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A mm Possibly there are some our readers who are inclined to think we've gone off the ieep end over the Fifth War Loan Drive, Flag Day and other patriotic themes this week. Technically they may be correct but we hesitate to believe that any of them would give more than passing thought to the matter or haeele over the contention that, even at such a critica: time, Roundabout columns should be more general ana more varied. Considering the progress of sec ond front invasion and yester v.viiHnu news that JaDan iiH a Li 11 n'io "has iust been bombed for the sec ond time, tms nas Deen a mr montmis week. There will be ample time for more of the varied ynlumns later, when we can feel that casual treatment of purely Home Front topics will De more in keeping with the trend 01 me times. Despite Bill Blithers stub born argument that "they al lt tears do or announce something to pep up these War Loan Drives," the latest air raids on Japan still bring joy to innumerable homes in Harrisburg, Dauphin county and Central Pennsylvania.

In this respect they are different from the fighting in Italy, the invasion of France and the newly launched invasions of the Marianas Islands. Like all land actions, the latter attacks upon the Nasi and Japs mean an increase in casualties. The start of a new series of aerial assaults upon Japan, however, is relatively comforting and reassuring because the raids have revealed the development of an improved type of long range "Super Flying Fortresses" capable of striking at the Japs home island empire from bases in China, Burma and India. To the average person with ret atives, friends and neighbors serving in the Pacific divisions of the Armies this, in turn, means that the Japs' war pro Auction centers and the, mo rale of the homeland popula lion is going to be subjected to the same softening up, aerial bombardment that has depleted the German Luftwaffe, shaken the civilian morale, shattered transporta tion centers and curbed the production of war weapons, tanks, planes and munitions. For Roundabouters and other Harrisburg Telegraph readers with loved ones serving in the Pacific, this is some of the best news that has come out of that theatre of the war since Pearl Harbor was bombed.

Together with the increasingly successful and daring operations of U. 5. naval task forces, it is proof that the Jap end of the anti Axis war can be won with American cas ualties far less than the original estimates based on a long drawn out conflict against a fanatical enemy. Reduced to matter of fact terms, uncomplicated by mili tary phraseology, the newest developments indicate that more of the local, county and regional men on active duty in the Pacific will be back at their peacetime jobs sooner than had been expected by both qualified and amateur analysts. As for us, we claim no status as a military observer; we merely enjoy reading good news from the various fronts 1 on which men and boys we know very well or quite cos I ually are fighting.

Finally, with another reminder to buy all the War Bonds you can during the Fifth War Loan because the complete success of the local, county and national campaign means earlier victory for the United States and the United Nations, we include ex cerpts from a communication by Koundabouter FBM. She notes that the Harrisburg Community Theatre Workshop is repeating tonight (8 o'clock at 500 Race street) the presentation of three, one act plays that are available for the entertainment of the armed forces at any train Vig camp in this vicinity. She reports that a telephone call to 2 9894 will complete all necessary arrangements and odds: "The Harrisburg Community Theatre deserves to be complimented for having so graciously given their time and their untiring efforts in presenting their last two major plays of the 1943 44 season to several camps in this vicinity. Keep up the good work, and we hope more groups will follow suit as well as dig into their pockets and purchase an other War Bond for your free aom, my ireeaom and their iree' dom." HILARY. 60 Dutchmen Executed For Resisting Nazis Stockholm, June 16, The Stockholm Dagens Nyheter said last night it had learned from a Dutch source that 60 Dutchmen were executed by the Germans between May 28 and June 7 for resisting occupation authorities.

Funds Approved Washington. June 16. HP). Funds to combat what OPA Ad ministrator Chester Bowles called a growing black market, by the addition of 1239 enforcement workers, were approved today: Dy the House Appropriations committee. The chief of the Office of Price Administration said the additional enforcement was needed especially in the meat John Roach, who arrived in the U.

S. from County Cork, Ireland, in 1829, is called the "father of Iron shipbuilding." Students to Aid Waste Paper Drive In City Saturday Yangtze near Shanghai, and sank pne and damaged another off Hong Kong, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stil well's headquarters announced to day.

