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MOUNT GARMEL ITE GOOD EVENING WEATHER Slightly cooler tonight. 1 Vou never know how well off you are until you 'MW are noi- EXCLUSIVE LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES OP THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS v'OL. LIV. NO. 185.

MOUNT CARMEL, PA.r TUESDAY, JUNE 9, ,1942. PRICE THREE CENTS, ensive 11 Pacific Forces Broadway Actress Elopes After Show NEW YORK, June 9. ttl.R). I To Norwoy. 2600 miles Reds Resist Firmly; Beat Rommel Again; SOYIET RUSSIA Peggy Knudsen, 19-year-old Broadway actress, was spending a brief honeymoon today with her husband, Adrian Samish, '33, radio ji )r.

-J I Highway I This area mostly forests, from U. S. I barren tundra; few settle- o-building I Yakutsk ments have only air and in- itCisi frequent ship communication A Nome rr3 executive. Japt massed in iney eloped alter curtain on "My Sister Eileen" last night to Media, because the actress' mother objected she was too Manchukuo menoccl Russian Siberia Funds to Run WPA Approved Projects To Be Continued Despite Heavy Increase In Defense Employment WASHINGTON, June 9. (U.P.) The House Appropriations Committee today approved President Roosevelt's request for to operate a drastically curtailed young for marriage.

An unknown from Duluth, Miss Knudsen took over the star's part last Wednesday after she had Nikolv4S f0kh0UkYdMmKIU pRB1L0F)s VKODIAK (L Komsomolsk jrKomchotsk A MANCHUKUo nJ2L tt DUTCH HARBOR .0 been spotted doing Army relief work by a producer. Her predecessor in the role, Jo Ann Sayers, of Seattle, quit to get married today. Ruhr Heavily Bombed By Everett R. Holies United Press Staff Correspondent United States forces may take the of fen- sive in the next phases of the Midway sea bat- tie in a determined effort to turn the tide of th war in the Pacific, according to advices from Pearl Harbor today. The first eye-witness account of the great battle that began last Thursday given by a wounded naval ensign from his hospital bed at Pearl Harbor revealed that the two or three Japanese aircraft carriers sunk included the best and biggest that Japan possessed.

With the score standing at 14 to 18 Japanese ships sunk or damaged against U. S. losses of one destroyer sunk and an aircraft carrier damaged, no word came today from the Far Pacific but it was believed that American planes were pursuing the crippled enemy fleet westward to the ranee of Lodge To Hold Mukden fv y- Uarafuto otrZZ IIIVLADIVOSTOK tf HOKKAIDO I ALASKA, bought from Russia tor $7,200,000 in 1867, has produced millions in gold, furs, fish, minerals; now is key northern outpost for defense of U. S. Golden Jubilee Work Projects Administra KOREA ft ZZ P' HONSHU 13S'' GREAT CIRCLE ROUTE Tokyo-Kiska 2200 mi.

Tokyo-Unclaska: 2800 mi. Tokyo-Seattle: 4800 mi. Unolosko Seattle: 2000 mi. tion program during the fiscal year beginning July 1. The fund will provide WPA em North Pacific Ocean U.

S. Novol ond Air Boies ployment for average of 400,000 "TOKYO SJJ Russian Boses EfsJ Jap Bases Banquet Here To Observe Fiftieth Anniversary Of Greek Catholic Organization JAPAN workers during the year, and is expected to force dismissal this summer of about 350,000 relief workers. Mr. Roosevelt asked $465,000,000 Japan's land-based bombers. War is rolling along the great circle route, which is actually a straight line over the earth's curved surface, the shortest distance between Japan and the U.

S. west coast. Jap attacks on Dutch Harbor almost midway along the great circle between Seattle and Tokyo may be the beginning of a series of clashes in the northerly, thinly settled arena mapped above. (Continued on Page Seven) Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, said that "there is nothing to report from the central MrsJos.Hovanes Pacific area" and it appeared that he was awaiting definitive reports from the scene before issuing a new communique-one which may boost the toll of Japanese warships.

