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.8. R.R.News Section Magazine Comics hA Sports Section Finance 2 CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING SECTION HARRISBURG, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1942 PAGE SEVENTEEN Ml Ml fins Ul warn LTU 1 cms Gets Good News From 1942 Institution Middlefovn Man 2 Runaway Boys Parents Hear Voice of Son With Army in Australia On Red Cross Record Wife and Son of Victim Injured as Trailer Truck Overturns on Their Car LEBANON, June 25. Ephraim Sechrist, 55, a township supervisor of Sheridan, was killed, and his wife and son injured yesterday when a trailer truck overturned on the automobile in which they were riding. 1 Police said the truck driver, Paul Palshook, 22, of Cleveland, failed to see a stop sign until too late to avoid a collision. He swerved the truck sharply and the vehicle, loaded with twelve tons of aluminum sf" pfy tl wlMiin wmriilH it Mrg.

Albert D. Miller, seated, listens with rapt attention to the recorded voice of her son, Sergt Kenneth C. Miller (inset) on duty with the United States Army in Australia, sending greetings from "down under." Mrs. H. R.

Corwin, a volunteer worker of the Red Cross Home Service Department, which furnished the record, is shown with Mrs. Miller in the living room of the Miller 18 North Third street. Grandsons in Service Mrs. H. L.

Bott, 434 Herr street, today received good news about two of her grandsons. Tech. Sergt. Rob ert M. Newcomer, 21, in a letter re vealed that he, had arrived safety overseas and was well.

He enlisted in the quartermaster corps in Octo ber, 1940. A letter from Raymond Newcomer, 22, informed Mrs. Botts that he had been made a private first class. He is a member of a unit at Camp Stewart, Ga He enlisted in March. Budapest Radio Says New Czech Village Crushed International News Service LONDON, June 25.

The Buda pest radio today broadcast an Axis announcement disclosing that still another Bohemian village has been wiped out in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, as sistant chief of the Gestapo and so-called "protector" of Bohemia and Moravia. Still acting with relentless ruth-lessness despite announcement that the actual killers of Heydrich have themselves been shot to death. The Germans duplicated in the little town of Lezaky in the Chrudiam district of Bohemia, the now historic savagery previously visited upon the coal-mining town of Lidice. The brief radio broadcast said that Lezaky had been "wiped out and razed to the ground." Continuation of Fairs Favored by Light Secretary of Agriculture John H. Light today said that where county fairs and local agricultural exhibits do not interfere with the war ef fort, he favors continuation of the expositions.

Federal Transportation Director Joseph B. Eastman recently suggested the fairs scheduled for this year be postponed, but the execu tive committee of the Pennsylvania Association of County Fairs, Charles W. Swoyer, Reading, secretary of the association, announced, favors the holding of fairs as usual. Since the agricultural fairs are separate and distinct unities apart from Government and operated privately as local enterprises," Light said, "it must be appreciated that there can be no Governmental offi cial ruling governing them. However, my personal opinion is that these fairs have an important func tion in the promotion and develop.

ment of agriculture and that where their continuance could not inter fere with any war program, a sus pension might cause an undesirable break in the work that has been accomplished. Georgetown President Speaks on Russia The Rev. Dr. Edmund A. Walsh, regarded as one of the foremost authorities on Russian life and politics, will speak this afternoon at the Car lisle Medical Barracks and tomor row at Indiantown Gap.

Doctor Walsh, who is now presi dent of Georgetown College, will address the men of the Army as part of a series of special lectures aimed at the orientation of the new men. The lecture will be delivered at Stark Field. Kiwanis Club Holding Annual Picnic at Park Members of the Kiwanis Club and their families were holding their annual picnic today at Willow Mill Park. A series of games was scheduled for this afternoon. Supper is scheduled for 6 o'clock.

