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EVENING: ITiLv A Mr. Fox had (I fl a zoo today. Ay VX'v' GOOD WEATHER: Warmer today, rain tonight; partly cloudy Sunday. Mr. Bearan many calls Entered as Second-Class Matter At the Post Office at Harrisburg Under the Act of March 3.

1879 No. 8420-24 PAGES Published Every Evening Except Sunday by The Patriot Company HARRISBURG, PENNA, SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1944 PRICE THREE CENTS 7 IMI Penna State Library 7-1-44 3 Education Bldg BEYOND DUTY TV IRS. NORMAN E. ANNICH, 2915 Brookwood street, Pax la tantr. points with admiration to service men and women overseas who, not content to do their duty, supplement civilian efforts by buy ing giving to the Red Cross rui raw in and donating blood for plasma.

The idea of expending just a little more to bring the war. to an end sooner is exemplified, she believes, in a letter she read recently in Stars and Stripes, Arm newspaper sent to her from time to time by her husband overseas. ANXIOUS TO GIVE ULOJ 1 1 1 ill 11 Soviets Speeding DriePre-April Fool PranksterlAir, Sea, Land Forces! ALLIES LAUNCH HPHE LETTER was particularly interesting to her, she explains, because she is a volunteer worker at the American Red Cross Blood Puts Blooms on Bare Tree Through Bessarabia as Donor Center in Harrisburg. Here it is, signed by a soldier named Pound Japs in Pacific SURPRISE PUSH I iherafriK RnrklJSEk. IN MOUNTAINS Robert B.

Medvin (Pfc): Foe Flees Defense Lines "I have just finished reading an article in the Stars and Stripes stressing'the need that exists for and southwest Racine, completing By United Press blood plasma. I wish to suggest at least eignt attacks in nours ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, great source of this lifesaver that appeal eu luuay ui uive muiicuuu Napjeg April Fifth Amy a luii-bcme cwupaigii to xeuucis has smashed forward a mile and Southwest Reich; Swiss Claim Raid By United Press LONDON, April 1. Russian troops have broken into Tarnopol and heavy hand-to-hand fighting is in progress within the streets of the city, the German DNB agency admitted today. lruK ana otner Japanese KR40.W. Mt in has not peen tapped nor fully ad yertised our armed forces over geas.

"Back in the States I found il holds along a 1400-mile front in Major Richard M. Johnston Dies In Crash of Car a surprise three-pronged attack that threatens to outflank the the Carolines. no trouble at all to donate to the The quickening tempo of the air Red Cross blood bank. Overseas By United Press ON, April 1. United assault on Japan's shrinking is By United Press land empire was indicated by the however, I have found no facilities for such action.

There are many MOSCOW, April 1. Russian announcement of two additional raids on Truk and new attacks on States Liberators attacked Southwest Germany today and Swiss dispatches said American planes troops raced southward through tf us here in Italy behind the front lines who would be more than will Bessarabia today at a pace promis Woleai, Eauripik and Ponape Is ing entrapment within two or three ing to give blood. lands in communiques issued by dropped bombs on Schaffhausen in days of 100,000 German troops fall Pacific Fleet Headquarters at North Switzerland near the Ger "Consider the transportation Space and the time that could be i Pearl Harbor and Gen. Douglas 1 ing back within 35 miles of Odessa in the fast salient stalemated Cassino front, 16 miles to the southwest, it was announced today. Ending a month-long lull on the mountainous central front, Allied troops attacked under cover of a heavy artillery barrage and overwhelmed strong German defenses to score the most important Allied victory in Italy since the Fifth Army reached the outskirts of Cassino in February.

The assault indicated that Gen. Sir Harold R. I. G. Alexander, Allied commander in Italy, and Lieut.

