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EDITORIALS FEA TV RES thority Mr. Jones has exercised, and LEAVES FROM NOTEBOOK OF CORRESPONDENT The National Whirligig News Behind the News ESTABLISHED 188 PUBLIC OPINION CHARLES ft. NICKLA8, Editor ifranklttt Ertmsitnrij EtabllRhcd 1780 Mrd May IS, 1931 By RAY TUCKER 11 Hey, Big Boy, Lay Of fa My Stuff y-jMh mm ciSl MfXt mui-J. Ik taR33U CHARTER Winston Churchill's staunch defense of Franklin D. Roosevelt's general foreign policy, in his recent Commons report, demonstrates again that these two world statesmen are staging one of the most spectacular brother acts in diplomatic history.

Their close friendship and offensive defensive strategy are counted on by their respective aides as assurance that Anglo-American solidarity will be maintained for the duration and in the postwar period. F. D. immediate circle was shocked when his congressional critics cited the Prime Minister's 1941 dismissal of the Atlantic Charter as only a "rough and ready statement of war aims." That casual description plagued the White House when, after having compared that document to the Ten Commandments and the Magna Charta, Mr. Roosevelt disclosed late in December that it really consisted of only a few scribbled notes handed to the radio operators of the cruiser Augusta after the pair met off the coast of Maine.

Mr. Churchill's belated reference to the Charter resembled F. D. so closely that it seems as if they had collaborated by tranatlantic telephone. Although affirming that no formal agreement existed, both promised that its underlying principles would guide the great powers in their treatment of liberated nations.

Mr. Churchill went even fur ther in declaring that Lincoln's "of that his legions and armadas had done the heaviest fighting in the Italian and Mediterranean theaters. The other member of the Big Three Josef Stalin also tossed his chips into the diplomatic pot. As if to answer senatorial orators who charged him with welching on his pals by playing "doggo" on the eastern front, he launched the mast powerful drive in the history of the present conflict. "Whether accidental or prearranged, the three world leaders closed ranks on the military and diplomatic fronts, and provided Mr.

Roosevelt with a victory theme for his fourth inaugural address. Incidentally, this is not the first time that 10 Downing Street has extricated the White House from a domestic dilemma and vice versa. LIQUOR Wet and dry leaders have staged a behind-the-scenes battle of considerable significance in Washington lately. Oddly enough, the prohibitionists displayed a spirit of cheer and confidence, while the liquor champions appeared to be restless and uneasy. Feminine heads of the W.

C. T. reinforced by their congressional friends, bombarded the office of War Mobilizer James F. Byrnes with demands that he cap his new horse-racing, rationing, travel and heating restrictions by forbidding the manufacture of beer and spirits at least for the duration. Although it faces tough opposi- the people, by the people, for the tion, the Bryson bill for drping up people" pronouncement would be areas within a twelve-mile distance followed in postwar reorganization of Army and Navy centers is mak-of the vorld.

ing some headway. The white-rib- boners also insist on more stringent INAUGURAL A close reading of I regulations for opening and closing i Mr. M'Duff Lays I lt0n the Prime Minister's oration con vinces Washington observers that it was directed to the American pub lic as well as to the BritLsh populace. Mr. Churchill, to use a baseball analosry.

causht the fast balls hurled at F. D. head and knocked them for a diplomatic home run. Your GI Rights Everybody's home town Is get ting ready to welcome home coming soldiers and their families. This column on "Your Gl Rights" will help you to understand the 3pecial problems oi the returning serviceman.

Watch lor additional columns to appear regularly, each sns answering specific questions posed by soldiers. to find cures for many of these residual maladies. Q. I am a veteran and have been sick for several months, not enough, up until now, to go into the hospital. However, loss of work and doctor bills have eaten up my cash reserve.

Now I am advised to go to the hospital and can't afford it. What should I do? A. If your sickness has nothing to do with service in the armed forces, you are entitled to treatment in a Veterans' Administration hospital, if there is room. If it is an emergency, special attention will be given your case and you will get in. Additional hospital units now under construction will soon be finished and able to handle all veterans unable to pay for regular medical care.

