OUR TOWN Have Agreed to Act As an Informal in England Before Embarking for the Boards to Draft Them, It Is Ex- with His Family Three and a Half Africa
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' iff COMBINING The Summit Herald, Summit Record, Official Newspaper of City Md Summit Press and Summit News-Guide County. Published Thursday A. If. Subscription $2.00 a Year by The Summit Publishing Co., 857 Springfield Avenue. Entered At &• Telephone Summit 6-1900 Post Office, Summit, N. J., M 1*4 SUMMIT GERALD Class Matter. 54th Year. No. 23 FRED L. PALMEB, Editor & Publisher THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1942 J. EDWIN GARTER, Business Mgr. & Publisher 5 CENTS CpL Sam Balish DISTINGUISHES SELF |i849 Draft Call STAFF ASSISTANCE CORPS IN NEW HOME Summit Merchants PRISONER OF WAR Treleaven Appointed Captures 75 Natives Is Possible Here Gird Themselves To School Board; And Officer At Oran In January For Xmas Shoppers Successor To Mole A delayed dispatch arriving in Processing for selective service o Judged by the stock on their Harry W. Treleaven, of 29fj Sum- this country over the week-end the first 18 and 19-year-old youth; shelves and by their window dis- mit avenue, has been appointed' by from Oran, Algeira, told or the fea in Summit and the Borough and plays, Summit merchants are quite Mayor Guldo F. Forster for a Hv«- of Corporal Sam Balish, of Summit, Township of New Providence could conscious that there are only 30 year term to the Board,of Educa- in capturing seventy-five native be accomplished in time to include more shopping days until Christ- tion succeeding Harvey E. Mole soldiers and a French officer whom in the January Induction, a draft mas. Further evidence of this con- effective February 1. The new ap- lie had found asleep in their bar board spokesman said early this sciousness came to the fore at pointee is assistant general m&n- racks early on the morning of Nov week. The 18-19 draft bill was Tuesday's meeting of the Chamber ager of the Ryerston Steftl Co. in ember 8. He was with the main signed Friday night by President of Commerce. its Jersey City Plant. Mr. Mol6 in infnntry column of American troops Roosevelt. About 250 eighteen to Beginning Tuesday night, De- his ten years as a member of the that landed on Arzeu Beach, twen- nineteen year-olds are registered cember- 1*5, ^Summit merchants will Board has served as president. At ty-five miles northeast, of Oran with the local board. remain open at nights until Christ- present, he is president of the who fought their way into Oran on January induction for the first mas Eve. Union County Federation of School Tuesday noon, November 10, 18 and 19-year-old registrants here Realizing the appeal of The Sum- Boards. n .\ Corporal Balish was quoted in Is possible only because the Induc- mit Herald as an advertising me- , Mr. and Mrs. Treleaven have four the dispatch as saying: tion dates for the Summit board dium, the Chamber of Commerce children. Their eldest son, Harry have been falling at the end of the has worked out a plan with the Treleaven, Jr., is a senior at Duke. "I told them the situation and month. Boards which usually in- University, where he ia editor of promised them they would be free CORPORA! SAM BALISH, of duct in the first two or three weeks Herald to publish two special Mr. G. (iiileiunrlan, Mrs. John Leathern, chairman of Volunteer s SERGEANT GORDON KOAN, the Duke Chronicle. Recently he men in a couple of days, They were Summit, was mentioned in dls- of the month could not possibly Special Services for the Red Cross, Mrs. F. B. Llewellyn, co-chairman Christmas > »»f publicizing the formerly of Summit, who was cap- was initiated into Phi Beta Kappa very friendly. I gave them a couple ches from Algeira this week for process the youths for the January of the Staff Assistance Corps, and Mrs. F. A. Mteele, chairman of the 'sll0pping °PP°rtun"'es »* Summit scholarship fraternity at the South- 1 stores. These two issues will reach tured )>y tiie Germans while serv- of packs of American cigarettes and capturing single-handed at Orau selection because of the thirty-five Staff Assistance Corps, pictured in tin Corps' new licadiiunrtcrs, 840 ing witli the Royal Canadian Air ern university. Another son, .Qr'e£- imprisoned them in a nearby rail- seyenty-flve native troops and n day legal'time requirements and ap- more than 90 per cent of the fam- Springfield avenue, the use of which was contributed by Mr. (Julc ilies in Summit, the Borough and Force. I dry Treleaven, is a f reshjimn at way station." French officer. proximately two weeks' additional inarian. Photo by irwin I William and Mary College.. A third Corporal Balish who was Induct- time needed for classification and township of New Providence, Mill- son, Phillip, is in the ninth