a a a a a a a a Navy Blimp Passes Over City Lazily cruising over Allentown yesterday, a Navy blimp, believed to be the largest of its type (non-rigid), attracted considerable attention. Out of Lakehurst, N. the airship, which was in short-wave communication at times with the Airways Communications station at the AllentownBethlehem airport, was on a routine training flight on its jaunt over the city. George F. Hellick Urges the Changing Of 6 Teachers Colleges Into Schools For Master Farmers and Homemakers HARRISBURG, July 16.
Changing of at least six of Pennsylvania's 14 state teachers colleges into schools for the training of master farmers and homemakers was urged today by George F. Hellick of Easton, a trustee of Pennsylvania State college. Hellick made his suggestion in an open letter to Hiram G. Andrews, Democratic House leader, who recently charged a drive to convert some of the colieges into something else "is merely a part of a continuing conspiracy" by friends of liberal arts colleges to destroy the schools. "If he (Andrews) were fully full equality for youth in educational familiar and sincere in his desire for 1 training for life's work," wrote Hellick, "he would have responded to the call of churchmen of many denominations in Pennsylvania and aided them in transferring least six of these state teachers colleges into master farmers and homemakers Hellick said before the war there He's Now Captain Sam Solomon Sam Solomon 1102 Fullerton one of the charter members of the Civil Air Patrol's Allentown Squadron 21, has been promoted from lieutenant to captain the organization which functions in conjunction with the Army Air Force.
Captain Solomon, holder of a private pilot's license, heads the squadron's intelligence unit. He recently attended the Third Service Command's School of Military Tactics at Fort Meade, preparatory to getting his promotion. He and Lieutenant Byron Blay, of the local squadron, were the first CAP pilots to fly on the Army's aiming and tracking mission at Mitchel Field, N. in November, 1942. Captain Solomon has participated in all of the squadron's maneuvers and has been one of the pilots who took War Bond purchasers aloft for free aerial flights.
Pic. Herman Morakowitz At Redistribution Station Private First Class Herman Frank Morakowitz, 22, of 153 W. 16th Northampton, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.
Morakowitz, has recently returned from service outside continental United States and is now temporarily stationed at the Army Ground and Service Forces Redisribution Station. Atlantic City, N. J. While at this installation he will receive a series of tests to determine his fitness for future assignments. Private Morakowitz served 8 months as rifleman the European theatre of operations and wears the EuropeanAfrican Middle Eastern Campaign ribbon, Good Conduct medal and Purple Heart.
Before entering the service Private Morakowitz was employed by the Bethlehem Steel Co. at Bethlehem. Boy, 5, Hit by Auto On Bethlehem Bridge Hit by a car on the Bethlehem hill-to-hill bridge when he broke away from his sister, Adele Yeakel, 10, and Alma Steiger, 11, who were holding his hands, five-year-old David Yeakel, Hellertown R. 1, was treated at St. Luke's hospital for multiple burns bruises of the face, arms and legs.
The accident happened at 2:15 p. m. Monday. The car, driven by Earl E. Sell.
of Lawrence Allentown. was going south on the bridge when the accident occurred. according to ofAcers Rudolph Mitman and Raymond Rueter, who investigated. Sell took the boy to the hospital and later reported to police headquarers where he was released on his own recognizance. Easton Seabee Receives Honorable Discharge Oliver H.
Seiple, boatswain's mate second class, husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Seiple, of 472 W. Berwick Easton, has arrived home after being honorably discharged from the Naval hospital at Bainbridge, Md. Seiple entered the Seabees Oct. 31.
1944, and received boot training at Camp Peary. and further training in California before being sent overseas July 15, 1944. After being stationed in the Hawaiian for nine he returned to the states. He was graduated from Easton High school in 1929, and before entering the Seabees was employed by the Taylor Wharton Iron and Steel Easton. Gehringer Will Filed His wife Pauline E.
is the sole beneficiary and the executrix under the terms of the will of the late William A. Gehringer of this city. The estate is valued at $1500 in personal property. It was probated yesterday in the office of Register of Wills Benfer. SECOND SECOND Teacher, Wife, Sister-in-law Tired Of Running 'Phone Exchange in Home So Berks-Lehigh Company Is for Sale Thirty-nine-year-old Ira Schroeder of Kempton, a school teacher in Berks county rural schools for about 20 years, is just a "wee bit" tired of being a telephone operator.
So are his wife. Elda, and his wife's sister. Dorothy Bond. because of their desire to give job which the Scuroeders have held for more than 12 years, the 30- Berks and Lehigh Telephone carol dip for sale. Thus four offers have been made for the independent public utility concern which services 172 telephone subscribers and has two trunk lines into the Reading office of the Bell Telephone Co.
for long-distance hookups with the Bell system. The company's magneto switchboard is located Schroeder home. The Schroeders have offered their resignations to the telephone company and have given the company the required 60-day notice, terminating their services Sept. 1. The seven directors headed by Dr.
