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PAGE SIX PUBLIC OPINION, CHAMBERSBURG, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1 9 4 2 noon in the Red Cross branch head-; i 143 West King street; Clarence Sam-! uel Dehart, 264 Park street; Lawrence CIVILIAN DEFENSE INSIGNE 0. S. AND BRITAIf 'BORN IN THE ARMY' ed to the Dublin government just before the war, Washington had scant sympathy for the protest of Prime Minister Eamonn De Valera against arrival of the American forces. President Roosevelt made it plain that he regarded the protest inconsequential. ECONOMY LEAGUE SEEKS WAYS TO REDUCE TAXES "A enlh time, over went the Japs and 1 with them MacArthur.

Even as a neutral he wanted to be on the offensive. The years up to the first World War found young MacArthur slowly but steadily climbing the military ladder, building the character for which he Is famous today. He is a prodigious reader, has a fabulous memory. When, in later years, at a reception attended by several hundred people, young naval lieutenant went through the line for a second time, MacArthur greeted him: "So you are back again, eh?" And he is said to have known by name every non-com in the Philippine Scouts. Not the least of MacArthur's many social assets is his dancing ability.

It is typical of the man that when, as chief of staff, he attended ma DRAFT SURPRISE TACTICSFOR WAR (Continued from page one) Parliament that the United Ctates was being depended upon for transport and supply ships. When they are ready, he said, "we shall be able to move across the ocean next year two, three and even four times as large armies as the considerable forces we are able to handle at present." Although Churchill said that a swift redistribution of allied forces was directed on December 12, there was no indication of what may have been involved beyond President Roosevelt's assertion in a press n-ference late yesterday that America was sending all the help it could to the Southwest Pacific area and that six to ten American expeditionary forces are in various localities of the world. Beyond this immediate defense action was the broader, long-term strategy of deploying land sea forces over the whole world. The naval committee report said there were "many confidential details" about the special type vessels being built under the emergency program, and there was speculation that they would include substantial numbers of ships for landing operations on hostile shores. Increasing amphibious raids on the Axis-held coasts of Europe, -xjs-sibly building up to full-dress assaults on Norway from the British Isles and on Italy and the northern Mediterranean shore from the British-held bulge of Cirenaica, were considered likely parts of the long-range plan.

In the Pacific, the thinly-spread Japanese army and navy would be particularly vulnerable to sudden blows by a powerful amphibious force. Japan itself, with its 12 main islands and 4.000 smaller islands, offers a tempting target. In the Southwestern Pacific area, as President Roosevelt indicated at his press conference yesterday, the immediate strategy of the United Nations is to hold Australia and the Dutch East Indies as bases for a Pacific striking force. A recapitulation based on official communiques showed that American and Dutch forces had sunk or damaged 36, and possibly even more, enemy ships in the Macassar Straits. While Pacific and Atlantic striking forces are being built up, the British and American navies have as their main tasks the protection of Atlantic and Pacific supply routes.

The urgency of this task was emphasized by the Navy's announcement last night that enemy submarines had attacked two more American tankers off the Atlantic coast, with one sunk and the fate of the other not immediately determined. An estimated 17 survivors were landed at Lewes, from the sunken Francis E. Powell, while 12 survivors and two bodies were landed at Chincoteaque, Va. The Francis E. Powell normally carried a crew of 32.

The Navy held out hope that the Pan Maine, with a normal complement of 40, might have escaped from the raider which beset her yesterday afternoon. The new actions brought to 10 the number of vessels reported attacked off the Atlantic coast since January 14. Of the eight previously attacked, seven were sunk with a loss of 97 lives. New enemy submarine successes in the Western Atlantic off Canada were disclosed with arrival at a Canadian port of rescued seamen from a Norwegian tanker and a Greek freighter, reported to have been torpedoed with a possible loss of 51 men. Despite the latest attacks, the Navy's score against Atlantic submarines was considered good.

Several are known to have been disposed of and the expeditionary force to Northern Ireland was escorted across the ocean without mishap. This force, described officially as just a sample of "very considerable" numbers yet to go, now has joined the huge army Britain has been building up in the six northern countries since the summer of 1940 against the possibility of a German invasion of Eire, to the South. Neutrality of Eire gives the United Nations the same military problem which the Allies had in Western France before German invasion of the Lowlands. They have to prepare an expedition to rush into the country if and when the Germans strike, but the initiative is with the enemy. Because of this, and because of the need of naval bases on the Eire coast which Britain relinquish Alvin Webster, 1341 Vernon street, Harrisburg; Charles Edward Keller, Greencastle; Ivan Harvey Beard, 18 East Third street; Charles Woodrow Gates, 48 North Franklin street; John Joseph Fisher, St.

