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SUNDAY TIMES SIGNAL 51st Year No 6 ZANESVILLE OHIO SUNDAY AUGUST 8 1943 EIGHT CENTS A COPY Japanese Cruiser and Two Destroyers Sunk In Solomons 1 Units Win Over Enemy Happy Homecoming sym Rolled Here Kansas Soldier Is Drowned In Muskingum College Lake yesterday in 1 I i an Munda air New i I few In Times Signal and Other Zanesville Publishing Company Newspapers Sponsor Victory Garden Shoiv at County air will in the middle THE WEATHER A 1 central Solo to assure the the the be for of of cuts at was be no cost or obliga entry fee for Zanes gardeners who com the will I 'TL time pas was was but aft her to the ap steel process eight steps in employ 175 men Operations are late this month depot on South it said lasting an hour and gunfire a destroyers defi and a fourth a knokn of the an OHIO Somewhat warmer £my day afternoon and evening competition xor Armco to Start On Project Soon 25 Year Men Hear It is men like Minogue who form the backbone of the present day Navy He is young and intelligent yet strong and salty enough for any job He definitely has the sea noout nim but it Is modern sea He wears his bosun's pipe from a cord around his neck and a white hat cocked way down over one eye He says the worst moment he ever had in the Navy was while piping a British admiral over the side Dick had a chew of tobacco1 in his mouth and right his refrain the whistle got full tobacco juice and went gurgly RUITS OOD PRESERVATION (canning dehydration etc) LOWER SPECIMENS and JUN IOR EXHIBITS (entrants under 17 years old) The Zanesville Victory Garden Show to be held at the Art Hall during the fair and sponsored by the Sunday Times Signal Times Recorder and Zanesville Signal Is strictly an amateur competition and the entry list will be restricted to Zanesville residents Our coun ty friends must be classed as pro fessionals so far as this show is concerned and limited to the other competitive exhibits worthy of Gearhart They will be heard on tne red waring hour on radio the night before they pear in Zanesville The membership drive of Zanesville Concert asocial ion be held Sept 20 to 27 with Mrs Ray McHenry as director and Mrs Raymond Danker as secre tary The tickets both adult and student entitle their holders to not only the stellar attractions here but also to the concerts planned by the Thursday Music club and the Junior Music club Tickets admit their holders also to the concerts in other cities that subscribe to the Columbia Cooperative course Dates for the Ziviesville at traction will be announced later Arch ulton He is an electri l' at aecond class from American Raids on Messina Straits Play Havoc With Enemy Plans Beaches Littered With Wrecked Boats victory gardeners who have been hard at work thSse past several months producing food for freedom will be given an op portunity to display the results of their efforts at the annual Muskin gum County air August 17 20 and enter into spirited but friendly competition with their neighbors acording to an announcement by the Muskingum County air Board late Saturday Cash prizes as well as blue red and white ribbons will be awarded for the more outstand ing exhibits in each of five di visions as follows VEGETABLES a memoer or the army specializ ed training unit which arrived at the college Wednesday Pvt Aush erman was swimming with several other soldiers when the drowning occurred Army officers said Pvt Ausher man was swimming to shore from a raft anchored near the middle of the lake when he suddenly went under It was considered possible that the youth suffered a heart attack His companions quickly brought him to the shore where Dr I Curtis of New Concord with mem bers of the state highway patrol at Cambridge attempted to revive him Using an irihalator they worked for more than two hours in an at tempt to save the young soldier's life The body was removed to letcher General hospital at Cam bridge where a' postmortem will be conducted today SALESMAN DIES COLUMBUS Aug 7 (fl Clyde Whitlatch 52 salesman for the Etna Brick Co at Oak Hill died at his home here tonight fol lowing a heart attack their greater skill and experience The show is designed as Zanes special contribution and co operation with our county neigh bors to make their annual fair big ger than ever during this wartime period The exhibits and their display will be under the general super vision of Clyde Mcarland Mays ville pike His years of experience and special knowledge of agricul tural products guarantee both an Interesting and educational show and opportunity to all contestants to exhibit their entries to best ad vantage He points out that this Richard Crooks world celebrated tenor of the Metro politan Opera company will appear here next winter on the Zanesville Concert three program series which will also bring to this city the Cincinnati Symphony orches tra and the duo piano team of Morley and Gearhart Pvt Robert Ausherman 18 of Manchester Kan sas was drowned Saturday afternoon while swimming jn the lake on the campus at Muskingum college a mpinruir nr ttso ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIIC Aug 8 (Sunday) (fl Vila airfield