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CARMEL ITEM. MOUNT CARMEL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1942. PAGE SEVEN. Delaying Action Plan Of Germans In Africa; Jap Losses Increase (Continued from Page One) French representatives. One objective of the U.

S. negotiations with Darlan and other Vichy representatives obviously has been to obtain control of Dakar and Tunisia without fighting- or with as little as necessary. A United Press dispatch from Oran said efforts were being made to bring French armed forces in Algeria into action at the side of the American and British African corps. Spain ordered a partial mobilization of her armed forces in a move described as aimed to protect her "independence and sovereignty" and Portugal protested to both the United States and Britain against plane flights over her territory. Leo S.

Disher, United Press staff correspondent now recovering from multiple bullet and shrapnel wounds at Bauden's hospital, Oran, transmitted one cf the outstanding dispatches of the offensive -a description of the storming of Oran harbor by two American coast guard cutters and two launches. The light American ships ran headlong into fire from seven French coastal batteries and eight warships, including a cruiser. Losses among the party of 620 American and British troops were heavy. The British 8th Army was driving In on the Axis from Libya with increasing speed. It was only 70 miles short of Benghazi, having moved up 100 miles from Derna in a single day.

By late today it was expected to reach Benghazi, closing its distance from the Tunisia frontier to 500 miles. Unless the battered forces of Marshal Erwin Rommel elect to make a stand on the Gulf of Sirte, the vanguard of the 8th Army should reach the Tripoli neighborhood in another week of hard movement. Gen. Sir Harold Alexander described Rommel's forces as "very groggy" but still not knocked out. He gave Rommel's losses as 75,000 men including prisoners against British losses of 14,000, all killed and wounded.

A United Press dispatch 1 from Oran revealed that the French had suffered heavy naval losses there in ships sunk in action or scuttled by their crews. In the Far East the Japanese naval command for the first time admitted heavy losses which came Classified Advertising MAYTAG. SALES AND SERVICE, Authorized Maintenance Shop Service on all makes of Washing Machines and Sweepers. City Appliance Company, 35 East Third Street. Phone 1105.

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President Roosevelt said it was "one of the great battles of our history" in a radio address last night. But he added that there were no citations, no medals which "carry with them such high honor as that accorded to fighting men by the respect of their comrades-in- arms." YANKS ON MOVE HEADQUARTERS U. S. PACIFIC FLEET, PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 18.

(U.P)- Japan's naval defeat in the Solomon Islands, and its failure to oust United States forces from Guadalcanal Island, may have prepared the way for the long-awaited American drive northward through Japanese-held islands, well informed quarters said today. Informants warned that the United States still faces bitter fighting on Guadalcanal against Japanese forces already there and additional reinforcements which may be landed. The enemy must be thrown out of the southern Solomons, it was said, as Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, Pacific Fleet Commander, promised they would be in a statement calling the Solomons battle a major victory.

In recent operations the Japanese had established valuable observation posts in the Guadalcanal mountains, from which they could overlook American positions and report by radio to their headquarters. The first job would be to wipe out these observation nests; the next would be to throw the Japanese entirely off the island. But so great was the American victory that it was felt here that the United States forces could now look ahead and plan for the day when they. would start their push northward, aiming first at the great Japanese base of Rabaul on New Britain Island northwest of the Solomons and east of New Guinea. ADVANCE ON BUNA GEN.

MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Somewhere in Australia, Nov. 18. (U.P.)-Allied air forces during the past 24 hours destroyed 18 Japanese planes in the New Guinea and North Solomons area and attacked enemy-held towns in Portuguese New Timor, Gen. Douglast MacArthur reported today. American and Australian ground forces simultaneously continued to advance against the Japanese base of Buna on the eastern coast of New Guinea and were supported constantly by planes which bombed and strafed retreating enemy troops Twin-engined North American Mitchell bombers, escorted by Curtiss Tomahawks, staged a surprise attack on the Japanese airdrome at Lae, about 150 miles up the coast from Buna.

In two runs over the field, the Allied formations destroyed five bombers and six fighters on the ground. Two more bombers and a fighter were destroyed by attack planes in a later sweep. One Japanese Zero fighter attempted to intercept the Allied planes and was shot down. ENEMY GROGGY CAIRO, Nov. 18.

