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to Lock Haven Express, newspaper boyi, and thtir subscribers lor their patriotic support of War Savings Program. EsU March 1,1882 AP Features LOCK HAVEN EXPRESS Not Only A Community Asset Weathtr Somewhat cooler and tonif ht. Temp, River staid 1.H LOCK HAVEN, PA, TUESDAY, JULY 6,1943 The Associated Press Four Cents U. S. Fleet Inflicts Heavy Damage On Japs jbnes Replies At Great Length To Wallace Perkins Of BEW Comes Back At Jones As Aroused Senators Investigation WASHINGTON, (fP) Jesse Jones, the administration's banker, and Vice President Henry Wallace apparently were only Terming up in their week-long verbal slugging match.

Today, their appraisals of each other had hit a new high in recrimination. The latest the policies of Wallace's Board of ETconomic Warfare (BEW) and Jones' Reconstruction Finance i Corporation the rift so far that perhaps only the firm and personal touch of Presi- Roosevelt can heal it. i Opens Both Barrels Jones, accused by Wallace of i holding up BEW's purchases of strategic war materials, opened up both barrels last night. He 7,500 words to tell what he i thinks about of it complimentary. In Wallace's ab- scnce.

his second, Milo Perkins, of BEW. took up the cudgels and shot back that Jones and his RFC acted like the fabled slccDer, Rjp Van Winkle. Jones addressed his remarks to the Senate Appropriations Committee. Perkins replied in a letter to the same group. was prompt reaction in Senate.

Senator Bridges (RN. declared he was renewing his demand for an investigation of the exchanges, to be handled by the Military Affairs Committee. spoke in this vein: "His (Wallace's) tirade is so filled with malice, innuendo, half- truths, and no truths at all, that considerations of self-respect and of common justice to my associ- force me to expose his un- strupulous tactics." Denies Complaints He took up one by one the vice i president's complaints that RFC 1 had held up BEW purchases of cobalt, corundum, tantalum, zirconium and quartz crystal and he denied them all. RFC, in fact, is purchasing 37 different metals and the 29 not mentioned by Wallace account for 97 per cijit of its dollar commitments 99 per cent by weight, said Jones. Wallace's statement that Jones had "harassed" BEW's administrative employes, "is as silly and ridiculous as it is false," the Tex- aO added.

Jones said he was glad to plead guilty to a charge of safeguarding taxpayer's money. Newsprint Ordered £ut Of '41 Vacation By Car Allowed After July 15 WASHINGTON, Hartley (R-N. said the Office of Price Administration (OPA) had agreed to relax gasoline restrictions in the 12 Eastern seaboard states to permit vacation trips by card holders after July 15. Hartley, chairman of the Eastern conference of congressmen and senators which has been pressing for some relief from the regulations which have banned pleasure driving in the Eastern area, said the relaxation was agreed to by OPA Director Prentiss M. Brown after several days discussion of the problem.

The New crsey representative told reporters that under a new order to be announced shortly, vac tion trips by card holders to the seashore for a week, or two weeks or a season, for the purpose of visiting a summer home, or one similar trip, will be permitted. The procedure to be followed by card holders, wishing to utilized their coupons for a vcation trip, was outlined by Hartley as follows: After July 13. they can apply to their rationing board for a permit or pass to make the trip, specifying in their application a day upon which they expect to leave, the destination and the approximate time of tl.eir return. The board will issue an appropriate permit for the trip, which will entitle the holder to utilize his accumulated coupons for gasoline he needs for the drive. Light Surface Forces Clash Off New Georgia; Hitler's New Russian Offensive Apparently Set Back At Start With Heavy Tank Losses Destroyer Strong Torpedoed While Bombarding Jap Posts WASHINGTON, The navy reported today that on the basis of incomplete information United States naval forces apparently had caused the Japanese very heavy damage in the battle of Kula Gulf.

Details of the action, fought yesterday (Solomon Islands, time) and apparently all over now. still were lacking, but the impression prevailed rather that it was an action between fairly light surface forces of cruisers and destroyers. A navy communique said that "sufficient details have not been received to give the results of this engagement, but it is believed that, while some damage was suffered by the United States force, considerable damage was inflicted on the enemy." At the same time the navy announced that the United States destroyer Strong was torpedoed and sunk Sunday night while engaged in a previously announced bombardment of Japanese installations at Vila and Bairoko on Kula Gulf, which lies between New Georgia Island and Kolom- bangara Island in the Munda airbase area. The naval engagement, first an- action, which began yesterday nounccd last night, followed that i morning, was now over but that bombardmcmt. The 2,100 ton destroyer Strong, similar hit and run affairs could cxpccted in he £uture to de velop in the Central Solomons commissioned only last year, car- just as they did around Guadal ried a normal of canal in the southeastern end of about 250 men.

