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A Paper For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Sunny and hot ': I 42ND YEAR, NO. 44 — 44 PAGES UNITED PRESS Wlra Kew* Bcrrle* WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1948 PRICE TWELVE CENTS No Relief in Sight for Valley's Terrific Heat Beaches and Parks Get Record Crowds By 8HELDON C. WINTEBMUTE Keep the electric fan oiled, the liquid refreshment stock replenished and the wardrobe to a minimum because more, of the same sizzling heat that has had Wyoming Valley sag- j ging for a week is predicted for today. And, the weather^ man tells us, it won't do a'bit of good to jump in your car, to try and escape it all. The sticky, stifling hept will sit heavily on the entire eastern half of the nation. Beaches and parks in Luzeme county reported "jams" yesterday, but perspiring managers fairly beamed as they predicted that business today would be "terrific, brother, terrific." Red Officer Huge Boat Sets Accused of /Records Flying ox GUARD IN BERLIN — Armed U. S. Military Police join these Allied-backed German police ill forming a cordon across a Berlin street. The thoroughfare, near Potsdamer Plats Is where Eastern nnd Western sectors of Berlin meet Kidnapping raids by Reds, made against black maricet operators, have made this necessary. (Photo by Acme Staff Correspondent Jaclc Chitham.) 1 FOR NEW DRAFI 25-Year-Olds Start By Signing Tomorrow; 4,000 Boards Ready WaahinKton. Aug. 28 (UP)—Mil¬ lions of America's youth will begin trooping io registration centers Monday to sign up for peacetime military service. The 20,(X)0 registration centers were set to handle some 9,600.(XX) young; men 18 through 25 who are ri>qulrcd to register under the 1B48 .¦¦riective service act. Only a small fraction of those I' ho register will be called up. The ' iA->?ar-olds won't be called until 'iipv are 19. Others--including hus¬ bands, fathers, farm workers and most veterans-won't be Inducted. Start* Tomorrow .National selective service head¬ quarters said tonight that all the 4.000 state and territorioJ draft- boards are set for business. Regis¬ tration starts Monday with the 28- ypar-olds. It ends Sept 18, ¦*hen th? youngest age group signs up. These men are being registered to help build a 2,000,000-man peacetime military force In the face of threatening Soviet Imperial¬ ism. In the words of Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. national draft liireptor, the nation this time is t- aiding an army "to avoid war." Actual Inductions probably will not begin until November. All those tnl<en then--an estimated 10,000— w.ll go to the Army, which will c»',l up about 2.^0,000 In the next yesr to bring its strength to 790,- nno omcers and men. Ikater, the Ariry expects to draft 30,000 a nionlh. Tlie other services, the Air Force RTiri the Navy, hope to keep up to authorized strength through volun- t«ry enlistments. But If that meth¬ od fails, they can draw on selective f^rvice to get their men. Citizens and aliens alike are re- (Continued on Page A-9) Dredging of Schuylkill Will Start in 10 Days At Harvejr's I^eke veteran cot¬ tagers and all-year residents re¬ ported without qualification that more persons took advantage ot the lake's cool water yesterday than at any time in the last 10 years, at least Harvey's Lake police were in agreement with this statement. They said automobile traffic was not heavy during the entire day — there being times when It was too hot to drive. For the steaming suburbanites and cooked city-dwellers who like statistics with their sweltering, here Is some blistering data. Started Wednesday—Officially The heat wave officially opened Wednesday, but reached its high¬ est mark at 8:29 p. m. on Thurs¬ day when the mercury climbed to 98.4 degrees — Just 37.6 degrees below the hottest recorded day the world has known. That was In 1922 when a temperature of 138 degrees was checked in the midst of tlie Sahara Desert sands In Libya. Highest official readings yester¬ day and Friday were 94 degrees. We don't want