Harrisburg Telegraph from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania • Page 18

Sixth War Loan Drive Opens Here With Downtown Parade, Huge Rally (Continued From Page 1) chase of War Bonds to bring the fighting forces heme. He re called his first holidays overseas engaged in carrying supplies and fighting "over the hump and added that what the men had to eat for long periods was rations and he smiled when he said "that isn't turkey." Col. Pelton was the principal speaker at the rally of the Re tail Division which formally marked the opening of the Sixth War Loan campaign in Dauphin county. Throughout the nation the drive will get underway next Monday but as is the custom in Harrisburg and Dauphin county; the Retail rally is staged here a few days before each national drive opening date to permit the employes of the various stores to organize their forces and prepare for their part the campaign. Thomas B.

Schmidt, vice of the State War Finance Committee in charge of the All Star Eleven counties in this area introduced Col. Pelton to the big assemblage. At the conclusion of the colonel's address, Schmidt pointed out that the war is divided into three fronts, the fighting home and production front and the bond selling front made up of the salesmen and women in the audience and similar audiences throughout the country. Schmidt announced that the auota for each store employe has been fixed at $300 and he said "that is not too much when you keep in mind that the boys over there are willing to be wounaea and die for us. Wheu you feel the selling is getting tough, remember them on the battlefields.

Schmidt said sales made by members of the division would give them ratings up to the rank of general. All are now privates and when a 525 bond is sold the seller becomes a pri' vate first class. Seventy five do! lars worth of bonds will make the salesman a corporal while with $400 worth of sales he becomes a captain. Promotion to a colonel comes with sales amounting to $1000 and the rank of general is obtained through sales amounting to. S5000.

Ben H. Wolfe, chairman of the Dauphin County War Finance Committee, Arthur Jerome, chair man of the City Retail Division, and Edward Schleisner, chairman of the Dauphin County Retail Division, expressed themselves as well pleased with the outpouring of store employes today and said the big audience may be taken as an indication of the enthusiasm the employes will display throughout the campaign. Parade Precedes Rally Before the mass meeting this morning, employes of stores in Market Square, headed by the William Perm High School Band, majorettes and flag twiners, pa raded on Market street and as they passed stores on that thor oughfare additional employes joined them. The procession moved north on Fourth street and more groups fell into line Along Walnut street and at Third the parade was augmented. The parade moved into the State Theatre on Locust street and the rally was underway a few minutes later.

The. William Penn Band played several marches and Miss Nan Wickwire, a senior and a majorette did an acrobatic solo dance and presented a demonstration of baton twirling. A spot light was thrown on a theatre box and representatives of the various armed services were shown while a male quartet sang songs of the fighting forces. Colors were presented on the stage and the quartet sang "America." Before Cpl. Pelton's address a War Department motion picture, Cannot Last" was presented.

The picture showed scenes of air fighting and the bombing of enemy ships. American men were shot down, killed and wounded, while others saved themselves in life rafts. Other scenes showed the habits some people at home, enjoying the Oc tober sunshine and preparing for the hunting season, fall automobile trips and other peaceful pur suits. The picture, too, was a plea to bring the war to an end by War Bond purchases, at the same time pointing out that the last blow must be the hardest in order to keep the enemy down forever. At noon today members of the Special Investments Committee met at the Penn Harris to com plete plans for its part in the campaign.

At 7 o'clock this eve ning athletic coaches of the city and officials of city and county! schools will meet at the Central YMCA to discuss plans for a big athletic event to which admission may be gained by the purchase of War Bonds. The Dauphin County War Fi nance Committee will be officially re organized for the Sixth War Loan drive at a dinner meeting in the Penn Harns Hotel tomor row. xnree division meetings are scheduled for Thursday and a meeting of Bond Booth workers is scheduled for Friday. George Achorn, chairman of the Payroll Savings Division, will meet with members of his committee at 12.15 noon Thursday at the Central YMCA and at the same time the Honor Roll League, head ed again by Mrs. Thomas B.

