THe Pomamder
KILLED IN ACTION
RICHARD WELLINGTON CEASE, January 29, 1942
KEATS POAD, March 3, 1942
DONALD FREEMAN, March 31, 1942
WALTER CECIL WILSON, June 28, 1942
HAROLD THOMAS KEPNER, December 19, 1942
' JOHN P. GLEASON, March 30, 1943
JOHN E. FRITZ, May 7, 1943
CLIFFORD S. NULTON, November 26, 1943
ELWOOD BLIZZARD, March 1, 1944
ROBERT RESSIGUE, April 20, 1944
ROBERT A. GIRVAN, May 14, 1944
SAMUEL GALLETTI, May 23, 1944
OTTO W. HARZDORF, June 1, 1944
JAMES DeANGELO, June 22, 1944
WILLIAM STRITZINGER, July 9, 1944
HERBERT C. CULP, July 12, 1944
ELWOOD R. RENSHAW, August 20, 1944
JAMES B. DAVIES, August 25, 1944
FREDERICK LOVELAND, September 12, 1944
HARRY BEAN, September 13, 1944
EDWARD METZGAR, October 12, 1944
CHARLES KINSMAN, November 5, 1944
DONALD L. MISSON, December 11, 1944
WILLIAM J. GAREY, December 12, 1944
PAUL S. KOCHER, December 17, 1944
JOSEPH YANEK, December 22, 1944
JOHN E. REESE, December 26, 1944
GEORGE H. RAY, January 9, 1945
CHESTER GORCZYNSKI, January 10, 1945
THEODORE SCOUTEN, January 12, 1945
HARRY S. SMITH, January 15, 1945
WILLIAM SNYDER FRANTZ, January 22, 1945
EDISON WALTERS, February 1, 1945
LESTER L. CULVER, February 9, 1945
JOSEPH RUSHINKO, March 11, 1945
DONALD J. MALKEMES, March 16, 1945
ARDEN R. EVANS, March 19, 1945
DANIEL T. MORRIS, April 11, 1945
WILLIAM PHILLIPS, May 4, 1945
DAVID DECKER, May 14, 1945
RICHARD E. JONES, May 27, 1945
BURTON E. BONELL, August 28, 194%
DIED IN SERVICE
GEORGE UTRICH, May 6, 1942
HOWARD A. COSGROVE, July 3, 1942
ROBERT F. REILLY, June 20, 1543
THOMAS CLARK LLOYD, July 4, 1943
EVAN J. BRACE, February 15, 1944
GEORGE S. RACE, October 26, 1944
JOHN LAITY, January 1, 1945
RAYMOND H LOVELAND, January 8, 1943
JOSEPH POLACHEK, January 22, 1945
ROY G. SCHULTZ, February 19, 1945
LAWRENCE GAVEK, February 26, 1945
HOWARD E. LYNN, April 1, 1945
CHARLES BILLINGS, April 3, 1945
FRANCIS SIDORICK, June 17, 1945
FRANCIS GREY, June 25, 1945
RALPH FLOWER, October 13, 1945
MICHAEL W. Q’'BOYLE, December 29, 1945
No Slow Down In Russia
By Maurice R. FRANKS
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Maurice R. Franks is
National Business Agent of the Railroad Yard-
masters of North America, Inc., and Editor of
that Union’s official publication, the Railroad
Workers Journal.)
While here in America we scrap with each other and
. slow down on the job of production through indulging in
many an unjustifiable strike, Russia is bending every ef-
fort to do the one thing that may be the means of her ulti-
mate victory. She is producing day and night such com-
modities as automobiles, radios, shoes, washing machines
and many more items, and is turning them out at a cost
with which it is almost impossible for us to compete.
Russian workers, averaging ten hours of work per day,
produce ten hours’ worth of goods. They do not slow
down on the job. They cannot. They are not allowed to.
They must produce. And they produce these commodities
on a pay basis far below that of American labor. The
American worker receives $8 per day for supposedly eight
hours’ work, amounting in most cases to approximately
four hours of actual production—the Russian worker re-
ceives the equivalent of about $2 for ten hours’ work,
which in his case is the equivalent of ten full hours’ pro-
‘duction.