to be gloomy, but the weather bureau can't see any break in view for the next three days and when asked to give an estimate on possible high tempera Culm, Silt Removal Cost $35,000,000; To Take Through '51 Harrisburg, Aug. 28 (UP)—Dredg¬ ing of tho silt-laden Schuylkill River will begin In about 10 days, a forest and waters department of¬ ficial said today. Edmund S. McC::awley, deputy secretary of forests and waters, an¬ nounced that removal of cuhn from tho river will be started below the Cross Keys Bridge, several miles above Ridding. One of the four huge electric j see what it is. dredges being constructed for the^ You'll flnd him on the page Commonwealth is now being as-1 opposite the editorial page today. sembled at that point The dredges!__ \*rili cost the state $1,085,400. Norristown and Phoenlxvllle were 17 Contrw^ Signed l^g^j „„ ^^^g dredging list, but a McCawley revealed ^^hat 17 con-N^^p ^^^ ^^^^ beginning of these tracts totalling more than $8.000,000' ^^^^y^^jj, ^^^ ^^^ ^een eet No Fun in Going To College Now? Isn't it any fun going to col¬ lege any more? Columnist Robert C. Ruark has his doubts and maybe that's be¬ cause he had his taste of higher education in the latter part of the coonskin coat period, with bathtub gin as the main in¬ gredient of lubrication. Anyway, he has his say and we thought maybe those getting ready to head back to the campus and Alma Mammy would like to Gunfighting Charges Made After Americans, Germans Are Released from Prison by Russians Hawaii-Chicago By WILLARD EBERHART Chicago, Aug. 28 (UP)—The giant flying boat Caroline Mars landed In Lake Michigan at 11:2,"! a. m (1:25 p. m. BDT) today after a non-stop flight from Honolulu which ci tablished two new records. The Navy's newcs* and biggest aircraft officially known as the JRM-2. circled the Chicago lake front and landed in the shel'.ered waters off the Adler Planctirium It was the longest flight ever made by a Mars type flying boat— 4,748 miles in 24 hours and 13 minutes at an average speed of 185 ;« 190 Berlin, Aug. 28 (UP)—United miles an hour. .blankets trying to keep warm, be- SUtes mlliUry authorities tonight | The flight also set a record for cause ti.e plin ht* no insulation, formally charged a Russian heu- payload for such a distance. The So did all the others. tenant colonel and two Soviet soldiers with starting a gunfight in thc American sector laat night Caroline Mars carried a cargo ofj But when the plane flew over 14,445 pounds plus 25 passengers^the sun-baked midwest, the heat and a crew of 17. !got bhe passengers flnd they had to The charge waa made after | The previous record, aet in 1943 shed the blankets and their shirta, United Press staff correspondent by a Mars plane that was the pro- too. ture for today countered with "90'Jac't Meehan, two German re- totype of the huge JRM-2, w,i56 'i'wo Wave orderlies, Mary Laven- to 100." Iporters, a German jeep driver and|made on a 4,375-mlie flight fromSder, Eastbound, Wash., and Edna The thermometer has not drop- four American GI's were releaaed | Patuxent River, Md., to Natal, Bra-1 Ward, of Springs, N. C, made the ped lower than 53.8 degrees in the|'rom Soviet arrest American Mill-|2il in 28 hours with a cargo of 13,-ltrip to hHp keep the passengers last 15 days, according to the of-'t-ary Police said they may have oOO pounds. I comfortable. But they were the ficial keepers of the mercury's ups and downa at the CAA weather station at Wilkes-'Barre-Scranton Airport at Avoca. Hot Statistics Here's a complete listing of the high and low temperatures for the last 15 days, but you won't get (Continued on Page A-9) been arrested in retaliation for the! Comdr. James Lang, M«t>leton,'only ones who suffered alr-sick- alleged wounding of a Russian Minn., flight commander, said the ness. soldier during the gun fight (Seejnonstop hop from Honolulu to Chi-; We look off from Keehi Lagoon, Hawaii, yesterday. The 82^-ton plane carried 10,000 gallons of gaso¬ line. When it landed here 600 gal¬ lons were left. Moet of us were pretty tired No Deaths