Charleroi Mail Sept 22, 1942
Part 2
Thanks to Eva
Dayle Zippay for transcribing this page
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The Charleroi Mail
Established June 5, 1900
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CONTRIBUTIONS CONTINUE TO COME IN FOR CITY HONOR ROLL
Five more contributions came in
today for the Community Honor Roll, sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars Post.
Donations were received from H. J. LOWSTUTER,
Charles DUNKERTON, Mrs. Mike VEGO, Alice JACK, and
George P. MINNO.
The work of lettering the giant board,
which was dedicated in a community service on Sunday, continues
today. The letters are being inscribed in blue whileabove this
emblazoned across the board is the title
designating the boys who are in service.
Names of Fallowfield Township and North Charleroi
soldiers in the present conflict are on the board. It
is expected that all of the names will be ready shortly. Then they
will be added from time to time as
additional forces leave Local Draft Board No. 2 and are enrolled.
Contributions can be made by mail to 'Treasurer
R. E. PETERSON, VFW Honor Roll Treasurer, Charleroi,
Pa. or they can be left at any one of the local banks.
The board is one of the most beautiful in the
district and has been the object for considerable comment and praise.
This standard belongs to the
community and will be kept in condition until the post-war period
when a permanent honor roll will be
erected.
HITLER GIVING UP ALL HOPE OF CRUSHING REDS
Starts Building Defenses To Hold Gains, Authorities Claim
Stockholm, Sept. 22--(UP)-- Adolf Hitler,
abandoning hope that Germany can
crush Russia, has started building defenses to holdhis eastern
gains so the bulk of his army will be free
to meet the threat of a scond (sic) front in the west, unusually
well informed sources said today.
The same sources expressed belief that
Hitler might start a peace offensive this winter and tell the
German people that a separate peace with Russia was necessary without
the total victory he had promised
them. Informants said the new German defenses
in the East would not be along a continuous line, like the
West wall opposite France or the old French Maginot line, but a
chain of hedgehog-like citadels designed
to permit a relatively few men, garrison troops, to hold the Russians
while the main German armies moved
to Western Europe. The position of
the new Eastern defense line
naturally was secret but informants reported that in parts of northern
and central Russia it
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FREE EVENING COURSES GIVEN
Will Train Men And Women For War Technical Posts
The Pennsylvania State college, under sponsorship of the U.S. Office
of Education, will offer
tuition-free evening courses to train men and women for technical
jobs in local war industries, it was
announced by Andrew ROBERTSON, administrative head in Donora.
In order to enroll for the federally financed
training, it is necessary that prospective students do so during the regular
registration nights, October 5, 6 and 7 from 7 to 10 p.m. at Donora Senior
High School.
Local industries are in urgent need of
women and older men to take the place of those workers called
for the draft. The courses are held two evenings a week, 3 1/2
hours an evening, for the convenience of
the majority of the students. The
courses offered are of college level and are
designed to meet specific needs of local war industries for training
men and women for definite
employment. Here are the courses to be offered at the local center:
The Heat Treatment of Steel, Chemistry
of Engineering Materials, Engineering Drafting, elementary and
advanced, Industrial Drafting
Practices, Open Hearth Inspection, Engineering Mechanics, Safety
Engineering, Cost Control, Ordnance
Inspection and Foundations of Engineering and Industrial Accounting.
SEEN THIS MORNING
----The U.S. boatyard flag flying briskly above the morning haze.
----Cotton samples from the men in service.
----Overheard: "I'm no good when it comes to bandaging."
RUMMAGE SALE
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 527 Fallowfield Ave. Bargains.
92t3*
THERE'S NO TIME
Like tomorrow evening to attend the Party
in Slovak Hall. Begins at 7 o'clock.
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CHARLEROI COUNCIL IN CAUCUS SESSION
Charleroi council convened last night
in a caucus session during which the old Borough Planning
Commission and zoning regulations were discussed, it was declared.
So far as could be learned no formal
action was taken.
ALLIED PLANES IN OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPS
Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters, Austrailia, Sept. 22--(UP)--
A big force of Japanese planes, signals
apparently mixed, dropped tons of bombs harmlessly in underbrush yesterday
32 miles up the New guinea coast from Port Moresby, it was announced today.
Whether the Japanese planes intended to attack Port Moresby or the Toribaiwa
area 32 miles inland where Japanese forces had driven across the Owen
Stanley mountains, was not clear.
Twenty-seven enemy medium bombing planes, escorted by fighters, made the
raid. Their bombs all dropped harmlessly in the Redscar Bay area along
the coast, and caused neither damage nor casualties.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's medium bomber
planes extended a big United Nations offensive to the Solomon
Islands, in support of the United States Marine forces now holding
the southern end of the islands. A communique
said the bombers had attacked airplane dispersal areas in a night raid
but thatdarkness prevented observation of results.
It was indicated that the raid was aimed at Japanese aerial reinforcements
being sent southward to join in attacks on the Marines.
Allied fighter planes continued to smash at the communication line of the
Japanese who had driven across the Owen Stanley mountains to threaten Port
Moresby. The fighter planes yesterday attached
with cannon and machine guns that stretch of the enemy line leading back
to the Buna base, on the north New Guinea coast, from Kokoda, on the northern
slope of the mountains.
HUNGRY CLUB TO RESUME MEETINGS
Bentleyville, Sept. 22--
The Bentleyville Hungry Club will end
its two months summer vacation by resuming regular meetings Thursday night,
Sept.24, at 7 p.m. in the American Legion rooms, where dinner will be served
by the Legion Auxiliary. Attorney F.J. DOCKTOR
will show moving pictures of the present war, entitled "Targets For Tonight."
These are actual photographs of the RAF in action.
All members are urged to attend.
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