Bradford Era (Newspaper) - November 15, 1944, Bradford, Pennsylvania me weather on tost She Ir rir urn Oldest Newspaper In the Blck Bradford Oil field Every Except The Newspaper That's Bead In the Home 1877) WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 15, 1944. ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE FOUR CENTS of Metz to Americans Seems laval Fliers Smash 14 Jap 28 Planes in Manila line On Faces jib Through Toward Jap Move Troops Fails i part of Japan's on Leyte 0m^'& threat of as American surprised enemy by fisce of hard through southwest of m Carigara Chester W. the iuok or one knocked 28 Japanese and strafed 4^ was - cargo t Japanese mountains tons on RiEt ' In the 5-**S?P^ on dOTO terrific their gun County Given Quota for 6th War Loan Campaign McKean County War Finance leaders yesterday received assigned quotas for the Sixth War drive opening next 20, and continuing until December 16. Pennsylvania state headquarters of Finance in cooperation with the States Treasury have asked Bradford and McKean and industries to purchase of Sixth War Loan Bonds as their share of the national 14-bllllon-dollar Sixth War Loan This quota is considerably lower tlian the set in the recent War but this is largely due to the fact that national Sixth War Loan goal has been reduced from 16-bmions in the to 14-biUions for the according to H. McKean County War and H. W. Banking and Investment county chairman of the The following community quotas have been assigned McKean the division being based to a large extent on the proportion of bank deposits in each 370,000 Port Allegany 185,000 185.000 Mt. 37,000 FD to Take 4th Term Oath In White House Ceremony Congressional Applauds Chief * AT the 5W Nov. 14:-^(AP)-President Roosevelt has decided to do away with the usual inaugural trappings and take his fourth term oath in a simple Housie His decision to forego the customary Capitol Hill formalities and parade was by a Inaugural committee which applauded it as a sensible wartime Norwegians Go Back Home and Battle Germans ips Own Hon leland from Britain As I ians Devastating Nati on in Retreat ment Nov. 14.-(AP)- th own homeland the 6i itish have landed in Noi way and are operating with le Russians against the on the Arctic exiled ltd Leads ashore somewhere in the far the first detachments to since the Ill-fated 1940 campai n joined the Russians as the in retreat over the barren rastes of prepared defense lines in the south against a possiblE Allied Invasion froin the west linked with ah all-out Soviet The small under was led home by Col. commander of famous Alta battalion during bitter - days of V-2 Rocket Bomb Wrecks British Buildings ONE OF SECRET the V-2 rocket inflicted tUa wreckage somewhere In England when it with a The V-2 is to travel about 1,�00 miles an hour and to soar from 60 to 70 miles into the daring its flight Floyd Renamed Scout Council Head iWO Sig at the 96th over mountain a 1,332 foot midway between and the laat end fli the Page oy After Tirpitz blow at German after the sinking nine off Korway vessel Gendan south of * traveling losses without any The Admiralty several and was taken out the shore but their was his majesty's my material wheel brake lor a near CUH to a report to the local of Ouster City into one Bmb Huff Cliff street happened at 6:25 was was believed 261ocalMen In Erie Monday 33 McKean County Residents to Take Tests Next Week Twenty-six including two have been noUees by the McKean County Draft Board No. 3, to report In Erie on November 20, for induction into the anned The branch of service wHl be designated on the date of The men are to report to the local draft board quarters early Monday morning to board a bus for the Induction center following going away exercises to be held in the New Bradford Those called up Charles Eugene Wilbur Joseph Wilson James Jay Henry William Arthur Harold Jay Carl Walter Henry Wilson Donald Vincent Thomas McClain William Stanley Van ChesUey ATvis John William Jack Elwood Otto Kenneth Robert Olen Jack Franklin Theodore James Francis Marttn Orlo H. Frank Earnest Walter Owen Andrew Donald Francis Eugene Anthony Van Etten and Bellamy are the former from N. on Page Four Persons Indicted As Draft Violators Idea Win Save Money Amplifying at his news on this lb. Boosevelt said he made his choice because it would save He figured the whole cost could be held to he that meet of that would go for chicken a la and coffee at Ihe Congressional had been contemplating expending about Mr. Roosevelt It la headed by Senator Byrd leading advocate of and the President got obvious enjoyment out of relating how he had told Senator Byrd's committee how to save to Be As he was expanding on this some of the began to Turning to two women Mr. said they seemed to at what good housekeeper he not what Mr. on Page Pfc. Charles Wounded in Italy Pfc. Charles D. Loop was wounded in action in Italy on October 37, according to a telegram from the War Department received by his Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Loop of West The stated that the family would be further informed as to his Entering the Army in 1942, Pfc. was sent to North Africa in 1943, and arrived in