The Daily Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 1

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18W. i Merced The Dally Courier, founded November 10, 1803. I July llf 1129 CONNELLSVILLE, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 25, 1013. TEN PAGES. 600 COUNTY MEN ENTER I DURING JANUARY Sixty-Four Passed at Induction a a Boost Total.

ANOTHER GROUP YET TO REPORT F. E. Younkin Dies; Had Been for Year When, 64 selectees ol Board No. 6 at Unlontown passed their final Army phyilcnl oxam.nations at Greensburg Saturday, the number ot young men trom Fayette county inducted Into the, armed forces during January was increased to 600. Only Board No.

5 ot Brownsville has yet to tend contingents to the examining and Induction station at Grecnnburg lor final tests. Somo were being examined today and more will lejvo tomorrow. Ol tho G4 Irom Union town and South Union township who passed their tests Saturday, only three declined furloughs and wont dl- icct to an Army leccptlon center. Tho 01 will leave next Saturday night lor Fort George G. Mcade, to begin military training.

There were 31 selectees Irom Board No. 3 at Porryopolis and 76 trom Board No. 4 at New Salem who boarded a Baltimore Ohio Railroad tr.Un which lett Conncllsvlllo at 12:30 o'clock Saturday morning lor Fort Mcadc, Wednesday night a group of 75 selectees of Board No. 8 at Uniontown, covering the mountain district, will meet to leave for Fort Mendo and Thursday night there will bo 90 Irom Hoard No. 7 at Maontown who will depart for the reception center.

Molinaro's Band, directed by Carmine Mollnaro, is escorting the selectees to the train from tho West Ponn terminal. Also In the delegation arc members ol Milton L. Bishop Post ol the American Legion and Walter E. Brown Post ot tho Veteran ol Foreign Wars The selectees ot Board No. 0 at Unlontown who passed their tests Saturday follow: Metro Hovau, McClollandtown.

Mollord E. Baker, 157 Walnut Continued on Pago Eight. Urge Martin Not To Appoint Five On Game Board By Unltocl Prosa. HARHISBURG, Jan. 25--Governor Edward was asked today not to reappoint five members ol the Stato Game Commission reportedly seeking ouster ol Seth E.

Gordon, executive secretary. The request was embodied In resolutions approved by the Southern Division ol the Pennsylvania a Sportsmen's Clubs and the State's Walton League, representing thousand. 1 ol the Commonwealth's hunters and fishermen, and forwarded to Martin. Resolution ol the Southern Division sportsmen, representing approximately 10.000 hunters In 10 eastern and central counties, was drawn hero over the week-end. It said tho division was "opposed to recent activities of tho new appointees," apparently Interested in their "own Individual gain," and recommended, that none be reappointed.

The sportsmen thus openly opposed Tor the first llrnu Commissioners O. Ben Glpplo, Itanis- burg; Ernest E. Hauvood, Hazlo- ton; S. Harold Fisher, Huntingdon; Dr. C.

E. Phillips, Sunbury, and A. J. Hanes, St. Marys.

All were appointed by fovmer Governor Arthur H. James. Martin withdrew their names after James sent them to tho Senate lor confirmation. Division members, who reelected as thch Chiel David D. Groy, Hcrshey, pledged lull support to G.ime Commission President Ross L.

Leltler, McKeesport; Vice-President Robcrl Uimbetton, Franklin, and Gordon. Leftlcc and Lambcrton Isvor Gordon's ic- tentlon. In addition, the sportsmen toid Martin they were behind Fiih Commissioner Charles A. French, The Uaak Walton Lcugue passed Mmiliar reulution in a Continued on Two. CONNELL BROTHERS IN SERVICE Attorney Fred E.