Schmidt, will meet in Parlor of the Penn Harris. Dr. J. Reese Beyrent, chairman of the Lower Dauphin division, will meet with members of his organization at the Hershey Inn at 6.30 Thursday evening to make plans for each of the division committees and sub committees. Members of Kesher Israel Syna gogue, Capital and Bnggs street, will sponsor a bond sale in its temple on Thursday evening at 8.30 o'clock, Rabbi David L.

Silver announced today. Major Hutzler, Indiantown Gap, will be the pnn cipal speaker and Jacob Gittlen and Louis Snyder will be the auc tioneers. Lt. Philip Miller, Helen Parke and Barbara Husse, three members of the American Theatre Wing, will come here Friday morning to present a skit at the meeting of women Bond Booth workers at the Penn Harris. Mrs.

William Spons ler, III, will preside at the meeting. Later in the day the skit will be presented one of the city schools, it was announced. Youth Held For Court In Hitch Hike Shooting Alderman Harry Bowman to day held Robert L. S. Dale, 17, Lancaster, for court without bail on charges of assault with intent to kill, robbery with accomplice and violation of the uniform firearms act, preferred by State Policeman William N.

Leeser, of tne.uuncannon sub station. Dale was taken into custody by State Police and pleaded guilty to shooting Lester S. Casey, ioyaiton, motorist, who gave a lift to Dale and two companions near the Kockville bridge two weeks ago. Judge Robert Woodside ordered his trial. Marriage Licenses Applications for marriage li censes filed in Dauphin county counnouse today included: James Lewis Bowers, 20, 446 Swatara street, Steelton.

and Mary Ann Staub, 19, 634 Second street, Enhaut. Vernon Russell Brandt, 24, 1187 Bailey street, Harrisburg and Anna Dorcas Lauver, 21, Mifflin town. Charles Monroe. Brigham, 28, 2921 Harvard avenue, Camp Hill, and Leona May Parker, 29, 823 Ninety fifth street, Niagara Falls, N. Y.

things as the GI Joes at Indian town. They sleep on the same kind of double decker beds and cots as Americans in training at tne reservation. They put in eight hours of work during a day and are given their periods for relaxation. There is no so calied coddling of prisoners of war at the camp. There is no mass hatred for the men who fought the CHUB HfflD I fi Tke'fferitcuft TVhUty jffl FAMOUS SJNCE fy "HHiiiniiiimik CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION, PHILADELPHIA.

IX. 86.8 PROOF 65 CRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS HARRISBURG TELEGRAPH, Tuesday. November 14, 1944 vm A 5 1 La, Ensminger. SCENES AT PRISONER OF WAR CAMP. A former star of the Dresden Opera Company (group at top left), a prisoner of war at Indiantown Gap, en tertains fellow internes with songs of their native land right, Robert F.

Gorman, Har risburg Telegraph reporter, PW spokesman and Lt. Frederick Kletnick, Post Adjutant of the base camp; below, in one of the mess halls ready to serve food. At the right is Pfc. Frank T. Ybarra, Los Angeles, officers cook, and next to him Sgt.

Fred Schmidt, Norwood, Ohio, in charge of the PW detail. Germans Burning Whole Towns in Norway Retreat London, Nov. 14, (JP). The Germans in Northern Norway "burning and destroying everything," including whole towns, in their retreat south ward, the Norwegian government reported today. The far northern coastal towns of Vadsoe and Vardoe have been wiped out and their inhabitants sent fleeing, a spokesman said.

Parts of Hammerfest. Rorthern most town in the world, and Honningsfjord have been devas tated by fire. inousands of Norwegians Finnmark are homeless, the spokesman said, adding: Burning their homes, stealing their food and destroying their production, the Germans have sent these Norwegians into the Arctic night without a shelter over their head, compelling them to follow the stream of evacuees west and south." Jonas Lie, minister of police in quislings government, in tak ing charge of the evacuation of Finnmark, told Norwegians that "war operations may mean that the population may have to face the winter without shelter or food." Nazis 'Homesick' (Continued From Page 1) lations of the Geneva convention governing the treatment of prisoners of war but courtesies of the country as well. For the most part, the men who once fought under the Hitler regime are a contented colony and they range in age from 18 to 50 years. They are given ample looo supplies and eat the same Americans and Allied troops.

