Indiana Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - February 10, 1942, Indiana, Pennsylvania WEATHER Mot to cold with light wow today ny the restricted in their report for this section of the INDIANA COUNTY NEWSPAPER THAT SERVES EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY COVERING THE WORLD FROM THE COMMERCIAL CENTER OF WEST CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA wti frit di of pawed off dont you think of daylight last night was loll Of pleasing too I VOLUME 144 TELEPHONE BOO 501 INDIANA PENNSYLVANIA TUESDAY FEBRUARY 10 1942 TEN PAGES THREE JAPANESE MAY BE IN w Normandie in Hudson Mud H February Draft Induction Shortly y Local Boards List 161 Selectees for Movement DAY Largest Allotment Ready to Leave County One hundred and sixtyone Se form the February induc tion list from Indiana which are eligible for Selective Service may to go forward to center t registration place but I mi O A C I O Many Local Draft Board Members to Register ADMIRAL SAYS SHIPS BURNING NOT SABOTAGE Damage Is Caused to 000 Vessel GET CLASS RULE y Plans Complete for New RDay Monday Local draft board members are under 45 years old and who now 220 INJURED y Welder Dies of Fractured Skull in Pier Jump shortly The names of the Selectees j were made known by the Local Boards this morning They are Local Board No 1 George Ernest Bergman 1134 Church street Paul Ralph Whitesell Smicks burg R D 2 Mario John Cicero 300 Clymer avenue Earle Mark McConn 369 South Third street Lisle Robert Hancock 1499 Phila delphia street Richard John Rezzolla 234 South Seventh street Howard Norman Brown Roches ter Mills R D Wilfred Don 315 Col lege avenue Wayne Lee Wise 1403 West Phila delphia street Danis Jack Clowser Smicksburg R D 1 See SELECTEES Continued on page two they cant be classified by their own board That was the ruling of State Se Service headquarters which added however that in the future vacancies on the boards would be filled by persons above the new age limit of 45 unless the individual was obviously disqualified tor military service Many of the members of the states 422 local draft boards are re quired to register February 16 in the new enrollment call for un registered men from 20 to Governor James has ordered pub and state liquor stores closed during the registration Some boards planned to take regis trations over the week end to avoid a rush on the later date See RDATT Continued on page two LUBOLD NAMED FIRST STEP IN AIR CONTROLLER y High School Principal Working Out Army Warning Center Chief Air Raid Warden G Denny Marbach announces the appoint ment of Principal Jesse A Lubold of the Indiana High School to acf as Air Raid Warning Controller a vital part of the present air raid organization It is through this unit installed by the Telephone Company and the War Department that the Army Control Centers send to the various parts of the country move ments concerning enemy planes and air raid warning signals to be given locally Manning the Control Center is a job that will require the services of at least 50 intelligent and patri otic men of the community schedule is now in the said Mr Lubold We Need You If you want to help and we know you do call me at Upon completion of the schedule Chief Marbach will give final in to all control operators CAR RATIONING Dealers Proof Needed for Autos Ordered Be fore January T Elmer Transeau state rationing administrator said today that the first steps in automobile rationing would be taken from February 12 to 26 when claims of undelivered new car purchases during December would be received The administrator said persons claiming to have placed orders for cars before the first of January would be required to bring the dealers proof to the local rationing boards General automobile rationing will begin after February 26 Complete eligibility rules have not yet been received Transeau said but they are expected to follow lines laid down for purchasers of tires and tubes The state administrator said he was awaiting a ruling from the Of fice of Price Administrator on eli of clergymen in purchase of tires and tubes NEW YORK Feb a great wounded mother but somehow ma jestic still the and waterlogged former French liner Normandie suc to the surging tide today and toppled to igno minious rest in Hudson River mud Ravaged by flames a gap ing hole cut in her hull in a vain attempt to counteract pressure of the incoming tide the vessel rolled over at a m and now lies on her port side in 40 feet of water alongside her pier The Navy however has not abandoned hope of