Charleroi Mail, The (Newspaper) - December 16, 1944, Charleroi, Pennsylvania Good Evening who cash in their war bonds flow will be extra cash out in the years that are to THE MAIL ESTABLISHED JUNE NINETEEN HUNDRED The Weather Snow flurries tonight and Mostly cold er tonight and VOLUME 165 WASHINGTON DECEMBER 1944 FOUR CENTS Library Trustees Bid For West Penn Bldg. 7TH ARMY SCORES MORE GAINS RHINELAND Bingo And Raffle Raids By Co. Detectives Sixth St. And Washington Avenue Brick Office Building Offered Charleroi For Library And Community Center PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS NEEDED FOR PURCHASE Trustees of the lie alter months have been successful in a bid to pinch asp the West Penn office at Sixth street and Washington it was announced A ol required to pay ior the and sary must be acquired popular The brick building was built by West Penu Power Co for a before tion of the major dispatch station on Fifth was acquired at a figure below its actual value The two and wilh floor space of 25 by 65 is a for community For this reason the Library board pressed its negotiations so that the might become a community rilling a felt deal has been It is necessary now that money be raised to pay for it we can be done without undue delay through contributions to the rary a statement Jrom 1he Trustees The free now housed in the Charleroi Building lias outgrown those The necessity moving to new ers months ago The West Penn building would adequately house a modern rary and permit future To 4. S. INVASION FORCES DEEP ON MINDORO ISLAND New Offensive Threatens Two Of Island's Main Air Bases ALLIED Dec. in- vasion pouring into at least three beachheads a jump from Leyte to within 130 miles of struck deep in- land on the Western of Mindoro today in a developing of- fensive threatening two of land's main Japanese Agency ad- mitted that about one American troops was ing near San four miles inland from the southwest coast of Mindoro and site of an The broadcast claimed that Japanese garrison units intercepted the invaders and said fighting now in Japanese communique claimed that Japanese planes had sunk or aged 25 American warships and trans- To Local Man With Air Service Command AN AIR SERVICE COMMAND DEPOT IN planes began clearing the path for the great winter against the of Stall Sergeant Armand A. Balsano ot Charleroi and his fellow was paying dividends Here the two men check over a consignment of supplies at the largest Air Command depot in where are assigned to the control center for all Air Corps Their crews handle 1.100 tons of the utal equipment daily in the past have procured and speeded over pounds to combat Balsano is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Balsano of 734 Fallowfield and was formerly employed by the Pittsburgh Steel Sgt. Bales is the son of Samuel Hales of 213 E. Main and a former employee of the Pitt Publishing Armand has a brother in the Sergeant now in the Marshalls in the South Anthony was an employe at before entering the military POLISH POLICY OF FAVORS MORAL SUASION Free Choice Of Government For Poland Soon Is Policy Dec President Roosevelt's secret Polish on which Prime Minister ston Churchill is attempting to smoke him goes least as far as the use of moral force to obtain a choice of government in Poland at the earliest The gap between Mi. Roosevelt and Churchill appears to relate to the events leading up to the choice of government and the methods of sHaping those Churchill complains gently that Mr. Roosevelt has not any lic announcement of this government's attitude toward what the Prime ster endorses as a re- alignment of Polish borders on the east and west as by in 1. CHRISTMAS TREES Will be beginning at 702 McKean Ave. 165tl NOTICE The Special Party to be held day evening at the Polish 842 Crest SPAGHETTI AND RAVIOLI Sons of and ft i Seen This Morning THREE HELD IN RAID ON GAME DETECTIVES Washington Turkey Raffle er And Charleroi Club Party Are Visited And Halted By Officers BINGO PARTIES HAVE BEEN HELD FOR 3 YEARS and raffles have come undei a county County detectives last night at 10 lock raided a being conducted by veterans of Company 110th 28th War in the Legion and Franklin street and the Eagles Club bingo in Charges of gambling were red against the World War I men who were