Lock Haven Express (Newspaper) - December 14, 1942, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania March 1882 THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Weather Continued lonal snow In north por tion this afternoon and early Not 10 cold Not Only A Community Asset AP Features LOCK DECEMBER 1942 The Associated Four Cents Rommels Line Collapses Under Assault u H Boys In Service By Neighbors Honor Rolls Dedicated By Communities Yesterday boys from this jw serving in the armed honored yesterday at Honor fill Dedications in two communi Loganton and Greene Town jip men were listed on an Honor Ul board unveiled at fa East Liberty Centre men were honored at iAt the names of 47 jys from the township were on e board when it was unveiled at if ceremonies first before the by James Van andt and other dedication ser in the Church of The Rogers spoke Hefty dedicating the board after J flag raising and unveiling cere had taken The Shope gave the invocation jere and the Flemington Drum d Bugle Corps played the na mal Hayes Fletcher cw the Harris Confer service flags to the par ts of the Joseph DeHaas syed the organ the Rogers and the Shope ve the invocation and benedic June Miller and Ruth White ng and Alice Patterson gave a Loganton there were 51 on the board when it was following a service in the The of Lock Haven gave thi ords of dedication after the had read the imes of the men in The program there opened with by the Sugar Valley Voca School the invocation y the Arthur scrip Jre reading by John God Bess America and the Rev erection of the marker there sponsored by the Loganton Club and other citi lelt And Signorino Leave A phone call from Seaman Sec hd Class Ted Helt on Saturday assured a happy Christ ian for the Delbert Helt and Signorino ho with Pharmacists Mate Sec id Class Perry was i the which was sunk I Algiers early last said i and his local shipmate were in Boston and were com ig home this week for a 30day The young men lost all their when their ship went and arc being outfitted be Tje getting Ted told his They are expected tomorrow or late Man Decorated HEADQUARTERS IN Douglas awarded the Distin Service Cross to William Hipps of Lumber and three other Air e officers for extraordinary in The citations ere for leadership and persona vample while participating bombing missions le Philippine Disappears William 135i East aid Eagle reported Saturday Men Honored At Ceremonies BLANCHARD Malcolm Kunes Malcolm Packer Lawrence Walker Paul Waite Thomas Packer Harold Heichel Milford Gardner Harry Winslow James Haines Paul Gardner William Dietz Clarence Girton Warren Girton Girton Harold Bowman William Bowman Floyd Rupert Samuel Falls John Falls George Spangler Robert Spangler William Spangler Fred Charles Packer Eleanor Courier Harry Haines Jacob Williams Joseph Karl Kunes Gerald Holler William Bowes Thomas McCloskey Robert Huntingdon Lloyd Spangler Jacob Henry Salisbury Russell Gunsallus Paul Bowes Floyd Hen John Shilling Ross Gardner Ivan Kunes Earl James Victor Smith Allen Stevenson Merrill James George Tibbens John Washburn Raymond Embich Carl Snook LaRue Embich Lincoln Confer Clair Matter Edward Stamm Robert Klaer Lawrence Jackson Vernon Shaffer Richard Brown Robert Nelson Yarrison Victor Swales Harold Miller Walter Rockey Kenneth Lannan Edward Cashner Donald Tibbens Ernest Bower Harry Brungard Gerald Masters Kenneth Wren Harold Confer Chester Imes Norman Imes Paul Currin Chester Lannan George Lannan Paul Washburn Harry Knarr Henry Geyer Woodrow Lamey Lester Guisewite Harry George Floyd Franklin Schroyer Howard Heggenstaller Reed Lehman Thomas Snook Ross Beschler Joe Lamey Lee Heggenstaller Dean Embich Blain Yarrison Alfred John Tyson Robert Reeder Jason Breon at Other bicycles missing by Howard 222 North Fourth and ifford 528 West Bald have been I r 11 in Axis Retreats Toward Tripoli With 8th Army In Pursuit Allies Pound Bases On Other Front McCandless Awarded Congressional Medal Stores Report Double 41 Holiday Buying Feels Effect Of Early Shopping For Men In Armed Forces Double last years is the uni form answer given The Express this morning in a checkup of the weekends business It was the biggest weekend of the holiday gift buying thus far and in every instance at least doubled last years A few managers and proprietors went so far as to say it more than Early buying for men and women in service is no doubt responsible for a good bit of the rush in the stores and in the postoffice as where the Christmas mailing rush is a week ahead of ac cording to Postmaster James Early buying and