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CARMEL ITEM GOOD EVENING If things aren't coming your way perhaps you're on the wrong road. WEATHER Fair and continued cool tonight; Friday fair and warmer. EXCLUSIVE LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES OP THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOL. LIII. NO.

235. MOUNT CARMEL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1941. PRICE THREE CENTS oeroe II ores MOUN itened By UOlll 1 ICKES ON QUOTA BASIS ENTERS ARMY ALREADY HERO Lafe Flashes -C DucesSon Is Killed In AirCrisli Berlin Reports Only Moderate Losses' In Drive Against Russia mama No Changes Noted On Active Warfront; Far East Crisis Grows More Serious By Harrison Salisbury Berlin reports today raised! a possibility that Germany may have suffered heavy losses in her offensive against Defense Oil Coordinator Harold I. Ickes, In Washington, pastes a red, white and blue gasoline reduction sticker on his limousine. The stickers are sponsored by the oil Industry to bring about a reduction in gasoline consumption by pleasure drivers in the Interest of national defense.

The U. S. Army got a private who is already a war hero when Robert Newman, right, of Duxbury, was inducted at Boston, Mass. An ambulance driver with the French, the Finns and the Poles, he holds the Croix de Guerre and Poland's Pologne Recon-stitl. Above, Sgt.

Joseph Morse helps Newman with induction INDIAN POET DIES LONDON The INDIA Office announced today that Sir Rab-lndranath Tagore, 80, famous Indian poet and had died in India, presumably at his residence at Santinlketan In Bengal. The announcement contained no details but it was-believed Tagore died yesterday. ACTRESS ASKS DIVORCE RENO, Nev. Maureen OV Hara, Irish film actress discovered by Charles Laughton, has established residence at Calneva, to obtain a divorce from George Brown, British film executive, Clarence R. Pugh, her attorney, said.

FIRE LEVELS GARAGES PHILADELPHIA Twenty-five garages and automobiles were destroyed today by a fire which swept through 40 of a block of 64 garages in North Philadelphia. The blaze threatened a number of homes in the vicinity. Periodic explosions as the flames reached gasoline tanks fed the fire. One Slightly Hurt In Auto-Truck Crash Ray C. Snyder, 25, of Urban, was slightly hurt at 9:40 o'clock last night when his automobile and a truck operated by Howard Rebuck, 40, of Herndcn, R.

collided along a narrow macadam road near Urban, six miles east of Herndon. He received a laceration above his left eye. Rebuck escaped uninjured although his car went over a small embankment and upset after the collision. Pennsylvania Motor Police of the district sub-station said that both Snyder and Rebuck claimed the other was on the wrong side of the highway at the time of the crash. Snyder had been traveling and Rebuck had been west bound.

The left front ends of each motor vehicle were wrecked. Damage was estimated at $175 or $100 to Snyder's car and $75 to Rebuck's truck. Declares U. S. On Brink Of Inflation WASHINGTON, Aug.

7, (U.R) Price Administrator Leon Henderson today declafed that wages "must be kept within bounds" to prevent inflation. He told the House Bankirig Com mittee, however, that he Jid not believe provisions for waga regulation should be included In the administration's price Control bill. "It Is not necessary to include in a price control bill all the elements that enter Into cost, such as interest, transportation and wage payments," he said. "But unless they are kept within bounds it will be impossible to prevent price inflation." Henderson said he favored "the closest kind of contract" between' governmental agencies concerned with labor and price regulation in order to "bring about the proper bal ance." 'No group in the country ought to take advantage of the special sit' uation arising out of heavy govern' mental purchasing to get unwarranted or indirect raises in the charges it makes to the community, he said. Kulpmont Boy Has Knee Infection Raymond Bednarczyk, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Anthony Bednarczyk, of 1441 Poplar street, Kulpmont, Is confined to his home today with a slight infection of the left knee caused by a mosquito bite. One of the most popular young sters In the neighborhood in which he lfves, Raymond is a student at St. Caslmlr's Parochial School and a nephew of the Rev. Andrew M.

Bednarczyk, assistant rector of St. Jos eph's church, this city. Sonnies Contribute To High School Band School Superintendent G. A. Beierschmitt today acknowledged with thanks a $25 contribution to the new instrument fund of Mount Carmel High School Band from the local James A.