The 14th Air Force also provided steady support for Chinese ground forces battling to save Changsha, struck at railroad freight yards at Wuchang across the Yangtze from Hankow, and attacked Japanese installations in the Yellow river area. The Chinese high command said last night the Changsha garrison had been placed in great danger by Japanese crossine of the Liuyang river, last line of defense before the besieged city. The enemy had only a few miles to go in an encircling move to seal off the city completely, but the Chinese high command in dicated some hope remained for escape of the defenders by crossing to the west bank of the Siang. Lhangsha lies on the east bank. A Chinese comeback against the Japanese for control of the Lung hai railroad in Honan some 400 miles to the north was announced meanwhile by the Chinese high command, which reported the recapture of Lingpao, 37 miles east of Tungkawan.

In Yunnan, the Japanese apparently are making strong effort to regain the Burma road town of Lungling. The Chinese command admitted the enemy had fought back into Hsiangta, a key point 11 miles southeast of Lungling. and also was making strong at tacks to the north. 5 Freight Cars Derailed West of Overbrook Philadelphia, June 16, UP) five cars of a 117 car Pennsylvania Railroad freight train east bound from Enola (near Harrisburg), to Philadelphia were de railed early today just west of Overbrook. No one was hurt and company officials said cause of the derailment was not immedi ately established.

Salt taxes and monopolies form part of the Oriental system of tavatmn 1 Members of the Harrisburg Boys' Club and a group of stu dents of Edison and Camp Curtin Junior High Schools will make another waste paper collection in Harrisburg on Saturday, June 24, Albert S. Schmidt, chairman of the Harnsburg Dauphin County Salvage for Victory Committee, announced today. Trucks to be used in making the collection will be contributed by waste paper dealers in the city and each truck will be accom panied by a group of boy workers, The collection will begin at 8 clock in the morning and resi' dents of the city are being asked to have bundles of newspapers, cartons and scrap paper ready for the collectors before the drive be gms. Wendell Morgenthaler, who heads the drives in Zone 14, north of the city, announced today that the collection there will begin at 10 a. m.

on June 24. The collec tion in Paxtang will begin at 7 J. Hoffer Detweiler an nounced. In both communities Boy Scouts will aid in the col lection. Rural mail carriers in Dauphin county are to be enlisted in the waste paper drive.

An amendment to the postal regulations per mits them to haul paper f6r salvage to the post offices from which they operate. Rural car riers are aiding in the drives in Franklin, Schuylkill and Clear field counties. In Nesquehoning, Carbon county, the borough council has passed an ordinance prohibiting the burning of waste paper. Jesse F. Rees, chairman of the Fats Section of the salvage com mittee, today called upon all grocery and meat store operators to co operate in the fats campaign and accept fats which may be brought to them by their customers.

Rees' appeal followed complaints from housewives that a number of smaller grocers would not accept the fats. American Airmen Sink Enemy Ship, Damage 4 Others Chungking, June 16, (IP) American bombers damaged three freighters at the mouth of the 7 163 Give Blood; Call Issued For More Volunteers A total of 163 persons donated blood at the Harrisburg Red Cross Blood Donor Service, Front and South streets, yesterday, the first day this week the center was open to receive donors. TwentjM six other persons missed their appointments. Today 104 persons were scheduled to make donations and to morrow 36 are listed. Officials said many more volunteers can be accommodated during the two days.

John Coffman. machinist mate. 3c, U. S. Navy, was among the donors yesterday, having returned here from overseas duty to attend the funeral of his father, Charles W.

Coffman, 901 South Ninth street, who died last week. The son came to this country by plane after arrangements for his leave had been made by the American Red Cross. He made hk seventh donation. Mrs. Eh Shapiro.

901 North Third street, made her tenth do nation and Mrs. Eva Harro. 625 Camp street, her fourth. Donors who made their eighth donations ana joined the Gallon Club yesterday are: Mrs. James Cuddv.