If you have a service-connected disability you will be admitted to a 7 hospital immediately. That is your right whether you are able to afford other medical care or not. An indictment which has made one billion more than the annual headway here and abroad is the pre-war budget. They insist that "unconditional surrender" demand, this figure gives an entirely erro-together with the Morgenthau pro- neous picture of their industry's posal to cut up the Reich into small role in the nation's economy, farms and homesteads. Since Mr.

I As a result of these complaints Roosevelt at the Casablanca con- i the of C-ers may come through ference suggested the use of Grant's with an explanation of how they phrase, and as he has a great fond- reached that conclusion. It appears ness for his ebullient Secretary of that the amount of liquor sold by the Treasury, he has hesitated to the bottle can be computed to the retrieve these unfortunate declara- penny from government reports on tions. Mr. Churchill did so rather tax payments. These sales are three delicately with his reminder that and a ilf billion dollars, the Allies will behave like "Chris- Federal experts arrived at the tian and civilized nations." seven-billion-dollar sum by figuring Winston also answered Capitol that all alcoholic supplies were sold Hill isolationists who mumble about by the diink.

It is the wets' conten-the small part the British have tion that a large percentage of the By HAL BOYLE WITH THE U. S. FIRST ARMY TROOPS IN BELGIUM, Jan. 15 (Delayed) Battle sidelights: A herd of Belgian cows was used by one enterprising American officer as a roadblock. Seeing a German Tiger tank approaching, Lt.

Sidney P. Dane, (address unavailable) glanced at his rifle his only weapon and decided we would have to use ingenuity to stop the enemy vehicle. Dane rushed into a nearby barn and chased six cows into the street. He felled one cow with a rifle shot and the others began to mill around in panic. The Nazi tank halted before this unusual roadblock.

Before it could continue and fire on its target, an American bazooka team knocked it out. The holder of the distinction of having the hottest foxhole in Europe is SSgt. Oswald E. McKown, of New Boston, but the climate had nothing to do with it. He was lying in a foxhole when a German tank pulled up less than ten feet away and began firing.

Each time the tank's big 88 mili-meter gun blasted, the hot muzzle flashes seared his face and concussions shook earth over him. One burst of flame set his blankets on fire. To add to his troubles, American artillery began laying shells around the enemy. "I thought sure the next one would be mine," said McKown. One shell finally scored a direct hit on the tank and set it afire.

Ammunition in the burning tank started exploding and more blasts rattled McKown in his foxhole. Finally the explosions ceased and the scorched sergeant began to perspire less freely. "One hell of a way to keep warm in a foxhole," was his verdict. "Halt!" exclaimed a distinctly German voice at T5 Tony P. Flen-da, of Brooklyn, started to ask directions.

Tony, who had parked his ammunition-loaded jeep only a few i moments before, realized he had crossed the German border after getting lost on darkened roads. "Kum Hier!" called the Brooklyn soldier, using the only German he i knew. The Nazi guard approached and Tony stuck his prize souvenir, a captured German pistol, into the sentry's ribs. But two other sentries had heard their comrade's challenge. They started forward as Tony backed toward his jeep, holding his prison-; er before him.

I The other two Nazis opened fire and Tony felt the man in his grasp I go limp. He dropped him and opened fire, gradually worked his way to the jeep, jumped in and dashed to his own lines, with bullets inning round his ears. "I was scared." said Tony. "But them Krauts knocking off their own man that tickles me." Division captors that before their breakthrough in Belgium last month they were told by one high German officer: "If you are brave, industrious and resourceful, you will ride in American vehicles and eat good American food. If.

however, you are stupid and cowardly and lack initiative, you will walk cold and hungry all the way to the English Channel." The Kazl bi? shot apparently got his wires crossed. Lots of Germans are riding toward the English Channel and eating American chow but they are prisoners of war. ONLY THREE VENDORS AT WAYNESBORO MARKET Farmers Complain That Quarters Are Inadequate WAYNESBORO, Jan. 23 Unless some municipal committee or civic organization comes to the rescue, Waynesboro's public market may soon pass out of existence. Saturday only three vendors occupied stalls, and one of them closed up and went home in disgust.

