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MOUNT CARMEL ITEM GOOD EVENING WEATHER Cloudy, windy and eold Not as many people walk a again tonight with a few to reduce these day as are reduced to walking. snow flurries. Sunday partly cloudy and colder. EXCLUSIVE LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOL LVII. NO.

315. MOUNT CARMEL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1944. PRICE FOUR CENTS. Mtlt. ft COMTM of CENTER OF WAC MUTINY GABLE ACTS AGAIN U.

S. Forces Drive Up Coast to Within 65 Miles of Luzon Total of Japanese Warships Sunk or Damaged Up To 42 M'Arthur Says Bataan Avenged; Japs Border On Disorganization fi4 Tighten Trap In Holland British Capture Another German Stronghold Of Bergen Op Zoom SUPREME HEADQUART AEF PARIS, Oct. 28 U.R British Empire forces tightened their trap on 50.0CO or more Germans in southwest Holland today with the capture of Bergen Op Zccm, one of the last two enemy strongholds in the area, but yielded Meijel in the east to a Nazi counter-attack. Though the German counter-thrust dented the eastern side of the British corridor into the Netherlands, front dispatches said It had failed utterly to ease British pressure rapidly crumblnig enemy lines between the Maas and the Schelde Estuary in the west. Bergen OP Zoom, four miles north of the Beveland Peninsula and possible coastal anchor of the 4 1 IV Dedication Of Scouts To Be Held Sunday Ceremony Will Be Conducted In St.

Peter's Church Mount Carmel Native Founder Of Police Order Delbert Nagle, One Of Trio Who Formed F. O. P. In Pittsburgh Delbert H. Nagle, of Pittsburgh, a native of Mount Carmel, Is one of the founders of the Fra.ernal Order Police, it was revealed here today by Clem Patrick, of this city, presi- 4t Because of alleged "Gestapo-likf 'methods of WAC Ccpt.

Dorothy Tomhave (left), who ordered the transfer of Corp. Marie Sayre (right), from Fort Belvoir, to Fort Meyer, 100 members of the WAC have threatened to go AWOL if their commander attempts another purge. Army officials promise a prompt investigation of the revolt. dent of Anthracite Lodge, F. O.

P. Cavalry Division already were 10 Patrick got the story from Najrle 'miles beyond Catbalogan, liberated while attending the state conven- (capital of Samar, after a 32-mile tion at Johnsown this year. advance in a little more than 24 Nagle, also known as Delbose i hours- with tne aid organized Ryan, immediately asked about the Suerilla. practically the whole 'of Samar, third largest island in boys back home. He especially phillp'pmeSj our member Ed Hook McDonald, MacArthur reported RUSSIANS BEATING OFF FIERCE COUNTER-ATTACKS IN PRUSSIA BY HENRY SHAPIRO MOSCOW, Oct.

28 (U.R East Prussian front dispatches s.aid today that the Germans had thrown several crack panzsr and grenadier divisions into a roaring battle for the Gumbinnen-Instcrburg gateway to Konigsberg and they were counter-attacking upward of 20 times a day. Making his first public appearance in civilian clothes since being placed on inactive duty by the Air Fores, Clark Gable is shown here rehearsing with Ginny Simms for a Hollywood broadcast to the fighting forces overseas. Missing Sailor Of Mount Carmel Is Listed De Robert A. Wertz Now Presumed To Have Died In Sinking Off Italy luiuri iira.ji, juuj hcuij, vwet ui foiice Ate Morgan ana Martin and Ellen Brennan. Tlie Fraternal Order of Police originated in humble surroundings, on a lonely street earner in the great City of Pittsburgh twenty-nine years ago.

