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Polltlowii iMcrciirv THE POTTSTOWN NEWS FubiJAiietl every mcwalog Publiohlng Co Ktni Strw'U 2263 WILLIAM HTE3T1R. Prer.dpnt SHANDY HILL. Manager F.RNEST SfAEZ. EdtVii mi Potutnwn PmWitiet wcond cisAs Ajwoctated to for publication of newi' to It or not otherwtue eredltwl in tills And the- news herein rjRhti of hereto are alao ri ai i i sm Band Improved; Idle Talk Scored must not He more than iSlI wordii long, of current topics not Involve pers.onalltle». Name and of wrttrr must be evidence of fiood faith but be from publication on requect.

and advocating the election of political are not acceptable. TEHrHETiS (i THE war You're Keeping Bad Company May Undermine Reds in South Bv KIKKi: L. SLMPSON Bv MKRCl RV READERS TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 18. mi Ccilamity is the perfect glass tvhfre ire truly srf and knoir our- Kclves.

Davernant. Drath Swings Its Scythe in area won't help dpcorntp tnp irrp this ynar, Po 5 orp of those four will not cat 1 hankseivinp dinner. At four Deibe killed in hUh- wav accidenti in Potutown trading area before New Year Day Col carefully culaied fipures based on the average number of deaths a month in this locality thus year are responsible for this prediction. The yesterday reported that the 28th traffic falaUty of the year oreiired over the week-end In a 15- mile radius of Pottstown. If 28 persons were killed in motor mishaps in ten and a half months, that's an averajte of more than tnn and fatalities a month.

With a month and a half of the year remaining. that means four more persons he killed. If the law of averages continues to obtain. Their Suits Were Cleaned To tne Fditor In response to Criti- in on the Leninwrad sector. riTH Kerch and all the eat.teru promontory of the Cninean ptMiin.sula in German Hunsian reliance on premature weather" to help stall the Nazi attack t'lsewhere couki prove a boomerang in the South.

Weeks ahead of tune, heavy Winter has a user Clothes Make the Readers miles north oi tiie Kerch yate- Say, Nov. L5) I happen to be one of Caucasu.s, Fiussian tell Junior High school and had Nazi found frozen on the battle- my suit cleaned and pre.s.sed and know fiejcis about Tikhvin, wiiere the northern that others did. prong of a vast Cjornian pincer movement did not enter the parade to show has developt'd. oui suii-s or look a.s you but Southward along the Don River and for the occa.sion. We rt not running Kerch strait, open water raises ob- competition with the high school band stacle.s for the CHninan.s, a heavy even though some of our twirlers are ju.st is not due until late December or Janu- as good.

Our sponsor ha.s improved the ary. Yet the portents from the Leningrad band muv id it is organized as well as it wa.s when you went to school For your information we are not ping are having suits made and expect them by Christmas. The Junior High school band would gladly accept the Russians than the loss of Kerch it- The stand ol shattered elements of hint that weather" also might arrive South to bridge the water-jumps with ice for a German advance into the Caucasus. That might prove a blow to your donation since you are our cntici.scr Pottstown TWIRL In Retrospect 50 Years Ago November 18. 185)1 ICE MACHINES Board of directo'-s of the Reading Cold Storage company yesterday uutructt'd Guldin, president, to close a contract for two ice ma hines of the a me pattern as tho.se ui u.se by the Pottstown company.

AHOVM) THE 70 Players Soldier By BILLV I The PolLstown Playground commission will go after chibs, basketball and badminton leagues to help foot the coal, water and janitor bill at the Armory should the commission take over he soldler.s’ headquarters as a arena during the Winter The commission NEW FOOTBALL TL.AM That the 0 would have enough do re mi popular g.ime ol foo.ball gair.ing uround fiand but if plaiy; to keep a man on in our borough is by the fact a p-AyroW at Manatawny park, doing second local leam has organized and seeding throughout the the name of High School several months rather than let the purk go to setKl quite an explained one meirber Under SOCIAL LVF.NF Members of the present conditions, the commission feels Lutheran Church ot the Transfiguration trouble getting plenty comfortably filled spacious followers beeau-e of the demand for ba.ketball floors Senior and Junior High school and YMCA floors already t.re taxed Jar beyond (apaeity. BEST I.FTTFRS WIN PRIZFS Five prizes one dollar each art awarded by the Edtiot each ueek nt the best five letters appearing in Reca Say. Decision of the Editor if Unai As a matter of fact, the number of auto ac ident deaths may exceed four, because accident statistics for the entire nation during the past ten years show that November and December are months in which the high- toll is heavier than usual. We have had unusually warm weather so versation which la.sted a good 15 minutes far this month, but roads soon will be made It not only happened once but a few slippery by ice and hardened snow'. Then auto driving will be more dangerous and the num- When we arp liotiest enough to pay ber of collisions may be swelled.