(U.P.) -British troops, pursuing German and Italian troops whom Gen. Sir Harold Alexander described as very groggy. reached a point within 70 miles of Benghazi yesterday and are continuing their knockout drive, a communique said today. Gen. Alexander, Commander in Chief in the Middle East, describing the present stage of the battle of Libya to correspondents, said: "The battle is not over yet.

We are only in the middie, having won the opening rounds with the enemy very groggy. There is still lots of fighting to be expected. I do not consider a campaign to be over until the neemy is on the ground and can't get up." Alexander estimated that the Axis has lost 75,000 men in killed, wounded, prisoners and missing, of whom 30,000 have been killed or wounded. Of the estimated 30,000 prisoners now in camps, he said, about 8,000 were Germans. But the total of enemy losses was still to be learned, as Italians were still dribbiing in from the desert where they had been lost and small groups of enemy troops were being rounded up as they retreated.

Allied killed and wounded are estimated at 14,000. There have been no Allied prisoners. The position yesterday of the Eighth Army of Gen. Sir Barnard Montgomery, with the advance continuing, meant a gain of nearly 100 miles from Derna in 24 hours. Montgomery's men had taken or by-passed, for later reduction, the coastal points of El Gubba, Apollonia, Cirene and Slonta and had reached the neighborhood of Maraua.

They were but 570 miles from the frontier of Tunisia and British and American troops were driving into Tunisia from the west. AUXILIARY BISHOP NAMED SCRANTON, Nov. 18. (U.P.)The Rt. Rev.

Msgr. Martin John O'- Connor, new auxiliary bishop of the Scranton diocese, is a native of Scranton where he was born May 18, 1900. His appointment by Pope Pius XII was announced in Washington yesterday by the Apostolic Delegation. Msgr. O'Connor will be aide to Bishop William J.

Hafey and will be consecrated to the auxiliary bishopric in St. Peter's Cathedral, of which he is rector. Jail-To-Army Plan Favored HARRIBURG, Nov. 18 (U.P.) Welfare Secretary E. Arthur Sweeny said today he was "very much in favor" of transferring selected convicts from the state's prisons to the armed forces.

Commenting on first experiments in Pennsylvania in a possible nationwide program to take penal inmates from Federal and State penitentiaries into the armed services, Sweeny said: "I would be very much in favor of combing out our convicts and using the best -men for military service. There would, of course, have to be due regard to prison records and length of sentences. "Our boys (the convicts) are exceptionally loyal. A visit to Gratersford this week showed inmates talked nothing but war, and there was 110 difference of opinion." Sweeny's views occurred with those of Dr. Louis N.

Robinson, State Parole Board Director who said the Army is not a "cure-all" for criminality but provides a "good transition" between prison and normal life. Herbert F. Cooper, Welfare Department Prison Labor Chief, also favored placement of convicts into the armed forces. State prison laborers now have a number of Federal government contracts for manufacture of fabricated war goods. The experiment of converting convicts into soldiers was started by the Army, the National Selective Service System and U.

S. Justice Department at the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg. A few prisoners with good records were selected and are now undergoing Army training. It was understood approximately 150 Lewisburg inmates will be put into regular units so they will lose their identity as convicts. If they fit satisfactorily, the program will be extended to all other Federal penitentiaries, and then to State prisons.

Only prisoners with non-heinous crime records will be accepted. Murderers and sex criminals will be rejected. Clarence Heiser Joins U. S. Army Clarence Heiser, son of Mr.

and Mrs. John Heiser, 246 east Second street, enlisted in the U. S. Army as an engineer. He had been working for the past year at the Kennedy Van Saw Defense plant at Danville.

He left Friday for New Cumberland, Pa. He graduated from Mount Carmel High School in 1940. John Harbold Drawn For Jury Duty John 22 north Hickory street, has been drawn for United States District Court duty at Harrisburg, beginning December 7. SEES FOOD SHORTAGE PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 18.

