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EVENING When a girl's face is her fortune it usually runs into a neat figure. EXCLUSIVE LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES OF THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOL. LVII. NO. 57.

MOUNT CARMEL, MONDAY, JANUARY 10, 1944. PRICE -FOUR CENTS. ATLAS SAILOR BOY SURVIVES NIGHT DIP IN PACIFIC OCEAN George A. Sarisky Falls Overboard At Night And Is Rescued By Australian Heavy Corvette BY ERIC S. WESSBORG, JR, fore I hit the water," Sarisky said, CBM, USCGR A Coast Guard Combat Correspondent ABOARD A COAST GUARD SUPPLY SHIP IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC: Jan.

10- George A. Sarisky, Seaman, First Class, is a lucky boy. That is a sober and Somber fact, as any crew member of this Coast Guard-manned supp'y operating in the Southwest Pacific, will testify. Sariskey of 122 east Columbia Avenue, Atlas, fell overboard at night and lived to tell the tale. He owes his life to his faith in God, the alertness of his shipmates and an Australian Navy Corvette.

The story gees back to Thanksgiving evening, when the Coast Guard-manned ship. in convoy, was on a course. far offshore, between Brisbane and Sydney. It was a bad night, pitch black with a neavy sea, when Sarisky was called from below to stand the 8 to 12 watch. He had been writing his mother and laid the letter aside to finish it "later." Holding his life jacket and helmet in his hands, he ascended to the port side of the boat deck, crossing to the starboard side to go forward.

In the tropical darkness, interspersed only by lightning flashes, he could only feel his way. and, thinking the gear locker was the deck-house, he tried to go outboard and went over. "It seemed a long, long time be- Michael Madden Passes Away At Age of89 Years Father Of President Of General Mine Board Dies of Infirmities Michael Madden, 89, one of Columbia county's pioneer residents and father of a prominently known regional family, died from infirmities of age on Sunday night at 6:00 o'slock at his home, 207 Locust avenue, Centralia. The funeral will be held on Wednesday morning with requiem mass at 9:00 o'clock in St. Ignatius church.

Interment will be in the parish cemetery. Native of Donaldson, Schuylkill county, Madden was a son of the late Thomas and Anna Cain Madden. Both parents were descendants of pioneer Schuylkill county families. Madden, known to practically every resident of Centralia, where he lived for the past sixty-two years, was held in high esteem for his devotion to church, family, home and civic betterment. Mourning friends today recalled that he was blessed with the gift of charity, ever ready to do a kind and good deed for his fellow men.

During the last World War three of his sons were in the nation's military service and, in the present World War, three grandsons and a granddaughter are in the United States Army. Madden was only nine years old when he started work at the Rabuck and Detter colliery at Donaldson and wher twelve he entered the employ of Henry Heil as driver on the rock bank at Rausch Creek. At the age of sixteen, Madden was promoted to engineer. He spent twenty years as an engineer for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company at North Ashland colliery and thirtytwo years as shaft engineer for the Lehigh Valley Coal Company at the Continental colliery. Madden was active in labor organization and from 1874 to 1877 served as secretary of the Engineers' As- (Continued on Page Eight) Place Addresses Too Near Top Of Envelopes It has come to the attention of the Postal Department, through the International Red Cross, that in many cases senders of letters to prisoners of war place the name and address of the addressee too near the upper edge of the envelope, thus resulting in the partial obliteration by the postmark and rendering it practically impossible to decipher the name of the prisoner of war concerned Mailers are urged to place the address as near the lower edge of the envelope as possible.

In answer to the many inquiries it has been announced today by the local Post Office that letters for prisoners of war in Europe may be sent by air mail when fully prepaid at the rate of 30 cents for each half ounce or fraction (except letters for Italy, for which air mail service is not available at this time. WEATHER Fair and slightly warmer tonight and Tuesday. Russians 36 Miles In Old Poland "50 I let go my helmet ar.d tried to get into my life jacket. As I hit the surface, 1 got into my jacket and began swimming away from the ship to keep clear of the propeller. I could hear her wheel pounding as she went by, and the wash spun me around, but couldn't even see the hull.

