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HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, Saturday, Sept. 9. 1944 2 Centre County Soldiers Reported Wounded in Action Belefonte, Sept. 9. Two Centre county men suffered wounds in 1 action in France, according to I telegrams from' the War Depart ment received by tne parents.

Thev are SSgt Kenneth L. SDicer. 24. son of IVLr. and Mrs, Malcolm Spicer of Buffalo Run Vallev and Pfc.

Marlin A. Long, son of Mrs. T. G. Leathers of Howard.

Sergeant Spicer, 24, was wounded on August 14, and later was taken by plane to an American hospital in England. A supply sergeant, he entered the invasion in July. Th rnuntv man was called for Sentember 18. 1941, and tnow training at Camp Croft, S. and Fort Jackson, S.

C. After a short period in Arizona and at Camp Forrest, he was sent overseas last uecemoer. ne is a graduate of the 1940 class of the Belief onte High School. Private Long, 29, was wounded on Dav. his mother was in formed by the War Department He is now in a hospital JMig land.

The Howard soldier, who was wounded about the face, arms and w. entered the service ieDruary i 1Q42. and trained at Fort Meade, Fredericksburg, and spent some time on maneuvers in North Carolina. After a stay at Camp Blanding, went overseas in August of the same year, landing in England, where he continued to prepare for the: historic invasion. in nnappn VUI III I Vliavvv Taxes Is Urged A substantial reduction in Federal taxes and elimination of State taxes on tobacco is "the only hope" of the tobacco industry in the post war period, Har ley W.

Jefferson, former chief of the tobacco division of the War Producttion Board, said yesterday. Jefferson called for easing of taxes on tobacco when he addressed delegates from 31 states attending the National Tobacco Tax Conference here. Pointing out that present taxes are the equivalent of $1.17 per pound of tobacco, or "well over $1,000,000 per acre," for flue cured and burley types of tobacco, the speaker declared: "There is no other product made, not even liquors, that bears such a tax burden." The former WPB official said a "very definite shortage" of tobaccos of all types exists throughout the world," and that the shortage would continue into the post war period. He said cigaret production for the current fiscal year would probably exceed the 300 billion mark, and that he doubted if any manufacturer today has over an 18 months' stock supply of to lDctCCO Regulations for curbing sales of tax free cigarets to civilians at Army Post Exchanges and ship stores were studied by delegates in a panel session. L.

M. Rotharmel, chief of the tobacco tax division of Alabama, was chairman. Polio Outbreak Delays Classes Gettysburg, Sept. 9. Opening of public and parochial schools in Adams county, already postponed one week, was delayed until September 18 by order of Dr.

C. G. Crist, county medical director, when a new case of infantile paralysis, the first in three weeks, developed in the county Friday morning. The new victim is Wilbur H. Miller, 14 year old son of Dr.

and Mrs. Wilbur H. Miller, Nw Oxford. The boy will be a member of the sophmore class at the New Oxford High School this year. He is the fourth paralysis victim in the county this season.

Extension of the restrictions barring children under 17 years of age from public gatherings, cancels plans for re opening of children's departments in the Sunday Schools of the county on Sunday. The ban went into force August 21 and was to have been lifted at 7 a. Saturday morning so that schools could open next Monday. Attends Conference Elizabethtown, Sept. 9.

Miss Peggy Lou Risser of Elizabeth town returned from Camp Edith Macy, Pleasantville, N. where she attended the first conference for Senior Girl Scouts, held from August 31 to September 5. Miss Risser represented Lancaster county. DEMOCRACY ERVICE is one of the first trainings for all the neighborhood newspaper carriers of the Harrisburg Telegraph. Every one of our newspaper carrier boys are Little Merchants who are In business for themselves but due to the great demand for the younger boys of today for jobs in all the works in and about Harrisburg we have had to enlarge the routes and this means more territory for each boy to cover each evening.

So we are asking for your co operation if your Harrisburg Telegraph is a little later than usual. HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH 5 FRANK P. SHANER, JR. Valley Sailor's Ship Torpedoed Although still vivid in his mind is the 'near miss' when an enemyi torpedo lifted his ship right out of the ocean, Quartermaster Third Class Frank P. Shaner, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Frank P. Shaner, 200 North Frederick street, Me chanicsburg, is eager to get back into action. After 19 months in major battles of the South Pacific and Atlantic, Shaner is home on a 21 day liberty while the slight damage to the de stroyer is being repaired. The Mechanicsburg man, who celebrated his 22nd birthday Sep tember 6, enlisted in the Navy October '15, 1942, and after boot training at Newport, R.

was so much in a hurry to get into the fight, he completed a gunnery school course in one week. After two months in the Atlantic battle zones his ship was sent to the Southern Pacific waters. Participating in most of the en gagements from Guadalcanal, the Solomons, on through Guam and Saipan, Quartermaster Shaner was one of 20 men chosen from his ship for their excellent work, to spenr several days at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Honolulu. He spend several days at the Royal Australia, and says of the Aussies "They're great people, but give me the Americans for good home cooking." The sailor has only the highest praise for Navy food. "You hear so much about Navy beans," he says, "well, we have them on an average of once a week, and they could come oftener for my money.

