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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, PA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1942 PAGE THREE Hold Everything PENNSYLVANIA MAN IS STAN RED TO DEATH IN PARK SAYS 1,000 PLANES CAN DESTROY JAPAN Sgt. Lockard Is Now Lieutenant Trucker Held on Several Charges Pottsville Ynulh Attempted to Run Down Region Patrolman HEAVY R. A. F. RAID AIMED AT NAZI SUB BASE LIDICE REBORN AS U.

S. TOWN ASSUMESNAME President Sends Message as Joliet Suburb Holds Dedication cor iw fmvict me. me orr Willlamsport Youth of rear I Harbor Fame Receives Commission FORT MONMOUTH, N. July 13 (U.R) The gold bars of a second lieutenant were pinned yesterday on the tunic of Staff Sergeant Joseph Lockard, who deteced the Japanese planes that raided Pearl Harbor on December 7, when they were 132 miles away, Lockard, who was listening on the aircraft detector after regular practice hours, warned his superior of strange planes. His warning was not heeded, He was decorated and assigned to the Signal Corps Officers' Training School here, and spent three months studying.

Brigadier General George L. Van Duesen handed him his commission and praised his "efficient intelligence." "His grades have been excellent, General Van Duesen said. "He has won his commission entirely on merit." Lockard was commissioned a day before his classmates, and the ceremony was broadcast on a national network. A native of Williams-port, Lockard will remain at Fort Monmouth for advanced socialized work. CHARGES AGAINST TEACHER DROPPED Ashland School Board dropped dismissal charges against Louis F.

Pounder, industrial teacher for 18 years, after several hundred citizens assembled In the high school to hear a report on recent hearings held when the teacher appealed his dismissal because he responded to a call to a federal post at Washington, D. before the end of the school term. Attorney Charles Staudenmeier, counsel for Pounder, addressed the board at the opening of its special meeting to decide the issue. The attorney explained Pounder had written letters to former Superintendents Joseph H. Davison and H.

S. Bolan. and understood he would be permitted to accept the federal post. The teacher's attorney said he never received a letter school officials alleged was sent warning him to resume teaching or face dis missal. Public sentiment favored the vet-1 eran teacher, who established the industrial department of Ashland High School and served there nearly a score of years.

The board voted to restore Pounder to his position if he reports for duty at the opening of the next school term in September. John Shappell, 20, Pottsville. is being held in Schuylkill County jail, where he faces nearly a score of charges, including an effort to run down Patrolman Anthony Downey of the Pottsville police force. The arrest of Shappell came after Pennsylvania Motor and Pottsville police chased him 55 miles, finally halting him at Glen Dale Colliery, near Mahanoy City, where he sought shelter with his coal truck. Shappell, allegedly under the influence of liquor, was driving through Pottsville at terrific speed aboard a coal truck carrying Maryland license.

When Patrolman Downey sought to flag him down, Shappell headed his truck at the officer, who leaped to safety. Motor officers were called when the offender fled out of Pottsville and the thrilling chase followed. When captured Shappell was without operator's or owner's license and police are now seeking to determine the ownership of the truck. They believe Shappell stole it in Marviand or at some regional colliery. Officers had been hunting the youth since July 2, when he operated a car while drunk and menaced the lives or many persons.

Police said at least 20 different charges have been lodged against the offender. FORMER MINER IN U. S. INTELLIGENCE A former Anthracite mine worker who is now in the armed forces of the nation states that the position he now holds and the duties connected with it when he sees action with the Army overseas, could not be compared with the dangers of mining coal. He is Private Dominic Carey, of Lost Creek, a former United Mine Worker and more recently a field representative of District 50, United Mine Workers of America for several months before he went Into the Army.

Private Carey Is a member of the Army intelligence, and, when he gets into action across the waters, will go behind enemy lines to try and get information value to the men of the U. S. Army. Members of the intelligence esti mate that casualty probability is about 98 per cent, in perilous mis sions of that kind. The 34-year-old former coal min er recently wrote to his family and said lie had his fingers crossed to be among the 2 per cent who do come safely out of the war.

He is now stationed at Camp Wheeler, Georgia. Lancaster Bombers Travel 1,750 Miles in Attacking Danzig LONDON. July 13 (UP) The R. A. F.

attacked German airfields near Abbeville, France, last niftht but no raids comparable to the blasting of submarine building plants at Danzig and Fletisburg Saturday afternoon apparently were made. The Danzig raid represented a 1.750-mile round trip haul for the big heavily loaded Lancaster bombers. While they were carrying out their missions there another force dropped delayed action bombs on the submarine yards at Flensburg, setting fire to the slipways. Some of the planes were only 50 feet above their targets in the Flensburg attack. Danzig, which had not been raided since December 10.