W. J. Fetherolf of Steinsville, president of the company, undecided as to the action to taken will study the offers received firm which has a capital stock authorization of 000 and then recommend a course of action for the 50 stockholders. Anson R. Greenawalt of Kempton, of the company, said yessecretary.
over few years Masonic Case Defendants File Appeal A prison sentence was imposed by President Judge James F. Henninger in the Lehigh county courts yesterday upon one three defendants found guilty by a jury recently of conspiracy and false pretense in connection with the signing of members in a clandestine Masonic Iodge. A motion of counsel, however, stayed enforcement of the sentences for two pending the filing of appeal to the State Superior Court. The sentence of the court carried with it imprisonment for one of the defendants and heavy fines for the other two. John Alden Johnson, of Mauch Chunk, through whose activity new members were obtained for a lodge purporting to be affiliated with others that operate the Masonic temple in Allentown and the Masonic Home at Elizabethtown, was sentenced to serve 18 months in the Lehigh county prison in each of three cases against him.
The prison sentence in two of the cases, however, is to run concurrent with that imposed the first case. In addition, he was ordered to pav fines of $50 and the costs of Continued on Page 11, Column 5 Give Red Cross Reports The chairmen of the various departments of the Lehigh county chapter of the American Red Cross presented reports yesterday at the regular bimonthly board of directors meeting held at noon in the Americus hotel. Presiding was chairman Luther R. Bachman. One report, by William A.
Gibson, chairman of the finance committee showed that Red Cross War Fund campaign last March reached a final total of $310,497. The county's quota was $275.000. Mrs. Samuel Lutz was introduced by Mr. Bachman as the acting 1s filling on a temporary basis ecutive secretary of the chapter.
site vacancy created the resignation of Harry Wilbur, who left the local chapter to accept a position at Eastern Area Red Cross headquarters in Alexandria. Va. Reports were presented by Mrs. James Sheldon, chairman of volunteer special services; Mrs. Ray Druckenmiller, Junior Red Cross: Theodore Storb, camp and hospital Edward Keeley, water safety; Mrs.
Helen C. Chubbuck, nurse recruitment: John Oberly, disaster relief; Mrs. James C. Poff, public information; Elizabeth Capron, home secretary, who report- ed for the home service chairman. Dr.
Samuel Ziegler. The report ot Mrs. Joseph Young, chairman of blood donor service. was presented by a member of her organization. me Chairman Oberly of disaster relief reported that key personnel in the chapter's disaster relief organization were alerted yesterday when streams in this area rose steadily as a result of the heavy rain.
The chapter house was open all day and the organization was prepared to put its program into operation on short notice. The alert was ended during the evening when reports showed that the streams would not reach flrod level. Allentown Optimists Invite Bethlehem Men To 'Fellowship Night' The Optimist club of Allentown has extended invitations to 25 prominent business and professional men of Bethlehem to attend a "Fellowship Night" to be held in the near future for the purpose of getting acquainted. and to acquaint the local men of the objects and purposes of Optimism International. Major Seymour will meet with the Allentown branch on Wednesday to complete arrangements for the program.
Headed by Past President Fred Stebbins. the committee includes Lloyd Grammes, George Hamilton. Charles Petrie, Rev. Joseph McGonigle, Henry Snyder and Arnold Schreiter. The steering committee.
organized to select additional names of Bethlehemites to be invited to charter membership includes William Sheridan, Robert Earich, Fritz Mercur and James Taylor. Optimism International recently held its twenty-sixth annual convention at Minneapolis, and the new district governor for district 2. in which Bethlehem 15 located is Edward L. Stack of Wilmington, Del. Bethlehem will be the twenty-first club organized in this district.
Quakertown WAVE Wed To Everett, Yeoman Edna Jane Watratz, radioman second class of the WAVES, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Watratz, of 514 Juniper Quakertown, was recently married to John Dillon, yeoman first class. of Everett. The ceremony, a formal military wedding, took place in the Gesu church in Miami.
Fla. The bride, a former telephone operator in Quakertown, is employed in the Naval Training Center Communications office in Miami and the bridegroom is employed in the offices at McAllister barracks. Bethlehem Boys Club Campers Win Honors Francis Kostelnik was named honor camper of the week at the outdoor recreation center of the Boys' Club of Bethlehem at Camp Mohican, Deleware, N. J. Winners of the arts and crafts were Joseph Asher, senior.
and Richard Gonzales, junior. One of the interesting events of the initial week was a track meet with most of the campers competing. Mack Ships 1st Reconstruction Work Trucks NEW YORK, Tuesday, July Shipment of the first trucks for reconstruction work in France and Belgium begins today according to C. T. Ruhf, president of Mack Trucks, Inc.
