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Lock Haven Espress, Friday, October 22, 1943 LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Eiu.bllmhea March I. MSI -Pubttihea ivery except Sunday the Saturday Issue bains published at noon by The Loci Haven Exprcsi Prmtins Company. Entered at the Lock Haven. Postofflce as Second Clan Mall Matter FRANK D. O'RELLLT President FRANK D.

C'REILLY. Vice Ptem. GERARD Ii PUTNAM Adv. Mgr. EGBERT S.

FORNEY Cir. MKT. KJ THE SERVICE Lt Oft) REBECCA F. GROSS. USXR Editor Corp.

RAY F. KREITJLER Pvt. CHARLES W. SHULTZ Pvt. JOSEPH J1ORAK Pvt.

WILLIAM A. GRUOAN 4 i Marking The Ballot A tempest in a tea pot was stirred up Monday when The Express quoted Mrs. Guy Cummings, president of the Clinton County Council of Republican "Women, in an editorial to the effect that a pencil and a crayon are the only legal tools to be used in marking a ballot at any election. The morning after, Clyde J. Messerly, chief clerk to the County Commissioners, called The Express, very much perturbed, to report that said statement was not that the Act reads "a pencil or an indelible pencil" are the only legal implements.

Far be it from The Express or Mrs. Cummings to give out false information. Mrs. Cummings explains she was quoting none other Gene D. Smith, deputy retary of the commonwealth, who made that statement while ad- a dressing the recent regional ference of the State Council oi 2 Republican Women, held in Jlamsport.

The Clinton County leader is able to refer The Express to half a dozen or more local women who heard Mr. Smith make the same remark. Perhaps Mr. Smith has Jnter- preted the indelible pencil men- tioned in the Pennsylvania Election Code, Act of 1937, as amended by succeeding sessions of the State Legislature, to mean crayon. He may have in mind the colored pencils, or crayons; which are in general use today, or even the colored lead of a mechanical pencil.

We do not know what he means by crayon. But we hasten to cor- rect any false impression which might have been conveyed in that editorial which we so obligingly wrote by request after theHepub- "lican campaign dinner at which Mrs. Cummings presided. In Mr. Smith, she did it in good faith, thinking that with such an eminent authority making the statement, it would not be neces- sary to consult the law.

Thanks to Mr. Messerly's vigilance, the error was detected. To correct it, in the simplest way 1 possible, we urge every voter to follow the instructions on every ballot. it is, for everyone i to see: I "A cross mark (x) in the square i opposite the name of any candi- II i date indicates a vote for that candidate. i "To vote a straight party ticket IJ mark a cross (x) in the square in the PARTY COLUMN opposite i the name of the party of your choice.

To vote for an individual '5 i candidate of another party, after 1 making a mark in the party I square, mark a cross opposite his i name. For an office where more 1 than one candidate is to be voted for, the voter, after marking in the I party square, may divide his vote by marking a cross (x) to the right of EACH CANDIDATE for i whom he or she desires to vote. I For such office votes shall not be counted for candidates not indi- vidually marked. "To vote for a person whose name does not appear on the lot, write or paste his name in 1 the blank space provided for that purpose. "Use only pencil or indelible pencil." The Act further defines what ballots shall not be counted, be- cause of defects in marking.

"No 1 ballot which is so marked as to be capable of identification shall be counted. Any ballot that a marked in ink or anything but pencil or indelible pencil shall be a void and not counted. Any lot marked by any other mark 5 than an (x) in the spaces pro- vided for that purpose shall be void and not counted; provided, however, that no vote recorded thereon shall be declared void cause a (x) mark thereon is ir- a regular in form. Any erasure, mutilation or defective marking of the straight party column at a elections shall render the entire ballot void unless the voter has 2 properly indicated his choice for candidates in any office block, in which case the vote or votes for such candidates only shall be counted. Any erasure or mutila- 5 tion in the vote in any office block shall render void the vote 9 for any candidates in said block, but shall not invalidate the votes it cast on the remainder of the ballot, if otherwise properly marked.

