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our War Bond Investment Your Investment In America THE LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Nbt Only A Newspaper-r-A Community Asset WeathFf Cloudy and warmer with few thunderstorms, Saturday, fair and cooler. Temp. Range 84-62 Precipitation .13 River Stage (down .04) 7.36 Est. Much 1, 1882 LOCK HAVEN, FRIDAY, JULY 28, 1944 The Associated Press Four Cents Near Coutances On West Front Reds 30 Miles From Warsaw; 10 Jap hips Sunk At Palau Unding Strip PlahnedFtt Beech Creek Exchange Club: Group, Mr7-Hess Work Out Details Clinton County will probably have its, first airplane landing strip located at Beech CreeV, according- to plans being advanced by: Walter C. Jamouneau and his the Exchange Club in with George F.iHess, who suggested the program at Beech.Creek.

Jamouneau named. as his committee E. L. Stein; AJTorselU Hidgely B. Heller, and I.

W. Hunt. This group motored to: the neighboring yesterday and viewed the proposed area. From all-indications, as.recommended by ftr. Hess, the strip will be the land directly behind tlie High school between-the railroad "tracks'and crossing the The strip allows an approximate 1,000 to 1,100 feet in length and width sufficient to allow landings -of larger planes.

At the- present time, however, there are a number of telephone and electric light directly 'over the strip and contacts are being made with the- yarious companies in the hope of having these placed underground. If the strip is completed before it-appeals that it will, test planes from the Piper Aircraft Corp. will be making, trips from Lock Haven to that area often as three to, four I times'-tach At the Exchange CIub 'meetihf! op Wednesday- "evening it 'the Avenue outlined the fprogranv in detail and -pointed out that if first strip is successful other cqmmurii- ties throughout this arid border- wilirbe encouraged to advance areas-for landing sections. A't "the meeting. President Watson -F.

Fowler presented i Wenner; with'- a'tfountain gift from -Exchange. MK will le'aye at the of this, month Cfor. High N. where he will be'superinten- dent of that town's Burlington I Mills He lias served as assistant superintendent at the local Bloomsburg for several years. Mrs.

Wenner and their Conrad, will remain here until early September. Guests included Edward E. I Alvin Sno- wiss and Conrad.Wenner, -Jr. Candy '-Allotmentsi For Civilians Cut Again SEATTLE, There isn't much prospect of -relief for' the nation's sweettobfh. Philip.

Gotf of: president of the ers' Association, reported to -a candy dealers'- meeting 'that civilians this month. The chocolate supply, for civilian xise now "is cent of I the pre-war level' he Sugar supplies for the candy trade, also are limited. PFC. ECKLEY N. RHINE Rhine Killed, Poleto Injured Pfc.

Eckley N. Rhine, 28, eldest son of and Albert N. of Salona, was killed in 'action in France on June 13, according to -a War" Department telegram received'by his family yesterday. An-infantryman, Pfc. Rhine enlisted in the army in January 1941 and served at Fort Meade, Tort Huston, Texas and Camp McCoy, before going overseas last October.

In the last letter written to family, dated May was still in Ireland. Apparently he later moved into France with the invasion forces, for his death occurred one week after D-Day. -'Pfc. Eckley has one brother iri the; service, Harry Rhine ho joined the army in April 1341 "and, stationed for many month's wrth.the Coast Artillery in.Hawaii. He in the Both Eckley an'd Harry were former employes of the Martin Motors.

Co. in Flemington. Also surviving Eckley are six sisters and other brothers: Mrs. John Garbrick and Mrs. Willard Grenoble, this city; Raymond and Roy Rhine, Trenton, N.

Helen, Shirley, Dorothy, George'and Freddie'at home. In'Renovo, -word'has been received that. Sgt. Peter G. Poleto, son of Peter G.

Poleto, was slightly wounded in action on July 14 in France. A volunteer in 1940, he entered the army in January 1941, and has been overseas for the past '18 months. 24 Killed In Crash Of U. S. Hospital Plane LONDON, Twenty-four persons, 'including 17 wounded American soldiers, were killed last nighfwhen- a troop transport plane hit a.cliff near Mull ol Galloway, in Southwest Scotland.

Six members of the- crew and a nurse were among the victims. The wounded were on their way to a Scottish hospital from Southern England. fire followed the crash and many bo'dies were burned beyond plane struck cliff. Hapl" it a few. feet higher, the barrier "would have been Two other plarfes in the formation landed at a Scottish airport and gave the alarm.

