Public Opinion from Chambersburg, Pennsylvania • 1

PUBLIC GOOD EVENING It's just a question of time until there'll be a total eclipse of the Rising Sun. "One Newspaper Is Better Than Many Criminal Laws." Calvin Coolidge Jfronktin iKejinmtiinj 76th YEAR Entered a Second CI nun Matter at the Poet Office at Chamberaburff. Under the Act of March 3. 187 CHAMBERSBURG, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1945 Published Dall Excejpt Sunday by The Public T)plnion Company PRICE FOUR CENTS Ffue Red Armies Storm Westward; Jap Tanks Blasted THE PRESIDENT'S FOURTH TERM PROBLEMS AP Newsfeofire I 1 WHEN Franklin 0. Roosevelt takes office for his fourth term as President of the United Stales, he will also enter what may be the most turbulent period of his and the nation's career.

These are the major problems he must face: wy yy 1 i President Gives Pledge to Strive For Strong Peace Russian Forces Sweep We Shall Not Achieve Perfection, He Says, 'But We Shall Strive for It Moral Principle Will Not Be Sacrificed TREND OF CIVILIZATION FOREVER UPWARD, INAUGURAL CROWD HEARS Sternly Simple Ceremony Marks Inauguration Of F. D. R. as Nation's First Fourth-Term President Truman Takes Oath Kreuger's Army Gains In Important Battle On Luzon Island x. 9 I 1 Germany.

Then Blueprints for u- the Pacific war. along with 4 5 Need for adequate health and education program was stated in recent Presidential talk. By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (P) President Roosevelt began another four years in the White House today and, in a sternly simple ceremony, dedicated the nation to achieving "total victory in war" and "a durable peace." Against a background of wintery white and under leaden skies, Mr.

Roosevelt solemnly rested his hand on an ancient family Bible and repeated after Chief Justice Stone the oath that made him America's first fourth-term President. The precedent-making oath was administered in what the President termed "a period of supreme test." He said: "If we meet that test successfully and honorably we shall perform a service of historic importance which men and women and children will honor throughout all time." From the south portico of the White House, which he himself selected for the scene of the third war-time inauguration in history, the President surveyed a hushed park full of spectators, standing in slush and snow. Around him were members of his family, high dignitaries of government "In the days and In the years that- CANADIAN HOME DEFENSE G. S. KLENZING JR.

SOLDIERS REMAIN AW0L: IS MISSING IN ACTION mm Over Border of Upper German Silesia GERMANS 10 MILES FROM STRASBOURG British Capture City Midway Betweer Sittard, Roermund Bombers Raid Reich By WILLIAM L. RYAN Associated Press War Editor Five great Russian armies at least 3,000,000 strong thundered westward toward Berlin today one of them officially only 225 miles away crumbling German defenses all along the front and the Germans announced that Red army forces had swept across the border of Upper German Silesia. There was no Indication that the Nazis could make a stand anywhere short of the Fatherland. The official German news agency DNB declared mournfully that the gigantio Soviet winter offensive "will decide the fate of Germany it has out-reached anything hitherto known." In London, military figures made no secret of their impression that the drive might crush Germany and end the war in a matter of weeks. Meanwhile in the west U.

S. Seventh Army troops lashed back at the Nazis newly joined on a 75-mile front above the menaced Alsatian capital of Strasbourg, a political asset the Allied command admittedly is anxious to hold. The Nazis already were ten miles from the city on the south. The Americans drove German patrols back across the Zorn River near the Rhine, nine miles north of Strasbourg. Enemy drives were halted at other points on the Seventh army where, field dispatches estimated, the Germans had 10,000 1 troops and considerable armor in their narrow- corridor along the Rhine's west bank.

i In the north British troops crossing the Maas (Meuse) River in assault boats captured Stevensweert, midway between Sittard and Roer-mond in their offensive toward the Roer River. The Germans had abandoned the position, but lt was too early, a field dispatch said, to determine whether the enemy was beginning a general withdrawal from the tip of the bulge between Roermond and Geilenkirchen. On the dwindling Ardennes bulge, the U. S. First Army captured all commanding heights north of St.

