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SHAMOKIN NEWS-DISPATCH, SHAMOKIN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 5, 1942 PAGE TWO TREVORTON MAN HURTATWASHERY Gambler Held in Two Killings Senate Republicans Spurn Willkie Creed U. S. COAST NO LONGER SOFT SPOT FOR SUBS FOUR MEMBERS OF GILBERTON COUNCIL OUT KUNZE TRIP TO TOKYO HALTED BY JAPATTACK Letters Reveal Nazi Agent Was Set to Deliver Secrets to Japan THORKELSON TESTIFIES Af PELLEYJRIAL Claims Repeal of Arms Embargo Was Cause of U. S. Entering War Claim Plan Would Commit G.

O. P. to League of Nations After War pVit 0Jlk jl I INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 5 (U.R) Dr. Jacob Thorkelson, former Republican congressman from Montana, testified today in the sedition trial of William Dudley Pelley that "repeal of the arms embargo was a direct cause of our entrance into the war." The defense rested its ease after Thorkelson's testimony.

Thorkelson said that it was "bad diplomacy for the government tA have taken sides with either belli- gerent." He said that 'bad diplomacy" was "shaking a fist at nation across the water." "I have never found any n-thusiasm for the war," Thorkelson declared. The former congressman, a native of Norway and a member of the United Spates Naval Reserve, was called to support Pelley's allegedly seditious statement that "we have by every act and deed performable actively solicitated war with the Axis" and that "intentionally bad diplomacy got us into this war." Thorkelson, heavy set man who dominated his questioners, frequently expanded his answers into long harangues despite protests of the prosecution. He said he was not reelected to Congress because "New York bankers sent men to Montana to say I was Nazi and a Fascist." Thorkelson denied he was a Nazi, a Fascist, or anti-Semitic. "I just exposed the sources and intrigue of hidden international) bankers just to protect the Jew. Judge Robert C.

Baltzell approved a prosecution motion to dismiss the sixth count in the indictment because Navy officials refused to allow introduction of evidence refuting Pelley's claims Jf damage at Pearl Harbor and America's preparation for war was "on order." Virgil Jorden of the National Industrial Conference Board of New York had been expected to testify today but was excused at the last moment. As the defense rested its casf, government attorneys prepared for their two-hour, summation of t.h Oliver Bittinger, 61, Gowen City, employed at the Stevens Washery, at Trevorton, was injured yesterday when his arm was caught in a coal shaker. Bittinger was working at a chute and reached into the chute to start rock which clogged the runway. The motion started the shakers and his right arm was caught. Shamokin Hospital doctors ordered an X-ray examination and it was discovered that the man's arm was fractured.

NEW ADMIRALTY POST SET UP BY GREAHRITAIN Admiral Charles Kennedy-Purvis Named Deputy First Sea Lord LONDON, Aug. 5 (U.R) A new high admiralty post was created today so that Admiral Sir Dudley Pound, chief of naval staff and first sea lord, could spend more time on duties "connected with plans and operations." A. V. Alexander, first lord of the admiralty, announced to the House of Commons that Admiral Sir Charles Kennedy-Purvis had been named deputy first sea lord so Pound would be able "to devote the maximum time to duties connected with plans and operations and also deal with all large questions in connection with the development of the fighting efficiency of the fleet as regards training and material." Kennedy-Purvis commanded the first cruiser squadron in the Mediterranean from 1938 to 1938 and then, after serving as president of the Greenwich Naval College and commandant of the Royal Navy War College, was sent in 1940 to command in chief the British fleet in American and West Indian waters. He was recently released from an active command on an unnamed foreign station.

To Commons members eagerly awaiting any hint of the possibility that a second front might soon be opened in western Europe. Sir Stafford Cripps, lord privy seal and leader of the House, announced that Prime Minister Winston Churchill would not make a statement on the war situation before the Commons summer recess. ONE KILLED, 3 HURT JNCRASH Buck Run Motorist Meets Death as Car and Truck Collide Harry J. Hoben, 30, of Buck Run, Heckscherville Valley, was instantly killed and three persons riding with him were injured when Hoben's coupe figured in a headon collision yesterday with a truck at Suedberg. Earl Snowden, 34, of Manheim, Lancaster County, operator of the truck, told Pennsylvania Motor Police from the Pine Grove detail the accident occurred at a curve in the highway and charged the coupe was being operated at high speed.

