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Somerset Daily American (Newspaper) - September 16, 1940, Somerset, Pennsylvania Mary s. Barker Public Library Good morning in youth one hut tears with out grief in age grief without ears. A Joseph Roux Somerset daily morning messenger from the american Only doily paper in Somerset county roof Gordon of pointy Tronio volume twelve number 66. Somerset pa., monday september 16, 1940 two cents.175 father of 5 killed in Jalopy race Auto Salesman entered contest in 10-Yeait-old car Many other accidents throughout St ate. Drown in Pool Lebanon sept. 15�? a a an Auto Salesman who enter d a Jalopy race at the fair grounds today was killed when his 10-year-old car took a spin on a curve and turned Over. Howard Evans 25, of Shepherdstown Cumberland county father of five children was dead on arrival at a Lebanon Hospital. He had placed a cond in the Consolation race the first he Ever attempted but no t his death in the third Lap of the feature race won by r. M. Zeigler of Carlisle. Evans was employ d by a Harrisburg automobile Agency. Regulate racing Meadville 3epl. 15�?�?coroner f Luther j. King said today his would strongly urge representative j. Pern Eskels of Meadville to introduce Bill in the state Assembly to regulate Jalopy racing. Such legislation was recommended by a coroners jury that a investigated the death of Charles l. Lingo 21. Kill d when an ancient automobile overturned at Gable Hill track near Here a week ago in a Jalopy race. Chicago gives Willkie Welcome 3rt.iti other accidents other weekend Accident victims included George Bishop 36, whose Coal truck was struck by a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train near Carlisle. Carl per Derick Hammerle 56, Allentown. Struck by an automobile on a City Street. Mrs. Eva Werkley 82, in a fall Down stairs at Mer Philadelphia Home. John Mccaffrey 25. Employ of the Budd manufacturing company. Philadelphia in a fall off the running Board of an automobile. Mrs. Martin Joyce 45. Of Hillside n. J., and her son Robert Joyce 21, were killed in an automobile truck collision on u. S. Route 611 one mile South of Tobyhanna. Mrs. Bertha. Gettis 68. Of trading drowned in a swimming Pool at her grandsons Home near Angelica. Ziomas Slat 32, was killed instantly when a True be was driving crashed into an Iron pole at Pittsburgh. James r. Watts 52, of Marietta. R. D. I. Who missed the last bus Home from Columbia and was walking the thro mile stretch was la lured fatally by a car which failed to Stop. Three youths Hurt seriously injured were three Somerset youths whose car crashed Headon into a Menzie Dairy truck on Westinghouse Bridge in East Pittsburgh Early sunday morning. They Are Robert Lepley 26, of 154 East race Street who suffered a probable fracture of the Skull Leroy Rose 24, of 349 East main Street treated for head injuries and Shock and Alfred j. Hareem of 301 South Kimberly Avenue who suffered cuts and bruises about the head and body. East Pittsburgh police reported Hareem apparently lost control of his car while driving East Over the Bridge and that it swerved into the truck whose Driver escaped injury. Friends of the Trio motored to Pittsburgh late sunday afternoon and said the youths believed Harcom had fallen asleep momentarily while at the wheel causing him to lose control of the car. Lepley is an employee of the b and b. Grille Rose is an employee of the a. D. Graham company and Harcom is a Turnpike worker. It was believed the three men had left Somerset shortly after Midnight sunday morning and were in route Back to Somerset at the time of the Accident. Central press phone photo Republican nominee Wendell Willkie is seen waving to the enthusiastic crowd that lined the curbs in Chicago Sloop to Welcome his As he stopped off on his Campaign tour. The reception was reported to be the most colourful of its kind in Chicago history. Willkie later made several extemporaneous speeches to factory and stockyard workers. Willkie of for today doctor says tells audiences Roosevelt is leading nation to Bank re it y bungles International affairs. Will speak at 4 p. M. Rites today at noon for Bankhead d speaker of House suffered second abdominal Haemorrhage Early sunday morning. Active to life end storm in Atlantic costs one Many a life by Joseph h. Short Washington sept. 15-- a speaker William b. Bankhead who died of an internal Haemorrhage in today s Early hours will be mourned by president Roosevelt the Cabinet and Congress at a state funeral in the House chamber tomorrow. The White House announced the president would leave tor Jasper. Ala., aboard his special train immediately after a state funeral for the speaker to be held in the House chamber tomorrow. The service to to held at noon est will be preceded by a Brief ceremony at which Sam Rayburn of Texas present House democratic Leader will be elevated to speaker to succeed Bankhead representative from Alabama since 1917 and presiding officer of the House since 1936. The Rev. James Shera Montgomery chaplain of the House will conduct Fin woman lawyer dead jail woman miss Littie w. Booth beaten to death in Home occupied with miss mar e. B. Jones social Register Ite. Heavy furniture weapon by James t. Carter Hastings on Hudson n. Y., sept. 15�?