from Heat in Valley But Nation's Total over 100 have already been slg:ned for work on the river Improvement project Work on two of the contracts, one for core borings and the other for the demolition of flve old dams near Port Clinton and Hamburg, has been completed. Plans call for the construction of 23 Impounding dams between the Berks-Schuylklll county line and Norristown. Silt and culm washed down the river will be imprisoned by the dams and pumped Into nu¬ merous impounding basins located along the Schuylkill. Mines Co-operating McCawley praised anthracite op¬ erators, w)>ose breakers are located on the river and Its tributaries, for their co-operation In halting the flow of waste Into the river. "Thers is little or no new culm or silt entering the Schuylkill now," McCawley said. "But It wiU be a tremendous Job to remove what has lodged there in the last 100 years." Bulldozers are now removing the silt and mud that has accumulated on the banks of the river. The culm Is being pushed into the river bed where It can be withdrawn by dredges. The state hopes to re¬ claim part of the cost of the pro¬ ject through sale of the culm to processors. McCawley said areas around Nanticoke Man Couldn't Even Civt 40,000 Heads of Cabbage Away Karm garden products have glut¬ ted the Wyoming Valley market to such an extent that a Nanticoke man could not give 40,00 heads of cabbage away free last evening. Henry Bobbin, who works exten¬ sive acres on Plymouth Flats, «nd In Honey Pot section of Nan very disappointing. Only a few people showed Up and they took only a few heads of cabbage each. There weren't many people with bags. It will give people an ideo of how things are going with the farmer these days." This Isn't Farmer Bobbin's first tli'oke. offered the free cabbage to bad year. He has lost big crops of sll takers and even Inserted an erlisement in the papers calling '" ion to the fact that everyone elcome to the free distrlbu- I st Edgewater Park. ut after it was over he still had 39,000 heads of cabbage on his rand.s. Inrtitutlon Not Interested Bobbin's tomatoes also are re- >rtcdiy rotting on their vines, "lie a large Institution asked to il truck for free red beeU r"','"a'"rots just wasn't Interested '"the stuff. A call at the Bobbin tou '"¦'*"•'''" '*'°''^ that the car- $35,000,000 Job The state hopes to flnish its part of the Schuylkill clean-up by the end of 1951. The Commonwealth is responsible for cleaning, dredg¬ ing and rehabilitating the river basin to Norristown. Army Engineers will begin the task of removing culm deposits from Norristown to the Falrmoimt Park dam in Philadelphia some time the same year. They hope to complete the job within a year. Officials estimate the cost of the project when completed will be about $35,000,000. FIVE DIE. ONE HURT IN TRUCK-AUTO CRASH Pocatello, Ida, Aug. 28 (UP) Five persons were killed and one was critically injured tn a truck- automobile collision todagr, O>roner Arthur W. Hall reported . Hall said the accident occurred five miles south of here. He said the six people could not be identi¬ fied "because everything Is so badly smashed up." The six persons riding In the automobile were all from Salt Lake City, however, Hall said. He said a pur.se found In the car had the name "Mrs. Josepih Morrison, Salt Lake City," Inscribed in it. David Arnold of Pocatello, who drove by the scene a short time after the accident, said that "one of the persons, a boy of about 18 years old, was thrown clear through the windshield, and others were badly mangled," FWw.'"'' '¦^<* •>***» hadn't even f ""en touched. I even'J"^'"^ ''*"*^h wlien you can't lof th """K-'' away," a member Iti.J Bobbin family said. "The I'urttout at Edgewater Park was '" Today's Issue *^tori«j a»«ltied Moviei Rsdlo . SocUi 'Sporta - ¦* , A—18 . A—19 . A^19 C—1 ¦17 tomatoes, beans and mangices In river floods the past few years. And last ye.ir he shipped out a lot of tomatoes and was given some rubber checks. He has been In the farming business about a dozen years. He Isn't the only farmer com¬ plaining. Carloads of fresh vege¬ tables are being thrown away daily at Cleveland, Pittsburgh and other cities because of the condition of the market. Women Not Canning Housewives are not canning and this Is attributed to the heat. Many are away at the lakes and resorts, leaving home chores undone. Farmers hauling bumper crops to the markets find no buyers and in some Instances have dumped the stuff along the highways. With Farmer Bobbin it was a question of shipping produce rut and getting nothing In return. He figured on saving money by not sending his cabbage to market. He'd be better off giving it away. But thc people of Nanticoke and vicinity were definitely not inter¬ ested and this explains why he still faaj 39,000 heads on his bands. No deaths induced by the stifling heat were reported in tho valley area, but the heat wave death toll for the eastern half of the nation passed the 100 mark. Hospitals reported two persons treated for heat exhaustion. Ed¬ ward Smith, 45, of 232 Old River road, was admited to Mercy Hos¬ pital for observation, but the other heat victim, Luther Busch, 46, of 260 South Main atreet, was re¬ leased after treatment at Homeo¬ pathic HospitaL In both Instances, the men were removed to hospitals in the city ambulance by patrolmen Joseph Zelinski and Stephen Lawryk. There were several reports out¬ side of ths city of persons being Page A-14.) icago was "a very nice, routine An American private first class | flight." and a Russian soldier are in hos-1 Passengers agreed only that It pitals as the result of the inci-jwas routir''. The Caroline Mars dent. The American. Pfc. James iwas built to haul cargo and has R. Petergal, Pittsburgh, suffered [few passenger comforts. This cor-1when we landed. We had to shout contusions when he was knocked [respondent, one of the passengers,!to make ourselves heard In normal from his motorcycle by the careen-Ispcnt most of the trip wrapped Ini (Continued on Page A-2) ing Soviet amphibious jeep he waa . trying to halt The Russian has a bullet from | an American Military Police gun | lodged in his back. | Tried to KiU MP I U. S. authorities said tne Soviet! lieutenant-colotiel was riding in | the jeep whose driver was trying' overcome by the heat, but none of these required hospitalization after being treated by family physicians. ~ Fear Forest Fires - ^ „ . , ,^ Last night district forest flre ^ '"L ^°*!1 Petergal. They said wardens sounded a warning that ^ SPECTATORS GIVE LUSTY BOOS Placed In Suite Next to White Russian; Teacher Has Operation New Tork, Aug. 28 (tn»)—Ex¬ pelled Soviet (Consul General Jaco* M. Lomakin sailed on the liner Stockholm for Sweden today and hundreds of spectators and long¬ shoremen lining the pier booed his departure. The ousted consul general, queried by a representative of the Swedish-American line, said he was going to Paris for the meeting next month of the United Nations Gen¬ eral As.sembly. He "didn't know" whether hc would go directly to Paris from Sweden or visit Russia flrst Next to White Russian Right to the last the same twists of fate that involved Lomakin in the international incident which resulted in his expulsion, dogged his path. When he arrived aboard, he found the cabin adjacent to his the forest floor Is getting "very dry" and cautioned all persons con¬ templating hikes, visits or picnics in woodland areas to use extra pre¬ cautions to prevent fires. Farmers in widespread sections of the county said that crops seem¬ ed to be witlistanding the heat waves, but hens, chickens a;« American military'governor, roosters on poultry farms were re-i soviet authorities registered a ported suffering from fiery blasts.!verbal protest with the Americans. Some deaths among the feathery i Tiiey charged the Russian soldier bands also were reported. l^/as wounded by U S. Military Police who chased the Russian ve¬ hicle into the Soviet sector and baited it with gunfire. "An inquiry definitely established the Soviets fired at our Military Police during the chase." Ckjl. Rofc- ert A. Willard, Berlin