The Express from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania • Page 1

LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS -'KB i t. Weortfer Not Only A Community Asset Fair and continued warm today and tomorrow. Saturday, considerable cloudiness and continued warm. Temp. Range River Stace, (down .21) 9.71 fist.

March LOCK HAVEN, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1944 The Associated Press Four Cents 5th. 8th Armies Attack From Cassino To Sea 1 Fire Destroys Axis Satellitef Given Last Chance At Draketown Watchman Is Found Lying On Lumber With Burns On Back For the second time in 14 months fire totally destroyed the M. L. Claster Sons' saw mill at Draketown early today David Spangler, 16 Mt. Vernon elderly watchman, is in the Lock Haven Hospital suffering about the back.

He was taken to the hospital by fire- men'who found him lying on a lumber pile. A Clastei, who only morriing.returned to this city from a business trip, said that Spangler apparently been suffering from shock and could not be questioned regarding the cause of the blaze. The watchman was resting well by mid-morning. Claster said that the equipment was a total loss. Damage to it and the building amounted to $25,000 la addition, there was aipart of the lumber, piled nearby, destroyed.

FJemington firemen answered the first call at 4 a. m. The Mill Hall company was-called shortly and arrived 15 minutes later The mill was totally destroyed March 27 of last year. That fire was the first in the Claster holding during more than years ol business. The -Hall firemen were on duly until 6.30 a.

th. and the Flemington men for an additional; hour; Fleihinglon used water from a hydrant in-the area and the Hall company pumped i Water from Bald Eagle Creek. 80-YeaStJ Man Is Missing Peter Unch, is mentally ill, wandered away irom his resi- dence at 223 North Tail-view yesterday His description, reported to.the police and sent but' over the State Police, teletype, describes, him as 80 years old, 5 ft. 6 in. tall and weighing 150 pounds.

I When he was last seen he -was wearing a light brown hat, black coat.and vest, dark striped trousers and hard-soled bedroom slippers, and was carrying a metal safe deposit box. Mr. ttricfc came here, from York County in to live with his daughter, Mrs. R. W.

Cook at the Fairyie'w Street residence. He disappeared early yesi terday. morning. The-Cooks have offered a reward for' information. Local Boy Scout troops started out'todayin search of the missing man.

The Express offered a reward of $5 troop which finds the missing man Mother To Be Honored, Has 10 In Service INDIANAPOLIS, (IP) The American War Mothers will honor Esther McCabe of Lilly, who has 10 sons' in the armed forces as the nation's No. 1 war mother for 1944 at ceremonies at Indiana Memorial Sunday 1 afternoon. T. May Hahn, national president- of the American War Mothers, said in announcing Mrs! McCabe's citation from national headquarters this would be the first time the service has been held- elsewhere than- Arlington National 'McCabe, a widow, is a member of the George A. 'Wolfe, Chapter of the Ameri- I can War Her llth son, who is 17, expects to enter service soon.

Sign Debate Limit fc PHILADELPHIA, Both 'of Pennsylvania's U. S. Joseph Guffey (D.) and James the petition Introduced yesterday, by Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, (D- fc limit Senate debate on' the Ipoll tax issue. RAF Training.

Plane Crashed At Meadville Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Finland Warned To Quit Now WASHINGTON, (fP) In a virtual ultimatum addressed directly to the peoples of four Axis satellites over the heads of their Nazi-affiliated governments, the United States, Britain and Russia today warned those nations they must decide now whether they intend to go down to utter defeat with Germany. Transmitted by radio to the populations of Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland, the three-power declaration said there still is time for them to contribute to an inevitable Allied victory. It was expected Allied planes would shower the countries with' copies of the document translated into their native as are the broadcasts already delivering the massage from British, American arid Russian broadcasting -stations completely ringing the continental fortress. Addressed to Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland, the three-power declaration stated "there is yet time for the people of these four satellites to contribute" to the inevitable Allied victory. While it extended no promises of easy treatment to the satellites if- they jump off the German wagon now, the declaration made clear that every day they remain at Germany's side brings "more disastrous consequences to them and more rigorous terms which will be imposed upon them." The four nations, the document still have it; within their throwing their whole weight against to shorten the war and contribute to the Allied victory.