If an elector shall mark his ballot for more persons for any office than there are candidates to be voted for for such office, or if, for any reason it may be impossible to determine his choice for any office, his ballot shall not be counted for such office, but the ballot shall be for all 9 offices for which it is properly marked. Ballots not marked, or improperly or defectively marked, so that the whole ballot is void, shall be set aside and shall be preserved with the other ballots." Mr. Messerly suggests that in 2 case a ballot is marked incorrectly, erased or spoiled in any way, the safe thing to do is to return it to the election officials and get another. Taking this precaution may save the elector's vote, especially when any doubt exists. These spoiled ballots are cancelled, sealed and returned to the County Board of Elections STRANGE AS IT SEEMS By JOHN HIX CONTINUOUSLY DeWitt Mackenzie Says Chinese Communists Join Chiang's Central Party best news to come out of China in a blue-moon is the assurance from Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's government that a of its quarrel with the Chinese" Communists is in that there will be no civil war! Such a peace would be a Godsend not only to China but to the United Nations.

To understand the full import of this you must know that the evil spirit of fratricidal strife long has been hanging over that war-tortured country. When I was in Chungking early this year observers could see only one terrible civil war which would come at the end of the China-Jap struggle, and might break out before then. Party Conflict Background for this gloomy view was the fact that there had been many bloody outbursts in the protracted political strife between General Chiang's one-party (Kupmintang) government and the Communists who have been fighting for recognition ot their party. The dangers have been multiplied by the peculiar circumstances that the Chinese armed forces have included several strong Communist armies under their own generals, an agreement having been made to bury the political hatchet temporarily in interests of the war effort against the Japs. The latest rupture in the "united front" was only last month when the provincial authorities of Shantung charged that Communist forces attacked the state police.

Now comss Chungking's prediction that peace is in sight. More to the point, Generalissimo Chiang has appointed two Communist leaders, General Chou-En- Lai and Tng Pi-Wu, to a committee of sixty which has been assigned to do the groundwork for a constitutional government. General Chou is outranked in the Communist party only by General Mao Tze-Tung, CommunUt army commander. Of course, there's still a load of dynamite in the situation, but the Chinese home- front seems to have made a fair start in pulling out of a nasty position. Wanted Recognition I had the privilege of meeting General Chou, who was stationed in Chungking as liaison between the Communists and the government.

He assured me that his party wasn't working to supplant the government but merely sought recognition along with Kuomin- tang. He declared there was no link with Moscow. My guess is that Chou will play a highly important role, and if that's so it is a happy circumstance that he and Chiang Kai-shek arc friends. Chou is a cultured man of wide education. He looks to be in his sunny forties.

He has a striking personality and incidentally is one of the handsomest Chinese I've encountered. The general comes of an aristocratic official family. He began his revolutionary career when a youth in school in Tientsin. Later he studied in France, and became one of the earliest members of the Chinese Communist party. When Generalissimo Chiang was kid- naped by rebels in Sian in 1936 it was General Chou who was instrumental in securing his release.

Later Chou negotiated for the reconstruction of the united political front on an anti-Japanese basis. Mystery Visit My visit with General Chou was one of those things you read about in mystery stories. A guide led me through th by-ways of ancient Chungking until we came to a little settlement buried in the heart of the city. After negotiating numerous narrow passages finally arrived at a great, gloomy house which was even more spooky than the district in which it was hidden. Chou's uniformed sentries were all about the place.

A smiling but cautious secretary looked us over well before carrying word of our arrival to his chief. After a considerable wait the general suddenly slipped into the room from nowhere, like a shadoxv. It was a theatrical setting and a theatrical entrance, but the general fitted the scene perfectly. It must be added that he has to take precautions. We drank innumerable glasses of hot tea and talked far into the night, covering a wide field.

