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THE PITTSBURGH PRESS, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1943 PAGE 15 Pittsburgh newspaperman who was Castle, end Hutchinson Contracting Clifton Heights, a $42,694 contract to macadamize 15 miles of U. S. 219 and Route 46 in Brad- ford. Pittsburgliers Held By Japs Coming Home On Gripslioln When CONSTIPATION Says "STOP" Bliss Says Oon't frrt wha tou feel "punk" from Cetistiptioa and resulting sour tomeh. headache, gas psina, Do this I Take Bliss Native Herbs Tableia.

Wbaa bliss as 4-WAY ACTION of nine plant ingredient belps (1) Induce bowel movement: (2) pep up D- petite and stomach action with bitters; (3) en- in charge of the Manila Bureau of the Associated Press when the war started. Mrs. Helen H. Watson, a field worker for a mission, is the daughter af Mrs. Lisette Herbert, 1210 Monterey St.

She went to Shanghai in 1935, and there met Rev. John R. Watson, whom she married in 1938. They had one child, Naomi, who was only four months old when Rev. Watson died in 1940., Naomi's name was not on the passenger list.

Dr. Grace Martin, a Pittsburgh physician, was head of the children's clinic of Margaret Williamson Hospital in Shanghai. Doctor Is Reunited! East 35 years ago, and for some time was director of the schools of the Philippines. Later he joined the Asia Realty in Shanghai. He and his wife, a former press association correspondent, and their M.Jr'H -1 Kii vV.

t- 'Z2L fryr xt rv I- I Jlte AT "23 yJ 'I rouraire bile Cow to aid digestion (4) relieve gas pres cure. Millions used yearly for over St years. Ask for SUSS NATIVE HERBS TABLETS. Trial Ctas Family Economy Sizes 6.1c and S1.25 (200 tablets). Caution: take any laxaUv only as directed two daughters lived In the French Concession of the International Settlement at Shanghai.

rAFL Conventon Warned- MARITIME UNION WOULD TURN ON U.S.TOAID REDS Ryan Says CIO Group Would Back Russia If It Were to Join With Japs BOSTON. Oct. 14 (UP) Ninety per cent of American merchant chips on the Atlantic and Gulf Coast ports would level their guns et this country in support of Russia If she became a Japanese ally, President Joseph P. Ryan of the International Longshoremen's Assn. warned delegates to the American Federation of Labor convention yesterday.

Mr. Ryan's warning came by way of explanation that unless the way was left open for a unified labor movement, unions outside the A. F. of L. would be "tossed in the lap of communism as Joe Curran's longshoremen were in 1938." He That the Koerner family would sail on the Gripsholm was learned early this week when Mrs.

Koerner's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Llewellyn M. With His Wife And Child A Rockefeller Foundation physician, whose forethought in sending his wife and young son homeward from China before the war began proved futile when they were captured in the Philippines, has been reunited with them and soon will be back in the United States. He is Dr.

Harold H. Loucks of Alverton, Westmoreland County, oe of 1236 U. S. nationals now being exchanged at Mormugao, Portuguese India, for Japanese who were in this country at the start of Christie, of 101 Lawncroft re COLDS COUGHING To relieve these miseries I MUSCLE grandma used mutton suet I flnurc medicated at home. Mothers I wtn" today simply rub.

on Penetro modern medication in a base containing old fashioned mutton suet. Double action. 25c Double supply S5o. Get Penetro. ceived a card from the State De Road Contracts Awarded HARRISBURG, Oct.

14 Highways Secretary John U. Shroyer late yesterday awarded Roy E. Fur-man, -Waynesburg, a $65,489 contract to macadamize 3.2 miles of U. S. 422 and Route 88 in New partment.

Mr. and Mrs. Koerner John Potter Dr. John Boots went to Shanghai in 1939. Newspaperman on List began the journey, and letters to Raymond P.

Cronin is a former Dr. Loucks' father, J. Lyman Loucks, a former State Representative from Alverton. indicated the two reached the Philippines Just before the war began. BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR AND WIFE are shown looking ot Pittsburgh during a visit to Carnegie Institute to attend Founder's Day today.

