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ALTOONA TRIBUNE, SATURDAY MORNING, UtCEMBER 20, 1941' Ill Army Mow Otttr kf IvM fMMn bMMftMk IM- Serious Typhus Outbreak Back Of Nazi Lines Plnnp In hp VJii wt by ROBERTA COURTLAND A NX 3s Zzp x- XV 1 Phi column of smoke rolls up from Arizona, biggest prize of the burns in Pearl Harbor. Soon it sank. Arizona was built 26 years in smokestack caused explosion. v. a.

Arm, sigui carpi Photo ARIZONA BURNS, SINKS Huge Japanese attack on Hawaii, as it ago, remodeled in 1933. Bomb hit sms X- King Winter Bitter Foe Of Germans By HENRY C. CASSIDV WITH THE RED ABMY ON THE MOSCOW FRONT. Dec. 19.

Spend a couple of nights out on the Russian Steppes suffering wind, snow and cold and you have an Idea what the Germans are up against on the eastern front. I have just been through two such nights. The elements at their wildest, whining and moaning weirdly on the broad plains, broken here and there by stark forest, strike every living thing exposed to them and make death by freezing an ever-present danger. That ii one of the important reasons why the Germans are now falling back from advanced positions near Moscow and seeking winter quarters. "ou have no conception of the violence of this Russian winter us you drive out of the towns and villages where the Soviet troops keep warm in well-equipped quarters.

It is only when you get into the open where the Germans have been forced to seek shelter in the forests or in shattered settlements that you feel the full effect. Then you see that the greatest Invader, whether ha be a Napoleon or a Hitler, met In this weather a foe more than worthy of his mettle. I noticed the weather as an interesting natural phenomonon while riding out of Moscow toward the front on a bright, crisp day. Gradually slate-gray clouds covered the sky. Toward nightfall the snow began and suddenly darkness came.

Groping through blinding swirls of snow in the pitchblack night, the car ran slower and slower. The road disappeared under the drifts. Finally the car lunged into a ditch settling up to the hubcaps in snow. There were no signs of life anywhere. There was nothing to do but sit in the car until daybreak.

Then the weather became a personal foe. There were six of us In the car, the Russian driver, a guide, one Australian, two British correspondents and myself. We sat in cramped quarters straight upright as much as would German motorized infantry in stalled troop carriers. The wind screamed at doors and windows and penetrated the car. The snow drifted higher.

The cold settled closer and closer. We recalled the tales of people freezing to death, of wolves roam-in packs on these steppes. We started telling jokes until memories ran out of stories so old everyone knew them. Pressing close together to keep warm we dozed fitfully. Finally gray morning light filtered through the windows.

An army truck plowing through the drifts came down the road. Troops heaved us out of the ditch and broke a path down the highway. The second night was clear and star-lit with the wind ripping snow from the road and leaving a treacherous coat of Ice. Driving out to a front-line town, we came to a valley where the car could neither skid up the hill ahead nor retrace Its path on tHe slippery hill behind us. There was nothing to do but walk back four miles to town.

Sliding over the ice, falling in the snow we trudged along much as would German troops traying to advance. The wind stung our faces, snow clutched at our feet and the starlight wrought ominous shadows and strange mirages fromm distant trees. Walking Indian file and talking In hushed tones to keep together without attracting attention, we finally reached the blacked-out town. A door opened, letting a cloud 0 FIGHT BACK Yank guns fight back at sneak planes ridden by Japanese over Pearl Harbor, on Dec. 7.

Bursts of anti-aircraft shells are seen at right, while diving Jap planes are indicated by circles. Heavy column of smoke at left rises from burning Arizona, capital ship sunk by Japs after lucky bomb hit went into smokestack, caused internal explosion, u. a. Am sirnai Corpi pnott BERN, Switzerland. Dee.

19. (Wide World) Drastic measures taken by health authorities in tha Balkan and Ukraine occupied areas indicate to observers that the outbreak of Typhus behind German lines has become sortous. The newspaper Die Tat said schools have been closed in the Ukraine, and in Riga fumigation measures to exterminate vermin were ordered. All Infected territories were closed to travel. Russia has had serious Typhus outbreaks in tho past.

Between 1IU8 and 1921 it was estimated that more than 25,000,000 persons were afflicted. Rumania had deaths between 1916 and 1913 while Poland had more than 1,000,000 cases during the 1918 epidemic. Stockholm dispatches said tha typhus area included Estonia, Lithuania and White Russia, principally in the quadrangle bounded by Vilna, Brest-Lotovsk, Bialystok and Minsk, the region which suffered most in the German-Russian battles last summer. All persons recalled to Germany by their duties have been submitted to severe quarantine measures. The League of Nations epidemiological bulletin there were times more typhus cases during the whole of 1938.

