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the VOL. XLVII NO. 291 fTW DANVILLE, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1944 Single Copies 3 Cent AVlV-l-Ul KO CuritH a. Mnnt.li 187 Allies Clamp Deathtrap On Nazi Armies MOKNIMG NEWS Nazis Testify In Treason Trial 1 Nimitz Says Japan May Capitulate To Nazis In W. France Facing Encirclement; V.

Paulus Says U. S. In Near Future Has Lost The War9 Jailed On A Bad Ckck Charge Last Saturday U. P. Correspondent McMillan Says That NazVs Plight Is 'Revenge For Dunkirk With Compound Interest'; 1500 U.

S. Planes Pound S. France And Italian Riviera; Reds Break German Defenses On 60-Mile Front N. E. Of Warsaw; Political Crisis Is Reported Looming In Italy German prisoners of war Corporal Heinrich Haider (left) and Herman Loescher (center) are brought to the Denver, courthouse by Sgt.

Robert Werner (right), where three Japanese-American are on trial for treason The sisters have been charged with aiding the Nazis to escape from a prisoner of war compound last October. lit The Occupation Of Japan Will Be Necessary To Insure That We Win The Peace; U. S. Airmen Pound Japs From The Kuriles To The Carolines Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pa-fic, Aug. 14 Admiral Nimitz, lio knows all there is to know about aps as lighters, thinks they may quit our troops storm the beaches Japan.

But the Admiral thinks too, that if that happens the United ales will have to go head with the cupation of the Japanese home-, nd in order to make certain we win ie peace. The white-haired Admiral from exas i.s just back from a trip to ad-. Ivanced United States positions in ie Marianas and Marshall Islands. nd he says the Japs have taken a loss since November when Forces began their triumph-Mt march cross the island bases a ding to Tokyo. Nimitz reports that, the enemy has st ever 52,000 dead and 3000 in the invasions of the Gilberts, larsrmlls and Marianas Islands.

our loses have been about 6000 illecl, or a ration of a little less than i to 1. And in that campaign we've to within 1500 miles of Tokyo, ith our most advanced base at Sai-an. Nimitz points cut too, that these iinane.se lasses don't include the num-i er killed and wounded in air raids i id surface bombardments, usult of a combined operation. He it has suffered heavily since ie attack on Pearl Harbor 32 months 50. In the short but better Marianas lmpaign alone, 55 Jap ships have ieii sent to the bottom.

Nimitz sees Japan's defeat as the seult of a combined operation. He (Continued on Page Six) London, Aug. 14 :u.R) Only the words "Dunkerque" and "Stalingrad" and the total defeats they imply can indicate the scale of the disaster facing the Nazis in France tonight. From the three sides and from above Allied ground and air forces are squeezing a death trap on two German armies, 12 divisions, well over 100-thousand men and hundreds of tanks. American tanks and a British-Canadian Column have less than 13 miles to go to join and close the trap.

The Yanks, dashing 50 miles northward from Le Mans are revealed in late front dispatches to have smashed near Argentan. The reports indicate the Americans stormed through the town and presumably are completing its The British and Canadians fighting from the north to join the Yanks still are stalled before the approaches to Falaise. But one British column has cut around Falaise in a flanking drive. It is this column that is less than 13 miles from the Americans tonight. On top of this, American forces to the west have moved forward in a strong attack against the center of the Nazi bulge.

a 15-mile stretch of that bulge between Vire to the north and captured Mortain on the 'south, Americans have started a powerful three-pronged push, shoving the Nazis back to the jaws of the steadily closing Allied trap. German tear guards are fighting stubbornly to cover the Nazi retreat through the slender 13-mile gap. The reeling Nazis have only one first class road of retreat, the rail and highway from Vire through Falaise. And it is a passage of death. Hundreds of Allied planes are trying to cork that bottleneck of choked enemy traffic.

Those planes are er many Fire Destroys The Great Palisades Amusement Park 125 People Injured; 200 Autos Destroyed; Property Loss Runs Into Millions Washington, Aug. 14 IU.R) Palisades Park, which at noon today was an amusement center on the Jersey side of the Hucison River packed with happy fugitives from New York Citys heat, is a mass of charred embers tonight. Firemen are wetting down the last smouldering bits of a blaze which raged uncontrolled for two hours. It was the second fire to strike an amusement park in the New York area within 24 hours, for Coney Island's Luna Park was almost wiped out yesterday. The Palisades blaze left three quarters ofthe park in ruins and an estimated 125 people injured.