The disgusted vendor was a green-pr'Kluee grower of Waynesboro who remarked that he took his produce to the Chambersburg market Friday afternoon and sold out in less than two hours. He and two assistants were kept busy, he said. He intimated that he would "starve" if he had to depend on the Waynesboro market. Vendors complain that the municipal government squeezed them into an unattractive quarter in the rear of the municipal building. One vendor who has been operating on the Waynesboro market more than a quarter century declared, "Waynesboro doesn't want a city market.

Instead of supporting the home market the buyers travel to Hagerstown and Chambersburg." The early hours the market operates, its location, lack of farmer, grower and buyer interest, have all played an important part in the decline of the once-prosperous market. The U. S. Immigration and Naturalization Service is authorized to remove to other countries aliens who have fallen into distress from causes arising after their entry. Boots and Her Buddies played in the Western Europe of- tensive another question the Pits- ident.

has not wanted to merit si no loon, e.NeenuJy with re-The Prime Minister eulogized the sard to hotels, restaurants, night American Armv as the architect of clubs and other "hot spots," and not victories in that area. But he noted to the booze business. if he happens to hold the position at the end of the war he will have the last word on the dismantling of the country's $32 billion war machine, and many agencies and individuals greatly interested in how the dismantling is done do not want to see the operations in charge of the most consistent and toughest-minded New Dealer in the Roosevelt Administration. On the other hand, other interests and individuals like Mr. Wallace's way of thinking and acting.

The battle over confirmation will be drawn along conservative and liberal, rather than Republican and Democratic, lines. It looks as though the stage is set for another coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats. SURVIVAL The world is getting smaller and its perils greater. Weapons reach farther and become more baffling. The immediate danger of "robot bomb" attacks on this side of the ocean, from European enemies, is discounted, but it seems inevitable that such contrivances will be used sooner or later, on a vast scale, if wars continue.

There may be newer and more powerful weapons produced, but there is no salvation in them. What one nation can do in this field, others can do likewise. Science is open to all, and more and more its threatens its own creators. Civilization has arrived at a point where there is no safety except in mutual forebearance and cooperation. Do You Remember when these were news items in Public Opinion 25 YEARS AGO? At a meeting of the 79 stockholders of the proposed electric light plant at St.

Thomas, the following are elected as a board of directors to provide means of establishing the plant: Frank Gillan, Frank Croft, Frank Hoover, W. G. Brindle, C. C. Spidel, H.

R. Reed, J. S. Graham. Charles Carbaugh and Dr.

J. H. Swan. Deaths; Mrs. Catherine M.

Rolar, near Mainsville; George F. Foreman, 81, Waynesboro; Rev. Benjamin Silvers, Baltimore, formerly of Chambersburg. A stock company, which when completed is expected to have 1,000 members, is formed bv employes of the P. R.

W. M. and T. B. Wood's Sons Company; the project will be in the form of a cooperative retail grocery store.

Wedding: Miles C. Horn and Zel-da L. Rife, Freestone. Miss EDen Eyster, who has been a member of the firm of Hoke Eyster, retires after selling her interest to her brother, Fred Eyster. 15 YEARS AGO? Garnet Gehr is elected president of the Firemen's Relief Association of Chambersburg.

Temperatures, 35 19. Refrigeration and transportation are the means of bringing to Chambersburg fresh vegetables and fruits even in the dead of Winter; the prices of some of these commodities are quoted as: Green peas, 35 cents for two pounds; celery, 10 cents a bunch; string beans, 35 cents a quarter peck; kale, 15 cents a pound; sweet potatoes, 16 cents for three pounds; Irish potatoes, 50 cents a peck; oranges, 20 to 70 cents a dozen. Deaths: William H. Heefner, 72, Mont Alto; James A. McFJhaney, 69, Greencastle, R.