Younkin, 08 years old, ol 100 Bobbins street, one ot the city's best-known residents, died at 7 o'clock Sunday evening at Connollsville State Hospital after a year's illness. He was taken to the Hospital in the morning. A member of the legal profession lor the pust 33 years, he had served on the city's board ol education and lor three years was its president. Ho was active In all civic affairs. Frederick Elijah Younkin was born Upper Turkeyloot township, Somerset county, on October 28, 1874, the son ol the late Michael and Anna Marie McCHn- tock Younkin, a member of the old Pennsylvania family loun'dcd in America by Johann Herman Junkin, who ctime trom Holland.

Mr. Younkin's great-grcat-grand- lather was Jacob Younkin; his great-grandfather, Frederick G. Yourikm, and his grandfather, Frederick P. Younkin. All were residents of Western Pennsylvania.

His lather was born Upper Turkeyloot township, Somerset county, on December 25, 1825, and died on December 31, 1898. He was a stage driver in early Hie nnd later a farmer. His mother was born in the same township in 1834 and died on April 0, 1904. Mr. Younkin received his preliminary education in the public schools ol Upper Turkeyloot township and later attended normal school at New Lexington, Continued on Page Two.

CADET F. CONNEIX PVT. J. V. CONNELL, JR.

Sons of Mr. and Mrs. James V. Conncll ol 111 West Fayctte street are icrving with Uncle Sam's aimed They are Pat in training with the Air Corni at Monroe, and Jnmob now at Pan-is Island, S. C.

Pat enlisted in December, 1941, and Is an aviation cadet. He graduated fiom Immaculate Conception High School with the Class oi 1038. "Jim" Conncll observed Armistice Day last November 11 by "declaring war" on the enemies of his country when he enlisted with the Marine Corps. He too Is an I. C.

High School graduate, being a member ot the Class of 19-11. Governor 7o Address Legislature On Tuesday By JOHN PADGET I. N. S. Stall Correspondent.

HARR1SBURG, Jan. satisfied with existing war-time measures, Governor Edward Martin today polished his post-war improvement program which tho Legislature will be asked to adopt before the end ot tho 1043 session. The Governor will present the 14-point plan to a joint session ol the General Assembly tomorrow at 12:15 P. M. The address will be broadcast.

The program will probably not be rushed through the Legislature as standing committee chairmen nre expected to lollow normal procedure on major legislation and ask lor public hearings on every phase of the Governor's proposals. Recommendations received from witnesses will be considered before tho final draft la submitted lor approval. A measure introduced by Robert D. Fleming, (R) Allegheny, was expected to provide the Iramework lor the reconstruction program. It calls lor the appointment ol a 15-member commission to supervise the postwar plan.

The proposal, which has been given the stamp of approval by the leaders of tho Republican- dominated Legislature, directs the commission to draft a long- range public works program to "reduce and eliminate as much as possible the destructive economic dislocations ol the post-war period." Governor Martin has not dib- closod the exact recommendations lie will bubmit to the legislators- but It was believed he would follow the broad proposals of the Fleming bill which covered flood control, highway constiuc- tlon, veterans' bonus, social disease control, extension ot vocational education, slum clearance, anti-stieaVn pollution, and business, readjustments to peace-time production. The Weather Much colder with mow flurries ind windy ton.ght is the noon veathcr forecast lor Westein unnsylvanla. Temperature Record. 1943 1942 a i Gfi 59 Minimum 3li 37 Mean 51 -18 Everson Council Bond Issue lo Pay For Sewers, Streets SmcUl to The Courier. EVERSON, 25 -Eversoi.

Cuuncil has adopted an ordinance increasing the bonded Indebtedness $10,000. The 10 bondi ol $1,000 each, bearing an Interest rate ol three and a half per cent, are being floated to provide funds to pay for sewer am street improvements. German People Told Their Position Like England's in 1940 "Doc Crawford Held Under Bond For Federal Jury By Interim tlonal Ncwa Service PITTSBURGH, Jan. 23--Walter C. (Doc.) Crawford, 35, of near Connellsvillc, Fayctte county, today was held under $2,500 bond lor Federal grand jury action after two 19-year-old Army privates testified that he sold them pills to help fail their Army physical examinations.

