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MOUNT CARMEL ITEM EXCLUSIVE LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS Da GOOD EVENING WEATHER Fair tonight and Friday. Slightly warmer Friday. Strawberry shortcake sea son is just around the corner. VOL LVIII. NO.

143. MOUNT CARMEL, THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 1945. PRICE FOUR CENTS. 73 WL 0 Outposts Captured Berlin In Rang 12th Army Group Reaches Object ives, Miles Of Russian To Pause Before Next Phase of Drive Artillery, 14 Away k. New Invasion BY BOYD LEWIS PARIS, April 19 (U.P.) The keystone fortress of Leipzig fell to the American First Army today after a day and night of wild street fighting that broke the hinge between the German's northern and southern fronts.

Made By Yanks On Mindanao Soldier Missing But Everything Happened to Him Sergeant Wounded, Captured, Released; 2 Others Prisoners BY ROBERT MUSEL LONDON, April 19 (U.P.) The Red Army captured Berlin's eastern outposts of Seelow and Wriezen today and plunged on within 1 4 miles of the capital. "The super battle for Berlin is heading for its climax," a Nazi Transocean broadcast said. "Rather deep penetrations have been made in the last 24 hours." The Russians are now within artillery range of the German capital, one armored spearhead was reported only nine miles east of Berlin. Sixty miles to the south, other Russian forces seized the Neisse River anchor stronghold of Forst and stormed across Centralia Man Fatally Injured At Locust Run William J. Durkin, 27, Strikes Head Against Low Ceiling Of Slope William J.

Durkin, 27, son of Mr. Verna M. Pautz Found Dead In Her Apartment School Classmate Of Gen. Eisenhower Dies In Baltimore Miss Verna M. Pautz, former resident of Mount Carmel and Kulp-inont, sister of Miss Gladys Pautz, Methodist Deaconess, was found dead in her apartment in Baltimore yesterday morning.

Miss Verna, who was the buyer for Leipzig, the fifth city of Hitler's Reich and the pivot on which his entire western battle line depended, was conquered by two First Army divisions early today in one of the bloodiest, close-in fights of the war. All but a handful of Nazi snipers were killed or captured by tank units early today and the doomed survivors were being hunted down and destroyed at top speed. With stray shots still flying in a half-dozen sections of the city, thousands of liberated Allied prisoners and some civilians lined the streets to hail the Americans. On the A Kulpmont soldier, Sergeant Michael Bogush, 21, was officially re and Mrs. Michael Durkin, 118 Rail Americans Seize Two Good Airstrips, Then Drive Inland MANILA, April 19.

(U.R) U. invasion troops drove Inland today from a 35-mile beachhead on th eastern shore of Mindanao'6 Moro Gulf toward Davao, 95 miles to -the east. Two good airstrips were already In the hands of the troops who went ashore at Malabang, in the road street, Centralia, was fatally injured at 12:30 a. m. today at the the Spree River almost 15 miles farther west in a bid to outflank Berlin and link up with the American First Army 70 miles away, the Germans said.

Moscow continued to give only vague hints of the great Soviet offensive on the broad front before Berlin drives in which gloomy Nazi commentators acknowledged steady ported missing in action yesterday afternoon but it developed today that that status was outdated and that the sergeant was not only missing but also wounded, captured and finally freed, all at different inter Locust Run Section of the Ger-mantown Mine. An official of the Hazle Brook the Methodist Publishing House in Baltimore, left her offices Tuesday afternoon, suffering from a migraine Coal Company said this morning that a further investigation was part of the civilians it was an acceptance of Germany's defeat. German hopes for a prolonged stand in the west were fading fast and the fall of Leipzig was expected to speed the final disintegration of the WehiTnacht. i Russian gains into the headache, and went to her home, shrinking waistline of the un already being conducted by a state mine inspector but, on the basis of vals but In a comparatively short stretch of time on the West Front. Two other Kulpmont servicemen, both previously reported missing in action, today had been reported as prisoners of war In Germany.

They are Technician Fourth Grade John occupied Reich. where a physician administered temporary relief. She passed away The fall of bitterly-contested during the night. Wriezen, 23 miles northeast of Ber A brief service is to be held at lin, and Seelow, 26 miles east of the capital on the Kuestrin-Berlin 3239 Clifton Avenue, Baltimore, this afternoon, and this evening the eaconess will accompany her sis-ler's body to Abilene, Kansas, their home. The funeral will be highway, ere reported by the Ger WITH IT.

