Bradford Era (Newspaper) - May 2, 1944, Bradford, Pennsylvania The Weather b and a little cooler fOL. 67. NO 155, alais t Newspaper In the Rich Bradford Oil Field Every Morning Except Sunday Newspaper That's Bead In the Home 1877) TUESDAY MAY 2,1944 ASSOCIATED PRESS FOUR Councilmen CJ to Tighten ontrol of Dogs Plans Made for Rental of t0 Be Used as Dog Will Quirk ed Engineer Map I Henry steps to aid in the control of dogs running in Bradford were made yesterday at a meeting of City Mil in the mayor's public parlors with the naming of i Weldy as dog catcher Keni Found for to renting of a lor use as a If this sot of a dog as to fc the report by Chief of the police and Hay health officer ' * of fl committee dl to investigate the present situation in j plans drawn up by Acting Sam Heffner were presented Edmonds and Vogel for erection a 12 by 24 feet on city m the vicinity of the or at the city's for construction of ad to tabled until definite can be obtained that to property is HI Import Dogs Chief Edmonds informed council Weldy has started on his duties aid that all dogs found sing loose licenses will destroyed according to the state t. Dogs with caught running be impounded for a period HO days snd if not by its fey tEia will be it chief also pointed out that si are not cooperating as id under the city must not be taken out of doors toe city unless they are on a failure to leash dogs is a tat violation of the present and owners are to arrest and e business occupied the the nro hour session Upon recommendation of a J. Bernard of streets and J. Henry a member of forces now serving reappointed city engineer s term of four starting l. and at the same time given of Mr. Hannon also tended Samuel Heffner act on Sails On Its Second Exchange Trip Swedish Liner Is Due Back Early in June With Wounded Prisoners From Reich ury Navy Secretary With Na tion 9s Heroes ' hunk of really consorted with the cherubs for a half hour in a recent match at 111. whose real name is Maurice was heaved on his head in a bout with Don Koch and was knocked unconscious for 30 Tank Forces May 1 - The Swedish exchange liner j will sail tomorrow to carry out second exchange of seriously sick and wounded war prisoners with Involved in the exchange also will be a number of other persons entitled to repatriation under the Geneva Bed Cross the State and War Departments The exchange is to take place at about May 17, and the American repatriates are expected to land in New York early in The names of American servicemen to be brought home will not be available until after the leaves Barcelona for its return j The announcement did not say how many German or American prisoners would be The which has already made three exchange trips and brought home wounded American war prisoners on its last journey across the will travel both ways under safe conduct from all The Spanish Government has been asked to cooperate by lending its facilities for the r Stilwell Makes Gains In North Burma With Aid of Armored Units 16, Retired From Air Force S. Ship Sink s dite % 1 loss men in recent sinking of ship by enemy today bv ship by Kn was date of May 1 former Pittsburgh schoolboy who has been decorated with the Air Medal for his work as a gunner on a Liberator bomber is being retired from the U. S. Army Air Force at the age of 16. He is Sgt. DeSales A. son of Mrs. John J. McGrath of veteran of more than 18 months in the Air Corps and of six bombing including one to He was grounded a dispatch from England said when it was learned he was and that he had enlisted when - the third transport loss of life of the ship was attacked by -in the brief 1qa9 Ad- mention survivors or | he was 14, on October 14, 1942. Ad Southeast Asia May 1 Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's invasion reinforced bya crack medium is smashing the Japanese steadily back in Northern Burma and may capture the enemy railroad city of before the monsoon rains pour down about May 15. Announcement that was blasting through the jungle with the first all-American armored unit to fight on the Asiatic continent just two years from the day when he began his original painful retreat out of he took what he frankly termed hell of a Stilwell observed the anniversary with a typically salty declaration that it the Allies with on the opening land communications India and and putting tremendous effort into the Ledo Stilwell's forces have fought approximately 120 miles into Burma from the India border and are within 30 miles of an important station on the main north-south railway between and The fighting around the Allied communications center of in India followed a confused with British and Indian troops officially reported continuing operations difficult country against strong enemy Stiffer enemy resistance was reported just north of a village 22 miles north of Imphal on the highway between Imphal and Frank Knox Is Buried on Slope in Arlington Overlooking National Expresses Condolences May 1.