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JlOlTflT CARMEL ITEM: MOUNT CARMEL, FRIDAY, JULY 21. 1944. PAGE ELEVEN. COLLIERY GROSSAlAffS1! The Store of Dependable Quality I GROSSMAN'S The Store of Dependable Quality. 4 i I Jr' v0 Hoq 1 I vCM A Nw Uith Uttlintst 7A Jj ADVANCE HAT NEWS! Coal Company Brings Action Against Others Wset Line Coal Company, Shamokln, today had brought proceedings in Northumberland County court at Sunbury against United Contracting' Company, Ashland, and Bear Valley Sales Corporation, Shamokln, to halt mining operations In Coal, Zerbe and West Cameron townships.

A bill In equity filed at the courthouse set forth that on April 30, 1942. the West Line Coal Company had entered Into an agreement that the Bear Vallely Sales Corporation could mine tracts whose boundaries wore mentioned in detail. The agreement, according to the bill, also provided that the Bear concern should not sublet any of the lands for mining or stripping. Representatives of West Line Coal Company claimed that on May 1, 1944. the United Contracting Company began mlnin? operations on the ground In violation of the agree-jiu-iu.

Thy asked court to restrain such operations, that the Ashland firm pay for coal it has mined and that the agreement between the We.it Line and Bear Valley concerns be cancelled. Clearance ON SUMMER COATS SUITS HATS Look at these arnart styles then come in and carefully inspect the fine workmanship and quality details. Adjustable straps, concealed seams, LUX tested fabrics these are just a few of the ADOLA features usually found in higher priced garments. Bandeaux and styles for every figure for every occasion. GROSSMAN'S George J.

Fisher Visits Mount Carmel Friends Fireman First Class George J. Fisher, U. S. in a letter to his mother, Mrs. Clarence Fisher, of 122 north Beech street, reveals that overseas he met Dario Belfontc, Lieu STARCHY SATINS ARE FALL'S MOST EYE-CATCHING STYLES tenant Pauline Fertig and Camille Shulskie, who are also In the armed forces, and that he thoroughly en-Joyed chats with them about the folks back home.

He said that he and Belfonte had quite a time, with Belfonte showing him around. decorative motifs, used for accent on formal suits and dresses, as you'll see on the Hansen Bang cocktail suit shown at the right, which flashes brilliant accents on pockets at top and bottom of the jacket. To -spice up daytime clothes, satin Is used in limited areas as facings and linings of a Jacket, as a blouse under a somber suit, as a scarf to tuck under a chin, as the waistcoat, doublet or peplum front that enlivens a dark dress. Good example of dress treatment is the Roberta-designed black crepe shown at the left, which has a set-in peplum front of pink and black stripe satin, gathered and released at the belted waistline for silhouette soft inq Time Scheduled To Work SATURDAY P. Si R.

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Locust Summit. Entire breaker, one shift. Little Mine Run Bank Mahanoy City Maple Hill Monitor Stripping Oak Hill. Potts Reliance Reliance Stripping St. Nicholas (Entire breaker out ihift, Susquehanna Pennsylvania Slopes Hickory Swamp Slopes Glen Burn Richards Tunnel Maysville No.

1 Slope No. 9 Tunnel Grcenough Hazle Brook; Midvalley Continental Mahanoy Coal Mining Co. Centralia. Raven Run Coal Co. Germantown.

Stevens Trevorton East Bear Ridge Co. Packer No. 5 Sterrirk Co. William Penn Hammond Coal Co. Hammond Kohinoor M.

tc S. Coal Co. Primrose Buck Run Coal Co. Buck Run Locust Coal Co. Weston.

BATTLE IN FRANCE 'STILL GOING WELL' (Continued rrom Pare One) bombardment of the big rail hub at Courtrai, Belgium, and outlying yams. Three main lines from Germany mrougn Belgium and into France pass through Courtrai. which serves as a feeder Junction for all Northwestern France. As Rommel pulled back his armor from the Plains southeast of Caen to avoid the threat from strengthened British positions on either side, the Germans depended mainly on their anti-tank and other forti fications to stem the British push, and only short-lived clashes of armor were reported in feeler thrusts. Altogether the Allied Armies scored gains or pinched off German pockets in 13 sectors, most of them line-straightening operations along a 90-mile fighting front.

