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PAGE SIX. THE THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1941 A .1 A Zl II SATURDAY NIGHT mmmsm STARTS T0DAY shoxrw Ford Sees Wheat as Source For the Making of Plastics WnmSSm WALLY the Salt of tne Seven seas! WTJ II 0 yl MIN as the Apple of His Eye! ft ii- Starring Si Yp i prvieioWUd HunUng a ta op El Latest News urpneum ineatre LAST SHOWINGS TODAY I AMONG HUGH HERBERT Henry Ford, veteran motor maker tU whk Tom Brown ''PSa, gi V. Peggy Moraw XfoJW' wilk Tom Brown Peggy Moran toys with an early steam threshing machine on the Michigan farm where he ran It as a youth nearly GO years ago. Ford, who learned about machines while threshing wheat, now plans to make wheat into machines by processing a new plastic from the golden grain. HOSIERY MILL CLOSES, SILK SHORTAGE FELT Phila.

Gotham Company Plant 'Only First' to Close. PHILADELPHIA, July 31. UP The Gotham Silk Hosiery Company today was the first firm In the Philadelphia area to foe effected 'by the shortage of Jaimnese silk. Because of a lack of material, the comiMiny closed lta Oourtlaud mill last night, throwing 4X) hosiery knitters out of work. Company representative Samuel Rubin said the mill would remain closed until new supplies of silk or nylon are obtained.

Union leaders said the Gotham closing "is only the first" of an anticipated series of shutdowns resulting from the government order "freezing Japanese assets in this country. The available supply of nylon was said to be sufficient only to meet about 20 per cent, of the demand made by 40 mills and finishing plants which make this city a principle hosiery center. Approximately 10,000 persons are employed in the Philadelphia hosiery industry. Another Gotham mill, employing 800 persons, probably will le closed 'with in the next several days" if the shortage continues, an official said. Will Confer With Hillmuii.

other mills throughout the city reported enough silk on hand to continue operations for from one to three months. As the silk shortage began tov be felt by workers in the city's industry, William Leader, local president of the A PL, announced that a union delegation would meet at Washington tomorrow with Sidney Hillman, co-director of tshe Office of Production Management. They would consider substituting other fibres for silk and the retraining and re-eniploy-ment of displaced silk workers, he said. Hillman said that thousands of jobs were imperiled by the conservation of available silk for military purposes. SHORTAGE OF POLICE GUNS.

ACRAME TO, Ca 1 UP Traffic violators and highway crooks generally might infer mistakenly that the Golden Era is about to dawn for them in California. Owing to the national defense program, highway patrolmen are faced with a revolver shortage. No new ones are available 'but they warn the old ones will still ahoot. Canada has more than 100 varieties of trees. WAYNE8BURG The old tradition that it rains every July 29 in Waynes burg was kept intact and members oi the Day club went about tnen tubs with their best smile.

For just ten minutes after mid night rain began falling on the scorcn ed streets and thp bell in the old Ivy- clad courthouse was tolled times so everyone would know about it. Members of the club say only three times has there been a rainless July 20 there, the last being four years ago. PITTSBURGH James McCarroll, 14, drowned in the Allegheny river near Highland Park yesterday when he stepped into a 10-foot hole while trying to wade across the Tiver to Xine Mile island with a companion, Donald Sheppard, 11. Efforts at revival proved futile. PMLLLM'SBURO Henry Rabb, seventeen-year-old OCC boy, of Washington, D.

was drowned in Poe Valley State Park. SHARON A herd of six cows is kept within the city limits, in the Seventh Ward. The cows graze contentedly in a large pasture at the corner of Mahoning Avenue and North Cedar Street, on what was at one time the circus grounds for the city. FRE DON I A Hiram Douglas, 80, farmer, was found dd from a gunshot wound near his dwelling on Swamp road, town of Dunkirk, Monday morning. Beside him was a shot gun containing one discharged shell.