214 North Front street, Steelton; J. Fred Kelly, 616 Geary street; Florence Sharp, 1111 Green street; Mrs. Edgar Shelly, 422 Market street, New Cumberland: Matthew B. Black, 716 Market street, Ann ville; J. R.

Hoffert, 209 N. 26th street, Lamp Hill; George Kraber, oui s. front street. Awards Presented To 47 Boy Scouts orty seven Boy scouts were presented with awards and ranks last night at Scout headquarters, 2 19 A South Front street. R.

Hirsch, advancement chairman was in charge assisted by assistant district commissioner, D. M. Wirt, carry aigoust, Troop 5, was awarded the Life Rank, highest honor obtainable. The second class rank was awarded to the following boys by Assistant District Commissioner D. M.

Wirt; Jack Cushman, Donald Grell, Jack Kline, Richard Leis man, G. Chester Martin and Nathan Taylor, Theodore Beshore, John Van Horn, Robert J. Woomer, Robert L. Garber, Donald Brown, Samuel R. Desmond, Charles W.

Robinson, Floyd Wash ington, Michael Keane, Daniel Kiely, Joseph Mowery and George Slouth. First Class Rank The first class rank was awarded to the following boys by J. Albert Lehrman, committeeman of Troop 10; Chester V. Landis, William Shambaugh, Robert McDivitt, Jerome Gerber, David Prouser, Wil liam Kautz and Thomas Doyle. Merit badges were awarded to the following boys by J.

Edgar Sellers, commissioner of the northwest division; Jack Kline, Donald Grell, Larry Marcus, William Shambaugh, Edward Hanlon, Robert E. Dolbin, Barry Falgoust, Donald Olewine, Russell Sheaffer, and John J. Shumaker. Edgar R. Barret, Charles Christ, Crerald Lowry, Robert McDivitt, Ensminger CROWDS SEE INFANTRY IN WAR GAMES Thrilling scenes were witnessed by the more than 6000 visitors at the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation yesterday to view exhibitions and demonstration staged by the infantry division there as part of the nation wide Infantry Day celebration.

At the left, with machinegun bullets whizzing over their heads and simulated artillery fire in the area, 36 infantrymen crawled and wormed their way under barbed wire entanglements and through the mud of the dangerous infiltration course. Center shows some of the infantrymen climbing oyer a fortification and bayoneting the Venemy." At the right, Governor Edward Martin, who commanded the 28th Division when it went into federal service in February, 1941, and who at the time was Indiantown Gap's commanding general, is talking with Major General Harry L. Twaddle, commanding general of the infantry forces now stationed at the Gap, while watching some of the infantry exhibitions. HARRISBURG SECOND SECTION in ill mi rl 1 I PVT. GEORGE C.

ROBBINS Memorial services were held re cently at Trinity Methodist Church for Sgt. Gorge C. Robbins, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F.

Robbins 1839 Forster sthreet. A member of the local church, Sgt. Robbins was reported killed in action in Italy last December 19. An Army paratrooper, he parti cipated in the landing at Gila and served at Messina and Sicily with a paratroop regiment. He was awarded a citation and the Purple Heart for wounds suffered during the Italian campaign.

He had volunteered ior special duty when wounded prior to his death. While attending his junior year at John Harris High School, Sgt, Robbins enlisted in the Head quarters Company, 104th Cavalry Immediately following his gradu ation he was inducted into the regular Army. In 1942 he re quested a transfer to the Para troopers and he landed in North Africa April 23, 1943. Besides his parents he is sur vived by his Mrs. Dorothy Robbins; a sister, Kathenne, and a brother, Charles, serving in the Navy.

Boy, 14, Electrocuted in Slaying of 2 Girls Columbia, S. June .15, A 14 year old Negro boy was put to death in the state's electric chair today for the confessed slay ing of two young white girls of Alcolu, who were fatally beaten with a heavy railroad spike while they were out picking wild flow ers. The Negro, George Junius Stin ney, declined to make any statement before going to his death. He was the youngest person ever to die in the electric chair here. Several organizations, white and Negro, had asked commutation of the death sentence on account of his age but Governor Olin D.

