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i- Editorial Only Cas Shortage Is In Number of favorite Dealers SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Cooler \" ', i'he Sunday Independent Is » ^'(deeply appreciative of the ex pressions of gratitude that have reached us from taxpayers, by letter, telephone and in per.son, 1^ foi' the information of a factual V nature we have given the past ' few weeks relative to the waste¬ ful manner in which public money Is beinjf spent on unneces.«ry po¬ litical jobs and the *'public-be- damned" attitude the county com¬ missioners' office assumes when . a propi,->rty owner calls attention ' to the same. I ' The sentiments expressed are indicative of the indignation that has been aroused during a period when every ivd-blooded American is striving to conser\'e on the home front. Beset with heavy federal and local taxes and doing every¬ thing possible to be better able to aid their sons and brothers battling in the jungles of the South Pacific and in the moun¬ tains of Sicily at $50 a month, while sclfLsh and irresponsible poli¬ ticians ar* throwing money right and left and wasting the resources on the home front, to which they hopa to have their lo\ied ones re¬ turn, who can blame them for their revolt against the political ayatem for which the county com- Biissioncr* and their aubservient assessors are responsible. I.a*t Sunday we railed atten- ttan to lallavaattng about th* . eauntry by the eemniiisloner* bi their Mg lt-e}'Under Packard at a tlKM when pleaaure driving haa been abandoned In order to eanaerve gaaoline for the flchtlng front*. 80 far, *lnee rationing this oar haa consumed IS "C 37TH YEAR, NO. 42—44 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1943 PRICE TEN CENTS REJECT ROME'S CLAIM OF_BEING_OPENXITY Bomb Austria; Sink 7 Jap Ships %. ' This ga.«olin* reference touched a tender spot, for 24 hours later a communication reached the In- Jopcndcci ctf'im^ fro-n a_ Wilkes- McNutt Tightens Control Over All Job Transfers, Draft Proof Jobs New Warning Is Sounded to Men in Unessential Work To Avoid Labor Draft Washington, Aug. 14. (UP) — Manpower Chieftain Paul V. Mc¬ Nutt tonight tightened government _ rontrol over job transfers, estab- Barre dealer who wanted to Icnowj lished a list of itv vlrcunlly draft- why only a few dealers ever arei proof critical occupations and asked to submit bids to Commis-j broadened the list of so-called non- nioners I.loyd, Kersteen and Jan-'deferrable activities, owski for the tens of thousands I Th* *weeplng revision* of War of gallons the county's trucks and Msnpower Commission'and Belec- commissioners' privats car burn tlve .Sci-\ice regulations were de- I signed to assure war Industries of more manpower without Interfer- U)) every year. He infoi-med Draft Weapon Againat Strikers us that his place |of business "Within Jfun-hot of .jl^" ,„;"; ' ,„d ,„ ,et •^the county building, yet he has jiever been given a chance to sub¬ mit a bid. "Poes not th\e law re- 'l)uire," he asked, "for commis.sion- •n to scak bid* for the 30,000 gallona «f gaa Xhtj annualljr usa?" We endeavored to get an an¬ awer from the. legal (department of the rounty com.-nissioners' of¬ fice, but were unable to do so on account of the abiwnce of thej tion probably will go on record ss ^county solicitor. It is otir under-1favoring nstlonal service legist |Mtanding, however, that on a pur-'tion permitting the government ¦ chase of more than l"00 the com-i order workers to take Jobs whe mis.-ioners are bound by law to. they can do the most for the w seek bids by public advertising in'effort. Washington, Aug. 14. njP> — The War Manpower Commission tonight decreed that idleness is "a non-deferrable activity." Officials denied that they hsd strikers In mind when they created the category of Idleness for dra**»;rirpo<!r». Thev nirreed. however, thst In* so doing they had provided local draft boards. If they wished to employ It, with a weapon against stsikers, Kor example, while coal mining Is listed as a critical occupation virtually assuring deferment for persons engaged in it—striking ing with requirements of the arm-1 miners would be In what the the pattern | WMC calls "the atatus of Idle- which local draft boards will fol-j ness." That status I* listed a* low when drafting of fathers be-1 non-deferrable, so strikers pre- Liberators In