Rita's Rec-torv. Blue Ridge Summit; Kenneth Gift Schaeffer. 305 West Main street. SUB SIGHTED OFF TEXAS FORT ARTHUR, Jan. 28 (JP) rho Tjaw annnnnrcd todav a submarine had been sighted 15 miles southeast of Port Arkansas, at 9 A.

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PUBLIC SALES Wenger Auctioneer PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY The undersigned, intending to quit farming, will sell at his farm 6 miles north of Chambersburg, along the Lawyers road at the Oak Grove schoolhouse and church, known as Berlin farm, on TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1942 14 HEAD OF COWS All 100 per cent T. B. tested. 4 fresh cows, 2 springers, balance spring and summer cows, Guernsey and Hol-stein. Good Holstein bull, will weigh 700 pounds.

12 Ewes. HOGS 6 brood sows. Will farrow the last of March or beginning of April. 14 shoats, 60 to 80-pound average, 1 male hog, 125 pounds. FARMING MACHINERY Universal Minneapolis tractor, complete with electric equipment; 2 row hand lift cultivator, Minne apolis Combine Harvester 69 6-ft.

cut, complete with motor; McCormick Deering grain drill, 1 inch, 13 disc; Ohio Tractor manure spread er, with lift; Minneapolis pulver izer, 9-foot; 2-bottom, 12-in. John Deere plow, 24-tooth spring harrow. All the above machinery used oni season on slate land and is all power machinery. Hay loader. International make, International side-delivery rake, 18-tooth spring harrow, Dellinger feed grinder, will grind long and short feed; fodder shreader.

Other machinery and equipment used on a 184-acre farm. 400-rod American wire fence, 100 rods never unrolled, all new; G. M. C. flat-bed truck, used to haul anything on farm, a splendid orchard and farm truck; forks, rakes, shovels, digging irons, picks and other tools, milk cans, buckets and strainer a lot of good silage.

Antique corner cupboard, porch glider, and many other articles not mentioned. Sale at 11:30 A. M. Terms cash. C.

V. 1 OUST Wenger Auctioneer Carbaugh and Duffield Clerks PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PliOPERTY The undersigned, intending to quit farming, will sell, 2 miles west of Mercersburg, along the Africa road on the Steiger farm, on THURSDAY FEB. 19, 1942 HEAD OF HORSES Colts and mules, ranging in age from 1 to 19 years, 4 leaders, one mule, a leader. 23 HEAD OF CATTLE 15 milk cows, fresh and close springers, 5 heifers, 3 bulls, one serviceable age; 1 fat bull. FARMING IMPLEMENTS A complete line of farm machinery, enough to farm 150 acres, all in good condition, and all kinds of small articles that are used on farm; also a full line of gears, enough -for six horses; fodder by the bundle.

POWER MACHINERY F-12 Farmall tractor, nearly, new; McCormick Deering Little Wonder tractor plow, McCormick Deering 18-in. double disc, McCormick Deering hammermill, nearly new; Dellingef fodder shredder, 12-in. wood saw and frame, 4 0-ft. endless belt. Some household goods, set butchering tools, iron kettles, milk cans, buckets and strainer, and a great many articles not mentioned.

Sale at 1 0 o'clock. Terms 'cash. MRS. GEORGE FINNIFF PUBLIC SALE OF REAL ESTATE The undersigned, in pursuance of an Order of the Orphans' Court of Franklin County, Pennsylvania, will offer at public sale in front of the courthouse, Chambersburg, on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1942 The following real property of the estate of B. Frank Kinzer, deceased, known as No.

2 39 Mt. Mortah street, Chambersburg, limited and described as follows: Bounded on the east by Mt. Mo-riah street, on the south by lot No. 10, on the west by lots No. 4 and 3 and on the north by a ptJblic alley, having a frontage on Mt.

Moriah street of eighty-two (82) feet and a depth of fifty-five (55) feet, being lots No. 8 and 9 on a plan of lots laid out by W. O. Zacharias, Borough Engineer, on February 14, 1922, for Abram L. Weaver and John F.

Weaver. Improvements are a story ami a half bungalow building, containing 5 rooms and a bath and electric lights. Kale at 10:30 A. DST. Reasonable terms made known on day of sale.

