Indiana Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - February 5, 1942, Indiana, Pennsylvania WEATHER with higher tem and winds follow ing heavy soft snow Temperature for 24 to 43 AN INDIANA COUNTY NEWSPAPER THAT SERVES EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY mum Setting COVERING THE WORLD FROM THE COMMERCIAL CENTER OF WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA ami i tm ad the ad VOLUME 140 TELEPHONE 600 601 INDIANA PENNSYLVANIA THURSDAY FEBRUARY 5 1942 FOURTEEN PAGES JAPS HESITATE AT SINGAPOR PURSUIT PLANES HIT Food Stamp Plan Extended To All Of State Every County to Get Share of Surplus Groceries V Farmers Ready to Supply All War Needs The food stamp plan by needy persons receive an extra share of surplus groceries when making purchases was extended today to take in all of nia The commonwealth is the third in the northeastern region to be designated for statewide opera tion Previously 21 of the 67 coun ties had participated Claude H U S Secre tary of Agriculture said the new areas would be taken in when ar rangements are made with the State Department of Public As sistance to establish a revolving fund and to meet other require the plan Also cal must be installed here id certify as An act Of the 1941 legislature authorized counties to set up their revolving reserve from which the stamps lire pur chased for distribution The federal surplus marketing administration estimated that persons aided through the Public Assistance Department and 1he Work Projects Administration in the 36 coun ties will bo eligible to buy food stamps For each dollar of orange color purchased by the eligi ble householder he receives 50 cents worth of free blue stamps good in exchange for products de as surplus Governor James told his press See FOOD STAMPS Continued on page two Find Model Planes in Japanese Home ENEMY ALIEN CERTIFICATES Severe Penalties for Those Who Fail to Comply Los Angeles police confront a lap with model airplanes found In his Terminal Island home He is one of several hundred enemy removed from the Los Angeles naval district LOS ANGELES Feb Worse than death to Gustave M a Pole who had lived in the United States for 20 years was the immigration serv ice order that he must register as a German enemy alien I m m I g r a lion authorities so ruled because em barked for this country from Bremen Germany Last night a police report stated ho hanged himself at his home Blind Insist Want Part In Actual War Work H Feb Blood time and money given the nations war program by the blind are cheerfully contributed but they want a share of the actual work sightless Gayle Burlingame declar ed today Weve been on the receiving end getting pensions for quite a few asserted the Director of Council for the Blind Its time for us to give what ever we can and were going to in on a Opening a drive In this direction he obtained employment by the Commonwealth for the first time of blind 24year old Margaret Johnson who uses Braille shorthand as well as dictat ing recorders at a yearly salary of I hope her work will sell the State and Federal Government on the idea of using blind persons to nil any shortage of help resulting from the military said Burlingame There is no reason why at least 250 couldnt be used at Washing ton I could produce 50 to 100 workers in Pennsylvania now for such jobs Thousands could be trained in a maximum of three The 53yearold supervisor of the Commonwealths activities for the blind got the inspiration for his ef forts from his sightless wife who was cleric in the legal de of an insurance company thi time of their marriage Blind persons not qualified for office work could used in war industries he explained with the stamping and punch ing and women help ing ia doing things purely and rf STREET WORK IS OUTLINED V Committee o f Council Gives 2Year Report All natives citizens denizens or subjects of any foreign nation or government with which war has been declared who are 14 years of age and older and who are within the United States and who have not fully acquired United States citizen ship are required to apply at speci fied post offices for a Certificate of Identification Such Certificates are to contain the aliens photograph and must thereafter be carried by the person to whom issued Those who do not comply with these requirements are subject to severe penalties The Certificate of Identification will be a protection and will facili tate matters in connection with j travel and other I lime to time be granted to indi vidual persons in accordance with rules and regulations The cate will serve different purposes than the Alien Registration Receipt Card heretofore issued In filing the Application for Ccr Sce ENEMIES Continued