bradford Oil Field Associated Press Service Telephone 3173 Signs Full Authorizing Dam Job ON STATUS Average to Be 18 Order Holds HINGES the Associated Aug. 19-Settees and National be held in service 0 average of less than 18 instead of the 30-gjnth latch authorized by the Army announced sources said the also asserted that Guardsmen would be released before should give a pronounced troop releases are subject that country more involved In hope was expressed that be necessary to hold now in training for Item permissible under the signed by Heads Morale i coupled with 1 announcement that a H. Osborn of New TA would become chief of morale branch with the a4 tf was re evidence of an effort by Jag leaders to end criticism that many army camps was at lot A. sent to the of General executive and social as successor to Brigadier Junes A. General wiU undergo an which will keep him duty for several Gi id officers of the reserve and Guard who were brought eral service before end win be of the trenches 1 and trainees who were on July 1 and married n ask releases will be m that order of After selectees and Guardsmen as released an average 18 total active as early as 14 to ABay Fears Army sources expressed the the high command was to aSay apprehension In I. that the 30-jhBedtwas an arbitrarily fixed now have assurance wm be kept only as long on Page 3-Column 3) Kills 2 and Hagerstown Are Victims Aug 18-Altoona youth and a woman were killed others critically injured in the collision an and a truck on the six miles west of were 100118161 Parros and Mrs. George was Mrs. died of injuries at the also passengers of the are Mrs. Helen of young and 43, both of Parros was taken to County where she suffering from a skull Argenas is in the same I with a possible fracture of Md internal J. 25, of the truck was taken Project in Allegheny River Would Be One of Many in Control Program No Progress During Emergency the Associated Aug. 19-A authorizing a flood control including three projects in was signed today by President who declared all projects would be held up which are not important to national If Necessary Quoting Chief Says Americans Don't Realize Seriousness REFRESHED BY TRIP Charges Confusion - harry flood Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia told the Senate yesterday matt yield to the defense which most be Byrd Demands Defense Stepup Senator Asks Shakeup in Production Full Work Week the Associated Aug. 19 - Senator Byrd today demanded complete reorganization of the defense production system and told the Senate that and must yield to the rearmament has the capacity in raw materials to any other nation in the production of mechanized he that Job the past two years we have failed and miserably and the sooner we as a nation re it the better we can remedy our mistakes and go Ne Camp Equipped Right He called for the suspension of the 40-hour and the of a full week working he charged that not single Army camp has an adequate supply of due to conflicting and overlapping exists a degree at Washington as virtually to stymie the whole defense he adding the Office of Production Management and the Office of Price Administration and Civilian Supply were in a bitter battle behind the and by executive order they have been given conflicting The entire defense program should be placed under a single he it developed that Pres on Page 2) The measure merely authorizes construction of of projects without appropriating funds for The Pennsylvania projects included in the are the Allegheny River reservoir and flood control dam near War the Stillwater reservoir on the Lackawanna and flood control work on the Susquehanna River at which been estimated to cost The President's action in signing the White House officials was part of his declared policy of creating a backlog of projects which may be undertaken after the present They could be used at that time to take up a slack in employment caused by the lessening of the pace of defense Mr. Roosevelt said in a statement Flood Control authorizes the construction of new flood control but it does not make any appropriations for that The projects are to be undertaken speedily as t may be consistent with budgetary require from whatever funds may be In approving this I wish to make it clear that during the present emergency I do not intend to submit estimates of appropriation or approve allocations of funds for any project which does not have important value in. national - The Allegheny River multi-purpose project providing for hydro-electric pollution abatement and flood is the largest of a series of flood control projects designed to protect western Pennsylvania from flood Advocates of the project contend that it would provide Pittsburgh and other river communities with an unlimited supply of fresh Several small including the Cornplanter Indian reserve tion near would be inundated by water backed up by the The man-made lake would extend into southern New The Stillwater reservoir on the Lackawanna River at Forrest City would provide a water supply for that community well as Scran 25 miles Motor Patrolman John J. young Parros was driving and that the entire top Wan was ripped off in the Rationing Goes West Herniation Will Be Than in East Aug. 19 secretary or the in an interview today rationing would be shortage but I think you share the transportation causes the shortage here on a of he to be so stringent lections as in the east. Blamed in Death Man Held in Crash Fatal to Mrs. W. C. Howe Aug. IB County Coroner E. S. Erhard ed today a jury had recommended that Morris W. of be held for the grand jury on a charge of involuntary manslaughter as the result of a highway accident August 5,-ln which Mrs. William C. Howe of Glenn was The accident occured at the intersection of routes 119 and 332 near The inquest was held in a DuBois where Mr. Howe is a Sheibel was released from the hospital last Mrs. Howe was the sister of Mrs. Harry Remington of West Corydon and Fred and John Maitland of Derrick the Associated Aug. 19-By quoting Abraham Lincoln and drawing a President Roosevelt said indirectly but nonetheless clearly today that