Italy in April of this He is serving with the 337th Infantry of the If th troops operating home a government spokesman reported of Germans in retreat from to Troms who were leaving a trial of Two Towns Wiped Oat The spokesman said the far coastal town of and had been wiped and their Inhabitants had been sent fleeing into the barren wastes without shelter or The spokesman said the were reported to have ordered the destruction of every building from Narvik and the removal of the whole observers believed the news of the Norwegian landing would heighten German tension throughout It appeared likely that other Norwegian from the British Isles wiU soon those which have Joined the of the first detachments were highly skilled trained to fight under tic and familiar the barren far north the first units of Norway's police trained in Sweden during the past two were expected to arrive later this week in territory by the The arrival of the Norwegian detachments coincided with a stepped-up Allied sea and aerial offensive atong the norwegian especially in the north where military other than guerrilla are impossible on the inland President Doesn't Know Hitler's Whereabouts Nov. 14 doesn't know any more about Adolf Hitler's health or whereabouts than you A recalling speculation over the long silence of the German asked the President today if he knew anything about Mr. Boosevelt said all he had is Just the reports that he has seen in the Eagle Recognition Here Floyd Fretz was re-elected president of the Boy Scouts of at a banquet and meeting held last evening in The Approximately 160 scout leaders and their wives attended the Other officers elected for the coming year E. J. Bohensky of and J. T. Sarson vice L. A. of Emll Stenger of National Council and J. L. Hinaman of Council J. B. Hayward and O. K. both of were chosen Council members Board members elected included R. L. B. L. Henretty and R. H. of Paul and A. W. E. CNeil Kane of J. W. of and Earl H. W. Zimmer and W. R. Pones of Special was given to Scouts George Saines of Kane and Robert Hileman of who have achieved Boy Scouting's highest Veteran Scouter recognition was awarded to W. R. Jones of who 25 years of and Maynard Stephens of has completed 20 years Mr. Fretz also commended 15 leaders who completed 10 years and 25 completing five years of Boy Scout speaker at the affair was Norman A. president of the Colonel Drake Boy Scouts of of Oil Ruhl Custer acted as master of Dinner music furnished by the Bradford High school under the direction of Mrs. Genevieve Group singing was led by Curtis assisted by Mrs. Wiles at the Blizzard in Dakotas Rapid S. Nov. A blizzard swept the western Dakotas No Cigaret Rationing Planned Despite Says Bowles Nov. 14. persons today were indicted by the federal grand jury on charges of violating the selective service act by allegedly partaking In a sit down strike at a conscientious objectors camp at Those charged with failure to perform duties assigned to them were Homer L. 44, J. 22, Roland L. 30, N. and Robert Lee 36, Va. 14-(ff)-Price Administrator Chester Bowles declared today that rationing of not acture shortages in some have Just with War Food Administrator Marvin Jones about the cigaret Both WPA and CPA agree that at this time Is completely Bowles said In a A rationing program he would be expensive and impose serious burdens on the and Bowleg of cigarets In this country and the difficulty of obtaining popular brands were partly to the fact that makers of some of the better known brands have been shipping large overseas to our armed He that the manufacturers of lesser brands are now making cigarets than before the Fears of shortage rather than actual he have contributed greatly to the present reports have led some distributors to Bowles public likewise has contributed to this situation by attempting to Concurrently with the Bowles the Office of War Information reported that this country's armed forces abroad smoked about one sixth of America's total of cigaret production last year and that during the first seven of this year they smoked slightly more than one fourth of the overall output Woman Is Of Murdering Friend By Using Rat Poison Nov. 14 Roberts 26, was ac. quitted tonight of a charge of murdering her Hein means of a sandwich Set Stage for Fall Of Budapest Troops Getting Into Place for Final Big Rail Town Taken Nov. 14. Soviet Y. Malinovsky set the stage tonight for the fall of straightening his lines by advances northeast and south of the capital and moving his artillery and infantry into a strangling around the Most of the day's operations of the Bed Army on the sodden eastern front were aimed at getting into position for a death strike at The Russian communique announced capture of more than 30 towns in a line extending for 45 miles east and northeast of Hitler's last satellite capital and liquidation of the enemy bridgehead on the east bank of the Danube with capture of and Duna 45 and 42 miles Holding fast to their positions within easy medium artillery range of Budapest on the men drove north and northwest from and took Uri and registering gains of three to five Farther they took the big railway town of 27 miles east of Budapest and 10.miles south of and extended their hold closely on both sides of the latter important with 17 miles the largest town The whole operation had the effect of straightening out the previously sinuous line stretching 80 miles northeast from the Budapest vicinity to positions south of On all fronts Monday 18 German tanks were knocked out and 21 planes the communique Aside from the Hungarian it said there was only reconnaissance activity again British Seize Italian Canal Manew British Cross 2 Canals in Dutch Drive Americans Only Two Miles From Famous Thionville Reported Surrendered Nov. 14.