Blrnd Honor MedaI Regains Sight PHOENIXVILLE, Sgt. Forrest of Livonia, N. holder of: the Congressional Medal'of Honor; opened his eyes the other morning at "Valley Forge. General Hospital. The-maze of red, purple and yellow colors in the Red Cross afghan lying across his feet startled him.

''Gosh, they're bright," like a technicolor movie, much brighter, than'I remember when I could see last December." Now, thought Vosler, he would be able to, go to. Washington to receive nation's 'highest decoration, from the.hands of the may.be even' accept A Mrs. Hoosevelt's 'recent personal invitation to visit Hyde Park. Nurse Xooks Good A nurse entered the Ward. She -looked 'much different than' he had pictured her 'in his sightless V-mind when he was 9 Valley Forge on June; 2 and his wounded, infected right eye was removed in the hope that the vision in the other would clear.

But young yet old enough to carries a A chunk of shell in his chest from the Flying Fortress raid Their plane, shot down by German fighters, plunged into the North Sea and Vosler, wounded and blinded by. gunfire, crawled out qn the followed by a wounded, tail. gunner. Suddenly, Vosler, hearing a noise behind him sensed what had happened. The tail gunner, weak from wounds, had slipped into the water.

Without hesitation. Vosler plunged' into the water, groped and found his -companion and then held him afloat until both were pulled to safety, It was this that won him the award. Saw Colors Later the cataract which blurred his left "eye was removed at the Deshon General Hospital near Pittsburgh and he could see light then but it came and went. Then came the morning when he awoke and saw the riotous checkerboard of colors in'the Red Cross afghan. "God sure was good to me," Vosler said.

"I guess I won't see any more fighting and I wish the war was ended, but I've got to help them out with their bond drives and so on." "I don't like being toted around as a hero, but if it helps the war, I guess it's the. only thing left that I can do." Marines Kill 2,089 Japs In Tinian Assault (By The Associated Press-) The shrinking Japanese empire bled today from five new Allied thrusts, including a devastating U. S. stab into the Carolines which wiped out 10 ships and 26 planes and reduced Palau as a stumbling block on the Allied road back to the Philippines. On eight sea and land battlefields the best Japan could manage was a stand-off against the underdog Chinese at Hengyang.

Allied victories were scored at Palau, Truk, Sabang and on China's two battlcfronts. Destroyer Sunk Carrier planes of a fast American task force raided- Palau and other Western Caroline bases for two clays (July 24-25), sinking a destroyer, an oiler, a destroyer escort of mine-layer, 7 cargo vessels and many smaller craft. On the second, no enemy interceptors were seen. Five U. S.

planes were lost 'but four pilots were saved. Islands attacked were Araka- desan, Peleliu, Angaur, Malakal, Koror in the Palau group; Yap and Ulithi, which are between Palau and Guam. Adm. Chester Nimitz told of the raid last night. Another stinging blow, inflicted by bombers of Gen.

Doug-, Iss MacArthur's-. command, sunk one, ship and fired others of a 'five-ship convoy 160 miles south of Truk. The fifth vessel escaped. A sea blow by British directed fleet hit the northwest tip of Sumatra and wrecked its harbor, vital to" control of the Japanese supply line to Burma via Singapore. British Subs Active 'London announced today, in addition, that British submarines destroyed 21 Japanese" supply and other ships in Far Eastern waters recently and damaged several by torpedo and gunfire.

Allied land successes nearly matched these clear-cut sea victories. On Guam and Tinian in the Marianas U. S. troops pressed the isolated enemy garrisons closer to annihilation. The Tinian invaders, killing 19 Japs to every marine slain, held a third of the island and were putting Ushi airfield in shape for American use.

Tinian casualties: 2,089 known Japanese dead; 159 U. S. dead, 441 wounded, 32 missing in six days of fighting. Nimitz issued no new word on the Guam fighting, but -a war correspondent said Aprs harbor, a airfield and the old navy and marine base at Sumay seemed about to On New Guinea, the trapped enemy still probed, vain, for a weak spot in the -Allied encirclement. Recapture The Chinese recaptured Lei- yang, thus jerking from under the Japanese springboard of its drive to seize alf the Canton Hankow railway.

