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LAST EDITION FOUR CENTS The Best Advertising Medi im in the Yough Region VOL. -12, NO. 114. Phe Weekly Courier. Founded July 17, 1871 i Merged Thr Dnilv Courier, F'oundod November 10.

1902 I 18. 1920 CONNBLLSVILLE, FRIDAY Ett ENING, MARCH 24, 1944. SIXTHKN PAGES. NORTHERN FAYETTE WILL SEND 111 MEN INTO ARMY MONDAY DISTRICT SERVICEMEN CASUALTIES WASHINGTON, Mar solners from Pennsylvania were 1 ted as miSMng action in a ras inlty list released by the War Depu-tment The announcement includes a total of 492 (J. S.

soldiei-s tssins in the Central Pacific, En opean and Medi' terranean areas 1 missing the Mediterranean irea include: Private Stevi Farkas, son of Mis. Elizabeth Farkas, Box 648, Perryopolis Pfc. Richatd A. Bridge, Arm- Pfc Peter A Buncic, Canonsburg. Railroad tr.un for the trip to New William J.

Geiger, Greens- Cumberland. It has four colored I bur S- youths who leave March 30 pfc Richard K. Hill. Greens- the Navy and i youths our D. 3.

Nainoi of selectees, of tnc northern Fayettc county local draft boards will le.ive Mon- dny i to: induction into the Army dt reception center at New Cumbeitand have Of the total. Ill i selectees from trie three districts leave tot- New Cumoerlnnd. Colored selec- tees have also been ordeied to report jor induction. Therf are 45 i and two colored selectees of Board No. 1 in Connellsville who i report Mondaj night.

Tne 45 go to Now Cumbei land and thp two otheis will go to Camp Lee, Va. They will icport at the board office in the Postofliee Building at 7:30 o'- L-lock and will board a trolley here at 8:10 o'clock. i Board No. 2 or Dunbar has 41 white selecteeb who will report at the board at 7:30 o'clock and i board trolley half an hour later, i headed for Greensburg where! they ill board a Pennsylvania BROTHERS SERVE OVERSEAS Ceaseless Bombing Hitlers Fortress as Yankees Get Promise of Crack Soon who le.ive March 31 for the Navy, both gioups being required to re- Private Fra Kvortek, son ot Anna Kvortek, Republic. Private Ross Noccarato, Mon- port at 7 A.

M. to ttavel to Greensaurg, Bo'flrd No. 3 at Perryopolis will send 23 while selectees to New Cumberland, the group making the by bus. On March 27 0112 colored selectee goes to Camp Lee and on March 30 a Negro youth Stanton, R. D.

1. leaves for the Navy. All of these selectees had passed their pre-mduction examinations at the Greensburg examining and induction station in February. Fayette Board No. 1.

Wayne Davidson, Connellsville, Continued on Page Thirteen. Private Geor Matzko, Wall. Pfc. Michael J. Re-bick, Greens- biug, R.

3. Pfc Donald Rugito. Jeannctte Private Car S. Shoaf, New WASHINGTON, Mar. avy Departm -nt today revealed the names of 2 casualties of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

The list includes txvo Pennsi'Ivanians CARLOS MATTHEWS PVT. HOBERT MATTHEWS Mis. Elsie Hazel Matthews of Gibson Terrace has reci-iveil word of the safe nrriwl in England of her husband. Corporal Cailos Matthews, who entered the armed lorces May 18, 1942 Prior to that time ho had been a miner at Phillips A brother, Private Hobcrt Matthews, who bad been employed nt the Firestone Service Store, us located i Ireland. The boys rr et in New York just befoie going overseas, the hrst time they had seun each other since i the soivice.

Tl ey ore sons of Mr.s Melissa Matthews of Philltppi avenue, Un- lontou n. CIO Opens Campaign To Overthrow Little Steel Wage Formula Notice Served On European Tyrants Their "Hour" Now About "Run Out' BUS SERVICE RESUMES AS STRIKE ENDS By PHILLIPS J. PECK I N. S. Staff Co-respondent.

WASHINGTON. Mar. President i i i ceniand- ed today a the Adrmn'Sti atior ievise its "Alice in wage policy to enable labcr to regain iw, proportiuna 1 share oi! tht national income Assailing "carpoiaU 1 By International News Service SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND, Mar. 2 4 Minister Winston Churchill, reviewing American ba.ses England, and General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, speaking in London, today served blunt notice to the Nazi tyrannies overrunning Europe that their sands of time have only a little way to go.

