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The Latest in Local and World News in Harrisburg on Sunday WZATHZR Showers VOL. 43 NO. 36 Entered Beoond-Oltu Matter at the Port Offioe it HARRISBURG, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, 20, 1942 PRICE FIVE CENTS 0 10 Mm Woman Killed, Husband at Wormleysburg no AT mm 0 Injured TO mm SAVE STAUMMI HT0 IniiyiQlnlUuvlla Where the Tall Corn Grows Destruction Marks Nazi REDS MASSING NEW FORCE TO HALT GERMANS Ruthless liflilif E5a rTHW "3fr ii I II. I 1 1 I I II I FT "iSV. I niBi mi 1 1 f.

ttruniiiiirraiwi Russians survey the once-beautiful, serene town of Vereya, in the Moscow region, after German invaders TWO WARSHIPS POSSIBLY HIT BY OURPLANES New Japanese Thrust of Solomon Islands Broken Up By American Bombing Planes Believe That Crippled Enemy Fleet Was Retiring Northward to Truk Island Washington, Sept. 19 The Navy Department announced tonight that American bombing planes, scoring possible hits on two enemy battleships, have broken up a new Japanese naval thrust at the Solomon Islands. A Navy communique, the first in 72 hours on the southwest Facific operations, disclosed, simultaneously, that IT. S. Marines in the Ouadalcanal-Tulagi area have been reinforced and are firmly maintaining their positions as scattered fighting continues.

The sea and air battle occurred last Sunday coincident with heavy fighting at Guadalcanal, where Japanese troops failed in at attempt to recapture the American air field. U. S. Army Flying Fortresses, based on Guadalcanal, struck the blows which routed the powerful Japanese flotilla discovered northeast of Tulagi. Big Armada Crippled The force was described as including bcth battleships and cruisers, and heavy anti-aircraft fire was encountered by the attacking American planes.

The army flyers, however, believed that two of the battleships were hit. When last seen, the crippled Japanese armada was withdrawing northward, probably retiring to Truk Island, 1300 miles north of the Solomons. Lull at Guadalcanal The Navy said there had been a lull in the land fighting on Guadalcanal since the first of the week. After being hurled back from the Guadalcanal airfield, the Japanese have not yet tried another major assault on the American positions, but have confined themselves to sniping while endeavor-ins to reform their forces. Marine patrols have been in action against small Japanese detachments and there have been a namber of minor skirmishes as the Marines caught up with some of the Japanese units in the jungle3 surrounding the airfields.

Six Burn to Death Colusa, Sept. 19 Six persons were burned to death today when fire swept' a building block in downtown Colusa. i i Said to be the tallest, corn stalk in the world, this big fellow measures 25 feet 10 inches. Don Radda, who raises corn on his farm at Washington, Iowa, stands alongside while a group of girls appropriately form a victory design. had been driven out by Red troops.

2 KILLED, 1 MI One Victim Is Alleged Head of Bootleg Ring Philadelphia, Sept. 19 Two men were killed and a third was wounded late this afternoon in what police described as a gang fight. One of the victims was identi- fled by detectives as Joseph San- tore, about 48, known as Joe the Boob." He was stabbed to death. Santore, who had a long police record, was indicted yesterday by a Federal grand jury, charged with being the head of an alleged bootleg liquor ring. The other who died from bullet wounds, was identified as Joseph Accabbacco, 18.

Detectives said he was an innocent bystander. The wounded man is Pasquale Sesso. Detectives identified him also as a bystander. Santore and Actabbacco were dead when taken to Pennsylvania Hospital. Santore's wounds were in the chest, and Accabbacco was shot through the head and body.

Sesso was treated at the same hospital. Witnesses told police that two men were seen fleeing the scene of the killings. They were on foot, the police were told. Detectives said they had information that a quarrel started last night as a result of Santore's indictment. The fight, they said was renewed this afternoon.

MAN IN HOSPITAL WITH RAZOR WOUND Thomas Robinson. 42, 935 South SIREN MAN MARTINTALKSTO Occupation the temporary Nazi occupation. POLICE PROBE Youth Repudiates His Former Confession After Long Grill Scranton, Sept. 19 Police continued their investigation today of the four- year-old murder of Margaret Martin, of Kingston, despite the fact that Orban Taylor, 21, of New ork City, repudiated his confession to Scranton police that he was the slayer. Taylor, formerly a resident of Wilkes-Barre, confessed murdering the 21-year-old stenographer De cember 17, 1938, but repudiated his story after more than 10 hours of questioning, according to Detective Captain George W.