Johnstoltfi refused to intervene. Tiny Attire Steger, 111., June 16 UP) Mrs Martha Robbins wanted her hus band, Cpl. Charles W. Robbins, stationed in England, to see the clothes she had made for their first baby. She sent him a mina ture layette of clothes made from the same material as those she has provided for the baby fancy embroidery included.

Ralph Blumenthal, Harvey Han ish, Thomas Doyle. The Star Rank was awarded to the following boys by Fred Crump, scoutmaster of Troop 14: Edward Hanlon, Russell Sheaffer, J. Marlin Moore, Harry Schwartz, land Edgar Barrett. TELEGRAPH HARRISBURG. FRIDAY EVENING.

JUNE 16. 1944 ADMIRAL DECORATES ENHAUT HERO Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. commander in chief, Pacific Fleet, decorates Marine Sergeant Howard C. Dickey, husband of Mrs.

Vivian F. Dickey, and son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard R. Dickey, all of 611 High street, Enhaut, with the Silver Star Medal at an advanced Pacific base.

Dickey aided in demolishing enemy positions on Parry Island and killing their Jap occupants. (U. S. Marine Corps Photo.) 47 Men Are Called By Draft Boards For Army Service Harrisburg City Draft Board to day announced the names of 38 draft registrants called to report for active service in the Army on June 24 while Dauphin County Board No. 3 called nine men who will report on June 26 for the same service branch.

Among those called by the county board is Charles Cassel, golf champion of the Harrisburg Colonial Club. County men will report to their board headquarters while city men will report in the Dauphin county courthouse at 8.15 clock on June 24. Men called by the city board follow: Charles Henry Michaels. 1747 N. Twelfth Earle Alien.

1166 Mulberry John P. Harris, 1709 Market Lawrence Kelly, 710 N. Third Wallace Warren Young, 139 W. Fourth, Lewistown James Michael Pagliaro, 29 N. Twentieth Robert Harold Harbold, 1224 Walnut Charles McKinley Lyter.

1509 Boas Arthur H. Goldberg, 1206 Derry David Leroy Smeltser. 1115 N. Tenth Clyde Heckert, 28 N. Fourteenth Brian Herbert Kintzer.

905 N. Sixteenth Josenh Donald Brubaker, Penbrook Square Apartments. Penbrook John Samuel Manning, lTin Briggs Gilbert Evan Maurer, 614 Church Richard Dale Good. 2721 Lexington George Marinutz. 1241 N.

Cameron Harold Samuel Miller, 44 Linden Joseph Michael Lattuca. 1637 Apricot Percv Strohm Orr. 18 Evergreen Joseph Francis Traino, 217 S. Fifteenth William James Prifer, 1723 North William Edward Gary. 617 Harris Alonzo Potts, 1218 Cowrien Brooks McCants.

1129 Wallace ArlU'hiops Long 1105 nneth Fdward Harvey, 1121 N. Leonard St. Louis. Mo. Charles Robert Clark.

1410 N. Seventh George Washington Williams. 1337 n. rwenty urst. pnuaaeipma Archie Cobb.

1918 Diamond. Philadelphia Flemming Anderson, 1205 Community unve Jefferson Francis Davenport, 1411 Reily Road Ernest Carey, 1111 A Cumberland Road Leon Joshua Mitchell. 1238 Monroe Thomas Odel Diggs, 1411 Monroe James Edmond Ray, 1121 Monroe arry Leroy Finley, 618 Boas arold William Sneaks. 1630 Wallace Registrants called by the county board are: Robert Roy Clouser. 1426 N.

second Charles Edward Cassel, 24 S. Twenty eisnin Joseph Miller Mullen, R. D. No. 1, Linelestown El wood Cecil Lupfer, State Hospital.

Har nsourg Eugene Earl Radle. R. D. No. 1, Halifax Dale Herman Enders, R.