Youth in Our Offices To Kdltor Mrs Finicky The Telephone Readers Nov. is right. I also stood and waited to pay my bill which is large every month To begin, the office girl held a con- the Red army at St-vastopol and Kerch, in the CriuK'a. has already given the Russians the Caucasus a brief breathmg to muster reserves and supplement deienses east of Kerch strait. Should the annual cla.sh of those mighty natural fortes ot which Ru.ssian Winters are bred, the Arctic low and the Asiatic high, bruig bitter cold wave prematurely in the South.

Russia's ally might prove to betrayed her on that front. While the lower Don river, the Sea ol Azov and its Kcicii strait (onnection with the Black sea all are heavily ice locked for from 75 to days each year, that is not to be expected much the new Whatever the Nazi design for using the Kerch gateway break into the Caucasus behind the Rostov-Don line, it probably contemplates an ice bridgehead The alternative is air invasion or such an aerial bombardment of Caucasus de- VOICE OF BROADWAY Gossip in Gotham Hv I AN our bills, why are these office girls Coo and eoinmunicatton lines a-, would lazy to get off their stool.s and take our permit ferrying troops across the strait. Will you be among those four fated to meet hard-earned money. Talk about the mod- That ma.ssed air attack is the probable their death.s in auto ern girls, they at least have sense enough next phase of the preliminaries of the a shivery question, but one that to thank you, which this girl never does, battle of the and British planes should be considered. For tn the degree of Come on.

give us the voung girls for must be reckoned into the equation. With care you employ in driving your car depends our office Some are old enough to the RAF present, it is unlikely that Rils- your safety. receive the old-age pensions. Roads are not slippery now. But now ts Pottstown.

DISCrUSTED. a good time to consider suggestions for re- How Hitler Conquered To the Editor Great Britain warned of highway ducing the normal crashes. The suggestions are 1. Exercise more caution generally. The necessity for sudden stops should be avoided on snow or lee.

It takes three to 11 times the normal distance to stop on snow or ice. 2. Check brakes for simultaneons frip- ping. I nequaliied brakes start skids. 3.

Good tire treads are safe on wet pavement, but on Ice or snow tire chains bite in) should be put on when needed. 4. Make sure windshield wipers and defrosters are working and that lighting equipment Is adequate. 5. Reduce speed on snow or throw away the definite margin provided by tire chains.

Watch out for children on sleds. 6. Leave more room between you and the car ahead and try to pass on hills or curves. Approach Icy curves slowly. If not protected by tire T.

Slow down in gear an brakes on-off-and-on to keep wheels from locking completely. Traction afforded by chains does not duplicate dry pavement ability, but on snow or lee they cut Slopping distances 40 to 50 percent, add appreciably to control of car, and avoid traffic tieups. No Capital Offense AUR friend the humble, prickly porcupine, has now won expert defense Erethizon has long been accused of killing trees by eating their bark. A professor of forestry says that the opinion must be changed. A study shows that the porcupines eat siau resistance can be shattered swiftly by air alone.

The Ru.ssian Black Sea fleet is another factor with which the Germans must deal effectively before risking an attempt to 'Cross Kerch strait in force for a sea-borne 15 countries in Europe to unite to oppose the German desire to dominate the world. England urged this to save the independence of those 15 countries, not to maintain her status quo. Hitler immediately sent diplomats and other propagandists all over Europe and the United States. He invasion. It seems reasonable, therefore, to expect a temporary German halt at Kerch in order to organize fully for the attempted sweep into the Caucasus, The taking of Sevastopol, huge TURNER most Manhattan interest millionaire Alexis riiompson who a year ago was nnnored about to marry Betty Grable on the heels of her being jilted by Artie Shaw, who eloped with Lana Turner Merril Mueller, the INS war corre.spondent.