on Kolombangara island only nine mile from Munda is the next ob jective of the American forces which captured the dome on riday This field in the mons must be taken Allies of the greatest possible use of the Munda base on New Georgia island It has been bombed by planes many times and also bom barded by warships but ground fighting will be necessary to take it unless the Japanese decide it is not worth the cost of' holding Vila along with five other ene my air bases in the northern Solo mons provides air protection for Rabaul New Britain 420 miles northwest of Munda Rabaul is one of the strongest Japanese bases in me racinc After army engineers repair damage done by bombers to Munda air strip Rabaul will within range of fiehter nlanes the first time Lack of fighter protection has limited bombing at tacks on Rabaul to night raids While soldiers were mop ping up Isolated enemy units around Munda Admiral William Halsey Jr declared that "we shall push forward until the battle of the South Pacific becomes the bat tle of Japan" Meanwhile the Allied air force continued its pounding on the ene my The Japanese seaplane base at Rekata bay on Santa Isabel is land northeast of Munda was hit by 65 tons of bombs At Bougain ville in the northern Solomons 16 American fighter planes attacked30 Zeros and downed seven with a loss of one 1 garden planned county There tion and no ville victory pete in the Zanesville Victory Gar den Show Exhibits will be judged by impartial and professional judges who are not residents of the city Look over your garden now and pick out your probable prize winning products and mail your entry today using the special blank (which appears on Page 12 Arrangements have been completed whereby the Liberty and Weller theaters will give to their patrons at 9 each evening one minute bulle tins from the special leased wires of The Times Recorder and The Zanesville Signal Manager Edward Hiehle an nounced last evening These bulletins to be nounced over the public ad dress systems of these theaters will give the high spots on inva sion time war developments on all fronts as well as up to the minute happenings in the na tion generally Important events here at home will also be included in the report as an added feature The first of these special nightly bulletins will he issued within the very near future SAN RANCISCO Aug Maj Gen Lewis Hershey said today "selective service in the pro curement of men for the armed forces is on the plateau and the job ahead of us is nasty but not The national director of selective service at a press conference was referring to the drafting of pre war fathers now authorized for Oct 1 wherever essential to meet quotas He said 2000000 men would be needed within the next year and that they could not be expected to come entirely from sources other than fathers front 18 to 37 He said however that of the 7 000000 such men in this country would be lucky if 2000000 of them could pass the physical ex amination (their average age is 31 compared to the army's aver age of 24) and I don't believe we will have to take all of them any way withriq the next 12 The other reservoirs he cited as (1) the current 3000000 4s some of which might be reclassified (2) the 100000 available youths be coming of age (18) each month of which more than half probably would meet requirements (3) those who might be spared from vital industry The general said a liberal policy would be followed in deferring workers in aircraft and shipbuild ing and particularly farmers be cause don't want to interfere with the production of essentials" but he added that am certain the aircraft and shipbuilding In dustry after the war doesn't want to be remembered as a haven of draft dodgers" General Hershey praised highly the work of local draft boards urged a program of physical train ing after the war to "prevent a repetition of the present large number of and said that by terming selective service on the plateau he did want to leave the impression I think the the war is over by any means" (Special to The Slgnld) CALDWELL Aug 7 persons were injured one seriously here tonight when two auto mobiles collided head on at North Bridge and Route 21 Injured were Dwight Johnson 35 his wife Helen Johnson 26 both of Caldwell and A ree man of Canton Johnson sustained a possible skull fracture while his wife suf fered a broken left leg They were taken to St rancis hospital at ainuinjge reeman who sustained and bruises was treated inompson hospital here and dismissed reeman was alone at the and there were no other sengers in the Johnson car it said Equipment is being as sembled at the Zanesville plant of the American Rolling Mill company for the manu facture of special airplane propeller steel under a newly developed process members of the Armco Veterans club were told at their semi annual get together Armco park The propellor which requires manufacture will it was disclosed expected to start How the company developed a method of rolling special propel lor steel so that two propellers can be made from the amount of critical raw materials from which one was formerly made was de scribed by Ahlbrandt assist ant vice president