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I The Scrantontan Sunday, December 3, 1944 3 Chinchilla Soldier Tells of Role In Airborne Invasion of Holland Rodaers Looks Into Future of 00Pera0n Is Needed Cargo Haulers To Provide Cigarettes Cify to Start Nine Major Projects in Early Spring Almost $110,000 Provided for Essential Jobs, Including Flood Control and Streets City Council hag provided close to $110,000 for essential projects without setting aside a reserve for a postwar program as recommended last week by Controller Foster W. Nauman. In 1942, Councilman Sam Druckfr suggested piling up funds for this Skelton to Seek Old Post With Drivers' Union work. Solicitor Jerome I. Myers railed thfl plan illegal on grounds that the law stipulates operation of cities on an anual fiscal basis with surpluses to be used In cutting expenses, reducing taxes or in other means the following year.

In 1943, the Legislature amended the law to permit municipalities to OPA Director Hart Offers Few Tips To Curb Black Market Sales in Area Retailers and the public working together can throttle cigarette black markets and get more cigarettes into normal distribution channels," John A. Hart, director of the Scranlon District, Offlc of Price Administration, said last night. Retailers and wholesalers can do their part by selling only at fered by individuals under command cars which came tearing through later. That evening was a quiet one for most of us. Many of the fam Hies Insisted that we stay at their homes for our meals of fresh milk and Dutch bread.

The people were swell to us and the country is very beautiful. There is plenty of fresh fruit 1 but very little other kind of food, The following days werent as pleasant and detah was everywhere as the Germans did everything they could to defeat our purpose. Ever since then there has been fighting and destruction everywhere." Private Robbins attended the Clarks Summit High School and the Johnson School. He enlisted in November, 1942, and received his basic training at Camp Toccoa, Ga. He was then stationed at Fort Benning, and Camp McCall, N.

and left for overseas duty in January, 1944. He has been awarded the Presidential Citation, Expert Infantrymans Award and Combat Star. suspicious circumstances. Cigarette celling prices, Hart said, may be posted either on the cigarettes themselves or on the shelf or counter where they are displayed. The price should not bo obscured and should be at a place where it can be read easily by the customer.

The posted price should indicate the ceiling price, for example ceiling price 18 cents. American motor carriers will work hand in glove" with air cargo carriers in the postwar era of a highly developed aviation industry. This was the assurance given by Ted V. Rogers, this city, president of the American Trucking Association, in a recent address in Sioux Falls, S. D.

Rodgers addressed the annual convention of the Associated Motor Carriers of South Dakota and observed in the course of his talk: You cant stop progress. But if you coilinue to offer a maximum service, you wont have to worry about the profit side of the ledger." The trucking association presl dent lauded the war job being done by the trucking industry despite shortages of equipment, tires, manpower and gasoline and warned that the worst is yet to come," pointing out that present offensives are grinding up" more trucks than was anticipated, that the gasoline situation is more critical and tire conservation has become increasingly important. He likewise emphasized that the industry is operating on closer fiscal margin than ever before. In the nation," he said, expenditures of motor carriers are now 96.7 per cent of Income. Maintenance costs have been doubled, claims ate increasing, equipment is wearing out." Rayon is now the second most widely used fibre in the world, with cotton holding first place.

legal prices and by refusing sell cigarettes to persons they have reasons to believe are buying quantities for resale in the black market. In many cases, Hart said, these chiselers are reselling cigarettes at fancy prices. OPA enforcement officers propose to take action against these people. But they also can be charged and tried under various local and state laws." Hart listed the ways the public can help eliminate the cigarette black market. His suggestions are: 1.

Be sure ceiling prices are posted where you buy cigarettes. 2. Pay no more than the ceiling price. 3. Do not hesitate to report price violations to the price panel of your local War Price and Rationing Board.

OPA should have the location, date the sale was made, the brand name of the cigarette, the price paid and the name of the seller or firm. Consumers can file' treble damage suits when overcharged. 4. Refuse to buy cigarettes of Dr. P.