(U.P.)- Consumers today were warned that the nation faces a "devastating food shortage" unless the government takes immediate steps to coordinate agricultural production with wartime needs. B. H. Welty, president of the Inter-State Milk Producers" Cooperative which is holding a two-day session here, told representatives of more than 6,000 farmers in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland that a half-dozen federal bureaus are "getting in the way" of agricultural production and "attempting to doctor up the farmer. "Farmers have been asked to speed up production, with emphasis on food, milk and eggs, but ne promise has been given as to the price we will receive," he said.

SIX AIRMEN MISSING FORT MYERS, Nov. 18. (U.P) -Little hope was held today for the safety of six men aboard an Army Bomber which has been missing from Page Field here since early Tuesday. Army officials listed the crew as 2nd Lieut. Donald Vail, MacComb, 2nd Lieut.

Fred Dees, Burgaw, N.C., 2nd Lieut. Lewis P. Miles, East Hempstead, L.I., N. Staff Sgt. Richard Treat, Marblehead, Staff Sgt.

Milton H. Newton, Nashville, Staff Sgt. William G. Kittiko, (701 Romine McKeesport, Pa. The Army announced that the plane had been out of touch with the field since 3:30 a.m.

Tuescay. No further details were available. HAT FIRMS FINED Nov. 18 (U.P)-Five hatmanufacturing companies and four union locals were under Federal sentence today to pay fines totaling $21,000 for conspiracy to fix the price of caps manufactured for the Army. Fines of $1,500 each were imposed yesterday by Judge George A.

Welsh on the Ribbon Narrow Fabric the American Manufacturing Bernard Greenberg and L. Lewis and Son, all of New Yolk, and the King Kard Overall of Philadelphia. Fines of $3,375 each were levied against the Philadelphia, New York, Chicago and St. Louis 10- rals of the United Hatters, Cap and Millinery Workers Interna- tional Union (AFL). YUSKIEWICZ FUNERAL The funeral of Mrs.

Helen Yuskiewicz, who died Sunday, will be held from 206 east Avenue tomorrow morning with requiem mass at 9:00 o'clock in Our Mother of Consolation Church and burial in the parish cemetery. REGISTRATION DATA Registration and Tomorrow. Schools designated for registration purposes and the hours when registrations may be made: Mount Carmel Senior High School, Third and Market, and Junior High School, Fourth and Vine. Registration hours 9:00 a. m.

to 12:00 noon; 1:00 p. m. to 4:00 p. m. Mount Carmel Township Wilson building at Atlas and high school at Locust Gap.

Registration a. m. to 12:00 noon; 1:00 to 5:00 p. m. Kulpmont--High School.

Registration hours 1:00 p. to 9:00 p. m. Marion Heights Both Schools. Registration hours Today, 9:00 a.

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Accident Rate Jumps Sharply By Robert H. Phelps United Press Staff Correspondent HARRISBURG, Nov. 18 (U.P.)Pennsylvania's industrial accident rate- called the greatest single factor the State's war prouchampering, another 3.5 per cent during August, the Labor and Industry Department revealed today. Industrial fatalities showed even a greater increase, rising 5 per cent above the averag for the first six months in the year and 12 per cent above the average for the first six month before the war began. A total of 132 persons were killed during August this year compared to 116 in August, 1939.

Department records show 11,571 accidents during Augustan increase of 3.5 per cent over the average rate of 11,177 for the first five months of this year. Officials pointed out, however, that although accidents are increasing, the number of hours workers are exposed to mishaps has increased even faster. Accidents during August ran 20 per cent ahead of August, 1939, but exposure hours in the three years of rapidly expanding war production increased 26 per cent. The iron and steel industry--producing above theoretical capachy has shown the greatest increase in accidents. In August, 1939, when 885 iron and steel.

employes were killed or maimed, that industry accounted for only 9.1 per cent of the State's toll. During August this year 2,277 workers were injured in the heavy metals industries. This represented 19.2 per cent of all accidents. Labor and Industry Secretary Lewis G. Hines commented that manpower lost in accidents represented "the greatest single factor hampering war production." Strikes are negligible, he said, when compared to accidents.

Hines said that the Federal Wages and Hours Bureau, which signed an agreement with his department, reversed itself when it agreed his inspection bureau meets the standards of the U. S. Labor Department. Hines said that Washington had refused State help when offered a few years ago. JAMES REBUKES ROSS HARRISBURG, Nov.

