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THE SUNDAY TIMES SIGNAL ZANESVILLE SUNDAY AUGUST 9 1942 Encyclopedist Says: Read Invasion stress on Talk Grows OfA a crossing of the Raid Canton BomberCrash 1 atal to our 4 A be i the missing 3 pro Main at Seventh YOUR HOME STORE a DANISH LIER DIES REPUBLICANS ATTENTION! I Does Muskingum County Need a Change? make GORSUCH PHARMACY Your RexaU Store 311 Main St Phone 169 Independent Republicans recommend for SUMMER OR IRST TERH VINCENT UNH OR IRST TERM BERNARD PORTER in the Courthouse Are Enough INDEPENDENT REPUBLICAN VOTERS LEAGUE Political Adv RLUBI POESC RlPONS Section Page the read Holland irst Lieut of Munger Lieut Rich business Shirk is a manufactures vita about crew time He 11th and the 11th Sundaes Soft Drinks 5 MRS GRETEN ENTERTAINS Mrs John Greten 1072 East man street will be the hostess Tuesday evening at her home of iner euenre club twice a month a debris as it grown in the Orient could be soldi IT Plnyino commercially in New York at a'AJa 1 Id Lit? Stewart chairman z931 Maple Avenue LOTHING AREULLY LEANED PILOT CLUB A special meeting of the Pilot club will be held at 6 o'clock Mon day evening A short business ses sion will follow supper All mem bers are urged to attend get along without of the business men read two books a Strike Closes 30 Stores at Tacoma COLUMBUS Aug The right of Republican State Chairman Ed Schorr to mem bership on the state central committee was questioned today bringing a flurry of excitement to an otherwise dull primary election campaign A request from Secretary of State John Sweeney a Demo crat for an investgiation of Schorr's qualifications as a candi date for re election as state cen tral committeeman from the sec ond congressional district suddenly overshadowed primary races for state and congressional offices A Columbus newspaper question ed right to serve on the committee from the Cincinnati dis trict Sweeney then directed the Hamilton county board of elections to determine whether Schorr was qualified Joseph Clark clerk of the board said sweeney request would considered on Monday Bo Sure to Got In On Thus Big Bargains SLIT ILED A suit was Hied Saturday in common pleas court by George Untied against the Bankers Trust Co of Detroit and others seeking division of real estate in Jackson: township "Remnant Days Assails Melting Of Ancient Cannon Hope to Save Life price of 10 to 12 cents a pound This natural rubber leading rub ber industry executives assert will have to be reckoned with in the post war period by any interests considering construction of large scale synthetic producing factories They discount reports that wide spread destruction of the rubber plantations was possible before Japanese occupation of Malaya and the Netherlands East Indies The motorists' quick hopes rest largely on development of a rubber substitute that will provide satis factory arecapping material for an tire The most promising progress in this respect has been made through a modification of triokoi one of the oldest of the rubber substitutes but heretofore impractical for use in tires ALBANY Aug 8 ID New York political leaders pressed today for heavy balloting In Tues primary election headlined by Rep Hamilton battle for Republican renomination in Presi dent home district Stepped up efforts of the three parties to get out the vote marked the windup of a campaign that also has focused national at tention on the struggle between Senator James Mead and State Attorney General John Bennett Jr for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination Voters will pick in addition to nominees for 43 seats in congress and 201 in the state legislature delegates to party nominating con ventions which will choose govern orship candidates later this month This choice presumably will give an early indication of the Demo cratic actual strength orces of Mead supported by President Roosevelt and Bennett backed by State Democratic Chair man James A arley both claim support among potential delegates of more than the 508 required for nomination riends of Thomas Dewey who lost to Democratic Governor Lehman by 64000 votes in 1938 claim a majority of Republican convention delegates for his re nomination although he has not announced himself a candidate ish 22 year veteran of congress and a bitter pre war critic of President Roosevelt faces three Republican primary opponents Augustus Bennet Newburg at torney Assemblyman Emerson oreman Vassar college professor and Edward Bowen of Pough keepsie All based their campaigns on the pre Pearl Harbor isolationist views they attributed to ish He calls his opponents in' the bat tle which he says unholy alli ance between left wing New Deal ers Communists and rabid million aire is waging against him jCAPT PLAYORD CU I Members of the Captain Play ford club enjoyed a picnic ri day at the Antler club A dinner as served at noon and the hours were spent socially Mrs Charles Orwig is president of