The initial order for 100 Macks allots 50 vehicles to each country. The total cost is more than half a million dollars The French trucks, equipped with dump bodies, are rated at 22,000 pounds gross vehicle weight, commonly known as five or six ton trucks. The Macks for Belgium are rated at 000 pounds gross vehicle weight and carry tanks for gasoline haulage. Each truck can carry 1,500 gallons of gasoline per trip. While the French owned trucks start overseas this week, the first of the Belgium shipments will not take place for another month.
Both orders were placed wih Mack through the United States Treasury department. Bridge Owners Invited to Meet Shroyer Friday quehanna river for the purpose of freeing it. Shroyer refused to divulge the figure, pending action on it by the owners. the Harrisburg Bridge Co. Shroyer acted under an act of the 1945 Legislature which authorized purchase and freeing of any or all of the remaining 10 toll brdiges in HARRISBURG, July 16.
(AP)-John U. Shroyer, secretary of highways, said today he has made an offer to purchase to the owners of the Market Harrisburg. toll bridge over the Sus- Pennsylvania. The Assembly appropriated $7,000,000 of motor funds for the purpose. Shroyer said owners of three other bridges, the 8th St.
bridge at Allentown and a the New St. and Minsi Trail spans, both at Bethlehem, would be invited to confer with him here Friday discuss sale of those structhat letters inviting the bridge comtures to find Commonwealth. He said pany officials to the conference went out today. Delaware River Anti Pollution Pact in Effect HARRISBURG, July 16. (AP) A -State compact to correct and control pollution of the Delaware river basin became effective today.
Charles M. Morrison, secretary of the Commonwealth, announced receipt of a certificate from Executive Secretary James H. Allen, of the Interstate Commission on the DelaRiver Basin, that Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey and Delaware have now ratified the agreement, placing it in effect. Last to act on the compact was Pennsylvania whose Legislature passed a necessary enabling law at its recent session. The States ratified the compact several years ago.
rather The agreement, negotiated by the Interstate Commission and approved by the health departments of the four States, sets up minimum standards for purity of water in four zones of the river and provides for their enforcement by the respective states. The zones are: One, from headquarters Morrisville; two, from Morrisville to the mouth of Pennypack creek Philadelphia; three, from Pennypack creek to the Pennsylvania- Delaware line; and four from the State line to the Atlantic ocean. In the first two zones, the agreement requires among other things a reduction of organic subsidences discharged into the river of at least 85 per cent. while providing they must be sufficiently free of acid, alkalise, and other toxic substances as not to menace public health. Requirement for waters in zone three and four include provisions they must be free of noticeably floating solids and also substances producing offensive odors or tastes.
A health department engineer explained standards set up by the compact have been "practically in effect" since were agreed on by the various State health authorities some years ago. He added the agreement provides that waters of intrastate tributaries of the Delaware must have the same degree of purity at their confluence with the larger stream as those of the Delaware. Northampton Corporal Completes New Course Corporal Russel A. Rice, USMC, son of James Rice, 67 W. Fourth Northampton, has been graduated from the Infantry and Browning Automatic Rifle Section school at the Training command, Camp 1 Pendleton, Oceanside, Calif.
Marines graduating from this school will be assigned to infantry battalions and their training has prepared them for amphibious landings and lishing and securing beachheads. Corporal Rice, Borne May 21, 1924, at Northampton, attended high school there, where he participated in football and basketball. He enlisted the Marine corps at Philadelphia in 1942. A veteran of Marine campaigns at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian, Corporal Rice wears the Purple Heart medal, two Presidential Unit citations and three stars on his Atlantic-Pacific ribbon. Bethlehem Board to Refund Taxes on 'Annexed' Area Refund of $2426.68 by the Bethlehem Steel Co.
in taxes on lots figuring in the annexation of territory from Lower Saucon township to the city of Bethlehem, was ordered by the Bethlehem school board last night. County court and State Supreme court decisions have held that the school districts of the township and city were not affected by the annexation, hence school taxes on in question were due the township district and not the city district. The refund is to be made when budgeted funds are available. 31st Wedding Anniversary Mr. Mrs.
Harold S. Metzger, 1609 Broadway, Bethlehem on Monday observed their 31st wedding anniter of the late Mr. and Mrs. John versary. Mrs.
Metzger is the a daughMcIntyre of Bethlehem. Mr. Metzger, for the past 16 years has been employed in the Bethlehem post office. A son, Lieutenant Joseph is serving with the First Army in Germany. Training at Norfolk Stephen John Skubik, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Stephen Skubik, 1416 Washington Northampton, is at the Naval Training station in Norfolk, training for duties aboard a new destroyer in the Atlantic fleet. Before 18 and a seaman second class. was enlisting in the a Navy, Shubik, who is employed by the Fur Dog and Novelty Egypt, Pa. Withdraws Plea For New Trial In Bingo Case A fine and the cost of prosecution were assessed against John Schankowitz of 826 N.