Injured in the crash and under treatment in Pottsville Hospital are Beatrice Schack, 24, Tremont, broken neck and fractured jaw; John Prothering, 30, Branchdale, head and internal injuries, and Anthony Roman, 34, Pine Grove, fractured skull, fractured, ribs and internal injuries; The condition of Miss Schack is regarded as critical. Motor officers who Investigated said the Hoben coupe was telescoped and wholly demolished. The Snowden truck was damaged to the of several hundred dollars. Snowden was released in his own recognizance pending a coroner's inquest. FORMER RESIDENT OF COtlNTY DROWNS Mrs.

Florence Brosclous Wood, wife of Rev. J. O. Wood, formerly of Sunbury, now a chaplain in the United States Army, was drowned yesterday in a lake at Camp Forrest, where the family was enjoying a vacation. According to information received by Mr.

and Mrs. Galen Brosclous, Sunbury, parents of Mrs. Wood, other members of the family were swimming while Mrs. Wood stood on the lake embankment. Rev.

Wood saw his wife collapse and plunge into the water. He rushed to the rescue, quickly carried her to an embankment, where a physician said death resulted from an acute heart seizure. Mrs. Wood was widely known throughout the area as a musician and choir leader and as a former teacher of music in Sunbury schools. Surviving are her husband, parents, two children and five sisters and brothers.

It is expected the body will be sent to Sunbury for burial. Help Wanted FEMALE BOSS WANTS MALE SECRETARY Office experience unnecessary -Must be good at home work -Hours, from 5 P. M. until -Plenty of opportunity for a man with Ideas For detail see "Take a Letter, Darling" Starring Rosalind Russell and Fred MacMurray Starting Friday at the CAPITOL charges and testimony against Pel-ley. INDIANAPOLIS, Aug.

(U.R) Oscar Ewing, special assistant to the U. S. attorney general, charged in his summation to the jury today that William Dudley Pelley served poison against his government "sugar-coated with the teachings of Jesus" to poor, "hungry souls seeking religious comfort." Ewing said Pelley's "false protestations of loyalty served as a smoke screen for the poisonous dagger he-was aiming at the heart of America." Ewing said Pelley's co-defendantsV Lawrence A. Brown and Agnes Mar-Ian Henderson, secretary and treasurer of the Fellowship Press, Inc, were as guilty as the Silver Shirt leader himself. It was indicated they would know their fate late today.

The indictment charged the thres defendants and the corporation, as publishers of the magazine, the "Galilean," sought to interfere with the operation of the military forces in order to promote the success of our enemies. COAL TOWNSHIP IS OILING STREETS Personal and Social Events All communications addressed to this column must bear the names and addresses of the senders, otherwise they will not be published. Mrs. William Fausold and daughter, of Washington, D. are visiting Mr.

and Mrs. Arville Fausold, of South Sixth Street. Ben Weikel, Shamokin R. D. 1, is today celebrating his 70th birthday anniversary.

Mr. Weikel is employed as a fireman at Locust Summit Col liery. Betty (Paul) Miller, operating a beauty parlor at Philadelphia, is enjoying a visit of one week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M.

A. Paul, 341 South Market Street, Mrs. Isabelle Hawley, formerly Miss Isabelle Beadle, wife of an as sistant flight supervisor at Kansas City municipal air port, arrived here yesterday by plane to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Erm Beadle.

The Catholic Daughters of Amer ica, Court Juan Baptiste, No. 55, will hold its regular meeting tomorrow evening at 8:00 in the K. of C. rooms on Independence Street. Howard E.

Herrold, employe of the State Department of Labor and In dustry, is today receiving felicitations from his friends on the anniversary date of his birth. Mrs. George Krieger and children, Nancy and Harold, of Coal Street, returned to their home last evening after spending two weeks with relatives and friends in Collingswood, N. J. Mrs.

Margaret Gallagher, Lo cust Gap, was engaged in activities about her home when she tripped, fell and sustained a fracture of the left arm. A physician sent the woman to Ashland State Hospital for X-ray and reduction of the fracture. William J. Brennan, former local resident, now residing in Philadel phia, has entered United States Na val Hospital for treatment and possible operation. Brennan is a son of the late Michael Brennan, former proprietor of the Exchange Hotel.