R. Mrs. Erma H. Hockenberry, near Marion. FIRE MENACES BLOCK PITTSBURGH, Jan.

23 (IP) A six- alarm Are menaced an entire business and residential block on Brook- line Boulevard in Brookline last night before being brought under control. Fire Chief William Davis estimated damage to a two-story building at $15,000. PETITION CONSIDERED WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (IF) The War Labor Board today held for consideration a petition by the CIO- United Steelworkers Union and five U. S.

Steel Corp. subsidiaries for clarification in six major particulars of the board's recent steel wage adjustments. The banjo originated in America. It is named after its inventor, Jo seph Sweeney, who, because he played so many instruments was called "Band Joe" or "Banjo." "Warm up your, Hold Everything 4 j. ITallriT Spirit Esrbltshd 1847 Mercd August IS.

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Only an Inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor. Emerson. WHAT ABOUT HOME RULE? Presented as a logical extension of the program under which the State bears the cost of construction of State highways within the boundaries of cities, the proposals of State Senators Jaspan and Holland have a direct interest to Chambersburg. The State maintains a considerable mileage of street in town, and it must be conceded that the arrangement has given complete satisfaction. But extending State control into the realm of law enforcement, as proposed by the senators, poses problems of Integration of agencies of respectable dimensions.

The transfer to State control of traffic police required to police State arteries of travel within municipalities and the transfer of responsibility for installation and maintenance of traffic lights on these streets from the city to the state involve a division of nuthority with clear possibilities of controversy and friction. There is no question but that the cities deserve a larger share of the highway funds, considering the size of the contribution of city motorists, but whether their share should take the form of police service is highly questionable. The guardians of home rule should be Interested. ANN ENB ERG Early In the first World War, the Russians suffered a disastrous defeat at Tannenberg in East Prussia. In an effort to divert German pressure from the western front, Russia hurled two armies into the traditional stronghold of the Junkers.

Unhappily, the flank of one of the armies was not adequately protected and Field Marshal von Hlndenburg cut the Russian armies to pieces. The Germans were jubilant, because several hundred years earlier Polish and Lithuanian forces had decisively beaten invading Teutonic knights at the site of Tannen-berg. Over the weekend, Tannenberg was engulfed in the sweep of the gigantic Russian winter offensive. This time the advancing Russian armies did not make the mistake of 1914. The plan of attack was the same, but before General Rokossov-sky threw his Second White Russian Army toward Tannenberg he safeguarded Its flank all along the Polish plains.

Now it is the turn of the Russians to be jubilant as they pocket the German military shrine where Ton Hindenburg and his soldiers of thirty-one years ago lie buried. BITTER FIGHT BREWS The great power vested in the Secretary of Commerce by reason of his chairmanship of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and subordinate lending agencies assures a bitter fight over the confirmation of former Vice President Wallace as head of the Commerce Department. Jesse Jones, the Texas banker, who was asked to resign the position in favor of Mr. Wallace, sounds the keynote of the battle when he challenges his successor's qualifications for the post, and it will not be surprising if the President's letter to Mr. Jones, emphasizing the political nature of the appointment, turns out to be effective ammunition in the hands of the opixjsltion.

But the real basis of the fight against the confirmation of Mr. Wallace will not be his ability. A great deal will be said on that subject, but it will be largely a smoke screen to conceal the aversion in some quarters to Mr. Wallace's political philosophy and social viewpoint. If the ex-Vice President Is confirmed as Secretary of Commerce, if he is not shorn of any of the au- The Home Nurse By LONA L.