The two witnesses were C. Clifford and Harry F. Wood, both of ConnellsviHc. They told U. S.

Commissioner Roger W. Knox that bclore they were inducted two weeks ago they went to Crawlord's house and he sold them 13 pills and a capsule which he said would stimulate their heart action nnd increase their blood pressure. Ely prc-arrangcment with Fayette County Detective Haggerty, and an FBI ngeut, Clifford said he gave Crawlord $50 in marked money. The chiropractor was arrested after the transaction with the money In his possession. Far Eastern Forum Wednesday Evening At Christian Church Flushed wnh the success ol the panel discussion last Wednesday evening at the Christian Church, Rev ivIcrriU L.

Cadwell, the pastor, hus arranged another Wednesdcv evening of this week, beginning at 7:30 o'clock. The theme will be "The Future ol America in the Far East" Participants engaged lor the forum are MIFS "Wcnona Wilkinson, lor 25 year a missionary in China, now in Connellsville in connection with the "emergency million" ot the Disciples ol Christ; Miss Carrie Konyon, who lor many yea is was a Methodist missionary In Malaya; Wlllard L. Lewis, member ol the faculty of Connellsville High School who will provide the American point ot view; Victor Guevara, a native of Venezuela, now an American citizen an employe ol the Anchor Hocking Glass Corporation at South Connellsvillc who will present the South American viewpoint, rind Ros- J. Mcdcalf, general secretary of the Y. M.

C. who is by Rev Cndwell as "an average American citizen." Tho minister extends a cordial invitation ot the general public to attend the t'orum L'nUmlown John Staull'cr of Mount Pleasant, Joseph Bogcr ot MeClcllnnd- town, Ted Stevens of Grindstone and Ruth Humphreys ot Stnith- have been admitted to Uniontown Hospital. Those discharged include Arthur Higin- otham of Smock, Boitic Bollsh of Mount Braddock and Mrs. Michael Rushnock and son of Republic. GolnK to New York.

Itobm C. Hollenbeck, assistant executive ot the Wcitmoioland- Fayette Council, Boy Scouls of Ameuca for over two years will leave February 15 to become a Scout Executive of the Tiough- nloga Cnuni.il with headquarters at Cortland, Y. By International News Service. LONDON, Jan. atmosphere of unmitigated gloom permeated the usitalV boastful or- Rnns of German propaganda to- dny.

The N.ui prc.ss and radio finally thruw oil' the cloak ol unwarranted optimism that char- acterised effusions in the last few It appeared certain th.it for the flrbt lime since the war begun, the German people were being conditioned for news of disastrous Take foi cxmple Dm cxa-rpi 1.1 om the Berliner Bocrscn Zei- tung. formerly the leading financial jupcr ot the Gorman capital end now the daily organ of the German army. "Germany's i paper said. "Is .1.1 critical as wj-. Great Brltnln's In 18-10." "Germany hii.i suffered Us first setback," the Boeiscn KcUung continued.

"The position of Germany ai critical as that of Rome during Hannibal's attack and as serious ah that of England during the battle of Britain. "We must nhow the same power of resistance as the British did jn 1040" Greene County Youth Aboard Missing Plane By international News service. WASHINGTON, Jim. Nnvy Department today still was without success in efforts, to locate the twin-engined Navy cargo transport land plane which has been overdue at San Pedro, Irom WJnslow, January 21. The lollowlng are included among those IMcd as aboard the plane and their next ol kin: Radioman Cullen Eugene Snyder, chiot radioman, will), Mrs.

Effie Leata Snyder, Central City, Somerset county, and Flight Orderly Don J. Stcele, seaman 2nd class, Mrs. Helen B. Stecle, Carmichaels, Greene county. "Much Colder" Tonight, Soys I Weather Bureau The Weather Bureau today Issued a warning Hint a cold wrtvc was on way and would send the thermometer into a tailspln.