Penn by President Judge James F. Henninger yesterday when he appeared for sentence as defendant in Lehigh county's bingo case. The fine ordered is $500. The sentencing Schankowitz followed withdrawal of a motion for a new his counsel. Atty.
Linn H. Schantz. Atty. Schantz informed the court his client, who is employed by Consolidated-Vultee, had received orders transferring him to a California plant of the corporation and, therefore, decided to withdraw contest of the case And pay the penalty. District Attorney Theodore R.
Gardner, who prosecuted the case, made no comment. Judge Henninger accepted the withdrawal of the motion for arrest of judgment and for a new trial and proceeded to impose sentence. Schankowitz was ordered to pay a fine $500 and the costs of prosecution. die and his lawyer left the courtroom and proceeded to the probation office where the fine and costs were paid. Schankowitz was convicted by a jury last month of operating a bingo game at 24-26 N.
10th St. on the night of April 28. While the game was in progress officers of the law the crowded hall and placed Schankowitz under arrest. Witnesses at all testified Schankowitz had operated the game. Hospital Seeks Permit to Kill Own Beef So difficult has the meat situation become for mstitutions serving meals that the Allenown hospial has filed application for a slaughterer's permit which would enable the hospital to buy live steers and have a Federallylicensed butcher kill, grade and process the animals.
This was learned yesterday in a survey of the local field with the Lehigh County Hotelmen's and Restaurant Assn. going on record AS favoring suspension of dining room operations one week in every month until the meat supply becomes more adequate. At the same time the Allentown War Price and Rationing Board through its chairman, Lloyd Hersh. blamed black market operations for much of present shortage. Hersh said that the board is heartily in favor of trying to secure more beef for the institutions sorely in need of it.
He said that much of the locally -raised cattle is evidently being taken out of he county and "if we don't stop the black market, none of us will have any meats. George Sherer, superintendent of the Allentown hospital, said that the shortages have creaed a difficult situation and that situation is expected to become more severe. He said the hospital has been forced to use substitutes such as smoked sausage for beef, because of its inability to secure a sufficient meats required by patients. He said the application for the slaughterer's permit had gone to Washington and he was hoping that it would be approved. Doubt that it would be approved was intimated when Hersh revealed that the Philadelphia District office of the Office of Price Administration had informed him that a similar application from St.
Luke's hospital in Bethlehem had been denied. Speaking for Sacred Heart hospital, Monsignor Leo G. Fink said the institution was forced to take what it could get and that its plight was ilar 0 other institutions. He said it has been a common complaint for some time. Arbogast and Bastian largest slaughter house in the Allentown area and with all its meats Federally-inspected through the Department of Agriculture, reported that it would gladly slaughter steers acquired by local hospitals in an effort to supply them with the meats required for their patients.
A spokesman for meat packers said that its thou purchases of steers is practically nil because of the existing OPA regulations. He said that the firm's output has been concentrated on hogs with regulations differen from those covering cattie making it possible for the company to operate without fear of violating regulations. Three Bethlehem, Bath Nazareth Men Returning From European Theater Three soldiers from this area, Private First Class James Duri, Bethlehem: Technician Fifth Class Walter Koffer, Bath, and Private First Class David Achenbach, Nazareth, are among those returning home from Europe with the Eighth Infantry division. Duri, whose address is 1757 W. Broad Bethlehem, and who the son of James Lee Duri, 913.
Tilghman Allentown, entered the Army in December, 1943. He has been overseas 14 months during which time he participated in the campaigns in Normandy, Northern France and Central Germany. holds the Certificate of Merit. Meritorious Service plaque, Good Conduct medal and the E.T.O. ribbon with three battle stars.
Koffer is the son of Mrs. Edna Koffer, 27 Chestnut Bath, and is A graduate of Nazareth High school. He entered the Army in September, 1942, and was overseas 19 months. He holds the Combat Infantryman's badge. Achenbach, whose wife lives in Nazareth R.
3, graduated from Teel's school, Plainfield township, and entered the Army in December, 1943. During the 11 months that he was overseas. he participated in the Normandy and Northern Germany campaigns. He is the holder of the Purple Heart medal and the Combat Infantryman's badge. The Eighth (Golden Arrow) division took part in Normandy breakthrough, the capture of Brest.
and the fight in Hertgen forest. Troops of the Eighth were the first to cross the Roer river, launching the drive that reached the Rhine. Hellertown Playgrounds Attract Average of 78; To Display Handwork Average attendance at Hellertown Playgrounds for the past week was 78 per day, according to a report by R. R. Hoppes, playground supervisor, at the regular meeting of the Hellertown Recreation board held last night in Hellertown High school.
R. N. Taylor, president of the board, presided. Handwork made as part the playground program was displaved after the meeting. and it was announced that on Friday a handwork exhibit will be held at the playground.