"While these nations cannot escape their responsibility for having, participated in the war at the side of Nazi Germany," the three powers warned, "the longer they continue at war in collaboration with Germany the more disastrous will be the consequences to them and'the more rigorous will be the terms which will be imposed upon them." MEADVILLE, RAF flyer was injured and three others were unhurt, when their twin- engined training plane 'crashed at the nearby Keystone Army Ord. nance Reservation this morning. Stalin Quoted On Religious Stand CHICAGO, Marshal Stalin of Russia was quoted by the Rev. Stanislaus Orlcmanski, Springfield, priest just returned from Russia, as declaring he is "an advocate of the freedom of conscience and that of worship." The Soviet' marshal also was quoted as asserting he believed cooperation with Pope Pius XII was possible "in the matter ot struggle against coercion and persecution of the Catholic Church." The Springfield priest, talking to reporters, declined to answer any questions. He presented the statement.

He said he had obtained approval of the -American State Department to make the trip to study the Polish. question and after asking Soviet approval had finally received an-invitation direct from Marshal Stalin to go to Russia. Father Orlemanski said he talked, through an interpreter, to Marshal Stalin for two hours and 15 minutes at the Kremlin after an-hour's conference with Foreign Commissar Molotov. The priest asserted he went to Moscow "as a private citizen." Japs Control Mrs. Moore Sent To Danville As Mentally III Mrs.

Arnold W. Moore will be taken to Danville State Hospital, probably this afternoon, on an order of the Clinton County Court committing, her to that institution. The sanity commission, composed of Attorney Burritt L. Haag, and Doctors David W. Thomas and S.

J. McGhee, reported to the court this morning that the woman was mentally deranged and was not responsible for her actions. The court then ordered her committed. Sheriff George Hickoff said that Mrs. Moore would-be" taken to Danville as soon as he received the official court order.

Following her examination by Danville psychiatrists, she has been watched every night by special matrons. Mrs. Moore has been detained in the County Jail since.May 2, after the body of her 4-year-old daughter. Donna Mae, was found in a car near the city limits on Susquehanna Ave. Pfc.

Jesse Lyon Gets Purple Heart For wounds received at Arawe, New Britain, last December, Pfc. Jesse Lyon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Lyon of Woolrich, has received the Purple Heart. The award was presented on April 19, along with a Good Conduct Medal given him by his commanding officer, Pfc.

Lyon writes his family. He is now stationed in Australia, recuperating from his wounds. Mrs. Bergdoll Applies For Citizenship PHILADELPHIA, s. Berta Bergdoll, German-born wife of Grover C.

Bergdoll, World War I draft dodger, has applied for American citizenship, under a law permitting an alien wife to derive citizenship from a husband. She and Bergdoll were married in Germany after Bergdol! fled there in 1917. She came here in 1935 to beg amnesty for her husband and has been here under a frequently extended visitors' visa. Bergdoll returned voluntarily in 1939, and last February completed a term in the Army disciplinary barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kans. Chungking Admits Pressure On Loyang (By The Associated Press) Japanese'a invaders in China held- complete control of the north-south railway linking Pei- ping and Hankow and maintained crushing pressure on Loy- ang today but in India were hit by a mighty two-day Allied air blow.