JOHN M. KINZER Administrator of the Estate of B. Frank Kinzer, deceased D. Edw. Long, Attorney MMIIESS Issues Pamphlet 'Your Municipal Budget' in Its Campaign HARRISBURG, Jan.

28 () This is "open season" for hunting down ways to cut local taxes, the Pennsylvania Economy League suggested today. Open season, says the league, a non-partisan research organization, in its pamphlet "Your Municipal Budget," means this is the period of the year in which budgets in counties, boroughs, townships, school and poor districts are being formulated. "During this time the local budget-making officials are open for suggestions and consultation as to possible improvements in the financial programs of local communities," the league said. "The Economy League calls attention to the fact that in this war year of 1942 it is more necessary than ever before for county officials and taxpayers to sit down and mutually agree upon possible savings. Both realize that, in view of the President's demand for the largest war budget in the entire history of the world, there is pressing necessity for cutting all State and local expenses to the lowest possible sums.

"It is in this frame of mind that the league suggests a reexamination of every item of public expense to see if any can be reduced or dispensed with." PARTY LEADERS REPORT 'PROGRESS' IN PARLEYS Democrats Still Divided on 'Open Primary' Issue of Guffey HARRISBURG, Jan. 28 (A) Democratic leaders reported "progress" today in discussions of gubernatorial candidates and the major factional difference over an "open primary" but looked to further meetings to bring a final settlement. U. S. Senator Joseph F.

Guffey conferred with Democratic members of Congress from Pennsylvania yesterday and termed the gathering "very harmonious and satisfactory" but the representatives were divided on the issue of State committee endorsement of candidates. Guffey favors abandonment of the customary State committee approval, declaring for what he termed a "popular primary" instead. National Committeeman David L. Lawrence and his followers in and out of Congress insist on adhering to the party's policy of endorsement. Among those who sided with Guffey at yesterday's Washington meeting was Representative Francis Walter" of Easton who 1 ad been left out of the invitations to the luncheon after he criticised Guffey's last conference.

Asked whether his stand in favor of an open primary did not put him on Guffey's side in the issue, Walter replied: "It probably does." DESERTION ALLEGED Desertion as of February 9, 1939, is alleged by Archie G. Moser of i Waynesboro in divorce proceedings entered in the- county courts yes-i terday against Margaret E. Moser, also of Waynesboro. They were mar- ried at Hagerstown December 27, 1 1927. A bi-monthly magazine is one published once every two months.

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Andrew, Mrs. L. C. Bareham, Mrs. James Byron, Mrs.

A. Ray Fallon, Mrs. Eldon Gift, Mrs. Raymond Gingrich, Mrs. W.

B. Grove, Mrs. George F. Hamer, Mrs. Daniel Heffner, Mrs.

Thelma Hill, Miss Mary Hyams, Mrs. W. I. Jacobs, Mrs. Margaret Keyser, Mrs.

M. B. Krebs, Mrs. James Johnston, Miss Ella McDonald, Mrs. James W.

Moyer, Mrs. Walter Oyler, Mrs. Don Ryder, Mrs. Melvin Stenger, Mrs. J.

Frank Snyder, Mrs. Beverly Tallent, Mrs. J. c. Varden, Mrs.

Mary Grafton and Miss Martha McDowell. T. Frank McFarland, who has been ill at the home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. J.

C. Varden, is much improved. Mrs. Grey H. Wyman, Church street, has been confined to her home by a heavy cold for the past few days.

Because of her illness, the meeting of the local Red Cross board, which was scheduled to meet on Monday, was cancelled. Mrs. Wyman is chairman of the board. A Red Cross first aid night class, for men only, will be started on Tuesday, February 3, and will last from 8 to 10 o'clock. The teacher will be Dr.

Lewis H. Hitzrot, who taught the first class, and is now conducting a class at the Mercersburg Academy. This class will meet at the Red Cross headquarters on each Tuesday night. J. Truman Miller, Hagerstown, formerly of town, was a Mercersburg visitor on Tuesday.

Scott Zimmerman and his son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Zimmerman, Sylvan, were Mercersburg visitors on Tuesday. Miss Virginia Rose, who served on the grand jury, was an overnight guest of Mrs. Herbert S.

Foltz, Chambersburg, on Monday. The names of Mrs. A. F. Theisz, Miss Mary Hoffeditz, Mrs.