I yelled three or four times as she went past, but I didn't think I had a chance of being heard." Luck was with Sariskv. however. for two of his shipmates were on the job. John E. Schoowe, Coxswain, of 639 south Layton Boule vard, Milwaukee, and Clifford E.

Labbereyt. Seaman, First Class. of Laurel Crest Avenue, Seattle. members of the after gun crew, heard his faint cry and relaved "Man Overboard" to the bridge. Immediate radio contact with other vessels in the convoy followed.

By this time. Sarisky had drifted far astern. "They told me to keep cool in an emergency," he stated. "and so I tried to keep my head The seas were so big that I really thought there was littte chance of seeing me, but I didn't give up hope. I thought of my mother: at home and how she worried about my brother in the Merchant Marine.

I remembered Reverend Charles J. Petrasek of our church, Saint (Continued on Page Four) Pres. -In-Exile Of Lithuania Suffocates Dies In Fire At Home Of Son; Was Here In Oct. 1942 CLEVELAND, Jan. 10.

(U.P.)---Members of the Lithuanian Legation were to confer with State Department officials in Washington today about the possible burial in Arlington Cemetery of Dr. Antanas Smetona, 69, President-in-Exile of Lithuan'a who died in a fire here yesterday. If the State Department approves Dr. Smetona will be interred in the National Cemetery, perhaps Wednesday, for the duration. His body would be shipped, after the war, to Lithuania for permanent burial, members of his family said.

Dr. Smetona, who had been in the United States since March 10, 1941, was asphyxiated in a fire which engulfed the home of his only son, Julius, 32, with whom he had been living here since May, 1942. He previously had resided in Pittsburgh and Chicago. His wife, Sophie, their son Julius and his wife, Birute, and their two small sons, and Albert Lindquest, a friend of the family, escaped injury. Dr.

Smetona was suffocated after he returned to his bedroom during the fire to obtain a furlined overcoat to cover his head. The blaze, which was attributed to an overheated furnace, caused $6,200 damage to the story frame house and its furnishings, fire battalion Chief Thomas O'Brien estimated. It started at 9:20 a. m. Dr.

Smetona, twice chosen President of Lithuania, fled his native country in 1940 when the Russians occupied that Euopean Republic. He came to the United States via Germany, Switzerland, Portugal and Argentina. Dr. Smetona visited Mount Carmel in October 1942 in connection with the Golden Jubilee festivities of Holy Cross church. He came here as the guest of the Rev.

J. B. Koncius, D.D., J.C.D., rector of Holy Cross church. Stock Market Stock Market NEW YORK, Jan. 10.

(U.P) -Stocks moved irregularly during the morning dealings today with volume small. Armour preferred, which soared last week, dropped 7 points to 100 and the prior preferred lost a point to Allied Chemical lose 2 points to 147. Pittston Company A stock lost nearly 3 points and Du Pont was down nearly a point. There were several issues showing gains of a point or more, in American Airlines, Bell Aircraft, Curtis Publishing preferred, Pittsburgh Coal Issues, Nickel Plate preferred, Rensselaer Saratoga, to Rico Sugar which made a new high, Checker Cab and Cuneo Press preferred. Among the leaders, the steels showed small net gains, while the motors were narrowly mixed.

Rails held steady to firm. Loews's and Paramount eased in the movie group. Airlines firmed with American. New 1943-44 highs were by Delaware Hudson, Doehler Die Casting, Engineers Public Service, Omnibus Corporation and Philco. Congress Again In Session President Not To Appear In Person But To Speak Over Radio Tomorrow Night BY JOHN L.