military post commander, said. "We are not sure whether they fired first. But It is clear fliey II.S. Mainland In Path Of Tropical Hurricane Miami, Fla., Aug. 28 (UP)—A.the Floiida coast and moving Petergal said he escaped being gn^^ll tropical hurricane strength- Lo^thwestward steadily but more the officer drew hU revolver and aimed it at Petergal when the American ordered the jeep to halt. 50 B-29'S TO HIT U.S. CITIES FROM FOREIGN BASES Atom Bomb Planes To Show What Enemy Airplanes Could Do Washington, Aug. 28 (UP) Fifty run over by roihng into a ditch. u„ed and spread its howling winds I"."J,„ The American protest was sent|over the Atlantic Ocean SJSO miles r'***^'^' to Lt. CJen. Mikhil Dratvin. deputy Uast of Daytona Beach, Fla., late "A change in course may be m- Soviet military governor of Berlin. I tonight and veered slightly west- dicated later but at present the It wa« contained in a letter fpcm;„,ard toward the U. S. mainland, northwest movement continues," Maj. Gen. George P. Hays, deputy strongest winds whirling abouti|.j,g advisory said the dead-calm center of the vicious I ,_ , . storm increased from 115 to 126! This storm is too far out to tell miles an hour, the Federal Storm |whether it will reach any part of Warning Service said in a 10:45jour eastern seaboard but the north- P-HL,'^^'^; "tivisory. I westward movement, if continued, The stcrm is moving between ^.„ ^^j^^ .^ ^j^^^^ ^„ ^j^^ Carohna west-northwest and northwest about 12 miles per hour," the ad¬ visory said. It predicted the hurri¬ cane would increase in intensity aa it continued fo^he next 12 hours on this course that would bring it close to the Georgla-Carolinas mainland sometime late tomorrow. The Weather Bureau cautioned and Georgia coasts Sunday.' It urged "all interests" in the threatened area to be alert for fur¬ ther storm advices. "Small craft are cautioned not to venture far Into the Atlantic off the Carolina and Georgia coasts over the weekend," the advisory B-29 SuperforU. the giant craft P™'^«'" ^=" which carry atom bomba, will con '*=*" tension drew their guns and threatened ! all vessels in the area to .stay close Isaid, American MP's with them before I to port away from the hurricane i The Florida peninsula was out of any shots were exchanged.' force winds thateno*' extend out-Jdanger unless the storm turned un- The Inquiry established defi-(ward over an Increased area to expectedly from its position east of nitely that shots were fired by both , the northwest, north and north-jTitusville Fla. Coast dwellers who sides when the American MP's ^ east about 120 miles from its cen- had battened down and laid in chased the cumbersome Soviet am- ter. lhurricanesupplieswhenthestor.il phibian at a 60-miIe-per-hour chpi The warning was Precautionary. |v^,as discovered Thursday 1,200 miles across the American aector and Weather maps indicated conditions southeast of Miami, relaxed but into the Soviet sector. , were building up which could di- kept weather eyes on the hurri- The exchange of charges and I vert the atorm from the mainland J cane'srgo press protests heightened Soviet-Amer- and Into the Atlantic, where its verge on U. S. city "targets" from farflung foreign bases Sept. 17 in a record-breaking display of air might. as disputed Berlin | fury would be spent harmlessly. awaited a communique from the Moving More Slowly Soviet and western governments negotiating in Moscow. It over¬ shadowed the implied charge by _,. _ .» - , . . City Assembly President Otto Suhr wm f.nH In T^"f "r'l, '"°"'*"»|that Russia inspired the riotous rin J^tV, Ifll J . ^^ Ameri- Communist demonstsetions of the can cities after nonstop flights . ^ ^ from Japan, CJermany, Iceland, thel'^it ,„„„ ,„ .' cv,, n,„f w„»i,-_ Aleutian Islands, Hawaii, Bermu-!„ I' "^^^ /° see Suhr that Meehan .!„ n... A, . T-u.-jI A, 1 'BntJ the two other correspondents da the Azores, Labrador, Alaska ^rnv, in « i„„n i.cf r.i^iX f„ fv,- and Bermuda. drove in a jeep last night to the city hall, which is in the Sivict sector of Berlin. (C!