</p>�?the 25->ear Friendship of two Middle aimed spinster ended m tragedy today when miss Little Washington Boom 50, a lawyer was found bludgeoned to death in my quiet Samoei mansion sue had shared tor ten years with miss Mary e. B Jones 44, social Regis Tente. Police booked miss Jones on a charge of homicide commuted Lier to the a Echo pathetic Ward of nearby grasslands Hospital and tried to piece together the Story of their relationship and miss Booths gruesome death from the rambling mumblings of me surviving woman. John j. Dunnigan chief of police who discovered the body Between the Kitchen and Dinette said that As nearly As he could gather from an Eye witness police Story i s Jones incoherent account the shattered and the service. Immediately afterwards a bloodstained furnishings and other special train will take tile body to evidence death came As a Climax new York sept. 15�? up a the coast guard announced today that one Man drowned and la were rescued when two Small Cabin cruisers overturned on the bar at Barnegat n. A in heavy seas resulting from a dangerous storm moving up the Atlantic coast. Seven men were rescued by the coast guard from one boat and four from the other. The Man who drowned was John a. Belue 61, of Princeton n. Purchase Plant Chester sept. 15�? pm Tho Scott paper company today announced the Purchase of the Anacortes pulp Mill Anacortes Washington. Jasper ala., for burial. The House plan.4 to recess for three Days to permit members to attend the Jasper services. At Jasper ala., sorrow stricken friends made arrangements for funeral services in the first methodist Church of which the speaker was a member. After Bankhead s funeral the democrats will decide whether to choose a Newt majority Leader immediately or leave the office open until a new Congress convenes in january. Among those democrats discussed As possibilities for the leadership were representatives Woodrum scooper ten Mccormick mass and Boland Penna Rayburn was one of the first to console mrs. Bankhead the speakers widow and Bankhead a daughters by a former marriage Tallulah the actress and mrs. Eugenia Hoyt. Stricken tuesday to a Stoggle Between the two women a a fight marked by a mad flight and Chase through the Many rooms and alcoves of both floors of the House. Chased through House apparently said Dunnigan miss Jones chased miss Booth through tile entire House. Furniture had been thrown about and broken. As nearly As we can learn miss Jones finally caught up with mrs Booth and felled her with an old Windsor chair. The broke and pail or it were used Over miss Booths head. We found the body1 in a Pool of blood the head in the Kitchen and the rest of tire a body in the Dinette. Neighbors said the fight began shortly after 5 a. In. Est there was an argument in the garage under the fieldstone and stucco House where miss Jones kept her four Laige expensive cars and a station Wagon. The argument was followed by raised voices in tire House the sound of wends Willkie Bankhead a soft spoken gentle crashing furniture and finally then the neighbors called a this is the Way i want to approach the difficulties confronting Man of 66, died suddenly at 1 35 a in. Est. His last illness began tuesday while he was in Baltimore to address a political rally. He fainted just before his speech was to be delivered and at that time or. George w. Calver Capitol physician announced that he had suffered an sex Sruti Atins attack of sciatica. After the speakers death Calver said that actually a blood vessel in Bankhead a Abdomen had ruptured adding that he withheld the True diagnosis to avoid any possibility that the speaker might learn the seriousness of his illness. Another hem Orra Hage occurred at 5 p. M. Yesterday. Active to the end the Baltimore speech was to have launched the tvs a Campaign for re election of president Roosevelt and democratic congressmen in that stat1 despite frail by of health for several years Bankhead a last months had been filled with political activity. He was keynote sneaker at the Democrat National convention in Chicago in july and then launched an Active Campaign for the vice residential Nomi please turn to Page five real cooperation the nation and arrive at the solution of All problems a by sitting Down with the men who do the Job und talking it out spa outstrips private Industry Harrisburg amp it it. 15�?irv�?1t>�?T> largest decline in the state s Relief Rolls since the beginning of june re need the