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12 ALTOONA TKIBOHE stiirday, Fetewary 17, IMS With the Armed Force STatuti Mitfi Altoonan Dies In Accident RFC Cut Off From Dept. of Commerce Chevron Cora Gnesif 'j' eOlf GERMANY 7 rST, CZECHOSLOVAKIA it yS Munich CKomiromJ Muisself tf3Blv 'TS4llbuft MSTMA fttoo i.HortV'sCiv HUNGARY Work-or-Else Order Works This Way WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 MP Man under SS who dodge war work may wind up doing it anyhow in army uniform at army pay, ths war department implied today. The department laid down this procedure for administering the trk-orelse directive of James F. Byrnes: Those, who quit war job without permission or refuse to take one will be inducted, regardless of their physical qualifications.

They will be given four weeks basic military training, immediately. The physically ablo will go on from there as soldiers. Those unable to measure up to army standards will get their training at Camp Ellis. Til, near Peoria, A siteabie group is scheduled to arrive there in a few days. They will be indoctrinated in milit' -y courtesy, discipline and r'fle tru The physically disqualified then will be given a chance to volunteer for essential work.

Those who do will be given an inactive status in the enlisted reserve. That means they ar out of the army, but subject to recalL Those who fail to volunteer, but who possess needed skills, may be put to work then in government-owned plants. Lacking skills and stUl failing to volunteer, they will be assigned to army installations. The department said those who would be forced into government plants would be in uniform. Thai means army pay scales.

The Byrnes directive applies men under S3. It is aimed at those who have been deferred, principally as IPs. and haven't sxusht to participate in the war effort by working in an essential industry. Meanwhile the senate military completed hearings on the limited national service bill after two weeks of conflicting opinions, attempted compromises exd efforts to substitute less stringent controls. BOMBARDIERA veteran of many bombing attacks on Important targets within Nazi Germany, 1st IX Robert N.

Lackhove, 27. bombardier on a B-17 Flying Fortress of the 8th AAF in England, has been awarded the fifth Oak Leaf Custer to the Air Medal He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. L. B.

Lackhove. 416 East Grant avenue. Prior to his entry into the AAF January. lSj, he was employed as an inspector for the War department in Philadelphia. "The oil refinery at Merse-burg tops ail the missions." he said.

"We had an engine shot out by flak, but went on to bomb and then came home escorted by two P-51 GERMANY HIT FROM GROUND AND FROM AIR Pointers from airplane symbol indicate major German cities blasted Feb. 15 by American heavy bombers. Arrows show drives against Germany's western and eastern fronts. Moscow reported capture of Chojnice and Berlin said Reds had driven to Goerlits. German boundary is shaded.

Hitler Orders Death Courts For Germans In Last Defense Charles Malllck, husband of 'Mrs. Jessie (Wolf) Malllck. 908 Third aveniu, was Instantly killed by a street enr in Pittsburg Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock while on his way home from work, Mr. Malllck, who was livii at 4347 Murray avenue, Pittsburg, was born In Beaver Falls on October 18, 1891. Surviving are his wife and four children, Mrs.

Helen Cutrnan, Mrs. Virginia M. Grannis, and Mrs. Berneioe C. Snyder, Pitts-burs; and Charles overseas.

The body will arrive In Altoona Sunday evening at 8:35 o'clock and will be taken la the Lafferty funeral home. OBITUARIES Funeral Notice Will Be Found On Classified Pag KATHRYX (RICKABArOH) STOXKR i Kathryn (Rickabaugh) Stoner, 37 Broadway, Youngstown, died Thursday evening at 6 o'clock of pneumonia after an illness of on week. She was born at Milleratown on November 1, 1839, a daughter of James and Mary (Kiser) Rickabaugh. Surviving are one daughter, Mis Mae Saunders, Youngstown, two grandsons, William YV. Aurandt and Douglass B.

Schu-niaker, Bethlehem; two great-grandsons, Brian B. Schumaker and Lee Schumaker. A daughter, Mrs. Vera Fellows, died three years ago. Mrs.

Stoner was the last of her immediate family. She was a member of the Grace Lutheran church of Youngstown and of the Youngstown chapter of the Order of Eastern Star. Friends are invited and may call at the Lafferty funeral home after 7 o'clock tomorrow evening. HULDAH E. KITTING Huldah E.

