Indiana Evening Gazette (Newspaper) - July 6, 1942, Indiana, Pennsylvania TEDDY last night morning now nothing remains but an evening cricket What for The beginning of fall Huhl AN INDIANA COUNTY NEWSPAPER THAT SERVES EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY CENTER OF VOLUME 267 EIGHT PAGES MONDAY JULY Q 1942 TELEPHONE 500 501 A Policeman May Slap Himself Axis Said In For 2nd Successive Day Five persons pictured above were seriously burned when the Reed I Beatty cabin northwest of Indiana was destroyed by fire following the explosion of a gasoline stove Friday night In the top pic ture left to right a picture taken In front of the cabin some weeks Murdick William Moore Reed Beatty and McKay Kittle Inserted Luther Kel ly picture taken on a previous visit A window on the opposite side of the cabin from the two shown was used as the quick exit when flames blocked the two doorways Lower picture shows the ruins of the cabin Four Burned As Beatty Cabin Destroyed SOLDIER VOTE PLANS READY Post Card from Any Army Camp Good for Ballot y HARRISBURG July postal card from any army camp will give in mili tary service a chance to vote in the November 3 general election simple it is to record a vote under streamlined military provision of the election code Yet Miss S M R OHara secretary of the Commonwealth says the primary totals were dis explaining So many of the boys dont know they have to do is to mail a p tal to their county election board in the court house of their for a ballot they are not a registration Sha said the 1941 legislature red tape to a minimum to set up steps for military voting which require no fees and no detail work except to send for a ballot mark it and send it back Any oaths required for registration may bw given by officers in charge in any of the armed forces The red tape stripped from the 1937 election code Miss OHara Included the 1869 military vote which required that be appointed to can duct election in camps There were no VOTI Five persons were seriously burned escaping death by seconds when the cabin owned by Reed I Beat ty located on the old Beatty farm six miles northwest of Indiana was destroyed fol lowing the explosion of a gas oline stove shortly before mid night Friday last The injured NOBLE MURDICK 42 374 Oak street assistant su Department of Highways WILLIAM J MOORE 40 1110 Church street detective Indiana County REED I BEAUTY 41 N Fourth street extension lin operator Indiana Eve ning Gazette McKAY D KITTLE 44 843 Philadelphia street lino type operator Indiana Eve ning Gazette LUTHER M KELLY 37 220 Oak street superintend ent of police The men had gone to the cabin earlier in the evening expecting to return shortly after midnight They did but not in the manner expect ed Completing an evening of lunch was in order and when a match was struck to light the iline stove there was a terrific ex plosion and almost immediately the cabin was a mast of flames The See CABIN Continued HIDDEN YOUTH Police Say He Shot Girl Aged 14 TUNKHANNOCK July A 23yearold man is in Wyoming County jail today accused of ab ducting a 14yearold girl at pistol point holding her captive live days in a forest then wounding her when a posse attempted to capture him Corp Leroy Thomas of the state motor police identified the man as Charles of nearby Nichol son and the girl as Louise Oakley He said u posse found them in an abandoned chicken coop and thai fired three shots when they approached had hid in the woods since May 22 when he failed to ap pear for trial on draft evasion charges the corporal said He was emaciated and near exhaustion when captured yesterday Thomas gave this description of actions since his assert ed disappearance He slept in barm or on the ground ate only sandwiches brought to him by his sister Anna 15 and constantly eluded police searching for him Last Tuesday he left the woods encountered the girl near her farm home drew a pistol and forced her to accompany him back into the forest See Continued on page two MADE IN JAPAN AT WAR SHOW y Sale of Pennants Is Bad Feature at Pitts burgh PITTSBURGH July covery that pennants labeled Made in Japan had been sold at the Army War Show which is touring the nation to demonstrate the Armys prowess brought the Army a promise of a speedy investigation and an offer to refund the purchase price today War Shows sponsor of thw performance charged in a public address system announcement to spectators at the University of Pittsburgh stadium last night the pennants had been distributed in an effort to confuse the American The announcement followed angry protests of spectators who had bought the pennants with Army War for 50 cents 75 cents and Tom Deegan civilian press rela tions chief of the war show said that under an agreement between the show and a concessionaire the latter was to donate 30 per cent of the gross receipts on all souvenirs and novelties to the army emer gency relief The concessionaire paid the cost of supplies and labor Police Inspector Albert Florig and two