Three policemen, including Nagle, met there each night at the end of their respective beats, and often lulked on the need of Jcl1, tinnicr nnlinnman "We three mn," Nagle told Pat-; ri k. "started the movement then and there." The police, fearing they would lose their jobs if the uron business brought to the attention of politicians, met in secret until the movement was fairly entrenched. Mayor Armstrong, of Pittsburgh, who held a union card with the approved the whole idea and helped the new organization In every possible way. Since then the Fraternal Order of Police have spread throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and then throughout the nation. The Fraternal Order of Police has brought many benefits to the policemen and their families and these benefits include pensions for policemen of third class cities, a state tiv'l service act for all policemen in departments of three or more men hi all the boroughs and townships Petty Officer First Class Robert' a mile of Roosendaal, a junc-A.

Wertz. 23, son of Mr. and tion on the east-west road between Arthur R. Wertz, 132 south Grape' Bergen Op Zoom and Breda, street, Mount Carmel, today had United Press War Correspondent been officially listed as dead by the! Walter Crcnkite reported from Mva nmai-Mnnnt oftr hnvw hnpn Marshal Sir Bernard L. Montgom- carrlcd in the missing status one year, or since his ship, the U.

S. S. Buck, a destroyer, was torpedoed and sunk off Salerno, Italy, on October 9, 1943. According to legal procedure In such cases, the official, although presumptive date of his death has Nimitz Says Jap Losses So Great Enemy Unable To Make Real Fight PEARL IIARBOK, Oct. 28, (U.R)-The official toll of Japanese warships sunk or damaged in the Iiattle of the Philippines rose today to between 40 and 42 including five battleships almost certainly wrecked--and the stage appeared set for a triumphant communique detailing one of the greatest American sea victories in history.

In addition to 10 enemy warships reported sunk. 14 to 16 probably sunk and 18 damaged, three Merchantmen In one of the fleeing Task Force probably were blasted to the bottom In the South China Sea by China based bombers to bring the grand total for the four-day air-sea battle to 43 to 45 enemy ships hit. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander of the Pacific Fleet, said in a Navy Day speech yesterday that Japanese losses in the battle were 'so great as to render the enemy fleet incapable of challenging any sizeable portion of ours for some time to come." These losses, he said, came on top of some 900 enemy ships and 3,000 planes destroyed or damaged by the Pacific Fleet in the past five months. However, he warned that the "supreme test of our fighting forces, of our weapons, of our stra- -igy and of national resolve will come in the year ahead." At New York, Admiral Ernest J.

King, Commander In Chief of the United Stales Fleet said in another Navy Day speech that the Japanese Navy had been reduced to not more than half its expected strength by the victory in the Philippines. There has been no communique from Pacific Fleet headquarters on the battle since Wednesday midnight, but one may be forthcoming today or tomorrow revealing the full story of the engagement. (Tokyo broadcasts heard in London claimed that 108 American warships and transports had been sunk or damaged in Leyte Bay, while 72 others were hit in other engagements off Formosa and the Philippines.) A Navy communique Issued in Washington yesterday listed the only American sea losses in the battle as six warships siuik the light Carrier Princeton, two escort carriers, two destroyers and a destroyer escort. A dispatch from Ralph Teatsorth, United Press War Correspondent aboard Klnkaid's Flagship, revealed that five of the 11 enemy battleships engaged in the struggle may have been sent to the bottom. Rear Admiral Jesse Barret Olden-dorf.

Commander of a force of battleships, cruisers and destroyers under Kinkaid, told Teatsorth that he believed three enemy battleships, five cruisers and six destroyers came within range of his guas in the Su-rlgao Straits "and I couldn't find any evidence that a single one got away." Previously, this force had been reported to contain only two battleships, of which one was known to have been sunk and another probably sunk. An additional two battleships probably were sunk by Halsey's 3rd Fleet off the Northern Philippines and another two damaged in the Ban Bernardino Btralts-Somar engagement. Oldendorl revealed that the battle In the narrow Surlgao Straits off the southeastern Up of Leyte was joined at a range of less than 10 miles. His forces unleashed a fu-Tlous 40-minuto bombardment with 14 and 18-inch shells, torpedoes and bombs that smashed the enemy ar-tniidii and sent his crippled units reeling in confused retreat. Further destruction was Inflicted by Kin-kald's ships and planes in pursuit.