Misses Patricia Cunselman, Har-risburg, and Grace Straub, Shamokin, left this morning for Harris-burg, where Miss Straub will be the guest for the next week of Miss Cunselman, a recent visitor to the Straub home on Sunbury Street. POPE CALLS ON VICHY TO HALT PERSECUTION Pontiff Decries Inhuman Treatment of Jewish Refugees VICHY, Aug. 1 (U.R) (Delayed) Pope Pius XII, speaking through the papal nuncio at Vichy, has told the heads of the Vichy government that he does not understand the treatment accorded Jewish refugees and entreated them to end "these inhuman arrests of a defenseless people," it was reported by an unimpeachable source today. In consequence, it was reported that Chief of State Marshal Henri Philippe Petain asked the German occupation authorities to limit the arrest of Paris Jews to those of non-French origin, to cease deporting French Jews to Silesia and to stop breaking up French Jewish families. The nuncio, Monsignor Valerio Valeri, placed the problem before Petain while seated beside him at a luncheon.

The talk turned to the deportation of foreign Jews who had sought refuge in France and the aged marshal remarked that the problem was very unpleasant. "However, I have one consolation," he added. "The Pope understands and approves my attitude." The room was quiet and the reply of the priest carried through the room. "Marshal Petain. the Holy Father neither understand nor approves," he said.

The next day he saw Petain in private and reportedly told him: "The Holy Father entreats you to put an end to these inhuman arrests of a defenseless people." The arrest of Jews and other refugees from countries overrun by the Nazis has been confined to occupied France, but in the free zone anti-Jewish legislation provides for confiscation of property of Jews and refugees and it was expected, until the nuncio's intervention, that eventually refugees in the free zone would be treated as are those in occupied territory. BOY INJURED Stanley Pachski, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Pachski, 818 Chestnut Street, Kulpmont, was injured yesterday in a fall while playing near his home. In falling, the boy stretched out his arm and struck in such a manner as to cause a fracture.

Shamokin Hospital surgeons reduced the fracture and placed the boy's arm in splints. America's first subway was opened in Boston in 1837. Four Officers Ousted In Startling Move in Region Borough In a sensational move, four members of Gilberton Borough Council yesterday declared the seats of five other members of the group vacant because the five have absented themselves from two successive meetings. In addition to the startling ouster by apparently legal action, the president, secretary, treasurer and solicitor were ousted and successors named. The four councilmen who voted the ouster are William Neverosky, Peter Stec, Thomas O'Connor and James Thompson, all Democrats, the five ousted are President Michael Swank and John Butswlnk.

Republicans, and William Morgans. Andrew Zuzer and William Bushin-skie. Democrats. In taking the action, the four councilmen read from the Pennsylvania Borough Code which states: Any person failing to attend two successive meetings of council, unless detained by Illness or necessary business shall be disqualified and the remaining councilmen shall constitute a quorum and proceed with regular business." The action came as a sensational surprise to the ousted members and residents of Gilberton, where there has been political strife for some years. Following the ouster proceedings, council elected Dennis Durdach as a fifth member, swore him In and proceeded to reorganize.

Thompson was named president and Attorney John Skwier, McAdoo, was named solicitor. A secretary and treasurer will be elected at a later meeting. Four other councilmen will be chosen within the next 30 days as provided by the Pennsylvania Borough Code. It is expected the ousted councilmen will protest the action In court. TRUCKER STRIKE APPROACHES END Several firms in the Wilkes-Barre and Hazleton sectors, where a strike of truckers was inaugurated late last week, have signed new wage and working pacts under which the operators receive an increase of $2 per trip and the trucks are now rolling.

Others are expected to sign up within the next few days. When trucks of the Daley Blue Line Company, Wilkes-Barre, were thrown idle by the strike, officials of the American Car Foundry Company, Berwick, refused to permit the strike to interfere with activities at the war production plant and sent their own trucks to Wilkes-Barre to haul materials needed at Berwick. The trucks operated on authoritative insignia of the Wrar Department and the insignia was respected by the striking truckers. I. O.

0. F. GROUP TO MEET AUGUST 12TH Between 250 and 300 Odd Fellows and Rebekahs are expected to attend the annual meeting of Central Pennsylvania Odd Fellows' Home Association to be held August 12 In the Odd Fellows' Orphange, east ot Sunbury. The annual association meeting will be preceded on Tuesday, August 11, by a meeting of the officers and and prepare recommendations to be presented the next day to the parent association. President Cyrus Hoy, who will preside over both meetings, has asked every lodge in the area to send representatives to the gathering because of the importance of major issues to be presented for discussion and action.

