July 29, 1943. | Paratrooper Shot Seven Times By Italian Lives te Tell The Story A story of how he Was captured | by the Italians in Sicily, shot seven times and left for dead, and yet os- caped and made his way back to the American lines, is told by Private Michael Scambulluii of Albany, N.| Y., a parachute treoper who is re! covering in an Allied base hospital | in the middle east. Sambulluri landed In an area alive with enemy troops and was Sur- | rounded and captured before he could Join his mates. | Wp— “The Italians took me to town | Continued, “and when it got quiet I |*: py and stripped me of everything 1 had, | including food,” he sald. “I was led 10 a captain's office in the troop bar- racks and asked a lot of questions about how many soldiers had been landed ond what kind of arms we cairied “I told them only my name, grade and serial number and refuséd all cther information. When I spoke to the captain in Italian, asking the name of the town, he became en- raged and accused me of being a spy. He ordered my hands tied be- hind my back and I was led out of the barracks and stood against a wall in the courtyard “It looked as though they were going to begin some rough stuff. I wasn't far wrong. The captain walk. ed about 20 feet away from me, took out his revolver and fired one shot at me “All hell seemed to burn inside of me and I collapsed. The captain con- tinued firing at me, pouring six more shots into me as I lay there on the ground. I was moaning and did not know what to do, but did know that I was not hurt in any vital spot.” Scambullurl sald. n seldler, appar- ently dissatisfied” with his captain's work, lobbed two hand grenades in my direction, the force of which spun him around completely. He ad- ded, however, that he was still con- scious when hé heéird the captain five orders for his huriali the fol- | wing morning. “I heard the group walk away,” he wiggled W a tree about 20 feet away and worked myself to my feet. I don't know where I got the strength, but I managed to get out of the place and cross the flelds into some nearby woods “I “half walked, half crawled through the brush until I came across an old, deserted cemetery. 1 stopped and sawed through the ropes binding my hands on the edge of a sharp gravestone.” Scambullurf sald he tore his wrists so badly in getling free that he col- lapsed. When he recovered con- sciousness he made his way through the woods and at dawn was found by a group of civilians, who ran to him crying, “peace, peace.” They helped him to where the American soldiers were advancing, and he was given first aid and taken to a field hospital But that wasn't the end of Scam- bullurt’s story. After he was placed aboard a hospital ghip it was bomb- ed at its moorings, Later another hospital ship brought him to safety. 65058 AXIS PRISONERS NOW HELD IN AMERICA | Announcing that 65,058 Axis pris-| oners are now interned in the Unit- ed States, the war department also disclosed that additional camps will be built and existing camps expand- ed to handle a large proportion of the 267,000 prisoners held by the Al- lies in North Africa Of the total already interned the department sald 45.3556 are Germans, 19.641 are Italians and 62 Japanese. The Japanese are interned at Camp McCoy, Wis. The othérs are in 37 camps in 20 states. The report show- | ed an increase of 28.000 in Axis! prisoners in this country since June | 4 Graduate Technician ! Cpl. Paul Rogus, son of Mr. and’ Mrs. Paul Rogus, of Clarence, completed training and has graduated fram. this school of the Army Air Forces Technical Train. ing Command at Chanute Field, TIL While attending this Army Air Forces Technical Training mand school he received instructien and in various operations vital to the maintenance of the country’s fighting planes. | Brothers in Service Pvt. Willlam Lucas, Jr, of Belle-, fonte, who had been stationed at Ft. | Dix, N. J., was recently transferred to West Brentwood, N. J. Pvt. Lu-| cas’ brother, Pvt, George Lucas, who wis inducted into service a month ago, is mow in training at Ft. Bel-! voit, Va.. The men are sons of Mr and Mrs. Willam D. Lu€as, Sr. of Allegheny street, who are at living In Niagara Falls, N. Y