Let us not be fooled by propaganda which suggests that
America can loaf her way to prosperity. It simply can’t
be done. Nor should we embrace the fatuous notion that
we Americans are so loyal to ourselves that we will buy
only American or union made goods. The truth is that
we, like all persons on this earth, will seek the market
that offers us the most of what we believe to be the best
for the least outlay. With American production, through
all-out insistence upon high wages and short hours, rigged
to force high commodity prices, we are in danger of drop-
ping behind our foreign competitors in the production
: race.
It is obvious that if Russia—or any other country for
that matter—can produce the same commodities that we
do, while maintaining a lower economic standard as re-
flected in wages, hours and selling prices, she will be in
an ideal position to do business with countries unable to
afford the commodities produced by us.
As in the case of the automobile, the Russian himself
has not attained a standard of living that permits him .
the luxury of owning one. Today he has to do with the
dire nesessities of life, and an automobile, a washing ma-
chine, a radio, etc., are luxuries not as necessary to his
way of life as they are to Americans who are accustomed
to a higher standard of living. Therefore, Russia is geared
to produce commodities for the world at enticing prices.
And now having up-to-date machinery, with her 189 mil-
lion people as against our own 139 million, she is well
equipped for the task. 4
The epidemic of strikes we have experienced has given
a decided advantage to the competitive team, the Russians.
If our labor leaders, who should be the coaches of our pro-
, duction team, were to utilize the brains with which the
everything within their power to get their team, the work-
ers of America, to “play ball” with the captains, the em-
ployers. And if they do this, we will be able to keep on
producing in the future, as in the past, the best and the
most for the least, by consistent, conscientious, tried and
proven productive efficiency. :
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MORE THAN A NEWSPAPER, A COMMUNITY INSTITUTION .
Other Communities | 0%
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good Lord endowed them, they would see this and do
Lt. James Pilots
Glider At Elmira
Trucksville Man Is
Bir Corps Instructor
A Trucksville young man, Lieu-
tenant Alfred James of Greenville,
S. C. Air Base was among a group
of army glider pilots who took part
in the air meet at Chemung County
Airport in Elmira last Sunday.
Lt. James piloted one of ten army
gliders that were towed behind five
army C-46s from Greenville to El-
mira last Saturday. The planes,
each towing two gliders, made the
trip in six hours with one stop over
at West Point. There was a pilot
and co-pilot in each glider.
The landing near Elmira was
made at Harris Hill during a driv-
ing rainstorm but with no difficulty.
Later the gliders were towed to the
County Airport where the crews
were given a rousing welcome by
an enthusiastic air-minded crowd
of Elmirians.
On Sunday Major General Pau] L.
Williams, Commanding Troop Car-
rier and Staff of the Third Air
Corps, arrived from Lawson Field,
Ga. in a mammoth C-82 Fairchild
(Flying Boxcar).
Lt. James, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. S. James of Trucksville, is
a glider instructor at the Green-
ville Air Base. He is a graduate
of Kingston Township High School
and Wyoming Seminary and as a
flight officer during the war took
part in the Wessel campaign pilot-
ing a glider carrying five men and
a tank back of the German lines.
Two thousand planes were used in
the operation which was later pic-
tured in Life Magazine.
During the Elmira meet, Lt.
James piloted the No. 2 glider of
the first ship in flight. After the
planes circled the field six times,
the ‘gliders were cut loose to glide
into spot landings.
Among those who witnessed the
events were Mr, and Mrs.. James
and Mrs. James’ mother, Mrs. C. N.
Edwards.
Most interesting to Mrs. James
was the manner in which the five
tow planes dropped their tow cords
one on top of the other on the
field. Each cord made is valued at
$800 and contains enough nylon
to make 30,000 pairs of women’s
stockings.
On Sunday evening the pilots
and high ranking army officers were
entertained at a banquet in the
Mark Twain Hotel and on Monday
morning they returned by air to
South Carolina.
Womenof Rotary
Start New Season
‘New President
Appoints Committees
Mrs. Harold Payne, newly elected
president, was in charge of the
luncheon meeting of Dallas Rotary
Women at Hotel Prins, Tunkhan-
nock, last Thursday. She announced
the following committees for the
coming year; layette, Mrs. L. F.
Kingsley, Mrs. Warren Yeisley, Mrs.