TROTT Assistant Director, Red Cross Nursing Service Written for NEA Service (II. W. Wilson; S1.25). h-thraSTsarthat htVfe One of the hardest jobs of news-could sit up in a chair after a papermen in this new wartime rather long-drawn-out attack of world is to keep agencies and or-influenza that he didn't pay much garuzatj0ns identified bv initials attention to the instructions given hard. Anvone would know how to get a patient up in a chair, he thought.

est jobs of newspaper readers, too. Eut when he tried it and Mrs. A. Marjorie Taylor of the Rochester Humphrey fainted before her feet (N- Public Library has untouched the floor he decided there them and arranged them was more to it than he had v. thought, and gave up the idea.

i alphabetically. To them she has When Dottie came home from added slogans, memorable sayings school and heard the story, she said and the concocted words which com-confidently, "I can get her up in lxse World War II slanguage, the chair. We learned how in our Reinhard Heydrick, of the Nazi home-nursing class." secret police, has been called First she selected a comfortable Cobra, Basilisk and Hangman; rocking chair with high back and p0x was the nickname not only arms, which she drew up beside of the German Rommel but of the By DOUGLAS LARSEN NEA Staff Correspondent Research into the effects of tropical diseases, flying, and concussion on soldiers and veterans of World War II, has been started by the newly organized American Legion Medical Advisory Board. Headed by Col. Leonard G.

Rowntree, Chief of the Medical Division of Selective Service, it includes world-famous specialists including Lieut. Col. Charles Mayo from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. The Board will work and cooperate with medical officers from Army, Navy and Veteran's Administration, supplementing their research and study. Many veterans are turning up with little understood ailments which are the direct result of tropical diseases.

Same is true for flyers and persons who have been subjected to severe concussions from bomb bursts or depth charges. Many of these problems are entirely new, incident to high-speed and high-altitude flying and fighting in the tropics. The Board hopes SIDE GLANCES COPH. BY NE SEBVTCt. INC.

T. M. WO. I 'mW9 ire! Jr One of the more fascinating characters arriving in Washington for the inauguration of President Roosevelt is Mr. Fred McDuff, of Seminole, who, if we are to judge from the rather awed reports of the correspondents, holds approximately the same position in sartorial circles in the Southwest that the late E.

Berry Wall used to hold here and in France, except that our man McDuff is obviously far ahead of Mr. Wall in imagination and originality. The white Prince Albert costing $575, the white Inverness cape, the enormous white sombrero, the fine black boots with white inlays, the splendiferous necktie on which a hand -painted donkey is shown kicking a Republican elephant over the capitol dome out of a cluster of $1,000 bills all this is heartwarming stuff and in the grand tradition. Mr. McDuff, paid to be the world's largest dealer in used oil-drilling equipment, is in Washington as a member of the One Thousand Club, members of which each contributed $1,000 to Mr.

Roosevelt's fourth-term campaign fund. It will be recalled that there was a good deal of bitter campaign oratory directed against this club, apparently without much effect. Certainly, nothing seems to have cramped the style of this great McDuff. Most Americans, we suspect, have a sneaking admiration for wearers of ostentatious haberdashery, and wish they had the nerve to wear something besides their own drab business suits. Therefore, we salute Mr.

McDuff of Seminole with admiration not unmixed with envy. New York Herald Tribune. Gasptivating Chicago's bobby-sox brigade is getting "hep" to religion, now that a preacher has come along with a youth-centered evangelism. With the exception of Frank Sinatra, seldom has one attraction brought more youngsters under one roof. Every Saturday crowds of 'teen-agers gather at the Moody Bible Institute to hear 35 -year-old Rev.

Torrey Johnson. Good-looking, nattily dressed, this dynamic preacher is a spiritual "swoonster," who spell-binds his youthful audience with a high-speed service "anchored to the Rock, but geared to the times." Big space newspaper advertisements cive the tip-off each week. Great songfests, energy-fired speakers, 45-second testimonials, longdistance telephone conversations by servicemen on the platform, hold attention. But Chicago's "Youth for Christ" movement is not all punch and sparkle. Though Johnson and his helpers use the "language of youth," they bring a message essentially religious with conviction of sin and the need for conversion as chief aims.

"Today's 'teen-agers are used to the best in radio entertainment," Johnson says. "We propose to offer them something equally good in mass Christian fellowship." Pathfinder Magazine. A hundred different designs of miniature electric bulbs are required for signaling and indicative devices, radios and telephones of the U. S. Army Signal Corps.