Kittins, wife of Harry 2S17 Eighth avenue, died at her homo, at 2:28 o'clock yesterday afternoon. She was born at February 19, 1882, a daughter of Harry and Charlotte (Shaffer) Stahl. Surviving arc her husband, two daughters, Mrs. Nels Haughan, Demopolis; and Mrs. Clarence Burkes.

Baltimore, two stepsons, Walter L. and Harry K. Kitting, Altoona; one adopted son, Ronald Charles Kitting, at hone; Ave grandchildren, two sisters, Mrs. Olivia E. Bowman, and Mi-3.

May Cornelius, Martins-burg; and one brother, George Pittsburg. Mrs. Kitting was a member of the Simpson Methodist church. Friends nre being received at the Laughin funeral home after 7 o'clock this evening. NORMAN G.

MILT Norman G. Wilt, 600 Third avenue, Duncansville, died at his home last evening at 6 o'clock. He was born February 2, 1866, in Juniata township. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Mary Weaver, Mrs.

Esther Oler. Mrs. Zoe Olla, and Norman Duncansville; two brothers, Hessen Burn-ham, and Lloyd Fairbanks, Alaska, and two sisters, Mrs. Clara Burnett. Hutchinson.

and Mrs. Kate Fresenriter, Hasting, Neb Friends will be received at the home after 7 o'clock this evening. WILLIAM U. PAUL "William U. Paul.

716 Second avenue, Juniata, died at his home at 6 o'clock yesterday morning after a lingering illness. He was born Jan. 3, 1868, in Cambria county, a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Paul.

His wife, Annie Paul, died in 1923. He ia survived by one brother, Amos Paul of Summerhill, and two sisters, Mrs. Annie Gochenour of Mineral Point, and Mrs. Alice Rose of Cambria county. He was a member of the Juniata Gospel mission.

Friends will be received at the Mauk Yates funeral home after noon today until noon Sunday. Flowers For All Occasions IMPERIAL FLOWER SHOP MOVING? CALL 5103 DRENNING'S WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 Henry A. Wallace' rocky pathway into the Roosevelt cabinet was smoothed today when the house passed legislation divorcing the commerce department from the RFC The bill, which opens the way for Wallace to become secretary of commerce without the vast lending powers wielded by ousted Secretary Jesse Jones, now goes to the White House. Known as the George bill, the legislation was passed 399 to on the final rollcall, but this was no measure of the struggle over it.

Shortly before that, the administration escaped defeat by a hair's breadth margin of eight votes when the house voted 204 to 196 not to recommit (shelve) the bill. The senate is due to vote March 1 on the Wallace nomination. Wallace backers predict he will be confirmed, whereas most legislators believed that if the George bill had not passed he would have been rejected. Senator Barkley of Kentucky, majority leader, told a reporter late today: -It is obvious that the action of the house in passing without amendment the George bill greatly improves the chances of Mr. Wallace's being confirmed by the senate as secretary of commerce.

"I hope now that this matter has been settled that his confirmation will be forthcoming without further serious controversy." In today's uproarious session, a coalition of Republicans and southern Democrats sought in vain to send the George bill back to the house banking committee for further study. The aim was to force the senate to vote on! Wallace's confirmation not only as commerce secretary but also as RFC administrator. In this big test on the issue. 209 Democrats, two Republicans and two minor party members voted to save the George Bill, while 22 Democrats, mostly southerners, joined 174 Republicans in the rejected recommits! effort- Allied Convoy To Russia Returns Safelv By JAMKS F. KING LONDON.

Feb. 16 A big Allied convoy on the Russian run has returned intact after its escort'sank two enemy submarines and squelched other lurking U-boats and torpedo planes so effectively they were unable to launch a single attack, it was announced today. It was the most determined attempt that the Germans had made in months to cut the northern shipping lane, the admiralty announced. The important convoy was tracked all the way to the Russian port and back. Three enemy torpedo plane? shot down and one Allied plane was lost.

The American and British merchantmen, screened by British and Canadian warships, were spotted by a German plane the second day out. said Commander G. B. Teale. From then on the escort attacked everything that looked suspicious, and Teale said several ether submarines were "undoubtedly damaged." The weather was so bad that U-boats did not appear until the journey Beared an end.

It was on the second day out on the way home, the commander said that 10 U-boats were spotted. "One did not dive quickly enough." he said, "and got hit and damaged but was not sunk." The U-boats ran. and the following day planes tried to attack, swooping over in pairs. That afternoon four U-boats again showed up and two were sunk. Bedford Agricultural I Meeting Scheduled The Bedford County Agricultural Extension Association will hold it's 25th Annual Meeting in Bedford on Thursday, February 22nd.