still using the onetime bon liner Queried on reports that she was beyond salvage the Public Relations Office of the Third Naval District stated The Navy supports no such contention at this As fireboats continued to throw streams of water on the ship Naval officials planned to meet later in the day to determine what to do with her Touched off by sparks from a welders torch flames raged through the naval craft for three and a half hours yester day before they were brought under control by every avail able piece of land and sea fire fighting equipment in Man hattan Two hundred and twenty of the workmen and naval personnel aboard suf injuries and one weld Infiltration Seen With Silencing Of Radio CHIANG LEAVES TO MAP STRATEGY Journeys to India Survey Supply Situation to NEW DELHI India Feb collaboration in the United Nations cause by the in habitants of China and third of the earths was Russia Says Armies Have Liberated Cities Towns tr Declare G e r mans Lost Men At Sevastopol Noise of Battle In After Dawn DEATH RAGES 17 Axis Reports British Called Upton to Surrender V Russias armies driving forward through ped snowstorms reported to was taking form today they had through the visit here of Chinese ties and more than towns and villages in the past Allied bombers on the offensive in the Far East may blast a path to Tokyo in the three stages shown on map When enough planes have been massed at Rangoon and other points strategy would be to push Japs north by out and occupying their positions continually obtaining bases to Japan Curved lines show bomber radius from present and potential allied bases DIXONVILLE MAN IS FOUND DEAD V Exposure Fatal to Albert A Johnston 61 Says Coroner v er Frank 36 died last night in a hospital See NORMANDIE Continued on page two House Outlaws Art But Mayris and Stay In OCD Setup Until July WASHINGTON Feb 10 IP Dancing Mayris Chancy and Holly woods Melvyn Douglas have it straight from the House of Repre that they arent wanted in the Civilian Defense setup unless they serve as volunteers without pay And the Office of Civilian Defense has been cautioned that any frills and fancies will be subject to con gressional investigation That how the House wound up the first act at the wartime contro over the place of the arts in air raid precautions It approved and sent to the Senate late yester day appropriation for gas masks firefighting and other But the appropriation carried prohibition employ of dancers tut tow ml to Owe scathing criticism of the administra tion for selecting Douglas as head of an arts section in the OCD and for choosing Miss Chaney a friend of Mrs Roosevelt as head of a divi sion on childrens activities dealing with physical fitness Leaders said that any boondoggling in the agency would be investigated House complaints served primari ly to put OCD officials on notice that future employment of Douglas and Miss Chaney will not be tol already are being paid from funds in another appropriation which is expected to last until July first Floor leader of the attack on the artists was Rep Tober delivered peroration Hw time IMS to decide whether we are going allout for de or continue to boondoggle and 0 C D oo t CO SCHOOLS GET Auditor General F Clair Ross today approved payment of 624 to 207 school districts in 49 counties as for tuition paid during the 194041 school year Todays payment is the second on this having been paid 1100 districts about three weeks ago Accounts of dis paid today were not in order for inclusion in the earlier ment Mr Ross said Current payments include Brushvalley Township Buf fington township and West Wheatfield township BIG STEEL HAS FOR TIN PLATE MILL y PITTSBURGH Feb The United States Steel Cor will spend immediately to increase its fa for the production of tin plate Benjamin F Fairless president announced Fairless said three electro lytic tin plating production lines and six supplemental lines for chemically treating black plate will be constructed in the com plants at Pittsburgh Chi cago and Birmingham Ala One electrolytic line and two treat ment lines will installed at each plant Funeral services for Albert A Johnston 61 of Dixonville who was found dead in a field near his home yesterday morning have been ar ranged for p m Thursday The services will be conducted in the home of his son Albert Johnston ii Dixonville and interment will be in Burnside Cemetery Relatives said the man had left his sons home Saturday evening He had frequently gone to the homes of relatives or friends and no thought was taken of the matter un til he