Coroner George E. Blood pronounced it suicide, with worry over protracted ill health as the cause. SHARON Henry Gilkbe, of Brook-field, and Ed Schumacher of Parma. when arraigned Justice of the Peace Thomas Mi-Lain, were Md for court. They are charged with stealing seven windows from the new honso Dirmiele.

of Sharon, is building at the top of the Wilson Hill, on the Mercer-Sharon roan. SHARON After recovering his sto len automobile late last week, thieves made another attempt to steal the Chevrolet sedan of Holns Klnger on Saturday night. This time Mr. Ringer prevented It before they could get the car in motion. FARRELL Mrs.

Eterabeth Davis aged 62, of 1201 Negley Street, was Musical Travel given emergency treatment at Buhl Hospital in Sharon for severe lacerations of her left wrist. Mrs. Davis fell while carrying an ale bottle. WHITE HILL Two PMInitolnhln youths slugged a guard with an Irou surveyor's stake and made a getaway from the new Pennsylvania' Industrial School here while guns blazed behind them. The pair were George Clark, li), and Waverlv Prouder.

20. both serving terms for larceny. Thev es caped in a stolen car. MERCER George Soday, R. D.

3, Grove City, Monday, cut his wrists in his cell in the Mercer county jail, after having been found guilty and ordered held for court on a charge for burglary. Dr. P. I. Hope, jail physician, pronounced his wounds not serious.

PHILADELPHIA More than 100 employes of the PhLIco Company, many of them already at work on national defense giMds, have donated their Wood to Uncle Sam's blood bank for soldiers, sailors and marines. Approximately 1.H00 Philadelphians have donated to the BLAIRSVULLE A Pennsylvania Railroad freight locomotive struck and killed a negro woman and her grand child rs they walked along the tracks near Sal inn station, 15 miles west of ISlairsville, yesteniwy. The Vlotflms were Mrs. Mary Miller and Jasper Bird, 8, both of Avonmore. Robert Bird, Jasper's brother, escaped with slight injuries.

KANE Henry Larson, 54, of Kane R. D. 1, suffered fractures of the left shoulder and right knee when a ladder on which he was standing while working on a barn collapsed. Hta condition is listed as good. THRIFT SURPRISES OFFICIAL.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. UP Ray W. Wilson, assistant to the city manager. decided Kansas City's expense of a year to collect $28,000 in dog taxes was too great so he wrote other municipalities asking information on their expense. Now he Is telling officials in other cities 'how Kansas City manages a profit from the dog tax, xor it seems tnat most erties that department operates at a loss.

Indians used the wood of the Osase orange for jnaJting bows. BARN DESTROYE! AT CLINTONVILLE Four Children in Building Nar rowly Escape Death as Lightning Strikes. Fired by a bolt of lightning late Wednesday afternoon, tne large nairy bam owned by J. A. Martin near Clintonville, was destroyed with a loss of more than $5,000.

Four children in the barn at the time narrowly es-carjod death. When lightning struck the building the four children, Eugene, Kenneth ana Fred Martin, sous of the owner, and Dale Martin, a grandson, were engaged in ruilkiucr the cows In the stable. The force of the lightning knocked three of th bo.vs to a straw covered floor and Kenneth was hurled through the door of the stable. One of the cows was thrown win her stall, reu and Kenneth received burns to their arms and necks. Sixteen cows and half a dozen calves were driven out of the barn to safety through the presence of mind of 14-year-old Fred Martin.

The boy released the cattle and drove them out of the stable. One calf failed to escape. Practically all of the contents of the barn were destroyed, including several thousand feet of lumber, a new mowing machine, new cultivator and other farm machinery as well as this year's crop of hay and about 300 bushels of wheat. An adjoining silo and a corn crib were also destroyed. The Clintonville volunteer Are department was summoned to the scene, but the Are had gained so much headway before the firemen arrived that it was deemed futile to attempt to extinguish the blaze.