-(A3)-Frank Knox joined today the nation's military dead who rest from war in Arlington National The secretary of the American Navy was buried on a slope looking out over National Capitol while the envoys and representatives of the United Nations stood with bowed The high commanders of the and Marines stood rigidly at attention as three precise volleys cracked over the grave and a bugle called 2-Mile Line of Mourners A perhaps as great as any that have lined a cortege route since the burial of the Unknown Soldier in stood along the two miles of streets and roadways leading to The black with its rumbled through the hot spring air while Waves and Spars marched m to the somber notes of a Navy The tribute that the throng along the the cabinet members and military paid silently at the graveside was expressed in the sermon of Dr. Fred who conducted the funeral services at the Mount Pleasant Congregational church and by Prime Minister Churchill in a message to President The pastor gave the thanks of the nation that it had had dauntless spirit which never questioned cost to a leader who died while toiling to help win the greatest The prime speaking for himself and his majesty's said that no one could have been more in all our cult times than was this distinguished American statesman and war Widow Bent With Grief But for the thunder of the 19-gun the gleam of shoulder stars and braid and the final notes of the bugle went almost It was her husband they were burying while she stood bent with resting on the arm of a naval About Mrs. Knox were gathered the cabinet member colleagues of President away from the was unable to but Mrs. with her Mrs. John were at Mrs. Knox's The hour of the services at Arlington was remembered out on the sea The hundreds of thousands of Navy men for whom Knox was held services wherever combat did not Britain's were at mourning position on the masts of her 70 years died last Friday after a series of heart House Coalition Press Montgomery Ward Inquiry w Showdown May Be Demanded Today in Effort to Force Resolution to Floor - Report of Senate Investigator Awaited May 1.-(IP)-Rep. Cox ranking member of the House Rules said tonight he had been that the group would report to the full membership of the House tomorrow a resolution for investigation of the government seizure of the Montgomery Ward Chicago Last Heard From 3 Days Before Bataan Wires He'll Arrive Soon the a vekI sank 498 personnel are the The next oi ton oi the rcaa have teen three months the the loss oi 1��00 on an Allied ship sunk by in European waters on major transport disaster ft the loss of about and Marine corps and men in February an enemy submarine cargo is in a Sonn Atlantic opens Carnegie Steel ministration officials said he probably will be sent home and honorably Born in he came with his family to Pittsburgh after finishing the first His mother said her eldest son had no trouble enlisting because he was large for his concealing records of T steel plates delivered charged with 35 - Attorney expected the final JOT opening addresses to to be made noon FPHA Plans to Sell Westmoreland Project May 1. for selling the government's Westmoreland homesteads in Western Pennsylvania to tenants of the project may be ready this the Federal Public Housing Authority disclosed Spokesmen for the to whose control the resettlement project was transferred from the Farm Security Administration in 1942, said the plans are expected to be sufficiently developed during May to be ready lor submission to the The government's capital investment in the Homestead of approximately 1,200 persons is FPHA divided as community facilities and May 1. telegram from San Francisco today informed Mrs. John F. Cain that her Sgt. J. Francis who was on Bataan when it will home No additional information was Last direct word from Sgt. Cain was a letter written April 6, 1942- three days before American troops on Bataan The father died two weeks Submit Resolutions To Lower Draft Age May 1-(JP)-Two resolutions proposing constitutional amendments to lower the voting age from 21 to 18-to conform to the military draft submitted to the legislature Both went to committee and apparently were doomed if plans for a five-day session are carried It requires thre legislative days in both House and Senate for final Thomas J. Heatherington and Anthony J. offered the plan in the House where Democratic Floor Leader Cohen announced it was not party r Court Fight Over Seizure of Montgomery Ward May 1. Montgomery Ward and engaged in a momentous court battle against control of the huge firms Chicago maintained today seizure of the property lacked a legal foundation and contended no similar action had been taken the days of King Attorney General Francis Biddle argued that President Roosevelt a great constitutional reserve of power as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and that his authority was sufficient to place the facilities in federal and that business of any kind is immune from that The scene of the legal duel was the crammed court room of Federal Judge William H. Basis of the arguments was Biddle's petition for an injunction prohibiting Ward executives from interfering with government operation of the Chicago units of the mail order and mercantile The jurist issued a temporary restraining order to that effect Thursday night and the company countered with a motion to dismiss it. If the court quashed the order it would pave the way for a company suit to evict the federal operators and for a return to headquarters of Sewell Ward's chief executive officer who was carried out by troops Thursday on the first full day of government May 1.