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The Times Leader from Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania • Page 2

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The Times Leaderi
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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
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PATTON LEAVES THIRD ARMY MQV1E STRIKE VICTIM MAY DIE Tobin Asked Books Sought Mining Town I I Til Jll 1 For Russians To Intercede Endangered Molten Gilsonite Flows To Traffic Club Requests Head of Teamsters to Seek Settlement Valley Committee Seeks Volumes to Replace Ones Destroyed by Germans ward Bonanza After 2 Blasts Wreck Mine Verriai Utah, Oct. 10 Of) Molten Luzerne County is joining in a nationwide "Books lor Russia Geriainly- campaign, headed nationally by Gilsonite flowed lava-like toward the isolated mining community of Bonanza today and great spurts of She Will Meet You flame shot skyward intermittently from the 15 shafts of a mine wrecked last nitmt bv two tremen A new approach to the labor disputes which have tied up much of the valley's trucking facilities was taken last night by a city organization which appealed to Dan Tobin, president of the Teamsters, Chauffeurs and Warehousemen's Union, AFL, for help in solving the problems. The organization which took the move was the Wyoming Valley Traffic Club, an organization of railroad shippers that has existed for many years. Bennett Ceri, writer and editor. The local committee met Tuesday evening at the Osterhout Free Library under the chairmanship of Grace W.

Estes, Osterhout Librarian. The collection in this country of at least 1,000,000 English language classics to replace books destroyed in Russian libraries during the German invasion will serve not dous explosions. Miners who returned with rescue at Hie Sterling for Lunch parties after evacuating their families were building dams to stem the flow from the erupting mine shafts. Greatest danger was that the tar-like Gilsonite would ignite homes of the 250 residents which were miraculously spared, alone Acting at its meeting last nignt only as an important inter-cultural exchange, but as a token of good Call her up now ask her will. BW sa Book depots where citizens may to meet you at the Sterling for lunch today.

It's a treat with their occupants, when the two blasts hurled mine shaft tim evervone enioys. Good Ster bers into the sky. Only two homes isiil 'jn Ssr HPS Gen. George S. Patton, (left) hands the Third Army banner to Lt.

Gen. Lucian Truscott as he relinquishes command to Truscott at Bad Toelz, Germany. Photo by William C. Allen, AP staff photographer. (Picture by radio from Paris) in Hotel Kedmgton, the club telegraphed Tobin this message: "Labor conditions in Wilkes-Barre and vicinity for the past several weeks have reached the point where we believe some executive from your office should intervene for the best interests of all concerned.

"Any assistance that this organ ling food and quiet, efficient were damaged and these were all but demolished when several of the leave their gifts are being set up in public libraries and other points to be announced. English language classics from Canterbury Tales to Thomas Wolfe are desired. Modern writers popular in Russia, such as Steinbeck, Hemingway, Sinclair service make a great 16-foot timbers came crashing through tne roots. The highly inflamable asphaltic Lewis. Upton Sinclair and De Taylor Denies mineral burns like tar.

It is used in the manufacture of paints, ammu Kruif, are also needed. Books should be in good condition and of nition and molded electrical Dupont Youth Badly Injured worth. Ephemeral novels will not Luncheon Special for Thursday Personal Army The resultant blaze from the ex be shipped 6,000 mues. Mrs. Beulah M.

Bailey, Luzerne County Russian Relief Executive ization can render for speedy settlement of the present controversy is hereby offered, B. M. Bonham, secretary." The strike of truck drivers employed by 11 major hauling firms went into its third day this morning with no apparent move being made by either the union or the firms toward a settlement. The picketing of the freight sta plosions, cause of which is still undetermined, leveled the mine build Secretary, outlined plans for collec- Tomato Juice or Soup du Jour ings but the fire was held to the mine property. It was still burning Declares Lawrence Adept tLuaene l.herne.ski Receives county the week of October 21 and tonight.

nuuse-io-noust- cuuecuuns in uie Breaded Veal Cutlet with Tomato Sauce Buttered Asparagus Boiled Farsley rotate I i iu lni f.fi Win by Girl Scouts on October Vfi'J7 it Acc a nntnf I At Placing Persons on State Payroll motor corps will assist in collec Bice Fuddlnr or Ice Cream During the night, miners who were not fighting the fires in the mine proper, poured tons of water on their homes to prevent their igniting from the intense heat. Eyebrows and hair of many residents were signed and some suffered painful but not serious burns. Hit by Mail Truck tions. Macklin (Porky) Hall, onetime fat boy In Hal Roach comedies, lies critically injured on a stretcher just outside the main gate to Warner Brothers studio in Hollywood, Police said he was severly beaten with helmets when he charged a strike picket line and doctors said he may die. (AP JYirephoto) tions in me city also was continued by the Teamsters Union in protest against a labor dispute at the S.