S. FIRST ARMY, 'Germany, April 19. (U.R) American First Army troops today captured the Gef .1 stronghold of Halle, 15 northwest of Leipzig. County Man Loses Life In Germany Pfc Gilbert Jones, Of Brady Reported Killed In Action man Transocean Agency. Austic, 34, and Private James V.

Nestlco, 22. The telegram to Sgt. Bogush's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Metro Bogush, 1419 Scott street, said he had been reported missing in action in Germany since March 29.

However, the actual story was Thrusting another ten miles west of Seelow, Transocean said, the Waste Paper, Clothing Drive To Be Held Here Scouts Will Make Rounds; Have Your Material Ready Today would be a good time to get your waste paper and clothing for destitute persons liberated countries of Europe, gathered together so that the material will be ready for the collectors here tomorrow afternoon. The fire alarm will sound at four pjn. which is the signal for the start of the gathering of the paper and clothing. Boy Scouts will make the rounds with collection trucks and also fire trucks. You are asked to leave your Russians drove within two and a preliminary report, Durkin, who had been employed asan electrical locomotive conductor at Locust Run only since April 4, died shortly aifter an accident which occurred while he was on his way out of the mine after having completed his shift.

According, to this preliminary report, Durkin, riding up the slope In a mine car with four or five other, men, raised his head at a point about two hundred feet from the top of the slope at a point where there Is a low ceiling. His head struck the top and he was hurled backward against a steel cross-piece. He collapsed In the mine car and lived but a little half miles northeast of Muencher-berg, 16 miles from Berlin, and to heart of southern Mindanao, and Parang, 20 miles' to the south. Warships and bombers covered the dwKr-landing with an intense bombardment and the Invasion, the second of Mindanao, was virtualy unopposed. Only a few rifle shots met the troops, elements of the 24th Division, as they swarmed ashore Tuesday at the two ports, 130 miles across the Moro Gulf from American-held Zamboana.

The main Japanese forces were bslieved to have withdrawn inland. Gen. Douglas MacArthur estimated that the Japanese had roughly three divisions of men with a probable total of 50,000 on Mindanao, southernmost of the Philippine Islands. He also disclosed that Filipino irU'STrilta forces had been active along the Moro Gulf coast before the landings and since had joined contained in a letter, dated April 3, which they received directly from their son on Friday the 13th. He wrote, in part: 15 a point Just east of Buckow, miles from the capital.

'I'm in the hospital with head Pfc. Gilbert Jones, 24, husband of Audrey Young. Jones, of Brady, At Muencher'oerg, the Russians were 2 miles beyond the Oder River and well oer half way to Berlin from the Jumpoff point of their and son of Mr. and Mrs. James The Nazi collapse in that great central stronghold came as Gen.

Omar N. Bradley announced that the three pace-making armies of his American 12th Army group had reached their established objectives and were pausing before the next phase of their assault on the dying Reich. More than 2,000,000 Germans were revealed to have been captured by the Western Allies since their landing in Normandy last June, almost half of them taken since the Rhine crossing six weeks ago. "Virtually every German soldier who faced us back on the Siegfried bandaged and left arm numb. Please don't worry about me.

I know how you will take it. I couldn't help it but it happened so fast that I didn't know I was in a 'Jerry' Jones, 904 Mount Carmel street, offensive four days ago. Other German broadcasts said Shamokin, was killed in action in Germany, aocording to ft telegram (German) hospital 'till I opened my Soviet vanguards were 14 miles east eyes. But I wasn't there long 'tm while. From another source, it was learned that his Injuries Included a broken neck.

within artillery range of Ber received today. my outfit took the town and I was free." lin's city limits and had smashed Born in Shamokin, Pfc. Jones attended the Shamokin and Coal bundles on your front porch where Erom the home of a cousin, at 800 North Olive street, Saturday afternoon. Miss Verna Pautz lived in Mount Carmel and In Kv'pmont during the time that Deaconess Pautz served with the Methodist churches here, and will be remembered as a woman of charming personality and high intellectual attainments. She was a librarian by profession, and when the Deaconess was assigned to a Methodist church in Baltimore she went to that city with her sister.

