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11 THE WEATHER Showers and cooler tonight M0NONGAHELA, MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1943 THREE CENTS A COPY MM umm MB IBM mm YANK BEDCHAMBER ATTU PERIOD; No Pleasure Driving Cases Yet Referred To Local Board mm Blow Against Continent May Come Within Days Allied Air, Sea Forces Hammer Hard At Fortifications Of Southern Europe; Marshall In Africa By UNITED PRESS Allied air and sea forces hammered relentlessly at the fortifications of Southern Europe, giving added weight to speculation today that an invasion army of perhaps 1,000,000 men might bejiurled against the continent within a matter of days. American heavy bombers smashed in force at Regpjio Calabria and San (iiovanni on the toe of the Italian boot, as well as the Sicilian Ferry terminus of Messina, while other Allied planes stepped up the assault A TIRED YANK catches some sleep during a lull in the fighting on Attu in his shoes and climbed into his sleeping bag he scraped a niche in the photo was taken, there were plenty of Jap snipers still around. That useless shelter in daylight, being nothing more than a target for Jap Early Agreement Looms As Miners Main Street This 'n That TODAY'S HOROSCOPE rf your birthday is on this date, are moody and lose heart eas- when things don't turn out fa-rably for you. You are sincere your efforts, are a loyal friend your affections run very deep. the stillness of morning hours this your birthday, determine to clear up a misunderstanding renew the confidence of a relative.

If you are resentful jealous because another person sms well off, you will get tangled in your own envy. Make up ur mind about what you want, id ask for it. A neighbor or may be able to help you. BIRTHDAYS JUNE 8, 1913 Laura Mae Craig. Frank Olcxa, Jr.

Arthur W. Jcffers. Paul Anders, Jr. Lila June Rnllison. George Eckcrt, Sr.

Nancy Aeheson. Cora A. Harrington. Weaver Bush. Alex Paroda.

Kenny Odell. Mrs. Norman Anders, Jr. Gary Coleman. Mrs.

Rose Pellegrini. John O. Criswell. James Tillie. Jane Shannon.

Robert Henry Johnson, 6. Dolores Pellegrini. Wedding Anniversaries JUNK 8, 1013 Mr. and Mrs. L.

M. McCracken, Mr. and Mrs. Clement Pizzutelli, 4 Mr. and Mrs.

Angelo Marraccini, years. The box of sanies which girls of the local Bell Telephone collected and sent to the (Continued on Page 3) (Column 8) 'Damage Is SIfght In Fire Call Here Only slight damage was reported a basement blaze which resulted in the summoning of Mononga-iiela firemen to the residence of Frank Raymond at 505 Chess street ilate Friday afternoon. The alarm, -n'as by a strange coincidence, called in by Mrs. Mary Criswell, sounded at p. the hour corresponding with the house number.

The firemen ran a line of hose jfrom the hydrant at Long alley and St. to extinguish the flames, burning among some rags and a can of gasoline. The property is owned by Frank Vazzani. Raymond lives at the rear of the former storeroom occupied by the Watson grocery, now vacant. Bonn, Former Duke Cage Star, Dead Pittsburgh, June 7 (UF)-Lt.

Herbert S. Bonn, former Duqucsne University basketball star, who had been listed as missing in ac- i tion April 15, was listed as dead in a Navy Department casualty re- port announced Friday. Back To Work MAJO NAZI PRISONER Local Air Ace Held In Germany, War Dept. Informs Kin. Major James E.

O'Brien, local air ace with the U. S. Eighth Army in England, is a prisoner of war in Germany. The good news that the Dry Run Road flier, the son of Mr. and Mrs.

James O'Brien, was alive and safe, even though a Nazi captive, was tcceived by his parents Friday afternoon in a wire from the Adjutant office. Major O'Brien previously nad been reported as missing in act' in inco May 18 when he participated with Eighth U. S. Air Force bomber? in a raid on Kiel, important German base. A rew days after Major O'Briee's parents had been notified by ihe War Department that he was missing, they received a letter from .1 fellow officer who expressed belief the local flier had been taken a prisoner and possibly might have made his way to neutral Sweden.