There is no fraternizing of Amer icans and Germans. Strictly, the men who represent government now an enemy of the United States are treated in accordance with the rules, regu lations and dictates of the Geneva convention. Read German Newspapers The several hundred prisoners of war in the camp are jovial they smile pleasantly to visitors and for the most part give every indication of being well satisfied that for them the war is ended. They are permitted to read and subscribe to German printed news papers and they receive news through this country's newspapers printed in English. They are allowed to read the of ficial German communiques but American officers and enlisted men stationed at the base express the belief that the internees are beginning to place more confidence in reports of the war as printed in American newspapers and sent from American correspondents abroad rather than in the official Berlin stories carried in American newspapers.

atones nave oeen printed in various parts of the country that the first German war prisoners to arrive at American camps ex pressed surprise when they learn ed thai, the lasgsr cities in the United States had not been bomb ed and destroyed. Indiantown Gap's first internees were no ex ception for through the German propaganda machine they, too, had been told that New York and other big cities were a mass of ruins. To their amazement they learn ed that the cities had not been touched. To observers the abssnce of war damage here was one of the ggest blows of the war to them. What they now think of German propaganda is a matter to be sur mised by readers for War Depart' ment regulations, observing the rules of the Geneva convention, do not permit the interviewing of the men taken prisoners of war.

Captured in Normandy Most of the men at Indiantown were captured soon after the Allies made their initial landings on the shores of Normandy. Many of them are veterans of earlier fighting on the eastern front of what, in other days, was known as Hitler Fortress Europe, Italy and Africa They had fought the Russians, many of them, and some will carry scars of battle throughout their lives, but they were ordered, to France in a futile attempt to stem the onrush of Allied forces when the German high command believed an attack on the Channel coast was imminent. They carried out the commands of their suDeriors but the fire from the Allied battlewagons of the sea, the bombs from the air and the artillery fire was too much to withstand. They were forced to give up their positions, In the early Normandy fighting the internees at Indiantown were among the first to be captured by the American forces. Study English, Go to Church Today the German internees, indirectly by example, are learn ing the American way of life.

They are learning the meaning of life under a free government. They are not enjoying the privileges of the American civilian or the American soldier but they are being given the opportunity of seeing how government by a lib erty loving people is practiced The prisoners seem proud of the fact that on four evenings each week for a period of two hours they are given the opportunity of studying English. To many of them it is a privilege a freedom. Then, too, they are permitted to attend religious services on Sundays without dictation. There are Protestants and Catholic3 in the group and each week a Lu theran minister and a Catholic priest, both stationed in the Har risburg area and both speaking the German tongue, conduct the services.

jwery Sunday since July at tbe conclusion of their regular services, the Rev. Gerhard G. Dietrich, pastor of the Trinity Ger man Lutheran Church, Steelton and the Rev. Paul A. Gieringer, rector of the St.

John's German Catholic Church in the same bor ough, travel to the interment camp to care for the spiritual neeo 01 the prisoners of war. Father Gieringer. assieneel bv the Army as an auxiliary chaD lain, celebrates, mass in the recre ation hall for the Catholic war prisoners beginning at 4 o'clock. From 3 to 4 the Rev. Mr.

Dietrich conducts a Lutheran service. Both ministers report the attendance at the services shows an increase over the attendance recorded on the opening Sundays. Men Sing Dunn Service At each of the denominational services sermons are delivered in German to the men and at various other parts of the services the prisoners of war sing hymns of their respective churches in their native tongue. Durning the celebration of the mass by Father Gieringer, two of the men serve as altar boys and make the various responses in Latin as is the cus tom in the Catholic church. Mass in a Catholic Church customarily started before noon and a priest may say but two masses, on a Sunday.

However, by a Papal dispensation, chaplains may offer the mass at any time convenient and also they are permitted to celebrate three masses instead of two. The percentage of attendance at the services each Sunday is considered good by the Steelton min 8 Good Re Should Buy Now at Quality Furniture at less than ceiling prices. Nationally Famous makes Pullman, Grand Rapids, etc. Lots of furniture made before wartime restrictions went into effect Soundly constructed attractively priced Decorator chosen, authentically styled. We have a complete line of GOOD Dicing Room Suites, not one, not two, but a dozen different styles and woods to choose from.

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