D. No. 1, Halifax Bruce Eugene Straw, 29 S. Second, nantax John Fletcher Velter, R. D.

No. 1, Lin glestown. William Franklin Harris, R. D. No.

1 jingiestown Chetnik Officer Joins Tito's Partisan Forces London, June 16, Marshal Tito declared today in his broad cast communique that a Major Djuric, one of General Mihailo vic's Chetnik commanders, had come over to Tito's Partisans, together with a large number of of ficers and more than 1000 men. Tito reported also the of four new Partisan divisions in the Morava valley of Serbia. Eastern Drivers Keep Same Gasoline Rations Washington, June 16, UP). The Office of Price Administration has decided that the East Coast's drivers will have to do with their current gasoline rations for the next three months. It was learned that the OPA has abandoned its plans for boosting the ration in at leafed the eastern states.

PAGE II Child Center Lists Play Activities At Harris Park Weekly events, including a "cir. cus" in which youthful participants will "dress up" as animals, will feature the summer "play school" season to be opened on the Har ris Park school grounds, Race and Vine streets, by the Child Wei fare Center, Monday, June 19, Miss Beverly Elizabeth Rodenheber, dl rector, announced today. Pet, doll and flower shows will be included in the schedule. Hikes to the municipal bathing beach on the Island for swimming instruction will be a feature of le program. Small tables and chairs for the accommodation of kindergarten "tea parties" will be set up.

Slides, sandboxes, swings and volley ball, miniature track equip ment for the older boys and girls will be installed. The "play school will begin daily at 10 o'clock and will con tinue until 5 in the afternoon with Miss Rodenheber and her asso ciates in chargei The summer activities, at the Center will follow the general plan carried on throughout the school months of the year by that mem ber agency of the Community Chest at the Harris Park building U. S. Forces 1400 Miles From Jap Mainland Washington, June 16, (JP) American forces storming Saipan island in the Marianas are only aoout 1400 miles from the Japa nese mainland. The closest Japanese troops ever got to the United States proper was Kiska Island in the Aleutians, more than 2000 miles from this country's nearest coast, Marianas Landing Severs Lifeline Of Jap IleEd Truk Washington, June 16, (JP) The successful American landings on Saipan Island promise to leave the enemy's once proud base of Truk as well as uncounted thousands of Japanese troops hanging umessly on the dead ends of a severed lifeline.

Truk faces the useless position mat feari nareor would be in for our forces if there were any enemy position between the Ha wanan Islands and the West Coast. The Japanese troops on Truk and on the dozens of other Caro line Island bases can be left to starve or to be cleaned up as more important operations permit, for according to the best milr tary estimates here the grand scheme of Pacific conquest of which the Saipan assault is a major part calls for a series of huge jumps to the coast of China, by the torces of General Douglas MacArthur and Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. The Saipan attack carried the Nimitz forces from their forward position on jauwetoK isiana in the Marshalls across more than 1000 miles of ocean to the Mariana group. This group is part of the Guam Bonin line, stretching south from Tokio to the Carolines.

It has been the most important sin gle line in Japans Pacific de fense system. Now that the line is being broken and Truk outflanked. It would appear that Nimitz's next jump could carry him either to Luzon Island, northernmost and most important of the Philippines, or southwestward, to the Palau Islands This latter move would be necessary if it is decided that Palau is needed as an air and naval base to protect the route over which MacArthur troops must strike irom New Guinea into the Philippines. Meanwhile MacArthur may be expected to extend his own bases northwestward as rapidly as pos sible along the rim of The Neth erlands East Indies from his present forward and still contested position in the Schouten Is lands, off the northwestern hump oi New uuinea. Washington authorities would not be surprised if these steps were taken swiftly enough to get ue invasion of the Philippines weu underway this year.