The general gave the impression that he sought political peace for China. New Navy Battle Dress Gives Better Protection PHILADELPHIA, A new battle dress for the Navy to give a man four kinds of protection was exhibited at the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States when it opened its annual meeting here yesterday. The dress protects against small fragments and splinters of shells and bombs; against flash burns from explosions, which have been causing 30 per cent of American naval casualties; against drowning, and against blast injuries. The latter are the underwater explosions of any type, which are lethal four times further from the explosion than the same missile exploded in the air. This battle dresj weighs three pounds, twelve ounces.

It is made of gray-green poplin and covers a man from head to foot except only his face and hands. In front, from neck to thighs, it is padded like a baseball umpire's chest protector. The bulk is much less than the baseball protector. The stuffing is ribs of kapok. The kapok protects vital parts from fragments and splinters.

It also helps a man to float. And it saves him from injury by underwater blasts because such explosions do their greatest harm through the walls of the abdomen and chest. Added to this battle dress, if a man wants to wear it, is a small flat package about the of a weekly news magazine and a little more than one inch thick, it weighs four pounds. It is hooked across the small of a man's back and when in the water, if he pulls a cord behind his hip. the package blooms out into a full size rubber boat with him lying in it Pulling the cord opens a carbon dioxide cylinder which spreads this boat and fills it until it is acutally much bigger than the man.

This battle dress was developed at the Naval Research Institute at Bethesda, Md. Because experience has shown that in battle many men will not wear such a dress, the institute has developed a cream which, when smeared over naked flesh, is a better protection against flash burns than a fairly heavy undershirt. The cream was developed by Lt. Commander J. B.

Fauley who is on leave from Northwestern University. This cream was announced In Washington officially two weeks ago and is being demonstrated here with a flash gun which develops a temperature of 4,500 degrees Fahrenheit at its muzzle and 1,800 Fahrenheit a few inches away. The cream is smeared onto cloth which remains Unscorched but which, without the cream, disintegrates in the path of the ftash. Twenty thousand pounds of the cream are now in the hands of (be Atlantic and Pacific fleets. Review Of The Olden Days One Year Ago The Republican party in Clinton County has more 63 per cent at the eligible voters registered.

Ira G. Fleming and Miss Ruth Holmes of the State Teachers College faculty have been appointed to take charge of all publicity released by the college. A handsome Legion Auxiliary flag has been presented to the Auxiliary of the William Crawford Marshall Post by Harry J. Widmann in memory his wife. Five Years Ago With Governor George H.

Earle giving the principal address, the cornerstones were laid at the Teachers College for the auditorium, the field house, the gymnasium and the library. Francis McGough. Immaculate Conception High School graduate and a former member the school's basketball team, has joined the staff of Father Flanagan's Home at Boy's Town. The wedding of Miss Shirley Ann Hursh, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

George B. Hursh of this city, and Richard C. Barber of Bradford took place at Wellsboro. Twenty Years Ago Robert D. Simpson of Renovo, president of the board of Clinton County commissioners, died at his home.

Fine sleet fell for a short time in the early morning. The executive committee of the Lock Haven Ministerium is urging the electors of the county to vote for a proposed amendment to the state constitution which would permit transportation companies to grant reduced rates to clergymen. Work on the construction of the dam which will be used for swimming at Camp Shoemaker is progressing steadily. A number of Boy Scouts help with the work on Saturdays. Forty Years Ago The annual assembly of (he A.

O. H. was attended by about 500 guests. William Smithers and his sister, Hannah, led the grand march. About 30 young men enjoyed a banquet at Beck's Hotel.

Floyd, the photographer, took a flashlight picture of the group as they sat around the table. P. S. Kift, who was injured in a wreck two months ago, will soon resume his duties as railway mail clerk. CROSSWORD PUZZLE Woshmgton Merry-Go-Round Fierce S-C1S7 to 10 Shinto ibrloes Wide-mouthed Jug biiiU tual A.VSWEB TO rccrzors rrzzu ssaisa aaa Oa to rlff enttl part CTOW'B call Russian Deliver, Everything Hone razor Musical Deep aleep ADJ Seasons High priest Required Mollifled to of U.