-(AP) -A coalition of Democrats and Republicans fought against administration forces today in an effort to force an immediate House vote on a resolution to investigate the government seizure of the Montgomery Ward plant in Urges Off Speaker Sam indicating the administration favors a said he did not know when the House would take up the But Democrats Cox of Georgia and Smith of Virginia triad to rally a majority of Rules Committee members to call a special meeting tomorrow morning with a view to forcing Chairman Sabath to submit the legislation to the floor Rep. Dewey author of the declared he would take the floor tomorrow to demand a showdown with Rep. Fish ranking Republican on the Rules Committee predicted the House would vote 4 to 1 to investigate the Investigator Awaited An investigator sent to Chicago by the Senate Judiciary Committee will return to Washington Wednesday and Chairman McCarran predicted prompt committee action will follow his McCarran said question uppermost in the minds of Congress Are we preserving a government by law which is basic to this form of democracy or are we by any misinterpretation or overstep forgetting that we are a government by law and attempting to set up a government by Rep. Hoffman submitted legislation in the House today requiring a such as Montgomery to have at least 50 per cent of its output definitely classed as war material before the government may seize it to end a labor Frank Fockler Named To Price Ration Board May 1-Ray district director of the Office of Price announced nt of Frank of the Bradford Board of as Service of the Bradford War Price and Rationing Triplets Born in N. 2 in 3rd in Elevator New May 1. - Latest entry in New York City's marathon of multiple births is a set of triplets born in an automobile and the third in a hospital elevator after a frenzied race with the stork The born to Mrs. Virginia 26, were two five pounds and a four The hospital reported all doing very Father of the children is Frank 27, foreman for a luggage s r J. r MISS LUCILE of the University of has ben appointed law clerk of the Supreme Court by Chief Justice William O. Miss Lomen is the first woman to hold this Soldier Vote Bills Offered State Solons Meeting To Erase Red Tape - -Backed by Both Parties May 1 A group of bills designed to eliminate red tape in soldier voting was introduced in the house today with the backing of both Republican and Democratic The meeting on the first day of an expected five-day special also were asked to approve legislation appropriating to carry out the military ballot to finance and annual conference of governors to be held here May 28 to 31, and to pay the costs of the Introduced by House leaders Franklin H. Reuben E. the bills provide The governor a tary ballot about Aug. 1-to compile lists of qualified absentee voters serving in the armed the merchant American Red the Society of the Women's Auxiliary Service Pilots or United Service Organizations wheather such person is registered or enrolled in accordance with the Local election officials sit on ballot from 7 a. m. until 8 p. m. to receive names and addresses of eligible absentee The commonwealth bears the costs of paying the election Ballots shall be mailed automatically to all qualified absentee voters without requests at least 65 days before an election and ballots shall be received by election boards up to 10 a. m. on the third Wednesday after an election present law requires applications for ballots be made not more than 50 days and not less than 30 days before an election and the ballots be returned within 10 days after an State Motorists Urged To Have Cars Checked May 1. motorists were urged today to act as quickly as possible to get their automobiles checked during the semi-annual inspection period between May 1 and July 31. David W. secretary of said inspection becomes a patriotic during the because safety of our particularly those who are compelled to travel daily in the war is fh nu nu nuu RAF Picks Up With Night Raids Against Continent 2,500 Planes Hurled Against Vital Points In Occupied France - German Radios Leave Air Again With Reports of Violent Combats Against Nazi Defense Forces May 1.