The Daily Courier from Connellsville, Pennsylvania • Page 1

VOL. 43, NO 90. CONNELLSVILLE, PA MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 26, 1946 LAST EDITION The Weekly Courier rounded July 17 11179 Tha Dally Courier Founded November 10 1902. Merged July la.

1B29 EIGHT PAGES POUR CENTS Pfc. Donald Conlon Killed in Action In Italy, Parents Told Reported missing in action February 21, 1844, Private First Class Donald Conlon, Jr son of Mr 1 and Mrs Donald Conlon of 242 East Fairview avenue, v. as killed in action on that date, according to word received Thursday by his mother Irorn the War Department He was with the Fifth Army in Italy The soldier arrived in Africa September 29, just stx months to the day alter entering tne armed forces March 29, 1943 He was 20 years when he made the sacrifice Private First Class Conlon was born January 1, 19.24 West Side, Connellsville a son of Donald and Margaret O'Brien Conlon He "was graduated the Class of 1941 of the Connellsville High School and before volunteering for service the Army he was employed by Connellsville Manufacturing Mine Supply Company Besides his parents he is sur- ved by a brother, Eugene, who is awaiting call service He a grandson of Mrs Eliza Bnen of South Pittsburg itreer, Connellsville and 3l John Conlon of Pittsburgh He was a membi of the Immaculate Conception Church and the Walter E. Brown Post of the Veteians ot Fomgn Wars, his father, a veteran of World War No 1, having madi- him a member after be entered tlie armed lorces Richard Sheraw, signalman son o.C Mr. and Mrs Charles Patterson Vanderbilt, has been sent to the naval hospital at Chelsea, Mass, after having been wounded in the invasion ot the Philippine Islands "Dick," as he is better Xzioivn to his friends, was graduated from Dunbar Township High School with the Class of 1943 and entered the service August 21, 1943 He -e- cewed his boot training at Sampson, and signalman training at Md.

Non-Operating Rail Employes Given Increased Allowances International News Service. CHICAGO, Feb 26--Increased vacation allowances with pay have been granted to more than 800,000 non-operating railroad employes undei an agreement the railioads estimated today would cost them ati additional 25 million dollars a year. The agreement was reached in conferences in Chicago between the carriers conference committee, representing the principal railroads, and representatives of 14 unions. A paid vacation of one week will be given all employes with an excess of 160 days employment the preceding year, and a paid vacation of two weeks employes with five years serviro not necessarily consecutive The agreement, subject to government approval, is retroactive to January 1, 1945, and extends to January 1, 1947 Under the former arrangement, clerks sad telegraphers got six days vacation alter a year's service, nine days alter two years and 12 days after three rears Other non-operating employes received six days after a years service War Victim PFC DONALD CONLON Fust reported missing, the War Department has, now informed the parents ol Private First Class Donald Conlon that the soldiei was killed in action In the Italian theater Mrs. Roosevelt Explains Herself On Birth Control WASHINGTON, Feb 2G--Mrs Franklin Roosevelt denied to- daj that she advocates birth control in order to limit families in low income gioups The flrst lady said that she believed only in using common sense in determining the size of families Mrs Roosevelt said that she had been deluged with letters as the result of the statement she made at her news conference last week when she said that only the very best people should have large families She said that her correspondence enclosed published attacks on her and by church leaders Kestaer Will Head Retail Solicitors In Red Cross Drive John Kestner today was announced as chairman of the retail division for the Red Cross War Fund campaign now being organized here With appointment of Mr Kestner, all branc ics of the skeleton organization been completed and solicitation will get andei way next Monday Serg.