Gen. Mark W. Clark, Fifth Army commander, may have de MacArthur's headquarters in Aus man frontier, killing at least 30 persons and causing considerable saved by means of a successful campaign under the slogan, "Give along the Black Sea. tralia Front dispatches said the bat Your Blood to Save Your Buddy. damage.

tered German divisions had aban A Swiss communique said about Give those of us who want to, the opportunity of depositing in this (A Japanese Domei dispatch, in the first enemy reference to the current American offensive against Truk, said 20 bombers doned their stubborn defense on 30 United States bombers flew over the cantons of Schaffhausen, of greatest bank of all time." CHAIN LETTER the arc around Odessa and were in headlong flight to escape the closing trap. Turn to Page Three which the city is the capital, and neighboring a u. Bombs A MECHANICSBURG resident who has a son in the Army cided to shift the main weight of dropped on Schaffhausen started To the northwest other Soviet forces had entered the approaches to the Carpathian Mountain passes Nab Hitch -Hiker their offensive to the north fol has called the attention of this col several fires, the communique said. lowing their failure to crack umn, with indignation and laudable i YiJ 41 1 between pre-war Poland and the Supplementary Swiss advices reported seven columns of smoke ris reason, to a curious and somewhat Carpatho-Ukraine province of old through the Cassino bottleneck on the main road to Rome. From Mt.

Marrone, the Allies Czechoslovania now a part of Hun ing over the city and a number of Auto Holdup less than worthy product of Amer jean culture the chain letter. buildings destroyed or damaged. gary, as reported yesterday. were in a position to mount a grave Our correspondent waits a long United States Army Air Force An 18-year-old Johnstown sailor, who allegedly held up and robbed This April Fool prank was perpetrated a day early upon Courthouse officials, pedestrians and motorists who jazed in awe at a number of blooms on an otherwise bare tree on the Market Street side of the Courthouse yesterday. Closer examination of the tree disclosed, however, (hat the flowers were the "five and dime" variety, neatly wired to the branches.

Elmer E. Erb, Dauphin County Treasurer and a prankster of the first order, shows how he affixed the artificial flowers to the branches. threat to German positions just (The Germans acknowledged that the Russians had reached the foot of Tatar or Jablomica pass, southwest of Delatyn. The British radio behind both Cassino and Monastery D. Hummel Shelley, Mechanicsburg, of his car and $6 while Shelley was officials said any official statement or unofficial reaction would have to await interrogation of crewmen out today and a detailed study of Hill.

The snow-peaked mountain giving the serviceman a ride from MAJ. RICHARD M. JOHNSTON said reports reached London that Czechoslovak units formed a part reports. They indicated any suclvj Major Richard Moffitt Johnston, of the Soviet vanguard.) Denies Aid fo Charges Pile Up member Johnston, Camp Hill to Carlisle last evening, was captured at Breezewood, Fulton County. State Police said the sailor, William McAllister.

nulld a knife nn The Soviet Second Array 'of the time for letters from "our son in the Army" to get through the mails. While chain letters may be an innocent form of amusement in themselves, she makes the point that they have the effect of needlessly crowding a mail -system, already overburdened with war-time correspondence. OFFERS SAMPLE LJERE'S a sample offered by our informant, titled, for no apparent good reason, "The Luck of Trout, wholesale paper company, reports probably would be delayed tor some hours. Reports from Schaffhausen through Zurich said the bombardment extended Over the entire city, UKraine was reported sweeping South Market Square, and execu Turn to Page Three Soldier Vole Act Becomes Law International Sews Service WASHINGTON, April 1. Sen.

down toward the Black Sea between tive officer of the Fourth Infantry German Agent Against Couple Shelley about a mile and a half the Prut and Dniester rivers "like of the Pennsylvania State Guard, from Carlisle, and forced him to a Spring flood." which was covered by thick clouds By United Press was instantly killed in an automobile accident in the By-pass near of smoke. At the same time the Second TORONTO, April 1. Viv and the First Army to the north Cameron and Maclay streets, early Military and air raid precautions fire fighters went into action at ian Kellems, Connecticut manufac west were massing in the Prut today. He was 38. Major Johnston, who had at Charges continued to pile up against Pvt.

Frank J. and his 20-year-old bride while State Police today resumed their interrogation of the youth after committing his ft-ife to Dauphin County jail. After announcing they have re turer, today challenged Rep. John once, the dispatches said, but were confronted with a difficult task Valley for an immediate onslaught against Rumania as soon as the primary strategic task the de "The Luck of London was sent to me today and I am sending it on Green, R. today introduced a bill in the Senate to carry out President Roosevelt's plea for immediate amendment of the new soldier vote law which the Chief tended a drill of Company Fourth M.