FIREMEN FIGHT BARN FIRE LANCASTER, June 25. Firemen who fought a blaze which destroyed large barn on the farm of Peter Griffith, near Chestnut Level, twenty miles south of here, today estimated the loss at approximately $1000. They said the fire was apparently caused by spontaneous combustion In freshly cut nay. Soon to Return From Yokohoma Claude Ettele, 52, son of Mr. and Mrs.

Philip Ettele of 63 Ann street Middletown, is returning to the United States from Japanese-held territory with a score of other Penn sylvania residents through an ex change arrangements of nationals and diplomatic officials of both Japan and the United States by the Swedish government, it was an nounced by the State Department last night. Ettele has been working in Yoko homa for the Standard Vacum Oil Company of New York for the past twenty-five years as head of the lu bricating department. According to word received here, he was sched tiled to sail with other American na tionals on the Japanese steamship the Maru on June 18, and meet the Swedish Steamship Gripsholm carry ing Japanese nationals at a Portu guese west African port. An ex change of diplomatic officials and nations of both countries will be made there with the Americans re. turning to New York on the Gripsholm and the Japanese officials boarding the Maru for a Japanese port.

The Gripsholm is expected to dock in New York sometime In August. Ettele is a veteran of the first World War and served with an American Expeditionary Force in France. He is married and has two sons, Edward, 14, and Philip, 21 His wife and two children are living in Forrest Hills, N. where they have maintained residence since 1939 when the oil company refused to al low them to return to Japan with Ettele after they had spent a short vacation in America. Others from this area who will be on board the Gripsholm are Heikes, Harrisburg; R.

W. Owens and his wife and child, Elizabeth town; Robert Gehard and Mrs. Gehard, Lancaster; J. W. Powell, Williamstown; and C.

H. Reber and his wife and child of Lebanon. Hold Motorist For Grand Jury Following Crash Raymond C. Jenkins, Dover, York County, was held in the Cumber, land County jail for grand jury ac tion, following a hearing this morning at Mechanicsburg where he was charged with hit and run driving and violating the State motor code jenxins was driving south on Route 15 towards Gettysburg last evening when his automobile al legedly sideswiped a car driven by Joseph Novak, Scranton at Rose Garden. Jenkins failed to stop at the scene of the accident and was Chief of Police Fry reported.

He was given a hearing before Justice of Peace H. M. Thompson, Me chanicsburg. Mrs. Novak suffered bruises of the chest and left side and also suf fered from shock.

She was treated by a Mechanicsburg physician. Offers Reward for News of Missing Wife Alvin J. Laudermilch, 2138 Moore street, today offered a substantial reward for information which would lead to the discovery of the whereabouts of his wife, Virginia, 35, who has been missing since Saturday. Laudermilch told police that he had last sen his wife at 7.45 o'clock Saturday morning when she left with a group of other persons to work at the Mechanicsburg Naval Depot. She did not mention anything about leaving home and took no extra clothes with her, he said.

Fellow workers at Mechanicsburg told Laudermilch thai his wife had reported off work ill at 11.45 a. m. Weather Report From the United States Weather Bureau, Han-lsburg FORECAST FOR HARRISBURG AND VICINITY-Slightly cooler tonight. High yesterday, 77; low this morning, 55; river stage, 3.8 feet this morning and tomorjow. No precipitation.

River Bulletin Admit Robberies At Gas Stations Two runaway Scranton boys, 10 and 13 years old, who were arrested by State Motor Police on the Indiantown Gap Military Res ervation yesterday while, riding stolen bicycles, admitted they robbed the James Jamieson service station, South Front street, Wormleysburg, early Tuesday, and four other service stations, while bicycling from Scranton. Police said the accused boya ad mitted they broke a rear window, near the lock, to enter the Jamie. son service station, between the Market and Walnut street bridges. There they stole soft drinks, potato chips, crackers, five flashlights and a half-carton of flashlight bat teries valued at $20. They left an air rifle, pair of sun glasses and notebook in the building.