Lna i persons in. The first week of september. This brought the tnta1 Timber a ref Eftin fyn a he wll to 43.694. T1�?T a 4f�r>artrnpr> it Uhlir Assi Tancy Rerer de that 1 580 Ner is Faff the rn1�?T a Quot ii Quot or it of Tovy astr in a in orig at Industry and 4 r75 because of work or Oigt o mini do action employment assistance Grants during the week totalled $1,048 998. By William b. Ardery Kansas City sept. 16�? a a Throat specialist treated Wendell l. Willkie today and then expressed the opinion that the Republican presidential nominee s hoarse voice would be cleared up in time for a major Campaign address tomorrow at Coffeyville Kas after an examination or h. D. Bernhard. Beverly Hills calif., issued this statement or Willkie had a strained Throat from too Many speaking engagements. It is Clearing up in Nice Shap get and i expect him to be in a position to keep All his engagements. After sleeping nine hours at gird his special Nam last night Willkie Tod reporters his voice was much unproved and he would carry through his entire monday program. Tile schedule cans for four rear platform appearances before tile nominee reaches Gorfie Yville but aides Vaid to int members of Hie Willkie entourage would do most of the speaking at those Points. Willkie told reporters he caught a slight cold on the Chilly night when he left his temporary Headquarters in Rushville ind. This he said combined with a heavy speaking schedule in Chicago the next Day. Had caused his Throat trouble. Crowd at Kansas City a crowd greeted Willkie As his Campaign train pulled into Kansas City this morning. Accompanied by mrs. Willkie the candidate Rode through the business District and then went into retirement at his hotel. Lem Jones his press Secretary said Winkle had no appointments for the Day and was following physicians instructions to get a Good rest. However later in tile Day he a Jeared in the lobby of the hotel and Shook hands with 60 Republican chairmen from Kansas and Missouri. The candidate completed work last night on his Coffeyville speech Wlinich will be entitled a a the failure of the new Deal theory of tile address set for 4 p. Rn., Central Standard time will be the fowl prepared talk of Winkles 7.200-mile Campaign tour through the Middle and far West. Before reaching Coffeyville where he taught High school history in 1913-14, Willkie was scheduled to Stop at pleasant Hill Butler and Nevada mo., and at Pittsburgh Kas. After leaving Coffeyville late in the afternoon he will pause at Claremore okla., and then speak again in Tulsa okla., at 8 p. In. Cost. Accuses Roosevelt the Republican nominee for president charged his opponent with leading the nation to bankruptcy and bungling in International affairs. Declaring that Roosevelt had hampered recovery Willkie said if that Progress has proceeded the chaos in Europe today the death and destruction would never have come. In 1933 the economic conf in Nee in Europe if permitted to continue would have brought recovery but Franklin Roosevelt dumped it. Social recovery after having dumped the London conf Emce Franklin Roosevelt started a program of social and economic recovery. In 1936, Franklin Roosevelt said ill pack the supreme court when the world was praying for the leadership of America As Germany was building guns. We set the example of the world and that poor puny fellow Blum began to follow. Franklin Roosevelt set the example. Where was Franklin Roosevelt the great indispensable Man when Germany was reaching out if he had Given encouragement to France this thing never would have happened. Who was the great appeaser at Munich remember when they sold Czecho Slovakia Down the River motives Noble where was Roosevelt calling Hitler and Chamberlain and telling them he thought the Munich pact ought to go through. His motives Are always Noble but it does no to do any Good when you Don t know what you re talking about. Franklin Roosevelt is the least qualified to Lead this country. Democracy survives Only under Prosperity. Roosevelt has spent 60 billion dollars and any taxicab Driver could Amend just As much. We must have economic recovery other people throughout the world will not follow the example of our democracy if it does ont produce results. Any system of life in order to sur Vive must be effective. We cannot survive under economic chaos. Can Tell spinach my voice Over the radio May not indicate polish but i can Tell spinach bombs 8 Days for Palace Berlin has 2 alarms but authorities say British were beaten Buckingham hit by Lone bomber shot Down by British airman who chutes to safety. Plane collapses London. Sept. 15�?i a German bombs hit Buckingham a it Alace today for the third time in eight a its damaging the private apartments of Queen Elizabeth who with King George a absent from the Royal residence. To o heavy delayed action or Dud bombs and a number of smaller