Charleroi Mail, The (Newspaper) - October 21, 1944, Charleroi, Pennsylvania Good Evening Beware of the Ten to one he hopes to make you cough up THE MAIL ESTABLISHED JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED The Weather Light rain and rather Clearing and cooler Sunday fair and moderately VOLUME 118 WASHINGTON OCTOBER 1944 FOUR CENTS SEIZE 70 69 Missing In Cleveland Fire City's Worst Fire Takes Heavy Toll In Congested A rea Friends Asked To Report Missing Persons To Volunteer Searching Party Still Hunting For Bodies TOLL OF DEATHS MAY EXCEED 150 Oct. smouldering acres of charred wood and twisted of land's most devastating fire became the death tomb of 70 known dead day while police reported that 69 sons were and indicated the toll would exceed 120. Police officials said that of the reported missing persons were presumed to be among the fied Detective Lieutenant Martin head of the Police Department homicide squad said he believed that at least 100 none of whose bodies have yet been were trapped in the 50-block East Side area which was burned out by roaring Police said that most of the tims were recovered late last night from the fringes of the fire An additional 23 charred reported still at the The volunteer under the supervision of Cor- oner Samuel divided into groups of five and at dawn began to probe systematically from one pile of rubble to another for Rescue workers asserted that there are of bodies lying in ashy ruins of what once was a land industrial and residential reports of expected total deaths mounted rapidly as more tons of cremated victims were ered in leveled bones of some found lying on the twisted of iron The death is estimated at more than 150. Because of the uncertainty of many people were in the area and how many people were actually ut work in gutted war and nearby cartage civil ties broadcast n city-wide appeal ing relatives and friends to report missing persons to the police The initial blast was followed by five other major explosions which kept fire sweeping across the aren in all directions to nearby buildings and Unofficial estimates placed damage at nearly To GIVES PROGRAM FOR WHITE COLLAR WORKERS Oct. a letter to Gov. E. Republican presidential Loo F. president of the ional Federation of Salaried Unions suggested a nine-point program for aid to white collar Adopting the New York Chief Ex- Bollens said people arc little off than we're four years Citing inflationary rises in cost of ho said they are left far out of. line in monthly or annual income in comparison to production workers in war these people arc not responsible for inflation and if an analysis were it would be found that they are uting a far greater proportion of their income to war funds and charitable work than most of those who are re- tho inflated This group forms the backbone of our MEMORIAL FOR HAROLD MYERS AT BENTLEYVILLE Rites Will Be Held At Baptist Church Tomorrow Night At O'clock Oct. for Staff Sgt. Harold G. Myers who was killed in France July will be held in the Baptist Church tomorrow Oct. at The Rev. Harry V. will have charge of the service in which the Bentleyville American Legion Post will S Sgt. son of Edwin Scenery and Uie late Gladys Former was a member of the National Guard and was trans- fen ed to Company K. 110th He had been overseas since tober 23. 1043. He was graduated from the School and was a ber of the Bentleyville Baptist The family resided in ington until recent months when his removed to Scenery Hill where he resides with his Mrs. Pvt. Kenneth E. one of his four brothel's in who is now stationed at Diew is ex- homo for this The er brothers are all in Pvt. Raymond E. a Medical Cpl. the and Pvt. Roland with a Signal Corps Construction Hughes Says Roosevelt Hides War's Imminence Oct. 21 Howard W. Republican State Supreme Court accused President Roosevelt of hiding ttc imminence he was safely ensconced in the White House for speaking nt a political ly here last said that sthere never was a piece of preparedness on President Roosevelt's list the troubled period before Pearl Harbor he had a rubber-stamp MARTIN ASKS CITIZENS SHOW FAITH IN IDEALS OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT SPAGHETTI AND RAVIOLI Sons of 7th St. and every Saturday 5 p. m. 'til GRAND PARTY Every Saturday night to nt 620 Fallowfield Ave. Goodwill FRIDAY SATURDAY SPECIAL Pom Pons per Cash and JOHNSTON THE Oct. 21 Gov. Edward Martin today called on the citizens of Pennsylvania to show their in tho of President Theodore on the of his birth Oct. 27. these turbulent days of world as the forces of dom battle the forces of evil who seek to destroy our free institutions and sow out the it is indeed timely to recall the ideals of Theodore Martin DEWEY SEEKING LABOR SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT Charges One-Man Rule With Rights Of Labor For Power N. Oct. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey returned to Albany for the week-end today after President Roosevelt was at- tempting to establish one-man rule over The Republican presidential who accused the Roosevelt ad- ministration of with the rights of labor for political power and political made his second bid for support of the working men and women in a campaign speech from Pittsburgh last ABOARD DEWEY CAMPAIGN Oct. Thomas E. Dewey bid for labor support in the November election today with a pledge that a Republican victory would end he charged is one-man rule that is with the rights of labor for political power and political The Republican presidential ate sounded the against the Roosevelt administration's labor cies last night in the second major speech of campaign and his second campaign appearance in He cited the case of the railroad demand last called attention to the fact that the workers got an increase after ing Edward J. former cratic as their at- and told a cheering audience To TAYLOR DERIDES OFFER OF GUFFEY Oct. Republican State Chairman M. vey Taylor said today that no one familiar with U. S. Senator Joseph F. Guffey's to Sidney will be fooled by his offer for the arrest of election crooks in Delaware evangelistic fakery will fool no State Senator Taylor only illuminating feature of his statement is that he has to fling Only a short time when Brother Joe was Pavlova to avoid paying his income he was singing a song of He was a walking advertisement for the Roosevelt Man Unhurt In Crash D. Brownsville probably owes his life day to a stout A trouble-shooter for a gas Case was speeding to an emergency in a line near Nearing his car j went into a skid on leaves which covered a portion of the wet The machine left the ran 20 feet along the berm and struck j a tree after plunging over an em- Case was hurled halfway thru the When Martin of Fallowfield a witness of the accident lifted Case from the wreckage he had nary a But the top and brim of his hat had been neatly cut in Damage to the car amounted to GIVE DECISION NEXT FRIDAY IN CASE Charged With Possession Of en Bottles Untaxed Whiskey Oct. I. E. Goodridge will hand down a decision next Friday in the case of Joseph ional of the United Mine charged with ion and transportation of seven bottles of untaxed offered no defense to the and Alderman Goodridge said he would study the staie liquor law before handing down a Agents of the Liquor Control Board testified that the whisky was found by enforcement agents in home last They charged that six bottles of whisky carried the Dis- of Columbia seal and one the label of the State of sylvania state tax had not been paid on any of the the agents NAZI ROBOT BOMBS FIRED AT ENGLAND Oct. man flying bombs were directed against Southern England and the London from the North Sea for the 10th straight Ust night but no casualties or damage wore authorities said School Supt. In Prepares Township History E. F. Carter Writes Intimate De- tail Of Earliest Known History Following IF the first of 3 series of six historical sketches on and adjacent as pre- pared by E. F. These writings first attracted attention when who is superintendent of schools in pre- pared mem lor his master's degree ftt the University of Since he has lectured before service clubs and only last Wednesday before Charleroi Rotary The hold many facts never before told of this on both sides of the reflect much research and should prove valuable to student and local Mr. ter had generously permitted The Mail to the The editor advises that you clip this record and those which will permanently by the white man during the French and Indian The first settler was Joseph a To 2. GROUP OF MEN INDUCTED INTO ARMED SERVICES Left Charleroi Earlier This Week To Report At Camp A group of 2S men from the district controlled by Local Board left earlier this for Pittsburgh 10 enter che ed From the induction center in burgh they were sent to reception centers to begin This was the regular quota of men from this they have been chosen from the pool of men who have already passed their The list Charles W. Charleroi Walter E. Stockdale Alexander Bentleyville James A. Charleroi Fred J. Charleroi Arden E. Charleroi Edwin T. Charleroi William L. Charleroi Torrance E. Van Voorhis Leon M. Bentleyville Jack B. Charleroi Theodore S. John G. Charleroi Roy J. Long Branch Frank J. Bentleyville Roger A. Charleroi Joseph A. Charleroi Walter L. Allenport James E. Charleroi Amour William G. Stockdale H. R. John P. Charleroi Andrew N. Charleroi Robert J. James G. Charleroi Sam A. Charleroi Jap Resistance On Island Dulag Is Captured RUSSIANS OPEN NEW OFFENSIVE IN PRUSSIA Germans Red Forces Are Already Fifteen Miles Across Frontier COUP SUCCEEDS IN GUATEMALA 1.000 Casualties As Provisional Government Overthrown GUATEMALA Oct. 21 triumvirate of two Army officers and a civilian controlled emala today after the of President Federico Ponce was thrown in a 12-hour tank supported revolution caused more than casualties in the cap- ital. The by Capt. Jacobo Major Arana and Jorge Toriello of the diplomatic guaranteed the lives of the president and the will be exiled with the exception of Agriculture ister The an outgrowth of a strike three days uas carried out yesterday by students and young army It started about 2 o'clock a. after the assassination of Gen. To Pace SECRETARY HULL IN HOSPITAL FOR CHECKUP Secretary of State Hull was in the Naval at nearby for a complete sical He entered the hospital yesterday afternoon after having spent marly three weeks at home with a of an old throat Do You Know Plan By Which President Is Actually Neither Candidate Receives A Single Vote Method Found To Be Mystery To 12 Of 20 Persons Quizzed In Town as it quite n ber of persons of voting age do not how their President is There are many who hazard an ex- planation but it usually trails off into puzzled head This doesn't put us into a category of ig- for the process is both orate and Twenty parsons were questioned yesterday and only 12 could give an- five of which were com- plete in the process. A tribute to our government instruction in the high each one of five high school students asked the question do we elect the U. S. gave a correct and detailed Half of the 20 people posed with tho same question believed we ally vote for the President r voter you do Neither Thomas E. Dewey or lin Roosevelt will receive a solitary vote for the Presidency on Nov. no matter how much oratory they may deliver and no matter how many