mailing have been urged in all quarters folks at eager to assure a merry holiday for those in the have com plied with a Expanded industrial activity and j higher wages also share in the responsibility of the accelerated j buying taking place in all the local Service men and women have been favored by manufac and with gifts of every possible description made and packed especially for i Buying for the boys and girls in service is not at all if one has the j This week the stamp and parcel post windows will be j open until 8 to date holiday The regular schedule of closing will be took place aboard the San Francises at San lowed next Mountains of Packages of are piling office and it is a to quote the post They are and hoping a lull after the early j mail rush is Large weekend business was stimulated by opening of stores Friday and by goodsized payrolls at war production and on march came early today in a brief communique from Cairo which said Rommel has been driven from his strong positions at El and is in retreat to the The a communique slight and the pur suit It gave these added details The Eighth Army yesterday turned Rommel out of his strong positions at El Brega the north eastern end of the El line at little cost to themselves The enemy is retreating west relentlessly pursued by the leading elements of our Allied operat ing on an unprecedented were employed to harass the en Axis air activity was totally in effective in preventing these oper V Have Withdrawn Some observers said the speed Admiral Ernest King of the United Stales reads the citation asof breakthrough might be an Commander Bruce McCandless left of the cruiser San Francisco receives the Congressional Medal of indication that to escape Flying Fortresses Attack Jap Airfield In Solomons Area By The Associated Press Field Marshal Rommels carefully prepared El line has collapsed under a single assault by Sir Bernard British Eighth which pushed on to the west today toward Tripoli and a The onslaught w ch once more drove the des ert out of his burrow was timed to coincide with smash ing aerial assaults on the Tunisian strongholds in thundering evidence of the rising air might of the The brief announcement that the Eighth Army again was on the Honor for his heroic action in the battle off Save Island in the Solomons last Novembe Associated Press photo from The ceremony a certain left only a hold Hitler Props Up other plants in this Dies At Mill Hall Following Stroke Dutch And French Ordered To Contribute More To Nazi Europe Axis Powers Threatened With Constant Air Attack ing force at El and with drew to the One military source in London commented This is the first time in this war that a great German army has found itself faced by equal and what happens I The German army pulls out with jout a German and Italian communi RANDOLPH and used by the made no mention of the col Tokyo today had the grim prom Air lapse of the Libyan defense ise of the chief of Americas pilots that United States bombers would I return again and again to strike jat the heart of Nippons island Adolph Hitler with the disquieting ing has Anton that Uncle San has some said secret weapons of the air that He did not divulge what type of but a later broadcast by the Ber thcy might but radio said it is officially an 1 that in Berlin that Marshal battlewagon are on has withdrawn his forces reminded the El to a position fur that he had already ther obscure Dutch Nazi I the present day were perhaps the small big bombers j The value of the African last of the j will deal paralyzing blows to our i fuehrer of the Netherlands ple in his new European Speaking to graduating classes Army fliers to date have sunk 51 Operating in eight combat and of the United Nations strate gy of coordinated made it self felt on the icy battlefronts of MILL Russell and Axis radios followed up the of lour army flying scored 21 believed i The Russians announced over I Fields Marshal former local announcement with reports died at his home here at 12 151 powerless France under o clock this In ill health H Petain is moving closer to for the past 18 he suffered cooperation with a stroke shortly before German reports in Krape had has Brook Hondo and hit and damaged 150 of weekend that the Germans had General Henry types he From 1 to lost more than killed and nokl sairi hat Tokyo lie they have captured since the start of was jn the Japanese destroyed 928 enemy planes the Red armys offensives on the people that more American bomber and probably destroyed 276 in I Moscow and Stalingrad raids could be expected before