of the company who also outlined the post war plans At the same time the "taper roll ing which roughly rolls airplane propellors in their finished shape cuts down the machining operations and makes it possible for the manufacturer to produce two propellors In the time one was formerly produced Ahlbrandt de clared Production of propellor steel will begin here within a few weeks it was announced An ex hibit of semi finished propellors was for the benefit of the veterans "This is one of the most Im portant developments that has oc curred during the Ahlbrandt said propellors are fur nishing the power for fighting airplanes over Sicily Ships with Armco propellors are harressing the Japs throughout the Pacific Giant bombers equipped with Arm co propellors are dropping their block busters on German arma ment he declared in de scribing how the method had been developed by Armco engineers months ago Ahlbrandt told Armco veterans that the special alloy steel propel lor was far more efficient and much stronger than propellors made from other materials Continued on Page Two LONDON Aug 7 (fl Amid widespread speculation that some thing big was about to happen in Germany perhaps a military coup to replace Adolf Hitler with some army veteran German broadcasts reported today that an important military and political meeting had been in progress at the headquarters Both the German International Information Bureau a propaganda agency and DNB official news agency broadcast that it was derstood in Berlin that a number of important discussions of a mili tary and political nattfifffave ta ken place in the head quarters the last few Attending the meetings the broadcasts reported were all the top men in the Nazi party as well as the commanders in chief of the army navy and air force and the Japanese Ambassador Hiroshi Osh ima There was no mention of an Italian representative This indication that a major de cision of some kind had been or would be made soon by the Ger mans came on a day when a trav eler just returned to Switzerland from Germany was reported to have told of rumors that a military dictatorship might be set up in Germany in Septem ber The Swiss newspaper Neue Zuer cher Nachrichten quoted the un identified traveler as saying that a cleft had developed among think ing German people one group eager to see the war end and the other wishing to hold out to avoid catastrophe" The traveler was quoted as say ing he was bombarded with the question will the war end?" Piling up the signs of unrest within Axis Europe the rench Committee of National Liberation announced in Algiers that hand to hand fighting had broken out in Paris between the rench people and German soldiers and that the Nazis had set up machine guns at street intersections Cleveland Before the war he was a lineman for the Cleveland Illu minating Co He is married and has two children ulton is much older than most of the crew He is a Scots man He came to America 20 years ago His parents are still living at Kilmarnock Scotland He has a brother who is a sergeant major in the British armv and a sister who is a British WREN Arch has a short pompadour that slants forward giving him the ef fect of standing with his back to the wind He has a dry Scottish humor and he takes the navy in his stride He used to read this column back in Cleveland so you see a smart man We have 11 Negro boys aboard all in the department They wait table in the mess and run the wardroom pan Continued on Pm Eleven Hour Long Clash Proves Costly To Jap Sea orce ALLIED HEADQUAR TERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIIC Sunday Aug GP) American naval forces brilliant hour long night! sank a Japanese cruis er and two destroyers and probably sank a third des troyer after intercepting thefour warships carrying supplies to the enemy garrison at Vila Kolom bangara island General MacArthur announced today The Americans suffered no losses The action in the Vella gulf be tween Vella Lavella and Kolom bangara island was fought about midnight Aug 6 Torpedoes and gunfire sent the enemy ships to the bottom to raise 1he toll of enemy warships lost in the current Solomons offensive to at least 23 and possibly 26 war ships The new naval triumph follow ing closely on American capture of the vital 'Munda airdrome on New Geqrgia had the effect of weaken ing the garrison at the next logical objective of the Solomons push Vila which is 17 miles northwest of Munda Vila is eight miles across the Kula gulf from another tottering enemy garrison at Bair oko Harbor New Georgia rom Munda American infan trymen pushed north to assist other forces beleaguering the Japanese at Bairoko This push is being made encounter ing communi que said Saturday afternoon a force of 60 Japanese dive bombers and fighters attacked American posi tions on and adjacent to Rendova island which is eight miles be low Munda (The only casualties to our forces Were in a field hospital Anti air vraft guns shot down three Japa nese dive bombers and three Zeros were by our fighters which suffered no losses Our own planes blasted Japa nese positions on both sides of Bairoko Harbor with 43 tons of bombs starting firesand silenc