George Metz; shut-in and wheel
chair, Mrs. John Corliss and Mrs.
A. N. Garinger; sick cards, Mrs. R.
L. Hallock; visitation, Mrs. James
Besecker and Mrs. Robert Body-
comb; ways and means, Mrs, Har-
old Titman, Mrs. Harry Ohlman and
Mrs. Charles W. Lee; publicity, Mrs.
James Besecker; program, Mrs, Os-
wald Griffith and Mrs. Ralph Paul;
transportation, Mrs. Dan Richards,
Mrs. Harold Titman, Mrs. A. N.
Garinger, Mrs. Paul Warriner, Mrs.
L. L. Richardson, Mrs. John Corliss,
Mrs. Oswald Griffith, Mrs. George
Metz; telephone squad, Mrs. David
Williams, Mrs, David Jenkins, Mrs.
Leslie Warhola, Mrs. James Lacy,
Mrs. A. G. Rutherford.
Present at the meeting were:
Mesdames Ohlman, Corliss, Beseck-
er, Titman, Warhola, Yeisley, Reilly,
Williams, Metz, Huston, Lacy, Gar-
inger, Hallock, Lee, Payne; and Miss
Janet Garinger.
| ¥iichway Deaths
Highway deaths in Luzerne Coun-
ty during the first six months of
1946 totaled 23, or 10 more than
during the corresponding period for
1945. Of the fifteen pedestrians
killed, three were in rural areas,
one less than for the six months a
| year ago.
LORRY CARRIES BODIES OF JEWS KILLED IN HAIFA
A SINGLE LORRY, crudely trimmed with palm leaves, bears the bodies of Jews accused of breaking the British
curfew regulations in Haifa. Crowds line the street to watch the “funeral procession,” v-hile guards mount *
the lorry in the event any demonstrations should suddenly break out.
(International Radiophoto)
Brother and Nephew Of Mrs. Russ
Are Killed In Aer
ane Accident
After attending nd
her nephew, Evan Jones, 24, at
Clarks Summit Wednesday after-
noon, Mrs. George Russ Sr. left
for Cleveland, Ohio, to attend the
funeral yesterday ‘of her brother,
William E. Jones, 50, who with his
nephew was killed in the crash
of his four-place Stinson plane near
Dansville, N.Y., last Saturday after-
noon.
Accompanying her were her son,
George, daughter, ‘Mrs. Martha Russ
Smith, and grandson, Willard.
A former resident of Allentown. |
Mr. Jones, who was chief engineer
for Trundell Engineering Company
of Cleveland, was a frequent visitor
in this area. ‘Only three weeks ago
he telephoned Mrs. Russ from
Allentown that he would land his
new plane at Wyoming Valley Air-
port and invited her for a ride to
Scranton which she accepted.
On Saturday accompanied by his
nephew, Evan Jones, 'Clark’s Sum-
mit music teacher, Mr. Jones left
Scranton airport at 2 P.M. for Cleve-
land. Both men were killed an
hour later while flying low during
a thunderstorm mear Dansville.
First knowledge of the accident
came at 6:30 P.M. when a six-year
old boy discovered the wreckage
on his grandfather’s farm.
Mr. Jones was an active member
of Masonic bodies and was greatly
interested in work with young boys.
This summer he sponsored three
soft-ball leagues in Cleveland. Be-
side his other business activities
he owned the Jones Drug Company
in (Cleveland and was a former
captain in the Merchant Marine.
Beside his wife he leaves two
children, Doris Mae, 8 and William
Jr., 5, and the following brothers
and sisters: Arthur, with the State
Department of Welfare, Syracuse,
N.Y.; Evan, retired U.S.N. Elec-
trician’s Mate in charge of Scranton
Recruiting Station during the War,
Clark's Summit; Mrs. A. I. Young,
Sebring, Fla. and Mrs. Russ. He
was born in Scranton.
Disque Appointed
Deputy Coroner
Richard Disque, Dallas funeral
director, has been appointed deputy
county coroner to succeed Ralph
Brickel who has held the position
for the past seven years and/whod
resigned in favor of Mr. Disques
The appointment made by” Dr.
Lewis® Reese, County Coroner, be-
came effective August 1. The area
in which Mr. Disque will have juris-
diction includes all that territory
between Dallas Borough and the
Wyoming County line with the ex-
ception of Lehman Township.