Employed by the Methodist publishing house there, she had several promotions, and became the buyer for that concern. Of particular interest is the fact that while living in Abilene she was a high school class-mate of General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Commander-in-Chief of tht Allied armies in Europe. One of her highly-prized possessions was a personal letter written to her by the General shortly jifter he assumed command of our armies. Miss Pautz was born in Hamlin, Kansas, daughter of the late August and Jeanette (Donaldson) Pautz.

The greater- part of her life Owas spent in Abilene, and after her college days she became librarian of the public library in that city. Her William Joseph Durkin was born into Bliesdorf, a mile and a half Sgt. Bogush, a member of the they can be picked up by those in Centralia, a son of Michael and south of Wriezen. Ukrainian Church in Shamokin and Township public schools and en gathering the paper and clothes. line on Feb.

23 is now either killed The capture of Seelow after seV' tered the service on September 5, wounded or a prisoner," Bradley Ella Durkin. He attended St. Ignatius School, was a member of that parish and of the Holy a former student of the public schools In Kulpmont, was drafted in February, 1943, trained in the state eral days of fighting in which po 1942, one week after His marriage said. sitions changed hands several times to Audrey Young. Thousands more of Hitler's crack Pfc.

Jones trained with the U. S. (Continued on Page -Three) (Continued on Page Three) (Continued on Page Eight) (Continued on Page Four) Army Air Force and then, after transfer to the Infantry, went overseas in February, this year. Besides wife and parents, ALLIES MAKING SPECTACULAR the American troops in expanding the beachhead. The two airstrips, built by the Americans before the fall of tiie Philippines, were seized at Malabang where the troops were only 41 miles south of Iligan B.iy.

On Luzon, units of the 33rd Division tightened the siege arc on the outskirts of Bagulo, former Japanese headquarters in the Philippines, under the support of bombers and fighters which ripped the enemy positions with 280 tons of explosives. A number of Japanese cave positions on Baguio's outskirts were cleaned out and a large quantity Mass To Be Held For Kulpmonf Soldier Pvt. Anth. Revinski Is Buried In France Pfc. Jones leaves two sisters and Mass For Soldier To Be Held In Kulpmont A military mass will be cele-b-ated in St.

Casimlr's Church, Kulpmont, at eight o'clock Saturday morning, next, for Private Henry Payeski, 24, former constable who died of wounds received in action in Germany on March 14. The soldier was a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Payeski, 955 Scott street, and the husband of the former Veronica Zlocki, 610 Pine five brothers. NORTHWARD GAINS IN ITALY Tin Cans Being Loaded BY J.

EDWARD MURRAY ROME, April 19, (U.R) The Eighth Army has broken through the Ar In Car In This City genta Gap, smashing the last main German defense line below Ferrara and the River Po, 18 miles to the north, It was announced today Thousands and thousands of tin of enemy supplies were captured. Fifth Army forces were officially Liberators and Mitchell bombers cans gathered in recent months by the school children of Mount Carmel street. reported making "spectacular" ad The commander of Corporal vances after capturing Mount were getting ready to go to war to day. Anthony Chesney Post, American from the Philippines battered Formosa with another 360 tons of explosives in attacks concentrated on airfields and supply depots in ifhe northern part of the island. B-29's Again Bomb Kyushu Adone, 10 miles south of Bologna.

Legion, requested today that all A box car, ordered by the Mount Carmel School District, was being The 655-meter high peak was considered the main bastion of Ger only survivors are her sisters, Gladys, and a brother, Roy, now residing in the West. Present address of Miss Gladys Pautz is 605 Cathedral street, Baltimore, Maryland. RobUTWlick Is Commissioned Robert G. Kulick, son of Mrs. Teresa Kulick, of Atlas, has been graduated by the U.

S. Army Officer Candidate School at Fort Benning, with the rank of Second available members assemble at Lincoln Hall at 7:30 a. m. Saturday to march in a body to St. Casimlr's Church.

man defenses south of Bologna, GUAM, April 19. (U.R) Japanese broadcasts said 100 or inore Super and speedier progress was expected with its capture. filled on a siding at the Reading Station, Fifth and Market streets, as the borough truck and a State Highway truck continued hauling the cans from the four grade school buildings. Superintendent G. A.