Its warning lor broadcnst purposes stilted "cold wove accompanied by Ivcsb winds in Western Pennsylvania tonight. Lowest temperature five to 10 ab9ve." Its gennral forecast stated "bo- coming much colder with snow Hurries; snow flurries, colder and windy with a cold wnvo tonight." The weclc-end was one ot the mildest in weeks, the temperature reaching a hlgli figure 1 ol 06 degrees while the coldest was 36 degrees, lour above freezing, Accept Students Tonight for War Training Classes Ten war.training courses will be available to men and women ol Connellsvillu and vicinity, according to announcement today by David C. Guhl, administrative head of Pennsylvania State College Extension Services" War Training Center in Connollsvillo. Classes will open February 1 at Connellb- ville High School. Representatives of the college will interview candidates for enrollment at the High School from 7 to 10 o'clock tonight, Tuesday and Wednesday.

The courses will be held over a period ot four months with evening sessions twice a week. The following courses will be available. Industrial Accounting, Cost Manufacturing Accounting, Foundations of Engineering, Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering, Engineering Diafting (elementary), Engineering Drafting (advanced), Manufacturing Pro- ceduros for Women, Ordnance Inspection, Applied Engineering Mjthcmatics and Job Analysis. Students who complete courses will be prepared for jobs in the n.nion's industrial pro- ginm. Those now employed will be qualified tor advancement and higher waget.

Second Coker Band Concert Thursday Nighf Timie will be two numbers connection with another of the scries of monthly concerts ol the Conncllsville High School Band. The directed by Philip n. Pn.itr.man, will present its pi Digram at 8:15 o'clock Thursday evening In Ihe High School Auditorium and judging from the advance sale of tickets there will be a large audience, Misi Doris Landymorc, a soprano, will sing World Is Wailing for the Sunrise" and Jack Eckcr, a saxophonist, will play "Beautiful Colorado," BULLETINS MOSCOW, gquadroiM driving on Kropotkln have advanced an addltloiul 25 miles, outflanking: (he retreating enemy and culling rear communications between Rostov and the Black Sea coast, frontline dispatches reported lonltht. More than 3,000 additional Germans were captured In the Knmcnka-Kobsosch sector ot the southern front, bringing the total number of prisoners to 7t- 000 In the last 11 days. Red Drive Threatens Nazi Southern Army; British On Rommel's Heels in Tunisia SEES JAPS PERSISTING 10 YEARS IN WAR ON U.

S. By International News Service. LEWISTON, Jan. will attempt the conquest of America "even it it takes 10 years," Joseph C. Grew, lormer American ambassador to Japan, maintained today.

Speaking at graduation exercises at Bates College yesterday Grew said he was worried by moral complacency created in the minds ol many Americans by current successes in the Solomons and New Guinea. He declared "this is the most dangerous habit ol mind we can develop." He added that the 10 years he spent watching the Japanese prepare their people and training their armies convinced him that our country and our homes are in dire peril Irom the overwhelming ambition ot the Japanese military machine. Find Wrecked Navy Plane; All Aboard Dead SAN FHANC1SCO, Jan. report from Blue Lake, 250 miles north of San Francisco, said today that wreckage ol tile miss- Ing Navy plane with 10 persons aboard, including Rear Admiral R. H.

English, commander ol the U. S. submarine licet In the Pa- ctnr, had been lound in that vicinity nnd that all aboard are drad. Twelfth naval district headquarters in San Francisco said they had received the report but were unable to confirm it. The report was received Irom Blue Lake Postmaster Homer Clark, lie said the giant plane apparently had crashed as the pilot attempted to land on the waters ot Blue Lake.

The wreckage was found In broken country near the lake, the report added. Blue Lake is only a lew miles inland and is about ISO miles north of the Clear Lake area where the plane was reportedly siRhtod last Thursday morning. Alex Woollcott Dies Suddenly I3y International Service. NEW YORK, Jan. 25--A simple non-denominational service will be held either tomorrow or Wednesday lor Alexander Woollcott, 5fl-yeav-old author and dramatic critic who died alter suffering a heart attack on Saturday, it was revealed today.

