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on 1 Morning Paper First with the Latest News UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE Wilmington WILMINGTON, DELAWARE, SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1944 TWENTY PAGES PRICE THREE CENTS VOL. 125-NO. 13 State Veterans' Commission To Speed Aid for Disabled Central Clearing House to Assure Returning Wounded Service Men of Quick Assistance, Governor Bacon Says A Delaware Veterans' Commission was created yesterday by Gov. Walter W. Bacon who at the same time announced that within 10 days a central clearing house for returning disabled veterans will be set up in Wilmington from which injured service men can receive assistance within 24 hours after arrival here.

The commission was organized and the clearing house plan started at a meeting of representatives of veterans' and employment and rehabilitation agencies because the Governor desires that the state shall bridge the between the the disabled "veteran returns the time his adjudicated by the federal government through the Veterans' Administration. Vocational rehabilitation will be once. the Governor said, and disclosed that Clair J. Killoran in an opinion has stated that funds earmarked by the last legislature habilitation for service personnel may be used. "We cannot permit the veterans to be given the run-around experiment, ence which they had upon returning at the end of the last war," the Governor said.

At it was stated that at time the Veterans' the meeting, Administration can handle only a small percentage of the claims now being presented. Under the present system the returning veteran is supposed to report to Selective Service Headquarters which is to assist him every way possible. But Selective Service, JOSEPH STUART, INJURED IN AUTO COLLISION, DIES Heart Attack, Due To Complications Following Crash, Proves Fatal He Was Vice- President Of Lobdell Company and standing Mason in State Joseph Stuart of 1300 North Franklin Street, vice-president of the Lobdell Company, and one of the outstanding Masons of Delaware, died last night in The Memorial Hospial from complications resulting from injuries sustained an automobile accident Thursday, Dec. 30. He, was 78 years old.

One of three Lobdell executives injured in a truck-automobile crash at Sixth and Spruce Streets, Mr. Stuart was apparently improving when he developed heart condition late yesterday afternoon, Deputy Coroner C. Everett Kelley said. In the crash Mr. Stuart suffered six fractured ribs, and fractures of the shoulder and leg.

The other two persons injured, both of whom were passengers in the car driven by Mr. Stuart, are: Winfield T. McKaig, 82. of 1406 Van Buren Street, assistant treasurer of the company, who suffered a fractured thigh, and Miss Theresa Maclary, of 1136 Jackson Street, assistant secretary of the company, who suffered a spine injury. Mr.

McKaig is still in a serious condition in the hospital. Miss Maclary is reported improving. Truck Driver Held Clarence R. Griffith, 30, Baltimore, driver of the truck which figured in the accident, was arrested on charges of assault and battery automobile at the time of the crash. Mr.

Stuart had been associated with the Lobdell Company for 60 years, starting his career as an apprentice after leaving school here. He rose through the ranks of the company until being named vicepresident in charge of engineering about 10 years ago. For more than half a century he had been actively identified with the Masons of Delaware and was See STUART-Page 17 here as elsewhere. is busy with providing selectees. The veterans' clearing house will assist Selective Service as well as function independently.

The disabled veteran will be asked to report to the clearing house as soon as he arrives in Wilmington. Those coming back to downstate communities will report to veterans' organization representatives who will be appointed to assist. The clearing house then will aid him in several ways. including: Helping him to file a claim, checking with the Employment, Service to see if there is a job, making it possible for him to start vocational rehabilitation training at once with ha maintenance allowance until the Federal Government takes over, and contacting -Navy Relief at Fort DuPont or the Red Cross for funds in emergency cases. Praise for the assistance to abled veterans given by the Delaware Chapter, American Red Cross, the Delaware Department, American Legion, and the Delaware DepartVeterans of Foreign Wars, was expressed by several speakers at the meeting and it was emphasized that the clearing house would not supersede these organizations but would augment them.

Centralization of state aid to the disabled veteran was stressed by Governor Bacon as one of the most important elements of the new plan, which obtained the immediate approval of the more than 20 federal See VETERANS- -Page 17 RACE ASSOCIATION ASKS 30-DAY MEET STARTING MAY 29 Commission to Get Application Today; To Omit Two Mondays Resignation of Edward Burke As Vice-President And General Manager Accepted The Delaware Steeplechase and Race Association, operators of Delaware Park, will file an application today with the Delaware Racing Commission for a 30-day race meeting to start May 29 and end July 4, omitting two Mondays, June 12 and 19. That action was decided upon yesterday at the special meeting of the association. was also announced that all details of the 1944 meeting will be left in the hands of the executive committee, which will report to the directors at the annual meeting in March. The board accepted the resignation of Edward Burke, vice-president and general manager, who resigned because of ill health. Delaware Park was unable to operate last season because of the pleasure driving ban and other transportation restrictions.