Longest Raid of War Fly 2,500 Miles To Make Shambles of Messerschmitt' Plant 27 Miles from Vienna gins after Oct, 1 Tliat pattern provides for calling flrst af father,* who ar* malting the least cmitrtbttlen ta th* war aSort. .May NeeA I«hav Draft If McXutt's new order* fall to relieve manpower *bortage* In critical Industries, th* admlnlstra- sumably could be Inducted Imme¬ diately If local boards so choose. President Roosevelt said ta June, during the lal>or crl*l* In the coal field*, that it wa* *tand- ard prui^t-ictJ^JaiUfi, .draft-eligi¬ ble men not «rorktrig 'In e***ntl*l occupations. Rome Traffic At Standstill Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Aug. 14. (UP)—All traffic is at a standstill on three lines running into the great LIttorlo rail yards In Rome as a result of Friday's second Africa-based bombing of the Italian cspital. Allied reconnaissance showed to¬ da.v. . (.Swedish dispatches quoted by the BBC said fires still were burning In thc LIttorlo and San Lorenzo yards today, sending a thick screen of smoke ovcr Rome.) (Axis broadcasts, decrying the raid as'"a pure terror attack," said 208 persons were killed and RTO wounded. Cardinal Archbishop Schuster of Milsn was said to have escaped death hy a miracle when a bomb asscrtccily wrecked his palace.) Yank Subs Add to the ncw.-papers. All we know Is that no bids were sought by the county com¬ missioner* during IM2, although gaaoline to the amount of SS,WM was purchased from a very limlt- e<t number of dealer*. Controller .>llllrr'* reeords show thst the bulk of this busine** went to thrre service stations, only one of «vhirh I* located In Wilkee- Barre. The one nimtt favored I* in buslnes* on .Market *treet, Kingston. I The program'* three objective*; 'are to hold essential workers ln| their present war jobs, to speedi trsnsfer of liJOHN L LEWIS' LONGMOTRIP workers from non¬ essential to essential jobs and to supply men to the armed forces without cutting war production. McNutt said the time has come when "every worker must Justify himself In terms of his contribu¬ tion to the war effort." "Fatherhood does not excuse any man from making his contribution Ito victory," he added. T By LEON KAY Cairo, Aug. 14 (liP)-United States Liberator Bombers, In one of the war's longest flight*, yesterday struck what m«y have been a crippling blow tJ th* huge Mes¬ serschmitt alrplan* works at Wiener Neuitadt, 27 miles south of Vienna, Austria, dropping more than 360,000 pounds of bomb* on tha plant. Oppo*ltlon wa* light and all bombera were accounted for In th* flr*t mas* raid on "groater Gar- many" by h*avy bMnbera from North Africa. A communiqu* lald direct hits wers made on factory buildings and hangar* and that *c%s of| Washington, Aug. 14. (UP)- burst* were *een among hun(!reds ij^„„,„„ .ubmarlnes have sunk 6f new German fighter V\^m» „ „„, Japanese ships and parked In row* on th. «round. j,^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^ers in their re- .h' n*'".r"'r.* 'r;"lu"'* "•/''y lemless campaign to cripple the 2.500-mil. flight said they msde a' „ ., ,„ , ^^ ^^^^ ^ ,„. "shambles' of the great plant !„j t„j which produces about 400 fighter Total Number of Japan's Ships' Hit Taken up to 309 Rationed Drivers Want to Know How He Gets the Gas Springfleld, 111., Aug. 14 'UP) — During the wci'k the cursed po- i \ MrNutt previously had said It would be necessary to begin tak- Office of Priee Administration litical .-ystem that ha.s been grafted ing some fathers In October. Sev- officials said today they bad re- on to the countv a.^.-cs-ors' office eral congressmen have said they ceived numerous complaints from bobbed to the front again, ll wa brought to lipht by the apprar planes a month—one-third of entire Messerschmitt output. Longeat In History Liberators participating In the the These latest successes raised to 309 the number of Japanese ahips hit by our submarines—217 sunk. 29 probably sunk and 63 damaged. Text of Na\-y Communiqu* No. To Continue Bomiis Until Given Proof May Send Commission; Rome Joyful While Other Cities Riot to Demand*^aiiie Status 'Triangle occupied by Axis forces on eastern tip of Sicily grows smaller under constant hammering by Allies. Beneath towering volcanic Mt. Etna, A:<is armies make last stand on island. Arrow Indicate how American, British and Canadian forces arc con¬ verging to drive Axi* Into a Dunkirk, with invasion of Italy later. JtoiV will seek legislation barring surh|gas-rationed motorists against'"'*' inductions when they return next John L. Lewis' automobile trip ance of an indignant citizen If mm "lonth. the upper viiil of the county whoiPermanent Deferment had been insulted by a vi-itor fn>n), The steps taken by McNutt were the county as-es.