Lei- yang is the southernmost point to which the Japanese had driven out of the north to seize the road. Inside and outside the walls of beleaguered Hengyang the Chinese defenders and were locked in confused fighting. After 32 days of costly battling a decision -for this- strategic rail town seemed near at'hand. The Chinese tempered- their Hengyang ordeal with- a in Yunnan Province, where enemy defenses at Laifengshan were overrun. They killed at least 600 of the enemy at this-tow'i, which is an outpost of Tengchung, the city which controls part of the Burma Road.

Tengchung, under U. S. air attack, appeared next on the Chinese list. American and Chinese troops widened their area 'of control around Myitkyina, but had not yet taken that key North Burma city, also vital to of the Burma Road. Tokyo radio recanted on a recent reported assertion.

It denied that U. S. Superfortress fliers had been executed.in Japan. More Blue Stamps Valid WASHINGTON, additional 10-point blue ration through become valid Aug. 1 for purchasing processed foods, the Office of Price Administration announced today.

TheJ will be good indefinitely. Dewey To Work On 4-Year Plan Governors May Define Federal-State Lines ALBANY, N. (IP) Gpv. Dewey's plans for refurbishing the federal the electorate gives him the nod in put strictly on a four-year basis today, with the Republican nominee calling for an end of what he classed as New Deal "warfare' 1 on states' rights. Listing a series of topics for study by a GOP governors conference at St.

Louis next Dewey said he hoped the Republicans could fix "an area of responsibility to the people," -as between federal and local governments, that would settle the problem "not permanently, but for our time, or rather, the next four years." 4-Year Program He stressed the four-year, basis ol his program at a press conference yesterday aUendcd also by Gov. Bricker of "Onio, the vice presidential nominee, but "did not explain whether he was- coff-i templating only one term if elected. More than a year ago, Bricker proposed a constitutional amendment limiting presidential tenure to one six-year term. The Dewey objective won immediate applause from Rep. Charles A.

Eaton (R-NJ), who called after a conference with the New York governor, for "the complete reorganization of the federal government on sound business 'principles." Post-War Leadership This is necessary, Eaton said, if the United States is to assume the post-war world leadership, carrying or. "tremendous economic relationships with the rest of world." The 76-year-old ranking minority member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said he thought Dewey agreed. Eaton reported he discussed with Dewey aid for the stricken populations of Europe, which the representative said ought to be on a "gift" basis at first, but without any attempt on the part of the United States to become a permanent world "Santa Claus." Dewey Repudiates Hamilton Fish Support ALBANY, N. Gov. Dewey announced opposition today to the reelection of Rep.

Hamilton Fish, Republican, who is running in the 29th New York Congressional District, on the ground Fish had raised "racial and religious issues." The GOP presidential nominee said: "Two years ago I publicly opposed the nomination and election of Congressman Fish. Statements attributed to him confirm my judgment expressed at that time. "Anyone who injects a racial or religious issue and a political campaign is guilty of a disgraceful, un-American Act. Germans Wipe Out Another Greek Village LONDON, (IP) The Greek government in London announced that the Germans had added the village of Kieisoura in the Kastoria District to the list of more than 1,000 Greek communities in which slaughter and destruction had been visited upon the civiliin Arrows-with numbers locate-six advances. The Russians captured -Re'zekne (1); (2), Bialystok (3'), 'crossed the Vistula (4), captured 5).

and Stanislawpw-(6). John B. Rich Dies Suddenly John B. of Woolrich, director and secretary of the Woolrich Woolen Mills, died at 1.30 o'clock this-morning in the Williamsport Hospital where he was admitted yesterday. He had been in normal health until the night before last and his death came as a shock to the community.

He was born March the son of the late Mr. and M. B. Rich, and is survived, by his wife, Frances Tyson Rich, four sons, Pvt. Robert with the army in Boston; John Edward, at home; Lt.

Michael Air Force pilot, stationed 'in Florida; and Cpl. 'James England. Also surviving are-one' brother and four sisters: Robert F. Rich and Mrs. Robert.L.

Leinbach, Woolrich; Mrs. George W. Sykes, Conifer, N. Mrs. Edward Snyder, and James B.

Corson, Latrobe. Funeral services will be Sunday at 2.30 p. m. at the home.in Woolrich, the Rev. C.