Lehman Firemen Plan
$7,500 Fund Drive
A special meeting of Lehman
Volunteer Fire Company will be
held Tuesday night, August 27, in
the High School building to make
plans for a drive to raise $7,500
for the completion of the Fire
House.
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SANDS BULL CALVES
BRING TOP PRICES
AT MIDDLETOWN SALE
Two Holstein bull calves,
three and four weeks old, sons
of Montvic Pathfinder Pietje,
senior herd sire! belonging to
Ralph Sands _ét Carverton, top-
ped the salé for bul Ves last
week at the Tm sale in
Middletown. The calves brought
$100 each.
One of them went to Walter
Craig of Lebanon County and
the other to C. W. Schultz of
Dauphin County. Recently Mr.
Sands sold his thriving dairy
business and is mow devoting
all his energies to breeding
pedigreed Holsteins. Ralph has
nineteen animals in the Sands
combined herd of fifty-two.
Veterans Will
Honor Misson
All Day Program To
Be Held At Benton
Sunday, September 1st, will be
Harley Misson Day in Shavertown.
That's the day most every man,
woman and child will turn out for
a basket picnic at Benton Park to
honor the man who was the leading
spirit behind the establishment of
the honor roll board and the pretty
surrounding park that he has tend-
ed with loving care during good
weather and bad for the past four
years,
Most of the boys the board honors
are home now, but that hasn't dim-
med Harley's interest in keeping
it and the park beautiful. “It's
not so much for the boys at home
as it is for the six who didn’t come
back” he says as he urges his wife
to collect fresh flowers from meigh-
bors for the baskets that are each
week placed near the little white
crosses that dot the park.
Harley remembers those boys
well. For twenty-five years he has
been 4 fixture in Shavertown watch-
in€ the kid’s baseball games; taking
them fishing. Don Malkemes, Eddie
Metzgar, Jack Reese, Dick -Jones,
Charles Billings, George Ray—
Shavertown men and beys who
didn’t come back—Harley knew
them well and keeps their memory
fresh for the other villagers who
stop to pass the time of day or
rest. for a moment on the white
benches outside the park enclosure.
Harley would be the last man
in the community to say that he
deserves the credit for the Honor
Roll. Dozens of men helped to
level off the ground and put sod
on it, and John Stevenson built
the benches and did much of the
carpentry while hundreds of people
contributed to the upkeep; but the
boys ‘who are back from service
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Lehman Police
Elect Officers
Association Will Aid
. rr
In Police ction
Efforts of many Lehman Town-
ship residents to create an active
effective police force were rewarded
Wednesday night when the organ-
izational meeting of Lehman Town-
ship Police Association was held in
Lehman High School.
The - previous system of policing
inade-
quate. With part of Harvey's Lake
and Lake Silkworth under his juris-
diction, Chief Joseph Ide could not
do a thorough job with the force
at his disposal. Under the new sys-
tem members of the force are lo-
cated in all sections of the town-
ship and will be available when-
ever Chief Ide needs assistance.
During Wednesday's meetin g
plans were prepared for an Associ-
ation-sponsored dance to be held
August 230, at the Casino, Harvey's
. Tickets can be . secured
through any member of the Associ-
ation.
In addition to the regular busi-
ness meeting the following officers
were elected: president, Joseph Ide;
treasurer L. E. Beisel; secretary,
William Drabick; finance committee,
Richard Morgan and ‘Alex Tough.
Other members present were Rus-
sell Walters, Fred Davenport, John
Major, Paul Goodwin, William
Casterline and Joseph (Casterline.
Next scheduled meeting will be held
August 30 at the High School.
Paul Announces
Concert Program
Sam Davis To Be
Soloist With Band
Dr. Henry M. Laing Fire Company
Community Band will give an out-
door concert at the bandstand on
Veterans’ Memorial Drive on Sun-
day afternoon at 4.
Mr. Samuel Davis of Trucksville
will be guest soloist and Mr. Ralph
Paul will direct the band.
The following program will be
played: March, National Emblem—
Bagley; Overture, Panorama—C, L.