-ors' office who' penetration Into Axis Europe from England, demonstrating that no point in greater Germany is now safe from Allied air attaek. The mission was briefed by Brig. Gen. U. G. Ent, who said he was highly pleased with the results. flight required alightly more from Alexandria, Va., to his home"'*" " ^°""- „ „ here, bv way of Chicago. ! 2nd Lt. Everett E. Segeant. Clarence Selp, chairman of the j Brookline, Mass., bombardier In Macon county rationing board, at Uhe lead plane of his formation. high altitude raid traveled nearly ^^.^ 2.500 miles on the round trip, onei ,„ ,, . _ _ ^ of th* longest raids In history. Pacific and Far East: Wiener Neustadt is only 200 miles I "1—U. S. submarmes have re- south of the deepest point of Ported the sinking of seven enemy Borneo As Yanks Fly 2,500 Liberators Set Oil Stores Ablaze And All Planeg Malte Safe Return; Hint Final South Pacific Drives By DOy CASWCLX Allied Headquarter*. Australia, Sunday, Aug. 13. (UP)—America's four-motored Liberator* made a record-breaking flight of 2.900 miles from Australia to bomb th* eastern Borneo port of Ballkpapan. where the Japanese have stored great oil reserves for their operations in the Southwest Paciflc, It was announced toda.v. The attack was the Arst ever made on Borneo by planes based In Australia and the distance was the greatest ever flown by Allied bombers In the Paciflc war theatre. By WILLIAM B. DICKSON London. Aug. 14 (UP)— The Italian government de¬ clared Rome an open city to- night, but a Lnited Nations ibroadca.st promptly informed I Italy that the Allies will con¬ tinue to bomb the Eternal City uhtil proof is furni^ed I that it no longer is being used for military purposes. , .^Elic-X^AUsd Nations .ladio announced that .\llied leaders cannot recognize the Rome radio's "open city" announce- London, Sundaj-, Aug. IS. (LP) —The German Deutschlandsend- er radio was off the air for al- mo*t an hour tonight, Indicating poMlble RAF activity over the continent. ment until they are convinced promi.sed him a reduction in hi.- ))roperty change his jiarty resignation in Older tlmt ho could vote for I.loyd and Kersteen at the primaries. 1.-Establishment of a list of Decatur. III., was one of 149 critical occupations covering complaining to the district offices skills urgently needed in the war here. Scip said the United Mine effort. This list provides what is Workers President told Decatur I in effect a permanent draft defer- reporters Wednesday night he was ment. It docs not change the "onroiite to Springfleld merely for ""•'' "^ '^°'' through Kven Minority Commis.Moner »'»'"« »' 1*1" "'¦•'''"K '¦''¦•''"''•'"¦ my annual visit with my mother." i "O'''**'* ^^' target square in Janoski, long a silent member of itial occupations and activities x„t „„,„ -a" Card I'•fnt". We laid down our eggs the board of commissioners, wasjV.hich entitles jobholders to s»ecl«I| .'Lewis certainly couldn't havn riBl't u„„.„.. „, ,,^ut„r ¦lined In action hv thv jnfoi-ma- consideration With reference to dc-, driven that distance on an A card "I ""'""f '"^ hundreds of fighter .._.. ?[on brought rthe Court Hilllse!ferment; pcr.sons on this e.s.sential seip told the OPA, "and a "sit 1 ?'«"" on the ground which had y,,LB ASKS STEEL MEN hy the indignant citizen fromi''*!. however, theoretically are dc- to his mother certainly could not j J"«'.,''''""'."" Mscmbly lines. UAIT CTDII^C Dl AMC Jenkins T'l imn.i4 I an investi- fer^d ""'.v until a replacement be classified as essential driving." , Pi ots said ant.-aircrat fire w^s JQ HALT STQIKE PLANS gation -riint Vrko the last that'ran be trained. There already are carter Jenkins, district ,up"r-! l"""-^'"'' Indicating the eftemy ¦ Will be ever heard of this par- thosei said: "Going Into the target there was complete cloud cover. This was very disheartening, but Just ss we started over the bomb run there which we the down our where they belonged, somei vessels and the damaging of flve others in operations against the enemy in the waters of these areas as follows: Sunk: One large transport One medium-sized passenger freighter Two small freighters One amall schooner One medium-sized supply ship One medium-sized cargo vessel Damaged: One medium-sized freighter One medium-sized tsnker One medium-sized cargo vessel One small freighter One small cargo vessel 2.