F. Himes officiating. Interment will be in Woolrich Cemetery. In addition to his positions as a'director and secretary of the Woolen Mills, Mr. Rich also served as general sales.

manager. He -was a member Consistory, the Altooria Shrine, and the F. and AvM. and the Elks Lodge in this.city. He also belonged to the -Woolrich Community Church.

population. The announcement said that after a clash between Greek guerrillas and a Get-man patro! in which two Germans were killed, Argentine In Anti-U. S. Parade BUENOS AIRES, thousand persons, voicing approval, of the government's foreign policy with shouts of "Argentines yes; Yankees NO," participated 'last night in an orderly demonstration during which a noise bomb. exploded in front of the building occupied by- the newspaper La Nacioh.

assembled first in front of the U. S. Embassy where, as a precaution, women employes had been sent home early. The Links Duce With Matteoti Death NEW The New York Times printed" a dispatch from its Rome Correspondent Herbert. Matthews in which he said he had information in his hands definitely linking Benito Mussolini 1 with "the assassination of Socialist Deputy Giacomo Mat- teoti'on June'10, 1924.

The dispatch.said that a memorandum written' by Filippo File- pe'lli, the editor of the Fascist newspaper Corriere Italiano, revealed Mussolini had knowledge of the plot to kill Matteoti and added tfiat. "many of the Italian political opposition leaders of the time Liberals Communists the contents of the Filepelli memorandum. Nobody dared, or w'antcd to bring it out, so Mussolini- weathered the storm, x-x" In 1924, when Mussolini had become but had not. yet. suppressed all political opposition, his main opponent Matteoti, whose.scornful attacks 'in the -Chamber of Deputies were a serious peril to the Fascist One day Aialteoti disappeared.

His body was -found in one place, his-head in another. In a speech Mussolini-'denied Fascism was responsible.for the crime. the Nazis put the torch to the explosion, which injured no one little village. but shattered a shop window, oc- A few days later the charred, cun cd as the ain demonstration bodies of 250 women and children i Wa 5 moving toward the foreign were recovered from the ruins, the report added. The men of the village had escaped to the mountains.

ministry, several blocks away. Numerous organizations spon- Industries Help Toward 5th Goal the officially recorded figures show-that Clinton County still is 5436,000 belqw the Fifth War Loan quota $2,700,000, Chairman Joe E. reported today: that three Clinton County firms have.bought 'of-government issues in three days. That would cut'the to 5236,000. The three concerns who purchased bonds and tax notes to help the-county toward its quota were Sylvania Electric Products Woolrich Woolen Mills, and the Piper" Aircraft Corp.

The county total through Wednesday was 52,264,000 or 80.3% of the quota with five more SHAEF, flood tide of American tanks and armor 20 miles wide poured through the gap in the Normandy lines today to within two miles of Coutances, field dispatches said, threatening that choke point of disorderly German retreat with imminent capture. Lt. Gen. Bradley's spearheads, slashing more than 11 miles deep since the start of the armored push Wednesday and spreading out behind the enemy flanks, had cut tha 84th German Army Corps into little knots of resistance. But many of the corps apparently had escaped already from the Coutances pocket.

With Allied fliers reporting scenes of chaotic retreat, the van. of Bradley's six spearheads reached at least to within three miles of Coutances from the northeast, Supreme Headquarters said. Field dispatches said the Americans held heights overlooking the town. Field dispatches said prisoners from six German divisions had been counted at one advanced command post in a few minutes and it was believed that remnants of at least that many divisions were threatened with entrapment. The Germans still were holding six armored divisions to confront Gen.

Montgomery's British and Canadians below Caen, on the Allied east flank where the only activity was the turning back of various small-scale enemy counterattacks. The Red Army beat back the Germans toward the suburbs of Warsaw, Cossack cavalrymen and tanks drove through flat grain fields in a frontal assault that reached 30 miles from the. Polish capital. The 'Germans said tfiey had withdrawn from Brest Lit- ovsk, fortress city of 50,000 on the Western Bug and 110 miles east of Warsaw." The German Trans- ocean Agency said today that the Germans had evacuated Kaunas in Lithuania as the German com- munique announced the loss of Brest-Litovsk and withdawal in Galacia to the Carpathian Hills. Other Towns Captured The fall of Bresl-Litovsk, far behind the westward surge of the Russians, followed Moscow's celebration last night of the capture Bialystok, Daugavpils, (Dvensk).