Coffee, Washington, whom she called "little wooden-headed since many houses and business leave the car after taking Shelley's money. McAllister is being held at the Cumberland County jail, Carlisle, for questioning, and police said charges of hold-up and robbery, and larceny of an automobile are being prepared. McAllister, who had driven about 80 miles before being apprehended, was captured by police of the McConnelsburg sub-station as to you. The chain was started by struction of the German Sixth and buildings were burning. an American officer.

It has been Charley McCarthy Coffee," to Eighth armies on the Black Sea Executive criticized as "wholly covered loot valued at more than around the world four times. A station was destroyed and the assistant station master and seven "come off the floor of the House" has been accomplished. Infantry, at the armory, Fifteenth street anfl the By-pass, last eve-ningt and had remained afterward to work on reports, was en route to his home, on the Fishing Creek Turn to Page Three $4000, in ad'dition to a number of nadequate." The amendment, asked by Mr. On the eastern rim of the Ger other persons killed, the Swiss ad automobiles, which the young vices said. They also reported and repeat his charges yesterday that she conspired with a Nazi agent.

co'uple allegedly stole in Dauphin, I "The one who breaks the chain will have bad luck. Copv this letter and see what happens in four days after you receive it. Send this copy and four others to people Roosevelt in his message announcing that he was allowing the three factories badly hit and a man Salient, Gen. Rodion Y. Mali-novsky's Third Army had only the flat steppes of Odessa Province ahead of him in the push against York, Adams, Lebanon, Perry and Berks counties, State Police re- theater on fire.

a result of a police teletype message sent after Shelley reported the affair to Carlisle and State vealed thev had sought Keleman "states rights" vote bill to become law without his signature, would wipe out barriers to wide distribution of the Federal ballot. Russia's biggest Black Sea port. Hill Boy Fatally Hurt At Play by Taxicab Struck- by a taxicab last night whom you wish to have good luck won $40 after send last February as a suspect in thejff n- Showers Police. muruer oi nuuin iuages, luuai juur. The knife used to threaten She! Forecast for Tonight ing it.

won $5000 but lost it because he broke the dealer. (The British radio reported that the Germans are evacuating troops and war materials from the Crimea by sea, and that perhaps 100,000 The first April showers will fall The exact number of charges "Make those statements outside where I can hale you into court," Miss Kellems said in a statement to reporters at the King Edward Hotel. "Before the New Deal destroyed the last vestige of decency and ethics," Miss Kellems said, "any man who would do what you have done would be publicly" horse-whipped. ley had a blade about two-and-a half inches long, police said. at Twenty-first and Derry streets.

Clair Richard Hocker, 9, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clair G. Hocker, 2006 the couple will have to face at tonight, following a day of partly skies and warmer tempera hearings before Alderman Harry Berryhill street, died enroute from a doctor's office to Polyclinic tures, the Weather Bureau forecast. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy to cloudy with moderate temperatures Lonergan Facing Bowman probably on Monday has not been determined, but police said young Keleman and his bride German and Rumanian troops had been stationed there since the Red Army plugged the Perekop Isthmus linking the Crimea with the mainland late last year).

Converging Soviet armies, advancing up to 20 miles in 24 hours in pursuit of the withdrawing Coroner Earl H. Grim said death I regret that I am not a man so that I could take on the job." was due to fractures of the skullJ Turn to Page Three 20 Years to Life chain. "You are sure to have good luck within four days after yo your letters. Do not send any money. Your letter must be mailed 24 hours after you receive this.

"Good Luck, (Unsigned) "Several of our family," writes the Mechanicsburg resident, "have received them (chain letters) in the past two weeks Maybe if there was less of this kind of trash in the mails, we would hear sooner from our son." Miss Kellems said that after she. and right leg and shock. The death was the city's third traffic April Fools' Day Pranks returned from South America in the and gentle to moderate winds. Predicted -temperatures are: Maximum today, 58; minimum tonight, 38; maximum tomorrow, 54. The high temperature yesterday was 45 it 2 p.

m. and the low overnight was 29 at 5.45 a. m. There was a trace of precipitation recorded, bringing the total rainfall for the NEW YORK. April 1.

Wayne fatality this year. Nullified by War Spirit Thomas Lonergan, RCAF aircraft Spring of 1941, "I made a complete report to the FBI and again late in Daniel H. Kohr, 29, 1845 Derry By United Press WASHINGTON, April 1. A new soldier voting act, greatly abridged from the original measure introduced by Sens. Theodore Francis Green, R.

and Scott W. Lucas, 111., tagged by President Roosevelt as "inadequate" and hailed by Southern Democrats and Republicans as a victory for state's rights, became the law of the land at 12.01 a. m. this morning. Its enactment, automatic under the Constitution when the President failed either to sign or veto the Congress-approved measure within 10 days after its passage, followed one of the sharpest and bitterest political battles in current history.