on page two STAMPERS Two of the Gazette Carriers outside the borough of Indiana doing a splendid Job of selling Defense Savings Stamps and Bonds are Edward Puro left above of Clymer and McKay Lytle of Tunnelton Both these boys have won their bronce medals with silver bar attach ed and are well on the way to ward receiving their gold bars SLUSH CAUSES TRAFFIC MIXUP At Mondays meeting of Indiana Borough Council the street com presented i report of its ac Covering the past tw j years On account of the length of the report and the many other items of business before the Fathers the report was held over umil the next regular meeting The report as submitted follows The Street Committee wishes to outline in brief to the members of Council what the Street De has accomplished in the last two years The present program now in progress calls for a total ture of The W P A to stand and the Boro or sponsor The following is a list of the work to bo done on this program and what lias been done Improve streets Borough Pro perly throughout the Borough of Indiana Work includes grading draining placing stone base and surface constructing curbs gut ters inlets and storm sewer con Also the operation of quarries in or near the Borough Fifteenth Church and Philadelphia Sanitary sewer completed end street to be paved Church Four and Fifteenth Sanitary sewer completed and street to be paved Fourteenth Street between anci School Sanitary sewer completed and street to be paved Fourteenth Street between Philadelphia and Water Street to be paved Sanitary sewer com Washington Street between Thirteenth and Fourteenth Street to be paved Station Phila iee STREETS Continued on page two MARION AIR RAID WARDENS IN MEETING Air Raid Wardens in Sector No 9 under the supervision of Sector I Warden W A McCreery Marion I Center base held their first meet ing in the Marion Center High School Wednesday night The ward ens were enthusiastic about the assistance they are giving the Indi ana County Civilian program Warden McCreery advised the wardens that the training school will be conducted tomorrow night and each man will receive his iden card G Denny Marbach chief air raid warden for Indiana County with Deputy Carrol Rupp will con j duct the school Marbach will in j struct on high explosive bombs and Deputy Rupp will give the general course of instruction All interested in air raid train ing should attend this meeting as more wardens are needed NO FIRE BUT The Indiana Fire Company re to a silent alarm at 8 oclock last evening but were not needed at the Barclay Hardware Company where a downdraft fill ed the smoke A check up of the premises revealed no nre and no damage according to J Boyd Grinny Barclay Candies for Valentine Betty Berry Shop 11 9 140 SHOMO IS AT HUFF WASHINGTON Feb Appointment of George Shomo as acting postmaster at Huff to succeed Joseph M Hood who has resigned was announced by the de today Beautiful Turns to Ugly with Ap of Rain Highway maintenance crews hurriedly mustered to man plows and ashing trucks early last evening in order to keep roads clear after an unexpected snow storm struck this section of the state By midnight over two inches of slushy snow covered the dis and it appeared as though an allnight fall would set a new record But the snow changed to rain early this morning Ord Tonkin superintendent of the Pennsylvania Department of Highways at the local barns re ported that his full force of 33 cindering trucks 18 snow plows and five graders manned by 155 men were on the job last night and early this morning clearing the main highways throughout the county They are clearing the lesser traveled roads today A bulldozer which scrapes up loads of snow and deposits it in trucks prove a source of inter esting attention on Philadelphia street A fall in temperature moved in with the snow to add an ice threat to harass motor travel On some stretches of highway ashing offered little relief as steadily falling snow quickly packed over the cinders Yesterdays wide variance in temperatures offered an odd slant to the weather picture From an See SNOW Continued on page two NINE BOMBINGS FOR HOSTEL SHIP v Carrying Wounded U S Soldiers and Nurses to Australia Democratic State Committee Meets Here Saturday Feb 7th D E Sams Democratic state committeeman of Indiana County announced a meeting of the county at the Court House Sat February 7 at p m Mr Sams urges all members to be pres ent as matters of vital importance will be up for discussion MELBOURNE Australia Feb hospital ship carrying wound ed American soldiers and nurse from the Philippines to an Aus port was attacked nine times in one day by Japanese bombers and fighter planes which came over like swarms of it was dis closed