Sgf. John P. Moleski Arrives In France gt. John P. Moleski, son of Mrs.

Ilote Moleski, 115 south Walnut street, Mount Carmel, has arrived safely in France, according to word received this monilns by his wife, the former Mary Warhollc, -formerly of Alias, now of New York City, who Is presently visaing her sister, Mrs. John Bulltchlk, 559 west Olr-ard street. Atlas. Sgt. Moleski has a brother In service, Pfc.

Michael Moleski, also In the European theater of operations. GENERAL MacAItTIIUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Leyte, Oct. 28, (U.R) American invasion forces raced up the west coast of Samar to within nearly C5 miles of Luzon and 320 miles of Manila today and Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced that the Japanese all alon the 80-mile Philip- front were bordering on "complete disorganization and disintegration." Dismounted elements of the L.t a communique. The speedy advance carried to within 57 miles of narrow San Bernardino Strait, separating Samar from Luzon and one of two ship 'passages through the Central Philip- pines.

It was In San Bernardino Strait and adjacent waters off Sa mar that one of the three Japanese naval forces which challenged the American Fleet came to grief earlier this week. On Leyte, Just southwest of Samar, other American forces lengthened their hold on the cast and north coasts to at least 25 miles and were pursuing the beaten, de-: cimaied enemy garrison toward the iwest coast and into the mountain ranses paralleling the Les'te Valley jon the southwest. I American patrol-torpedo boats, boldly dashing Into the Camotes Sea under cover of darkness, sank. 10 enemy barges loaded with troops and two coastal freighters in Ormoc Bay on the west coast of Leyte. It was not immediately clear, however, whether the troops were leaving the island or landing to reinforce the garrison.

Gen. Shiro Makino's infamous Japanese 16th Division, which mar shalled Amercian war prisoners In the "march of death" from Bataan hi 1942, already has been "thoroughly defeated" on Leyte, MacArthur said. He estimated Japanese ground casualties in the first week of fighting on Leyte at 14,045, practically half the enemy's entire strength on the Island, while American casualties were 2,160518 killed, 139 miss- ing and 1,503 wounded. Nine more towns on Leyte were liberated yesterday, bringing the total overrun in the past week to at least 53. One column pushed 14 miles south from Dulag to Abuyog, another drove inland to within two miles of the enemy's former main supply and troops concentration center of Dugaml.

and a third. rounding the northeastern tip of the Island, captured Balud and Barugo on the north coast facing Carigara Bay. "Light and Ineffectual" enemy air attacks continued against the Leyte beachhead and the invasion armada in Leyte Gulf, MacArthur said, but 10 enemy planes were shot down. Taylorsville Soldier Shot By Jap Sniper Word was recevicd by Mr. and Mrs.

Wilbur Tietsworth, of Taylorsville, that their son, Private Chester Tietsworth, was wounded In tho knee by a sniper's bullet in New Guinea, According to a letter received by nls parents he was sitting In a tent when struck by the bullet and was removed to a base hospital. Private jTletsworth Is a member of the en- gnleers, being transferred Into the battalion last February before going overseas. He was Inducted Into the service in May of 1943 received his baslc tralnln ftt CttmP ReIIy- Km sas and Fort Still, Oklahoma. SOLDIER DAD HUME Pfc. Earl Wert, Quurtermasier Corps, Fort Leonard Wood, arrived early this morning at his home In Connorsville on a ten-day furlough during which he will use the vlsltlnir hours at Shamokln State Hospital to become acquainted with the latest addition to his family, a baby daughter, born last Wednesday.

now been recorded as October 10, lied fire and the enemy faced 1944. 'hazardous retreat over secondary; His parents have received following communication from! sUprcIne headquarters said the; Navy Secretary James Forrestal: i counter-attack had betn "check-! "Your son, Robert Arthur Wertz, ea Torpedoman's Mate First Class, U. American 1st Army headquarters! S. Navy, has been carried on the of- enemy artillery fire was ficial records of the Navy Depart- heavier than usual in the Aachen ment in the status of missing In grca but tll front otherwise was: throughout Pennsylvania, and pen-In s'ons for policemen in all boroughs The annual dedication of Scouts and Scouters to Christ the King will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 in Saint Peter's Mount Carmcl. All Catholic Scouts and Scouters of the Susquehanna Valley Area Council will participate in this ceremony.