The structure was leveled In a short time. The fire brought several hundred people of the Clintonville district to the scene and scores of passersby stopped to watch the spectacle. The fire burned itself out about 6 o'clock. Mr. Martin said that a half hour before the fire started the barn had been visited by a state inspector, who reported that it was highly satisfactory, meeting all the state requirements of dairy barns.

The storm that struck Clintonville Wednesday afternoon was one of the most severe in several years. The heavy rain was accompanied by much lightning and a high wind. 8,000 Loss Near Zelienople. BUTLER, July 31. A bolt of lightning in a morning storm Wednesday resulted In an $8,000 blaze and the destruction of a barn and several adjoining buildings on the Fliuner farm, two and a half miles south of Zelienople.

Zelienople firemen were called to the scene but were too late to save the barn after the fire had started when lightning struck the roof. The (ire destroyed this year's hay crop, 200 dozen shocks of wheat and three tons of millfeed. delivered only yesterday. The tire spread from the barn to a wagon shed and two chicken coops. Only livestock in the barn at.

the time were two teams of horses, which were saved shortly after the lire started. PLUM CORNERS. By MRS. EMMA E. WEBER.

PLUM CORNERS, July 2S. Miss Freda Hanshaw, of New York City, has come to visit her sister, Mrs. Lewis Russell, and family. Mr. and Mrs.

Fred Warner and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ralston, of Titusville, were Sunday callers on Mr. and Mrs. I.

E. Thomas and Mrs. E. C. Thomas.

A miscellaneous shower will be held for Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Armber-ger, a bride and groom of recent date, at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Tingley, on Saturday evening, Aug.

2. Mrs. E. F. McPheters is at the home of her son, George McPheters, at Chapmanville, caring for her new granddaughter, who was born July 23.

This is the second daughter to Mr. and Mrs. George McPheters. Wright left this morning, having been one of the group caled to service. The Pritchard and Spangler reunion held last Saturday at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Bert Spangler, at Sunville was well attended. Fred Montgomery and daughter, Miss Connie, of Franklin, were callers Sunday at the Frank Weber home. Mr. and Mrs.

Frank Davison and family, of near Centerville. Crawford County, were guests Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dempsey and family. E.

C. Rough, of Titusville, Lloyd McClelland and son. Gene, of Youngs-town, and Mrs. Heiuer, of Oil City, were recent guests of Mrs. C.

Thomas. Miss Ethel McPheters has returned home from spending part of her vacation at Erie. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Wright and family were guests last Friday evening at the home of Mr.

and Mrs. Glenn Collins, of Bradleytown. Mr. and Mrs. J.

E. Thomas and Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Russell and family motored to Sandy Lake.and Clarence Thomas, who has bt-eu spending the week-end at his home near Sunville, returned there with them, being employed there. When disturbed, bombardier beetles shoot puffs of poison gas.

SPECIAL Georgia Elberta PEACHES Bu. $39 BEEF BOIL 2 lbs. for 25c BONELESS FISH 19C lb. national Market 1251 Liberty St. Phone 50.

XEA Telephoto. marking his 78th birthday July 30, Glenns Corners. By ELLEN ROSE. GLENNS CORNERS, July 2S. AVil-11am Glenn was a business caller In Sandy Lnke on Saturday.

Miss Emma Melntire, of Polk, spent Thursday evening with Mrs. Mary Reagle and daughter, Margie. Mr. and Mrs. Laurence Foster and two children, of New Lebanon, spent Saturday evening with Mr.

and Mrs. James Morton. Mrs. Norman Greenlee, of Polk, spent Thursday evening in the Walter Rose home. Mrs.

Lawrence Clayton returned home from Falls Tuesday. being called there by the illness of her daughter, Twila. who underwent an appendix operation. We are glad to reiwrt Twila getting along fine and that she will soon be home. Mrs.