The forenoon program will start promptly at 10:15 o'clock at the Methodist Church. The noon meal and afternoon session will be at the Fort Bedford Inn. Short talks on the Association's activities and accomplishments by farm men and women of the County and addresses by Dr. Ken-reth Hood and Paul Edinger of the Pennsylvania State College will make up the speaking program. The Association has also secured musical and entertainment features for their 25th Anniversary event Included among these are the Morrison Cove Male Octette accordion solos and moving pictures.

The officers extend a cordial -invitation to attend to farmers and others interested in agriculture. Local Club's License Revoked HARRISBURG. Feb. 16 i.P The liquor control board today suspended nine licenses for varying periods, effective March XX. The suspensions and grounds cited by board included: Cesare Battisti Mutual Benefit Altoona, 30 days; sales to ueunu, uj minors; improper admission to membership; failed to adhere to by-laws.

WAITEES3 WANTED Apply in Person RUSSO'S Margaret Ave. CAFE 17th St. KILLED Sgt Raymond W. Neil. 54.

died January IS in Franc of wounds received the same day. He was with Co, of the lvVth infantry division known as the "Century, a part of Patch's r.h army. He is the son of Mrs. Rebekah E. Neil.

Tyrone, and the late R. E. Nell In. November of last year he was awarded the Infantry Badge and a few weeks later the Bronie Star. He was home for a 14 day furlough Jur.

1M and again in September. During his training in The states he was at the Walter Reed hospital Fort Benjamin Harrison. InL, Camp Forrest, Tenn, Fort Jackson, Miami Beach, Rockhurst college, Kansas City, and Camp Chaffee, Ark Sgt. J. Richard KjeUmaa.

son Capt, and Mrs. H. A. Kjeil-man, ill Thirteenth avenue. Juniata, recently enjoyed a 'recess' from aerial warfare at an air service command rest home, a remodeled English manor house where America's airmen, who provide aerial cover for the advancing Allied armies in Fracce.

lay relas between missions. Sgt Kjellman put on sports Jlothes and lounged in the atmosphere of an old country home complete with butler, tea in bed and every type of recreational facility. American itmosphere ar.d all the touches sf were provided by the American Red Cross. After seven days, he went back to his combat station ready to p'ay his part once again in the air battle across the continent. He has rompleted 19 missions over Europe, The second Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for "exceptionally meritorious achievement in aerial tombat over Germany asd enemy sccupied Europe, -was awarded 5 Sgt.

John N. Hilton, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A.

Hilton, UCO Eighteenth avenue. A waist gunner on a B-24 Liberator heavy bomber, he is with the 457th bombardment group of the 8th AAF in England. Ht has been in the service since September. 1M3 and prior to that time was employed by the Pennsylvania railroad. Pvt.

Josephine S. Randall, daughter of Mrs. Minnie Randall 1208 Twentieth street and Pvt. Vivian Stonebraker. 1107 Seventeenth street, who have been stationed at the 3rd service command at Fort Oglethorpe.

save received new assignments. Pvt. Stonebraier. whose husband is also in the army, has been appointed to the WAC Detachment at Hampton Roads. and Pvt.

Randall will report to the Waie-maa General hospital at Camp Atterhurv. Ird. From headquarters of the Twelfth Air Force in Italv comes word that the B-25 Mitchell bombardment group to which Private First Class James D. Brambaagb. 5H Eighth avenue.

Altoona. is serving as an aircraft engine specialist has been cited again by the War department as a Distinguished Unit, this time for the sinking of the Italian cruiser Taranto in La Spezie harbor September 23 Carried out without loss of aircraft and with no casualties despite a formidable concentration of anti-aircraft guns, the brilliant attack frustrated' German attempts to move the Taranto into position to block the entrance of this vital harbor. The group was previously cited as a Distinguished Unit for outstanding close support missions flown in Tunisia and Sicily in favor of the British Eighth and American Fifth and Seventh armies. A cook in a veteran fighter squadron. Corporal Harrr D.

Senimer. 2L son of Mrs. W. J. Lauer of 210S Tenth avenue.

Altoona. has served overseas for nearly tw0 and a half years and now wears seven bstiie stars on his European-African-Mid die East campaign ribbon. the United States in August of 194Z Corporal Slemmer sailed first for England and then North Africa where his squadron was the first landbased fighter unit to go into action and dea- INCOME TAX IM as aaaare joo ef every legal dedorrtna and relieve jroa of aJD detail. T.Chester Parsons Notary PuMic, 117 lita Are. By RICHARD KAS1SCHKE Feb.