He told of seeing O'Brien's plane one motor shot away and the other badly damaged going down for a forced landing but under full control. Several members of the crew, he reported, left the plane presumably by parachute. The Adjutant General's office said the fact that Major O'Brien was a prisoner of war had been definitely established by the International Red Cross. One of the youngest majors in the air corps at 24, Major O'Brien holds the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal and several Oak Leaf Clusters for daring raids over Germany and the occupied countries. He has been in England eight months, and had expected to return to the United States this summer.

Donora Man Gets Five Year Term On Draft Charge Pittsburgh, June 7 (UP) Convicted on charges of draft violations, five members of the Jehovah's Witnesses religious sect today were under five-year prison sentences imposed by Federal Judge F. P. Schoonmaker. Sentenced for failure to report fot work of national importance as conscientious objectors were: Paul Hadvab, of Clairton; Frank Hook, of Mahaffey, and John J. Pyrick, of Burtle Creek.

Paul Kubira. of Donora, and Edward N. Tyres, of Pittsburgh, were sentenced for failing to report for induction. A spokesman for Local War Trice and Kationiug Frnrd No. embracing (he Doncra-Mon-cngalicla area, to-lay that not single case involving suspected violation of the pleasure driving linn had yrt bren referred In Hi? board.

'Hoard n-cnihers have had a number of other violations referred lo llieni fcr arfioii afler investigation including Hie rase of a Donora driver who claimed he had lost his ration book and was issued another, uly (o be found with both books in his possession but no pleasure driving eases have come (o (heir attention," she declared. There was a feeling among motorists, however, that OPA agents would pay a surprise visit to valley (owns in the near future. So far the enforcement officers have been limiting (heir activities lo the Pittsburgh area because of a shortage of personnel, but several of (hem conducted a (raffic check at Death Corners, intersection of Koutcs 31 and 51 in the Monongahela-West Newton road, about (wo weeks ago. Meanwhile, State Police' gave many motorists a bad case of jitters at Speers Friday night when they begun a traffic check. While looking for inspection regulation delinquents, the State Police who halted more than 300 ears described (he.

check as "one for everything, pleasure driving Two Soldiers From District Prisoners; Six Others Wounded In a recent announcement from the War Department, two district soldiers were reported held by Germany as prisoners of war and six others were listed as wounded in action in the North African campaign. A total of 287 W. S. soldiers, including 36 Pennsylvanians were among the prisoners while 381 U. S.

Soldiers, including 55 Pennsylvanians, were among the wounded. Reported as prisoners of Germany are Private John B. Yosin-ski, son of John E. Yosinski, of West Chestnut Washington, the first Washington soldier to be reported as missing in ncMon in North Africa, and Pvt. Arthur A.

Roanick, sister, Mrs. Mary Rak, 231 Water street, West Newton. District men listed as wounded are Pfc. Edward Bcitinclli, son of Mrs. Rose 406 Murray avenue, Donora; Pfc.

Edward M. Hoover, son (if Mrs. Mary J. Hoover, McDonald. R.

D. Pvt. Andrew J. Salat, son of Adam Salat, 828 Heslep avenue, Donora; Pfc. Andrew S.

Swantncr, son of Mrs. Anna Swantncr, 413 Walnut street, Donora; Cpl. Chester V. Steele; Father, Benjamin, R. D.

2, Mari-anna, and Cpl. John Zuraw, mother, Anna, 1109 Crest avenue, Charleroi. Flag Day Committee To Meet Tomorrow Further plans for Monongahela's annual Flag Day celebration next Monday evening will be made at a mteting of the sponsoring Legion Committee tomorrow evening at 8:30 in the Elks Home, Second street. weeks' deadline set by the UMW policy committee in ordering the men back to work. "The union and the operators appear to be getting much closer to an agreement and I don't think there will be another strike," he said.

After first voting to remain out, miners at the Nemaeolin Mine of the Youngstown Sheet and 'Tube in Greene county, changed their stand and agreed to resume work. They had objected to a shift schedule which differed from the one they would have worked last week. The mine superintendent agreed to change the schedule. After a heated discussion yesterday afternoon the men at the Clyde No. 1 "captive" mine of Republic Steel near Fredericktown, Washington county, adjourned without a vote, but later reconvened and voted to go back to work.