D. D. Lesh. daughter, Glenna. and son, Larry, and two friends, of New Castle, spent Friday evening with Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Rose. Miss Martha Morton, of Greenville, spent a couple of days at her home here last week. Mr. and Mrs.

Paul Miller and daughter, of Polk, visited Mrs. Miller's parents', Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Reagle, on Thursday evening. Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Trotter and children, of Oil City, and Mrs. Bert Vogan, of Maple Grove, were recent guests at the Walter Rose home. Mr. and Mrs.

Harry Clayton, of Niagara Falls, visited relatives here last week. Their sons, Danny and Larry, who have spent several weeks with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E.

Clayton, returned home with them. Mr. and Mrs. Lawreifee Clayton and son, Ivan, visited the former's son, Harold, and family, at Youngs-town, on Wednesday. A number from here attended the U.

P. Sunday school picnic at Rocky Basin Park on Wednesday. The MeFetridge reui.ion was held at the home of L. E. MeFetridge ou Sunday.

Miss Anna Margaret Greenlee, of Franklin, called on her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Greenlee, on Tuesday evening. Miss Ellen Rose, of Meadville, spent tie week-end with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Walter Rose. J. M. Bvers' two sons, Cecil and Buddy, of Hillsville, Mrs. Hazel Newton and daughter, Yerna, of New Castle, spent Sunday evening with Mr.

and Mrs. Walter Rose. A number from here attended the ice cream supper at the North Sandy U. P. Church Wednesday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Wiee, of Franklin, Mr. and Mrsj. James Ten-ney, Mr.

and Mrs. James Ten-ney, and daughter. Phyllis, of Sandy Lake, called on William Glenn on Sunday. LIVESTOCK. PITTSBURGH, July 31.

OP Livestock cattle ninrket steady; steers, good to choice, medium to (food common to medium 8. (i-1 0 50 heifers, ti'md to choice 10,1 1 medium to Rood common to medium cows, (food to Choice J7.7o-S.50; medium to good J6.7a-7.75; canners and cutters hulls (food to choice common to medium $. 5n-S. 50. Iiojch 200; market active and 15 cents lower! 160-10 S5; 180-220 220-250 25'(l-2'J() 100-15(1 roughs V.In.

Salable sheep 300 market Blow al steady prices; choice lambs medium to Kood $0-10; common $7-8; ewes $3-4 wether calves 150; market slow at steady prices; Rood to choice medium culls and common Various Asiatic races, in the belief that the glowing red color of the stone wouiu cause a more deadly wound, have used garnets as hullets. Stooge Comedy Community Hing Balcony, 33c Main Floor, 44c Tax Included ORPHEUM PARK THEATRE Comedy News STARTS FRIDAY HE-MAN ACTION! WZ- Marring TIM HOLT Moriorii Reynolds Added: Serial, Comedy, News STEEL INDUSTRY FACES RIGID RATIONING PUN July 31. UP Defense officials predicted today that the iron and steel industry will be placed under a more rigid rationing system within a few days to alleviate material shortages hindering the defense program. They declined to say whether the Industries would be placed under mandatory, industry-wide priority control bnt said that the government order would make certain that iron and steel "will go first to defense." The industries now are only under a system of Inventory control and certain defense manufacturers have been given individual preference ratings. The new rationing action may be expected about Aug.

1, Informed sources said. DEPENDS ON LOCATION. The storms known as hurricanes hi the West Indies and South Pacific are known as typhoons off the east coaet of Asia, cyclones in the Indian seas, and tagulos in the Philippines. Widths, AA to C. Hoof Shop FRANKLIN, PA.

Iv SMIES "Wonderful News," Says D. R. News of State In a Paragraph By United Tress. UNIONTOWN Jacob D. Moore.

60. janitor at South Union Township High School, died of a heart attack last night at his home in Hutchison. PITTSBURGH Mrs. A. G.