From Montgomery came this vvoid: "Wo are preparing to participate in the biggest tug war the world has ever seen. "The pull may last a year, it may last longer, but it will be a 'magnificent party and we shall win I And to American parntroopers 'Churchill iajd: 1 "Soon you will have the opportunity ol testifying to your Caith in i those inspiring phrases of American Constitution and striking a blow--however it may Proposes Draft Of 4-F's and Non-Fathers to 45 By International News Service. WASHINGTON, 24--The PITTSBURGH, Mai. 24 i and "delibeiate sabotage" Navy Departrrent announced 77' east and west bus service on the of the nat onal economic additional casualties, including 23 jPennsylvania Greyhound Lines stabilization i firec dead, 39 wounued and 15 missing out of Pittsburgh got underway the opening gun in (tie ClO'i drivi Those from Pennsylvania include: I at 6 A. M.

today--just one week to crack the "Little Steel' pa: General Dwight D. Eisenhower on leave the world--that will, as we are determined, make it better and bioader for all." ChurehUl was accompanied by Technical Sergeant Glenn McGettigan, S. Marine Corps, dead; wife, Mrs. Glenn W. Gettigan, Unicntown.

First Lieuti nant Norman to the hour from tile time AFLI freeze. drivel and maintenance men Two Killed in Unusual Wrecks Along Highways Unusual accidents yesterday resulted in motor deaths, with one of the vie tuns being run down by two automobiles and the second covered with from six to eight tons of COR! a he lay part way out the front seat of his wrecked automobile, John Albert Minerd, 63, of Th om psoii No. 2, proba bi was dead before coal from a truck operated by Joseph Cabot of Un- lontoun, was dumped on ihe car and its dnver. Coroner Lee R. Herringlon clared that Minerd, whose head was crushed, probably was killed in the wreck when his car struck the heavily loaded truck.

As the truck and pleasure car met at Gaddzs Cross Roads, both overturned Me- walked out in protest against the discharge of two of then L. By International Ncr's Service. WASHINGTON, Mar. 24. WPB Chairman Donald Nelson declared today that "tne time is past" for an overall National Service law and endorsed instead a proposal to draft men in 4-F and non-fathers up to 45 in essential; I rTQVIQG industry.

Nelson told the Costello committee draft deferments that'such a plan might! force a million men into essential war ork. Niece, U. S. Marine Corps, missing; father, Norman L. Niece, Belle Vernon.

WASHINGTON, Mar. 24--The War Department made.public the Continued on Page Seven. Five Million Men Abroad by July, President Says WASHINGTON, Mar. 24. -President Roosevelt announced today tnat the United States will have a total of five million members of the armed forces abroad Mr.

Roosevelt gave no details on of these forces but the s.iarp upswing of troops sent rbroad the last few months a undei stood to reflect the closeness of the long-expected cross-channel invasion of Europe. Flag at Pipe Line Dedication Connellsville Lodge, Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, provided the large American flag that was unfurled at the Rockwood station of the two pipe lines wht re christening cere- held tocir.y. It was i student of North monies were unfurled by Union Township High School. The flag had been sent to Washington, i). and Congressman J.

Bucll Snyder had it float- be rs. He appeared before a War La bor Board panel to submit ai mem- elaborate 166-page brief in sup port of a 237 million dollar Identical agreements for end- boost for approximately half ing tha strike were signed by AFL million steel woikcrs. It is base) union officials and company rep- on a 17 cents an hour increase, resentatives In Pittsburgh and in The CIO chief dcclaied tha Philacolphia, where T. E. Benson, corporations had boosted IhtM resident of the Pittsburgh Union share of the national income ditch th the his spectacular "front-seat" vcnicle caught under the of crack American invasion troops fine coal as it was dumped out.

First persons to arrive on the I being readied for the blow against Germany which he 1 would come "soon." promised pi til UJ, 1 1 1 division, had gone to explain to the Regional War Labor Board why the strike was not terminated Wednesday midnight, Immediately following announcement of the end of the strike. Federal Conciliator George W. "Woomer made public the following statement by the local AFL division; "IT union believes Its action in causing a suspension of operations of Pennsylvania Greyhound Lines, Pittsburgh region, has been an error; that instead of taking such action, the union should have proceeded under the terms of the contract by presenting differences to arbitration." The company, it was explained, has decided to suspend the two drive i-s for 20 days Instead of discharging them. The strike tied up travel on the Greyhound Lines ed over the Capitol Wednesday Ior hund reds of miles around and Thursday before it was An Army motion picture camera operative was assigned to the dedicatory ex rcises. He had been with President Roosevelt on hjs trip to Casablanca and Cairo.

lEverson Soldier Duquesne Strikelffomofed, Awarded Ends; Costs Tons of Steel DUQUESNE, Mar. 24. A Army Conduct Medal SCOTTDAiE, Mar. 24. Edward T.