Dr. Carlos Martins, who will speak tonight, and Mme. Martins are pictured with Mrs. Rosweli Miller, right, daughter of Andrew Carnegie. From then on there was no word, and, until it was announced today that the three are returning on the Ddoi? (Starr 1 Jit 1 Gripsholm the fate of Mrs.

Loucks Roadway Is Opened and her son had been unrevealed. How the family was reunited is a story friends are eagerly awaiting. Among the U. S. citizens, who will return on the Swedish liner Gripsholm, are 11 Pittsburghers and 15 district residents.

They include two business men, a teacher, a missionary, a professor of dentistry, a newspaperman and his wife, and others. Nephew In Dormont John M. Hykes, who gave his home city as Pittsburgh, was born in China and has spent most of his SW life there, according to a nephew, William B. Hykes, 1413 Mervin This car is almost filled up, Dormont. Brazil to Fight In Europe Soon, Envoy Predicts Dr.

Martins Visits Pittsburgh To Attend Ceremonies At Carnegie Tech Brazil will send "quite a sizeable army" to Europe soon, Dr. Carlos To Mt. Washington The Washington Roadway was opened for traffic today despite the fact that Public Works Director Frank M. Roessing contends an additional $10,000 is needed. to complete a rock-removal project along the hillside street leading to Mt.

Washington. City Council, holding in abeyance Mr. Roessing's instructed him to open the thoroughfare. At a Finence Committee meeting yesterday, Director Roessing reported that work authorized in a contract with the Pavia costing He is the Far Eastern manager Miss Rupert of Aluminum Union a British affiliate of Aluminun Co. of America, and is one of four sons of the late Dr.

John -Hykes, once a mis sionary and later appointed by President McKinley as U. S. Consul General in China, Mr. Hykes sent his wife and three daughters to $oo00, had been completed and New York in 1941, but he stayed in asked that his department be grant Shanghai. ea an additional sio.000 "to do a Another of his nephews, Donald good job of it." Hykes, narrowly escaped death at Those listed from Pittsburgh: John Marshall Hykes, Grace Ken-ney Martin, John S.

Potter, John Theron Sproull Reed, Grace Margaret Rupert, Helen Watson, Raymond P. Cronin and Margaret Grady Cronin, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Koerner and Ann Koerner.

Others From District Others from this district: Thomas James Moore, Lebanon. Dr. John Leslie Boots, New Brighton. Viola Grace Clapper, Johnstown. Leada Newman Berst, Erie.

Isadore Cohen, Sharon. Alice Maud Powell, Washington. Albert Charles Row, Clearfield. Paul Rutherford Winn, Grove City. the hands of the Japs last summer before coming over on the Gripsholm, but has now returned to China as a first lieutenant in the He argued that the city ultimately would save money if the present contractor were authorized to continue the work rather than re-advertise the work he said still re said that if Russia made a separate peace.

Curran's International Maritime Union (CIO) would join forces with them. DIW Still Welcome The longshoremen president's Ftatement was made during the debate which followed the Resolution Committee's report extending the welcome mat to John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers and other organizations outside the A. F. of L.

fold. The Progressive mine workers, the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers and others in jurisdictional disagreement with UMW must file complaints within 30 days after the convention adjournment. These complaints will be considered by the Executive Council which will attempt to make adjustments wherever possible. In all its negotiations, the council is empowered with full and complete authority of the convention. Green Re-Elecled Today A.

F. of L. President William Green was re-elected unanimously for his 20th term as leader of the nation's largest labor organization as the convention drew toward a close. Applause and cheers from the more than 600 delegates greeted the announcement. In his acceptance speech, Mr.

Green pledged the support of labor to the war effort "until our troops march into Berlin and Tokyo." He said the A. F. of L. will continue to "urge wayward unions to come back into the fold" and added that their "rooms in the house of labor are waiting for them." He emphasized that the right of unions within the Federation would be protected when the "outsiders" returned. i days; Blaekie; there's always room for one more passengerl" More than 7 out of 10 workers depend upon private automobiles 'to get to work.

But there aren't enough cars or tires to go around. Share your car. Help vital workers and your neighbors get to their jobs on time. Form a car-sharing club in your plant or in your neighborhood. mains to be done.

U. S. Army. Former Dentist Here Dr. John L.

Boots, a former den Council, however, seemed of the tist here, was professor of dentistry opinion that the additional work should be advertised and done under and clinic head at the Severance contract, rather than run any risk Union Medical College at Seoul, of legal difficulties later. Korea, prior to the war. liiil ife III Dr. Harold Charles L. and John S.