The boys according to their statements to police, ate and drank only soft drinks, candy, cakes and crackers, obtained in robberies at service stations since leaving their homes on stolen bicycles June 17. They abandoned the stolen bicycles but stole two other cycles on the West Shore, which they were riding when apprehended, police re ported. Police released the boys to the district attorney in Scranton. Brass Name Plates May Go in War Hopper By United Press WASHINGTON, June 25. War Production Board Chairman Donald M.

Nelson revealed today that the WPB has developed plans for pro gressively "taking" 1,000,000 tons of civilian copper beginning with brass name plates if the metal is needed for the armaments program. At the same time, he told the Senate committee investigating the war program that thiokol which has a chlorine base may fill the gap as a retreat material for essential civilian tires until synthetic rubber get into full production. He emphasized, however, that production of the material is only in the planning stage. The Dow Chemical Company, Midland, has received a letter of intent giving it Government auth orization to go ahead with the manufacture of thiokol synthetic rubber. Nelson did not reveal whether the copper would be taken as part of a scrap drive or whether it would be confiscated.

But he stres sed that the plans are "progressive" and will not be put into effect until the need for copper becomes acute. "Name plates can be immediately taken," he said. "They can be re placed with wooden ones. Then there are copper ash trays and bronze doors. "There is a lot of copper.

There are at least 1,000,000 tons in the civilian economy. But we do not want to take it right away because it is there and must be replaced." Says Libya Was Lost On Eton Playing Fields International Newt Service LEEDS, June 25. Biting criticism of England old school tie" methods of warfare was voiced by Alfred Edwards, M. in a speech at Leeds today. Libya was lost in the playing fields of Eton," he said, paraphras ing the famous words about Water loo.

"Had Rommel been born in this country, he would have been a ser geant and not a field marshal. "Our divisions in Libya were di rected by cavalry officers, one of whom had been trained in mechanized warfare." City Clerk Improving City Clerk Herman A. Earley was on a wheel chair in a sun room at the Polyclinic Hospital today. Early was operated upon almost a month ago for a gall bladder condition and his condition has been progressing satisfactorily, according to the hos. pital report.

used on essential business on Sat urday or Sunday and that this week-end should see a marked re duction in automobile traffic. "Until the new rationing program goes into effect, we must depend upon the patriotism of the driving public, and upon the force of public opinion generally, to abolish all unnecessary driving," Ashenfelter said, District Budge Put on Display The tentative 1942 budget for the Dauphin County institution district was made available for public inspection today in the office of the commissioners at the Courthouse, The budget, for $297,122.09, re tains the one and one-half mills tax. Last year's total expenditures were $262,876,38: Sharp increases in wages and salaries and cost of living were noted in the tentative budget A summary of the estimated ex penditures shows an anticipated in crease at the county home from $89,851.37 to $116,727.17, mainly caused by the general 10 per cent increase for county employes and the higher cost of food, fuel, etc Salaries Increased Salaries of nurses and attend ants are up from $16,637.44 to wages of cooks, maids from to $15,772.16 food from $15,748.90 to $19,424 fuel, light and water from $7369.35 to $9750; repairs and replacements from $7715 to $13,180. Under "other expenses," which was blank in 1941, is listed an item of $3000 Last year the total tax collected was $182,576.84. Based on $130, 000,000 worth of real estate, the anticipated total this year is $195, 000, less $39,000 in uncollectable taxes and plus $16,500 in expected back taxes The estimated receipts, for the general fund, compared with last year's actual figures, are: Cash balance, from $25,166.27 to $37,.