Even before it became law, Green declared that "the fight is not over," and announced he and man, faced from 20 years to life street, driver of the cab, according Pranksters today were not loath to display their varied talents in ob 1943. I gave the FBI additional servance of April Fools. (All Fools) to police, was released on his own recognizance in the sum of S1500. in prison today for the murder of his pretty wife, Patricia Burton Lonergan, heiress to brew enemy, closed to within 35 miles east and northeast and 42 miles north of Odessa, Russia's biggest Black Sea port. The German retreat in some sectors became a panic-stricken rout and it seemed possible the entire Ukraine, including Odessa, would be cleared of the enemy within a Kohr reported he was driving valuable information regarding Count (Frederick Carl Von) Zedlitz and I also submitted to the State Department a comprehensive report on his activities before the war and Day, but the purposeful war-time spirit which serves to nullify many things foolish held their numbers ery, millions.

eastward when the child ran in month to 5.50 inches, the highest monthly precipitation this year. The total rainfall for the year is now 9.69 inches. The river stage today is 6.0 feet. A jury of middle-aged business front of the taxi as it approached down. Army Air Forces Crew men at 10.22 last night returned a To be true, attendants at the Zoo Twenty-first street shortly after up to the present time." verdict of second-degree, murder, Training to Be Ended in Wildwood Park, received some p.

m. He took the victim to the Coffee yesterday read on the floor calls for "Mr. Fox" and a few other isy United Press nearby office of Dr. Matthew M. which, in effect, was a gift of life for the pale, handsome former maiier or aays.

The long-anticipated Axis with pseudo-humans, but the telephone Martin Assures Douglas, who summoned an am cafe society playboy since the WASHINGTON, April 1. The War Department announced today bulance. lines were not as busy as in peacetime years, they said. "Onion" and drawal from the southern Ukraine began without warning as the Soviets shifted the main weight of Police said they were unable to State had demanded the death penalty. of the House excerpts from letters he said were written by Miss Kellems' and 'allegedly addressed to the Count, who was reported by Coffee to be in Buenos Aires.

Some of the letters, according to Coffee, contained terms of endearment. establish identification of the little Aid for Veterans their offensive south and west to- victim until shortly before 9 p. m. Lucas would introduce amendments suggested by the President to ease some of the measure's restrictions on Federal ballot use. other trick candy and gadgets had a tough time holding out even good candy these days is hard to get.

Unanimous was this opinion: The Allies are trying to win this war as ward Odessa and the few remain An identification card in his pocket Returning servicemen had the ing railway lines over which the did not include his home address assurances of Gov. Edward Martin enemy could escape to Rumania, This, however, appeared to be quickly, as possible April 1 or no The child's father told police he today that something will be done and that no foohn Marshal Ivan S. Konev's 2nd little more than a gesture. Rep. had been searching for his son 6 Nazi Ships Sunk International A eics Service for them when they come home Ukranian army deprived the Ger John E.

Rankin, who led since he had left home to play fol Judge James G. Wallace, with the red-eyed defendant standing before him and sniffling audibly, fixed April 17 as the date for sentencing. During the nine hours and 36 minutes the jury deliberated his fate, the 26-year-old defendant's composure melted and when he stood before the bench he appeared visibly shaken. Some said they heard him sob. from the battlefronts.

the successful fight for state su lowing the evening meal at 6.30 that the Army Air Forces Air Crew Training program at 81 universities and colleges in 29 states will be terminated on June 30. Air crew training operated under contract by 11 civilian flying schools also will be terminated on August 4, the Department announced. College trainees will be assigned to air fields in the'AAF training command while awaiting preflight instruction, while enrollees at the civilian schools will conclude their instruction normally given before transferring into advanced NEW JUDGE CONFIRMED i International News service WASHINGTON. Am-il 1. The The Governor announced yester o'clock.

premacy in soldier voting, stated: mans of one of their main escape lines yesterday by slashing across the Iasi-Chisinau-Tiraspol-Odessa railway at the Bessarabian station day the names of seven new ap- "It is unnecessary to pass any The body was released to the to the State Veterans Senate today unanimously confirmed pointees additional legislation embodying a Wiedeman funeral home, Steelton. CAIRO, April 1. British Beau-fighters of the Middle East Command sank at least six enemy supply vessels in "harassing" operations against German shipping in the Aegean, an official RAF communique announced today. Commission and told his news con of Sipotyany, 28 miles northeast President Roosevelt nomination of Sen. Homer T.