Garfield Camp No. 34, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Pittsburgh, tenth largest city In the United States, has a population of 665,384, compared to 669,817 10 years ago. if Mmtmm': Sct? Columbia County Schools Will Receive $86,370 Centra I ia To Get $5,653 And Conyngham $6,006 More than 2,100 of Pennsylvania's fourth class school districts will share payments totaling $7,051.50 approved by Auditor General F. Clair Ross covering the first semiannual payment of state aid in the support of public schools for the school Payments, which are made In August and February, represent re imbursement for expenses of the previous school year.

Because of failure to submit prop, er reports to the department of pub. 11c Instruction, payments amounting to $399,237 to 131 of the districts are being withheld and will not be approved until these reports are filed. Columbia county's 30 districts share $86,370.37. Among those to be paid are: Catawissa Borough, Catawissa Township, Centralis Borough Conyngham Township, Fishingcreek Township, $2,433.16. Wilhelmina Still Active By Homer Jenks (United Press Staff Correspondent) LONDON, Aug.

7. (U.R) Queen Wilhelmina, despite her 60 years, interviews every subject who escapes from the Netherlands to England. Exile has Intensified her determination to be more than a figurehead to the 70,000,000 people whose desti nies she still rules and already she is planning the day when she can join the 8,000,000 subjects living now under German domination. However, even as she broadcasts messages of hope to her homeland, the shadow of axis domination, fall ing across the Pacific, threatens the biggest and most lucrative part of her empire the Netherlands East Indies. In these Pacific islands, rich in oils and minerals coveted by Japan, dwell 62,000,000 of her subjects.

Intimates declined to discuss just what part she is playing in the gi gantic game of power politics that may decide the fate of her empire, but it is known she has been determined for years to be more than a mere figure-head. Since coming to England, it is said, she had insisted on taking even greater part In governing Tier empire, which in addition to tie East Indies includes the Dutch West In dies and Dutch Guiana. Since there is no Dutch Parlia ment now, she has taken upon herself the job of keeping a check on her cabinet ministers and does not hesitate to let them know her views," a well-informed Dutchman said. Wilhelmina, who spends most of her time at her country home which once was the mansion of a titled Englishwoman, rises at 8 a.m. All London newspapers except the tab loids along with the latest Dutch newspapers received by way of Lis bon are brought with her breakfast table.

She then reviews the latest dis patches from government officials, perhaps confers with a cabinet minister or adviser, and once or twice a week motors 30 miles to London In a shiny, new American-made car (Continued on Page Nine) Bruno Mussolini Dies While Testing New Type Airplane At Pisa; 23 Years Old ROME, -Aug. 7. (U.B.) Bruno Mussolini, son of the Italian dictator, was killed in an airplane crash today near Pisa. Mussolini, second eon of the premier, was killed at 10 a.m. today while testing a new type of airplane, it was announced.

He was 23 years old. He held the rank of Captain in the Italian Air Force and had served In Ethiopia-and Spain in addition to the present war. He was a mem ber of the noted Desperata Air Squadron, led by Count Galeazzo Foreign Minister and son-in- law of Mussolini. The communique announcing the death: "This morning at 10 o'clock Capt. Pilot Bruno Mussolini (H Duce's son) met a glorious death near Pisa following an accident which occur' red during the test flight of a new type of plane." In December of last year when Bruno was flying with his squadron in Greece it was reported that he had been killed in combat but the reports later were denied.

Despite his youth, he was a veteran in Ita lian military aviation and he held numerous records. in vdii young Mussolini was credited with having established speed records for land planes carry ing 500, 1,000 and 5,000 pound loads over a elded circuit, fii 1938 he was pilot of one of three Italian bomb ers which flew to Brazil by way of Dakar, French West Africa. After the campaign in Ethiopia he was lyrical in his descriptions of the effects of Italian bombs on Ethto plan natives. At one time he was credited with having described his bomb bursts among a group of Ethiopian natives as resembling the spreading petals of a great, bloom' ing rose. In October of 1938 he was married to Signorina Gina Ruberti, daugh ter of Prof.

Guido Ruberti, theater critic and head of the Education Ministry's Division of Contemporary Art. Duce, Donna Mussolini and iugn members 01 me fascist juer- archy attended, the ceremony. A daughter was born to the couple in February, 1940. Among the posts held by young Mussolini was a directorate in Lati, Italian airline operating across the South Atlantic to South America. Bruno adopted his father's motto.