Potter went to the Far 1 MOKP- Mary S. Loucks, Alverton. Olive Ireland Hodges, Morgan-town, W. Va. Evelyn Maud Wolfe, Wheeling, W.

Va. Martins, Brazilian ambassador to the United States, predicted today on a visit to Pittsburgh. While the largest of South American Republics already is contributing to the war effort with important bases, Naval aviation and protection for South Atlantic sea lanes, continued help in greater quantities is assured, he said. The Ambassador, here with Mme. Martins to attend Founder's Day exercises at Carnegie Institute, tonight, intimated that Argentina before long will be in the Allied camp.

Natal Called Springboard "I hope for the best," he said, "and think Argentina will come around soon. Of course, I can not speak officially for that country." That Brazil is doing all she can to help the United Nations was evident as Dr. Martins related how Brazilian planes help patrol the vital shipping lanes along her border. "Natal is a springboard to Europe," he said. Pleased with the co-operation between Brazil and the United States and other Allied Dr.

Martins declared: "AVe have a world opportunity to show our friendship, but it is not new. "We have today the same feelings Eleanor Jane Mountford, East Five Fliers Given Oak Leaf Clusters The following five Pittsburgh district soldiers of the U. S. Army Eighth Air Force in England have been awarded Bronze Oak Leaf Clusters to the Air Medal: Sgt. William J.

McMahon, 404 W. Prospect St. Sgt. Thomas B. Dye.

McDonald. Sgt. Louis D. Kline. New Castle.

Sgt. James V. La Bella, Butler. Sgt. Albert A.

Robinson, Mars. Liverpool, O. Dr. Loucks, who was stationed in Peking for many years by the Rockefeller Foundation, heeded the warning of the State Department to get his family out of China, friends in Alverton said. Mrs.

Loucks and their young son CO LL(3 a "JKl fln" EIGHT YEARS OLD BUNDED SCOTCH WHISKY 861 WOOF. THE FLEtSCHHMIH DISTILL! (18 CORPORATION, NEW YORK, N. Y. SOLE DISTRIBUTORS Th WILLKIE TOSSES HAT INTO RING 1940 Nominee to Speak In St. Louis Tomorrow NEW YORK, Oct.

14 (UP) Wendell L. Willkie has decided to enter the race for the 1944 Republican Presidential nomination, it was learned today, although he may not announce formally his candidacy of a century ago, because there has been friendship from the beginning of the two nations. Today as yesterday and surely tomorrow the same feeling of friendship will exist." Women Organized start mfU of a SWELL For Political Action Headed by Ella Graubert, an at until January. torney, a "Women's Organization for Political Action" was announced today to support the two women candidates for City Council-- Mrs. Florence D.

Haller, former president of the Congress of (Women's) Clubs, and Ruth Forsht, a special deputy attorney-general for the State. Both are Republican nominees. The former GOP nominee is expected to make his first open bid for party leadership tomorrow night when he speaks at St. Louis in what probably will be his most important address since he completed his round-the-world tour. Associates said Mr.

Willkie is expected to take issue with the Roosevelt Administration over its domestic and foreign policies, including post-war planning, in an effort to remove criticism that he follows Administration policies. His formal entry into next year's contest, it was said, will come There are 148,810 registered wom en voters in the city and they can elect anyone they wish," an organization statement said. It added: The organization is not interest ed in Republican or Democrats, nor theoretical discussions. Its object shortly after the middle of January is to assert the power of the woman's vote in placing in government positions women of ability and A solid, gleaming white cut of ocean-fresh fish boned, waste-free and ready to cook! 40-FATHOM FILLETS require no preparation just fry or broil them. Delivered quick-frozen to your dealer, they'll give your family a real taste of the sea.

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ei t. JJ 'Wife of Army' Gets Term of 18 Months PHOENIX, Oct. 14 (UP) Vivian Eggers, 34, the "girl who tried to marry the Army," must spend the next 18 months in prison because of too much marrying and not enough divorcing. Federal Judge David W. Ling imposed the sentence yesterday and added a five-year suspended term on a charge that she accepted family allowance checks as the wife of Pvt.

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