More than 100 people were over come by smoke poisoning and were treated on the scene, while rescue squads searched the smouldering ruins for possible victims. Starting in the Virginia Reel, an amusement ride the fire swept fast through the tinder-dry structures, leaving only a few buildings standing in its wake. Six nearby communities rushed equipment to the park, and others were asked to stand by for further emergency calls. Great columns of smoke and flame billowed into the air, blinding firemen and rescue workers as they sought to herd some 30,000 people from the death trap. But despite the speed and heat of the blaze, there was no panic, and it's now believed that everyone escaped.

Although Hoboken police have the names of three missing persons, its throught they Just have not yet returned to (Continued on Page six) Clyde Sponenberg Gets 'Wings, Boots' Pvt. Clyde R. Sponenberg huband of the former Dorothy M. Livziey of R. F.

D. 2 Danville, Penna. has won the right to wear Wings and Boots or The United States Army Paratroops. He has completed four weeks of jump training' during which time he made five jumps, the last a tactical jump at niht involving a combat problem an landing. Jumping at The Parachute School has been steadily developed to a recognized war science.

There is less than one percent chance of injury while jumping at the school. In addition to producing jumpers Parachute Specialist Training is given to qualified men in Communi cation, Demolition, Riggers and Sew ing Maintenance, vital skills for Air borne troops. Exec. Comm. Meets In Sam Jacob's Off.

The Executive Comm. of the Mon tour Fire Insurance Company met in the office of the Secretary, Sam Jacobs, on Saturday morning at 9 o'clock, for its semi-monthly meeting. Those present were: Pres. Samuel H. Weiser, Danville, R.

D. V. Pres. W. R.

Mills of Milton: Chairman of the Executive Frank Apple-man of Danville; and Charles H. Yorks, of Danville, R. D. NOTICE TO MEMBERS Captain Davis, of the State Guard, requests all members of the Special Weapons Company to be ready at the Armory at seven o'clock this evening in field dress for range practice. BOY'S BAND REHEARSAL.

Everv member of the Boy's Band is requested to be at rehearsal tonight Very important engagement. The band will broadcast in the very near future from Station WKOK, Sunbury. in a by A. the William. Hauck Placed In County Jail For Passing Bogus Checks William Kauck, East Mahoning Street, was placed in the county jail by officer Joseph Schultz, on Saturday morning, charged with passing forged checks.

One was cashed at the Danville National Bank, and one at the First National Bank. He will be given a hearing before Justice of the Peace A. H. Klase cn Monday afternoon. The checks were said to have been stolen from George J.

Hauck, Jr. Implicated with Hauck was a boy. who was released in the custody of his parents. Hauck, at the time of his arrest, was on probation for one year, following a conviction for petty thieving last April. He has been living with his grandparents, and has given his age at several fgures, ranging from 16 to 19 years.

He is re- I ported to have a selective service card, which would necessarily place his age at 18 years or older. Since being; placed on probation in April, Hauck has been returned to Juvenile Court once for discipline, and the probation offxer has report ed he has had a very unsatisfactory record as a probationary. Boro Councilman Fractures Rib Borough Councilman Ralph Fought, of East Front Street, who is employed as the gardener at the Sacred Heart Villa, received several fractured ribs last week, when he was struck by a plough handle while at work at the Villa. He is off-duty and is confined to his home. The Office of Price Administration prints 900,000 official rationing point value charts each month.

However, he warned that statesmen and scientists and lawyers are not readily recruitable from families of low incomes. Therefore, Shaw recommends that "plowmen and dairymaids" be raised toward a financial level enjoyed by geniuses, rather than drag geniuses down to their financial status. He felt that $3200 as a basic income would be enough to start with, and noted that "this in a scientifically organized society would command a handsomer lift than $16,000 does now." Pursuing his theory, Shaw recommends that the basic income be applied first to only 10 percent of the population, and that further progress would depend on increased production. "Those who have must be content with it unti'. those with less than enough are raised to their level," he said, by way of warning the original lucky 10 percent not to try to keep ahead of the pack by boosting their incomes while the remaining 90 percent tried to catch up.