-(AP)~ American crashing in upon Metz from three were only two from the famous fortress city on the south and southeast tonight and a front dispatch declared its fall appeared to be but a matter of if not British Open Drive As the Americans closed in here for the the British Second army ISO miles to the north opened a strong drive In southeastern Holland and in the initial stages stormed across two canals and occupied at least two Lt. Gen. George S. Patten's who opened their winter offensive Just a week met astonishingly light resistance as smashed in reputedly impregnable As the nearest forces from the south and other units to within three of the city on tiie a stand in the old Inner fortresses and the fail of the appeared to Two Running Illicit Distillery Sentenced 14-(VF)-Judge F. of N. specially presiding in federal today imposed a two-year sentence on Charles and an 18 months sentence on Leonard both of Mt. after the had entered guilty pleas to a charge of an illicit Judge Smith also sentenced Kurt of to serve months in jail after he had pleaded guilty to falsely claiming American Nov. 14-^�P)T-The Eighth Army has wim the coastal highway bridge over the canal before Ravenna and In gahis of up to two miles In the Forli area has captured the village of San Allied headquarters announced Eighth Army units which crossed the Ghiaia canal yesterday cut back across Highway 16 - the coastal captured the German rearguard holding the The Germans were surrounded while engaged in the Allied frontal atteck from south of the and the expertly executed maneuver gave the Allies an important new foothold on the approaches to In capturing San Tome northwest of Aril the troops took 100 up of German parties west of the river north of with additional prisoners The desert Air Force was closely with ground troops slowly northwest of Forli on a 1,500-yard front against German infantry and Southwest of the town of San arano was to be clear of the enemy but heavily and British troops crossed the Montone southwest of the village at two The Germans counterattacked strongly at the lower but Allied positions were In the hills south of the new features were At one place Polish troops advanced nearly two capturing Monte a 1,450-foot Hard fighting was in progress just west of Monte Casole In the neighborhood of the village of On the Fifth Army action again was limited to patrolling and Scatterei showers were reporter from the entire Workers in Erie Plant Co on Strike Nov. 14 - workers at the Standard Stoker Co. struck at noon today in a dispute over appointment of a new About 750 workers were made An unidentified spokesman of the Local said the supervisor had been directed to join the union within 15 days after assuming but had refused to do so. E. L. personnel said the company had no statement to make on the Dewey Writes FDR Nov. 14 President Roosevelt said today he has received a letter from Governor Thomas E. unsuccessful of the fourth but gave no hint of its Be there tlon ma the to 1^ the grest t&e enemy been from the cover of and bad which had prevented Allied observation of their As the fighting around Meti thus appeared to be rushing toward a swift and totally unanticipated the British tripe in Holland lashed out behind a roaring barrage of 400 guns In a strong of the Dutch village og 18 miles southwest of Venio and some 38 miles northwest of Established An hour after Field Marshal air Bernard L. sent his forces churning toward the German border a spokesman for the British Second army declared attack Is going according to An Associated Press field dispatch said the assault was making good Except f cnr the size of the artillery on Seven Waterways Like TVA Roosevelt Reveals Nov. 14-(jP)-President Roosevelt said today the administration hopes in time to have seven waterway authorities similar to the huge Tennessee Valley He did not set out the seven regions to his news but he mentioned such water sheds as the Missouri the Columbia and Ohio The subject arose over a statement that a Senator had said the Missouri Valley Authority plan be if the plans drawn by the Army engineers is Mother Gets First Mail From Son in 7 Months Mrs. Joseph Schimp of West Washington street extension yesterday received her mail in seven months from her Russel O. baker 1/c, of the United States Seaman Bowers is stationed somewhere in the Pacific area and his last letter prior to yesterday was sent on April 22. The former Bradford man is reported in good Baby Suffocates Nov. 14 - Sandra Helen Hall was dead from suffocation today in her home police Her mother said been a 1