^ntinued on Page A-9) The Air Force said it would be the greatest number of aircraft ever to take part in simultaneous missions of the kind planned on a world-wide scale The flights will: SERIOUS SHORTAGE OF range from 3,800 miles to more __.,., ____.^„ »r-r-.. than 6,600. {GRAIN STORAGE SEEN The Superforts will land near^ Washington, Aug. 28 (UP) -Un- „„, , . 1.TI u , IT ., ^^"^ '^'°'^^- Boston. Washington, dersecretary of Agriculture Albert occupied by Nicholas Wreden. a D.C. Detroit, Seattle, Minneapolis,!j. Loveland said today that farm- former director of the Tolstoy, Baltimore, Los Angeles. Riverside SPEED UP PBODrcnoN OF ARMY RIFLES Springfield, Mass., Aug. 28 (UP) —Army officers have ordered a production speed-up at the Spring¬ field armory where machine guns and rifle parts are made. At least half of the employees will be on a six-day, 48-hour week. Col. Morris K. BarroU, command¬ ing officer, announced. 58 HURT, 9 SERIOUSLY IN CRASH OF 2 BUSSES Philadelphia, Aug. 28 (UP)—A Washington-bound Greyhound bus and a Philadelphia Transportation Co. bus collided on Roosevelt Boulevard today, injuring 68 per¬ sons, nine seriously. The seriously injured were de¬ tained at Nazareth Hospital. Twenty-five others were treated at the hospital and discharged. The remaining 24 hurt were admitted to Frankford Hospital and sent home after treatment. The front of the Greyhound bus, which had left Trenton. N. J., a short wiiile earlier, was stove in by the impact. The right side center of the PTC was dented. The crash occurred outside the Philadelphia State Hospital inlthe northeastern section of the city. The force of the collision sent the PTC bus up against ft t«e« on the hospital grounds. Foundation and a New York Rus sian-language publisher. It was Lomakin's "rescue" of Mrs. Oskana Kasenklna from the Tolstoy Foundation fa»m near Ny¬ ack, N. Y. juat three weeks ago that resulted in the severance of consular relations between the United States and Russia. Publisher Wreden, en route to ers are facing what probably is the and San Rafael, Cal.; Boise, Idaho; "most serious" shortage of grain Chicago, Pittsburgh, Buffalo. New storage space in history. Orieans, Cincinnati, Omaha, St.! Hc said the entire price support Loui.s. Cleveland, Milwaukee, program ^av be endangered and CHiarleston. W. Va., Dallas and San Antonio, Tex., and Birming¬ ham and Montgomery. Ala. What Enemy Can Do large amounts of grain may spoil unless farmers take immediate steps to .store the record <^orn crop. Althousl" the total grain crop jGREEK ARMY SHAKEUP The hurricane was 630 milea offlniJE AS REBELS FLEE Valley Scene KinyMon woman unex/iect- edli/ ^tepiiiiig into unfilled sUlfwalk with resmlt lhat tm minutPK (ind ove pliove call later the borough had red lan¬ terns all around the project. Cop at comer of Eaut Mar¬ ket street and IVashini/ton listening to long tale of ivoe from tiekefd driver and then sai/ing, "That's all very nice hut I can't do a thing about it." \Ian on Market street, Kingston, using half-foten sandwich as flag to stop pass¬ ing trackless trolUy. Customers aplentii in front of South Main .-itreet market adiei-tising bananas at 10 cents a pound. Passenger stretched, sound asleep, across back seat of Pli/moitth tn.ci, while eab waa parked—!fi(/t meter running. The flights will ]fe a reminder this year will be about 1,350,000.000 ™.. .1.1 .._ -jito Americans that their cities can j bushels I.irger than a year ago, Europe to Interview authors, saidjbe bombed by planes from remote he .said, there is little if any more monthhs a T"" " »"'j overseas bases, j grain .storage space than eight r .r.YY,airi^ \,..A . *¦„„ . «, .,,if„ The Air Force said, however. I years aRo. i ' wlti^h^hP ,h«?ert titrhfr^fe^ndUhat this is not the reason for thei He added that the law passeri by; . «• ¦ W^ which he shared with his wife and ^.^^.^^^ j^ ^.^^^^^ ^^ ^.