Beierschmitt Ptv. Payeski entered the service in June 1944, and went overseas fortresses bombed Kyushu, southernmost of the Japanese home islands, today for the third straight The Eighth Army broke into the in February. Casualties On Okinawa 7,895 GUAM, April 19. U.R) Marines completed the conquest of three- plain leading to the river Po after said the loading of the car will con day. Three other B-29s and 60 es capturing Boccaleone, key point In Baby Girl For Mr.

And Mrs. Richard H. Guinan tinue tomorrow so that there is still the Germans' so-called "Genghis corting Mustang fighters attacked airfields in the Tokyo area, enemy time for those who have saved cans at home to give thtm to students Khan' line of defenses. Boccaleone Is 15 miles south of Ferrara, and A baby girl was born In Geisinger radio stations said. With one tenth Memorial Hospital last night to Mr.

CpL D. D. Varano 18 south of the Po. of Tokyo already destroyed, for Lt. Kulick Is a graduate of Mount Carmel Township High School.

Pvt. Anthony Revinski, who was According' to today's communi and Mrs. Richard H. Guinan, prominent 'residents of 117 south Hickory A Solemn requiem mass will be to turn in Friday. When the car is filled, lt will take its extremely valuable load of freight to a de-tinning plant for salvp.ging.

eign diplomats have evacuated the killed in action on March 15 In celebrated in St. Peter's Church, que from Allied Force Headquarters the Eighth Army's surge street, this city. Mount Carmel, at 8:30 o'clock Satur capital, the broadcasts admitted. The Tokyo Domei Agency said the Kyushu raid lasted for two The proud fatner Is head of Guin- northward continued after the day morning, April 21, for Cpl, capture of Boccaleone. an's Department Store, 125 south Oak street.

Dominick D. Varano, 22, son of hours. The B-29s were beleived to France, is buried in a United States military cemetery in France, according to a letter received by his mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Revinski, 205 east Saylor street, Atlas, from Harry C. Rynard, Army Chaplain.

At the same time Eighth Army Nicholas Varano, of 533 Spruce Mrs. Guinan, who is reported do units continued to threaten Bo MARRIAGE LICK'ISE A marriage license was issued at Sunfoury to Daniel Pellegrini, 41, of Brooklyn, N. and Elizabeth G. Smith, 30, Mount Carmel. street, Kulpmont.

ing nine along with the new baby. logna by swinging eastward across have hit again the six air bases from which Japanese suicide planes take off to attack American warships off Okinawa, 330 miles to the southwest. Officers of the mass will be Rev. flooded fields and forcing a The letter, dated March 19, France, Atlas Soldier Meets Three From Home Pfc. Victor Girardi, son of Fidele Girardl, of Atlas, who is in England with a V.

S. Army Air Force Medical Unit, met three other Atlas boys, Pfc. Charles Bridl, Sgt. Jahn J. Yastlshak and T3 William F.

Costa, over there. T3 Costa, a graduate of Mount Carmel Township High School, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. William Costa. was Josephine Kurtz, daughter of Mrs.

Anna Kurtz, this city, formerly of Mahanoy City. Paul D. Weaver, celebrant; Rev, bridgehead across the Gaiana is as follows: Thomas Kane, deacon; and Rev. Canal. The Eighth was 13 miles "Please allow me as a Catholic Mr.

and Mrs. Guinan also have a east of the key road and transport Buy at least one extra $100 War Bond. (Continued on Page Ten) boy and another girl. (Continued on Page Ten) center. Polish units only ten miles east of Bologna, were pouring shells CHURCHILL HINTS AUTHORITY OF NAZI into the city.