Mr. Lacas is employed present | . Where | a Is Alrpldne Mechanic Robert Paust, of Centre Hall, Pic an airplane mechanie, has pop transferred from Kearns, Utah, to! Wright Pield at Dayton, Ohio. Pvt. | Faust, who was ‘inductéd into the U. 8. Army January 11, 1943, at New at Milesburg. Cpl. Way has been st Cumberland, reécdived his basic| Pt. Pishér since being transferred {there from Camp Davis, N. C., where training at Miami Beach, Fla. and 19 weeks further training at Miami before being sent to Utah. WOUNDED SOLDIER GETS PURPLE HEART MEDAL Members of the family of Pvt Phillp W. Reifsnyder, of the U. 8 Infantry, who was wounded in ac- tion in a North American area on May 26, have been advised by him that he has fully recovered from a wound in the upper part of the left leg, and has rejoined his company Pvt. Relfsnyder was awanhded the Purple Heart medal while {in the hospital. He is a son of Joseph W Reifsnyder, has been in thegservice THE CENTRE DEMOCR AT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Page Three x | | | qt | ————————— eh South Pacific | AR * 8/8gt. Charles E. Shank Sgt. Shank, former resident Beliefonte, is a son of Mrs. Mary Shank, but for the last several] years has made his home with his aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Lucas in Washington, D. C., where he was employed in the U. 8. Interior De- partment prior to his enlistment with the National Guard in 1840, He was in Fort Bliss, Texas, from Jan- wary to October beiore Pearl Har- bor After that transferred to M. P. duty and salled to the South Pacific in July. 1842, where still is stationed. Sgt. Shank bro- ther of Mrs. Robert Smith and Mrs of ne was ne is the has! been | | 25, 1943. since August 28, 1942, and his home is In Miltheim. Chandler Houser, both of Bellefonte Completes Training Pfc. Howard M. Watson, son of |* Mr. and Mrs. Howard Watson of Bellefonte, R. D: 1, was a member of the class who last week graduated from the Lowry Field Armament School, Colorado. Pvt. Watson en- tered the Lowry Field School June "Tra ining in Kansas he -—ea. list after graduating April 20th from Gunnery School.” He ‘entered the army January ‘12, 1943, and subse- quéntly tariMeg at Miami Beach, in the power plant specialist course; Fit 4hd-Timdall Field, Fla. In civil Hie he wis employed as engineer's assistant by the Thomasville Lime and Stone Co. of Bellefonte. I —— Now Private First Class Pvt. Roger Yorks, son of Mr. and Mrs Leon Yorks, of Milesburg, who is stationed at Camp Jackson, Miss. has been promoted to the grade of private first class, according to word received by relatives. In jetiers home Yorks had been signing his name Pid Yorks: the “Pid.” he explained, meaning Private For Duration, II he keeps on he may turn out-to be gnother Sgt. Yorks. Joseph D. Way, who recently re- ceived promotion from Private to Corporal, 4t Ft. Fisher, N. C., spent several days last week with his par- ents, Mr. and Mrs. Elwood H. Way Yor BE tl Pvt. Donald W. Confer Private Confer, son of Ward Con- ihe had been stationed since March — EE — ——— Ld The Bible In a A private solider by the name of Richard Lee was taken before the magistrate of Glasgow, Scotland, for playing cards during divine services. This account of it is given in an English journal’ A sergeant commanded the sol-| diers at church, and when the par- son had read the prayers he took the text. Those who had Bibles took them out, but this soldier had neith- 0 fer of Howard, was inducted into the P | U, 8. Army on December 7, 1942. He a was sent from New Cumberland to : N the State of Kansas, where he has “When I see the eight, it reminds since been in training. He was em- me of the eight righteous persons | ployed in the Renovo raflroad shops who were saved when God destroyed before entering the army. Privat the world, viz: Noah and his wife, Confer was home lact month on a his three sons and their wives.” ten-day furlough, part of the time “When I see the nine, it reminds being spent with Iriends in Renovo me of the nine lepers that were — cleansed by cur Saviour: there were nine of them that never returned Home From Camp Hood thanks.” pvt. Samuel H. Lucas, formerly of w en 1 sée the ten, it reminds | Jacksonville, Friday returned to his er Bible or Common Prayer Book, me of the Ten Commandments duties at Camp Hood, Texas, after and pulling outa pack of cards he, spread them before him. He first looked at one capd and then another. The sergeant of the company saw him and said, “Richard, put up the cards, this is no place for them.” “Never mind that” sald Richerd. When the service was over a con- stable took Richard prisoner and | brought him before the magistrate. | “Well,” sald the magistrate, “what (girls all dressed in boys’ apparel, for have you brought the soldier for?" “For playing cards in church” “Well, soldier, what have you to! say for yourself?” “Much, sir, 1 hope.” “Very good: if not, 1 will punish | you severely.” “I have been.” sald the soldier, “about six weeks on the march. I have neither Bible or Common Pray- er Book, I have nothing but a pack of cards, and T hope to satisfy your worship of the purity of my inten ” Then spreading the oards before which God handed down to Moses spending a 14-day furlough with his on tables of stone.” {brothers and sisters residing ig Jack. “When 1 see the King it reminds | sonville and elsewhere in the Belle- me of the Crest King of Heaven fonie area. which is God Almighty.” Pvt. Lucas entered the army on “When I see the queen, it reminds | December 29, 1942, and from the re- me of the queen of Sheba who visit- ception center at New Cumberland éd Bolomon, for she was as wise a wis transferred to Camp Hood | woman as he was a man, She where he is undergoing training brought with her fifty boys and fifty ————— A ————— King Solomon to tell which were Gets: Promotion boys and which were girls, The King | Pfc. Oharles Fogleman, who has sent for water for them to wash been Wtationed Bt Fort Ord, Califor The girls washed to the elbow, the nid‘since sometime in January, has | bays to the wrist. 80 King Solomon | recently been promoted to T/5 Corp- | told by that.” j oral, Cpl. Fogleman, who began his | “Well.” said the magistrate, “you training at Camp Pickett, va. has Have described eve card in the been in three other camps since be- | pack except one.” ” ling drafted on August 30, 1942. Cpl. | “What is that?” Pogleman's wife, the former Alice; “The knave” said the magistrate. | Cettig and daughter are residing in “t will give your honor the de- Milesburg scription of that, too, if you will not 4 gy . New Photographic Light Photographs with an exposure of {but one-millionth of a second, brief “|enough to stop a rifle bullet or any | sald the | tant moving object, can now be made | ‘ greatest ve | by a new high speed electronic flash. | the greatest light equipment developed by engin- | eers in Oeneral Electric's laboratory. | a here” : > i = g 5 fod Py i Ale, Josephine A. Drapehio, daugh- | i § f: ferred to Camp Hale, Cal, sa a MP SS ————— br Sent to California £8 : Mrs. John Kline of Pleasant Gap, | | Spritzer. Sr. Pit. George Kline, son of Mr. and | street, Bellefonte, . Pvt, William RK. Rockey William J. Moerschbacher, Jr. tY al y free uf TH | 1 of Cpl Moerschbache of Bellefonte for many months | U. 8 Medical C Moe:rschbad namesake, for th September 4 to India Mow} ~ Lier gone Cpl 1541 and re. Camp Les be December is Fi ing assigned 4 The Margaret BOIvics ceived training Storev, Va foreign mid before wri child pgothier Capers R LC and Mi er Teaches Gunnery Pic. Paul and Mrs. M Beaver aveniu teaching gunnery at the Richmond Va. Army Air Base. Pyl Heberiing, who recently visited his howe ou 8 three-day leave, entered the Arniy Alr Porces on October 28 1942 Alier spending a fw days al Uw New Cumberland reception center. he was sent to SL Petersbuig. Fla, for his basic training. From there transferred to Buckley Field ver, Colo where he 08k ag training. Following this special work he Richmond i wa Den- shied completion of wa fehl WO Henor Leck Haven Man Among 10 from Pennsyl- vania, with 81 others from the Unit. od States, who received commissions as second lieutenants recently upon graduation from an officer candidate schiool in the European theater of operations, were Franklin Albert Keen, of Lock Haven, and Jack Ed- vvard Smith, Clearfield, the War De. partment has announced snaiers