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PAGE FOURTEEN Phone 2263 POTTSTOWN MERCURY, POTTSTOWN, PA. SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 17, 1946 VETERANS (Continued from and Prints are attending school. Not all veterans, however, were critical. El wood W. Embody, of 1007 Semb- Hng avenue, said he thought GIs are getting what was promised but he quickly modified that by adding, not everything, but almost." Embody reported that he had been given his old job back, and that speaking I'm pretty well Gerald R.

Bewley, of 478 North Franklin street, went a step further and conceded he had bettered himself since his discharge from the service. would say things went all right for Asked if he had regained his pre-war job, he answered: got a better one. with the same The general tone of comments from former soldiers, sailors and Marines, however, seemed to support the general's statements. The general declared that we each veteran to become a self-respecting useful citizen in his community, we must not treat him as an While none of the men interviewed would say lie had been treated an outcast, Earl W. Miller, of 29 West Fourth street had this to say: talk about the veterans of the first World War getting it rough.

We have had to take about as much or more than they He was bitter on the subject of rising prices, saying that takes about all a man can do to keep a family As to respect shown veterans, Miller asserted: had better respect shown me over in the islands than they show me Asked what he thought was wrong with present conditions, he answered that seems ready to lend a helping hand to anyone Asked what improvements he would suggest, Miller offered this contribution in assailing what he termed of people: General in Panama WM Russian Poker In Mexico The mystery of how Russian poker began moved a little nearer solution yesterday, or maybe further away depending on how you look at it. At any rate, Bert B. Wager, Pot tstown jeweler, came forward with the announcement that he has seen the game demonstrated, was in Nogales, he said. was in a tavern with about six fellows from our base in Tucson, Wager interrupted himself to explain that Nogales is on the American border, an international fence splitting the town. were on the Mexican met an old Mexican, about 65 vears old, who had had a few General Dwight Eisenhower flashes his famous smile to the thousands cheering Panamanians streets as he rides through Panama City, accompanied by Enrique A.

Jiminez, president of Panama. The visit was part of a Pan-American tour. 90 KILLED GIRL INJURED (Continued from Pagf One) evidence of arson and looting in the communal clash of unprecedented violence. Despite from all Indian parties to their followers to avoid violence, tempers boiled over and fights erupted in the streets of Calcutta during the Moslem-sponsored, one-day haKal (work stoppage.) (Continued from Pane One) of Norristown, was notified of the i girl's death early this mrning and he released the body to an undertaker at Boyertown. Anette was a pupil at the paro chial school of the Catholic church of the Most Blessed Sacrament.

She is survived by a brother Roland, of Pottstown, and two sisters. Mrs picket duty and armed civilian police wearing steel helmets patrolled the streets in the attempt to maintain order. Peace squads from all 1 parties, including the Communist I tWftk that if there was more ancj All-India Congress, chief British troops were called out for Mary Hunsberger, Boyertown, and love shown each other nowadays, things would be a lot better than they are SCHOOL LUNCHES (Continued from Page One) will continue to administer a similar program for 228,000 parochial school children. The program, heretofore operated by Federal agencies, provides warm food at a cost of cents per meal and is tied in with Federal purchases of surplus foods from farmers. Under the plan approved during i Invited 60,000,000 the day, the State Department of I Harijans the untouchables Public Instruction will immediately jt0 the fight for Paki- seek agreements with local school jstan an independent Moslem authorities so that the Federal jstate grants allocated to Pennsylvania storm centers in will be matched dollar for dollar by 1 Calcutta was the Manicktolla rival of the Moslew League, aided the authorities.

Meanwhile in BorrVbav Pandit Jawharlal Nehru, president of the predominantly Hindu All India Congress party, told newsmen he was going ahead with formation of an interim India government without the co-operation of the Moslem League. He added that the Congress was willing at any time to discuss co-operation with the league. There was no disorder in Bombay, where Firor Khan Noon. Gloria, at home. em ber of the Moslem League high command, before a cheering Moslem local funds, usually in the form of services.