and M.t.ry Churchill, daughter, are a toddy Hugh Martin, composer of "Best F'oot Forward. IS recuperating after a minor operation Peggy Fears lost an emer.ild at the Pierre the other night. Siies ofienng a fat rewir.d to the finder Betty 'Mrs. Jimmy) Walker leaving quietly tomorrow nlKht for Venezuela Howard Hughes given i.p the Gloria Vanderbilt matter not by a long shot, despite the iller treat- been giving him. Eddie tells this column not true that he'll va.

ate his post chairman of the Citi- 7 Committee for the and Navy. The been around Katharine Cornell Broadway sector that he would, becau.se of other pre.ssiiig business Diana Barrymore and Jimmy Clark are a rage The Irving Kaufmans the former Federal Prosecutor) are lullabying twins at hospital Tito Guizar's so embar- rased! He has a fan club that calls its meetings outside his hotel room door Skater Bob Hea.sly will walt 7 the able with Bernice Stewart of the St. Regis ice show Are the Mervyn LeRoys going ro adopt a baby? Lana Turner heartillerv- bar- naval base on tiie Black sea. may aUso be Broadicay is suffering its worst theatre shortage in years, tchich ts essential to Nazi plans for an invasion, certainly good news. Every house is contracted for except the Without iUs facilities, everything necessary vehicles battling for if Katharine Cornell took one oi the chur.h l.V'-t night when a sociid hour WHS etijoyed l)v he Rev O.

Smith's s.uri The Daily News, 25 Years Ago Noventber 18. IS With his long uppt-rmost in his mind. Jeremiah Conrad, fo: more than 45 years an employe of the Colebrookdale branch of the Reaiiing railwaj, yesterdav observed his 69tli bithday. THANKSGIVING DINNER Ensign William H. Black of the Salvation is arraiiKing to care for the worthy poor of the town Thank.

UiVinc Day when a dinner will be prepared for them as Kt BRIDGE ON FIRE Tie old frame bridge over the river at Linfield was tlueatened with destruction yesterday afternoon when a fire wa.s at end by William Razor, who lives iieirby. 10 Years Ago November 18, 1031 KIWANIS ELECTS Paul A Ktnser last night a as elected of the Kiwanis club. Among other officers named were L. Pickard, first vice president: Ernest Kulp. second vice president, and Ammon Romich.

trea.s- urer. MILK FUND SOUGHT Chamber of Commer-e last night voted to petition the board education to appropriate sufficient funds to provid-' milk and bread for undernourished school children. MAIDENS WIN Royersford High school hockey team yesterday defeated a picked team Po tstown High girls by a of 6 to 0, Mi.ss Katz ored three goals for the down-river team. THEV'RF TMJ-ING the story town about the copper who made a the otiiei day ami discovered he had no to up the ticket he horowed a pent il from the man he had halted BUI Kr.iuse, of the bluecoats, played the role of taikle and a milk horse at High and after the boss got the idea of galloping off and deserting its motorists have learned that parking meter- In the Hi.iih and Hanover streets sector are checked up to the minute on a Saturtlay night Every week-end, Sgt. Dan Linton gets rid of a fi.sttui of red tickets, hanging them on cars where the meter pointers have slid into the bracket.

ADDENDA 4RMV va h. son of Mr. spent millions of dollars doing to tor a push across Kerch strait would have keep the democracies iron. lielUng to- jo be carried by long and dlftkult hatU to Wood Hhthe Spmt caught ,1 Bos- gether. When he was succes-sful In keep- Jump-ott bast.

Moreover, the strait commissioned who also the D. ing the 15 countries in Europe apart, he is perilously close to Russian and probably run her up a set of costumes for her next Actress Edith destroyed them, one at a time. British airdromes in the Caucasus pre- Barrett is ailing Katharine Hepburn and Garson Kanin are making The so-called groups parhig to blast at anv Nazi attempt to Room more cubby William Saroyan is due in toivn in a nanced by were -sensible tor Lsa the narrow water pa.ssage. the defeat of those 15 countries. The very foreshadowed Truman Bradley, the radio announcer, is trying to get Margaret mothers who said they w'anted to save (fom the hour the Germans rounded the Lindsay to say the wedding word.

the lives of chelr sons were re.sponsible Eastern end of the coastal mountain range for their ow'n deaths. Those moth- the Crimea and reached Feodosiya on ers groups did not realize they made it the Black Sea coast two weeks ago. Tliat possible for Hitler to kill their own blood, terrain offered no great natural obstacles HM OLI New Taxation Likely Squeeze on Spending By CHARLES STEWART John Ko- and Mr-. Andy Kovach. 336 Cherry street, was on hi.s way to SpringfieUl.