Accidentally Wounded Mr. and Mrs. Pat 1. Holt of Miles. burg, last week received a letter from their son. Pvt. James P. Holt, who is recuperating from a bullet wound at a hospital in England. Pvt. Holt stated that his condition is rapidly improving from a wound in the left thigh suffered when he was accl- dentally shot at the camp Goes to Utah Pvt. Kenneth C. Stine, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. G. 8tine of Port Matilda, R. D. has been transferred from Camp Lee, Va, where he hag com- pleted an eight-weeks' course in truck mechanics, to Hill Fleld, Og- den, Utah Four Brothers and Sister Serving in Armed Forces of United States : Pvt. John J. Spritzer {ter of Mr. and Mrs. Emro Drapcho | Four brothers and a sister, mem- [then sent to Hawaii, of ‘Clarence, who had been stationed | bers of a Bellefonte family, are serv- in Septembe ‘| at Alpine, Texas, was recently trans. | ing in the armed forces, all of them fire during i {having entered the service since Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. In {April 7, 1941. children of Joseph of North Allegheny | They are First to enter military life was who had been stationed at Sioux Pvt. John J. Spritzer, 27, who was arrived at parents, ] Bohn of ith Pugh street, State Coliege. PyL. Bohn has been In the service since Aoril 25, 1942 Alter a short time at Camp Meade, Md he was sent to Camp Wheeler, Ga. for his basic training, then to Fort Devens, Mass Pine Camp, N. Y.. and Camp Pickett, Va He was a student at the State Col- lege High School the time of his i Fred's Mon Restaurant RUNVILLE Mr. and Mrs Wayne Hardy Fiemingion, visited with Mr and Mr and family on 5 anc. at worked at State College induc Pvi Jesse MoCloskey McCloskey Mr. and Samuel McoClosl of Howard D. 1. vas March 27 ANG WARE ed Ehelby Miss | service he Piper Aircraft Corp. In f ol Pvt MM R Yilw Richard Sunday Mr and Mrs Thomas Nittany visited the CGunsalius home on Sunday Mrs. Bessie Smith of Wingate, and Richard Fur] were dinner guests at the John Furl home on Sunday Rev. EE BR. Miller and family of Punxsutawney called at the UB parsonage last Priday night and also visited other homes in our ocom- munity The box social that was held on the Richard CGunsallus lawn last Friday night was success, They cleared $2264 A number of our folks attended the funeral of James Smoyer last Sunday afternoon at the Advent cemetery Rev. G. E. Smith and family of Windber, called at the parsonage on Saturday evening Church Announcements. Runville ~worship at 9:30; Sunday school at not stretch if they are sewed shut 10:30; C. E at 7:45. Yarnell-8un- | pefore washing. The same applies to day school at 9:30; C. E. at 7 o'clock; [any other garment where the but- worship service at 7.45 | tonholes are lable to stretch Liunsan us £ insalius of — runsanu * Oap at " - Recrives Promotion Pvt Earl C. Bartley and Mrs. C. L. Bartley who is stationed at Fort Cc in the Anti-Aircrafl has been promoted 10 Private Class son Mr of Bellefonte Fisher, N Battalion First of a — I ——— Is Transferred Rackoski, North Thomas who had been sta- Va., Was re~ y Endicott { a Frank T streel. Bellefonte tioned at Camp Peary cently transferred to Cam; Davisville, R. 1 a —_——.. Washing Sweaters The buttonholes of a sweater will (Reprinted by request) I. Adolf Hitler, being of unsound ming and misery, and considering the possibility of a fatal sccident known as assassination, declare this my last (you hope) will and testa. ment the beaut In occupled Parl the one for girls To Pram ull ful Mademo. as 1 was never Whoops! To England 1 leave the original manuscript of Mine Kempt, which the RAF spolled I had written a different finish but their fliers got me In the end To the Norway my Double C eecmpured Ww 1 eave die LH QUISling, 1 leave He WHS when rom piker ome LL Lo double crossing 16 oo them appre To Russia, I leave all my frozen assets I never could warm up Comrade Stalin or get near enough to Moscow 10 oven smell vodka To Franklin D. Roosevelt, | lea an apology for interrupting his fish- ing. But he His uncondi- tional gurrender sg cement at Coss - bianca certainly my goose. 