—These actions have not been announced In any previous Navy Department communique j explosion of at least se\en of the that Tremier Marshal Pietro largest oil reservoirs. A medium {Badoglio's government has cargo vessel in the harbor prob- crmplied with the terms of Inter- ably a tanker, was set afire with [national law. This would mean re¬ direct hit by a .lOO-pound bomb." mova] „, ^n ministries, government agencies, military organizations The previous long distance rec¬ ord in the Pacific waa established by Flying Fortresses from Hawaii that raided Wake Island In a 2,200- mile flight. The longest previous flight from Australia was made I All of the Liberators returned for a raid on Surabaya, Java, [safely from the attack. ' „j ^^j. industries from Rome, in slightly less than th* distance Ballkpapan is on the Strait* of | addition to cessation of military from Hawaii to Wake. Macassar. (traffic through the capital. Main Oil Port Attack iSalaiiiaua Again A communique from Gen. Doug-1 Other Allied heavy and medium •* O'spatcn las MacArthur's headquarterj de-!bombers stronglv assaulted the . j« „ scribed Ballkpapan as the enemy's Salamaua area of northeastern Newl*»""" manager and former Rom* from Reynolds United Press North main oil port in the whole Sou'th i Guinea .Saturday for the second!""""" manager, said that th* bureau Pacific area. The raid Friday night'successive da.v. dropping 17o"ton8' I,'""^" action mighty well Indicate caused "widespread destruction,".of explosives on forward aress. the Allied announcement aald. | airdrome, village and .lapanese "The whole area was left ablaze" ground defenses near Bobdubi. The it continued. "Tho two large re- tonnage of bombs dropped was just ¦ finery groups were set on fire byi iContinued on Page A-lOi jshortagcs In some of the critical^visor of the OPA bore, was not'"''"' "••**". *'>''""¦''""'"'¦ ^^I?".' ""V Washington, Aug. 14 (UP)-~The Allies Making Deathtrap Of Sicily's 'Dunkerque By, REVNOLDS PAtHARD [trying to carry out a major evacu- Allled Headquarters, No. Africa, "l'"" <>' their Sicilian forces . .. ...r., .11; J . I ' Streaming east from Ihe fallen Aug. 14. (UP)-Allied troop, crash-, ^.j^^,,^j ^^ Randazzo, the Americans cd through broken Nazi defenses drove on Castiglione, almost coin- ^'T!"'': enrployee7'of""thV'BethTehem'ste"eii<'" the entire Sicilian front tonignt, pleting an Allied ring around Mt. I- which p^"^ j^|.|^u^.gj,^^ j^T Y., to with-I'^''Pt"'"in8 «'" more towna in a race i Etna, while farther north othe War Labor Board toda.v called on licularepi-ode in Couit House life. i«l<"l" "nd others involve intensive ;„vailable for comment, but"otheri "¦'•¦"'"J''''" ,'*>"•* ''„"" '"'''''' Tlve as^ssois' office is the oiea-|tr«ining which cannot be given InJofllcials said they had no JTis- ¦'^J'^h t^^ P'"""- ,0"^^^^. ture of the commissioners, who!" ''^o••t time. Draft-age.mcn with diction ovcr Lewis' use of his gaso-l"^*""'" "Khter of the few appoint the county asses.sors. activity by Oct. 1 lose all claim r.ition board at Alexandria. Blow to Weakened Industry i The telegraph urged employees loaded with fleeing troops ^ to deferment. Lewis arrived in Springfleld on Many thousands of workers were to take no action which would As the campaign reached a vlr- 2.—Local Selective S e rv i c e Thursday and remained In seclu- employed in the bombed fighter i prejudire their case involving wage tiial mop-up stage it \vas announc- boards were instructed to give aion after telling newsmen he had plant, one of the larges'. in Eiir'>pe. demands. ed omiia " (Continued on Page A-lOi nothing to aay. I (Continued on Page A-5) ! such skills who are not in a war .line coupons, but that they would ''¦'«''' '° Interfere wilh the raiders j,.^'^. threats that they wiVi strike f^ Messina while Allied ^^,, Industry or supporting civilian forward Seips complaint to Lewis'L«"» «h"' "l""'" ""fl '^^ "^^^"'^ "*''• next Tue.sday. t!'"'"^^'*.."",^ 5,"1P_*.? ff?"! °' ^°*'^5*."1"''°"„ .'