Officials made no comment on what transportation arrangements will be made for this season, but repeal of the pleasure driving ban makes it possible for motorists to go to the track on their basic A rations. RATION BOARD DECLARES WOOING IS UNESSENTIAL Rejects Plea of Applicant For Bicycle for Use in Courtship GETTYSBURG. Jan. 14 (INS) sential occupation by the -Wooing was considered, an unesOffice of Price Administration. The Gettysburg ration board turned down an applicant who requested a bicycle to carry on his I courtship on the ground that it should be used for occupational use only.

Board members suggested, however, the applicant "pop the question" immediately. Now, they admitted, they are curious to know the outcome. HOUSE UNIT REJECTS U.S. CONTROL OF SOLDIER VOTE Measure Approved by Committee Leaves Election Machinery in State Hands But Government Will Distribute Ballots WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 -Congressional advocates of a federal "war ballot" for the armed services suffered another reversal today when the House elections committee, rejecting this idea, approved 7 to 5 a measure leaving the problem of soldiers' voting up to the states.

Major provisions of the bill approved by the House committee, in addition to leaving election machinery in hands of states, are: 1. The federal government assumes responsibility for getting state ballots to members of the armed forces. 2. Government furnish postcard applications service personmust, Morning Latest City Edition News Cloudy. Rain tonight: (Weather Conditions, Tides, on Page 3.) POLES ASK U.

BRITAIN TO AID IN BORDER CASE Arbitrary Solution Of Matter as Proposed By Red Government Rejected in Answer Suggests Four-Power Conference to Settle All Disputes in Friendly Manner; London Praises Initiative By JAMES McGLINCY United Press Correspondent LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 15- Poland's government-in-exile, rejecting an arbitrary delineation of its Eastern frontier by Russia, proposed today a solution of all outstanding Russo-Polish problems by a four-power conference of Poland, Russia, the United States and Great Britain, and won the commendation of Britain for its initiative. In a formal statement, Poland implicitly refused, in the absence of discussion, to accept either the 1939 frontier or the Curzon Line of 1919 which Russia offered as a solution, and asked the aid of America and Britain in negotiating an agreement which would lead to "friendly and permanent cooperation between Poland and the Soviet Union." Reliable sources said the British Foreign Office, which had worked for tense days to keep the Poles from antagonizing the Russians, had handed copies of the Polish statement to both Fedor Gusev and John G. Winant, the Russian and American ambassadors, and it was assumed the statement had been forwarded to Moscow and reports from Washington said it already had been received there. U.

S. Studies Statement (In Washington, it was said the statement immediately received the attention of Secretary of State Cordell Hull and other ranking officials. (There was no immediate indication what the American government would do but it was believed it will collaborate with Great Britain in seeking A solution. (Russia's reaction to the proposal remained to be seen.) Polish Premier Stanislaw Mikolajezyk was expected to leave for Washington soon to discuss Poland's problem with President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull, in an attempt to enlist their aid in effecting an arreement, and terms acceptable which to would both sides," as the Polish statements said Poland earnestly desired. The Polish statement was an answer to formal statement issued by Russia, through her official news agency Tass, Tuesday, insisting that the western Ukraine western White Russia must remain within the Soviet Union but offering to settle the frontier approximately late Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, along the line drawn in 1918.

by the British foreign minister. Points in the Polish statement were: 1-Poland takes cognizance of the Russian statement, which was issued in reply to a Polish declaration See POLAND-Page 17 WILMINGTON SOLDIER DIES IN ACTION IN ITALY Pfc. Willard Bye Walker Killed Dec. 20, Wife is Told Pic. Willard Bye Walker, 22, was killed in action in Italy Dec.

20. according to a War Department telegram received this week by his wife, the former Miss Grace McGinnis. 515 Washington Street. The son of Mrs. Grace Bye Walker, 1312 Van Buren Street, and Willard Brown Walker, of Philadelphia, the young soldier was a graduate of Wilmington High School and was associated with the Mercantile Press here before enlisting in the Army in February, 1942.