K. Kerstetter has moved his office from S. Main Ave. to Medical Arts Building. Office hours 2 to 4 p.

dally except Wednesday and Saturday, 7 to 8 p. m. Tuesday and Friday, Phone 3-0397. Adv. Orville Skelton, West Scranton, will endeavor to return to a post he held with the General Drivers Union for 21 years at the annual election at the Adlin Building next Sunday.

Skelton was defeated a year ago when he aspired for reelection as financial secretary and business agent by George Morgan, Clarks Summit. He will be opposed by John Durkin. Other nominees are: business agent for miscellaneous drivers, Morgan and Albert Reese, incumbent; president, John C. Pinky Hart, incumbent, and Edward J. Robson; vice-president, George Schumacher, incumbent, and Carl Salkowsky; trustees, Joseph Goddard and Leo Massenkeil; recording secretary, William J.

Terry Nealon, incumbent, George Williams and John Ouhalla; over-the-road business agent, Joseph McHugh, incumbent, and Arja Jack S. Robbins with air troops jective and quite a bit of transportation besides. I picked up a German messengers bicycle and rode into town. Several snipers had been cleared out of the houses by our men scattered in the town. Then all of a sudden a bus came tearing down the street and across the canal bridge.

At first no one paid any attention, then all of a sudden we realized it was clearly marked as German. What a mess of holes they made in that bus with the machine guns. The same treatment was given to a couple of German Australia was the last continent to be discovered, the last to be the home df an advanced civilization, and the only continent to be governed by one race and one nation Hear ThTMESSIAH Monday, Dec. 4th 8 P. M.

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Relief or your money back. BUY WAR BONDS AND STAMPS An interesting account of the American airborne invasion of Holland js contained in a letter from PFC. Jack S. Robbins to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Robbins, Chinchilla. Private Robbins, who also participated in the Normandy invasion, is a member of the 101st Airborne Division. The following letter written on Oct. 16 describes the preparation and actual descent into Holland. On Sunday morning, the 17th of September, I was busily preparing my equipment for the largest airborne operation ever to be made anywhere in the world.

The day was clear and the sun shone brightly over the hundreds at C-47 transports lined up along their dispersal areas. A perfect day for jumping which is always a great help for a paratroopers morale. The Air Force personnel and glider men who would follow us in some hours later were helping to adjust our chutes and equipment. D-Day over Normandy was a hectic jump for most of us due to the flooded areas and our excessive equipment which dragged us down beneath the water. I to the conclusion I could sacrifice some of my food ration in order to lighten my load.

But when it came time to get into the plane it seemed that I had just as much if not more equipment than on D-Day. After a smooth ride over the English Channel we came to the occupied territory of Europe. Buzz-zzz! The warning bell sounded notifying us of the 20-minute stand we were to make before jumping. We clambered to our feet and hooked our static lines to the cable overhead. This moment is one of the hardest for a paratrooper.

As we are now over enemy territory we all feel sort of funny, not knowing just when that dreaded ack-ack will start coming up at us. We knew of one bad spot and sure enough just one and a half minutes before we jumped, all hell seemed to break loose at our' plane. I could hear the bullets, small arms and 20mm ack-ack guns doming too darn near the plane. At last the green light and what a relief to know that you are getting out of that plane. I was number 17 in my stick and thought Id never reach the door.

Wham! The chute opened with a terriffic snapping effect on my body but I knew I was safe for the moment. I slipped hard to miss a sand scoop situated in a gravel dump. The ground looked just like North Carolina sand but it was hard just the same. All around me the fellows were getting out of their harnesses and gathering up their equipment. As I was getting out of my chute I noticed more planes overhead and oil to right more men sailing earthward.