in Cind Lary missiles were showered on the Palace and surrounding grounds by a Lone German Raider. One of the big bombs hurtled through the Queen quarters. The German bomber was shot to pieces a moment later Eye witnesses declared and the attacking British Pilot himself was forced to bail out of his damaged plane it radiating Down to the acclaim of spectators. There were no casualties among the Skeleton staff at the Palace. The incendiary bombs started fires on the Lawn out were extinguished quickly b Arp squads and police. Details of the damage to the Queen s quarters were not disclosed immediately. The heaviest previous damage was inflicted Friday when bomb. Wrecked the Royal Cha Ixl and damaged the South Wing. First bomb last sunday the first bomb fell on tile Royal residence last sunday and exploded tuesday wrecking the swimming Pool used by princesses Elizabeth and mar Rose. Another delayed action explosive dropped Friday went off yesterday damaging the great Iron Fence enclosing the Palace grounds the sergeant Pilot credited with Downing the nazi Raider today landed unhurt in the backyard of a nearby residence Shook off his jux Irachete harness and reported by Telephone to his Ai drome. The Pilot emerged from the House to the cheers of a in at crowd which quickly assembled and his Parachute was Tom to shreds by admiring souvenir Hunters who called out a Good work countless persons witnessed the bombing plane Breaks in pieces i saw the plane break into pieces said one witness. The wings fluttered Down in one direction and the fuselage fell almost like a Stone. One of the Crew jumped out but his Parachute failed to open and he fell on the roof of a building close by he was killed instantly. Berlin. Sept. 16a Berlin underwent two air raid alarms last night and Early today but authorized nazi sources said British plans were driven away and told of havoc wrought to British land and sea communications and arms centers by unbroken relays of German bombers. Each of the Berlin alarms was a out a half hour Long one just before and one just ofter Midnight. Sinking of a British Cruiser off Northwest. Ireland was reported by one nazi Pilot returning from the attack an incomplete Clack on the re on Britain. Suits of the air fighting German sources said showed that 71 British planes were shot Down and 20 German planes were missing. Two Power stations and two waterworks were among the objectives damaged these sources said. At least 165 German planes were shot Down Britain Reju red acknowledging losses of Only 30 planes of her own in Tho Days fighting. London s great West India docks on the Tsiames were battered from tile air again today informer scorer said and tile German air Force intends to keep them blazing and bomb churned in in Campaign to Pere Syzc British Industry and shipping. In Niece in Liverpool also German observation pilots reported bomb hits on armament and Industrial centers m Liverpool Gas works and factories in Warrington and Brighton and on a Row of Railroad centers to tween the Channel coast and London. In London they said fires lit by bombs yesterday and last night were still burning so late tonight that the fire odor could be smelled in their planes. Besides the sinking of an 8,000-ton merchantmen out of a Convoy North of Ireland reported in the High commands summary of yesterdays operations. German sources said another 8,000-ton merchant ship was hit so heavily with bombs it went up in flames. New big fires were said to have been observed also in Woolwich where there is a Large British Arsenti a and at the great Bend of the Dock lined thames Between Greenwich and the Center of London. Attack continues despite heavy British anti aircraft fire and Many Battle Between individual planes and groups German sources said the attack still was continuing in Early evening. German bomb throwing will not permit extinguishing the Blaze in these Harbor facilities these quarters insisted. Great numbers of incendiary and explosive bombs were Rex it red drop jux Al and air fights developed in which one German Chaser unit reported five British planes shot Down. Reviewing the previous 24 hours of warfare the German High command announced that at a Cost of five planes tile Luftwaffe raided military objectives in Middle and South England with emphasis on London where Dock and liar or facilities suffered blows. Tile High command told of night raids by the British on Belgium and prance and along the Western Frontier in which it said the Raf struck a single military objectives a military Camp. Seven persons were reported killed and 16 wounded German anti aircraft batteries shot Down five British planes while 25 others crashed under the fire of German fighting planes the communique said. 30 British planes loss during Day Raf bombers seek out German a invasion machine a bomb barges 5000 ton ship sunk. To