Fred Luckey, Reported Missing, Writes to Mother Mrs Alta Luckey ol North Prospect street received a letter Saturday from her son, 1 "chnical Sergeant Fred Luckey, who was reported misnng in action in Luxembourg December 20 It was the first information Mrs Luckey had had about her son since receiving the telegiam January 16 from the War Department Sergeant Ljckey, -who was with the 28th Division wrote thi latter to his mother on January "7 "Am feeling fine My wounds are healing nicely Hope to be up and about soon Don worry It could have been much worse and I am thankful it was not," the sergeant wrote He asked his mothe to say hello to all of his friends and to write when she received his address He is believed to be in a German hospital Soldier Hangs Self GREENSBUHG, Feb 26--Private William Tredeiick Griffin, 24, of South hanged himself in city hall Sunday Home on a three-day furlough from a convalescent hosoital camp at Upton, he had been undergoing treatment for injuries suffered during 18 months of service in England and France PRISONER IN NAZI CAMP ENDORSES RED CROSS The fiist member In the Red Cross War Fund S100 Club" was em oiled Saturday by Zone Chairman Sterbu wl when he received a check in that sum from Edward 1 Kurtz, recent purcher the Wonder Bar The donor is the father of an American soldier held prisoner a German prison camp The young man has sent his parents four cards since October and MI every one of them he mentions the value of the Red Cross organization to tbe servicemen and urges his lather not to forget to assist it In one wntten October 28, he sajs I want to thank the Red Cioss lor everything Then again he bays "Dear Dad on November 11, -I am fine thanks to the intei national Red Cross 1 Another card dated December 5, says part Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Yeal Dad, don forget the Red Cross Suie have done a wonderful job Chairman Sterbutzel says that "such'endorsement ot this wonderful Ame-ican humanitarian organization ought to loosen the purse strings of every man and woman No one would want to be a 'pinch pi'nny' if it were to depriv our fine lads of a single comfort We need 600 Northern Fayette county and I'm sure it will be forthcoming when the solicitation gets under way Teacher Granted Divorce After Withdrawing Appeal Special to The Courier UNKMJTOWN, Fob 26 -Emphatic in her that a married woman should not be compelled to relinquish her profession as. a school teacher and remonstrating against her husband, Nelson A. Hixon, farmer of Dunbar townshjp being granted a divorce on those grounds, Mrs Wilma Catherine Hixon withdrew her appeal to the Superior Court and the final decree was granted Hixon insisted that his wife remain home and care for domestic duties She countered that her husband's income was such that revenue from her employment was necessary to care for the The wife was given a leave of absence until after her baby was born Then she insisted upon resuming her profession- President Judge Dumbauld and Judge Russell Carr granted the divorce and awarded the child to the husband A higher court decision decreed that Baibaia Ann should remain in the custody of the mother The divorce decree, to which Judge John Morrow dissented also vv as appealed to the Si periot Court Howevei, that action was withdrawn Trt 3 Mi Hixon was finally divorced Barbara Ann now five years old, remains with hei mother "Work or Jail" Held No Solution For Manpower Problem By International News Service WASHINGTON Feb 26--The Senate Military Affairs Committee declared a formal report today that "work or jail" labor draft legislation will not solve the manpower problem The committee instead asseited that the O'Mahoney manpower bill approved by it--based chiefly on setting ceiling prices fot employment will meet the situation Institute Speaker ARCHIBALD GXLGHRIST An Australian by birth and active in the land down undei" for many yeais, Mr Gilchnsl will open the Rotary Club's Institute ol International Understanding tonight at the High School with a discussion the place ol Australia New Zealand and the islands of the Southwest Pacific after the vvai The program will begin at 8 JO clock President Harry Roach will preside Dr Elmer A Schultz will make the invocation and pronounce the benediction Dr William Hetrick will lead group singing with Robert Kunkle at the piano Mrs Welday Adrian will sing Other lectures will be given on three succeeding Monday Mayor Calls For Compiiance With Midnight Curfew Decree Mayor Abe I Daniels today called for strict adherence to the nation-wide amusement curfew which goes into effect at midnight tonight a Mobilization Dlrectoi James Byrnes has urged all entertainment centers as well as clubs and taprooms to adopt the midnight closing hour to conserve fuel Mayor Daniels does not anticipate any trouble from proprietors oi saloons taverns beei parlors movies and clubs although he indicated officers may be assigned to 5 a check of the city to see it there is a complete compliance Sometime dgo the local eras agreed on a midnight closing hour to conserve their limited liquor supply but the pact is understood to have been broken only recently However, all will be expected to adhere strictly The Mayoi the order is about three years late ab he discussed Byrnes' directive designed to save coal and imnpowei "It should have been issued a long time ago Mayor Daniels said He asked for cooperation ol everyone to the decree and added it there is no -voluntary compliance violators would be reported tor possible punitive action Planes Based In Philippines Reported Active By International Neus Service NEW YORK Feb 26--The Tokyo radio, heard by the FCC said today that 200 planes "from i. Philippines base raided the Kaisiiko area" on the eastern coast of Formosa The broidcast gave no details At Brmvnville Hospital Anita Belle Pace of Royal has been admitted to Brownsville leneial Hospital foi treatment Those discharged include John Chapley of Grindstone JAP ATROCITIES BARED IN ALL THEIR CRUELTY BY I.N.S.WAR CORRESPONDENT The -while, shocking story ol Japanese 1 savagery toward American piisoncre of war--a saga of death and suffering even eclipsing the tragic i arch from Bataan to Cabanatuan--has been unearthed bj Clark Lie, noted war correspondent of International News Serv- after installing Inquiry and This no ed war reporter, the last correspondent to leave Bataan 1941 am among the first to return with General Douglas MacArthur, has told the story in a series of four-breath-taking articles Cleared by special arrangement with I the War Department at Washington instead of the usual routine censorship in the field, these CLARK LEE TELLS UGLY STORY WITH NO HOLDS BARRED (Editor 3 Note Following is. the first oi: four blunt factual articles setting iorth a documented and hitherto undisclosed example of unparallelec Japanese sa agcry the treatment of American prisoners of war during 29 months of i carcerntion at the Nichols rield slave camp near Manila The storv was scovered and verified bv one of the foremost reporters of the day Clark I ee noted author and war correspondent of International News Sen ico one the last Americans to leave Bataan and among the first to return with.