ing anti aircraft posts The communique tersqly depict ed the Vella gulf naval action "Shortly before midnight our naval surface units intercepted an enemy force of one cruiser and three large destroyers apparently attempting to run supplies to Vila air ana supply "In an action with torpedoes cruiser and two nitely were sunk destroyer probably We sustained no The Vella gulf is between Vella Lavella and Kolombangara islands above American conquests on Georgia BY ERNIE PYLE SOMEWHERE LN (By A more sketches of men on our ship: Crooks known as one of the 'greatest tenors of this generation is an outstanding artist whose tours of America' and Europe have given his name world fame As a member of the Metropolitan Opera company of New York city he has appeared in the greatest roles in the history of the op eratic stage The popularity of the sym phony orchestra among Zanes vine concert goers is well to the board of directors association who booked for other leading attraction the Cin cinnati Symphony orchestra di rected by the English conductor Eugene Goosens The duo piano team the third attarction is composed of Vir ginia Morley and Livingstone Admiral oresees Blows at Japan WASHINGTON Aue an extraordinary interview on Al lied global strategy Admiral Er nest King today forecast power ful and crippling stabs at strategic Japanese positions in the Pacific but indicated the key to final vic tory over Japan lies in China The sprawling populous but al most isolated Asiatic Ally must be kept in the war the Admiral said for it occupies in respect to Japan a vital place analagous to that held by Russia in respect to Ger many "You can imagine what the sit uation would be if China were out of the the Admiral declared Of Russia he said that "boiled down to its simplest terms and oversimplified the grand strategy of war in Europe is that Russia has the geographical position and the manpower that is paramount in regard to Germany" i Hint Military Coup Likely In Germany Northern Italy Rocked By Heavy Allied Raid Dick Minogue He has been in the Navy six years and intends to stay He is a mate first class and mav be a chief before long He comes from White Bear Lake Minn and they call him aboard ship Three Hurt In Auto Crash former professor dies COLUMBUS Aug 7 (fl rank Harvey Eno research pro fessor emeritus of the engineering experiment station at Ohio 'State university died here tonight He was 78 years old Hershey Says Draft Is Now On Suicides in Theater As Singer Croons CHICAGO Aug 7 (AP) The death last night of Henry Leo Margolski 23 was termed today while temporarily insane due to ill by a coroner's jury The young man shot and killed himself in a balcony seat of a Loop theater while a singer was croon ing Never a cur rent song In pocket was a note addressed to his wife Rose which read: "This is the best way out Al ways remember that song you'll never know how much I miss you Yaur undeserving husband Hank" Italians must either the war or suffer quences of heavy tacks) NAZIS LEE TOWARD MESSINA ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH ARICA Aug 7 troops in Sicily have seized Troina threatening to split Nazi forces in half and British units squeezing up from the southeast have taken Biancavilla from Ital ians running up the white flag of surrender headquarters and field reports announced today These two important strategic victories on the central' sector narrowed the Sicilian front to only 45 miles' in (vidttfT and the Allied bag of prisoners soared to 125000 Routed from their mile high fastnesses in Toina by Amer ican guius bayentes and bombs remnants of the Ger man 29th motorized division fled toward the Messina Straits tonight in the clos ing phase of the Sicilian cam paign Maj Gen Terry first division veterans who scaled the last rocky heights to Troina and crushed surviving Germans with rifle butt and bayonet "disjoin the German line and the American troops threaten ing to prevent the junction of the German 15th armored and Hermann Goering divisions re treating to the east head quarters announced British armored columns mov ed forward over mined roads and past blown up bridges in pincer sweeps in two directions around the dusty foot of Mt Etna tak ing in the bomb dazed Italian garrison at Biancavilla 15 miles northwest of Catania Gen Sir Bernard Mont gomery's Canadian and British ad vance guards were throwing back the 15th and Goering divisions into a possible trap if the Americans succeeded in reaching Bronte or Randazzo on the circular Mt Etna road before the withdraw al to the Messina area is com pleted Under a blazing night and day attack both sides of the straits of Messina were littered with wreck ed boats craft which might have been used for a Nazi Dunkerque The Americans were meeting the com munique said adding that the coastal sector to the north naval units continue to cooperate" Troina fell early riday morn ing The mountain fortress town fell before a withering artillery bar rage and infantry charges poising the first division for a thrust to Randazzo 20 miles east War sick Italian troops in Bian cavilla 16 miles below Troina and 15 miles northwest of Catania hoisted white