Nevetheless, Shaw acknowledged that civilization would not necessarily be assured of stability and security when the state of equalty reached the point where a royal astronomer and his housemaid got the same income. Said Shaw: "With the spread of culture, there will certainly be competition for the post of astronomer royal and growing objection to the drudgeries of house-maiding. When the astronomer's son can marry the housemaid without the slightest misalliance, the trick will be done as far as law or policy can or need to Co It." making a corridor of death and det struction out of the area between the jaws of the still open trap. United Press Correspondent Richard McMillian says the word to describe the German ranks is chaos. Picture a constricted pocket, jaan-ful of Nazi vehicles, tanks and men, beset on land from north, south and east, with planes hounding theiu overhead.

The Nazis still are trying to maintain a two-way traffic, wont out and" beaten troops pulling out; eastward while replacements are pushing in westward to man the walls of the shrinking pocket to keep them from collapsing. U. P. Correspondent McMillan calls it and we quote "revenge for Dunkerque with compound interest." And the view held in some quarters that the Nazis soon may face an invasion of Southern. France was supported today by 1500 Allied bombs from Italy that raked the Southern French coast.

The Nazis retaliated as usual, with more robot bomb attacks on southern England. The Nazis also suffered a setback off the coast of France. British warships sank or damaged six enemy vessels, including a convoy of four vessels off tne coast of Brittany. But more than Allied blows pounded home the conclusion that Germany is going down in defeat. Radio Moscow reports that Nazi Field Marshal Von Paulus, captured in the uerman aeieat at stanngraa, says: "Germany has lost the war." Von Paulus is quoted as telling German prisoners in Russia: "Neither in the east nor in the west has Germany the reserves that could retrieve the situation." And in the east, the Russians have broken the German defenses on a 60-mile front northeast of embattled Warsaw.

The smash, carried the (Continued on Page Six) The officers figured out later that the Germans near-missed the Texas 65 tims. It seemed miraculous that the enemy only scored two direct hits. The first perfect hit came when a German shell struck dead on top of the conning tower. It blew up with a terrific noise into the navigation bridge eight feet directly above. The helmsman was killed, and four others seriously wounded.

A third of the bridge was wrecked. There could hardly be any doubts, it was a direct hit. But before the clouds of yellow-brown smoke had cleared. Captain Baker who was unhurt, was giving his orders to clear the bridge, and he as carrying on from the conning tower. Then the other German shell struck.

It blasted through the port bow and fell without exploding into the empty cabin of the ship's clerk. The shell dispersal officer. Lieutenant James D. Ford of New York, moved in with his crew. They smothered it with a mattress, and decided to nurse it back to a British port.

During all of this terrific action there came a message from an admiring destroyer. It was the famous battle-cry from the last World War. "Come on Texas." And after the second hit the Texas did go right back into Cherbourg's batteries again! She blasted away with eight-gun salvos right up to the end of the engagement. Finally the battered but still proud Texas headed back for her port in Britain. ll Should Have Basic $3200 Yearly Income Queen Of The Fleet Fought To The Finish Pleads Guilty To Charge Of Attempt On His Wife's Life Fenstermacher Receives A Light Sentence Of From One To Two Years Weak and very pale from the effects of his self-inflicted gun-shot wound, John Fenstermacher pleaded guilty to a charge of attempting to kill his wife on July 3, in the county court on Saturday and was sentenced by Judge William Kreisher, with Associate Judges Getty and Jenkins also on the bench.

The sentence meted out to Fenstermacher included payment of costs of prosecution, a fine of one dol lar and the serving of an indetermi nate sentence of not less than one year, nor more than two years at hard labor andin solitary confinement at (Continued on Page Two) 2 Cars Damaged In Collision Two cars were slightly damaged last night about 9:20, when an automobile driven and owned by G. W. Miller R. D. 4, was making a left hand turn on Bloom Street, and collided with a sedan owned by Jay H.

De Mott, and driven by Lt. Robert De Mott, of Eyersgrove. De Mott was traveling north on Mill Street at the intersection of Bloom and Mill, when the accident occurred. The left front fender and wheel of the Miller car was damaged, and the left front fender, rear front fender, and running board of the De Mott car was crumpled. Officer Shultz investigated the accident.

Montour Co. Relief Payments, $189.00 Harrisburg, August 11 State Treasurer G. Harold Wagner, reported that direct relief payments made to needy residents of Montour County during the week ended today totalled $189.00. Last week payments totalled $189.00. Payments aggregating $20,145.40 were mailed to the twenty counties in Northeastern Pennsylvania served by the Treasury Regional Office in Scranton during the current week.

Payments for the previous week totalled $20,078.40. Notice Office closed Aug. 14, until Aug. 21. A16 Dr.