The end of the strike came too (Continued on Page 3) (Column 8) LOCAL DRAFT GROUP TO GO ON WEDNESDAY Army, Navy, Coast Guard To Get Selectees From District. First to be granted 14-day furloughs under the War Department's furlough period order, the May contingent from Draft Board No. 1, serving in the Monongahela-Donora area, will leave Wednesday for reception centers and start of military training. This group is similar in size to that of April, with 78 being accepted into the Army, 24 into the Navy, one in the Coast Guard, and 35 rejected. Three men were held over for further examinations.

The board has received credit for 30 men who enlisted previously but whose numbers didn't "come up" until this month. Of the May inductees from Washington County's eight selec tive service boards, the small con tingent from Board No. 5, in the East Wajshington-Marianna-West Alexander area, leaving for train ing tonight, are the first to depart. Two parades will be held in Can-onsburg this week, the first on Tuesday when men from Board No. 4, in the Canonsburg-Cokeburg- Finleyville area, leave, and the oth er when the men from Board No 7, in the McDonald-Canton Town ship depart.

Inductees from Board No. 2, in the Charleroi-Bentleyville area, and Board No. 3, in the California-Cen-terville district, will shove off Tues day. Washington's Board No. 6 will leave Wednesday and the contingent from Board No.

8 in the Burgettstown-Hickory district will go on Friday. Under the most recent War Department order, the men from this county inducted this month will remain on the 14-day furlough plan, but the July contingents will be granted 21 days. COAL VALLEY GIRL DROWNED Roberta Allen, 14, Loses Life While Wading At River Beach. Pittsburgh, June 7 (UP) Dis appearing beneath the water within sight of other' bathers, 14- year-old Roberta Allen of Coal Valley was drowned in the Monongahela river at Jefferson Beach, Jefferson Twp. yesterday the sea son's first river swimming fatality.

Fay Lloyd, of Jefferson plan, West Elizabeth, recovered the girl's body ten minutes later, but after firemen from Elizabeth and West Elizabeth tried for two hours to revive her, she was pronounced dead by Dr. D. H. Walker. Deputy Coroner George Thomas said the girl h3d gone to the beach with Lydia Steel, 14, of Coal Valley.

The girl reportedly was wading in the stream when she came to a stp-off and plunged in over her head. She was a student in the eighth grade at Coal Valley. Her lather, James Lawrence Allen, was killed by a hit-and-run driver about three years ago. Auxiliary Firemen To Take Out Truck Seek New Members Auxiliary firemen of Monongahela again will take out the municipal fire truck to familiarize themselves with the use of its equipment at their regular monthly meeting this evening. Consequently, they will meet at the City Hall at 7 o'clock, an hour earlier than usual.

Secretary Howard Daniels today again emphasized the need of the auxiliary firemen's unit of the Civilian Defense Council for new members and urged all those interested to report this evening. on I'antelleria to a non-stop basis. The intensified aerial assault on Pantelleria, the battered "Italian Gibraltar," followed the fifth bombardment of the island in six days by British warships which suffered no damage or casualties. Reports from La Linea, Spain, in the Gibraltar area, said the harbor of the British stronghold was virtually empty after a large scale movement involving "hundreds" of ships. The report bore a marked resemblance to those which preceded the invasion of North Africa last Nov.

8. The London Daily Herald speculated that Gen. George C. Marshall, United States Army Chief of Staff, might be appointed Commander of the Allied Forces striking at Europe from the south. While Allied planes and ships pounded at the Mediterranean rim of the continent, other air forces striking from Britain and Russia maintained pressure on Nazi-held Europe.

A big force of bombers and fighters swept across the Straits of Dover by daylight. They were invisible in the haze over the sunlit channel, but the roar of motors indicated a formidable fleet was striking at Nazi targets. Axis air forces posted in southern Europe put up their first show of resistance against the Allied offensive in several days Sunday, a North African Headquarters communique revealed. It cost them 16 planes shot down by Allied gunners who lost only one ship. Increasing speculation in London that the time for a major Allied blow at southern Europe was near at hand fed on the reports of unremitting pressure by air and sea against, the continental outposts and Italy.