"live dangerously," and he was a great admirer of his older brother, Vittorlo, also military aviator, who once described war as the "Quintes' sence of beauty." After Bruno and Vittorlo had Eerved in the Ethiopan campaign Vittorlo wrote a book entitled "Flying Over Ethiopian Mountain Ranges." To Vittorio everything was "fun" and describing a bombard' ment'of Ethiopians he wrote: "We arrived upon them unobserv ed and immediately dropped our loads of explosives I remember that one group of horsemen gave me the impression of a budding rose as the bombs fell in their midst. It was exceptionally good fun." Despite his father's position, Bruno started as an ordinary stu dent pilot. He first was commission' ed a Second Lieutenant but was promoted to a captaincy for bravery in Ethiopia and Spain. King Victor Emanuel In a telegram of condolence to Mussolini, said: "At this moment, in which your paternal affection receives such a hard blow, the Queen and while sincerly sharing your sorrow, desire to send you our heartfelt condolences for your grave mourning." The message was signed "Your affectionate cousin, Victor Emmanuel." Duce flew at once to Pisa. He visited Santa Chlara Hospital where his son's body was and then inspected the scene of the crash.

A communique said that two other officers died with young Mussolini In the crash of a four motored bomber and that five other persons were injured. The men who died with II Duce's son were Lieut. Pilot Francesco Vltalini and motorist Angelo Trezzlni. The bomber, it was learned, belonged to a squadron, which was being prepared for immediate war action. The colossal statue of "Sleeping Ariadne" In the, Vatican is believed to be the world's only marble figure with eyelashes.

WAR IN BRIEF By United Press LONQON: Far Eastern tension over Thailand Increases; Japanese reported massing striking force between Harbin and Korea; RAF again bombs Frankfurt, Mannheim and Karlsruhe and strikes at Invasion coast. BERLIN: Special communique reports Germans suffered only "moderate losses" In contrast to Russian casualties in battle of Smolensk; Luftwaffe again strikes heavily at Moscow industrial targets; acknowledge RAF raids on Western and Southwestern Germany. MOSCOW: Fighting in Smolensk and Belaya Tserkox areas and on Esthonian and Finnish fronts; claim heavy losses inflicted on German 112th and 59th Tank Regiments; report only one German plane penetrates Moscow's defenses during night. ROME: Bruno Mussolini killed while testing new type plane near Pisa; RAP raids two Sicilian towns; claim hits by torpedo-planes on two British destroyers. SHANGHAI: Report Japanese ask Russia to demilitarize Vladivostok and zone along Manchu-kuoan border, ask concessions in' Siberia and Sakalin Island and guarantee U.

S. will get no bases in Russia. TOKYO: Spokesman says Japanese-Thai relations peaceful and that British and American warnings aeainst occuDtion of Thailand are unwarranted; Japan has second typhoon in month. MELBOURNE: Navy Minister says war or peace in Pacific depends on Japan. FIRST WAR TANKS England's first tanks, making their appearance in 1916, carried eight machine guns, two six-pounders, and had a crew of one officer and seven men.

The tanks had a speed of seven miles an nour. Pa. Treasurer Raises Wages HARRISBURG, Aug. 7. (U.R) State Treasurer G.

Harold Wagner today announced establishment of a $100 a month minimum wage for employes under his jurisdiction to maintain themselves on a standard compatible with American life and christian morality." The new salary minimum will increase pay of approximately 75 lower-bracket employes from $5 to $15 a month, effective Aug. 15. Employes In the disbursements bureau will be first beneficiaries of the new rate, with workers receiving less than $100 a month in other treasury units to be brought to the new minimum as soon as readjustments can be made. Wagner's decision followed a 5-cent hourly wage increase for Highways Department workers. With exception of Gov.

Arthur H. James' veto of a bill to raise salaries of Control Board employes, the trend on Capitol Hill is toward higher salaries to meet inflated living costs. "The public would be amazed," Wagner said, "to know the Commonwealth has In its employ married men with families who receive as low as $85 a month. I am firmly convinced that if these employes are paid better wages, they will render more efficient service to the state and they will be able to raise their children on a scale approximating highly vaunted American standards." He pointed out that food costs have been rising charply and the cost of living in Harrisburg "must even be higher because rent and food prices in this city, like all capital cities, always has been notoriously high." The salary raises will be possible without added cost to taxpayers by paring some of the higher bracket salaries and by introduction of eco nomies," Wagner said. Former Gov.

George H. Earle first took the salary-raising inlta-tive bzy boosting minimum wages from $960 to $1,020 a year. Russia and that rumors of these losses are causing repercussions within the Reich. A conservatively worded dispatch by the United Press Berlin bureau said that report have been in circulation in the Nazi capital for several days that German gains on the eastern front are possible only at a high cost in casualties. The German High Command took official cognizance of the prevalence of what it described as "false conceptions" within Germany in issuing its series of special communiques on the Russian campaign which started yesterday.