!,^- „™." trains and the first effort by Badoglio's gov¬ ernment to limit the war area in Italy and possibly to open peac* negotiations. Wild Joy In Rome If Italy complied with the re¬ quirements of making Rome an open city, free from bombardment, the nations north-south communi- i cations link would be seriously crippled as most of the traflic from lone end of the rountry to the other ' now passes through Rome, trying to carry out a major evacu-j Reports reaching Madrid said there were scenes of wild joy in Rome when news of the open city declaration apread. Tens of thou- sans of Romana were said to have paraded the streets cheering King „ , , „, ., Victor Emmanuel and Pope Plus planesTiankecs captured Florestaon the ,.jj .j,^^,^ reports Insisted that \ I For fourteen month* thi* of¬ fice has hnd only one assrsKor one-third of the time and oAly two for fourteen iiionMi*. It If) generally understood that the I.>angan vacancy will remain un¬ filled until after the priniarlr*. ' when Peter .Minichelli, .Morgan Bird'* partner In ¦cavengrr ronl operations, will be reroinniended tor the $4,600 Job. ¦ This newspaper has repeatedly called upon Commissioners Lloyd and Kersteen to state their reason for not filling th« vacancy, but has never Veen able to get a satis¬ factory answer. The reason gen- erall.v ascribed for the failure of the commissionvrs to perform their ¦worn duty is the fear that the appointment of Minichelli or some other Court House follower satis¬ factory to these coal-lease politi-^'hile American trucks are playing ciuns would ruin the chances of Kerste.^n and Lloyd being re¬ nominated. In Today'a laaue 1 Clavsifled ! Kdltorial ' .Movie* Radio RoHal Sports Story B—n C—2 A—19 A—«0 A—15 B—1 Over 2,000 Guns per Mile Heaviest Artillery in History Pounds Germans War Siimmarj By >l. H. HANULKB With the Russian Armies on thc Bryanak Front, Aug. 14. (UP)—The greatest concentration of artillery ever brought to bear on a single objective—approximately 2.000 guns per kilometei (nearly '« of a mile) —has been wheeled up to Ails front to pulverize the German defenses. saw American Studebaker andj In revealing the amount of Rus- Dodge trucks dominatlAg thej slan artillery on this front. Saben-i ., , , ,, ¦ ,, j , ,. i... , * * I ¦ to the Russian ""K'^t to/lee to the Italian main-'forced fierce fighting along a !>m- bumpy, dirt roads as they moved up supplies under difficult condi¬ tions. From the large amount of American rolling stock seen on tho highways it was obvious that the tough American machines had In¬ creased the Soviet army's mobility. American nnd British tanks. however, arc playing onlv a small part in offcn.sive ope. it ions, ac¬ cording to Pibennikov. who said American General Grant tanks and nikov referred break-through at Orel where, he said, the Red Army concentrated ten timea as many guna aa the French had during the height of the Battle of Verdun. In that bat¬ tle, the general said, the French had 190 guns per kilometer, indi¬ cating the Russians used between 1.900 and 2.000 cannon staggered Piraino on the coast. The British Eignth Army Fiumefreddo and Riposti on the thnt the Germans are «i't coast, Giarre just inland and Milo nine miles from the summit of Mt. Etna. Cut Road to Coast By advancing five miles to Fiumefreddo, the Eighth Army sealed off the road from Randazzo to the cast coast, trapping any German.^ in transit, although u wa.s believed most of the enemy had withdrawn except for suicide machine-gunners emplaced on the heights. Afler reaching Giarre. an Eighth Botfi side., of the strait were I mile front. The heaviest concentra- *^"'y '^"'""V" '«¦""« °" V" '*'f , _„j .1.- w--. ! .1 _. _...:ii 1 left across the rolling northeast trucks filled with sm- took niunltlon and war equipment wera (Continued on Page A-14) While the Germana began whole- miles outside Vienna. The other sale evacuation efforts In Sicily ¦ flew from Australia to hit the main and "expendable" rear guards Japanese oil base in the South fought to delay the advance of the Pacific, at Balikapan In Borneo. Allies. British and American air-1 planes made a hell of the Messina | Fighting was reported inside the Strait ovcr while the defeated foe^city of Knarkov while the Russians land pounded and the boat., carrying] tions of artillery ever known were German troops were constantly at- being used to hammer German de- tacked. I fensea into u.selessncss In Italy it was announced thatj increased tempo of air attacks Rome was an open city, whirh set ;„ the Salamaua area as well as on off several disturbances. While tlie other end of the arc in the Roman crowds welcomed the news, northern Solomons indicated that in deoth slonir n s^rtnr r^^^.W^i^^™^'" '" °'''^'" ^'''^* which have the final Allied push in both areas one k^ Leter in len-rlh ""=«'"'^'"«, been raided more heavily demand- „,i^„t be at hand. "-,,. n ; "^^ , ^ , ' ed the same treatment. }n addi- ., , , .. Id,,., „. , .