18 (U.P.) Gov. Arthur H. James called on Auditor General F. Clair Ross today to explain what he claimed was the scrapping of important pre-auditing work to make up a purportedly "large deficiency" in his departmental operating funds. James demanded an immediate report on Ross' plans to maintain "adequate and proper" auditing of State financial transactions on strength of reports from cabinet chiefs that the fiscal officer was stripping his staff "to the bone" and continuing only inconsequential audits.

"No single function of your office," James told Ross by letter, "has been a more satisfactory protection of the people's rights and the people's money than these preaudits, established by your predecessor, Warren R. Roberts. I am at a loss to know how abandonment of this program can be justifled." James asked Ross to advise him, if he finds it financially impossible to finish the biennium whether the amount and urgency of a deficiency appropriation is "sufficiently acute" to warrant a special session of the Legislature. In a campaign speech 28, James charged Ross with "misuse of public funds," saying Ross was 16 per cent "behind the eight-ball" in his department budget with only $300,000 remaining of a $1,450,000 appropriation which would be exhausted three months before end of the biennium next May. Stock Market NEW YORK, Nov.

18. (U.P.) -Stocks steadied today with volume light after yesterday's last hour decline. Many leading issues registered small net gains or held at previous closing levels, while a dozen issues moved outside a fractional area. Bethlehem Steel was at up around noon; U. S.

Steel up Chrysler up Motors unchanged; American Telephone 129 up Santa Fe 44 up Atlantic Coast Line unchanged; Consolidated Edison unchanged; Texas Company up Standard Oil (N. up and International Harvester 54 up Mechanical Miss Meet mechanically minded Esther Wrona, 25, speed skating champion and currently an inspector. in a war plant at Saginaw, Mich. She tinkered a bit with a machine gun and figured a way to make it quicker and cheaper. Miss Wrona' got a $1000 war bond for her ingenuity.

TEACHER SHORTAGE GROWS PITTSBURGH, Nov. 18. -The nation's schools, with ever-increal ing wartime problems, face a short age of between 50,000 and 100,000 teachers during the year, Dr. Alonzo F. Myers, chairman of the Department of Higher Education of New York University, declared here yesterday.

Myers, also chairman of the national commission for the Defense of Democracy through Education, branch of the National Education Association, addressed the western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia Education and Industry Conference. He asserted that "The situation is daily growing worse." The teacher shortage, he pointed out, was "especially serious" in the rural elementary schools, in secondary schools in the fields of physical education, mathematics, science, vocational education and agriculture. Myers charged that "one-half of the teachers in the United States are paid less than $1,500 a year, an amount considerably under the average wages of factory workers. "More than 100,000 of the nation's teachers are paid less than $600 a year. Some of these teachers are finding that they can earn as much in a week of working in a war industry as they get for a month teaching school." SCHULTZ FUNERAL The funeral of Anthony Shultz, former Mount Carmel resident who died in Elizabeth, N.

will be held Friday morning from the Lucas funeral home, this city. Requiem mass will be celebrated in St. Joseph's Church at 9:00 o'clock with burial to follow in the parish ceme- The increased capacity for acceleration being built into cars for the past few years decreases tire life from 5 to 10 per cent. HOSPITAL Admissions ASHLAND HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS Monday, Wednesday and Friday, 7:00 P. M.

to 8:00 P. M. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 2:00 P. M. to 3:00 P.

Sunday, no visiting hours in the wards. OPERATIONS Mrs. Sarah Boylan, Locust Gap; Mrs. Rose Palermo, Shenandoah; Joseph Shusko, Frackville; George Setlock, St. Clair; Jennie Hampton, Aristes, and Catherine Bergonia, Atlas.

BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Feudale, 118 south Pine street, Mount Carmel, a boy. Mr. and Mrs.

Thomas Woods, of 524 Center street, Ashland, a girl. ADMISSION Joseph Delaney, Connorsville. DISCHARGES Mrs. Susan Halama and baby, 293 east Seventh street, Mount Carmel. SHAMOKIN HOSPITAL VISITING HOURS Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 6:30 P.