Frieder and Sons cigar plant. The Central Labor Union, meeting Tuesday night, indorsed a proposal to have representatives of AFL unions in the valley meet The Luzerne County Committee Includes the superintendents and principals of schools throughout the county sehopl system, among Coffee, Tea or MUk (Other entrees from 6Sc) Harrisburg, Oct. 10 JP) M. Har Eugene Cherneski, 9, son of Mr. them Supt.

Allen E. Bacon, Wilkes vey Taylor, Kepubiican Mate chairman, today characterized as Barre City Schools; Supt. John political day-dreaming," a recent with members of the court, Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Association today to try to Kennedy, Kingston; Frank Walp, Forty Fort; Dr. Eugene Farley, Hugh Brislin Reported As Slightly Improved nAmnfrnlin fitfttp Pnmmittpp stfltp- Bucknell Junior College; Dean and Mrs. Barney Cherneski, 202 Harding Street, Duporft, suffered a fractured skull, bruise of right leg, with possible fracture and contusions of the body yesterday afternoon about 3:40 when, according to Dupont police, he was hit by a mail truck out of Pittston Post ment aserting Taylor had personal which are keeping the truckers Bet Loser Refuses to Push Winner Around Square Winners of World Series wagers in offices, clubs, homes and other places collected on their bets yesterday, but it was a different case with the "ride three times around Public Square" wager.

tax-supported "army" of 15,000 State jobholders. "That's a pretty big army for HOTEL STERLING Hugh Brislin, Times-Leader Evening News editorial staff member, was reported as being slightly improved last night in Mercy Hospital. Mr. Brislin is being treated at that institution for pneumonia and has been a patient since last idle. Leon Decker, who was directed to arrange such a meeting, was out of town yesterday and last night, and no announcement was made whether plans for the proposed meetings were made.

Vilas Shook, an executive of the teamsters' union, declared that seven of the smaller truckers, in Peter Adamowicz, west Ann Street, Plains, lost his World Series bet with Michael Javick of East i Charles Street, Plains, yesterday 1 gagaHMsN when the Detroit Tigers of the cluding one over-the-road firm American League won the 1945 Tigers, and Adamowicz was dead certain Chicago's Bruins would win. The Tigers blasted the Cubs out of the title with a 9 to 3 win at Chi-cagos' Wrigley Field yesterday afternoon and Adamowicz lost the bet. Javick went to Adamowicz's jiome last night, intent on collect- have signed agreements with the union, and that their trucks are one man to keep under his Office, driven by John Murphy of thumb," Taylor said in a state-, 25 Street' Hughestown. I The youth was on his way home ment, "but I guess Davey Law-(from schoo havjng stoped at rence (Democratic State chair- church as was his custom at times man) thinks I'm as adept at that to say a prayer, when, according sort of thing as he was when he to the driver of the mail truck, was kmg pin of the Earle Admin- ne stepped off the curb at corner istration." of Church and Main Streets, Du- Taylor said that just before Pnt. into path of the truck.

George H. Earle's flection as gov-1 He was taken by James Heffron ernor in 1938, Lawrence "knew 60 Plank Street, Pittston, to the names of 92,234 political de-j offlce of Dr. L. C. Druffner of pendents whom he personally first iAvoc.a wno boy removed had to approve before they were t0 Pittston Hospital where he still eligible to hold a State job." was unconscious last night.

He contrasted that with "less Murphy was held under" bail ur- diamond classic, but Adamowicz backed out of "paying the fiddler" because, he said, "too many people James A. Adams, Wyoming Seminary; agency representatives include Mrs. Conrad, Girl Scouts; Mr. Schirer, Boy Scouts; Laura Huber, YWCA; Mrs. William Gutman, Junior League; Homer Peabody, Pomeroy's and the Ad Club and members of the Russian War Relief Board; Jacob S.