„ v,„j K„„., -. ^ .1, ""•'•s'ans, in reducing Orel,,; ,he Allies demanded proof American submarines reported predicted more big; British Ch.irch.lls had been aprend I s_how_ere_d jdiclls on e^^^ "qua'-ej j^gt R„nie was no longer con- more kills fiom their relentless nected in any way with' the Axis attack on the shipping lanes an Important role In bringing up supplies, Maj. Gen. Piotr P.- Saben- nikov, directing the Soviet offen¬ sive against Br.vansk, revealed to¬ day. "The general predicted more big'British Chiirchilla had been aprend j showered shells defeats for the Germans because,among Soviet tank units and were meter of German defences for a the Red soldiers have acquired not fighting as individual squad- depth of six kilometers. Thc gen- greater experience, are stronger rons. jeral said that was the greatest ar- than the enem.v In every respect He said there were not manytillery barrage in the history of md "the German army Is not what,Anglo-American tanks on this front war and that the iinprecedented it uaed to be." {and that the Grant models were msss of srtillery now has heen Amerlran Truck* Imore vulnerable than Ruaalsn ^ moved to Bryanak and gon* into A* w* rode up to thi* front we I tank*. action. so war effort before raids on the city vital to Japan. Seven more ships would be halted. were reported aunk and more daiii- , aged, made j slope ot Mt Etna to meet the j Americans beating over from Ran- I dazzo and at last reports the two ' armies were onl.v 12 miles apart. Allied advances in the la.st 48 hours had resulted in automatic j collapse of entire sectors and large numbers of Axis troops were cap- I tured. It was estimated unofficiall.v that enemy prLsoner.s now totaled I between 140,000 and 150,000 for thc i campaign. Nowhere was the enemy's resist¬ ance more than a brisk rear guard action but in the wake of their j withdrawal the Germans left count¬ less mines, ' ooby-traps and demoU- Americsns In Liberators two great flights—each of 2.500, Reports from Europe Indicated i tions. "es. One rarried bombs to batter that the RAF was over th* con-| The Germans Ief- Randazzo .(Continued on Pag* A-6) th* main Messerschmitt factory. 27^tinent again last night. in Beginning Today, A New Serial Footsteps After Twelve Bu Letlif Aihmor* In the quiet of her darkened room Linda Carel could hear sounds that were wholly un- explainable if Senora Con¬ saida was truly an invalid. Linda had to know what wa* going on there at Randall Hall; she could no longer lie there in her bed, heavy with sleep ir.duced by the pill* arj. hypos of the mysteriou* Dr. Lohman. She had to l«arn t+ie truth, and before it waa over .she did. A tlinlliiig new mystery tlory beginning in thii t'sgiie of thi SUNDAY INDEPENDENT ..:..i ."-,'Sj»-*.-..W'^J^-.*-'»"'''-^- •:"l_'*«»ya Jt!:J^jUi^fl
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Issue | 42 |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Issue | 42 |
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Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
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Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1943-08-15 |
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Editorial
Only Cas Shortage Is In Number of favorite Dealers
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
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', i'he Sunday Independent Is » ^'(deeply appreciative of the ex pressions of gratitude that have reached us from taxpayers, by letter, telephone and in per.son, 1^ foi' the information of a factual V nature we have given the past ' few weeks relative to the waste¬ ful manner in which public money Is beinjf spent on unneces.«ry po¬ litical jobs and the *'public-be- damned" attitude the county com¬ missioners' office assumes when . a propi,->rty owner calls attention
' to the same.