'They beat even my mother's good recipe." While battle Shaner usually; is assigned as helmsman, to "take the wheel," and the time the tor pedo sailed through the water barely missing the destroyer, but lifting it far up into the air, he adds "I just hung on to that wheel." Shaner will report next week to the West Coast to rejoin the ship, Annville Schools Resume Classes The public schools opened Fri day morning. Teachers attended the County Teachers Institute at Cornwall on Wednesday and Thursday. During the business session of the Institute, Charles G. Dotter, supervising principal of the Annville schools, was re elected president of the Lebanon county branch, Pennsylvania State Edu cation Association. Mrs.

Byron Light, leader of the Brownie packs of the Palmyra Girl Scouts, pinned emblems on the Brownies of the Annville Scouts at an impressive ceremony. The local members include: Mary Black, Nancy Brunner, Betty Lou Bush, Ruth Bush, Edna Blantz, Patsy Matz, Patricia Hartman, Geraldine Mease, Sallie Ann Kauffman, Judy Kindt, Elsie Heisey, Catherine Hoover, Chris tie Herner, Louise Moyer, Kay Miller, Ruth Shaak, and Claire Zearfoss. Mrs. Robert Johns is the leader of the group and is as sisted by Mrs. Robert Kindt.

AS Wayne E. Rohland, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Rohland, 101 South Lancaster street, was among the students to be placed on the dean's list of distin guished students at Franklin and Marshall College. Harvest Home Services will be held in Christ Reformed Church, on Sunday morning, according to the Rev.

W. M. Price. Boys' Day will be featured in Zion Evangelical Congregational Church, Sunday morning. The Rev.

L. Dallas Zeigler, Pine Grove, will deliver the address. There will also be special music. Some 35,700,000 miles separate the sun from Mercury, its nearest planet. AT WORK IN WARTIME SERVICE FIRST Four Area Army Aviation Cadets Are Awarded Silver Wings, Commissions Four Harrisburg area Army aviation cadets were awarded their silver wings when thev were graduated largest classes of the Selina, Field School for Navigators, Monday, September 4.

The future "aerial pathfinders" will report to replacement training units before being assigned overseas. They are 2nd Lt Paul E. Dough erty, son of V. J. Dougherty, DaL lastown; 2nd Lt.

Karl E. Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W.

Miller, Millersburg; 2nd Lt. Edward W. Brennan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Brennan, III, Shamokin and Flight Officer Harold S.

Bon neville, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bonneville, York.

Overseas greetings from two area soldiers, stationed in Eng land, to their parents, were printed in the Transatlantic edition of the London, England, Daily Mail, leading British newspaper which has begun this column, that corresponds to a "personal in American classified advertising The messages and their senders were: Laverne Deatrich to his mother, Mrs. Irvin W. Deatrich, Montours ville, "Safe and well. Hope to see you soon. Love to all, and Set Albert Dominick, to his wife, Mrs.

Eunice Dominick, Belle Vernon, "In London and O. K. Tell everyone I said hello. So long. Love." Two city WACs have been as signed to duty after training at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga.

They are Pvt. Loraine Anna Johnston, 1721 North street, now stationed at the Army Air Base at Morris Field, N. and Pvt. Vera M. Howe, 2119 Jefferson street, now detailed to the Army Air Base screening and replacement center at Self ridge Field, Mich.

Warren L. Clark, 28, 230 South Fourteenth street, qualified for a rating as motor machinist's mate third class, a Naval petty officer, at graduation exercises at the Iowa State College Naval Training School in Diesel engines. TSgt. Robert E. Kuhnert, 306 North Second street, has "bought himself a piece of the air force according to a story from the Eighth Army Air Force in Eng land.

Sergeant Kuhnert recently bought a War Bond during a drive in England to purchase a victory squadron," containing planes' representing every type flown by the Eighth. Purchases were made by members of the Eighth Air Force only. Pfc. William H. Price, son of Mrs.