the club In 1935 the county surplus was $25000 In 1942 the deficit and unpaid bills amount to $75000 Three officeholders now candidates for renomination were in offee in 1935 the taxpayers have supported them for a total of 35 years They have received at least $85000 in salaries from public funds OICERS WIN CROSS NEW YORK Aug The Navy Cross was conferred to il day upon eight officers and enlist ed men of the cruiser Mar blehead for heroism when their ship was bombed in the South Pacific eb 10 WASHINGTON Aug ID Melting down the statues and an cient cannon in parks help win the war effort Ed win Barringer president of the Institute of Srap Iron and Steel Inc contended today Without mentioning President recent suggestion that some statues and cannon be de voted to war production Bar ringer's statement said are principally cast from non fer rous metal alloys in many forms dt which there is now actually surplus Weather Stops Play in Tennis Tournament LAKESIDE 0 Aug 8 inals in the round Robin North ern Senior Tennis tournament were halted by bad weather today and probably will be completed in Youngstown home of all the lead ers Tied for the lead are Ed Lewis and Ed Morris with Seven vic tories and One loss each Bob Thompson scheduled to meet Tom Lavern could throw the finals 'into a three way tie by winning from Lavern According to the drawings he then would meet Lewis and the winner would op i pose Morris for the title SAN RAAEL CALI Aug 8 LD A two motored army bomb er crashed and sank in San Pablo Bay today evidently killing its crew of three air force officers add an enlisted man Hamilton ield said fliers were: irst Lieut Robert of Benton Ky pilot Minard Enders Jr Tex pilot: Second 1 ard Longnecker of Houston Tex navigator and Roy Strett Badger Iowa radioman The next of kin were notified The accident occurred while the bomber was on a routine flight from its Hamilton field base The plane exploded scattering over a considerable area struck the water The wreckage was located two miles offshore and a hoped to raise it at low tide SOMERS POINT Aug 8 CH Major Holger Hoiriis 41 noted Danish aviator who flew across the Atlantic ocean eleven years ago died last night in Shore Memorial hospital NEW YORK Aug our year old Sharon Bell blonde and blue eyed daughter of a Vancou ver policeman was on the last lap of a cross country flight tonight undertaken to save her life which is threatened by a key imbedded in her larynx Accompanied by her aunt Mrs Eileen Murchison of Vancouver she left a Trans Canada Airlines plane at LaGuardia airport early tonight and boarded a train for Philadelphia where physicians of the Chevalier Jackson Institute will perform the necessary delicate operation Sharon swallowed a key used to open a peanut can at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs Gordon Bell last Monday night Three operations failed to remove the key and a tube was inserted in her throat to aid her in breath ing With her aunt she boarded a plane in Vancouver last night and reached Toronto this morning Af ter a tliree hour wait she flew on here A taxi was waiting to rush her to the Pennsylvania station to board the Philadelphia train on which a reservation had been made Sharon was not nervous through out the journey her aunt said and her only comment during the ride to Pennsylvania station was "Auntie where are we going?" She clutched two dolls she had brought with her Auto Workers lay Wage reezing CHICAGO Aug 8 UP Delegates to the national conven tion of the CIO Ujiited Automobile Workers Union today adopted a resolution criticizing theories of the Office of Price Ad ministration and opposing forms of wage freezing" The resolution termed fallacious the "economic theory that inflationary trends arise primarily from the increased income of workers and common Instead the resolution asserted the actual cause of inflation is effort by profiteers and spec ulators to exploit shortages of goods for their own profit" CHUNGKING Aug 8 (D American planes inflicted exten sive damage on White Cloud air drome docks and harbor buildings and destroyed several Japanese planes in a raid on Japanese held Canton this morning Lieut Gen Joseph headquarters announced The fighter escorted bombers were challenged by at least 9 Jap anese fighters but only after they already had dropped tlieir bombs said the communique Two en emy planes were reported shot down and others destroyed aground (The Japanese claimed five American bombers were driven away from the Canton airport and that two were shot down over Samshui 30 miles to the west) The Chinese paper Ta Kung Pao paid this tribute to the American fliers known here as sky "They are sowing" the" seeds of hope in the people in occupied areas They provide a stimulus for Chinese soldiers at the front and heighten the morale of our people behind the firing line American government and people can well recognize the fact that the army air forces in China represent the