pilots Safe jail Elum near room former socialist Premier of France must answer for 40-hour Law. Shrieks. Police. Ward of miss Booth miss Jones was said by neighbors to have been a Ward of miss Booth. The chief said miss Booth a patient attorney who formerly had an office in new York City and miss Jones listed in the new York social Register had lived together in the House for about to years. He believed they owned it jointly. It is in an exclusive residential Section known As Shadow Lawn a neighbourhood of Large Homes and spacious lawns. First indication of the slaying came when r. H. Caddoo a neighbor of the women telephoned police at about 8 30 a. In. That awl Ful noises Wen coming from the usually quiet House. The killing was discovered when two any time i see it. Patrolmen went to investigate. They said miss Jones was raving incoherently and that she continued to do so we Hen taken to Headquarters for questioning that proved fruitless. She was locked up in the Westchester county jail. Little was known of the women but neighbors said they appeared moderately wealthy. Patrolman arrives town patrolman Frank Mccaffery first to arrive said he tried All doors and found them locked. Through the windows. I could see miss Jones raising the chair Over the prostrate miss Booth and bringing it Down on her head he said. I yelled for her to Stop and broke the Glass in the dining room door to try to to Fach the lock. Then i broke Down the Kitchen door and rushed in to find miss Booth lying Between the Kitchen and Dinette. As miss Jones was about to strike again with remnants of the chair i grabbed her hand and forced her please turn to Page five former Berlin worker dead victim of Hercules powder blast formerly employed on Turnpike Job. Officials of the Central Pennsylvania stripping and construction company got word at their operations at Berlin Over the weekend that a former employee Willard la mar a a Peter Halkyard 40, of Catawissa was one of the 47 killed in an explosion at the Hercules powder company Plant at Kenvil n. J., thursday last. It was Learned that Halkyard had been employed by the Central Pennsylvania concern on their Pennsylvania Turnpike construction Job near Berlin until late in june. It was understood Halkyard had then gone to Kenvil to accept employment with the Hercules powder company. He leaves a wife and a Small son funeral services will be conducted today monday at Catawissa. A number of his former friends working on the Turnpike in Somerset county will attend. Vichy France sept. 15�? a a former socialist Premier Leon Blum was locked up today at chateau Chaperon Feudal Castle near room where four other top flight leaders of pre armistice France Are held in the War guilt investigation. Like the others former Premier edouard Daladier and Paul Reynaud general Maurice Gustave Gam Al in. Former Generalissimo of the a Lik d armies and former Interior minister Georges Mendel Blum faces the possibility of trial before the room War blame court. Blum whose government is blamed by the present retain regime for a Large Eliare of responsibility came to Power in 1936 and pushed through a number of social reforms including the 40-hour work week. These measures the Vichy government contends resulted in a precipitate fall in French production particularly armaments. As a jew Blum often bore the Brunt of remarks bearing on his race both in the press and Cham Der of deputies in pre War Days and even when his government was in Power. Now the racial question has been brought to Hie fore More sharply than Ever. An official statement tonight said merely that Blum had been placed in administrative internment As have tile Mihai firings Mother Home Gen Ion Antone Sci makes himself Leader of pro nazi Iron guard. Bucharest sept. 15-hah�? Rumania s new totalitarian Iron guard state formed by decree of Gen. Ion Antonescu prayed and cheered today As Young King Mihai brought his Mother Princess Helen Back from exile to the Palace his father Carol vacated a week ago. The return of the Royal Matron who rumanian Are now calling a Regina mama Elena was arranged by Antonescu As tile Climax of a announcement of the transformation of tile state along nazi lines. Mother and son Rode together in an open coach drawn by six White horses through lower strewn streets followed in Aneth eocrataom.6.ao followed in another coach by the Stern Grey Antonescu who Only a few hours earlier had named himself Leader of the National Iron guard state and chief of the Iron guard regime. Antonescu who came to Power with German support but no political organization of his own Apt it eared to have won Over the pro nazi Iron guards allegiance by giving them a majority of the posts in ins Cabinet and naming their Leader Horia Sima London sept. 16�? a London a steel Circle of anti aircraft Cannon blasted through the Moonlight heavens at a procession