Dr. F.G.Davis To A Golden Jubilee Banquet will be held by SS. Peter and Paul Lodge, Branch No. 816 of the Greek Catholic Union on Sunday, June 14, it was announced today by George Chabala, president of the local branch. The affair will be held in the Social Hall of SS.

Peter and Paul Greek Catholic Church, Avenue and Beech Street. The program will start with services in SS. Peter and Paul Church Eastern Star In State Convention PITTSBURGH, June 9. (U.R) 39 Will Be Graduated By Catholic High Speak To Class In Conyngham Holding its 48th annual convention here, the Pennsylvania Order of Eastern Star today presented to First Two Donors Give Blood To Plasma Bank Blood from the first two donors to the Ashland State Hospital Plasma Bank was drawn at the hospital yesterday by Dr. Carl F.

Reichwein. The first two donors were Mrs. Leslie Hughes and Harry W. Lauben-stein. Nourishment was given the donors and they received fine treatment at the hospital.

Both idonors were transported to the hospital by Mrs. Harold Adams, Centralia, and Mrs. James Williams, Ashland, of the Red Cross Motor Corps. Dies Following Short Illness Former School Music Supervisor In This Area Expires Mrs. Joseph Hovanes, 342 south Ensign George H.

Gay, 25-year-old flier.from Houston, Texas, whose plane was shot down at sea during the firot phase of the battle last Thursday after he had loosed an aerial torpedo at one of the enemy carriers, said he saw three of the Japanese carriers burst into flames under the attack of U. S. Navy planes. He said he was certain that a carrier of the Kaga class was destroyed, perhaps by his own torpedo, and that he saw a carrier of the same class and a smaller one in flames as he watched the battle from a bullet-ridden rubber lifeboat. the American Red Cross three at 4:30 o'clock with members of the war-equipped ambulances which had been purchased with subscribed funds.

organization attending in a body Rev. L. Zakrevsky, pastor of the church, will officiate and he will 'be The Order had pledged one am assisted by regional priests. After bulance to the organization, but was able to purchase two addition the church services, the banquet will Oak street, wife of a prominent al ones with over-subscribed funds, be held at six o'clock. The Kaga and her lone sister ship the Akagi are Japan's biggest and best aircraft carriers, each Columbia School Superintendent To Distribute Diplomas The annual Commencement exercises of Conyngham Township High School will be held tonight at 8:15 o'clock in the high school auditorium at Aristes.

Dr. Frank G. Davis, of Bucknell according to Mrs. Pearl M. Stroup, Commencement Exercises To Be Held In M.

O. C. Hall Mount Carmel Catholic High School will hold its Commencement exercises for 1942 at 8.00 o'clock, Wednesday, June 10, in Mother of Consolation Hall. The class of '42, numbering thirty-nine, is one of the largest in the history of the school. Thus, Mount Carmel vith the ob servance or tnis banquet, will join capable of launching 60 planes M.

0. C. School with other fraternal branches of the and if both were sunk it was of the organization in the Golden neavy blow to Japanese 'ea power, Jubilee of the Greek Catholic Union While the world waited for ad Chairman of the Executive Committee. Local Red Cross officials participated in the presentation ceremony. More than 1500 delegates are attending the three-day convention which opened at Syria Mosque last night.

Election of officers and other regular business will be conducted at the convention sessions. of the United States of America Of This City Will ditional details of the Midway sea hich was founded February 14, battle savage fighting was under The program for the exercises is as Mount Carmel businessman, died today in Geisinger Memorial Hospital. She was 49. Taken to the hospital yesterday afternoon, she succumbed at ten o'clock this morning to a systemic infection. Her fatal illness was brief and death occurred a comparatively short time after her condition had become serious.