Prizes will be awarded for the best work done. Helen Raidline is supervisor handwork. No playground sessions will be held on Wednesday because of the combined Sunday school penic to be held at Dorney park. Hotel, Restaurant Assn. for Week Dining Room 'Holiday' Each Month Till Meat, Other Food Shortages End the company has paid annually a 3 per cent dividend on its stock and that in some years the dividend payment has ranged as high as 6 per cent.
He said that the Bell system, through a "gentleman's agreement" with the Pennsylvania Independent Telephone Assn. with which the Berks and Lehigh is affiliated, is not in a position to buy the rural telephone concern. However, the Bell system lists all the subscribers of the Berks Lehigh regular "Allentown and nearby points" telephone directory as a service the company and its 172 subscribers who located in Kempton, Albany, Stony Run, Lynnport, Steinsville, Wanamakers, Jacksonville, Lynnville and Lenhartsville. It may be possible, Greenawalt said, that the directors may reject the bids and decide to have the switchboard installed in somebody else's home in Kempton and keep the organization intact. Ira Schroeder teaches a oneroom schoolhouse in Windsor township in Berks county.
When he is not at home his wife operates the switchboard and she is sometimes relieved by her sister, Dorothy Bond. The Schroeders have a son, Arlan, who is 13 years old. Mrs. Schroeder said yesterday that the work covers 24 hours a day and that often they are roused from their sleep to answer the buzz of the board. 70 Area Soldiers Reach Gap for Redeployment Seventy soldiers from Allentown and nearby districts arrived Saturday at the reception station, Indiantown Gap Military reservation for redeployment.
They are Sergeant Arnold A. Imhof, Catasaqua; Private First Class Joseph Skurla, Allentown; Corporal Thomas L. Davis. Bethlehem; Sergeant Roscoe J. Bitting, Allentown; Sergeant John Kost, Bethlehem: Corporal Joseph T.
Raymond, Easton; Private First Class Steven J. Denes, Easton; Private First Class John J. Rothermel, Macungie; Private First Class Raymond F. Seibert, Bangor. Private First Class Robert E.
Doll. Weissport; Private First Class Dandel S. Kramer, Easton; Staff Sergeant Gerald K. Shingler, Macungie; Private First Class Robert F. Balliet, R.
1, Lehighton; Private First Class Larue D. Strohl, Northampton; Private First Class Russell Aston, Lane. Private First Class Francis J. bulkish, Catasaqua; Sergeant Richard E. Marcks, Allentown; Staff Sergeant John E.
Meckel, Schnecksville; Corporal Bernard A. Genua, Easton; Corporal Joseph F. Serado, Nesquehoning: Sergeant John Lukish, Nesquehoning; Private First Class Harold F. Debus, R. 1.
Zionsville. Corporal Jack S. Sanders. Bethlehem; Corporal Cleon F. Boyer, Topten; Sergeant Joseph T.
Butchko, Easton; Corporal Robert B. Clauss, Allentown; Sergeant Albert I. Goldstein, Allentown; Corporal Anthony Schmall, Catasauqua; Private StanReilly, Bethlehem; Staff Sergeant Raymond H. Fox, Hamburg; Corporal Benjamin J. Kulpa, Summit Hill: Private First Class William J.
Kilian, Allentown; Sergeant Frank A. Sanders, Easton; Sergeant Frederick O. Eagle, Catasauqua. Corporal George C. Hixon, Easton; Private First Class Adam P.
Hainley, R. 1, Ringtown; Private First Class Justin V. Olsovsky, Summit Hill; Private First Class Curtis L. Schaedel, Allentown; Sergeant Thomas Ceraul, Pen Argyl; Corporal Dominic Falcone, R. 1, Bangor; Corporal Donaldson Dietrich, Bangor; Corporal Charles T.
Heard, Bangor; Corporal Ray C. LeBarre, R. 1, Bangor; Private First Class Ritzie Cifennie, Roseto: Private First Class Richard J. Davey, Wind Gap; Private First Class Chester Ennico, Bangor. Private First Class Herbert H.
Knapp, Pen Argyl; Private First Class Harvey B. Reeser, Allentown: Private Franklin H. Shellhammer, Palmerton: Sergeant Frank J. J. Doncsecz, R.
1. Hellertown: Corporal Edward J. Stephen, Bethlehem; Private Class Harry Blum, Allentown; Private First Class Anthony Malone, Argyl. Private First Class Anthony Penuniz, Roseto; Private First Class Arch F. Pritchard, Bangor: Private William J.
Tauschman, Catasaqua; Private First Class Ralph Whitaker, Palmerton; Private John Whitehouse, Allentown: Sergeant John A. Batley. R. 4. Bethlehem; Private Arthur C.
Bennage, R. 1, New Ringgold; Private Edward Berkowski, Allentown: Private First Class Frederick C. West, Palmerton: Private First Class Russel G. Sanders, Fleetwood: Corporal Francis E. Kale, Quakertown; Corporal Charles L.