General Douglas MacArthur in the liberation By CIARK LKE nternational Newa Service Staff Correspondent MANX) Feb 26 Let me introduce you to the white angel alias Moto San, to the wolf whose real name was Kazukt-San to Pickhandle Pete, to the labbit hunter, to Cherry Blossom, Mickey are dispatches that will be lone remembered They pull no punches, hide no troths. They expose the Japanese (or what they brutal, drunken murderers and tortuiers" The story is that at the Nichols Field slave camp near Manila where for 29 incredible months American prisoners worked for Japanese from dawn to midnight Their pay was $140'a month, with beatings, starvation, torture and murder added it pleased their inhuman guards Their sole compensation was personal courage and conviction that decency would at length prevail. Mouse and Saki Sam 111 They lantee you re not going to like them Te all estimable gentlemen of Japan products of a cultured civil zation 2,000 years old They'r also one of the cruelest collection of sadistic, brutal drunken irurderers and tortureis the world has ever known They were the commandants or the sentries at Nichols Field work project outside Manila, where lor two and one-half years American pnsoners--some now released in a brilliant coup by Rangers wh raided the Cabantauan camp- slaved as laborers until they dropped, starved, sick and exhausted and were then taken off to die The story of thi" Nichols Fielc cirro is now told for the fiis time It far more shocking than the Bataan death march, because that lasted only a tew days This saga of systematic torture and murder continued for more than 29 months And it has a double importance coming at a time when peace Continued on Page Six Pure Stream legislation May BeSpeeded By Intel -latfonal News Service. HARRIS BURG, Feb 26--Bi- paitisan nferees were slated to report to Jovernor Edward Martin today agreement on a broad conservati program while the General Assembly prepared to accelerate passage of Admimstra- tion-suppc rted pure stream legislation. The Gel era! Assembly will begin its ith week today when the Senat convenes at 4 and the wei chamber five hours later Legislal on designed to end the silt-pollut on oi Pennsylvania waterway strengthened by proposed ar icndments establishing purity st ndards to be enforced by the So iltary Water Bcaid, was expected to be reported from committci tomorrow for action Regulal on of strip another of the conservation program, was proposed in a Senate measi re ejected to be given the green light after amendments requiring the refilling of voids and increased penalties were inserted Althouf Senate Democrats indicated icy would attack the Admimsti atmn's special revenue- raising ogiam, leaders were confident bills to reenact the 10- year-old emergency" taxes on jquor, cli arets grots receipts and corporate net incomes would be issed a id sent to Governor Martin tl is week Budget officials estimatPd the receipts rom the four measures would bi mg an estimated $152 000,000 to State treasury colters during tl nett bienmum beginning Ji ne 1 Non-prrtisan legislation facilitating litary balloting in primary municipal elections has been ap iroved by both Houses with the exception ol one measure whkh was amended in the Senate tt permit Navy petty off- cers, as well as Army sergeants, to witne jurats for service men and won en The House was expected concur in the amendments krught Amonj the many measures schedule I for first i eadlng in the House as sponsore I an bill Administration- providing for medical and dental" examina ions for all students and a in Commonwealth schools Memb rs ot the Senate GOP caucus 1 av scheduled an m- terrogati in of State Liquor Control Bo rd Chairman Frederick Gelcicr and Board Membei Searlght Stuart at a conference tomoriow but the meeting may cancc lied Opposition Rises Against Williams As REA Head By FBANK ALLEN I StafI Correspondent WASHINGTON Feb 26 switch In sentiment indicated today that the Senate Agriculture Committee will lecommend thai the Seriate reject nominat on oi Aubrey Williams, a New favorite, to be Rural Electrification administrator Foes of Williams, however, are not certain they can prevent the Senate from overriding the committee and voting confirmation especially if the White House puts on heavy pressure for him A canVas of the Agriculture Committee indicated that i now stands For Williams, 8, against, 11 doubtful, 1 Perryopolis Farmer Named Foreman Of Grand Jury Special to The Courier UNIONTOWN, Feb 26 In the opening of the grand jury session this morning, 18 out of 24 jurors were sworn 3n.