Barnhouse; Spanish March, Valen-
cia—Jose Padilla; Vocal solo, Stout
Hearted Man—Romberg, Mr. Davis;
Selection, In a Monestary Garden—
Albert Ketelbey, featuring Kenneth
Cosgrove, baritone; March, On The
Square—Frank Panella; Intermezzo
scene, In A Persian Market— Ketel-
bey; March, Gippsland—Lithgow,
featuring ‘Wilma Hess, twirler; Over-
ture, Dreadnaught—Holmes; Popu-
lar, Hallelujah from Hit The Deck—
Youmans; March, Battle Song of
Liberty—Biglow (dedicated to the
men and women home from ser-
vices) Harvest Hymn, Come Ye
Thankful , People, Mr. Sam Davis;
March Fairest of the Fair— Sousa,
featuring Wilma Hess.
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Danish Girl To
Be Lehman Pupil
Susanne Tvede Arrived
From Denmark In June
Among the 500 youngsters who
will trek to Lehman Schools on
Wednesday morning, September 4
none will be more excited Han
eight-year-old Susanne Tvede who
arrived on the Gripsholm lim-dFue
from Coporhagen, Denmarl-. with
her mother, Lirs. Jens Tvede, two
older sisters, Bettina and Bodil, and
her grandmother, Mrs. Claudine
Eiberlin.
Presently they are living with
Susanne’s great uncle and aunt,
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Ashley of
Wild Ledges. Mrs. Eiberlin is a
sister of Mrs. Ashley.
Just to make sure that every-
thing will start off correctly on the
first day of school in a strange
country, and that she will be as-
signed to the proper grade, Susanne
and her mother visited ‘Supervising
Principal Howard Hendricks at his
office on Tuesday.
Until three months ago, Susanne
informed Mr, Hendricks, she spoke
no English except to her mother
and grandmother and occasionally
to her sisters. With all other mem-
bers of her family and her play-
mates she spoke only Danish.
To test Susanne’s ability to read
English, Mr. Hendricks pointed to
a set of Compton’s Picture Encyclo-
pedia for Children on his desk. “In
one of those books, Susanne, is
something about Denmark. See if
you can find it.” She busily
thumbed through the index, then
opening one of the volumes she
pointed excitedly to a page of pic-
tures. Reverting to her mative
tongue she jabbered in Danish to
her mother, then explained to Mr.
Hendricks. One of the pictures
showed a part of a street in Copen-
hagen within four doors of the
home of her grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Godfried Tvede. Her grand-
father is one of the most famous
architects in Copenhagen. ;
Mr. Hendricks then gave her a
vocabulary and an arithmetic test
and decided that Susanne will be °
a member of the third grade. Then
he took her for a tour of the build-
ings, explaining the cafeteria and
canning ‘center and let her use the
playground swings.
She was delighted about every-
thing at Lehman. Mr. Hendricks
cautioned that she might feel
strange in her mew environment
surrounded by American classmates,
but that he hoped her steacher
would conduct a classroom project
on Denmark so that she could tell
the other boys and girls about her
country.
Asked what impressed her most
about America she was quick to
reply “ice cream.” The list of
twenty-four flavors in a Howard
Johnson Restaurant overwhelmed
her, said her mother. The warm
climate also impressed her. Den-
mark, though warmer in winter, is
considerably cooler.
Mrs. Tvede and her mother have
lived in Denmark for the past
seventeen years. She is the former
Claudine Kraenzlein, daughter of
Alvin C, Kraenzlein who won seven
world records for the hurdles, broad
and high jumps at the first Olym-
pics in Paris in 1900.
She explained that none of her
family spoke English during the
German occupation of Denmark for
to do so was to excite the suspicion
of the Gestapo which trailed her
family constantly.
She was not surprised at Su-
sanne’s love for ice cream and
sweets. “In Denmark there was
none during the war, even though
that country is mormally one of
the leading dairy areas of the
world.”
Susanne’s sister, Bettina, will at-
tend Wyoming Seminary this fall
and Bodil wil] attend ‘a school in
Philadelphia. ;
Mrs. Allie Morris
To Be 82 Years Old
Mrs, Allie Morris of Fr:
nesday, August 28. Mrs,
the oldest living resident to have
been born and spent her life in
Dallas. She is the widow of the late
Frank Morris.
She will be home al] day and
glad to have her old friends drop
in for a good old-fashioned visit.