These communiques presented specific figures on Russian losses in men, planes, tanks and guns but have made no statement of Nazi losses except to report them as "moderate" in the big Smolensk battle. Military sources in Moscow and London have estimated that German losses have been high in Russia, guesses and estimates ranging up to possibly 1,000,000 men. Neutral-, quarters the Nazi cas- sibly not as high as those of the Russian defenders which the 33t mans place at 4,000,000 men. It appeared that of even greater significance that the actual German losses in Russia was the apparent indication of internal repercussions within Germany. Due to the tight Nazi control upon all channels of information concerning the Reich there was no means of telling how the Germp.n populace has reacted to the appearance of troop trains of wounded soldiers, casualty reports and circulation of word-of-mouth rumors concerning Nazi losses.

However, it seemed plain that un-jless these reports and rumors were i widespread the Nazi High Ccmmand i would not take cognizance of them and correspondents, held to rigid responsibility for every which they cable abroad, would not mention then in their dis-patches. The German repDrts coincided with a steady rise in tension in the far cast. From Rome came news cf death of Capt. Bruno Mussolini, son of II Duce, who was killed in a fly- ing accident near Pisa. Nazi reports of tiio Russian war stil were under the influence c) the galaxy of high command communiques reporting the progress of operations in tr.e seven weeks of fightinj to date Another in the special series was issued today, dealt exclusively witii the great battle of Smolensk which Berlin claims has been ended with a Nazi triumph.

It reported that the Nazi forces suffered only "moderate losses" in contrast to the heavy blows inflicted upon Russia in the ba.tle cf Smolensk. Then' was little specific news of current operations and much analysis and comment on the special communiques, most of it claiming that the issue of the Russian war had now bsen decided and that Soviet powers of resistance was crumpling. There was little more news from the Russian slide. The morning communique ficm Moscow said the heaviest fighting of the night was reported In the Smolensk, Belaya Tserkov and Estonian fronts. Action on the Finnish front was indicated for tr.e first time in many days with a report of battles around Kakaisaleni, 70 miles north of Leningrad on Lake Ladoga.

The Russians reported heavy losses had Inflicted on the 112th and 59tli German tank regiments and that a Soviet submarine had entered a German harbor and torpedoed a Nazi transport London military reports said that the Germans appear to be making no progress at the moment on the Smolensk front but that they continue to advance toward Kiev from the Belaya Tserkov direction. In the Far East there wi Boy Wounded In Eye During Gun Battle Hamilton Boy Suffers Hemorrhage; Two Hit In Face Hit In the face with a BB bullet during a realistic battle near the Sunbury Water Company's pump station at Hamilton, Bryon Bro-scious, 10, "son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Brosclous, Hamilton, suffered a hemorrhage of the eye. Garey Delbert and Joseph Reitz were hit in the face by bullets, none being seriously injured.

John Hoover wag( hit in the.epr but not hurt. Others boys escaped the whizzing pellets. The Broscious lad told his mother In the morning before she went to work at the Susquehanna Silk Mill that he intended to buy a gun with his savings. She gave strict orders that he should not do so. The boy carried out his plan, and when he came back to the neighborhood with the new weapon, all the other boys who had similar air rifles decided to get them out.

They planned a "war" and chose sides. Hoover, son of the Rev. and Mrs. W. MT Hoover had never been allowed by his parents to have a gun, so one of the boys saw to it that he was properly equipped.

A pellet from the air rifle he was firing at the approaching enemy hit Brosclous. The wounded boy was taken to the Mary M. Packer Hospital. Dr. George R.

Wentzle who attended him found that the impact of the pellet, which did not hit the eye, had nevertheless caused a hemorhage in the eyeball. The future of the sight of the eye yesterday was in doubt. The parents of all the boys were deeply distressed at the outcome of the realistic battle. All the toys par ticipating are under 11 years of age. Defense-Group To Meet In Kulpmoni A periodical meeting of the Advis ory Committee of the Anthracite Defense Council of Northumberland County will be held In Kulpmont High School at 7:30 o'clock this evening.

The defense council, embracing Mount Carmel, Mount Carmel Township, Shamokln, Coal Town ship and Kulpmont, Is headed by G. A. Beierschmitt, Mount Carmel superintendent of schools. Edward G. Fox, of Natalie, Is chairman of the advisory committee.