He received his training at Camp Blanding, and Camp Edwards, and went overseas last April, landing in North Africa. Serving with the infantry in sevcampaigns, Private Walker wrote home frequently, but never mentioned the action he was in. His last letter was dated Dec. 7. and was very cheerful.

He had been married only a year. Also surviving him are two sisters, Dorothea and Grace Everett Walker. TROLLEY CAR OPERATOR KILLED, 8 HURT IN CRASH Passerby Stops Carrier by Pulling Pole From Overhead Wire PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 14 CP trolley motorman was killed and eight passengers injured this afternoon when A loaded street car crashed into the rear of a truck in downtown Philadelphia. The car, which was not derailed, continued under power until several hundred feet from the scene of the collision.

A passerby pulled the trolley pole from the wire and AD auxiliary policeman threw a heavy timber under the wheels as a block. The motorman was Robert Ely, 62, veteran 27 years service with Philadelphia Transportation Company. He was thrown from the front platform and one of the rear wheels the truck passed over him. None of the passengers, all Philadelphians, injured seriously. RUSSIANS OPEN ROAD TO PINSK; TAKE 2 CITIES Kalinkovichi, Vital Rail Point, Mozyr Fall As Frightened Nazis Flee Over Frozen Marshes Cossacks Speeding to Cut Escape; Losses Called 'Tremendous' As Guerrillas Join Attacks By JAMES F.

KING Associated Press Correspondent LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 15- Constantine Rokossovsky's army in southern White Russia captured the important rail junction of Kalinkovichi and the nearby regional center of Mozyr yesterday, inflicting "tremendous losses" the fleeing Germans, forged on 20 more miles westward through the frozen Pripet Marshes, Moscow announced today. Another Red Army under Gen. Nikolai Vatutin crossed the Horyn River, 46 miles inside old Poland. and extended its front in the area by the capture of Stepan and more than 30 other towns and villages.

Stepan is 17 miles south of Tutovichi and 35 miles north of Rovno. Both of these drives were advancing along the only two east-west railroads in the Pripet Marshes. Rokossovsky's drilles captured Skrigalov. only 40 from the old Polish frontier on the south bank of the Pripet River, as it rolled on toward the industrial town and waterways center of Pinsk, oniy 95 miles away. The two railroads are 60 miles apart.

Cites 'Tremendous Losses' More than 40 other populated places were overrun by the White Russian advance, including the rail station of Kotsury, 16 miles west of Kalinkovichi. The midnight Moscow communique, recorded by the Soviet monitor, said of this sector: enemy sustained losses in manpower and equipment. Retreating in disorder the Germans abandoned many guns, lorries, stores of ammunition and military supplies. A considerable number of prisoners were taken." A separate Moscow radio broadcast said Russian had been so swift the Germans no time to attack, set the two towns afire as they usually do before retreating. More than 3,000 Germans were wiped out, 27 tanks and 40 big guns destroyed and in one area alone 11 tanks and 20 guns were captured, the.

late bulletin said. Vatutin's drive into old Poland, where the Russians now have a continuous front 85 miles long across the former frontier, killed 600 Germans in its advance and with the aid of guerrillas routed a column of German infantry on a highway. Vatutin's left wing, pounding south toward the Ukrainian Bug River and the Rumanian frontier, stood firm against reinforced and ceaseless German counter-attacks. In one sector alone, the Germans See RUSSIA-Page 17 METHODIST CONFERENCE TO BE HELD AT M'CABE Bishop Hughes to Preside at Sessions From May 17-21 The Peninsula Annual Conference of the Methodist Church will be held at McCabe Memorial Methodist Church, Twenty-second Street and Baynard Boulevard, from Wednesday, May 17 through Sunday, May 21. Bishop Edwin H.

Hughes will preside. Plans for the conference were laid yesterday at a meeting of the Commission of Conference Entertainment at Wesleyan Junior College, Dover. Among those attending were the Rev. Dr. E.

J. Bond, pastor of McCabe Memorial Church, and Willis Overdeer, a lay member of the church. The four district superintendents, the Rev. Dr. Oliver J.

Collins of Wilmington, Rev. Dr. Walter A. Hearn of Dover, the Rev. Dr.

J. O. Cummings of Easton, and the Rev. Ralph C. Jones of Salisbury, attended.

Other committee members present were the Rev. Tilghman Smith of Princess Anne, Charles S. Clarkson of Oxford, and C. N. Satterfield of Chestertown, Md.