failed to return home Search continued until Monday morning when the body was found in a field about 500 feet from his home Elmer Jacobs New York Central trackman discovered the body covered with snow Coroner Edward L Fleming M D said the man died of exposure ex pressing the opinion that the man confused while returning to his home Saturday evening and wandered off his course Track showed where he waded through small creek The deceased was born November 17 1880 in Glen Campbell His wife Mrs Emma Johnston died in 1915 Surviving are these children Mrs W C Hodge and Albert Johnston both of Dixonville Mrs Edward Walker and Mrs Thomas Blair both of Indiana and Robert Johnston o Sharon He was a brother of Mrs Thomas Davidson of Coalport Mrs Frank Thayer of Homer City Mrs Joseph and Mrs Ephriam Peron both of Sagamore and Arthu Johnston of Glen Campbell MRS EL VENA DAVIS MARSHALL wife of Benjamin R Marshall of 7587 Kelly street Pitts burgh died at p m Monday in West Fenn Hospital after long illness A daughter of Amos and Leanna Weston Davis she See OBITUARY Continued on page two Brant Lutheran Church Feb 5 to p Tickets 12th FORMER LOCAL GIRL KILLED w Marie Counihan 16 of Greens burg student at the Mt Academy was killed late Sunda when struck by a car driven b William Buell 30 of Midland Th girl was running along the roa with Margaret SulU van of Kittanning to see a relativ home Police said driver of the car was blameless The for mer residents of Indiana now Uv at Baden TRANCE BUT WERE NEUTRAL Generalissimo Chiang What brought Chinas war leader and the United Nations supreme commander in the China war theater here with its staff tj confer with Indian officials was not disclosed Lord viceroy of India however said 7njeeting set the seal on the of China and India Japan would learn to her sorrow that it bodes our enemy no Apart from his key post in the United Nations high command Chi ang tremendous staRes in the defense of Burma and India against 10 weeks and declared that the Germans had lost men in the Crimean battle of Sevastopol alone Soviet dispatches said the Red armies were scoring heavy new gains in the Don River industrial the Ukraine arid in against Smolensk 230 miles west of Moscow Adolf Hitlers field head Complete Repeal of Act Urged on Congress by Sen Clark y WASHINGTON Feb repeal of the neutrality was urged today by Senator ilark DMo as a substitute lor resident request that Congress suspend for the duration of the war a section prohibiting transactions with belli erent nations Clark who was one of the ori inal supporters of the neutrality told reporters he would rather see the law wiped off the books than hacked away President Roosevelt in a mes iage yesterday de clared that section 7 of the act prevents financial trans actions between persons within the United States and our cobel and urged prompt ac ion to make this provision ative while the nation was at The section prohibits purchase or sale by American citizens of 3onds securities and other obli gations of 18 governments which lave been in neutrality law proclamations issued by the Pre sident These 18 nations include Great Britain and her dominions Tensions Flareback An avalanche of letters from back home the like of which has not been seen on Capitol Hill since the days of neutrality repeal put the pressure of voters today be hind a growing movement for re peal of the new law setting up pensions for congressmen Following quickly on the heels of the derisive bundles for Con gress movement the outpouring of letters apparently was having noticeable results with some legis lators Chairman Ramspeck DGa of the House Civil Service Commit tee told reporters that upwards of a dozen bills reeking repeal of the pension act already have been referred to his committee but in no immediate action was contemplated on any of them the Japanese invaders driving to ward Rangoon from Thailand Rangoon is the sea gate to the Burma road Chinas last transport route to the outer world and India may become a second alternative avenue for the foreign supplies Chinas millions need Chinese forces already are battl ing the enemy alongside Indians and British Imperials in Burma and Chiang referred to this in a state ment pledging our friendship and cooperation in defeating the com mon foe prepared to defeat aggres sion and insure victory for the Democratic The defense of Rangoon was ex to be at the head of the list for discussions both political and military because of the urgency for keeping the Burma road open Work already is in progress on a road