1940. was hit by bombs when the planes came in at 6.000 feet in the late afternoon. The weather was bad some planes were forced to turn back but the fliers were confident they damaged the submarine yards. The Germans, apparently feeling Danzig was out of reach of the R. A.

F. had been expanding the submarine yards there. "A formidable force, certainly one big enough to do heavy damage, got there." the air ministry said. The British lost three planes, which was considered a low percentage in view of the difficulties of the long flight. (The German news agency D.

N. B. said many children were killed when a Danzig Hospital was hit by a bomb, and added that high explosives and incendiaries damaged buildings in the city). HOSPITAL ADMISSION'S Mrs M.iy BrndiKan. Shamokin.

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Betty Boadle. Brady. Clemont Switay. Kulpmont. Joseph Lesko.

Kulpmont. John Merena. Excelsior. Last survivor of the passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914. CLEARANCE on all RMTt RE, RI GS, BKD-DlNti, while remodeling our new Independence St.

Store. Buy at these savings before moving. Rhoads Sunbury St. LIDICE, July 13 (U.R) The town of Lidice stood as a defiant symbol of freedom on the Illinois prairie today 32 days after Germany announced that "the township was leveled and the name of the community extinguished." The German announcement referred to the village of Lidice Czechoslovakia, which was razed to Ovenge the slaying of Reinhard (The langman) Heydrich. But the town was reborn Sunday when this suburb of Joliet, 111., changed its name from Stern Park Gardens to Lidice.

President Roosevelt telegraphed the throng of 50,000 attending the dedication: "Instead of being killed as the ffazis would have it, Lidice has been given new life. In the great valley of the lakes and the Mississippi, the name and town of Lidice now becomes an everlasting reminder to us that Nazi force could not destroy either the love of human freedom or the courage to maintain it." Wendell L. Willkie, 1940 Repub lican nominee and principal speak er at the dedication ceremonies said the Nazis had destroyed Lidice because they were afraid and that they were "afraid because the free spirit in men has refused to be conquered." He urged that the memory of Lidice "fire us, now and until the battle is over, with the iron resolu tion that the madness of tyrants jnust perish from the earth." these great objectives can Tiot be accomplished unless every citizen of this country learns to think In terms of attack," Willkie said. "For we must carry the bat tie to the enemy. "We must fight him on his own ground.

We must teach a lesson for all time to barbarians who seek in their arrogance to restore the rule of the torture chamber and the whip. We must win a total vie tory." Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakian president in exile, cabled from London that the ceremony demonstrated the American people's "detestation of the inhuman behavior of the Nazi criminals and their firm faith in the great principles of freedom and democracy by which all the Al lied nations are united in their struggle for a new world." Writer Tells of Desert Action (Continued Prom Prm One) dive bomber raids, aerial dog fights in which imperial and Axis pilots spiraled and looped like dlz zy flier, hand-to-hand work by the fantry, long range shelling and rights between tanks and British troops armed with sticky bombs (McMillan's dispatch referred several times to the sticky bombs, possibly of a delayed-action type which adhere to tanks.) It all started Thursday night. Silently the Australians newly ar rived, took up their positions in the front line. At midnight they wen out to call on the Nazis. They took along everything handy in the way or submachine guns, Bren guns, hand grenades, sticks of dynamite ana tneir bayoneted rifles.

It was moonless. Three columns PHILADELPHIA, July 13 (U.R) rollce snid today they were unable to find a motive for the killing of a 48-ycar-old father of four children on a bench in Hunting Park. The man was stabbed twice in the back and once in the abdomen and police surgeons said the wounds resembled those made by a dagger. The victim, William Delks. lost his job Saturday when the printing plant where he was employed went out of business.

His wife, Helen, 36, said he told her at midnight Saturday that he couldn't sleep and was going to sit on the porch. Detectives questioned a 15-year-old boy who said he saw Delks with another man and that they talked "for a long time" before the man left. The boy said he heard no struggle and a young couple on a nearby bench told police they saw or heard nothing unusual. A robbery motive was discarded when Dolk's wife revealed he had spent most of his money for groceries Saturday and had only a few pennies in his clothing. F.

B. I. MEN ROUND UP FOUR IN RAID KINGSTON. N. July 13 (U.R) Two men and two women were held today after a raid in the little Cats- kill Mountain town of Phoenicia yielded a letter mentioning a "spy racket" and "gangsters." Five rifles and 1,000 rounds of ammunition were seized by state po lice in the furnished room occupied by the two couples.