United Press War Correspondent Ronald Clark said sheets of rain descended on the battlefront and the heaviest downpour since D-Day continued today. "The country is covered by a curtain of gray rain, and the roads are bordered by running streams," he reported. The new advances carried British troops five miles due south of Caen along both banks of the Orne, and at most places they were less than a mile apart on either side of the river. The heaviest fighting was at and around Troarn. The British and Canadian troops drove in against Bures, a mile and a half north of Troarn, while pressing their fight for the rail towns seven miles east of Caen.

RUSSIANS APPROACH PRUSSIAN FRONTIER (Continued from Page One) publishing the first editions of a Lwow newspaper, "Free Ukraine." Engineers were laying asphalt roads to Lwow to speed up the advance. The drive against Lwow was supported by a new Red army offensive to the north in the Kowel area, forming the southern arm of a pincers against Brest Litovsk. Two powerful Russian armies, out' flanking the fortress city of Brest Litovsk, drove strong spearheads westward today in a giant pincers movement on Warsaw, with one of the armies only 94 miles from the Polish capital. The new offensive came as other Soviet forces hammered out steady advances along the entire front from Latvia in the north to Lwow in the south, where the Red army troops struck within five miles of the huge railway center and began a terrific artillery bombardment of the German defenses. (A German report that Gen: Ivan D.

Chemlakhovsky's 3rd White Russian army was fighting at Aug-ustow, eight miles from East Prussia was not confirmed by the Soviets.) The dual drive toward Warsaw was being carried out by Marshal Konstantln K. Rokossovsky's 1st White Russian army from north and south of Brest Litovsk, and Marshal 1 I 1 Ivan S. Konev's 1st Ukrainian army from the Kowel area, further south. Their two forces joined yesterday at Wlodimlerz, 30 miles southwest of Kowel, to open the way for a heavy assault toward Lublin, one of the key German defense points on the railway to Warsaw. Rokossovsky's troops were fanned around Brest Litovsk to north at Koshki, 31 miles south of Bialystok, and to the south along a 35-mile front on the east bank of the Bug river.

In the center of the arc, the White Russian troops held Kobryn, 27 miles east of Brest Litovsk and Matoryka, 28 miles southeast. Pvt. John Windish Is Killed In Action Another Gold Star, the 34th, was added to Shenandoah's service flag yesterday when news arrived announcing the death of Pvt. John Joseph Windish, 19-year-old son of Mrs. Laura Windish, 222 West Anthracite street.

Pvt. Windish was killed in action on July 3 in Italy while serving with the Infantry, according to the War Department telegram delivered to his mother. Tom Harmon To Be Married August 26 ANN ARBOR, July 21. (U.R) Mrs. Louis A.

Harmon admitted today that her All-American football son, Lt. Tom Harmon, and Movie Actress Elyse Knox will be married in St. Mary's student chapel here Saturday, August 26. Her verification followed a copyrighted announcement in the Michigan Catholic newspaper. Harmon, two-time All-American halfback at the University of Michigan, has been twice reported missing in airplane crashes within the last year and a half.

PATROLS THRUST ACROSS ARNO (Continued from Page One) the heights of Monte Pisa no, with machine gun pillboxes stretched along the approaches. American engineers confirmed that the Germans, before fleeing LIvorno, methodically had destroyed every potentially valuable port facility and sank 16 ships in the harbor. On the right flank of the Fifth army, the troops pushed through heavily mined and blasted terrain for a nJle above Certaldo, eight miles northwest of Poggibonsi. WOMAN KILLED, SON UNINJURED 'Continued from Pagr One) lived for a time in Philadelphia and mpved in 1920 to Shamokln where he went into the sheet metal roofing contracting business. Mr.

Shawda has been seriously ill at. the family home on south Sixth street. His wife had been managing the business for him. In addition to the husband and one son, Floyd another son, Robert, and a sister survive. The funeral is to be held at two p.

m. Monday from the residence. Burial will be made in Odd Fellows Cemetery along Trevorton Road. Pfc. Paul Wagner Back From Overseas Pfc.