CUTTER WASHINGTON. Jan. 10. (U.P) -The second session of the 78th Congress, faced with momentous problems of both war and peace, convened at noon today preliminary to receiving President Roosevelt's 11th annual State of the Union message tomorrow. For the first he since the war began, Mr.

Rocsu. sit will not deliver his message in person. Instead, he will send it to the Capitol to be read by clerks in the House and Senate. Then he will supplement it with a -hour radio address to the nation tomorrow night which will go over the same ground as the message but in briefer form. Mr.

Roosevelt's address to the nation will be from 9-to 9:30 p.m.. EWT, tomorrow. Congress was formally reconvened by Vice President Henry A. Wallace and Speaker Sam Rayburn, who hammered their gavels in the Senate and House, respectively. It marked the end of a three-week recess--as well as the start of a new session--during which members had sounded out their constituents and gathered information concerning public opinion on the main controversial issues which must be acted upon during the coming months.

The 'President's physician, Rear Admiral Ross T. McIntire, saw the Chief Executive this morning and asked him not to go before Congress in person tomorrow. McIntire sought to avoid a possible recurrence of the light case of grippe from which Mr. Roosevelt has been suffering, although he now is virtually recovered. The change in plans--whereby Mr.

Roosevelt will send his annual message instead of delivering it personally--was announced by the White House about an hour before the first meeting of the 78th Congress' second session was called to order. White House Secretary Stephen T. Early said the annual budget message, calling for appropriation of huge sums to finance the nation's stepped-up offensive warfare, would go to Congress on Thursday. Abandoning his practice of discussing budget privately with reporters the day before it goes to Congress, Mr. Roosevelt decided that this year the budget "seminar" will be conducted by Budget Director Harold Smith and Assistant Budget Director Wayne Coy.

Mr. Roosevelt, although virtually recovered from the illness which has caused his confinement to residential quarters for more than 10 days, remained in his study today and held all appointments there. The new session, formally getting underway at noon, faced an ambitrous program in a year of presidential elections, an event certain to influence the activities of the most evenly-divided Congressional party (Continued on Page Eight) Rev. Kivko Is Army Chaplain Rev. John Kivko, formerly of Mount Carmel, today was a Chaplain in the Army with the commission of First Lieutenant.

The Russian Orthodox priest, a son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Kivko, and a brother of torney Michael Kivko, Sunbury, was recently called to service from his Scranton pastorate to which he had been assigned only about a month ago from a previous pastorate at Donora, Pa. At the present time, he is attending the Chaplain School at Harvard University. A graduate of Mount Carmel High School, of the Russian Orthodox Seminary at Tenafly, N.

and also the holder of a degree from Dickinson College, Carlisle, Rev. Kivko served as manager of the Russian semi-weekly newspaper, Parvda, in Philadelphia, and for several years as an editor of the Russian Orthodox Journal published by the Federation of Russian Orthodox Clubs of America. He was ordained to the priesthood about seven years ago. FORTRESSES FIND THEIR PLACE IN THE SUN a Spectacularly illuminated by sun streaks through a layer of sub-stratosphere clouds, B-17s of the U. S.

Army 8th Air Force are shown as they flew on a mission over the North Sea at an altitude of 16,000 feet. A second cloud layer, highlighted below the bombers, looks like the surface of another planet. Court Adjourns Hearing Against Mining Group Defense Raises Several Objections To Bill In Equity After a two-hour session this morning in Northumberland County court at Sunbury, Judge Herbert W. Cummings adjourned until two p.m. a hearing on a permanent injunction asked by the Commonwealth against five independent miners of Mount Carmel Township to restrain them from removing coal on lands of the Philadelpnia and Reading Coal and Iron Company and Penwill Mining Company.

The adjournment came after Attorney Pipa, Ssamokin, counsel for the miners, raised a number of jections 1 to a bill in equity as filed by the Commonwealth. Pipa claimed that the bill should go by default because it did not specify what lands were used by the defendants, because it did not describe the lands, because names were not on the first page of the bill and because names of both the plaintiffs and defendants were not on a notice concerning the bill. Attorney J. Mettler Pennsyl, Sunbury, counsel for the Commonwealth, said that he would need more time to go over the objections before arguing the case. He pointed out that the lives and welfare of many men in the eastern end of the county were involved.