Vith. On the southern flank of the salient the Third army continued the slash through northern Luxembourg, exploiting its break across the Sure River on an eight-mile front. The Americans captured Diekirch, 17 miles north of the duchy's capital, and Bettendorf, and to the southeast were drawn up at Rosport, eight miles west of the heavily shelled Siegfried Line city of Trier. American heavy bombers roared over Germany again after a weather-enforced one-day lull. Patrols continued active In the Senio River sector in Italy.

Moscow announced last night that Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Uk raine Army captured Praszka, on the frontier of rich German Silesia and cut the railway linking the Baltic port of Danzig with the German industrial area. This climaxed a day in which Marshal Stalin, in five rapid-fire orders of the day, announced a new offensive in the Carpathian region of southern Poland by the Fourth Ukraine Army of Marshal Ivan I. Pet-rov; the capture of Krakow, ancient citadel; the opening of a new offensive in East Prussia by the Third "hite Russian Army under Gen. Ivan D.

Chernlakovsky which menaced Tilsit and the Masurian Lakes region in a deep penetration; the capture of Lodz by Marshal Gregory (Turn to page 2 please) Weather Forecast Eastern Pennsylvania Clear and a little colder tonight. Sunday fair and continued cold. Extended weather forecast for the period January 20, through January 24: Eastern Pennsylvania, Eastern New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia: Rain south portion and snow north portion Saturday; occasional snow northern portion Monday through Wednesday, and rain south portion Monday or Tuesday; total precipitation above normal; temperature will average slightly above normal with no definite trend. THE HIGH AND LOW A YEAR AGO Jan. 19 3410 Jan.

20 3420 Jan. 21 4517 Jan. 22 4532 Jan. 23 4231 Jan. 24 432(5 Jan.

25 48 22 Jan. 26 5730 Yesterday's High and Low 36 12 Seat a world workina tonethpr i statesmen of liberated nations. 4 Tax revision to spur private enterprise and pay off the na tional debt will be required. Town Soldier, in Military Police, Is Missing as of December 22 Mrs. Mildred E.

Klenzing, South Third street, received a telegram yesterday from the War Department, stating that her husband, Pfc. George S. Klenzing Is missing in action as of December 22. 194-1, in Luxembourg. Pfc.

Klenzing entered the service March 25, 1941, received training at Camp Croft, S. Indiantown Gap; Camp Livingston, a camp in Florida; and Camp Pickett, Va and went overseas in October, 1943. He I served with the military police. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

G. Stewart Klenzing, 217 West King street. He has three brothers in the service, Cpl. Charles William Klenz-iing, with the Fifth army in Italy; 8 Sgt. Robert E.

Klenzing, with the Army in Luxemboug; and Chief Warrant Officer Henry A. Klenzing, stationed at the Dover Air Base, 'Dover, Dela. MARTIN PLEDGES ON WINNING WAR Governor, Entering Third Year of Administration, Lists Objectives HARRISBURG, Jan. 20 UP) Governor Martin entered the third year of his Administration today after pledging the Commonwealth anew to the task of winning the war. In a statewide radio address last night marking the second anniversary of his inauguration, Martin said: "This is no time to think of more profits, more wages, political advantages or social gains.

"We must produce more food, more transportation and more munitions. We must increase the morale of our fighters by helping them and their dependents. We must guard against sabotage and unexpected attack." Cabinet members and their wives were guests of Governor and Mrs. Martin at a dinner in the Executive Mansion to mark the anniversary. Martin listed as aims of his Administration Use a $170,000,000 treasury surplus to make Pennsylvania a better state in which to live and work through reforestation, cleaning up streams, developing ports and recreational fa cilities, constructing and improving mental, penal and educational institutions.