M. to 7:30 P. M. Sunday, 2:30 P.M. to 3:00 P.

M. Admissions Francis McCarthy and Daniel Thompson, Mount Carmel; Mrs. Mary Dobrzyn, Dornsife, and Mrs. Jennie Neiswender, Shamokin, CAMDEN, N. Lawrence Dobbs, 13, who went to work on a Camden County farm because of the war-time labor shortage, lost an arm in an accident yesterday.

The sleeve of his sweater became entangled in a thrashing machine. Auto Victim To Be Buried On Saturday Funeral services for Gomer T. Williams, 28-year-old resident of 1128 Popular street, Kulpmont, who died Monday night in Pottsville Hospital from injuries sustained in an automobile accident near Indiantown Gap Saturday, will be held Saturday afternoon, The funeral, it was announced, will be held from the home of his rents, Mr. and Mrs. Gomer Williams, 1113 Poplar street, Kulpmont, where there will be a short service at one o'clock.

A further service will be conducted in the First Congregational Church, north Market street, Mount Carmel, at two o'clock and burial will follow in the Oak Hill cemetery. His condition serious from the beginning, Williams could not be moved for -raying but doctors believed he died from a fracture at the base of the skull. From the time of the accident until his death he remained unconscious. The automobile in which he and five other regional men were enroute to Indiantown Gap was operated by Stanley Marhefka, Shamokin. The men were daily commuters.

Williams was employed in a warehouse at the Army base. The accident victim was born in Mount Carmel, February 23, 1914, a son of Gomer and Bernice (Kehler) Williams. The family later resided in Kulpmont, again in Mount Carmel, and then returned to Kulpmont more than four years ago. Williams was a member of the First Congregational Church here. Survivors are his wife, the former Ethel Karbley of Mount Carmel; four young children, Ethel Ann, Margaret, Ronald and Gomer the Third, ranging in age from five years to nine months; his parents and a sister, Bernice, at home.

OUR MEN IN SERVICE Corporal Leroy Colahan, who is attached to the U. S. Field Artillery, left today for Colorado, after spending the past 10 days at the home of his father, Martin Colahan, of Green Ridge. Mr. and Mrs.

Levi Mummah, of Natalie, announce that their son, Pvt. Raymond A. Mummah, has rejoined the U. S. armed forces at Camp Forrest, and that another son, Pvt.

Henry E. Mummah, left yesterday to rejoin the U. S. Marines at Hadnot Point, New River, N. C.

Pvt. Raymond A. Mummah, it was announced, was home for the first time since he joined the armed forces eleven months ago. Pvt. Henry E.

Mummah, who is returning to the engineering school at the U. S. Marine base, spent a 5-day furlough at home. Pvt. Eugene Mattucci, who enlisted on November 5 in the U.

S. Army Air Forces, is now attached to the Air Corps Technical School at Keesler Field, Mississippi. Popularly known throughout the community, Pvt. Mattucci is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Nicholas Mattucci, of 451 west Fourth street, this city. Pvt. Michael Colicigno, of Hazleton, who has just completed a two months course at U. S. Air Corps-sponsored School at ophe Wilkes-Barre, spent yesterday at the home of his grandparents, Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Marnell, of Atlas. Pvt. Colicigno, it was announced, expects to be transferred for further instructions with the U. S.

Air Corps at Randolph Field, Texas. "Merry Christmas and Happy New Year," may sound a bit early but when the greeting includes from Hawaii," that's different. These season's greetings were received by the Mount Carmel Item staff today from three Mount Carmel soldiers serving in the Islands -Frank L. Overill, Thomas J. Dunn and Donald K.

Boyd. GROSSMAN'S The Store of Dependable Quality PRESENTING fairly close to agreeing with the report of the U. S. Navy. In the decisive Solomons action, Tokyo said, Japan lost a battieship, a cruiser, three destroyers and 41 planes.

In addition another battleship and seven transports were damaged. Against these admittedly severe losses Tokyo said that the U. S. Navy lost eight cruisers, four or five destroyers and one transport sunk and two battleships, three cruisers, three or four destroyers and three transports damaged. The extent of Japan's sea losses brought belief at Pearl Harbor that the way now has been opened for: a drive to expel the Japanese from Guadalcanal Island as a preliminary for a march northward through the islands.