They included nine women and as many oen "The absentees were Margaiet Altman of Umontown, David Crow of McClellandtown, John Duff of Waltersburg and David Hart Umontown Later two excused were John Mease of Brownsville and Charles E. McElroy Umontown Judge Bussell Cari, who pres ded named Jay Mclntire a farmer of near Perryopolis, as foreman couit announced that the lury probably would not be in session Lter than Wednesday as the tnal 'ist is light FIVE UHAL BROTHERS SERVE IN ARMED FORCES OF NATION Hospital Patients. Mrs Virginia Grimm Normal- villc Effln Bigam, 158 Wnyel avenue, Umontown, Mrs Ruth Santmyei, 407 East Francis avenue, Mrs Blossom Lincoln Dunbar, 2 Diane Sandusky 510 East Green street, Arlein Richter, Connellsville, 2, and Mrs Margaret Parker, Waltersburg, have been admitted to vllle State Hospital for treatment The Weather Bain and continued clojdy today colder to-light with rain or snow showors tomoriow the forecast of Cr ille Aupoit Weather Bureau Maximum bunday J4 Minimum Sunday 46 Maximum tuda a2 Minimum tonight 30 Sunrise fuesdaj 7 06 A Sunset todJN 7 03 CORP JOSEPH UHAL He tiained at Camp Langdon, carpenter mate at Lakehurst, George Uhal of Leisenunt, ughter Sandra Lee And went in Dccem- are serving in the armed Ion es Fuck Coke Company ployed it Bute befoie entering the of the United States First Seigeant Nicliolib Coiponl Joseph anothei FricJ- lieutenant Michael somewhere in Fiance was called up on field aitillery in Fiance Inducted Altei i ompleting his boot tram- He trained at with the Air roic.es and vvith to the iormei Doris Ba- Uhal with the infantry, is at Camp CiQft, He entered the service October 23, 1944 prior to which time he was employed at the Leisenring No 1 mine ol the Trick- Company Allies Move Up On West Front; Turning Point Near in Pacific By International News Service. The Allied offensive against Germany from the west gained momentum today as the U. First an4 Ninth armies made fresh gains up to three miles along their flaming 28-mile Roei River front ani field dispatches indicated American, had reached within.