Educational opportunities within reach of all. Careful examination of children and correction of defects. Encourage people to help in churches. In reviewing his two years in office, Martin said the Administration has enacted the best military ballot law of the nation, reached the greatest farm and industrial production in State history, and placed banking institutions and insurance companies in a strong position for the post-war period. He said taxes have decreased while providing additional grants of the same amount for schools, welfare and war activities.

'We, in Pennsylvania," said Mar- (Turn to page 6 please) AD MASS 20 TANKS DISABLED IN BITTER FIGHTING Jap Night Counter Attack Fails Yank. Units Move Ahead Toward Baguio By SPENCER DAVIS GENERAL M'ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, LUZON, Jan. 20 (JP) Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger is winning the important battle of the left flank.

His Sixth army Is smashing Japanese tanks, silencing artillery concealed in caves and going after enemy soldiers in 10-foot-deep holes with flame throwers. It is the first real fight since the Yanks landed at Lingayen Gulf January 9. Twenty Japanese tanks have been knocked out and 600 Nipponese killed some of them 23rd Division troops from Manchuria in a three-day period along the left flank. That flank juts into the hilly, eastern side of Pangasinan Province. The broader it gets the more effectively it isolates Japanese forces on the north around Baguio, Philippines summer capital, from other enemy forces on the south defending Manila.

Significantly, since the fighting flared up on the left flank, there has been scarcely any official word of a further push in strength southward by Yank columns last reported approaching Tarlac, 65 airline miles from Manila. The battle of the left flank Is not a continuous engagement of massed forces but rather a scattered series of small scale, bitter clashes. The Americans are linking up a solid line along the Manila-Baguio road in a 30-mile stretch from near Rosario on the north to the Agno River on the south near Villasis. From the north to south in that area, today's communique and As sociated Press field dispatches reported: The Japanese threw night counterattacks at Yanks in the outskirts of Rosario after a push east from coastal Damortis. The Nipponese were repulsed but artillery duels are continuing.

Four miles southeast, Yank columns moving north on the Manila-Baguio highway whic hleads in behind Rosario captured Sison. Further southeast down the highway past Pozorrubio, where one stiff engagement of the left flank battle was fought, the Japanese tried an ambush at Binalonan. Yank 105 (Turn tc page 2 please) FILES EQUITY SUIT DEED DISPUTE Washington Twp. Man Seeks To Obtain Deed to Property In County Community Equity proceedings have been Instituted in the county courts by Raymond C. Gaver, Washington Township, against the Antietam Congregation of the Church of Brethren, Franklin Comity, to obtain a deed to a Rouzerville property which he claims he purchased under an agreement of sale executed August 27, 1937.

Service of the papers was accepted by counsel for the church trustees yesterday. Gaver contends he agreed to purchase the house and tract, 50 200 feet, from the congregation for $G00, payable in installments. He sets forth in his statement that by the latter part of 1943 he had paid an aggregate of $389. On May 15, 1944, Gaver avers, he informed C. R.

Baumgardner, a trustee of the congregation, he was prepared to pay the balance of the purchase price and was referred to H. Blair Minick, Waynesboro, attorney for the church. He contends that the trustees have declined to deliver the deed for the real estate. He asks the court to enjoin the defendant, the congregation, from conveying the real, estate to any other person, and secondly, that upon payment of the balance due and various charges as stipulated in the agreement of sale, the trustees be ordered to convey the real estate to him. GIANT JApTaCTORY HIT Bomber Crews Jubilant Over Success in Kobe Raid B-29 BASE, SAIPAN, Jan.