grade ' ed into the service - April of this paper work. burn, Chatham, Blue Mountain Farms, Springfield and Short Hills. in Central Junior High School. A year received two months advanced Tire Registration It is estimated here that few of Family Learns daughter, Jane, Is in the sixth grade training in Ireland. Later he went the 18 and 19-year-old yoiSths have Faced with a problem of labor at Lincoln School. , , to Scotland for added training. The enlisted. With the President's sig- shortage for the Christmas season, Mr. Treleaven owns his home in Summit man spent about ten days For Passenger Cars nature on the new bill authorizing Chamber of Commerce members Sgt. Gordon Roan Summit avenue. He moved 'here OUR TOWN have agreed to act as an informal in England before embarking for the boards to draft them, It is ex- with his family three and a half Africa. pected a number will enlist, get- V.. exchange for employees. If one Is German Prisoner years ago from Oak Park, a Buburb A graduate of Summit High ids Saturday ting into uniform ahead of their merchant can't employ someone of Chicago. He has been associated School, class of 1931, Corporal Bal- selective service call. RAG COLLECTION seeking employment for the sea- with the Ryerston $teel Co. for ish speaks Arabic fluently. At the The last day for passenger car Have you gathered together a large bundle of rags for th son, he will send the prospective Word has reached the United more than 25 years. < '.' employee on to another merchant time of his capturing the native ire registration at the schools Is irl Scouts to pick up today, tomorrow and Saturday? This is States that Sergeant Gordon Roan aturday, Nov. 21 from 10 a.,tn, to who may be able to hire him. soldiers and their French officer, a very important collection. Please have a bundle prepared. Is a prisoner of war in Germany. he was one of a group of Signal p. m. Elementary schools in Single Sen<M)ff On page 15 of today's Herald Sgt. Roan, son of the late Mr. and <'orps. 'men who had dug into the ummit open for registration are is an advertisement from the mer- Mrs. Frank J. Roan, joined the Gannon Appointment toosevelt, Brayton, Washington CHECK CEILING PRICES chants urging shoppers to make sand and were operating a tele- For Draftees a Week. 1 Royal Canadian Air Force in Janu- phone. ind Lincoln. The Consumer Interests Committee says it is mos their Christmas purchases as early ary 1941. He received his wings in Corporal Balish is the son. of Mrs. The applicant must then have important that all shoppers watch the posted ceiling prices care as possible. Because of the de- November and went overseas in As Acting Captain t Alary Balish and the late Saba urned in all his excess tires over After Induction fully in all stores. This is the best way to help yourself, the creased gasoline ration, it is also January 1942. His family has re- Balish of 522 Morris avenue. Be- ve to the Government by deliver- ;overnment and all honest merchants.' If price ceilings are asked that shoppers carry as many ceived his number as a prisoner and Referred fore entering the service, he was ng them to the Railway Express packages as they can. are now able to communicate with gency and obtaining a receipt for Hereafter there will bo only one policed by patriotic consumers it will be an easy matter to keep In response to a number of re- associated with his brother, Tom send-off for draftees sent by Selec- him. Mayor Guldo F. Fprster's request Balish, in the Beverage business at them. Judging from the experience prices under their ceilings. quests that they do so, merchants of last week, the late comers are tive Service Board No. 1 to Fort are expected to give attention to A graduate of Summit High to Common Council for confirmation 1 Beechwood road. Corporal Bal Dix. For the past several months, School in 1939, Sgt. Roan attended of, Police. Lieutenant John Gtannoh'a iih- also has a- brother, Esa Balish, going to be disappointed. A large INCREDIBLE INCIDENT putting the street numbers of their number of people were unable to there has been a send-off, from the stores in their display windows at Amherst College prior to bis en- appointment as acting captain was ^ is In the Navy. " To us an,inci<JpJRt, repfl5J«d confidentially,, seems incredible listment iin the Air Fdrce. referred Tuesday night by that body £{»h t Eflfoml /,9R$41Ub >4»y-the memen eye level. in this day of war. At one Summit school, teachers, acting as for study to the Public Safety Com- Saturday, and the .receipt forms go to NeWarlt' for their final phys- His address is printed below for ical examination and Induction and volunteers, without pay and on their own time, took on the job the benefit of friends who may mittee, Police Commissioner Ken- I guve Jbut before many were able to I'eth W.