Fitting Title Chicago, June 16, (JP) Police and firemen were swamped with hundreds of calls last night as a sudden wind storm swept the "Windy City." One of the oddi ties reported by police: A two ton truck was blown from its parking place into the center of a busy near north side street, Infantry Conducts Combat Display A tlndiantown Gap By Robert F. Gorman Fighting men, thousands of them, observed Infantry Day at the Indiantown Gap Military Reservation yesterday and before an elaborate military program was concluded, Governor Edward Martin and more than 6000 other invited guests and visitors were given vivid ideas of what the American Doughboy must face and what he must do on every battle front in the world. Major General Harry L. Twaddle, commanding general of an infantry division at Indiantown Gap, arranged for the gigantic demonstration as part of the national observance of Infantry Day. Displays of infantry weapons, demonstrations of hand grenade throwing, bayonet drills, methods of disarming the enemy, demon trations showing the actual firing or the varied infantry weapons.

climaxed by a review of two regi ments with full marching equip ment, brought to an end the big gest Army show ever staged at the Gap. Several hundred guests of Gen eral Twaddle and staff officers at tended a luncheon at the Officers Club before the afternoon pro gram and at the conclusion of luncheon the guests were assign ea to jeeps and taken to demon stration areas. General Twaddle welcomed the thousands of visi tors to the reservation and told them that the "doughboy has the toughest, dirtiest, most dangerous job of any man alive." Enemy Never Remote General Twaddle told his visi tors that the infantry strength represents only about 19 per cent of the total strength of the Armed Forces but that a big portion of the names on casualty lists are those of foot soldiers. "For the doughboy," said the general, "the enemy is never remote. He can see him along his rifle barrel or he can feel his flesh against his bayonet.

There are no tanks or airplanes to carry him into battle His fighting tools are those he can carry on his back. There are many good ways to gain ground but there is only one way to gain and hold it that is the task of the infantry." As General Twaddle finished the only address of the day the visitors were invited to tour an adjacent field where infantry equipment was on display. From the bayonet and the infantryman's fighting knife displayed at the nearest point the big throng mov ed to other exhibits where artillery used By the infantry was dis played in camouflaged surround ings and where men crouched in fox holes awaiting an opportunity to fire on the enemy. Signal Corps equipment, field telephones, a field kitchen, field rations, blackout tent and many other items were displayed and at each stopping point soldiers on duty explained the various exhibits and answered questions of the visitors. Next there was an exhibition of hand grenade throwing and men in trie service tnrew grenaaes which developed smoke screens behind which they could advance unseen from one foxhole to an other.

Other grenades sent columns of colored smoke sky ward which are used in signal work. Version of "Cocktail" One type developed a green smoke which would indicate that friendly troops are ahead. Another sent up a red smoke which would soldiers in the rear of an ad vanced enemy position so that the guns could be trained on the site, Yellow smoke from a grenade would signal to airplanes the lo cation of a message center and show where messages could be dropped. The demonstration was concluded with an American ver sion of a "Molotov cocktail." The "cocktail" contained in a bottle was thrown against a pile of rocks and the smoke which developed clearly showed how tank drivers would be unable to keep on a course if the bottle landed on a tank. Another type of chemical, contained in a bottle, developed a fire of intense heat when the taot RECEIVES COMMISSION Archie W.

Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Miller, 1611 Bridge street, New Cumberland, a member of the "invasion class" of aerial navigation cadets, Selman Field, received his wings and a second lieutenant's commission at graduation exercises Saturday.

He is a member of the first class to graduate since the Allied invasion Army landed on the continent. Lieutenant Miller enlisted in December, 1942, as an aviation cadet and was sent to Davis and Elkins College, Elkins, W. Va. He took his pre light at Monroe, and graduated as an aerial gunner from Tyndal Field, Fla. He will report to Bocoraton Field, on June 20, to attend radar school.

Before enlisting, he was a pre med student at Ursinus College, Collegeville, and graduated from New Cumberland High School. tie broke and the chemical mixed with the air. Under a canopy of bullets from machine guns thirty six men "ran" the infiltration course for the visitors. They wormed their way through the mud, crawled on their stomachs under dangerous barbed wire entanglements and had to keep their heads down to the ground because of the heavy fire from the machine guns. The task is part of the training at Indiantown Gap and every man from a buck private to a chaplain must make the trip under similar conditions so that they may protect themselves in actual combat if need be.