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' The sentiments expressed are indicative of the indignation that has been aroused during a period when every ivd-blooded American is striving to conser\'e on the home front. Beset with heavy federal and local taxes and doing every¬ thing possible to be better able to aid their sons and brothers battling in the jungles of the South Pacific and in the moun¬ tains of Sicily at $50 a month, while sclfLsh and irresponsible poli¬ ticians ar* throwing money right and left and wasting the resources on the home front, to which they hopa to have their lo\ied ones re¬ turn, who can blame them for their revolt against the political ayatem for which the county com- Biissioncr* and their aubservient assessors are responsible.
I.a*t Sunday we railed atten- ttan to lallavaattng about th* . eauntry by the eemniiisloner* bi their Mg lt-e}'Under Packard at a tlKM when pleaaure driving haa been abandoned In order to eanaerve gaaoline for the flchtlng front*. 80 far, *lnee rationing this oar haa consumed IS "C
37TH YEAR, NO. 42—44 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1943
PRICE TEN CENTS
REJECT ROME'S CLAIM OF_BEING_OPENXITY
Bomb Austria; Sink 7 Jap Ships
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' This ga.«olin* reference touched a tender spot, for 24 hours later a communication reached the In-
Jopcndcci ctf'im^ fro-n a_ Wilkes-
McNutt Tightens Control Over All Job Transfers, Draft Proof Jobs
New Warning Is Sounded to Men in Unessential Work To Avoid Labor Draft
Washington, Aug. 14. (UP) — Manpower Chieftain Paul V. Mc¬ Nutt tonight tightened government _ rontrol over job transfers, estab-
Barre dealer who wanted to Icnowj lished a list of itv vlrcunlly draft- why only a few dealers ever arei proof critical occupations and asked to submit bids to Commis-j broadened the list of so-called non- nioners I.loyd, Kersteen and Jan-'deferrable activities, owski for the tens of thousands I Th* *weeplng revision* of War of gallons the county's trucks and Msnpower Commission'and Belec- commissioners' privats car burn tlve .Sci-\ice regulations were de-
I signed to assure war Industries of more manpower without Interfer-
U)) every year. He infoi-med
Draft Weapon Againat Strikers
us that his place
|of business "Within Jfun-hot of .jl^" ,„;"; ' ,„d ,„ ,et
•^the county building, yet he has jiever been given a chance to sub¬ mit a bid. "Poes not th\e law re- 'l)uire," he asked, "for commis.sion- •n to scak bid* for the 30,000 gallona «f gaa Xhtj annualljr usa?"
We endeavored to get an an¬ awer from the. legal (department of the rounty com.-nissioners' of¬ fice, but were unable to do so
on account of the abiwnce of thej tion probably will go on record ss ^county solicitor. It is otir under-1favoring nstlonal service legist |Mtanding, however, that on a pur-'tion permitting the government ¦ chase of more than l"00 the com-i order workers to take Jobs whe mis.-ioners are bound by law to. they can do the most for the w seek bids by public advertising in'effort.
Washington, Aug. 14. njP> — The War Manpower Commission tonight decreed that idleness is "a non-deferrable activity."
Officials denied that they hsd strikers In mind when they created the category of Idleness for dra**»;rirpoor crl*l* In the coal field*, that it wa* *tand- ard prui^t-ictJ^JaiUfi, .draft-eligi¬ ble men not «rorktrig 'In e***ntl*l occupations.
Rome Traffic At Standstill
Allied Headquarters, North Africa, Aug. 14. (UP)—All traffic is at a standstill on three lines running into the great LIttorlo rail yards In Rome as a result of Friday's second Africa-based bombing of the Italian cspital. Allied reconnaissance showed to¬ da.v. .
(.Swedish dispatches quoted by the BBC said fires still were burning In thc LIttorlo and San Lorenzo yards today, sending a thick screen of smoke ovcr Rome.)
(Axis broadcasts, decrying the raid as'"a pure terror attack," said 208 persons were killed and RTO wounded. Cardinal Archbishop Schuster of Milsn was said to have escaped death hy a miracle when a bomb asscrtccily wrecked his palace.)
Yank Subs Add to
the ncw.-papers.
All we know Is that no bids were sought by the county com¬ missioner* during IM2, although gaaoline to the amount of SS,WM was purchased from a very limlt- e |
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Year | 1943 |
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