122.09; taxes, from $182,576.84 to expenses for inmates paid by individuals, from $12,. 421.02 to sales of farm produce, from $703.62 to $600; mis cellaneous receipts and $75,000 loan for tax purposes from $79,130.7 to $76,000 A comparison of the estimated expenditures for the two years fol lows: General administration, from $11,524.03 to county home, from $89,851.37 to $116, 727.17; farm, from $17,284.97 to maintenance in institu tions, from $17,037.81 to $18,500 other forms of care, from $27, 292.82 to extra expend! tures, from $24,388.14 to $24 040.25; capital outlay, from $497.24 to $2000; unpaid bills of prior years remains at $75,000. The budget for the sinking fund drops from $24,136.75 to an esti mated $23,790.25. Estimated ex penditures are: Bonds to be retired interest, $2031.25, and State tax, $759. Selective Service Lists "Critical Occupations Eighty-six "critical occupations" in the electric power industry have been certified to local boards which have been asked to give serious consideration to the deferment of such workers as "necessary Col.

B. F. Evans, head of the State's Selective Service, an nounced today. The Selective Serv ice headquarters has designated as "critical occupations" certain types of work in the coal, railroad trans portation and ship-building indus tries. According to the Department of Internal Affairs, 26,942 persons are engaged in production, trans mission and distribution of electric power in the State.

Not all, however, work at "critical occupa tions." Apprentices in the eighty six occupations considered essential will be given serious consideration for deferment, provided they show reasonable promise of becoming qualified to do the work, for there is an existing shortage of trained persons. The industry, said Colonel Evans, is vital to the war effort for the workers' activities are responsible for the generation and distribution of power essential for industrial needs in addition to providing il lumination, heating and refrigera tion for general consumption. Shiremanstown Church Plans Music Program The Church of God, of Shiremanstown, will hold its Spring festival of music on Sunday, June 28, at 7.30 p. m. The musical organizations taking part in the program will include the Young People's Choir, the Three Part Chorus, the Senior Choir and the Junior Choir.

Miss Betty Getz, the Rev. and Mrs. A. Glenn Mower, Mrs. DeWitt Gable and Mr.

and Mrs. John Gill will also appear on the program. ingots, toppled over on Sechrist car. Mrs. Sechrist and the son, Meyer, suffered minor injuries.

Driver of Ambulance Injured in Accident Hosea Johnson, 29, Detroit, suffered a fractured left arm lacerations of the scalp, and abras ions of the back, right arm and leg, when the Red Cross ambulance which he was operating turned over on. Route 39, near the Blue Ridge Country Club, Linglestown road yesterday. Johnson was operating the am bulance from the factory in Detroit to New York City. The machine was one of a convoy of five ambulances, The driver was removed to the Poly clinic Hospital. Say re Tells of His Escape by U.

S. Submarine International News Service BOSTON, June 25. "Millions and millions" of dollars worth of securities and other valuables were removed from Manila before the Philippine island capital fell to the Japanese invaders, Francis B. sayre, unitea btates high commissioner to the islands, revealed for the first time today. He told a Boston Chamber of Commerce audience that a United States, Navy submarine carried to safety a "golden ballast" of more than six and a half tons of gold alone.

Serial numbers and value of paper currency were recorded, and then the money was burned, so it could later be re-issued in Wash ington, Sayre said. "A submarine stole into Correcr- idor Harbor one dark night to deliver ammunition and other sup plies and we proceeded to load her bilge with golden ballast," related Sayre. "Thus weighed she lay on the bottom of the bay all the next day; and on the following night, with our gold and other securities, she set forth a twentieth century galleon. Not content with merely transporting her cargo to America, she actually torpedoed and sunk two Japanese ships on the way, the enly submarine in history op erating with golden ballast. Fought on Undaunted lo another submarine we owe our own escape from Corregidor.

As the Japanese, with complete control over the air and the sea surrounding us, pushed their attack further and further south, as one stronghold after another fell before their victorious advance, it became increasingly evident that our island fortress of Corregidor could not be 'rescued in time. The glory of Corregidor was that our troops, in full realization of that fact, fought on, undaunted and unyielding." Telling of his journey to Aus tralia in the second submarine, Sayre said that "two weeks later, one morning shortly before dawn, we arrived at an Australian port some 3000 miles south of Corregi dor. We climbed out of the hatches onto the deck and saw once again the blessed sunlight. We inhaled great gulps of fre6h air into our lungs and feasted our eyes on the shoreline, fringed with pine trees and white sand. It seemed very like what I suspect paradise must be." Commissioner Sayre predicted that a Nazi victory would mean economic slavery for Europe, "for Latin America, for the United States.