of German warplanes for nine hours and 28 minutes last night and Carty today after gunners and fighter pilots had claimed destruction of at least 175 of the nazi participating in mass Daylight attacks sunday. The All night alarm was the second longest of the War. Exceeded Only by Tho nine hour and 40-minute raid of one week ago. The germans started out sunday with feeler attacks then came Over in two great Waves during the afternoon. From Hammersmith in the West of London to the Kentish coast a Beachy head the Story was the same British fighters tumbling and spinning and chm big in bitter dogfights with the raiders. Thirty British planes were acknowledged lost but to pilots were reported saved. Besides the heavy toll claimed against the German raiders the Britton described a fierce thrust Back a Germany and at the German front line of invasion in the Channel ports of France Holland and Belgium saturday night and sunday morning. Seek out invasion machine rap bombers systematically sought out the German High commands invasion machine said tile air ministry news service and wrought havoc upon it despite heavy storm in which lightning struck planes and ice coated the wings. One rain Pilot attacking Antwerp Belgium set afire a 5,000-ton merchant ship and said he is More than 300 barges in the Harbor possibly the Dagger Point of intended invasion. Of tend too was found to have been greatly strengthened in the past week and was hit hard. Docks warehouses and Oil Sheds All along the Continental coast were struck heavily. The German sunday Oft Light raids on England were in two big Waves of 350 to 400 planes. Some of the big nazi bombers were brought Down in the heart of London one on Victoria station others in the Kensington and Stratham sections. Line Raider technique then As night came the germans shifted to the Lone Raider technique Over London Over the midlands and elsewhere in England they seemed rattled by the intense antiaircraft fire Over London to tile extent that they dropped their bombs As soon As they arrived Over the City As vice Premier. Princess Helen a triumphant a o. I into the capital at the Side of her and without the usual preliminary others held at chateau Chaz Cion. Lins j i mkt smiling son became a two runs Over a target. Is the official term for the custody j j y a a n f for Bucharest. They the Thunder of the barrage made in which they Alc being held until the Chron ced the four mile route from the a sound track that traced each raid time when formal charges May Igor l a railway station to the orthodox or s course across the sky amid bomb aaa in it Tnp a Whon of a Hylra a a to Zirul rid Blick to the amp cd Nat a ref frilling Snail soldiers some carrying Light machine guns stood guard almost shoulder to shoulder in front of the orderly crowds. Mihai answered the cheers with Brief salutes. Lodged against them. When the charges Are made they can be placed under official arrest. Dig out nazi three cars crash near Boynton x done to be misled by High sounding English. If i Coolid have All the riches of the Worts or poverty and Liberty i would take poverty. We have Liberty and i say you will not keep it you cannot keep it on the Road to chaos. The question before the world is can the United states make this Beautiful was of life effective i done to pretend to be much but i Tell the truth. No Man has Ever had the courage to say that i Ever lied. President Roosevelt said he never comments on rending legislation and the record shows he commented 17 times. Says president lies tile finest kind of English cannot make lies the truth. I several thousand persons crowded around the train at Joliet Many carrying banners and placards. Willkie. Still Hoard a from pfc Atren ours Dav of campaigning in Chicago Friday said Roosevelt Only candidate three cars figured in a late Friday night crash along route 219 Between Boynton and Salisbury. A Sedan operated by Harry t. Raub of Meyersdale was travelling South in route to Salisbury followed Coupe operated by miss Myrtle Man of Salisbury. A Sedan operated by Marshall Baer of Meyersdale a d. 4, approached in the opposite direction. The staub and Baer cars figured in a sides wiping Accident and the Baer car smashed into the Bowman car. None was injured. Investigating officers of the Somerset sub station of the state motor police estimated the damage to the three cars at $150. No prosecution will be made officers said. Time Rombs raid Rund n. Camp London sept. 15�? a it a a British suicide squad dug for four breathless Days and night then triumphantly trundled a 1,100-Pound German time bomb from the precincts of St. Paul s Cathedral late today and cheered lustily As it a detonated harmlessly in the Hackney marshes. Four smaller bombs remained Buri Kenvil n. J., sept. 15 a5 a a de in the Vicinity of the Cathedral j sheriff s Force raided the German site Riff a posse seeks evidence of sabotage in powder Mill blast. Willkie democrats led by Mccormick Harrisburg sept. 15�?