southward through Tibet from Chungking to join the Indian Rail way System in northeastern Assam and this was expected also to be re viewed If this route were opened Chinas heavy reliance on the Bur ma road could be lessened consider ably There was speculation too that visit presages the formation of an Asiatic alliance to Japans grandiose cop sphere aspirations Chiang is widely regarded as the leader in the Orient to galvanize Indias po parties into realistic action At the least one commentator ob served it disposes once and for all of the Nazi propaganda which has been hinting at an entirely non existent discord between China and her quarters acknowledged the Russians were also smashing in heavy massed attacks against German lines before Leningrad but asserted they had been driven back On the North African See INTERNATIONAL Continued on page two LONDON Feb AP An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Singapore today said the British had begun to apply a scorched earth program with the glow ing up of all oil tanks and the firing of all rub ber pineapple and other factories in the north west area of the island LONDON Feb is so that it is tlie Japanese have infiltra into the city itself and attack ed the radio station there an informed British source said today Reuters which has kept constantly tuned to the Sing apore station said it went off the air at London time See SINGAPORE Continued on page two HOUCK FACES NEW CHARGES Officials Consider New State College Street Attacks FUNERAL FOR POLICE CHIEF y Funeral services will be held Thursday for Chief of Police Harry F Klink who died suddenly of a heart attack Sunday Klink a member of the police force for 30 years had been Chief since 1933 He previously had been Captain HUSKY PET DOG ATTACKS KILLS MISTRESS y ELKINS PARK Feb relatives today vainly tried to theorize what caused a husky pet dog to fatal ly attack its 60yearold mis tress Mrs Albert McBain Mrs husband and son found her lying in a pool of blood her neck torn and arms and shoulders lacerated when they returned home yesterday Nearby crouched the growling dog Mrs McBain died in an lance enroute to a hospital The dog was killed by the S P C A Some investigators advanced the theory that Mrs McBain may have stumbled down some steps and the dog attacked her prone figure Keystone Roofing prices adver yesterday by I Cohen Cly mer include and cement 144 Supper Lutheran Church Feb 12th f to i Tickets Wo V BELLEFONTE Feb entre County grand Hoy hree State women jury which Kenneth Houck in College street attacks today considered the against the 22yearold musician arising from two additional beatings suffered by girls of this area The grand jury studied charges of assault and in attacks on Betty Schenck of nearby Howard and Mary Elizabeth Sloop of Yesterday it handed up true bills charging Houck with See HOUCK Continued on page two AXIS PLANS MARCH ACTION Germany Expected to Launch Offensive Next Month BERN Switzerland Feb German army is making a gigantic new to stabilize the front m Soviet Russia in paration for a spring offensive concentrated in the Mediterranean and to the East usually wellin formed persons Axis tions said today The Caucasus Egypt Iraq anil the Suez Canal were laid down by these observers as ultimate goals of a Nazi drive which they said likely would bring Bulgaria into action and involve Turkey This is the critical month See AXIS STRATEGY Continued on page two i And Wheres Kane Find Forgotten Carts for Defense KANE Feb of up todate equipment wont Kanes auxiliary fire fighters if Axis air raiders pour diary bombs on this hilltop com munity of persons Leaders of the fire fighters short of everything but manpower re membered the days when Kanes hose teams raced to victory at many a County Fair with hand drawn carts flying behind they decided to return to the good old days that ruled at the turn of the century A search of borough private storehouses unearthed long forgotten hand carts and a drawn hose wagon Volunteer workers repaired shined polished and greased the ancient equipment and now kane five extra fire companies ready lor Kay war duty A tfM developed ttf quale Marasco cone director auxiliary are fighters in fous western Pennsylvania who reports that so his hasnt cost anyone penny idea was simple in He unearthed tWO carts and the hose wagon from carded borough equipment A company contributed WO hose carts When it came to Marasco discovered the ment had a large quantity hose not strong enough modern motorized still able to This equip each feet aloof w