Troops from the following churches will dedicate themselves to Christ the King: Mount Carmel, St. Peter's Church, Our Mother of Consolation Church, Holy Cross Church; Kulpmont, St. Casimlr's Church, St. Mary's Church, St. Joseph's Church, Locust Gap; St.

Anthony's Church, Brady; St. Michael's Church, Sunbury; St. Edward's Church, St. Joseph's Church and St. Stanislaus Church, Shamokln.

At 2 p.m. all scouts and scouters will meet at Our Mother of Consolation Parish School, Mount Carmel and will march from there to Si. Peter's Church. Area and local scout executives will attend the dedication ceremony. During the ceremony in church the Bishop's Troop for 1041-1943 will be announced.

This is the high est honor bestowed upon the troop which Is the most outstanding in the Harrisburg Diocese In scouting and in its cooperation with the spiritual program of the Catholic Committee on Scouting. Last year this honor was bestowed upon Troop 03 of St. Joseph's Church, Locust Gap. Awards will be made to First Class Scouts who have given 200 hours of distinct service to the church. Service stripes will be awarded scouts of higher rank.

The order of exercises to be held in St. Peter's Church is as follows: 1. Processional. 2. Massing of Colors.

3. Star Spangled Banner. 4. Hymn Come Holy Ghost. 5.

Sermon Rev. A. T. Marcln- cavage, Area Scout Chaplain. 6.

Blessing and awarding of Ad Allare Del Crosses and service stripes Rev. Bernard Mattcrn, Area Scout Chaplain. 7. Announcement of Bishop's (Continued on Page Eight) Girl Scout Week Opens Tomorrow Tomorrow will be the opening day of National Girl Scout Week and Mount Carmel Girl Scouts will open the week by attending Church Services. Services will be attended by the girls In a group.

The girls will attend nine o'clock Mass in St. Peter's Church and services at eleven o'clock at the Church of God. Girl Scout Week is elebrated In memory of Juliette Low, founder of the girl scout movement. Juliette Gordon was born in Savannah, Georgia, on October 31st, 1880. She attended school in Savannnh, Georgia, Virginia and later in New York City.

In 1886 she married William Low and then went to England to live. She lived in England part of her life and became interested in scouting through Lord Baden-Powell who was a friend of hers. Mrs. Low started her first company of Guides in Scotland. When she returned to her home in Savanah in 1912 she was determined to have her own country share In this movement and began her work by gathering together a group of eight girls.

When a girl becomes a Girl Scout she Is not only a member of a troop and therefore belongs to the Girl Scouts in her community and In the United States, but is a member of a world organisation ns well that Is established in many different countries. The common bodge of service worn by all Girl Scouts Is the Trefoil and Indicates the Threefold Promise. HVtrHrti Gen. Ivan D. Chfrniakhcv.sky'i- trocp, supported by new 4-bflrrei Katushas and artillery massed to a averting one bi? tun for each 3'n were beating down; the ccunter-blows, slowly but stead- I 11 broadening the frc-nt between the Lakrs and the Bal- tx, and deepening the westward i penetration.

The Rusiian forward within 10 miles or of the Itiiter river which angles through Insterburg and threatened Gumbinnen frcm the northeast and Red Star today said the battle of East Prussia was growing fiercer by the hour after at least four fresh panzer divisions and a number grenadier divisions went into action. Other dispatches said the Ger-! mans were losing upwards of 60 per cent of their effectives in seme sfctors as the' counter-attacked re peitedly but only succeeded in dc the Sovirt JuS8naut. Cherniakhovsky was encounter in? progressively catlonr, echeloned Settlements alon? the railroad to Konigsberg had been converted in- to bristling fortresses, with each house and hillock reinforced by cros-fire, trenches, mine fields and barbed wire entanglements. Pravda reported that the Sov-I iet northern fleet In the first ten df ys of October sank 50 German ships and 26 motorbonU carrying troops. It added that the day wnn German alr sqUadrons and wolfprick, of submarines could ter- rorlze Amcd convoys Murmansk were gone forever, In tn S0UthCrn sector of the Russlan (ront Gen.

