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Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Harrisburg HARRISBURG, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 18, 1939 Only Evening Associated Press Newspaper in Harrisburg. News Around the Clock SINGLE COPIES THREE CENTS MEN AND GUNS MOVE UP TO WEST FRONT ro: ME BURG fi WE Nazis Prepare to Hit French in Center Line, Swiss Believe German Troops Move Day and Night in Lauter bourg Sector TANKS ASSEMBLED By Associated Press Basel, Switzerland, Oct. 18. Rear areas on both sides of the western front seethed with activity today in the wake of German thrusts which Swiss observers believed were designed to divert attention from preparations for a bigger push. These observers said the offensive, when it comes, probably will be directed against the Wissem bourg Lauterbourg Rhine triangle near the middle of the German French frontier.

For the third successive day and night, it was reported, the Germans continued to concentrate troops and offensive material at Karlsruhe "and other points in the Lauterbourg sector. The concentration movement was said to have been in no way affected by assaults which the Germans have been making oh the northeastern end of the front, near the Moselle River and east of the Saar. The French, dispatchers indi 1 cated, have been matching the German concentration with their own reinforcements. The Germans were reported to have assembled large numbers of tanks in the first line of the Sieg fried fortifications. Five New Workers Hired by Stcte Commerce Head Secretary of Commerce Richard P.

Brown today appointed five new employes. They are: Patricia E. Nicely. 2104 Swatara street, correspondent secretary, $1380; Rosalie N. Joseph, Titus i 1 1 secretary stenographer, $1380; Marie S.

Yanofsky, To wanda, clerk, $1140; Paul U. Johnson, Langhorne, clerk, $1020; William D. Fawley, Drexel Hill, clerk, $1020. Workers Push Welfare Drive 1500 Volunteers Open Final Phase of Campaign in City $50,111 IS NEEDED The Welfare Federation's more than 1500 volunteer workers today opened the last phase of the drive before their concluding report at 7.30 p. m.

tomorrow at the Penn Harris Hotel. They need an additional $55,011 to go over the top on their goal of $339,860. Ways and means of bringing in their share of the needed $55,011 were discussed at a luncheon meeting of the Special Finance committee headed by Lieutenant Colonel John 'Mel. Smith and valine iviuv UIIIliCK. Cantatas in the Antral niviil headed by Mrs.

Spencer G. Neu man and Mrs. A. H. Stackpole conducted a series of round table discussions in mid afternoon.

They seek to go over their divisional goal of $44,444 by Thursday night. Divisional IpaHprs in tnn nam. 1 1 1 paign positions called meetings of ni tw (Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 7) i if Lemovne Man Rallies A fir, ff T.n0f. Alter Iranslusions Edmond Snoderlv.

29. Lemovne coal trucker, critically hurt Monday in a collision of his truck and a Reading Company train at a Le moyne was reported in an improved but serious condition today at the Harrisburg Hqspital following five blood transfusions. Miss Mary E. Guistwhite, 428 Bridge street, New Cumberland, his fiancee, furnished blood for the first transfusion, 'Other donors were his sister, Miss June Keene; a brother, John Snoderly, New Cumberland, and two friends, Elmer Byrem, Hummel avenue, Lemoyne, and Norman H. Woods, Lemoyne, an employe of a Le fnoyne Dairy.

i 1 I Kill! mm Chamberlain MM WAGE HOUR CHIEF Colonel Philip Fleming (above) district army engineer at St. Paul, Minn, will succeed Elmer F. Andrews, resigned wages and hours administrator, as soon as certain technicalities can be resolved. fTen Counties Give Pledge of GOP Sweep Chairman Torrance Meets Regional Workers at Conference Here PLEASED WITH DRIVE Leaders of Republican party organizations in ten counties today told State Chairman James F. Torrance they were with him to a finish in his drive for straight Republican voting and victories in counties which would tell the Nation in November just where Pennsylvania stands in regard to 1940.