1 wis Rolng to give him my gold-fitted but changed my wind, for he oo fur with his oid ones for me and Tojo To Goebbels and Ribbontrop, | leave 30 million marks. Two dollars 10 buy a gift for my father and mo- Lher who are gol LO De married the 1 die ve got even couked Kinney Can mee Weng fi aay To Count Clano Ni lw of "wa 4 ans A SON OVERSEAS For with t Wangl ul It sn't wh we 3 but 1 kh» ou il u Dear God, 1 pray 140 » Via a mother 1 am proud And brush each Nitle care 10 cheer her on his special And maybe whisper, if you piesse from her son who's Overseas will is mine AWAY aay un it's iA L LL Lipstein PEAR MOM thinking of you, Mom, tonight A all your 1 are The mem'ry of your smiling face iI Carry everywhere I'm thinking of w A have so many times, Of the path we ook io warship And the church bells’ silver chimes Of the way used tease Ihe Mom And ON i, Mom, tonight you ww my blues away Now my oniy praye: iI W0e YOU MOOD some day ou, Mom. more mugen that than you The road's been rough and long Bul I'll be coming back 10 you Dear Mom, where 1 belong Pvt. W. H Shepperd A SOLDIER TO HIS MOM | I know that you are Jonely But there's nothing I can do Till this troubled world is peaceful And I'm home again with you I can’t even send you fowers To express my love in part, But a carlioad full of flowers Couldn't ead an aching heart Now, Mom, you keep on smilin’ And at times if you feel blue, Remember other boys are fighting And their mothers miss them 00 8c you mothers stick together, Please don't worry "Hout us men; And before you even know it We'll be coming home again! S-8gt. Robert A Brenner SOLDIER'S BEACON lable before # What should One Cab nol understand a Person when talk. ing over Lhe telephone? 10. If a man at dentally meets a gir "BE } y v if ohe gay il wncheon Arcy- who is juneh- should he of- check? ho is invited 10 Hie Same Lab ANCHO ppropriste for fing anniversary? Answers table 2M both m and wom- n. are susceptible to and enjoy flat- but the well-bred person is ful enough not to overdo it Yes 4 Because it the Impression 1. Below the sl Pex La £1 jie haste, giving writer wish - to hurry th the work 5. The proper form would be “Mrs Brown, this is my father’ 6. No: though it is all right 10 lean between Courses 7. Ten cents 8. No, It is brought in coffee is served 9. Say, “1 cannot understand you" or “Will you please speak louder.” 10. No gir] should not ex- pect it 11. Yes 12. Gifts of china implies thal the a rough when the and the - Buying war bonds, to the limit of one’s ability, necessary to the winning of the war is Plo, Steve W, Spritzer arriving there ing there until April. 1943. He ar- Thomas J. Spriteer 1941. Thomas J. Spritzer, 31, electric. May, 1042, he was transferred to a ian’s mate, second class, entered the South Pacific island, where he has Navy March 3 1942, been stationed ever\since, i Plc. Bteve W. Spritzer, 30, the Torpedo Station, e Japanese attack on year. and was sta tioned at the Newport, R. 1, Naval! Joseph A. Spritzer jmate, third class, is in the U. 8. He was under rived in North Africa in May of this Coast Guard. He reported for duty Naval Nurses’ Oorps, enlisted | on April 13, July, 1942. She reported for 11942, and for more than two months Philadelphia on October 28 and ' was stationed at Berkley, Va. on Al- | present is stationed at Then he was Depot, Cape May, N. at Curtis Bay, Md. lantic patro] duty. transferred to Boston, Mass. where graduate of i also having at- he took an electrical course. In Jan- school and of the Bellefonte second of the family to enter service, tended schools at Newport and Vir-| uary he was promoted to his present School in the class of 1838. Cumberland March ginia Beach, Va. At present he is rank of seaman, secnod class, and in graduated from the nurses’ Ensign Dorothy M. Spriteer Ensign Dorothy Spritser, of the Naval the J. Sne St. John's April was transferred to North Af- school at Mercy Hospital, §¥5s stationed at Solomons, Md. |14, 1942, and from there was sent 10 Joseph A. Spritzer, 22, electrician’s ' rics. inducted April 7, 1041 He received , Md, remain- training at Ft. Eustis, Va, and was Ft. George G. Falls, B. D., was recently quieren 10 Hamilton Field, Cal 'in September 1941. iF
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