She was commanded by Commander Joseph the island chain last Fall and Winter. Sooner or later it is in- 'Hoag' Hevner Flyer-To- Be But Ease Lacking As He Takes First Lesson On Sunday He flew through the air, but the ease usually associated with flying in that famous phrase was missing. Today Floyd E. "Hoag" Hevner, while grinning over his strange experience Sunday afternoon, is also thanking his lucky stars that the peculiar accident of which he was a victim turned out as it did. Hoag was riding his daughter.

I Harold Wellings of East Boston, evitable that larger and larger Mass. Whether he survived was not reported nor was any estimate given of the loss of life. Presumably the vessel was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine boldly operating within the narrow and dangerous limits of the Kula Gulf. The best information obtainable here with reports admittedly U. S.

forces, with beach-heads (blacked-in areas) around Viru Harbor and Rcndova Island, shelled Japanese positions (black broken arrows) from Rendova. Enemy bombers (symbols), possibly from Vila bases, attacked American positions. Open arraw is sea track linking U. S. advanced positions in New Georgia group with main bases in the Solomons.

Japanese cruisers and destroyers, moving in to shell American positions on Rendova, were met by U. S. Navy surface units (1) and driven off. terse and incomplete was that the forces will become engaged in these actions until at last a naval battle of major importance rc- sulu. Whether this may come about in the Central Solomons more quickly than it did around Guadalcanal was a subject of considerable spe 1 a i here since the current offensive seems to be developing at a much more rapid OPA Check In Drug Store Window This Area Monday Broken Last Night 'About a' hundred cars were, A large front window of leh Only 127 Traffic Fatalities In Nation i Swissdale Man Hurt As Car Mounts Curb, stopped in this area yesterday in a check-up by the OPA under the no pleasure-driving regulation.

Milton Foreman, chief investigator for this district with headquarters in Williamsport, was assisted in the investigation by a member of the local State Police in the investigation. Yesterday afternoon the two worked on Route 220. at the race- Fredericks Pharmacy was broken last night when Ernest McGill, Commando Raid On Crete; Fortresses Hit Sicily Fields (By The Associated Press) Adolf Hitler's long-expected Summer offensive appeared to have run into a buzzsaw of Soviet defenses today as the Red armies blocked every major thrust along a 165-mile front, killed 10,000 Germans and destroyed 738 Nazi tanks in the first 36 hours. The German drive, launched just after dawn yesterday, struck on the so-called "hinge" sector 200 miles south of Moscow, in the region between Orel and Belgorod. Battle dispatches said a series of violent assaults by German armored divisions and infantry had been flung back at all key points, with Nazi losses running as high as 50 per cent of their total attacking strength.

By Soviet account, the German drive was virtually smothered at the outset, and a Berlin broadcast came up with an old propaganda trick to deny that the Nazi command had launched a big offensive. Berlin said the Russians were trying to "ascribe to the German high command alleged plans and intentions in order to speak of German failure when such plans are not pursued." In the past, Germans have consistently denied that operations constituted an offensive until they were well successful. In two other great theaters of the Southwest Pacific and the tempo was rising sharply as the United Nations pounded against Japan's outer perimeter of defenses and against the southern ramparts of Europe. Dispatches said that American troops, steadily expanding their grip on the Central Solomons, had won "control" of Vangunu island, southeast of New Georgia, after battling stubborn Jap resistance. 123 Commerce lost his balance 1 casualties so far in the cam- and fell against it while trying to get through a crowd of girls standing on the sidewalk in front of the store.

The radio crusier car with two officers in it was parked on E. Main about a block and a half from the scene, when the incident occurred. Four boys came run- Reflecting Gas Ban Knocks Down Pole track in Mill Hall. Last evening ng to the car and reported the they were stationed in North mishap, whereupon the police- 1 Bend. In all cases drivers were me went to the scene and con- questioned as to the essentiality i of their driving.