The theme of the big gathering closing the series of regional meetings throughout the State held at the Penn Harris this afternoon was that Republicans should win the offices in the courthouses and municipal halls in order to rea'Ch the White House next year. Men and women active in party affairs crowded the hotel and exchanged congratulations upon the manner in which the campaign is developing in this a uaupnin coumy cnieis and sub chiefs were there in numbers and the over 66,000 registration of the capital county was much referred to as evidence of what can be' done by a live party organization in a so called off year. Torrance, just in from a swing around the State and after meet ing thousands of voters, said things were setting in foor a rous ing Republican majority for Judge Marion D. Patterson for Supreme court and the Republican nominees for the three Su Turn to Page 4, Col. 1) Poisoner Petrillo "Thankful" For Ctiair By Associated Press Philadelphia, Oct.

18. Herman viptprf in Ph'Uarfolt ihi'i'c urirlo v. 1 1 in I V. spread murder fo insurance cases, was sentenced today to die jm the electric" chair for the poisoning of Ferdinand Alfonsi, a wpa worker. aenience was pronounced by Judge Harry s.

McDevitt. The prisoner stammered: "Thank you, judge. I still have God." Ford Bars Russians From Auto Factory By Associated Press Detroit, Oct. 18 An official of the Ford Motor Company disclosed today that approximately 40 Russian engineers who have been studying American production methods in the Ford plant for several years had been informed by the management that they no longer will be permitted free access to the plant. No reason was jgiven for the action.

Meet Leading Strong Upturn of Industries in State Area Survey Indicates Low Invoices Show Market Far From Saturated PROSPECTS BRIGHTER By Associated Press Philadelphia, Oct. 18. With steel production leading the way, factory employment and payrolls in Pennsylvania were reported today at the highest level in almost two years. The Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank September employment as 8 per cent, higher and payrolls 1 per cent, larger than a year ago with evidences that the gains are continuing. In pointing out that gains apparently have continued since mid September, the bank said inventories have been at a generally low level, and the volume of September orders was unusually heavy.

The increases, it was pointed out, have been more than seasonal. The bank noted that metal working establishments which reported the greatest gains usually show little or no gain at this time of year. Seven Districts Set Up For Registering Aliens Pennsylvania was divided into seven districts today for the regis tration of approximately 225,000 aliens beginning December 1, under new law requiring such registration. The law, passed by the 1939 Legislature, now is under at tack in the Federal Court at Scran ton. The registration headquarters and the counties in each district include: Williamsport Lycoming, Clinton, Potter, Tioga, Columbia, Montour, Northumber Union, Snyder? Sullivan, Cameron.

Lancaster Lancaster, York, Adams, Franklin, Cumberland, Perry, Juniata, Mifflin, Dauphin, Lebanon and Berks. Rahter Is Nominated For City Alderman Charles A. Rahter, 214 State street, has been named Democratic candidate for alderman of the Fourth ward to replace Harry Schick, 237 North street, who withdrew after his nomination at the September primary, the Dauphin County Democratic Committee advised the election board today. The only other change in candidates was the substitution of Joseph A. Vogler for the late William J.

Fickes as Republican candidate for City Council. Fires Frequent at Courthouses Average One Every 32 Days in Public Build ings STATE RECORDS CITED The danger of fire in Dauphin county's 78 year old courthouse was accentuated today in the light of records of the State Bureau of Fire Prevention. There is a fire in a courthouse, city hall or borough hall in Pennsylvania on an average of every thirty two days, these records show. One of Pennsylvania's worst courthouse fires and the resulting confusion will be described by Mortimer E. Graham, District Attorney of Erie county, in a radio talk over WHP at 7.15 o'clock this evening.

Graham will tell "The Disadvantages in 1939 Resulting from the Burning of the Erie County Courthouse in 1823." His talk will be sponsored by the Dauphin county Bar Association. The possibility that fire may de Please Turn to Pare 4. CoL 6) (Ml KILLED GEORGE STINE, former Millersburg burgess, killed while helping unload a wrecked railroad freight car. Man Crushed in Car Plunge at Millersburff Former Burgess Fatally Injured as He Helps Clear Rail Wreck DROPS TO RIVER EDGE Millersburg, Oct. 18.