Ma.ss after siying hello to Pa and Ma here He wa.s enroute to a trade school which attend for three with Uncle Sam footing the bill Kovach, a private with a specialist rating, was shifted from Fort Bragg, to .1 qualified machinist He's with the 16th Ordnance company down at the Armored Force school, the high school of the Fourth Armored division down at Knox, Gerald D. Rhoads, former York street youth, i.s receiving training an automobile mechanic. 0 0 (ilVE A WAV DEPT Piano, but Is offered by William Eessig, 445 Chestnut street, who explains he will give it away but you'll have to your own truck Bud Steffy, John Kovaluk and Forrest Prout have made an agreement that enter the together if one should be drafted The two remaining will volunteer for service so ail three will go off to rifles and uniforms at the same time Just by way of report The posts which will bear "no parking at any signs along east side now are in po.sition. Pottstown. L.

P. R. Confiscate Idle Fortunes To the Editor: A 15 percent wage deduction for defense Is the most ridiculous plan ever considered. As "coming eveni-s cast their shadow's such action certahily will about a panic that will make all previous ones in our historj' pikers by comparison. For the need of which class would the country perish leisure class of non-producers parasitically living on unearned fortunes, or the workers w'ho create and produce and provide the necessities and luxuries without which their fortunes would be useless? To pena- to aid Rus.sian defenders of the port itself.

The fact that they did hold out so long marks the stand at Kerch as primarily a rear-guard action. It gave Russia time to man new' defense lines in the Caucasus east of the strait. FAhE.M' rnom.h:Ms Calm Children By Telling Stories Bv GARRV C. MYERS. Ph GOLD STARS: To "Spring the witty new hit at the Henry IMcNellis at the Irianon Room laughwaffe, due soon Edna bright dancing at the Copacabana The after- dinner fun at Maison Louis, when Bill Brye and Carrie-Maud Beville entertain Imogene comely at La Martinique Blue revival of Just Wild The Mr.

on CBS Terry Lawlor, singing Got It liad and That in the Hurricane revue. Hugh Fenwick makes flyhig trips from Nashville to Hollywood to Kay Francis just for two days Jim Noble, the Fordham football flash, Is the next sports figure in line for a movie contract Tony Martin is still long-distancing Emily Jewell, of the 0 cast Ernest Lubitsch, the Hollywood ma.ster mind, is bedded with a severe case of grippe They say Maxwell next drama will concern France in the 17th century And, speaking of Maxwell Anderson, this column said that $26,000 was more than Helen Hayes, Katharine Cornell and Margaret Sullivan put togetiier make In a month. On second thought, please count out Helen Hayes. She gets that much a month from radio alone in in a craps game lookout so eight they Senator George herbage at ground level duriag the growing condemn our season In the snowy months they do much destruction, of their feeding in the tree top. where they the promoters of such a bill realize chew the bark fiom the smaller branches, of deductions carried bv nearly The survey that much of this chewing 1 workers-ior defense bonds, social lize the workers and the shirkers COME cities in the United States already 0 have had defense practice wnth blackouts; more will, no doubt.

As soon as it was reported that Betty Cordon, the season's No. 1 deb. was to marry Robert Saaterfield her mother called Bill Ellsworth, the oyster magnate, and made a date for him to dine with them and I have tried to imagine how I would take Betty to the Martinique opening be a page one lawsuit feel and act it our children when at the over the estate of the late Mar Kalik. the country's richest bookmaker. ages of three to 16 were with us in a left millions.

