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Largest Daily Newspaper Circulation in Northumberland County UNITED PRESS FULL LEASED WIRE SERVICE SHAMOKIN, PA, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1942-10 PAGES VOL. IX, NO. 223 DISPATCH (Estab. 1886) Combined Sept 18 1933 With DAILY NEWS (Estab 1593: PRICE: THREE CENTS Ml FISHES ET MUSE mmi i wire New York Welcomes Heroes HOUSE GROUP FULL REPOR LIKEL TO SHO AN INCREASE IN JAPANESE LOSSES OKAYS NEW REDS ANSWER WITH COUNTER-ASSAULTS German Strategy Believed Aimed at Feeling Out Soviet Positions; Sevastopol Holds WORK RELIEF LEGISLATION MOSCOW, June 9 (U.R) The Germans hurled infantry, tanks and dive bombers into strong assaults on five fronts today, from Leningrad to the Crimea, but the Red army was said in front-line dispatches to be answering the new challenge with sharp counter-thrusts. The sudden resurgence of heavy fighting along the 1.100-mile battle line in key sectors vital to the defense of Russia's important cities and war centers was described in war dispatches from the Leningrad, Kalinin, Enemy Aircraft Carriers Sunk Were Largest Listed by Japan; Navy Ensign Eyewitness to Sinkings NIMITZ REGARDS BATTLE ENDED Program to Be Drastically Curtailed July War Bryansk, Kharkov and Sevastopol 167 MEN TO BE INDUCTED FROM AREA 20 Group Will Be Drawn From First, Second and Third Registrations Desert Weapon Plants Take Up Unem ployment Slack QlLL TO PROVIDE regions.

The heavy German attacks, although not necessarily indicating the start of Adolf Hitler's long-threatened grand offensive, were regarded as part of a Nazi strategy aimed at simultaneously feeling out Russian positions for such a big- WORK FOR 400,000 WASHINGTON. June 9 (U.R) The House ADOTODriations Committee BORO WILL SEND 82 jo today approved President Roose' velt's request for $280,000,000 to op erate a drastically curtailed Works Projects Administration program during the fiscal year beginning FEARL HARBOR, June 9 (U.R) United States forces may take the offensive in the next phase of the Pacific navalraerial war as the result of the Midway victory over the Japanese fleet, well informed quarters said today. It was increasingly indicated that when final reports of damage to the Japanese fleet were assembled, they would show the enemy suffered even more heavily than Admiral Chester W. Nimjtz reported in his communiques. Informants said so important was the victory of the United States Naval and air forces in a battle which started as a defense of Midway Island, it might prove to have been the point of the war at which the United Nations took over the offensive in the Pacific at large.

The Navy's latest communique said "There is nothing1 to report from the central Pacific area." Jhe first eye-witness story of the Midway battle, the first of many stories of a historic victory which are to come, July 1. Selective Service Board officials of Shamokin and Coal Township draft boards today announced the next contingent sent to the United States Army will leave here on Saturday, June 20, when approximately Pride and happiness glow on the faces of two fighters for United Nations' victory. Plight Sergeant Maxwell A. D. Riddle, left, is 21, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross; Chief Engine Room Artificer Harry Howard, is 48, holder of the Distinguished Service medal.

Two of 10 British and five American heroes, they are pictured being honored in a parade in New York at the start of a cross-country tour. The fund will provide WPA employment for an average of 400,000 workers during the year, and is ex scale onslaught. A dispatch to the official army organ Red Star told of "large-scale attacks" against Soviet defenses between the Valdi hills and Leningrad in the north where the Russians were described as "resisting firmly and counter-attacking heavily." For the fifth day the defenders of beleaguered Sevastopol, Crimean Black Sea port and naval base which has been under siege for 220 days, fought off relentless land, sea and air attacks unleashed by the Germans in an effort to complete their conquest of the Crimean gateway to the Caucasus. Northwest of Moscow on the Kalinin front, presumably near the Rzhev spearhead of a German salient pointed at Moscow, sharp fighting was said to have been underway for three days. Guerrilla forces ranging behind the German pected to force dismissal this sum 167 men will be sent to Harrisburg mer of about 360,000 relief workers.

for physical examination. Mr. Roosevelt asked $465,000,000 The group has been draw from COfJTRflCTS AWARDED the first, second and third registra for WPA in the budget message he submitted to Congress in January, but in a recent message he lowered the figure to $280,000,000 because' war industries are taking up much tions, and includes those listed in all classifications. Under the present FOR BORO SUPPLIES schedule, approximately 85 men will of the alack in unemployment. revealed that the Japanese aircraft carriers sunk were Japan's largest, so far as official listings of enemy naval be taken from District 1, including In recommending the WFA ap Coal Township, Mount Carmel propriation bill for House passage, the committee reported that despite H- strength go the Kaga and its sister ship Akagi.