Grand lodge officers will participate and convey to the area group the proceedings of the grand lodge, held recently at Pittsburgh. ELKS TO SPONSOR WAR STAMP SALES Shamokin Lodge No. 355, B. P. O.

Elks, will sponsor a one-day war stamp sales drive tomorrow in the lobby of the Victoria Theatre, where each of the first 200 persons purchasing one dollar's worth of war stamps will receive a "Mrs. Miniver Rose." while the person purchasing the largest amount in stamps will be awarded a $25 war bond. A special booth will be placed in the lobby of the theatre with the opening of the showing of "Mrs. Miniver," one of the outstanding films of the year. Members of the Ladies Auxiliary of the Elks will man the booth.

Working Time at the Collieries The following collieries are scheduled to work tomorrow: TREYORTON COLLIERY GLEN BURN (Cameron) COLONLYL MID VALLEY HICKORY SWAMP SLOPE ALASKA RELIANCE LOCUST GAP POTTS LOCUST SUMMIT (FU Breaherj One Shift) MAPLE HILL ST. NICHOLAS (Full Breaker One Shift) MAHANOY CITY KNICKERBOCKER ENTERPRISE STREPPEVGS RICHARDS TUNNEL BURNSIDE STREPPINGS PACKER No. 5 HAMMOND Enemy U-Boats Believed to Have Been Forced Into Other Waters LONDON. 5 (U.R) German submarines no longer regard the American coast as a soft spot and may have been forced to seek other waters in which to prey on Allied commerce, official British sources said today. Increased defenses and adoption of the convoy system in the Panama and Caribbean areas were cited as coinciding with a decreased scale of submarine attacks.

"This probably indicated that the U-boats have been forced to seek other waters," an authorized informant said. "The bottleneck regarding engines for submarine chasers, defensive craft and dirigibles has been overcome and defensive craft are coming forward in increasing numbers." Informants said that recent activity of yght British navy coastal craft along the English Channel meant that Britain had now gone to the offensive in this type of harassing warfare between the English and German-occupied coasts. When Britain had only a few of these ships, it was explained, they were forced to act defensively in English Channel waters. But now, an informant said, with increased strength they were taking the battle to German waters. "We can look forward to an increased scale of attack," it was said.

With Uncle Sam's Armed Forces Francis R. Nowak, son of Mrs. Mary Nowak, of Darby, formerly of Mandata, has enlisted in the Navy and was assigned for training to Parris Island, S. C. Private William Dyer, attached to an armored division at Fort Knox, is spending a furlough with his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. George Dyer, of Eighth and Chestnut Streets. Private Clair Kerstetter, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.

D. Kerstetter, of West Cameron Township, attached to an engineer unit at Camp Chaffee, spending a 10-day furlough with his parents. Del Raup, of Gowen City, stationed at Fort Knox, has been advanced to technical corporal, according to information received by his wife. Private First Class John C. Pickering is spending a 10-day furlough with his wife.

He is stationed at Goodfellow Field, San Angelo, Tex. Mr. and Mrs. I. A.

Berran, of 35 North Franklin Street, have been advised their son, Ignatius (Naish) Berran, who some time ago received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Stiver Star awards for heroic activi ties with the armed forces in the Far East has been promoted to corporal in the Army Air Corps. Corporal Berran is attached to General Mac- Arthur's forces in Australia. Corporal John W. Warlo, son of of Mr. and Mrs.

John Warlo, oi 929 West Pine Street, has been transferred from Westover Field, to Langley Field, accord ing to information received here James M. Cummings, son of Char les Cummings, 435 Hill Street, has enlisted for service in the Navy at Elkins, W. Va according to information received by his father. Corporal S. E.

Runkle, son of Mrs. Edith Runkle, of 14 South Shamokin Street, is stationed with the Army Air Corps at Craig Field, Selma, acording to information received by his mother and friends. Henry Lauer, son of Mrs. Frank Jack, of 1144 West Water Street, has been promoted from private first class to corporal at Fort Meade, according to information received here today. Staff Sergeant Charles Horne, of Barksdale Field, is spending a 10-day furlough wth his parents, Mr.

and Mrs. Charles Horne, 1002 West Mulberry Street. Lance Corporal Charles Ambrose returned to Fort Knox, alter a short furlough with his parents, Attorney and Mrs. Charles Ambrose, and his wife, Mrs. Charles Ambrose, Jr.