Judge Cumings said he appreciated the fact that lives and welfare of many men were at stake but he added that the case is an urgent one and that it car. not be aired if the bill is defective. It was further brought out that in a former opinion handed down by Justice Maxie in a similar case, he held that rules of a bill in equity must be strictly followed. Corporal Joe Dunn Reported Recovering Indirect word has been received here today that Corporal Joseph Dunn, Mount Carmel soldier who last week was reported by the War Department as having been seriously wounded in action in Italy on December 15, is on his way to recovery. The latest report came by telephone from New York where A sister had just received a letter from the wounded soldier.

Meanwhile, the corporal's mother, Mrs. Ella Haleman, 232 east Second street, this city, was said to be recovering today from shock she suffered upon receipt of the telegram announcing her son as a casualty. Two Degree Below At Centralia Sunday It was 2 degrees below zero at Centralia on Sunday morning at 7:00 o'clock. In this city it was 4 degrees above. It was 5 above at Gordon yesterday morning at 8:00 and 11 above at 8:00 this morning.

Thousands Of Weary Germans Captured By Triumphant Reds -Triumphant Russian armies drive 36 miles into o'd Poland, threaten to trap tens of thousands of German troops in the Dnieper bend approaches to Rumania; Smash enemy counter-attacks and capture thousands of (Hermans ITALY-American troops storm three strategic heights overlooking Rome road, encircle stronghold of Cervaro, fou: miles east Cassino; Heavy snow stalls action on Eighth Army Adriatic front, Italian-based U. S. Fortresses hit Pola, Italian supply port for German forces in Jugoslavia. EUROPE--German spokesmen quoted. as saying Russian offensive will decide the war, acknowledging Germans may abandon Rumania, Bulgaria, Finland, most of Poland, part of Norway; Polish exile government reported studying Russian proposal of 1919 "Curzon line" as eastern frontier.

PACIFIC -Marines storm ridge overlooking U. S. Cape Gloucester positions: Entrapped Japs prepare for showdown battle south of Saidor on New Guinea. Allied bombers raid Madang, Rabaul and Cape St. George, new land.

BY UNITED PRESS Triumphant Russian armies pushed deeper into Poland and the approaches to Rumania today while Allied troops smashed ahead in the Italian mountains and American bombers struck a strong blow in support of Marshal Josip (Tito) Brozovich's embattled Jugoslav partisans. Capturing thousands of demoralized German soldiers and smashing counter-attacks that "bled the enemy white," Gen. Nicolai F. Vatutin's 1st Ukrainian army rolled forward rapidly on a 300-mile front west and south of Kiev, sending its western vanguard into the outskirts of Sarny, 36 miles beyond the old Polish border and situated on the only north and south rail link between the collapsing German armies. Catherine Bradley Promoted By WAVES Catherine M.

Bradley, daughter of State Assemblyman and Mrs. Joseph P. Bradley, 518 east Fourth street, Mount Carmel, today held the rank of Lieutenant Junior Grade in the WAVES. An Ensign since five weeks after she entered the service in October of 1942, she was promoted several days ago at Hunters College, Bronx, New York, where she has been an instructor in the classification department from the time the U. S.

Naval Training School for WAVES established there. Lieutenant Bradley, a graduate of Mount Carmel High School and of the University of Pennsylvania, received her basic training with some of the first classes of WAVES at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Five Indicted On Draft Charge NEW YORK, Jan. 10. -Gert Hans Von Gontard, 37, grandson and heir to Adolphus Busch, founder of the Anheuser-Busch Breweries, and four other men were indicted by a Federal Grand Jury today for conspiracy to evade the Selective Service Act.