<a>�? Vance g. Mccormick Harrisburg publisher and former chairman of the democratic National committee has been appointed Pennsylvania Quot hair Man of the National committee of democrats for Wendell l. Willkie for but the greatest which might live utterly destroyed the famed edifice a was gone after tills harrowing struggle directed by 45-year-old Lieut. R. Davies of the Royal Canadian engineers the workers began tunnelling Only to discover that a 6-Inch Gas main had been broken by the bom i Uree in n were felled by Gas and then Hie fuel burst into flames while the deadly bomb grew warm beneath them. Extinguishing tile fire the sleepless workers dug on Down 27% feet to where the bomb had sunk itself. Saturday they hitched ropes to it. Twice near the top of the Hole the polished projectile slipped and plunged Back into the to while every Man expected instant death. Praying the bomb might by a Dud the men kept at it during the fore noon today. It a the accustomed time for sunday services in St. Paul s but today there were on services for the first time in Many years. American bund Camp at Andover and a Dies committee investigator searched employ yes lockers at the Hercules powder company Plant Here today As sequels to an explosion which took at least 47 lives. Sheriff Denton j. Quick of Sussex county deputized eighteen Small town police chiefs and swept Down on Camp Mardland where he said they seized subversive literature and a Rifle equipped with telescopic sights. He then came Here to Check the Hercules payroll against a list of persons believed to frequent the bund Camp. Andover is about ten Miles from the Plant scene of a terrific powder explosion thursday. Robert b. Barker special investigator for the House committee on in american activities said he had searched such lockers As survived fire and explosion for evidence that any workers belonged to subversive groups. He declined to discuss his findings but said they would be presented at a conference with representative in mid afternoon two tandem hitch i Thomas in no committee member de trucks finally dragged out the bomb. It was no Dud. Its 8-foot length was fitted with a profusion of fuses which made it Dang Rous even to touch. Gently it was loaded onto a fast truck and lieutenant Davies himself drove it away with Rod flags waving to warn of danger aboard. It blasted out a 100-foot Crater in the Marsh where it was set off. Mrs. Wolf Home from Hospital mrs. Mary Wolf who had been a and other investigators in washing ton tomorrow. Barker said the Plant payroll would be checked against All available lists lists of members in subversive groups. a j a a a a a a it a i. The appointment was made in new i Hospital patient following a fractured Nev to can Lei in a Man minor has i York City yesterday by Alan Valentine hip is now at the Home of her son please turn to Page five the committees executive director. E. R. Wolf in que Creek to recuperate. Ketterer of Butler. Bauer Slippery Rock bursar Slippery Rock. Sept. 15�? up a the Slippery Rock state teachers College Board yesterday named Frederick h. Bauer 37, Rochester bursar of the institution. He was selected from a Field of More than 50 Aspli cants Bauer who had seven Vears of experience As bursar of Mansfield. State teachers College succeeds David i Washington Philadelphia blast and the rattle of falling Shell fragments. Flying splinters pocked the windshields of Many automobiles. Fire engines clanged through the darkened streets and the volume of anti aircraft fire suddenly increased. Many of the nazi planes were turned Back As they came Over Maidstone and Canterbury above the Medway please turn to Page five Somerset weather reported daily by David Grove u. S. Weather observer temperature for the 24-hour period from 5 30 p. In. Saturday until 5 30 p. In. Sunday maximum. 70 minimum. 46 temperature a year ago maximum. 85 minimum. 4? temperature for the 24-hour period from 5 30 p. In. Friday until 5 30 p. In. Saturday maximum. 70 minimum. 34 temperature a year ago maximum. 79 minimum. 55 weather forecast West Virginia and Western Pennsylvania fair monday and tuesday Little change in temperature. Maryland generally fair monday and tuesday slightly cooler monday night. Eastern Pennsylvania generally fair monday and tuesday except Light showers in Northeast portion monday slightly cooler monday night. Weather elsewhere up the u. S. Weather Bureau reported the following High and Low temperatures in 13 u. S. Cities for sunday albany.48 new York. 70 Boston. Miami. 88 Chicago. 66 Denver. 80 Cleveland. 66 St. Louis. 79 Pittsburgh. 74 los Angeles. 78 Rio Lipston. 45 45 70 59 66 54 86 73 66 50 80 a 51 66 49 79 54 74 57 78 60 86 69 81 56 73 59

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