^,p the'Congres.s last session making Com- Heai. Dltl It crews of ils big bombers long-imodity Credit Corporation a per- range flight training and at the|manent government corporation same time add some color to itsi prevents it from building its own Athena, Greece, Aug. 28. (UP) — The Greek army high command will be shaken up l>€cause large groups of guerrillas in the Mt. CIramnios sector slipped through the army's trap and escaped to Al¬ bania. Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet, chief of American military mission to Greece, said today. He said Maj. Gen." Demetrios Liaos, commander of the 15th Divi¬ sion, will be removed as a first step. The division failed to close the gap in the army's pincers along the Albanian border. Van Fleet said 6,000 rebels escaped as a result Several les.scr officers also will ba shifted, van Fleet said. Lt Gen, Panos Kalogcropoulos, commander of the Second Corps, was removed several weeks ago because he waa "too defense-minded." Van Fleet said the Mt Grammot guerrillas fled in such panls and abandoned so much equipment thejf could not fight again Immediately. But he estimated that there ar» still 17,000 guerrillas In Greeca, most of them south of the AlbaB> ian and Yugoslav borders and la the Peloponnesus. two children, Alexis, six, and Lora, 11. Spectators Boo As Lomakin boarded the liner amidst the jeering and booing of the spectators, photographers and newsreel cameramen surrounded him. To a radio announcer who approached him with a portable microphone, he said: "I purchased my ticket two months ago. I am going to take a rest. I have nothing to aay beyond that. Everything has been said be¬ fore In official notes." He apparently referred to Soviet Foreign Ministry V. M. Molotov'a note to the U. S. State Department celebration of Air Force Day. JEWS WANT PENALTIES ON TRUCE VIOLATORS Lake Success. N. Y., Aug. 28. (UP)—The United Nations Securi¬ ty Council will interrupt its vaca¬ tion Monday for a special meeting on the Palestine and Kashmir dis¬ putes, the UN announced today. The six-weeks-old Palestine arm¬ istice haa been '¦onstantly jeopard storage bin.s to handle, surplus grain as it did before the war British Diver Down 556 Feet Loch Fyne. Scotland, Aug. 28. (UP)—A British naval petty of¬ ficer wearing a special diving suit plunged 55t> feet down today in the icy waters of Loch Fyne to set a new world's deep sea diving record. The British diver, only as Bollard, went Pennsylvania's Creat Peach Crop Ready for HHarket—IO Days Early Harrisbuig, Aug. 28 (UP)—Penn- 000,000 bushels is better than aver- sylvania's super-qualitv peach crop age." .said the state agriculture comes to market this weekend-i'^^P'""'-'''^"'- ""°' weather really nearly 10 days sooner than ex-!">^'*" » 8ood peach and they ar« pected. now at their best' „, , . .. ,. , . Meanwhile, however, aome grow- The hot weather is responsible ^^ fg^^j jj^^^ continued hot for the speedup It made the crop ^^^^jje^ ^,^„,j ^^„,t j„ , heavy ripen much faster. 'croo Shipments from the amply stock before the fruit could be picked and they also feared mora identifled ed orchards in the Adams-Frank- hot weathec would make part 118 feet lin-York and the Berks-Lehigh the crop too ripe for packing. ..„v^ v., c w. .... r- .ized by truce violations, and it was accusing American authorities of hoped Monday's debate would sue- ^ , ... aiding the "kidnaping" of Mrs. ceed in propping up the wobbly! deeper than an American who peach belts will continue all next state marketing officials urged - - ¦ - - week with ,'501 carloads exp.-;ted housewives to begin buying their this weekend from the Cham^jer.s- canning and eating supplies at burg area where the ripening ad- peaches as soon as possible, as re- vanced quicker. tailers got set to receive th* Mf ' "This jrear's crop of over Snerof. _, Kasenklna, the Soviet school teach-1 cease-fire agreement er. The debate will center on Lomakin said he still Is "one o the chief advisors to Andrei Grom' .(C^ntlnusd on Paga A-9) an; Israeli request as to whether the council Intends to punish truce violations. set the previous record. Bollard dived from a naval sub¬ marine rescue ship. The diving suit he wore was a special ex¬ perimental type. M. ii.