Paul son of Mrs. Fred Wagner, of Mount Oarmel Junction, has been returned to the United States for limited service, after spending thirteen months overseas. He participated in three major battles, Sicily, Salerno and Anzlo Beachhead. Scheduled to report to Camp But-ner, N. for re-asslgnment, Pfc Wagner Is now with his wife at the home of her parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Arthur Wallauer, of 326 Center street, Ashland. DRESSE .90 md a- 90 Sidelines make advance fall head lines! New aide drape hats, pretty black felts, beretsdramatically smart now through Fall. Have yours today. 1,506 miles east of Manila, 1,353 southeast of Yokohama, and southeast of Tokyo.

The island has been under the jurisdiction of the Navy Depart ment since It was ceded to the United States by Spain in the Treaty of Paris following the Spanish-American War. The Navy, on Nov. 1, 1941, ordered aE U. S. civilians to leave the island.

A month and two days later. on Dec. 7, it was attacked bv the Japanese garrisoned by less than 400 sailors and 155 marines. Four days later Guam fell, the first U. S.

possession to drop into Japanese hands in World War II. THE COMMUNIQUE WASHINGTON, July 21. U.W Here is the text of Pacific Fleet Communique No. 82 announcing S. landings on Guarm: S.

Marines and Army assault troops established beachheads on Guam island on July 20 (west longitude date) with the support of carrier aircraft and surface combat units of the 5th Keet. Enemy defenses are being heavily bombed and shelled at close range. "Amphibious operations against Guam island are being directed by Rear Admirall Richard L. Conolly, USN. "Expeditionary troops are commanded by MaJ.

Gen. Roy S. Gei-ger. Marines, commanding general 3rd Amphibious Corps. "The landings on Guam are continuing against moderate ground opposition." SPORT-O-GRAMS (Continued from Sport Page) welcomed the announcement that a live-wire like Mr.

Hartwig was going to try to revive pro boxing. Unfortunately, only one program of fights was presented and the sponge was tossed in for well-known wartime reasons, little or no regional talent, with most of the boys away, and you have to have that to create real Interest. Then came the Panther Valley A. switch to professional wrestling where the big guys work cheaply. Attendance at the first mat show was estimated at "approximately 800," with, as Lansford's own daily put It, "the usual flock of kids coming in over the fence." Last night, the A.

C. offered its second card and even our good friend, Mike Lane, who talked with Bill Witt, of the Shenandoah Evening Herald who possibly talked to somebody else along the newspaper grapevine, told us this morn the crowd was "very small." He said the threatening weather might have had something to do with it. Why, Michael, how could you? At any rate, Michele Leone, 1X5. New York, pinned Angelo Savoldl, 210, one of the Hoboken, N. lads.

in 24 minutes of the one-fall-to-a-finlsh wlndup, using what was described as "a whirling spin" and a body press. Don Evans, 225, Buffalo, N. tossed John Vansky, 200, Kearny, N. In 21 minutes, 18 seconds of a scheduled 45-mlnute event. Evans employed "a backdrop" and body press to turn the trick after he and John had booted each other out of the ring.

Maur ice LaChappelle, 190, New York, "dropklcked" Gus Raap, also 190, New York, In IS minutes, 8-10 sec onds of a 30-mlnute shindig and Frank Brunowlcz, 235, New Jersey, grapped to a 30-mlnute draw with Henry piers, 240, New York, which was O. K. with everybody. "Are they going to have another show?" we asked Mike. "They didn't say." he whispered.

Kulpmont Boy Admitted To Geisinger Hospital James Rovito, Jr, nine-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. James Rovito, 636 Chestnut street, Kulpmont, was admitted to- Geisinger Memorial Hospital yesterday afternoon for medical treatment. $2 Purple Heart Arrives Here Mrs. Gladys Sadusky Davis, of 50 south Locust street, today received the Purple Heart decoration awarded to her husband, Pvt.

Robert Davis, of the U. S. Infantry, for wounds received in action on June 28 In Prance. Pvt. Davis, popularly known throughout the community, is now recovering in a hospital in England, Mrs.

Davis said. Pvt. Davis entered the service on October 17, 1943, and after receiving his basic training at Camp Wheeler, went overseas early in April, this year. He Is a son of Mr. and Mrs.