maximum gain for the smallest Demands Showdown On Dependents Bill WASHINGTON Aug 8 Rep Rankin Miss) today de manded a showdown Monday on a bill calling for immediate payment of the allowances due service dependents but two similar measures were pigeonholed by the senate military affairs committee going to make a desperate effort to get this measure taken up and passed by unanimous con sent on Rankin said Declaring that a majority of the house military affairs committee already had expressed themselves in favor of the bill the Missippian added: "It is simply unthinkable that all these payments be held up for four months when so many of these helpless dependents of the men in our armed forces are actu ally suffering want especially when it would not cost the gov ernment an extra penny to these payments Sandwiches Sodas Milk Shakes Coffee Hot Chocolate City officials expressed doubts Saturday night that Barnesville will accept their offer to trade fire trucks following reports that the Ohio inspection bureau is opposed to the deal A delegation of local officials visited Barnesville several weeks ago with a view to trading a pumper for a truck equipped with extra ladders Acquisition of the Barnesville truck would make it unnecessary for the fire depart ment here to send the aerial truck to answer all alarms in residential sections where there are few high buildings No agreement was reached at Barnesville but officials there con sented to come here to inspect the pumper truck However the in spection was never made It was reported yesterday that the inspection bureau which sets insurance rates had opposed the deal in a letter to Taylor Barnesville fire chief The reasons were not disclosed Moreover it was understood that several mem bers of the Barnesville fire de partment were against the posal Ye indeed we have a refrig specially designed for our purpose to preserve those drugs which must be kept at precise temperatures to assure full potency This ia only one of the service features provided by this prescription pharmacy So when you bring your Physi ciaa'i prescription here to be compounded you are assured the services of a skilled regis tered pharmacist and the use of fresh potent drugs Yet it costs no often to have a presen ption compounded here CANCEL REUNION The annual reunion of the Hen derson Devitt families scheduled for this month at the Duncan alls I high Khool! has been cancelled Plane Workers Pledge To Speed Production COLUMBUS Aug Lt Buchan of Chicago a hero of the battle of the Coral sea told Curtiss Wright workers at a production demonstration today that navy flyers are asking "'Where are our "We know what to do with them if you can get them out" Lieut Buchan asserted hope to get them in Cheering workers informally pledged to speed production of the nenaiver powerful navy bomber and the Seagull scout observation craft Three Seagulls and a Helldiver soared overhead during the half hqur ceremonies part of a nation wide program stressing the need for production speed and indus trial safety of NADER SONS 5th Morkot las been mired to the eyebrows in books since he was is no bookish person "I mean people have to be scholars or he explained a plain business man yet I find time to read more than 100 books a year read for pleasure and culture but I find it makes me a good citizen It helps me to understand the world can appraise human events without the proper histor ical background Yet how many Close Races i1 Loom Tuesday In New York MUSKINGUM COUNTY DOES DESERVE A CHANGE! MONDAY LAST DAY I Burns Out Bees And Also Himself MORRISTOWN Aug 8 Michael Naughton had a nest of bees in his house and the pesky insects were giving him no end of trouble So he decided to "burn them out" You guessed it iremen confined the blaze to clapboards and a nearby window casing people have it? I know how otner people reading Most I know Pressure of chemist who mins now selling so fast he needs extra doses himself to keep up with orders has delayed perusal of the 14th edition of the Britannica He has 10 volumes to go but he can toss rnern on tn no wants to compare 14th editions He some 25 years ago you I lav no cramming the memory with a lot of parrot like Shirk ex plained retain a great deal of what I read in the encyclopedia but the greatest value is the knowledge it gives me of sources of Shirk sandwiches the enclyclo pedia in with his other reading which is as varied as it is extensive He refused to be lured into naming his favorite authors "because he likes all the good or select ing any list of 10 this or that kind of book never seen a list he said I have not read every book on Shirk favors the classics he said because of purity of style Some 3000 volumes lined the walls of his pleasant library Shirk said it was just an acci dent that he read the 11th edition of the encyclopedia and thereby received some notoriety "I read more than 1000 books before I was 25" he added "No body thought that was