Some London sources attached particular significance to the raid by more than 100 tiying fortresses Saturday on the Italian naval base of Spczia, assuming that it was I aimed at crippling Premier Benito Mussolini's fleet as an invasion preliminary. Royal Air Force bombers were idle for the eighth straight night, weather-bound after a record series of blows against the Reich. But the arrival of a big contingent of American airmen and reports of a new RAF policy concentrating on bone-crusher blows and abandoning small scale raids suggested early intensification of the offensive. Moscow reported that the Red Air Force, continuing its offensive against the German army, left great fires burning on. air fields behind the Donets front during the night.

The Russians said the Germans had lost 2,821 planes in five weeks, 752 of them in the week ending Saturday. SMOTHERS TO DEATH Pittsburgh, June 7 (UP) Seven-months-old Dale Weinheimer. of Overbrook, was smothered to death Friday when he pulled a rubber sheet over his head while in bad, according to a morgue report. made of the blood donations at the Memorial Hospital several weeks ago and that to be given to the Red Cross Blood Bank. The blood given at the Hospital has been processed and will be used locally by that institution.

The blood given to the Red Cross Blood Bank will be processed and used exclusively for the armed forces of the United States. The Government is asking for thousands of units of human blood a month and the Red Cross Blood Donor Service is the answer to this request. Any healthy person between the aces of 21 and 60 may register. Those between the ages of 18 and (Continued on Page 6) (Column 5) the Aleutians. Before he removed muddy tundra for, at the time the pup tent in the background was a sharpshooters.

(International) Negotiations Between Union May Resume Today. BULLETIN Wasbiiigtf June 7 (UP) A War Labor Hoard spokesman said today i( was assumed that negotiations between the United Mine Workers and the coal operators would tie resinned without specific instructions from the Board. Asked whether the Board would formally give the "green light" lo the negotiations now that the I miners are returning to the pits, the spokesman said: 'He probably will give instructions only if the operators ask lis if it is oil right (o resume ne-getiatiens in view of the weekend developments." Washington, June 7 (UP) John L. Lewis' 530,000 United Mine Workers began going back to the coal pits today with every indication that they will stay there this time. While Lewis sounded a new threat of a work stoppage on June 20 unless a contract is agreed upon by that time, few doubted but that that was merely a gesture.

Both the coal mine operators and the Union evidenced every desire of reaching an early agreement. Negotiations will be resumed today if the War Labor Board finds the back-to-work movement satisfactory and gives a go-ahead for collective bargaining. The Board refused to permit negotiations to proceed Saturday because of its policy of opposing negotiations while a work stoppage is 'in progress. The operators, as well as Lewis, protested to the Board that they wanted to get on with the negotiations. Even the southern operators, who have been more adamant in their stand than the northern group, were beginning to show signs of yielding.

The UMW ordered its members to end the six-day stoppage in compliance with an order of President Roosevelt, although the Union publicly acknowledged only a request of Solid Fuels Administrator Harold L. Ickes, custodian of the government-seized mines. A "misunderstanding" was blamed by Mike Honus, secretary-Treasurer of District 4, UMWA, for only 65 out of the usual morning shift of 250 entering the Bridgeport mine of the H. C. Frick Coke subsidiary of U.

S. Steel Corp. Union representatives were sent to the mine near Brownsville, and Honus predicted operations would be back to normal late today or tomorrow. While the negotiations continue, (Continued on Page 6) (Column 8) Striking Truck Drivers Deliver Under Truce Pittsburgh, June 7 (UP) Local citizens picked up a bottle of milk on their doorstep today as striking truck drivers made single deliveries after agreeing to a one-day truce. But there will not be any milk delivery tomorrow and whether door-to-door service will be resumed Wednesday on the skip-a-day basis required by the Office of Defense Transportation probably will depend upon the outcome of a conference today.

Stumbling block in negotiations to end the five-day strike between the Milk Industry Committee and the Milk Drivers' Union is the union's refusal to agree to management's request for double deliveries every other day. Martin J. Walsh, spokesman for the drivers, said no progress has been made in negotiations. He denied the union was on strike. He said that the union's grievance was with the method of compliance suggested by the dealers and not with the ODT.