WHAT EMBARRASSMENT! PHILA, Aug. 7 (U.R) Herbert Engle, 39, took his son and five other boys, ranging in age from 9 to 11, swimming In the Delaware River last night sans bathing suits. There was confusion and con sternation when they emerged from the water to find that Engle's station wagon along with their clothinghad been solen. Finally the boys hid In the bushes while Engle called police. They barely were saved from a patrol wagon ride when Mrs.

Engle arrived with enough clothing for a modest walk home. HERE ON VACATION Mrs. B. Snyder, of Milton, Is spending a week's vacation at the home of her niece, Miss Mae Bren-nan, of south Locust Avenue, Miner Killed In 400-Foot Fall Down Shaft Minersville Man's Body Completely Crushed In Mishap Charles Sabatsky of Minersville was killed shortly after noon yesterday when he fell down a 400-foot deep shaft at his bootleg mine at Black Heath, near Minersville. His body, which was completely crushed was removed from the mine by fellow workmen.

Sabatsky Is unmarried. He made his home with a sister in Mln ersville whom he leaves to sur vive, Churchill-FDR Rumors Active WASHINGTON, Aug. 7 (U.R) Rumors that President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill of Great Britain had met or were about to meet were kept alive today by two new bits of Information, neither of which was conclusive. One was the fact that the Prest dent's highest military and naval advisers are absent from the cap! tal. The other was a statement by a well-placed official that he knew that the President and the Prime Minister had desired for some months to have a face-to-face con ference.

Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, Gen. George C. Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, and Gen. H.

H. Arnold, Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of the Army Air Forces, were not In Washington. Knox was located in York Har bor, Me. He had left last Saturday by plane, presumably for a week's rest at his home In Manchester, N. but it was learned in Bos' ton that he had not been In Man' Chester and had arrived in York Harbor only yesterday and inspected the Portsmouth Navy Yard He planned to go to Manchester to morrow, It was understood.

Stark was said to be out of the city on leave, but the Navy said It had no knowledge of its whereabouts. The Army gave a similar reply to queries concerning Marshall and Arnold. The highest government officials often leave the capital for vacations or official trips when the President Is out of the city, when there is no possibility that they will be needed for conferences at the White House. The official who disclosed the de sire of Mr. Roosevelt and Churchill to talk personally about the prob lems of Anglo-American collaboration against the Axis, said he had no actual knowledge as to whether the conference had taken place or was about to be held.

Officials here and In London have neither confirmed nor denied report that the meeting was about to (Continued on Page Four) One Nan Killed Another Hurt In Park Mine Michael Lazur, Trenton, Loses Life, John Wufsus Of Same Place Is Hurt Mijhael Lazur, of Trenton, was killed! and John Wufsus, also of Trenton, was Injured in two separate mine accidents in the Park mine of the Delano Anthracite Collieries Company yesterday afternoon. Wufsus, after receiving emergency! treatment, was rushed to the Ashland State Hospital for injuries reported to have been received in a haulage motor accident. 30-Month Army Plan To Pass By George E. Reedy, Jr. (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug.

7. (U.R) The Senate was ready to pass today a bill extending to 30 months the Army service of draftees, National Guardsmen and Reservists who originally were ordered to duty for a year. Democratic Leader Alben W. Barklcy, predicted passage by a margin comparable to the 50 to 21 yote by which the Senate yesterday rejected a proposal by Sen. Harold H.

Burton, to limit the total service to two years. Barkley planned to ask a further limitation on debate to speed final Senate action. A previous agreement had limited Senators to one 30-min-ute speech on the bill, but debate on amendments was unrestricted Opposition to the service extension already was crystalizing in the House, where the minority adopted resolution condemning "all executive acts and proceedings which might lead to war without authorization of Congress." The House Military Affairs Committee: planned a meeting at which the Ssnate Bill will be endorsed. House consideration had been scheduled ioday, but was delayed pending final action by the Senate. The minority adopted a declaration of policy In the belief that "the people of the United States are tn- titled to a definite expression of our views ion national defense and for eign policy." The declaration re-affirmed the Republican view that the United States should not become involved in a foreign war and that the defenses here should be strengthened to the point that foreign aggression will bfe discouraged.

"Thel lend-lease policy was present ed to the American people as a measure short of war," the Republicans said. "We insist that it be administered as a short of war meas ure." Non-interventionists claimed that the vote on the Burton amendment did nftt reflect the strength of the opposition to the Senate bill They said that 17 Senators who expected to vofle against the bill itself also voted against the Burton amendment because they were against any kind Of an extension. The administration has agreed to (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Nine).