If I had I had a camera I could have caught a picture of beautiful scenery and well as sudden death as a C-47 plane went down in flames. As I landed close to our regimental interpreter we were approached by a dozen children and grown people. They were the happiest, most thankful people Ive ever seen. We gave the children several sticks of gum which is the wars friendship code. Within an hour we had our ob- StutUerA WE WILL BE OPEN SATURDAY UNTIL establish postwar reserves.

1 Regardless of whether the war ends or is continued through 1945, nine projects will be started in the early Spring. Funds for the citys share are available through a bond issue and the 1945 budget. The work on the 1945 agenda follows: dredging the lower half of the Lackawanna River from the Roaring Brook Junction to a point below the Taylor Borough line; construction of a flood wall along the Lackawanna in the Park PI. area; flood control in the Roaring Brook in the East Scranton section; paving of Sanders St. from Pittston Ave.

to the Western Electric Plant; sidewalks on Breck St. from Cedar Ave. to the Delaware and Hudson grade crossing for the accommodation of Murray Corporation employes; four hard surfacing street jobs, three of which are in the South Scranton industrial area and the other on Poplar St. from the Lackawanna River to the Lackawanna Railroad witch. $72,000 FOR DREDGING The city allocated $72,000 in the 1944 budget for walls and property damages on the major dredging project which will complete cleaning of the Lackawanna channel here.

The state will spend $100,000. The project is designed to prevent overflows in the Flats section. The channel will be widened from 60 to 120 feet. In the same bond issue is an appropriation of $25,000 for the flood relief in Park Pi. and Petersburg.

Plans call for building a wall on the west bank of the Lackawanna from the Albright Ave. Bridge to Hawks a distance of 400 feet. The New York, Ontario and Western Railroad Company has agreed to remove a track adjacent to the river where the wall will be erected. Dredging and a possible change of course will constitute the Roaring Brook work. Appropriations of $7,858 and $500, respectively, were inserted in the 1945 budget for the Sanders St.

and Breck St. work. Sanders St. is the only' approach to the Western Electric. It is a dirt thoroughfare.

Breck St. is used extensively by Murray workers now engaged on two shifts. It has no sidewalk channel. The South Scranton and Green Ridge paving projects will be financed by industrial firms abutting the thoroughfares. FROM ART TO CARPENTRY BOSTON (U.R) A former art teacher is Bostons only woman carpenter.

Miss Harriett E. Le-maire of Taunton teaches carpentry to men at the Boston Tuberculosis Assosciations Sheltered Work Shop. BROADCAST St. Peter Cathedral WGBI 11 A. M.

Today 50-Voice Choir Sermon By Rev. Francis A. Costello Adv. Christian Science Church Services God the Only Cause and Creator is the subject of the- Lesson-Sermon in all Churches of Christ, Scientist, today. The Golden Text is: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (Genesis Among Bible citations comprising the Lesson-Sermon is the following: "Bles the Lord, my oul.

Lord my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever. The glory of the Lord shall endure for ever: the Lord thall rejoice In hl works, (P9alms 104: 1, 5, 31). The Lesson-Sermon also Includes the following passage from the Christian Science textbook, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures by Mary Baker Eddy: Gcneaii 1. 1.

In the beginning Ood created the heaven and the earth. The Infinite has no beginning. This word beginning is employed to signify the only, that is, the eternal verity and unity of God and man, Including the universe. The creative Principle Life. Truth, and Love is God.

The universe reflects God. There is but one creator and one creation. This creation consists of the unfolding of spiritual ideas and their identities, which are embraced in the infinite Mind and forever reflected. These ideas range from the infinitesimal to infinity, and the highest ideas are the sons and daughters of God (p.302). New Headquarters Nu-Enamel Scranton Cc.

The oldest and i original Nu-Enamel paint store in the state, 301 N. Wash. across from post office. Phone 3-9487. Adv.

In the interior of Greenland, temperatures seldom rise above freezing. JOIN THE 1945 CHRISTMAS CLUB FIRST NATIONAL BANK Scranton, Pa. Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Adv. Wanted Experienced Window Trimmer.

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