It'll be a red hot court fight between widow reality Is benefifial pruning; it the securitv insurance iiosnTtallzatimi Com- blackout at home. Suppo.se it occured another claimant Georpie Hale the and Eve Whitney. added and almost unthought-of value of drop- niunity Ciiest, various pensions and re- Just after dark, I wonder what we might Conover beauty, are bewitched, bothered and Joyce Matthews is trying out for the lead the next road contpany of Sister Countess Christine Ostrowska, the Polish authoress, and Frances Spanier the bandleader, are sniffing orange blossoms The Jessel show, Kickers." is clocking more laughs than any other musical on Broadway Macoco and Kay Williams have reunited, which Is making the jewelers sooo happy Jean added an unannounced snap to his Persian Room stint when his braces gave way and his slacks descended to half mast Neal Lang is still trying to get Martha Raye to think it over just once more. various pensions pinjT foi to upon plsjis. Furthermore, in those cases where trees preservation of our nation would may be girdled, the value of the injured tree much more possible by the outright must be realistically considered.

Many of the confiscation of idle fortunes of millions trees thus eiiminated would naturally be serving no useful purpo.se. rowded out through own methods. 'Thus a better stand of timber is secured for ultimate use. To kill porcupines at ght, the professor declares, is ineconomic, as well as cruel. It IS another example of tiie value ol Pottstown P.

Britain Opposes Peace To the Editor If Hitler were defeated whal wo'-ici happen? Probably the same have said in the presence of these children during the blackout, the after or the day before. Inasmuch as we had read for hours and hours to our ihildren trom the time they w'ere about 15 months of age. w'e probably would have told some of their favorite stories to the younger ones. Or they might have talked of of their heroes of the rhymes and folk tales. More llkelv it IS that thev would iiave made 1 up some of their own varn.s of fancy, knowledae and the benefit ol fact.

The roly- OunB -na: happened alter the war, Tnev wouid form some sort of a League e.xperiences of as they did befor'', with England dominauni; the whole works, as she did the otuer one. When Japan invaded what was Kngiauds stand? When Mussolini poly, pin-cushion porcupine is part of the balance of nature an amazingly wise 'Fm worked out through the ages. Men may well hesitate before they dogroaii. ally condemn any of our wild-life friends. If from eight to .12.

ihe children might have put some riddles to us, their parents, or told some to -which we might have added more. If in the early teer.s. Lliey surely would have told jokes. Young Gloria Vanderbilt left the Cafe lounge in a huff the other cocktail time because they give her the table she and Fletcher Gtxlfrey 'vanted. How could they? Charles Butterworth and Gloria Baker Topping were sitting at it invaded Lihic-pia what was propounded some riddles or prcMnited Skelciies By WILL DANCH Crampaw Oakley PUNK IN CORNERS, Lditor, The Mercury, 17.

Dear Sir Brother; Wal. I sec hy The where the Defense (ouncil is going to appoint a "fair rent Now's the time, folks, to tell 'em what you think is a fair rent to pay for your a lot of mention made in the war news about land mhies. But man, ihev're no mure explosive than those captive mines of ours. A lot of folks in this liM.ilit% are happy that National Lducaliuii Week is ended. It seems that their In school observed it by having the folks do I heir home Hopln' jou all the same.

t.RAMPAW NED OAKLEY. stand? Any that E- gland look liad to prevail England has exploited nations and people for hundreds of years: the Briti.sh Empire was built on exploitation and aggression. There will never be any peace on earth for any length of time until everv'thing the Government for is destroyed Pottstown. J. R.

FLOWERS FOR THE LIVING For GEORCiE W. LEE Royersford BECAUSE he has been ele. ted president of the Keystone Fire association. some brain teasers. AL-o these older children might have started s''ine songs with the younger children and their parents joining in.

We hardly would have sat in weii'd silence nor would we have talked of what might happen if a bomb fell on our house. Mere silence can sometimes oe more terrifying, than talk of bombs. Early and continuou.s reading to young children does still more; establishes a rich companionship and also cultiva'es the nind. It prepares both older and younger people for emergencies such as blackouts. QLESTION AND ANSWER when a child asks per- misrion of the father to do something and he says, ask or of the mother and slie says, 'Go ask your A.

This is bad procedure. It suggests that one or the other parent assumes final responsibility for the child's guidance. A better way, w'hen the parent asked has doubts, is to say, "Let me first talk to mother about or as the ciuse may be. Then they should do this talking in tiie of the child and the one the chil 1 had asked should announce the decision. EVOTION Bruce Koppenhavei.