Mary Kendall and Mrs. V. J. Byron have been added to the roll of the evening home nursing class. M'CONNELLSBURG M'CONNELLSBURG, Jan.

23 Mrs. Russell Glazier, who recently was appointed mercantile appraiser for Fulton County, spent last Thursday in Harrisburg on business. Mrs. Glazier was accompanied by Miss Ella Kendall, R. visiting nurse for Fulton County, who attended a meeting of visiting nurses.

The Future Farmers of America members of the McConnellsburg High School, under the supervision of Joseph Schelly, teacher of vocational agriculture, collected paper for defense on Monday afternoon. The paper was called for and delivered to the tin shed behind the Fulton House. Richard William Brady, formerly of West Virginia, who has been residing in Ayr Township near Big Cove Tanneary, recently left that community for his former home in Webster County, W. where he intends to make his home. The Busy Builders, a women's organization of the Lutheran Church of McConnellsburg, met on Tuesday evening at the home of Airs.

John Kelso in North Second street. Registration for civilian defense continues two afternoons and one evening each week in the courthouse. All who have not registered are urged to do so at once. BOMBERS BLAST JAP TRANSPORTS (Continued from page one) ed the British back 150 miles in three days, had been stopped for two days and had apparently come to an impasse in their counter-drive. Axis versions of the struggle differed.

While Hitler's headquarters noted merely "reconnaissance activity on both sides" in the Libyan Desert, Premier Mussolini's high command asserted that the British were continuing to retreat eastward. On the Crimea front, a German war bulletin asserted that Russian reinforcements landed on the southern coast of the Black Sea peninsula had been beaten off and almost completely wiped out in several days of hard fighting. The Red army newspaper Red Star said assault troops were at the approaches of important centers of German resistance in that snow-smothered area, and of these Rzhev, a railroad center on the upper Volga 130 miles from the capital, is outstanding. British bombers to be joined eventually by United States fliers in assaults upon Axis targets by report of Prime Minister Churchill struck again last night at the docks of Brest and Boulogne, on the German-occupied French coast. GOVERNMENT DOES NOT PLAN SAVINGS SEIZURE Federal Reserve Bank Head Points To Damaging Rumor PHILADELPHIA, Jan.

2S Rumors have been afloat that the government is planning to confiscate savings accounts. Alfred H. Williams, president oi the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, has issued an emphatic denial that anything of the sort is contemplated. "Any rumor or intimation that the government is planning to confiscate savings accounts is unfounded and is injurious to the morale of the community and the 'nation. The Secretary of the Treasury strongly denied it.

Said the Secretary, 'I wish to state most emphatically that there are no foundations whatever for such rumors. The federal government does not have under consideration any proposal involving the confiscation of savings deposits of this country for any purpose. Furthermore, any one circulating rumors of this char acter is acting against the welfare of the nation'." Carriages in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth were called "whilicotes." ANT AMERICAN ROAD REPAIR CREW The road repair crew members will be identified by an indispensable symbol of their work the shovel done in. red and placed in white triangle set in blue circle. 1 Regular street and road repair crews must be augmented by able civilian volunteers, preferably men, who can help to restore the normal flow of traffic quickly after an air raid or other major disaster.

The wearing of this insigne is limited to workers enrolled in the road repair crew in the Civilian Defense Organization. BOARD ANNOUNCES TEN" SELECTEES FOR SERVICE WAYNESBORO, Jan. 28 Th names of 10 selectees in the Waynesboro area who are to be inducted into the United States Army in the near future were released yesterday by Draft Board No. 3. This will be the first group to be called for induction since the United States entered the war.

The board announced that three of the group are volunteers. The selectees: Ralph Bender CofTman, Waynesboro, R. R. Gilson Lorenz Freeman, Mont Alto; John D. Benedict, Men, Yomen Over 40 Don't Be Weak, Old Feel Peppy, New, Years Younger Take Ostrex.

Contains Reneral tonics, stimulant often needtni after 40 by bodies lacking iron calcium phosphate and Vitamin Bi. A 73-year-oJd doctor writes: "It did so much for ptlrntx, I took myself. Results were fine." Get regular $1.00 size Ostrex Tonic Tablets today for only 89o. Start teeling peppier and years younger, this very day. For sale at all pood drng stores everywhere in Chambersburg; and Mercersburg, at Walker's Drug.