anything I read the encyclopedia when I was living in a hotel room The volumes packed the most and the best read ing in the least space" Shirk doesn't devote all his time to vitamins and books In his spare moments he listens to music he has a library of several thousand records He is an amateur com poser a camera enthusiast and a middling good painter in water colors Last year to avoid wasting time and to fill what he considered a log felt need he wrote a 320 page textbook on marketing air Official Ascot Park Everett of West pike re turned jesterday from Ascot where he witnessed the races and talked with several driv relstlve to entering their horses i in the county fair speed program He reported that the Ascot races were faster than those of any pre (vious season The' Muskingum county fair will be held on Aug 18 22 uneral Home Ambulance Phone 1500 421 Putnam Ave refrigerator its a Stoia? Schorr aces Test of Job NEW YORK Aug 8 (UP) The federal bureau of investiga tion announced today that 33 aliens including a National Youth Administration in structor had been seized in the New York area They included 24 German men and one woman six Italians a Japanese and a Hungarian All were taken to Ellis Island for hearings before an enemy alien board In the homes were found maps and navigation charts of New York and Connecticut water ways showing New York harbor defenses and war plants in Con necticut The BI also siezed ra dio receivers and one transmitter 33 Aliens Rounded Up A Reason for riendship always t' reason for friendship in oor case many Zanesville families have found it in ear superb handHng of funerals Carnival Barker Posed as Author PITTSBURGH Aug A carnival barker who was the lit erary toast of the Pittsburgh art dramatic circles this week when he posed as the famous author John Steinbeck languished tonight in a jail he like Harry Dankert who refused to reveal his background after his' arrest in Ligonier Pa yesterday afternoon wall be given a hearing Monday before Police Magistrate McDiarmid on a charge of vagrancy growing out of his' five day masquerade or five days Dankert was feted and wined as John Steinbeck He gave a $2500 bogus check to Jane Ellen Ball director of the studio of the theater here to have her come to Hollywood to direct his "dramatic naval I naval of the storp TACOMA Aug Thirty Tacoma retail stores failed to open today because of a breakdown in 1 wage negotiations with the AL retail clerks union Affected were all department stores and most of the concerns handling furni ture ready towear and variety' goods i walked out or several tha km ing that wage negotiationsjn pro gress two months had failed The stores closed Oppose ire Truck Trade To Understand War Events YORK Aug 8 (UP) The trouble with people understand the British defeat at Tobruk who are baffled by geopolitics and get bogged down with economic warfare is that they read A Urban Shirk 52 a bid biondish man one of the tew persons who read two editions of the Encyclopedia Brit annica paused today in volume JEREZ LLBE to lament that people don read and why they are bewildered by tnewor Id situation and their own petty 4 Navy Still Refuses To Order Cargo Planes WASHINGTON Aug (UP) War production board officials said tonight that efforts still were being made to have the navy sign a letter of intention for Henry Kaiser west coast shipbuilder to build 70 ton cargo planes WPB Chairman Donald Nel son has promised that Kaiser will get the letter Aides said he is ready to sign one himself or if ir lit Lw'cjLk one To date however the navy has not agreed "The enemy launched several rounter attacks and fierce fighting continues south of the communique said Mfr Somewhere north of Kotelnikov Bg which lies between the Don andgthe Sal rivers about 95 miles south lyX west of Stalingrad along the Cau casus railroad the Germans suc Gtceeded in driving wedges into the Russian defense it was acknow ledged fe'Jf The communique reported heavy SgMbattles raging in the Armavir re just east of the Maikop oil fields It was acknowledged yesterday that Russian defense lines were sj broken in the Armavir sector per nutting the Germans to strike at Maikop from the east and down from the Krasnodar sector to the northwest iaft Heavy fighting still is underway around Kushchevskaya nearly 100 mles behind the German spear heads pointed at Maikop it was said Strong Russian forces Including cavalrymen were trying A f'ght their way out of the Kushchevskaya sector and escape entrapment Continued from Page One weeks to force8 Don onomv HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES GROUND ORCES SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN Aug Maj Gen Mark Clark commander of the United States ground forces in the Eur opean theater said today that come over here to sit back on the The general is a proponent of offensive war and anxious to get his men ready for the opening of a second front 46 and he appears younger than