Fourth street lad witli several hobbies, is a fish fancier He has a room CHAIRMAN WALTER F. GEORGE filled with tanks in w'hlch he raise.s them of the finance commit- and ob-erves their actions The other tee has predicted that next taxes night he sat up several hours, not with will be terrific. From all indications his ticu a sick friend, but with a sick fish, treat- forecast no exaggeration. Revenue leg- islation has to origi- Isolation tank Smack nate in Chairman parking lot. in the Robert L.

busine.ss in midaft.ernoon. (D. N. ways and to.ssed dice means committee, in -phev intauve.r ate committee finally squares in ca.se a copper hap- has as much to do pened by with It as the repre- a rial bunch, however, and is thoroughly familiar with being cooked up for 1942. Uncle Sam needs the money, for one thing.

He has to have it for his own defen.sive purpioses and for the lease- lending of supplies to the other democracies, including Russia, whether a democracy or not. Quite aside from Uncle per- requirements, though, the tax- framers deliberately and maliciously intend to impound, governmentally. just as much of the dough as they can. to pinch to such an extent that they simplv be able to spend more absolutely es.sential to provide with the barest neces.saries of life. The idea's this Our producers of all sorts of stuff in edible, wearable and other usable fonns mmtmmmmmmtmi are so concentrating upon defense and lease-lending that bound to be an awful shortage of everything for which a civilian demand.

Scar ity naturally makes for higher prices. The economic name for inflation. If would-be buyers' incomes all inflated them-ehes correspondinglv it wouldn't make so much difference, but most incomes If not. and prices do, an income that previously was pretty good. fORSETS, I am told, are somewhat passe won't buy nearly as much as previously; comparatively it shrinks.

hard on consumerdom. It may get terrible. The government can fix nominally compulsory top limits on prijes. In fact, it's starting to do so, with Piice Administrator Leon Henderson bossing the job. But.

as prices start to push up violently from underneath the prescribed FIRST ELK.HT O. King street resident, went flying for the first time in his life Sundafter- noon 71 I mind flving right off to Tolerance if'reda Schindler. eyeful songster with the Pottstown hand, invariably is introduced by O. Beacraft. the emcee, as Kate 'iniith of the Pottstown she never becomes irked and explains know Bee Is onlv kid- dinu" Jerry Wentzel, who was shot during the opening day of the gunning season, Is hack in the field again, banging away at cottontails and pheasants Wentzel, a scoutmaster, applied a compress and gave himself first aid when he Avas shot and practiced what he preaches to the boys in his scout troop.

OIA MS Correct Corset Helps Posture dr LOGAN CLENDENING now. I do not get around as much as I used to. so I get information entirely from hearsay, but I gather that backache is just about rs prevalent as It ever was. In the old days a great many backaches used to be ascribed to corsets, and W'e prescribe corsets for many ca.ses of backache. In the days when corsets were more ceilings over them, there but de- common than they are no.v, they decided an almost irresistible tendency on that the ordinary corset, wiiich worn the part of dealers in merchandi.se for for aesthetic and fashionable purposes, which tlie public is hollering itself hoar.se.

could be divided into three classes neu- to bootleg their commodities at wiiatever tral, bad and good. figures they can get. Most ready-made corsets are of the bootlegging becomes rampant, neutral kind. They do not produce bad just a.s much Inflation, even if si- posture, nor do they correct bad posture, legal, as if no control had been attempted The bad corsets produce backache, and all. they have three common characteristic.s.

Fir.ally the emergency will pass, and First they are too long behind and 100 then inflation will pop, with a fearful short in front; second they exert the crash and a long subsequent period of most pressure at the line; third they accent the curves over the lower called I hear that in nil the time the Goodwill Fire company has been wearing them, they've never abominably hard times will ensue, the invariable historic rule, part of the back, but otherwise do not Now, is there any scheme by which follow the anatomy of the inflation can be prevented at Its source? Tlie good corset should be short be- The tax-framers think there is. Their hind and long in front, especially at the itotion is to sock con.sumerdom with such bottom. They be fitted snugly treasury levies that it ju.st naturally around the pelvis, curved in at the waist have enough left to buy more than the line in back, but showm? no curve skimpiest modicum of wliat it w'ants. front..