Leaving the infiltration course the guests and visitors moved into another area for a bayonet training exhibition and there they saw men taking high hurdles and landing bayonet jabs into Nazi "dummies." Passing they scaled a wall representing a kind of enemy fortification and again they used the bayonet thrust to eliminate the enemy. Covered with tree branches a jeep carrying machine gun equipment emerged from some brush in a camouflage exhibition. Men, with faces painted and uniforms tinted to harmonize with the trees and grasses, sprung up from various areas and an anti aircraft gun was brought from a clump of trees. The visitors were given time before each event to look over the area in an attempt to sight the camouflaged man or armament but so well was the camouflaging done that the crowd let out an expression of surprise as each man or machine was exposed. Close Range Fightinr The training given the men at the Gap to fight the enemy at close range and without weapons was another in the long series of interesting exhibitions.

Eight men participated in the exhibiton in a large enclosure and they demonstrated various painful holds which could be inflicted on the enemy and they also showed how such holds could be broken if the same tactics were used on the Yanks. The demonstrators showed how to ward off attacks when the opponents had knives and bayo nets and in turn the "enemy" was thrown to the ground and "stabbed" with his own bayonet. The visitors were next taken to the rifle range where the various infantry weapons were demon strated and in the exhibitions tracer bullets were used. Mortars were fired and the rockets could be seen soaring to dizzy heights and then falling to earth on their targets. As the mortar shells exploded huge clouds of smoke rose and formed a screen which would have prevented the enemy from seeing the attacking force.

Tracer bullets flew across the field from rifles, machine guns and bazookas in a manner which seemingly duplicated the fire acrcoss any "no man's land." Moving to the parade grounds Governor Martin and General Twaddle reviewed two regiments of the infantry division and announcement was made that another regiment, a part of the divi sion, was on maneuvers in another state. Before the regiments moved, nine officers and ninety one enlisted men, with the massed colors of the two regiments behind them, were presented with "expert infantrymen's" badges. With the Governor and General Twaddle the honored group reviewed the parade headed by the division band. As the last band note died on the field and the last man disappeared from view, a loud speak er reminded the audience that the purchase of war bonds made the training of the men and the pur chase of their equipment possible and visitors were urged to con tinue to work and buy during the Fifth War Loan. A touch of real warfare was added to.

the afternoon program during the demonstration of combat without weapons. A lieutenant told a sergeant four Germans were lurking in the vicinity and that he and his men were to bring them in, "alive if possible." In view of the audience four men in full German uniforms were lo cated by the men, disarmed and by various holds, were led to the commanding officer. The uniforms, it was said, were probably obtained from German prisoners. Millersburg Flyer Took Part on Epochal Raid New York, June 16, UP). Radio Correspondent Roy Porter, one of the reporters taken along on the Super Fortress raid on Japan.

reported today two Pennsyl vanians were among the crew of his plane the third one over the target. Those mentioned were Lieut. Carrol Hangbaueh, of Millers burg, and Set. Lebanto. Pittsburgh.

Of the whole crew, Porter said "They did a good job." Treasury Receipts Washington, June 16, UP). The' position of the Treasury June 14: Receipts, $207,314,619.95. Expenditures, $198,475,285.07. Net balance, $7,372,509,749.99. Station! RIVER BULLETIN worth Branch: 8 hi 0 Feet Tenths Elver Bulletin la Binghamton 14.

2.S Corning 16 3.0 Towanda 16 2.1 Wilkes Barre 22 3.5 3.S West Branch: Clearfield 10 0.6 Renovo 16 2.0 ,59 Lock Haven 21 Williamsport 20 2.4 2.1 ,1 Juniata River: Mapleton Dep. 20 3.7 Newport 22 4.4 Susquehanna: Sunbury 16 2.0 2.0 .01 Harrisburg 17 3.8 3.9 Trace.