Two days after 13 Pennsylvania Railroad freight cars were derailed near here, one man was killed and another injured. George Stine, 54, former Millersburg burgess, was crushed when one of the overturned cars he was helping unload suddenly plunged down a twenty five foot embank ment yesterday, coming to a stop along the edge of the Susquehanna river. J. S. Gonder, Halifax, only other person in the car at the time escaped with head cuts and a back injury.

Stine, foreman of a crew of track hands, arid Gonder were unloading canned sauerkraut. Pennsylvania officials believe shifting cargo caused the car to plunge. Thirteen cars in a 125 car freight piled up Sunday when a journal box broke, temporarily blocking rail and highway traffic. No one was hurt in that wreck. Stein was burgess of Millersburg from 1934 to 1938, and was for (Plcase Turn to Page 4, Col.

8) Authority Asks Bids on $6,000,000 Work The General State Authority to day asked for bids on contracts to furnish between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 worth of equipment and furnishings for biuldings it has erected for State departments. Roger W. Rowland, secretary of property and supplies and a member of the Authority Board, said there will be no Public Works Administration participation in the equipment program and that contractors will not come under PWA rulings. "Other things being equal," Rowland said, "products manufactured in Pennsylvania will be used." PuZzle By ST RATI While this entire war may seem a considerable puzzle to the casual reader, insofar as any definite strategical line is concerned, there is one puzzle above all others the 5 Pope Deplores Shadow of Evil Cast on Europe in War Threat Pontiff Feels "Enemies of God" Growing More Menacing Every Day DANGERS "REVIEWED By Associated Press Castle Gandolfo, Oct. 18.

Pope Pius declared today that "the enemies of God" were casting their "sinister shadow" over Europe in a more threatening way every day. The pope expressed his concern in a public address to the new Lithuanian minister to the Holy See, Stanislau Girdvainis, whose country recently came under the influence of Soviet Russia. The pontiff said the Lithuanians showed their intention of remaining the "northern vanguard of Catholicism" even if sacrifice becomes the necessary price for af firmation of the realization of such an ideal." The pope said he would not let his action, "always directed to ward the salvation of souls, be come involved in purely temporal controversies and territorial competitions between states." But theluties of his office as "supreme pastor" did not permit him to close his eyes, he said, "when precisely for the salvation of souls arise new, incommensurable dangers when on the face of Europe, Christian in all its fundamental lineaments, the sinister, shadow of thoughts and deeds of enemies of God casts itself closer and more threateningly every day." Three Men Shot in Auto Holdup $4000 Numbers Payoff Reported Prize Sought in Gunplay STUDENT IS WOUNDED By Associated Press Pittsburgh, Oct. 18. Three men were shot today in a gun battle in the Oakland district during an attempted holdup of two men police said were carrying nearly $4, 000 "pay off" on a numbers hit.

One victim was a bystander a Pitt medical student, Alfred Schnur, 19, of Erie. was wounded in the left thigl. Police Inspector Albert Jones identified the other two men as Robert Kitzinger, 35, Homestead, and Robert Lonzo Payne, 23, Negro, Pittsburgh. Jones said Payne, wounded in the chest and right thigh, had been charged with felonious shooting and Kitzinger, shot in the hand and stomach, with highway robbery and felonious shooting. Jones said Kitzinger was one of two men in an automobile vho blocked a car in which Payne, Theodore Veney, 47, and Veney's wife, Rosalind, 22, were riding.

Jones reported that Payne said he collected $1900 and Veney $2096 in the Hill district. Today's War Picture branch of the service such as the artillery or the engineers, an ac cessory to the infantry forces. Conflicting Opinion So the puzzle, if it really is a puzzle, becomes more of a strug military conduct. Will the old generals, with their insistence upon use of the air arm as an accessory to ground troops prevail in that theory, or will Field Marshal Goering with his inherent enthusiasm for his original branch prevail over his seniors? Throughout all the major armies of the world, ever since the airplane came of age, the battle between the younger officers who have the most profound be tPlcau Turn 1a Pate 17, Col 5 solution of which is still far fromlgle between conflicting theories of apparent. And that is the puzzle of predominance in the matter of ground as against air force.