Howard Davis, of 128 south Pine street, and before entering the service he was employed by the Aluminum Corporation of America (ALCOA) at Cressona. In action on June 28 Pvt. Davis received wounds of the left arm, left leg and left hand. Ronald Neiswender (3ets Purple Heart Mr. and Mrs.

Claude F. Nelswen-ter, of 33 south Poplar street, have received word that their son, Pvt. Ronald B. Neiswenter, 23, who is recovering in a hospital in Italy, was awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received in action on Feb-ruar 29, and the Oak Leaf Cluster for wounds received in action in the Battle of Rome on June 3. Popularly known throughout the community, Pvt.

Neiswenter went Into the service on November 7, 1942, and after receiving his basic training, went overseas in March, 1943. Germaniown Soldier Wounded In France Private First Class Harold L. Giessner, son of John Olessner, Germantown, was seriously wounded June 21 in France, according to a War Department message received by his father today. No other details were disclosed in the message. RETURN OF PEACE IN 4 YEARS-FDR (Continued from Page One) and especially to correct any misrepresentation." Mr.

Roosevelt said that it seemed "wholly likely" that the Allies will have gained a complete victory over Germany and Japan within the next four years and the world will once again be at peace under a system that he hoped would prevent a new war. "In any event, new hands will then have opportunity to realize the Ideals which we seek." He said that in the last three elec tions not only Democrats but forward looking Republicans and In dependent voters have turned to a ip-oii esslve leadership which has sought consistently "to advance the lot of the average American citizen who had been so forgotten during the period after the last war." He added that his acceptance of a fourth term nomination was "based solely on a sense of obliga tions to serve if called upon to do so by the people of the United States." Mr. Roosevelt said he was "at this naval base in performance of. my duties under the constitution. The war waits for no election, Decisions must be made plans must be laid strategy must be carried out.

They do not concern merely a party or a group. They will affect the dally lives of Americans for generations to come." He listed three objectives for America in 1944, to win the war, to form world-wide International organizations and to build an economy for our returning, veterans and for ell Americans, which will provide employment and decent standards of living, 3 Higher Court Upholds Arson Case Decision Decision of Judge H. W. Cum- mings in the case of Salvatore Se- bastian Coronittl, of Kulpmont, I convicted in the county court more than a year ago of arson, is upheld in a decision of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania, word of which has Just been received at Sunbury. The appeal of defense counsel from Judge Cummlngs' decision approving the verdict of guilty brought by the Jury in the May term of 1943, which had been before the higher court since June 1943 is denied.

Coronitti in the meantime, is serving sentence of from 10 to 20 years at hard labor in the Eastern Penitentiary imposed by Judge Cummings after refusal of a motion for a new trial made by his counsel, J. A. Welsh, now deceased, Daniel W. Kearney, Shamokln and Eugene Mi- rarchi, Kulpmont. The sentence also Included costs and a $2,000 fine.

It dates from September 23, 1942, when he began his imprisonment in the county jail. The case was the most important in years in the county court, attracted wide attention, and at the same time aroused wide controversy. Conviction was based entirely on the testimony of a detective for insur ance companies. The detective, posing as a hobo, was picked up by State police, given a hearing at Shamokln, and sent to jail for vagrancy. Serviceman Of Centralia Weds Private William McCullion and his bride of a week, the former Miss Esther Kogut daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. John Kogut, 618 Otisco street, Syracuse, N. left today to return to Syracuse after having spent a few days at the home of the former's mother, Mrs. Gertrude McCullion, 534 Locust Avenue, Centralia. Attended by Pvt Frank Kogut, of Camp Shelby, Mississippi, and by Miss Helen Koput, of Syracuse, brother and sister of the bride, they were married in Sacred Heart Church, Syracuse 8:45 a July 12.

Pvt. McCullion a graduate of Conyngham Township High School, Aristes, has been in tne Air Jcrps-more than two years. He was recently transferred from Boise, Idaho, to the Army Air Base at Syracuse. His bride is an Inspector in the Broan Lipe Chapln war plant in Syracuse. Drucis Earns Wings And Boots Of U.S.