Kovacs, R. 1, Coopersburg. Corporal Gerald M. Mohr, Emmaus; Corporal Andrew Suberroe, R. 1, Emmaus: Corporal Thomas R.
Bond, Nesquehoning. and Private First Class Fred R. Rentschler, Ringtown. 30 Bethlehem Boys Back from Camp Dent, Replaced by New Group Spirits are still high at Camp Dent, the Bethlehem YMCA camp, in spite of much rain, according to reports brought back by some 30 Bethlehem boys, who have completed their stay the camp. About 35 Bethlehem boys are at the camp for this middle period and 40 boys are registered for the final period which begins July 28.
Campers attended Sunday morning service in the camp assembly hall where Mr. Saxton talked with them on habits that will help them to meet life's opportunities. Vespers were held Sunday evening. Although the little brook that runs through the camp was a raging torrent yesterday, the point where the cabins and oher buildings are 10- cated is 50 high above the stream that everything is perfectly safe and out of reach of any possible flood. Bethlehem Airman Home After 25 Months James L.
Broughal Aviation Radioman second class, USNR, of-742 Pawnee Bethlehem, has returned from a 25-month tour of duty in the Atlantic where he served as radioman gunner of one of the Navy's land-based Liberator search planes on numerous combat patrols with Patrol Bombing Squadron 107. The 31-year-old Bethlehem airman's group comprised one five squadrons operating as front line units of Fleet Air Wing Seven. Patrol Bombing Squadron 107 was credited with sinking nine of the 14 Nazi subs, to grain high scoring honors of the Atlantic quintet. A graduate of Bethlehem High school, Broughal entered the Navy in Feb. 1942.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Broughal.
At Drew Field, Tampa Corporal Robert L. Longenbach, Northampton R. 1, is among recent arrivals at the Third Air Force Personnel depot located at Drew Field, Tampa, Florida, which is now a central assembly station for redeployment of troops in the Third Air Force. Longenbach entered the service in December, 1941, and was overseas for months. Matter of Closing Food-serving Facilities of Places with Liquor Licenses Complicates Plan-State Board Ruling to Be Sought Definite agreement was reached yesterday by members of the Lehigh County Hotel and Restaurant Assn.
to close their eating establishments for one-week period each month until the meat and other food situations A clegist when the plan would be put into effect was not determined at the meeting but after further study as to methods at least one week's trial will be given with the expectation that it would continue indefinitely. Meeting at the Hotel Traylor discussion was held on the increase in the habit of dining out on the part of people whose ration points have been spent and the problems of food supplies that confront the hotel and restaurant operators. The operator of one of the larger transient hotels said that his dining room business had increased over 65 per cent above the number of registered guests. Another said th.it for a two-day period all he could serve was bacon and eggs with nary meat item on the menu. Others had the same story to tell.
of the difficulty revolves around the absence of meats and poultry from legitimate channels of trade. Rather than enter black market transactions violate Office of Price Administration regulations the weeklong holiday was suggested as the only alternative. Absence of meats and poultry from legitimate trade channels makes the problem only more difficult the operators insisted. Rather than enter black market trading or violate Office of Price Administration regulations the week-long holiday each month was suggested as the only alternative. Plans are as yet not complete but several managers said that only the Precipitation 'Zero' The St.
Swithin legend was shattered one day after its rainy start. The weather bureau's official report for yesterday included the notation: "Precipitation Zero." But, bureau promised rain for tonight after day of increasing cloudiness and rather cool temperature. Yesterday's mercurial extremes ranged from 63 degrees at 6 a. m. to 80 degrees at 2:30 p.
m. and a midnight 66 degrees. 36 36LegionParleys In Lieu of State Convention What was to have been a monster convention of the State Department of the American Legion in August has now been cut to 36 small gatherings all to be held simultaneously on Aug. 25. The meetings will be held according to present district territory which follow the lines of the 36 congressional districts.
In none of the districts will travel be over 50 miles. Meeting of the 14th district of which the posts in and around Allentown are a part will be held at Topton. The 30th district of which Bethlehem and its environs are units, will be held at Bangor. Machinery for the district meetings has been set up by the executive me committee the legion and calls for the filing of credentials of candidates for legion office, amendments to the constitution, resolutions, and other pertinent business with the department headquarters at Harrisburg on July 25. Here it will be copied and sent to all the Legion posts in the state for studv.
On the date of the 36 conventions balloting on the business and election of officers will be held. Two days later. Aug. 27, the executive committee will tabulate the resul3 and announce the accomplishments of the various districts. Chest Policy Group Studies Drive Plans The policy committee of the Lehigh County Community Chest met at the Americus hotel at noon vesterday to hear and discuss proposals for the annual drive next fall.