Corporal Ambrose is serving with the Army replacement and training center. WOMAN INJURED PICKING BERRIES Mrs. Mary Whary. 42. of Shamokin R.

D. 2, is in Shamokin Hospital with a fracture of the lower right leg, sustained yesterday while picking berries on a mountain near Gowen City. Mrs. Whary was walking through the wooded section when she slipped on a rock and fell. Unable to rise after the accident, the injured woman was assisted to her home, and was later taken to Shamokin Hospital.

Hospital surgeons upon examination discovered the fracture. MARTIN M. RODARMEL Funeral services for the late Martin M. Rodarmel. 690 Bear Valley Avenue, were held this afternoon at 2:00.

Services were in charge of Rev. F. G. Yost, pastor of Trinity Evangelical Church, Burial was in Shamokin Cemetery. WASHINGTON, Aug.

5 (U.R) Senate Republicans indicated today that they would not be willing to accept Wendell L. Willkie's proposed victory "creed" as a basis for this year's party platform. Most members refused to comment publicly, but former lion-in-terventionists objected that it sought to commit the G. O. P.

to a League of Nations after the war and to the principle of "policing the world." Willkie, in a statement issued in New York, proposed three basic principles for adoption by both the Democratic and Republican parties. He proposed: That America fight with the United Nations "until the last vestige of totalitarianism and aggression is destroyed throughout the world." That there be "no thought of appeasement, no hope of peace until we reach this end." That after the war "we must set up institutions and methods of international, political and economic cooperation." Senator John A. Danaher, said that "if the party were to adopt that program it might just as well nominate Democrats and be done with it." Senator George D. Aiken, said that anyone could agree with Willkie's first point. "His last point, though, would take a great deal of study," Aiken said.

"All of us are in favor of closer cooperation with other nations. With th annihilation of distance, that has got to come. "But if It means unrestricted Im migration and putting our labor in competition with the exploited peoples of other continents that is something on which we had better go easy. Human nature is going to exist after the war as it did before. We are going to have ambitious men and ambitious nations." Aiken said he did not believe it to be Willkie's duty to "write a plat form for the Republican party just yet." Others objected that Willkie's proposal could have no official standing since there was no way in which the party could go formally on record this year.

Today's War Moves By LOUIS F. KEEMLE Of the United Press War Desk As Mohandas K. Gandhi and his Nationalist leaders were reported preparing to serve an ultimatum on the government of India demanding complete independence, There is evidence that the Japanese were massing troops in Upper Burma and along the Bay of Bengal, presumably to strike at India when conditions are right. Gandhi's proposed nation wide civil disobedience campaign among India's 300,000,000 will present an opportunity which the Japanese probably will not be slow to seize. The revelation of Gandhi's proposal to "negotiate" with Japan shows how deluded he is with respect to Japan's intentions and methods.

In view of Gandhi's attitude, and Britain's determination not to grant Indian self rule in this critical period of history, there seems little prospect that the disobedience campaign can be averted. Ita effect on India's war effort by the slowing clown and stoppage of work will be tremendous. The strike is likely to be protracted for months. Even if the Indians realize their peril when the Japanese are upon them when the Japanese, for instance, are at the gates of the great city of Calcutta-it may then be too late. Japan obviously intends to invade India when she can.

The time may not be far off, perhaps soon after the end of the southwest monsoon in September. The weather in that area makes an invasion impracti cable now. Japan's conquest of upper and eastern Burma makes Japan's intentions towards India obvious. Frequent British bombing raids on Japanese concentrations in upper Burma and on Akyab, on the Burmese coast of the Bay of Bengal, indicate British concern over Japan's preparations. Brigadier General H.