the do not realize this nation has a war to and that tough will be necessary to win it. he said that the war If continue through 1943" and he disclosed that a new survey of prospective defense de liveries as contrasted with the needs of Russia and China had been First Farley Since Return The Chief Executive was holding his first press conference here since his with Winston the British Prime and the first since the by a bare approved the idea of keeping draftees and others in the Army beyond the periods for which they were nally Perhaps reading during the idle moments of his recent per haps because an aide drawn it to his Mr. Roosevelt had run across the Lincoln Obviously and what he considered its aptness to the present had Impressed him deeply because he had it copied and for distribution to the It was an excerpt from Carl Sandburg's War and told of an between Lincoln and a group of led by Mrs. Mary A. Livermore of it happened a year after the Civil War The excerpt T have no word of ment to was the reply President The military situation is far from bright the country knows it as well as I Silence Was Painful women were They knew it was a heart-to-heart that he was telling them what he could not well tell the that he was frankly relieving the burden of an overweighted It was silence of a but and said Mrs. The President went The fact is the people have not yet made up their minds that we are at war with the They have not buckled down to the determination fight this war For they have got the idea into their heads that we are going to get out of this fix somehow by That's the General McClellan thinks he is going to whip the Rebels by and the army has got the same They have no idea that the war is to be carried on and put through by tough Nazis Lay Siege to Gain Fifty Miles in North Reds Admit Withdrawal To Novgorod Two Major Reich Drives on Leningrad Front Reported Advanced BAR FLIGHT BY SEA When rumors spread suddenly through a crowd of 10,000 rollicking Negroes In New fork that many of their tickets for a Hudson river excursion were three persons were killed and 75 injured in the resulting Police are shown above of the injured on the waterfront deck after 1 the rioting had been on Page 4) Seek Body in Bay Plane Carries Officer into 1 Saved Joe Louis and Wife Are Reunited In Of f ice Where Hearing Is Held She Drops Divorce Couple Leaves Hand Hand After 45-Minute Conference Alone New Aug. 19 police and naval tugs grappled In Jamaica Bay tonight for the body of Lieut. Robert W. Powers of New who crashed in a training plane less than a half mile Cadet William O'Connell freed himself from the wreckage and was rescued by a pleasure He was taken unconscious to the naval air base at Floyd Bennett where he was treated for cuts about the Powers was a naval O'Connell a The plane apparently developed engine trouble while the two were oh a flight this Death Takes Local Woman Mrs. Elizabeth Mclntire Dies at Walters Reg Last Night Mrs. Elizabeth M. aged 75,.of:277. East Main died at the home of her Mrs. John B. in Red Rock at 6:35 o'clock last She suffered a stroke on August 11, and her condition had been grave since that She had been taken to the Walters home at Red Rock when she became ill. Mrs. Mclntire was bom August 17, 1866, in and came to Bradford with her the late Mr. and Mrs. Frank during the early oil excitement in 1876. She had resided in this vicinity since that Her the late C. died 35 years Mrs. a woman of strong character and was ad mired and respected by all who knew She was a member of Church of the the Daughters of the Church of the and the Rebekah Her survivors include one daugh Mrs. John B. Walters of Red two Mrs. Kenneth Grant of Evans and Miss Betsey Walters of Red one of Red a Hayward S. Wheeler of Los Charles L. Wheeler of Another Mrs. Belle died six years The body was removed to the Memorial chapel and later taken to the home in East Main where funeral services will be held at a time to be in Aug. 19 - Mr. and Joe Louis were reunited The scene of their reconciliation was the office of a master in chancery who had been holding hearings to determine how much alimony the heavyweight estranged wife should receive pending trial of her divorce The title holder his in a room alone tot 45 Then his Julian Black and Jack Black emerged and back together Shell drop her They'll start from scratch Somebody asked how peace had been restored and Black love each That's And Mr. and Mrs. Louis sealed the bargain with a hug and a kiss and left for their hand m The couple's marital troubles reached the courts last July 2, when she filed a petition for a divorce on grounds of Louis denied the in Chancery Dwight 8. Boob began hearing testi mony yesterday on alimony But at the start of. the second round attorneys neither litigant wanted to carry the legal They were in 1935. Man Is Geared in Death Jury Miner Shot Man Self Defense at Doorstep in Aug. 19 Michael 51-year-old coal miner of was exonerated today by a jury which held he had acted in self defense in the fatal shooting of Joseph 30, also of in the Thomas home last District Attorney George C. Cummins said Ezarik was shot as he tried to wrench open the front door of the Thomas home where the older man had fied following his to drink with the Gives Up Missing Treasurer of Allegany County Is in Jail in Belmont Aug. 19 Sheriff Edson A. Brigham said that Claude L. Allegany county treasurer missing since last January 28, had surrendered voluntarily and was being held on charges of misappropriation of funds and second degree grand The sheriff asserted he met Cummings today in a railroad station after receiving a telegram from the missing official He said Cummings was held in the county jail at Belmont and probably would be arraigned Friday in Allegany county Sheriff Brigham gave no details of where Cummings had been since he disappeared from his home A recent audit of books by the state comptroller's office charged him with a shortage of approximately 6 Children to Be Buried Aug. 19 funeral rites for the six children of Merl Bush who died in an explosion and fire at their home near here will be