K. C. Hibbctts. secretary of the Milk Industry Committee, meanwhile expressed hope that "something will develop in negotiations today that will lead to a permanent settlement." Five Western Penna. Soldiers Killed When Truck Plunges 50-Fcei Nashville, June 7 (UP) While returning to duty after a day's leave, five Western Pennsylvania servicemen were killed yesterday when their truck crashed through a bridge rail and fell 50 feet to the tracks below.

Thirteen other soldiers of the Second Army, who were on board the truck, also wero killed. The Western Pennsylvania men killed were: Corp. Joseph R. McLaren, Mother, Mrs. Anna E.

McLaren, Pittsburgh. Corp. Brye K. Dixon, Parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Brycc K. Dixon, of Ctnnellsville. Corp. Leroy K. Williams.

Father, Leroy D. Williams, of Derry. Tvt. Pearl M. Wife, Mrs.

Alice L. Beane, of Tidiote. Pvt. Dean K. Rossman.

Wife, Mis. Betty Rossman, of Millicim. Women's Salvage Chairmen To Meet In City Wednesday A meeting for members of the Women's Advisory Board and all women's salvage chairmen has been called by Mrs. R. W.

Wilkes, of Monongahela, county chairman of women's home defense, to be held at the Elks Club in this city, Wednesday night. Mrs. Leona Woodward, member of the State Education Committee, will speak on "Immunization," and Attorney Francis H. Patrone, of Washington, will give a talk on the waste fats salvage. WOUNDED IN ACTION Sergt.

Edward K. Peters Mr. and Mrs. Edward R. Peters, of New Eagle, have been notified by the adjutant general, Washington, D.

that their son, Sergeant Edward R. Peters, 19, has been wounded in action. The extent of his injuries was not reported, but further news is to arrive in 15 days. However, a letter received hy Sgt. Peters' wife, the former Barbara Kuhns.

of Broadgar, Massachusetts, which she forwarded here Saturday, stated that the wounded soldier is "much better." Sgt. Peters has been in the Army for three years and has been serving in North Africa for the past seven months. Steel Mills Go On 48-Hour Week Pittsburgh. June 7 (UP) Steel mills in Western Pennsylvania today began putting plant employes on a 48-hour week after receiving orders from W. T.

Englehorn, regional director for the War Manpower Commission in Delaware. New Jersey and Pennsylvania. WMC District Director Patrick T. Fagan said plants would not be permitted to hire additional employes unless the 48-hour workweek is in effect. Machines Collide In E.

Monongahc! State Motor Police announced today that no one was injured and damage amounting only to $35 resulted when automobiles operated by William. Stacko, 30, of R. D. 2, Finleyville, and Nello Marracinni, 39, of Gallatin, collided in East Monongahela about 10:15 p. Satur- day.

The cars were travelling in op posite directions on Route 31 when they sideswiped, police said. 800 MIDLAND MINERS STAY OUT AS PITS AGAIN REOPEN REGISTRATIONS OPEN HERE FOR RED CROSS BLOOD BANK Pittsburgh, June 7 (UP) All but a few of Western Pennsylvania's 125,000 coal miners took the worn path back to the mines today, ending a six-day work stoppage, and a district United Mine Workers official predicted there would be no further walkouts. A notable exception to the back-to-work movement was the action of the nearly 800 miners at the Midland Mine of the Pittsburgh Coal near Houston, Washington county, who voted to remain out on strike. John P. Busarello, president of UMW district 5, who blamed the men's stand on uncertainty as to whether the War Labor Board would permit resumption of contract negotiations in Washington, said the men would hold another meeting.

He predicted they would agree to resume production. Busarello, just returned from Washington after participating in the Contract conferences, was confident that an agreement would be reached in advance of the two Registrations are being received for the American Red Cross Blood Center which will open in the Presbyterian church on Monday, June 14 and continue for three days from Those desiring to contribute blood to the armed forc es are asuea to register hi imcu su that definite appointments can be made as soon as possible. Call 522 or register through one of the clubs in town. The Red Cross is grateful to Frank Downer Post, No. 302, American Legion for its generous offer to finance the canteen which oper ates as a necessary part of the Blood Center.

There seems to be a question in the minds of some people as to the difference between the use to be.