S. Sewell, British war commentator, points out that the monsoon still hampers activity in the Bay of Bengal and in the mountain chain which forms the boundary between upper Burma and India, but that the rains which fall so heavily on the western slope of the mountains do not interfere greatly with operations in upper Burma. The high water at this season in both the Chindwin and upper Irrawaddy Rivers would make the concentration of troops and material easy. In addition to their activity in upper Burma, according to this British commentary, the Japanese also are advancing up the coast of the Bay of Bengal from Akyab towards Chittagong, the terminus of the railway from Calcutta. There are no roads along the coast and the country is unsuitable for military operations, but by gradual infiltration along the lower slopes of the hills, the Japanese may be able to consolidate their position sufficiently to combine their air, sea and land operations in this direction with the more direct thrust overland from Burma towards Assam.

Before the war Akyab was an important airport on the regular route to the East Indies and Australia. The British thoroughly destroyed it before they evacuated it, but the Japanese probably have restored it and are building other bases for combined air, naval and military operation. HARTFORD, Aug. 5 (U.R) The outbreak of war between the United States and the Axis nations prevented Gerhard Wilhelm Kunze leader of the German-American Bund, from going to Japan with vital American military secrets, it was disclosed today in the spy trial of the Rev. Kurt E.

B. Molzahn Kunze, a defendant In the spy conspiracy who has pleaded guilty, wrote a letter to Count Anastase A. Vonslatsky, another defendant who also pleaded guilty, on Decem ber 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Har bor, in which he said: "Roosevelt finally has what he thinks he wants, but before long he will have it in the neck. If the Japanese war had waited a few weeks more I would have been In Japan. "As it Is I shall have gone in an other direction by the time this let ter reaches you." Earlier in the trial, Dr.

Otto Wil lumelt, a defendant who testified for the government, said Kunze had a complete picture of U. S. military facilities on the West Coast, including fleet dispositions, harbor instal lations, and possible places of in vasion. Federal Judge J. Joseph Smith admitted the letter in evidence, along with another Kunze wrote to Dr.

wongang EDen, Ei Paso, a defendant who has pleaded guilty, also on December 8. "There is no going back "for me any more," Kunze wrote to Von-siatsky a few hours after America was plunged into war. The letters were admitted a short time before defense counsel asked the court for a directed verdict for Molzahn, Philadelphia Lutheran minister. Judge Smith denied the motion. In his letter to Dr.

Ebell, Kunze wrote: "Rosenfeld (President Roosevelt) has his war at last. It will cost him his head. The sudden outbreak of war has prevented my trip to Japan and it will be smart for me to keep going." In this letter, Kunze asked Dr. Ebell to send "mail or money orders from Juarez to Kurt, per his name. He will then forward the things." The government charges that Rev.

Molzahn used the address of his Philadelphia parish as a return address for Kunze, and that he also assisted Kunze in getting faked passports so he could leave ths country. At yesterday's session, Judge Smith had refused the government permission to introduce the two letters as evidence because the indictment said the alleged conspiracy ended on December 6, the day before the United States was attacked. He did not explain his refusal. In his letter to Count Vonslatsky, who has been sentenced to five years in a federal penitentiary, Kunze asked for more money so he could leave the country. The government alleged Vonsiatsky originally gave him $2,800 to leave the United States with the military secrets.

He asked Vonsiatsky to send the additional funds to Dr. Ebell. The defense cross-examined two government witnesses Father Alek-si Pelypenko, Ukrainian Catholic priest who workprl for the F. B. I.

as a counter-espionage agent, and Dr. Otto Flatter, New York City. The defense brought out that Dr. Flatter went to the F. B.

I. on July 13, offering information about his trip abroad in 1937 when he testified Molzahn approached him on shipboard. The cross-examination of Father Pelypenko was brief. It was brought out the priest visited Bishop Maurice F. McAuliffe of the Hartford diocese, but did not tell him he was here working for the F.

B. I. One of the first witnesses called by the defense was Judge Charles Greer, Johnstown, a retired common pleas judge off Cambria County, Pa. Judge Greer, a character witness, was followed by the Rev. Fritz Evers of Baltimore, who described Molzahn as a "man of integrity and loyal to the interests of the United States." Thomas J.

Dodd, special assistant to the United States attorney general, asked him under cross-examination if he tore up his first citizenship papers before the United States entered the first World War in 1917. "I tore up my papers," Rev. Evers said, "in 1915 in a moment of very rash and impetuous wrath in my home." Dodd asked if he had ever said publicly he would not be loyal to the United States at that time. "There was no one to say that to except to my wife," Evers replied. Dodd asked Evers if, when he was pastor of Old Zion Church at Philadelphia, the same church presided over now by Molzahn, he "ever took up a collection in a German soldier's helmet." The minister said he did not.