some of the captains in his command The slogan around his headquarters seems to be sooner the bet General Clark helped train the men who now are coming to the Bntish isles when he was chief of staff of the ground forces in the Lmted States and now he is shap ing them Into a hard hitting com bat army before he throws them against Adolf forces The American army is young In combat experience compared with the German vermarht ho but he adds: got to be young to keep up with those Germans and no wav to eet bnttlo PYnnrioHoo I Ajthout battle After our troops al 1 ther first skirmish with the a enemy they will be better but the only way get bet nght Special attention given to light suits flannels and sport clothing Cal! or and Delivery Service INTERURBAN CLEANERS Phone 720 509 Market St Continued from Page One the German controlled Norwegian press emphasized that the party of Major Vidkun Quisling would not themselves to be mown down either by Americans or Brit ish Bolsheviks or their Satellites here in The Norwegian government in London said the Germans ere con structing a great airbase in the Vesteraalen island area apparently for use of 6cke Wulk bombers which could operate against Iceland and convoys bound for Russia over the Arctic sea route The ree Belgian news agency reported many hostages have been arrested in Belgium and quoted the Nazi authorities as warning the people they could guarantee the lives of these hostages only if they refrained from sabotage and other hostile acts Other Belgian sources said the flemish Nazis were prepared to defend themselves with arms if they were by the popu ighting rench headquarters in London asserted that German fears of a rench uprising in the event of an allied landing had brought to a halt the negotiations for release of rench war prison ers A spokesman said Laval came to power not over 1000 prisoners have been freed and they are all sick or Wounded At the same 'time only 15000 rench workers have gone to the Reich al though the Germans demanded The Netherlands news agency Aneta declared the German authorities in Holland today offered a reward of $54000 for informa tion leading to the arrest of sabot eurs who wrecked a Nazi military train near Rotterdam last night and threatened to execute Dutch hostages if the saboteurs were not caught by midnight Aug 14 The hostages were described as persons prominent in all walks of clergymen physicians and community leaders Meanwhile there were fresh re ports of intense fighting between General Draja guer illa forces and the Italians which Geneva dispatches from the Tass news agency said numbered about 30000 men with heavy artillery support We till I tity of the Mattress 1 MOOR same low 1 es to offer AugUSt cole Price as Synthetic Tires ToBe Good But Expect Them Soon 1 By DAVID WILKIE (WMe World Automotive Editor) DETROIT Aug 8 When synthetic rubber finally gets into the tires of the average motorist those tires to all prac tical purposes will be just about as good as any made wnuuy ui natural ruooer That's the conviction of experts of the rubber industry who right now have the responsibility of de veloping the synthetic program to the point where production will ap proximate 800000 tons a year But while these rubber authori ties see the way clearing they em phasize that it will require time Since military and essential ci vilian needs will increase as present tires wear out even an 800000 ton synthetic rubber production by 1944 supplemented by an intensified scrap rubber roundup to sustain the production of reclaimed rubber does not assure the average motor ist of anything like an unrestricted supply of passenger car tires The rubber experts say that from one and one quarter pounds of scrap rubber they can reclaim about one pound of the urgently needed substance and that with existing facilities approximately 350000 tons of reclaim can be made if a steady flow of scrap rubber can be set up Yet to be determined is the mar keting cost of the tires One company made up and dis tributed for test purposes a couple of years ago tires in which about 50 per cent of synthetic was used An other company produced and suc cessfully tested passenger car tires in which synthetic replaced all the natural rubber ordinarily used ex cept for approximately one ounce in insulation around the bead wire The cost of the synthetic used in these tires ranged up to nearly 60 cents a pound The industry lead ers believe however that on larger scale output synthetic rubber could be produced for as low as 25 cents a pound (Standard Oil in a house organ has published 11 cents as the cost of butyl rubber) They point out that in normal times rubber General Eager to Get Into Battle I We think they're good now gj Stalingrad Ills Menaced Representative to the General Assembly County Commissioner Two Terms KATSAMPES BROS North ifth Street Sweet Shop Home Made CANDY I ICE CREAM MIou ff IS I a I IT MB MM l' i fa i I JL I A 1 RUABI POESC RIPONS.