16-vP) Adolf Hitler and Heinrich Himmler imposed martial "law upon virtually all Germany and poised the executioner's axe today with a decree establishing courts martial to "handle ruthlessly" anyone who shirks the Nazi death struggle. The "Courts of. Summary Justice'' will be set up immediately in all invasion-threatened areas of the Reich, with power to deal the death sentence to anyone who attempts, "especially through cowardice or selfishness," to evade his duties. The decree, broadcast by the German radio, meant that even in deepest Bavaria a German could be sentenced to death for selfishness in refusing shelter to a refugee from an overrun province or for "damaging the Reich" by uttering or repeating a rumor. The summary courts are to be established, said the decree, "on orders of the Fuehrer in agreement with the Reichsminister of the Interior (Himmler), "and they will be packed firmly with Nazis.

Residing judges will be "assisted" by political leaders or section leaders of the Nazi party and by officers of the army, the SS Elite Guard or the police. Since Hitler is commander in chief of the army and Himmler controls the SS and the police, it will be a thoroughly Nazi setup. Before the summary courts will be brought all persons charged with "crimes by which German fighting strength or fighting determination are endangered." This could cover almost any dereliction in the invasion-torn Reich. Defendants before the special courts either will be given the death penalty or win acquittal nothing in between. Execution of the death sentence will be so swift that even the prosecutor may fix the time, place and method in certain cases.

While the German high command said resistance was stiffening against the Russian offensive, reports pictured a worsening situation within the Reich. The Moscow radio said Dresden was being evacuated of its industries and businesses and that refugees were pouring into and out of the heavily-bombed city. The German radio said Dresden had been "rubbleized" by the bombings, and Swiss reports said more than 30,000 persons had been killed in the city prior to yesterday's American daylight raid. Moscow reiterated its report that Nuernberg in Bavaria was the new capital of Germany, with a 30-mile zone around the former Nazi party congress city barred to refugees. President Thomas Jefferson's unorthodox views on etiquette resulted in a tiff with the wife of the English minister, and for a Ions time thereafter, the English government sent only unmarried ministers to Washington.

troy a German fighter in that theatre. Operating from an advanced air base on the Tunisian front the squadron piled up vie- tones against the Luftwaffe and helped to decide the question of air superiority. A graduate of Senior High school. Slemmer enlisted in the army December 16. 1SML As a unit of the P-J8 Fighter Group, his squadron has been cited by the War department and Corporal Slemmer is authorized to wear the blue and gold Dis-1 tinguished Unit badge.

Pfc. John B. Smith, brother of street. Altoona. has been awarded the Philippine Liberation Medal Smith entered the service in February 1943 and before this he worked as a clerk at the Pennsylvania Railroad of Altoona.

He is a graduate of Altoona High school Besides the Liberation Medal, Smith has the Good Conduct and the Asiatic-Pacific ribbons and the expert Infantryman Smith has been overseas for more than a year and before coming to tie Philippines, he saw service in Hawaii and New Guinea. Pfc Michael A. Sinisi of Altoona. a member of a well known Infantry division here, has just been awarded the Philippine Liberation ribbon and also holds the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon and the Expert Infantry Badge, He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

M. Sinisi of 309 First avenue. He entered the army January, 1943. and has served oversea in the Central and Southwest Pacific areas for more than a year. He was formerly employed by Pennsylvania Railroad at their Altoona yard.

Sinisi graduated from Altoona High school June, 194L Serving in an emergency as a litterbearer. Pfc. Fraoct L. Rooney of Altoona recently helped evacuate wounded American soldiers during a battle in which German machinerans or.V 3M yards away blasted the area. Normally an anti-tanker in thej Regiment of the 91st -Pow- der River" Division, on the Fifth i army front in Ita, Rooney and! comrades had answered a call to serve as litterbearers with an attacking rifle company.

The terrain over which the Tanks advanced was so rugged and muddy it required from six to 12 hours to make the round trip from the frontline to the medical aid station. The attack had progressed so swiftly that the American overran positions in which the Germans had left hot food in their hurried effort to escape. By morning, however, resistance had stiffened and the Tanks were forced to in. Throughout the day the Germans covered the area TTith intense artillery ana small arms fire. The fierce battle continued into the night and several of the slightly injured" made their way back, reporting that more seriously wounded lay out in exposed areas.