12 miles of the Rhine The Allied smash toward the great city of Cologne met generally light resistance. Nortli of the Roer front, where First Airny units pushed 1,000 yards into the Hambach forest, Canadian First Army troops advanced 2,000 yards west of the Siegfried Line stronghold of Calcar, occupying high ground a half mile to the south The Third Army, meanwhile stormed across the Pruem River at three points south of the flaming Roer battle front to reach the Nuns River near Biturg, 16 miles inside Germany. The Third Army drive swept up an estimated 2,700 prisoners, engulfed five more German towns, cleared another nine, and captured vast stores of war materials Two bitter counter-attacks were hurled back in the Saarburg area. As allied ground might hammered Germany from the west and east, the German radio reported spearheads of a vast aerial armada over Berlin in a continuation of history's mightiest sky blitz which has pounded German communications and industrial targets continuously for nearly two weeks On the vast Pacific front, meanwhile, and battle-stained Marines approached a turning point in their battle to secure bloody Iwo island--750 miles from Tokyo--(Js a bomber base on the aerial road to the Japanese homeland. Battling through pillboxes, blockhouses and steep gullies, the Fifth Amphibious Corps smashed to vital high giound east of the nearly captured airfield on Central Iwo in one of the bloodiest yard-by-yard advances of the Pacific fighting The Marines already hold the east-west runway of the airfield and about two-thirds of the north- south strip of the shell-pocked field An airfield on the southern part of the island fell to the Americans the second day of battle At the same time.

Superfortresses bolstered by swarms oj carrier aircraft pounded Tokyo and its environb a twm-engmed assault which apparently left towering fires burning in. the Nipponese capital In the Philippines, General Douglas MacArthTir's liberation, forces, the mop-up of Manila completed, slashed eastward across the waist of Luzon Island to capture the towns of San' Isidro and Montalban. Yank forces are operating 10 miles east of the capital, MacArthur's communique revealed On the Russian front, the Red army stormed northward toward the Baltic across Pomerania ill a threat to the Nazi garrison of Danzig, while fighting continued before Berlin and and around the cities of Koenigsberg in East Prussia and Breslau in Silesia COKREGIDOB NCBSES SPEND FIRST YANKEE MONEY JH THEEE YEARS SAN" FRANCISCO, 28 -The Eataun and Corregidor nurses today were spending their first -American money in three years. Each of the nurses received $150 partial pay before they left Leyte With their piomotion to one higher jank--second lieutenants to Cist "lieutenants, first lieutenants to captains, and principal chief nurse on Coiregidor, Maude Davison, from captain to major, all the nurses have betw een $7,000 and $10,000 back pay coming to them Given Bronze Star. For evacuating many wounded Irom the liont lines during a heavy ball France in spite oC extreme hazards," Staff Sergent Paul Fram son of Robert Tram of 430 East Crawford avenue, Connellsviile and husband of Mis Alberta Lentz Fiam of 42 Kaiy street Umontown, has been awirded the Bronze Stai Another Huge Air Armada Roars Across Germany Bv International News LONDON, Feb.

26--A Allied explosive-laden air train 280 miles long roared out ovei Germany today, hitting Berlin and other targets in the 14th consecutive day of daylight on the Nazi Befell A communique from American A i stated that Allied warplanes were over Germany again, but did not state th size the attacking force or the specific targets. BULLETINS ON THE BURMA FRONT, Feb 26--Spearheads of the 14th Army today had reached nilhin sight of the paeoda tops of Mandalay, capital of Is or them Burma, front dispatches revealed MOSCOW, Feb 26--A new Soviet offensive threatening to sew up German forces in Pom- erania and the Polish Corridor in a Baltic coastal pocket smashed to within 20 miles ot the vital junction toun of Neus- tettin today after toppling the Pomeranian stronghold of rrcusstsch-FncdUnd North Belle Yemen Gambling Den Raided Tec Fayette county men were arrested as inmates and posted $10 forfeits when State Police raided the Baptiste pool room nt North Belle Vernon Saturday morning and broke up a 'big- time gambling game Officei arrested 22, five of them as alleged operators and they posted $500 forfeits Officers said three of those taken into "-ustody had more than $10,000 each on their person Sledge hammers we used to break down the barred doors Of those arrested, three were from Connellsville, one from Scottdale, one from Allison and lour from Umontown. Students Aid Polio Drive. Pupils oL the Upper Tyrone Township schools contributed $2925 to the infantile paralysis -fund and the supervising pun- cipal Mrs Helen Reagan, turned the money over to Echsrd, county chaunum..