today One of the wounded soldiers said that the raids took place between midday and late afternoon of Jan 8 but that all the wounded were cheerful and declared their only wish was to get well and have an other crack at the The was the which the U S army announced on Jan 15 had reached Darwin Australia after sailing from Manila shortly before New Years This would seem to lo cate the attack as somewhere of the Dutch East Indies island of A nurse said that the bombing gave her butterfly added we tried to grin and bear it and carried on the best we could but the bomb crashes made our stom achs act as though butterflies were flying about The hospital ship conveyed wound ed from Manila where it sailed within 50 hours after being char tered by the American Red Cross Delay Direct Fight On Britisher Stronghold Armys Youngest Brigadier General Lieut Col Laurence S Kuter at 35 becomes Armys youngest brigadier general with his con by the Senate Kuter is assistant secretary of the f War Department general staff V American Airmen Chalk Up Enemy Bomber and Smaller in Press Forward By The Associated Press Japans siege armies still hesitated to gamble on a direct assault against Singapore amid flaming artillery duels across the Johore Strait today while anese warplanes again attacked the big Dutch naval base at Soerabaja Java and Port Moresby New Guinea A War Department bulletin said U S Army suit planes aiding in the defense of the vital Dutch attacked a greatly superior force of Japanese bombers and fighting planes in Java A Japanese bomber and a pursuit plane were down the War Department said One American plane listed as missing It was the first indication that American planes piloted by U S Army fliers had reached the Java is the headquarters of Gen Sir Arc Wavell commander in chief of United Nations fp the Far t The War Department also reported a lull iri tKi of Baton during the past 24 hours wW action lacking savage character of the fighting which has been continuous for the past two On Jan 15 the U S army an that the army hospital ship tons nad arrived safe ly at Darwin Australia with diers and sailors wounded in Philippines They sailed from nila just before the New Year sol the Ma FOIl All 1Sli Hazel te Itn to your nil Just tele phone 500 DEATH CLAIMS MILLIGAN HILL y Heart Attack Causes Un expected Passing of Old Resident Lifeboats lust That GEORGE MILLIGAN HILL 72 longtime and wellknown resi dent of Indiana died ly at p m Wednesday in his home 1317 Church street Funeral arrangements are incomplete An obituary will be given in Fridays issue JACOB SALVA Friends are being received in his late residence in Clune Services will be conducted in St Gertrudes Catholic Church Mclntyre at a m Saturday The Rev father Vincent will officiate and interment will be St Bernard Cemetery Indiana m MRS EVA WAPINSKY wife of Harry Wapinsky of Josephine at a m Tuesday in In diana Hospital She was born in 1877 in Austria Her early life was spent in Salem and she had resided in Josephine for 25 years She was a member of the Black lick Greek Orthodox Catholic See OBITUARY on page two Pamphlet Raiders Scatter U S On Occupied France in New Series WASHINGTON Feb bombers doubling as delivery boys for the U S strewing Oc France with pamphlets by the millions proclaiming the gi gantic scope of Americas war plans and conveying to a conquered people the implicit message The Yanks Are Presidential Secretary Stephen Early made known the newest se ries of today and disclosed that the leaflet bombard ment was particularly intense on the Brittany peninsula The same ports and towns were the first to see the doughboys a quarter of a century ago and that maritime section of France would be one of the first likely theaters of action whenever the united nations are ready to open major invasion campaign to regain the continent Early who reporter that a total of pamphlets had been dropped I U latest raids said he had been told that operations to date constituted the biggest job ever More than leaflets were dropped in the initial raids a month ago Significant or not quered France the evident aims of the pamphlet raiding were to foster sabotage stir unrest and encourage area was the first and only section to date to be blanketed with a new which contains Pres ident pledge that the United States will put the weapons of war at the proper time into the hands of those men in the con quered nations who stand ready to seize the first opportunity to re volt X X The intensive pamphlet bombing served notice that the United States which used ideological weapons telling success against Kaiser Wil helms Reich was neglecting no fronts i in the total war campaign it the Brittany I resistance to the German army