30 UP) Superfortress pilots and crews reported jubilantly today that "we really creamed Hell" out of Japan's big aircraft factory near Kobe yesterday. Brig. Gen. Emmett O'Donnell. of Jamaica, N.

who went along on the mission was inclined to await Ictorial evidence but said it seemed to have been one of the best strikes ever made by the 21st Bomber ft Hi.J7::.,; 1 A 1 vz-'-x-tU tftts 4.: 4 Shutdown of war plants and servicemen's return must be offset by peace LABOR DRAFT BILL TO BE PRESENTED HOUSE MONDAY i Plan Faces Opposition of Organized Labor and Some Farm-State Lawmakers By HOWARD FLIEGER WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (JP) House military committeemen predicted today they'll have an Administration-sought labor draft bill armed with prison penalties for evaders written and ready for House consideration Monday. The bill, askea by the White House as a means of forcing men 18 to 45 into war jobs and keeping them there, faces stiff House opposition, however. Organized labor supporters are against it and some farm state representatives say they fear the heightened manpower drive may strip the farms of workers. Abandoning the idea of military labor battalions for those who leave war jobs, the committee yesterday substituted as punish'ment the draft dodger penalties of the Selective Service Act: maximums of five years imprisonment and a $10,000 fine.

Before the bill is finished the same punishment will be set up for those who ignore attempts to assign them to essential jobs. The committee also voted to give to War Mobilization Director James F. Byrnes the power to determine what jobs are critical. His classifications would be followed by local draft boards in assigning war workers. Concern over the plight of farm workers reached the point in the House where a group of farm state congressmen got behind a resolution demanding that Selective Service Director Lewis B.

Hershey "comply with" the present law deferring essential farm workers. The Senate war investigating committee, long a critic of what its reports have called failure to obtain proper utilization of available labor, began a tour of war plants with a surprise visit to the Norfolk, Navy Yard this week. Senator Ferguson (R-Mich.) said he was "shocked both by the situation we found there and by conditions which led to it." Just wha the situation was he declined to say pending a full disclosure to the Senate next week, when, it was indicated elsewhere, Senator -ilgore (D-W. Va.) will join in the attack. HITCHING RIDES ILLEGAL Sled Riders and Auto Operators Warned Against Practice HARRISBURG, Jan.

20 Director T. E. Transeau of the bureau of highway safety, State Department of Revenue, warned sled riders yesterday that "hitching rides" on vehicles is not only dangerous, but against the law. He ur-ed parents, teachers and municipal authorities to instruct children not to risk hooking sleds to the rear of automobiles. The law against this practice, he said, covers the operator of the vehicle as well as the sled rider.

METERS YIELD $10,932 Wavnesboro's 220 parking meters yielded $10,932.43 in 1944. First on the list is conauerinq l- turned on Japan fo win Getting America's servicemen back into civilian life will be' a major adjustment job. OVERCOAT THEFT LANDS FATHER OF 5 IN COUNTY JAIL Mercersburg Man Sentenced To 10-Month Term Airport Subject to Taxation Theophalis Watson went to Jail today for a long time for shoplifting an overcoat and with the prospect of a second sentence for attempting to secure household furnishings in an unorthodox way. The 33-year-old Mercersburg Negro, father of five children ranging in age from one to 13 years, pleaded guilty in the county courts to charges of larceny and forgery. Judge Watson R.

Davison ordered him to pay a fine of $5 and the costs and to serve 10 to 20 months In the county jail on the larceny charge, and withheld sentence in the forgery case. The prison term was dated from his arrest yesterday. State Policeman Paul T. Ruda testified Watson, who holds a 1-A classification with the Greencastle draft board, confessed he stole an overcoat December 4 from the Myers Tritle department store, Mercersburg, by rolling it into a bundle and secreting it beneath his own overcoat. Ruda testified that Watson further confessed that he returned to the store on December 23, surreptitiously picked up a sales slip, and two tags bearing the word "sold." He attached the tags to two chairs from the floor stock, and took the sales slip along home.

He marked the slip to indicate that Mrs. Watson had bought and paid for the two chairs. He then turned over the slip to his wife, and told her to go to the store and arrange for delivery of the chairs. Absence of a clerk's initials from the slip, and of a duplicate slip aroused suspicion at the store, and the matter was referred to, Police Chief M. A.