In the Central Pacific, Japatfs big base at Truk shook under coordinated one-two aerial while other defensive positions in the Pacific were ripped by far- flying American airmen. Admit Rails Taken Chungking acknowledged the Japanese conquest of the Pei- ping-Hankow railroad and tacitly admitted several forces of Chinese troops were trapped east of Uie- railroad, apparently destined to turn to guerilla warfare. Bitter fighting raged around Loyang, west of the The Japanese columns, infinitely better equipped than the Chinese, are pressuring the city from at least three directions and are within six miles of Loyang at one Gen. Sir Harold Alexander (left) is directing the new Allied of- in Italy which includes the American 5th and the British 1th Armies. The troops in action include Dominions, Poles, French and Italian forces.

Lt Mark Clark's 5th Army is attacking along the Garigliano River along the west coast at the Tyrrhenian Sea. Lt. Gen. Oliver Leese commands the 8th Army. 4 Qr 5 Bands May Take Part In Memorial Parade Four, possibly five bands are I likely to be in the line of march of the American Legion-sponsored parade observing Lock Haven's third war-time Memorial Day.

Many city and county organizations have also accepted invitations to participate, Ben Snowiss, Legion commander, said. Word is awaited from all other organized groups. All civic and fraternal organizations which have not yet reported in reference to their participation in the parade and the nrogram at the Honor Roll Shrine at the Monument should contact Mr. Snowiss, Clair King, Ed- mu Baird L- Stein immediately, the committee announced. The parade will assemble at 6.30 p.

Memorial Day, two weeks from Tuesday, at Henderson and Main Sts. Committeemen wil be there to arrange the line-up. The Legion will have a special memorial service of its own at the Church of Christ on Sunday, May 28, at 7.30 p. m. All legionnaires are to meet at the post home at 7 to march to the church.

At a meeting Tuesday, about 60 veterans of World War II were entertained at a party at the Legion home following the regular meeting. A motion was passed by the post inviting all service men and women home on leave to attend all regular meetings. point. The tank-led Japanese who Draft Policy Given; 232 To Be Examined Allied Forces In taly Regrouped "or New Offensive (By The Associated Press) The Fifth'and Eighth Annies, secretly regrouped nd shifted, made numerous advances in Italy today along curving 25-mile front from Cassino to the Tyrrhenian Sea i the most powerful offensive ever launched in the Europe, mounted behind a fearful barrage that shook the arth and lit the sky. British and Indian troops crossed' the Eapido flovvs through Cassino, and the Gari Eiver in the first hase of the offensive and pressed on toward the Gustav a Canadian reporter cabled.

Beyond the Gustav Lina the Adolf Hitler Line, another strong barrier to Rome. Offshore in the Tyrrhenian Sea, big naval guns were upporting the offensive. German radios cried out that this was the first act in the powerful onslaught against the Nazis and that the Italian ampaign soon would be supplemented by massed invasion 'rom the west and Russian drives from the east. breached China's defenses along the Yellow River at Shansi Province may have chih, railroad town 40 miles west of Loyang, a Chungking spokesman said. One ot the largest Allied air fleets ever concentrated on a single target in the.

India-Burjnas fighting, poured, almost 200 tons of bombs'on an enemy fortifSd area of 1.200 square yards southwest of Imphal near' the border. One pilot said target "just went up in chunks." Truk Bombed The air blows at Truk, carried out by planes from the Central and Southwest Pacific, were coordinated with air raids on targets all the way from tiny Wake Island, 1.300 miles northeast of Truk, to. the Schouten Islands, northwest of the new Allied air base at Hollandia, Dutch Guinea. The softening-up process continued with a new raid on Ponape, Truk's eastern guardian. Oroluk, in the Eastern Carolines, and Wo- Icai, in the Western Carolines, were also raided.

General Douglas MacArthur's squadrons dumped 100 tons of bombs on trapped Japanese troops in the Wewak-Hansa Bay area of New Guinea. The names of 232 Clinton County young men, comprising three different draft groups, were released today by the two draft boards. There are 102 from No. 1 Board for pre-induction examinations at Altoona May 20; 97 from No. 2 Board for pre-induction examinations tomorrow; and 33 assigned for Navy induction by No.