Russin, chairman; Boris A. Jenkins, co-chairman; Richard H. Mitchell, treasurer, Beulah M. Bailey, executive secretary; Rev. Jule Ayres, Louis G.

Baltimore, A. C. Baltimore, Mrs. Fletcher Booker, Rev. Norman W.

Clemens, Mrs. William H. Conyng-ham. Miss Margaret Elliott, Judge J. Harold Flannery, Dr.

Malcolm C. Guthrie, Irving Hunt, Rev. John Krashevitch, Rabbi Reuben Katz, Mrs. R. H.

Mitchell, Stanley B. Jones, Mrs. Frank C. Mueller, John J. McSweeney.

Mrs. F. E. Park-hurst, Rev. C.

S. Roush, Mrs. Franz Rupprecht, Rev. William K. Russell, James Rutter, Mrs.

Ernest G. Smith, Vilas Shook, John Skuba, Joseph Walsh. State Fish Rules for 1946 Same as 1945 would laugh at us. Adamowicz had a bet with Javick on the World Series, and the ling the bet, but Adamowicz said loser was to have given the winner now back in operation. Rates agreed to in the contracts, said Shook, will give helpers $37.40 weekly; city drivers, peddle run drivers operating over 18 miles from city but not more than 60, overrthe-road drivers, $3 additional per trip for minimum of three trips a week, or a new trip rate of $17.96.

a ride three times around Public Square in a wheelbarrow. Javick he was afraid "too many people would laugh at us" and last night at 6, when the payoff was to have taken place, Public Square's frequenters missed a chance to see a man being given a ride in a TTTbw01 ara9.M picked the championship Detroit than 40.000 people employed under nished by Postmaster Gibbons of Governor Martin's Administra- New Approach Paterson. N. Oct. 10 (JP tion." "The Democratic State Committee treads on very thin ice when 15,000 Officers to Move From Washington x-uision r-osi unice ana win appear for a hearing tonight at 7 at office of Squire Golya, Dupont.

Patrolmen Michael Fritz and Charles Ross are investigating. 7,013 Ships Repaired At Pearl Harbor Yards Donald Anderson, discharged Navy chief petty officer, and his bride of two months have approached their housing difficulties this way it registers shocked concern over the patronage situation in Pennsylvania," Taylor went on. "Ever since I have been State chairman wnn a ciassmed ad in a local newspaper Washington, Oct. 10 W) The of the Republican party I have Army figures that 15,000 officers made it a strict rule of my office Mr. and Mrs.

Donald Anderson Now! You Can Throw Away Harsh Laxatives Here's a Physician's own purely vegetable formula Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets which work so gently but oh so thoroughly! Olive Tablets pep up sluggish bile flow. They act on both upper and lower bowels to give more natural-like movement snft. to leave State job endorsements up request the pleasure of the com pany at dinner at the Hotel Astor, New ork City, of any one who Harrisburg, Oct. 10 will fish under the same rules and regulations next year as those and their families will be moving from Washington soon, either through transfers or discharges.

So tomorrow it's calling in the moving men. A conference has been scheduled with the American Trucking Associations. "It'll be one of the biesest to tne county chairmen. "When Mr. Lawrence was in power, the Democratic County leaders were told who got what job and in addition lucky payroll-ers were singled out for patronage recognition, and were permitted can help them find a 3, 4 or 5-room apartment or bungalow in a nice neighborhood in order that sincere and profuse thanks might be expressed in appropriate surroundings, R.S.V.P," moving jobs in history," sighed a this year, Fish commissioner c.

a. French announced today. The Board of Fisheries also fixed these seasons and limits for 1946: Brook, brown and rainbow trout, April 15 to July 31. creek limit, to contribute 5 per cent of their comfortable complete satisfaction. Caution: use as directed.

30p, 604. trucking industry in an intpr- ionmincra frit- tho cunnnrt rf tha View. "And it COmeS at a time innurcr-hnnnrv nnlitical marhinn built with loving care by Davey when we are hard pressed to find a single empty truck." 10 for combined species of not less than six inches in size. Small and large mouth bass. Pearl Harbor, Oct.

10 The Navy today took the wraps off activity at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard where the war started. The Navy Yard repaired 7,013 ships during the war. More than 2,400 of them were in dry dock. Last January was the busiest month. Three hundred forty-two vessels were under repair in preparation directly for the Iwo invasion and indirectly for the Okinawa campaign.