policemen on duty at the stad ium took into custody 11 men whom they identified as salesmen and seized a stock of pennants which Deegan estimated was valued at 000 Florig and two policemen on duty at the stadium took into custody 10 men whom they identified as sales and seized a stock of pennants Which Florig estimated was valued at The men were charged with violating a city ordinance by selling without a license Paul Winkler 28 of New York the concessionaire his partner Jack Ramen 30 of New York and Wil liam Lish 36 of Philadelphia were fined each by Magistrate F T Halloran Eight other men were fined Winkler was also fined on a disorderly conduct charge Halloran told them You men ought to be ashamed of Public Safety Director George E A Fairley said all the canes and souvenirs seized at the show have been turned over to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents He said not only the canes but other novelties and badges were marked Made in War Shows in its announce ments offered to refund the pur chase price to anyone who returned the pennants with the cane staffs broken in half The Made in Ja pan label appeared on the staffs Lieut Joseph B Ryle of the pub department of the show said the army was investigating to de termine why the pennants were of to spectators He said the pennants had been sold by employes of a concessionaire who was given a contract for the pennant sales during the shows tour Ray Harrison executive chairman of the local committee for the show declared the sale was able and that we must get to the bottom of it at FT LEONARD WOOD Mo About soldiers at this camp in filling out question naires listed dancing listening to music and movies as their favorite entertainment espe as many of them added when it is free The poorest way to entertain them Well just keep that chess board well back in the closet TOWNSPEOPLE ASKED TO HELP Many Volunteers Are Needed for Observa tion Tower JULY COAL PILE NOT ENOUGH ekes Warns to Lay in Entire Supply for Winter SABOTEURS ARE KEPT IN JAIL WSHINGTON July Eight Nazi saboteurs cap tured after being landed from Axis submarines on Long Island and in are now being held in the district jail under heavy guard to face trial Wednesday morning by a special military The Federal Bureau of Investiga tion which announced the arrest of the men and other official sour ces would not confirm that the eight were here but it was learned that they were in custody of Brig General Albert L Cox provost marshal for the district area Major General Frank R McCoy will preside at the trial STAMPS DALLAS An derson twice wrote his Minnea polis draft board telling them of his change of address The next thing he knew he wound up in the Dallas jail for failure to keep his board posted concerning his bouts His protests led to a search of the dead letter office where authorities found the mailed without stamps explained Anderson when released I thought be cause it was government busU ness I didnt need to WASHINGTON July 6 7P Notwithstanding a in crease in the nations soft coal stockpile during May Acting Dir ector Howard A Gray of the solid uels office said today the amount now in storage was not sufficient to guarantee adequate protection against wartime shortages The Bituminous coal division of he interior department estimated that on June 1 consumers held tons of soft coal in storage against tons on May 1 Meanwhile nine production rates for both Bituminous and Anthra cite coal continued high above sea sonal levels due principally to pro storage by war industries Soft coal production for the week ended June 27 was estimated at tons an increase of tons over the previous week while tons of anthracite were mined compared with tons the preceding week The coal division estimated thai soft coal in consumers storage on 1 averaged 49 days supply foi the nation a whole an increase of six days supply over the aver age of 43 days held on May 1 May consumption amounted to tons compared with 43 tons in April A drop of percent The solid fuels office has advised that to provide adequate wartime fuel protection Industrie coal users should have enough fue in storage to last for 60 to 90 days and war industries public utilities and other essential consumer should have 90 to 120 days supply on hand Fuel Coordinator Harold L Ickes has warned that householders should store their entire supply for next winter getting the coal into their bins this summer as soon as possible ESKIMO SAN DIEGO Calif The army got Christopher Patrick Coffey but the navy has Pat rick Christopher Coffey P believed to be the only Eskimo in the naval service ar rived from St Michael Alaska for indoctrination at the training station here brother C P already is in the army lay tra for today a night Tomorrow predicted v A meeting of the Air Raid pro workers for Indiana Bor ough and White Township was held recently in the observation tower at the local post on the John Camp sell farm The purpose of the meo ng was to fill the schedule to full ime capacity