Serv.insld has been promoted irom i orporal to sergeant and also has received tht- Army good conduct medal. He is the stnk at the Duquesne works of son of Mrs. Julia Serwmski of the Carnegie-Illinois Steel Cor- Everson and the husband of the poration ended today after thou- former Helen Roskey of Jean- sandt. of tons of war bound steel' nette. In the nad been in 54 ber 18, 1942 ervice since Decem- he is stationed at CIO stocktiouse cm- Camp Lee, V.i., with the Quarter- uloycs who walked out, forcing! master Corp 2,000 others into idleness, agreed to return to work this afternoon on the 3 o'clock shift and submit their through the rcgu'ar channels.

Quarry Workers Hurt. M.uthew Whitmer, 21, of South was injured on the back of the head in an accident a stone quarry Wednesday, 145 io Take Naturalization Tests in May The Weather Special to Hie Courier UNIONTO Mar. the first part, men and jmen for i ndtULaUzutioii pers. In the last three Resist Hull's Appeal To Hungary International News Service. WASHINGTON, Mar.

24. -Secretary State Cordell Hull issued an appeal to Hungary today to resist the German occupation of that country. Hull held out the hope to Hungary that by resisting the Germans it could regain "the respect and Jriendship ol free nations and demonstrate its right to independence." WASHINGTON, Mar. 24. -President Roosevelt, denouncing the 'new threat of Nazi persecution in Hungary and the Balkans, today again warned the Axis nations a their crimes against civilian minorities will be answered with Allied punish- eight to 13 per cent; fanners in ciejscd then percentage 5 i to 7.1, while labor suffered a re auction from 65.7 to 59.3 sine the outbreak of war.

This decrease octuired, the un ion leader asserted, despite th foot that total salaries and wage of civilian employes rose froi i 47.6 billion dollars in 1939 to 99 i billion in 1943 and the numbe of employes during the same pei iod increased from 34.7 million i 42 2 million. Yet the number corporations and fjrmers did increase, he said. "Both corporations and f.irmei 3 have a post-war guarantee again losses and for the their standards," he "'Thei is no equal guarantee for labo There are no post-war reservi Serving in Italy. Pic. Earl Younkin, son of Mrs.

Alic'j Younkin of Marklelon, R. D. 1, is 'serving somewhere in of May 145'Italy. Inducted April 29, 1942, he will to England in August, 1942. days 70 quah- Pf.rUy cloudy and somewhat wanner today and tonight; Saturday snow flurries and much c-oldor, preceded by showeis is the noon weather forecast for estem Pennsylvania.

Tied and theie were 70 holdovers making a tt tal of 145 to appear in May for their final papers. Maximum Mean 52 38 45 39 'e ias two brothers in the seiv- ice, Private Orville at "Fort McClellan, and Private Hubert T. somewhere overseas. Clear Path to Army. UNIONTO Mar.

order to clear the way Jfor entrance into the U. S. Army of Luke F. Rosselle, of Perryopolis, the man's parol. was lifted.

Members of his dralt board indicate that he soon will be inducted. "Baby Snooks" a Grandmother. HOLLYWOOD, Mar. 24. Snooks" it a gtaiidmother.

The daughter of Comedienne Fanny Bnce, Mis. Ray Stark, became the mother ef an eight- paund son at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital yesterday. The father, a former Hollywood pi ess agent, is a Navy yeornan. being created for libor except tl most minimum protection in tern of unemployment compensation "Economic stabilization, fi which labor has been the foremo supporter, demands that our pre ent unrealistic and unnocessari harsh wage policy be revised older to permit labor to resto its position." Other highlights in the ste workers' case: 1. The industry, 4n the "stron est financial position Us hi tory," can pay wage increa es without raising the price steel products.

Net profits of the industry have increased 244.5 cent before taxes and it will ceive tax refunds of from 1 2 million dollars to 167 million dt 1- lars if opeiations drop to ic break-even point or below. 2. The wage demands of IB steel workers will not aggravc te the inflationary gap because it is an ''abstraction" that disregar Is the facts of the war eco i- orny. Excess purchasing pov. 3r did not go galloping around le country provoking an inflati nj stampede.

The American peoj le put money into bonds, savir gs and reducing debts. 3. Labor as squeezed betwe rising prices and frozen wag is. The cost of living has. far 01 t- stripped the 15 per cent wr ge boosts allowed by "Little Slot It has gone up 43.5 per cent c- cording to labor's analysis, though the Bureau of Labor a- tistics says it has risen only 2 i.4 per cent, the Department of g- riculture reports a rise 4 :.6 per cent.