Germany, it is well known, has a World War pilot as its second in command of the armies and therefore the air arm should have preferential treatment. But it is also true that among the high command of the German army there are many soldiers of the old school to whom the air arm is still nothing but an ad junct to ground forces, mm Air Losses Britain Satisfied Reich Air Raiders Carry No Menace No Attempt Made Over Heavy Toll Taken by Sub' marines on Big Battleships COMMONS TOLD DEFENSE GOOD Associated Press London, Oct. 18. Britain in the war against Germany, declared in the House of Commons today in a speech minimizing British losses and saying Germany had lost more than a fourth of the planes which have raided the British Isles. He paid tribute in his brief weekly war report to the work of defense forces fighting oft the first uerman air attacks on the country.

In first air battles "fought! over our own coasts, we have destroyed eight enemy aircraft without losing a single machine cf our own," Chamberlain said He added that several more Ger man bombers might have failed to reach home and said the casualties "thus certainly exceeded 25 per cent, of the attacking force and may have been higher." Severe Losses Admitted The British navy "has sustained severe losses, both in offi cers and men," Chamberlain said! referring to the sinking of the battleship Royal Oak Saturday and casualties inflicted by German air raiders on the Firth of Forth Monday. Chamberlain specifically denied any damage had been inflicted on the warships Hood, Repulse and Ark Royal. His statement was made soon after Adolf Hitler in Berlin had bestowed special honors on the submarine commander who torpedoed the Royal Oak and claimed to have damaged the Repulse. "There are many surprises in war and they cannot all be pleasant," Chamberlain said, "but we have at least the satisfaction of knowing that we have made a good beginning." British military experts today rated the submarine torpedo a (Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 5) Convict Stabs Another; "Tired Looking at Guy Philadelphia, Oct.

18. An East ern Penitentiary inmate was cofr fined to an isolation cell today after, prison officials said, he attacked a cell mate with a table knife smuggled from the prison dining room. "I just got tired looking at that guy," officials quoted the prisoner, Michael Cipy, 29. Stabbed in the chest and stom ach, Carl Pietro, 30, was placed in the prison infirmary. Police Capture Two Fugitives Third Man Who Escaped Allentown State Hospital Still Sought YOUTH GOES HOME Reading, Oct.

18 Two of three inmates who escaped from the Allentown State Mental Hospital last night were in the hands of city and State police here today. Douglas Rhodes, 15, Pottstown, was aptured in suburban Temple, and Eugene Correll, 17, of Hamburg was taken at his home in the northern Berks county borough. The third fugitive was identified as John Harper, 44, Allentown. Police continued their search for him throughout the East Penn Valley. Rhodes was with the other when Radio Patrolman Webster Lutz, of the Reading police found them warming their hands over an oil bomb light at a detour sign in Temple.

Because Lutz was alone he was only able to appre hend Rhodes. to Conceal Anxiety has "made a good beginning" Prime Minister Chamberlain SEA AIR BATTLE IS REPORTED By Associated Press Amsterdam, Oct. 18. RESIDENTS of Schier moonikoog Island, off the north coast of The Netherlands, today reported a fight between unidentified planes and warships some distance outside Netherlands territorial waters. Witnesses said six warships were attacked by 12 planes.

The nationality of the participating craft could not be determined because of the distance from shore. It also was impossible to learn the outcome of the fight. Schiermoonikoog is ten miles from the German Netherlands boundary. Buffeted Liner Given Supplies Coast Guard Shoots Line to President Harding After Radio Call PASSENGERS INJURED By Associated Press Boston, Oct. 18.