raffling off turkeys to raise money for their The raffle last night being held foi the benefit of one of their comiades A ho is critically ill with a heart con- dition and has been for some the H men following the It the first raid of its Attorney George T. mins reported the Company H laid was conducted by Chief County De Steve Sepesy and John who ordered those in of the affair to appear today at 1 p. in. before Alderman I. E. A Turn To DRAFT BOARDS PLAN INDUCTION OF OLDER MEN Proprietors Of Game In Donora Appear Before Curley PRIVATE BORNE RECEIVES PURPLE HEART FOR HURTS A Purple Heart awarded to Private Maish 11 Ji who was wounded in has been received by Mr. and Maishall of 311 Crest Private Borne was wounded on tober 27. He is now at a in and is getting along very He two brothers in Private Raymond Borne with the U. S. A. Infantry is where in Germany and Pfc. Robert Boine who is with the U. S. M. C. In- fantry somewhere in the South Action Terminates The Period Of On In Nation Dec. The phase of World War II known young manS was officially at an end today as Boards the nation prepared to step up inductions of men 26 yours of age and isn't a young man's everybody's Lewis B. Heishey last night as he local boards to review all classifications of men in the 26-37 age group with a view to sending ing of them into the armed The action terminated the on period which began last April when Selective Service ally halted inductions of men 26 and asserting youth and vigor then the of the U. S. Hershey stepped-up combat requirements together with expanded needs for wai supplies made plain situation calls for war in the 26-36 Even as Hershey his local boards to speed up inductions of older men the War Department announced that it was more specially trained to work in tne and cotton duck Thus the set forth by War Mobilization and Reconversion Director James F. Byrnes last day became Highly skilled now in uniform will be increasingly released to plug dangerous gaps in the manpower of vital wai To replace them in the field older To 1. Germans Rushing Crack Reserves Against Invaders TOPS QUOTA IN SIXTH WAR BOND DRIVE Seek To Halt Further Of The Of Tl More Troops Frontier GERMAN CASUALTIES HEAVY IN FIGHTIN I Dec. Ge Today's Report Shows 75 rushed crack In 20 Percent Over Quota Three men arrested as joint of the Club a pool ioom at 654 McKean by State to charges of maintaining a gambling place at hearings before tice of the Peace J. here Lst The Alex Arthur Gaicia and John were held for in of it was Army Yule gift bucket and bell at Fifth St. roof snow is absentee with many in the fox Free Christmas Show Menlo For Kiddies The annual free Christmas show for kiddies will be held at the Menlo theatre on Thursday ber at it was an- by the management A delight for the a full-length Walt Disney Charles Starrett in a lively western will be the The annual Christmas free to all was introduced at the Menlo theatre by the late George W. and has since been a RAVIOLI AND SPAGHETTI Hollow every 46c AND Served Yarn's 328 GOULASH SUPPER Slovak Citizens Lock Dec. 17. 5 p. m- 35c. 165llp CANCELLATION NOTICE The Party schooled to foe held this evening by the Goodwill Glob at 620 has MIDNIGHT ALARM HILL AREA Winding up a busy the local department answered an alarm from Box Fifth and at last where an auto had No dam ge was with the being extinguished by the owner uith ELKS CLUB OPEN DESPITE BLAZE Loss Estimate Placed At Following Fire Charleroi Elks Club was open and operating today following a basement blaze yesterday afternoon which caused loss estimated at Steward Carl declared that normal functions were resuming due to excellent work firemen in confining the blaze to the It was believed that hot ashes from the furnace may have set fire to paper and caused the ginia was on with usual catering service and therr is no interruption in engagements or previous For the time dancing will be in the main while repairs are made to thp downstairs Charleroi has topped its Sixth War Bond quota by twenty ing to today's here total 75 on the last day of the bond while in the the L aleb The local quoti was while the amount in the hela River is The river total is about short of its Bond drive officials stated today that the workers were deserving of much for then fine work in the current It