1 Board at Altoona. May 26. No. 2 Prc-Induction 1'ne contingent going to Alloonu i las WASHINGTON, The paunch growing citizen of age 30 through 37 who is in essential work got an indefinite stay from military duty today as the biggesi overhaul yet of draft deferment policy went into effect. In a major effort to give registrants an idea where they stand for some months ahead and to restore the morale of many draft boards which have threatened to 1 resign, national selective service Miss Hungiville WedsSgt.Arndt Miss Frances L.

Hungiville, daughter of Mrs. Kathryn Hungiville, became the bride of Donald C. Arndt, son of Mrs. D. W.

Arndt, all of this city, in a ceremony last evening at 7 o'clock at St. Agnes rectory. The Rev. John J. Crowley officiated for the rites, in the presence of relatives and immediate friends.

Attendants were Miss Virginia Hungiville, sister of the bride, and Augustus Husselton of this city. Following the ceremony a reception was held at the Town Tavern for about 25 after which the couple left for a short wedding trip. Mrs. Arndt is a graduate of St. Barnard's High School at Bradford and moved with her family to this city about six years ago.

She has been employed at Piper Aircraft Corp. Arndt is a graduate of the Lock Haven High School and was employed by the American Aniline Products, Inc. before entering the Army in 1941. He will mark the completion of three years of service on Monday. Serving with an ordnance unit, he went overseas in May of 1942 and was stationed in West Africa.

Some time ago he suffered a crushed right foot in an accident there and was invalided homo to Ashford General Hospital, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He is now home on convalescent furlough, and his wife plans to accompany him when he returns to W. Va. Out-of-town guests for the wedding included the groom's brother, D.

W. Arndt and his son, Richard, of Ccnshohocken, and Miss Mary Gallagher of Bradford, aunt of the bride. tomorrow from No. 2 Board clude's 37 Iroin-Jaenbvo and 23, from Lock Haven. The 'complete list is as follows: Lock Haven and R.

L. Eckert, Frank D. Ramser, Walter Hambcrger, Harold R. Seller, Ralph E. Francis, Raymond Watkins, Nevin K.

Laubscher, Ralph R. Embick. Roy R. Reeder, James R. Jones.

Ernest W. Strouse. Robert H. Emery, John T. Bridgens, Carl A.

Guerriero, Ehvood J. Giles, Frank X. KosmisUi, William J. Koch, Jack S. Gilbody.

Roy W. Fisher, Charles J. A. Brungard, James A. Wagner, Leo E.

Gill, Lynn B. Grays. Mill Hall and R. L. Barnhart, John P.

Blaschak, Harold L. Brungard, Hogan G. Fisher, Allan B. Grenninger, Robert B. Ketley, John R.

Mayes, Kenneth D. McCloskcy, Doyle M. Rinc, Eugene R. Young. Beech Creek and R.

J. Johnson, Wilbur S. Moore, Harvey Rowe, Bernard D. Irvin, Glenn L. Weaver.

Joseph E. Haagcn, Norman T. Heimer, Israel K. Condo, Elmer E. Peters, Blanch ard.

E. Campbell, Raymond C. Knarr, George H. Hayes, Floyd L. Miller, Lester N.

Young, William W. Barnhart. E. Connor, Charles F. Dietzel, Joseph J.

Ulrich. John E. Bowman, Park Hill, Guy E. Haines, North Boston, Harry B. Pettengill, Christiana, Edward J.

Burns, Chester, Lc'roy B. Stevenson, Baltimore, Robert J. Linn, Ridgway, Mathias W. Packer, Baltimore, Malcolm D. Rine, Williamsport; William J.