Swollen profits id high incomes were left untoucl ed by Congress. Profiteering, wh ch was causing inflation, was -r- mitted to run amuck. Food pn es roll-backs "died aborning 5. The rising cost of living as not resulted from wages earn but fiom industrial proflteen ig Corporate incomes before ta this year will be 449 per nt above pre-war levels; alter ta es, 198 per cent. Wholesale fi od growers realized twice as mi ch on every dollar of sales in 1 42 Continued on Page Two.

Bruce Dull Wins Legion Auxiliary Essay Contest Bruce Dull was chosen as the v. inner of an essay contest conducted by the Americanism committee of the American Legion Auxiliary to Milton L. Bishop Post. The subject of the essay was "The Pioneer Pattern for the Nation Tomorrow." Bruce is a son of Dr. and Mrs.

J. Harold Dull of 512 Wills road and is an eighth grade student at the Cameron School. Honorable mention was given to Jerry Bowman, Barbara Bishop, Ruth Gladden, Betty Nicholson and Joan Ball. Other contestants were Shirley Herwick, Marian Berg, Sammy Colatch. Catherine Tissue, Deborah Jamison, Jeanne Voigl, Betty Roach, Barbara Hoover, Joan Herrold, Marilyn Anstine, Jamsetta Jadtson, Joan Amos, Sally Miller, June Leighty and Joseph Galasso, Jr.

The winning essay will be sent to the Department of Pennsylvania, American Legion Auxiliary to compete in the national and State contest. Only Few Seats Left for Walton League's Dinner With nearly all available seating space disposed of, tickets for the annual dinner of the Connellsville Chapter of the lr.aalc Walton League of America, may now be purchased only from R. J. Medcalf at the Y. M.

C. or from William McNulty at his office in South Arch street. The dinner will be held Monday evening in the Kiwanis Club rooms, with Judge R. S. Matthews as toastmaster and Congressman Karl Mundt of South Dakota as the principal speaker.

A number of prizes, all of interest to the fisherman, will be awarded. There will be music by I Kiferle's orchestra. Tells of Sinking Ship. "Its sides buckled and she blew up all over the lagoon," said Thomas G. Morgan of Masontown, aviation radioman, second class, as he described a hit made by the pilot of his dive bomber on a Jap cargo ship in the harbor at Truk February 16.

Suffers Eye Injury. Bert Wilson of the Breakneck road suffered an injury above the right eye when he slipped and stene sjy Mmerd's body and part of his automobile were almost entirely buried under the cargo of coal. Death is believed to have resulted from a fractured skull. Two and perhaps three autos struck Thomas William Malia, 43, ol Buffington, as his body wail-oiled along the highway near Fairbanks Dr. Dale Cox of Fairbanks and John Warren Burns of Buffington, who stopped after their cart had i over the victim's body, told State troopers they believed the man had previously been struck inasmuch as he lay about the center of the highway.

Coroner Herrington Maha's head had found that been crushed, his back broken and bones in his left arm shattered. There is a possibility, officers say, that Malia may have been the victim of a hit and run diiver, before his body was crushed by the cars of Dr Cox and Burns. Anchor Hocking Gives $300 Toward East Park Fund Announcement was made at meeting of the Recreation Board Thursday evening a contribu- 1 tion of $300 by the Anchor ing Glass Corporation toward the expense of the summer entertainment program in East Park. There is still need of more, it was explained today by a member of the board, who suggested that organizations and others who can do so are asked to forward their contributions to the Recreation Board. By International News Service.

British-based bombers maintained the ceaseless day-and-night bombardment of Hitler's European Fortress today, with vast Allied sky armadas sweeping toward the continent on the heels of smashing night raids by the HAF against Germany and occupied France. Coastal observers described the Allied formations as numbering "many hundreds" and said the engines nearly deafened them. Thus began the third successive day of a powerful air offensive, in which an estimated 3,600 tons of were dropped on the enemy in one night. During the night the main force of RAF planes struck at the three-way railroad junction of L.ion, 70 miles northeast of Paris. Another group blasted the communications center of Lyons, far to the south, while Mosquito bombers rained destruction on Dortmund and other targets within Western Germany.

An American air communique revealed that yesterday's six-pronged U. S. blow against target? in. the Reich accounted for (jl badly-needed enemy interceptors. Seventeen Yank bombers and six Ighters were lost in the multi-pronged sweep.