Lynch of Mercersburg. The latter was assisted by Ruda in an investigation that led to Watson's arrest. Judge Davison handed down a decree ruling against the Burgess and Town Council of Waynesboro in proceedings to have the Waynesboro Municipal Airport adjudged exompt from taxation. Dismissing a rule to show cause why the airport should not be exempted, the court directed that the casts be paid by the petitioner, the borough. The borough asked exemption for 1933 taxes levied against the airport, located in Washington Township a short distance from the borough, by Franklin County anc the township school district and supervisors.

The taxing agencies contended that a deed of January 16, 1936, of A. C. and Martha Pottorff transferring the 5i)-acre tract to the municipality was a straw transaction, made solely for the purpose of having the airport improved as a WPA project. The- further contended that the airport was operated as a private airport for profit by the Pottorffs, who leased it from the borough on the same day the asserted straw deed was executed. Judge Davison stated in his opinion that the federal government ex-ponded $78,000 in WPA funds on the airport project, "which could not (Turn tu page a please) I I are to come." he declared in his- tory's briefest inaugural address i nw-Hs shall wnrlc for a lust i sr.i durable peace as today we work and ht for total victory In war.

"We can and we will achieve such a peace." Not since Lincoln's day had Washington seen a wartime Gone were the glitter and i keying- the event to the frpectatora were limited to five or six thousand guest, mohtly government officials or democratic party executives. They were packed onto the spac-; i a suuui lawn, Other Washingtonlans had a remote view of the proceedings from beyond the black iron White House fence. Harry S. Truman, former Missouri Senator, was sworn in as vice president Just before Mr. Roosevelt.

Henry A. Wallace gave the oath to Truman, and thereby bowed out of that office. The change-over from one term to another provided a strange mixture of old and new. There never had been a fourth term, of course or for that matter a third. Never before had the semi-circular south portico of the White House been used for the inaugural ceremony.

But the rite Itself dated back to the founding of the republic. And the weather was typical of the bad days to which Washington has become accustomed when it sees a President take offlce. An Inch of powdery snow mantled the capital and spread a glistening blanket across the White House grounds. Streets were glazed. For presidential grandchildren romping outside while the Chief Executive had a final look at his Inaugural address, it was snowball time.

For the capital city, It was pretty much a normal, overcast winter day. Congress wasn't in session, but it seldom Is on Saturday. Government departments were on the job as usual. Congress was invited to the ceremony, but the general public had to fend for itself in the parkways stretching from the White House grounds back toward the Washington Monument, the gleaming Jefferson and the Potomac. In the East Room of the White House, often the scene of gay good times, once a laundry room for a President's v.ife, religious services were conducted today for the President and members of his personal and official family.

They followed the Episcopalian service, but there were special prayers. The President bowed his head and asked for victory in a warring world in which he occupies a high pinnacle of Allied leadership. He prayed for all those in service of the United Nations that they, being armed with thy defense, may be preserved ever more in perils." Mr. Roosevelt even joined in a prayer for our enemies, composed by the late Archbishop of Canterbury, William Temple. Outside, in the streets surrounding the White House, plows, shovels and trucks were busy clearing away snow.

In the grounds of the Executive Mansion, workmen made final tests of radio equipment set up to carry word of the inaugural ceremony and address to America and all the world. Hours before the ceremony, scores of blue-clad White House police- (Turn to page 2 please) Do You Know Xht onswet Is on lh last page. Can you give it without looking? How many nurses there are in the Army Nurse Corps? 6,300 to Be Classified As Deserters hi Twenty-one Days I OTTAWA, Jan. 20 UP) Defense Minister G. L.

McNaughton said i today that 6,300 of the 15.600 Canadian Home Defense soldiers who absent without leave before i embarkation were still at large. About 1,500 returned voluntarily or were apprehended and sailed for Britain with those who did not take unauthorized leaves. The 6.300 still absent will be classed as deserters if they do not return in 21 days. The 15,600 men were drafted for overseas dut under a policy of par-I tial conscription adopted by Canada in November despite vigorous protests, principally from Quebec's French-speaking populace. COUNTY DAIRYMEN TO BE SOLICITED ON BREEDING PLAN Effort to Set Up Artificial Breeding Unit in County Planned at Meeting A meeting to explain to the farmers of Franklin County the artificial breeding of cattle was held yesterday afternoon in the recreation hall of the Municipal Market.