Cohick, Erie. Luther Motz, leader; John Bernard Griffey, assistant leader; Foster Arnold Berrier, Emanuel Francis Ma'kin, Warren Trevanion Dechant, Winford Lcroy Gentsyel, Paul Leon Mills, Robert Eschcnbach, Harold Vernon Summerson, John Joseph Monoski, Larue Wilson McCloskey, John William Market, Paul James Fantaskcy, Joseph Michael Ycdnak, Carmen Ralph Rosamelia, Sr. George John Rodman, Jesse Jefferson Reifsnydcr, Robert Willis Lininger, Gerald Edgar Bains, William Francis Mills, Irvin Doyle Bailsman, Theodore Lamonte Scid, Charles John Herzing, Charles Lyon Stincr, Vernon Dale Gyurina, Daniel Franklin Kcrstctter, Calvin Peter Funk. Jack Roy Smith, James Francis Lisi, John Francis Mack, Rudolph Fabio Luchetta, Glenn Burton Summerson, Charles Elmer Fisher Jesse Edward Newlcn, Charles Leroy Conway, Richard Lcc Farnsworth, transfer; Bruce Thomas Morris, transfer. No.

1 Prc-Induction Forty-seven of those from No. 1 Board ordered to report to Altoona May 20 for pre-induction examinations, or almost half of 1. Ordered deferment "for an indefinite period" of 30- and-bver men ir. essential industries, whether or not job requires special skill and experience. Previously only a men were eligible.

2. Assured men from 26 through 29 who are necessary employes that they will not be drafted "for the lime being." 3. Directed boards to review immediately the cases of men in those two classes who are now in 1-A, and to place them in 2-A or 2- deferred status. 4. Opened up the list of 35 "essential" industries by providing that a local board may grant deferments in additional fields if it decides that an activity is "in support of the national health, safety or interest." Maj.

Lewis B. Hershej said he hoped the policy stand for six months. He did no go so far as to predict that the 30-37 group might never drafted, as some officials have done privately. Hershey told a press conference yesterday that any local boan decision contrary to the new policy should be appealed Boards may simply ignore the! draft quotas, he said, if- they cannot meet them without dipping into the over-30 group or thi necessary men of 26 through 29. Authority To Local Boards Now that policy has been clarified, informed sources said national headquarters plans to re store full authority to the loca boards.

These have become in crcasingly resentful as one directive followed another from Washington in recent months. Hershey emphasized, at 1 news conference yesterday, tha some men 30 or older might drafted holding job in essential fields, if the loca board felt they were not makin their fullest contribution to th the group of 102, are over years of age. Twenty-nine See DRAFT (Page 2, Col. 4) Ward Case Dismissed Without Prejudice CHICAGO, (fl 3 Judg William H. Holly formally dis missed "without-prejudice" toda; the government petition for a injunction to restrain officials Montgomery Ward and Compan from interfering with federa operation of the firm's Chicag plants, now returned to compan "Without prejudice means that the government coul initiate a similar action later.

Dies Won't Run Again BEAUMONT, Rep rcsentative Martin Dies (D-Tex today announced his withdrawa as a candidate for re-election Congress. He said he would no ask renomination because of i health and a desire to return to private business. Attack Follows Huge Barrage The great new battle at the Gustav line appeared to be going 'avorably its first stages this afternoon. Polish, Indian and British followed last night's tremendous opening barrage with a round attack on German fortifications never equalled in previous the.line. Fighting, aided somewhat 'by 'heavy ground mist which hung over the jattlefield and curtained sappers in their important tasks.

A number of German prisoners we're taken in the early hours of the fight, and a small number of tanks were knocked out. The Germans were resisting jilterly on -all sectors and counterattacked one unit' five times early today. Shifted Forces Wily Gen. Sir Harold Alexander shifted his Eighth Army from Lhe Adriatic sector, protected by floods loosed by the aerial breaching of the Pescara Dam, to the inland fastness of Cassino and at 11 p. m.

last night, troops of a half dozen nations sprung with vigor at the enemy Gustav Line. Americans of the Fifth Army were along the Garigliano River which empties into the Tyrrheni- an and plunging toward Gaeta and the Anzio beachhead just below the main objective of Home. The Eighth Army was composed of Britons. Indians, and Poles and there were French and Italians in the Allied lines. 'The Eighth was battering at Cassino and the swift Rapido River, trying to reach the broad and fairly level Liri Valley leading 50 miles to the beachhead and to Rome beyond.