Township and East Cameron Town Street Improvement Materials and Equipment ship. District 4 will be asked to Ensign George H. Gay, his own plane shot down, lines were credited with killing 500 Germans and wrecking an armored train, two troop trains and seven tanks. On the Bryansk front southwest of furnish approximately 82 men. Both for 1942 Ordered by Local Councilmen saw his comrades attack the two Kaga class carriers and groups will assemble at the American Legion building and will leave a smaller one, and he saw them burst into flame from di In the Libyan desert water is a weapon of prime importance.

Here it is poured into tested tins after foraging trucks had brought supplies of the precious liquid back from desert water holes. Contracts were awarded for supplying Shamokin Borough with street at 7:00 by bus. Moscow, Soviet forces striking to straighten their lines were said to rect hits. the war production drive there still would be some unemployment be- 9iuse of such factors as industrial -islocation and a growing labor force. Acting WPA administrator Francis Dryden told the Deficiency Appropriations Subcommittee WPA rolls will have to be pared immediately to less than 400,000 so that the Officials of the draft board an nounced that all questionaires have have driven the Germans from two "strategic villages," consolidated TELEGRAMS AND been mailed to the members of the improvement materials and equipment for 1942 at a special meeting of borough council last evening in City Hall.

Council awarded the contracts after reviewing a tabulation of bids received at the regular meeting June 2. Purchases will be made in quantity lots from the following lowest and best bidders: Susquehanna Collieries Company, coal from Glen Burn Colliery bins: 0 Buckwheat, ra, $5.25. and their positions and repulsed four The Kaga and the Akagi are ships with a maximum plane capacity of 60 each. first and second registration, and counter-attacks. KEPI WONT HIGH More than 450 casualties were in those in the third registration are receiving their questionaires daily.

I FTTFRQ QFNT UU 1 A 1411 Ulill A flicted upon the Axis forces includ Under the present induction plan, nut, $6.75. Jones Hardware Com- ing the 54th Hungarian regiment recently arrived in the Bryansk those sent to Harrisburg will be lm MERCHANTS OF WILL GRADUATE mediately inducted into service if front, it was stated in newspaper accounts. they meet the required physical test. However, five-day furloughs Below Bryansk on the Kharkov AREA ASKED TO may be secured when draftees prove to the satisfaction of the local draft 107 TOMORROW TO WASHINGTON Consignment of 3,700 Messages Urges Industries for Shamokin pany received a contract for supplying eight-inch sewer pipe at 24 cents a lineal foot, with larger sizes at a corresponding price schedule. Pipe will be shipped in carload lots.

John M. Engel was awarded contract for common brick, delivered on job sites in full truck-load lots, at $17.50 per 1,000. Oil for borough fire apparatus and street department trucks will be meet unforeseen emergencies next winter. "Casual thinking in the light of the tremendous industrial effort being -put forth to produce goods for the war erroneously arrives at the conclusion that the demand for employment will be such as to provide a job in private industry for (Continued on Page 5. Column 7) COAL TOWNSHIP front, scene of recent fierce fighting in Marshal Semyon Timoshen-ko's offensive which was credited with frustrating a German drive, board that immediate induction might prove a hardship.

Ten-day furloughs may be granted in ex Japan's remaining carriers, on the basis of admittedly incomplete listings, are much smaller, ranging down from the neighborhood of 14-000 tons, and it was indicated that in this class of ship also, Japan had suffered a disaster. The crippled enemy fleet had now withdrawn. Forces of both sides were reforming in preparation for the (Continued on Page lo. Column 5) HEADQUARTERS OF TWO RATION steadily heavier fighting was Susquehanna Professor to ceptional cases, officials of the board said. In one sector of the northwestern AID FOODPLAN Dealers in Foodstuffs Must Register Before Join Deliver Commencement Day Oration Kalinin front it was acknowledged MINERS WILL GIVE (Continued on Page 10.

Column 4) DRIVE NEARING END purchased in two grades from Empire Vulcanizing Company and Atlantic Oil Company. Council took measures to assure UP PAID VACATIONS CIVIL SERVICE TO ALUMNI HOLDS PROGRAM PLANNED ing Program HOLD EXAMS HERE Initial consignment of 3.700 letters and telegrams collected by the Shamokin and Coal Township Industrial Expansion Committee, ad ANNUAL DINNER SYSTEM EXPLAINED Graduates of Shamokin and Coal dressed to President and Mrs. Frank BOARDS MOVED lin D. Roosevelt, were sent out today, and the remaining messages Retail and wholesale merchants Anthracite miners will contribute to the nation's war efforts by sacrificing their paid vacations as the result of a plan accepted by officers of the United Mine Workers, whereby the workers will take only hr consecutive days of vacation be tween June 27 and July 6. Only one of the days included in the vacation is included in the normal working schedule.