million go to the polls on that The voting on Nov. 7 will be just one of a series of steps necessary to I elect n The I will take place on Dec. but cast on that day will not be officially counted until Jan. 14 days before the winner is The basic procedure foi electing H President is set down in the while the details of that procedure are provided for in national state Votes Go for step by is tie wiy Roosevelt or Dewey will bo elected this 1. The nation's qualified by state troop to the polte on Nov. 7 ostensibly to for or to for they'll be voting for the on the Democratic or Re- publican The date is set by Congress by provided that the general election day be Tuesday after the Monday in while the Constitution fixes the number of in each as to the whole number of Senators and each hss in 2. The state soon after election will prepare an official certificate of the state's electors named in general This certificate will be sent To Oct. radio reports indicated today that the Red army is caving in German East Prussian defenses by sheer masses of infantry and armor in a drive to flank the security line of the historic Masurian Lakes by west TO the north lies just beyond rhe Suwalki triangle which Adolf Hitler annexed in 1939 and the commentators did nor ally locate the most forward Soviet penetration it appeared that the Red Army was at least 16 miles inside East on a front of 15 miles beginning to The Russians apparently had one of their most powerful armored forces in The Nazis claimed they had knocked out 463 Russian tanks in five days 109 of stili failed to confirm enemy reports of a Soviet campaign against East but the Nazis claimed that sian forces were attacking the vince both from the east and One uncredited Berlin report ried by the Daily Express said that fighting was raging along a 50-mile front 15 miles inside East It also said that Soviet troops had To Pave 4. Yankees Attack Behind Flame Throwers Cry Of boys Thrust Inland CESENA OCCUPATION IS ABOUT COMPLETE Oct. Eighth Army troops nearly completed the occupation of junction point on the today while other Allied forces in a five mile advance up the Adriatic coast cap- tured the port of just be- low A communique said that British and Indian which entered yesterday had cleared the enemy from all but the western edge of the city and together with Canadian units established a front ward from the main artery in the Po The drive up the Adriatic steadily expanding the Eighth Army brought the Allied troops 13 north of FALLOWFIELD AVE. LAD PRAISED FOR HONESTY To The Mail today was brought a clipping from Clyde Brewer's newsy and interesting column in Tho It for an 11-year-old Carl who lives at 42G Fallowfield Carl counted his at thf counter ing last week and found busy young woman clerk had given him ten loo He promptly called her to the fact and returned tho In years far off Carl will dividends on that ten Carl was at the ed publicity but for this thoughtful piece of honesty The Mail is pleased join with Mr. Brewer in lating this young NO WORD ON FATE OF DULAG AIRFIELD General MacArthur's Oct. biggest American invasion army of the attacking behind tanks and flame throwers with the cry of member seized the road tion of Dulag and possibly two fields on the east coast of Leyte daj against stiffening Japanese At the northern end of 6th Army forces were storming the fenses of capital of Leyte and 350 miles southeast of Unconfirmed reports filtering through from the front said troops had cap- tured Tacloban on a peninsula three miles across a bay from the broadcast from said Tacloban airfield was in can Doughboys thrusting inland from the central beachhead seized 20 miles south of was no word on the fate of Dulag which was bombed heavily by American carrier planes on but the lightness of initial sition in the area indicated may have been Occupation of the two airfields in the Central Philippines wonld r land-based fighters to augment planes in constant patrols over the fighting area and would the entire Philippines within easy range of Army Tacloban field has several Japanese communique edged for the first time that American which were drawn from the S. Marine had landed The communique said the anese were American but edged that the invaders toward i The attacking Doughboys were ging the Japanese out of their holes with bayonets and blasting their strong points with and spurred by the edge that their opponents were from the hated 15th Japanese which tortured their buddies of Bataan during the notorious march of death two and a half years Swarms of carrier bombers and fighters roared out ahead of the ad- strafing every ble while the big guns of the American battleships California and in the ese sneak attack on Pearl To 3. Seen This Morning party of the First Division home from the South Pacific wearing his his RAVIOLI AND SPAGHETTI Saturday Garibaldi SPECIAL PARTY Sunday night at the Polish Hall 342 Crest Ave. Starts at 7 o'clock Everybody MANY HONORABLY DISCHARGED VETS ARE GIVEN WORK Announcement was made today by B. Manager of the United States Employment ServiCev office that honorably it 01 Wur 14. were found by f-e service last Of thu total 40 were placed with local while 7 were placed with employers not located in this are finding that an increased number or World Wur II veterans to this office to inquire about job Mr. Harris feel that this of our is vital and consider it a privilege to help in those who LIU it j t Now that Manpower sion hiring regulations no- longer to War II he many splendid openings in all of HIT in the files of United Suites is at Fallowfield Pa. RAVIOLI AND SPAGHETTI Hollow every per BIG SUPER Every Saturday Third St. and Crest 1 M