-(AP)-Gen. Eisenhower's invasion command opened this month for the sullen millions of Europe today by hurling more than 2,500 planes against Axis defenses on the Calais coast Britain and a vast network of rail junctions supporting Six Planes Missing Three U. S. bombers and three fighters were missing after the all-day and an American communique said five enemy planes were shot Bombing results were and enemy resistance almost Even Nazi anti-aircraft fire was only the bulletin Late tonight German among them the began falling usual sign that RAF night raiders were in Two thousand American heavy and light fighters and aided by swarms oi Allied planes pounded the area of the coast and numerous rail junctions on a 225-mile front extending through Belgium and France to the German border in this continuing aerial offensive which was raisine the curtain on lunge against the waHs of the German continental Over Europe Again dawn to dusk of this 17th straight day of aerial onslaught the Allied planes German and tonight the German radio said that Allied medium bombers had entered southwest Germany where were engaged in violent air combats against German Axis broadcasts also said the U. S. planes of the Mediterranean command had made a on Florence in Five hundred U. Flying Fortresses and Liberators and as many fighters struck 20 miles across the channel at the mystery installations on the Calais coast without losing a Another American heavy bomber formation of equal strength punched at railway yards at the Belgian Liege near the frontier and four other important rail 80 miles of 85 miles southeast of 185 miles east of and on the German border 40 miles east of Smash at Rail Centers More than 275 American workhorse Marauder and Havoc bombers Italian Plane Plants Blasted By U. S. Forts Factories at Varese And Bresso Port of Genoa and Livorno Also Attacked Allied May 1 crippling blow was struck against trolled Italian aircraft production when large formations of Flying Fortresses yesterday bombed factories at Varese and which manufacture speedy Macchi fighter 30 miles northwest of after bombs hit At five miles northeast of strings of explosives crashed into the main buildings and hangars were left Night bombers pounded the Port of Genoa for the third straight and spilled bombs upon on the west Liberator bombers delivered twin punches against two vital rail centers at Milan and Fires and explosions followed the concentrated blasting of which is a key point for heavy Nazi supply movements from Southern Smaller formations of heavy bombers blasted the Emilia airdrome northwest of Bologna and rail Ground action on the Italian front remained limited to small scale patrol A F of L Renews No Strike Pledge May 1 - The American Federation of Labor Executive Council renewed its pledge today and said that since its last appeal to the membership three months ago strikes have been called by any affiliated union of the AFL engaged in war President William answering news conference acknowledged some interruptions involving AFL unions had but said they were caused by local leaders or somebody influential in the local All of them were terminated There were very less since January than every He emphasized that none of these had the approval of the union Cautioning against any kind of letdown from overconfidence before or during the expected invasion of Nazi the council said in a we emphasize that this is no time to When the invasion starts and the fighting hits its highest the workers of America must carry out their assignments as a stern and solemn duty with the same spirit and the same high morale as our armed on Page Amos Gets Commission May 1.-(/P)-The military affairs department announced today the appointment of William E. as a second lieutenant in the Pennsylvania state guard and hfe assignment to Company 10th State Senate Voices Admiration for Kelly May 1. Senate today expressed its admiration for Technical Sergeant Charles E. of in a resolution commending his name live forever among the heroes whose feats of daring have become legends of American The Senate unanimously approved a resolution introduced by Senator McGInnis and sent it to the House for similar U. Property Is Held Immune From Tax May 1. the Supreme Court ruled Is Immune from taxation whether the tax is directed against the government itself or someone who leases the While the 7 to 2 decision applied specifically to a Pennsylvania who leased government the Justice Department previously had said the ruling would affect more than worth of war production Involved was a real estate tax which Allegheny levied against machinery in the plant of the Mesta Machine Co. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court had held that under state regardless of who possessed the the machinery constituted a part of the company's mill for assessment purposes and had been properly assessed as real Allegheny County contended that the machinery was not but was considered only as enhancing the value of The S. Supreme Court that the tax assessor actually had valued the plant machinery separately and pointed out that under the government's contract with Mesta the