so that 24 hour pro may be guaranteed to the homes of this community By order of the War Department the post s working 24 hours a day with two workers at a lime on 2 hour shifts throughout the day and throughout the night In spite of the of the fine number of workers present however quite a number of the two hour remain open and many more workers are needed at once Many of the loyal citizens at the meeting were forced to vol for as many as four or five or even six shifts because there was an insufficient number of work ers present It was the general feeling of tha workers present that more town people help in this important ef fort The air raid observation tow er on the Campbell hill affords the only advance warning and protec tion the city of Indiana will re and it is a matter of com mon knowledge that enemy bomb ers seek out the concentrated pop areas upon which to unload their destruction not the open sparsely settled country sections Yet the majority of the volunteers for air raid protection work con sists of people from the rural out lying districts Do the people of the town of Indiana where the danger is greatest the people of the country where the danger is least to furnish the bulk of the air raid protection This is a state of af fairs which we are confident the patriotic citizens of the borough will wish to remedy by offering their services much more freely now that the urgent need for more workers is made plain to them If you wish to help protect your See TOWER Continued on Page Two Don Reported Crossed By Spearhead Cairo and Alexandria Relieved by NeW Reverses for Rommel the Fox New U S Air Blows on Germany 3 DROWNED IN LAKE TRAGEDY ALGONAC July The Great Lakes freighter James Watt and a 42foot cabin collided early today in the St river drowning three persons anc injuring three others Twelve persons were rescued by boats from the arby shore All of the casualties were aboard the cruiser Cause of the accident was not immediately known The dead were Mrs Irene Wise man 48 of Highland Park Barbara Bagley 12 and Jacqueline Bagley 15 daughters of Mr and Mrs George Bagley of St Clair Shores Mich Sfr Awaited By Associated Press British headquarters announced today that Gen Claude Egyptian armies had driven the into retreat for the second successive day while in the Russian campaign a sharp new crisis was indicated German claim that Nazi spearheads had crossed the Don n A bulletin from Imperial GHQ said British pressing the initiative attacked Field Marshal Edwin mels forces in fierce allday fighting in Egypt and in a night attack drove the enemy from a strong point inflicting heavy The New York Times said private advices indicated that Gen Rommel might fall back to Matruh 110 west of the present battle zone to shorten his supply and await reinforcements It was the fifth day of the critical battle of the bottleneck raging along the Mediterranean coastal coastal escarpment near El Alame in 65 miles west of Alexandria British casualties were officially described as Bolstered by strong land and aert ial reinforcements the British reported previously to have Rommels armored columns back from a strategic ridge south 41 Alamein T HOLIDAY HERE IS GIVEN FINE OBSERVANCE Crowd Not as Large Expected but De lighted One v Fireworks Add to the En Pennsylvania counted 21 tal deaths today from an dence Day weekend marked by light highway tarvel ing traffic on trains and buses and uninterrupted production in the states great war plants The first Fourth of July under gasoline and tire rationing brought 25 to 50 per cent increases in bus and train travel carrier officials reported But it didnt seem to af fect Indiana very much traffic con continuously community celebration out at the Fair Grounds Saturday was rather a disappointment as far as a crowd was concerned but oth Sce HOLIDAY Continued on page two In TOid ism increased hourly over h fresh triumf over Rommel the Dispatches from the front said the invaders spent by their 350mile sweep across the desert from Tobruk were beginning suffer from lack of food and as great numbers of RAF and U S army warplanes bombed and Rommels vital lines of communication RAF pilots said they ly destroyed hundreds of See INTERNATIONAL Continued on Page Two SAMARITAN two men ay couple of youths asked to help them push their stalled auto mobile were obliging and also inquisitive When they questioned the boys as to the ownership of thff car they fled so the two help ers chased and caught them At the Fillmore police station the boys who admitted stealing the car learned their were detective James Fiorite Policeman Denis Sullivan FIRE PLAYS RETURN ENGAGEMENT It wati 11 yean o July 4 bat gutted the C trt MUM Foundry Only tne damage WH wall in M the baking concern Mt MNi moved iU to the old Indiana Brewing Company f few Discovered by at a firemen laid five and battled almost two noun building wai wed by Company Q Pennsylvania Defence aa a lor hi the i af to to Itw 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