Army Paratroops FORT BENNING, Ga. Pvt. Robert Drucis of 312 south Chestnut street, Mount Carmel, has won the right to ear Wings and Boots of the United States Army Paratroops. He has completed four weeks of Jump training during which he made five Jumps from a plane in flight, the last a tactical Jump at night involving a combat problem on landing. Coal Mine Fire Still Unchecked Fire which destroyed Red Oak breaker at Trement, west of Potta-vllle, was still burning Wednesday evening, after the flames resisted all efforts of firemen to extinguish them for two days.

Stubbornness of the fire was attributed to the large quantity of coal in the breaker. Much machinery used in the preparation of coal was destroyed. CONVENTION ABOUT TO BEGIN BALLOTING (Continued trout Page One) here as "the letter." It was short and to the point, dated from Washington on July 19: 'Dear Bob: 'You have written me about Harry Truman and Bill Douglas (Associate Justice William O. Douglas). I should, of course, be very glad to run with either of them and believe that either one of them would bring real strengh to the ticket.

"Always sincerely, Franklin D. Roosevelt" The letter raised a number of un answered questions, principally as to the time and place it was written. Mr. Roosevelt was not in the White House in Washington on July 19, even though the letter as released by Hannegan was so dated. Actually, in the early morning of that day the President was arriving at the west coast naval station from which he addressed the convention last night.

The thought occurred to some here that he may have written the letter welcoming either Truman or Douglas as a running mate at the same time and place that he composed another famous letter received here. This other letter was addressed to Sen. Samuel D. Jackson, of In diana, permanent convention chair' man, and was made public on July 18. It recalled Wallace's services to the administration and the country as Secretary of Agriculture and Vice President and stated that if the President were a delegate to this convention he would cast his vote for the vice president's renomina- tlon.

If Truman and Wallece are dead locked today there is a better than fair chance that the anti-Wallace, anti-CIO, anti-New Deal votes here will swing to Sen. Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky along with enough middle of the road support to put him over. He is 67 years old a factor which hurts his candidacy. Much of the bitterness over the vice presidential nomination is caused by the knowledge that Mr.

Roosevelt, himself, is 62 years old and may reasonably be considered in an age bracket where his death might come before the end of a fourth term. That would be Jan. 20, 1949. There are elements In the party who Insist that Wallace shall not have a chance to succeed to the presidency. Southerners fear that nomination of Wallace here might leave them without a party four years from now or leave them only one so dominated by organized labor as to the unsuitable in the south.

There is some Roosevelt-cabinet opposition to Wallace's renomina-tion, but there also Is strong cabinet support for him. Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins are beating the Wallace drum. Attorney General Francis Blddle is reported to be supporting Douglas. Sidney Hillman political spokesman for the CIO, is the top labor leader demanding Wallace here, and President Philip Murray of the CIO is participating in Wallace's strategy conferences.

The anti-Wallace brain trust met until the early hours of today In the Blackstone suite of a cabinet officer and afterward the cabinet member said without qualification that Truman was Mr. Roosevelt'a choice. But there was recognition of the fact that Wallace has great strength here. His backers all but stampeded the convention last night. TROOPS POURING ASHORE AT GUAM (Continued from Page One) miles southwest of San Francisco, 1,508 mllels southwest of Wake is land, 1,823 southeast of Hong Kong, BY EPSIE KINARD NEW YORK Cutting an unexpected shine in print is starchy satin, which, in stripes as bold as a jockey's shirt or in polka dots as big as dimes, makes some of the most eye-catching fashions seen in previewed New York fall and winter collections.

Sharp and vivid colorings look as though they had been set with poster paint. Fuchsia and green keep company In one stripe combination; purple and pink in another. Brown satin Is sprinkled with blue, pink or gold polka dots; emerald green and yellow. Nor is color all of the excitement. Clustered like gems in a Jeweler's box are beaded buttons, pockets and FORM NEW JAP GOVERNMENT S-m I i Korea (left) and Admiral Mitsumasa Yonai, former premier of Gen.

Kunlakl Kolso, Governor-General of Japanese-occupied Japan (right) have been orderded by Emperor Hlrohito to form a new cabinet to replace that of ex-Premier Tojo. Both Koiso and Yoanl have been aggressive proponents of Japanese expansion..