Evers testified that Father Pelypenko told him at their first meeting in May. 1941, at Baltimore, that Rev. Molzahn had sent him. Father Pelypenko, Evers said, asked him if he would contact the German embassy. "I refused to accede to his request," the minister related.

"I had never done that for anyone." The minister said he told the priest to contact the German consulate in Baltimore. Father Pelypenko told him, Evers testified, that he was being financed by the Germnn government to work among the Ukrainians in the United States. The last time he saw the priest was at an immigration station at Baltimore, Evers said. At this meeting, they only greeted each other. Max Fox, 42, foreground above, who said he was double-crossed out of $300,000 in bets on Wendell Willkie in the last Presidential election, is pictured after surrendering to police in connection with the killing of Robert Greene, 40, nationally known betting commissioner, and Morris "Dimples" Wolen, 44, in a New York City bridge club.

WELFARE GROUP PLANNING FOR SHAMOKIN UNIT Intake Center to Be Established for Convenience of Mothers Plans were launched yesterday at a meeting of the Northumberland County Child Welfare Service Committee for establishment of an intake center for Shamokin, to enable mothers to confer on problems concerning delinquent children and other matters affecting welfare of adolescents. The meeting was held in the court house annex and was in charge of Mrs. Harry Weiss, Sun-bury, president of the organization. Rev. E.

O. Butkofsky, past president and present membership chairman, and County Commissioner Clyde D. Boden, of Shamokin, were present. Other matters discussed besides establishment of an intake center for Shamokin were allowances for adolescents, Red Cross activities, reports on industrial conditions and women employed in defense industry. County Commissioner Boden reported consideration will be given by the county board of commissioners to a request made by the service committee for an allocation of funds to supplementing aid to children boarding in foster homes, when the county board considers Its budget for the ensuing year.

Miss Grace Collins, Northumberland County director, will be present when the intake center is opened here next month, to consult with mothers. Report of the Welfare Service Committee revealed 114 children in care at the beginning of the current month. Five cases were ac cepted during the month, making a present quota of 119. The children are distributed as follows: 45 in institutions; six in institutions under special care; 40 in boarding houses or in foster homes; three in wage and free homes, and 20 in homes of parents or relatives. BATHER INJURED AT REGION POOL Mrs, Betty Amarose, 20, of 122 South Market Street, Mount Car-mel, was injured yesterday while bathing with companions at a nearby bathing resort.

A companion who was with the young woman attempted to dive while standing on the shoulders of Mrs. Amarose, and when she leaped to the water, Mrs. Amarose felt a sharp pain in her neck. Companions fearing that the Mount Carmel woman may have suffered a dislocation, placed her in an automobile and hurried to Shamokin Hospital. Hospital doctors immediately ordered an X-ray examination, and when it was discovered that there were no fractures, administered medical treatment and ordered release of the patient.

BIRTHS Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stetzman, Williamsport, recently became the parents of a daughter, born in Williamsport Hospital. The mother is the former Miss Betty Stonesifer, formerly of Shamokin. A daughter was born in Geis-inger Hospital, Danville, to Mr.

and Joseph Palacz, 927 East Chestnut Street. Mrs. Palacz was Miss Jean Valence before her marriage. Mr. and Mrs.

Caleb Richards, 1435 Fern Street, are parents of a son born at Shamokin Hospital. Mrs. Richards was formerly Miss Helen Zimda. TEACHER NAMED Miss Mary Phillips, Dalmatia, yesterday was elected teacher of home economics on the staff of Watson-town High School, and will assume her new duties next month. It is Miss Phillips' first teaching assignment since graduation from Pennsylvania State College.

Another area teacher elected to tiie same school faculty is Ruth Crispeii. for the past several years a teacher in the schools at Numidia. Residents of Water Street, Coal Township, are welcoming relief from long-endured dust conditions through the arrival under contract to the Coal Township Commissioners of a large tanker truck, now engaged in pouring oil along thatv thoroughfare. Two large railroad tanks carrying oil for street purposes are parked on the Reading Railway siding near Independence and Liberty Streets, from which oil is being transported to the scene of street improvement work. It is understood several other Coal Township streets will be oiled under the commissioners' program.

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