H. W. Price, 2439 Derry street, has been graduated from "jump school and is entitled to wear the wings and boots of the Army Paratroopers, after four weeks training including a night leap involving a combat problem on landing. Deaf Mute Will Face Trial in Sister's Death Philadelphia, Sept. 9, UP) A deaf mute, accused by the State of beating his sister to death with a hammer 10 years ago, has come back from an insane asylum to face trial for murder.

He is Charles Schrager, now 48, who was removed from Farview State Hospital and taken to Moy amensing Prison here on July 5, after Dr. Thomas A. Rutherford, superintendent of the Farview in stitution, said Schrager "is no longer in need of the remedial care offered by this institution." The sister, Helen, was beaten to death on June 16, 1934. Charles was indicted on a charge of murder, but was never tried. Miss Betty Evey Weds Petty Officer Bellefonte, Sept.

7. Miss Betty Ann Evey, daughter of the late and Mrs. Jarey Evey of near Bellefonte, and Robert Fost Jones, petty officer lc, son of Harry Jones of Bellefonte, were married Monday in the Methodist Church at Williams port, at 4 p. m. They were un attended.

After the ceremony they left on a wedding trip to New York City. The bride is a graduate of Bellefonte High School in the class of 1942 and is employed in the offices of the Titan Metal Company. Petty Officer Jones is also a graduate of the Bellefonte High School and enlisted in the Navy in 1939 and until recently was a member of the crew, of the USS North Carolina since it was commissioned in 1940. Juniata College Will Start Classes Wednesday Huntingdon, Sept. 9.

Juniata College will open Wednesday. There will be approximately one hundred entering freshmen. The faculty has an addition of four new instructors, and Donald S. Johnson who has been named assistant professor of music and college organist. Juniata College has announced that there will be no inter col legiate football this year, and that choir tours must again be elimi nated because of transportation difficulties.

Basketball and base ball will be continued. Lewisburg Teachers Take Over Their Duties Lewisburg, Sept. 9. Several new teachers took over their duties on Wednesday at the opening of the Lewisburg schools. At the high school Louis A.

Pursley, former principal of the South Ward Building will teach mathematics and history. Robert E. Beckman, formerly of Sunbury will direct the newly organized band and teach social subjects and Miss Ellen Rhinard, of Berwick will teah in the commercial department. In the ele mentary, grades, Mrs. C.

C. Lesher became principal ol the bouth Ward building, whilex other new members of the staff there are John A. Long, Mrs. Floyd Arbegast and Mrs. Pauline Wet zel.

I and commissions as navigators as members of one of the WAVE LAB TECHNICIAN Betty H. Pearson, ph m3c, Main street, Middleburg, is now on duty at the U. S. Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, N. where is in the hospital laboratory.

Nuns to Locate In Lewistown The Religious of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts, whose Mother House in the United States is located in Fall River, have obtained the permission of his excellency, the Most Rev. George L. Leech, D. J. C.

bishop of Harrisburgto establish a foundation in bacrea Heart Parish, Lewistown. Sacred Heart congregation has purchased the property north of the church on which is located a fourteen room dwelling which will be used as a convent. The house is undergoing minor repairs and will be ready for occupancy within a week or ten days. Six Sisters will arrive in Lewis town about September 20. Classes of religious instruction will be conducted during the week after school hours and on Sunday.

The Sisters will also train a junior choir, take a census of the parish and assume charge of the chiL dren's societies and do other work which will be beneficial to the children and the parish in general, A school fund has been started and when sufficient funds are on hand a parochial school will be built on the grounds adjoining the convent. The Sisters of the Holy Union will be in charge of the school. The congregation of the religl ous of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts was founded in 1826 by Monsieur l'Abbe Jean Baptiste DeBrabant at Douai in the Diocese of Cambria, France. The Abbe Debrabant was a priest of great piety and profound humility. wise and prudent director, a firm and enlightened teacher, and submissive and devoted Son of Holy Church, whose memory is held in benediction.

In order to fight against the scourge of reli gious ignorance, he resolved to found a society devoted to the teaching of youth. With this view in mind he undertook in 1826, the direction of a work begun in lowly circumstances in the year 1832 and which, with God's help, developed rapidly. Such was the beginning of the Congregation of the Sisters of the Holy Union of the Sacred Hearts. The work prospered and has spread its branches in France Belgium, Ireland, Italy, and North and South America. They conduct grade schools, high schools and academies in the Archdioceses of Baltimore, New York and Boston, and in the dioceses of Fall River, Providence Raleigh, Albany, Brooklyn and Mobil.