PUBLIC SALES Zimmerman and Cook Auets. CLEARING OUT SALE At my residence, 6 miles southeast Greencastle, on March pike, near Winger-ton Station, on FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1942 5 HEAD OF HORSES AXD COLTS 2 single line leaders, 10 and 15 years, 3 offside workers, 4 to 9 years. These are good work horses. 30 HEAD GOOD MILK COWS AXD BULLS 16 head fresh, springers and fall cows, 4 good heifers, 6 to 18 months, 10 stock and tat bulls. A good bunch.

35 HEAD OF HOGS 5 brood sows, 4 with pigs; g-ood male hogr; balance pigs and shoats, 3 0 to 85 pounds. IMPLEMENTS 2-horse wagon and bed, McCormick Deering low wagon with 15-ft. flat, 16-ft. hay carriers, McCormick binder, 7-ft. cut; McCormick Deering mower, Case tight bottom hay loader, Mas-sey Harris side rake, McCormick Deering dump rake, Farmers Favorite 10 -hoe grain drill.

Simplex corn planter, McCormick Deering riding corn plow, Oliver walking corn plow, McCormick Deering manure spreader, 2 Weird barshare plows, 104 and 10 2 spring tooth harrows, 18 and 22-tooth; No. 77 Dellinger hammermill, fodder shredder. Buick motor for belt power, 50-ft. belt, corn sheller, 2 electric motors. Va h.

p. and 1 h. 2 harrow cultivators, potato plow, single and triple shovel plows, wheelbarrow, bag wagon, scales, hay forks, rope and pulleys; hitch-ings of all descriptions. Forks, shovels, log chains, lot blacksmith tools, 2 brooder stoves, some poultry supplies, 25 potato crates; 1936 International pick-up truck. HARNESS 5 sets gears, lot collars, bridles, halters, lines and other straps.

DAIRY EQUIPMENT Electric 4-can milk cooler, 10-gal. milk cans, milk buckets, 'strainers and stools. HOUSEHOLD GOODS Large sink with cupboard, 12-ft. extension table, beds and bureaus, child's single bed, buffet, chairs, library table, lounge, solid walnut wardrobe, black enamel Columbian Emblem cook stove (good), small Heatrola, ll 'i 12 Axminster rug, good as new; crock and jars; kettle stove, meat bench, sausage stuffer, and many articles not mentioned. Sale at 10 o'clock A.

M. sharp. Terms cash. Lunch stand reserved. PRESTON M.

SHOWATTEIt Wenger, Auct Miller, Clerk PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY The undersigned, intending to quit farming, will sell 6 miles north of Chambersburg, 1 mile west of the concrete road to Pleasant Hall, on MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1912 11 HEAD OF HORSES AND COLTS Ranging in age from 10 months to 14 years 5 bays, 3 strawberry roans, 1 mare in foal, 4 single line leaders. These are good young heavy horses, weighing up to 1.S00 pounds. 20 HEAD OF CATTLE Holstein and Guernsey. 10 milk cows, fresh, close springers, and summer cows, 7 heifers, 3 bulls. 30 HEAD OP HOGS 2 brood sows will farrow in March; balance shoats.

IMPLEMENTS 4 wagons, 1 with bed; bob sled. 8-ft. McCormick Deering binder, 7-ft. McCormick Deering mower, McCormick Deering hay loader, dump rake, hay tedder. 2 sets 20 -ft.

hay carriers, IK -ft. flat bottom McCormick Deering 10-hoe grain drill, McCormick Deering manure spreader, 2 Oliver chilled barshare plows, cultipacker, 3 -section harrow, drag harrow, .2 McCormick Deering riding corn plows, single, double and triple trees, jockey sticks, log, breast, butt and cow chains, hay fork, rope and pulleys. Va h. p. gas engine, and all kinds of small articles that are used on a farm: also 500 good pointed rails, 100 good posts, 200 wire fence posts, some fodder.

GEARS Enough for 6 horses, bridles, collars, halters, check lines, plow lines, etc. HOUSEHOLD GOODS Kitchen cabinet, Uricker make; library table, sideboard, marble-top wash-stand, sink, chairs, iron bed, springs, carpets, dishes, Majestic range, copper kettle, iron kettle, and many other articles not mentioned. Sale at 10 o'clock. Terms cash. The Ladies of the Salem Church neuvers in Yugoslavia in 1931, he was able to join hands with others at an official dinner and execute the intricate paces of the kolo, Yugos lavia's national dance.

