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Harrisburg Telegraph from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 18

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MONDAY EVENING HXKRISBURG TELEGRAPH APRIL 14, 1941 'Just Peace' Asked by Pope In World Plea Belligerents Urged to Show 3ST0RE HOURS: DAILY 9 to 5.30 NITES 7 to 9 SATURDAYS 9 A. M. to 9 P. Charity Toward Civilian 18 yip i i it mminni (9 Populations By Associated Press Vatican City, April 14. Pope Pius, XII, urged in an Easter message that belligerents "show some feeling of charity for the sufferings of civilian populations" and that conquerors deal "justly, humanely and providently" with peoples in occupied territories.

In a 20 minute broadcast over the Vatican radio, the Pontiff called upon Catholics to pray for an early and just peace. "Let us pray for universal peace," he said, "not for peace based upon the opDression and destruction of peoples, but peace which, while guaranteeing the honor of all nations, will satisfy their vital needs and insure the legitimate rights of all." The Pontiff spoke of his own prayers and efforts to humanize the methods of war, alleviate suf ering, comfort war victims, and emphasize principles necessary to future peace, and then added: "But we are saddened to note that there seems to be as yet little likelihood of an approximate realization of peace that will be just, in accordance with human and Christian norms." He spoke of the present as "these merciless and bitter days," and of the war as a "ruthless struggle" which at times "can be described only as atrocious." To spare even worse developments, he urged all belligerents to "abstain until the very end from the use of still more homicidal instruments of warfare." "Iron Lung" Youth Has Happy Easter Pittsburgh, April 14. For 17 year old Jimmy Colton, an infantile paralysis victim who has spent the past 19 months in an "iron lung," Easter Sunday was "the happiest day of my life." The reason: as an "Easter pres ent," his high school principal in formed Jimmy that although he was unable to complete the course, he will receive a diploma and be graduated along with his class in June. Because Jimmy can't go far from the "iron lung" that breathes life into him, he won't be on the commencement stage, but Principal James Hudson of Mars, high school circumvented that He arranged for a special two hour telephone hookup to "broad cast" every word of the program to the boy's room in a Pittsburgh hospital. The boy had been a football star at Mars High before he was stricken.

Easter Offering Pays Last of Church Debt Middle town, April 14. St. Peter's Lutheran Church raised $700.85 through its special Eester offering. The offering brought the total for the past several weeks to $2000 clearing up the last of a fourteen year $70,000 debt and leaving $650 to start a fund for construction of a parsonage. The Rev.

Dr. Samuel T. Nicholas, supply pastor, will be at the church for two more weeks and on Sunday, May 4, the new pastor, the Rev. Paul R. Clouser, of Carey, Ohio, a former Harrisburg resident, will preach his first sermon.

Mrs. John C. Tritch, Mrs. Cora Alleman, Mrs. Best and Mrs.

Vera Keyser, members of the Women's Democratic Club have been appointed as delegates to the Federation of Democratic Women to be held at Reading May 7, 8 and 9, alternates will be Mrs. Rose Shaneor, Mrs. Gertrude Luft, Mrs. Daisy Grissinger and Mrs. James O.

Covan. Give Fleas and Selves the Hot Foot By Associated Press Kinston, N. April 14. Kins ton's municipal monkeys are smart fellows some of them do their own de fleaing with great ingenuity. That became known when the keeper asked visitors not to give the monkeys lighted cigaret butts.

Some of the smart ones, he said, hold the lighted ends to their flea tormentors just long enough to make the fleas hop. But the dumb ones burn their hands handling the stubs. Bullet Fired in Brush Hits Millersburg Man Clark Cooper, 40, Millersburg, was struck by a bullet from a .22 calibre cartridge that was discharged in a pile of brush he was burning. Physicians at Harrisburg Hospital are trying to save the sight of his right eye. Henry Waidlich, 37, Harrisburg, R.

D. 1, suffered a cut hand when a gun went off accidentally at his home Saturday. He was treated at the some hospital. Wildwood Brush Burns The Shamrock Company extinguished a grass fire at the upper end of Wildwood Park and the Allison Company went to the apartment of Thomas J. Doyle, 137 South Fourteenth street, when an oil burner flared up yesterday.