Rezekne, Siauliai and Stanis- lawow. A fleet of 2,000 American warplanes assaulted the inner fortress of Germany today, attacking synthetic fuel plants at Merseburg in the heart of the Reich. U. S. Liberators and Fortresses made their 12th raid on Ploesti today, bombing the Romanian oil center through a dense smokescreen put up by the Germans, more than 500 bombers took part, and crewmen said explosions and fires arose from the target.

The attack was made a few hours after RAF night bombers had attacked Ploesti. A number of enemy fighters were shot down in renewal of the aerial warfare which in the last four days has destroyed more than 200 German planes in the Mediterranean theater. Without explanation, communications were cut last night between neutral countries and Berlin, which acknowledged yes- terday that Germany faced crisis. 3,000 Prisoners Field dispatches said American troops took aabout 3,000 prisoners in the past two days and that in 3 five-mile last night'one spearhead had reached within one and one-half miles ol Tessy-sur-Vire, 10 miles solth ot St. In the breakthrough to the.sea that pocketed some crack German units below the St.

Lo-Lessay highway advance.American units were reported only two and on-third miles from.Coutances and meeting light In Northern Italy veteran New Zcalanders captured the town of San Casciano, seven miles from Florence. The final battle for Pisa on the west coast got under way as American and German artillery exchanged fire across the Arno River. As German strongholds fell lika a stack of cards along the 1,000 mile eastern front, the Russians scored ten major triumphs in 24 hours; Besides Brest-Litovsk and Kaunas reported abandoned by the Germans and the six cities whose fall was announced in special orders of the day, the Red Army seized Garwolin, 30 miles southeast of Warsaw, and broke into Siedlce, 50 miles east of the Polish capital. Stuttgart Hit The smash by 1,000 U. S.

heavy bombers escorted by an equal number of fighters at targets in Central Germany followed a night assault by British Mosquitos on Stuttgart and a raid by Italy-based bombers on the Romanian oil center of Ploesti. Mosquitos also blasted enemy radio installations on Sylt off the German northwest coast. See WAR (Page 2, Col. 3) Early Victory Talk Sweeps Through Congress Condition Unchanged The condition of I. A.

Shaffer, who is grovely ill at his home, was unchanged at noon today. days of sales to be recorded. While the three industries have helped, Mr. Anderson reminds individuals that the corporation sales have exceeded their sored the demonstration, whicrt it is the individual sales which are came 24 hours after Foreign Min- lagging badly. Sales to individ- ister Gen.

Orlando Peluffo in a uals total only 5815,800 of which radio speech had said Argentina $504,100 are Series E. Bonds. would continue her present foreign policy, criticised officially, by the United States as favoring the Axis, A special appeal has been sent to 50 individuals to purchase extra bends in these closing days to put the county over the top. WASHINGTON, Talk of the chances for an early victory over Germany swept optimistically through Congress members today, moderated by advice from Rep. McCormick (D-Mass)-that this is no time to get happily excited.

McCormack, Democratic 'leader in the House, sent word from Boston that "I am amazed at Senator Vandenberg's (R-Mich) forecast of an early German collapse." He added: "This is not the time for responsible political leaders to build up an expectation of an early return to the ways of peace. It is rather the time to inspire a grim determination to go forward and win the war." Act On Reconversion Vandenberg had said that "chances for an early German collapse are sufficiently encouraging" to make it urgent for Congress to act on bills for recon- version of industry from war uses. He has summoned Republican senators to a conference next Tuesday, when Congress ends its Summer recess. Chairman May (D-Ky) of the House Military Affairs Committee, ventured the forecast that Germany would capitulate Dec. 1.

Senator Thomas (D- Okla), head of the -Senate Subcommittee on Military Appropriations, commented: "I don't see how Germany can last through the rest of this year." Wagner (D-NY) said, "My feeling is the crack-up will come very suddenly, when it comes. When generals in the German army show signs of being ready to quit, there must be the same kind of feeling in the ranks." Contrast To War Heads Much less hopeful were statements this week by Secretary of War Stimson, Navy Secretary Forrestal and Admiral Ernest J. King, commander in chief of the fleet. Stimson said after his battlefront inspection tour that the end of the European war "is not yet apparent" to the troops doing the fighting, and deplored talk of "quick victory." Forrestal reminded a press conference thera is "still a long way to go" in the Pacific war, and Admiral King cautioned that the fall of Premier Tojo didn't mean a weakening ft Japaensa resistance..