Slight advances were eked out by the bayonet- wielding New Zealanders at Cassino while Allied tanks battered a path toward certain "main buildings" admittedly still held by the Germans. Among the Nazi strongholds were the Hotel Des the Continental Howl, as well as the outlying amphi- theatre and the ducal palace. When the enemy artillery near bomb-shattered Benedictine abbey sought to retaliate upon Allied positions, invader planes of the Mediterranean air force blasted the Nazi gun emplacements. Allied airmen, Hying a total of 800 sorties, also hammered the German communication lines in Northern Italy and supplied Indian troops cut off in the hills near Cassino. While the softening-up bombing continued against Hitler's European Portress and Allied forces probed enemy positions in Italy, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill promised crack American invasion forces in England they would "soon" have a chance to strike the enemy.

Meanwhile, on the Russian front a Soviet offensive hammered toward th'e northern boundary of pre-war Rumania and toward the Czechoslovakian frontier from positions less than 45 and 90 nnles distant, respectively. The new push, now in its fourth day, had overrun more than 200 towns and in old Poland while advancing some 37 miles. Another Red army column was approximately 15 miles from the Pruth River, which Russia considers the Rumanian eastern boundary, and another Soviet spearhead was live miles from the Nikolaycv naval base. At New Delhi, military observers predicted an early showdown battle on the approaches to Imphal, capital of Manipur stace in India. One of t'iree Jap columns which have invaded that district was within 28 miles of the city, an important communications center.

General MacArthur's fliers, meantime, sank 32 more Jap cargo vessels. Turk-British PackAgreedOn, Seeks Witness Fees Due Him In ThenWithdrawn 15-Year-OW Case By International News Service. LONDON, Mar. de- Spccjal to The Courier. UNIONTOWN, Mar.

24 --Near- cided a month ago to enter the i 15 years ago Robert Lidia was war beside Britain but disagree- jailed as a material witness in a ment between the two countries "on material required to make case in wnich Paul Hutton the decision effective" caused the Emmett Fike were charged with decision to lapse, an Ankara dis-jthe theft of an autocnobile. Since patch to the London Daily Express reported today. The decision to enter the war had been approved formally in a secret session by the Turkish government, the story added. Troop 3, Boy Scouts, To Mark Its Third Anniversary Sunday A program marking the 19th anniversary of the founding of Troop No. 3, Boy Scouts of Amer-; ica, will be held at 2 o'clock Sun-) day afternoon in the Immaculate Conception school auditorium, i was announced today by Scoutmaster John Brass.

There will be a one-act play, presentation of a new troop char- i ter end investiture of new Scouts' and scouters. After the there will be a visitation of the scoutiooms. Parents are especially invited to the "Fibber" Hospitalized. SANTA MONICA, Mar. Jordan, "Fibber" of the comedy team "Fibber McGee and Molly," was in Santa Monica Hospital today suffering from (pneumonia.

Doctors described his condition as "serious but not critical." BULLETINS fell near his home Wednesday, iiontown. Would Become Citizen. UNIONTOWN, Mar. enter the Army, John Nara, better known as mto mechanic, has applied foi his first 'citizenship papers. John has seven children, all boys.

He formerly was a resident of Connellsville but now resides Un- By International News Service. NEW DELHI, Mar. jungle fighters, slashing: out with a sudden counterblow against a three-pronged Japanese invasion of India, threw the enemy ieffions of one column into reverse today and forced them to yield at Jeast four strong positions. The Mp- poiiest suffered heavy casualties in the fightinff, Lord Louis Mountbatten, supreme Allied commander in the theater, announced. NEW YORK, Mar.

troops "officially bcg-an the occupation of Rumania early this morninjr," according to an Ankara radio report rcbroad- cast by the BBC and recorded by CBS. that time he mover to Gettysburg, Pa. This week Mr. Lidia, who had been visiting relatives in Ohiopyle, came to the office of Clerk of Courts Robert Clifford. He believed that he lu.s II days at $3.50 per day dut him.

The records of the case Jailed to show that he testified. was a passenger in the stolen car at the time of the arrests the two defendants and was detained. The man, now about 75 years old, was jailed May 23, 1929 and released June 1. He says he never cosly. Controller Rebec McDowell was called in on le case.

She was given all the papers. She checked records of the county jail and found Mr. Lidia's statement to be correct. Then a wave of death swept over the case. District Attorney W.

Rosenberg, R. W. Wright, the committing magistrate, A. A. Downing, county detect, ve then, and Constable John Fci-ney, who arrested the two sus ects, arc deceased.

Controller McDowell assumed that as fair play to the aged man she should make a complete check of the controller's ecords of past years to determine the a i i ihe claim. "If there is any due you, it will be mailed piomptly," Controller McDowell told Mr. Lidia and with his countenance displaying the utmost faith, he replied: "And I believe you.".