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Date | 1948-08-29 |
Month | 08 |
Day | 29 |
Year | 1948 |
Volume | 42 |
Issue | 44 |
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Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
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Date | 1948-08-29 |
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Day | 29 |
Year | 1948 |
Volume | 42 |
Issue | 44 |
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A Paper For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Sunny and hot
': I 42ND YEAR, NO. 44 — 44 PAGES
UNITED PRESS Wlra Kew* Bcrrle*
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1948
PRICE TWELVE CENTS
No Relief in Sight for Valley's Terrific Heat
Beaches and Parks Get Record Crowds
By 8HELDON C. WINTEBMUTE
Keep the electric fan oiled, the liquid refreshment stock replenished and the wardrobe to a minimum because more, of the same sizzling heat that has had Wyoming Valley sag- j ging for a week is predicted for today. And, the weather^ man tells us, it won't do a'bit of good to jump in your car, to try and escape it all. The sticky, stifling hept will sit heavily on the entire eastern half of the nation.
Beaches and parks in Luzeme county reported "jams" yesterday, but perspiring managers fairly beamed as they predicted that business today would be "terrific, brother, terrific."
Red Officer Huge Boat Sets Accused of /Records Flying
ox GUARD IN BERLIN —
Armed U. S. Military Police join these Allied-backed German police ill forming a cordon across a
Berlin street. The thoroughfare, near Potsdamer Plats Is where Eastern nnd Western sectors of Berlin meet Kidnapping raids
by Reds, made against black maricet operators, have made this necessary. (Photo by Acme Staff Correspondent Jaclc Chitham.)
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FOR NEW DRAFI
25-Year-Olds Start By Signing Tomorrow; 4,000 Boards Ready
WaahinKton. Aug. 28 (UP)—Mil¬ lions of America's youth will begin trooping io registration centers Monday to sign up for peacetime military service.
The 20,(X)0 registration centers were set to handle some 9,600.(XX) young; men 18 through 25 who are ri>qulrcd to register under the 1B48 .¦¦riective service act.
Only a small fraction of those I' ho register will be called up. The ' iA->?ar-olds won't be called until 'iipv are 19. Others--including hus¬ bands, fathers, farm workers and most veterans-won't be Inducted. Start* Tomorrow
.National selective service head¬ quarters said tonight that all the 4.000 state and territorioJ draft- boards are set for business. Regis¬ tration starts Monday with the 28- ypar-olds. It ends Sept 18, ¦*hen th? youngest age group signs up.
These men are being registered to help build a 2,000,000-man peacetime military force In the face of threatening Soviet Imperial¬ ism. In the words of Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey. national draft liireptor, the nation this time is t- aiding an army "to avoid war."
Actual Inductions probably will not begin until November. All those tnl |
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