i-j believed that still more sales will be in the city area the is marked It is urged that all persons who have signed applications call at the banks at or as soon av to lift their so that no delay may be encountered in bringing the campaign to an eml The latest WFC report on daily sales and total individual subscriptions tc River To Panhandle District To date 847.04. Washington To date total Several Still Missing After Big Snowstorm Search Under Way For Girl In Light Snow Falls Today Dec. the wake of one of the heaviest storms in recent several sons were still families in iso- lated district were and dreds of deer hunters were bound in game it is A light snow started to fall this morning and colder weather is fore- cast tonight and A county-wide search was in gress in Butler County to find Fred who was missing from his Valencia home neat burg snowstorm became in- tense Monday The who remained his school pity at Mis tow A that going to to meet his and has not been seen W. K. Pittsburgh who had been reported since Monday while enroute to W. was found in a hotel at W. suffering from an attack of a search continued for 16-year-old Anna Marie of who disappeared Tuesday About 100 West Deer Township residents were able to leave their homes yesterday to buy food and to get to their jobs when work crews opened the but families on ged Glasgow road were still Mayor Charles declaring state of emergency in ed to SUU Highway Department to aid in clearing city iv Fire At Fallowfield Avenue Home Today A phone cill pent the local firemen to the home of Earl 731 shortly before noon An open fireplace had gotten out of igniting an chair ar the Both the mantel and the chair were Firemen said would not ex- ceed fifty into battle in the upper today in an effort to hall the latt American penetration of the of the but the Seven Army hammered out new gai against almost pointblank fire frt the Siegfried At least two and probably more Lt. Gen. Alexander M. divisions already were acn the German border at the Wisse bourg gate near the eastern tip and others rapidly were proaching the frontier along a mile To the battles of which Lt. Gen. Omar N. commander of the 12th were costing the Germans ft to five men for every American 1 on in the other two bridgeheads inside The American First Army its siege arc around the ri stronghold of Daren on the plain by smashing tKe last enemy in Birgel and K all one half to three anc half miles south of and high ground in that area overlook the Other First Army troops liquids the last two German pockets alon 16-mile stretch of the Roer north mopping up a factory a southeast of and capl ing a castle near Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Tl holding down the center of western won another city bl in the face of stiff emy resistance and ground out vances of up to a mile and a 1 To an n AGED MAN FREEZES TO DEATH AT Dec. M. froze to death while a lane to his mailbox from his home near his aged wife failed an attempt to summon help over telephone cording to a report to the ITe was found dead in the snow morning but it noon be- fore the coroner in Wayno burg could be JAPS BOMB AIRFIELD ON ISLAND By United Tokyo radio reported today that a Japanese air unit bombed an can airfield on northern Morotai Island setting fire to one The recorded by United Press in San claimed that of the Japanese planes returned safely to CHRISTMAS TREES Service Eighth St. and McKean Ave. Phone 1946. 16413 A GIFT THAT KEEPS GIVING A Membership in the Washington County Motor Phone 20. NEW THREAT TO VIENNA BY RED Break Into Broad Plains Of i gary Budapest Slowed Down Dec. 1 sian tanks and Cossack hone broke into the broad plains of no western Hungary in rt pew threa Vienna the Slovak capital Bratislava today as Berlin hinted that a powerful Red A winter offensive was getting u way in the south of Tightly censored accounts Moscow and Berlin gave only barest of the battle tot B where freezing rains and it German reinforcements combine the Russian assault almost standstill at the gates of the Nazi SS Elite Guards were in the capital to prevent an uprising bj Hungarian On the Jro 35 miles northwest of Buda To NOTICE Tho Benefit Party scheduled 1 held this evening at 222 McKean has been U RAVIOLI AND Saturday and Due to Party will not be held ii fi