In Ruth-enla, typhus increased eight times and in northern Transylvania nine times. In Rumania, number of cases had reached 498 a month by January, 1940. The Bucharest radio announced recently that medical authorities had been sent to Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to combat cpe-demics in that typhus-ridden area. The Polish Telegraphic agency said Germans had been forced to supplement" medical staffs with Jewish doctors and Jews hava even been ordered to work in German military hospitals. The medical corps of the Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian armies have been called up here by the Germans to combat the epedemic and posters have boon issued appealing to the populace to observe medical regulations.

The lowly louse, scourge of armies, is the carrier of typhus fever, through an organism known as Rickettsia, discovered and named after the American public health physician, Howard Taylor The disease, highly contageous, lasts about 14 days and saps the strength, brings severe nervous derangement and spotted rash. The chief preventatives is thorough delousing Poor food, starvation and crowding are chief factors in making people susceptible. Typhus has an incubation period of a week to ten days during which no symptoms other than languor are noticeable. The second stage usually brings rigor, headache and sleeplessness with high fever and heavy thirst. The third stage brings the rash and the typhus stupor accompanied by delirium.

After the crisis, the temperature falls and the stupor ends. The disease has an estimated mortality of 18 per cent although varying to a high degree with older persons. It has been recognized for many centuries but is mot frequent in cold or temperate climates. One of the most devastating epidemics of typhus occured 'n Serbia in 1915, when, it was estimated, the disease cost more lives than all Serbia's fighting and prevented the army from taking the offensive. At least 200.000 victims died and Serbia appealed for aid to the United States, France, Russia and Great Britain who set up an international sanitary commission, and sent 500 doctors and nurses to establish hospitals in the country.

The epidemic was checked within a few weeks. One American doctor estimated that 75 per cent of the population had been infected. In the Crimean war typhus took a heavy toll, especially among French troops It vas in this campaign that Florence Nightengale established modern nursing. During and after the Napoleonic wars typhus spread throughout Europe. In Saragossa, Spain, it caused 40.000 deaths.

In 1819 there were 737.000 cases in England and Ireland resulting in 44,000 deaths. AN absolute monarchy from 1350 to 1932, when it became a constitutional monarchy, Thailand is the 0nly independent nation of th southea-'t Asiatic Peninsula. Til x-. 1 1 0 1 I v. vx.X-: Jane Andrews, small-town iirl.

lonis to make a career of aviation. After her first solo flight, she's Interviewed by Greg Pres. cott, young newspaperman, and tells him of a plan she has for organizing a unit of girl flyers to help out In case the country should so to war. A New York official of an aircraft company, Mr. Hobarts, offers her the company's backing and arranges for Aleck Randall, celebrated flyer, to fly her about the country to recruit girls for her proposed organization.

She sets out on the tour, but soon realiies that its chief object is publicity for the aircraft company and that Aleck is selecting girls for beauty rather than ability. she has discovered that she's in love with Greg Prescott, and wonders whether she wants a career, after all. However, he doesn't seem to return her love. Finally, after a quarrel with Aleck, she goes to New York to try to cancel the contract she signed with Hobarts. lie agrees to cancel it provided she firsf goes to the women's air meet in Miami as a representative of the company.

Cynthia Collins, an employee of the company, is to take charge of her and tell her what to do. CHAPTER XXVIII 'THERE followed, for Jane, two frantic days of shopping for clothes and posing for photographs, beneath Cynthia Collins' expert direction. Pictures of Jane in "What the Well-Dressed Aviatrix Will Wear" were sent out to newspapers and fashion magazines. It was a whirlwind business and. when she and Aunt Emily and Cynthia were finally aboard a Miami-bound plane, she heaved a sigh of relief.

Miami took her breath away. The sky was so blue, the sunlight so golden. Biscayne Bay was a dream of loveliness. Yachts lined the waterfront. The streets were black with cars: the sidewalks were so crowded that it was almost impossible to walk.

On the night before the opening of the air meet, thers was a banquet in the hotel where most of the women flyers were stopping. Cynthia and Jane attended It. It was a huge aSair. swarming with newspapermen and cameramen. Cynthia had seen to it that Jane was" looking her smartest in a frown of chartreuse crepe, with her hnir done in a crisp, sculptured mass of tiny curls.

Cynthia also saw to it that her charge was photographed an amazing number of times. AFTER the banquet, they were standing in the lobby in the midst of a milling crowd, when Cynthia suddenly nudged her. "There's Marise Sinclair, who flew tha Atlantic a couple of years ago. She's easily the most famous woman here. I'm going to get her to pose with you for some pictures." Before Jane could protest.