In some cases in the past, children contributed towards the cost of the lunches by payments of 50 cents a week and, in others, the local cost was defrayed by school districts or civic groups. Iron with mtehanieil prwjtlon. eut tleaner, taster. You'll this filino Lat ui file your saw. Rollin (J, Mintzer, 921 Walnut Pottstown.

PLUMBING HEATING OIL BURNERS PUMPS Jobbing a Specially HILL WILLIAMS RD 1, SPRING CITY Phone Royersford 301 WE NEED SCRAP PAPER for ESSENTIAL PURPOSES RAGS ALSO Will gladly call anywhere and pay you well. HENRY POLLOCK GLASGOW PHONE 2004 district, scene of disturbances in previous riots. In addition to street battles there two shops were reported looted and pedestrians were assaulted. Nehnu held a news conference in Bombay this morning, following his meeting last night with Mohamed Ali Jinnah, president of the. Moslem league.

That meeting, said Nehru, "did not bring us nearer one Jinnah had similar comment and said there would be no further conferences between the two leaders. In reply to a question concerning the Moslem league's threats of direct action, Nehru told reporters either knocks the government over or the government knocks direct action unless a compromise can be achieved. Johnstown Man Charged With Stabbing Murder SOMERSET. Aug. 16 red stains found on Michael car and clothing were shown by tests to have been made by human blood.

State police today formally charged the 38-year-old Johnstown man with the stabbing death of Frank Dyn, alias Frank Dione, 67, also of Johnstown, last Sunday night near Hooversville. Andolina was arriagned before Justice of Peace William H. Harrison and then was returned to the Somerset county jail. The prisoner, his arrest early in the week, has steadfastly maintained his innocence. A woman passenger in a taxicab was injured in a three-car crash at King and Franklih streets at 5:10 last evening.

The victim, Elizabeth Yost, of 451 Beech street, was taken to the Homeopathic hospital where she is being treated for bruises at the base of the spine, bruises of the right side of the body and shock. Motor Patrolman Earl Rhoads and Patrolman Joseph Thees, who investigated, reported that a taxicab going south on Franklin street. Operator of the machine was Paul Morello, of 620 Vine street, Stowe. Zr drinks. He was telling us that Rus- anegecl practices.

Some of the com- Justice Department Is Conducting Probe Of Price-Fixing in Numerous Commodities WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 Justice department is looking into a Jiarge number" of complaints of price-fixing agreements and other illegal trade practices in numerous since their price ceilings were lifted. An official fully informed on the studies disclosed this to a reporter today. He said complaints of price fixing and artificially created shortages in meat have been received from many sections of the country, specifically naming Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington. He said the department also rushing a study of a "very large number" of complaints involving other industries which he declined to name, to determine whether anti-trust prosecutions should be undertaken.

The official stressed that many meat handlers have no part in the sian poker was introduced by Amer lean soldiers during the 1914 incident with Mexico. plaints have come from within the meat industry itself, he said. The Justice department official boasted that the soldiers sai(j complaints also are being stud- those days had more guts than iefi Qf illegal trade tactics in the meat industry. They include: I Reported coercion of retail meat dealers through purchases." Some dealers have complained that they are forced tp buy useless or hard-to-sell produces in order to GIs have now. Wager commented that there were four combat veterans in the group.

show us how tough he was, he said he'd show us how they used to play Russian poker in the old "I saw him put a bullet in his The assertedly large-scale entry some and What happened? the Wager said, gun department anti-trust division didn't go off. But the old fellow study ng whether trend threat- opened the gun and dropped the ens the al mdepe slug on the bar. It was no trick." meat fjf' he reloaded the gun and Withholding of offered it to us, but we said jmarket in an alleged to experience occurred The Civilian Produc- while he was a B-29 flight engineer, tion administration also is investi- stationed at Davis-Monthan field, sating this field in what it terms Tucson. He now lives in effort to avert a threatened phla, Anyone got a different story? of shoe production. Dominick F.