S. government in a line regiment on of cloth fight DOWW Egg-shaped river 4 to which a tone To sheltered iMl Flavor JUised plRtlcrm Dueling sword pert, to Aesop Goods thro TO overboard Solitary Unpaid worker Care (Poet.) Noblemsn Ancient Roman magistrate Done over ostentatious cersaonr Witty reply Third son of Jacob Prefix nail Crown oa sida up fluariri Seaport in ttalr Pert to aa I Roosevelt Wants Subsidies To Hold Down Food Costs Inside the White House, word is Note: Democratic a i man being passed around that the i Frank Walker is licking his chops president "has the old Dutch up" i at the thought of new diplomatic i regarding food subsidies. He is patrontage. determined to continue and in: crease his subsidy plan despite the negative action of the House Banking and Currency Committee which voted to ban most subsidies on food and Jan. I.

other items after Cart Run easily Fenale aheep (pi.) Girl Merry-Go-Round While Cordell Hull is ir. Russia, plans are being made to perform more surgical operations on the State Department. A new assistant secretary for Latin American One thing that has made the affairs will be created, the job president sore is the report he got pro bably going to Brain Truster on what happened inside the Adolf Bcrle or able Norman Banking and Currency Committee. Armour, U. S.

Ambassador to Two things occurred behind closed Argentina It has escaped the 20 3H 'is 61 09 42 1 doors which never leaked out. i One was the method used by Chairman Henry B.Steagall of Alabama, sponsor of the bill, in keeping the legislation concealed from his Democratic colleagues until the last they had no chance to study its technical contents. Meanwhile, Steagall conferred at length with Representative James P. Wolcott of Michi! gan, ranking Republican of the i committee, the day before the bill was considered. Second unreported fact was how Steagall left a loophole for the pro- DWr by I'nilrf Ftalurc Smdlc.K.

IK. Women Marines Get Official March Song Flashes Of Life (By The Associated Press) Frantic Appeal PHILADELPHIA Philadelphia Transportation Company i posted this notice: "Ten dollars reward to any em- ploye obtaining a new worker who I stays in service at least 30 con- I secutive days." Calls His Bluff LONDON Lt. Frederick D. Pogue, Camden, N. was seated in the front row in the Prince of Wales Theatre watching comedian Sid Fields clown with a violin.

Fields struck a few sour notes, Pogue made a wry face, and the comedian banleringly suggested that he come up on the stage and see if he could do better. To the delight of the audience, Pogue complied, and brought the house down by playing three choruses of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes." Loyal Supporter hopefully, State Senator John M. Walker settled back to read the lone letter he received about his radio broadcast Tuesday as part of his campaign for judge. admire your courage and Ftpnighirorwara attitude," it stat- q5. "1 like the way you presented views and beliefs.

I would Tike to vote for I'm in prison." Strategic Loaf OKMULGEE. V. J. Belda, showing guests through a partly-finished Army bakery, opened the big oven there, on a revolving bread tray, a soldier comfortably reclined. "Just looking around, sir," the startled private said.

Hastily the major closed the door and led his guests away. Now, after thinking it over, he's looking lor the promote him to private first class for his ingenuity. headlines, but Assistant Attorney General Wendell Berge, in charge of trustbusting, has been giving the Kilgore Committee some warnings regarding future cartels which rival fire-eating Thurman Arnold's fulminations News sleuth Congressman Hebert of Louisiana is certainly kept busy with congressional investigations. Having finished a pipe-line investigation he was immediately slapped on the Naval Affairs investigation ot the Brewster airplane plant. Hebert got his sleuth-training as news editor of the "New Orleans States." Washington Wartime tection of his own farmer constituents.