Cynthia darted away. Jane looked in awe toward the famous flyer a tall, slim, dark-haired woman, with a plain but very interesting face. All the things that Jane hoped and prayed some day to be and do, Marise Sinclair already was and had done. Her eyes starry, Jane moved closer, and was standing only a few feet away when Cynthia spoke to Marise. She saw the flyer turn her head and listen.

Then, Marise and spoke sharply. "What? Be photographed with that cheap little phony who's been giving aviation such a black eye by barnstorming around the country as though she were recruiting a beauty chorus? Don't be silly! Why should I let myself be used to build up a kid like that?" Cynthia said quickly, "You're being very unfair, Miss Sinclair." "Nonsense The idea of her running around yelping that she wants to organize a women's flying unit for the government, when she hasn't even a pilot's license herself! Pretending that she's burning BOMB CRATER Honolulu boy caused by exploding bomb during Bomb blackened side of house, House owned by Paul Goo. With patriotism, when all she really wants is to get her picture in as many newspapers as possible. It's quite true the country needs women; pilots, but we won't get them the way she's carrying on! There's already a very fine and sincere organization of women pilots, out they're real flyers, not publicity-seeking little phonies like this Jane Andrews. Most, certainly I refuse to pose with her!" Marise had taken no pains to keep her voice down, and a number of persons near by had turned to listen with interest.

Jane, her face scarlet, felt as though she were rooted to the spot. She couldn't move. Then. Marise caught sight of her and. with a haughty lift of the chin, looked straight at her for a moment, then turned her back.

FINALLY, Jane was able to break the paralysis that had held her so still. Feeling as though hundreds of eyes were fixed on her accusingly, she turned and fled across the lobby to an elevator. When she reached her room, she closed the door behind her and leaned against it, shaking. What Marise had said was true, she told herself. No pilot, she had had no business undertaking what she had done.

Naturally, every one had taken her for a publicity-seeker. It had taken a woman flyer who had accomplished things to show her to herself as she really was just a silly kid with a lot of dreams that she had tried too soon to make come true. If she had stayed in Oakton and gone on flying until she had gained a pilot's license, if she hadn't let Aleck and Hobarts persuade her to cash in on the tiny bit of publicity she had received from Greg's article about her. she might have had a chance later to do what she wanted to do. Instead, she had ruined everything by being overeager.

Now, nobody would ever take her seriously. LJALF an hour later, when Cyn- thia came up to the room to look for her. she was packing. "Going places?" asked Cynthia. "Home," answered Jane, briefly.

"Taking it on the lam. eh, because that dame called the turn on you?" 'Taking it on the lam because what she said makes sense," answered Jane. "I've been a sap. I've let myself be pushed around by Aleck and Hobarts while they made a monkey out of me." "Made a morxe.v out of you?" Cynthia eyed tfte clothes Jane was shoving into a suitcase, and said, "Remembering the gosh-awful outfit you had on the first time I saw you, and taking a bird's-eye squint at what you're packing up, I'd say you'd done all right!" Jane straightened abruptly, realizing that all these clothes were a part of the phony scheme that Marise Sinclair had denounced so roundly. "You're right," she said, pushing the suitcase away from her.

"I'U have to take some sort of traveling outfit because I haven't any of my old clothes with me. but I'll leave everything else with you and ITJ send back what I wear home." Cynthia stared at her in astonishment. "Oh, for the love of little green pussy cats, give me strength! Are you completely mad? If you were smart enough to get the clothes in the first place, for Pete's sake, be smart enough to hang onto "em!" Jane said crisply, "I have no use for them." "And what do you expect Hobarts to do with them?" Cynthia asked drily. "They're certainly of no use to Take my advice pack 'em up and take 'em with you." Seeming to consider the subject closed, she dropped into a chair and lit a cigarette. "And now.

what happens next?" she asked. "I mean, after you get home?" Jane sighed and made a little hopeless gesture. "Who knows? she asked dismally. (To be continued) (The characters in this serial are fictitious) Copyright. 19l.brGramercy Publishing Co.

at left is standing in crater Jap sneak raids on Dec. 7. ripping off part of eaves. Pnoto br cunpbu vQ NICK IAPALVCCI News Correspondent Home on Furlough Private First Class Nicholas B. Iapalucci, well known in this city, arrived in Cresson early this week to spend a ten-day furlough at the home of his parents, and Mrs.