The chairman for the 1946 drive. Charles J. Garland, submitted some of the plans for the coming. campaign. The whole program presented at the first of a series of meetings of the 1946 campaign organization, to be held Friday at 5:30 p.
m. in the Americus hotel. This year's drive will be a "Red Feather" campaign and will be held the month of October. The policy committee is composed of the divisional heads of last year's organization, which was led by John Pokorny. Firemen Quell Blaze At Custom Tailor Shop Due to the quick response of city firemen only slight damage was done when fire broke out in the dry cleaning room, to the tear of the B.
E. Schreiter and Sons custom tailor shops, 124 N. 6th at 11.24 a. m. yesterday.
Chiet Clarence H. Marcks. who. along with Assistant Chief Marcus Good, directed firemen at the scene, said the blaze started when lint in a cleaner flu became ignited with the result that a small hole was burned through the roof of the one story rear building where the cleaners are located. There was no damage to clothing or equipment.
Nobody was injured. and firemen from the Squad Wagon and Liberty Pump soon had the fire under control. 28,000 Autos Registered; Only 15,000 Stamps Sold About 28.000 automobiles--not including trucks--are registered with the Allentown War Price and Rationing board under the gasoline rationing regulations. Just A little more than, half that number of $5 Federal use tax stamps-including sales for trucks and truck fleets -have been sold to date by the Allentown post office and Allentown division office of the Internal Revenue bureau. Ill at Fair Grounds Stricken at the fair grounds last night, Alfred Arnowitz of 35 N.
18th St. was admitted to the Allentown hospital for observation shortly after 10 o'clock last night. Hospital attendants said his condition was good Names Omitted The names of William J. Herbert. Fred Metzger and Kermit Rex were inadvertently omitted from the roster of the 213th Coast Artillery (antiaircraft, Pennsylvania National Guard regiment which was published in the July 15 edition of the Sunday Call-Chronicle.
THE MORNING CALL, Allentown, dining rooms, would be closed. Facilities the serving of alcoholic beverages will remain open the usual hours. Hotels with registered guests would serve meals to them only on presentation of room checks or other identification. Arrangements are being made to have representative of the Philadelphia office of OPA in this city to go over association's plans. Following the meeting with the OPA representative another meeting of hotel and restaurant men will be called to set the definite starting date for the holiday.
What effect the holiday might have on those restaurants also holding liquor licenses was not certain. Norman McBean, area supervisor of the enforcement branch of the State Liquor Control board, said that he was in no position to say how the board might interpret such action on the part of licensees. The law says that a licensed establishment may close for a 15-day period before the license must be surrendered. This, however, means closed in all departments. The matter of closing only the food-serving facilities of an establishment complicated the matter, McBean said.
On the surface he said it would appear that it could not be done because the license is contingent on the sale of food. He did say, however, that it is possible that the board might condone the action since the hotels and restaurants cannot purchase enough food to take care of their abnormal business. A ruling will be sought from the board this week. Representatives of about 25 hotels and restaurants in Allentown. Bethlehem.
Weissport, Quakertown and rural sections were present. Ted Dermott, president, presided. Gas Ration Note For 'Detached' Workers were 12.000 unemployed teachers in Pennsylvania and "that is evidence we can easily transfer or change over some of these state teachers colleges for the uses stated and not be short of teachers." The Penn State trustee, declaring "some political leaders both parties and industrialists are side-stepping their duties to make froth for reelection and to confuse the public on this issue," added: "Now is the time to arouse churchmen and the clergy, and make them fully conscious of their responsibility in aiding to take out of politics the training of our youth and to place on the ticket for State Legislature only such men who will pledge themselves to this policy so that Pennsylvania can again become a greater agricultural state and furnish us with our own butter, beef, eggs and increase the food production by onethird, which can be done by following the suggestions in agricultural educational training." Army Air Force Day Aug. 1 The 38th anniversary of the founding of the Army Air Corps on Aug. 1 will be observed for the first time this year as Army Air Force Day with Civil Air Patrol squadrons, including Allentown, joining Army forces in celebrating the day.
Allentown Squadron 21 plans a dinner dance for that evening to top off a program of activities that will include mass formation flying over the city and flying visits here from Army planes based at Reading and Middletown. The local squadron's dinner meeting will be marked by a broadcast to the diners from General H. H. Arnold, commanding general of Army Air Forces, in addition to speakers in attendance at the dinner. Close Two Pools Temporarily Due to the recent heavy rains and the resulting flooding of the bathing areas, two of the city's public pools have temporarily been closed, it WAS announced yesterday by Joseph Gackenbach, superintendent of parks.
Swimming will be held in abeyance at Jordan park until the water is down to normal and the flood gates at the bottom of the dam can be pulled, so that the pool can be drained and cleaned. Mr. 4 Gackenbach said. The pool will not be ready for use again until the latter part of the week, at the earliest. The concrete bathing shelf at River Front park is again covered with water.
result of heavy precipitation over the weekend, the park superintendent said yesterday morning. That pool also will not be available for swimming until the latter part of the week or early next week. City employes had just finished cleaning off eight inches of silt deposited on the bathing shelf at River Front during last Monday's storm and had planned to flush out the pool with fire hoses yesterday morning. The Lehigh iS falling steadily now. but yesterday morning there were three feet of water on the shelf.