Nazi defeat or success means literally economic life or death." 4-H CLUB ORGANIZED SHIPPENSBURG, June 4-H Clothing Club was organized at the Presbyterian manse, Middle Spring, with Mrs. Rea A. Warner, club leader. Officers elected were: Aenes Means, president; Martha Swartz, vice-president; Marjorie Means, secretary-treasurer; Vada Chamberlain, song leader; Helen Stitt, game leader; Anna Means, news reporter. County Agent Miss Ada Beegle outlined activities for the year.

The club will hold its next meeting on July 2 at the home of Helen and Louise Stjtt. Berlin Reports American Force Is in Palestine BERLIN, June 25. (German Broadcast Recorded by United Press in New Vork) Eleven thousand American troops, comprising an entire motorized division, were transported last weekend from Baghdad, Iraq, to Palestine and will be employed in the Egyptian war theater, a Trans-ocean News Agency dispatch from Ankara said today. These troops, it said, were about half the Amer-' ican forces landed three weeks ago at Basra, Iraq. Japanese Beetles Not So Numerous This Year The Japanese beetles, which appear in this part of the State the middle of June, are not numerous so far, according to rose and grape growers whose plants suffer most from the pests.

The State Department of Agriculture entomologists cannot explain the situation, for the beetles have been getting more numerous each year for a decade or more. However, they hold out no hope that the beetles will not be as active as last year by the third week in July when they usually havo been most numerous. The first beetle officially noticed at the department was found at Rutherford June 16 and since then only a comparatively few beetles have been found daily in local flower gardens. Vegetation gener ally is several weeks ahead of the average in development this year but the excessive hot weather last month did not seem to hasten the beetles' emergence from the ground. Woman Burns to Death In Maryland Crash By United Press ABERDEEN.

June 24. Mrs. Evelyn Weaver, 28, Lumberville, was burned to death today when a parked truck in which she was sitting was struck by another truck, overturned and burned. Mrs. Weaver's 2-year-old daughter, Alice, was thrown clear.

Mrs. Weaver and her daughter had accompanied her husband, Walter, who is employed at Morrisville, as a mechanic, to a stalled truck on a highway near here. As Weaver worked on the stalled machine, a huge trailer truck bore down on the truck in which his wife and daugh ter were waiting. Mrs. Weaver was pinned in the seat Hot Weather Dishes In the season of lighter lunches and suppers, outdoor meals, and picnics, this collection of 300 tested recipes for salads, sandwiches, soups, hors d'oeuvres, and appetizers will prove especially useful.

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Be sure to get the mail at home. You keep 'em flying back home, and we'll keep the Japs 'fly ing over here," the record con eluded. Mrs. Miller said that she knew her-non had broadcast from Aus tralia, but she had not heard his message, bhe said she had received letters from persons in widely separated areas who had heard the broadcast. She said: "I am very grateful to the Red Cross for affording me this first opportunity to really hear my son's voice and the complete message." She said her son, known to many as "Bing" Miller, had graduated from William Penn High School in 1940, and had been an employe of the State Department of Commerce before enlisting February 4 in the air service.

He was sent to Kees ler Field, Biloxi, and month later sailed from Angel Is land, San Francisco, for foreign shores. Her last letter from him was received June 21. Mrs. Miller's only other child, Albert D. Miller, is a crew chief in the Air Corps at Gunner Field, Ala.

He had been a mem ber of the Pennsylvania National Guard for eight years and had transferred to the Air in June, 1941. Albert D. Miller, the father, ia an engineman for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The local Red Crosa chapter re ceived the record from National headquarters in Washington. The Home Service Department made an appointment to present the record with the compliments of the Red Cross.