Approximately 400 Gradu- will be dispatched on three suc gasoline deliveries in the event of further restrictions by accepting equal bids from the Atlantic Refining Company and the Standard Oil Company, at 10.7 cents a gallon. Atlantic Refining will supply kerosene at 8.9 cents per gallon. Korbich Lumber Company's bid of $1.60 per ton for concrete sand was accepted. Contract for Portland cement was awarded to Korbich Lumber company and John M. Engel at $11.50 per ton, delivered on order.

Interstate Amiesite Company's bid of the Shamokin business area will Township High Schools who seek immediate employment as typists or stenographers at Washington, D. at a salary of $1,440 a year to start, will have opportunity to undergo examinations to be held tomorrow in the local Schools by a representative Offices of Shamokin Area be given one more opportunity to cessive days to the White House. Each of the messages outlines the register for cooperation in the Food ates Attend Forty-Second Reunion Kulpmont High School will graduate a class of 107 young men and women at annual commencement exercises tomorrow evening beginning at 8:15, in the auditorium of the school, with Dr. George F. Dunkelberger, professor of psychology at Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, as the commencement orator.

Miss Ruth Shaffer, in charge of the commencement preparations, has been rehearsing the students during the past two weeks for what promises to be one of the finest in Stamp plan, according to announce Districts Set Up Burd Building community's urgent need for industrial expansion and urges cooperation of the chief executive ment last evening at a meeting of of the United States Civil Service Commissioner. the executive committee of the tri OFFICERS ELECTED The special representative from The action came after a meeting of the Committee of 12 at Scranton, for the purpose of acting on a re county committee held in the food project quarters in the east wing at Citv Hall. Dealers in foodstuffs SUB-STATIONS OPEN Washington will hold tests for Coal and Mrs. Roosevelt in attaining new and permanent industries for Shamokin and Coal Township. Sending of the messages climaxes a three-week's drive, during which schools, churches, fraternal, civic Township High School graduates Approximately 400 persons last must register before they can receive food stamps from patrons.

and others who may qualify in the West End High School tomorrow afternoon at 2:00. Tests for Shamo for product deliveries at $6.20 a ton was accepted. Windsor Service, Inc, of Reading, was awarded contract for deliveries of various types of asphalt cement and road oil. Buffalo-Springfield Roller Company's proposal to provide two rear wheels Headquarters of this area's two rationing boards has been moved from the Unger building, on Market commencement programs staged by the school since its founding. Meetings of the executive committee will be held at Sunbury in the organizations and civic-minded citi quest of federal authorities that the proposed vacation with pay be passed because of the war.

Under the arrangement miners will ask coal company officials to make full payment of the $20 token provided in the wage agreement for each worker's vacation. kin High School graduates and Participating in the extensive county court house on Wednesday zens of Shamokin and Coal Town-shin were asked to enlist' in an others will be held in the high school program will be the Kulpmont High School Band, the Senior Girls' Glee evening, June 17, and in the Shamo building here at 7:30 tomorrow eve ning. of heavy type for the borough street roller for $708 was accepted. The roller wheels will be ordered im kin High School building Thursday effort to unify the dual community (Continued on Page 10. Column 4) (Continued on Page 5.

Column 6) 1 mediately, and street materials wil: at 8:00 next week. Food stamps will be available to anyone receiving public "assistance, and will permit evening attended the forty-second annual reunion of Coal Township High school Alumni Association in the American Legion building. The graduates sat down to a dinner at 6:30, after which a business meeting was held. A program of entertainment and dancing followed. Mrs.

Anna Schuler was reelected president of the association. Other officers include Russell Strausser, vice-president; Elery Newbury, treasurer; Geraldine Way secretary; George Bourinski, historian; viola Werntz, registrar, and Vincent Polinka, general chairman. D. T. Meisberger, superintendent be ordered as needed during the Hitler Cold to Women R.

A. F. Planes Again year. users to receive $7.50 in food pro ducts for every $5 in stamps. The amount of purchase will be in ratio ANTHRACITE QUOTA 'TilHeMetEvaBraun (Continued on Page 1.