America's entry into the last war found MacArthur, a major, in Washington as press officer. Inherently conscious of the value of publicity, here, in his first contacts with the press, he struck up many, hard and fast friendships with newspapermen. Years later, when he was chief of staff, a newspaperman in his party stopped off on the way to an important function to telephone. In a few moments an orderly was impatiently pounding on the door of the phone booth: "The general's compliments, sir," said the orderly, "and the general says will you get the hell out there, you're holding up the show." No wonder newspapermen liked MacArthur. Good as he was as a press officer, he did not hold the job long.

Secretary of War Baker himself recognized that the young major had unique organizing talents which would be invaluable in the field. Baker put those talents to work, making Douglas MacArthur chief of staff of the famed Rainbow Division. Before the war was over Baker was to call this young man a brigadier general while still in his tnirties America's "greatest fighting front line general." Next: The "Hell to breakfast baby." News of County Towns and Communities By PUBLIC OPINION Correspondents GREENCASTLE GREENCASTLE, Jan. 28 The Greencastle Rotary Club was entertained at its dinner meeting on Monday evening bv John R. Gav-erick and Samuel Bair, Harrisburg, who presented a motion picture, "Railroadin" by the General Electric Company.

The picture, in technicolor, portrayed the early pioneer days of America's founders, the hardships and what would now be inconveniences of the horse for transportation. Mrs. Florence Hawbaker, Mrs. May Burkholder and Ross Filer, all of Greencastle. R.

R. 2, are patients at the Waynesboro Hospital. Miss Margaret Foglesonger, who was graduated from the Greencastle High School in the Class of 1940, has returned from the Strouds-burg State Teachers College where she was a student for the past year and a half. Miss Fogelsanger is planning to take up other work. Mr.

and Mrs. Barron Shipley, Meyersdale, who have been on a short visit In Greencastle, left on Tuesday for Meyersdale accompanied by Mrs. Shipley's mother, Mrs. D. F.

"Ryder, who will spend a week in the Shipley home. At recent congregational meeting of Trinity Evangelical and Reformed Church of State Line, which is part of the pastorate of Rev. G. E. Plott of Greencastle, the following officers were elected: Elders, C.

N. Binkley and B. F. Lesher; deacons, Mason Binkley and Paul Horst; trustee, Herman Baker. The reports of both the Greencastle and State Line charge revealed the usual activities.

Both churches had fully met the benevolent obligations. A little more than $5,000 had been contributed for current expenses and benevolent causes during the year 1941. Rev. G. E.

Plott is this week completing his 16th year as pastor of this charge. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fortney were guests on Sunday in the home of Mr. and Mrs.

James W. Leedy, Waynesboro. Lee Steiger, former Mercersburg postmaster, has been named chief clerk for Franklin County Draft Board No. 2, located in the Carl building, North Carlisle street, Greencastle. As a precaution against possible air raid and fire, 35 buckets have been purchased by the Greencastle school board and placed in the halls and various rooms of the school building.

Announcements have also been read in all the school rooms telling the students of the place prepared for them in the basement in ca.se of raids. Robert Walter, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Walter, North Car lisle street, left recently for Washington, where he will be employed in the War Department. Miss Dorothy Ryder, Greencastle, with Mr.

and Mrs. Don Ryder and son Don Ryder, of Mercersburg, were visitors at Camp Belvoir, on Sunday. Robert Ryder is stationed at this camp. Miss Mary Grove will be the hostess for the meeting of the Kensington Circle at 1 o'clock on Friday at her home in East Baltimore street. MERCERSBURG MERCERSBURG, Jan.

28 The afternoon class in home nursing began on Monday, with 25 in attendance. The roll will not be permanent until the third meeting. The teacher is Mrs. David F. Chapman, who was graduated from the Booth- by Surgical Hospital of Boston, and is experienced in teaching this course.

The class will meet each Monday and Thursday after cV 'cr Gen. Douglas MacArthur LIFE OF GENERAL Life-Tale of Great Soldier Is One That Sparkles With Superlatives Back to the wall in a tiny Philippine island, Gen. Douglas MacArthur leading fearless, flght-fsplrited. American and Illipino troops is writing in blood a saga of bnttle gainst overwhelming rxlds that will live as long as poets sing of courage. So you may know this great American soldier, NEA Servlce-PUBLic ofiniont have prepared the thrilling, flctlon-seem-Ing story of his rich career.