F. H. VAUGHAN Notice Woman's Republic Council will hold regular meeting tonight at 7:30. Special entertainment and lunch. A14 Notice B.P.O.E.

Meeting of the Lodge and Hall Association Monday evening, Aug. 14, at 8 o'clock. AM Men Have Needs That Cry Out For Help, Says Speaker Christ', Says Vesper Preacher, 'Will Be Found Answer To Needs' "The Empowering Christ In Christian Life" was the theme of the sermon preached by Rev. Mr. R.

S. Daubert, last evening, at the Community Vesper Service in Grove Presbyterian Church. His text was Second Corinthinians 12:9 "That the Power of Christ May Rest upon Me." He said that Paul who had some infirmity in the flesh calls it "Thorn in the had thrice besought God for its removal, but received the answer that God's Grace would make up for his handicap. And Paul discovers that God delights in magnifying His Glory by using the weakness of men and adding to it His own Sufficient strength to advance His cause upon earth. "There says Paul, "will I glory in my infirmities that the Power of Christ may rest upon me." Lfke Paul's weakness, so men today (Continued on Page Five) Pfc.

Orval Karchner Writes Fine Letter To Mr. Leon Murray 'A Fellow Wants To Know What His Fellowmen Are Doing' Mr. Leon Murray, from Kenndy-Van Saun, Mfg. and Engineering received the following letter from Pfc. Orval Karchner, who is stationed somewhere in Italy.

The letter follows: Dear Mr. Murray I have been going to write to you ever since I reecived my last copy of Random Shots, but something always seems to come up. I want to thank K.V.S. very much for Random Shots, I think it is a superb idea to have a shop newspaper. We get a daily publication called the Stars and (Continued on Page Three) BIDS INVITED Liberty Twp.

School Board invites bids for the hauling of pupils from ihe Oak Grove School District to the Jackson School. Pupils can be hauled by car by making two trips. All bids to be in the hands of the secretary by 8 P. Aug. 17th.

The Board reserves the right to reject any or all bids. E. M. BOWER, Secretary, A16 Danville, R. D.

1, London, Aug. 14 IIU.R) George Bern-rd Shaw says civilization appears to headed for a crack-up on the rocks inequality. He says the best way head it off would be to give every t- ne a basic income of $3200 a year. The bearded playwright admitted hat his basic income idea was out if the question for the moment be-ause there is not enough money to around. Writing in the Sunday Observer, 5'haw, who described himself as "an bsentee landlord, capitalist renter liability, and by conviction a com-nmist," warned that all past civilisations had been wrecked by the di- ision of society into financial classes i attling for the bulk of the national i icome.

"Ours is going the same way," Shaw adding that "this suggests that lie best possible distribution of iationul income is equal distribution." The Weather Saturday and Sunday were two corchers as the heat wave continued bear down on residents of this icinity over weekend. Saturday mer-jry stopped only one degree shy of entury mark. Sunday's tempera-ire seemed just as hot, with the hermometer registering a top of 98 tegrees. A good shower would be a ery welcome addition to the weather luring the next few days. FORECAST Clear, hot and humid, ew afternoon and evening showers vest-and north portions Monday.

Tuesday scattered thundershowers nd continued warm. Aboard the U. S. S. Texas, off Cherbourg, (delayed) Aug.

14 KU.R) TJie United States battleship Texas is known as the proud old queen of the fleet. The flaming guns of the Texas spoke with a fury during the recent naval battle off Cherbourg that makes it easy to see why the Navy has so much affection for the old Texas. In the duel with the German coastal batteries the Texas suffered two direct hits, a number of damaging near misses, and two fires spread over her main deck. But this did not stop the Queen of the fleet. She fought back like an Amazon.

The engagement was unlike any other in the history of the United States Navy. The area was heavily The German forts belched fire from six, nine and eleven inch guns. And the Texas did not have the advantage of surprise? The Germans long had been expecting the American fleet. And the Yank ships came in broad daylight. The Texas led the fleet as it moved toward the targets.

The battle-Texas didn't join in until she sighted the Nazi batteries away from the ship Arkansas opened fire, but the shore. Then the mighty old "Tex" started series of tricky maneuvers planned her calculating Captain Charles Baker, of Washington, D. C. Like a Mustang from the panhandle, the Texas out-guessed the German gunners, dodging the shells which roared over her, fell short of ship, then dead ahead, dead aft, and along the water line..