Artillery Preparation "All units reached their objectives on schedule despite the job of overcoming enemy-held strong points in the mountains," Associated Pressman Sid Fcder cabled from the Fifth Army positions. Artillery preparation dwarfed the cannon display at El Alamein in Egypt last year. In one narrow sector, American spewed 5,000 shells in a single hour and got no reply. Sky darkening Allied planes controlled the skies and kept enemy communications torn up There was no report of offensive action in the Anzio beachhead. The great aerial offensive from Britain, fiery and explosive prelude to Gen.

Eisenhower's part oJ crushing Germany, continued unabated through the 28th straigh day with American planes apparently striking at Germany after night RAF attacks on rai yards at Boulogne and Louvain in France. American heavy bombers at tacked four major synthetic oi plants in the Leipzig area of Ger many and one at Brux inside.oil Czechoslovakia today in th mounting campaign to paralyz the German war machine aheai of the western invasion. A great armada of nearly 2,00 Flying Fortresses, Liberators an escorting fighters carried out th stunning blow against the ver heart of Hitler's mobile fightin force and, according to runnin Berlin Radio accounts, battled th See WAR (Page 3, Col. 3) Assault Going Well First Stages It is a full Allied merican, British, Dominion, Posh, French and Italian troops. Secretly regrouped, ilark W.

Clark's Fifth Army hit the westward flank running iri rom the Tyrrhenian Sea, and the Sritish Eighth Army, transferred from the Adriatic, plunged, vard in the bloody or, 25 miles inland oTTltEe hfe to drive up the Liri Valley. Latest reports indicated no big offensive action had yet been aunched on the Anzio beachhead below Rome, some 50 miles west Cassino. Air Support Hundreds of Allied warplanes blasted at the Germans in mammoth sky-support of the ground oops. The Nazis were reported fight- ng desperately, throwing a cur- ain of mortar, artillery and machine-gun fire and using flamethrowers on at least one-fifth army sector. The thundering Allied artillery larrage was described as the icaviest yet laid down in this heater.

Gen. Sir Alexander, Mediterranean commander-in- chief, is directing the assault. In a pre-battle statement, en. Sir Oliver Leese, successor to Gen. Montgomery as Eighth Army commander, said "this le differs from previous attacks of the Eighth Army.

'Our task is to assault and )reak through in turn a series' oi natural defensive positions that are strongly held and long pre? pared, each of which the nans will cling to until forced? out. 'Our immediate objective is he Gustav Line which has been fortified for many months past, and includes modern concrete defense works in many places. Another Line Behind this lies' the Adolf Hitler Line, another strong natural defensive position, which the German military engineers prepared for months past, strength- Hied to the utmost, and which. Hitler's troops will be ordered to lold to the last man. The defenses we now are attacking are the strongest the British army has encountered in the present war." The fact that Hitler gave his own name to this second line beyond the Gustav defenses indicates its strength, and Nazi belief that it will not be broken.

Axis press reports reaching the jar of siohs from the French invasion, cpast last night was felt as far inland as a picke'd, German attack force spearheaded by paratroops would strike at England the moment the Allied invasion began. Probably Nazi Line Most London observers took this with'a grain of It more likely that the Nazi press was putting out dispatches of feigned confidence rather than risking disclosure of any real German plans for the defense of the continent. Another report said that Rornf- mel had demanded the appointment of a German gauleiter with extraordinary policy powers to take charge of France on tha grounds that Vichy may be unable to control the French population when the Allies invade,.