The bill calls for continued subsidies on three commodities soy beans, peanuts and cottonseed. Two of these, pea- nuts and cottonseed, are leading products of Steagall's Alabama district. On the roll call, the committee's 11 Republicans lined up solidly with Steagall, plus three Democrats and one Progressive. Representative Merlin Hull of By JACK STINNETT More Pressure other For Sales Tax ssive. Wisconsin.

Ten Democrats, led by Representatives Wright Patman of Texas, Thomas Ford of California and James Wright of Pennsylvania, put up a vigorous fight against the farm bloc coalition but were outnumbered. Runaway Inflation Patman bluntly charged the Republicans with "condemning to death' 'the administration's anti- inflation program "without even suggesting an alternative" to keep the lid on consumer prices. The big Texan said the Steagall bill would cause wild price increases on virtually all necessities and would cost American consumers 15 billions next year. Pennsylvania's Rep resentative have we here? The makings at long last of a federal sales tax? I wouldn't predict any such thing now, but certainly not since post Civil War days when the idea of a federal sales tax first reared its ugly head (to quote opponents) has it been given more consideration. When Chairman Robert L.

Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee (not considered a proponent of the sales tax) told witnesses at committee meeting that the committee and "probably the House" would have an opportunity to vote on a federal sales levy, observes pricked up their ears. When he added that he couldn't reconcile the treasury experts' Wright accused the Farm bloc reconcile the treasury experts congressmen of "trying to force contentions that an mcrease Congress to break the Little Steel wage-control formula." income taxes would prevent inflation, while a sales tax would Non-agricultural 'citizens of increase inflation observers took iiijii r.nn-,a4 tiinrr nf fruit- it as something of a two-by-four in the wind. this country are in a worse relative position, in terms of purchasing power, than before the war," the Pennsylvanian contended. "This bill, if enacted, would work an unbearable hardship on them." mittee wants any part of a federal THAT doesn't mean that ton or a majority of the coin- Wright and Ford tangled hotly with blonde, effusive Congress- sales tax, but it does mean that the pressure is getting heavy woman Jessie Sumner of Illinois! enough to make it politically ex- and other farm blocers over Miss pedient to give it thorough Sumner's charges that the admin- airing. istration was attempting to "in- i The arguments for and against crease federal control of agricul- a federal sales tax are not nearly ture" and "make the farmer sub- I as complicated as they sound, scrvienl" through the subsidy Opponents claim that it would place an undue burden on the lower bracket earners (particularly below 53,000) since those program.

Ford Objects Ford hit back that proponents LETS SING! Women marines try out their new marching sons with the songwriters. L. to r. Emil Gasser. of Philadelphia.

and Louis Saverino, of Windsor. both of the S. Marine Band; Opl. Shirley Beach, of Springfield, and Cpl. Leona Pahl, Great Falls, Mont.

of the Steagall bill were trying toj Jk! "raise everybody's grocery bill, while giving no thought to whether people can afford it." "The trouble with these alleged representatives of the farmer is that they want to eat their cake "March of the Women Marines" is the first official song to be adopted by any of Uncle Sam's girls in uniform. The WACs are working up a songbook. but so far no official songs are going into it. The WAVES and the SPARs have written songs and have hart pongs written about them too, but unofficially. Members nf the U.

S. Marine band wrote the official song for (he "lady marines." but the Marine Hymn the Halls of remains the official hymn for both men and women of the Marine Corps. Words to the new song are: "Marines' We are the women members of tiip fighting Corps. "Marines! name is known from burning sands to icebound shore. "Marines! We serve that nwn may fight in air.

on land, and sea. "Marines! The eagle, globe and anchor carries on to make men free." and still have it," thundered the Californian. "The government is guaranteeing the farmer 90 per cent of parity for his crops for two years after the war. No other industry is protected like that. Certainly the wage earners have no such income guarantee.