F. B. I. agents of the New York City office were called in to help gather information. The prisoners, all held on vagrancy charges, were: John Scully, 36, of Hurley, N.

and Paul Lopez Delegado, 25, Gladys Ventura and Anne Louise Gregory, all of New York City. An additional charge of assault third-degree was placed against Scully. JAPANESE HOLD 1,766 AMERICANS WASHINGTON, July 13 (U.R) The number of American fighting men and civilians known to be held by the Japanese rose to 1.766 today when the War Department made public the names of 297 additional civilians captured by the enemy on Wake Island and now interned at Shanghai. The total includes 10 soldiers. 295 sailors and 715 marines.

Today's list, 10th to be issued, included residents of 33 states, the District of Columbia and Hawaii. on SCHOOL HOURS TO BE REVISED Change Planned to Give Workers First Call on Transportation HARRISBURG, July 13 (UN-Pennsylvania's school hours "quite likely" will be revised next fall to give war workers first call on transportation facilities, Public Instruction Superintendent Francis B. Haas said today. General revision of dally school hours with some students getting to classes earlier than usual and some later was regarded as in evitable by officials of the State Traffic Advisory Committee, now- consulting with local transporta tion committees, and school au thorities. already wrestling with new transportation schedules.

Haas reminded that local school boards have the right to set day to-day hours as they see fit to aid the war front so long as the entire term does not fall below the mm imum of 180 complete days. That authority, he added, includes re vision of vacation periods. "Quite likely," Haas asserted, "there will be changes in the daily school hours where the transportation problems are acute. I have no doubt that where such changes are needed, they will be made satisfactorilyand the State Education Department will cooperate." Thus, in rural areas, grade class children using the school bus may have to wait while the vehicle hauls parents to and from their jobs. City pupils using street cars and buses to and from school may find hours altered to avoid adding to peak loads.

Schools were unconcerned about transportation the past term because majority of defense workers used their own cars and still had 1 ires and gasoline. Surveys showed, however, that the average life of tires midway through the last term was approximately six and one-half months. School buses now in service number 4,200 with their use essentially for pupils and teachers. Haas said earlier that changes in school schedules may be expected in many agricultural sections to make services of older students available for farm work. Meantime, state officials said transportation of war workers in the Philadelphia metropolitan area is becoming one of the most serious problems in the East.

To avoid disruption of vital industrial activity, the Highway Traffic Advisory Committee appointed a number of local coordinators to fashion an emergency program. Named were: Philadelphia Robert R. Mitchell, city traffic engineer; Chester CountyFrank H. Gordon, Lukens Steel Company official; Montgomery R. R.

Titus, president of the County Manufacturers' Association; Delaware Fred B. Snyder, Drexil Hill realtor; Bucks H. M. Barnes, Doylestown banker. Pointing out there are only buses in Pennsylvania with a total capacity of 325,000 persons, committee officials urged private automobiles in operation be loaded to capacity.

ARMY TAKES OVER THREE MORE HOTELS ATLANTIC CITY, N. July 13 (u.Hi The Army Air Force today took over three more beachfront hotels. Colonel Robert P. Glassburn, commanding officer of the Armv Air Force Technical School here, said flying cadets would move into the Hotel tomorrow, and into the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall and Claridge hotels on Thursday. The Ritz is 20 stories high.

Chal fonte-Haddon Hall, a twin structure, has 10 floors in the Chalfonte wing and 24 stories in Haddon Hall, and the Claridge, newest of the boardwalk hotels, is 29 stories high. Construction value of the three hotels was more than $16,000,000. More Good Than Harm Very little harm is done to crops by pheasants. The good they do in destroying insect pests and cut worms far exceeds any damage they might do. THERE'S A REGULAR ARMY OF HONSBERGER Satisfied Customers "Used But Good as New" Plumbing and Heating Equipment 1-3 to 1-2 Less Than Prices Elsewhere EASY TERMS HONSBERGER S.

Locust Birch Sts. HAZLETON' Phone 87 Phone 2207 ARLINGTON, MASS July 13 An attack on Japan by 1.000 Allied bombers could destroy the country an hour, according to Second Lieutenant Howard A. Kessler, 24-year-oId Armv bombardier-navigator who took part in th American air raid on On furlough after recovering from malarial fever, the 24-year-old Arlington flier yesterday he w.u with a group of plane which bombed Kobe. Keller sa.d they were over Koba about 40 r.inutes and that it took 'hem five minutes to unload their bombs on the city. We flew so low they couldn't hit us wi-ii ar.ti-aircMf; fire," Kessler said, ar.d aoded that "we couldn't "Som.

day." Keller said, "I'd like iO see i.OOO Allied planes attack J.v:jm. If they eer Uid, they could flivvy the w.iol country in an hour." TWO MEET DEATH IN TRAIN CRASH PITTSBURGH. July 13 'UP Two Punxsutawney trainmen were killed today when a string of runaway freight cars crashed uito a Baltimore Ohio Railroad locomotive on Bakerstown Hill. nar Glbsonia. The dead were B.