The program committee. headed by Dr. Bond and Dr. Collins, will meet in the near future. TWO CABINET MEMBERS, ICKES AND JONES, HURT Interior Secretary Injured in Fall; Commerce Chief Hit by Car WASHINGTON, Jan.

14 (U.P)-Two cabinet members- Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes and Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones-suffered injuries in recent accidents but both are now on the mend, it was disclosed today. Ickes broke his collar bone in fall at his Maryland farm Wednesday night. nevertheless is continuing to work with his arm in sling. Jones was hit by an automobile in Houston, on Dec.

23 and since has been confined to his apartment there by a broken leg and an attack of influenza, according to his Houston office. He is recovering, however, and is expected to be back at his desk soon. R. A. F.

BATTERS REICH AFTER 1,400 PLANES RAKE 'ROCKET COAST' Mystery Raider Strikes at London Without Detection LONDON, Saturday, Jan. 15 (P)-A lone enemy plane slipped through London's bristling air raid defenses last night and dropped a bomb on a crowded movie theatre in a suburban business area, killing seven persons and injuring 31. alert was sounded, and there was immediate speculation that the Nazis have a new type of near noiseless plane- -possibly bombing from the stratosphere to escape detection. It was the first time in several years that an enemy plane was known to have penetrated to suburban London without arousing the elaborate coast defense or radio location system. The sound of plane engines was heard a moment before the whistle of the falling bomb.

There was no gunfire. Indications were that the was alone, said the British Press Association. In the absence of an alert, the customary warning was not flashed on the theatre screen. See MYSTERY PLANE--Page 17 DOUGHBOYS POUND THROUGH MAZE OF 'GUSTAV LINE' Nazis Boast Defenses Of Cassino Equal To Best -in West Europe British, French Advance On Flanks; Enemy Air Fields In Rome Area Hammered By WES GALLAGHER Associated Press Correspondent ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Jan. 14-American troops advancing yard by yard from the southeast slugged doggedly today at the maze of weapon pits.

barbed entanglements and minefields composing the "Gustav Line" defenses of Cassino, Nazi stronghold on the Fifth Army front in Italy. German resistance extremely fierce in this final three-mile deep defensive belt before Cassino, and Lieut. -Gen. Mark W. Clark's doughboys were forced to off a perate enemy counter- attack on the captured village of Cervaro Wednes.

day night before they could continue their frontal assault. British and French troops fought in toward Cassino from the south and do northeast, respectively. Nazi prisoners taken in recent days boasted of impregnability of what they call the "Gustav Line" defending Cassino, a strategically situated town of perhaps 7,000 population on the main inland highway and railroad 70 airline miles from Rome. They declare Cassino's defenses, which take advantage of high ground paround the to town as well the of the Rapido River on which it is built, compare with similar fortifications in Western Europe. An Allied officer, reviewing the See ITALY-Page 17 MONTHLY MEMORIAL DAY URGED FOR SERVICE DEAD President Favors First Monday Des- ignation, Senator Gillette Asserts Jan.

14 (AP)President Roosevelt has suggested the first Monday in each month be set aside for special memorial services to Army and Navy men who have lost their lives during the preceding month. Senator Gillette (D- Ia) said today. The senator said the President preferred this over the idea of having every Monday proclaimed "Memory Monday" as originally proposed by Gillette. SOVIET GAINS SHOWN Bialystok Baranowicze POLAND Pinsk Brest Litovsk Pripet Dombrovitsa, Kovel: Tutovichi Chelm SARNY Luck 3 Rovno. Korets Zhitomir, 50 STATUTE MILES Bobruisk Zhlobin Mozyr RUSSIA Pripet Marshes Chernigov Korosten KIEV Lwow Berdichev Bel Cherkasy Tserkov -Vinnitsa.

Dniester Zhmerinka 4P Uman Bug Pre- War Boundaries RUMANIAS Russian forces have captured Mozyr and Kalinkovichi, north of (arrows) in a drive toward Pinsk. Russians gained on 80- mile marshes, of marshes, as shown by triple arrow. Near Vinnitsa, Pripet Nazi counter- -attacks were beaten of (arrows). Russians improved posiItions near Kirovograd. TIME BOMBS DISCOVERED IN BRITISH FRUIT CARGO Believed Planted Among Oranges By Nazis at Valencia: 2 Explode LONDON, Saturday, Jan.