Chungking reported that American submarines are so active off the northeast China coast that they are interfering to a major extent with Japanese communications between Japan and the China mainland. Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters reported that American planes have destroyed 18 more Japanese aircraft. Land troops on New Guinea continued to advance on Buna. ROMMEL RETURNS LONDON, Nov.

18. (U.P)-United States and British parachutists have seized key bases deep in Tunisia and advance patrols of the main Allied army under Lieut. Gen. Kenneth A. N.

Anderson have thrown back Axis forces in the first vanguard action by ground troops, dispatches reported today. British reports said Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had returned to Africa by airplane, after a conference with Adolf Hitler in Germany, in a desperate attempt to reorganize his shattered Axis army caught between Allied armies advancing eastward from Algeria and westward through Libya. Anderson's first British Army, reinforced by United States Army mobile units, was reported driving rapidly into Tunisia behind three spearheads on a 60 mile front in the northern coastal area, while a I separate force struck through the interior toward the Gulf of Gabes to cut off the Axis line of supply and retreat into Libya. The British Libyan army had reached yesterday a point 70 miles from Benghazi and 570 miles from Tunisia and advancing almost unopposed by Axis rear guards who were concentrating on blowing up bridges and blocking and mining roads. Gen.

Sir Harold Alexander, Commander in Chief in the Middle East, said at his Egyptian Headquarters that the Germans had been able to get away only 15 of their first line tanks when the drive started. He estimated enemy losses so far in the Libyan offensive at 30,000 killed or wounded, 30,000 made prisoner and 15,000 missing, against total British losses of 14,000 killed or wounded. The German-controlled radio Paris said today that Axis forces had "occupied" Bizerte. Previous Axis reports had said only that Axis forces had been landed in Tunisia. Roundabout radio reports, purporting to emanate from Vichy, said a French military mission had left Dakar for North Africa, presumably to negotiate the surrender to the Allies of the vast West African territory nearest to South America which is still nominally loyal to the Vichy regime.

This would give the Allies, without a struggle, the key area along the West African coast from which German submarine raids on Allied shipping to South Africa, the Middle East and India could be prevented. A United Press dispatch from Oran, Algeria, filed Saturday, reported also that French authorities were then negotiating with the American army for the entire French army in the Oran zone to join the Allied forces for combat duty. THIRD ROUND COMING UP WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. (U.P)Amer' an soldiers, sailors and MarGuadalcanal prepared today the third round of the battle of sne Solomons.

Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, discussing the major defeat handed the Japanese in the second round last weekend, warned that the enemy would return again, maybe several more times. But he left no doubt that it would be a weaker enemy and that the defenders of Guadalcanal would be stronger. Complete returns of the great naval victory over the Japanese of last weekend have not been received here yet. But there was a possibility that they will add more enemy losses to the 23 ships already known to have been sunk. There were two separate engagements between surface forces during the series of battles on Nov.

13, 14 and 15. Reports on the second one still are lacking. It also was considered reasonable that American aircraft have been harassing the fleeing enemy ships as they steamed back to Buni, New Britain and Truk. The aftermath of the announcement of the battle was a series of statements by high officials and congratulatory messages to the men "DEBUTANTE" LUXABLE $2.98 Schrank's SYL-0-JAMA OF WARM SUEDELLA FLANNEL "Debutante" -excitingly pretty and a joy to sleep in. With patented Flat-Bak waistband for complete sleeping comfort.

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Norman Klischer, Third street, Wilburton No. 1, died yesterday afternoon in the office of a Mount Carmel physician. The child, who had been suffering from a complicated ailment for about a week, was being taken to the Warne Hospital in Pottsville when he was acutely stricken. He was taken to a local medical office where he died soon afterward. To survive, he leaves his father, his mother, the former Hannah Rupert, and a brother, Norman Jr.

The funeral will be held from the family residence at two o'clock Saturday afternoon and interment will be made in Aristes cemetery. BABY DEAD Albert, the five-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Elgonis, Atlas, died yesterday at the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs.

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