It Is in thrc articles, the first of which appears below, By TOM WOLF NEA Service Staff OrreHpondent The last official act of General Dougln MacArthur as he ended his tour of duty as Chief of Stall in 13:55 was to pen a message for the offlcers and men of the United States Army whose boss he had been for the unprecedented term of five years. I want them to know," he aaUl, that I have done my b-st, that I have kept the soldier faith." That one sentence is the biography of Douglas MacArthur, whose present gallant battle to keep that fidth In the face of overwhelming Japanese odds in the Philippines Is A fitting climax to a magnificent fighting man's career. The life story of Douglas Mac-Arthur reads like a 'Tom Swift In 1 he full of firsts, onlys, bests. He was graduated first in his West point class, was first cadet senior cnptaln; he was the youngest division commander in France, youngest commandant in West Point history, youngest American chief of Ma it in history; be is the only chief tit staff to hold that office more than four years, only American ofllcer vet to become a field marshal. WiHi all that behind him.

Gen. MacArlhur has Jut reached 62. Tall, If an. hajulflomd, the erstwhile "D' Aftagnnn of the A. TP." looks fif-t rn years younger.

His dark hair is thinning, but he combs it proudly over the bn let spots. Ills features and lxnring are military, intense: high forehead; narrow face; thin, sensitive noHe and mouth; dark, flash-In eyes. According to all the rules, Gen. MacArthur's military history should have ended on December 31, 1937, wlu-n he retired from active duty in the U. H.

Army. But rules, which he once called "the refuge of weaklings," have seldom governed Douglas MacArthur's life. When the Far Eastern crisis began to reach a head last Summer, president Roosevelt called Mac-Arthur back from Ms "retirement" which he had been spending helping the Philippines build a r.ative defense. If MacArthur's pres ent, post-retirement exploits are but a I. S.

to his story, they are a tail likely to wag the dog. Dourjns MacArthur's military lite properly begins in the Civil Vnr -20 years before he was born. It bepina with his father, Arthur MacArthur, who, a colonel at 20, made by leading hl.s troops the charge at Ridge. Pother MacArthur later himself against the Spanish in the Philippines, and It was to Gen. Arthur MacArthur that Manuel Quezon surrendered his bword at hostilities' end.

Nearly 40 years later this same Manuel Quezon was to give Gen. Arthur MacArthur's ton, Douglas, an 11 -ounce gold baton MACARTHUR DIMS FICTION'S HEROES a soldier's soldier. signifying field marshalship of the Philippine Army. Douglas MacArthur's heritage was to be further tied to the Philippines. As military governor of the islands after the Spanish war, Father MacArthur helped the Filipinos draw up a civil code that was both intelligent and democratic.

The crowning drama of Gen. Arthur MacArthur's life came when, disregarding strict orders from his doctor, he delivered at the 50th reunion of the G. A. R. what he said would be his last address to his troops.

As he ended his passionate oration, he staggered, dropped dead. Up rushed his old adjutant and, covering Mac-Arthur with the regimental colors, fell dead himself across his beloved general's body. Such was the inheritance, rich in courage and drama, that was born with Douglas MacArthur, on January 26, 1880. Literally born into the Army fat the Little Rock, barracks) Douglas MacArthur grew up in it. His first childhood recollection was the martial sound of bugles.

His first childhood trip was with the Army to his father's new post in New Mexico, There, when he was four, he was baptized In battle by the zing of arrows during an Indian attack on the post. Schooled in army post schools, young Doug MacArthur was appointed to West Point with the class of 1903. A brilliant military student, he blasted scholastic records that had stood for 25 years. But his career at the Academy was not only academically distinguished. Legend has it that the handsome soldier- to-be broke cadet records on another field by becoming engaged to eight firls at once.

Legend also has it that as a cadet, absent without leave, he once had to sneak back through a coal chute. It Is probably the only time in his life that he has looked really messy. For Douglas MacArthur's flair for the dramatic extends to his dress. Even in the trenches In France he managed to retain his sartorial aplomb. Washington will never forget the plum-colored tie that graced his uniform when he was chief of staff.

And Manila remembers his crisp white suits and flaming red shirts with ties to match. If his love of elegance did not fhow up at West Point, another MacArthur love of sports did. Only football and baseball were played at the Academy during his days there, and he concentrated on the diamond, winning his as a fielder. Later on, when he was commandant at The Point, MacArthur va.s to establish Intermural snorts so that every cadet would participate. His are the words that today are carved in the marble keystone over the entrance to the Academy gym: "On these friendly fields of strife are sown the seeds that on other fields ond other days will bring forth victory." MacArthur's Interest in sports brought him the Presidency of the American team that went to the Olympics at Amsterdam in 1928.