Members of the family were called to the hospital early this morning. Funeral arrangements were not definite up until eraly this afternoon. Margaret Mary (McCarthy) Hov- 1892, in Wilkes-Barre, Pa. They are way on the war's land fronts in Russia, China and the Libyan proud as are the other branches of this fraternal society which has University, will deliver the address. Ray M.

Cole, superintendent of the Columbia County Schools, will present the diplomas to a class forty-six young men and women. The Rev. Morris Good, of Aristes, will offer the Invocation, while the follows: Program: Processional Springtime Saen ger. desert. Russian troops fought fiercely rounded out fifty years of humanitarian service through which thousands of widows, orphans and sick against strong German attacks.

Grammar School Come To The Fair Easthope Graduate Class Eighteen Boys And 28 Girls Of M. O. C. Will Complete Course Preparations were being completed today for a replete and colorful program to be held for Martin Graduates' Chorus. Salutatory Mary Patricia Bren- Rev.

P. J. Phelan, of Centralia, will pronounce the Benediction. (Continued on Page Three) supported by tanks and planes, on the Kalinin front south of Leningrad, and 1,100 miles southward in the Crimea where the defenders of Continued on Page Seven) St. Casimir's At Program: Overture Orchestra.

Processional Invocation Rev. Morris Good, Graduation At Marion Heights D. D. Sevastopol still resisted on the 5th day of a determined German siege by land, sea and air. The German air force assaulted Sevastopol in waves of 30 or more, trying to knock out the Black Sea port and naval base for a clean-up Kulpmont Will nan.

Dance a Cachucha Sullivan-Graduates' Chorus. Valedictory Mary Margaret Kop-finger. Address to the Graduates Rev. Charles J. Tighe.

Awarding of Diplomas and Distribution of Prizes. Ave Maria Man tani Graduates' Chorus. Recessional A va tor March the graduating class of Our Mother of Consolation School on Sunday, June 14, at 7:45 o'clock. Beginning in the morning, the graduates will assist at Holy Mass Music Orchestra Oration Our American Way Al berta M. Linetty Operetta Will Be Presented; Spadel To Present Diplomas Londonderry Air Arr.

by Felton Mass at 8:00 a.m. clock and re (Continued on Page Seven) Days of Long Ago Kreisler- ceive Holy Communion in a body. At 3:00 p.m., there will be services in the church, when the class will Broudl Girls' Chorus. Graduate 36 To Attend Mass On Sunday Morning And Receive Communion Oration That America May Live Green Ridge receive their diplomas from the Regina C. Gilesky.

The annual Graduation exercises of the Grammar School at Marion Heights will be held tonight at 8:00 o'clock in the auditorium of St. Mary's Greek Catholic church. Solo Dolores Houser. hands of their own beloved pastor, the Rev. Joseph Skibinski, who (Continued on Page Three) Oration Class President George (Continued on Page Eight) Wagner.

Melody of Love Engelmann The program will include the presentation of an operetta, "An Old Spanish Custom." Daniel Spadel, president of the The Little Dustman Brahms- PROCLAMATION Fifth Registration Day Acting under and by virtue of the authority vested in him by the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, the President of the United States has proclaimed that the fifth registration of certain male persons between the ages of eighteen and twenty and those reaching twenty-one on or after January 1, 1942, shall take place on Tuesday, June 30, 1942, between the hours of 7 A. M. and 9 P. M. THEREFORE, Arthur H.

James, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in support "of the President's action, and in accordance with the Selective Service program do hereby proclaim: 1. Tuesday, June 30, 1942. shall be known in Pennsylvania as Fifth Registration Day for the registration of males who were born on or after January 1. 1922, and on or before June 30. 1924.

2. (a) On Fifth Registration Day every male person, "othir than persons excepted by sec. 5 (a) of the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940 or by sec. 208 of the Coast Guard Auxiliary and Rsserve Act of 1941, (generally: those already in the U. S.