Moving through the shelled area. Rooney and his fellow anti-tankers reached the wounded. They carried their burdens to safety as enemy rcaehineguns rattled only 305 yards away. Roone.Va tome is at 1S14 Second street, Altoona. In a diving chase from 12,000 feet to WO feet.

Major John Bdw. -Jr, P-51 Mustang squadron commander from Fhrjthnrv shot down a Messerschmirt 109 to tally his sixteenth victory over the Luftwaffe, a combst report filed here has disclosed. It was the eighth aerial score Ceremonies Complete for Award Plans are completed for the official presentation of the artr.y-navy 'E' to the John R. Wald company in Tyrone. Col Robert C.

Downie, chief of the Pittsburg ordnance district of the army service forces, will mako the official presentation at the ceremony tc be held at the Jaffa Mosque in Altoona this evening at 8 o'clok. The acceptance of the honor will be made by John R. Wald, president of the John R. Wald company. The pennants accepted by Mr.

Wald will fly over the Tyrone plant of the company. The men and women of the company will be honored by the presentation of pins by Lt. Charles A Hampton, U. S. N.

resilfnt inspector of navy materials at S-unbury. Lt. Hampton will be assisted by Sgt Raymon Sanders wounded war veteran, U. infantry, now convalescing at the Deshon hospital, Butler. A group of employes, as representatives of all the men and women ef the company, will receive the award.

Charles F. president of the First National bank in Huntingdon, will be the master of ceremonies and the Rev. SdwarJ T. Horn, professor at the Mt Airy Lutheran Theological seminar in give the invocation. Music for the ceremonies will be furnished by Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians, Following the ceremony, FTed Waring and his orchestra and glee club will present a concert and entertainment to the employes, officials and guests of the company.

Frohsinn Singing Group, 81 Years Old, Will Celebrate Next Week The Frohsinn Singing societ. organized Febuary 22, 1S64. existing continuously since, will have an Slst anniversary next week. It is cne of the oldest singing organizations in the city and state. The society has completed arrangements for celebrating thi anniversary.

President H. E. Peters and the officers, together with the general anniversary committee headed by Robert Piummer, have completed arrangements for marking the event in an appropriate manner to make pleasure for the members, their families and friends. The festivities will be launched on Washington's birthday eve, Wednesday. Feb.

21, when the Frohsinn Thespians will stage the "Minstrels of 1945" The group has bean in rehearsal for several weeks. The usual Thursday evening's entertainment will be presented and on Friday the event will be marked by men's night Saturday there will be a dance and a special floor show. The celebration will conduce Sunday evening with a special musical concert by Kehoe'z marimba band. Reorganized Youth Croup Plans Social With Band The Good Friends society, formerly the Altoona Activity association, will hold a social Friday, Feoruary 23, at the TMCA, at 8 o'cock. The Good Friends club an 1 the Pennsylvania Railroad band are having this activity as a combined sociaL An attendance of a hundred is expected.

The Dixie Minstrel show that has traveled throughout the United States will be the main attraction. Group singing will be enjoyed from 8 to 9 o'clock, and refreshments will be served with the minstrel from 9 to 10. At the March meeting there will be a ceremony of induction, mith the. entrants Robert Brumbaugh, Diok Kanarr. Ann Powell and Shirley Langham.

Joseph Paul was welcomed as a hew member of the advisory board, by Jim Kurtz, and Attorney Samuel H. Jubelirer also consented to serve. The advisory board and guests from Bellwood will be present at the social. EOUTE SALESMAN Apply in Person Red Rock Beverage Co. Germans Turn On Nazi at AiMG Court Bj TOM YARBROCGH AACHEX.

Germany. Feb. 16 (JF, Some German civilian victims of Nazi oppression turned on one of their tormentors with sputtering vehemence today and testified at the trial of Otto Meyer, 46, before nn American military government court. Meyer is accused of giving Allied officials false information. He was exposed as a local wheelhotse of the Nazi party after he had worked himself into a position of trust with the American army and tad Seen given several important secret missions.

The Geiman witnesses pictured" him as a ruthless leader of a gang of terrorists in Hitler's storm troopers known as the "Terror Commandos," Their victims were chiefly communists and other opponents of fascism. A witness said Meyer kicked one victim and broke his jRW. Another witness said hundreds more would testify against Meyer if they were not afraid. The faces a maximum sentence of 10 years for stating falsely that he never was a member of the stormtroopers and that he had been "considered as an enemy of the state" since 193S. He had a Germsn civilian attorney in thts court, which was conducted by Maj.