Donaldson. The youth, who said he visited Wilkes-Barre while in the U. S. Army, was unable to reveal how he disposed of the victim's clothing which was never recovered, Donaldson said. Miss Martin left her home to meet a stranger who promised her a job and never was seen alive again.

Her nude body, stuffed into a burlap bag, was found in Keel-ersburg creek, Wyoming county. Military authorities at Ft. Jay, N. joined the investigation being pressed by State Motor Police and the Federal Bureau of Inves tigation after Taylor stated he had! been dishonorably discharged from the Army. He confessed several robberies and a stabbing in New York and defrauding several hotels in Philadelphia, Newark, N.

and Elizabeth, N. police said. Rubbish Blaze Goodwill firemen were called last night by telephone to extinguish a fire in rubbish at the home of Reu-1 ben Sherrick, 517 Calder street. Fire Chief Earl Swartz said there was no damage. lJl Jeffers Intimates Army and Civilian Needs Will Be Met New Sept.

19 Speedy action to supply the nation with enough rubber for military and essential civilian purposes was promised today by William M. Jeffers, the nation's new rubber administrator. Following a conference with Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of President Roosevelt's Rubber Survey Committee, Jeffers was advised of the sweeping powers conferred on him by executive order. "The White House order speaks for itself," he said.

"It is perfect-! ly obvious that nation-wide gaso-l line rationing must come and tire-1 conserving speed limits must be established and observed. The mechanics of these things will be handled by other agencies, in line with directives I will issue." Asked whether alcohol or petroleum products would be the mainstay of the synthetic rubber program, Jeffers said he "still had an open mind." The conference between Baruch and Jeffers yesterday was the first time the two men had met. After a two hour conference Baruch said: "I am confident In his ability to do the trick." mm PROMISES ill ACTION AUTO-TRUCK CRASH FATAL AT BY -PASS Mrs. John Houser, ofi Near Enola, Was Killed, Her Husband Injured When Their Automobile and a Truck Crash at By- ass Lntrance at Wormleysburg One woman was apparently instantly killed and her husband was badly injured late last night in a collision between an automobile ana a truck at Front and Walnut streets (the by-pass) in "Wormleysburg. The woman, identified by hospital attaches and witnesses as Mrs.

John Houser, 60, of Me-chanicsburg, R. D. 4, near Enola, was pronounced dead at the scene by Dr. Stewart Brewen. Wormleysburg.

Avho was called to the scene by nearby residents. Cause of death was not immediately determined. The husband, aged 53, was removed by ambulance to the Harrisburg Hospital, where it was indicated he would be admitted. It was believed he was suffering from rib fractures and internal injuries. He alsq shock.

Justice of the Peace W. Scott Coble, Wormleysburg acting for the Cumberland County coroner, and State Motor Police were inestigat-ins the crash. Witnesses said that the operator of the truck, which bore New York licenses, was not injured. The truck, according to reports, was traveling south in the River road and the passenger care was going in the opposite direction. Houser was brought to the hospital here by ambulance summoned by persons near the scene of the collision.

The body of Mrs. Houser was released to the Musselman funeral home by Dr. Edward A. Haegele, Cumberland County coroner. Plane Crash Kills Three Columbia, S.

Sept. 19 The Columbia Army air base announced that three men were killed today in the crash of a medium bomber on the field. The plane was returning from a routine flight. WILL BE SPEAKER AT KIWANIS MEET James P. Gallaeher James P.

Gallagher, Newton, a member of the boardi of trustees of Kiwanis International, will be the official representative of the international organization at the annual State convention of Kiwanis Clubs tomorrow at the Penn-Harris Hotel. Gallagher will be a speaker at one of the sessions. The convention was originally listed as a three-day event for. Philadelphia, but because of the war it was transferred to Harrisburg and confined to one day. Preliminary to the general sessions, meetings of the executive committee and other groups will be held here today.

Some 150 delegates are expected to attend the meetings. of Your I a Launch Massive Counterattacks That Dent Northern Part of German Siege Lines Pushing Into Volga City Trained Women Go Into Battle Moscow, Sept. 19 The defenders of strength ened by fresh reserves including well trained women soldiers were reported tonight to have launched massive new counterattacks that, dented the northern part of the German siege lines pushing into the Volga city. Kussian troops, ferried across the wide Volga river a few miles above Stalingrad, started these attacks today, hammering the enemy's siege arc from the outside. Tb.e immedif.te upper flank thus imperiled, the Germans nevertheless began a frantic, general designed to i rwhelm the fla iung southern metropolis.