The speaker was R. H. Olmstead, head of the dairy extension department of Pennsylvania State College, who has been instrumental in the organization of all of the breeding units in the state. Olmstead explained that at the present time there are five central breeding units in Pennsylvania, covering nearly all of the counties in the State. The work has grown tremendously from its start in 1943 of 1,500 cows bred artificially to in 1944.

and a praspective 50,000 cows in 1045, he added. Olmstead stated that the Idea at first was that each county could maintain its own breeding units, but later it was decided this plan would be too expensive, and that centralized units taking care of several counties were more satisfactory. The outlook for Franklin County, Olmstead stated, is that it will not have its own breeding unit, but will affiliate itself with some adjoining breeding unit, such as the one at Lancaster, or the one at Lewisburg, where bulls are maintained, refrigeration facilities provided, veterinarians in charge, and organizational difficulties have been largely overcome. He explained that it has been found from experience that a local unit cannot operate with less than 1.500 cows, and that these should be located preferably within a 20-mile radius. The membership fee, according to Olmstead.

in mast of the centralized units is $2 per cov, of which amount $1.50 goes to the central unit and 50 cents per cow goes to the local county unit. Some centralized units require the fee for all of the cows and heifers that the farmer has, (Turn to page 2 please) I 1 i I I I LAID TO DRIVER IN fflO FATALITY Coroner's Jury Says M'Cleaf Drove Without Care and Failed to Cive Aid Robert Earl McCleaf, 47, Ship-pensburg, committed four violations before and after the automobile he was driving struck and fatally ln-Ju ed Paul Edward Hockenberry, 24-year-old discharged soldier and worker at Letterkcnny Ordnance Depot, on the night of January 10, a coroner's jury found following an inquest at the Herman C. Kraiss funeral home yesterday afternoon conducted by Coroner S. D. Shull.

I After stating that Hockenberry died as the result of injuries he fe- ceived when he was struck by an automobile driven by McCleaf, the Jury said in the verdict: "We attribute the killing of Paul Edward Hockenberry to the fact that Robert Earl McCleaf was operating the motor vehicle with lack of attention and caution. We have learned by the evidence that McCleaf was driving without an operator's license and without the owner's consent; that he failed to render assistance and drove away in the car after striking Hockenberry." Evidence was given at the hearing indicating that Hockenberry was struck by the right front fender and headlight of the car which was owned by Paul Railing, Shippens-burg, but the title of which was still in the name of Charles E. Lesher, also of Shippensburg, from whom Railing was said to have purchased the car. Railing, described as the financial backer of McCleaf in the garbage collection business in Shippensburg, had not given McCleaf permission to drive the car, Sgt. J.

L. Peffer quoted McCleaf as saying following the accident. Railing was said by the investigating officer to have told McCleaf as late as the (Tun to page a please) LONDOX. Jan. 20 (JP) More than U.

S. Flying Fortresses with 600 Mustang escorts hammered rail networks and Rhine bridges supplying th German forces In Alsace today after a one-day lapse in heavy bomber air assaults. The targets were freight yards at Heilbronn, north of Stuttgart, and at Rheine, north of Munster, and a Rhine highway-rail bridge at Mannheim. PARIS, Jan. 20 Three successive German attacks from the center of the rross-Rhine corridor have smashed the Seventh Army's defense line back almost five miles Into the village of Weyershcim, miles above Strasbourg.

LONDON, Jan. 20 (JPh-Marshal Petrov's Russians in the Polish Carpathians have captured Nowy Sacz, 10 miles from the old Czerhoslovaft border, and Presov in Slovakia, Premier Stalin announced in an order of the day..