Old TO THE. Gt 1 of entertainment places. CLUBS The wets have belabored Department of Commerce statis- ticians for their recent estimate that the national 1944 liquor bill amounted to the staggering total I of seven billion dollars, or about cost per highball or cocktail should be nuonitoci in ovcrnrnn. eiucrtani- Literary Guidepost By W. G.

ROGERS "THE LANGUAGE OF WORLD WAR II." by A. Marjorie Taylor American Chennault. "The Last Time I Saw Paris" was a song be fore it became a book. Dover was Bing Bang Corner, and FBI's are the Forgotten Boys of Iceland. "Enemy Ears Are Listening" is credited to the OWI, but it might be added that the OWI translated it from the French slogan used in World War I.

The best remarks, it is perhaps significant to note, have to do with action rather than ideals, warfare rather than politics. Among them are: "Makin taken," "Sighted sub, sank same," "Scratch one flat top," "Send us more Japs," "We got a hell of a beating." These are rather the battle cry than the rallying cry. We have the "four freedoms" and the "Atlantic Charter" (which is not listed but it may be doubted whether this war has produced any great, historic phrases adequately embodying the ideals for which the Allies ngnt, phrases comparable, lor war to end war" and ova.v, "make the world safe for democracy." Used rlehtly, speech possesses duce the enkindling WORD. (By The Associated Press) 1 Eastern front: 130 miles (Moscow radio). 2 Western front; 310 miles (Lin-nich-Julich-Duren area).

3 Italian front: 544 miles (Reno Hiver). The Belgian city of Liese was at- tacked and occuniod bv the Ger- mans at the opening of" World War and was one of the major points to fall before the German drive in jMay, 1840. THE ROAD TO BERLIN WILBER A. SPOONIIOUR RECEIVES BRONZE STAR WITH THE 24TH DIVISION IN THE PHILIPPINES (Delayed) The battle for Leyte is virtually over but stories of heroism by Penn-sylvanians who helped fight it are still coming back. A hazardous reconnaissance Job in which Pfc.

Wilber A. Spconhour, Chambersburg, scouted behind Japanese lines while the enemy was attacking secured valuable information or. the deployment of enemy troops, and fought his way back to his lines information, won him the Bronze Star. By GALBRAITH O. 9.

PAT. OTP, By Martin OU DO the bed. To keep it from rocking while she was getting tlie patient into it, she placed a stick of wood under eacli rocker. Next Dottie covered her chair with a warm blanket, bringing it well down to the floor in front, She put the patient's stockings and slippers on as she lay on the bed. After helping her to a sitting no- sition on the edge of the bed with her feet on the floor, she put a bathrobe on over the gown, and allowed the patient to sit quietly for a minute or two until she got over a slight sensation of dizziness.

When the dizziness had passed Dottie helped the patient to her feet, and while supporting her carefully, helped her turn and seat herself in the chair. The blanket was folded about her for extra warmth, and a small pillow placed on the back of the chair for her i neacj i There was no footstool in the house, so Dottie made one by tying a rumen oi om maeaznes louewier and placing them under the patient's feet. nnrincr the half hour that the yJlAJtAMJ- "Well, if you must have coupons, I can't take the shoes but I didn't think you'd be so dreadfully formal with on old customer!" patient was in the chair Dottie insuperable power. No weapon stripped the bed, turned the mat- can halt its triumphant march. On tress and put on clean linens.

the evidence of this glossary, it "My, but it's nice to have an ex- i seems possible to charge that, while pert home nurse in the house," the "arsenal of democracy" pro-Mrs. Humphrey said as Dottie i duml tools and organizations helned her back to bed. i ided for victory, it failed to pro- Stuff :1 ij i Vfi 3996 STOW VSO feOOU raw Answers to Today's Do You Know? A German G. I. I Ol'R YEARS AGO TODAY (By The Associated Prrxs) Jan.

23, l'Ml Col. Charles A. Lindbcrgh tells House foreign af fairs committee that air invasion of U. S. across the ocean is impes- sible now or in predictable future.

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