the aerial with a loss of 130addcd to which the Ger resided in this vicinity all his He was first in business with his Benjamin as an about 21 years moved to Mill where for a number of years he operated a meat market under the firm name of Krape and Esen Surviving are his four sons and a William of Cor pus with the Navy Elliott and Miss Mary Sue posal to raise a new French army capable of insuring the safety of war is Stating that we have plus HM missing lost in their earlier siege of The air force chief warned the weapon or two up our aerial other two Axis powers that Steady Gains Arnold lent emphasis to in a few the Germans and Russian gains continued warning by disclosing that the Italians will be feeling and despite the massing of parachute which explode of these hundreds of forces the Germans still were day unable to get a sustained counter At the same Fighting French sources here Hitler has de manded French workers for labor in whose Dutch Nazi party failed to make any spectacular headway even after the occupied the will try to i convert the extremely independent and Dutch people to the with deadly effectiveness just i dropping their above the were first deand every bombs every in the Five Defendants Are Fireman At Mill Hall Sentenced At Special Plant Dies Saturday Qp j forr to restore air forces in South Pacific were reported by the navy to be con their heavy bombardment of the new Japanese air base at Munda on New Georgia Island in the Central The Sunday attack on the Mun da airfield apparently was the fourth heavy aerial assault made on the enemy constructed as a buffer and an offensive threat to the American airfield on Guadal Army Flying Fortresses again attacked them on when 155 weighing 100 pounds were dropped on the Again on 12 the Fortresses returned to the scoring four 1 000 pound bomb hits on the flight strip and dropping 80 100 pound bombs in the base No American planes were lost in those attacks and there was no mention of any interception on the part of the Japanese Zero Fate of a damaged Japanese de stroyer task force which sought to strengthen Nippons isolated fin gerhold in Northwestern Guadal canal Island remained hidden in the wake of a flurry of Allied of fensive blows all along Pacific bat tit points At least one of U enemy de was sunk and from four to seven others were known to American sea Navy officers said no doubt hundreds of Japa nese were sent to a watery grave as a result of the where some of the destroy ers weathered the storm of blows late last week and reached their beleaguered Solo mons outpost with supplies and troops was not In the Buna area of New Guinea the Japs were on the receiving end as Allied forces poured a torrent of artillery and mortar shells into enemy Allied ters in Australia said fighting planes bombed and strafed the en emy throughout Sunday and a reconnaissance unit shot down two Japanese Far to the three army medium bombers struck at Kiska blasting a grounded and already damaged Japanese ship and bombing and strafing shore have been hit by and sky on the Russian mili tary observers in Moscow ex pressed the belief that the chances attack under lost In sweeping west of El increasing for the Red army General troop deal heavy new blows to the passed the mark of I Germans before they could escape Sir Archibald 1941 drive from the narrow corridor they still at home and Jack of Mill also a Nazis announced that 1 a brother and three Ira Renovo Claude Herr anc William and Bess Fire At Hassinger Home This Morning of a new French army was con in a letter written to Hitler the Berlin radio The letter was read by Pire Laval at a press The Berlin radio said that at this An oil stove exploded this conference Laval outlined a big ing about 8 oclock at the home including new anti Herschell 120 putting France Jones but the firemen did not in line with have to go into service inasmuch Laval the Berlin as a coat was thrown about the broadcast that a lack of would bring forth a new series of Observers said this prob means new oppressive mcas Several who had en HOWARD Doyle against the Jews in guilty pleas were fireman at the Mill Hall plant agreement to the raising by the court at a soe f rl Mill died early cial session and thus were deeper into Libya than British forces ever before had The steadily narrowed hold across the steppes to The Russians have massed their artillery in newly won positions Saturday a few minutes stove to extinguish the j understanding shown by public Damage was in France still On Saturday at the home ofn wall of separation Charles