held Wednesday p. at the Ebenezer The six small caskets will be buried in the church cemetery near the former Bush about eight miles southwest of Gilbert Jefferson county who is investigating the tragedy with state said he would decide shortly whether an inquest was Dock Fire Toll Undetermined 5 Known Bodies Are Taken from of Burned the Associated Aug. 19-Firemen recovered two charred bodies from the deck of the Cuba mall line freighter but at 30 hours after the swift destruction of the 3,570-ton its cargo and the death toll was still There were five known dead and 72 injured of whom 32 remained in bers of the ship's crew of 35, and about 35 longshoremen were Wait To Probe Holds As a special board of inquiry heard testimony that a spark from a lighter might have caused the Brooklyn waterfront blaze which did an estimated Marine police grappled in the pier wreckage for bodies and fireman awaited an opportunity to explore the ship's holds where officials expressed fear some were John F. pier superintendent of the steamship told the inquiry board of the U. S. Bureau of Marine inspection and navigation that is a strong possibility that a spark from a stove on a lighter did cause the There were about 1,500 bales of able sisal hemp on the and manuel said he saw the fire start Seven lighters were moored alongside the ship and by Manuel do not believe any on Page 8 Die in Air Crash Liner Wrecks on Brazil Mountain Peak Sao Aug. 16 Eight persons were two were injured seriously and three slightly in the crash of Do Brasil liner on a mountain peak 15 miles south of here rescue parties reported The only North Americans aboard the Prof. Philip C. Jessup of New York and Hugh Davles of reached a Sao Paulo suburb late today along with David the plane's The three suffered only Davies had telephoned that Jessup and the steward tried for an hour to extricate the others and finally gave up on the assumption they were A rescue party reaching the scene of the crash this evening said they found two of the remaining 10 persons oh board seriously Novak said it was almost dusk when the plane fell He said that Jessup and Davies got out of the wreckage and after trying to save the others wandered most of the night through the Back from Dives Vigorously into Duties Arrives But Greeted Elliott Roosevelt Arrives in London by Aug. 19 in smiles and cigar Prime Minister Churchill returned home today from his historic Atlantic conference with President Roosevelt and in short order did all these - Told the war cabinet about the meeting at sea and the agreement to speed the war of extermination against Arranged to tell the public about it in a radio address next Sunday night j Went to see of the ' Had luncheon with King George and gave him a personal letter from The time and place of Churchill's arrival had not been a crowd was there when he bounded off the train which brought him from the port at which the battleship Prince of Wales had landed him High officials and cabinet a red-eyed from arising at an unaccustomed were among those waiting on the S. Ambassador John G. Winant tried vainly to get Churchill greeted her husband with Winant is puffing his big cigar like a destroyer under forced draught elbowed through to greet the In passing he commended A. V. First Lord of the for the Navy's handling of the Atlantic Amid the a trainload of commuters recognized cheers for Mr. cried a dignified old gentleman in a wing leading off an enthusiastic At the luncheon with the Churchill presented President Roosevelt's a reply to one King George had written to the It was disclosed that Capt. Elliott who attended the conference as a military aid to his had arrived in London and called at the S. the Associated The southernmost of two major German drives on Leningrad has advanced some 50 miles beyond previously reported positions to the vicinity of the Soviet command acknowledged Moscow's early morning communique reported also a resumption of heavy action about above tha northern Ukrainian and violent and inconclusive fighting about Odessa on the Black where tha Nazis yesterday opened a grand attack intended to end the struggle for the lower western Ukraine and give them control of all the Black Sea coast from the Dnieper Rivet to the Rumanian The German thrust to the Novgorod which is about 100 mOM south of apparently waa accomplished by column last the vicinity of to the Bassians Engage which miles reported the Russians trenched in new after ing back 50 miles deeper into on the Leningrad and battling mammoth German movement from the south and southwest The Germans admittedly bad Marshal in the Novgorod area heaviest Still another offensive of the striking down the Karelian Isthmus from the but the Finns while claiming a progressive encirclement of Red acknowledged that Russian resistance was Stage Is Behind Sooth The general picture in the north thus appeared to be that while the invaders were making progress the crisis for Leningrad still could not in any case be considered so imminent as was the showdown in the As to the the Germans claimed that the fall of an important naval was imminent and described the city and individual on the lower on Page Tunnel Job Looms Delaware River Tube at Philadelphia Likely Aug. 19 Smathers after a conference with President Roosevelt today said he expected within 48 hours an announcement by the Reconstruction Finance Corporation approving plana for a tunnel under the Delaware The senator has advocated construction of the tunnel as a defense It would provide vehicular connection from a point in Gloucester N. to Hog Island near Plans call for the RFC to finance the tunnel which is expected to be self-liquidating through collection of RAF Hits Ships Nazi Vessel Left Sinking Yards Are Blasted as Raff Aug. 20 Two relays of British bombers attacked Nazi targets in France last night after daylight operations in which the air said 12 German planes were down and many hit ai One of the Nazi ships was left the communique The British acknowledged losing 15 three bombers and twelve fighters hi ' Railway yards at Hazebrouck were blasted and docks at and Boulogne