Arthur Limbach of New Philadelphia, Ohio, former Ohio state Democratic chairman. Altoonan Wins Suit With PRR Mrs. Haze! E. Briggs, 310 First avenue, Altoona, was awarded a verdict of $42,500 yesterday in the U. S.

district court, southern district of New York, at the conclusion of a suit instituted against the Pennsylvania railroad by her attorney, Alfred T. Rowe. of New York city. Mrs. Briggs' deceased husband, Ralph, former fireman on the Pennsylvania's crack New York-St.

Louis flyer, The Jeffersonian, was killed at lfis position on the lead engine when the train ploughed into a string of derailed freight cars a mile east of Traf-ford at Aradra, 19 miles east of Pittsburg last May 1. Briggs was survived by his 31-year-old wife and four Infant children. Duration Club The Duration club met at the home of Mary Snowberger of Lakeniont recently. After the meeting a delicious luncheon was served by the hostess. Those present were: Beatrice Hicks, Catharine Geisler, La Rue Nothnagle, Miriam Auker, Mary E.

Kennedy, Genevieve Swanger, Helen Mackey, June Marks, Ar-lene Swisher, Kackey O'Brian, Edythe Rhodes, Ann Brandt Mary Snowberger and a guest, Dorothy Pietch. Return of the Natives LANCASTER, Feb. 15 (JPy Pansy, tired and unkempt cat returned to the home of Charles Stiehl last night after six months She had been given to a farmer 30 miles from Lancaster. This morning the Stiehl family heard a scratch at the door and found Susie, a pet dog who two years ago had been given to another family 30 miles in the opposite direction. 1945 Auto Licenses OA.

HOUR SERVICE T. Chester Parsons MOT Twelfth Ave, Notary Public CARRIER BOY Good mot bow open. Apply in person. Circulation Dept. Altwma Trihone, 111 Mth SL Americans Fall Back In Italv By NOLAND NORC.AARD ROME, Feb.

16 n.P American troops on the extreme let flank of the Fifth army, front near the Tyrrhenian coast have fallen back onto the southern slopes of Monte Csnala. four miles southeast of the road hub of Massa, after enemy infiltrations threatened their outposts. Allied headquarters announced today. This withdrawal put the 92nd infantry division back in the positions it held prior to its two-day attack in that area a week ago, a communique said. Enemy radio reports said Allied reinforcements were moving up behind the Eighth Army's lines along the Senio river in the southern Po valley, but suggested that any Allied offensive likely would be heid up until the weather improved.

Fair weather prevailed over the front lines yesterday. but it brought no increased activity to the tcudbound armies. German patrols which attempted to probe American lines southeast of Bologna were knocked back by mortar fire. There were numerous other skirmishes fn the same general area, in one of which an entire Nasi patrol was captured. Nine Killed a Army Bomber Crashes BUF.LET, Idaho, Feb.

16 Sheriff Saul Clark said today that nine army fliers were killed when a bomber crashed on towering Mount Harrison Saturday night. Officials at the Mountain Home. Idaho, air base reported a Liberator was missing and released the names of the crew, but severe snowstorms had stalled efforts to reach the wreckage. Clark said two grazing service employes. Dennis Hsss and Bill Mathews, using skis, braved deep snow and cold to reach the crackup scene, about 20 miles southeast of here.

They returned last night and informejl dark that the entire crew was killed when the big bomber rammed into the mountainside. for the 25-year pld airman, who previously had destroyed eight enemy planes on the ground. His most recent victory came while he was leading twelve Mustangs of the 355th Fighter group on a patrol near the Holland-Germany border. "Ten ME-10P were spotted above us." said the major, "an' as we started to climb toward 'em they dived on us. I picked out one guy an' got on his taiL We kept goin' down an' down until I figured he was never goin' to pull out.

I gained on him gradually, and when we were at about 800 feet I opened fire. The burst caught him solidly, an' instantly the pilot bailed out. His parachute opened at about 254 feet, or less. It seemed like he hit the ground just as it opened. I saw him walk away, so I guess he was unhurt.

"His plane blew up when it hit the ground." Major Elder, whose parents live at 312 North Center street. Ebensburg. recently was awarded the Silver Star "for gallantry in action." With sixteen victories to his credit. Major Elder i the second highest-scorer among the group's pilots now on operations. HOUSE FOR SALE Six rooms all convenience.

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