Shrine Not Disturbed Czestachow, Poland, Oct. 10 JP American Ambassador and Mrs. Arthur Bliss Lane visited the centuries-old holy shrine of Yasna Gora today and found that the Germans had nof disturbed any of its sacred objects. The church which was built in 1382, contains anion? other July 1 to November 30, limit of six Returning Troops SPRAINS AND STRAINS and his one-time pal-to-the-grave, brother Joe Guffey. Job-holders who failed to kick in 5 per cent were quietly dropped from the payroll by Davey." Taylor said "the Democratic State Committee's constant sniping at the administration of Governor Martin is the natural reaction of thwarted politicians who see a tremendous record of achievement being built up on the ashes of their own failure." Muscular Aches and Paint Stiff Joints Bruises for combined species not less tnan nine Inches in size.

Pike, Perch and Pickerel, July 1 to November 30, limit, six not less than 12 inches in size. Muskellunge (western and northern pike), July 1 to November 30, limit, two not less than 24 Inches in size. French also reminded fishermen that a new 1945 law now limits motor boats to five horsepower when operating in inland waters of the Commonwealth 180 feet or less in width. (By The Associated Press) Eight troop-carrying ships are scheduled to arrive today at East Coast porta with more than 4,300 personnel while at San Francisco, approximately 2,900 Pacific veterans are due aboard three vessels. Five vessels, with approximately 3,500 troops are due at New York; two, with 775 at Boston, and one with 103 at Newport News.

Ships and units arriving: "At New York (Aboard Rushville valuables a world famed painting of the Blessed Virgin studded with hundreds of precious stones. Britain Asked to Stop Expulsion of Germans London, Oct. 10 UP). Britain's Labor Government was asked to victory, from Antwerp), night to do "everything in their power to stop the expulsion of i Time for a Have a Coke 4,500,000 Germans from Eastern Europe which a member of Par liament said was scheduled to start on Monday at the rate of 30,000 u-opps, many tor discharge. (Aboard Joseph Nicholson, from Leghorn), 742 miscellaneous troops.

(Aboard Thomas Bickett), 741 miscellaneous troops. (Aboard Herrons Bridge, from Le Havre), 18 emergency returnees en route to Fort Sheridan, 111. (Aboard Oriental), 13 miscellaneous troops. At Boston (Aboard Jonathan Worth), 762 medieal attendants and miscellaneous personnel. (Aboard James Price), 13 miscellaneous Army personnel.

aaiiy. R. R. Stokes, Laborite, said In Commons that unless "this ghastly, Srocess" is stopped it would "bring orror to millions comparatively mnocem in a way mat Doggies the, imagination." Entering the debate, Undersecretary of State for Foreign Affairs Hector McNeil said the Allied Control Commission had no knowledge1 of an agreement among Russians, Poles, Czechs and Hungarians calling for expulsion of Germans from those areas. i At Newport News, Va.

(Aboard Charles Wooster), 103 miscellaneous personnel. At San Francisco Carriers Petrof Bay and Teamer Bay, 1,799 men; Transport Rixey, 1,065. Guaranteed REPAIR SERVICE On All Makes of Washers Weather sealed Ml paaonaWe 01 A very elegant trench coat that shines. Weather-sealed for stormy weather, but the smallest cloud is excuse enough to wear it. Black and other colors in sizes 10 to 20.

making the party a success It's easy to plan a date at home when you have frosty bottles of Coca-Cola in the family refrigerator. Have a Coc says the hostess, and the affair is off to a flying start To young or old, this friendly invitation opens the way to better acquaintance, adds aest and enjoyment to entertaining. From Alabama to Oregon, Coca-Cola stands for the pause that refreshes a pleasant way to make folks feel at home. OTftID UNDER AUTHORITY OF TNI COCA-COU COMPANY IV Wf LIES-BASBE OOCA-CO LA BOTTLING COMPANY H. W.

KJETBON, Sketched from stock 229eS HGHTS Wert faiket Street DIAL 3-0019 mm. i Coke iCoca-Cola "Coca-Cola and its abbreviation Coke" are the registered trade- THE HUB I marts which distinguish the prod luet of The Coca-Cola Company. HUB R.NIRSNOUIITZ .0145.

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