Ivan I. Pc trov's Ukrainian Army was drlv- ing two converging forces through Czechoslovakia toward the key city Csop, on the Hungarian border. In Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito's Partisans and Soviet troops also Are nearing the Hungarian border after capturing the German strong- i hold of Kula, 74 miles northwest of liberated Belgrade. Other units oc- cupled Plallcevo, 32 miles west of BcWraae. There were no new reports of the Soviet drive through Norway, al- though communique reported that Soviet warships shelled the port or Vardo and sank seven ships, in eluding a 2.000-ton transport, near the Varenger peninsula.

Another enemy transport also was sunk In the Baltic. HALLOWE'EN TUESDAY Tuesday night will be Hallowe'en. Hallowe'en, the evening before All Saints' Day, usually Is celebrated with family gatherings, gay parties and masked dances. It's a season of parties with orange and black as a color scheme. "Its the night of the goblins and the witches.

Children, bedecked In Hallowe'en attire, usually visit neighbors, where they sing and dance before proceeding to the next home for a similar performance. stronger fcrtltl- great depth. I i Nazi line, fell to the 1st Canadian Army, which pressed on several hundred yards to the north toward the Holland Diep. Other British Empire forces open- ed a two-prensed drive on central anchor of the enemy line; and the last large southwest Hoi-1 land town still firmly in German hands. One column sized Zundert, eight miles southwest on the high way frcm Antwerp, while the otner slashed across the highway connect ing it with Tilburg, 13 to the i east.

Litest front reports said British Empire forces had surrounded and were fbjhtng through the center of i Tliburg. Earlier front dispatches' had said the fortified town was en- tirely in British hands, but these I apparently were premature. Another British column was with- ery's 21st army group headquarters that the entire German line In southwest Holland appeared to be crumbling under Allied hammer blows. Virtually all ma lateral high-of the Maas already had been cut or brought under Al- I The Germans also continued to fire robot bombs over the 1st Army area. Armistice Day Speaker Named Plans for the observance of Armistice Day In Mount Carmel, two weeks from today, are to be drawn up tomorrow by an American Le-gicn committee.

The Armistice Day Committee of Harry Gclst Pest No. 91, It was announced today, will meet at two o'clock Sunday afternoon In the Legion Home. Harry Is chairman of the committee. While arrangements for the parade and program are yet to be made, it was disclosed that Rev. J.

W. Dean. DOStOr Of All SamtS Lutheran Church, Kulpmont, has already been encased as the Armistice Day speaker. OUR HONOR ROLL More than 200 names have been received by The Itsm and by the Selective Service Board as additions to the list of Mount Carmel men and women In tha U. 8.

Armed Services, as published in this paper on October 19th. And, In addition, quite a number of corrections, In the spelling of names, have been handed In. The additional names, and the corrections, will be published within the next few days Just as soon as they can be checked and verified. Schweichs We 25 Years Ago; Celebrate Here Anniversary Mass Followed By Dinner And Reception Mr. and Mrs.

Jacob Schweich, esteemed residents of 15 East Fifth street today celebrate the tv.en y-fifh anniversary of their marriage. A high nuptial mass was sung this morning in the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel by Very Reverend Josenh Schweich. Dastor of S. Joseph's Church at Lancaster, and a brother of Jacob Schweich. The music for Ihe mass under tion of Professor Joseph J.

Sticf, organist, and the responses were by i the girls' choir. During the cere- mony, a solo "Only A Veil" was sung by Miss Mary Hennessey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hennessey of Dooleyville, a niece of Mr. and Mrs.