A Berlin Saturday n'ght attributed to rhe German high command announcement acknowledging that a violent Soviet counter push In an "outer" sector before Stalingrad had penetrated Nazi defense positions for "some miles." Germans claimed, however, that they "immediately" closed the brerch. The climatic Nazi push, surging over heaps of corpses and smoking debris was launched today in the outlying streets of the siege battered Volga city after counter attacking hid recaptured a vital hill dominaiii the center of metropolis. Blast Er.err.y Troops Reinforcements of Soviet bombers and tighter planes, meanwhi! winged into tlie old battle. blasting German troops and guns and successive hordes enemy 1 ne stalwart defenders of Stalingrad were augmented by many women specially tra'ned in the u'of, deadly weapons for smashing tanV. and killing enemy soldiers hi close, quarter fighting.

Emulating their sisters of Leningrad who helped stop the Germans in the outskirts of that city, the Amazons followed regular army reinforcements from western Siberia into the titanic battle of Stalingrad. PUT NAZI LOSSES AT 1,300,000 Moscow, Sept. 19 German casualties in their southern drive. Continued on Page Five a chance that the needle will slip out of the right side of the heart and enter the child's lungs. The Blue Cloak The Klue Cloak is the title of a new serial story, by Temple Bailey, beginning in the Harrisburg Sunday Courier next Sunday.

You will Avant to read this full-length novel, right from the start, because it is one of those yarns you read in peace times when the fate of a woman is woven together in a complex a without the Bcream of bombs and shells, which has become so commonplace in fiction these days. lie sure to i order your Courier for next Sunday. Says American Army Is Not Afraid to Face Its Enemies The need for arousing citizens of the nation to "our duty in the ni-PKPnt situation" was stressed last. night by Gen. Edward Martin.

Republican candidate for governor, in an address to veterans of Dauphin County meeting in the ballroom of the Peun-Harris Hotel. General Martin assured his listeners that "this great army of ours is not afraid" to face its enemies, and he outlined Pennsylvania's abilities in the war effort. General Martin was accompanied to the meeting by Secretary of Internal Affairs William Livengood, who also spoke, and several others. Myron Taylor Sees Pope Vatican City, Sept. 19 Myron C.

Taylor, special envoy to the Vati-I can. conferred with Pope Pius for an hour and 20 minutes today. Usual ruthless destruction marks REPORT OF PLANE ON RIVER ISLAND PROVES FALSE A report that an airplane might have been forced to land on Me-Cormick's Island in the Susquehan na river yesterday afternoon was investigated by State Motor Police without location of such an inci dent. State Motor Policemen said that it had been established that a plane had been heard and seen in the vicinity, but that it was following its normal course and- was not forced down. TO Will Slide Down Ways Next Saturday a Year Ahead of Schedule Washington, Sept.

19 A new U. S. S. Lexington to carry on the battle of its gallant predecessor will be launched next Saturday more than a year ahead of schedule, the Navy announced tonight. Second of eleven aircraft carriers in the Essex class scheduled for America's mighty fleet, the latest in the Navy's long and illustrious line of Lexingtons will slide down the ways after a brief ceremony at Quincy, Mass.

She will 'bear the name of the Revolutionary war battle on April 19, 1775, due to an appeal by Rear mander of the ill fated Lexington IV, and because of urgent requests from Bethlehem shipyard who sped the ship to completion. THREE ARE ACCUSED ON GIRL'S CHARGES Three Uptown men were accused last night of serious charges involving a 14-year-ofd girl who disappeared from here home earlier In the week. Police identified the accused as James Jackson, 32, Wallace street near Verbeke; Augustus Baltimore, 23, Hamilton street near Seventh, and Kenneth Marshall, 20, Har ris street near Seventh. They will be given hearings in police court tomorrow morning. BABY, 4, HURT BY CAR, HAD LIP CUT Herbert Warfel, 4, 1114 Capital street, escaped with a minor lip laceration yesterday afternoon when he was struck by an automobile at Third and Verbeke streets.

City police said that the driver of the car, Sylvan Levin, 2109 North Third street, reported the child darted from between two parked cars. The youngster was treated at the Harrisburg Hospital and sent home. Sub Survivors Landed Georgetown, British Guiana, Sept. 19 Forty-two survivors of an Allied merchant ship, presumably torpedoed by an Axis submarine, have been landed at Georgetown, it was disclosed today. The announcement gave no details of 'the sinking.