Armed forces), is required to and shall on June 30, 1942, present himself for and submit to registratoin before a duly designated registration official or Selective Service Board having jurisdiction in the area in which he has his permanent home or in which he may happen to be on that day if "Such male citizen or other male person has attained the eighteenth or the nineteenth anniversary of the day of his birth on or before June 30, 1942, or the twentieth anniversary of the day of his birth after December 31, 1941, and on or before June 30, 1942, and has not heretofore been registered under the Selective Training and Service Act of 1940, as amended, and the regulations prescribed thereunder. "(b) The duty of any person to present himself for and submit to registration in accordance with any previous proclamation issued under said Act shall not be affected by this proclamation." Certificates Rubber Drive Is Considered Girls1 Chorus. Address Dr. Frank G. Davis, Marion Heights School Board, will award the diplomas to a class of (Soldier Dies In Canal Zone Private Colahan Succumbs To Diffuse Peritonitis Pvt.

James W. Colahan, 19, of Green Ridge, a member of the Bucknell University, Lewisburg. Music Orchestra. 27 boys and girls. John Boyer, assistant County Arrive Here Presentation of Diplomas Mr.

Ray M. Cole, Superintendent of Col By James R. Shepley (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, June 9. U.R)- Superintendent of Schools, will deliver the Graduation address. Thirty-six boys and girls will be awarded diplomas at the annual graduation exercises of St.

Casimir's Parochial School, Kulpmont, on Sunday night at 8:00 o'clock in Kulpmont High School. The Rev. Vincent Wojno, rector of St. casimir's will make the awards. Graduates will attend mass on Sunday morning at 9:00 In St.

Casimir's church and receive Holy Communion. The mass will be offered for their intention. PROGRAM Welcome speech Emily Swiet-licka. The American Flag Pageant- (Continued on Page Three) For Observers Congressional leaders today believe (Continued on Page Four) that there is a chance President Roosevelt may not order nationwide rationing of gasoline as a rubber Service Pay armed forces for the past twenty-two months, died Saturday in Those Who Have Not Registered Are conservation measure. But they ex General Hospital, Fort Gulick, pect some drastic curtailment of Blimps Collide; 12 Men Missing LAKEHURST, N.

June 9 (U.R) Asked To Do So At Once non-essential motoring to be inevi Fixed At $50 table. PROCLAMATION TO THE PEOPLE OP MOUNT CARMEL, GREETINGS: WHEREAS, June 22, 1942, will be the first anniversary of the date on which the armed hordes of Nazism treacherously and by night poured across the borders of the stolen territories into the land of the Russian people; and WHEREAS, in the intervening year the Russian army and people have won the heartfelt admiration of the entire world by their bravery, fighting efficiency, and uncomplaining sacrifice in defense of their freedom as a people and ps a nation; and WHEREAS, the magnificient war which our Russian allies have waged has been of such incalculable value to the cause in which we, too, are fighting that our own heroic General MacArthur has said that "the hopes of civilization rest on the worthy banners of the courage-' ous Russian and WHEREAS, We of the United States of America cannot in honor or in humanity do less than our utmost to aid these brave and invaluable allies and to mitigate their sufferings; and WHEREAS, It is eminently appropriate that on the coming June 22 Americans should give public and material recognition to our obligations to the people of Russia, NOW, THEREFORE, as Chief Burgess of Mount Carmel, I do hereby proclaim and set aside Monday, June 22, 1942, as Aid-To-Russia Day and do call upon the citizens of Mount Carmel to give practical effect to this proclamation by giving with open hands for Russian war relief work, by adopting in meetings of their organizations resolutions of appreciation and friendship addressed to the Russian people, and by renewing In their hearts our national pledge to fight side by side with all of our allies until freedom and the rule of law and honor return once more to all of the earth. ELMER J. DELCAMP. Observers of the Aircraft Warning Service here were practically in a Entire school.

Softening of the trend toward nationwide gasoline rationing was By John Beal The naval air station announced United Press Staff Correspondent Canal Zone. A telegram announcing Pvt. Colahan's death was received from the War Department shortly before noon today by his father, Martin Colahan, of Green Ridge. Death was due to acute diffuse peritonitis, but the telegram gave no additional details except that burial, due to war conditions, will be made in the Canal Zone. Polish Comedy Eighth Grade.