Water France and the roof caught A booster with Judge Henry Hippie and bcm stricken with a heart defensible position where Rom Judges Charles Dunn while on the wav attempt a stand is at soll 300 miles west of El 100 miles short North African Tripoli is some the North African coastal strip along that corridor and are batter where the Germans and the Germans are held in the jaws of an Allied Despite their Germans still able to Observers at Cairo said the next j hurl strong forces into counter on the a huntin were as Robert was driving the Robert and Frank his fathers body for larceny of gasoline jumped Bv the from Randecker Brothers a were sent to the Pennsylvania was summoned School at Huntingdon for an indefinite jjj home and jie j Clyde charged with re the and only ot main base of the miles southeast of that British and American forces men i ace from the west The Allies were said to have beaten back another German at stolen from a sentenced to Brooke 17yearold stream near the chimney quickly SHOPPING DAYS son of and extinguished the received injuries to his head Frij day when he slipped in a shower at Hill He was unconscious for several hours from the blow over the The family school physician told that they would be his formed if showed a frac but up to this morning they had received no further word of his who graduated from the Lock Haven High School in is He won his letter in foot ball at Hill and was a regular on the basketball team season in the early Private Saylor was shifted on Friday from Camp I to some other Army Dinner For Rickenbacker NEW rousing testimonial dinner for Eddie Rickenbacker is being planned by some of his New York friends upon Snow Covers Most Of Pennsylvania By The Associated Press A blanket of snow from two to six inches deep covered most of after a is forming was between lhc f and i was placed on for three during which time he must obey all the laws of the common wealth and abstain 1rom the use of intoxicating Fred Reese and Floyd Jersey charged with the theft of a compartment lock from an were placed on probation for three tinder ll the same conditions as mnt K John died same wuv a number of llr lei over while talk weekend to turn a rf men at a Encampment a as born in Marion pent all his life in heir right flank by infiltrating north and south of the road junc tion town of el 35 miles southwest of The whole Axis North African system was kept under ter rific aerial and the blows attacks there and on the central In the salient northwest of Mos cow toward 90 miles from the Latvian the Russians said the Germans suc in pushing back advanced Red army but later were In the Rzhev sector the Red army reported recapturing several more settlements in the last four t member ol Church of across ue the flyers return to this Three deaths were ordered each to pay Rickenbacker is expected in Wash reported at Pittsburgh in connec the cost of ington sometime this with tho funeral services will be conducted at 3 Wednesday by the following brief rites i Inter the Jacksonville He ij survival by his two ranean strait to From Libyan medium WAAC StripTeaser Ousted Army FORT DES The WAAC stripteaser is out of the womens bombers mauled the harbors of I The glamorous girl who was Sicily and at a Des Homes theater as Amber of but was identified later by WAAC Saturday Tunis Harbor tary of War Stimson has Belgians Executed Thirteen Counties in the western end of the got the most but elsewhere rain which fell Saturday night turned to ice as the mercur Belgians have been executed after conviction by a German court Drowns Near By The Associated Press Five three of them more leaving sidewalks andj listed by police as victims of hit American Flying Fortresses and officials as Kathryn Doris Greg sons and two Doyle V Billy bombers Fort an rt Jean and area of the member of the Womens at home throe brothers Auxiliary was dis Mli highways Temperatures ranged martial of possessing firearms and i freezing down to fix above engaging in causing some discomfort in homes the Free Belgian run were among eight from persons who lost their lives in weekend accidents in Two men died by drown and Willard heated by rationed fuel oil scoring on warehouses and a They followed this iul Sunday with an attack of even greater along with raids I on Bizerte and Harbor in were set afire in all including Paul missed The WAAC training school an Gregory had been given a discharge other than hon following a court martial at which three WAAC third in Spring i three leers second lieutenant formed With Winter tightening iti grip j the