The indictment charged Von Gontard, his personal physician, an Army officer, a draft board clerk and a uniform manufacturer with conspiracy to "knowingly make and be party to the making of false statements as to the unfitness and non-liability of Gert Hans Von Gontard, alias George Grant, for service under the provisions of the Selective Training and Service Act." It charged further that the men "did unlawfully, willfully and knowingly counsel, aid and abet Von Gontard to evade service in the land and naval forces of the United States." The defendants, who were arrested Dec. 22 and released on bail pending a hearing scheduled for today, face possible prison terms of five years and fines up to if convicted. Indicted with Von Gontard were Dr. Arnold Aaron Hutschneker, 45, of New York, his physician, a German refugee who holds first citizenship papers; Lt. Francis X.

Grottano, 37, of Brooklyn, New York, said to be a former New York police detective; Michael Mangano, 43, secretary of the G. M. Uniform Company, and John Edward Wilson, chief clerk of Von Gontard's draft board. The complaint on which the was based charged that Grattano introduced Von Gontard to Mangono in 1941, that they all made statements to Von Contard's draft board that he was an essential employe of the uniform company, where he never was employed. Wilson, it was charged, acted to obtain stays of induction for Von Gontard without the knowledge of the local board.

Dr. Hutschneker was said to have entered the conspiracy in January 1943, when Von Gontard reported for an Army physical examination and was rejected on medical history of a gall bladder ailment which the physician was charged with faking. Changes In Routine At County Jail Final Shipment Of Jones Furniture To Be Sent Tomorrow Earl Jones, new warden of Northumberland County Jail, at Sunbury, was here today, preparing for the moving of the final shipment of his household goods to Sunbury tomorrow. The new warden is very much interested in his work of conducting the jail and apparently has already made a good impression in the way he is managing the institution. Earl has cleared out a double cell in one wing where he has placed three cots for use when patients are ill, so that they will be isolated from others.

Today there is one patient in the new hospital with influenza. Mr. Jones states he is trying to run the jail in an efficient and nomical manner. A service was held Sunday when 34 out of 41 attended. Two inmates were ill and three were not permitted out of their cells, so that no one who could leave, failed to be present.

A rule at the hospital that will be closely followed out Mr. Jones states is that all visitors to the jail will be carefuly searched before entering. Mr. Jones has converted a vacant room in the basement into a dining room, where prisoners are now being fed. The new warden says he likes his job and he thinks he is getting cOoperation of the prisoners.

There were 41 inmates at the jail today, but Jones said not a single commitment or release had been recorded Wednesday and Thursday. This is something of a record. On occasions a day passes a new prisoner or the expiration of a term, but it has been years since there were no changes in the roster during a period. The rising time for prisoners in the morning has been changed from six to seven o'clock. That gives them an hour longer to sleep, an hour less to brood over their troubles and saves an hour's worth of current consumption on the light bill, he explained.

The "1'ghts out and retire" time at night remains at 9:30 o'clock. Shamokin Man Hurt; Falls In Bathtub Charles Steck, 38, of 909 Vinestreet, Shamokin, is in Shamokin State Hospital with lacerations of the scalp, sustained when he slipped and fell in the bathtub at his home. HEY, KIDS! Authorities of Zurich, Switzerland, have recommended that children be required to go barefooted during the summer to conserve leather. HIGHWAY 8200 FEET HIGH Austria has a highway across Grossglockner range, where it rises to an elevation of 8200 feet, which connects the provinces of Carintha and Salzburg. The parachute was invented by Leonardo da Vinci in 1854, and the inventor wrote of his plans to drop troops and supplies from the air.