Schweich, and a pu- pil in the eighth grade of the School of Our Lady. Right Reverend Monslgnor James F. Clarke, Rev. Joseph V. Smarsh and Rev.

Vincent Topper of the Church of Our Lady of Mount Car- mel were present in the sanctuary during the mass. After the religious ceremony, a wedding breakfast was served at Marble Hall, and a recep- nun was imurrcu aiunwaius at u.e Schweich home Jacob Schweich and Mary E. Sklvington were married on Oc 3 29, 1919, in the Church of Cut here by the late Right Re" Monslgnor A. Meuwese, A. The best man for that occasion Peter J.

Schweich, former Mount Carmel Township school director and the bridesmaid was Anna G. Sklvington, a former Mount Carmel High School teacher, now Mrs. Edward L. Remer of Omaha, Nebraska. Jacob Schweich is the son of Matthias Schweich and Christina Leeshcr and Mary E.

Sklvington Is the daughter of Peter Sklvington and Emma G. Brennan. The many friends of the popular couple unite in extending congratulations and best wishes on this happy occasion. MITCHELL DAY Tomorrow is Mitchell Day In! honor of John Mitchell, president of the United Mine Workere of America from 1898 to 1907. With Mitchell Day falling on a Sunday, the holiday In other years would be observed Monday, but the miners have been asked to work Monday because of the need for coal by the nation at war.

i i i and townships for those who wish to create a pension fund Co-fuunder of the order with Nagle were Marty O'Toole and John Boyle, Policeman Patrick said. O'Toole was the first State president and Nagle first vice president. Nagle later became the first Grand Lodge president of the national Nagle, now retired as a policeman, lives In Pittsburgh, where he works as an advertisement solicitor for the State Bulletin of the Fraternal 0rder of Pollce The Fraternal Order of Pollce is now the largest police order In the state and also the nation. Draftees Called In Columbia Co. selective Service Local Board 1, Columbia county, announces that ixtfn men will leave Bloomsbura I on November 8 for pre-inductlon physical examination at Wilkes- (nd tnat 22 men will leave on November 6 for general military duty, The preinductlon contingent follows: V-Volunteers.

V-Guy Larue Levan, Arlstea. V-Frank Peter Llnetty, Wllburton No. 2. V-Richard Peter Lesser, Wilbur-ton No. 1.

John Mehalechko, 11507 Mayfleld Road, Cleveland 6, Ohio. Allen Edward Hoffman. 4224 Oakmont Philadelphia. Grant Kenneth Lyont, R.D. 4, Bloomsburg.

Fred Robert Klrkendall, 894 Ber-wick Bloomsburg. (Continued on Page Elfbt) I I action since uctooer in tne: early morning of that day, the Navy ship in which your son was serving, the USS Buck, while on an anti-submarine patrol south of the Isle of Capri in the Tyrrhenian Sea, was torpedoed and sunk. The se verity of the explosion caused the ship to sink very rapidly. A thorough search of the area was made for survivors by American vessels later during the day. "In view of the length of time that elapsed, and because of the strong presumption that your son lost his life at the time the ship was torpedoed or shortly thereafter, I am reluctantly forced to the conclusion that he is deceased.

Pursuant to the provisions of Section 5 of Public Law 490, 77th Congress, as amended, his death Is presumed to have occurred on 10 October 1944, which is the day following the expiration of twelve months in the missing status. vnn mi. Evmniiho in vruir lrrt.nl-. nnrrnw nil linna wmi you may find comfort in the knowledge (Continued on Page Eight) Rains Bog Down Warfare In Italy ROME, Oct. 28 (U.R) Torrential rains today bogged down nil operations on the Italian front, halt ing both the Fifth ud Eighth Army drive from the south and east against Bologna.

American forces of the Fifth, Army, under heavy pressure from German troops, were stalled in the mountains about eight miles south! of Bologna, while the Eighth Army, troops were at the outskirts of For-li, 37 miles east of I 1.