The number who (By The Associated Press) A nation forced to stay put, to caped with cuts and bruises on a large extent, over the three-day July 4 holiday discovered today that wartime curtailment of tra- vel saved scores of lives. Thousands of Americans had to Mahlon Bilbay of Swissdale es- wil1 reported was not given. Surgical Dressings Schedule Stands his head about midnight Saturday when his automobile mounted the curb at 740 E. Main and traveled 175 feet before coming to rest, its front wheels on the The surgical dressing program at City Hall will continue on the ducted an investigation, learning the above circumstances. McGill was taken into custody and committed to the City Jail, where he proceeded to pass a night of violence, creating a disturbance and breaking the lock on his cell.

This morning at police court he was released on condition that he pay for the damage he did to the window, at forego motor trips to favorite sidewalk and the rear wheels on same schedule as usual without lhe rate no less than $5 every the addition of morning sessions, taken to the Lock Mrs. Reagan I. Hoch reported to- i 'hem after fixing it. Betty Lou was behind him on a bicycle be- WASHINGTON, War I longing to a neighbor when the Production Board ordered news- strange mishap occurred, paper publishers to reduce further their consumption of news- jfcnt during 1943's third quarter. This ranges up to five per cent for large users.

Last December 31 newspapers were limited each quarter to 100 per cent of the tonnage of paper Betty Lou's, bicycle down Belle- I fishing spots or back to Uncle the- bcrm. fonte Ave. Sunday afternoon, car. Jim's farm, but many were alive Bilbay rying in the basket an iron rod from a lawn mower belonging to his parents, Mr. and Mrs.

Howard beinR reccived at a raorgue H. Hevner, 416 E. Church hospita i. discharged yesterday. His car wca ther, but the supervisors feel which he was going to return to True, an Associated Press sur- was completely wrecked.

that the present program is more vey showed that at least 298 deaths occurred over the weekend but only 127 of these were payday. and whole to tell about being a Haven Hospital in the ambulance da There had been some dis- wartime homebody instead of mn ediatcly alter the crash and I cussion of the addition of a morn- being received at a raorgue or a ing session, during the recent hot in printing their net paid circulation during the corresponding quarter of 1941, plus a three per cent allowance for production waste. It was estimated at the time this requirement meant an caeraU reduction in current newsprint consumption of about 10 per cent. Churchill Laments ttearh Of Sikorski LONDON, Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that the death of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, premier the Polish government-in- tionery store at 442 Bellefontc the front wheel of the bicycle began to "shimmy." Then the iron rod bounced out, became tanged in the spokes or the wobbling wheel and the rider was thrown into the street, where he lay unconscious, with a deep gash on his head. Cal Cowan said later: "I looked out and there was Hoag turning somersaults in the air." Hoag was.taken to the hospital by a passing motorist and there he is today, sore in every bone and muscle, suffering from a concussion from the brain and a gash over his right eye.

He did not regain consciousness for eight hours, and at first it was thought his injuries were much more serious than they turned out to be. X-rays were made yesterday. Today his condition is reported good. 2 Service Men Absent From Posts Found The two absentees from service, reported to the city police late last week, were both apprehended during the weekend and sent on their way back to their posts. Paul A.

Rhinchart, in the miscellaneous causes. Forty-one the sidewalk and the left wheels I Wednesday. Thursday and Friday I Navy, was taken into custody by After passing the house at No. 740, traveling east, the automo- traffic fatalities. There were 84 bile ran up over the curb and con- i satisfactory.

During July and August, however, there will be no Friday evening session. Surgical dress- When Hoag was about in front Brownings and 37 deaths from tinued with the right wheels on ngs will be made Tuesday, if the Calvin G. Cowan confec- 0 the sidewalk and the left wheels i worinesriav Thiirsrlav anri Friday states and the District of Columbia reported fatalities. nn the bcrm. The car first afternoons from 1 to 4 p.

m. and knocked over a highway sign. on Tuesday and Thursday even- The 127 highway deaths were i Continuing cast, at the Clyde gs from 7 to 10. more than 100 fewer than a con- Yoxtheimcr home, 770 E. Main i 5p it of the hot weather, the the heaviest strokes we have sustained." At the same time the House was advised that Brig.

Gen. J. P. VWiteley, a member of Parliament, was among the 15 persons i killed in the crash of the Liberator aircraft which was bearing Sikorski home from an inspection of Polish froces in the Middle East. Need Volunteers Mrs.