Following the ceremony his body will be cremated and the ashes shipped either to his birthplace at Phalanx, N. or to his island home on Lake Bomosccn, Vt. Woollcott was the midst ol a radio broadcast at the time he was stricken and listeners were unaware ol the tragedy being enacted at the studio. EXPECT VEIL OF SECRECY ABOUT ALLIED STRATEGY FOR 1943 TO BE LIFTED SOON By Inlurnullona) Ncvs Service WASHINGTON Jan. diplomatic bourccs In Washington today expressed the beliet that the official veil ol secrecy which has covered momentous Allied btralegy talki will be lifted this week.

Vital decisions uflccting the lu- tiuc strategic conduct of the war by the United Nations already are believed to have been reached. The view prevails In diplomatic circles that the decisions probably Include plnni for a major allied invasion ol the European contin- dnt this year. If Germany can be forced to light a major war on two land fionts--in Russia and in western Europe--informed diplomatic ob- icrvers believe the Allies stand a good chance of crippling Hitler's military might by the end ol the year. There uot many, however, who are so optimistic as 10 predict the complete defeat of Germany this year. Most of the official and diplomatic observers in Washington believe it will ka until JDM to knock Germany out of the war.

With Germany still considered to possess a tcuific offensive punch both her army and air force, desperately hard lighting, involving heavy casualties, is lorcsecn bclore ine Allies can hope to achieve a decisive victory in Europe. Meanwhile, the question when the Allies will attempt to open a major land Iront in Europe this year Is considered to depend on two factors: First, how quickly the Axis' foothold in Tunisia can be wiped out. Secondly, how successfully the Allies can overcome Ihe Axis iiibmanne menace In the Atlantic. In connection with North Africa, it is believed the iti'atcgy discussions have led to decisions affecting not only the military operations thcie but also the con- fusee, political situation in the French territories. There is a strong bclicl in diplomatic circles decision has been reached concerning the appointment ol a supreme Allied commander to take over when the British Eighth Army moving up through Tripoli contacts the forces ol Lieutenant General Dwighl Eisenhower in Tunisia.

There is a good deal ol speculation whether General Eisenhower will be given this joint command, or whether some other Allied general will get it. London reports have indicated that some British elements lecl General Harold Alexander, British commander in chiel in the Middle East, is in line lor the job as a result of the successtul manner in which his Eighth Army has chased the Axis forces from Egypt to the borders ol Tunisia. In addition to determining the next major Allied strategy move, the dlscusslnns are believed to have led tti an agreement lor coalition planning among the United Stales, Great Britain, Russia and China in the future. Russians Setting Up Line That May Communications Between Germans' Ros- tov Garrison and Half-Encircled Army to South; North African Struggle Merging Into One Mighty Battle With Axis Between Two Allied Armies. UNITED NATIONS ACTIVE IN PACIFIC By International News Service.

Tlie Red army drove 25 miles through the North, Caucasus today to Increase hourly the danger to Hitler's southern army of some 300,000 men. desperately trying to escape the fate of the Axis' Stalingrad army. As remnants of 22 German divisions around Stalingrad were being methodically slaughtered or captured, at least 20 Axis divisions in the Caucasus felt a mighty Russian trap close tighter around them. One column ot Soviet troops north and west above the Caucasian foothills while another struck southwest along the StalinRrad-Kraanodar railway in the direction of the Black Sen. This second force was systematically establishing a line to the south of Rostov that, If consolidated, would sever communications between the Nazis' Rostov garrison and the half-encircled army to the south.