Bone. to Surviving, besides his parents, Federal ballot. It would be utterly useless for anyone to attempt it." of Iasi and 130 miles northwest are a 15-year-old sister, Marion, ference that he will meet with the group "to find out what should be a judge in the United States Cir cuit Court of Appeals. of Odessa. and grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs be done for returning veterans." Five of the new appointees re Frank B. Hocker, Oberlin, -and Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bowman, Texas Likes FDR, Dewey Air Commando Leader Dies "Bad weather doesn't stop them!" placed members whose terms ex Steelton. 3 ELEC.

FLOOR LIGHTS Desk and By GEORGE GALLUP Director American Institute of Public Opinion Copyright, 1944 chair, porcelain top table, elec. washer, In Crash Touring Bases pired and two were named to ca-cancies. Those appointed to the commis studio couch. Telephone stand chair, Tots Delay Dad's Parting end tables. Pre-war furniture.

Must be sold at once. 1164 Mulberry 1st floor sion were: Calvin r. Cherry, Oak- DRINCETON, N. April 1. Although G.

O. P. leaders are By GEORGE PALMER United Press War Correspondent HEADQUARTERS, AIR COMMANDO FORCE, April Maj. mont, department commander of the disabled American veterans; President in 1944, and topping the list of their preferences, on the basis of the present survey, is, President Roosevelt. Among those in Texas indicating a preference for a Republican President in 1944, Governor Thomas E.

Dewey, of New York, leads the list in popularity. These facts are disclosed in a casting hopeful glances toward the states of the Solid Carl W. Herdic, Williamsport; Democratic South Frank X. Murray, Scranton, de Texas, richest of partment commander of the American Legion; Earl A. Seitz, Etna, Gen.

Orde Charles Wingate, one of the most colorful fighting men of World War II, was killed in a plane crash in Burma, it was disclosed today, while touring the Scripture quoting warrior died March 24 in the flaming wreckage of his B-25 Mitchell bomber after it crashed into the side of a Burmese mountain. An American transport pilot noticed a fire in the mountains behind the British lines the night after Wingate's plane failed to return, and the British commander's American friend and coworker, Col. Philip Cochran, dis- Turn to Page Three all Southern states in electoral votes, shows little SCRANTON, April 1. Four kids had their own way figured out to their dad out of the Navy, and for a while it almost worked. When 32-year-old Fred Vander-vort of Olyphant Borough boarded train to leave his children and wife for the Navy, he waved goodbye and the kids waved back.

He waved and then noticed they weren't there any more. And the train didn't move. When Vandervort investigated he found two husky policemen trying to remove his four children aged 2 to 6 from the railroad track in front of his departing train. "We don't want our daddy to leave," they announced firmly and declined to budge. When daddy and mommy Vandervort explained, though, that he would be back some day soon, the kids thought it over, reconsidered and got up.

The war went on. A 'The weather was miserable the days I advertised, but it didn't stop people from coming to see the things they were at the front and back doors. Every- -thing was sold easily!" That's what Bessie Gross told a Patriot-News Adtaker. Patriot-News results are good even when the weather is bad. Don't wait for a "better day" to advertise.

Phone your Ad to 5252, ask for an Adtaker. department commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars; William Zimmerman, Marcus Hook; Charles AMERICAN sign of deserting survey embracing more than a score of towns and cities in the Lone Star State. Persons interviewed were handed a card containing the names of the men most frequently INSTITUT1 PClSUtc'oPINKW Democratic ranks, at least as of to bases from which his daring Anglo-American airborne Commandos spread confusion and havoc Shaffer, Somerset, department day. commander of the United Spanish American War Veterans; and Guy far behind the Japanese lines. The great majority of Texas voters today prefer a Democratic The 41-year-old Bible carrying, J.

Wadlinger, New Castle. Turn to Page Eight.