L. F. Hopkins, chief of the air raid warning center, is in urgent need of two women to watch black box at City Hall on Thursday afternoons, from 2 to 4 o'clock. Volunteers please call her at 2635. Local Sworn In WAC Two Lock Haven women were a thC Indi Gap Military Reservation from I July 31 to August 21.

servative pre-holiday estimate by the National Safety Council whose experts figured between 250 and 300 would die while driving. Last year, the first wartime July 4 holiday, there were 320 traffic deaths and in 1941 before gas-tire-auto restrictions there were 500. This year, also, not a single fireworks death was reported. Deaths by states from traffic accidents, drownings and miscellaneous causes, in that order, included Pennsylvania 10, 0, 0. Martin Appoints Baker To Train State Guard HARRISBURG.

Governor Martin today appointed Milton G. Baker, superintendent of Valley Forge Military Academy, to training of the Pennsylvania State Guard. The three regiments of the State Guard will hold their Summer it ran over a young tree, uprooted a tree of about 10 inches diameter, knocked off a pole of the Pennsylvania Power and Light and then struck another tree, destroying it. Electrical service in that area was not affected, but the pole was removed and repairs made Sunday morning by trouble men of the P. P.

City employes removed the uprooted tree after the accident, as it created a hazard in the street. surgical dressings workers made the State Police Sunday afternoon and by evening was cnroute to his station. The city police picked up Pvt. John H. Horner of Salona.

AWOL from Fort Belvoir, and more dressings this past month I he was taken back to his camp than in any previous month. yesterday. taken in at Harrisburg after President Roosevelt signed the bill to change the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps into the Women's Army Crops. They were Mrs. William L.

Rathgeber, and Miss Christine Caprio. The two were members of a croup of six candidates sent to Harrisburg by Lt. Rae Lipcz as part of a special local recruiting campaign. Several others of the group who passed their test Orders OPA Ignored WASHINGTON, Representative Weiss. (D-Pa), said he had ordered ration boards in his district, the 30th Pennsylvania which takes in part of Allegheny County (Pittsburgh) to ignore a ruling by th.

Office of Price Ad- Harrisburc arc planning sworn in shortly. ministration (OPA) denying sup- to be plcmcntary casoliije rations to servicemen home on furlough. Port Matilda Youth Killed In Crash CLEARFIELD. David M. Robinson, 17.

of Port Matilda, was killed late Saturday night when his automobile swerved into a tree near Blue Ball. A companion, Ralph Woodring, 19, also of Port Matilda, was critically injured. Some Comic Strips Temporarily Out Because the regular shipments of mats was mislaid, four of The Express comic strips do not appear today. The story of Dickie Dare, Scliorchy Smith, the Doo- littlcs and Neighborly Ncith- bors, will be brought up to dale as soon as possible. Yesterday's strips of the other crmirs as well as today's are on Page 4.

Fortress Gunner Shoots Down 7 Fighters Hospitals FORTRESS BASE Three mcdica paticnts the IN NORTH AFRICA, Staff Serst. Benjamin F. Warmer, of San Francisco, watched seven German fighter planes plunge downward in flames over Gerbini yesterday, from the fire of his machine-guns, and they reminded him of something. It was his seventh wedding anniversary. Reports Clothes Taken Here's a story about a man who lost his not in the usual way.

James L. Bierly was imbibing Saturday night at Dclgrippo's, 17 North Henderson so he told the city police. When he looked around, not only his shirt but his coat was missing, and he asked the police to try to find them for him. New Supervisor On Duty Mark C. Fleming, new supervisor of the Pennsylvania Railroad arrived here Friday to assume his duties, succeeding W.

B. Blix, who has been transferred to the Chicago division. Mr. Fleming Lock Haven Hospital include Mrs. Maria Guthrie, Lock Haven, R.

D. Raymond LeRoy Edwards, 34 N. Water Mill Hall, and Mrs. Lona Tipton of Howard, R. D.

1, all admitted Saturday. The post-holidays tonsils patients include Gerald Stull of Beech Creek; Denis Keith Earner, 5, and Joan Shelley Earner, 4, children of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Earner of Rebersburg; John Grieb, 6. son of Morris Grieb, 126 South Washington and Charles Bittner, 5, son of Mrs.

George L. Bittner of Howard. Admitted to the Williamsport Hospital Friday in a critical condition, Charles Randecker, 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Christian H.