Firemen said there was no ML OBSERVE Returned from war zones, Col. William Donovan warns against under rating Germany, depicts Nazi Germany as aiming at "absolute domination" of whole world. Work Resumes At Ford Plant After Strike Full Time Schedule Will Be Reached in Week or Ten Days By Associated Press Detroit, April 14. A vanguard of approximately 20,000 workers moved into the Ford Motor Co. Rouge plant in suburban Dear born today to resume production after settlement Friday of the United Automobile Workers (CIO) strike.

The earlv eroup of the com pany's 85,000 Rouge plant employes included men in non production units. Full time production on assembly lines is expected to get under way in 10 days or two weeks. The company is using daily newspaper advertisements to ad vise workers in various divisions when to return. Meanwhile, regional officers of the National Labor Relations Board conferred with company and union officials on questions in connection with an NLRB election to determine a collective bargaining agent for Ford employes. Frank Bowen.

NLRB Detroit manager, said he hoped, the bal loting would be held within a month. Soldiers Accused of Stealing Auto Privates Clarence Ramey and Harold E. Brown, stationed at Olmstead Field, Middletown, today were held in $1000 bail, charged with the theft of an auto mobile. Alderman Joseph K. Armstrong sat at the hearing and phareps were Preferred bv State Motor Police who recovered the I machine in Chambersburg Saturday afternoon.

Pharies G. Haider man. Elizabethtown. R. D.

3. re ported his car missing Saturday noon. Elmer Must Be Safe, Now Leslie Is Gone By Associated Press Camp Stewart, April 14. When the 207th Regiment left; New York City for this anti aircraft training center, somebody's mother ran down the station platform crying: "Leslie, don't leave me, Lesiie don't leave me." The question of who she was calling to still seems to be unsettled for the regiment. It ir producing a musical com edy entitled "Who Is Leslie?" This Sign Puts Owner in Some Sort of Hole Brookfield.

April 14. This sign on a main street vacant lot has everybody chuckling: "This choice builaing lot for ale. Inquire within." Injured Man Jailed Samuel Green, 35, Baltimore, was sent to jail for ten days after his discharge from Harrisburg Hospital where he was held for observation Friday for injuries suffered when pinned between a car and a trestle on the Pennsyl vania Railroad tracks near Newark, N. J. He was charged by Justice of the Peace William Dosh, Carlisle, with trespassing.

Truck Hits Pole Benjamin Metallo, Harrisburg, R. D. 1, was unhurt when his truck sheared off a pole in North Cameron street near Maclay, Motor Police reported. Uptown Man Struck Struck by an auto at Third and Calder streets, 70 year old John Edwards, 1629 Susquehanna street, was treated at Polyclinic Hospital for bruises. Police said the driver was Albert Cairo, 201 Calder street Teacher Dies Kansas City, April 14, W) Charles Collier Hancey, 80, one time minister, told his Baptist Church Sunday School Class the Easter story.

He finished, gasped and fell dead. The automotive business, includ ing motor fuel, accounted for 20 per cent, of the retail trade, 13 per cent, of the wholesale trade, and 13 per cent, of the service business of the United States in 1939, according to the Census. III mm i ri 1 .5. rt A Js 'A sZ i li SOT FulLWidtb CHROME Trimming A dit Beoury end a Neat, Attractive Finith! 1111111 liiiiiiiillis VEGETABLE BIN FOR HANDY STORAGE SPACE FOR DRY VEGETABLES At IHMMIMMIH iiiiiiPlI 7 LMI i fM BRANCH STORES AT: SUNBURY, CHAMBERSBURG, WAYNESBORO, AND HAGERSTOWN, MD.L fce. I If fix I I A I mm asm.

I 1 I I aurcyoirfl Free Delivery Easy Terms A Few Features Listed: POP OUT TRAY AND CUBE RELEASE FOR QUICK REMOVAL of ICE CUBES! STAINLESS STEEL STRIP ADDS to INTERIOR BEAUTY! USY TO OUM Ml KEEf CUM! SLIDING GLASS COVERED SPAWWS MEAT CHEST OF IMPROVED DESIGX! "PRESTO" SHELF Adds Flexibility in Shelf Arrangement LEN A LI6HT AUTOMATIC! FLOODS ENTIRE INTERIOR! Provide! Light For Evtry Section of lcr!.

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