Meanwhile, the park superintendent said that the swimming pools at Cedar Beach, Fountain park and the East Side are open and that, although the water is high in some spots, swimming is permissable in all three. Potato-Laden Truck Skids Into Ditch; Driver Injured Skidding in the mud on the recently flood-torn Route 12, a short distance south of Nazareth, Samuel A. Thomas. of Eddington. was taken to the Easton hospital suffering from a possible brain concussion when his trailer truck swerved off the highway and into a ditch at 11:45 p.
m. Sunday. His condition late last night was reported as fair. Thomas, according to the investigation of Private First Class George H. Phillips, of the Bethlehem barracks of the State police, was travelper New York State a load of ing north on Route 12 bound for a Uppotatoes when the vehicle skidded.
The truck rolled over on its left side and the entire left side of the truck was damaged. Engagement Announced Mr. and Mrs. Paul J. Schwenk, of 50 S.
Front Easton, have allnounced the engagement of their daughter, Chrystal M. Schwenk. to Clifford Walter, son Mr. and Mrs. Harvey F.
Walter, of 210 Chambers St. Phillipsburg. Miss Schwenk is a graduate of Easton High school and is employed in the proofroom of the Mack Printing Co. Mr. Walter, a graduate of Phillipsburg High school, is employed by the National Plastics Corp.
A warning to "in-migrant" workers being separated from their jobs in the Allentown area who contembuying an automobile and returning to their homes by such means was issued yesterday by the gasoline panel of the board. Allentown War Price and Rationing Fred Moyer, chairman of the panel, said that in the last couple of weeks the panel has denied ed applications for gas rations by persons seeking to drive to California, Texas and other distant points from Allentown. He said these people have bought used automobiles and then in seeking rations for their vehicles they want extra gasoline. For their protection, he issued the warning, pointing out at the same time that the panel deems such a use of gasoline as a waste in view of the critical transportation situation and the need for automobiles to remain in the area. Policeman Finds Money Bag Containing $200 On his rounds shortly after seven o'clock last night, Patrolman Jack McFadden visited the basem*nt of the Lehigh Valley Transit Co.
office at 8th and Hamilton and found a money bag there. The officer reported, to headquarters that he took the bag to the office, where it was found to belong to a motorman. Officer McFadden said th bag contained nearly $200. Allentown Couple Married 48 Years Mr. and Mrs.
Bruno Katkowski of 1005 S. 6th Allentown, today will quietly observe their 48th wedding anniversary. Mr. Katkowski, is a penstoned employe the A American Steel and Wire where he had been employed for 40 years. couple have four children.
Patrolman Joseph Katkowski, Allentown; Fannie, wife of Justice of the Peace William H. Laubach, Salisbury township: Luis, U. S. Army, stationed in the Philippines, and Emily Kesko, at home. The couple enjoy good health.
Cedars Hear Reports Members of the executive committee of Bethlehem forest. No. 61, Tall Cedars of Lebanon and of the Cedar club. heard routine reports at their meeting Monday night in the Cedar club, Bethlehem. Ray L.
Crosland, grand Tall Cedar, presided at the former. Edward R. Long, chairman of the building committee, outlined proposed improvements to be made in the club rooms. Activities that have taken place during the past month were reported on by Harry J. Miller, chairman of the house committee.
The next meeting of the forest will be held Aug. 20. License Suspension Appealed Susanna E. Hoffman. operator of a taproom of 670 Main Northampton, whose license was suspended by an order of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board for alleged sales to minors, appealed to the Northampton County courts Monday morning.
A hearing was set for 10 a. m. Sept. 24 by Judge Herbert F. Laub.
who also directed that the order act as a supersedeas. Thus the Hoffman place can continue business in the meantime. Working Schedule All Panther Valley collieries and all departments of Lansford shops are scheduled to operate today and tomorrow. NEW ASSORTMENT of Luxurious Sofa- -Beds at DUNGAN FRY. ALLENTOWN'S Economical HOME Furnishers adv.
The Weather U. S. weather bureau: Allentown. Bethlehem and vicinity Increasing cloudiness and continued rather cool today. Rain tonight probably ending Wednesday.
Sunrise 5:46 a. sunset 8:29 p.m. Moonset 12:42 a. m. Temperatures (By the Associated Press) The U.
S. weather bureau reported the following temperatures Monday: High Low Allentown 80 63 Boston 74 65 Chicago 78 57 Denver 86 64 Miami 84 76 New York 80 70 Philadelphia 80 69 Pittsburgh 71 57 St. Louis 81 60 Washington 78 68 Tuesday, July 17, 1915 5.