A coast guard vessel today 'placed urgently needed medical supplies aboard the American liner President Harding, approximately 20 of whose refugee passengers were reported seriously injured during a gale. After a dash through stormy seas, the coast guard found conditions too rough to contact the Harding in small boats and it was assumed the supplies were transferred on a line shot aboard. After receiving the supplies, at a point about 800 miles from Boston, the Harding proceeded and the coast guard craft advised she would go to the assistance of the British steamer Blairbeg, which reported she wasin distress 160 miles off Newfoundland. The message from the President Harding asked for medicines, "splints and fracture supplies," (Please Turn to Page 4, Col. 4) Hutton Repudiates Debts of Second Wife By Associated Press New York, Oct.

18. An advertisement sicned Franklyn L. Hut ton, saying that he would not be responsible for debts incurred Dy his wife, Irene appeared in a New York newspaper today. Franklyn L. Hutton, socialite financier father of Countess Barbara Hutton Haugwitz Reventlow, 5 and 10 heiress, could not be reached for comment.

His wife, his second, is the former Irene Curley Bodde, of Detroit. They were married in 1926. Hutton's first wife, the former Edna Woolworth, Barbara's Mother, died in 1927. IMI Blast Shatters Mixing Plant as 40 Escape Serious Injury Village Rocked as Nitroglycerine Blows Up Near Bradford CHECKUP IS MADE Eldred, Oct 18. An explosion today shattered the explosive mixing plant of the National Powder Company near here, killing at least five men.

Forty five men were employed in buildings clustered about the gelatin pack plant where nitroglycerine is made, but preliminary survey disclosed that no others had been injured. The company identified the dead as Merle Eldridge, 19 year old son of the publisher of Eldred's weekly newspaper, the Eagle; John T. Devling, 25; Cl.air Wise, Cyril Lewis and Leo Davis. All were residents ot tiorea except Davis, a resident of Portville, N. and Lewis, who.

lived in Emporium, Pa. The blast caused no damage in Eldred, a community of 1000 persons, but many houses were shaken by the detonation. Telephone communication with Eldred was temporarily blocked by a flood of calls and apparent disruption of some wires. Explosive experts here said if reports that five were killed were correct, there probably were only five in the plant at that time. I Usually, they explained such an explosion leaves "only a hole in the ground." The plant was one of the largest of its kind in Northwestern Pennsylvania, making dynamite as well as nitroglycerine, usually the sole product of explosive plants in this area.

City Workers Rescue Dog Trapped in Sewer Two city highway employes, T. M. Zimmerman, 1615 Hunter and Henry Westenberger, 545 Race street, today rescued a German police dog from a six fiot deep sewer inlet at Eighteenth and Berryhill streets. The dog was discovered by neighbors who called police. Westenberger grabbed the dog by its collar and pulled it from nearly four feet of water.

Janeway Quits State Authority Served as Advisor Since Replaced as Director in August OTHER CHANGES MADE The General State Authority to Aav ampnted the resienation of Colonel A. S. Janeway as special adviser, appointed six employes, furloughed eight and accepted the resignation of one. Janeway had been director of the Authority from its establishment until last August 14 when hp was succeeded by James Lyall Stuart. He was continued as spe cial adviser at the same salary as he received as director, $12,000 a year.

The new employes are Glenn A. Hackman, Oberlin, chauffeur, $1080; J. F. Graybill, Harrisburg, R. D.

1, janitor, $1080; E. L. Lud wig, 2725 Walnut street, janitor, C. T. Jacobson, Bradford, engineer, $3600; W.

M. McDer mott, Riverview Manor Apartments, Front and Harris streets, buyer, $2400, and Blair T. Hefkin, 2026 North Fifth street, buyer, $2400. The furloughed employes include Benjamin Bargelt, clerk, employed on the Harrisburg State Hospital project at $1800. Lloyd C.

McCormick, inspector at $3200, on the Butler State Hospital project, resigned. THE WEATHER Harrinburr nd vlrlnlty Fair and not win ftitiuHnti inuiinijr lair anu warmer; low temperature tonight 81, last nigm, nun toaay, on; river aiafe three feet tomorrow. Eastern Pennsylvania Fair and not to rold tonlfht In west nortiom Thursday (air and warmer..