Randecker, 221 East Clinton is is considered today to be in an improved and fair condition. He received a fractured skull and head lacerations when he fell from a moving car and struck a tree. Lee Lucas. 12, of the Children's Home, has been taken to Philadelphia for further treatment, after being in the Williamsport Hospital a few days. He had three comes here from Crcsson and will i fingers blown o(T and an eye in- bc later by his wife and jury when a dynamite cap ex- child.

jploded, paign were described as light. Out-numbered U. S. fighter planes were officially credited with breaking up an a'ttack by 40 Japnese Zeros over American- occupied Rendova island, shooting down two more planes for a total of 157 enemy aircraft destroyed since June 30. At the other end of the 700-mile Allied offensive arc, where American sea-borne troops landed at Nassau Bay in New Guinea last Wednesday, there was no report of ground fighting, but Allied planes bombed the enemy airdrome at Salamaya and strafed Japanese troops between Sala- maua and Nassau Bay.

Salamaua, one of the enemy's two major bases in New Guinea, lies 12 miles north of Nassau Bay. Commando Raid on Crete In 'the Mediterranean, British commandos touched off Axis invasion alrms with a lightning hit- and-run attack Sunday night on the Grecian isle of Crete, but the British Ministry of Information quickly warned Greek patriots that it was "not an invasion" and cautioned them not to betray themselves ith an uprising against their Nazi conquerors. Springing onto the beaches from landing barges, the commandos raided Axis airfields, destroyed planes on the ground, set oil dumps afire, and safely withdrew. Following up this jab at the enemy's nerves, U. S.

Flying Fortresses and other Allied planes Africa yesterday Axis airdromes in In a single paragraph, the Nazi command gave this summary of the battle. "From a successful local attack of German infantry in the Belgorod sector and subsequent strong Soviet counterattacks, fierce fighting on the ground and in the air developed in the course of yesterday which spread as far aa the area north of Kursk and up to this hour has been assuming ever greater violence." A German controlled Vichy broadcast earlier had declared that "Berlin comments insist this operation is of strictly local character." Huge Forces Used But Soviet dispatches emphasized that while the German assault front was narrow, the enemy was throwing huge forces of armor, troops and planes into the attack, finally ending a 100 days' lull. The immediate objective was not clear: At the risk of an Allied invasion of Europe, it might be a desperate "face-saving" gamble by Hitler in an attempt to take Moscow and thus bolster sagging morale on the German home front, or it might be a renewed drive against Voronezh and ultimately against Stalingrad, the graveyard of Hitler's 1942 hopes. Soviet headquarters said that the Red armies, holding solidly except for small penetrations in isolated sectors, destroyed 586 German tanks and 203 planes in the initial hours of battle, and knocked out 152 more tanks up to noon today. Warm For Holiday After heavy rains Sunday and Sunday night with the precipitation amounting to 1.33, it cleared yesterday for the Monday post- Fourth holiday.

With bright sun shining most of the day, the official to 89. thermometer here went from North blasted four Gerbini, Licata, Marsala and shot down 30 of 100 attacking enemy fighters in a furious air battle over the Gerbini field. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters announced that 42 Axis planes were shot down in the last 24 hours, making a two- day toll of at least 87 enemy aircraft destroyed.

Forty-five out of more than 200 "make a good Republican presi- Martin On Bricker HARRISBURG, (IP) Asked at a press conference Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio, would Axis planes were knocked down Sunday as American and British raiders bombed five Sicilian airfields in a mighty Fourth of July assault. Allied losses over the two-day period listed as 25 planes: 13 Sunday, 12 yesterday. Mental Hit Alain Linked with the heavy attacks from North African bases, U. S.

bombers from the Middle East heaped new devastation on the Sicilian ferry terminus at Messina again yesterday and returned to their bases without loss. A communique said big fires were left raging in the harbor area, and bombs fell on a railway station, a supply depot, engine sheds and infantry barracks. On the Russian front, Hitler's dential candidate," Governor Martin today commented: "Yes, he along with a whole lot of others." 26 Injured As Bus Tire Blows Out HARRISBURG, Twentysix passengers were injured, none seriously, today in a bus accident along the Susquehanna River near Clarks Ferry. The bus was en- route to Washington from Scranton. Theodore Evans, 32, of Wilkes- Barre, the bus driver, said the right front tire blew out, hurling the vehicle from the road on a slanted bank.

It hit a tree and the rear end caught fire. The blaze mi- rear ena uaugni inc. a field headquarters still gave no was quickly extinguished. definite indication that the great Nazi Summer offensive had begun waiting to see how the battle develops before corn- cutting itself. Most of the 45 passengers crawled through windows.

Thirteen persons were brought to Harrisburg hospitals for treatment for cuts and bruises..