PYLE TO BE BURIED IN RYUKYUS WITH AMERICAN SOLDIERS HE IMMORTALIZED Details of the Fifth Army's new He also is a well known piano accordionist and before entering the Domei said damage to ground facilities was "very slight." It claimed that at least one B-29 was downed by a suicide plane which crashed into it. Superfortresses and fighters bombed and machine gunned airfields to the Tokyo area for a half hotfr, a Tokyo broadcast said. It said Japanese fighters chased the raiders away "beifore they could do much mischief, limiting damage caused on the ground to the minimum." quarters of Okinawa today with push to the northern tip of the island only 330 miles south of Japan. The first 18 days of the Okinawa campadgn, along w.ft associated operations In the rest of the Ryu-kyu Island chain and supporting carrier raids on Japan proper, cost 7,896 Americans killed, wounded or captured, a Pacific Fleet communique announced. Heaviest losses were suffered by the Navy 989 officers and men killed, 2,200 wounded and 1,491 missing.

Tenth Army Marines and soldiers lost 478 dead, 2,457 wounded and 260 missing. Though Marines of the Third Amphibious Corps had brought all of central and northern Okinawa under American control, they still were battling Isolated enemy groups on Motobu peninsula jutting out from the northwest In southern Okinawa, the 24th" Army Corps still was stalk by strong Japanese positions shielding Naha, the Island's capital. The fleet's big guns and carrier were hammering the defenses. Other forces on Ie Island Uivee indies west of Motobu peniraula made substantial gains In the northeast section of the island, but Japanese troops in dug-In positions and pillboxes around Icgu- advances souith of GOVERNMENT MAY END WITHIN FEW DAYS service played with an orchestra at Bolosna were not Immediately known. But front dispatches said LONDON, April 19.

(U.R) Prime the entire position there now was loosening. American forces had Minister Churchill indicated belief today that the authority of the German government may disintegrate within a few days. captured some Italian troops, whom the Germans in Italy have been using for rear-llne jobs. Churchill told the House of Com the Dixie Hotel in New York City. Funds Asked For Nurses School At Sfiamokin Hospital HARRISBURG, April 19.

(U.R) Legislation to appropriate $150,000 for establishment of a Nurses' Trainine School at Shamokin State mons that a three-power warning District One Men a litter, and crossed his arms, and then carried him back to the rear. It wasn't easy. That Japanese machine-gunner seemed jealous of his prized victim. It was-five hours after Ernie was killed before anybody could get to his body. Corp.

Alexander Roberts, Army photographer from New York Cicy tried to get in to take pictures. He said every time anybody would try to enter the clearing where Ernie had been killed, the gunner would open up. First, three tanks were sent in to remove the body. But the fire was too hot for them. Then planes At the same time Churchill decried speculation on the date of V-bay which he said would be fixed in consultation with the "three or four" principal powers, having a mind to both military and political considerations.

He implied that no agreement on a date has yet been reached. He revealed that a special parliamentary delegation Is leaving Britain tomorrow to obtain eyewitness evidence of Nazi atrocities. Churchill revealed that the pirlia-nientary body is being sent at the direct request of Gen. Dwight D. Atlas Soldier Is Promoted To PFC Mrs.

Louis Negri, of Atlas, has re BY MAC R. JOHNSON OKINAWA, April 19 (U.R Ernie Pyle will be buried among the soldiers he immortalized. The beloved little war correspondent killed by a Japanese machine-gunner yesterday probably will be laid to rest in an Army cemetery here in the Ryukyus where he covered his last campaign. The soldiers he loved brought him back from the battlefield, "back to where the noise of the guns is distant and dull. They lifted his pint-sized frame from the ditch where he fell, victim of a sneak Japanese machine-gun ambush.

One of his hands still clutched his green fatigue cap. They put him on to Germany on war atrocities, signed by himself, Marshal Stalin and President Truman will be issued within a few days. Be Examined The warning will be addressed, he Forty-eight men from Local Board Hospital was Introduced today by 1, Townships of Mount Carmel, Coal Troutman, and East Cameron will leave Shamo Sen. William I. Northumberland.

ceived word that her son, Raymond Siso, has been promoted to private first class by the TJ. S. armed forces in British Guiana, South America. Well known piano accordionist, Pfc. Siso is a graduate of Mount Carmel Township High School.

said, to the "German government or whatever authority exists" at that time indicating belief thaft the crumbling Nazi regime may not be functioning as an entity by the time the joint statement is dispatched. kin, tomorrow morning at 7:00 clock for prelnduction physical What can you spare that they ctn Wear? (Continued on Page Eight) examination at Harrisburg. (Continued on Page Eight) sugu peak were reslfting stiffly..