To the south, Vatutin's columns swerved down within 70 miles of a juncture with Gen. Ivan S. Konev's 2nd Ukrainian Army that would tens of thousands of German (troops in the Dnieper bend and open the way for a joint offensive across the old Rumanian border. The critical nature of the Germans' plight was underlined by a statement attributed by the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen to official Berlin quarters that the present battles would be "decisive for the whole war." The Paris radio admitted, meanwhile that the German High Command would be able 1 to muster only 700.000 men to face the 1st and 2nd Ukrainian armies' The swift advance of the combined Russian armies was overrunning a network of six railroads and menacing all the northern rail communications supplying German troops near Odessa, Nokolaev and other Black Sea points. One 1st Army spearhead had pushed to within 28 miles of the Odessa- Warsaw railway, the artery into which all lines east of Zhmerinka tunnel for the final stretch into Poland.

On the Black Sea coast 35 miles southwest of Nokolaev, nine Soviet landing boats made an unsuccessful attempt to disambark a detachment of troops, the German DNB agency said. Light German naval units beat off the landing craft with "heavy losses," DNB said. BLOCKING ESCAPE ROUTES MOSCOW, Jan. 10. (U.P)-Russia's Second Ukrainian Army was reported closing today against the Pomoshnaya junction 45 miles southwest of Kirovograd, the fall of which will block the next to last roundabout rail exit for formidable German forces in the Dnieper bend.

Military sources said that the four powerful Red armies in the Ukraine might join at any time in a decisive onslaught calculated to hurl the staggered Germans back to the Dniester. (Continued on Page Eight) Marines Storm Pacific Ridge BY DON CASWELL ADVANCED ALLIED New Guinea, Jan. 10 -U. S. Marines were believed storming Hill 660; an important observation ridge overlooking American positions on Cape Gloucester, under fierce Japanese fire today.

The jungle veterans of Guadalcanal reached the hill Thursday after killing 200 Japanese in a mile and three quarters advance from Silimati Point rard Borgen Bay in a drive to smash the last Japanese remnants in northwestern New Britain. Other Marine units clashed with Japanese stragglers in the hills south of the Cape Gloucester airstrips. Four -engined American Liberators dropped 58 tons of (Continued on Page Four) FIFTH SEIZES THREE HEIGHTS BY C. R. CUNNINGHAM ALLIED Algiers, Jan.

10 (U.P.)- Allied 5th Army troops seized three mountain heights flanking the inland road to Rome and virtually encircled the heavily-defended town of Cervaro, four miles from the main German stronghold at Cassino, a communique said today. American infantrymen attacking along the right wing of the 5th Army offensive advanced two miles from their ton inant positions astride Mount Majo and drove the Nazis from Catedna Vecchio, ridge less than three miles northeast of Cervaro. At the same time, a second American column knifed through the enemy lines a mile south and west of Cervaro and captured Mount Lo Chiaia, threatening to close trap around crack enemy units holding the town. Further south, other American units won the 900-foot crest of Mount Porchia and began mopping up isolated enemy remnants there. On the left wing of the Allied line.

British 5th Army troops forced a crossing of the tiny Peccia River just west of Maggiore and established a beachhead on the west bank under heavy enemy shellfire. Front reports indicated that the Germans were battling desperately to prevent a breakthrough in their six-mile wide defense belt girdling Cassino, a bristling strongpoint straddling the ancient via Casilina little more than 70 airline miles from Rome. Units of the 15th Panzers and the Herman Goering division (Continued on Page Four) Forts Support Titos Partisans BY JOHN A. PARRIS LONDON, Jan. 10 (U.P)-A big force of Flying Fortresses blasted the Italian port of Pola, main supply base for German forces in Jugoslavia, yesterday in one of heaviest blows yet struck by the Allies in support of Marshal Josip (Tito) Brozovich's embattled Partisans, it was announced today.

The attack by Italian-based Fortresses of the 15th Air Force was revealed by Allied headquarters at Algiers as the Partisans sought desperately to fend off strong German armored detachments moving in on their central Bosnian forces from five directions. Nazi sources reported that Allied bombers from the Mediterranean also raided Rome, but the Algiers communique did not mention any (Continued on Page Four).