of su ala had planned for a victory In the current struggle however it will be some time before the Nazis themselves are pelted with American printed matter The first pamphlets they get from this coun remarked one highly placed official will be Besides buoying the hopes of occupation As Early reported on the progress of this offensive the Senate set itself to complete con gressional action on the 474 and dispatch the time record appropriation in the White House Leaders also were hopeful of getting speedy action on the proposal for finan cial aid to China which the House approved yesterday With the situation on the Pacific fighting fronts still bleak for allied arms there were expressions of im patience in some quarters at the strikes which halted war produc tion in two important midwestern plants and at several minor labor controversies Many members of Congress looked on these outbreaks aj violating the labormanagement agreement outlawing strikes for the wars duration question was heightened by concern expressed in a number of quarters here over the lag in the promised shipments Russia Responsible of supplies to officials claim ed that the lag was caused by shipping difficulties and asserted that production for the Soviets was either on ov ahead of schedule However some legislators took the position that any production delays would prove costly if not on the Russian front then in some other theatre of war In announcing the newest let raids Early disclosed that most of the leaflets dropped were the same in content as those used in the opening bombardment early in January when were strewn over Paris over Lallie and others elsewhere This No 1 contained assurance that the United Nations would win the war as well as the peace to follow and emphasized the traditional friendship between France and America see PAMPHLET Continued on pagt two Sub Commander Holds Fire Until Crew Safe Away y LEWES Feb Walter W Koch whose ship was torpedoed without warning off the Maryland coast grateful today for the actions of a submarine commander in sparing our The United Fruit freighter San tons went down early yesterday after an enemy ine pumped two torpedoes and about 11 shells into her Two oJ the crew were killed when the first torpedo exploded in the boiler room but the 39 others and one passenger were picked up after seven hours adrift in life hosts and landed here The ship was the 15th officially reported lost off the Atlantic coast through enemy action within the past three weeks The commander and crew of the submarine permitted us to launch the lifeboats before they began to shell the the 44 See SAN GIL Continued on Page Two British headquarters said Sins pores defense guns silenced nese batteries and raked transport in the Johore Bahru area directly across from the beleaguered island Japanese flying boats attacked Port Moresby before dawn dropping 30 bombs and blazing away with cannon and fire in the second raid there in three days Port is the capital of 1 Papua in southeastern New Guinea i 300 miles from Cape York tralia i An N E I communique J edged fires were set and material 5 damage inflicted in the Japanese ai sault on Soerabaja this The Japanese claimed they shot down or destroyed on ground 85 planes in Tuesdays raid See INTERNATIONAL I Continued on page two RED CROSS PLANS MEETING Reports and Election of Officers Comes February 19 y The annual meeting o Indiana County Chapter American Red Cross will be held at the Metho dist Church Indiana at P M February 19 At this meeting there will be reports of the work of the chapter and all committees the election Of officers and board members and any other business which should come before the meeting ftt time The cost of the dinner to which Is paid by the Individual in as chapter be used for this purpose U for all who decide to tend this meeting to have their reservation fp dinner made at chapter office before Ift All persons to ttt Red Cross program but only those who are eligible to voU Model Planes c Will Make Pennsylvania school children asked today to make for the army and navy ior use in training fliers The Bureau of Aeronautics of Navy Department will issue cates of award Mr completion models that pass inspection model planes are to be built and can be used in ground personnel in recog range estimation and of cones of While the call for ft tal of model aircraft school children of the nation out from the navy the be used by the army in connection with training ters for civilian defense Dr Francis B Haas state intendent ol public promptly designated Urwin tree chief of industrial state director of the project Or Haas called on and high school tendants and and parochial in the ob ol out school ei Br J of