Williams. of Ross Township, reported to police today that she lost $4M) in an age-old bunco game yesterday. She said a negro woman approached her in a downtown store and said she found a package containing She promised to split the money if Mrs. Williams would put up $100 to show her good faith. Mrs.

Williams returned with the cash, she told police, and gave it to the woman, who grabbed the money and disappeared in a crowd of shoppers. HARRISBURG Personnel change sheets clearing offices' today authorized a salary increase from to $0,000 a year for J. Paul Pedigo, secretary to Gov. Arthur H. James and former city editor of the Philadelphia Evening Ledger.

HARRISBURG The Revenue Department issued a last-minute warning to motorists today to have their cars inspected before midnight, the deadline for the semi-annual checkup. Drivers of cars not liearing the official tomorrow will be subject to arrest. INDIANTOWN GAP Four hundred members of the Perry County Agricultural Extension Association toured the military reservation today. While they ate their picnic lunch the 104th Cavalry regimental band entertained. CARLISLE A military prisoner at the medical field school here was shot in the arm accidentally by a guard, officials reported.

Two months ago a military prisoner was shot and killed in attempting to escape. Names were withheld. MEADV1LLE A strike of 10 members of the AFL restaurant workers union today closed two cafeterias operated for employes of Talon, Inc. Mrs. Alpha Soupos, who runs the cafeterias as a concession from the company, said she "unable to meet wage demands" of the workers, who formed the union two weeks ago.

Elizabeth R. Deitz, president of the union local, said she expected negotiations over the wage demands to be resumed soon. BERLIN RAPS ARGENTINA'S CO-OPERATION WITH F.D.R. BERLIN, July 31. UP The news-paiier Deutsche Allgeiueine Zeitung charged by implication yesterday that Argentina's Congressional committee investigating subversive activities is working with President Roosevelt to stir up agitation against the Reich.

It said that was the reason Germany sent notes to all South American governments yesterday informing them of the Bolivian "forged" letter wherein the German minister in Bolivia. accordiliL' to the Foreign' Of fice, was falsely represented as having conspired with others to overthrow the Bolivian government. The newspaper said Germany could "no longer remain a silent observer of Roosevelt's continually growing agitation" in South America. According to estimates, each American family used approximately pounds ot finished steel in NEW OFFICE t. i i -mt "Crosley Shelvador Refrigerator" The refrigerator with the extra foot of space i the door for eggs, butter, cheese, yeast, beverages, etr, Electrosaver unit potato bin Beautiful streamlined all-steel mofltracted cabinet.

R. E. CANON FOB GOOD FURNITURE llft-llth St Phone ML Franklin, Pa. mfPi fkm if -r. i sMfh llJPJ An all time high record of $2,104,460.53 net proceeds in the 1941 Celebration of the President's Birthday to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis is reported to President Roosevelt at the White House.

This exceeds the previous hich record made in 1940 by $697,214.79, or 49.5 per cent. President Roosevelt receiving the report from Keith Morgan, National Chairman of the Committee for the Celebration of the President's Birth-aay and Basil O'Connor, President of the National Foundation, said ioefas rilied. the results-" with the President are, Li nfrht: WaIker We- assistant to Mr Morgan; George E. Allen, vice-p. of the, National Foun-C, Infantile Paralysis; James Forrestal, of the National foundation for Infantile Paralysis; Basil O'Connor, president of me Paralysis Foundation, and (seated) President Franklin D.

HERE'S A GOOD ONE FOR SUMMER! Lots of Perforations. White Rubber Sole. BUILDING BEING ERECTED FOR ELECTRIC GROUP. White Heel. Brown's 1253 LIBERTY ST.

2 nifiMwiii ii ii -it ih, Here is an architect's picture of the new office building of the Central Cooperative Association of the Rural Electrification Administration, that is 4 now under construction at Parkers Landing. The Cooperative serves a large area, including parts of Venango County..