Kennedy, of town RD 3, was traveling east on King street. The operator told police that his car reached the center of the intersection It was struck by the taxicab. A car operated by Robert Riegner, 311 Chestnut street, had halted along the curb on the East side of Franklin street. The impact hurled the taxicab into the parked car. The right rear fender of the taxicab and the front portion of the Kennedy car were damaged.

The third car had the left front fender bent. LEGION MEETING (Continued from Page work in connection with the Philadelphia Naval hospital. I. Leroy Johnson, past commander, stated that progress was being made on the dismantling of a CCC camp barracks at Hopewell which will be re-erected at the Legion BALLES SENTENCE (Continued rrom Page One) Earlier in the day, Duffy filed petition with the court asking for a new trial because of additional evidence discovered by the defense. The petition was dismissed by Judge Knight before he sentenced the defendant.

After he was sentenced, Balles TRUMAN MAY ASK (Continued from Page One) policy statement said that while Mr. Truman had been exchanging views on the explosive Palestine question with Prime Minister Attlee of Britain, government has not presented any plan of its own for the solution of The United States repeatedly has urged Britain to let more Jewish refugees into Palestine. Diplomatic authorities said this position now can be reinforced by pointing to a White House inclination to admit more Jews into America. Despite the formal disavowal of any American plan for settling the Palestine controversy, it was learned that Mr. put a measure of administratiori support behind suggestions of the Jewish agency for Palestine that separate Arab and Jewish states be created in Palestine, with a large degree 75r Funeral services for NEWTON ITMSTEAD, of POTTSTOWN RD 1, and husband of Mary Elizabeth (Tvson) Umstead, were held yesterday afternoon at 2 from funeral parlors at 112 North Washington street.

The Rev. Francis W. Charlton, pastor of the Cedarville Methodist church, officiated. Interment was made in the St. cemetery, Knauertown.

Bearers were Lawrence Umstead Harrison Shaner, Lewis Umstead, Harrison Umstead, Alving Umstead and Lawrence Umstead Jr. Jewsr scout camp near Fagleysville. This was embraced by his wife, Laura, work is being done under the super- was body of vision of Scoutmaster Walter S. the courtroom with the couple Hutt and his council. Clarence R.

fwe-year-old daughter during the Fox. past commander, reported pro- Proceedings. gress for the executive committee. Balles and his wife were convicted Commander Supplee named I on morals charges after a trial that The President, diplomatic informants said, has let the British government know that if this idea could be accepted by the British and other parties, it also would have the moral and financial backing of the United States. While a British embassy spokesman indicated his government did not favor the proposal, the fact that Mr.

Truman has called it to British attention was regarded as supplying a basis for further negotiations. The President, it was said, has urged that during additional discus- sons the doors of Palestine be held I open as widely as possible. The British have been advised that Mr. Truman could neither formally accept nor reject the plan of a joint Anglo-American cabinet committee for division of Palestine into four parts, under British control. White House policy statement said it was the Chief sincere hope that proposed conversations among the British, Jews and Arabs would bring a of the Palestine problem and immediate steps to the situation of the displaced Jews in Europe." It emphasied a need for conciliation, since settlement of the Palestine problem can be achieved which will be fully sat- factory to all of the parties The statement pointed to the idea of special American immigration quotas as an aid in solving not only the Jewish refugee problem but also the larger one of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Europe.

There was no hint as to the size 0 special, that might be requested. Benjamin Franklin was appointed the first colonial postmaster general at Philadelphia in 1753, and held the post 16 years. COLE PORTER SONGS Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians NIGHT AND DAY A LITTLE RUMBA NUMBA EVERYTHING I LOVE I LOVE YOU EVERYTIME WE SAY GOODBYE WHAT IS THIS THING CALLED LOVE? GOT YOU UNDER MY SKIN BE SO NICE TO COME HOME TO Decca Album, $2.89 H. Rentz Smale 19 N. HANOVER ST.