I object Those who favor the (ax say this inequity already has been taken care of in the staggering income taxes which hardly touch persons who make $3,000 a year less and earn two-thirds of the national income. Opponents say it would only add to inflation since workers in the lower income brackets would demand and have to have wage increases to make up for the ten per cent without lowering their standards of Proponents say this Is ridiculous, that the to giving immunity to one segment i evy would mere i skim tnat po of the population, while other tion ot "dangerous money" off Birthday Club Donna Kay Moore, Lamar, 9 Carol Elaine MacDonald, Ossinging, N. 9 Samuel Ferrara, 15 Thomas Vaughn Homer, 15 Boyd F. Powers, Mill Hall R. and John A.

llaugh. Beech Creek, both 16, today become alumni members Veronica Lake Files LOS ANGELES, Film Actress Veronica Lake filed suit for divorce from Maj. John Detlie, former studio art director now in the Army engineers. She charged cruelty. people have to take their chances." Miss Sumners kept chastising the Democrats with barbed comments about increasing the national debt.

At one point, apparently fearing she might be accused ot partisanship, the Lady from Illinois almost caused hysterics among the Democrats by declaring: "I don't know anything about politics." Congressman Patman. however, was not impressed. After the Steagall bill was approved, 16 to 10. he declared in a loud voice: "This was a complete Republican victory." Capital Chaff ClO's Phil Murray is being wooed passionately by Democratic National Chairman Frank Walker. So far Murray, however, has been coy.

He has a 7-point program he wants the Roosevelt Administration to adopt before he makes any commitment for 1944 Meanwhile Murray has secured a terrific of labor votes all ready to cast their ballots one way or the other Walter Reuther Two-year-old Jimmio Wood, son of Mrs. M.irie Wood llcfl) of Brookfield, goes lor a ride nnti is by his unclu. Priban, and his grandparents' don. Bunts. The hay gradually awakened from a spell of sleeping sicknt s-s uhirh hist May 3.

He tries tu talk, but still auuiui romy pluymnics. (AP Wiie- of the United Automobile Workers, "We're not making a blind date for 1944." New L). S. Ambassadors Plans are underway to appoint a raft of new U. S.

Ambassadors abroad. They will be accredited to the exiled governments Jugo- slavia, Greece, Belgium, the Netherlands, etc. and will take over part of the work of tennis-champion Tony Biddlc, who has the job of representing u.s with all these governments in London. Some of these governments have intimated that they find it embarrassing to talk with Biddle, be- eause, through no fault of his, he deals with so many governments that their claims and ambitions conflict. Also of the exiled Leaving Iron Connected Caused $125,000 Fire HAHHISBUHG, Failure oi a 15 year old store employe to disconnect a pressing iron was blamed yesterday by city and state investigators lor starting the $125.000 fire which flared in Harrisburg's downtown section for several hours early last Saturday.

The investigators said the boy told of pressing some clothes Friday night and leaving the iron turned on when he was told to mail a letter and go home. The Greece lire destroyed the army-navy ioi- iolavia have moved to Cairo. 'duction center and ten stores. five-sixths of the national income where the inflation threat is greatest. THE treasury claims that the sales tax would be terribly expensive to collect.

Those who favor it point to the comparative small cost of collection of excise and luxury taxes and call the simplest and cheapest tax conceivable to collect. Opponents point out that 23 states now have a sales tax and that to pyramid these taxes now would be to encroach on state revenue methods. This is a seri- jus hurdle. Few states would be milling to give up or even telescope their revenue system. Those who oppose the sales tax generally are Organized Labor, Ihe treasury, many other ranking New Deal officials, and most of the politicians, who are afraid of its repercussions at the voting booths.

Those who favor it notably the United States Chamber of Commerce, many university economists, and practically every one who is earning more than 55,000 a year. Does it have much chance of becoming a law? I doubt it, but it's interesting that it's coming even this close..