H. Jones. 55. the locomotive engineer, and David Stiger, 50. fireman.

The trainmer. were trapped in the wreckase wnen 15 c.us. loaded with wheat, sped down th? hill and sma.shed into the locomotive. which was stationary, ready to be switched to a side track. The locomotive tender was hurled from it chassis and the engine cab wai crushed.

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KEEMLE Of the United Press War Desk Although the British have halted the German drive in the El Alamein sector of their failure to make greater progress in their brief counter-offensive indicates that General Sir Claude Auchin-leck still has been unable to get the necessary supplies and equipment to smash the Germans back into Libya. So far the British have gained only 10 miles west of El Alamein and today's communique reported no further progress, but merely the repulse of an Axis counter-attack. That is disquieting. It means the battle of Egypt may be decided by a race between the opposing armies for reinforcements, a race that Marshal Erwin Rommel might well win. The British probably already have drawn to the limit on the men 'and equipment available in the Middle East.

Reinforcements quite likely are on the way from England over the long route around the Cape of Good Hope, but it may be weeks before they arrive. Over his much shorter lines of communications across the Mediterranean, Rommel meanwhile may be able to get enough strength to resume his drive for the Suez Canal. The indications are that is what he is trying to do. Capture of the Suez Canal and opening of the gateway to the Middle East is of tremendous importance to Hitler's broad strategy, and he has a better chance to achieve it now than he is ever likely to have again. The present German threat to Stalingrad, Rostov and the Cau casus increases tne urgency lor Britain to hold, and keep Hitler away from the Mosul oil fields and the Persian Gulf.

That Rommel is in the process of getting reinforcements is indicated by the incessant air attacks on Malta, which is the chief obstacle to getting supplies across from Sicily. The British fleet, weakened in recent actions, is not able to do the job. Why Rommel was not reinforced some time "ago by parachute and other forces gathered in Greece and Crete is not entirely clear, although military observers believe units there may have been withdrawn in large numbers for the big push in Russia. Rommel's deficiency in airplanes probably was due to the same cause. However, he is reported to have grown stronger in the air in the past few days, indicating fresh arrivals.

Because of the importance of this stage of the Egyptian campaign, it is not unlikely that Hitler is straining every effort to get the neces sary supplies, including gasoline through to Rommel. That explains the increased air assaults on Malta, which must be heavy. Last Thursday the British reported shooting down nine planes over Malta, and today bagged at least three. As a submarine base and as an air base for land planes, Malta is a great threat to the Axis communications lines. If it can be knocked out or largely immobilized, the Axis can ferry across men and equipment without a too great percentage of losses.

DR. DANIEL POLING IS CALLED TO ARMY PHILADELPHIA. July 13 (U.R) Rev. Daniel A. Poling, pastor of Baptist Temple, and International president of the World Christian Endeavor, revealed today that he had been called into military service.

Dr. Poling, a major in the Army Officers' Reserve Corps, said he had originally been called to duty July 10, but had been given additional time to straighten his affairs. A son, Rev. Clark V. Poling, is an Army chaplain, and his son-in- law, Ensign Reed Maicoim, is a Navy flier.

Dr. Poling served as a chaplain on special mission in the first World War. Head Scratching: Was Fatal BOGALUSA. La. (U.R) One of Clyde Delaughter's cows, apparently trying to scratch her head, got a back hoof hung on her horns.

Possibly injured in the resulting fall, she died in this position. picked their way through the 2,000 yards of no man's land. They made 1.400 yards before a spurt of machine gun fire came from the enemy lines. Then anti-tank guns and rifle tire began. The Australians pushed on, their columns 350 yards apart.

They made the top of a ridge where the enemy had a force of the 15th German Tank Division, along with a Qittery of two-inch anti-tank guns. The Australians let them have their hand grenades, swept them with machine gun fire and then went yelling in with the bayonet against Tme lot who showed fight. With bayonet and trench dagger the Australians killed every man except ftine they brought back, and destroyed with their dynamite all the guns and tanks around. Just before dawn British tanks, British and Australian anti-tank guns and fresh Australian infantry dashed out of El Alamein box, the chief defensive position on the coast, for the main attack which IFaDunir (Daumii! ffdwr 750 performances to 1,000,000 and more soldiers, sailors, marines, and coast guardsmen as this goes to press mmee mm unenirapiTinm pushed back the Germans five miles. It wasn't long before the trucks which had taken up the infantry were coming back in swirling clouds of dust.

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