15 (U.P.) -Time bombs. believed planted by Nazi agents, have been discovered in the holds of ships bringing oranges from Spain to Britain, the British Foreign Office announced today. London newspapers, expressing suspicions that the bombs were planted by German saboteurs at Valencia, said British Ambassador Sir Samuel Hoare is expected to make a strong protest to simo Francisco Franco. London, broadcast heard ba CBS said one of the bombs exploded on the voyage and destroyed between 200 and 300 cases of oranges, and another bomb was discovered when a second ship docked in Britain.) 3 RAILROAD UNIONS TAKE 9-CENT PAY BOOST, SIGN PACT Action Opens Way For Return of Carriers To Private Ownership Non- Operators Still Fight Plan; House Unit Passes New Bill to Curb Vinson By The Associated Press WASHINGTON. Jan.

14 The railroad operating brotherhoods' wage dispute was settled tonight when the firemen's, conductors' and switchmen's unions accepted the pay increase over-all boost of nine cents an hour that President Roosevelt awarded the engineers and trainmen in arbitration proceedings. This removed from controversy the wages of 350.000 men who operate the trains opened the way for parinfeturn of the railto private management. The took over control of the roads roads Dec. 27 because of a strike threat. Still to be settled are the demands of 1,100,000 non-operating railroad workers--the shopmen, clerks and others who do operate trainsfor a pay increase in lieu of overtime.

A special Presidential board is considering these demands, however, and the unions have recalled strike orders, originally set for Dec. 30, which led to Government seizure of the roads. In another development during See RAILS -Page 17 WILMINGTON OFFICER WINS AWARD AT FORT MILES Major Howard L. Robertson Cited for Special Achievement; Sergeant Given Heroism Medal; Others are Honored Special to The Morning News FORT MILES, Jan. 14-Awards for special achievement and heroism were presented today to three coast artillery officers.

two enlisted men. and one entire battery at Fort Miles by John L. Homer, commanding officer of the New YorkPhiladelphia Sector, U. S. Army.

Maj. Howard L. Robertson of Wilmington received the "certificate of merit" for "competency and efficiency in discharge of highly impor- Cutting of Telephone Service to Sweden Indicates Berlin Is Hit in Night Attack Big Daylight Raiders Almost Unmolested As Escort Pushes Nazi Defense Back Gomel ADMIRAL HALSEY TO ADDRESS WAR LOAN RALLY HERE Naval Hero to Speak At Playhouse Meeting Next Tuesday Night Demaree Bess to Talk Also; Military Parade to Take Place During Afternoon Admiral William F. Halsey, who ranks among the foremost of America's naval heroes, will appear at the opening of the Fourth War Loan rally in The Playhouse Tuesday night at 8 o'clock. The admiral who is here visiting his mother, sister and daughter, accepted the invitation of the Delaware War Finance Committee to be on the program on the condition that this would be his only public appearance during his stay near Wilmington.

of the family said that he came home for a much needed rest but he consented to speak at the rally in the interests of the $43.000.000 war bond drive that gets under way in the state next week. Also on the program will be Demaree Bess. Saturday Evening Post correspondent who will tell of his experiences in the European front. Films to Be Shown An added feature of the evening will be the showing of the hitherto restricted Alm. Department Report" which shows American forces in action on all the fronts.

also some captured Nazi and Japanese films. The program will start promptly at 8 o'clock, under the conditions of the rental of the theatre for the evening. There will be no tickets and no admission charge; neither will there be any attempt to sell war bonds from the stage. "We will have volunteers in the lobby of the theatre to distribute pledge cards." said Donald P. Ross, executive vice-Chairman of the Delaware Finance Committee.

"The fundamental purpose of the rally is to inform Wilmingtonians and nearby residents of the vital necessity for buying extra bonds during this drive." Parade Scheduled The appearance of Admiral Halsey at the rally virtually makes the Wilmington rally one of most important bond meetings then the East. In the afternoon, there will be a military parade with about 1.000 troops in line and armed equipment loaned by the Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. The parade starts at See WAR LOANS -Page 4 YOUTH LOSES MUSTACHE ON ORDER FROM JUDGE Arrested in Row Over Whistling, Defendant Accedes to Edict NEW YORK. Jan. 14 (U.P)-Phillip Vicari, 17, lost his well-groomed black mustache today because he whistled through his teeth in a drugstore.