Tho Russian Black Sea drive, if it reaches the coast, might cut off the trapped army's last route of escape--across the Kerch Peninsula to the Crimea. Southeast of Rostov, the Russians 'xyero storming a strongly-defended town south of captured Peschanokopskoe, below Sulsk, on the Stalingrad- Krasnodar railway. The capture of Peschanokopskoe brought the 'Soviets to within 50 miles of Tlkhoretsk, where the Stalingrad line crosses the railroad from Rostov to the Baku oil fields. The North African struggle was rapidly merging into one mighty battle as the British Eighth. Army chased Nazi Field Marshal Rommel's Afrika Korps toward Tunisia for a showdown fight.

The battered Axis forces In Libya were fleeing from the small port of Zuara, 65 miles from captured Tripoli and 35 miles from the Tunisian border, as the spearhead of the Eighth Army drove near. Allied fighter-bombers smashed repeatedly at Axis shipping attempting to put out Irom the port. It was not known immediately whether Rommel was attempting to evacuate troops by this means or whether the vessels contained only war materials. The Axis was striving to insure a corridor by which Rommel and Von Arnim could join forces before Tunis' gates, while Montgomery's advanced guard was reported by an authoritative source to have already crossed the Tunisian border. Axis had succeeded in capturing tho hill of DJebel Bou Dabous, on the cast side ol the OusselUn.

valley where Allied tank-led troops wore attacking Axis columns, Allied heatlriuarturs announced. British warplaneH, said the German radio, attacked the Ruhr valley, western Germany, and targets la western France during the night. The Air Ministry had not announced the new raids up to a late hour. In the Southwest Pacific, a smashing attack on Rabaul, New Britain, that started fires visible 75 miles 'away highlighted an. offensive sweep Tanging trom Timor to the Solomons Sea.

In Burma, Royal Air Force bombers smashed installations on the Jap-held airdrome of Shwebo, 4fi miles northwest of Mandalay, and attacked villages on Aklab Island, in tho Bay of Bengal. Yanks on Guadalcanal Make Further Advances In the War Today By International News Service. LONDON, Jan. Gcr- Vichy radio reported today in a broadcast recorded by Router's that Nazi authorities had ordered avacuntlon ol all residents from the old port of Marseilles for reasons ol "military security." French police, It was asserted, arrested 8,000 persons at Marseilles to "safeguard order." ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA, Jan. 25.

The enemy advance in Ihe Ousscllia valley ol Central Tunisia has been halted by allied patrols, an official communique said today. American troops raided Mnknaii, 50 miles cast ot Galsa, taking 80 prisoners. An additional 50 enemy troops were captured by the British in the same sector. SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA--(via courier)--Jan. 25 (delayed)--Two ol the Southwest Parific's Liberator bombers proved their offensive worth today by accounting lor eight Japanese Zeros destroyed and lour probably destroyed in separate actions over Rabaul.

New Britain, and Wcwak, New Guinea. WASHINGTON, Jan. 25--Oop- lure ol Kokunibona village on. Guadalcanal by U. S.

ground troops was announced today by tho Navy in. a communique which also revea'fid that American planes and warships have blasted Japanese shipping and bases in. tho Solomons, damaging one large Nipponese destroyer and a cargo- ship and virtually wiping out one strong enemy position in the Central Solomons, Battle reports indicate lurlous action by American lorccs on land, sea and in. the air throughout Solomons while Nipponese rctallatc-d with a minor night air raid U. S.

on Guadalrannl. Capture pt the coastal village ot Kokumbona was preceded by an American ground offensive in which sis important elevations ol Henderson Airfield were captured and 110 Japanese were killed. "Continued aggressive tactics enabled our forces lo capture Kokumbona and seize quantities of stores and equipment," the Navy said. Meanwhile, troops continued to mop jiockeu ol enemy resistance, killing another 91 Japanese and taking 40 prisoners. The assault by S.

air and surface forces against Kolougangara Island In the New Georgia group carried out in ttt days ol action, January 23 and 1H. I'arcnu or Girl. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Sirllla ol EdenVvrn at Umonlowa iioapltsl.