Telephones Lines to Germany Open Again By United Prett LONDON, June 25. Telephonic communication with Germany, Switzerland and Sweden has been resumed after an interruption from Tuesday night until Wednesday that caused speculation that the Axis was preparing for some new offensive. Zurich dispatches reported serv ice to Berlin was cut from 9 p. m. Tuesday until 6 a.

m. Wednesday. The Zurich Zeitung said the stop page covered the entire eastern part of Europe. The Stockholm Social Demokrat- en's Berlin correspondent wired his paper that it was not likely that the interruption was caused by any plans for a general offensive. 4 Fined for Attack Arrested yesterday on a disord erly conduct charge four Penbrook and Susquehanna Township boys pleaded guilty before Justice of the Peace L.

W. Zimmerman, of Pen-brook today when Penbrook police charged they attacked Jack Pendell, 16, 2320 Boas street, Penbrook, Sun day evening. The four were fined $10 each and costs and given until Saturday to raise the money. "Hello, Mother and Dad," came the voice of Sergt. Kenneth C.

Mil ler, tow with the American forces some 7000 miles away in Australia, speaking to his mother, Mrs. Al bert D. Miller, 18 North Third street, this morning as she sat be-1 side a portable victrola and listened to a recording of her son's voice The recording was supplied by the Home Service Department of the local chapter of the American Red Cross. It was the first message of its kind from a soldier to his folks received by the Red Cross in this city, and was delivered to the mother by Mrs. H.

R. Corwin, a volunteer worker from the Red Cross Home Service Department. As the record played on, Mrs. Miller sat intently listening to the message. "To begin with I want to say hello to my father and mother," he said.

They will enjoy this immensely, and I know they are listening. I'd like to say hello to all my friends individually, but that is impossible, so I'll just 6ay hello to Harrisburg. Word to Other Parents "I'd like to pass a word along to other parents at home who have boys over here. To Mr. and Mrs.

Lauer, 216 Herr street, I just met Bud the other day and he certainly was enjoying himself. "Tell his parentus that Danny Herman is feeling fine, and is enjoying himself here also," the record played on. Mrs. Millere here explained that her son referred to other Harrisburg youths who were in his unit overseas. "The people over here treat us Firemen Called as Ammonia Escapes Firemen of tha Washington Com pany were calleu to Spungins Abattoir, 330 South Cameron street, early this morning when ammonia vapor leaked through a blown out gasket of a refrigerator unit.

Workmen were forced to don gas masks to repair the ma chinery. Company officials said no damage was done to stored meat Mt Pleasant Company firemen extinguished a chimney fire at the home of Fred A. Leisman, 106 South Seventeenth street, this morning. There was no damage. Shamokin Lumber Co.

Will Be Reorganized International New Srv(c SCRANTON, June 25. A debtor's petition of the Shamokin Lumber and Construction Company was on file In Federal court today asking permission to reorganize under the bankruptcy act. The company listed liabilities of $114,000 and assets of $127,000. Judge Albert W. Johnson has named Cyril Runkle and John P.

Reighard, of Shamokin, as trustees, and has referred the proceedings to Referee Walter Compton, of Ask Motorists to Avert 'Worst Gasoline Famine' Ft Tenlh. uiiom- it ii Binghamton 14 3.0 Corning 16 2.4 Towanda 16 1.9 Wilkes-Barre 22 3.8 3.5 Clearfield 10 1.2 Renovo 16 0.8 Lock Haven 21 7.8 Williamsport 20 0.9 0.9 Mapleton Depot 3.8 Newport 22 3.9 Sunbury 16 1.8 1.6 Harrisburg 17 3.8 3.7 By United Prei PHILADELPHIA, June The Office of Price Administration today asked motorists for a self-imposed ban on non-essential driv ing to avert "the worst gasoline famine in the history of motorized transportation this week-end. R. F. Ashenfelter, State OPA di rector, said relatively few cars are brciadcaat by radio..