Pottstown, 1088 PEACE PARLEY- (Continued from Page One) in the drafting of the Finnish treaties, but France participated in the drafting of the Romanian, Bulgarian and Hungarian treaties. The United States, he added, supported French demand for a vote in the Balkan commissions but not the Finnish. This informant said the American delegate interpreted the word to include full rights of discussion and vote. Amer can Delegate Benjamin V. Cohen, State department lor, objected that Vishinsky was out of order when he raised the question.

Let's go oat and Aii- Conditioned Comfort! 0) delegates to attend the State convention in Philadelphia on Aug. 21. They are Clarence Grimes, Hobart Lavanture, George Lappas, Harold Reid- outside of town on High St. at Beech the way to good eating at the comfortable, air-conditioned Howard iohn- Restaurant. For lunch, dinner or a late evening snack, you wHl find the meals "just off with a Howard Johnson ice pastry as you like.

So much, so good, modestly priced specially priced children's platters. P. S. wilt be glad to tpaaaf arrangements for private parties. Phone 2964J for Open 1 1 a.m.

till midnight Marion A. Coaradk Manager High Sheet at Pottstown, Porno. An electronic machine has been developed which roasts green coffee in a two-minute operation and turns itself off; normal roasting time has been 15 minutes. Australian aborigines satisfy their sweet tooth by digging honey ants out of the ground and eating them. Two cars were damaged but no one was injured at 2:35 o'clock yesterday afternoon in a crash at High and Franklin streets.

A car operated by Robert Dresher, of 631 Vine street, Stowe, was reported by police to have halted for a traffic light at the intersection. Police said a machine operated by Raymond W. Barber, of Langhorne RD 2, Bucks county, ran into the rear of the other car. Patrolman Joseph Thees investigated. Election Riots Did Not Violate Federal Laws WASHINGTON, Aug.

16 A Justice department official said today that the department's investigation of the Athens, election riots on Aug. 1 and 2 failed to disclose any violation of Federal laws. The disturbance centered around a six-hour election night gun battle involving a bi-partisan group of veterans and sheriff's deputies. The battle followed a bitter campaign waged by the veterans for public office in opposition to Dem ocratic organization candidates. Wagner, Earl Stodt, Ralph Guest, Norman John, George Kjellman, J.

Russel Reifsnyder, Myron Keim. Herbert Jones, Emily Hausmann, Jot- Ehiing, Clarence Fox, Mahlon Frick, Joseph Burdan, Elmer Haas and Thomas Kaas. These men will receive final instructions and compensation on Monday evening at the Legion home. Discussed at last meeting was a resolution passed at the ninth district meeting held in Norristown recently. Eleven members represented the Pottstown post.

The resolution, pertaining to inability of veterans to obtain adequate housing, stated that it was the responsibility of state and local communities to make such housing, as needed, available. It was resolved that the general assembly be urged to enact such laws as would make temporary emergency housing available for veterans providing State and local housing authorities with the power to acquire and improve unused and unimproved properties. and to construct thereon, suitable and adequate buildings for the veterans and their lasted four days. Subsequently, both applied for a new trial, and last week the Montgomery county courts granted the request but refused one for the husband. He was arrested last January in Lower Moreland townsnip when police found him sitting in his car on a lonely road with an 11-year-old girl pupil of his school.

Mrs. Balles was brought into the case when other pupils accused her of assisting her husband in committing immoral acts. More sets of twins are bom In Canada than in this country per million kirths, but more of triplets and quadruplets are born in the U.S. L. ERNEST PICKARD SPECIAL AGENT NEW YORK LIFE INS.

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