Joseph Iapalucci, 501 Pennsylvania avenue, Sankertown. The huskily built soldier, since his induction in the United States army in this city on April 25, has been attached with company of the 12th infantry. He completed his recruit drilling at the Arlington cantonment, and had the unique distinction of being one of the score of draftees ever assigned to the regiment. Following the transfer of the 12th infantry to Fort Dix. N.

June 12 1941, he was named chief clerk to First Lieutenant John William Gorn, and served in the company orderly room, until June 24. 1941, when he was transferred to the personnel department of the 12tb infantry, as clerk under Sergeant-Major Fleete E. Collins, a native of Huntingdon county, and a position which he maintains today. The 12th infantry dtparted from Fort on Thursday, October 23, 1941, to Fort Benning, Ga. This unit participated In the Carolina maneuvers which terminated on November 28.

Latest reports from Fort Benning, indicated that the 12th infantry will occupy the recently constructed barracks at the army's new reservation, Camp Gordon, near Augusta, in or about January 15, 1942. Purposes of Kindness Clubs Listed The "Tom Russell Kindness clubs," which have a membership of 11,000 in the public and parochial schools, lists its accomplishments and its aims. The society bought an acre of ground the three culverts and built a shelter on it as an animal pound where the animals are kept the length of time required by law. Over 3,500 animals have been removed from the streets of Al-toona and for many of these homes have been found. Those either not desirable, (vjscious or ill) were executed.

Or if the agent finds the animal injured it is executed, humanely, in the gas chamber. A car has been purchased and thousands of leaflets regarding humane education have been passed out. Dr. H. W.

F. Wentzel, Pittsburg, spoke in the schools several times. He is the western Pennsylvania representative of Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. The club would like to have the shelter with a paid attendant, where anyone who had a pet, and didn't want it, could take it and leave it, instead of turning it out doors, or worse still, to carry a litter of pups or kittens away from their homes and leave them along highways, as is so often done. The needs are: 1.

Phone service at the shelter; 2. Paid ttendant can also take charge of people's pets while they go away instead of leaving them at the mercy of kind hearted neighbors 3. Need a bridge to enter the shelter grounds, for easier access. 4. There is a membership fee of $1 per year and the group hopes that it can get enough members to carry the expenses which amount to about $1,000 a year- Frohsinn Will Celebrate Holidays The Christmas holidays will be appropriately celebrated by the Frohsinn Singing society beginning tonight and Sunday with special music, and ending with an annual party at tho home, Ninth avenue ad Twelfth Christmas afternoon and the same night with a floor show and dancing.

Will Not Seek Deferment For Police Mayor Charles E. Rhodes revealed yesterday no deferment would be sought any we for city policemen who ate called for army seiv'f -ce the country is now at war. He said that the federal government's needs were most 'nv pr'-- war time. JAPS WANT IT View of harbor and city of Singapore, important to capture through Malaya. White-domed building, left center, is in background, Supreme Court.

St. Andrew's spire, right. British base, which Japs hope Baffles Museum. Black dome 1 1 of steam and a shaft of light in to the night and we entered a warm haven to find food and a fire. I hate to think what it might have been like If the Red army as well as the weather had been against us.

This Morning'g Comment (From Pane 4) Perry county had proved a great success and the Christmas party ended quietly. While I hope no more blackouts will be needed in the ancestral land of Harold L. Ickes, the Pattersons, Deans, Gib sons, Biglers, Jones, Mackeys, McClures, and other great men and women, we Perry county mountaineers come of patriot aires and we will send the foe Into dismay and confusion like on that far-off Christmas on Kline's Ridge." Winter Wheat Crop Prediction For 1942 WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. () The agriculture department reported today that the area planted in winter wheat this fall and the condition of the crop on December 1 indicated a production of 630,913,000 bushels next year.

Winter wheat production this year was 671,293,000 bushels. The 1940 crop was 588,802,000 bushels, and the ten-year average production waa 569,417.000 bushels. The area seeded in winter wheat this fall, the condition of the crops on December 1, and indication of production in New York was acres; condition 92 per cent of a normal and indicated production 6,720,000: in Pennsylvania 795.000; 88 and 15.105.000; In Ohio 94 and 31.968,000. THK United State department of agriculture is experimenting with a "bantam" size turkey to determine if It can be grown suc- cessXully oa a commercial scale. THIS ONE WE GOT Wreckage of Japanese plane shot down near Hickam Field, Hawaii, after treacherous Sunday attack on Uncle Sam's island outpost.

Japs found Pearl Harbor defenses off guard, but as soon as Yanks could get into action, they gave.good account of themselves, with many acts of heroism. This plane went down near CCC camp. t. s. Arm, signal corpi puow.