Column 1) Hammer German Ruhr IS EXTENDED AGAIN Street, to the Burd building, on the south side of Independence Street, near Market. The offices are on the secofid floor. The single office formerly occupied by the two boards, donated rent-free by Warren Unger at the time rationing was inaugurated, was found to be too small for the rapidly expanding rationing setup. Offices at Mount Carmel are being transferred also, the Northumberland County rationing board announced today. The new headquarters at Mount Carmel will be in the Liberty State Bank building, at Maple and Third Streets.

At Milton and Sunbury. county rationing officials said, the original offices have been retained and adjoining space added to provide adequate quarters. The Milton rationing offices are in the Odd Fel RURAL APPLICANTS The Anthracite Emergency Com FOR SUGAR AIDED husband of Eva Braun, 20 years LONDON, June 9 (U.R) Heavy his junior and his mistress for seven years. This, Hitler felt, would mission late yesterday afternoon set the allowable Anthracite production for the week at 1,201,360 tons, extending for another week the production quota which permitted five- Residents of Elysburg, Paxinos and Overlook areas will be able to apply this week for extra supplies Editor's Note: In the second of his series of dispatches on the personal life of Adolf Hitler, Frederick C. Oechsner, who studied the man at close range for 12 years as head of the Berlin bureau of the United Press, discusses the Nazi dictator's relationship with women.

day operation of collieries last week. of sugar for canning and preserving without going to the local board offices in Milton, it was announced Many of the regional collieries today by George Swank, a mem ber of Local Rationing Board No. I now have a heavy backlog of production because of high water conditions closing down numerous operations indicated the strength of the raid not comparable to the 1.000-plane attacks but on a scale which a few weeks ago would have been regarded as sensational. Essen, home of the gigantic Krupp armament works, was believed to have been the central target of last night's bomber force, but it was understood that key targets were bombed over a wide area of the valley, including railroad centers as well as war factories, to increase the confusion as well as to add to damage in three previous raids. Essen was the second target of the new British offensive.

It was raided on the night of June 1 by 1.036 planes. It was bombed again the next night by an estimated 300 (Continued on Page f. Column 1) Residents of the Overlook section of the Coal Township schools, spoke at the banquet. Reports were heard from Joseph Simmonds, in charge of the association's audit, and S. A.

Galiley, high school principal. The latter reported on the association's scholarship fund. Classes every fifth year Tince 1902 observed their anniversary, and representatives of those classes in attendance spoke. They included 1902, Attorney S. L.

Grib-bin; 1917, Michael simmonds; 1922, Helen Stroup; 1927, Albert Kapitsky; 1932, Arthur Gessner; 1937, Marie Krupa, and 1942, Shirley Herr. The evening's entertainment, di-' rected by Miss Helen Adamiak, consisted of sketches from the recent senior class play, "The Count and the Co-Ed." lows building, and unbury headquarters are in the Bittner British bombing planes, estimated to number 300 or more, made their fourth devastation raid in eight days on the Ruhr, heart of German war industry, during the night, the air ministry announced today. Bomber, fighter and coastal command planes, numbering hundreds more, attacked objectives over a 300-mile front in Holland. Belgium and occupied France, and coastal command planes shot down an enemy seaplane over the North Sea. Bad weather kept the big planes grounded Sunday night but last night they turned out in strong force to carry their share in the, greatest aerial offensive in history.

Announcement by the air ministry that 18 bombers were missing give him the opportunity to devote himself to lofty plans and theories for the whole of Europe. Close observation of Hitler over 12 years has enabled me to state these facts about his emotional life: 1. He became attracted, in middle age, to Eva Braun and the romance progressed far enough for him to buy her an engagement ring and a wedding present. 2. This romance led to two attempted suicides on the part of Fraulein Braun, probably in an attempt to create sympathy for herself and distract Hitler from other women.

It also caused three at- Continued on Put Column 4) over a period of from one to two weeks. Besides the offices maintained for may apply this afternoon from 4:00 until 6:00 in the Overlook School House; Shamokin Township residents Thursday afternoon from 2:00 until 6:00 in Paxinos School; Elys The Philadelphia Reading Coal By FREDERICK C. OECHSNER United Press Staff Correspondent Copvright. 1942, bv United Press NEW YORK. June 9 (U.R) Adolf Hitler almost certainly would have married a stocky young Bavarian girl if the outbreak of war had not directed his attention and energies to battles.

He wanted to turn over the actual running of the Reich to Marshal Hermann Georing and become the Iron Company has suffered heavy production impairment because of the five local boards of the county, 10 sub-stations have been opened in various parts of the county for the convenience of applicants for burg residents today from 2:00 un til 5:00 p. m. in Elysburg Fire House. enforced closing of its Maple Hill Colliery, near Shenandoah, and flood and residents of Rush Township may apply in the near future at I conditions in several others of it rations of canning sugar. These substations are manned by volunteer workers.

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