The druggist didn't like Vicari's whistling and called a policeman. Vicari was charged with disorderly conduct. Magistrate Jose Deandrea didn't like the mustache and told Vicari: "You're only a boy. Get that mustache shaved off and then come back." The magistrate dismissed the charge when Vicari, minus mustache, returned to the courtroom. By W.

W. HERCHER Associated Press Correspondent LONDON Saturday Jan. 15 German broadcast early today said "major British bomber formations were over German territory" last night in the wake a massive Allied aerial armada of possibly 1,400 planes which hit the French invasion coast during daylight. It was disclosed here earlier that a force of R. A.

F. heavy night bombers had headed toward Europe in hour-long procession, but a brief British announcement did not identify targets. A German broadcast said the night raiders met strong resistance. An interruption of Berlin-Stockholm telephone service indicated the German capital might have been the night raiders' target. Earlier Stockhoim had reported brief alert was sounded in jittery Berlin shortly after p.

m. yesterday, but no bombs were dropped. British coastal watchers said outgoing air fleet passed some of the late returning planes from the daylight assault which was directed at military objectives along the "Rocket Gun the portion of France closest to England. Hundreds of U. S.

heavy bombers took part in this attack. Nazis Rolled Back Making. their first attack since the mammoth air battle over the heart of Germany Tuesday, the British-based Flying Fortresses and Liberators were escorted yesterday by Thunderbolts, Lightnings and long-range Mustangs. These shepherding planes pushed the Nazi fighters back from the target areas so that the bombing runs could be made almost without interruption. In contrast to the Tuesday attack when a record number of 60 American heavy bombers and five fighters were lost and 152 German planes were shot down, Nazi opposition over the French coast was light and preliminary reports indicated the heavy bombers' escorting planes scored better than four to one in air combats with the Germans.

It was the fifth major operation of the month for the American planes. Heavy, medium, light and fighter bombers and fighters were included in the Allied British Mosquitos Strike At the height of the attack British Mosquito bombers harried the German ground defenses with low level bombing and cannon attacks. Medium Marauder bombers, more than 200 strong, encountered fighter opposition for the first time since mid-December and two tail gunners claimed to have downed Nazi planes. Crews on the American heavy See AIR RAID -Page 17 HARRY WAYNE PIERCE KILLED IN SEA CRASH Was Petty Officer on Patrol Boat In Collision Off Cape May Special to The Morning News NEWARK, Jan. 14-Petty Officer, Third Class, Harry Wayne Pierce, 24 vears old, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Lewis Pierce of near here. was among those killed in the collision of the Navy patrol boat St. Augustine a merchant vessel Jan. 6 off Cape May, it was revealed here today.

A member of the crew of the St. Augustine, he had been in the Navy about three years. Officer Pierce was a graduate of Newark High School and was employed by the Continental Fibre Company prior to his enlistment. Services will be held Sunday at 2 p. m.

from the funeral parlors of R. T. Jones here. Interment will be in White Clay Creek Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home tomorrow night.

In addition to his parents he 18 survived by his wife, Mrs. Maxine Pierce, formerly of Portland, two brothers in the service. Donald. in England, and Harold Edgar, in the Navy; Ralph Pierce, at home; four sisters, Natalie and Ethel, at home; Mrs. Elsie Comac.

Hialeah, and Mrs. Grace Abrahams, Wilmington. nel (including merchant marine and Red Cross), addressed to secretary of state of the soldier's home state. The secretary of state, on receiving the applications, forwards them to the local election officials who in turn mail ballot directly to the applicant. Soldier then marks his ballot and mails back to the secretary of state, who forwards it to local election, officials in the soldier's district.

3. Cards and ballots would be handled air mail, free. 4. Officers and employes of executive departments are forbidden to SOLDIER VOTE--Page 17 tant responsibilities." Major ertson, by profession a civil engineer, formerly lived at 701 Brandywine Boulevard, Bellefonte. Other officers receiving the merit certificate were Henry V.

Derby, Brooklyn, N. Capt. John B. Styles, Petersburg, and Staff Sergt. Paul A.

Allgaiers, Bedford Hills. N. Y. The soldier's medal for heroism See AWARD -Page 17 Index of the News Pages Amusements 15 Births Church Notes Classified Comics 14 Deaths Editorials Ernie Pyle Financial 16-17 Obituaries Radio 13 Raymond Clapper Real Estate Notes Society News Sports 12-13 Westbrook Pegler With the Service Men Woman's Page 2.