They also conduct a school of education for teaching Sisters in Fall River, Mass. Mother Joseph Teresa is the Provincial in the United States, Youth Is Lock Haven's First Victim of Polio Lock Haven, Sept. 9. James Swope, 12, son of Mr. and Mrs Alleman Swope, 124 Summit street, is Lock Haven's first in fantile paralysis case, the disease being diagnosed polio, on Thursday at noon by several phy sicians in consultation.

The boy was removed to the isolation ward of the Williamsport Hospital. As he was in school Wednesday the 40 other members of the division of the sixth grade brought in con tact with him were also quaran tined, and will remain isolated for ten days, C. W. Maueer, secre tary of the board of health, stated. Selinsgrove Marine Killed in Pacific Selinsgrove, Sept.

9. Pfc. Glenn R. Hollenbach, 18, Marine Corps, was killed during action in the Southwest Pacific, his parents learned. He was the son of Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Hollenbach, and has a brother, Pvt. Marvin H. Hol lenbach, now stationed in the Aleutians. "He is the twenty fourth World War II fatality from Snyder county.

Auto Injuries Fatal Erie, Sept. 9. (VP) Deputy Cor oner Allan Firman reported yesterday that John Yaggie, 73, of Harborcreek. was killed late Thursday when struck by an auto on Route 20. 1 1 fvCf Seven Concerns Granted Charters Seven concerns capitalized at $100,000 or more were granted charters yesterday by the Commonwealth.

The concerns and incorporators are: Cantelou Oil 237 Fourth avenue, Pittsburgh, $150, 000: S. D. Cantelou. B. B.

Cold feder and M. Y. Steinberg, Pittsburgh National Wholesale Lumber Corporation, 225 South Fifteenth street, Philadelphia, Jo seph Kirshbaum, Herbert E. AU stadt and Jack Chorney, Phila delphia. Stern Kay Distributing 808 Penn avenue, Pittsburgh, $100, 000; Norbert SJern, Harold Kay, Pittsburgh.

Fenton Label 506 12 Race street, Philadelphia, J. Kirby Tompkins, Hazel F. Tomp kins and Allan S. Tompkins, Philadelphia. The Pioneer 132 Seventh street, Pittsburgh, R.

H. Whitney, Worcester, John C. Johnson, Syracuse, N. and L. I.

MacQueen, Pittsburgh. Allegheny Broadcasting 330 Grant street, Pittsburgh, Charles T. Campbell, Earl F. Reed and William S. Walker, Pittsburgh.

Blind War Veteran I Weds at Hospital Phoenixville, Sept. 9, CD Pvt. Henry Reynolds, 23 blind veteran from Ogunquit, Maine, and Miss Bernice Butterfield, Manchester, were married yesterday in the chapel of Valley Forge Hospital by the Rev. Francis Haley, who, like Reynolds, served with the Army in the South Pacific. Private Reynolds, a former landscape gardener and skiing in structor, lost his sight in an acci dent on Rambutyo Island in the Admiralties last April.

Tired of Army rations, he borrowed some TNT and went but a charge exploded prematurely and blinded him. School Board Reveals No Vacancies Exist Elizabethtown, 9. The Elizabethtown School Board held its monthly meeting at which time it was announced that no vacancies exist in the teaching staff. Three men have been deferred until February, it was re ported. Schools opened Wednes day.

The property and repair com mittee reported a portion of the playground has been macadam ized and minor repairs have been made to the buildings and boilers. Books and stationery and other supplies were received on time. R. E. Hein, treasurer, reported a balance in the general fund of $35,440.77, and $952.76 In the sinking fund.

Bills amounting to $5376.39 were ordered paid. PRIVATE LIFE 21 in of I IS' I your I 1 in mi ii'TTii if mi i 1 LT. DALE T. QUIGLEY Enola Flyer Is Thunderbolt Pilot An Eighth Air Force Fighter Station, England, Sept. 10.

Sec ond Lieutenant Dale T. Quigley Altoona avenue, Enola, is now piloting a 47 Thunderbolt at this VIII Air Force Fighter Station England. The twenty three year old lieutenant is a member of the group commanded by Lt. Col. Philip E.

Tukey, of Cape Elizabeth. Me. Flying his big Thunderbolt as a fighter bomber, Lieutenant Quig ley has been attacking German ground positions, supply lines, railroads, marshalling yards, bridges and oil pumps, and chas mg the Jerry troops, tanks, and trucks from the roads of France with both bombs and bullets. When not blasting the Nazi air fields or other installations behind the front line in France, Lieuten ant Quigley escorts the American heavy bombers to and from their targets in Germany and occupied Europe. Lieutenant Quigley left his job with the Pennsylvania Railroad where he was employed as a car repairman, to enlist in the Air Force on July 28, 1942.