flags to surrender to British eight army troops yester day after a heavy air attack As sociated Press correspondent Jo seph Morton reported from the field Biancavilla is only tw miles from the key communications cen ter of Adrano on the road skirting Mt Etna to the west where the Germans are retreating 1 Richard Crooks and Noted Symphony Scheduled Here special Zanesville showing is not to be confused with the victory nreviouslv all residents of the Huge Soviet Army Pours Into Ukraine Ernie Pyle Writes Brief Sketches About Men Pyle Met on Convoy Ship Propeller Steel to Be LONDON Aug Red army shock troops plunging deeper into the Ukraine in a wide' flanking movement to throttle the big Ger man defense pillar of Kharkov to day captured Graivoron 45 milet to the northwest a special Soviet communique announced Gaining nine miles and overrun ning 70 villages the Russians thua cut another point on the Kharkov Bryansk railway whlle directly north of Kharkov Soviet pushing down the Uby river from Zolochev were within 25 miles ot Russia's third largest city Berlin announced a second threat to their Kharkov 'base in broadcasting a report that a big Russian army massed at Chuguev 25 miles to the southeast had gone over to the offensive and made initial gains Thls pincers movement was similar to the tac tics that conquered Orel and Bel gorod Above the Ukraine Brynsk was menaced by Soviet troops spilling through the gap at Orel Gains of seven miles were made during th 7 day the special Soviet: bulletin acuu cuiu Lilt? XvcCl culuy WHS lieved to be within 30 miles of that hinge of the German central and southern fronts Graivoron like Zolochev! is on the Kharkov Bryansk railway and its capture Indicated the Rus sians were cutting a wide swath after their earlier break through at Belgorod on a 43 mile front The sweep west and southwest of Orel was so swift today that 100 villages were wrested from i the Germans i The bulletin by the Soviet Monitor said the Russians captured Shamardino 10 miles west of Orel Gnezdilovo 39 miles to the southwest and the railway station of Stakhanskaya five miles to the south The Nazi controlled Paris radio in a broadcast recorded by the As sociated Press said the Russians were pouring wave upon wave of massed tank forces through the break at Orel as they slashed to the west and southwest f1? riday the special bulletin said Russian troops on all fronts dis abled or destroyed 43 German tanks and eight enemy planes were brought down Vila Airfield Next US Goal In Solomons Brazilian Ship Is Torpedoed RIO DE JANEIRO Aug The Brazilian passenger steamer Bage was torpedoed and sunk off the state of Sergipe the night of July 31 it was announced official ly here tonight and 78 of her pas sengers and crew are missing The Bage the largest Brazilian merchant was carrying 129 passengers of whom 41 were un accounted for after the sinking and a crew 102 The passenger list included women and children Loss of the Bage brought to 24 the number of Brazilian ships an nounced as having been sunk by enemy submarines since the start of the war The Bage was hit by one torpedo and sank quickly Some of the persons aboard reached safety by clinging wreckage Before the war the Bage used in trans Atlantic service she was put on a coastal route er Brazil severed relations with the Axis She was used last year as an exchange ship to repatriate Axis and Brazilian diplomats and nationals Plane Crashes At Cambridge Two Civil Air patrol fliers escap ed with minor injuries Saturday afternoon when their airplane i crashed near the Cambridge air port shortly after taking off It was the second such crash near the Cambridge field within 48 hours Injured were Edgar Hillbery 29 ii the pilot and Clyde Simms 31 both of Wheeling Va I suffered cuts and bruises and were taken to Swan hospital Cambridge tor treatment They will be dismiss ed today The state highway patrol said the cause of the crash was not de termined although it is believed (heir small Taylorcraft plane was caught in a downdraft as it circled low following the take off The fliers were on their way to Glendale Va when the acci dent occurred rank Lawrence and Bailey Case both of Williamsport Pa were slightly injured Thursday night when their privately owned two engined plane overshot the Cambridge field and crashed into a hill our other passengers in tne plane were not injured Swiss Hear Explosions rom Vicinity of Nazis leeing in Sicily a happy homecoming for Pvt Melvin Oschner of Cincinnati as he greets his daughter 3 months old for the first time Diane" made her appearance while he was on maneuvers in Tennessee TR Signal Bulletins At Theaters LUGANO Switzerland Sunday Aug A heavy bombing in Italian Lombardy in the direction of Milan be gan shortly after midnight The explosion of the bombs was heard at this Swisl frontier city The flashes in the skies also were clearly visible here Milan is approximately 40 miles from Lugano 'Ph Hicnninh iiiuitatcu LIIUL the Allies were carrying their relentless air raids to northern Italy following Gen Dwight Eisenhower's warning that the get out of (he conse bomber at 4K 1 1 I i i 410 I leet El 'tti "fill I 1 I 34 I I I.