BE LAUNCHED Piont Btreet. was admitted to thAdmiral Richard Sherman com. Harrisburg Hospital last night with deep lacerations of the back, said to have been inflicted by a razor at his home. He is in an unsatisfactory condition. Mirrors of Harrisburg Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas G.

Tousey, of Carlisle Barracks, writes most Interestingly of the war efforts of Central Penna. pioneers. Operated Millerfeburg, Baltimore, Westminster Factories Millersburg, Sept. 19 Hyman Muskin, 62, owner of Muskin shoe factories in Millersburg, Baltimore and Westminster, died yesterday; at his home in Baltimore after an extended illness, it was learned here today. He had been in failing health since an operation in early Spring.

Muskin, well-known in this area las well as in Harnsourg, operaiea factories that employed hundreds persons. He was a Mason, a 'member of the Millersburg Homes, and numerous other lodges. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Frances Muskin; one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Stein, Baltimore; son, Leonard, now serving in the Army; one brother, Benjamin Muskin, Millersburg, and a sister, Mrs.

Bessie Dameshek, Boston. Kaiser Gets Approval to Build Three Ships for Government Washington, Sept. 19 Henry J. Kaiser, miracle shipbuilder, today was enroute to the west coast, armed with the government's authorization to proceed with the construction of three giant cargo airplanes costing a total of $18,000,000. Ending the heated controversy over cargo planes, the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and its Defense Plants Corporation, at the request of WPB Chief Donald Nelson, granted Kaiser a letter of intent to construct the ships with the aid of Army and Navy backing.

The planes will be built at the Culver City, aircraft plant of Howard Hughes, famous round-the-world flyer and airplane designer, who is associated with Kaiser in the super-cargo plane venture. Following the WPB announcement that the letter of intent had been granted, Kaiser said that he was "perfectly content to go ahead with plans as outlined by Mr. Nelson," adding that "our action and energy will demonstrate what can be accomplished." HAS TRA A PLANES I SURGEONS PROBE FOR NEEDLE LODGED NEAR BABY'S HEART; FIRST OPERATION TO LOCATE STEEL SLIVER HAS FAILED "Through the battle, through defeat, moving yet and never stopping, Pioneers, oh Pioneers WALT WITMAN. THIS column is indebted to the Department of Public Instruction for a condensation of two highly interesting papers written by Lieutenant Colonel Thomas G. Tousey, late Secretary to the Commandant of the Carlisle Barracks, who compiled his information from original sources.

Carlisle Barracks, as you may know, dates, back as a United States Military Reservation since the Revolution, and as a British outpost long before that. The condensation of Col. Tousey's papers reveal the patriotism and the efforts which our forefathers of this part of the country put Into the Revolutionary war. It is as follows: The rich territory between the Susquehanna and the mountains to north and west had an. established reputation as a producer of food grains.

Draft horses, pack horses, cattle, sheep, and hogs were raised in great numbers. Iron furnaces were scattered along the edges of the mountains. Some of the finest roads of the province traversed the region. When Congress cast about for a location for crdnance magazines for the Army, two places filled the requirements York and Carlisle. Carlisle, farther to the west of the broad Susquehanna, and the seat of an old English armory and magazine built, in 1761, was finally chosen.

Quartermaster General-Mifflin's choice for Deputy Quartermaster of this region was Davis of Carlisle, holder of a great amount of land along the Conodbguinet Creek. The choice was logical, for Colonel Davis, together with Ephraim Blaine, another outstanding citizen of Carlisle, had from the early days of 1776 been furnishing supplies to the patriots on requisition. Blaine was now shifted to Philadelphia to help in the same work there. Pittsburgh, Sept. 19 Her golden hair brushed back from her forehead, tiny three-year Eleanor Hughes lay quietly under an oxygen tent today, her mother's sewing needle still imbedded in her heart.

Little Eleanor was placed beneath the tent yesterday following a tense 90-minute operation during which surgeons probed vainly for the inch-long metal sliver that might mean her death. The needle, however, how moved slightly since the last X-ray had been taken and the operation' was futile. She was removed immediately to her white bed at Children's Hospital, to recover her strength in preparation for another operation. The needle, which was driven into the little girl's chest while she was playing last Sunday at her home in nearby Clinton, now is believed to be lodged in a muscle of her heart. Because it.

is lodged in the muscle, a hospital physician said he believed the chances of the needle continuing to pass through the brown-eyed girl's system were slight. However, he said, there is alwayH Read the Courier for the News Favorite Football Team.