After flight training at Jackson, New port, and Spence Field, he was awarded his Silver Wings and commission on February 8, 1944. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Ray F. Quigley, of the Enola address, Lieutenant Quigley graduated from the local high school in 1940.

He has been in England since June this year. Husband Calls Elizabethtown, Sept. 9. Mrs. Earl Brinser, Elizabethtown, re ceived a call August 29 from her husband, Earl H.

Brinser, Ph.2c, who has been stationed in the South Pacific for almost a year. The call was made in com' memorating the couple's 14th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Brin ser has since accompanied her brother and sister in law, Capt. and Mrs.

Ellwood S. Grimm, tp norma, tor a iew weens stay. OF THE MORE THAN HALF A ENJOY RECORD COLOR AMERICA'S FAVORITE COMICS 12 FULL PAGES IN COLOR Li'l Abner, Abbie and Slats, Batman and Robin, Kerry Drake, Prince Valiant, Brick Bradford Captain Midnight, Dixie Dugan and a host of other all star comic attractions provide entertainment aplenty for all the family! Hamburg Soldier With 5th Army Is Given Silver Star With the Fifth Army, Italy. UP). (Delayed).

Pfc. James C. Lonergan, Hamburg, has been awarded the silver atar posthumously for gallantry in action with the Firth Army in Italy, Army field dispatches said today. Lonergan, the account saw, was with a platoon attacking German emplacements and despite heavy enemy fire went for ward and took a position to cover the advance. "When two machine guns opened fire at the platoon," the Army added, "Lonergan, in an exchange of fire, knocked out the nearest gun.

Drawmg fire of snipers and machine guns away from his platoon, he hung to his exposed position and engaged the second machine gun and was fatally wounded while silencing the second enemy gun. "By his action, he knocked out two enemy machine guns, a vital factor in the seizure of the objective." Mrs. Cora Lonergan, his mother, lives at Route 3, Ham burg. Northumberland Youth Is Fatally Wounded Northumberland, Sept. 9.

Floyd E. Sassaman, Northumber land, has received a message from the War Department, informing him of the death of his son, Pvt. Kenneth Sassaman, 20. He died on August 24 of wounds received on the previous day while in active duty in France. He had previously been notified that he had been seriously wounded.

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M. if. Paralysis Spreads To Warren County Pennsylvania's infantile paraly sis outbreak spread into Warren county yesterday with two new. cases there pushing the State total for the year to 803. Reports to the State Health Department showed 15 additional persons stricken, including one each in Bradford, Cameron, Cen tre, Northumberland and Westmoreland, two in Schuylkill and Lancaster and four in Allegheny.

Fifty seven counties have recorded the disease. A fourth case in Adams county was announced by Medical Director Dr. C. G. Crist, prompting a postponement of school opening there until September 18.

A 14 year old boy was the latest stricken. Killed in Crash 11.1 t. rt i a mv tomobile bus collision yesterday caused the death of Charles Thomas, 70. Four persons were injured in the crash which occurred several miles south of here on Route 51. YOU'RE NOT TOO OLD TO FEEL YOUNG This Is messag for men who have known life but no longer find it thrilling because of the lack of certain vitamins and hormones.

Tromone, a recent medical discovery combining vitamins and hormones may multiply the vim and test and enjoyment you once knew. Your whole approach, your whole attitude toward life, may Improve when you begin to use Tromone. Now lt may be possible for middle aged men to again en Joy the same spirit, vitality and pleasures that made their youth a thing to remember. Added years may not subtract from your pleasures when you use Tromone, the new medical formula combining vitamins and hormones. Follow directions on label.

Tromone for sale by the Caplan Drug Company and druggists everywhere. is Jackio Glcason The Story They Never Intended to Tell! BEGINS SUNDAY THE RECORD For 35 years the eyes of a curious world have been focused on Daisy and Violet Hilton the beautiful Siamese Twins. Joined together at birth, given away as freaks by their own mother, they nevertheless learned to live, love, hope and dream together without jealousy or hate. Now, the Sunday Philadelphia Record brings you the amazing, intimate, true life story of the Siamese Twins a story never published before beginning Sunday, September 10, in the fascinating American Weekly Magazine Supplement. MILLION FAMILIES COMICS EVERY SUNDAY SEPARATE COMIC BOOK SECTION It THRILL PACKED PAGES Thrills! Action! Excitement! Follow the pulse pounding adventures of The Spirit1, Lady Luck, Intellectual Amos indomitable foes of crime and criminals in the rousing, colorful 16 page Spirit Comic Book Section.

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