Seven Little Soldiers and Seven today that two blimps collided at of strong Congressional pressure believed to be the direct result military category today under instructions received by Chief Observer Sam Wilkinson from the Interceptor Command and the arrival of Little Maids Fourth Grade. WASHINGTON, June 9 (U.R) -American soldiers, sailors and mar ines today were assured of becom sea late last night off the Manas-quan, N. Coast Guard station and both crashed, with 13 men Mountain Belle Dance Fifth Grade. ing the world's best paid fighters. official U.

S. Army Aircraft Warning Service certificates for those observers who registered several weeks ago What Became of the Pie Comedy Eighth Grade. Military Drill Sixth and Seventh at the high school. Registered observers were asked to Grades. The Senate and House have agreed on legislation increasing the minimum pay of service men to $50 a month, and setting up a system of allowances for dependents of those men who earn up obtain their certificates at local de- Pat and Happy Narklewlcz Leonard and Donald Jablonski.

(Continueu on Page Seven) Class Day In Township The annual Class Day exercises against it. Democrats and Republicans have joined In the "revolt" against rationing in areas that have plentiful gasoline supplies. Opposition to the proposal has been expressed twice by Speaker Sam Rayburn, Tex. The final decision apparently has been postponed until a survey of present stocks of scrap rubber can be made. President Roosevelt told House and Senate leaders'yesterday that his mind it not made up on the gasoline-rubber situation.

But he indicated, according to reports by the conferees, that if the rubber survey is at all favorable, the situation will be met by "rubber rationing" rather Motion Song First Grade. Graduates Salutatory Address Rudolph (Continued on Page Eight) aboard. Twelve of the men were missing, and planes, circling and dropping flares over the spot where they crashed, found no trace of them or the blimps. Coast Guardsmen brought in one survivor, Ensign Howard Fahey of Scarsdale, N. Y.

He leaped through the window of a gondola just as his blimp struck the water. Navy officials said all aboard eight men were on one blimp and five on the second were wearing life belts, and could keep afloat indefinitely, if the crash hadn't kill Recital To Be Smigiel. Valedictory Jeannette Prlmer- Class Day ano. of Mount Carmel Township High School will be held tomorrow morning at 10:00 o'clock, at the Held Here Presentation of diplomas by Rev. school.

(Continued on Page Four) Commencement exercises will be Miss Mary McDevltt, Mount The first Internal combustion en Carmel soprano, will sing in the than gasoline rationing. The War Production Board and ed them. The blimps, on an "experimental mission," collided five miles off- SOLDIER A DADDY A baby girl was born to Corporal (. and Mrs. Emerson Wolfgang, of Helfenstein.

The mother was th former Miss Pauline Haas of Helf- enstein while the father is now stationed at Camp Livingston, Louisiana with the United States Army. gines were designed about 1680 and were made to operate on heldon Thursday night. Into the production every million automobiles goes 1,000,000 pounds of lard, the product of hogs. the Office of Price Administration At Aristes Class Day exercises were held last night in Conyngham Township High School at Aristes. Anna Dougherty delivered the address of welcome.

The program included the presentation of a patriotic pageant, "Freedom Forever." (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Four) high school auditorium here at 8:30 o'clock tonight In a recital being sponsored for the benefit of the Orpheus Music Club. Miss McDevltt, who has programmed five groups of songs, will be accompanied by Miss Ruth Ky-ler, of Ashland. Transparent steel, made of Due to wartime shortages, peli Pedestrians walking along rural sheets thinner than paper, Is proving useful in the manufacture of highways with no sidepaths should The song "America" first was publicly sung on July 4, 1832, in Boston. cans in the London zoo have been taught to eat meat instead of fish. Darwin formed his ideas on evolution on the Galapagos Islands.

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