He kit his mark in Holland with one of the dramatic, stirring episodes which are so typical of him. The manager of the American boxing team thought that his men had gotten some raw decisions. He threatened to withdraw it from the remaining bouts. MacArthur ordered the team back to the ring with one sentence: "Americans don't quit." Though In recent years his only exercise has been walking (for some r. ever-explained reason he has always hated to ride horseback), Gen.

MacArthur's interest in srxirts has never flagged since West Point days. Every Saturday night before the war found him at the fights in Manila. It was prophetic that immediately after graduation, Douglas MacArthur, then a lieutenant of engineers, was assigned to the Philippines his first of many tours there. Next, as aide to his father, he was an observer in of all Japan, during the Russo-Japanese war. Young Lt.

MacArthur watched the Japs charge up up Mukden Hill six repulsed. The sev-j umes, only to be H. M. Zimmerraw Auctioneer Shindle, Coble and Zimmerman Clerks PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY The undersigned, having rented his farm and moving to the village of Lemasters, will sell without reserve at his farm, three miles south of Lemasters, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1942 8 HEAD OF HORSES AND MULES So. 1 Gray mare, coming 6 years old, works anywhere: No.

2 Brown mare, coming 5 years old, works anywhere; No. 3 Sorrel horse, coming 5 years old, offside worker; Nos. 4 and 5 Pair brown mules, coming 7 years old, one a single line leader: Nos. 6 and 7 Pair of brown mules, coming 3 years old, well broken; No. 8 Grey mule, offside worker.

40 HEAD OF CATTLE 30 milk cows, 12 fresh by day of sale, balance milking and close springers; 5 stock bulls, large enough for service; 5 heifers, 3 springing to be fresh. 12 HEAD OF HOGS 12 shoats, weighing about 100 lbs. 9 HEAD OF SHEEP 8 ewes with lambs and one buck. FARM MACHINERY Grain binder, 8 -ft. cut.

McCormick-Deering, like new; Xew Idea hay loader, used one season; New Idea side rake, used one season; 11 disc 7-inch AlcCormick-Deering grain drill; 5 -ft. McCormtck-Deerlng mower; AlcCor-mick-Ueering disc corn planter; 5 McCormick-Deering riding corn plows: 8-ft. McCormick-Deering cultipacker; 3 No. 30 Syracuse plows; 3-horse Wiard plow; 2 No. 10 New Idea manure spreaders; four section lever harrow; 2 wood frame harrows, one 60-tooth harrow; 2 No.

4 Brown wagons with beds; farm wagon; 2 lowdown wagons with flat beds; shovel plows: triple, double and single trees: butt traces; breast chains and many other articles not mentioned. POWER MACHINERY 1939 Model WC Allis-Chalmers tractor; Oliver disc plow; 8-ft. McCormick-Deering double disc harrow; plate grinding mill; 16-inch Papec insilage cutter with inside and outside pipe, like new; 80 -ft. 6-inch endless rubber belt; h. p.

electric motor: emery grinder. GEARS AND HARNESS 8 sets of gears, bridles, halters, lines, collars and nets. 9 milk cans, buckets and strainers. LOT OF HOUSEHOLD GOODS. Sale at 10 A.

M. Lunch counter reserved. A. V. IH'BER Stull Auctioneer PUBLIC SALU: At Waynecastle, along old road, on W.

II. Mann farm, on FRIDAY, JANUARY 30. 1912 16 HEAD OF CATTLE 1 Guernsey cow to be fresh soon; 12 Guernsey heifers, 3 Guernsey bulls. New cream separator, used only 4 days, milk cans, buckets and strainer. IMPLEMENTS Two wagons, mower, manure spreader, corn planter, disc drill, hay rake, 2 harrows, disc, plows, walking corn plow and gears.

Many other articles not mentioned. Sale at 1 o'clock P. M. Terms cash. MRS.

W. H. MANN George Auctioneer PUBLIC SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY At my residence in Stouft'erstown, on SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 1912 Bureaus with mahogany finish and glass knobs. Singer sewing machine in good condition, antiques, and everything in the house; garden and carpenter tools. Sale at 1 o'clock P.

M. Termi cash. LEVI G. KLLNE 1 will serve lunch. HEX It F.

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